Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
TRaining in Secure and PrivAcy-preserving biometricS (TReSPAsS-ETN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Belgium,Sweden,Switzerland,France,Netherlands
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3725976.96
EU funding (EUR): 3725976.96
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Biometrics recognition technology has revolutionised traditional person recognition technologies which rely on tokens or passwords. Whereas the latter can be lost, stolen, or easily forgotten, biometrics technology relies on biological and/or behavioural traits to infer identity. A soaring proliferation of cloud applications calls for enhanced security protection for distributed person authentication using biometrics, whereas the new European general data protection regulation (GDPR) demands stringent provisions for privacy preservation. Unfortunately, concerns regarding security and privacy vulnerabilities, coupled with a lack of sufficient expertise to tackle them, present barriers to European competitiveness. Europe needs a new community of biometrics researchers capable of innovating the next generation of biometrics technology designed to protect security and preserve privacy simultaneously. The TReSPAsS-ETN project will deliver security protection through generalised PAD capabilities, deliver privacy preservation through computationally feasible encryption solutions and deploy these new technologies to commercial-grade systems in full compliance with the new European GDPR legislation. The project will enhance European research leadership and competitiveness and will help to sustain the flourishing biometrics market. The comprehensive TReSPAsS-ETN Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Training Network will couple specific technical and transferable skills training including entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity, management and communications with secondments to industry. TReSPAsS-ETN will produce a cohort of early stage researchers equipped with the necessary multidisciplinary skill set and capacity to innovate the next generation of secure and privacy preserving biometrics technologies and thus to meet the needs of the growing European biometrics industry.

Keywords: biometrics,security,privacy,presentation attack detection,privacy enhancing technologies,template protection,encryption,legal frameworks,social acceptance,general data protection,regulation
Introducing silicone to the world of additive manufacturing (SPECTROPLAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a well-known technology for materializing rigid objects from plastics, metals or ceramics; but when it comes to soft materials, like silicone, the technology has not yet reached its maturity. At Spectroplast, our startup from the Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology, we developed a cutting-edge technology enabling the additive manufacturing of silicones to produce soft elastomeric components suitable for industrial and life-saving medical applications. Our value proposition revolves around: the first high-precision silicone AM platform, compatibility of our process with any industrial/off-the-shelf silicone, ISO-certified components (10993-5, 10993-10), time and cost-effectiveness due to direct fabrication, process working on low energy consumption and Zero-waste, development of tailor-made elastomeric 3D printing materials. With no similar commercially available solution on the market, our technology can serve as the perfect complementary technique for industrial-scale productions, moving from mass production to mass customization and going beyond the prototyping level. Spectroplast represents a radical innovative solution with the potential of disrupting the current silicone components’ production’s state-of-the-art and opening-up new markets, represented by the growing number of industry verticals in need of soft, functional and customized products. Currently, our solution is at TRL6 and we aim to scale it up to TRL9 to commercialize an industrial-scale silicone AM platform with top performance ratings from end-users and stakeholders by 2021. By applying to Phase 1 SME Instrument, we aim to carry out a feasibility study to verify the technical, commercial and financial viability of our solution and develop a business plan to drive its successful market uptake. Indeed, according to our realistic trading projections we will achieve approx. €12M total revenues by the 5th year (ROI = 3).

Keywords: additive manufacturing,silicone materials,liquid silicone rubber,injection molding,high tech 3d printing,elastomeric,soft materials,mass customization,stereolithography,vat polymerization
Competition, time pressure, public speaking and multitasking: The role of willingness and ability to cope with pressure in explaining individual differences and inequality in career outcomes (CTSM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1335536.0
EU funding (EUR): 1335536.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Inequalities in study choices and career outcomes between population groups, including Inequalities in study choices and career outcomes between population groups, including differences across gender and socioeconomic background, are highly persistent. This hints at unobserved barriers that limit diversity and prevent people from selecting the careers they would be most productive in. As a society, this may keep us from having the best people in the most important positions. Our limited understanding of what drives individual differences in educational choices and labor market success prevents us from identifying such barriers. My project builds on an ongoing effort to incorporate insights from personality psychology into economics. Past research indicates that personality traits (and other non-cognitive traits) have high potential for explaining career choices and outcomes. I will introduce new measures for four promising traits, willingness to compete, ability to cope with time pressure, public speaking aversion and ability to multitask. Time pressure, competition, public speaking and multitasking are hallmarks of high-level careers and individual ability to cope with these pressures is therefore a plausible determinant of career outcomes. These traits vary strongly across individuals, as evidenced by studies that document differences across gender, socio-economic background and educational achievement levels. However, the potential of these traits for explaining individual differences in career choices is under-researched, in part because we do not yet know how to measure them properly in large samples. I will develop new measures for willingness to compete, ability to cope with time pressure, public speaking aversion and ability to multitask which can be implemented in large-scale survey panels. I will then collect large-scale data where these traits can be linked to a wide range of career outcomes to investigate how these traits shape individual careers.

Keywords: personality,willingness to compete,time pressure,public speaking,multitasking,inequality,education,labor markets
ANISOPTER: The Affordable Optimization Solution for Anisogrid Structures (ANISOPTER)

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: 2019-04-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

An affordable access to Space is crucial for the sustainable development of European industry. However, the 14 k€ required to send each of the 200,000 kilograms yearly sent to Space slows down, and even prevents, the development of new business models. Thus, there is a huge necessity to reduce spacecrafts and launchers weight. Industry and academia agree in that new anisogrid structures are one of the best ways to accomplish this challenge, but these complex structures must be optimized for each application to obtain the best performance. It does not exist yet a fully automated commercial solution to optimize anisogrid structures. Space companies are forced to spend thousands of euros in the optimization and accuracy assessment of the designed models. All commercial software available is very expensive and relies on the computationally demanding Finite Element Analysis and manual or semi-automated optimization protocols. In contrast, ANISOPTER uses analytic equations to predict the behaviour of anisogrid structures, explore millions of configurations, and obtains in minutes 10-40% lighter structures than the competence. Our Software-as-a-Service solution will provide the optimal solution through a simple web interface at http://anisopter.com Despite ANISOPTER´s main users are manufacturers of satellites and space launch systems, there exist a huge business opportunity on Earth for anisogrid technology. The entry of this game-changing technology on Earth markets is prevented by modelling difficulties and cost. Thus, the ease of use and speed of ANISOPTER will clear the way for the application of anisogrid concept in load-bearing components, like towers for electricity transport or wind power generation, and offshore jackets or oil platforms. Our main objectives are the thorough validation of the beta version of the web server, the integration of the feedback provided by our industrial technology validators, and selling more than 1,000 licenses by 2025.

Keywords: anisogrid,isogrid,diagrid,optimization,weight efficiency,rockets,lattice structures,towers
Cellular cartography of the intestine in health and inflammation (GUTMAPS)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The intestinal epithelium is the first line of defence of the mucosal immune system because it acts as a dynamic physical barrier segregating the luminal content from the underlying mucosal tissue. This barrier is mainly formed by a monolayer of specialised intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) that are crucial in maintaining intestinal homeostasis. Damage to this epithelial layer can increase intestinal permeability and lead to abnormalities in interactions between IECs, stromal cells and immune cells in the underlying lamina propria thereby disturbing the intestinal immune homeostasis, all of which are a hallmark of several intestinal disorders including inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are the two major forms of IBD, affecting an estimated 4 million people in the United States and Europe and have a rising incidence in the developing world. Recent single cell RNA seq (scRNAseq) studies of the intestine have allowed us to understand this organ in unprecedented detail, however, such studies still require the dissociation of tissue and loss of spatial resolution. With this project, I would like to take advantage of recent advances in in-situ sequencing to study intestinal tissue in toto and by combining this with the available scRNA-seq data, generate spatial maps of the intestine (GUTMAPS). The results obtained here will allow us to look at tissue composition and cell-cell interactions with unprecedented resolution in normal and diseased mucosa.

Keywords: inflammatory bowel diseases
Cardiac REgeneration from within (CuRE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2428492.0
EU funding (EUR): 2428492.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biotechnological therapies for patients with myocardial infarction and heart failure are urgently needed, in light of the breadth of these diseases and a lack of curative treatments. CuRE is an ambitious project aimed at identifying novel factors (cytokines, growth factors, microRNAs) that promote cardiomyocyte proliferation and can thus be transformed into innovative therapeutics to stimulate cardiac regeneration. The Project leads from two concepts: first, that cardiac regeneration can be obtained by stimulating the endogenous capacity of cardiomyocytes to proliferate, second that effective biotherapeutics might be identified through systematic screenings both in vivo and ex vivo. In the mouse, CuRE will take advantage of two unique arrayed libraries cloned in adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors, one corresponding to the secretome (1200 factors) and the other to the miRNAome (800 pri-miRNA genes). Both libraries will be functionally screened in mice to search for factors that enhance cardiac regeneration. This in vivo selection approach will be complemented by a series of high throughput screenings on primary cardiomyocytes ex vivo, aimed at systematically assessing the involvement of all components of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway, the cytoskeleton and the sarcomere on cell proliferation. Cytokines and miRNAs can both be developed to become therapeutic molecules, in the form of recombinant proteins and synthetic nucleic acids, respectively. Therefore, a key aim of CuRE will be to establish procedures for their production and administration in vivo, and to assess their efficacy in both small and large animal models of myocardial damage. In addition to this translational goal, the project will entail the successful achievement of several intermediate objectives, each of which possesses intrinsic validity in terms of basic discovery and is thus expected to extend technology and knowledge in the cardiovascular field beyond state-of-the art.
An easy-to-use garment for the non-invasive recording of the electrical activity of the human spinal cord (SpinRec)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Lesions of the spinal cord in humans are devastating and often lead to severe refractory forms of chronic pain. Also, enhanced sensitivity of spinal cord neurons – an abnormal condition called central sensitization – is crucial for the development and maintenance of chronic pain. Effective treatment of pain will depend critically on a better understanding of the electrophysiological changes that occur at spinal cord level. Still, the electrical activity of spinal cord neurons can be assessed only indirectly, unless invasive approaches are used. Due to serious anatomical and physiological hurdles, the availability of a non-invasive approach to measure the electrical activity of human spinal neurons (electrospinogram, ESG) is lacking. This is the problem that SpinRec aims to solve. The product resulting from SpinRec, compatible with simultaneous measures of brain activity (e.g. electroencephalography), will allow for the first time to directly explore spinal sensorimotor circuits in health and disease, and thereby allow cost efficient early diagnosis and stratification of patients with chronic pain and spinal cord injury.

Keywords: spinal cord,chronic pain,spinal cord injury,sensorimotor system,human,electrophysiology
ENERINVEST Spanish Sustainable Energy financing Platform (ENERINVEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Market uptake of energy innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: Improving the financeability and attractiveness of sustainable energy investments (H2020-EE-2015-3-MarketUptake, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1926958.75
EU funding (EUR): 1926958.75
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The technical and economic viability of sustainable energy projects is of great interest to public institutions, businesses and individuals due to the associated energy savings and the additional economic and environmental benefits. The EU has articulated numerous mechanisms to encourage the mobilization of investment in terms of sustainable energy, and in Spain there are currently several of them applied to finance such projects. However, there is a set of barriers that hinders a greater development of them, standing out the lacks of: - trust among investors in financial viability; - public and private capabilities in project structuring; and - emblematic successful cases that can be a reference model. ENERINVEST addresses those issues by creating a consulting platform which will provide financial, technical and legal solutions to sustainable energy, facilitating the dialogue among the different stakeholders involved. ENERINVEST aims to become the reference Spanish platform in the field of sustainable energy projects financing, which covers the existing gap between the financial sector and the sustainable energy sector, hence, promoting a higher and more efficient investment in sustainable energy projects. This work is translated in: - gathering and organizing all current information, regulation and existing financial models in Spain; - identifying and promoting successful cases of innovative financial models; - creating an e-platform with an assessment and meeting tool for preliminary market assessments; - establishing working groups with stakeholders to join forces for the promotion of financial mechanisms for the execution of sustainable energy projects; - developing communication activities of the platform to foster its visibility and disseminating the results The main interested parties in ENERINVEST’s activities and results are the following target groups: projects promoters; financial entities, investors and policy makers and other stakeholders in energy and financing.

Keywords: energy efficiency,sustainable energy projects,financing,financial models,platform,national initiative,ppp public and private partnership,mobilizing investments,project promotion
Geometry of Metric groups (GeoMeG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,Finland
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1248560.0
EU funding (EUR): 550326.19
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

What are the best trajectories to park a truck with several trailers? How fast can a lattice grow? These are some of the questions studied in this project because both the infinitesimal control structure of movement of a truck and the asymptotic geometry of a (nilpotent) lattice are examples of metric groups: Lie groups with homogeneous distances. The PI plans to study geometric properties of metric groups and their implications to control systems and nilpotent groups. In particular, the plan is to exploit the relation between the regularity of distinguished curves, sets, and maps in subRiemannian groups, volume asymptotics in nilpotent groups, and embedding results. The general goal is to develop an adapted geometric measure theory. SubRiemannian spaces, and in particular Carnot groups, appear in various areas of mathematics, such as control theory, harmonic and complex analysis, asymptotic geometry, subelliptic PDE's and geometric group theory. The results in this project will provide more links between such areas. The PI has developed a net of high-level international collaborations and obtained several results via a combination of analysis on metric spaces (differentiation of Lipschitz maps, tangents of measures, and Gromov-Hausdorff limits) and the theory of locally compact groups (Lie group techniques and the solutions of the Hilbert 5th problem). This allowed the PI to solve a number of open problems in the field, such as the analogue of Myers-Steenrod theorem on the smoothness of isometries, the analogue of Nash isometric embedding and the non-minimality of curves with corners. Some of the next aims are to establish an analogue of the De Giorgi's rectifiability result for finite-perimeter sets and prove the smoothness of geodesics, a 30-year-old open problem. The goal of this project is to tackle them, together with many more related questions. The PI received his first degree at SNS Pisa (advisor: M.Abate) and his PhD from Yale University (advisor: B.Kleiner). Before obtaining a permanent position only three years after graduation, he was at ETH, Orsay, and MSRI. He received the prestigious position of research fellow of the Academy of Finland.

Keywords: analysis on metric spaces,subriemannian geometry,geometric group theory