Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SOftware Defined AppLication Infrastructures managemenT and Engineering (SODALITE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,Spain,Israel,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,Greece,Slovenia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Software Technologies (H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999413.75
EU funding (EUR): 4999413.75
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

SODALITE will provide application developers and infrastructure operators with tools that (a) abstract their application and infrastructure requirements to (b) enable simpler and faster development, deployment, operation, and execution of heterogeneous applications reflecting diverse circumstances over (c) heterogeneous, software-defined, high-performance, cloud infrastructures, with a particular focus on performance, quality, manageability, and reliability. In doing so, it will produce several tangible results, (1) pattern-based abstraction library, including application, infrastructure and an absolute novum, performance abstractions, (2) design and programming model for full-stack application and infrastructure descriptions, using abstraction library; (3) deployment framework, enabling static optimisation of the so-abstracted applications onto specific infrastructures (4) automated run-time optimisation and management of so-deployed applications. This toolset will directly support Digital Transformation of European Industry through (1) increasing design and runtime effectiveness of software-defined infrastructures, to ensure high-performance execution over dynamic heterogeneous execution environments; (2) increasing simplicity of modelling applications and infrastructures, to improve manageability, collaboration, and time to market.

Keywords: performance first abstraction,optimisation of iac
Public Marketplace Platform for Digital Marketing applied for driving in-store Sales. (AD-TO-STORE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Performance marketing generates 20% e-commerce sales, but only 1% brick & mortar retailer sales. 90% total purchases are still made in-store and 60% in-store purchases are prepared online (webrooming). There is a need for performance-based marketing and programmatic advertising solutions that can leverage the advantage of online trends and digital ad spaces to increase sales. Nowadays, there is difficulty for tracking marketing actions to measure sales at article level. No public marketplace to structure business relationships and heterogeneous, declarative and high-friction customer experiences provide limited diffusion, lack of measure of ROI on advertising and many digital advertising spaces that are difficult to exploit. Publishers’ proprietary platforms imply advertisers need extra resources to interact with each one. AD-TO-STORE is the first ad-to-store affiliate network, able to track in-store purchases generated by advertising at article level, in a scalable cloud environment: one-stop public marketplace; third-party sales tracking system at article level; real-time and item-based promotions; and omnichannel identification means. Advertisers will have campaigns based on advanced parameters and events. Agencies will have full ad space management. Publishers will be able to format campaigns and set the audience, and consumers can earn and redeem rewards. To end-users, AD-TO-STORE will be a single marketplace (concentration of ad space), enabling access to programmatic display, pay-per-sale and search retargeting throughout a reduced management fee. It will help in measuring ROI at article level and per store or area and have better consumer knowledge, which will lead to a higher conversion rate. For Browse & Go, it will be the central product for pivoting to future developments and it will provide us with ad-to-store transaction history to do better ad forecasts.

Keywords: marketing,advertising,ad to store,affiliate network,store purchases,sales tracking system,item based promotions,audience,pay per sale,search retargeting
Monolithic MicroColumn Gas Sensor System: a system for portable low power high selectivity gas analysis (MicroColGaSe)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-01-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MicroColGaSe (Monolithic MicroColumn Gas Sensor System: a system for portable low power high selectivity gas analysis) is an action aimed at the development and characterization of a novel microfabrication platform allowing the monolithic integration of a microfluidic separation microcolumn with a gas sensor fabricated with Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. A range of new MEMS microfluidic enhanced sensors can emerge from this platform. The primary result of this action is an ultra compact, low power consumption, high selectivity gas sensing system-on-chip. This novel integrated system is meant to enable high selectivity in mobile gas sensing devices which are forecast to become part of the consumer market in lead applications such as IoT, healthcare, environmental monitoring. Although MEMS gas sensors have been researched during the last 20 years and marketed in the last decade, their selectivity remains an intrinsic limit due to the nature of the detection principle. This action aims at providing high selectivity MEMS gas sensors using a microcolumn to pretreat the gas sample and obtain flow separation of its components. This is already achieved in complex systems which require multiple separate components to be connected, obtaining bulky and power consuming devices. Main objective of this action is to enable monolithic integration of the main components of the above described system: gas sensor, microcolumn, concentrator and filter - all in a single silicon chip. The dramatic advantages of this integration are in the cost, footprint, and energy efficiency. In particular, the extremely reduced footprint will make it possible to embed these sensors in consumer mobile devices such as smartphones and wearables. A network of partners will allow a complete development and characterization of this novel device, leading to a demonstration unit that will be used to disseminate the action results and prove the potential of this novel technology platform.

Keywords: gas sensor,monolithic integration,high selectivity,energy efficiency
Coexistence and conflict in the age of complexity: An interdisciplinary study of community dynamics (EmergentCommunity)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1814886.0
EU funding (EUR): 1814886.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Polarization and inequality amongst citizens are on the rise across Europe. In a context of multiple, and intersecting forms of diversity, peaceful coexistence has been increasingly placed under sustained pressure. Crucially, the urgency of finding sustainable solutions to these developments is constrained by a lack of conceptual and theoretical nuance that inhibits critical thinking about emergent constellations of social and political life. This project explores how affective orientations and everyday practices of peace and conflict intertwine and influence societies. In this respect, the study adopts an interdisciplinary research design that uses multi-sited ethnography, immersive virtual technologies, and psycho-physiological measuring to provide cutting-edge insight into community dynamics. The study will provide new grounded knowledge on how societies hold together whilst social and political positions within and between communities multiply. Using complexity as an analytical angle, the project considers the relations, tensions, and forms of collaboration that unfold in the course of everyday life in nine urban neighbourhoods in Finland, Sweden and France. The three countries share a mix of similarities and differences through which the variations in community dynamics and their societal consequences can be identified. Through the adopted interdisciplinary approach, the project will generate beyond state-of-the-art insight into how community dynamic in contemporary societies develops. It will use this knowledge to rethink the notion of community. In the final stage of the project, the empirical, methodological and conceptual insights will be combined to feed into the process of building a theory of emergent communities through which changes to the form of social and political life can be understood. The project will have a high societal impact by providing policymakers and politicians with knowledge on how social sustainability and inclusion can be promoted.

Keywords: community relations,everyday conflict and coexistence,complexity,multi sited ethnography,social and political life,migration
ExtraLytics: Big Data Analytics for Real Estate (ExtraLytics)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2014-PoC, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 148377.0
EU funding (EUR): 148377.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Data is becoming the key to effective decision making in more and more aspects of modern society. Big data analytics provide insight into complex processes considering a breadth of factors. This promises to increase the efficiency of decision making in areas such as policy making, research, product development, or financial and retail markets. Currently, big data analytics is employed only by technologically savvy organisations with control over the relevant data. This further exacerbates the information asymmetry that has been plaguing many of these areas: real estate where buyers have long suffered from limited information, often controlled by the seller; or retail markets where sellers are now employing sophisticated competitive price intelligence solutions unaffordable to buyers. Who can tell you if it is better to buy a house with a garden or with a garage; or where renovations will yield more rent over time? ExtraLytics answers these questions through a combination of big data extraction and analytics. ExtraLytics introduces analytics and prediction models into DIADEM’s platform for accurate big data extraction from the web, which is able to extract required data at massive scale from the web. For the proof-of-concept, ExtraLytics initially focuses on residential real estate in the UK, a £4,135bn market (UBS), where buyers and renters are required to make fast decision with limited information—time on market is often below a week or even below a day as for desirable rentals in Oxford. “In an age when ‘big data’ is shaping our every move, how come an industry that takes so much profit can’t keep pace with technology and use it to actually deliver a service worth the money they take in commission?” (The Telegraph). ExtraLytics addresses this lack of data-driven analytics by giving consumers and investors alike a tool for better understanding properties, their location, their neighborhood, and their investment potential compared to other properties.

Keywords: decision support,data extraction,real estate,prediction models
Enhancing excellence and innovation capacity in sustainable transport interchanges (ALLIANCE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,Latvia
Call: Twinning (H2020-TWINN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 996306.25
EU funding (EUR): 989331.25
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The scope of ALLIANCE is the enabling of stimulating and strengthening the scientific and technological capacity of Latvia and the raising of the profile of the research staff and their institution, by providing knowledge in the field of smart interconnecting sustainable transport networks. This knowledge transfer will build the grounds for a common understanding of the main components affecting sustainable intermodality and support the selection and management of the most optimal and applicable solutions for transport interchanges. It will also facilitate stakeholder collaboration and the development of strong linkage among education, research and industry. The objective of the project is to have advanced research and higher education institution in the field of transport in Latvia by linking TTI with two internationally recognized research entities – UTH and Fraunhofer. Close collaboration of TTI with UTH and Fraunhofer will help to achieve the goals through the following activities: Organization of young researchers’ seminars; Organization of workshops; Organization of summer schools for trainers and young researchers; Development of educational programme for graduate and post-graduate students; Development of training programme for trainers and practitioners; Provision of grants for participation as authors in per reviewed conferences; Facilitation of Short-Term Staff Exchanges (STSEs) with the aim of international collaboration, mainly publications; Establishment of a guidance strategy for preparing scientific publications; Creation of an educational forum as on-line tool for distance learning and knowledge sharing. Research activities related to multimodal transport networks will be enhanced in TTI, which will also push forward the institute’s scientific visibility and enlarge the region’s researchers’ and professionals’ horizons towards intermodality.

Keywords: inter modality,transport interchanges,governance and policy,smart solutions,decision making,education,training,knowledge transfer
Human mini hearts: looking for culprits and victims in cardiac disease (Mini-HEART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cardiac disease causes morbidity and mortality as frequently as cancer. Predicting cardiac arrhythmia and cardiac failure, understanding multicellular (patho)physiological mechanisms, and devising new treatments represent unmet needs in the field. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) could revolutionise the way we study human disease but unfortunately, they still fall short in recapitulating variable phenotypes and complex cardiovascular diseases. This is partly due to functional immaturity of hiPSC-derived cardiac tissues, shortage of methods for accurate functional analysis and inability to identify cell-type specific contributions to disease pathology. I will address these challenges in Mini-HEART. We recently assembled novel three-dimensional multi-cellular cardiac microtissues as an important step towards full maturation and used these to demonstrate that cardiac disease mutations might directly affect non-myocyte cardiac cells. However, application of hiPSC microtissues to precision medicine remains to emerge. Using a multidisciplinary approach, I will combine isogenic hiPSC, their differentiation into distinct cell types of the heart, multifaceted biophysical assays, and tissue engineering to prove cell-type causality of disease and identify new molecules targeting the culprit cells to rescue the disease phenotype. I plan to use our unique complex hiPSC-cardiac microtissue to 1) identify and synthetically enhance maturation mechanisms; 2) reveal late arrhythmic and fibrotic phenotypes; 3) dissect cell-type specific contributions to complex cardiac diseases, including the role of macrophages and sympathetic nerves; 4) test two therapeutic strategies based on drug-tailoring and gene editing, to modulate the disease phenotype. Together, Mini-HEART will create new opportunities for designing novel biomedical tools to i) capture phenotypic changes, ii) reveal (patho)physiological mechanisms and ii) develop new therapeutic approaches for heart disease.

Keywords: cardiac arrhythmia,sudden death,human induced pluripotent stem cells,cardiac organoids,channelopathies,cardiomyopathies
TOWARDS A NOVEL HIGH PERFORMANCE FLEXIBLE GMR SENSOR ON PAPER (FLEXI-G)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2020-12-24
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The difficulty faced by central banks in dealing with counterfeit currency, cheques and credit cards is a new domain where electronics on paper or plastic can make a big difference. If GMR sensors can be realized on the paper of the currency note or cheques and the plastic of credit card, then we could boost the efforts related to combating counterfeits and simultaneously advance the research in the field of flexible electronics. The integration of GMR components onto a flexible device requires overcoming several practical challenges. Here, we aim in fabricating flexible GMR sensor on paper using FeCo and Cu nanoparticles for potential applications such as currency authenticity tags. This challenging multidisciplinary project will be supported by the outstanding research environment at the host group (Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST) group) led by Dr. Ravinder Dahiya (RD) at University of Glasgow (UoG). The various objectives of this project include; synthesize and characterize controlled composition of FeCo and Cu nanoparticles by polyol process, printing multiple GMR alternate layers of the FeCo and Cu nanoparticles on paper and integrate the paper-GMR sensor with other electronic components on flexible substrates. The developed GMR sensor on paper will be suitable for applications such as authenticity tags for preventing currency counterfeits.

Keywords: magnetic materials,nanoparticles,sensors,counterfeit,flexible,bendable electronics
The Insect cochlea: a non-invasive path towards enhanced sound detectors (The insect cochlea)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms, biotechnology for environment and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences, bioengineering and synthetic biology, biomass and biofuels, biohazards
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1989789.0
EU funding (EUR): 1989789.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

There is a critical need for high-resolution acoustic sensors for numerous applications in engineering/medicine. The human cochlea has been a source of inspiration for acoustic sensors due its improved sensitivity, higher frequency range, and sharp frequency discrimination. Current methods for measuring cochlear mechanics are inherently invasive, and deep understanding of its process remains elusive, proving challenging its simulation in electromechanical devices. Yet cochlear organ for frequency selectivity is not unique to mammalian audition. A simpler analogous mechanism for frequency analysis was recently found in the ears of bush-crickets (insects). These insects are endowed with outer middle and inner ear, but unlike mammals their cochlea is small (~0.6 mm), uncoiled, and exceptionally accessible through transparent cuticle. These attributes facilitate the clean measurements of complex auditory processes impossible to attain in the mammalian cochlea, and open an exceptional opportunity for miniaturization and simplification of artificial acoustic sensors. Using bush-crickets and relatives as model systems this project is designed to fulfil the following two main objectives: (1) to dissect the three ear components to i) identify the elements involved in acute hearing sensitivity, ii) characterise the role of multiple sound inputs in directional hearing, iii) associate the activation patterns of auditory afferents with mechanical waves in the insect cochlea. (2) Use experimental data to produce computer models and theoretical analogues of the insect cochlea to propose innovative alternatives in the design of acoustic sensors. By using a multi-disciplinary approach between biology, engineering, physics and mathematics, this project is designed to develop new technological improvements that constitute the grounds of the next-generation of miniature, super-sensitive acoustic sensors.

Keywords: hearing,auditory transduction,circuits