Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
New processing technology for colistmethate sodium, leading to improved and cost-effective formulations for pharmaceutical and veterinary markets (PROTOCOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Colistimethate Sodium (CMS hereinafter) is a rapidly bactericidal antimicrobial agent with a significant post-antibiotic effect against multidrug resistant Gram-negative pathogens. CMS represents a reliable alternative for the treatment of life-threatening nosocomial infections but today the market supply of CMS relies on industrial processes based on freeze drying of CMS aqueous solutions. This represents outstanding energetic costs that directly affect the final price of CMS. CIDQO is an SME founded in 2012 and its PhD staff has a wide expertise and know-how on the development and scaling-up of chemical processes, as well as on custom manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients. CIDQO aims to undertake an innovation project to solve the current limitations of CMS supply, through the industrial validation of a new processing technology based on the combination of ultrafiltration and evaporation coupled to HPLC/LC-MS. The key market opportunity of the new processing technology relies on its ability to deliver a non-pyrogenic and sterile CMS formulation to be commercialized on the Pharmaceutical and Veterinary medicine markets, which will represent several advantages in terms of price and quality compared with the current commercial form. The overall plan to reach the market needs to be defined in the short term since the innovation process is next to finish. Phase 1 of SME Instrument represents a good opportunity to get the financial support required to perform a thorough market study not only to minimize risks but also to set up a business plan for commercialization. The main objective is to perform a thorough feasibility study to verify the practical and economic viability in Pharmaceutical and Veterinary markets of the CMS form to be delivered by the new processing technology. The actual market chances that can be exploited to maximize the economic returns will be analyzed and a detailed business plan will be developed.

Keywords: colistimethate sodium,bactericidal agent,new processing technology,business plan,ipr analysis
NANOSCIENCE FOUNDRIES AND FINE ANALYSIS - EUROPE (NFFA-Europe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Slovenia,Sweden,Switzerland,Greece,France,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Integrating and opening existing national and regional research infrastructures of European interest (H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11759061.0
EU funding (EUR): 9994861.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

NFFA-EUROPE will implement the first open-access research infrastructure as a platform supporting comprehensive projects for multidisciplinary research at the nanoscale extending form synthesis to nanocharacterization to theory and numerical simulation. The integration and the extension of scope of existing specialized infrastructures within an excellence network of knowledge and know-how will enable a large number of researchers from diverse disciplines to carry out advanced proposals impacting science and innovation. The full suite of key infrastructures for nanoscience will become, through the NFFA-EUROPE project, accessible to a broader community extended to research actors operating at different levels of the value chain, including SMEs and applied research, that are currently missing the benefits of these enabling technologies. NFFA-EUROPE sets out to offer an integrated, distributed infrastructure to perform comprehensive nanoscience and nanotechnology projects from synthesis and nanolithography (with nanofoundry installations) to advanced characterization and theoretical modellization/numerical simulation (with experimental installations including analytical large scale facilities and a distributed theoretical installation including high-performance computing). Coordinated access will be given to complementary facilities co-located in nine well distributed main sites in Europe, ensuring the optimal match between user proposal and technical offer. The research activity of the Consortium will realize innovative solutions on key bottlenecks of nanoscience research, therefore upgrading the facility quality and uniqueness.

Keywords: open access infrastructure for synthesis,nanofabrication,nanopatterning,structural and functional characterization and fine analysis of nanostructured matter,data repository
How Ordinary People Make Sense of Anti-Gender Messages (Sense AGENDa)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-05
End date: 2025-09-06
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239195.52
EU funding (EUR): 239195.52
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project explores why ordinary people continue to oppose and, in some European democracies, increasingly push back against gender and sexual equality. In face of anti-gender mobilizations, i.e. the campaigns against gender and LGBT rights that have been growing in strength and influence since the mid-2000s, we urgently need to understand how individuals make sense of anti-gender messages, what makes these messages resonant to different audiences, and how and why they succeed or fail in different contexts. In examining these questions, this study will adopt a cross-cultural qualitative research design, comparing the strategically selected cases of Croatia and Belgium (Flanders). By a unique combination of democratic forums, pre-acquainted focus groups and individual interviews, this study aims to understand how ordinary people evaluate publicly available ideas about gender and sexuality; how the individuals' personal and social characteristics and identifications shape their evaluations at both the individual and collective level; and how are these gender and sexuality evaluations and interpretations situated into contexts with different climates of opinions and institutional-legal frameworks. Based on this, the study aims to build a theoretical model of cultural reception that connects individual and group perspectives and socio-cultural contexts. The project's insights will contribute to various disciplines studying the interactions of institutions, values and individual meanings in general, and the anti-gender mobilizations more specifically, ranging from sociology and political sciences to social movements, public opinion and gender and sexuality studies. The study's results are also intended to generate wider social impact by highlighting the concerns the policymakers and the stakeholders need more strongly address if they desire to open a constructive public dialogue with citizens struggling how to best make sense of difficult issues in an uncertain world.

Keywords: sexualities,cultural sociology,political sociology,reception,framing
Dynamic adaptive microscopy for label-free multi-parametric imaging in biology and medicine (DynAMic)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Greece,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3957137.5
EU funding (EUR): 3957137.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Optical microscopy constitutes one of the most fundamental paradigms in biological and medical imaging. However, significant challenges remain in regard to the application of optical microscopy to in vivo interrogations. First, the diffusing nature of light propagation in tissue due to random variations of the refractive index, limits in vivo microscopy to superficial depths; within only a few mean free paths (<1mm). Second the invasive nature of fluorescent proteins and probes, allows monitoring of only 1-5 events by spectrally multiplexing different fluorochromes; i.e. performance that is highly incompatible with the targets of functional genomics and proteomics. This proposal aims to develop the next step in optical visualization by addressing these two fundamental limitations of optical imaging, i.e. Depth and Contrast. To achieve this, DynAMic proposes a radically new concept for optical imaging of tissue based on ❶ developing real-time wavefront-shaping adaptive optics for making the performance of any optical system ideal and for the first time in Raman microscopy ❷ reaching tenfold deeper in tissue than conventional optical microscopy by compensating for the refractive index variations using phase and polarization retrieval for inversing light diffusion and ❸ utilize advance image formation to improve the sensitivity and utilization of stimulated Raman scattering for multi-parametric label-free contrast that radically expands at least tenfold the number of labels concurrently retrieved from living systems, linking optical observation to functional proteomic requirements. The new optical imaging ability delivered in DynAMic will be applied to a first target application of ophthalmic imaging, also used as a window to the brain and devastating nervous disease detection, defining the next generation ophthalmology and neurology sensing, disrupting the modus operandi of retinal imaging without disturbing the modus agendi of the end users.

Keywords: 1 adaptive wavefront shaping,2 label free multi parametric sensing,3 stimulated raman scattering,4 molecular and proteomic reading,5 eye and brain imaging
BASEPORT - POWER-EFFICIENT, COST-EFFECTIVE, DNA SEQUENCING & STORAGE (BASEPORT)

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: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

New healthcare technologies, e.g. gene sequencing and modular scaling of storage & processing capacity (potential patent). Features: (1) Low power and low heat dissipation (2) Small volume & low weight (3) Product life-cycle 4x times longer (decades) (4) Data required for the lifetime of patients (and then more, as they might have importance for their descents) requires legacy systems. (5) Massive management & operations costs Current alternatives are either too costly, or exhibit low reliability and/or performance, and none of them achieve the right level of security: (1) Data-storage rack systems require high-power for operation & cooling, large space & special flooring (heavy, cooling), high maintenance & operation costs, low HW lifecycle (3-5 years). (2) Cloud storage solutions do not comply with emerging data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR) and suffer from strong data transfer latencies. BASEPORT genome sequencing and storage systems helps democratise the use of genetic analyses on healthcare, especially among small health-centres and clinics that cannot afford current expensive, power-hungry systems requiring specialised data-centres, while also providing a secure data vault to keep data safe and secure, helping them comply with most rigorous regulations (e.g. ISO27001, EU’s GDPR, NIST). BASEPORT is a cost-effective, low-power, scalable, high-performance data storage and computing system designed for health & pharma institutions to securely and reliably manage data operations. It is designed in a unique form-factor to be a long-lasting system (decades long lifecycle). Our technology allows for a significant reduction in carbon footprint and decreases overall costs for data storage and management.

Keywords: genomics,storage,security,data vault,privacy,dna sequencing,genome
Pragmatics of Multiwinner Voting: Algorithms and Preference Data Analysis (PRAGMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Poland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1386290.0
EU funding (EUR): 1386290.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal is in the area of computational social choice, an area on the intersection of computer science and economics. We study multiwinner elections, with a focus on a pragmatic approach. Our goal is to provide a principled framework for applying multiwinner voting in various settings that may appear in real-life (ranging from small-scale elections in various institutions, through participatory budgeting settings, to applications directly within computer science). In particular, we are interested in: (a) designing new, fast algorithms for computing the outcomes of multiwinner voting rules (results of such rules are often NP-hard to compute), also for new languages of specifying preferences that are needed in practical settings; (b) obtaining algorithmic and mathematical understanding of preference data; and (c) providing algorithms for analyzing elections and their results. We are interested both in theoretical studies (designing new algorithms, analyzing computational complexity of election-related problems, establishing axiomatic features of multiwinner voting rules, etc.) and in experimental evaluations (finding out running times of algorithms, establishing their approximation ratios, evaluating properties of preference data, etc.).

Keywords: computational social choice,multiwinner voting,algorithms,computational complexity,preference data,distances among elections
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies united for Lightweight (AMULET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Poland,Norway,Hungary,Slovenia,Poland,Belgium,France,Czechia
Call: Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains (H2020-INNOSUP-2020-01-two-stage, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4997882.5
EU funding (EUR): 4952732.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The benefits of lightweighting in decarbonisation & resource efficiency for circular economy cuts across different industries, having the most important impacts on the automotive, aerospace & aeronautics, energy and building sectors. During the last decades, the main types of advanced materials and their manufacturing have enabled reducing weight while enhancing performance. However, their rate and intensity of penetration have been distributed unevenly across sectors, limiting their full potential. The goal of AMULET is to create new value chains by fostering the penetration of advanced materials in different fields through cross-regional and cross-sectoral knowledge exchange. Three types of activities will be implemented to foster innovation in SMEs. Firstly, R&D demonstration projects targeting current sectorial challenges will be developed to reach TRL7, following a competitive-based approach. Secondly, all SMEs participating in the project will receive technical training suport and business-to-business coaching for accelerating the commercialising of their innovative solutions. These activities will create a unique self-sustainable business framework, in which end-users and SMEs from established and new industrial supply chains will explore innovative lightweight-driven market opportunities. The consortium comprises a joint network of some 1717 SMEs, 341 large corporates and 93 universities, research and innovation institutes. At the long term, about 2,215 working positions are estimated to be created, while generating an additional €228M turnover for the targeted sectors. The ultimate goal of AMULET is to significantly contribute to CO2 emissions reduction in the EU by boosting the role of SMEs, in which their innovations are expected to be facilitated & supported by clusters.

Keywords: lightweight,decarbonisation,sustainability,co2 emissions,resource efficiency
Experiences of Social and Solidarity Economy: Networks of Incubators as TerritoriAL development Strategies (ESSENTIALS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Argentina
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 229767.36
EU funding (EUR): 229767.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of the project is to provide insights into the study and interpretation of processes that contribute to the promotion of networks of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). The research also aims at identifying models that can lead to social inclusion and local development. Moreover, the project ESSENTIALS will focus on a specific experience: Social Incubators, in an attempt to encourage socio-economic development of a specific area or of a whole country, regarding processes of social innovation and transfer of knowledge. In particular, the specific objectives, of the project are: OB. 1. Map the incubators and compare the characteristics in Latin America and EU, understanding if there is a relationship between gender and organisational characteristics of an incubator. OB. 2. Identify the factors that contribute to the creation of incubators and the impacts of incubators, including the elements that ensure gender equality, through a comparative study. OB. 3. Analyse the European context considering the strengths and weaknesses identified and thus develop a pilot study at University of Calabria, including the gender perspective. The research carried out in Latin America will be compared (quantitatively and qualitatively) with European incubation activities. The relevance of this research is linked to understanding how to favour models capable of building a more Social and solidarity Europe, and closer to citizens. Thus, this project represents an important innovation for two reasons: (i) the study contributes to the debate on the role of social incubators and the most effective model to adopt, and brings new knowledge in Europe on the topic of social incubators oriented to the territory, a topic not widely investigated in Europe; (ii) it suggests a pratical solution for the implementation of social incubators in Europe, through the pilot study of creating a social incubator, that will provide feedback for new theoretical and cognitive elements.

Keywords: social and solidarity economy,social incubator,social innovation,local development,action research,territorial development,social enterprises,comparative local governance and policies
AgriLink. Agricultural Knowledge: Linking farmers, advisors and researchers to boost innovation. (AgriLink)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable and competitive agri-food sector for a safe and healthy diet
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Greece,Poland,Norway,Belgium,Romania,Latvia,France,France,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Advisors' roles in the functioning of AKIS and advisory policies boosting innovation in sustainable agriculture (H2020-RUR-2016-2, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999966.49
EU funding (EUR): 4999966.49
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

AgriLink aims to stimulate sustainability transitions in European agriculture through better understanding the roles played by farm advice in farmer decision-making. To this end, AgriLink will analyse and improve the role of farmer advice in 8 innovation areas that combine challenges identified in the “Strategic Approach to EU Agricultural Research & Innovation”. AgriLink builds on the premise that the full range of advice-providing organisations need to be included in the assessment of service provision and innovation adoption. The methodology combines theoretical insights with cutting edge research methods within a multi-actor, transdisciplinary approach. It draws on ‘micro-AKIS’ (individuals and organisations from whom farmers seek services and exchange knowledge with) analysis in 26 focus regions, sociotechnical scenario development and ‘living laboratories’ where farmers, advisors and researchers work together. Research in focus regions will provide insight in farmers’ micro-AKIS, advisory suppliers’ business models, and regional farm advisory systems. This will feed an assessment of the efficacy of governance of farm-advice-research interactions across Europe. Newly developed advisory methods and new forms of research-practice interaction will be validated and further developed in Living Laboratories. A socio-technical scenario method will be used to explore, jointly with stakeholders, transition pathways towards more sustainable agriculture. Crucially, AgriLink builds on insights and experiences from both research and practice. The consortium consists of researchers from different disciplines (institutional economics, innovation studies, AKIS studies, sociology of networks), as well as of advisors (from public, private and farmer-based organisations) from across the EU. Actors from advisory services will be active in the validation and dissemination of results, to ensure that all project findings are both scientifically sound and practically useful.

Keywords: micro akis,transdisciplinarity,multi level perspective,living labs,sociotechnical scenario,institutional economics,innovation and transition studies,network sociology,farmers,policies,advisors