Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
NGI FORWARD (NGI FORWARD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Estonia,Poland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Next Generation Internet - An Open Internet Initiative (H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999187.5
EU funding (EUR): 2999187.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

NGI Forward brings together a consortium of leading organisations in the NGI and the internet space more broadly to help further the Next Generation Internet as the key European entity and space for radical new thinking on the future internet, by both conducting and bringing together the latest thinking and cutting edge research, and reaching a critical mass of Europeans through our ambitious engagement strategies. Our main aim is to articulate an ambitious vision for what we want the Next Generation Internet to be, involving diverse voices in the process. We set out a clear set of next steps towards this vision through the development of technology, value and policy roadmaps, and build a network of the key European stakeholders we need to empower in order to achieve these goals. Employing cutting-edge data methodologies we continuously identify newly emerging technologies, social issues and communities likely to play a key role in the shaping of the future internet. Understanding these emerging dynamics allows us, and by extension the European Commission, to become involved in shaping their development early on, embedding key values for the Next Generation Internet in the process. We build a strong and vibrant community of key stakeholders (innovators, researchers, policymakers and the general public) surrounding these topics to drive forward the NGI, involving both leading internet thinkers and well-established innovators, as well as young talent and otherwise untapped talent pools. Through leading edge qualitative and quantitative research (such deep learning, ethnography and futures methodologies), we map out the main research and policy needs and opportunities surrounding these topics, empowering our stakeholders group to take action.

Keywords: human centric,methodology,research,vision,future,technology,data driven,radical,policy,consultation,collective intelligence
Articulating the free market: A cultural history of the economic transformation in Central Europe, 1989-1999 (ATFM)

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: Czechia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2022-07-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 142720.8
EU funding (EUR): 142720.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project excavates how cultural production was influenced by and interacted with the introduction of free market mechanisms in Central Europe after 1989. Concentrating specifically on the 1990s, it argues that this decade now deserves to be studied historically, rather than being understood as part of a present “post-communist” condition. The collapse of state socialism and (re)instatement of democracy has been theorised from an economic, political, and social perspective, but its significance for cultural production has been neglected. This project analyses how this economic change was perceived and rooted in society through cultural representations. Specifically, it investigates how the fields of cinema and television responded to the introduction of a free market economy in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Its main object of investigation is the reciprocal relationship between the effects of economic change on cultural production and this production as an agent in economic change. The proposed research will attend to the cultural dimension of the economic transformation in order to understand the symbolic meanings and narratives that gave the economic and political changes coherence and social validity at the time. The project’s original intervention lies in applying historical questions to an area that has been primarily dealt with in the disciplines of political science, economics, and sociology. It will thus be at the forefront of the agenda of the host institution which is concerned with investigating the introduction and development of capitalism and liberal democracy in the region in a historical context, making it ideally positioned to provide all the necessary infrastructure and leading expertise on the topic in question. This project will offer a novel cultural history angle on the study of the systemic transformations of the 1990s by producing an array of scholarly and popularizing outputs.

Keywords: economic transformation,cultural history,film,television,free market,neoliberalism
Personal perception for predicting product choice (Pepe-prod)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2014-PoC, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 135776.0
EU funding (EUR): 135776.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project will take a new technique devised in my ERC Advanced Investigator grant that measures implicit social biases in perception and applies it to the fields of sales and marketing. These fields have previously been reliant on paper-and-pencil tests which have a variety of problems including the faking of responses and vulnerability to demand characteristics. I have generated proof-of-principle evidence that my novel, tablet based measures of bias can be adapted to (i) measure product preference, (ii) predict the likelihood of an individual being persuaded to buy a product, and (iii) modify product value through self-association. In my PoC grant I will carry out field testing of the new products to ensure that they are practical in the real-world, do link and predict real-world purchasing behaviour ,and are perceived as useful by users. Commercially viable forms of the tablet-based tests will be developed and evaluated for robust and efficient behavioural measurement and reporting in the field.

Keywords: cognitive biases,self bias,product choice
The first high performance gallium nitride wafers for mainstream power electronics (eleGaNt)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As the world becomes digitalized, the need for more energy efficient, faster and better performing Electronic Components and Systems (ECS) becomes paramount. These ECS are fully dependent on the semiconductor materials within, currently over 90% silicon (Si)-based. Pure Si technology can no longer cater to the needs placed upon ECS for power electronics and RF applications and thus new semiconductor technologies based on gallium nitride (GaN) are being explored. GaN material properties make it the primary choice for future generations of energy-efficient, high performance power electronics devices, necessary to modernize the energy grid and allow for sustainable energy production and use. However, bulk GaN is prohibitively expensive and thus inaccessible to mainstream applications. The main approach to making the technology commercially viable, reducing its cost significantly, is growing GaN layers on other materials, such as Si. Today, this poses a major technical barrier: existing methods result in high defect densities in the GaN layers, offering a fraction of the efficiency of bulk GaN and therefore poor ECS performance. Switching to GaN-on-Si today thus offers very limited advantages. To harness the full potential of GaN in a commercially viable way, we, at Hexagem, have developed EleGaNt, a cutting-edge new method of growing GaN semiconductor layers of unprecedented quality on any substrate. EleGaNt is the first to deliver capabilities on par with bulk GaN at the cost of current market-available underperforming GaN-on-Si. Our patented EleGaNt growth method introduces a new era of semiconductor wafer tech for an energy efficient power and RF electronics market and has the potential to become the new silicon in the multi-billion power electronics industry, whilst also offering a route towards expanding the TAM for GaN tech. We will license our tech to ECS manufacturers for integration into their fabs, whilst we remain a cutting-edge tech development company.

Keywords: energy,energy efficiency
Collective Platform for Community Resilience and Social Innovation during Crises (COMRADES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Norway,Belgium,Netherlands,Kenya,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999021.25
EU funding (EUR): 1999021.25
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Response to crisis often reveals organisational and technological shortcomings, which threaten community recovery and sustainable. Even though some technological solutions exist, challenges of communication, interoperability, and data analytics remain. The deployment and use of technologies, and the social structures in which they are adopted, are interdependent. Hence it is imperative to develop human-centred technologies that take into account actual real world practices of affected populations and responders. The rise of social media as an information channel during crisis has become key to community resilience and response. However, existing crisis awareness applications, such as Ushahidi, while vital for information gathering, often struggle to address the challenges of real-time social data analysis and aggregation of crisis micro-events, and filtering of unverified content and reporters. This project will build an intelligent collective resilience platform to help communities to reconnect, respond, and recover from crisis situations. COMRADES will achieve this through an interdisciplinary, socio-technical approach, which will draw on the latest advances in computational social science, social computing, real-time analytics, text and social media analysis, and Linked Open Data. The platform specifications and design requirements will be derived through participatory design workshops with existing activist, responder, and reporter communities. The open source COMRADES platform will go beyond the now standard data collection, mapping, and manual analysis functions provided by the underpinning, widely used Ushahidi crisis mapping tool, to include new intelligent algorithms aimed at helping communities, citizens, and humanitarian services with analysing, verifying, monitoring, and responding to emergency events. COMRADES platform will be deployed and evaluated with multiple, local and distributed, communities, using collective multilingual crisis information.

Keywords: community resilience,ict for crisis situations,crisis knowledge processing,social media
SUNlight-to-LIQUID: Integrated solar-thermochemical synthesis of liquid hydrocarbon fuels (SUN-to-LIQUID)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,France,Netherlands
Call: Developing next generation technologies for biofuels and sustainable alternative fuels (H2020-LCE-2015-1-two-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6150031.25
EU funding (EUR): 4450618.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Liquid hydrocarbon fuels are ideal energy carriers for the transportation sector due to their exceptionally high energy density and most convenient handling, without requiring changes in the existing global infrastructure. Currently, virtually all renewable hydrocarbon fuels originate from biomass. Their feasibility to meet the global fuel demand and their environmental impact are controversial. In contrast, SUN-to-LIQUID has the potential to cover future fuel consumption as it establishes a radically different non-biomass non-fossil path to synthesize renewable liquid hydrocarbon fuels from abundant feedstocks of H2O, CO2 and solar energy. Concentrated solar radiation drives a thermochemical redox cycle, which inherently operates at high temperatures and utilizes the full solar spectrum. Thereby, it provides a thermodynamically favourable path to solar fuel production with high energy conversion efficiency and, consequently, economic competitiveness. Recently, the first-ever production of solar jet fuel has been experimentally demonstrated at laboratory scale using a solar reactor containing a ceria-based reticulated porous structure undergoing the redox cyclic process. SUN-to-LIQUID aims at advancing this solar fuel technology from the laboratory to the next field phase: expected key innovations include an advanced high-flux ultra-modular solar heliostat field, a 50 kW solar reactor, and optimized redox materials to produce synthesis gas that is subsequently processed to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. The complete integrated fuel production chain will be experimentally validated at a pre-commercial scale and with record high energy conversion efficiency. The ambition of SUN-to-LIQUID is to advance solar fuels well beyond the state of the art and to guide the further scale-up towards a reliable basis for competitive industrial exploitation. Large-scale solar fuel production is expected to have a major impact on a sustainable future transportation sector.

Keywords: solar fuel,solar energy,concentrated solar energy,renewable,non biomass,thermochemical cycle,co2 splitting,water splitting,transportation,aviation,synthesis gas,jet fuel,hydrocarbons
SENCOGI® : a revolutionary gaze-tracking technology for real world applications. (SENCOGI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2856500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999550.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

COGISEN has developed a revolutionary software-only gaze-tracking solution named SENCOGI® with the backing of three venture capital funds (€ 2,9 million invested). COGISEN will enter the gaze-tracking market in 2018 with a B2B approach by licensing SENCOGI®-based gaze-tracking technology to top-level companies operating in specific markets in Europe and Silicon Valley. COGISEN has already held preliminary commercial meetings with these big corporations having obtained positive feedback from many of them. The 3 initial target vertical markets are: 1) Mobile (smartphone, tablet), 2) Automotive and 3) Internet of Things. Regarding the mobile market, it is a realistic proposition, given that a Technology Evaluation Agreement is currently being negotiated with SAMSUNG, that in the near future COGISEN could replace SAMSUNG’S current supplier of gaze-tacking technology. COGISEN is expected to become the market leader on a European and global level in the sector of eye and gaze-tracking technologies by 2018/2019. COGISEN will become the most important B2B provider of gaze-tracking software to the leading multinational players in the markets for mobile, systems for automotive safety & infotainment and IoT. COGISEN’s turnover is forecast to be € 4,4 M by 2018, € 16,5M by 2019 and € 40,5 by 2020.

Keywords: gaze tracking software,human machine interaction hmi,market deployment,mobile,automotive,safety,internet of things
A revolutionary patent drafting tool powered by cutting-edge AI algorithms (Patwiser)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The EU’s next innovation and research funding programme, Horizon Europe, will invest €100 billion of public money into research and innovation projects, and the commercialization process will be vital in enabling EU citizens to enjoy the social and economic benefits of this enormous investment. More than 3 million patent applications are filed annually worldwide, a figure that is increasing by approximately 8% each year. Despite this vast number of applications, the cost of filing a patent remains a substantial barrier to individual inventors, universities and research centres, and early stage SMEs who are pre-investment or have raised only a small seed round to fund initial product development. Patwiser is a revolutionary patent drafting tool powered by cutting-edge AI algorithms that enables inventors and innovators to draft their own high-quality patent applications and patent attorneys to produce first-draft applications in 30% of the time for a manual drafting process. Patwiser’s simple workflow enables frictionless input of the key inventive concepts and experimental data, from which the user can generate a broad and relevant claim set in a semi-automated fashion. The software then uses advanced AI to automatically generate the other sections of the application in a format approved by the European Patent Office (EPO) based on analysis of a large database of applications in the same technical field. Patwiser will provide cost-effective access to the patent system to all and foster innovation across the EU. The Phase 1 project aims to provide a full technical and commercial feasibility assessment including planning pilot demonstrations of the software and defining the go-to-market strategy. The subsequent Phase 2 project will aim to optimise the algorithms and localise the software, finalise the UX design, perform pilot demonstration and validation activities with potential clients and execute the communication and digital marketing strategy.

Keywords: patent,patent application,drafting tool,machine learning,technology transfer,invention,legal,attorney,intellectual property,start up,entrepreneur,university
Come and Play Science at European Researchers` Night (QriUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 625611.25
EU funding (EUR): 307570.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Two unique nights, ten different science disciplines and more than 150 different activities: QriUS, under coordination of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and together with partners from cutting-edge research, science education, science communication and the arts, invites the public to come and play science in the city of Heidelberg, Germany. The project offers a unique opportunity for all age groups to engage with researchers from different areas, and experience and understand the impact of research on our daily lives. Interactive projects across both days and dedicated activities at night will inspire the public to think and see the world through a scientific lens and encourage younger generations to explore careers in science. QriUS also aims to link the past with the future and science with the arts to foster creativity among researchers from all fields, artists and the public. The project will highlight the power of science and culture in Europe’s future.

Keywords: science,research,public outreach,research profession,research careers,international collaboration
Optical interrogation of the claustrum from synapses to behavior (CLAUSTRUM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How does the brain integrate inputs from the environment to generate perception and drive decisions? An enigmatic brain region called the claustrum has been suggested to play a role by integrating inputs from multiple brain regions. There is strong interconnectivity between claustrum and nearly every neocortical brain region, indicating that it exerts widespread influence on brain function. However, approaches to specifically record from or manipulate activity in the claustrum have been hindered by the inability to target it selectively. This has been difficult due to the anatomy of the claustrum: it is a long, thin bilateral nucleus buried between the neocortex and the striatum. This proposal aims to understand the role of the claustrum in multisensory integration and behaviour by developing new approaches for monitoring and manipulating the activity of the claustrum. We will harness recent advances in electrophysiological, genetic, optical, and behavioural tools to probe its connectivity, activity, and function in a precise manner. Understanding the role of the claustrum in brain function will provide fundamental insight into information processing in the neocortex, which is a major goal in neuroscience. The claustrum is unique because of its dense reciprocal connectivity with neocortex but nearly complete lack of direct subcortical sensory input. This particular anatomical structure indicates the possibility of a unique function, but none has been observed yet. This proposal will rectify the paucity of data on this distinctive structure by applying a battery of modern tools to address the function of the claustrum. Experiments will address the following key questions: 1. How are claustrocortical inputs integrated and what is the effect of corticoclaustral feedback? 2. What is the activity of claustral neurons during sensory stimulation and motor output? 3. What are the causal relationships between claustrum activity and animal behaviour?

Keywords: claustrum,mouse,behaviour,optogenetics,calcium imaging,two photon