Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
New electrical energy storage device towards sustainable mobility (HYCAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2031250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1421875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Born out of the Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), which is ranked among Europe’s top 11 engineering schools, C2C-NewCap has developed a unique aqueous based supercapacitor and have tested, not only in TRL7 environment with a potential customer, but also in collaboration with leading energy players and Tier 1 capacitor manufacturer. Our company’s goal is to have a high impact in the energy storage market and contribute to an efficient use of energy with lower environmental costs. Our entry application will be: Engine starting. Energy storage devices are the key enabler for a sustainable energy future in Europe. Lead-acid batteries is the most common used solution to cranking the internal combustion engine, but requires replacement every two years due to its low cycle life and low power, specially at cold temperatures. Lead-acid batteries have a relatively low acquisition price, but they reveal high ownership cost which includes road assistance upon a “no-start", downtime, excessive idling and maintenance. C2C-NewCap will bring to the market a new energy storage device - Go-Start a supercapacitor module based on a proprietary Nickel Carbon technology that uses a highly conductive water based electrolyte. Our 24V prototype has been successfully demonstrated with potential customers in full operation mode on a 12L 470 horse power diesel truck engine. Moreover in extreme low temperature our technology has demonstrated a much higher performance stability when compared with Lead-acid batteries. Our product will provide safe and reliable engine starts allowing to save 30K euros on operational costs due to battery failure during a vehicle life cycle.

Keywords: battery,supercapacitor,ultracapacitor,energy storage,electrification,sustainable transportation,engine starting,anti idling,co2 emissions,fuel consumption
Development of MRI contrast agents based on long-lived singlet states (SingMet)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the project is the development of new contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based on the concepts of hyperpolarization and singlet state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Hyperpolarization boosts the detectable NMR signal of the contrast agents by up to 4 orders magnitude and the generation of singlet states conserves the enhanced polarization for a long time, while not giving a directly detectable signal. The NMR signal can subsequently be obtained by chemically breaking the molecular symmetry or by applying radiofrequency pulses. This technique therefore allows for the detection of a NMR signal after minutes instead of seconds compared to state-of-the-art metabolic tracers. A combination of these techniques leads to a nanomolar detection limit of the tracers, which is a remarkable sensitivity for MRI. The chemical transformation which triggers the generation of a hyperpolarized NMR signal may be due to enzymes which are diagnostic of cancer cells. The project leads towards new agents for the in vivo detection and imaging of cancer without the use of ionizing radiation or contrast agents containing dangerous heavy metals. Overall it is planned to develop molecules with nanomolar detection limits upon hyperpolarization, that maintain their traceability for minutes and undergo chemical transformation induced by enzymes, which can be tracked utilizing MRI.

Keywords: dynamic nuclear polarization,singlet states,hyperpolarization,metabolites
iMETland: A new generation of Microbial Electrochemical Wetland for effective decentralized wastewater treatment (iMETland)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Argentina,Spain,Belgium,Denmark,United Kingdom,Mexico
Call: First application and market replication (H2020-WATER-2014-two-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3461622.5
EU funding (EUR): 2924810.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

iMETland project aims to construct and validate a full-scale application of a eco-friendly device to treat urban wastewater from small communities at zero-energy operation cost. Our concept comes from the integration of Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (MET) with the biofilters used in constructed wetlands. iMETland outperforms classical biofilters from constructed wetlands by using electroactive bacteria in combination with a innovative electroconductive material to achive depuration rates that are 10-fold higher than classical techniques. On top of that, the low biomass yield generated under electrogenic conditions avoids any bed colmatation. Wastewater will be also converted into pathogen-free water suitable for irrigation by using an electro-oxidative methodology. Furthermore, the unique conversion of sewage treatment into electric current by electricity-producing bacteria makes such a process an internal reporter of the biological depuration process. So thus, it can be used as output signal to control the process and can easily inform the operator through ICT tools, converting the depuration in an interactive process between device and a smart-phone in end-user´s hands. iMETland try to fill the gap that was sharply identified by the programme topic: WATER-1-2014/2015: Bridging the gap: from innovative water solutions to market replication. Our solution has already passed both research and pilot scale and is ready to try a full-scale demonstration to accelerate the market uptake. The multidisciplinary nature of iMETland makes it to fit well with the “water and wastewater treatment “priority of the EIP-water. Moreover, the coordinator of iMETland consortium is also the Technical Manager of a recent ACTION GROUP at EIP-WATER called “ MEET-ME4WATER, Meeting Microbial Electrochemistry for Water”. This AG focuses on overcoming the barriers to scaling up and demonstrate microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) and bring them faster to the market.

Keywords: microbial electrochemical technologies,wetlands,electrogenic bacteria
SUpporting SMEs innovaTion in Adaptation to EU changINg standards (SUSTAIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Bosnia and Herzegovina
Call: Peer learning of innovation agencies (H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2019-05, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Project SUSTAIN aims to strengthen joint collaboration between three innovation support agencies through peer learning, and raise their competences to support SMEs in adaptation to EU standards. Project will exploit the “Twinning advanced” approach to motivate and strengthen a learning process between project partners based on their experiences in working with SMEs improving their processes of adaptation to EU standards. Peer learning partners will develop practical and innovative procedure in support to successful adaptation of SMEs to EU standards. Special attention will be dedicated to implementation of regional pilot actions through the following activities: development of self-audit tool in energy, circular economy and digitalization for SMEs; trainings tailored to needs of SMEs; knowledge exchange and transfer of best practices between regions; coaching/mentoring for specific skills related to “standardization” process. Peer learning partners will specifically focus on EU standards related to energy, circular economy and digitalization. These areas are of critical importance for competitiveness of SMEs. SMEs should be empowered to better manage energy consumption, increase energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gases emissions and exploit waste recycling whenever possible. Technological capabilities are constantly improving and to keep up, SMEs must be agile and innovative as they integrate new digital technologies into their business practices. Impact of SUSTAIN project will be evident in raising awareness and knowledge of SMEs on benefits of adoption and use of EU standards, specially related to absorption of know-how incorporated within standards and resulting potentials for innovation development. Innovation support agencies will increase their knowledge and capacities to efficiently support SMEs on their path to adoption of EU standards.

Keywords: peer learning,smes,eu standards,innovation,adaptation,energy,circular economy,digitalization
ICT Infrastructure for Connected and Automated Road Transport (ICT4CART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Belgium,Hungary,Greece,France,United Kingdom
Call: ICT infrastructure to enable the transition towards road transport automation (H2020-ART-2017-Two-Stages, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10179239.07
EU funding (EUR): 7996571.52
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

ICT4CART, totally aligned with the work programme, is providing an ICT infrastructure to enable the transition towards road transport automation. To meet this high level objective ICT4CART is bringing together, adapting and improving technological advances from different industries, mainly telecom, automotive and IT. It adopts a hybrid communication approach where all the major wireless technologies, i.e. cellular, ITS G5 and LTE-V, are integrated under a flexible “sliced” network architecture. This architecture will ensure performance and resilience for different groups of applications according to the needs of higher levels of automation (L3 & L4). On top of that, a distributed IT environment for data aggregation and analytics will be implemented. This offers seamless integration and exchange of data and services between all the different actors, allowing 3rd parties to develop, deliver and provide innovative services, thus creating new business opportunities. Cyber-security and data privacy aspects will be duly considered throughout the whole ICT infrastructure. In addition, novel accurate localisation services, exploiting the cellular network and information from other sources, such as on-board sensors, especially in complex areas (e.g. urban), will be addressed. Standardisation and interoperability are of high interest within ICT4CART in order to ensure the impact of the project towards enabling the transition to higher levels of automation. In this context issues related to the frequency spectrum will be investigated, while through the organisation of relevant workshops the engagement of policy makers and public authorities is ensured. To achieve its objectives ICT4CART, instead of working in generic solutions with questionable impact, it builds on four specific high-value use cases (urban and highway) which will be demonstrated and validated under real-life conditions at the test sites in Austria, Germany, Italy and across the Italian-Austrian border.

Keywords: connected and automated road transport,ict infrastructure architectures,hybrid communications,cyber security,data privacy,accurate localisation,mobile edge computing,novel business models
Cohesion in further developing and innovating SHARE across all 28 member countries (SHARE-COHESION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Israel,Germany,Germany,Spain,France,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Individual support to ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures (H2020-INFRADEV-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4963433.75
EU funding (EUR): 4963432.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is a research infrastructure to better understand and cope with the challenges and chances of population ageing. The main objective of SHARE is to provide excellent data for aging research through a combination of (a) transdisciplinarity, (b) longitudinality and (c) European coverage with strict cross-national comparability through ex-ante harmonisation. With its recent seventh wave, SHARE succeeded in covering all EU member states in cooperation with the British Isles Surveys (UK and Ireland). The coverage of all EU member states (plus Switzerland and Israel) is particularly attractive for both scientific and Commission users because it permits cross-national comparisons of the economic, health and social situation of EU citizens aged 50 and over and allows for comparative evaluations of aging-related policies such as pension, health and long-term care reforms. The project will support the supra-national innovation and development tasks during Waves 8-10 of SHARE, thereby improving the scientific state-of-the-art of SHARE and cross-national cohesion across all 28 SHARE member countries. It addresses all seven targets of this call and the related sustainability criteria. Scientific innovation encompasses new questionnaire content including device-based measures; development encompasses more efficient survey methods including new electronic tools. The project will also fund training as it is instrumental especially for the scientifically less developed Member States and its participating SMEs. The costs of collecting the SHARE data in the Member States as well as routine common costs will not be borne by this project but by SHARE-ERIC through contributions by the Member States and a policy DG.

Keywords: health,ageing,retirement,population,research infrastructure,cross national,panel survey
Green-Tech Fibre Insulation (Green-Insulation)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Miljøskærm is a Danish SME having independently developed an innovative concept and solution for recycling of discarded wind turbine blades and developed products applying the recycled material as acoustic absorbent material in noise barriers and for thermal insulation purposes. Today, more than 95% of discarded wind turbine blades and other composite materials go to landfill with significant negative environmental and economic impacts. On a global scale it is estimated that 400.000 tonnes of blades alone will reach their end-of-service life during the period of 2020-2030. Our solution comprises development of purpose-built technology for processing of end-of-life wind turbine blades to produce a glass fibre granulate and applying this in products meeting specified requirements for acoustic and thermal insulating performance. Our initial end-products are noise barriers which has created a starting point for Miljøskærm’s business in Denmark. We are now in a process of developing an innovative thermal insulation product with rodent repellent properties and this will enable us to scale up our production capacity and to expand into the EU. The aim of the SME Phase 1 project is to assess the technical, commercial and financial feasibility of our thermal insulation product with rodent repellent properties. If feasible, we estimate the company will be capable of reaching an accumulated profit of €88M in 2027.

Keywords: circular economy,recycling of materials,noise reduction,energy conservation,pest control,waste reduction
CEZAMAT-Environment - Self-Organizing Networks for Real-Time, Wireless Monitoring of Natural Environment (CEZAMAT-Environment)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,France
Call: Teaming (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 498750.0
EU funding (EUR): 498750.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This Proposal aims to establish a new research Center of Excellence named CEZAMAT-Environment devoted to the fundamental study and practical implementation of self-organizing networks of chemical and biochemical sensors capable of massively parallel and spatially distributed sensing of environmental hazards and other parameters defining the status of natural resources (e.g., forests, or agricultural crop, aquatic ecosystems).The objective of the one-year action (covered by the CSA) is the development of a detailed and robust Business Plan for the setting-up the Center capable of attaining this long term vision.The goal will be achieved through joint management by the Teaming partners, i.e. The National Centre for Research and Development (Poland), CEZAMAT PW Sp. z o.o. (Poland), CEA-Tech (France), Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG, Germany), the two latter being Partners of Excellence.The Proposal responds to the work program “Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation,” which aims to reduce internal research and innovation disparities within the European Union by supporting research and innovation activities and systems in low performing countries. The Proposal addresses a specific challenge defined by the work program – namely, the presence of substantial disparities in the European Research and Innovation landscape, and also aims at establishing long-term and strategic partnership between Teaming partners. In the short-term perspective, we will actively seek the advice of the Partners how to best implement the operation and administrative protocols within our Center, especially how to foster cross-discipline collaboration while staying focused on the short-term milestones and long-term goals. In the long-term perspective, the Center will implement within its own structure and then promote to the entire region of Mazovia the best practices in research, innovation and management resulting in significant improvement of this Region’s research and innovation culture.

Keywords: environment,low power,self organizing networks,wireless monitoring,real time monitoring,new scientific organization,sensors,nanoelectronics,biochemistry,cezamat,fraunhofer
More: motion recognition to enable human muscles, the ultimate tom-tom of muscles for a new era of motor and sport rehabilitation. (MO.RE.)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Active ageing and self-management of health
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Accelerating market introduction of ICT solutions for Health, Well-Being and Ageing Well (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the overall innovation project More is to improve the rehabilitation process making it simpler and more affordable, thanks to new sensors and services meant to help the Physical Therapists (PTs). More is a rehabilitation system based on a wearable Device able to detect movement and interpret muscular activity. The rehabilitation market is the beachhead market but More technology can be applied into fields that have remained unexplored until now Virtual Reality, athlete’s performance evaluation, astronauts’ training, and directly into Industry 4.0 to interact with future machines and robots. More project proposal addresses the “accelerating market introduction of ICT solutions for Health, Well-Being and Ageing”. The mission of More project is aligned with the mission of other projects already financed by the European Commission but we would like to underline that More technology is deeply different and extremely promising. In fact, none of these projects aim to solve the problem More was created for, according to the requests made by experts, providing a real-time feedback of the neuromuscular activation, with an extremely high spatial and temporal resolution. The only way of enhancing innovativeness and creativity is to cooperate with different stakeholders and networks as we are doing with our Advisory Board (research organizations, clinical and industrial partners, commercial and educational partners, competitors as well as web communities) experts from outside the Morecognition Srl as demostrated by the Letters Of Intent we have received and attached to the project. The objective of More SME1 is to assess the feasibility for the commercialization of More Service by means of 4 main aspects: market assesment; business model definition; costs analysis; financial plan. It is time “to jump the curve” and change the future of rehabilitation More is meant to be for physical therapists what the stethoscope is now for doctors: essential.

Keywords: rehabilitation,muscle,post stroke,electromyography,sensors,wearable device,smart app,open platform,biofeedback,telerehabilitation,sport performance,wellness