Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Opportunity to Carry European Autonomous driviNg further with FDSOI technology up to 12nm node (OCEAN12)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Components and Systems
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ECSEL (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Poland,Romania,Greece,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,Portugal
Call: IA (H2020-ECSEL-2017-1-IA-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 95763209.39
EU funding (EUR): 23014451.23
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

OCEAN12 targets the key societal challenge of smart mobility. Based on the innovative FDSOI technology, OCEAN12 will develop new processors and applications design that leverage Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) technology to offer the industry’s lowest power consuming processor, especially for automotive and aeronautic applications. OCEAN12 will develop a technology platform benefitting from FDSOI design’s extreme low leakage and operating voltage (Vdd) scalability attained thank to reverse and forward body biasing (RBB/FBB) of the integrate circuit and it power system architecture. This high performance, low power solution will enable the next strategic generations of smart vehicles. This platform will rely on: • pilot line facilities capable to manufacture advanced substrates compatible with 12FDX technology and define pathfinding solutions to push 12FDX technology performances and develop innovative sensors, • development of innovative designs to enhance FDSOI capacity and guarantee the highest level of integrated solutions, • the manufacturing of high performance ICs using all panel of FDSOI technologies, The produced highly integrated, reliable, ultra low power and lower cost components will be integrated in complex embedded systems accessible to TIER-1, 2 and OEMs and answering strategic challenges of future vehicles generations. Several product demonstrators are targeted: high end microcontroller plug and play board, high performance sensors data fusion, highly integrated low power video processing, awaking systems. A strong added value network is created across this project to enhance a competitive European value chain on a European breakthrough and secure a unique FDSOI roadmap beyond the 22FDX. OCEAN 12 finally highlights Europe’s unique leading position on FDSOI technology integrating the entire manufacturing chain in this dynamic, from substrate suppliers and foundries to TIER-1 and OEM, including academia and RTO’s.

Keywords: smart mobility,semiconductor process,equipment and materials,smart system integration,design technology,fdsoi,automotive autonomous driving
FAke News discovery and propagation from big Data ANalysis and artificial intelliGence Operations (FANDANGO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Big Data PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Ireland,Italy,Belgium,Greece
Call: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3583125.0
EU funding (EUR): 2879250.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Fake News are now a hot issue in Europe as well as worldwide, particularly referred to Political and Social Challenges that reflect in business as well as in industry. Europe is lacking of a systematic knowledge and data transfer across organizations to address the aggressive emergence of the well-known problem of fake news and post-truth effect. The possibility to use cross sector Big Data management and analytics, along with an effective interoperability scheme for all our data sources, will tackle this urgent problem, generating new business and societal impacts involving several stakeholders: a) Media Companies: news agencies, broadcaster, newspapers, etc, b) Governmental institutions and organisations, c) The overall industrial ecosystem, d) The entire society. The aim of FANDANGO is to aggregate and verify different typologies of news data, media sources, social media, open data, so as to detect fake news and provide a more efficient and verified communication for all European citizens. European tradition in democracy, journalism and transparency should play a wordwide example in fast changing society, where all citizens appears completely overwhelmed by the new technologies and by the new social challenges. The FANDANGO project aims to break data interoperability barriers providing unified techniques and an integrated big data platform to support traditional media industries to face the new “data” news economy with a better transparency to the citizens under a Responsible, Research and Innovation prism. This goal will be validated and tested in three specific domains Climate, Immigration and European Context, these are typical scenarios where fake news can influence perception with respect to social and business actions and where news can be verified and validated by trustable information, based on facts and data.

Keywords: fake news detection,machine learning,nlp in a multi lingual environment,image and video analysis based algorithms,trust analysis for news propagation identification
Development of A Novel Submerged Anaerobic Electrochemical Membrane Bioreactor (e-SAnMBR) for bilge water treatment (ElectroSAnMBR)

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: Cyprus
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157941.12
EU funding (EUR): 157941.12
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Bilge water is the main pollutant of shipboard wastewater; it can be briefly defined as saline, oily and greasy wastewater with a high COD (> 3-15 g COD L-1). The discharge of oil residue to marine environments is prohibited according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations (MARPOL 73/78) and the European directive 2000/59/EC. However, due to the fact that the major part of the oil in bilge water is emulsified, the physical methods may fail to satisfy the targeted treatment levels and contribute significantly to operational cost. Few studies are so far available for the use of biological methods for real bilge water treatment. Electro-SAnMBR” project will develop an innovative technology consisting of an electrolysis cell (EC) inside a Submerged Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (SAnMBR) for the treatment of real bilge water. The electrochemical system will be consisted by a pair of electrodes (anode and cathode, without an ion exchange membrane) inside a SAnMBR. This e-SAnMBR system will be developed and optimized at a laboratory scale at Environmental Engineering Laboratory (EEL) Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), then it will be operated at pilot scale at Ecofuel Cyprus Ltd and the microbial profile in bioreactors will be examined at Environmental Bioprocessing laboratory (EBL) at CUT. The electrodes will be constructed at the Nano/Micro Mechanics of Materials Lab (NMML) at CUT The research will be mainly implemented by Dr Gatidou and will involve novel aspects from many disciplines such as molecular microbiology, material science, environmental biotechnology, chemical engineering and environmental analysis and will also involve testing of bioreactors at industrial pilot scale level (Ecofuel Ltd). In addition, potential success of the project could lead to immediate application of the research findings by the company (Ecofuel Ltd) but also to future commercialization of the results

Keywords: electrodes,membrane bioreactor,anaerobic treatment,granular sludge,microbial electrosythesis
A positron emission tomography apparatus based on liquid xenon with time of flight applications (PETALO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 968893.75
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This project presents a new technology for detectors used in positron emission tomography (PET), based on liquid xenon instead of current scintillator crystals. The basic element is a liquid xenon scintillating cell, with its size optimized to maximize the number of gammas that interact in the cell. Silicon photomultipliers read out by low power, low noise customized integrated circuits for time of flight applications will be used as sensors. Xenon is a noble gas which scintillates as response to ionizing radiation. Scintillation is very fast and intense, which results in the possibility of building a PET of good energy and spatial resolution and excellent time resolution. This, in turn, makes possible the measurement of the time-of-flight (TOF), which increases the sensitivity of the detector. Recently, the PI has published a Monte Carlo study of the coincidence resolving time that can be achieved by the PETALO technology, obtaining the promising result of less than 100 ps FWHM, which would be a break-through in the PET scanner field. The low cost of liquid xenon compared to conventional scintillating crystals opens two possible applications: one one hand, a full body PET reducing the cost and with an already better performance than the current technology; on the other hand, a smaller brain scanner, optimized to maximize the improvement in the performance with TOF measurements. This project will demonstrate the technological and commercial feasibility of the proposed technology. For this purpose, first a set of prototypes with two cells will be built to evaluate the resulting performance of the PETALO technology using different kinds of photosensors (UV light sensitive SiPMs versus conventional ones coated with a wavelength shifter). In a second phase, a full ring of the dimensions of a brain scanner will be built, using the technology that has performed better according to the results of this first phase.
Radioactivities from Stars to Solar Systems (RADIOSTAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1726300.0
EU funding (EUR): 1726300.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

RADIOSTAR will exploit radioactive nuclei produced by nuclear reactions inside stars and ejected by stellar winds and supernova explosions to fill the missing pieces of the puzzle of the origin of our Solar System: What were the circumstances of the birth of our Sun? Were they similar to those of the majority of other stars in our Galaxy, or were they special? Radioactive nuclei are the key to answer these questions because meteoritic analysis has proven that many of them were present at the time of the birth of the Sun. Their origin, however, has been so far elusive. RADIOSTAR steps beyond the state-of-the-art to answer these open questions by (i) combining the evolution of radioactive nuclei in the Galaxy and within molecular clouds and (ii) considering all the seventeen radionuclides of interest and all their stellar sources and analysing the effects of uncertainties in their stellar production. This will allow us to: - Use the decay of radioactive nuclei produced by the chemical evolution of the Galaxy as a clock to measure the lifetime of the Sun’s parent molecular cloud prior to the Sun’s birth; - Calculate the self-pollution of this molecular cloud from the ejecta of stars with lives shorter than such lifetime; - Discover if such self-pollution can fully explain the abundances of radioactive nuclei present at the time of the birth of the Sun, or whether special conditions are required. RADIOSTAR will also have a far-reaching impact on our understanding of exoplanetary systems because the heat produced by radioactivity affects the evolution of planetesimals, with implications for the amount of water on terrestrial planets in the habitable zone. RADIOSTAR will open a new window into research on the effect of radioactivity on the evolution of planetesimals outside our Solar System.
Full field Imaging for Damage Evaluation in Lightweight structures under Impact TYpe Loading (FIDELITY)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The application for a Marie Curie IF covers the personal development of the ER by providing the steps necessary to establish an independent researcher status by the end of the fellowship. The main vehicle for this is a program of novel research that develops the experience already gained in the experimental and computational solid mechanics and materials characterization. The IF proposal builds on the expertise at the University of Southampton, where the ER will be based. The research covers the development of understanding and accrual of knowledge on the behaviour of fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials, which are crucial to address current need to produce lighter, more fuel efficient and sustainable structures for transportation. The mechanical behaviour of FRP is strain-rate dependent and a full understanding of this behavior has proved elusive. There are numerous engineering applications where high strain rate impact damage can lead to loss of structural integrity, so obtaining a better understanding this behaviour is essential for efficient design. New full-eld imaging approaches are increasingly used for the detection and analysis of damage in composites. The objective of the research program is to develop and verify a new methodology where integrated thermomechanical full-field high fidelity measures of stress and strain are provided experimentally. The research will for the first time provide quantitative inputs to models to inform designs and predict failure under high strain rate events through and experimentally derived damage index to determine structural performance. The fellowship contains significant technology transfer through industrial collaborations and secondment to industry. The industrial interactions will enable the methodology to be applied at a structural scale and bring about a key element on the pathway to revolutionise traditional approaches to structural testing, certification and validation.

Keywords: instrumentation,metrology,thermography,composites
Upscaling production and adding new product lines to the unique and patented water-to-mist technology that reduces water use by 98% without loss of functionality and keeping a high user experience (MistAndClean)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

By 2023, about half of the world’s population will live in areas without enough water for basic needs. Altered is making water saving as easy as possible with a full range of water-saving products for all types of water use and all budgets. For our first development we have spent nearly €1.5M to bring to the market a radical technology: a patented nozzle that transforms a gushing flow into a dense, high-speed mist using up to 98% less water than existing taps, while maintaining the same washing experience with the option to switch to spray mode for a higher flow when needed. We are working together with distributors and retailers to offer something different from traditional companies by turning components no one knows about, into beautiful, easy to use, durable, versatile products fitting for every budget and every tap. Thanks to a viral Kickstarter campaign video with over +50 million views we have secured the sales of our first 60K units, our first partnerships with large corporates like Ikea and Unilever and an endorsement from WWF which have set us on our way to help solve the global water crisis, contribute to energy savings and offset carbon emissions. We are seeking €1.62M for Mist&Clean, making the way for three new developments based on our current technology: 1) a cheaper, plastic version of our current devices 2) a fixed faucet for new bathrooms and kitchens and 3) showerheads so that our innovative water saving technology can be put to use in every household, hotel, restaurant, airport and public space. The successful completion of Mist&Clean will allow us to grow our share of the faucet market and tap into the showerhead segment for the first time, a total addressable market (TAM) in the EU alone of 1.83B units. A mere year after the commercialization of these new developments, we expect that they will contribute over €18M in revenue to Altered, setting the stage for our company to be leaders in water conservation.

Keywords: water savings,co2 savings,energy saving,new nozzle
Do grains make the difference? Plant economies during the development of urban societies in Mesopotamia (GRAMADIF)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-10
End date: 2024-01-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

During the 4th-3rd millennia B.C in Mesopotamia, communities previously living in small egalitarian villages progressively grew into large cities, ruled by political, religious and economic institutions. Cultural expansions and climate change contributed to socio-economic transformations and adaptations including in crop production. The development of an intensive irrigated farming system in southern Mesopotamia enabled the rise of early cities there; simultaneously, in rain-fed northern Mesopotamia, an extensive, low-input farming system supported early cities. But while agriculture appears to be one of the main drivers behind the emergence and development of the first Near Eastern cities, the evidence mostly consists of indirect sources such as 3rd and 2nd mill. BC cuneiform texts. The study of charred macrobotanical remains (seeds, fruits, chaff) recovered from nine newly excavated archaeological sites, located in northern and southern Mesopotamia, offers a unique opportunity to reconstruct the evolution and regional variability of plant production between the 7th and the 1st mill. BC. This project will study the role and the impact of the development of agriculture in the emergence of the urban centres. With this aim, the project will 1) identify macrobotanical remains through taxonomic and morphometric analysis to reconstruct plant assemblages; 2) create a database integrating botanical results and contextual information; 3) apply stable isotope analysis (carbon and nitrogen) to crops and functional weed ecology to document growing conditions of plants; 4) use multivariate analyses for comparisons and literature review for supra-regional synthesis. The results will allow us to define the northern and the southern Mesopotamian agriculture and to redraw their evolution along with the urbanisation of societies. The ultimate goal is to clarify how different agricultural systems (intensive vs. extensive) have resulted and supported the raise of the first cities.

Keywords: archaeobotany,agriculture,irrigation,ecology,stable isotope
CHromospheric magnetic fields in fLAREs and their evolution (CHLARE)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-12-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This research project aims to study the variations of the solar magnetic field in flares, the most energetic events in our solar system. Flares accelerate charged particles into space, which may adversely affect satellites and Earth’s technology. Despite their clear importance for today’s technology, the timing and positioning when flares occur are so far unpredictable. Changes in the solar magnetic field topology are known to be the causes for flares, but their physics is not understood in detail. Past studies have shown prominent changes of the magnetic field in the photosphere during flares. But higher in the atmosphere, in the chromosphere, studies are scarce because ground-based telescopes with special instrumentation and capabilities are needed. No space mission has been or is being planned with capabilities for those chromospheric magnetic measurements. The most suitable spectral range to study the upper chromosphere is the He I 1083.0 nm triplet and the project has access to two unique data sets of high-energetic flares in this spectral region. Since there are no diagnostic tools for this prominent spectral triplet in flares, the first goal is to upgrade an existing tool (spectral-line inversion code) to include flare physics. The code will be made freely available for the benefit of the scientific community, so that it can be used to analyze future flare observations in this wavelength range. The second aim is to use the upgraded tool to infer for the first time the evolution of the magnetic field vector in the two abovementioned data sets. The results will provide thresholds for the shear/ twist of the field lines that lead to the analyzed flares. Hydrodynamic simulations and satellite data will complement the results to simulate the atmospheric response to the flare and compute the energy budget of the magnetic changes compared to other flare processes. The results will have a deep impact on flare models, future predictors, and space weather.

Keywords: flares,magnetic fields,chromosphere,observations,spectral line inversions