Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Process Simulation and Tool Compensation Methodology for High Temperature Composite Processes (ProTHiC)

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: Germany,Austria,Sweden,Sweden
Call: Composite process modelling and net-shape, complex geometry RTM tool design (H2020-CS2-CFP07-2017-02, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 700000.0
EU funding (EUR): 700000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Process Simulation and Tool Compensation Methodology for High Temperature Composite Processes. The overall objective of ProTHiC is to develop materials, manufacturing, tooling and processing simulations technologies that enables further exploitation of carbon fibre-reinforced composites in applications where the temperature requirements are exceeding 200°C where currently only titanium or super-alloys are being used. ProTHiC will place its main efforts to: - Develop and characterize polyimide resins tailored for processing with RTM - develop, adapt and when necessary modify state-of-the-art processing simulation methodologies (curing and mould filling) to also work for high temperature composites - Validate simulation methodologies by against experimental data obtained from manufacturing trials performed on sub-components with simplified geometry (e.g. L- and T-profiles) - Establish a simulation assisted tool design process that integrates processing simulation methodologies with methodologies for tool compensation - Demonstrate the above-mentioned technologies by manufacturing of a demonstrator component that is defined together with the topic manager.

Keywords: composite,high temperature,modelling,curing,draping,compaction,tool compensation
A glimpse into the Arctic future: equipping a unique natural experiment for next-generation ecosystem research (FutureArctic)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Iceland,Austria,Austria,Estonia,Spain,Iceland,Austria,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3965109.84
EU funding (EUR): 3965109.84
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change will affect Arctic ecosystems more than any other ecosystem worldwide, with temperature increases expected up to 4-6°C. While this is threatening the integrity and biodiversity of the ecosystems in itself, the larger ecosystem feedbacks triggered by this change are even more worrisome. During millions of years, atmospheric carbon has been stored in the Arctic soils. With warming, the carbon can rapidly escape the soils in the form of CO2 and (even worse) the strong greenhouse agent CH4. Despite decades of research, scientists still struggle to unveil the scale of this carbon exchange, and especially how it will interact with climate change. An overarching question remains: how much carbon will potentially escape the Arctic in the future climate, and how will this affect climate change? FutureArctic embeds this research challenge directly in an inter-sectoral training initiative for early stage researchers, that aims to form “ecosystem-of-things” scientists and engineers at the ForHot site. The FORHOT site in Iceland offers a geothermally controlled soil temperature warming gradient, to study how Arctic ecosystem processes are affected by temperature increases as expected through climate change. FutureArctic aims to pave the way for generalized permanently connected data acquisition systems for key environmental variables and processes. We will initiate a new machine-learning approach to analyse large high-throughput environmental data-streams, through installing a pioneer "ecosystem-of-things" at the ForHot site. FutureArctic will thus channel, building on a timely project in the ForHot area, an important evolution to machine-assisted environmental fundamental research. This is achieved through the dedicated training of researchers with profiles at the inter-sectoral edge of computer science, artificial intelligence, environmental science (both experimental and modelling), scoial sciences and sensor engineering and communication.

Keywords: climate change,carbon cycling,rhizobiome,microbiome,vegetation
A roof integrated solar tile system to develop cost-effective distributed solar power generation (SolTile)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2203904.25
EU funding (EUR): 1542732.98
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

There is an increasing global need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels as a resource and convert to renewable production of energy. Traditional solar installations require large amounts of material, equipment and labour resulting in unattractive systems and a poor market adoption. The EU is currently installing less than 100,000 residential solar roofs per year however this needs to increase to 3,000,000 per year to avoid worst scenario climate change. France's goal is 500,000 roofs a year vs. less than 20,000 currently. Soltiles innovative business project aims to significantly accelerate the uptake of solar power for individual properties whilst disrupting the existing model of utility scale central power generation. The Soltiles solution offers an efficient and reliable solution to residential solar power whilst maintaining the aesthetics of the property. For homeowners, the tiles generate enough power to attain self-sufficiency. The moulded tile is installed like a standard roofing tile by roofing contractors. The patented product is unique by incorporating both crystalline and thin film technology improving flexibility and versatility of the substrate. After conducting a successful feasibility assessment in the SME Instrument Phase 1, Soltiles’ Phase 2 project aims to re-engineer the tiles for increased efficiency; optimise the manufacturing processes of the tile; establish compliance with necessary regulation; and install and test 18 roofs for complete system validation.

Keywords: solar energy,distributed power,photovoltaics,roof integrated,renewables,cost saving,zero energy building
Transparent, Reliable and Unbiased Smart Tool for AI (TRUST-AI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Emerging themes and communities
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Cyprus,Türkiye,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: FET Proactive: emerging paradigms and communities (H2020-EIC-FETPROACT-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3996418.75
EU funding (EUR): 3996418.75
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

Artificial intelligence is single-handedly changing decision-making at different levels and sectors in often unpredictable and uncontrolled ways. Due to their black-box nature, existing models are difficult to interpret, and hence trust. Explainable AI is an emergent field, but, to ensure no loss of predictive power, many of the proposed approaches just build local explanators on top of powerful black-box models. To change this paradigm and create an equally powerful, yet fully explainable model, we need to be able to learn its structure. However, searching for both structure and parameters is extremely challenging. Moreover, there is the risk that the necessary variables and operators are not provided to the algorithm, which leads to more complex and less general models. It is clear that state-of-the-art, yet practical, real-world solutions cannot come only from the computer science world. Our approach therefore consists in involving human intelligence in the discovery process, resulting in AI and humans working in concert to find better solutions (i.e. models that are effective, comprehensible and generalisable). This is made possible by employing ‘explainable-by-design’ symbolic models and learning algorithms, and by adopting a human-centric, ‘guided empirical’ learning process that integrates cognition, machine learning and human-machine interaction, ultimately resulting in a Transparent, Reliable and Unbiased Smart Tool. This proposal aims to design TRUST, ensure its adequacy to tackle predictive and prescriptive problems, and create an innovation ecosystem around it, whereby academia and companies can further exploit it, independently or in collaboration. The proposed ‘human-guided symbolic learning’ should be the next ‘go-to paradigm’ for a wide range of sectors, where human agency / accountability is essential. These include healthcare, retail, energy, banking, insurance and public administration (of which the first three are explored in this project).

Keywords: explainable artificial intelligence,guided empiricism,human centric ai,accountable ai,symbolic learning,human machine interaction,cognition models,active learning
Superconducting quantum heat engines and refrigerators (SQH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2418002.0
EU funding (EUR): 2418002.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the proposed work is to realize experimentally the first genuinely quantum mechanical refrigerator/heat engine in the solid state, and test whether one can boost its performance by information/feedback, optimized control, and merely by exploiting the quantum coherences vs the classical dynamics. To achieve this goal, we will investigate experimentally and theoretically the thermodynamics of open quantum systems. For the experimental realization, we will develop calorimetry with superior energy and time resolution and build competitive quantum circuits based on superconducting quantum bits (qubits). In order to achieve the ultimate goal, we will, for the first time, implement a test for quantum fluctuation relations in a truly open quantum system, and demonstrate an implementation of the so-called quantum Maxwell's Demon by controlling a qubit in an optimal way. In our studies we will utilize the state-of-the-art nanofabrication and measurement facilities of the national OtaNano research infrastructure that I coordinate. This project presents a serious effort to investigate experimentally open quantum systems from the point of view of thermodynamics. It brings the classical field of research, thermodynamics, to the quantum regime, where experiments are in their infancy. Beyond the direct fundamental significance of this endeavor, the outcome of this project will technologically benefit the performance of both current and novel devices that is often limited by our present understanding of fluctuation relations and the characteristics of open quantum systems.

Keywords: quantum heat engines,quantum refrigerators,superconductors,open quantum systems,information,thermodynamics,work,heat,fluctuations,solid state physics
Unravelling cluster root development in white lupin (LUPINROOTS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cellular, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Panel description: Structure and function of the cell, cell-cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997103.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997103.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Plant development is continuous throughout their lifetime and reflects their ability to adapt to their environment. This developmental plasticity is very obvious in the development of the root system. Surprisingly, the fundamental mechanisms of root development have been studied into great detail but the effect of the environment on its plasticity is still largely unknown. I will use phosphate, since this nutrient has a very low mobility in soil, as a mean to study plant developmental adaptation in white lupin. This species has developed extreme adaptive mechanism to improve phosphate uptake by producing structures called “cluster roots”. They are dense clusters of lateral roots with determinate development and highly specific physiology. I will develop new tools to identify cluster root mutants in white lupin, sequence white lupin genome, perform tissues specific transcriptomics and perform full molecular characterization of selected genes. This project will also lead me to compare adaptive mechanisms between white lupin and narrow-leafed lupin, a closely related species that does not produce cluster roots. We will also test whether it is possible to transfer the ability to form cluster roots in this species. Altogether, this project will lead to a major advance in our capacity to understand how plants are able to sense and respond to their environment and how evolution has selected adaptive developmental mechanisms to improve their capacity to use limited resources. This project focuses on the most extreme developmental adaptation produced in response to phosphate starvation. It is ambitious, as it will necessitate the development of several tools. However, it is highly feasible since it builds on my previous experience and important outcome can be expected in term of crop improvement and means to reduce the use of phosphate fertilizers.

Keywords: plant development,root plasticity,phosphorus,lateral roots,white lupin
Peptide arrays as a high throughput pre-screening tool (PRESCREENARRAY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2015-PoC, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 147247.0
EU funding (EUR): 147247.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Funded by the ERC-Starting Grant COMBIPATTERNING, we have conducted proof-of-principle experiments to synthesize peptide arrays with a density of up 25 Mio spots per cm2 (2 µm pitch). With these spot densities, a microscope slide would display more than a Billion different peptide spots, which is comparable to phage display technologies. Therefore, we want to verify the innovation potential of our novel very-high-density peptide arrays that should find a market in all kinds of applications where pre-screening of large peptide libraries is done. We think our novel PreScreenArrays should do much better than currently available display technologies and chemical compound libraries due to the following features: (a) The manufacturing cost of PreScreenArrays will be unprecedentedly low, (b) very small sample volumes, e.g. antibody sera can be analysed with our densely packed arrays, (c) we are fast and cheap in analysing the peptide arrays for binders since we don’t need any readout (we know the peptide’s sequence at every spot), (d) we can easily build into PreScreenArrays all kinds of artificial building blocks, e.g. posttranslational modifications of amino acids (which is a huge advantage over all display technologies), (e) we can easily synthesize focused libraries (i.e. some amino acids are fixed, while others are varied, e.g. to screen for improved antibiotic peptides), and (f) we can easily synthesize cyclic peptides that – similar to chemical compound libraries – should yield high-affinity binders for target proteins (cyclic peptides fold into fewer 3D structures when compared to linear peptides). We think that these features translate into a highly competitive technology, when compared to display techniques, and, eventually, also to chemical compound libraries.

Keywords: peptide arrays combinatorial synthesis
CULTURAL POLICY AND CHORAL-HISTORICAL IDENTITY IN THE CHORAL/MUSICAL LIFE OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY COLLEGES AND HALLS IN THE 21ST CENTURY (OXFORDCHOIRS)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 97727.4
EU funding (EUR): 97727.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project presents an interdisciplinary study on the collective identities and (sometimes contested) cultures of collegiate choirs at University of Oxford (UOXF) and focuses on cultural-political issues and challenges facing the choral/musical tradition in UOXF colleges and halls in the 21st century. This project refers to extra-curricular music activities in the academic context, which relate to the current European Agenda for culture (accessible and inclusive culture and cultural heritage as well as referring to current societal challenges in Europe (social inclusion) whereas the project deals with musical activities in a somewhat elitist community. Drawing predominantly on the Sociology and Psychology of Music, as well as the contemporary history of Music and Cultural Policy, this interdisciplinary study can be divided into two main strands of research: A) Firstly from the perspective of students; to map the demographical background and social structures of members of the collegiate choirs and how the historical tradition affects and shapes the collective identities and individual cultures of the choirs. B) Secondly from the perspectives of staff/administrators; to study the cultural-political issues in ‘governmental’ decision making regarding the future of the collegiate choirs in terms of perspectives like politics of admission, competition for musical talent, forms of musical direction, gender perspectives, financial distribution and inequalities, musical hierarchies and the possible impact of cuts in public funding to musical school activities in general.

Keywords: musical identities,music sociology,music psychology,choral studies,choral identities,music,education,music education policy,musical director,cultural management,cultural policy
PIX DENTAL SYSTEM: FEASIBILITY STUDY (3DKF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pix Dental System (PDS) is an EC-certified cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solution enabling General Dental Practitioners to perform minimally invasive image-guided surgery. PDS provides (1) unprecedented accuracy that guarantees results, whilst removing the need for decades of expertise, (2) collaborative features to enable cross-disciplinary online collaboration, delivered through (3) a very competitive pay per use pricing model. PDS is developed by 3DKREAFORM, a French firm incorporated at the end of 2012, which ambitions to become a major actor of guided implant surgery. The platform is currently live, and counts around 30 customers. The company aims to penetrate its home market, scale up, and expand in Italy, Germany and Spain, which together represent over 70% of the European market unit-wise, with around 4.5M implants each year. With an average revenue of 250€ excluding VAT per use case (surgery), the total addressable market potential in 2015 is €357,5M, and with a projected growth of 20% in the next 5 years, the total addressable market in 2020 will be €430M. 3DKF aims at facilitating 488% of all 1.72M implant surgeries performed in those 4 markets by 2020 for a turnover of €23.1M by 2020. By 2023, it aims to facilitate 10% of all implant surgeries for a turnover of €53.5M, whilst expanding in other continents (Japan, Korea, Brazil, USA and Canada).

Keywords: dental practice,saas,impant surgery,image guided surgery
Spatial Augmented Reality as a Key for co-creativity (SPARK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Belgium,France,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Technologies for creative industries, social media and convergence (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3180242.5
EU funding (EUR): 3180242.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The SPARK project aims at realizing a responsive and intuitive ICT platform that exploit the potential of Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) to show designers and customers real-like solutions in the form of mixed prototypes (partially virtual and partially physical) during brainstorming sessions. The SPARK platform allows designers and customers to freely work together within the paradigm of open-innovation so as to support and foster creative thinking with an enriched flow of ideas in the design process. The platform, by means of adequate content management and real-like interaction with the mixed prototype, will enhance the innovation capabilities of creative industries through the facilitation of brainstorming and the early assessment of design solutions in a Co-Design environment. It will enable designers and customers to cooperate since the very beginning to create the most suitable solutions according to the prompt evaluation of customers. The SPARK platform addresses the need of the creative industries of the consortium to reduce the effects of poor communication with their customers and the inefficiencies due to the asynchronous process of ideation and validation, which results in longer design cycles and a slower pace for time-to-market. The platform will be validated, against an appropriate metrics, with control groups in relevant operational and real life environments, where creativity plays a paramount role. The groups will include also customers and other user communities. The tests will aim at demonstrating the effectiveness of the platform in: (1) reducing the time needed for generating ideas, (2) reducing the amount of creative SME’s human resources on a single project (so as to allow them to manage more projects), (3) reducing the workload of the people involved in the brainstorming sessions and (4) increasing the efficiency of the whole design process, by enhancing the direct feedback by the customers on the solution of the design task.

Keywords: spatial augmented reality,design creativity,co design,computer supported collaborative work,customer involvement,human behaviour in design,digital,physical prototypes