Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Creation and development of an ERA Chair and Centre of Excellence in Organic Electronics as a strategic point of development for science and innovation in the Silesian region and Poland (ExCEED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020-6, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The overall aim of the ExCEED project is to recruit an outstanding researcher and manager to be the ERA Chair Holder as well as recruit experienced researchers and innovation manager for the Silesian University of Technology (SUT) to establish the multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Organic Electronics. To achieve this aim, the five-year project will be built upon the existing strong research and innovation base of SUT and the high impact ERA Chair Holder. To boost their scientific excellence and technology transfer capacity in organic electronics, the ExCEED will implement a science and innovation strategy focused on four sub-topics: 1. Organic Transistors 2. Organic Light-Emitting Diodes 3. Organic Solar Cells 4. Organic Energy Storage Systems In order to recruit the ERA Chair Team and establish the CoE in Organic Electronics, SUT will implement an ambitious Action Plan comprised of the following Action Steps: • Action Step 1: Recruit ERA Chair Holder, Experienced Researchers, and Innovation Manager • Action Step 2: Establish ERA Chair Strategic Research Programme and Postgraduate Training • Action Step 3: Ensure the CoE supports Poland’s SMART Specialisation and EU Research Priorities • Action Step 4: Raise the research profile of the CoE and ERA Chair Team • Action Step 5: Disseminate the results of the CoE and ERA Chair Team To support these actions steps, the ExCEED will implement a comprehensive set of measures via the project’s work packages: • ERA Chair Team Recruitment (WP1); • Strategic Research Programme and Postgraduate Training (WP2); • SMART Specialisation and European Research Priorities (WP3) • Summer/Winter Schools and International Conferences (WP4) • Dissemination and Promotion (WP5);

Keywords: oled,ofet,organic batteries,conjugated compounds
PArtial Differential Equation model-based COntrol of Traffic flow (PADECOT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-08-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 152653.2
EU funding (EUR): 152653.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A new framework is introduced for control and estimation of traffic flow in freeways and arterials. In the new methodology, feedforward and feedback control designs are developed, based on continuum in time and space traffic-flow models, which assign to the traffic flow the desired shape, with an a priori prescribed convergence rate and for any initial traffic profile. The novel control and estimation algorithms require minimum amount of information since they utilize measurements at the entries and exits of the freeway and arterial links. The designs are accompanied with tools for verification that are introduced, which provide quantified actual performance guarantees and robustness margins of the proposed algorithms. The methodology is validated in simulation, using fictitious and real data of traffic, and/or in a real traffic system.

Keywords: partial differential equations,nonlinear systems,traffic systems
The Enigmatic Universality of Glass (UNIGLASS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1929479.0
EU funding (EUR): 1929479.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The explanation for the distinct low temperature behavior of amorphous solids (glasses) is a long-standing open question. Specific puzzles include the nature of the low energy excitations (LEEs) that are responsible for their low temperature thermal and mechanical behavior and the origin of the remarkable universality of their low temperature mechanical dissipation. The phenomenological tunneling model proposes that the LEEs are atomic-scale tunneling two level systems (TLSs) and successfully explains much of the low temperature behavior of glass, but not the universality. Recently, individual TLSs were probed in the amorphous tunnel junction of superconducting qubits, but such dielectric measurements might not access the LEEs responsible for universality. In contrast, I propose to search for individual TLSs using purely mechanical measurements. The glass samples containing the TLSs will be nanomechanical resonators, and the strain coupling between the mechanical mode and the TLS will be used to control the quantum state of the latter. This strain coupling allows coherent state transfer between the mechanical mode and the TLS. Identifying individual TLSs and controlling their quantum state in this manner will demonstrate that the LEEs responsible for the characteristic low temperature properties of glass are indeed TLSs. Furthermore, these measurements will reveal the characteristics of individual TLSs and their interactions with their environment, in contrast to bulk measurements in which, according to the model, the effects of many TLSs are averaged. The results of the proposed study may therefore strongly support the tunneling model. This would require reconsideration of potential explanations for universality which are thought to be inconsistent with the existence of TLSs. Alternatively, if the hypothesized TLSs are absent, then the tunneling model must be replaced by a new interpretation of the low temperature properties of glass.

Keywords: tunneling two level systems tlss,amorphous solids at low temperatures,nanomechanical resonators in the quantum regime,hybrid quantum systems
ADVANCE IRIS RECOGNITION IN MOVE (AIRIMGO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME instrument topic: “Protection of Urban soft targets and urban critical infrastructures” (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME instrument topic: “Protection of Urban soft targets and urban critical infrastructures. DRS-17-2014-1. The scope of this topic is focused to cover high throughput screening of people including the ability to screen them in reasonably real-time as people approach entrances to buildings or enter public transportation system. The objective of the project is a new recognition system in buildings, to improve the security and the speed of the recongnition in order to make this more comfortable for users and more efficient for the management of the building. The system under development contributes to solve the current problems of recognition and access control above (slow recognizing and therefore access and consequent generation of queues, uncomfortable process for users of different facilities, inability for controlling certain areas and control degradation itself caused by volume of movements to be controlled, tiredness or lack of human resources), taking advantage of the business opportunity identified.

Keywords: acces control in motion iris recognition
Services for enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME’s in the Spanish regions of Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León and Galicia (GalacteaplusKam)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 73500.0
EU funding (EUR): 58800.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This action shall provide specialized consulting services addressing innovation management capacity to SMEs which possess significant innovation activities. Beneficiaries of the SME instrument will receive support to enhance their nnovation management and advice within the geographicar area of Asturias, Galicia, Cantabria and Castilla y León.

Keywords: innovation
Photophysics and photochemistry of light harvesting complexes in the vicinity of optical antennas (NanoLight)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of the project is to understand the photophysical processes in light harvesting complexes in the vicinity of optical antennas and particularly, the impact of quantum coherence on efficiency and directionality of ultrafast energy transport in photosynthesis. Purple bacteria is an organism that most effectively transforms solar energy into chemical one. Light harvesting complex 2 (LH2), plays key role in this process: collects solar energy and transfer it to the reaction centre. The photophysics of light harvesting complexes is still not fully understood. In recent years long-lived coherences were observed, which was unexpected for such complicated systems. Many crucial questions appeared: Are the coherences purely induced by excitation schemes? Do they have a biological function? Is the nature of the coherences electronic or vibrational? So far, the experimental approach concentrated on ensembles, but the complexity of the system cause that registered coherences are temporarily and spatially averaged, which makes it difficult to answer the questions. One can lift the ensemble by observation of one-by-one individual LH2 complex with single molecule (SM) spectroscopy methods. The observation of SM fluorescence requires chromophores with high quantum efficiency. Unfortunately, LH2 QE is very low. To enhance the fluorescence signal I propose to use optical antennas. These nanoscale structures, can focus electromagnetic energy to a spot of nanometric size. If the molecule is placed on such spot, the strong interaction between antenna and molecule allows the registration of enhanced SM fluorescence and even Raman spectra. With that tool, the study of LH2 complex at the SM level is possible. Hence we propose the investigation of single LH2 complex coupled to the optical antenna with ultrafast fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy, two complementary methods providing information about both, ground and excited state evolution.

Keywords: single molecule,nanoantenna,optical antenna,femtochemistry,spectroscopy,light harvesting,cars
Introducing the first fully flow-conveyed and magnetically-steered microcatheter system (MagFlow)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Minimally invasive medical procedures, such as endovascular catheterization, have drastically reduced procedure-associated risks for patients and costs for hospitals. However, practitioners still cannot quickly and safely reach deep body tissues due to the miniaturization issues associated with the existing manufacturing paradigm and the tedious process of navigating commercially available catheters. MagFlow introduces an innovative approach towards minimally invasive surgery that realizes the delivery of ultra-lightweight and ultra-flexible microscopic probes by taking full advantage of the existing viscous flow inside blood vessels. With this technique, the microengineered devices are transported through vascular networks with arbitrary complexity almost effortlessly. We developed an endovascular microrobotic toolkit with cross-sectional area that is approximately three orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest microcatheter currently available for chemical, mechanical, and electrical interrogation. Our technology will improve the state-of-the-art practices as it enhances the reachability, reduces the risk of iatrogenic damage, drastically increases the speed of robot-assisted interventions, and enables the deployment of multiple leads simultaneously through a standard needle injection. As a result, several invasive surgeries can shift to endovascular interventions, knowledge on neuronal electrophysiology can grow significantly, and a novel type of brain-machine interface can be established. The goal of the MagFlow project is to both explore the commercial viability of our unique technology and take the first steps towards the clinical trial phase by adapting the platform for in vivo experimentation.

Keywords: robotics,microtechnology,minimally invasive interventions,endovascular microcatheters,fluid structure interactions
Beyond the Greater Angkor Region (BGAR)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175572.48
EU funding (EUR): 175572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding processes of urbanization, regional networks, and the ability of systems to undergo change while maintaining the same functions, i.e. their resilience, is critical for the continued existence and growth of communities today in urban and rural contexts alike. Archaeology has a rich history of investigating human-environment coupled systems in urban settings and is well-suited to identifying characteristics of resilient systems over the course of centuries. Detailed analysis of urbanism and human-environment interactions have been conducted on the giant low-density complex of Greater Angkor Region; however, this has not been investigated in the context of regional networks of the medieval Khmer Empire (9th – 14th centuries CE). This project, “Beyond the Greater Angkor Region (BGAR),” addresses these issues in regional contexts, including the six medieval urban centers that were recently (2015) identified by the Cambodian Archaeological Lidar Initiative and the agro-urban zones stretching among them. This research agenda takes place within the framework of a dynamic and multidisciplinary network of scholars interested in human-environment interactions in mainland Southeast Asia. In this project, we will use various methods, including machine learning and network analyses, to address regional issues of agricultural production in inter-connected urban contexts. This project has five deliverables: 1) An updated database of temple communities (agricultural units of production) in Cambodia; 2) A regional “urban” morphology; 3) Modelling to determine how regional urban centers interact with the temple communities in their peripheral agro-urban systems; 4) A network analysis to identify shifts over time from small-world networks to scale-free networks; and 5) A redefinition of urbanism in the Khmer Empire and beyond.

Keywords: machine learning,network analysis,lidar,urbanism,water management,resilience
Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning (USMILE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,United States
Call: ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2019-SyG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9847988.0
EU funding (EUR): 9847988.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Earth system models are fundamental to understand climate change. Although they have improved significantly, considerable biases and uncertainties in their projections remain. Process parameterisations limit the models’ ability to simulate both global and regional Earth system responses, which are key for assessing climate change and its impacts on ecosystems and society. In recent years, the volume of data from high-resolution models and observations has substantially increased to petabyte scales. Concomitantly, the field of machine learning (ML) has quickly developed, promising breakthroughs in detecting and analysing non-linear relationships and patterns in large multivariate datasets. Yet, traditionally, physical modelling and ML have been often treated as two different worlds with opposite scientific paradigms (theory-driven versus data-driven). Thus, despite its great potential, ML has not yet been widely adopted for addressing the urgent need of improved understanding and modelling of the Earth system. USMILE will combine multi-disciplinary expertise in ML and process-based atmosphere and land modelling to completely rethink model development and evaluation. ML will further allow us to define novel observational constraints on Earth system feedbacks and climate projections. We will (1) develop ML algorithms to enhance Earth observation datasets accounting for spatio-temporal covariations, (2) deploy ML-based parameterisations and sub-models for clouds and land-surface processes that have hindered progress in climate modelling for decades, and (3) detect and understand modes of climate variability, multivariate extremes and uncover dynamical aspects of the Earth system with novel deep learning and causal inference techniques. USMILE will drive a paradigm shift in the current modelling of the Earth system towards a new data-driven physics-aware science and to an unprecedented reduction of uncertainties in projections.

Keywords: earth system modelling,climate projections,climate sensitivity,earth system feedbacks,earth system model evaluation,causal inference,anomaly detection,deep learning,recurrent neural networks,gaussian processes
An innovative approach for renewable energy storage by a combination of hydrogen carriers and heat storage (HyCARE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Italy,Norway,France,France
Call: Hydrogen carriers for stationary storage of excess renewable energy (H2020-JTI-FCH-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2024230.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999230.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of the HyCARE project is the development of a prototype hydrogen storage tank with use of a solid-state hydrogen carrier on large scale. The tank will be based on an innovative concept, joining hydrogen and heat storage, in order to improve energy efficiency of the whole system. The developed tank will be installed in the site of ENGIE LAB CRIGEN, which is a research and operational expertise center dedicated to gas, new energy sources and emerging technologies. The center and its 350 staff are located at Plaine Saint-Denis and Alfortville in the Paris Region (F). In particular, the solid-state hydrogen tank will be installed in a Living Lab aimed to develop and explore innovative energy storage solutions. The developed tank will be joined with a PEM electrolyzer as hydrogen provider and a PEM fuel cell as hydrogen user. The following goals are planned in HyCARE: - High quantity of stored hydrogen >= 50 kg - Low pressure < 50 bar and low temperature < 100°C - Low foot print, comparable to liquid hydrogen storage - Innovative design - Hydrogen storage coupled with thermal energy storage - Improved energy efficiency - Integration with an electrolyser (EL) and a fuel cell (FC) - Demonstration in real application - Improved safety - Techno-economical evaluation of the innovative solution - Analysis of the environmental impact via Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) - Exploitation of possible industrial applications - Dissemination of results at various levels - Engagement of local people and institution in the demonstration site

Keywords: metal hydride,hydorgen storage coupled with thermal energy storage,integration with electrolyzer and fuel cells