Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Wellbeing and Health Virtual Coach (WellCO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Active ageing and self-management of health
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Slovenia,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Personalised coaching for well-being and care of people as they age (H2020-SC1-2017-CNECT-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3782408.75
EU funding (EUR): 3782408.75
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

WellCo delivers a radical new ICT-based solution in the provision of personalised advice, guidance and follow-up of users for the adoption of healthier behaviour choices that help them to maintain or improve their physical cognitive, mental and social well-being for as long as possible. Advice is given through behaviour change interventions specifically tailored to the singularities of each user (user-centred approach); these interventions range from goals to achieve on a Social Network to recommended activities around the 7 areas defined in WellCo: cognitive stimulation, leisure and entertainment, supporting groups, physical activity, health status, nutrition and tips. Recommendations and goals are provided after performing an assessment of the status for determining the probability of a given disease expression. This assessment accounts: user’s profile, context (Life Plan), socio-economic agents, health and mental status derived from the data of wearable sensors seamlessly integrated into ADL of the user and user’s mood after the application of Affective Computing via visual and speech emotion recognition. Guidance and follow-up is provided by the Virtual Coach developed in WellCo; this consists in affective-aware coach that is always active and interacts through speech with the user in order to: 1) act as virtually interface among the user and the platform managing the flow of all user-platform and platform-user interactions (NLi) 2) empower users in their behaviour change process through simulation activities tailored to their current mood (Affective Computing). The whole service is also followed-up and continuously supported by a multidisciplinary team of experts as well as users’ close caregivers that provide their clinical evidence (Expert- Related Outcomes) and knowledge about the user (Observer-Related Outcomes) to ensure effectiveness and accuracy of the change interventions.

Keywords: behavioural change,emotional computing,natural language interaction
Paleoceanography of the Ice-proximal Southern Ocean during Past Warm Climates (OceaNice)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Antarctic ice sheets are destabilizing because Southern Ocean warming causes basal melt. It is unknown how these processes will develop during future climate warming, which creates an inability to project ice sheet melt and thus global sea level rise scenarios into the future. Studying past geologic episodes, during which atmospheric carbon dioxide levels (CO2) were similar to those projected for this century and beyond, is the only way to achieve mechanistic understanding of long-term ice sheet- and ocean dynamics in warm climates. Past ocean-induced ice sheet melt is not resolved because of a paucity of quantitative proxies for past ice-proximal oceanographic conditions: sea ice, upwelling of warm water and latitudinal temperature gradients. This hampers accurate projections of future ice sheet melt and sea level rise. OceaNice will provide an integral understanding of the role of oceanography in ice sheet behavior during past warm climates, as analogy to the future. I will quantify past sea ice, upwelling of warm water and latitudinal temperature gradients in three steps: 1. Calibrate newly developed dinoflagellate cyst and biomarker proxies for past oceanographic conditions to glacial-interglacial oceanographic changes. This yields quantitative tools for application further back in time. 2. Apply these to two past warm climate states, during which CO2 was comparable to that of the future under strong and moderate fossil fuel emission mitigation scenarios. 3. Interpolate between new reconstructions using high-resolution ocean circulation modelling for circum-Antarctic quantification of past oceanographic conditions, which will be implemented into new ice sheet model simulations. The groundbreaking new insights will deliver mechanistic understanding and quantitative estimates of ice-proximal oceanographic changes and consequent ice sheet melt during past warm climates, which will finally allow accurate future sea level rise projections given anticipated warming.
Unconventional Phases of Ultracold Quantum Matter with Competing Interactions (UltraComp)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The phases of matter are determined by competing interactions. For example, in our everyday experience, a fluid will be gas or liquid depending on the interplay of attractive interatomic interactions and short-range repulsion. In the case of dilute quantum fluids, the interatomic distances are much larger than the range of the interactions that bind conventional liquids; thus, this phase transition is normally not possible. However, at these scales, the competition or cancellation of new type of interactions can give rise to exotic phases of matter with unusual characteristics. The goal of the project Unconventional Phases of Ultracold Quantum Matter with Competing Interactions (UltraComp) is to investigate novel phases in ultracold atoms originating from the interplay between the mean-field interactions with either kinetic energy (modified by spin-orbit coupling) or with intrinsic quantum fluctuations. The proposed state-of-the-art experiments will focus on the study of three novel phases with unconventional properties: the supersolid, the ultradilute quantum droplet and the supersolid-like liquid. The study of these novel phases will help to deepen the understanding of beyond-mean-field effects in many-body systems. At the same time, the project will provide deep insight on supersolidity, thus impacting condensed-matter physics at large.

Keywords: ultra cold atoms,quantum liquids,quantum fluctuations,quantum mixtures,spin orbit coupling,supersolidity,collective excitations,dipolar gases
INnovation CApacities of Mediterranean Enterprises (INCAME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 262500.0
EU funding (EUR): 210000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to enhance SMEs’ competitiveness and innovation processes management and to improve the regional innovation environment, increasing the efficiency and the effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation. The project partners will operate in the regions under the EEN BRIDGeconomies consortium: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia and Sicilia. The overall objective of the project is helping SMEs to adopt, implement and deploy an innovation management system. The project has two main specific objectives, structured in 2 Work Packages: WP1) to support innovation management capacities of SMEs beneficiaries from H2020 SME Instrument; WP2) to enhance SMEs, with significant innovation activities and high potential for internationalisation, who lack knowledge, skills and abilities to manage innovation activities and helping them to unlock their potential by better managing the innovation processes. To reach such specific objectives, during the period covered by the action, the project partnership intends to deliver seven days service packages to a number of 94 SMEs, benefiting from SME Instrument grants and services for enhancing their innovation management capacities. Project partners intend to implement these actions since SMEs play a crucial role in reaching the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy and notably the Innovation Union. SMEs are key drivers of innovation serving as an important conduit for knowledge spill-overs. Tapping the full innovation potential of SMEs requires efficient support mechanisms. The focus needs to be oriented to impact on SMEs, looking at their internationalisation, their knowledge and R&D capabilities, competitiveness and growth.

Keywords: innovation management,enhancing smes capacities in southern italy
Risk based approaches for Asset inteGrity multimodal Transport Infrastructure ManagEment (RAGTIME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Spain,Slovenia,Belgium,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom
Call: Smart governance, network resilience and streamlined delivery of infrastructure innovation (H2020-MG-2015_TwoStages, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3325912.5
EU funding (EUR): 2998412.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

An efficient asset management process is needed to ensure cost-effectiveness, in planning, delivery, operation and maintenance of large infrastructures or infrastructures network. Infrastructure asset management generally focuses on the later stages of a facility’s life cycle, specifically maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement. However, a process of efficient asset management must define methods and tools for asset tracking, management of maintenance activity, determine the life cycle and replacement costs of the assets, assistance in determining funding strategies, optimizing capital investments in operation and maintenance, and help with the replacement of assets. Currently, the procurement, design, construction, exploitation and public communication to the final users and society regarding to the land transport infrastructures are: • not multimodal, not cross-assets, but focused on individual assets. • not correctly linked, not being able to exchange information by different stakeholders. • lack of a common risk based approach and the implementation of resilient concepts throughout the whole life cycle The aim of the proposal is to establish a common framework for governance, management and finance of transport infrastructure projects in order to ensure the best possible return from limited investment funds in transport infrastructures The main objective of RAGTIME is to develop, demonstrate and validate an innovative management approach and to lay out a whole system planning software platform, based on standard multiscale data models, able to facilitate a holistic management throughout the entire lifecycle of the infrastructure, providing an integrated view of risk based approach, implementing risk based models, resilient concepts and mitigation actions, with specific reference to climate change related threats perspective, and monitored with smart systems, in order to optimize ROI, management, guarantee LOS and improve resilience through maintaining the service.

Keywords: advanced asset integrity management,multimodal transport infrastructure,resilience,planning software platform,multiscale information model,interoperability
How to deal with how you feel: Understanding and training context-dependent emotion regulation (ERcontext)

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: Belgium
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172800.0
EU funding (EUR): 172800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Emotion regulation refers to the variety of processes through which people attempt to influence their emotions. The ability to effectively regulate emotions is key to psychological wellbeing, and emotion dysregulation is a central element of mood disorders. The existing research tends to paint emotion regulation strategies as either adaptive or maladaptive, but increasingly researchers are beginning to realize that this characterization is an oversimplification. Instead, responding with the right strategy in the right context is key for adaptive regulation and, hence, for mental health. However, there is very little empirical investigation of how context shapes the use and effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies. In this application, we propose to first establish who uses what emotion regulation strategy when (i.e. the context) and to what effect, using innovative smartphone assessment methods to examine these processes in daily life. Second, we propose using this information about context as input to train people to use the right strategy at the right time using a smartphone application, with an aim to improve mental health.

Keywords: emotion,emotion regulation,wellbeing,context,mental health
An Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Sewage Sludge Valorization Unit (KATEDRAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TreaTech, a young clean-tech Swiss company, has developed an innovative technology that will revolutionise the waste management of sewage sludge by turning it into valuable by-products and energy such as biogas, clean water and natural fertilizers that would otherwise be lost during disposal process. Contrary to other solutions that rely on incineration or landfilling, which are expensive for companies and harmful for the environment, TreaTech has developed a treatment unit KATEDRAL that can operate with the vast majority of liquid waste streams, and contribute to provide a cost-efficient, ecological and reliable disposal solution. Our mobile unit KATEDRAL will offer a solution 40% cheaper than incineration since it does not require transport of the material nor fossil energy for incineration and will reduce more than 60% of today’s GHG emissions since organic compounds present in the sludge are not burnt anymore, but transformed into valuable renewable energy (biogas).

Keywords: liquid waste disposal,sewage sludge valorization,clean water,biogas,fertilizers
Developing a process to bring a unique Icelandic natural food sea gem worldwide (SEAGEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

At Islensk Hollusta Ehf we are leader suppliers of innovative food products from natural Icelandic resources. To continue on this path, we are now embracing a new and ambitious project: SEAGEM, to bring Vertebrata Lanosa, a true gastronomic gem, to worldwide cuisines. This sea vegetable solely lives in North-Atlantic Seas and it is a tiny marine organism from the red algae family with the resemblance of truffle taste. V. lanosa is a very delicate product as factors such as season, location and weather affect the flavour. If the conditions needed to create, process and preserve the most desirable variety were identified, they could be cultivated for use in the food industry, and this is what we have achieved. SEAGEM project we will develop the production process that will allow us to scale up the business and reach the wide market. The European market for sea vegetables was estimated to be €30 million at wholesale value in 2016 with a grow rate of 7-10% per year. However, although Europe has plenty of resources, only a quarter of the sea vegetable market is supplied by European producers. We count among our current customers with the two-Michelin-star restaurant Noma in Denmark, and other restaurants in Scandinavia, London and New York. Also, since last year we are supported by the Finnish company Oy Baltic Truffle Ab, the General Importer of Truffoir Ltd.’s truffle Products in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. We will sell directly to our customers and through establish specialized food distributors, maintaining a minimum of 20% profit margin. With the support of key partners such as Icelandic and Finnish universities, specialized laboratory and food marketing and distribution expert, we aim to become the biggest supplier of unique Icelandic V. Lanosa in Europe and worldwide, reaching revenues of €6M by 2023, supporting also a sustainable and commercially valuable rural Icelandic industry.

Keywords: seaweed,vegetarian,natural resources,food innovation
Structurally Engineered 3D Printed Architectures for Scalable Tissue Engineering (SE3DPASTE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Engineering tissues with a hierarchical vascular network, which is the goal of our ERC project VascArbor, is challenging. Developments in the field of biofabrication, including 3D bioprinting, are promising to cope with this challenge. However, current strategies lack the capacity to create hierarchical, high resolution, cost efficient, upscalable constructs in a standardized manner with a single approach. Embedded bioprinting, allowing the deposition of complex constructs without the need of a supporting substrate, provides a potential solution. However, embedding baths used so far consist of inert materials and therefore cannot become a functional component of the tissue. Also, the embedding bath should be patternable to allow for multistructural tissues, but printing of the bath itself is currently challenging due to clogging of the nozzle. SE3DPASTE will develop a dehydrated precursor of a free standing embedding bath that is storable for “off-the-shelf” use and tissue specific. Additionally, SE3DPASTE will develop a bespoke 3D printing nozzle that will allow for the creation of patterned embedding baths. SE3DPASTE will lead to storable, transportable, tissue specific embedding baths that act as a patterning template and can be used for embedded bioprinting of tissue. This combination of features, which does currently not exist in embedding baths for 3D printing, will be a key enabler for the generation of standardized 3D tissue environments that lead to predictable tissue development for research-, clinical-, or drug screening purposes. SE3DPASTE will not only develop the technology to make this possible, but will also take vital steps to bring this technology to the market. By securing the IP, and analyzing the market and the willingness of investors to support SE3DPASTE technology, a fruitful basis for translation will be formed. Finally, this will lead to a business plan providing a roadmap on the necessary future steps to create a market ready product.

Keywords: 3d bioprinting,suspension printing,dehydration,rehydration,nozzle,multistructural tissue,vascularization
Production and deploying of high purity lignin and affordable platform chemicals through wood-based sugars (SWEETWOODS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Estonia,Germany,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Finland,Finland,Sweden,France,France
Call: Integrated ‘zero waste’ biorefinery utilising all fractions of the feedstock for production of chemicals and materials (H2020-BBI-JTI-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 43233731.25
EU funding (EUR): 20959745.12
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of the SWEETWOODS project is to demonstrate on an industrial level successful and profitable production of high purity lignin as well as C5 and C6 carbohydrates from hardwood by establishing a biorefinery having throughput capacity 80 bdton/day. Unlike existing biorefinery concepts, SWEETWOODS plant utilizes all the fractions of the biomass feedstock, with min. 95 % of its initial carbon content utilised. The current TRL of the selected fractionation technology is 7, aiming to reach TRL 9 by the end of the project. The efficient fractionation and conversion of biomass is enabled by novel enzymatic solutions. The dried solid lignin and depolymerized lignin are demonstrated in novel applications, namely in elastomer foams for tube insulation, rigid polyurethane foam panels for insulation, and polymer compounds intended for injection moulding. The high purity sugars (at least glucose, xylose and fructose) are demonstrated in novel end use cases, namely in production of bio-IBN, and xylitol production. The environmental and socio-economic performance of the SWEETWOODS plant operation and the developed products are evaluated by performing a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), as well as a viability analysis.

Keywords: lignin,sugar,biorefinery