Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced Testbed for TILtrotor Aeroelastics (ATTILA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Tilt Rotor Whirl Flutter experimental investigation and assessment (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5248510.0
EU funding (EUR): 5248510.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The ATTILA project is aimed at the design, manufacture and testing of an advanced testbed for aeroelastic wind tunnel testing of tiltrotor aircraft. The testbed will consist of a suitably instrumented aeroelastically scaled cantilevered half-wing with powered nacelle-proprotor system representative of the full-scale NGCTR-TD design. Advanced fiber optic sensor and contactless rotating power and data transfer techniques will be used. The design process, coupled with test iterations, is supported by detailed structural and aeroelastic simulations using a range of complementary codes. The ATTILA testbed will first be subjected to a wind-on shakedown test in the DNW LLF 6x6m test section in Froude scaled conditions. After the system functionality and structural dynamic characteristics have been verified, a second data gathering test will be performed in the NASA TDT heavy-gas transonic dynamics wind tunnel in simultaneous Froude and Mach scaled conditions, selected as subcontractor to NLR for its unique worldwide capability of meeting the full test requirements in terms of aeroelastic scaling capability, test Mach number, and model size. Testing will be performed in three mass/stiffness configurations covering 3x25 test points with test speeds up to the NGCTR-TD whirl flutter speed (at least M = 0.56). The proposed test campaign provides the highest possible fidelity experimental demonstration of the whirl flutter characteristics of the NGCTR-TD prior to high-speed flight testing in 2024-2025. Its productivity and safety will be ensured through the introduction of real-time modal damping analysis. The post-test data analysis phase includes a test-to-code correlation study in which the analytical models derived by the consortium are validated against the test results. Engaging a significant subcontractor (NASA), this 54-months €6,525,261 valued action is composed of 2 research centres (NLR, DLR), 1 non-profit foundation (DNW), 1 university (POLIMI) and 1 SME (Technobis).

Keywords: aeroelastic wind tunnel testing tiltrotor design numerical analysis
Valorisation of the carob pod into an added value natural extract for the food and drink industry (CERATONIA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Beet and cane sugar’s reputation is plummeting among EU28 citizens. Consequently, the Food&Drink industry is seeking for alternative sweeteners to enhance their products’ palatability while meeting consumers’ demands of healthier and natural products. In this context, fruit concentrates arise as a reliable sugar substitute since they are a natural sweetener perceived as healthier. This segment is expected to grow globally at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 5.5% to reach an estimated global value of around 38,500 M€ by 2022 . Encouraged by this situation, in GMFortún we have developed a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly process to obtain from the carob pod a bioactive natural sweetener suited for the Food & Drink and Nutraceutical industry. It consists on a syrup with a balanced proportion of carbohydrates, PINITOL (a bioactive compound), minerals (very rich in Potassium) and refined polyphenols. This unique composition makes it nutritionally healthier than other sweeteners and a perfect sugar substitute, especially in the juice industry. We have received the interest from key companies from the Food&Drink and Nutraceutical sector that have encourage us to develop this new product since it fits their technical and commercial needs. Besides its market potential, CERATONIA+ will bring important environmental benefits. The carob pod (our raw material) is a by-product of the carob tree’s fruit. The carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is a Mediterranean crop acknowledged by its environmental benefits: it can recover eroded soil, survive to heavy droughts and wildfires, improve soils’ fertility by fixing nitrogen and fix 3 times more CO2 than other woody crops with 2.5 times less water. Thanks to our product, we will promote the growing of 5,500ha. of carob trees, that will fix 114,876tn. of CO2/year.

Keywords: carob tree,carob pod,natural sweetener,juice industry,green chemistry,extraction process,carbon footprint
The Digital Whistleblower. Fiscal Transparency, Risk Assessment and Impact of Good Governance Policies Assessed (DIGIWHIST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Hungary,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: ICT-enabled open government (H2020-INSO-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3041361.87
EU funding (EUR): 2980880.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Increasing both transparency and efficiency of public spending in the age of austerity presents formidable challenges for European societies. Innovative, open data tools hold the key to simultaneously meet both. The key objective of the proposed project is to combine the provision of data on public spending in the area of public procurement with actionable governance indicators and a monitoring procedure facilitating whistleblowing and thus strengthening accountability and transparency of public administrations. Since public procurement is prone to corruption and budget deficit risks, high quality open data and innovative assessment tools in this area are especially relevant for the efficient and transparent use of public resources. The project, in particular, aims to systematically collect, analyse, and broadly disseminate tender-level information on public procurement in 35 jurisdictions across Europe. This data will be linked to company and public organisation information on finances and ownership and to information on mechanisms that increase accountability of public officials in order to systematically investigate the patterns and mechanisms of allocation of public resources in Europe. The proposed project addresses directly the objectives of the call by using innovative ICT-based measures and services which will provide wide access to information about governments’ spending and additionally involve private and public agents to actively collaborate in improving the quality and volume of the relevant data. Partners represent an effective combination of large, well-renowned institutions and small and highly-innovative ones, including scientists and researchers from computer and political sciences, sociology, criminology, and economics at 6 institutions from 5 European countries, both old and new members states. The project builds extensively on the partners’ prior innovative work in this area as well as their rich experience with EU funded projects.

Keywords: anti corruption,transparency,government spending,public procurement,accountability,governance indicators,data mining,whistleblowing
Central Iran Amphibole-bearing Ophiolite (CIAO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2018-03-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In subduction systems, there is an intermediate mantle zone in the overriding plate, located between the wedge and the neighbouring back arc. This zone is influenced by both subduction-related and ocean spreading processes, resulting in a remarkable geochemical heterogeneity of the mantle sources that ultimately generate a wide variety of melts. They in turn will feed the volcanoes on the surface, most of them highly explosive. Our knowledge of these peculiar geodynamic settings is very limited and ophiolitic complexes provide an almost unique opportunity to investigate their chemical-physical features at large scale. CIAO will study the amphibole-bearing peridotites of Nain ophiolite (Iran). This ophiolite includes magmas from MORB to Boninite and suggest that it was formed in an arc/back arc system. We use this unique opportunity to study the physical-chemical conditions of these peculiar peridotites, measuring major, trace and volatile element concentrations in hydrous and nominally anhydrous minerals. Volatile speciation, water activity and oxygen fugacity will be also measured. This study will improve our knowledge of mantle volatile species and circulation mechanism. It will allow to constrain the mass transfer between the two colliding plates, ultimately leading to a better understanding of the input/output budget of the subduction systems. Within Earth Sciences, CIAO combine disciplines as diverse as petrology, crystallography and geodynamics. It will employ a variety of state of the art analytical techniques. The applicant will work in a synergetic network of highly motivated experts that will guarantee high-quality output and a significant impact on the perspectives of her career. A better understanding of the petrological features of this geodynamic setting, together with its chemical-physical processes will greatly improve our knowledge of volcano eruptions, hoping to reduce the hazards for thousands of people living around volcanic areas.

Keywords: subduction zone,back arc spreading,mantle volatile cycle,mantle melting
VIDEOGRAPHY OF ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA USING THE FRAME CONCEPT (ULTRA-FAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998792.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998792.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Scientists have always been particularly intrigued by the extremes in nature and made significant efforts to study these; microscopes allow us to observe the smallest objects, while telescopes permit us to explore the largest objects and also those farthest away. The work proposed herein will provide new means and generate insights to phenomena occurring on the shortest timescales in nature. Past methods to probe ultrafast events – occurring on picosecond timescale or faster – have mostly relied on pump/probe scanning, yet these can only measure the dynamics of such processes if they are repetitive. Understanding all spatiotemporal aspects of ultrafast phenomena, however, requires experimental means to spatially, spectrally and temporally resolve them. Recently the PI invented a “coding” imaging concept called Frequency Recognition Algorithm for Multiple Exposures (FRAME) that can film at up to 5 trillion frames per second. To date, FRAME is the only videography method that can unify a femtosecond temporal resolution with spectroscopic compatibility, making it a powerful tool with high potential for new scientific discoveries. This project aims to (i) develop novel diagnostic tools based on FRAME and (ii) apply FRAME videography to study ultrafast events, whose temporal evolution could not be visualized in the past. Ultrafast science is a wide field, making the project highly interdisciplinary. For example, within photo-physics, systems will be developed to film plasmas and laser filaments. Diagnostics will be developed to image the lifetime of coherent states as well as fluorescence decays of two fluorophores in parallel, which holds potential within biology, physics and chemistry. A two-color FRAME setup will be developed to temporally track the creation and consumption of two species in a chemical reaction simultaneously. The ensemble of work-packages proposed herein constitutes a significant step forward in the research area of ultrafast imaging and videography.

Keywords: ultrafast imaging and videography
STructural stABiLity risk assEssment (STABLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Greece
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1182200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1182200.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Europe’s Cultural Heritage (CH) is at risk, endangered by environmental processes enhanced by climate changes and anthropogenic pressure. Specifically the slow (landslides, subsidence) and seismic (earthquake) movements of the ground have a strong impact on the structural stability of the CH. To have an idea of the dimension of the phenomena, the damage on the CH asset declared by the Italian Ministry of CH, caused by the recent earthquakes in Centre Italy, has been assessed in 2 Billion Eur. In this scenario, authorities in charge to CH preservation have a strong requirement for systematic, effective, usable and affordable tools and services to forecast and monitor the degradation process to enable preventive maintenance and to reduce the cost of the restoration. STABLE addresses the design and development of a Thematic Platform, combining structural stability models, damage assessment simulation tools, advanced remote sensing, in-situ monitoring technologies, geotechnics and cadastral data sets with WebGIS application for mapping and long term monitoring of CH. This will enable effective monitoring and management of the CH to prevent, or at least reduce, catastrophic damages. STABLE will coordinate the existing expertise and research efforts of the participant beneficiaries into a synergetic plan of collaborations and exchanges of personnel to offer a comprehensive transfer of knowledge and training environment for the researchers in the specific area. The development of Platform will constitute for scientist the way to share and improve CH safeguard methods, and to professionals to apply the most advanced technologies in the related fields.

Keywords: structural stability,earthquake,remote sensing,cultural heritage
SFTS virus-tick cell interactions in a vector system. (TICKITS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Among hematophagous arthropods ticks transmit a large variety of pathogens with public health and veterinary importance. Tick transmit several emergent and re-emergent arboviruses across the world. In 2010, scientists discovered severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV), an emergent Banyangvirus (Phenuivirus) transmitted by ticks in Asian countries. SFTSV infection causes severe symptoms and can lead to the death in infected individuals. Novel vector-based control strategies require a more detailed understanding of the vector-virus interaction and the vector response to infection. Ripicephalius microplus ticks are vectors of SFTSV and as for many non-model arthropods we are missing basic genomic data, which makes tick-arbovirus interaction studies difficult. To overcome these limitations, the TICKITS (TICK cell Interactions with SFTSV) project aims to develop an innovative approach coupling transcriptomic and proteomics data from R. microplus cells during infection. This systematic approach will characterize SFTSV infections in their natural tick vector and will generate information on changes in vector cells both at transcriptome and proteome level. This integrative view of the host response will give us insights on targets that can be investigated using gene silencing approaches to determine their impact on viral infection. I choose to work with the Kohl and Brennan laboratories at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) in Glasgow, UK. Both laboratories excel in tick/arthropod biology and arbovirus infection studies and have all the tools necessary to carry out this work. By adding my molecular and omics expertise we aim to develop novel angles in tick research. Moreover, the data generated will provide a solid base for other projects to build on and develop comparative projects across species.

Keywords: protein protein interactions,tick,arthropod borne bunyavirus,interactome
REligious Studies Infrastructure: tooLs, Experts, conNections and CEnters (RESILIENCE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Albania,Germany,Italy,Germany,Italy,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Belgium,Bulgaria,Poland,Greece,France,Netherlands
Call: Preparatory Phase of new ESFRI projects and early phase support to ESFRI high strategic potential areas (H2020-INFRADEV-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2179161.25
EU funding (EUR): 2179161.25
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

RESILIENCE addresses the need of a larger and infrastructured involvement of excellent scholars, producing fertile competencies, new knowledge, fresh approach and visible impact in terms of innovation within the scientific domain of religious studies. Such an involvement has been marked by several steps, e.g. a) ReIReS, an emerging community funded by the programme INFRAIA-02-2017 - Integrating Activities for Starting Communities; b) the H2020 call Religious diversity in Europe - past, present and future; c) the vast platform of the European Academy of Religion; and d) a first proposal submitted to the ESFRI Forum for a research infrastructure in religious studies, RESILIENCE/0. All these activities created a critical and gravitational mass capable to give effectiveness to the scientific community of religious studies: such an effort was acknowledged in the Esfri Roadmap 2018 with the definition of religious studies as a high potential strategic area. However, RESILIENCE/0 was accompanied by some remarks concerning its actual weaknesses and potential ambiguities concerning the way the consortium presented itself and some of its partners. The present renewed, improved, enhanced RESILIENCE proposal wants to respond to those remarks and better demonstrate the excellence of a partnership which can prove to be effective; it describes how to achieve an implementation which is feasible and stable; it aims to express the capacity of the infrastructure to attract resources and competences. It will enrich the open science cloud with a series of challenges and opportunities which will preserve and improve the European leadership in the area of religious studies. RESILIENCE creates, selects and tests digital and physical infrastructures capable of generating, preserving and transmitting knowledge between academics, members of religious communities, and the many groups on whom religious studies have a consequential impact.

Keywords: religious studies,digital humanities,sources,resources,expertise,tools
European – Canadian partnership for climate-positive heat and power generation through improved biomass feedstock supply and innovative conversion technologies (EUCANwin)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Belgium,Finland,Sweden,Finland,Hungary,Sweden,Canada
Call: International cooperation with Canada on advanced biofuels and bioenergy (H2020-LC-SC3-2020-NZE-RES-CC, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3894033.75
EU funding (EUR): 3534033.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SUSPENDED

Climate change is the most significant challenge for humanity today. For this reason, replacement of fossil fuels with renewables and improved energy efficiency in combination with CO2 capture is needed. Among renewables, biomass will play a major role in satisfying the human energy needs. EUCANwin! will increase viability of the biomass supply chain from forest and develop an efficient heat and power technology with a high share of power production together with negative carbon emissions in international cooperation between EU and Canada. In particular, to overcome these challenges, EUCANwin! involves artificial intelligence in combination with tools and technologies within the biomass supply chain such as the Forest Biomass Atlas (FBA), the tree-length harvesting (TLH) method and the On-board intelligent biomass analyser (OBIBA) to supply sustainable, long-term and cost efficient biomass feedstock for biopower production. Moreover, it will develop the technology of the Biomass-fired Top Cycle (BTC) for a high-efficient electricity production (up to 55%). And the project will finally determine the optimal and cost-efficient CO2 capture technology for the purpose of the BTC conversion process. To do so, EUCANwin! consortium gathers the necessary experience, knowledge and resources. It successfully works as an international cooperation, by means of 10 entities from 6 different countries, including Canada and 5 EU countries (Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Spain and Sweden), among which, 2 Canadian universities, 3 RTD organisations and 5 SMEs to ensure market exploitation (2 industrial companies and 3 innovation consultancies).

Keywords: bioenergy,forest biomass,co2 capture,supply chain,cost efficiency