Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Breakthrough gene expression search engine for cost reduction and significantly increased use of open data in drug discovery. (XPRESSO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (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

Breakthrough gene expression search engine for cost reduction and significantly increased use of open data in drug discovery. We are putting the power of genetic data analytics into the cloud and providing this as an easy to access service to biologists via a search engine. The challenge today is that as the field of sequencing is developing at a rapid pace and the amount of genetic data is exploding, nobody really can analyze all that data and pull it up when needed for making informed decision in the field of drug development and life science research. We are seizing this business opportunity through our competitive edge by creating an easily usable cloud-based gene expression search engine on top of publicly available datasets that have been analyzed and indexed by our advanced algorithms. This allows for providing unexpected discoveries in the field of drug discovery at a significantly reduced rate and insight, which has not been possible before.

Keywords: genetics,big data,bioinformatics,open data,cloud solution,personalized medicine
Eco-innovative housing solution for efficient production of slaughterpigs with limited environmental impact. (HybridFarm)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2046250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1432375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pig meat is the preferred meat in Europe but its production has a dramatic environmental burden both in the local neighbour populations and in overall air pollution impact. Pig farming is at the center of clear conflict of interests, as there is a constant market drive to increase production efficiency, while society demands for an environmentally cleaner and more animal-friendly pig farming industry. Agrifarm has developed a novel structural design for an eco-innovative barn for slaughterpigs – the Intellifarm housing solution – which makes use of its patented, prize-winning hybrid ventilation system and air cleaning technology to simultaneously reduce the need of mechanical ventilation and improve the capture of air polluting agents within the barn. The obtained results show massive energy savings compared with traditional ventilation systems, as well as a significant reduction of pollution emissions. Furthermore, it strongly contributes to an improved indoor quality, which translates into a healthier, quieter and more comfortable environment for the animals and staff inside the barn. The remaining step towards commercial exploitation of the Intellifarm is its full scale demonstration and certification. This is directly addressed in the HybridFarm project, where the most important outcome is the construction of two Intellifarms at two different end-user sites in geographical key points to enter the market. Intellifarm has the potential to decrease pig farming energy costs by 60%, while contributing to up to 50% gains in production profitability. At the same time, overall society burden of pig farming will be significantly reduced, thanks to the 71% global reduction on the emissions of ammonia and 37% reduction of odour, compared with a traditional barn. Moreover, this project opens an auspicious prospect for Agrifarm, which can lead the transition towards more resource-efficient pig farming, in a competitive market worth at €2.9 billion per year.

Keywords: eco innovative housing solution for pigs,hybrid ventilation,air cleaning
Rational design of novel heterometallic MOFs for their use in heterogeneous catalysis for cascade reactions (hetero-MOF)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-12-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The field of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is currently among the most extensively studied topics in chemistry given the large number of fascinating applications associated with the chemical versatility of MOFs. In particular, the use of MOFs as heterogeneous catalysts is an area that has attracted considerable attention since, in principle, the ideally suited architectures of MOFs can present catalytically active sites spatially arranged. With the expansion of this area, a new emergent class of heterometallic metal-organic frameworks (hetero-MOFs) has recently been considered for the study of an important type of reactions from an industrial point of view in which two or more individual reactions are carried out in a single step ("tandem" or "cascade" reactions). However, the synthetic approach for the preparation of these hetero-MOFs has been mainly conducted by post-synthetic replacement of ions with the same oxidation state, with lack of control over the final composition. The project herein described focus on the design and preparation of novel hetero-MOFs with enhanced stability to perform as superior heterogeneous catalysts. With this purpose, a reasonable straightforward method is proposed, consisting in the low temperature synthesis of hetero-MOFs using pre-designed heterometallic secondary building units (SBUs) as starting materials. The main challenge lies in the control of the metal stoichiometry based on cations with different oxidation states and therefore very different chemical reactivities. The catalytic performance of the novel hetero-MOF materials will be tested during a secondment of excellence already established in the hetero-MOF project.

Keywords: metal organic frameworks,cascade or tandem reactions
High precision multi-jet dynamics at the LHC (JetDynamics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1764478.0
EU funding (EUR): 1363396.7
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Precision tests at high energy colliders are an essential tool for gaining insight into the nature of the Standard Model of particle physics and the fundamental interactions. The data currently being obtained by the LHC experiments will allow a large number of observables to be measured at a percent level accuracy. This data has the potential to probe deeper into the flaws of the Standard Model. However, the complexity of theoretical predictions using perturbative quantum field theory currently prevents many of these precision tests. JetDynamics aims for a breakthrough in precision predictions for the measurements of Standard Model interactions through the study of the dynamics of multiple strongly interacting hadronic jets. Percent level predictions for 2 to 3 scattering processes involving the Higgs boson and electroweak vector bosons will allow a unique insight into fundamental properties of the Standard Model in the new high energy region probed by the LHC. In order to achieve this goal a complete set of quantum corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbation theory are required. JetDynamics bridges the gap between mathematics physics and experimental collider physics and will develop a new generation of computational tools and methods} that will overcome current bottlenecks. The work program attacks this problem on three fronts: A) Develop revolutionary new ideas from the study of on-shell scattering amplitudes to address the current bottlenecks in the computation of multi-leg two loop amplitudes in QCD. B) Develop highly efficient tools for NNLO predictions with multi-jet final states and perform precision phenomenological studies of jet dynamics at the LHC. C) Lay groundwork for jet production beyond NNLO and build towards 1% perturbative accuracy. JetDynamics will lead to a new understanding of scattering at hadron colliders and take LHC physics into a new precision era.
Multiple-use-of Space for Island Clean Autonomy (MUSICA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Germany,Malta,Greece,Greece,Greece,Greece,Greece,France,United Kingdom
Call: Multi-use of the marine space, offshore and near-shore: pilot demonstrators (H2020-BG-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10579651.36
EU funding (EUR): 8999705.0
Participants: 20
Project status: SIGNED

The overall Aim of MUSICA is to accelerate the roadmap to commercialisation of its Multi-Use Platform (MUP) and Multi-use of Space (MUS) combination for the small island market, and de-risk for future operators and investors, by validation to TRL7 and providing real plans to move to mass market commercialisation. The MUSICA solution will be a decarbonising one-stop shop for small islands, including their marine initiatives (Blue Growth) and ecosystems. The overall Aim of MUSICA will be achieved by developing a replicable smart MUP. MUSICA will advance the existing FP7 funded MUP concept developed by the University of the Aegean (UoAeg) and EcoWindWater (EWW), currently at TRL5, to TRL7. The EWW MUP was successfully trialled in Heraclea in 2010 for 2 years, funded by FP7 of €2.8M. MUSICA will provide a full suite of Blue Growth solutions for small island: • Three forms of renewable energy (RE) (wind, PV and wave) (total 870kW), providing high RES penetration and competitively affordable electricity. Three forms of RE provide non-correlated supply. • Innovative energy storage systems on the MUP, provide all required storage for power on the island and platform, as well as electrical output smoothening (compressed water/air storage and batteries). • Smart energy system for the island, including: demand response, modelling and forecasting based on high flexibility services from distributed generation. • Desalinated water made by desalination unit on the MUP powered by RES providing 1000m3 fresh water for a water stressed island. • The MUP will provide “green” support services for island’s aquaculture (pilot 200 tonnes production) This project will demonstrate that the MUSICA MUP is a viable enabling infrastructure for multiple RES, desalination and BG aquaculture services for small islands, that can share the same space and work synergistically together, sharing supply chains. reducing operating and maintenance costs and solving increasing demand for space.

Keywords: multi purpose platform,co location,blue growth,desalination,health and safety,public engagement,environment,regulations,business models,economic feasibility,logistics,maintenance,autonomous
Making innovation a consistent, reliable and strategic resource for governments (OPSI19)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Innovation in government - building an agile and citizen-centric public sector (H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498034.43
EU funding (EUR): 1498034.42
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The context of high volatility and complex challenges require governments to develop new responses, new capabilities and new ways of understanding how to act. Mastering innovation therefore becomes critical, as there needs to be a continual capability for developing and delivering new approaches that can better respond to new challenge. The proposed project will enhance the evidence and provide sound underpinnings for public sector innovation – ‘how’ governments will change the very foundations of governance and democracy needed in the 21st Century. This will help address how governments will be able to respond to the needs of open innovation, security and defence, digital democracy and the delivery of public goods to citizens on the ground – the cornerstones of the call. While governments are increasingly cognizant of the need to cope better with the high rate of societal and technological change, to mitigate or leverage it, they are still largely ill-equipped to consistently anticipate, intercept and decode signals from the external environment before they become realities (from mass migration to changes in mobility patterns in cities to job automation). While OPSI has found that governments are doing exciting new things that demonstrate that the potential for innovation is ever-present, the reality is that innovation practice is still inconsistent and unreliable. It is not a systematic or systemic occurrence. The projects will support governments in making their own innovation journey and build the conceptual frameworks (21st century model of innovative government) and develop the capabilities and capacities needed to accelerate learning and navigate uncertainty and high level of risks. These processes are supported by working with direct demonstration projects inside governments to show that systemic change is possible.

Keywords: innovation,public sector,innovation system,capabilities
The 1st turnkey container solution for organic ENDIVE growing based on cost-efficient rail gutters. (Endive Container)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

"Cichorium intybus var foliosum", is the extraordinary plant that allow to grow endives, also called chicory or witloof (Brussels chicory). Endive is, without a doubt, one of the most complex and fascinating crops in the world to grow, requiring a two-step growing process (the 2nd step in darkness). CIChorium, founded in 2002 by Dr. Philippe Blanquet, with a broad expertise in the endive world from 1988, performing phytopathological exams on endive roots. Now, CIChorium presents the "Endive Container project", which represents the ramp up from worldwide advise+consulting to the market launch of an advanced organic growing system for endive growers. Built in two 50m2 shipping containers, the patented Endive Container system includes both an advance hydroponic system, as a drive-in shelf multi rail gutter trays based method for automated culture of endives' roots. The new growing approach of the system to fight against the spread of infections, allow us to launch Endive Container as the first organic methodology to grow endives, without pesticides, widely required in the state-of-the-art of endive culture. Increasing 20% yields, water-efficiency (90% less water) and pesticides free are the main Unique Selling Points offered by the low-cost CIChorium technology. Over decades, endive production has been focused on specific countries due to the complexity to grow endives. Disease control is essential to obtain optimal yields and quality crops. Meanwhile, the dark environment must be controlled and high degree of know-how is required for this crop. Endive Container delivers a decentralized endive production which perfectly fits with local and organic SMEs growers. Endive Container is a turnkey system, x5 cost-effective vs. traditional forcing rooms at a selling price of €120.000. The system is transportable, scalable and stackable to market size, as more containers, more production. A short payback of 2 years for growers!

Keywords: endive,container,smart agriculture,hydroponic
Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 (GloCoBank)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2408114.0
EU funding (EUR): 2408114.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of GloCoBank is to analyse the changing shape of international banking networks across the 20th century using an innovative methodology that allows greater specificity and inclusion than ever before. The bilateral correspondent banking network that will be uncovered by GloCoBank was the structure on which the global financial system was built and on which the trade and specialization that drove global development was based, but we know very little about it. When merchants settled accounts across borders, they did so through transfers from the merchant’s bank to the customer’s bank. From the time of the telegraph in the late 19th century, the contraction of time and space was accomplished by sending telegraph messages from the buyer’s home bank to an agent in the seller’s country to transfer funds to the seller’s bank. These interbank connections remain the underlying architecture of the global payments system but we do not have a complete sense of how they were built, managed or how they changed over time. Existing literature on global payments relies on official data on capital flows that are exclusively available at a national level which prevents an analysis by type of bank, sub-national region, or more specific location. Moreover, these national data on bank flows are also consistently available for most countries only from 1960, which truncates our ability to assess the changing geography of international banking during periods of upheaval such as wars, economic crisis or depression. To date there has been no comprehensive data source to accomplish this. GloCoBank will create and analyse a new set of data and combine it with extensive archival research, which will allow a much more granular assessment of the patterns and dynamics of international banking and payments. The data will capture the links between thousands of individual banks involved in international payments through bilateral correspondent banking contracts across 130 years.

Keywords: history of international banking,history of globalisation,international financial centres
Neuromrophic Quantum Computing (Quromorphic)

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: Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2882752.5
EU funding (EUR): 2882752.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The Quromorphic project will introduce human brain inspired hardware with quantum functionalities: It will build superconducting quantum neural networks to develop dedicated, neuromorphic quantum machine learning hardware, which can, in its next generation, outperform classical von Neumann architectures. This breakthrough will combine two cutting edge developments in information processing, machine learning and quantum computing, into a radically new technology. In contrast to established machine learning approaches that emulate neural function in software on conventional von Neumann hardware, neuromorphic quantum hardware can offer a significant advantage as it can b e trained on multiple batches of real world data in parallel. This feature is expected to lead to a quantum advantage. Moreover, our approach of implementing neuromorphic quantum hardware is very promising since there exist indications that a quantum advantage in machine learning can already be achieved with moderate fault tolerance. In a longer term perspective neuromorphic hardware architectures will become extremely important in both, classical and quantum computing, particularly for distributed and embedded computing tasks, where the vast scaling of existing architectures does not provide a long-term solution. Quromorphic aims to provide proof of concept demonstrations of this new technology and a roadmap for the path towards its exploitation. To achieve this breakthrough, we will implement two classes of quantum neural networks that have immediate applications in quantum machine learning, feed forward networks and non-equilibrium quantum annealers. This effort will be completed by the development of strategies for scaling the devices to the threshold where they will surpass the capabilities of existing machine learning technology and achieve quantum advantage. In preparation for future exploitation of this new technology, we will run simulations to explore its application to real world problems.

Keywords: quantum computing,machine learning,superconducting circuits,neural networks
Adding high value to wasted raw material from pulping industry (ECOHELIX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ecohelix has developed a technology which transforms widely available, sustainable, pulp industry waste into high-performance polymers. Membrane filtration and biotechnology are applied, using proven large-scale processing techniques, to isolate and modify wood biorefinery derived hemicellulose and low molecular weight lignin. The technology has been verified both for production and as an end product (to TRL6). The end product can replace petroleum-based products such as PVOH, PVAc and SDS and foodcrop based products with a highly sustainable, biodegradable, high performance product which reduces CO2 emissions and adds value to the pulp industry. Ecohelix can tap into a large and stable availability of raw material that pulping processes create - and at the same time offer processing benefits for the mills. A wide range of potential applications have been identified in the cosmetics, pulp and paper chemicals, packaging and construction industries. For certain applications, including as an emulsifier for paper board sizing chemicals and in cosmetics, tests demonstrate a significantly superior performance. The performance as an emulsifier for paper sizing chemicals (the paper sizing process provides water resistance and strength for applications including liquid packaging board) is x10 better than the existing market solutions. Ecohelix’s value chain involves close partnerships with both pulp mills and speciality chemicals producers.