Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Next generation Technologies for networked Europe (NEXT-NET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Mapping a path to future supply chains (H2020-NMBP-CSA-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1206250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1206250.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Currently most of EU research activities in the area of supply chain has been supported through programmes specifically focusing on some aspects as for example technologies for handling and transportation in ALICE, for internal logistics and production networks in EFFRA, Integrated platforms for implementing new communication paradigms in ICT, platfomrs for industrial symbiosis in SPIRE. The aim of the project is to put in place a cross-sectoral and cross-technological initiative at European level to increase integration between production and distribution proposing research and innovation priorities for the future of supply chain. In particular, the project will develop a Strategic Research Agenda where the effort of different communities like EFFRA, SPIRE, ALICE and other ICT are put together to face important challenges like customization and sustainability. Most important steps of the project will be: (i) Creating a European network where most important stakeholders will be involved reaching a critical mass of people from all targeted industries and scientific domains by mean of direct actions along the whole project life; (ii) Identifying future industrial scenarios for 2050: through the analysis of the socio-economic trends and drivers in the market and their impact on innovation & technology development it will be possible to fix some promising scenarios for the future; (iii) Developing a strategic research agenda and a joint action plan on broader innovation policy issues of common interest. NEXT-NET will be grounded on the analysis of most important European and national roadmaps status of implementation, on identification of the most promising enabling technologies for the future industrial scenarios to develop the research and innovation priorities, on workshops (focus groups, brainstorming sessions, ...) with experts and stakeholders from more that 4 supply chains accross Europe.

Keywords: supply chain,future scenarios,strategic research agenda,process industry,discrete manufacturing,distribution and logistics
Smart modular passive cool boxes for sustainable logistics (SmartCOOLBOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SmartCOOLBOX is presented as a Logistic service for high-reliability temperature-controlled products, based on: - SmartCOOLBOX itself, an intelligent, connected, reusable and modular ISOTHERMAL CONTAINER… - … that is OFFERED AS A SERVICE, which simplifies the managing of the transport process SmartCOOLBOX is an integrated combination of several innovations and technologies which feature: - Use of light and degradable materials, offering longer life isothermal conditions range at the same time (warrantied for 7 days, following the defined storage and handling conditions) - Modularity and adaptation to actual goods measures - Smart sensors for tracking the conditions of the transport - Smart alerts system to track, and prevent or detect incidents, enabling rescue actions - Reusability of boxes and materials - Service covers the full supply chain, including reverse logistics With SmartCOOLBOX, hospitals, labs and generic logistics operators may handle materials without relevant precautions, increasing safety while decreasing costs. Pharma and biotech industries will reduce losses due to temperature excursions and, at the same time, will open new markets such as difficult geographic areas, as well as disaster areas or in conflict regions. From environmental perspective, savings will come by modular reusable boxes and less wasted products.

Keywords: cold supply chain,logistics,biotechnology,pharmaceutics
Extending the outdoor navigation experience to the indoors (GalNav InDoor)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We also need location positioning indoors. The good news is that almost all of us have phones with a GNSS receiver. Indoor positioning does not only help us get from A to B in large buildings but positioning does not work indoors mainly due to low accuracy. Our patented unique GalNav InDoor technology allows us to use standard GPS receivers already present in mobile devices to continue tracking the user indoor. Other vendors have used pseudolites (“pseudo-satellite” transmitting GPS-like signals) but these remain extremely expensive and custom-built for specific facilities. At Galileo Satellite Navigation Ltd. (GSN), we are the first company to provide indoor GPS capability with “virtual holes in the roof” using patented microsimulators to enable satellite reception. This is a game changer for indoor positioning as it can render all other technologies obsolete and leverage the existing GPS infrastructure (such as Galileo in Europe). We will target large venues that have an interest in tracking people including office and industrial buildings, malls and department stores, trade shows, supermarkets and hospitals. We will follow a business model based on a software license (head unit management software and remote synchronization software) and hardware fee (head unit and remote unit). To reach our company goal of revolutionizing the GNSS market, we will bring outdoor positioning to the indoors with GalNav InDoor. Before we can launch GalNav InDoor to the market, we need to perform the Phase 1 Feasibility Study and then scale up the current GalNav InDoor TRL 6 prototype to a fully commercial system for with Phase 2 funding. The EU benefits include facilitated emergency response management, better location in transportation hubs, more accurate logistic and easier moving around in large spaces such as hospitals.

Keywords: galileo,indoor,positioning,tracking
Sustainable Datacenters Through Immersed Computing (AIC24)

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

There are around 8,6M Data Centers (DCs) worldwide which contribute to our daily activities such as on-line searching, social networking, telecommunication, banking, and on-line shopping. DCs consume around 3% of today’s world global energy supply, accounting for 2% of total greenhouse gas emissions. If a DC were to suddenly stop operating, much of the computer-connected world would be affected and it could cost businesses millions of euros. In order for these DCs to operate with minimal to zero downtime sufficient power and cooling is required. In Europe, the IT sector consumed 8-10% of all generated electricity, and all DCs combined were responsible for 2% of all energy consumption. More than 50% of this energy is used to cool the IT system (approx. 50% of the ongoing running costs) and as much as 80% of this energy is wasted as heat. Reducing the power consumption and improving efficiency of DCs to ultimately reduce operating costs and support the industry growth has become a major challenge with many efforts from governments and companies around the world. With an increasing number of high power density DCs being built, traditional air-cooling systems (most popular cooling for DCs) are unable to properly cool high-power density IT environments. Instead, liquid-cooling technologies on the market can support higher power densities, but do not provide high-availability, lack flexibility, are messy to handle and energy is still wasted, which is why this technology hasn’t yet become the norm in DCs. Asperitas, our start-up, has developed AIC24; a modular liquid cooling system that can meet the needs of high power density environments in availability and ease of use while reducing energy use by 50%, total cost of ownership by 35%, CapEx by 25%, and ensuring energy is recycled. In 5 years from completion of the project, we expect to gain €26,2 million in cumulative profits, hire 38 new employees and achieve a ROI of €6,48 per euro invested in this project.

Keywords: energy efficiency,high performance computing,data centers,cost reduction
Estimating contribution of sub-hourly sea level oscillations to overall sea level extremes in changing climate (SHExtreme)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 806250.0
EU funding (EUR): 806250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Coping with a sea level rise, induced by climate change processes, is one of the most important challenges of modern society. It has been projected that, by the end of the 21st century, mean sea level (MSL) will rise between 40 and 60 cm worldwide. Higher MSLs imply that flood risks associated to extreme sea levels (ESLs) will also increase, with the 100-year return levels of extreme events along European coasts projected to increase between 50 and 90 cm by the 2100. ESLs occur due to a superposition of numerous oceanic phenomena which act over different temporal (from seconds to millennia) and spatial scales (from bays to oceans). Within SHExtreme project, for the first time, contribution of under-researched sub-hourly sea level oscillations to the ESLs along the European coast will be extensively studied. High resolution 1-min sea level data measured at more than 100 tide gauge stations, as well as reanalysis, hindcast and future climate simulations, will be analyzed to achieve project goals: (i) assessing present day distribution of sub-hourly sea level oscillations and estimating their contribution to the overall ESLs; (ii) linking sub-hourly ESLs to governing atmospheric conditions; (iii) estimating future strength and distribution of sub-hourly ESLs. Project SHExtremes will result with the first comprehensive estimate of intensity, frequency, and spatial and temporal distribution of present and future-day sub-hourly ESLs along the European coasts.

Keywords: sea level extremes,meteotsunamis,climate change,flood risk
DYNAmic spectrum sharing and bandwidth-efficient techniques for high-throughput MIMO SATellite systems (DYNASAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling advances in space technology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Finland,Finland,France
Call: Satellite communication technologies (H2020-SPACE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2954652.5
EU funding (EUR): 2954652.5
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The DYNASAT project aims at investigating, developing, and demonstrating bandwidth-efficient transmission techniques for an advance NGSO based satellite access infrastructure servicing mass-market and professional 5G user equipment (e.g. handset) in unserved or underserved areas. The project will leverage the on-going effort on the definition at 3GPP (release 17) of the necessary features that will make 5G user devices and NG-RAN support satellite operations and on the development of an ambitious constellations to meet service requirements of mobile network operators requirements as well as of vertical stakeholders such as public safety and transportation sectors. As the traffic demand keeps increasing, this project will timely develop selected bandwidth-efficient transmission techniques such as MIMO and dynamic spectrum access, frequency reuse, user clustering, CoMP and interference mitigation that will allow to scale the network infrastructure capacity and allow that it shares spectrum with cellular networks. Exploiting the research results, the consortium will contribute to 3GPP release 18 by promoting and then defining new features in the 5G standard. The performance gain associated with the use of these techniques will be demonstrated at MWC 2022 and 2023. Moreover, the findings associated with the spectrum sharing techniques will be used to prepare the ITU WRC2023. The project gathers partners with complementary expertise in the different bandwidth-efficient techniques, satellite communications and a proven successful record of impact in 3GPP where 5G is defined. It also involves in an advisory board prominent Mobile network and satellite operators as well as cellular stakeholders. This project will enable Europe to maintain its leadership in future satellite solutions for 5G and address one of the key challenges of 5G which is to provide coverage in rural areas.

Keywords: cooperative multipoint transmission,coordinated multiuser mimo,dynamic spectrum allocation,spectrum sharing
Functional Systems of Capsules (FunCapSys)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2478236.0
EU funding (EUR): 2478236.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The simplest living organism is composed of myriad chemical subsystems, each consisting of structurally complex biomolecules that interact in many ways; the properties of life emerge from these dense connections. Understanding how these interactions take place will help elucidate the foundations of biology, as well as enabling the design and creation of new chemical networks with targeted functions. Deciphering and designing chemical systems requires new tools to be developed, however. In this research programme, we will develop new means for engineering functional chemical systems based upon the use of guest-binding capsules. These hosts will respond to many different signals in predictable ways. Their responses will enable their guests to be transformed in new ways or pumped between phases using light. Chemical signals will enable hosts to be transformed reversibly or irreversibly, changing their guest binding properties so as to favour some guests and disfavour others, and catalysts will be released or taken up, accelerating or impeding catalysed transformations. Ultimately we will design systems where signal transduction occurs in complex cycles and feedback loops, allowing complex behaviour to emerge from abiological systems.

Keywords: host guest chemistry,encapsulation,catalysis
State-of-the-art simulations of quantum many-body systems with the next-generation tensor network algorithms (NexGenTeN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-12-01
End date: 2026-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999630.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999630.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

One of the biggest and most relevant challenges in physics is the accurate study of strongly correlated quantum many-body systems, which give rise to very remarkable phenomena like high-Tc superconductivity (HTSC), quantum spin liquids with topological order, and other novel phases of matter. Understanding these systems is the key to designing new materials and quantum devices for future groundbreaking technologies. In recent years enormous progress in the study of these systems has been achieved with two-dimensional tensor network algorithms, which can be seen as a generalization of the powerful density-matrix renormalization group method to higher dimensions. While already the current algorithms are very powerful and outperform other state-of-the-art approaches, the development of new algorithms with a higher accuracy and broader application range is crucial to enable to solve the most pressing open problems. Building upon my previous breakthroughs in this field, I will develop the next generation of tensor network algorithms, including novel powerful methods for ground states, time evolution, spectral functions, finite temperature, open systems, and multi-scale approaches. I will use them for groundbreaking simulations of relevant open problems in several fields with unprecedented accuracy. Major milestones include (1) simulations of realistic models of cuprate materials in order to shed new light on the pseudogap phase and pairing mechanism in HTSC, (2) cutting-edge simulations of frustrated materials to reveal the nature of excitations and thermodynamic properties of quantum spin liquids and other challenging states, and (3) predictions of novel states of matter in SU(N) and open quantum systems which can be realized in experimental quantum simulators. This ambitious project will strongly advance our fundamental understanding of strongly correlated systems and set a new state-of-the-art in simulating quantum many-body problems.

Keywords: tensor network algorithms,quantum many body systems,quantum simulation,high temperature superconductivity,frustrated magnetism,hubbard model
microRNAs in susceptibility to traumatic stress (TraumiR)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Traumatic stressors are important and prevalent risk factors for psychiatric disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). People differ strikingly in their susceptibility to develop PTSD after traumatic stress, however the exact underlying biological mechanisms of differential susceptibility are unknown. The identification of biomarkers that distinguish between persons at high and low risk of developing PTSD following trauma exposure would enable more effective preventive strategies and early interventions. Epigenetic mechanisms have been proposed to underlie the relationship between exposure to traumatic stress and the susceptibility to develop PTSD. Recent work carried out by the host laboratory demonstrated that DNA methylation might regulate the impact of traumatic stress on gene expression and ultimately brain function. Based on this and the emerging role of miRNA as key epigenetic players in psychiatric disorders, I hypothesize that (i) susceptibility to traumatic stress exposure is associated with distinct miRNAs expression profiles with blood-brain correlation, (ii) experimental manipulation of miRNA expression levels in animals alters their susceptibility to traumatic stress. These hypotheses will be tested by a unique set of epigenetic epidemiological studies using prospective cohorts with longitudinal sampling schemes of military soldiers deployed to war, next to experimental animal studies. The proposed multidisciplinary and translational project will open the possibility of tapping into the mechanisms underlying differential susceptibility to traumatic stress through blood profiling. It has excellent prospects for yielding clinically relevant and usable biomarkers for the prediction of susceptibility to traumatic stressors. Moreover, the project will reinforce my foundation as a highly promising early career researcher by broadening my knowledge, skills, professional experience and network necessary to launch my own research group.

Keywords: epigenetics,mirna,post traumatic stress disorder,neurobiology,translational
Spectral-Temporal Metrology with Tailored Quantum Measurements (STORMYTUNE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Poland,France,Czechia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3759505.0
EU funding (EUR): 3756505.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Metrology explores the most efficient and precise way to perform measurements. This established area of study has considerable impact on our everyday lives. A GPS would not work without the capability to measure distances precisely, and spectral fingerprinting is an established technique to identify e.g. drugs. Better timing measurements could improve the performance of GPS and laser ranging; better frequency resolution could help to identify more substances more quickly. To explore more precise measurements, we can use quantum metrology. We can exploit the counterintuitive behaviour of quantum objects to perform measurements with better accuracy compared to classical methods. For example, using superposition, where the cat is both dead and alive; or entanglement, where objects are interwoven more tightly than classically allowed. Quantum metrology currently focusses on measuring phases, with only few works considering spatial separations. We will take a new approach in considering time and frequency. STORMYTUNE’s time-frequency quantum metrology technology toolbox will comprise two main elements. We will develop a theory framework that will help us define the fundamental limitations of our idea, putting special emphasis on implementing tailored quantum measurements. The goal being to outperform classical strategies and thus find immediate applications, something that hasn’t been achieved in metrology to date. We will build devices and prototypes that have functionality. We will demonstrate spectroscopy – frequency measurements – with a resolution beyond classical limits. Further, we will implement compressed sensing techniques for the resource efficient characterisation of time and frequency distributions of quantum light. The STORMYTUNE consortium comprises world leading scientific and industry partners, who are ideally positioned to achieve the ambitious vision of this project and build a state of the art time-frequency quantum metrology technology toolbox.

Keywords: entanglement,coherence,superposition