Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Iceland,Austria,Austria,Germany,Italy,Italy,Norway,Norway,Norway,Finland,Finland,Finland,Sweden,Sweden,Russian Federation,Norway,Belgium,Poland,Sweden,Sweden,Czechia,Netherlands,United States,Faroe Islands,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,Canada,Greenland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 10000000.0
Participants: 51
Project status: SIGNED

INTERACT aims for a geographically comprehensive and excellent state-of-the-art terrestrial research infrastructure throughout the Arctic and adjoining forest and alpine regions to identify environmental change, to facilitate understanding and prediction of future change and to inform decision makers about societally-relevant impacts. INTERACT is the fundamental building block and one-stop-shop for EU and international projects, programmes and organisations requiring access to northern lands, data and services, and includes a rapid response capability to potential hazards. INTERACT is pan-Arctic, multidisciplinary and crosses EU call domains by linking to forest, coastal, marine and atmospheric communities. INTERACT uniquely unites 77 research stations in a Station Managers’ Forum ensuring inter-comparability of information and excellent science support. A Data Forum improves availability of data by bringing data providers together with data users. Physical (7780 days) pan-Arctic Trans-national Access is offered by 43 stations and virtual access is offered by 29. An innovative TA User Community will stimulate new collaborations and improved information flow while new state-of-the-art educational resources will encourage young scientists. Joint research activities will ensure close cooperation between the Arctic Council’s biodiversity monitoring programme and station activities; develop new technology in a WP led by Industry to enlarge the research stations’ environmental observing footprints; and produce guidance for local communities to adapt to change. INTERACT’s incalculable legacy and societal impact includes aiding people to adapt to local and global environmental changes, recruiting the next generation of environmental scientists, offering access and opportunities to researchers world-wide and providing data and information to high level regional and global organisations and decision-makers.

Keywords: pan arctic,forest,alpine,lakes,station managers platform,transnational access,biodiversity,climate feedbacks,local adaptation,rapid response,educational resources,environmental assessment
Practice-Oriented Security Models and Granular Designs for Future-Proof Authenticated Encryption (POMEGRANATE)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2020-08-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172800.0
EU funding (EUR): 172800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Authenticated-Encryption (AE) algorithms have recently faced an immense increase in popularity as appropriate cryptographic tools for providing data confidentiality and integrity services simultaneously. AE algorithms are ubiquitous in protocols to secure the very fundamentals of the information and communication infrastructure, being adopted into widely-deployed protocols, such as TLS, SSH, IPsec, IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and ANSI C12.22. A wide range of recently reported security vulnerabilities and exploits, arisen from either using insecure designs to achieve the AE goal or misusing supposedly secure AE schemes, has motivated the cryptographic community to run the CAESAR competition for designing new AE algorithms, boosting research on AE. Yet a critical look at the classical security models for AE, defined over the last decade, that guided the constructions of CAESAR submissions, and a review of practical applications for AE algorithms reveals several inconsistencies and remaining problems that must be carefully investigated before moving towards adoption of next-generation AE schemes for widespread use in governmental, industrial and financial ICT systems. POMEGRANATE aims to critically rethink the existing security notions and robustness features for AE schemes and to develop fine-grained security models and modular, future-proof design paradigms that can flexibly capture a widening spectrum of disparate requirements in the emerging streaming media applications such as IPTV as well as in future heterogeneous environments such as Internet of Things and Cloud Computing infrastructures. We aim to proactively identify important ongoing challenges and to bridge the gaps between the theory and practice of AE, looking far beyond the design-centric CAESAR competition. Nevertheless, the results will also impact the evaluation and ranking of the CAESAR finalists, as those schemes should offer a set of envisioned new security and robustness needs for future applications.

Keywords: cryptography,symmetric encryption,authenticated encryption,provable security,security notions,robustness
Advanced 3D augmented reality technology providing a more accurate, effective and efficient method of medical education (Anatomy Next)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Latvia
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With the new generation of medical students currently in universities having grown up using technologies it has caused a shortening of their attention spans thus meaning the current method of learning can be less efficient. Compounded by unneeded or out of date information in textbooks, which cause problems of convoluting essential information & distracting the students. An innovative, SaaS solution from Anatomy Next allows end-users to accelerate & to enhance the spatial awareness of the human anatomy, all while reducing the overall cost and time of the process to combat this growing problem. AN’s solution does so by creating highly accurate, interactive 3D anatomical models, incorporating cutting-edge Augmented Reality technology. Available as a web-based platform, mobile application & HoloLens application, offered to universities & their students/staff in different packages. Unlike other competitors on the market or in development, AN has the 3D anatomical models validated by medical consultants & uses the FMA Ontology as an extensive database of all types (race, sex, age) of human body structures, in alignment with medical knowledge, providing precise anatomical information unseen in such a medium. Offering users integrated AR technology & an option to 3D print sections of the models for a personal and ‘hands-on’ learning experience that’s proven to be a very efficient method of learning that is favoured by students. AN received a pre-seed loan of €50K & raised €500K from private investors and venture capitalists, & look to continue ongoing dialogue with investors following the company. Currently 31 employees with specialities in human anatomy, software development, 3D rendering, business development and project management are working at AN. The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME instrument fits into the overall plan to reach market by contributing the financial resources needed for a fast, sound & wider deployment of the SaaS solution & the market uptake.

Keywords: medical education platform,augmented reality technology,2d images,3d models
Microconverters for Distributed Energy Resources (MiDER)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-09-18
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The MiDER project introduces a radical redesign of the power conversion stages of distributed energy resources (DER), to ensure their large-scale incorporation in future smart grids, in which end-users will assume a prosumer role. This will be achieved through optimal incorporation of the wide band-gap technology and disengagement from magnetic components. The two main objectives of MiDER are: i) To develop a miniaturized and efficient multilevel converter (MMC) with GaN transistors and no magnetics, for grid-connected localized DERs. The advantageous characteristics of the GaN technology offer the foundations for the first monolithically integrated MMC on a single chip. ii) To study the advantages of eliminating magnetic components and filters in terms of dynamic response and power system stability. This novel approach is expected to result in efficiency improvement, notable weight and volume reduction and enhancement of the dynamic response of future DERs, while effectively addressing the oscillatory instabilities, commonly encountered during grid disturbances. The project is fully aligned with the EU policies for efficient energy generation from renewables and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and is anticipated to have a positive socioeconomic and environmental impact. The project lies between different scientific fields, extending from material science to power electronics and power system control, aiming to provide a collaborative solution for addressing the challenges of future converter-based networks. The Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to the Researcher to acquire new knowledge and personal development skills and bridge the gap between academia and industry, through cross-sectoral training and decentralised dissemination and communication activities across Europe. Ultimately, the Action will enhance his future career perspectives, help him reach professional maturity and complete his profile as an independent researcher and project manager.

Keywords: miniaturized converters,distributed energy resources,dynamic model,gallium nitride,monolithic integration,high efficiency,high power density
INnovative Verona university’s Inter-disciplinary, Inter-sectoral and International Training Experience (INVITE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Doctoral programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2197440.0
EU funding (EUR): 1098720.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

INVITE is a doctoral programme at the University of Verona (UNIVR), Italy, with a strong inter-sectoral, inter-disciplinary and international research and training dimension. The project is co-financed by the Regione del Veneto and involves many partner organisations: 17 universities and research centres in Europe and beyond, 13 enterprises and organisations from the economic sector, 3 public organisations and 1 network. INVITE offers a total of 14 PhD positions to train early-stage researchers in scientific disciplines within the following four main scientific domains: Natural and Engineering Sciences, Life and Health Sciences, Humanities, and Law and Economics. INVITE aims to: 1. Attract young, talented, international fellows to follow a high-quality interdisciplinary doctoral programme at the UNIVR; 2. Encourage inter-sectoral and international mobility, thanks to collaborations with a wide network of Italian and European partner organisations in both the academic and non-academic sectors; 3. Provide the early-stage researchers (ESRs) with a comprehensive set of transferable skills for intellectual property rights (IPR) management, the exploitation of research results, the management of ethically-relevant research including the gender dimension in research, grant writing and project management, and the design and implementation of outreach and dissemination activities; 4. Support ESRs with a specific counselling service to improve their employability at the end of the doctoral programme; 5. Reinforce UNIVR capacities to host talented international researchers in a high-quality working environment. The ultimate goal is to train a new generation of researchers in a wide range of disciplines and to provide them with the ability to establish professional collaborations with academic institutions and/or the private sector at the Italian and European levels. INVITE will also improve the already well-established and successful doctoral programme at UNIVR.

Keywords: doctoral programme,international,interdisciplinarity,intersectorality
Use of HTC technology as an innovative reuse method for sewage sludge (HTSew)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Efficient municipal wastewater treatment, such as the systems currently in place in most European municipalities, produces vast amounts of sewage sludge. The latest data collected show a yearly production of 9.637 thousands of tons in the EU28 countries. Sludge treatment issues are often neglected in comparison with water-related parameters which results in serious technical difficulties and highly expensive disposal methods. As a result, an energy efficient, environmentally sound and economically viable process for sludge disposal hardly exists. The most common disposal methods for sludge are spreading on agricultural soil, composting and incineration. Landfilling has been long banned, the use as fertilizer, although very moderate in costs, is being banned in many regions due to concerns about contamination of soils with heavy metals and endocrine disruptive compounds. Composting raises the same concerns, and it is a labor-intensive and unsafe process, which leaves incineration as the most used option, albeit an expensive and not effective one. Incineration entails the highest costs (80-110 € /ton), but is also considered the safest disposal method and is fast growing and widely adopted. It presents also technical difficulties, such as the low overall efficiency of the process, the huge logistic efforts required to transport the sludge to the incineration plants, or the disposal of the ashes after the sludge has been incinerated. In this situation, the proposing company, Ingelia, has the objective to demonstrate and commercialize their proprietary technology for hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) to the conditions of sewage sludge, showing clearly technical and economic advantages compared to incineration. Ingelia aims to increase the amount of sludge converted into high value products such as fuel or activated carbons for water treatment. The HTSew process turns the sewage sludge disposal from a costly process into an income-generating activity.

Keywords: sewage sludge treatment and reuse,hydrothermal carbonization,resource efficiency,eco innovation,carbon products
The Vitality of Disease - Quality of Life in the Making (VITAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 71.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499770.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499770.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Epidemiological reports from around the world suggest that more people than ever before are living with (especially chronic) diseases. As a consequence, sustained efforts to reduce morbidity and mortality rates have been joined by systematised efforts to improve the lives – the quality of life – of those living with disease in ways that are measurable and auditable. VITAL will focus on the making of ‘quality of life’. While social studies of medicine have of late been marked by a ‘bio-turn’, it is apparent that within contemporary medicine, life is envisaged as much more than cellular and molecular activity; it is also a social activity and a personal experience. Not only is life sustained, it is also lived. In recent decades, morbid living – living with disease – has come to be the object of novel forms of knowledge, expertise, measurement and management while also generating new medical practices and attendant ways of relating to oneself. VITAL suggests a shift in attention from the ways in which the social sciences have previously studied morbid living and related issues of quality of life. Rather than continue longstanding efforts to understand how people cope with disease or to refine definitions and instruments for measuring the quality of life of the sick, in VITAL we will empirically study the co-production of ‘quality of life’ within healthcare through four ethnographically-grounded studies of how ‘quality of life’ is assembled, mobilised, negotiated and practiced in concrete medical settings. The four studies will focus on how knowledge about living with disease is assembled and mobilised, on the one hand, and how morbid living is negotiated and practiced on the other. The key outcomes of VITAL will be theoretical advancement of understandings of vitality in the 21st century beyond molecular biology and methodological innovation to facilitate empirical study of co-production processes that involve social science knowledge and practice.

Keywords: quality of life,medical anthropology
Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,Slovenia,Sweden,Switzerland,Greece,Greece,Poland,Norway,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Connecting ESFRI infrastructures through Cluster projects (H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14493360.36
EU funding (EUR): 14455594.08
Participants: 53
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to provide a full-fledged Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) where data, tools, and training are available and accessible for users of SSH data. The focus of the project is determined by the goal to further the innovation of infrastructural support for digital scholarship, to stimulate multidisciplinary collaboration across the various subfields of SSH and beyond, and to increase the potential for societal impact. The intention is to create a European open cloud ecosystem for social sciences and humanities, consisting of an infrastructural and human component. Development, realisation and maintenance of user-friendly tools & services, covering all aspects of the full research data cycle will be built, taking into account human-centric approach and creating links between people, data, services and training. SSHOC will encourage secure environments for sharing and using sensitive and confidential data. Where relevant, the results of EOSC-hub H2020 project will be adopted. The SSHOC will contribute to the Open Science agenda and realising the EOSC. This project aligns with prescribed cluster activities in order to realise a SSH cloud that can fully encompass infrastructural support for the study of social and cultural phenomena. Moreover, the planned SSH Cloud is instrumental to Europe's multilingualism; data in Europe is often available in multiple languages thus making a strong incentive for comparative research of the societal and cultural phenomena that are reflected in language use. The SSH Cloud shall contribute to innovations stemming from the coupling of these heterogeneous data types - and work on the Interoperability principle of FAIR.

Keywords: open science,federated and inclusive eosc,research infrastructures,social science and humanities,esfri,fair data
Predicting of Prokaryotic Defence Distributions (PredProkDef)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: New Zealand,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 272084.16
EU funding (EUR): 272084.16
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Bacteria are crucial for health, nutrient cycling and biotechnology but face a constant pressure from the viruses that infect them (phages). As such, bacteria have evolved a sophisticated suite of defence mechanisms that allow them to evade phages. These defence mechanisms can be classified into two basic classes: selfish or altruistic. A selfish system protects individuals, whereas an altruistic system protects the population. Interestingly, the distribution of this defensive arsenal is uneven, with large variations in the types carried, even among closely related species. This proposal aims to understand the basis of this distribution by using a multi-disciplinary approach that combines the precision of a model laboratory system with cutting-edge metagenomics techniques. Specifically, I will use abortive infection as a model for altruistic defence and CRISPR as a model for selfish defence and test the role of spatial structure in determining the abundance of each type. High spatial structure is predicted to be a key determinant of altruistic defences as it results in proximate bacteria being closely related. I will then apply the findings from the first objectives to classify a novel, recently discovered, defence system. Together, these results will enable researchers to better understand microbial immunity, with key consequences for industry and healthcare. The outgoing phase will take place at the University of Otago, New Zealand, using molecular biology expertise in abortive infection and CRISPR systems. The return phase will take place at the University of Exeter, UK, benefitting from expertise in ecology and evolution. The proposed project will allow me to complement my strong background in genomics and ecology with molecular biology and novel bioinformatic approaches. By working in two world-class research laboratories I will further develop independence and a strong collaborative network for the future.