Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
VIRTUAL & physical platform for Fuel Cell System development (VIRTUAL-FCS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Norway,Poland,Norway,France,France,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Cyber-physical platform for hybrid Fuel Cell systems (H2020-JTI-FCH-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1897806.25
EU funding (EUR): 1897806.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Fuel cells have promise in transport applications ranging from busses to ocean ships where they are competing will other well-established technologies. As a complicated and disruptive technology, fuel cells require specialised knowledge to integrate into devices and systems. This is a huge barrier to fuel cell use in companies that don't have existing experience with, or confidence in fuel cell technologies. The FC community needs to help system integrators develop and optimise fuel cell battery hybrid systems for varied applications. The overall vision of this project is to develop a fully open source software-hardware (cyber-physical) tool that can be adopted as a global standard for FC system design. This platform will enable a system integrator at an SME, with limited fuel cell experience, to rapidly design a fuel cell battery hybrid powertrain for their specific application. The platform will make this development as quick as for combustion or battery powertrains and give the integrator confidence that the system will meet their performance, reliability and durability requirements. This project will bring together a group of experienced fuel cell specialists to develop this platform (SINTEF, BALLARD and UBFC) along with several system integrators or end users of fuel cells who are leading organisations in their specific field, WESTCON (Maritime), BANKE (Heavy Duty Vehicles), VIVARAIL (Rail), SOLARIS (Busses).

Keywords: fuel cell battery hybrid systems,modelling,simulation,emulation
Visible-light-driven Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Solar fuels by multinary N-Graphene based Heterostructure Composites (PhotoCatRed)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162040.32
EU funding (EUR): 162040.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Energy shortage and environment pollution are two critical threats faced by the present society. Carbon dioxide (CO2), the well known greenhouse gas is a major cause of global warming but at same time it is also an abundant resource for hydrocarbon energy fuels. Photocatalytic CO2 reduction (PCO2R) into sustainable solar fuels is a highly enticing challenge for simultaneous settling of energy and environmental issues. So far, manifold photocatalysts including inorganic semiconductors, noble metal complexes, metal organic frameworks, 2D nanomaterials etc. have been demonstrated potential candidates for CO2 photo reduction. But the overall catalytic performance of the state of art materials is still far from practical application due to one or combined problems of low conversion efficiency, poor light harvesting, low stability, high electron-hole recombination rates, high cost and lack of product selectivity. Thus there is a steady demand for high performance photocatalysts preferably multinary heterostructure designs that can compensate for the shortcomings of the single components. The PCO2R project aims to develop novel multinary N-doped graphene based heterostructure composites decorated with titanium dioxide semiconductor, gold-copper bimetallic nanoalloys and/or transition metal dichalcogenides-copper nanoparticles as robust high efficiency photocatalysts for visible light reduction of CO2. The heterostructure composite is custom designed to overcome the major existing challenges and is anticipated to have great potential as a practically useful photocatalyst that can reduce CO2 under irradiation of visible light along with high product selectivity. The PCO2R project will confer significant scientific advances in the field of materials design, synthesis and catalysis strategies in addition to the knowledge transfer, training activities and long run societal interests.

Keywords: co2 reduction,photo catalysis,metal nanoparticles,solar fuels,titanium dioxide,n doped graphene,multinary heterostructure,dft study
Back to the Future: Future expectations and actions in late medieval and early modern Europe, c.1400-c.1830 (Back2theFuture)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1470883.0
EU funding (EUR): 1470883.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

From the eighteenth century onwards, the future was considered as open, uncertain and constructible – the way we tend to perceive the future today. In contrast, early modern Europeans believed that the future was beyond the control of man. The aim of this project is to challenge such grand narratives on past futures, which are generally highly linear and focused on modernity, have a fuzzy chronology and thin empirical base, biased by learned text. Moreover, these hypotheses fail to do justice to the presence and interplay of various (multi)temporalities and do not link future expectations to the concrete actions of men and women in the past. Most historians simply ignore the topic, since past futures are extremely hard to find in the written record. Hence, they focus on the actions of men and women in the past rather than their motivations. To gain more insight in how people in the past thought about the future and how this affected their actions, this project draws on a highly innovative combination of close and distant reading methods of more than 15,000 letters written in (varieties of) Italian, German, French, Dutch and English by and to European merchants in the period 1400-1830. These practical documents enable us to reconstruct different types of future thinking of these merchants and to assess how these thoughts powered their actual behaviour. Better still, they also shed light on the future expectations of their non-merchant correspondents: their wives, children and other family members, clerks, clergy, nobles, craftsmen, etc. A comparative analysis of the letters from these different social groups, written in several languages, in a variety of European regions and during distinct moments, allows us to identify the impact/speed of potential agents of change that loom large in the literature (capitalism, the Reformation, probability calculus, and the Enlightenment) more carefully. With this methodology, we will be able to provide fine-grained explanations.

Keywords: future expectations,merchants,letters,correspondence,capitalism,religious change,enlightenment,history
Fascinating World of Researchers in the Age of Technology – Mission of Researchers to Expand New Horizons (FAWORIT 2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158850.0
EU funding (EUR): 158850.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of our proposal is to present researchers from several aspects in order to get them closer to the general public and to encourage the youth, especially girls, to embark on scientific careers. We will apply a mission-oriented, impact-focused approach in our project in which interdisciplinary challenges, innovative solutions; researchers, their work and hobbies will be presented in an interactive, educating and entertaining way to stimulate the interest of citizens towards R&I, and to bring it closer to their expectations and concerns. A special attention will be given to the role of R&I in discovery and supporting European growth and prosperity, societal relevance of EU research policy and stakeholder involvement from society. Pre- & follow-up events will be organised, dissemination activities will maintain after the project lifetime in order to sustain the interest raised. The involvement of many different actors across various disciplines and sectors will achieve a high impact and make researchers’ work familiar to various age groups. Our main target group is students of age 6-26, but we aim to address all age groups with attractive programmes. The target audience can thus discover that both scholars and young innovators are amongst us and being a researcher is cool and creative. Our ambitious but realistic objective is to have at least 30000 visitors on our venues on the two-day event, but a multiple of that number (at least 1000000) will see, hear or read about the NIGHT. Our venues cover the whole country. As the result of the awareness raising campaign several organisations will join the NIGHT, the most important science communication event in Hungary, thus contributing to the multiplication of the number of visitors. We intend to raise awareness of the European engagement in R&I through the participation of H2020 projects with a special focus on MSCAs. In the European Corners and at each venue related programmes of the EU will be visible.

Keywords: citizen involvement,esr and and young innovators,societal relevance,women in science,edutainment,innovative products,services,attractiveness of researchers career,social media
RESEARCHER'S NIGHT IN FRANCE (EXPERIM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France
Call: European Researchers' Night (NIGHT) (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1045075.0
EU funding (EUR): 421200.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

ERN has gained momentum in France. Thus, the Ministry of Research has decided to open its great "Science Fair" with the ERN, which is a recognition of the quality of the event and significantly develops its reputation and visibility. Therefore, we have set up a programme with distinctive visible features and a high level of consistency throughout the French territory for the 2014 and 2015 editions. Our aim is to create original meetings as well as long and enriching dialogues between citizens and researchers in 11 towns. Our events will be identical at 80% and will involve 35000 visitors and 600 researchers per year in original public places. These events will be announced through a joint communication process. A theme will link them: “experience”, which means both experience and experiment in French. Our programme will stand out thanks to 3 key features: - the occasion of face to face dialogues with local researchers; - the European scope of the ERN. We will set up in each town a “EU-Welcome-corner”: meeting places where the French public will greet and welcome foreign researchers and will have the chance to better understand the meaning of European programmes. This action will be animated by "Campus France"; - the opportunity for the public to take part in actual research experiments. The public will get involved in a citizen science event. This will be exciting because in an experiment always lies some mystery. Furthermore, a link will be created between both years as for some experiments of 2014, the results will be presented in 2015. This will ensure the commitment of the public. In 2015 a great national participatory experiment will be organised, gathering all towns in the performance of one, big common experience in which thousands of French people will be able to take part for the ERN's anniversary. The organisation of these events is carried out by a consortium of 11 partners specialised in scientific popularisation, especially with researchers.

Keywords: researchers publics meetings dialogue experiment experience entertainment france event european loyalty participatory together atmosphere
Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs through the Enterprise Europe Network in Macedonia (INNO EEN-M) (INNO EEN-M)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: North Macedonia,North Macedonia
Call: Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7677.6
EU funding (EUR): 7677.6
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The INNO EEN-M project aims to deliver 16 (sixteen) 7-day service packages: 12 package services will be provided to SMEs with significant innovation activities and high potential for internationalization and 4 packages for the SME instrument beneficiaries. As the national consortium is responsible for providing services at whole territory of the country, this project will also cover the same area. The services will be delivered by two innovation experts/Key Account Managers (KAM) from UKIM, member of EEN Macedonia. The INNO EEN-M project is highly related to the call for Enterprise Europe Network – Horizon 2020 (2015-2016) and will provide necessary tools, knowledge and experience to the EEN-M for implementation of the specific activities in the context of innovation support. The activities within the project are organized in two work packages: key account management (KAM) for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument and enhancing SME innovation management capacities for innovating SME independently from a specific project. The selection of SMEs will be done based on identified criteria whereas services will be delivered in line with the specific common format with the packages. The team will use the IMP³rove tool as an assessment tool. The KAM will undertake needs analysis/assessment tool to support SMEs in selection of lead coach. The planned duration of both work packages is 24 months (2015-2016). The services, benefits and experiences from these activities will be part of internal evaluation. The beneficiaries of these activities will be also used for identification of potential needs for training in the future.

Keywords: innovation,smes
Cultural Heritage and Economic Development in International and European Law (HERITAGE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 485137.5
EU funding (EUR): 485137.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Can states promote economic development without infringing upon their cultural heritage? Although economic globalization and international economic governance have spurred a more intense dialogue and interaction among nations - potentially promoting cultural diversity and providing the funds to recover and preserve cultural heritage - these phenomena can also jeopardize the cultural wealth of nations. Trade in cultural products can lead to cultural homogenization and even to cultural hegemony. In parallel, foreign direct investments have an unmatched penetrating force with the ultimate capacity of changing landscapes and erasing memory. At the same time, the increase in global trade, economic integration and foreign direct investment has determined the creation of legally binding and highly effective regimes that demand states to promote and facilitate trade and foreign direct investment. Has an international economic culture emerged that emphasizes productivity and economic development at the expense of cultural wealth? Does the existing legal framework adequately protect the cultural wealth of nations vis-à-vis economic globalization? Could existing mechanisms in international and European law constrain negative effects of globalization? HERITAGE aims to map the interaction between economic globalization and each specimen of cultural heritage - world heritage, cultural diversity, intangible cultural heritage, indigenous heritage and underwater cultural heritage - in international and European law by investigating the relevant case law before international courts and tribunals. The study adopts an interdisciplinary approach; the relevant cases will be investigated in consideration of both their legal and cultural relevance. The main outcome of this research project will be a monograph written by the principal investigator to be published by a major international publisher; and a number of articles to be published in major international journals.

Keywords: cultural heritage,cultural diversity,international trade,foreign direct investment,economic development,dispute settlement,peaceful relations among nations
MiniMo-Logistics application (MiniMo-Logistics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MiniMo is an online service (SaaS) that fully automates the daily processes of the freight companies and helps in business cooperation between the market participants. The main feature of current solutions is to digitalize the paper-based daily routines, but our resulting product will fully automate the daily operations of the freight companies (receiving and processing assignments, optimal route planning and 3D optimization of the cargo with visualization on a smartphone, notifying the partners, managing the documentations, billing, etc.). The second objective is to create the means for the registered companies to contact each other, search for partners based on the relevant informations -working territory, capacity, special vehicle type-exchange data and give assignments to each other. In short term the users can reduce their total operation costs and time. In long term they can realize significant revenue growth owing to the extended partner network. The main target group of MiniMo are LTL (Less-Than-Truckload) carriers, especially in the groupage and the express segments in EU, as well as freight forwarders to search for business partners. During Phase 1 we will assess the necessary steps to assure the business and commercial success by observing the needs and processes of the market participants and establish the legal and business background of connecting the freight companies. MiniMo is currently on TRL-7, in Phase 2 we intend to develop the necessary modules - to reach TRL-9- and build a partner network. By using MiniMo CO2 emission can be reduced, the companies of the European Union will use a superior quality and more transparent shipping service, furthermore the competitiveness of the freight companies in the European Union will increase greatly.

Keywords: transport,logistics,business networking
A modern professional race car simulator for racing teams and individuals (AVEHIL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In motorsport, practice is the key to success at all levels. However, more practice demands more financial resources. Due to budget limitations and the need to moderate teams’ race preparation efforts, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) - Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) enforced stricter regulations on teams’ amount of permitted in-season testing by limiting it to at most 10 private test days plus a couple of official test events in January and February. This is not enough for racing teams and drivers to hone their skills. In response, they are resorting to the use of Driver in the Loop (DIL) simulators. Despite significantly contributing to the closing of the practice gap, current simulators suffer from inconsistencies between driver’s actions and what they experience, sensations which are not a true reflection of those in a real car, use hexapod systems which are less suitable for vehicle dynamics studies. They also suffer from motion sickness with the driver having to take frequent breaks from the simulator. To address these challenges, SkyDrive S.r.l has developed a professional high calibre simulator system (AveHIL) based on the use of mathematical models to integrate racing teams, the driver and the engineer in a seamless manner and offer them an accident free platform to learn, master and develop their racing career. They also enjoy the same level of situational awareness as in a real race car countless times with no greenhouse gas emissions. Teams can learn new tracks, practice manoeuvres and test setup changes virtually before taking their cars on to the actual track. To ensure a realistic experience, our solution comes with 4 degrees of freedom, real throttle, braking pedals, and master cylinders, World Series Tub, 42 Nm torque and a vacuum auto adaptive seat. The successful commercialisation of EveHIL enhance SkyDrive’s growth by increasing revenues to €12.7 million with an ROI of 4.28 five years post commercialisation.

Keywords: race cars,racing,simulator,race training,formula cars