Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Research Coordination for a Low-Cost Biomethane Production at Small and Medium Scale Applications (Record Biomap)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Sweden,Sweden
Call: Supporting coordination of national R&D activities (H2020-LCE-2015-2, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499922.0
EU funding (EUR): 499921.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project "Research Coordination for a Low-Cost Biomethane Production at Small and Medium Scale Applications", short Record Biomap, is to establish the most promising innovative process and technology solutions along the biomethane supply chain, from raw material/residues, substrate pre-treatment, digestion, gas conditioning/digestate further utilisation and digestate/fertilizer deployment for a cost and energy sufficient biomethane production and to support their development up to market uptake. To bridge the gap between research and market, a biomethane platform will be established to support the dissemination and exploitation of the knowledge ascertained in the project to the industry sector, the end users and other important stakeholders, and therefore to foster the use of research outcomes. An R&D strategy will lead the way forward into new project concepts. Answering to the scope of LCE 19-2014/2015 of the call of Competitive Low-Carbon Energy in the Horizon2020 work program, the wider goal of Record Biomap will be to accelerate innovation in small to medium scale biomethane production and therefore shorten the time to market of technology solutions which currently have the technical readiness level (TRL) of 3 to 5. The objectives of Record Biomap can be summarised as following: - Accelerate innovation and creation of an European market for small to medium scale biomethane supply through innovative technology and process solutions - Continuous R&D monitoring to bridge the gap between independent technology developers - Continuous knowledge transfer from science to market and policy decision makers and vice verca through building up a biomethane platform for intensive networking - Identification of different sources of private and public financing and bringing together of relevant stakeholders for a continuative development of a more cost and and energy efficient biomethane production at small to medium scale applications.

Keywords: biomethane,biomethane supply,small scale biomethane,biomethane production,technology innovations,energy efficient,cost efficient,innovative technologies,record biomap,biomethane network
Platinum gRoup MEtals saving by monoliTHos Efficient and disrUptive catalySt innovation (PROMETHEUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In 2014, the EC released the European Critical Raw Materials Review (CRMs), highlighting a list of materials defined critical. Platinum Group Materials (PGMs), contained in this list, are among the least abundant of the Earth's elements and were classified as materials whose substitution is currently extremely difficult and recycling rate is very low. The supply of PGMs (Europe is the main importer) is currently ensured mostly by primary sources (72%) coming from both mines and recycled products (no mines in Europe), and it cannot meet the global demand (current deficit 20 tonnes). PGMs demand (up to 80%) is driven mainly by the emission control catalysts market which is expected to reach €6 billion by 2019. The PROMETHEUS project will bring to the market a disruptive innovation, allowing for the first time to substitute up to 60% of PGMs used in autocatalysts with copper nanoparticles, while keeping the same performances and durability. Specifically the PROMETHEUS project objectives are: 1. Industrialising PROMETHEUS production and demonstrate on large scale its performances. PROMETHEUS has already been validated in the real environment with a key stakeholder (FIAT, Large multinational automotive industry) also supporting Phase 2; 2. Substituting 60% of PGMs used in autocatalysts with copper nanoparticles, saving up to 40 tonnes of PGMs per year, 2 times the current global deficit; 3. Decoupling Europe from a Critical Raw Material (PGMs), saving up to 60% of PGMs European demand per year (20 tonnes per year – the current global demand/supply deficit); 4. Boosting European automotive and emission control catalyst markets. Copper costs ~6,800 times less than Platinum (4.5€/Kg against 30,550 €/Kg) which means that European industries can save almost €250 mln to be reinvested in RD&I and job growth. 5. Boosting MONOLITHOS growth. In 5 years after market introduction, MONOLITHOS expects to have grown by 125% in personnel and achieve a total turnover of at least €35 mln

Keywords: pgms,critical raw materials,automotive catalysts,disruptive innovation,copper nanoparticles
Human Placental Development and the Uterine Microenvironment (HumanPlacenta)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1992098.0
EU funding (EUR): 1896404.09
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

How does the human placenta develop and how is this influenced by the maternal uterine microenvironment? These are the central questions addressed in my proposal. Normal growth and development of the fetus depends on the placenta, the extra-embryonic organ derived from trophectoderm. Successful pregnancy depends on the earliest stages of development when placental extravillous trophoblast cells (EVT) infiltrate the uterine mucosa, the decidua. EVT invade the decidua to transform the uterine spiral arteries into a dilated vessel capable of high conductance. Deficient arterial remodelling by EVT results in miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth. However, excessive invasion into the uterine wall is also potentially dangerous. Thus, to achieve a successful pregnancy, a territorial boundary is drawn with a balance between fetal EVT invasion and maternal decidual cells. Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying these maternal/fetal interactions has been challenging due both to practical and ethical limitations and lack of reliable in vitro models. I have recently derived 3D culture systems (organoids) from human decidua and placenta that will provide the essential tools. I will use these organoids combined with single cell genomics, Crispr/Cas9 genome editing and tissue engineering to study: (i) the molecular mechanisms that specify the EVT lineage (ii) the role of paracrine signalling from maternal decidual glands in regulating placental development (iii) cell-cell interactions between decidua and EVT by creating an artificial model of decidua made from tailored collagen scaffolds seeded with stromal, glandular and immune cells. My proposal capitalises on the remarkable ability of organoid cultures to faithfully model human physiology. The human uterine environment in early pregnancy is crucial for reproductive success and development of an in vitro model of placentation will have a wide-ranging impact.

Keywords: human placenta,reproduction,trophoblast,differentiation
LEADING THE FLOATING WIND MARKET DEVELOPMENT (LEADFLOAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3569375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498562.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Offshore wind has emerged as a highly effective, cost competitive and a key contributor to the European energy transition challenge. Yet, current technologies limit offshore wind deployment to shallow water depth (less than 40m) restricting the market potential to a few countries (mainly the North Sea), while the vast majority and the best wind resources are located in deep waters. The installation of wind turbines on floating foundations inevitably appears as the future of offshore wind. Floating foundation solutions unleashes the market potential with no restriction on the water depth or on the seabed soil conditions, allowing developing projects further offshore where wind is stronger and the visual impact is limited. IDEOL, a French SME created in 2010, has emerged as one of the few international leaders in floating wind, with two demonstrators built in France and Japan, relying on its patented floating platform technology, the most cost competitive solution in the market. Its team, composed by more than 40 engineers, is globally recognized as one of the best technical team with a unique know-how and innovative approach. IDEOL is already engaged in different pre-commercial and commercial projects in France, Japan and California. It is the only European technology provider and the only foreign company having convinced the Japanese government and experts. Its technology is characterized by its extreme compactness and simplicity, its compatibility with the existing and the future extra-large wind turbines without modification, its construction either in concrete or in steel. LEADFLOAT aims to impose IDEOL’s solution as the market leader of floating wind by keeping its cost competitiveness advantage, leveraging on its demonstrators’ return of experience and securing early market share in key markets. It will contribute to keep Europe ahead and to positions its industry on the top of the new emerging floating-wind market over the competition from US and Japan.

Keywords: offshore wind,floating platform,floating offshore wind,transitional waters,deep waters,assembly,transport,offshore wind deployment,capex,opex,japan,france,california,taiwan
3D Community Aware Virtual Spaces as Smart Living Environments for Physical Activity and Rehabilitation (VR2Care)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Austria,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Interactive Technologies (H2020-ICT-2019-3, 2019)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2279437.5
EU funding (EUR): 1968918.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Multiuser immersive experiences can provide an opportunity to leverage health results and quality of life in smart ageing care environments.Virtual Reality (VR) current approaches for the Silver Economy follow a common pattern:the gamified experience.VR2Care breaks the current VR paradigm in smart living environments by enabling a multi-user mixed reality service, available for embodied exercising group in different physical locations at the same time and with expert exercise supervision.Motivation is empowered in VR2Care by a social commitment. A social experience of several people sharing difficulties and fighting isolation, replaces the “the patient/user and the application” paradigm, and the gamified entertainment experiences. VR2Care goes beyond the common requirements as it is codesigned with active participation of older adults, caregivers, therapists, community and clinicians to provide a full immersive multiuser experience.VR2Care will leverage the technology by running four demonstrators that support the project pilots in three locations across the EU:Portugal,Netherlands and Italy.Demonstrators explore the multiuser capabilities of the environment in a distance psychomotricity training with large movements; multimodal natural interaction, with real time AI supported guidance for a one-to-one physical rehabilitation experience; an hybrid approach with a local group of older adults and a distance individuals performing physical activities; and a clinical approach for the promotion of exercise as a therapy after rehabilitation.From a business perspective,VR2Care opens up a global market to deliver services and products to customers, where distances between provider and customer disappear.Business opportunities go beyond the technological and technical companies, expanding challenges for the AAL ecosystem including companies such as broadcasters, architects, therapists, training and education institutions to deliver at any place trainings, advices and design.

Keywords: virtual reality,older adults,physical activity,rehabilitation,multiuser,embodiment,natural interfaces
Situating the New Urban University: Higher Education in an Era of Global Urbanization (NEW URBAN UNIVERSITY)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The global impact of urbanization presents unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges for universities. It significantly impacts the expectations placed on universities and where in the world – and the city – they need to adapt their institutional infrastructures, pedagogical practices and ways of operating. The multiscalar networks of global urbanization mean urban universities must be understood as being more than simply located ‘in the city’. The ‘new urban university’ is regionalizing and globalizing in dramatic, chaotic ways. What capacities do universities have as urban leaders in a globalizing world? How can universities better mobilize in, and for, extended city-regions? How can marginalized urban communities inform universities’ spatial and strategic actions? Situating the New Urban University responds to the challenges of global urbanization by illustrating how higher education providers can better serve people in places, versus drawing people to a place. By taking stock of the influence major sociospatial changes in urban regions have on universities (e.g. globalization, neoliberalization), the project: (1) provides an international assessment of universities’ engagement practices and impacts; and (2) presents a major comparative examination of higher education systems at the city-regional scale. In-depth studies of universities’ spatial strategies in the London and New York global city-regions will speak directly to best practices in creating and sustaining reflexive, resilient university-society networks for diverse communities in urban contexts. Stakeholder involvement from the initial phases of the research allows the project to integrate direct input from in the research design and outputs. Situating the New Urban University deepens academic and policy understandings of how knowledge transfer takes place in global city-regions, enabling higher education and urban policymakers to optimize universities’ contributions and societal impact.

Keywords: higher education institutions,universities
INCLUSIVE RATIONALITY. Rearticulating Philosophy’s Social Role Through a Dialogue Among Dialectic Hegelian Conceptual Tools, Contemporary Metaphilosophy, and Gender Perspectives (InRatio)

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: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211767.36
EU funding (EUR): 211767.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In a global climate of populist policies fuelled by hate speech, gender discrimination, and the defunding of the humanities, InRatio aims to strengthen philosophy’s role within contemporary democratic societies. Its educational impact directly addresses the H2020 programme Societal Challenge of creating more inclusive, innovative and reflective communities. The inquiry starts by laying out three tendencies: 1) the consolidation of three prejudices against philosophy (which also influence national financial policies): its alleged lack of objective knowledge and scientificity, its uselessness, and its abstractness; 2) the social demand for philosophy; and 3) philosophy’s attempt to elaborate an adequate self-image, also considering the gender gap within academic philosophy, and philosophy’s difficulty to convey its results to society. The research aims to transform this situation by turning those prejudices upside down and emphasising philosophy’s contribution to societal challenges. InRatio has three objectives: 1) the elaboration of a metaphilosophical account that (a) redefines the kind of knowledge and scientificity belonging to philosophy, (b) reconsiders philosophy’s impact on education and democratic life; (c) recasts the notion of concreteness in terms of concept networks capable of explanatory power. This will be achieved by building a pluralistic and inclusive account of philosophy’s rationality, which will combine Hegelian tools, contemporary metaphilosophical positions, and perspectives from feminist epistemologies (as a ‘corrective’ measure to question notions of ‘knowledge’ and ‘scientificity’). 2) The ideation of philosophical-educational methods aimed at fostering inclusive and critical thinking. This will foresee training in the Philosophy for Children method and in other educational practices. 3) The implementation of a strategy to improve philosophy’s dialogue with society.

Keywords: metaphilosophy,hegel,classical german philosophy,feminist philosophies,philosophy for children,education,rationality,scientificity,inclusion,society,gender inequality,critical thinking
Small-Scale Solar Thermal Combined Cycle (POLYPHEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,France,France,Denmark
Call: Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-RIA-TwoStage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4975961.25
EU funding (EUR): 4975961.25
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of POLYPHEM is to improve the flexibility and the performance of small-scale Concentrated Solar Power plants. The outcomes of the project will allow in the short term to reinforce the competitiveness of this new low carbon energy technology and therefore to favour its integration in the European energy mix. The technology consists of a solar-driven micro gas-turbine as top cycle and an Organic Rankine Cycle as bottom cycle. There is no water requirement for cooling. A thermal energy storage is integrated between both cycles. The resulting power block is a solar power generation system able to meet the requirements of a local variable demand of energy with a high average conversion efficiency of 18% and a low environmental profile with an investment cost target below 5 €/W. Besides electricity generation, other applications will be considered for future developments, such as heating/cooling of multi-family buildings or water desalination for small communities. The project will build a 60 kW prototype plant with a 2 MWh thermal storage unit and will validate this innovative power cycle in a relevant environment (TRL 5), assess its technical, economic and environmental performances and establish the guidelines for its commercial deployment. POLYPHEM will lead to a supply price of electricity of 21 c€/kWh under DNI of 2050 kWh/m2/year, thus meeting for small scale CSP plants the 40% cost reduction of the SET Plan. POLYPHEM will be carried out by 4 research centers and 5 private companies. The project makes a step forward beyond the state-of-the-art of thermodynamic cycles in CSP plants. The micro gas-turbine will be solarized to integrate solar energy in the cycle. A novel pressurized air solar receiver with 80% efficiency and 0.4 €/W will be developed from a technology of solar absorber currently patented by CEA and CNRS. A thermocline storage at 28 €/kWh will be developed with thermal oil and a filler material in a concrete tank.

Keywords: concentrated solar power,solar tower system,combined cycle,gas turbine,thermal energy storage,organic rankine cycle,process control