Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
First European Aeration Systems based on NANOBUBBLES TECHNOLOGY for Waste Water Treatment (WATERMAX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
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

Clean-up of waste waters has a huge environmental footprint, in terms of energy consumed and impact on the ecosystem. Public and private organizations operating WWT plants (Waste Water Treatment) face problems in terms of: 1) high operating costs for electricity consumption and maintenance; 2) high costs of devices for the upgrade of osolete water aeration systems. LUNA is the is the first company in Europe having developed, tested and demonstrated in real conditions a NBG (Nanobubble Generator) aeration system able to treat huge flows of WWT, with revolutionary properties: A) high aeration capacity (hyper-aeration): transfer of larger amounts of dissolved oxygen in to the waste water for the biological treatment processes, which means higher efficency. B) hyper-oxidation properties, which help to remove various harmful chemical elements (ammonia first of all) in wastewater and reducing the sludge produced in comparison with traditional processes. LUNA’s WMAX Nanobubbles aeration system is currently the best and chepaest available solution to upgrade the aeration system of obsolete water-treatment plant. For building a new aeration system WMAX devices are the best solutions that guarantees simultaneously low costs for purchase, installation and maintenance, very high efficiency, simplicity and speed of installation. After extensive lab tests, in mid 2018 the first (WMAX-50) device has reached the TRL7, after six months of continuous tests in real conditions at a pilot users’ WWT plant in Italy. To bring the WATERmax technology on the market, the company foresee the following actions: i) optimize the first prototype (WMAX-50) and prepare staff for its industrialization and production ii) develop the new bigger WMAX-200 and plan new (big/small) models iii) certify (CE) WMAX and apply for a European patent iv) build an European network of partners and resellers; start sales in 2020 in Italy, in 2021 abroad Target revenues forecast is 8.2 M€ for the first 3 years.
Novel paper pallet and manufacturing technology (PPPL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany,Hungary
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1430750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1001525.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Pallets are essential accessories of the transport of goods, as they have the potential to handle a large quantity of products quickly and efficiently. During the past decades wooden pallets became dominant players of the market for their affordable prices. Plastic and metal pallets are only available in a minimum quantity, since their prices are several times higher than the prices of wooden pallets. Despite their numerous disadvantages, thanks to their affordable prices, no substitute alternatives for wooden pallets could be found until now. Owing to their restricted and mostly distant availability, paper pallets are currently not competitive with wood, moreover their technical parameters (static and dynamic load) leave only limited scope for replacing wooden pallets. For economic and environmental protection reasons, a significant demand is shown at present for cheap paper pallets customizable to the terms of delivery, provided that they are easily available and can replace wooden pallets. This demand appears at the same time at several million companies in the world, who wish to reduce their costs related to pallets towards the transportation industry providing services to them, and who currently spend euro billions for unnecessary fuel. Taking advantage of the market potential, GGP developed and patented a cost-efficient and heavy-duty paper pallet, which offers a solution for the problem. Together with B&T , GGP has planned a compact manufacturing process to the individually designed, patented and ISO certified paper pallet, which can be mass-produced quickly in the form of a production line. This is how PPPL (Paper Pallet Production Line) was born. PPPL is a production line affordable for industrial players who use pallets in their everyday business. Using PPPL they are able to manufacture custom-designed pallets in a cost-efficient and quickly recoverable way. Our aim is not just to sell paper pallets, but we are also planning to sell the PPPL technology.

Keywords: paper pallet,plastic pallet,production line,logistics,eco friendly packaging
The Econometrics of Intergenerational Mobility (MetricIMo)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Cyprus,United States
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 253954.8
EU funding (EUR): 253954.8
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This project studies the intergenerational transmission process of well-being, which measures the degree to which individuals and their families move between positions of social, economic and health status. Our interest in intergenerational mobility is motivated by its implications on equality of opportunity. Children are born into circumstances over which they have no control. Parents, schools, and neighborhoods transmit to children endowments and environment such as genes, economic resources, and capabilities, which shape children’s lifetime opportunities. These endowments are not only unequal by nature but also recent evidence suggests that the gaps in capabilities, which include cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health stock from families of different socioeconomic status diverge from early age. While little can be done about it, policy makers can break the chain of persistence of inequality by providing resources to families so that disadvantaged children can reach their true potential. While there is large body of work on measuring intergenerational income mobility little is known about its cross-country determinants and the various channels of transmission. This project aims at filling these gaps in the literature by doing two things. In doing so, we develop new ways to measure mobility that move beyond linear measures to characterizations, which allow for the existence of poverty (and affluence) traps. In doing so, we develop an econometric framework using state-of-the-art statistical techniques and econometric methods that extend the empirical analysis of mobility beyond income to capabilities following Amartya Sen and the recent work of James Heckman. Capabilities measure the capacity to function in order to expand the potential outcomes for an individual. Second, we explore the effects of changes in the monetary policy regimes on mobility by focusing on two specific mechanisms that involve credit constraints and neighbourhood effects.

Keywords: intergenerational mobility,inequality,model uncertainty,multilevel modeling,multiple regimes,threshold regressions
Universal Equilibrium and Beyond - Challenging the Richardson-Kolmogorov Paradigm (UniEqTURB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499036.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499036.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Turbulence is at a crossroads: The old, established ideas of Richardson and Kolmogorov have with accumulating evidence come under renewed scrutiny, especially in non-stationary and non-equilibrium flows. Many in the community seek new and more accurate ways to describe turbulence. This is a time of re-evaluation and opportunity! The assumed statistical equilibrium of the smallest and intermediate scales is identified as the main cause of the potentially erroneous deductions. This problem was not previously noticed because experiments that confirmed the previous theories were all in statistical equilibrium. And those experiments and theories which disagreed were labelled ‘anomalous’, no matter how carefully performed or argued. The proposed theory-intensive approach will therefore specifically use non-equilibrium and statistically non-stationary flows to: 1. Investigate the underlying mechanisms determining the level of dissipation 2. Quantify the resulting effects on the balance equations of central importance 3. Test the results against the established, as well as competing, theories I will use stationary and accelerating jets well-suited for studying the non-linear interactions and quantifying departures to the assumed equilibrium and the non-stationary dissipation. The feasibility is demonstrated with preliminary results. The databases which will be established should contribute substantially to settling the long-lived ultimate question of turbulence: what are the true underlying mechanisms that set the level of dissipation. The results will be ground breaking scientifically and economically. The impact for engineering applications is extensive, since Kolmogorov-based turbulence models are routinely used, and since developing flows constitute the rule rather than the exception in the majority of engineering applications. The potential economic consequences for e.g. transportation, climate predictions and power extraction are impossible to underestimate.

Keywords: turbulence,universal equilibrium,evolving flows,turbulent jets,richardson,kolmogorov
PURism in Antiquity: Theories of Language in Greek Atticist Lexica and their Legacy (PURA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1303437.0
EU funding (EUR): 1303437.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Linguistic purism, the attempt to protect language against the ‘threat’ of multilingualism, change and outside contact, finds an antecedent in Greek Antiquity that remains mostly unknown outside Classics and has never been studied in a multidisciplinary perspective. PURA aims to overturn this state of affairs by producing the first global study of Greek purism, the texts which upheld it, and their legacy in later ages. The focus of this analysis are Atticist lexica: collections of features to be cultivated or avoided in correct Greek. These texts were compiled by scholars who lived in the multilingual Roman Empire and wished to counter the natural evolution of Greek by freezing it at an ideal stage of purity, identified with the extinct dialect of 5th-century Athens. PURA is characterized by a multidisciplinary methodology combining Classics, linguistics, textual philology, codicology and historical lexicography which will tackle both the immaterial heritage of Atticist theories and their material history as books. Its objectives are: 1) to provide a global mapping of the purist theories expressed in the lexica and make them both accessible outside the traditional format of critical editions and approachable for non-experts in the form of a unique web-based searchable corpus; 2) to endow the corpus with an in-depth linguistic analysis that extends from Ancient to Modern Greek; 3) to bring textual transmission and book circulation into the picture by charting all the manuscripts and first printed editions of the lexica; 4) to produce the definitive study of Atticism and its legacy from a modern linguistic and philological perspective. PURA will go beyond the traditional standards of Classical studies by creating a model of textual, linguistic and philological analysis for the investigation of Ancient Greek lexicography that can be extended to the study of purism in other languages and cultures.

Keywords: ancient greek,medieval greek,modern greek,greek linguistics,lexicography,codicology
Individualising Socialism. Individual Agency and Social Change in Socialist Yugoslavia's Periphery, 1950s-1970s (INDSOC)

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: Germany
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2019-05-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159460.8
EU funding (EUR): 159460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

From the mid-1950s through the 1970s, the notion of the ‘good life’ associated with increased socio-economic prosperity for the broad population generated individualising dispositions in socialist East and Southeast Europe. Starting from the hypothesis that post-World War II paradigms of socialist modernity and in particular the Yugoslav model of self-management socialism were shaped by such an individualising habitus, this project examines individualising agency, expectations and memories, and emotions of ordinary citizens in interaction with state driven socialist transformation of society. The analysis follows four axes: (1) socialism as an ideological paradigm, (2) the political endeavour of establishing Yugoslav statehood, (3) patterns of identification and collective solidarity, and (4) memory. Drawing on the methodology of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life), the project conducts a micro-historical study of individual agency and emotions in relation to intersecting temporal, spatial, and institutional processes in the city of Mitrovica in the North of Kosovo from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. It conducts archival research, oral history, and focus group interviews, and situates these findings against statistical data on the socio-economic situation in the area under scrutiny and secondary studies of state socialist transformations in East and Southeast Europe. Through training-through-research and a set of hosting arrangements focussing on the development of a diversified research profile incorporating insights from micro-history, social anthropology, and social sciences and adopting an explicit transnational and European approach, the furthering of transferrable skills in communication, project development, and didactics, and a strong public outreach component, the action will make a significant contribution to the career development of the researcher and strengthen the profile of the host institution.

Keywords: yugoslavia,kosovo,mitrovica,socialism,social change,post war,modernity,ideology,everyday life,micro history
Resale Second-hand SoftwAre's License for Enterprises (RESSALE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME business model innovation (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

European companies currently spend up to 6% of their total revenues in Information Technologies which represents €32B, among which €6B / year of licenses are not used due to over-licensing. As companies still favour perpetual licensing, licence management has become a growing challenge for Chief Information Officers: switching costs are very prohibitive, licences’ contractual frameworks significantly increased IT budget and versioning drives companies to over-buy even when they do not need new functionalities. The EU market of software unused licences' resale used to be very restrictive and fragmented from one country to another until the European Court of Justice legalised it in the whole EU with its judgement of July 3, 2012. From then on, second-hand software assets management has become a golden new opportunity for companies’ IT budgets optimization. Softcorner’s aim with the RESSALE project is to develop automatic processes so as to create an internal trading system for companies willing to exchange their unused licences alongside with the first quotation system in order to become the second-hand software licences global pricing reference. The feasibility study will clarify: - the shape of the internal trade centre first version offering back-office and users interface. - the commercial feasibility at the European and global levels by defining the business model and its pricing policy - the most appropriate legal framework facilitating deals with major European accounts Softcorner is a French successful start-up created in 2014, which developed the 1st European marketplace of second-hand software licenses. The company has created a disruptive business model offering middle-sized and big companies the opportunity to value (i.e. price and resale) their unused software licences. Softcorner offers companies a very large panel of second-hand standard software from all main publishers (e.g. Microsoft, IBM, etc.) 30% to 80% cheaper than their initial values.

Keywords: marketpace,second hand software,license,software asset management
OSOD - 1 step process hydrogen generator for highly efficient, safe and cost competitive production and storage of hydrogen (RGH2 OSOD system)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

RGH2 engineering GmbH is a start-up company founded in January 2015 based in Graz, Austria. RGH2 focuses on the development of a decentralized, autonomous/remote-controlled, affordable and scalable system for hydrogen-production and hydrogen-storage/-supply, running on (bio)gas, the „OSOD On-Site On-Demand System“. RGH2’s mission is to make green hydrogen available everywhere, to everyone. The vision is to manufacture a competitive serial product for the world market on the premises in Graz, Austria. The overall objective of RGH2 is to boost the introduction of hydrogen as major source for clean energy by enabling the establishment of a hydrogen highway within Europe through the introduction of a new technology for hydrogen production and storage which is highly efficient, safe and cost competitive. RGH2 has developed a compact on-site on-demand (OSOD) hydrogen generator based on a ground breaking one step process technology. RGH2’s first product on the market will be a hydrogen generator and storage device in one single unit. With RGH2 technology, hydrogen is generated, stored and delivered locally. All that is needed is a source of biogas. The supplied starting material is converted into hydrogen and stored safely in a non-gaseous material. On request, the hydrogen is delivered as fuel in a hydrogen filling station, or used to produce heat and power (CHP plant). The OSOD system is scalable, which means it can be configured from small feed rates (size 1.2m*0.5m) to large units (40 feet standard size container) as needed. RGH2’s OSOD system has the potential to boost the expansion of the power to gas network in Europe and the associated combination of biogas plants, wind and solar energy. The OSOD system allows biogas to be converted into H2 and the storage of already produced H2.

Keywords: hydrogen production and storage,clean energy carrier,hydrogen generator,on site on demand resource,hydrogen highway europe,alternative fuels,biogas,low carbon and efficient energy system
Florilegia Syriaca. The Intercultural Dissemination of Greek Christian Thought in Syriac and Arabic in the First Millennium CE (FLOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1343175.0
EU funding (EUR): 1343175.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FLOS will focus on the metamorphoses of Greek Christian thought in Syriac (Aramaic) and Arabic in Late Antiquity, within the timeframe of the first millennium CE. Syriac Christianity was a pivotal mediator of culture in the Late Antique epistemic space, but is little-known today. FLOS aims to bring to light for the first time a body of highly relevant Syriac and Christian Arabic sources that have hardly ever been studied before. At the end of the millennium, in Islamic-ruled Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran, Syriac Christians strived to define their religious identity. One of their strategies was the production of florilegia, i.e. anthologies that they used to excerpt and reinvent the patristic canon, a corpus of Greek Christian works of the 2nd–6th centuries shared by European and Middle Eastern Christian cultures. A Greco-centric bias has prevented scholars from viewing these florilegia as laboratories of cultural creativity. FLOS will reverse the state of the art through two groundbreaking endeavours: 1) open-access digital editions of a set of Syriac florilegia of the 8th–10th centuries; 2) a study of many neglected writings of Syriac and Christian Arabic authors of the 8th–11th centuries. These tremendously important writings drew from Syriac patristic florilegia to pinpoint topics like incarnation and the Trinity against other Christians or Islam, showing how patristic sources were used to create new knowledge for the entangled environment of the Abbasid era. FLOS will thus dramatically improve our understanding of the cultural dynamics of Late Antiquity; patristic Christianity will emerge as a bridge between the intellectual history of Europe and of the Middle East. By studying how this shared patrimony was transformed in situations of interreligious interaction, especially with Islam, FLOS will facilitate the comprehension of Europe’s current religious discourses, and the preservation of the endangered cultural heritage of the Syriac Christians.

Keywords: eastern christian studies,entangled cultural dynamics in late antiquity