Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
imPROved Maritime awarENess by means of AI and BD mEthods (PROMENADE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Strengthen security through border management
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Lithuania,Belgium,Greece,Greece,Greece,France,Portugal
Call: Demonstration of applied solutions to enhance border and external security (H2020-SU-SEC-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6065823.75
EU funding (EUR): 4997555.63
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Maritime Domain Awareness is the combination of activities, events and threats in the maritime environment that could have impact on marine activities and EU territory. During the past decades, advances in Information and Communication Technologies have provided better means to monitor and analyse vessel activity. Today private and public source of data such the Automatic Identification System or space related data can be combined with Vessel Traffic Services, Vessel Traffic Management Systems and Vessel Traffic Monitoring & Information Systems data enabling the development of value added information resulted by the combination of such data. European waters are navigated daily by some 12,000 vessels, which share their positions to avoid collisions, generating a huge number of positional messages every month. It is important that this overabundance of information will not overwhelm the marine operator in charge for decision-making. The challenge is twofold: on one side encourage the exchange of heterogeneous data among administration valorising the CISE network currently in place, on the other exploit at the best these datasets by means of automated processing in a way to minimise false alert that might results by an incorrect processing or interpretation of the results. PROMENADE will improve solutions for the vessel tracking, behaviour analysis and automatic anomaly detection by means of the application Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data (BD) technologies, and to promote collaborative exchange of information between maritime surveillance authorities, shortening the time to market and assuring the compliance with legal and ethical regulations. An open, service-based toolkit implementing “state of art” AI / BD techniques also benefiting of HPC (High Performance Computing) platform is the core activity of the project. The project’s developments will be demonstrated and evaluated in 3 operational scenarios and 1 simulated defined by Border Guards Authorities.

Keywords: maritime domain awareness,vessel,ship,artificial intelligence,big data,high performance computing,classification,behaviour analysis,pattern detection,anomaly detection,risk assessment
CardioSignal – Breakthrough apps to detect cardiac conditions to prevent stroke and heart attacks (CARDIOSIGNAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2803750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1962625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CardioSignal is a suite of breakthrough smartphone apps to detect heart conditions and save lives. It will be the first technology to identify atrial fibrillation (AFib), heart failure (HF) and coronary artery disease (CAD) - all without extra hardware. Using CardioSignal, people at risk of serious cardiac conditions and their doctors can monitor their heart function quickly and at low cost. The app measures chest vibrations and analyses data in the cloud. Patients with abnormalities are directed to immediate medical attention. It outperforms Apple Watch, which cannot accurately detect AFib and is incapable of detecting CAD & HF. Context: 49 million Europeans suffer from cardiovascular conditions annually, resulting in heart attacks and stroke. Early detection and follow-up could save millions of lives. Solution: CardioSignal apps use a smartphone's gyroscope and accelerometer to measure heart activity across six parameters. Users place the smartphone on their chest for 60 seconds. The cloud-based platform analyses data and returns a diagnosis. Business Model: (1) HF & CAD: B2B sales to private healthcare companies, big pharma, diagnostics firms. Pharma companies Roche and Novartis are ready to conduct trials, leading to major contracts. (2) AFib: B2B2C sales. Market Opportunity: 300M potential users in EU, 1B globally. €4.2B TAM in target countries. Company: Precordior Oy, a medtech spin-off from University of Turku, Finland. Team of 13 highly experienced cardiologists, technologists and sales experts. €3M in funding secured, ready to grow. Progress: V1 app for AFib detection complete, clinically proven. 19 patents secured. EU Seal of Excellence. Project: Develop new apps for HF and CAD. Obtain regulatory approval. Launch across EU; US and China to follow. Impact by 2025: 1.27M at-risk patients and doctors using app daily in EU, USA and China. €85M revenue, €38M EBITDA, 250 FTE.
E-ferry – prototype and full-scale demonstration of next generation 100% electrically powered ferry for passengers and vehicles (E-ferry)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Norway,Greece,Norway,Finland,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Towards the energy efficient and emission free vessel (H2020-MG-2014_TwoStages, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21303820.74
EU funding (EUR): 15141035.879999999
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

E-ferry addresses the urgent need for reducing European CO2 emissions and air pollution from waterborne transportation by demonstrating the feasibility of a 100% electrically powered, emission free, medium sized ferry for passengers and cars, trucks and cargo relevant to island communities, coastal zones and inland waterways. The vessel will be based on a newly developed, energy efficient design concept and demonstrated in full-scale operation on longer distances than previously seen for electric drive train ferries (> 5 Nm), i.e. the medium range connections Soeby-Fynshav (10.7 Nm) and Soeby-Faaborg (9.6 Nm) in the Danish part of the Baltic Sea, connecting the island of Aeroe (Ærø) to the mainland. E-ferry builds on the Danish ERDF funded project Green Ferry Vision proving feasibility of the concept to be demonstrated and indicating significant potential impacts compared to conventionally fuelled ferries operating on the same medium range routes; energy savings of up to 50%, annual emission reductions of approx. 2,000 tonnes CO2, 41,500 kg NOx, 1,350 kg SO2 and 2,500 kg particulates. E-ferry is likely to be the one with the largest battery-pack ever installed in a ferry with a record breaking high charging power capacity of up to 4 MW allowing for short port stays. On top of being 100% powered by electricity, the innovative novelties of the E-ferry design concept and its expected impacts addresses flaws in current state-of-the-art by demonstrating a concept based on optimised hull-shape, lightweight equipment and carbon composite materials, ensuring reduced weight by up to 60% on parts replaced by composite elements. Approval of the use of carbon fibre-reinforced composite modules in E-ferry’s superstructure according regulation through material and fire testing also is key to the project. The strong industrial, maritime and public partners also will assure dissemination of results and push for a widespread market up-take of the E-ferry concept.

Keywords: electric ferry,island communities,coastal zones,inland waterways,emission free,air pollution reduction,optimised hull shape,computational fluid dynamics,carbon composite materials
Improved Patient Safety through Intensive Biosignal Monitoring (IPSIBiM)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hospitals can experience difficulty in detecting and responding to early signs of patient deterioration, leading to late intensive care referrals, excess mortality and morbidity, and increased costs. Joint replacement is a very common orthopaedic operation that raises additional clinical and safety questions. Caring for the orthopaedic patient requires a multidisciplinary team and treatment that includes: acute pain control, monitoring for post-operative complications venous thromboembolic prophylaxis, early ambulation, and rehabilitation. The major limitation of early warning systems is that they are based on manual checks performed by nursing staff, and that the observations, and therefore detection, only occur intermittently. Additionally, the false-alarm rate of such monitors is generally so high that the alarms are usually ignored. Despite recent developments in automated wireless systems that continuously record vital signals, a method for detecting patterns of deterioration that are specific to unique patient populations has not yet been studied. IPSIBiM targets the development of a system dedicated to post-operative orthopaedic patients monitoring based on wireless recording of real-time vital signs and analytical algorithms capable of providing guidance to clinicians of early signs of deterioration. The innovation in the project consists of four main elements: measurement of new vital signs in a wireless system; novel methods for deriving features and building models to measure recovery; automated pain measurement in post-operative patients; principled methods for novelty detection. The proposed concept will be implemented in a clinical feasibility study, where technical aims related to setting up the system, reliability and failures will be studied along with outcome measures for clinical evaluation. The research programme is highly multi-disciplinary as it will require expertise in sensor design, machine learning algorithms and medical applications.

Keywords: early warning system,machine learning,orthopaedic patients,vital signs deterioration,pain monitoring
SMALL-SCALE ANAEROBIC DIGESTION FOR AFFORDABLE, EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FARMS WASTE (GASFARM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sereco Biotest S.N.C. is an Italian company leader in the field of advanced environmental services. They are specialised providers of fore-front R&D solutions in the environmental technology and industrial ecology fields. This eagerness to find innovative and efficient industry solutions whilst protecting the environment has resulted in the development of GASFARM, a small-size anaerobic digester based on Anaerobic Baffled Reactor technology. GASFARM will be used by small and medium farms (SMFs) from livestock and agricultural industry, currently unable to manage their residues affordably. This novel anaerobic digester is techno efficient, as it is optimized and adapted to small companies’ performance and cost requirements. It allows on-site waste treatment avoiding transportation costs and civil engineering, while recovering valuable resources like biogas or nutrients (N, P). The small-scale anaerobic digester has several technical advantages which overcome the technique barriers that have prevented anaerobic digestion to be successful among small agricultural enterprises. This solution requires far less reaction volumes compared to ordinary Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactors (CSTR), decreases in 50-70% the use of chemical fertilizers, has higher efficiency performance rates and it is easy to install, transport and handle reducing costs. Therefore, the adoption of this small scale anaerobic baffled reactor will become biogas plants a matter of industrial production rather than customized engineering, making the whole process much more profitable.

Keywords: anaerobic digestion,biogas,small farms,animal waste,waste management,chemical fertilizers,pig slurry,pig manure,anaerobic digester,small and medium farms
High sensitivity, portable photonic device for pervasive water quality analysis (WaterSpy)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (cPPP)
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Switzerland,Poland
Call: Photonics KET 2016 (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4133301.25
EU funding (EUR): 3049206.74
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Pervasive and on-line water quality monitoring data is critical for detecting environmental pollution. However, it’s not easy to gather such data, at least not for all contaminants. Currently, water utilities rely heavily on frequent sampling and laboratory analysis in order to acquire this information. For this situation to be improved, portable and high-performance devices for pervasive water quality monitoring are required. Towards this end, there has been growing interest in expanding spectroscopic methods beyond the 2μm range of the infrared spectrum. That region of the spectrum is home to many vibrational & rotational absorptions of compounds related to water quality. Unfortunately, water itself is a strong absorber of infrared light. Thus, such methods were restricted to laboratory settings until now. WaterSpy addresses this challenge by developing water quality detection photonics technology suitable for inline, field measurements, operating in the 6-10 μm region. The solution is based on the combined use of advanced, tuneable Quantum Cascade Lasers and fibre-coupled, fast & sensitive Higher Operation Temperature photodetectors. Together with these new components, optimized laser driving and detector electronics as well as laser modulation concepts will be developed. Attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy will be used to give rise to the biochemical profile of the surface chemistry of the sample. Targeted analytes will be specific heterotrophic bacterial cells. Several novel techniques are employed in order to increase the SNR, including antibodies capable of binding the targeted analytes and a novel pre-concentration method. WaterSpy technology will be integrated, for validation purposes, to a commercially successful water quality monitoring platform, in the form of a portable device add-on. WaterSpy will be used in the field for the analysis of critical points of water distribution networks. This will be demonstrated in two different demo sites in Italy

Keywords: bacteria measurement in water,portable water analytical device,photonics for water quality,tunable quantum cascade lasers,hot photodetectors,atr spectroscopy
SPEciation and dynamiCs of TRace Elements (SPECTRE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Australia,France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 204025.5
EU funding (EUR): 204025.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Ever-increasing production of waste requires new provisions for waste management to ensure sustainable development. The use of organic waste (OW) as fertiliser is a promising route but may represent an environmental pathway for flows of contaminants. In Europe and across the world, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and trace elements (TEs) are seen as two major threats to environmental and human health. Overcoming the lack of knowledge of the role of TEs as a selective agent in the proliferation of ARGs is a major scientific challenge today. The overall objectives of SPECTRE are to (i) link the spatial distribution of TE speciation in OWs with the development of resistance at microscale and (ii) to assess the fate of TEs and ARGs in the OW-soil-plant system. During the SPECTRE project, I will take full advantage of my time at the interdisciplinary Future Industries Institute (FII, University of South Australia) to acquire new skills in molecular biology to screen interesting bacterial community members and (ii) increase my expertise in TE speciation by harnessing the analytical power of a spectroscopic cutting-edge technique. This training will position me as a leader in Europe in this rapidly advancing field. Furthermore, the unique FII environment will enable me to develop my transversal skills and gain experience in the management of public-private research partnerships. Knowledge transfer (blended learning, hands-on training, training-through-research) is essential to broaden the scope of my research as well as reinforce my future career prospects. Beyond the publication of scientific papers, I will make a particular effort to ensure that the results are widely disseminated to different audiences: schoolchildren (social networking, video link facilities), school teachers (professional development), end-users in the agro-environmental sector (workshop, seminar) and MSc students (e-learning).

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance,antibiotic resistance,trace element,heavy metal,organic waste,agricultural recycling,availability,bioavailability,speciation,spectroscopy,synchrotron
The desire of explore to reach new frontiers (Wanderlust)

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: Spain
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 283310.0
EU funding (EUR): 120000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Wanderlust is the Zaragoza European Researchers Night 8th edition design to aproach researchers to general public. We chose Wanderlust because it means travel, it menas the desire to know more, to reach new places, to be inspired from different cultures. We think it is a metaphore, and it represents the spirit of the researchers life, and it easy connect with people. It also a good approach to the european dimension of the research, and it is easy researchers identificate themself with the project. The event will be a "fiesta" of outreach in Zaragoza. The last year we have increase awareness of public, we increase visitors, researchers involve and we managed to create a group of stakeholdes who support the project. The key of the susccess of our event is the know how of ESCIENCIA who manage the project in Aragon from 2011, becouse it is a SME speciallize in science communication. We support researchers to deseign their activities, we train them how to speak to public, and we work both with enthusiastic public and science reluctant public in our project. The wanderlust is a perfect claim to address public at large. It is an easy way to citizens to become part of the event. The feeling of explore is a common point for most public. We are working with Educational deparments of Spannish, Aragon and Zaragoza governments. We have already signed letter of endorsement of Aragon and Zaragoza. The project has a Science Fair as a point ot reach pupils. It is an effective way to rise awareness prior to the event, to involve schools and communicate "science is fun" to young people. In the three last edition we have pool the participants and the remark the Science Fair as "Fun and Challenged". The European Researchers Night in Zaragoza will take place in the Center of the city, in the whereabouts of CaxiaForum one of the most emblematic and futuristics buildings of Zaragoza. We will make aware of the night 375.000 people and 16000 will take part in activities.

Keywords: outreach,general public,caixaforum zaragoza,education,science fair,hands on,geocaching game,teatre,edutainment,mscfellows,show,humorous mologues,music
NEgotiation and MEdiation Sensible Issues' Solutions (NEMESIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-15
End date: 2022-04-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Inspired by the greek goddess Nemesis, personification of "Distribution of Justice", neither good nor bad, simply in due proportion to each according to what was deserved. My research is focused on new dispute resolution methods, applying also new technologies, especially online dispute resolution platforms. Seraphin is an online centre whose proceedings have been entirely digitized. Seraphin is well-known for their arbitration centre, enabling the efficient resolution of commercial disputes, but they are currently developing other platforms for Mediation and Negotiation. Nemesis will focus on the link between the advanced research on online dispute resolution - from an academic perspective - and the real online world - with all the different cases and practical issues to face off on a daily basis - in order to develop a common path with solid research basis, due to the state of the art and best practices acquired during my academic career, and a practical/pragmatic mindset, due to the issues faced everyday on the online Seraphin platforms. This project concerns legal research with interdisciplinary aspects, incorporating insights from disciplines such as computer science, economics, and regulation theory. While scholars and regulators are concerned about forms and numbers of ODR providers, an in-depth study of the practical implications of e-mediation is lacking. This project is among the first to apply academic and practical perspective to e-mediation. The desk research will be enriched with insights from the workshops – an innovative approach for legal research.

Keywords: access to justice,alternative dispute resolution adr,online dispute resolution odr