Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Airspace User supporting Demonstrations of Integrated Airport Operations (AUDIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Norway,France
Call: Integrated Airport (H2020-SESAR-2016-2, 2016)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1064625.0
EU funding (EUR): 818050.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The project AUDIO will coordinate the Airspace User (AU) involvement in the demonstration of innovative airport operations functionalities designed to improve airport operations. It is designed to secure the involvement of additional end-users to perform operational demonstrations to confirm the benefits and increase awareness of promising solutions targeting specific operational scenarios and environments. AUDIO is addressing the topic Integrated Airport Operations (SESAR-VLD1-02-2016) which is related to the Very Large Demonstration PJ28 IA (Integrated Airport Operations as part of SESAR2020). In particular AUDIO demonstrates the use of functionalities designed to improve airport operations from an airspace user perspective. For the On-board taxi functions, on-board surface guidance will be demonstrated on board of aircraft during day to day operations of airlines. Demonstrations will be conducted in a real live environment. A dedicated dissemination WP is designed to cover the important need of the distribution of results. Coordinated with the dissemination activities of PJ28 a harmonized approach will be taken to make sure the results of the demonstration activities are well communicated within the SESAR as well as the whole ATM community.

Keywords: onboard taxi guidance,manual routing function,ads b,airport operations
Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning: Pathways and Links to Urban Systems (SUMP-PLUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Italy,Austria,Greece,Romania,Lithuania,Romania,Belgium,Belgium,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Harnessing and understanding the impacts of changes in urban mobility on policy making by city-led innovation for sustainable urban mobility (H2020-MG-2018-TwoStages, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3987862.5
EU funding (EUR): 3987862.5
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

‘SUMP-PLUS’ is a three-year RIA, designed to address urban mobility related challenges and to exploit new opportunities, by developing a strong, rigorous evidence base through a co-created City Laboratories approach (to be demonstrated in different EU cities) building on the strengths of the existing SUMPs and SULPs. SUMP-PLUS will develop and apply transition pathways towards more sustainable cities taking into account the need to establish stronger links with other urban system components. It has 4 primary policy objectives: 1. To develop and apply a set of context-specific mobility transformation pathways that will enable cities to map out a practical implementation pathway. 2. To demonstrate how cities can develop stronger links with other urban system components (education, health, retail, land use planning, etc.) - while taking into account disruptive technological and contextual developments - so that urban mobility and accessibility can be delivered more comprehensively, efficiently and effectively. 3. To identify new solutions that will increase efficiency and sustainability, in both the freight and passenger sectors. 4. To identify and demonstrate new partnerships and business models that enable various mobility objectives to be met cost-effectively through appropriate public/private sector partnerships These objectives will be met and demonstrated through a programme of trials and comprehensive evaluation, in six co-created City Laboratories. This requires achieving 4 operational objectives: developing appropriate urban governance arrangements and advanced analytics; extensive stakeholder engagement and co-creation of outputs; producing enhanced SUMP-PLUS guidance matching the different needs and maximising impact through a targeted range of dissemination, capacity building, knowledge transfer and legacy exploitation activities.

Keywords: transformation pathways,urban system components,sump,sulp guidance
NanoInformatics Approaches for Safe-by-Design NanoMaterials (CompSafeNano)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Estonia,Ireland,Italy,South Africa,Germany,Cyprus,Finland,Greece,Korea, Republic of,Greece,Norway,Switzerland,Norway,Poland,Slovakia,United Kingdom,Pakistan,Canada,Luxembourg,Japan,Brazil
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2093000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1748000.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The unique properties of nanomaterials (NMs), relative to their bulk form, has seen them used in a rapidly increasing number of commercial applications. However, with these useful new properties of NMs come potential health and environmental hazards. Thus, as part of a responsible innovation approach, NMs potential risks must be assessed in parallel to exploitation of their benefits. Due to their enormous variability, NM risk assessment urgently needs advanced in silico methodologies capable of machine learning from limited experimental datasets. These in silico tools for NMs characterisation, exposure, hazard and risk assessment and sustainability and life cycle assessment, need to support implementation of existing regulatory guidelines and extend regulatory risk assessment to integrate the extensive new knowledge generated computationally. CompSafeNano’s overarching objective is thus to drive the development of integrated and universally applicable nanoinformatics models, with broad domains of applicability across NMs compositions and forms, that are directly usable by industry, especially SMEs, and regulators for NMs risk assessment and decision making. CompSafeNano will establish an extended safe-by-design paradigm that includes environmental sustainability (life cycle assessment) based on in silico predictions with experimental testing to validate the results. CompSafeNano has a clear set of objectives to deliver this vision of an in silico safe-by-design computational platform and will be in close communication with other EU projects to access existing data on NM hazard and integrate existing nanoinformatics and NMs risk governance platforms (i.e. within NanoCommons, NanoSolveIT & RiskGONE). Training activities will benefit both ESRs and ERs from participating organizations, with a strong focus on inter-sectoral exchange (SME-academia) and international collaboration, filling the well-recognised current skills gap in nanoinformatics and big data analytics.

Keywords: nanoinformatics,safe by design,nanosafety,nanoforms,risk assessment
VELLO BIKE+ Connected Multimodal Commuting for Greener Cities (VELLO CMC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

VELLO has designed the world’s first self-charging folding e-bike, VELLO BIKE+. We want to take this product, VELLO BIKE+, from beta product and production to full-scale production for a successful EU-wide roll. We do this by maximising social impact from production to user, and exploiting a 296 MM€ (by 2024) business opportunity. Thus, we are convinced that with this novel e-bike, we can provide additional choices for individual e-mobility with high benefits, bringing more people on bikes, raising the field of application for e-bikes, and at the same time filling important gaps in terms of multimodal mobility. VELLO is an Austrian-based R&D hub and manufacturer of innovative mobility products established in 2017. We have successfully developed a series of innovative solutions in the field of mobility. It is estimated that 95% of the world’s population is breathing dirty air, which contributes to severe diseases to the lungs and heart. Cities are the biggest contributors. While accounting for only 3% of the earth’s surface, they generate 75% of all carbon emissions. There is a need for decarbonised cities and a wide range of greener micro-mobility products providing city dwellers with more and better choices. Less fossil-fuel driven cars means a reduction in CO2 emission rates. Folding e-bikes are one of the solutions, but existing ones are heavy, complicated to fold, feel unstable when riding and do not recuperate energy. Moreover, no other existing folding e-bike enables IoT connectivity that would allow the development of new business models and offerings. We have developed the first self-charging folding e-bike that runs on kinetic energy recovery system (K.E.R.S.) with super-efficient energy regeneration and real-time environmental sensing and connectivity capabilities. With this new e-technology, we are currently also the lightest e-bike on the market. Our patented self-charging folding bike benefits users and cities by enabling multimodal commuting.

Keywords: multimodal,connected transportation system,bicycle,folding bicycle,green mobility
Species discrimination in birds: A behavioural-neurogenomics approach to auditory learning (SongNeuroGen)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490850.0
EU funding (EUR): 1490850.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How individuals choose mates is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. Mating decisions have broad consequences, influencing individual fitness and population-level evolutionary and ecological processes, including diversification, speciation, and extinction. Discriminating against potential mates from closely related co-occurring species is a vital step in finding an appropriate mate. However, individuals from many species learn with whom to mate by first observing a variety of conspecifics, which risks mistakenly learning from co-occurring species with similar phenotypes. Genetic divergence among species in sensory perception is widely hypothesized to reduce this risk, but the underlying mechanisms and, therefore, the evolutionary causes and consequences are poorly understood. My proposal aims to uncover the causes and consequences of genetic divergence in auditory learning of songs, key species discrimination traits in birds. I have developed a powerful study system to distinguish the influences of genes and learning on species-specific song perception, employing two closely related Ficedula flycatcher species. I will use this tractable system to: (i) evaluate alternative evolutionary drivers of genetic divergence in song discrimination, (ii) determine the interplay between genetic effects and auditory learning throughout development, and (iii) associate species differences in discrimination with gene expression and, ultimately, divergence in gene regulation. To achieve these goals, I will integrate behavioural and neurogenomic approaches on populations across the flycatchers’ native range and from captive-reared populations, leveraging ongoing sequencing of songbird genomes to place flycatcher results in a broader evolutionary context. This integrative project will have the potential to radically change our understanding of the genetic basis of species differences in learned behaviors and will allow me to develop transformative, career-level research.

Keywords: imprinting,learning,neurogenomics,sexual selection,songbirds,species recognition,speciation
Tracing memory formation in a behaving animal: analysis of learning-induced morpho-functional plasticity along the bee’s olfactory system (MEM-ENTO)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Memory formation and extinction are fascinating aspects of brain functions. Observation of ex vivo and in vitro experiments provided a framework for understanding associative memory-related plasticity. However, memories are generated via local neuronal interactions within the context of their global networks, and understanding their formation requires in vivo studies in naturalistic conditions, which remain technically challenging. Here, I will use a functional calcium imaging approach to investigate memory formation and extinction in behaving honeybees. I will adopt the honeybee as a model system because of the accumulated knowledge on associative learning, the availability of a behavioural read-out for both appetitive and aversive memory formation, and its robustness, which allows for long-lasting imaging experiments. I will focus on its olfactory system because of the optical accessibility, and its analogy with the vertebrate one. Previous works have established the methods for honeybee brain imaging analysis in vivo during appetitive and aversive conditioning. Within this project, I will perform long-term imaging experiments in behaving animals, while monitoring the process of short and long-term memory formation and extinction in the three main neuropils of the olfactory system: the antennal lobe (the primary odour processing centre), the mushroom bodies (possibly dedicated to odour recognition), and the lateral horn (involved in odour valence evaluation). My specific goals are (1) characterizing the morphological and functional changes induced by associative learning throughout these neuropils, (2) highlighting the functional dynamics of a stimulus representation during short and long-term memory formation and extinction, and (3) comparing the memory engram of positive and negative associations. This project will provide important insight on the neural correlates of memory formation and extinction in a behaving animal.

Keywords: olfaction,honeybee,calcium imaging,memory formation,associative learning
Development of a Novel, Intelligent Down the Hole Disconnect Tool (I-DISC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2683138.75
EU funding (EUR): 1876447.13
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A Bottom hole assembly (BHA) is a series of components that form the lower part of the drill string, extending from the bit to the drill pipe. During oil and gas exploration the BHA can become stuck/jammed due to poor cleaning of the hole and subsequent build-up of cuttings. With direction drilling programmes now exceeding 10km, problems are becoming more common and expensive as oil exploration companies look to access difficult to extract oil reserves from reservoirs which until recently were not commercially viable, particularly in deep water. Methods of disconnecting the BHA need to be activated in highly deviated or horizontal wells where wireline systems cannot easily be employed. In development and exploration drilling, the costs when the BHA becomes stuck down the hole are considerable. The aim of the I-DISC project is to design, develop and ready for market a high temperature variant of a novel intelligent down the hole disconnect tool (I-DISC) which, in the case of a stuck bottom hole assembly (BHA), would provide disconnection from the BHA and extraction in less than a tenth of the time of the existing state of art methods. Integral to the disconnect feature is a circulation valve (I-CIRC) that enhances the products capability to mitigate becoming stuck in the first place.

Keywords: hole disconnect tool,stuck bottom hole assembly,international competitiveness,decreasing operational costs and downtime in drilling and exploration,design,develop,prototype,increase effi
Industrial Feather Waste Valorisation for Sustainable KeRatin based MAterials. (KARMA2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Sustainable, resource-efficient and low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive process industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Israel,Spain,Spain,Sweden,Belgium,Finland,Poland,Sweden,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands
Call: Industrial technologies for the valorisation of European bio-resources into high added value process streams (H2020-SPIRE-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6679744.39
EU funding (EUR): 5880471.38
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

According to European Commission, 13.1 million tons of poultry meat was produced only in the European Union (EU-28) in 2014 with an estimated generation of 3.1 million tons feather waste. At present the majority of poultry feathers are converted into low nutritional value animal food or disposed in landfills, causing environmental and health hazards. In this context, the overall objective of KaRMA2020 is the industrial exploitation of such underutilized waste to obtain added value raw materials for the chemical sector: keratin, bioplastics, flame retardant coatings, non-woven and thermoset biobased resins. This will be accomplished through either: i) innovative and sustainable approaches (already patented by some of KaRMA2020 partners), or ii) conventional and economic techniques. The obtained raw materials will be manufactured at industrial scale and further used for the production of novel bio-based products such as: slow release fertilizers, biodegradable food packaging plastics, flame retardant coated textiles and flame retardant thermoset biobased composites. The sustainability of the new raw materials and end-products will be evaluated through LCA assessment. Additionally, an integrated waste management plan will be elaborated to minimize environmental impacts generated by wastes. Communication and knowledge transfer as well as a detailed business plan will allow maximizing overall profitability of KaRMA2020 results. The well balanced composition of the consortium including industry, RTD performers and academia give KaRMA2020 the maximum chance of success.

Keywords: keratin,bioplastics,feathers
Optimal urban traffic routing by broadcasting avoidance maps (MAGnUMplus)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: France
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2020-PoC, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The PoC aims to develop a prototype for an optimal route guidance system that improves traffic conditions in urban areas. Urban traffic management at large-scale is very challenging but may lead to significant travel time savings by better-distributing drivers among the network. Existing navigation apps or routing systems provide the shortest-path in time to users resulting in the network user equilibrium. However, traffic engineers know that total travel times may be reduced by 10 to 30% if user routes comply with the system optimum. There is no actual traffic management system that can achieve such a goal because of computational (determining the optimal route for all current users in NP-hard), privacy (optimality requires that all users share their destination with a centralized controller) and compliance issues (users may not follow routing instructions). The optimal route guidance system we have designed within the MAGnUM project can quickly solve the two first issues. A centralized controller produces real-time avoidance maps, i.e., the definition of how many users should avoid each subsection of the road network to alleviate congestion in this area. Such maps are derived by monitoring of overall traffic conditions. Each user transforms this information into individual route guidance through its navigation system. This privacy is guaranteed by design as the users share no information with the controller but only take benefit from avoidance maps. The PoC will not only develop the prototype but also implement the system in the field to run experiments over three months. The experiments aim to (i) test the proper system functioning, (ii) derive optimal controller settings in particular concerning the network partitioning, and (iii) investigate users’ reactions to the guidance and determine the natural compliance rate. All the studies will permit us to assess the potential of the full system better and prepare the next steps before introduction to the market.

Keywords: urban traffic management,avoidance maps,system optimum,optimal route guidance