Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Hygienic grey water container with reduced biofilm growth (HYGIEIA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: Grey Water Container with Reduced Biofilm Growth (H2020-CS2-CFP10-2019-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 772740.0
EU funding (EUR): 642168.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the HYGIEIA project is to design a grey water container, and its manufacture procedure, with reduced biofilm growth, which is more effective, long lasting and economically competitive with respect to antimicrobial solutions currently implemented in the context of aircraft water sanitation; while at the same time searching for lighter weight but strong structural solutions. HYGIEIA is based on a plastic container with a wide range antimicrobial coating. The container will be designed looking for the perfect compromise between weight reduction over traditional designs, and giving a sufficiently rigid base for the coating technology while satisfying the requirements imposed by the standard RTCA Do160 Rev. G. The simplest, cheapest and most effective manufacturing process will be identified which is optimally adapted to the coating technology being applied from the point of view of initial surface roughness.

Keywords: antimicrobial coatings,micro nano additives,surface functionalization,design,engineering
The Atlantic Testing Platform for Maritime Robotics: New Frontiers for Inspection and Maintenance of Offshore Energy Infrastructures. (ATLANTIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Finland,Poland,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Robotics in Application Areas (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8515208.75
EU funding (EUR): 7046271.13
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Operations and maintenance (O&M) has to be performed for the full operational life of a wind farm, the costs of which constitute to a significant part of the total costs of offshore wind power. The EU and the wind power sector have ambitious aims for cost-reduction to make wind power – especially offshore wind power – more cost-efficient. With the current technology base O&M costs can account for up to 30 % of the total cost of energy for offshore wind power. A substantial contribution to cost reduction must therefore come through improved and new solutions and technologies. ATLANTIS will address the EU and wind power sector’s ambition. The overall aim of the ATLANTIS project is to establish a pioneer pilot infrastructure capable of demonstrating key enabling robotic technologies for inspection and maintenance of offshore wind farms that will be installed in the Atlantic Ocean. A large-scale pilot will be operated and demonstrated by a strong collaboration between the research community and the industrial offshore energy ecosystem. The commitment of relevant stakeholders from the maritime robotics and wind power value chain depicted in ATLANTIS project exposes the urgency in guarantee an early access by medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), R&D institutions or energy operators to a pilot infrastructure for validating innovative and technological solutions with high potential to leverage key market sectors and the blue growth. ATLANTIS will play an important role in connecting the market needs and user’s expectation to robotic applications from the research, technology developers and system integrators, by accelerating the roll-out of maritime robotic technology to end-users through real-world demonstrations open to all communities. The emphasis of ATLANTIS will be on demonstrating capabilities in a real offshore wind farm. Dissemination activities enrolled in the ATLANTIS project will convince stakeholders about the advantages of using robotic-based solutions.

Keywords: offshore wind farms
Raising EU Productivity: Lessons from Improved Micro Data (MICROPROD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Inclusive societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Hungary,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Supply and demand-oriented economic policies to boost robust growth in Europe – Addressing the social and economic challenges in Europe (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2976496.25
EU funding (EUR): 2976496.25
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

MICROPROD will examine the empirical observation that productivity growth in the developed world has slowed down in the past decade despite both technological innovation continuing as well as greater openness to trade. Our objective is to provide explanations to this puzzle, improving our understanding of productivity and its drivers in general as well as the way that we measure it. In bringing together top micro and macro-economists from highly reputable research institutions in both the academic and policy communities with experts from statistical agencies, MICROPROD will provide the building blocks for next generation economic policy thinking and attempts to answer the following four set of questions: 1) Do we measure productivity correctly? We will gather relevant data and improve the methodologies used to measure productivity. This will be done in a comparative European perspective and with the help of statistical authorities. 2) Do we understand all the mechanisms at work, from intangible investments to integrating into global value chains? We will increase our understanding of how these mechanisms lead to new methods of production, in the way that inputs are combined to produce outputs. 3) What are the combined effects of globalisation and technological change in terms of their distributional impacts? Newly available micro-level data will allow us to provide evidence on the channels through which globalisation and technological change interact with financial and labour market imperfections and impact on the distributions of productivity and income, with an analysis spanning both within and across countries. 4) Is the policy environment conducive to the new productivity environment? Are policies in place designed to support the new mechanisms at work and how can they be adapted in the EU context? We will examine how the general macroeconomic environment can ensure that demand meets supply and that there is adequate financing to promote investment and growth.

Keywords: productivity slowdown,globalization,technological change,income inequality,input market frictions,allocative efficiency,secular stagnation,innovation,global value chains,intangible assets
Bringing to the market the new generation of yogurts with encapsulated ingredients (Impearl)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Improveat aims at disrupting the market of food ingredients by providing a novel product with unseen features in food industry. In a first stage, impearl will revolutionize the yogurt market (our primary target market), but we intend to apply impearl in other food products such as cheese and ice cream. Until now, flavoured yogurts tended to lose their original ingredient’s flavour and get diluted. To avoid this, new ranges of yogurts were invented, with multiple layers, or with packages that have multiple compartments, more expensive to produce. Impearl is the new paradigm of flavoured yogurts – a very thin, edible, impermeable, pasteurized and tasteless capsule that contains a pure flavour, which is mixed in the yogurt and releases its content when consumed. Impearl contributes to reducing plastic waste (direct insertion of encapsulated ingredients removes the need for multicompartment packaging) in the yogurt industry, and simplifies production lines, for greater operational efficiency. It also allows for pasteurization of ingredients, increasing food safety. Our business model is B2B, selling impearl to yogurt producers. Yogurts are one of the main products of the dairy industry, and represent around € 75 000 million worldwide, of which 39% in Europe – we consider France and Germany our initial markets (16% of EU market). Impearl can be integrated into a range of yoghurts with a higher market value, and we have received interest from Müller (german-based international company) and Frulact (Portugal) in testing our product in their yogurts. Improveat was born in 2013 out of a group of four biological with training and PhD in the field of food technology who work daily to solve existing needs in the food industry.

Keywords: encapsulation,food ingredients,pasteurizable capsule,edible capsule,yogurt market
Nanopatterning and nanoconfinement for deterministic control of the local homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical environment in electrocatalytic CO2RR towards C3+ products (NANOconfine)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) holds the prospect to mitigate carbon emissions and at the same time convert CO2 into valuable chemicals, preferably from renewable energy sources. Depending on the number of electrons transferred, a variety of oxygenates and hydrocarbons can be obtained with already high selectivity demonstrated for C1 and C2 products. However, for the CO2RR to molecules with three or more carbon atoms (C3+) such as n-propanol, the fundamental knowledge and key-strategies to yield these economically attractive high-energy-density products are still lacking. In NANOconfine we propose a novel concept for CO2RR electrocatalysis, a so-called “inverse catalyst nanoconfined architecture”, that enables trapping and enhanced C-C coupling of crucial reaction intermediates by deterministic control of the local homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical environment. Specifically, we target for beyond-state-of-the-art Faradaic Efficiency >50% towards n-propanol as high-value liquid product. In order to design the optimal electrocatalyst architecture, a systematical approach is proposed to study the following effects on the CO2RR mechanism and product formation: (1) the near neighbor effect of co-catalysts in close proximity, (2) the confinement of reaction intermediates in regular arranged SiO2 mesopores (2-10nm) and (3) the confinement and surface chemistry of different mesoporous oxide 3D networks (MgO, ZnO, TiO2). From this understanding, we will build a demonstrator consisting of a nano-patterned co-catalysts (e.g. Cu and Ag) which interchange their reaction intermediates through a mesoporous oxide network so that they can undergo coupling to higher carbon products at neighboring electrocatalyst sites. NANOconfine will provide fundamental insights on the CO2RR reaction mechanism towards C3+ products in order to push forward the state-of-the-art of this emerging research topic.

Keywords: electrocatalytic co2 reduction,catalyst surface confinement,nano confinement of reaction intermediates,nano patterning,microfabrication,ordered mesoporous silica,mesoporous oxide networks
Custom-made biosensors – Accelerating the transition to a bio-based economy (CUSTOM-SENSE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1482220.0
EU funding (EUR): 1482220.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How will we meet the globally growing demand for pharmaceutically active compounds, nutrients and fine chemicals when crude oil resources are dwindling? For decades, biotechnologists have been engineering microorganisms to produce valuable compounds from sugar and biomass. However, a lack of knowledge regarding the host cell metabolism as well as long and laborious development times render this approach challenging to this day. I want to establish a platform to engineer transcriptional biosensors for the intracellular detection of heterologous compounds in single cells. The application of these sensors in combination with flow cytometry and next-generation sequencing will enable high-throughput engineering of microorganisms at the single-cell level with unprecedented speed and simplicity. In the field of biotechnology, this new technology will be a powerful tool for the (i) accelerated directed evolution of genes and pathways in vivo, (ii) functional integration of heterologous genes or whole synthetic pathways into the metabolism of microorganisms for the production of small valuable metabolites, (iii) genome engineering of industrially relevant microorganisms and (iv) adaptation of production strains to process conditions. Furthermore, during CUSTOM-SENSE, biosensors will also prove to be a valuable tool to answer questions in basic science because they will help to elucidate the function of unknown genes and aid the discovery of novel and unexpected functional links in cellular metabolism. I am in an exclusive position to pursue this goal of developing an engineering platform for custom-made biosensors due to the previous invention of biosensors at IBG-1. The starting grant would allow me to compete with Patrick D. Cirino (University of Houston, USA), who is working on a similar approach, and Christina D. Smolke (Stanford University/Caltech, USA), who is focusing on RNA devices for metabolite detection.

Keywords: biosensors,high throughput metabolic engineering,protein engineering,comparative,genome analysis,industrial biotechnology,bio based economy
Best-in-class low-cost mobile hydrogen refueller for a zero-emission transportation sector (MOBHYLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3547975.0
EU funding (EUR): 2478332.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal makes the case that if the EU wishes to accomplish a clean energy transition to achieve its sustainability goals, it will, inter alia, require hydrogen at large scale. Transportation is a major contributor to climate change, responsible for ~32% of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. In transport, hydrogen is the most promising option for decarbonising trucks and buses; but the current prohibitive cost of refuelling infrastructure urgently calls for a paradigm shift in solution design. In response, NanoSUN has re-invented the hydrogen refuelling station to accelerate the adoption of hydrogen in transport, thereby helping to address at least four of the EU’s sustainability goals within the Green Deal. NanoSUN’s solution is called the Pioneer station. It addresses the bottlenecks in the adoption of hydrogen in key transportation sectors. It eliminates complex and costly onboard compressors, uses field-proven cascade technology and is built into standard shipping containers for mobility. It is half the costs of alternatives and highly scalable. The market opportunity for NanoSUN is ~€2.3 billion of refuelling equipment for every 1% of heavy-duty vehicles that switch to hydrogen fuel. The first 1% penetration is expected to be achieved by 2030, meaning that NanoSUN’s annual addressable market will reach €140 million by 2025 and increase quickly thereafter. NanoSUN will leverage first-mover and cost-leadership advantages in mobile refuelling to capture significant early share. We have demonstrated market demand through obtaining sponsorship from Shell and support from other fuel giants like Westfalen and BOC. NanoSUN needs the EIC funding to enable field trials across Europe, with potential customers, to demonstrate the benefits and accelerate the adoption of hydrogen in transport. We have a very strong team in place, with extensive expertise in industrial gases and fuel cells.

Keywords: automotive,transport,truck,fleets,electric,fuel cell,decarbonisation,climate change,quality,pollution,emissions,greenhouse,energy transition,pressure,cylinder,industrial gas
In Silico Pair Plasmas: from ultra intense lasers to relativistic astrophysics in the laboratory (InPairs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1951123.5
EU funding (EUR): 1951123.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How do extreme electromagnetic fields modify the dynamics of matter? Will quantum electrodynamics effects be important at the focus of an ultra intense laser? How are the magnetospheres of compact stellar remnants formed, and can we capture the physics of these environments in the laboratory? These are all longstanding questions with an overarching connection to extreme plasma physics. Electron-positron pair plasmas are pervasive in all these scenarios. Highly nonlinear phenomena such as QED processes, magnetogenesis, radiation, field dynamics in complex geometries, and particle acceleration, are all linked with the collective dynamics of pair plasmas through mechanisms that remain poorly understood. Building on our state-of-the-art models, on the availability of enormous computational power, and on our recent transformative discoveries on ab initio modelling of plasmas under extreme conditions, the time is ripe to answer these questions in silico. InPairs aims to understand the multidimensional dynamics of electron-positron plasmas under extreme laboratory and astrophysical fields, to determine the signatures of the radiative processes on pair plasmas, and to identify the physics of the magnetospheres of compact stellar remnants, focusing on the electrodynamics of pulsars, that can be mimicked in laboratory experiments using ultra high intensity lasers and charged particle beams. This proposal relies on massively parallel simulations to bridge the gap, for the first time, between the pair plasma creation mechanisms, the collective multidimensional microphysics, and their global dynamics in complex geometries associated with laboratory and astrophysical systems. Emphasis will be given to detectable signatures e.g. radiation and accelerated particles, with the ultimate goal of solving some of the central questions in extreme plasma physics, thus opening new connections between computational studies, laboratory experiments, and relativistic plasma astrophysics.

Keywords: extreme plasma physics,electron positron plasmas,laboratory and relativistic plasma astrophysics,particle in cell,simulations,high performance computing
Bringing Surgery to the 21st Century: Feasibility Verification of Real-time Tissue Analysis During Surgery (Olfactomics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Olfactomics is a Finnish university-based spinoff company developing a novel technology for surgical tissue assessment. The company has a breakthrough innovation on improving breast-conserving lumpectomies where a residual tumour continues to be an issue. Real-time tissue analysis allows the surgeon to remove a whole tumour in one operation and minimise the resection of healthy tissues. The patented technology (TRL 6) allows safer and more cost-effective cancer surgery and is scalable to most soft-tissue surgery. The unique device allows the surgeon to analyse the operated tissue in real-time during cancer surgery leading to optimal tissue removal. There is a global economy-justified need for real-time analysis in surgery. The Olfactomics device is fully aligned with current clinical workflow and instrumentation. It can be efficiently implemented to 835 000 breast surgeries every year, and it is scalable to multiple other areas. The commercialisation is targeting to 250 M€ revenue by 2027. The core team has the enthusiasm and knowledge needed for the commercialisation: team members are specialists in surgery, clinical medicine, medical technology, software, data analysis, financial sector and corporate law and have excellent connections in the international healthcare industry. The aim of this feasibility study is to analyse the feasibility from different perspectives and detail the business plan for the global commercialisation of the technology. The first commercial product will be a research device launched 2019. The scale-up to medical device and applications on several surgical areas will follow.

Keywords: surgical tissue assessment,real time analysis,cancer treatment,breast conserving lumpectomies,cost efficiency,patient care,healthcare,scalable technology,breakthrough innovation