Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Energy Behaviour Change driven by plug-and-play-and-forget ICT and Business Models focusing on complementary currency for Energy Efficiency for the Wider Population (BENEFFICE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Greece,Greece,Finland,Greece,Belgium,France,Denmark
Call: Behavioural change toward energy efficiency through ICT (H2020-EE-2017-RIA-IA, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2741437.87
EU funding (EUR): 2021501.51
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

BENEFFICE’s strategic objective is to reduce wasted energy by incentivising various consumer types in the wide energy consumer market. A novel ecosystem will be developed which enables and incentivises long-term energy consumption savings. BENEFFICE ecosystem leverages novel IoT enabled, low-cost, “plug-and-play-and-forget” devices, energy disaggregation and an innovative empowerment and rewards approach based on an alternative monetary currency so as to change consumers’ energy consumption behaviour. The “plug-and-play-and-forget” devices will accurately capture energy use patterns at the level of each electrical appliance and at the level of each individual user. An energy behaviour model will be used to correlate these patterns with optimal, personalised comfort levels, social profiles and characteristics (including social, economic, geographic and energy use contexts) in order to determine optimal energy use behaviour to reduce wastage of energy and to increase the use of renewable resources in the energy mix. BENEFICE will design personalized, real-time motivational paths to deliver sustained reductions in energy consumption. Customers will be incentivized to follow these paths voluntarily, through the application of novel business models that provide monetary rewards in return for progress along each personalized pathway and help build an online community of like-minded actors. These business models will be based on an innovative digital CO2 currency - CO2 Credits are awarded to actors for proven, sustained reduction in fossil fuel use. Business models that stimulate the supply of, and demand for, CO2 Credits, will be designed, tested and validated. These business models will leverage partnerships with established businesses -third party market catalysts- that recognize the potential offered by CO2 Credits both to promote reduced consumption of fossil fuels and to extend their market share by offering a new service to their clients with clear social added value.

Keywords: behavioral modeling,plug and play and forget metering,complementary currency,energy analytics
Diversity, stability and functioning of the soil microbiome (SoilResist)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499608.75
EU funding (EUR): 2499608.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A major challenge for advancing our understanding of the functional role of highly complex soil microbial communities is to systematically link changes in their structure and functioning to biogeochemical cycles under realistic scenarios of global change. This is a formidable challenge: not only does it require a step change in our understanding of the factors that shape soil microbial communities and their functioning, but also it requires new knowledge of the ecological and genetic mechanisms that underpin its stability, or ability to resist and recover from abiotic perturbations associated with global change. By embracing technological and theoretical developments in microbial ecology, SoilResist will make a major step forward in our understanding of the mechanisms that underpin the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities and their functioning to natural and anthropogenic perturbations. Specifically, I seek to develop a novel mechanistic understanding of the factors that underpin the resistance and resilience of complex soil microbial communities and their functioning to different types of anthropogenic perturbations, and, for the first time, identity critical thresholds for abrupt transitions of microbial communities to alternative states and consequences for soil functioning. My overarching hypothesis is that the stability of microbial functions, in terms of their capacity to resist and recover from a pulse perturbation caused by climate extremes, is determined by microbial functional diversity, based on range and relative abundance of microbial traits. I also hypothesize that shifts in microbial functional diversity resulting from press perturbations erode the capacity of soil microbial communities to buffer climate-related pulse perturbations, rendering them more vulnerable to an abrupt transition to alternative taxonomic and functional state with negative consequences for soil functioning.

Keywords: soil microbial ecology,biodiversity and ecosystem functioning,soil science,biogeochemical cycles,grasslands
INTEGRITY: empowering students through evidence-based, scaffolded learning of Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR) (INTEGRITY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Develop the governance for the advancement of responsible research and innovation by all stakeholders, which is sensitive to society needs and demands and promote an ethics framework for research and innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Hungary,Lithuania,Slovenia,Sweden,Netherlands,Denmark,Portugal
Call: Innovative methods for teaching ethics and research integrity (H2020-SwafS-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497036.25
EU funding (EUR): 2497036.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

INTEGRITY’s innovative approach aims to empower students in responsible research: using RCR INTEGRITY will build a teaching philosophy that underpins comprehensive research integrity training. RCR will incorporate the conventional concerns of FFP (Fraud, Falsification and Plagiarism) and questionable research practices (QRC), yet use a new orientation, namely the empowerment of students. This is vital and innovative because today’s students will encounter dilemmas that current practice cannot yet foresee but need equipment for. INTEGRITY will develop an interactive curriculum with compelling and effective tools that will be co-created with students, using key values, namely Transparency, Honesty and Responsibility. It will include innovative training and mentoring for influencers and will experiment with nudging techniques for effectiveness. INTEGRITY will build capacity in a scaffolded manner, targeting different student group levels, and will deploy training in formal, non-formal and informal contexts and cover the full range of scholarly disciplines, including computer sciences technical studies, social sciences and humanities.

Keywords: research integrity,ethical cultures,responsible conduct of research rcr,pedagogical innovation,co creative design,scaffolded tools,mentoring for integrity,nudging for integrity
Energy efficient pathway for the city transformation: enabling a positive future (MAKING-CITY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Spain,Spain,Bulgaria,Finland,Slovakia,Finland,Finland,Poland,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Slovakia,Slovakia,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Smart Cities and Communities (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-ES-SCC, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19983808.68
EU funding (EUR): 18089582.759999998
Participants: 46
Project status: SIGNED

MAKING-CITY is a large-scale demonstration project aiming at the development of new integrated strategies to address the urban energy system transformation towards low carbon cities, with the positive energy district (PED) approach as the core of the urban energy transition pathway. The project will be intensively focused on achieving evidences about the actual potential of the PED concept, as foundation of a high efficient and sustainable route to progress beyond the current urban transformation roadmaps. Although in principle a PED approach seems a solid and ambitious strategy, this should be complemented with long term urban planning to ensure upscaling and fostering higher impacts. Currently city energy plans are starting to be designed with a 2030 horizon, according to the standard city commitments, as for instance those reflected in the SECAPs and other more specific city plans. Project will address methodologies to support cities in their long term urban planning towards an adequate energy transition, paving the way of the planning, implementation and up-scaling process. Cities of Groningen (Netherlands) and Oulu (Finland) will act as lighthouses. These cities are currently working intensively in ambitious transformation planning whose approaches fit perfectly with the project objectives. Both have committed to deploy a demonstration of at least one positive energy district. León (Spain), Bassano del Grappa (Italy), Kadiköy (Turkey), Poprad (Slovakia), Vidin (Bulgaria) and Lublin (Poland) will be the follower cities. All of them have assumed a huge commitment to develop a solid execution project of Positive Energy District and foster high level of replication of the solutions demonstrated in Groningen and Oulu.

Keywords: smart cities,positive energy districts,citizens,city challenges,urban planning,demonstration,evaluation,replication,lighthouses,followers,emobility,co creation,social innovation
Non-contact millimeter and Terahertz frequency measurement paradigm for instrumentation and sensing applications unlocking metrology-grade results (TERAmeasure)

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: Germany,Germany,Spain,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3119251.25
EU funding (EUR): 2969251.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

TERAmeasure proposes a universal, broadband and contact-free measurement and sensing platform, developing compact and competitive transceiver heads for the millimetre- (MMW, 30 GHz-300 GHz) and Terahertz- (THz, 300 GHz-3 THz) frequency range, enabling a new instrumentation and metrology paradigm. This breakthrough will be achieved exploiting photonic integration technology and silicon micromachining to realize a broadband continuous-wave THz platform equipped with refractive index engineered dielectric waveguides. Our main objective is to develop generic and low-cost probing solutions to fully unlock the potential of non-contact, broadband, and phase-sensitive measurements. We aim to stimulate novel fields of research in high frequency device characterization with Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs), field resolved near-field microscopy and industrial non-destructive evaluation. TERAmeasure replaces costly frequency-extension modules, relying on rectangular waveguide flanges, by a photonic approach that covers the full spectrum from 30 GHz up to 3 THz. Thereby, TERAmeasure helps to unify the MMW and THz spectrum, which is currently segmented into more than 10 separate bands. TERAmeasure challenges the established pathway that high frequencies can be addressed only by further miniaturization of the components, which will run into fundamental physical limits. The consortium combines key expertise. UC3M and HHI to develop the new on-chip emitter and receiver for THz signal generation and phase-sensitive detection. KTH to develop novel terahertz waveguide and lensing structures. ANRITSU, who has developed today’s coaxial cable standards, adds its expertise on VNA measurements and VNA systems in which the heads will be integrated and tested. PROTEMICS, an SME, brings non-destructive testing applications for which TERAmeasure will provide a technological market advantage unlocking continuous-wave THz probing. A wider range of applications will be pursued, with a proof-of-concept on early detection of skin cancer with Advisory Board support.

Keywords: terahertz instrumentation,vector network analysis,photomixers,dielectric waveguides,material engineering,silicon micromachining,non destructive testing,skin cancer detection
Sustainable development Transition through Regulation-Induced technological Change (STRICt)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Belgium,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-03-02
End date: 2023-03-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 266425.92
EU funding (EUR): 266425.92
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The transition toward a sustainable economy has become an urgency rather than just a challenge. Rising to it demands a deep reconsideration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development. The rapid degradation of the environment requires a swift and deep transformation. Our diverse team of researchers experienced in different, yet complementary disciplines, aims to provide rigorous scientific evidence on how regulation induces sustainable technological change? We build on expertise in economics, statistical modelling, computer programming and environmental law, and apply cutting-edge methods that have yet to be used to answer this important question. The Porter hypothesis claims, with mixed evidence, that environmental regulation may result in a win-win for the regulated firms through innovation offsets. By contrast, the regulation-induced technological change model we develop posits that stringent regulation will stimulate entry of new players. These are more likely to rise to the challenge with disruptive innovations, instead of incremental improvements by incumbent firms (Schumpeter’s creative destruction). We use the case of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program as an instance of regulatory shocks that are stringent enough to be qualified of technology forcing. We begin by calibrating a micro-founded model of regulation-induced technological change. We then investigate empirically the impact of the regulatory shocks on the economy by analyzing innovation and competitiveness; on workers by analyzing the effect of environmental policy stringency on labor skills; and on the environment by analyzing the effect of regulation on air quality. STRICt will thus deliver a comprehensive analysis of the impact of regulation-induced technological change on all three pillars of sustainable development. The evidence will improve the acceptability of ambitious policies and the achievement of international goals connecting economic and environmental gains.

Keywords: eco innovation,porter hypothesis,induced innovation,sustainable transition
Machine Learning-aided Multiscale Modelling Framework for Polymer Membranes (ML-MULTIMEM)

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: Greece
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-15
End date: 2023-11-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153085.44
EU funding (EUR): 153085.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of this project is to build a systematic modelling framework for advanced polymer materials, that are widely employed in numerous membrane separation applications, especially as gas separation media for carbon capture. Polymers are very challenging to simulate, due to the wide range of timescales that are present in these systems and require elaborate system-specific multiscale strategies. A hierarchical simulation strategy will be developed, encompassing atomistic, mesoscopic and continuum scales, integrating machine learning techniques. The artificial intelligence aided multi-scale approach proposed constitutes a generalized methodology for the efficient computational study of polymers. The synergy of unsupervised machine learning (ML) clustering techniques and neural networks (NN), will enable the extraction of accurate coarse-grained (CG) representations and force fields of the polymer systems, bringing this complex problem within computational reach. Optimized ML models will be integrated into Molecular Dynamics and innovative Monte Carlo simulations at the CG level, with the latter enabling the equilibration up to high molecular weight of polymers of complex chemical constitution, and the prediction of their micro- and macroscopic behaviour. Molecular simulation results will be integrated into macroscopic equation-of-state-based models, resulting in a bottom-up determination of the relevant process parameters for membrane separations (permeability and selectivity) in a wide range of conditions, for pure gases and gas mixtures. Systematic hierarchical modelling provides unique property prediction means, simultaneously shedding light on the mechanisms that are responsible for the materials end-use performance. This is a stepping stone towards the rational design of advanced processes from the molecular level all the way up to industrial applications, which in the present case involve novel separation technologies with great environmental impact.

Keywords: molecular simulation,machine learning,polymers,multiscale modeling,equations of state,gas separation,membranes,permeability,computational materials science,carbon capture,molecular mechanism
Forming Idendities in a Transitional Area (BURIAL)

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: Austria
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): 178156.8
EU funding (EUR): 178156.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

For the most parts of the Southeast Europe the awareness of the group identification is to the present day strongly connected with the dominant collective identity of ethnic group as a persistent and impenetrable community with cultural and biological continuity within certain territory. This, for obvious reasons, hazardous concept was consequently adopted also for the non-written societies in the past by using their material culture, foremost burials and specific grave belongings (jewellery, weapons), as a prime source of the distinction. In contrast to this unilateral and static model of ancient societies, the archaeological remains from the new investigated cemetery Dolina in Croatia as well as from neighbouring sites in Bosnia are providing different and innovative approach to the questions of identity. Large diversity of the burial customs and funeral objects are indicating that group identification needs rather to be understood as overlapping, multifaceted and dynamic construct. Within the scope of the proposed programme the detailed analysis and interpretation of the archaeological features will be supplemented with the input from cultural anthropology and natural science methods (geomagnetic, radiocarbon dating, petrography and chemical analysis of pottery and bronze objects). The multidisciplinary approach as well as collaboration with the experts of the host institute OREA in Vienna will provide optimal evaluation of data and gain a unique insight into the structure of the ancient communities, their identity expression and group identification in general.
APPROAcH: Antimicrobial and Save 3D-Printable Polymers for Oral Health (APPROAcH)

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: Netherlands
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2014-PoC, 2014)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A major problem in dental care restorations is bacterial infiltration. Bacteria between the tooth and the restoration is a potential cause of postoperative sensitivity, pulp inflammation, and necrosis. In orthodontics, the formation of biofilms during treatment bears the risk of enamel decalcification, cavity formation, and gingival inflammation due to the fact that colonized bacteria are extremely hard to remove in presence of orthodontic appliances. Another related problem is that the current fabrication of dental restorations and braces is labor intensive, requiring highly skilled technicians. Recently, steps have been taken to change the traditional workflow and introduce 3D printing (3DP) technology in this field. 3DP enables a more patient specific way of working, increasing the quality of dental care on the one hand and reducing the costs on the other hand. To address both problems, a highly innovative 3DP antimicrobial polymer system for applications in dentistry and orthodontics will be developed in this proposal. Since the materials will be in contact to or incorporated into the body, attention needs to be paid to render these systems non-toxic and biocompatible. Second, the commercial, IPR and business opportunities of these novel materials will be investigated.

Keywords: antimicrobial,3d printable,oral health,polymer,resin,chemistry