Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Geolocalisation of Individuals in Critical Areas (GICA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Engaging SMEs in security research and development (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

If an accident or an attack occurs on a sensitive industrial site, the ability to quickly locate people is key to save lives. The existing solutions (identification badges, paper logbooks, GPS etc.) are not appropriate to answer users’ needs in this specific context. IDRE used its expertise in indoor and outdoor geolocalisation to develop an innovative solution based on LoRa-RF protocol, tags (smart electronic devices), gateways (telecommunication part), computation algorithms, a storage database and a visualization interface. The solution is enough accurate, easy to deploy and operate, scalable, low-cost, respectful of the private life and guarantees data protection, thus ideal to meet the requirements of the users (workers, security managers, decision-makers). The markets identified are composed by Seveso sites in Europe (more than 10 000 sites) and more widely by every single critical industrial sites in Europe and in the world. The project will contribute to reduce the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures regarding natural or industrial risks, terrorism and malicious behavior, one of the major objective listed by the European Union. Before reaching the worldwide market, based on its TRL6 product and first commercial contacts, IIDRE needs to collect key information. The Phase 1 will allow to improve the knowledge of customers, to better assess the competitive environment, to refine the offer, to protect the business innovation project, to improve the commercialisation strategy, to prepare the scaling-up phase and to update the business plan. In the Phase 2, the objectives will be to proceed to the ATEX certification of the tags that will be deployed within the industrial sites, to undertake demonstrations with major worldwide stakeholders (such as MICHELIN or TOTAL), to set-up the manufacturing plan and to refine the market replication strategy. By 2023, IIDRE will generate a turnover of €14.2M and create 79 jobs.

Keywords: geolocalisation,individuals tracking,crisis,sensitive environments,seveso sites,industrial sites,atex certification,lora rf protocol,software and hardware solution
SmArt Designed Full Printed Flexible RObust Efficient Organic HaLide PerOvskite solar cells (APOLO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Greece,France,France,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-RIA-TwoStage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4997192.5
EU funding (EUR): 4997191.25
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Perovskite solar cells (PSC) have shown an impressive learning curve in the last decades in comparison with 1st, 2nd and initial 3rd generation solar cells (such as DSSC and OPV). Since the very beginning, the main market demands for 3rd generation PV were more flexibility and more colour choices. Both of these ideal properties lead to new business opportunities in BIPV, electronic consumer goods, textiles, etc. These technologies also have low cost using fully printing process, low temperature processes and out of clean rooms which reduce the production cost. The most important problem in PSC technology is the short lifetime which is currently the main barrier for the marketability of PSC. Up to now all the developed PSC used cheap materials and/or solution which did not exhibit high efficiencies. In contrast high efficiency PSCs usually require relatively expensive materials and vacuum deposition process. PSC toxicity is considered to be negligible since the amount of lead in perovskite layer is not so relevant if it is compared against Si technology, nevertheless, the solvent toxicity should be taken in account in order to benefit industrialization of PSC products. APOLO consortium will surpass the aforementioned barriers for market deployment by providing flexible and stable PSCs using scalable and low cost processes, reducing amount of toxic materials tackle the challenges to provide market niches solutions. APOLO developments will ensure to enhance the TRL of PSC technology. APOLO consortium will work on advanced materials, from cell to encapsulant to develop flexible PSC, fully printable, with efficiency of 22% with at least 80% of initial performance after relevant accelerated test from standards. APOLO solutions will allow the development of a totally new product by integrating the modules into the architecture design of buildings. New applications of this technology open doors to other markets apart from BIPV, such as automotive, textile, etc.

Keywords: perovskite pv,photo voltaic,flexible substrate,colorful solar cell,bipv,building integrated pv,low cost manufacturing
Synthesis of novel stimuli responsive dielectric polymers and their use in powerful transducers (TRANS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999715.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999715.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This ERC CoG will serve to build a strong multidisciplinary group concentrating on the synthesis of novel functional dielectric polymers that are printed into devices capable of converting one form of energy into another. Research spans all the way from materials’ synthesis and optimization, via device engineering to exploration of the manifold applications. TRANS will develop novel high dielectric permittivity elastomers and piezoelectric elastomers with an unprecedented collection of properties and use them as active components in devices for emerging technologies. The devices are not only of high technological and scientific importance, but also exhibit substantial economic and societal impact. They will reversibly change their shape in response to an electric field, generate electricity when mechanically stretched, cool while using little energy, convert thermal energy directly into electricity and, finally, store electricity in the form of batteries. The polymers developed in TRANS will combine either unprecedentedly high dielectric permittivity with a high dielectric breakdown field or piezoelectric properties with high elasticity. They have the potential to revolutionize different fields of applications such as actuators, sensors, energy harvesting, artificial muscles, soft robotics, energy storage, stretchable electronics, and solid-state refrigeration. A particularly important aspect concerns the synthesis of scalable and environmentally friendly, easy-to-apply and process printable inks, which are the active ingredients of various devices. After project termination, the applicant’s group will expand the fundamental understanding of structure-dielectric properties relationship and will be able to provide inks that are printed in prototype devices responsive to electricity, heat or mechanical stress.

Keywords: dielectric elastomer transducers,soft robots,stimuli responsive polymers,high dielectric permittivity elastomers,stretchable sensors
The first customer behaviour analytics solution for shopping-center portfolio management, deploying cost-effective & accurate advanced computer vision (CUBELIZER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

While in online shopping the capacity to track the behaviour of the client is well developed (i.e. Google Analytics eCommerce) in physical retail there is an absolute lack accurate information that allows mall managers and tenant businesses to take data-based decisions. Over 75% of physical retailers, malls included, plan to invest on space performance analytics solutions in the coming years in a sector where the “retail analytics market size” is expected to grow from USD 3.14 Billion in 2016 to USD 8.64 Billion by 2022. CUBELIZER offers an innovative solution relying on advanced business analytics, proprietary IoT sensing devices and computer vision technology, it analyses the visitor´s journey to provide actionable information to cost-effectively understand tenants/brands performance to maximise profits. Reducing 50% of current solutions costs. We sell a product based on hardware (installation) + software (SaaS model) + Consultancy service on demand, currently with own efforts and looking to close distributors and integrators during the Phase 1. Current paid pilots with Carrefour and others validated that we are in the good path. CUBELIZER is a Spanish company incorporated in April 2106 owned by 2 founders Celso (CEO) & Marcos (CTO), both fully committed with the Project. Why do we need the EU Commission funding? We want to be the first company bringing this disruptive solution into the market so the first step to reach such ambitious goal, is to make a global business plan through the implementation of a feasibility study in this proposed Phase 1.

Keywords: video processing,business analytics,data science,emotion detection,artificial intelligence
The history of wolves, and their contribution to adaptation and phenotypic diversity in dogs (WhereWolf)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200194.8
EU funding (EUR): 200194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The resurgence of the gray wolf in Europe and its re-emergence in northern Europe, including Denmark, makes this an ideal time to study the wolf populations and their relationships to dogs. The evolutionary relationship between wolves and dogs is an area of active research. There are several key questions about dog domestication that remain unanswered, such as whether the dogs were domesticated once or several times, and the location of the domestication event(s). The ability to answer these questions has been hampered by multiple factors such as unavailability of a large number of wolf samples, the poor elucidation of the relationship between the wolf subspecies and the lack of an appropriate wolf reference genome. The resources available at the lab of Prof. Tom Gilbert at the Center for GeoGenetics in the University of Copenhagen will let me handle all these concerns effectively. As parts of several ongoing efforts, Prof. Gilbert has sequenced the genomes of a large number of wolves sampled from across the globe. Combining this resource with publicly available wolf and dog genome sequences and ancient canid genome sequences (currently being processed by the Gilbert lab in collaboration with Prof. Greger Larsen, University of Oxford), will allow me to address three aspects of canid evolutionary and population genetics: 1) the relationship between the different wolf subspecies, 2) the dog domestication event and its location and 3) the extent of fine scale local gene flow between dogs and wolves. Incorporation of the ancient samples along with the availability of a large number of sequenced canids will also let us answer questions about adaptive introgression from local wolves and will allow us to reconstruct the genome of the wolf that is ancestral to all dogs. The large-scale sampling and incorporation of ancient canids will shed new light on the evolutionary history of the canids. The findings of the project will be useful in the management of wolves in Europe.

Keywords: wolf population history,canid phylogenetics,dog domestication location and timing,gene flow between wolves and dogs,adaptive introgression in dogs
Eliminating turbulence in oil pipelines (TURBOPOC)

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: Austria
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149830.0
EU funding (EUR): 149830.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Proof of Concept TURBO FLOW Virtually all pipeline flows are highly turbulent. What is probably less well known is that the major part of the frictional losses in pipelines is caused by turbulence. Already at moderate speeds turbulence is responsible for a 50% drag increase while at high speeds (i.e. high Reynolds numbers) this figure can easily increase to 99%. Annual global pumping costs for oil pipelines alone amount to tens of billions of Euros. If instead the fluid could be maintained in the well-ordered “laminar” motion, pumping costs would drop dramatically. Up to now no methods existed that could convert fully turbulent flows in pipes back to laminar. In the course of the ERC project TURBOFLOW we discovered such a method and we demonstrated that under ideal laboratory conditions a fully turbulent flow can be completely relaminarized and as a consequence friction losses are reduced by as much as 80%. The aim is now to push this technology from the laboratory to practically realistic situations by testing the method in an oil pipe, closely matching the conditions in real pipeline flows.

Keywords: turbulence,turbulence control
BEYOND THE CODE: SUSTAINABILITY IN OPEN SOURCE (BEYOND-CODE)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-16
End date: 2021-06-13
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Open Source (OS) software is particular in that it can be accessed and modified openly. Originating from technological labs, OS is now ubiquitous and a major part of the EU's economy. Some estimate it to be 450 billions per year (EUR). The increasing ubiquity of OS has turned it into a configuration of social and societal elements such as the decentralised ownership of projects or meeting needs that traditional markets cannot. The socio-technical configurations of OS are not evident, perhaps not even intended. The various meanings of sustainability enact how OS ideas are created and travel beyond their original birthing place, but have, as yet, mainly received a rational/economic focus. This project proposes to explore OS as it travels beyond its designing communities and, in so doing, re-functions the meaning of sociological sustainability that hold it in place. This proposal follows the ER's natural career progression, having studied the development processes of OS projects. In collaboration with the supervisor, the ER has designed a proposal fuses their multi-disciplinary expertise to study sustainability in a new light, along with a tailored training plan that gives the ER key competencies and expertise to secure future career objectives. The CSIC has been chosen as an ideal host for this project, with its large, multi-disciplinary social science department holding some of Spain's most renown OS scholars. Alternative views of sustainability open new research avenues that recognise the importance of other criteria (e.g. inclusive participation), providing novel debate within the academic world. Such articulations will be immediately useful to EU projects that depend on open forms of participation (e.g. EU's CAPS project call), and the EU's agenda on ethical knowledge production. A key result will be to create a framework that accounts for socio-technical views on sustainability, allowing innovators to better meet societal needs within their development processes

Keywords: open source,sustainability,commons,social movements,software studies,governance
BELLA-S1 Building Europe Link with Latin America (BELLA-S1)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: GÉANT Partnership
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Estonia,Italy,Austria,Spain,Israel,Albania,Armenia,Ukraine,Azerbaijan,Ireland,Malta,Cyprus,Slovakia,Serbia,Lithuania,Greece,North Macedonia,Belgium,Bulgaria,Hungary,Slovenia,Belarus,Türkiye,Croatia,Poland,Romania,Switzerland,Moldova, Republic of,Georgia,Latvia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Montenegro,Portugal,Luxembourg,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Europe Brazil Cable 1 (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12444702.5
EU funding (EUR): 10000000.0
Participants: 43
Project status: CLOSED

The BELLA-S1 proposal aims to provide for the long-term interconnectivity needs of the European and Latin American research and education networks, and answers the call for transatlantic connectivity to Latin America in the H2020 Work Programme 2014-15. The objective will be to strengthen connectivity to Latin America ensuring very high capacity, cost benefits and the shortest possible route, whilst stimulating diversity over the transatlantic segment. The objective will be met in two phases: phase one will procure an indefeasible right of use for a portion of the spectrum of a direct submarine telecommunications cable between Europe and Latin America; phase two will deploy one or more wavelengths, as required, on the spectrum procured to interconnect the GÉANT and RedCLARA networks, and provide for the intercontinental connectivity needs of the European and Latin American research and education communities.

Keywords: transatlantic,spectrum,latin america,europe,submarine cable,research and education,connectivity
High Precision PDFs for the precision Era at the Large Hadron Collider (HiPPiE_at_LHC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

High precision is the next frontier for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It requires accurate and precise theoretical predictions. The goal of this project is twofold: establish a statistically solid framework for estimating the uncertainty on theoretical predictions, and producing more precise higher-order parton distribution functions (PDFs). Theoretical predictions are not exact, and carry therefore an uncertainty due to the approximate method (perturbation theory) used to compute physical observables. Assessing this uncertainty is not obvious, and standard techniques are not always reliable and lack of statistical interpretation, limiting their usability. HiPPiE@LHC will overcome these problems by proposing a Bayesian approach to assess theory uncertainties, which will make use of all the information available on the perturbative expansion and will provide a probability distribution for the unknown exact result. The approach will be similar to the Cacciari-Houdeau method, but will contain several conceptual and technical improvements, which will effectively make it more reliable. Then, new PDFs will be fitted from data using higher-order theoretical predictions, mostly based on all-order resummations, and including for the first time theory uncertainties. The computation of all the new ingredients needed to achieve this task will be part of the project. This also include the development of novel techniques (e.g., the extension of threshold resummation to fully differential level). These additions will increase the reliability and quality of the fit. The new PDFs will represent a substantial improvement over previous generations, and will be crucial for achieving higher precision in theoretical predictions. The outcome of this project will be a milestone for the High-Energy Physics community, and will open the door to high precision phenomenology in the next phase of the LHC.

Keywords: pdfs,theory uncertainty,precision
Biotechnological production of energy by electrification of biowaste (FimusKraft)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A future-oriented and sustainable energy supply is possible only if the particular advantages of each kind of renewable energy source are combined in an optimal way. Biogas offers flexibility: it can be used when wind or sun are lacking. and the opportunities are manifold: it provides power, heat, fuel and fertilizer from organic resources – regional, reliable and climate friendly. FimusKraft has developed an innovative 3-step bio-fermentation process that uses enzymes to optimise the Methane to Carbon Dioxide ratio of the bio-waste before the feedstock enters the fermenter. The system is the first combining bio-gas fermenting with the pre-handling of the bio-waste through enzymes. It is a revolutionary cost-effective idea, turning Biowaste to an electricity system. This technology takes CO2 yield close to zero.

Keywords: bio waste,biogas,bioenergy,climate change,pollution mitigation,enzymes