Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The European Robotics Research Infrastructure Network (TERRINet)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Slovenia,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2017-1-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4999236.25
EU funding (EUR): 4999236.25
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

After a few decades of intense research and development, Robotics has produced radical innovation and impact in many sectors (manufacturing, space, medicine…). In addition Robotics has generated novel scientific and engineering knowledge. This is due to the unique nature of Robotics, that has evolved from a predominantly engineering-oriented domain, to a transdisciplinary area including and inspiring many different disciplines. Europe is an undisputed leader in Robotics: it has nurtured a large community of researchers, educated many thousand students, created large and small companies, and established advanced facilities for conducting scientific research and contributing to technological innovation. However, despite of significant efforts and achievements, the existing Robotics facilities are not fully synchronized, and lack common procedures, thus hampering their enormous potential for world class research and innovation. Creating a Robotics Research Infrastructure is realistic, timely and essential in the current and future landscape of Robotics. The European Robotics Research Infrastructures Network (TERRINet) project aims at building a world-class network with harmonised services and complementary capabilities where talented researchers from academia and industry worldwide will have access and will be able to explore new ideas and establish personal and joint projects; to get in contact with and be inspired by leading and creative scientists, technologists, experts and industrial representatives; to share information and gain knowledge for boosting their scientific research and potential for technological innovation. The plan of TERRINet is to accomplish its vision by providing not only an organised and well orchestrated set of facilities, but also databases, tools and methodologies which will remain operational after the end of the project, so to provide a long-term service to Robotics science and industry in Europe and worldwide.

Keywords: robotics,multi disciplinary research,robotics science and engineering,reproducible research
Detecting serious diseases due to abnormal cellular energetics (METAdiag)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-19
End date: 2021-06-18
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3202530.0
EU funding (EUR): 3202530.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

METAFORA develops a disruptive blood-based In Vitro Diagnostic platform called METAdiag, METAdiag monitors cells’ energetic needs thanks to unique, proprietary biomarkers (Receptor Binding Domains or RBDs), able to quantify nutrient transporters used by cells to feed on glucose, amino acids, vitamins and other essential nutrient transporters at the cell’s surface. Cutting edge algorithms using Artificial Intelligence to handle big data participate in generating actionable results to physicians for routine clinical practice, METAglut1 is a first test developed to fill a medical unmet need, i.e.: the easy and early diagnosis of a debilitating but curable neuro-metabolic disease in children, GLUT1 Deficiency Syndrome. METAglut1 test’s positive results have been published in a leading scientific journal, has been CE-marked and is at the basis of a partnering agreement with CERBA Healthcare, a leading Medical Testing Laboratory. Next steps include: o A large scale validation study in Europe to secure the reimbursement of the test o Downsizing of the test as a finger prick blood test o Dissemination of METAglut1 in Europe big 5 countries (Germany, UK, France, Italy and Spain) and North America via business development effort and market access o Extension of the test application to newborn screening in the USA Following the validation and commercial launch of this first test, next applications to come out of the METAdiag platform include a breakthrough test enabling the diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of cancers, with a market launch contemplated 3 years after the Phase 2 project ends, METAFORA anticipates cumulative revenues of over €52M and 75 jobs created 5 years after the commercialization of our first test, and ambitions to become a key player in the IVD market.

Keywords: glucose transporter type 1 glut1 deficiency syndrome,cell metabolism,cell nutrient transporters,metabolic disease
NON-DISTRACTIVE ASSISTIVE AUGMENTED REALITY SOLUTION FOR INCREASED SAFETY OF MOTORCYCLISTS (SEEMORE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Motorcyclist road deaths and accidents involving bikers keep up with the decrease rate of the total fatality numbers, however they still contribute to over 15% of death cases (still over 4,000 in the EU in 2016). The studies show that inattention and traffic-scan errors significantly contribute to accident causation by 10.6% and 27.7% respectively. According to a research from the University of Michigan, it takes a rider 1.5 seconds to read instruments or glance in the mirror. During this time, at a speed of 90 km/h, the bike travels 37.5 meters. It is a time during which anything can happen on the road. In case of car drivers, we observe the advent of HUD (Head-Up Display) solutions, now available even in commercial cars. Hence, why hasn’t there been an HUD motorcycle helmet yet? Until today, all proposed solutions use additional micro displays installed in front of a biker’s eye which is neither safe nor comfortable, especially for bikers with some vision problem such as crossed eyes or simply wearing corrective glasses. At Seemore, we took an alternative route and resolved the most challenging technological problem – we can project information on a clear surface of a visor. It provides vital information pertinent to current situation such as current speed or GPS navigation data minimizing riders’ inattention time without impacting on their riding experience. Unlike in other solutions, Seemore will be shipped and integrated by helmet manufacturers to meet stringent safety regulations. Positive tests with motorcyclists and demonstrations made upfront helmet manufactures already resulted in letters of intent and confirm on an attractive business opportunity. About 50% of riders expect that new technology will make traffic safer and greener, about 33% fear for technology that will distract riders too much from their riding environment. We are convinced Seemore matches their needs and expectations – we aim to further investigate it through Phase 1 project.

Keywords: powered two wheelers,motorcycle,increased safety,improved concentration,inattention,augmented reality,tests,situation awareness,accident avoidance,motorcycle bikers
We Value Nature (We Value Nature)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Protection of the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, water , biodiversity and ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Switzerland,Switzerland,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Valuing nature: mainstreaming natural capital in policies and in business decision-making (H2020-SC5-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2192426.25
EU funding (EUR): 2192426.25
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of EU-VNP-Net is to establish, support and energise an EU Valuing Nature Network of Networks (EU-VNN) and to implement a prioritised EU Valuing Nature Programme (EU-VNP) that, together, build synergies and collaborations among relevant existing and emerging networks (global, EU, national, sector, thematic, research and innovation), accelerate mainstreaming and operationalization of natural capital (NC) by businesses across the EU – in particular through uptake of NC assessment, NC accounting (NCA), nature-based solutions (NBS) and green infrastructure (GI) – and thereby contribute to the green economy and sustainable development. The EU-VNP will: (1) bring together, taking stock of and showcase relevant work being undertaken in the EU; (2) shape business perception in the EU of the value of nature as a business opportunity and as a means of reducing business risk and fostering sustainable business; (3) facilitate corporate uptake in the EU of the Natural Capital Protocol, which enables businesses to integrate NC in to business decision-making frameworks and models; (4) stimulate uptake in the EU of NCA so that businesses and their stakeholders are better aware of the value of nature in relation to business, and strengthen coherence between private and public sector work on NCA; (5) stimulate uptake in the EU of NBS, GI and related ecosystem-based solutions that enable businesses to reduce impacts and dependencies on NC and deliver benefits for both nature and business; (6) ensure that approaches adopted are optimal and scientifically rigorous; (7) explore options for a longer-term EU-VNN and/or EU-VNP beyond end of project. EU-VNP-Net will deliver impact through: (1) mainstreaming NC assessment, NCA, NBS and GI in business decision-making frameworks and models; (2) business decision-makers acknowledging the micro-and macro-economic relevance and value of NC approaches; (3) attracting private and public funding for further adoption.

Keywords: valuing nature programme,valuing nature network,network of networks,natural capital accounting,natural capital assessment,natural capital protocol,green infrastructure,nature based solutions
Photon and Neutron Open Science Cloud (PaNOSC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Hungary,Sweden,Romania,France,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Connecting ESFRI infrastructures through Cluster projects (H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11953516.99
EU funding (EUR): 11953516.99
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

PaNOSC will build on top of the existing local meta-data catalogues and data repositories to provide federated services for making data easily Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable (FAIR). Extracting the scientific value of the experimental data produced in our RIs is not always an easy task. The raw data tends to be larger and larger and quite often required special skills for being correctly exploited. PaNOSC will develop and provide data analysis services to overcome these difficulties. The services will include notebook (Jupyter based), remote desktop applications and containers or VMs. These services will be provided locally by the RIs for their users (especially when they are on site or when the volume of data is too huge to be exported), the same services should also be available on the EOSC for general use. The data analysis services will offer in a single user experience the data, the software, the IT capacity and the necessary scientific support. All these services should be fully integrated into the EOSC catalogue, in terms of discovery, accessibility, and user authentication/authorisation, SLA, accounting etc. The PaNOSC cluster will also help introduce a new data culture to the user community – via training at each site and workshops on scientific data management and publishing practices. Best practices in data stewardship will be shared with other laboratories within the PaN community and other clusters. Experiences, trials and results will be shared openly via publications and meetings. The positive experience of implementing an Open Data policy and connecting data and services to the EOSC will help convince other PaN institutes still struggling with adopting the FAIR principles.

Keywords: eosc photon neutron fair open data metadata catalogue analysis simulation modelling services jupyter remote desktop
DIGIT-ME – effective support of DIGITalization of small and medium Manufacturing Enterprises (DIGIT-ME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,Poland,Czechia
Call: Peer learning of innovation agencies (H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2019-05, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

SMEs play a significant role in achieving the objectives of European development strategies both by impact on the overall economic growth and by creating new and maintaining existing worksites. Their approach to different types of innovations affects overall outputs of the economy and influence its competitiveness. At present it seems that digital innovations specified by Inudstry 4.0 have overwhelming impact on EU position on the global markets. Improving regional economies based on traditional industries (including manufacturing) demands effective drivers to go for digital innovativeness effecting in increased capability which eventually leads to lower overall costs. Data shows that there is a huge gap in general innovation performance between the actors of highly developed countries like Finland and countries from Central Europe like Czechia and Poliand. Most probably it is caused not only by low innovation activity of SMEs but also by unsuited policies and also insufficient engagement, lack of knowledge and skills among business environment institutions with innovation agencies on the first place. Thus implementation of common project by the Partners from Czechia, Finland and Poland will lead to dissemination of successful Finnish approach which will be enriched by experiences of countries from Central Europe. Last but not least to be considered in the context of widely defined digital innovativeness is the impact on environment since it is said that Industry 4.0 has the potential to enhance global manufacturing output to meet rising human needs without hurting the environment. In other words it can make the world more sustainable. Considering all mentioned above the project goal is to foster support digital innovations whithin SMEs manufacturing sector by delivering new apporaches for policy makers and business environment institutions in order to strenghten European economy and sustainable development.

Keywords: industry 4 0,industrial iot,digitalization,automatization
Firm Dynamic Investments in Research and Development and Skills in Service Industries. (INVPROD)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Productivity growth is key to wealth and high living standards. For many years, Europe’s productivity growth has been declining and since 2005, falls below 1 percent. A possible way to raise productivity is to increase investments in intangible (knowledge based) assets such as workforce skills and Research and Development (R&D). To design policy measures that will effectively facilitate these investments and boost productivity growth, it is essential to understand the firms’ decision-making process in R&D and worker skills investments. In this project, I address the questions (1) What are the incentives each firm faces when making investment decisions in R&D and worker skills improvement? (2) What is the optimal level of investment for each firm? Moreover, what are the implications of these investments for the firms' longrun productivity development? I propose to develop and estimate a dynamic model of firm investment decision in R&D and worker skills improvement in the service industries. The estimation results will shed lights on firms’ investment incentives by quantifying the firm-specific longrun returns and costs to these investments. The estimated model predicts firm-specific responses to changes in their economic environment, therefore allows for ex-ante policy evaluation that aims at fostering productivity growth. In answering the questions raised, the project contributes to the knowledge on productivity and firm investments by providing insights on the (i) multidimensional productivity development in the service industries, (ii) complementarity between different intangible assets such as R&D and worker skills, and (iii) firm decision-making process.

Keywords: dynamic investment,randd,employee training,service,productivity
From Fermi to Planck : a bottom up approach (NuBSM)

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: Switzerland,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2371132.0
EU funding (EUR): 1210452.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The Standard Model of particle physics is a hugely successful theory that has been tested in experiments at ever increasing energies, culminating in the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Nevertheless, some major riddles cannot be addressed by the Standard Model, such as neutrino oscillations, the existence of Dark Matter, the absence of antimatter in the Universe. New fundamental principles, interactions and unknown yet particles are required to address these questions. Much of the research done during the last three decades on physics ‘beyond the Standard Model’ (BSM) has been driven by attempts to find a ‘natural’ solution of the hierarchy problem: why the Planck and the electroweak scales are so different. The most popular approaches to this problem predict new particles with the masses right above the electroweak scale. This project explores an alternative idea that the absence of new particles with masses between the electroweak and Planck scales, supplemented by extra symmetries (such as scale invariance) may itself explain why the mass of the Higgs boson is much smaller than the Planck mass. This calls for a solution of the BSM problems by extremely feebly interacting particles with masses below the electroweak scale. Along the same lines we also explore the possibility that cosmological inflation does not require a new field, but is driven by the Higgs field of the Standard Model. The proposed model offers solutions for BSM puzzles and is among a few ones that can be tested with existing experimental technologies and are valid even if no evidence for new physics is found at the LHC. Constructing such a theory requires consolidated efforts in domains of high-energy theory, particle physics phenomenology, physics of the early Universe, cosmology and astrophysics as well as analyses of the available data from previous experiments and from cosmology. We will make predictions and establish the sensitivity goals for future high intensity experiments.

Keywords: physics of the early universe,higgs inflation,baryon asymmetry,sterile neutrino dark matter
Good intentions, mixed results – A conflict sensitive unpacking of the EU comprehensive approach to conflict and crisis mechanisms (EUNPACK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Afghanistan,Ukraine,Germany,Italy,Iraq,Slovakia,Serbia,Belgium,Norway,France,Senegal,United Kingdom,Kosovo
Call: Rethinking the European Union crisis response mechanism in light of recent conflicts (H2020-INT-SOCIETY-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495678.75
EU funding (EUR): 2495674.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The EUNPACK project unpacks EU crisis response mechanisms, with the aim to increase their conflict sensitivity and efficiency. By combining bottom–up perspectives with an institutional approach, EUNPACK will increase our understanding of how EU crisis responses function and are received on the ground in crisis areas. This entails exploring local agencies and perceptions in target countries without losing sight of the EU’s institutions and their expectations and ambitions. It also entails examining the whole cycle of crisis, from pre-crisis, through crisis, and into post-crisis phase. EUNPACK analyses two gaps in EU crisis response. First, the intentions–implementation gap, which relates to 1) the capacity to make decisions and respond with one voice and to deploy the necessary resources, 2) how these responses are implemented on the ground by various EU institutions and member states, and 3) how other actors – local and international – enhance or undermine the EU’s activities. Second, the project addresses the gap between the implementation of EU policies and approaches, and how these policies and approaches are received and perceived in target countries, what we refer to as the implementation¬–local reception/perceptions gap. Our main hypothesis is that the severity of the two gaps is a decisive factor for the EU’s impacts on crisis management and thereby its ability to contribute more effectively to problem-solving on the ground. We analyse these gaps through cases that reflect the variation of EU crisis responses in three concentric areas surrounding the EU: the enlargement area (Kosovo, Serbia), the neighbourhood area (Ukraine, Libya), and the extended neighbourhood (Mali, Iraq, Afghanistan). The results of our research will enable us to present policy recommendations fine-tuned to making the EU’s crisis response mechanisms more conflict and context sensitive, and thereby more efficient and sustainable.

Keywords: crisis response,conflict sensitivity,comprehensive approach,local perceptions