Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Revolutionary trustworthy platform for seamless authentication of Internet users (Excalibur 2.0)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The trust model on the Internet is broken. Security-wise, today’s password-based authentication system is dead - more than 90% of current passwords are vulnerable to hacking. What’s worse, the user experience today is a really bumpy ride – registrations, logins, CAPTCHAs, and verification emails present significant obstacles for both the users and the service providers, and contribute to very low conversion rates. We at EXC Sp. z.o.o. (https://getexcalibur.com), a team of young enthusiasts are developing a revolutionary platform for secure and seamless authentication of Internet users – Excalibur Cloud Password Manager powered by our proprietary distributed cryptographic scheme. Excalibur utilizes mobile phones or a wearable computer – user’s most personal device – to act as a universal security token for the digital world. Using our unique scheme we create a strongly authenticated state on the phone and project it to any device you want to use so that you don't have to authenticate on that device again. Such as your PC, mobile device, or any other Internet connected device. All that while providing a seamless user experience – making authentication invisible for the user. Although our solution reached the private Beta version stage, our development is not yet completed – we continue its evolution focusing on enhancing its core components such as proximity detection, behaviometrics and browser sandboxing. Excalibur 2.0 is of strategic importance to our company as it helps harden and enhance our existing platform as well as to establish technological leadership. In order to do so, we are applying for SME Instrument Phase 1 funds to: (i) elaborate an exhaustive technical feasibility study focused on scale-up beyond our current Beta version of the platform; (ii) elaborate a detailed business plan for the commercialization of Excalibur 2.0 at the conclusion of the envisaged Phase 2 project.

Keywords: internet,authentication,user experience,security,privacy
Effects of common European tree species on interactions between C and N processes in soil and soil biota (AFOREST)

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: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-11-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200194.8
EU funding (EUR): 200194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is to mitigate global climate changes caused by increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. Since soils constitute a larger carbon (C) pool than the vegetation and atmosphere together an important strategy could be to sequester more C in soils. Plant-soil interactions play an important role for ecosystem services such as C sequestration and N retention in soil and such interactions receive increasing attention among scientists and policymakers. Novel techniques such as next generation sequencing methods in combination with analysis of C stock patterns under different tree species present an opportunity to highlight complex processes and mechanisms which underlie C and N fluxes in soil. The proposed research is designed to (1) explore litter-mediated effects of common European tree species on C and N turnover in soil, (2) characterize effects of tree species on community structure and composition of soil biota, (3) evaluate the impact of common European tree species on metabolic diversity and structure and composition of functional genes related to C and N turnover: and finally, (4) to synthesize the role of soil biota for C and N turnover in soils. The research will be carried out within a unique common garden experiment with monoculture stands of six common European tree species; the broadleaves beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.), lime (Tilia cordata L.), sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) and the conifer Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.). The proposed Marie-Curie fellowship is promising to highlight impacts of common European trees on complex interactions among soil microbiota and soil fauna and highlights their role for C and N stocks and fluxes. Results obtained from this research will contribute to bridge gaps in ecological theory in term of ecosystem functions and services.

Keywords: next generation sequencing,metagenomiscs,common garden,c and n fluxes,tree species
SAFER and TIMELY FLIGHTS with Automated Foreign Object Detection System (A-FOD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The airport industry is a strategically important sector that makes a vital contribution to the EU's overall economy and employment by supporting 5 million jobs and contributing €300 billion to EU GDP. Despite the current economic crisis, global air transport is expected to grow by 5% annually till 2030 and airport operation companies are seeking methods to sustain FOD free runways for safer flights. Since, They generate costly breakdowns in planes, potential delays and cancellations, and eventually, also they are the cause of accidents and crashes. A-FOD is a FOD detection and management system comprised of a set of high resolution cameras connected to a AI system that is continuously trained by machine learning to solve the FODs detection problem. A-FOD is a complete FOD-hazard management system that allows airport maintenance teams to detect the smallest objects in any weather condition and also: 1) sends alerts to the operators; 2) provides live close-ups for a rapid visual verification without stopping the air traffic; 3) uses laser pointers and GPS to facilitate the removal and minimize its impact on the airport operation; 4) keeps records, in compliance with international regulations. A-FOD is successfully tested in an airport used for amateur flights and a demo will be done at one of busies airport of Turkey at May’17. Airports will gain high advantages by being able to -decrease delay time by %90-reduce required repair cost of FOD hazards-realize significant cost savings-gaining more satisfied customers. The main objective of A-FOD project is to minimise and solve the problems caused by FOD in airports. With an affordable solution that integrates AI functionalities and an integrated FOD management system, we aim to gain a leading position on the EU market until 2023. As a result of this project, we expect to reach a turnover above €46M, and we will create 59 direct jobs by the end of the 5th year of sales.

Keywords: foreign object debris,artificial intelligence,machine learning,deep learning,image process,flight safety,runway safety
Floating Offshore Wind Support Platform and Assembly Solution (FLOWSPA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Project FLOWSPA (Floating Offshore Wind Support Platform Assembly) will demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative floating offshore wind foundation structure “Starfloat” that combines “spar” technology with “semi-submersible” technology to provide a compact and cost effective low motion platform for supporting large capacity wind turbines at deep-water offshore wind farm sites. Energy analysts have predicted that, if a viable and cost effective technology can be delivered, the deep-water offshore wind market in Europe could meet 50% of Europe’s electricity requirement by 2050. Unlike competitor technologies the simple scalable "Starfloat" is designed for construction at existing shipbuilding facilities with restricted water depth thus opening up construction opportunities for European shipyards that are currently in decline. The innovative floating foundation design and assembly process takes significant cost out of the CAPEX of deep water floating offshore wind projects and removes the need for risky offshore marine operations. "Starfloat" therefore has the potential to be disruptive to the current perceived limitations of the offshore wind industry by bring floating offshore wind into the same levelised cost of energy (LCOE) as fixed foundation offshore wind. This will allow the project financing of deeper water wind farm sites, where the wind resource is stronger and more reliable, to be exploited using relatively low risk technology with the end result of reducing carbon emissions and reduced dependency for Europe on imported fuels. It also has the benefit of bringing steel fabrication work to declining shipyards and assembly work to deep-water offshore construction sites that are currently seeing a sharp decline in activity with the fall in the oil price and the collapse of the new shipbuilding market.

Keywords: economics,floating foundation,offshore wind turbine,novel multi float spar,low cost assembly,shipbuilding facilities
TOPIC2INNO : Implementation of services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs by the Enterprise Europe Network TOPIC consortium for the 2017-2018 period. (TOPIC2INNO 2017-2018)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: France,France,France,France,France,France
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 674081.25
EU funding (EUR): 674081.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Implementation of KAM and EIMC activities in the EEN TOPIC geographical area for the 2017-2018 period.

Keywords: innovation management kam eimc key account manager een enterprise europe network smes
Machine Learning for Structural Integrity Assessments (ALIAS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The continued safe operation of critical infrastructure is key in ensuring economic prosperity. The drive towards carbon neutrality presents significant challenges to engineers as increasing operational efficiency often results in harsh, unfavourable operating conditions (e.g. offshore wind turbines). The cost of implementing more efficient processes is a reduction in materials performance resulting in prohibitively short component lifetimes. The challenge facing engineers lies in improving the structural integrity assessment (SIA) methods. Current SIA methods are predominately stress-based and thus, inherently dominated by the yield strength of the component material. Non-linear materials such as steels typically fail by strain induced plasticity where significant additional energies are adsorbed prior to fracture. Strain-based assessments contain considerable built in conservatisms that have not yet been explored. The principal aims of this fellowship application are to develop more advanced SIA methods by considering conservatisms in existing stress-based and strain-based approaches and to exploit recent advances in machine learning to identify and predict key parameters influencing transformative damage in fracture toughness testing. The fundamental understanding of material damage generated in this work will reduce knowledge gaps currently impeding SIA improvement. The benefits of this work include advances to multiple international codes and standards, the continued safe operation of aging critical infrastructure, longer more realistic estimated lifetimes for new components and, significant industrial cost savings through enhanced component design, reduced maintenance cost and reduction in early structure retirement.

Keywords: fracture mechanics,structural integrity,plasticity,ductile and brittle fracture mechanisms,transformative damage,artificial neural network
European Core Technologies for future connectivity systems and components (COREnect)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: 5G PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Sweden,Belgium,France,France,France,Netherlands
Call: 5G PPP – 5G core technologies innovation (H2020-ICT-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999562.5
EU funding (EUR): 999562.5
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

In view of the importance of core technologies both for European sovereignty and for decreasing the dependence of European industry on American and Asian technologies in the smart networks and services domains, it is vital that Europe reinvents its strategy for developing core technologies for 5G and beyond. This requires concrete and coordinated actions from both the European telecommunications industry and the European microelectronics industry. COREnect brings together the most prominent European industrial and academia players as well as industry associations in the network, microelectronics and verticals domains to jointly design a core technology roadmap. The goal is to establish a sustainable European technology sovereignty in 5G and beyond, promote innovation and business opportunities e.g. for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), pave the way for one or more future European champions in this area, and lay a solid foundation for the long-term success of both industries. A new COREnect community will emerge from the close collaboration between Smart Networks and Services (SNS) and Key Digital Technologies (KDT) communities as well as with other related communities, e.g., on High-Performance Computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), Photonics, IoT and Cloud. Through outreach activities via its extensive industry and academia network, COREnect will have the potential to significantly impact the European R&I and industry landscape of future connectivity systems over the next ten years.

Keywords: network,connectivity,microelectronics,value chain,verticals,security,sustainability,community building,processors,strategic autonomy or technology sovereignty
EU2014 Conference on the Empowerment of the Next Generation of Researchers - “Promoting talents, spreading excellence” (ENGRes2014)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-08-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150825.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

On July 1 2014, Italy takes over the European Council presidency. An overall goal of the Italian presidency is to achieve a higher and more sustainable growth, to enhance the competitiveness of European markets thus enabling them to reap the benefits of economic interdependence. Among the various initiatives, the Italian presidency wishes to contribute to the discussion and elaboration of Horizon 2020 and the achievement of Europe 2020, with a special focus on the career development and training of researchers, by organising a conference on the subject. The proposed conference, bearing the title: EU2014 Conference on the Empowerment of the Next Generation of Researchers “Promoting talents, spreading excellence”, will take place in the city of Trento during the third week of November 2014 and will be organized by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in collaboration with the Autonomous Province of Trento. The overall theme of this conference is to discuss and reflect on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions with a special focus on the concept of “Empowerment” of the next generation of researchers by addressing relevant issues such as training, recruitment and career development. Around 200 participants, representing policy makers at European, national and regional level, Marie Curie fellows, alumni, universities and other research organisations, as well as business leaders will gather to address issues like how a truly open European labour market for researchers can become reality, how talent can be nurtured to grow into excellence, how train and retrain the scientific workforce in dialogue with industry, how it is possible to unlock the full potential of new researchers and achieve the economic and societal goals of Europe 2020. The conference is envisaged as an instrument of the EC and EU MS to promote intensive communication of information, best practices and further collaborations among researchers, policymakers, and industry around MSC actions.

Keywords: marie sk odowska curie actions,semester italian chair,italian presidency of the council of eu,research careers,training,doctorate,mobility,empowerment
Increase public awareness of bio-based products and applications supporting the growth of the European bioeconomy (BIOWAYS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Estonia,Italy,Spain,Slovakia,Greece,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Communication and awareness (H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-2-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 965750.0
EU funding (EUR): 965750.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

With the five broad application areas of the BBI JU Scientific Innovation and Research Agenda, which defines the key areas around which projects should be developed, at its core, the BIOWAYS action will develop excellent promotional and educational materials and design and implement pubic engagement activities, based on this material. These activities will be focused on promoting bio-based industries and the huge potential of their products. BIOWAYS intends to meet the need for better communication of bio-based products and applications and the benefits they bring. In order to attain this ambitious challenge, the BIOWAYS Consortium proposes providing a wide range of integrated, high-level activities and tools with recognised added value for communication programmes, having EU Citizens as their main target. Tools being developed to achieve this include an innovative online collaboration platform and social network, an accessible library of bio-based products, the development of training materials, social hack days, co-creation workshops, an eConference, BarCamps and thematic Charettes.

Keywords: bio based products,bio economy
Diagnosis and Exclusion of Drug-Induced Liver Injury by using Patient Blood Samples (DILITEST) (DILITEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ca. 1 billion USD are lost by late stage failures per one successfully marketed drug. Idiosyncratic Drug induced Liver injury (iDILI) is one of the major causes for late stage failures and also can have serious consequences for the patient like death or the need for liver transplantation. iDILI occurs only in susceptible patients regardless of drug dosage or latency and is not predictable from preclinical in vitro or animal testing. Usually it occurs during late stage clinical phases, when hundreds of millions of USD were already invested in the drug. Therefore, iDILI is a significant challenge for patients, drug-developers and regulatory bodies. Until now there is no valid test available that allows to positively diagnose or exclude a drug as iDILI cause, resulting in incorrect market withdrawals or project terminations. Since the majority of patients would tolerate the drug, these patients are deprived from innovative treatment options. DILITEST aims to develop a test to diagnose iDILI in individual patients and identify the causaltive drug. The test is based on a patented method to generate liver cell-like cells from a blood sample. This will allow to prevent investment losses by incorrect market withdrawals or terminations and solve the dilemma of iDILI for patients, pharmaceutical industry and regulatory bodies by enabling marketing of safe drugs and avoiding incorrect terminations. Overall objective of DILITEST is to market the highly innovative test by MetaHeps GmbH after validation in independent cohorts of european and american registries led by international experts in the field of iDILI research. MetaHeps GmbH will provide the unrivaled technology as a service to pharmaceutical industry with focus on the still growing high volume clinical trial market, allowing its customers to prevent late stage failures by either excluding the drug as a cause for iDILI or the possibility to make use of the novel test to identify novel saftey biomarkers.

Keywords: drug induced liver injury,drug development,clinical trials,pharmacovigilance,biomarkers