Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Absorbing aerosol layers in a changing climate: aging, lifetime and dynamics (A-LIFE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Austria,Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1987980.0
EU funding (EUR): 1987980.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Aerosols (i.e. tiny particles suspended in the air) are regularly transported in huge amounts over long distances impacting air quality, health, weather and climate thousands of kilometers downwind of the source. Aerosols affect the atmospheric radiation budget through scattering and absorption of solar radiation and through their role as cloud/ice nuclei. In particular, light absorption by aerosol particles such as mineral dust and black carbon (BC; thought to be the second strongest contribution to current global warming after CO2) is of fundamental importance from a climate perspective because the presence of absorbing particles (1) contributes to solar radiative forcing, (2) heats absorbing aerosol layers, (3) can evaporate clouds and (4) change atmospheric dynamics. Considering this prominent role of aerosols, vertically-resolved in-situ data on absorbing aerosols are surprisingly scarce and aerosol-dynamic interactions are poorly understood in general. This is, as recognized in the last IPCC report, a serious barrier for taking the accuracy of climate models and predictions to the next level. To overcome this barrier, I propose to investigate aging, lifetime and dynamics of absorbing aerosol layers with a holistic end-to-end approach including laboratory studies, airborne field experiments and numerical model simulations. Building on the internationally recognized results of my aerosol research group and my long-term experience with airborne aerosol measurements, the time seems ripe to systematically bridge the gap between in-situ measurements of aerosol microphysical and optical properties and the assessment of dynamical interactions of absorbing particles with aerosol layer lifetime through model simulations. The outcomes of this project will provide fundamental new understanding of absorbing aerosol layers in the climate system and important information for addressing the benefits of BC emission controls for mitigating climate change.

Keywords: climate change,air quality,absorbing aerosol,aerosol long range transport,mixing and aging,aerosol dynamic interaction,aircraft observations,remote sensing,radiative transfer,atmosph models
Space CARBon Observatory (SCARBO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Belgium,France,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Competitiveness in Earth observation mission technologies (H2020-COMPET-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2922622.5
EU funding (EUR): 2922622.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

In October 2015, a group of scientific and technical experts released a report to help the Commission implement a strategy “Towards a European operational observing system to monitor fossil CO2 emissions” [Ciais et al.]. Along the lines of the recommendations of this report, the SCARBO project is tackling the challenge of anthropogenic GHG monitoring by investigating a new concept based on innovative technologies. The project, coordinated by Airbus Defence and Space, is handled by a consortium of 10 European organisations, including scientific institutes, SMEs and industry. From the technological development of a miniaturised static spectrometer to an innovative mission concept based on a constellation of small satellites for the future operational GHG monitoring system, SCARBO will offer unprecedented measurement repetitiveness over the entire globe for the price of two mid-sized satellites. The challenge of the project is to remove the technological and economic roadblocks and solve the difficulties of current GHG missions (uncertainties due to aerosols, provision of both high accuracy measurements and high temporal frequency of measurements within a reasonable cost envelope). SCARBO consists in the detailed design, analysis and modelling of the miniaturised NanoCarb CO2 instrument concept, based on user need requirements and supported by performance simulations of the science data retrieval chain. NanoCarb is complemented by collocated ultra-compact aerosol sensor and CO2 reference instruments in order to deliver high accuracy measurements. The overall measurement concept is experimentally validated through a dedicated airborne campaign featuring instrument prototypes. The adequacy of the proposed concept is further assessed through the analysis of CO2/CH4 related real-life use cases. SCARBO will pave the way for Europe to trace anthropogenic CO2 and CH4 emissions with both a high accuracy and an unprecedented temporal resolution, at an affordable cost.

Keywords: greehouse gases monitoring,carbon dioxide,methane,aerosol,combined retrieval,miniaturised optical sensor,spectrometry technology,small satellites constellation,mission concept,airborne demo
Clean, Versatile and Cost-effective Waste-to-Energy Solution (COSYNAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Two companies with commentary expertise, Indemesa and Dobra, have joined forces to exploit a business opportunity worth tens of million of euros. They have partnered up with Hunosa, a large industrial company with the financial muscle and international presence to ensure the successful commercialisation of COSYNAT. The business opportunity is made possible by a breakthrough standalone solid biomass to heat and power gasification based technology for small power ranges, named COSYNAT. COSYNAT is cost effective (offers a very attractive initial rate of return and low return on investment), it is significantly more versatile (in terms of input waste) and less polluting than comparable solutions. For off grid installations COSYNAT will offer up much lower electricity production costs when biomass is readily available. Moreover, for waste intensive industries it will offer a key reduction in the use of fossil fuels and electricity respectively from the grid and a very large reduction of the costs associated to waste disposal. COSYNAT is at a technology readiness level (TRL) 6 stage of development. The overall aim of the project is to take the technology to TRL9 and to commercialize it. When fully developed COSYNAT will have the following advantages: (1) Small scale, covering an identified market gap. (2) Variable feedstock operation (3) Environmentally friendly: produces syngas with significantly less sustained tar and ash content versus comparable systems. (4) Low CAPEX. (5) Low OPEX. (6) High durability.

Keywords: waste to energy,biomass,off grid energy generation,gasification
Advancing a GMMA-based vaccine against invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis through Phase 1 trial in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa (Vacc-iNTS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,New Zealand,Switzerland,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Burkina Faso,Ghana,Malawi,Kenya
Call: New anti-infective agents for prevention and/or treatment of neglected infectious diseases (NID) (H2020-SC1-2018-Two-Stage-RTD, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7555409.44
EU funding (EUR): 6871188.7299999995
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Invasive non-typhoidal Salmonellosis (iNTS) is an important emerging Neglected Infectious Disease in resource-poor settings of sub-Saharan Africa (sSA). No vaccine is currently available. Estimated 263,000 iNTS deaths per year in <5 year olds, a 20% case fatality rate, difficult diagnosis and increasing antibiotic resistance strongly advocate for rapid development of an effective vaccine. Vacc-iNTS bridges the gap between preclinical and early clinical development of a novel vaccine against iNTS, based on GMMA (Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens) from the most common African iNTS serotypes (Typhimurium and Enteritidis). The highly cost-effective GMMA-technology, developed by partner 2, is based on outer membrane blebs released by genetically modified bacteria. Clinical proof-of-concept for the GMMA-technology was achieved with a Shigella sonnei vaccine in European and African adults. In animals, iNTS-GMMA were highly immunogenic and induced antibodies with bactericidal activity against African iNTS strains. Simple, robust and scalable manufacturing processes for iNTS-GMMA, suited for sSA, have been developed. Vacc-iNTS proposes GMP manufacturing of clinical lots followed by a two-stage Phase 1 trial in healthy European and African adults to investigate safety and immunogenicity of the iNTS-GMMA vaccine. Analysis include serum antibody levels and functionality, cellular responses, transcriptomics and data integration through a systems biology approach. Sero-epidemiological analysis will be conducted to provide essential data for future Phase 2 and 3 trials. Vacc-iNTS will also strengthen a collaborative network of iNTS experts from academia, industry and non-profit including partners from disease-endemic countries of sSA. The network will generate data to accelerate further vaccine development, enhance awareness, drive advocacy and vaccine deployment in limited-resources disease-endemic countries, tackling major roadblocks in advancing a vaccine against iNTS.

Keywords: invasive non typhoidal salmonella
European Industrial Doctorate for enhancing upstream biopharmaceutical manufacturing process development through single cell analysis (STACCATO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Germany,Ireland,Finland,Sweden,Switzerland,Sweden,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2924526.24
EU funding (EUR): 2924526.24
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Our ability to utilise biological systems to produce medicines has improved the quality of life for millions of EU citizens. In recent years a new wave of exciting biopharmaceuticals have been discovered with the potential to advance current treatments for a variety of disorders. These new medicines, however, are becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manufacture. Overcoming the inherent heterogeneity of cells grown in vitro to produce effective, uniform and safe biopharmaceuticals is one of the most significant challenges faced by industry today. The STACCATO European Industrial Doctorate has been specifically designed to strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity and leadership in the BioPharma sector. The consortium will provide exceptional intersectoral training to 11 ESRs through pioneering research focused on harnessing recent advances in single cell analysis to generate and apply a new suite of tools for cell culture process development. ESRs will participate in a specialised training programme to build their proficiency in essential research and industry disciplines. Additional training in professional skills and entrepreneurship will enable ESRs to become future leaders in biopharmaceutical manufacturing science. STACCATO is composed of an industry leader in instrumentation for cellular analysis, 3 innovative biotechnology SMEs, a leading academic institution and a research conducting biological medicines regulatory agency. The STACCATO EID will immerse all ESRs in highly dynamic industrial environments while receiving supervision from leading academics. A feature of STACCATO is collaboration amongst experts in the production of different biopharmaceuticals such as therapeutic proteins and CAR T cell therapy. All ESRs will receive unparalleled exposure to pan-biopharmaceutical manufacturing challenges to foster collaboration, catalyse synergies across the network and ultimately create a truly unique training experience.

Keywords: biopharmaceutical manufacturing,bioprocess development,single cell analysis,gene therapy,cell therapy,therapeutic protein,vaccine,oncolytic virus,next generation sequencing,mass spectrometry
Archiving post-1960s experimental music: Exploring the ontology of music beyond the score-performance dichotomy (ARPOEXMUS)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-06
End date: 2024-10-08
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276498.24
EU funding (EUR): 276498.24
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

ARPOEXMUS explores what role musicology can play in ensuring the storage, preservation, management and curation of post-1960s experimental music. For the first time, this project addresses the theoretical, ontological, methodological and ethical issues that arise from archiving the heterogenous instruments, objects, electronic devices, software, and custom-built materials that have been at the heart of sonic arts for the past 60 years. Drawing on a set of comparative case studies, ARPOEXMUS engages with three different paradigms: 1) objects as scores, instruments and sculptures and their preservation in musical archives; 2) custom-made electronic instruments and collaborations with science and technology museums; 3) obsolescence and digital heritage. These will be tackled using insights from contemporary musicology and archival studies that challenge the assumptions of permanence and stability upon which the ‘work concept’ is based. ARPOEXMUS uses qualitative data analysis, comparative analysis, media theory, and action-based research to explore in detail: 1) the ontologies set forth by each case study; 2) current conservation practices to archive and conserve these ontologies; 3) innovative conservation practices designed specifically for these new ontologies. Bringing together an ER whose expertise covers 1960s and ’70s experimental music and archiving, a Supervisor who is a leading voice in the process of decolonisation and diversity in music studies and a Co-Supervisor who is a leading scholar in contemporary digital musics and sound art, ARPOEXMUS will contribute new insights and initiatives for scholars, archivists, and practitioners.

Keywords: experimental music,electronic music,music archive,music ontology
Crystal phase engineering of Au nanoparticles for enhanced solar fuel generation (C[Au]PSULE)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Belgium
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): 166320.0
EU funding (EUR): 166320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Artificial photocatalysis that converts CO2 into carbon fuels or produces clean energy such as H2 or NH3 from water and N2 using solar energy is an effective strategy to effectively reduce the carbon footprint and to develop a low carbon emission economy and sustainable energy in the future. Noble metal decorated photocatalysts have widely been investigated for improving the photocatalytic performance, however the effect of noble metal crystal phases on the photocatalytic performance is still an unexplored field. This project aims at exploiting the reduced coordination of surface metal atoms in non-standard crystal phases of metallic gold (Au) to create more effective photocatalysts. Specifically, the relationship between the Au crystal phase and the photoactivity of Au-perovskite composites will be systematically investigated by combining various advanced characterization techniques. Additionally, for achieving highly efficient Au-perovskite photocatalysts the modification of non-standard crystal phase Au by constructing crystal-phase-heterostructure and alloying with atom-thick metal shell and the optimization of charge migration pathways in the composites will be performed. Using single molecule fluorescence microscopy, the photocatalytic reaction pathways and the dynamics process over Au-perovskite photocatalysts will be elucidated.

Keywords: gold,crystal phase,perovskite,photocatalysis,solar to energy conversion,single molecule fluorescence microscopy
Modelling Complex Networks Through Graph Editing Problems (PROXNET)

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: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 208400.4
EU funding (EUR): 208400.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the PROXNET project, which will be realised during the mobility of Christophe Crespelle in the Algorithms group of Bergen, is to open a new way for analysing, modelling and managing complex networks, through graph editing problems. The reason why these networks are said to be complex is that they are loosely structured, due to the part of uncertainty and randomness they contain. On the other hand, the real-world context where they come from strongly constrains their organisation and gives them some specific structure. The difficulty in retrieving this structure is that it is altered by the noise resulting from the uncertainty and randomness that these networks contain. In the PROXNET project, we will retrieve the hidden structures of complex networks thanks to graph editing problems, which consist in changing some adjacencies of the graph in order to obtain a desired property. We will develop the algorithms necessary to solve graph editing problems relevant to our approach on huge instances of graphs, we will apply them to real-world datasets and use the results obtained in order to design new models of complex networks. One key theoretic challenge in this context is to optimally solve the editing problems considered, which are computationally difficult (NP-hard). A very promising technique to do so is preprocessing. It consists in reducing the size of the instance by applying some reduction rules, in such a way that the optimal solution on the reduced instance is the same as the one on the original instance. The Algorithms group of the University of bergen is a world-wide leader on this topic which will constitute the main training action of Christophe Crespelle during his mobility.

Keywords: graph algorithms,complex networks,graph modification problems,preprocessing techniques
Open virtual neighbourhood network to connect intelligent buildings and smart objects (VICINITY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Norway,Greece,Slovakia,Slovenia,Greece,Norway,Slovakia,Portugal,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7499007.5
EU funding (EUR): 7499007.5
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The lack of interoperability is considered as the most important barrier to achieve the global integration of IoT ecosystems across borders of different disciplines, vendors and standards. Indeed, the current IoT landscape consists of a large set of isolated islands that do not constitute a real internet, preventing the exploitation of the huge potential expected by ICT visionaries. To overcome this situation, VICINITY presents a virtual neighborhood concept, which is a decentralized, bottom-up and cross-domain approach that resembles a social network, where users can configure their set ups, integrate standards according to the services they want to use and fully control their desired level of privacy. VICINITY then automatically creates technical interoperability up to the semantic level. This allows users without technical background to get connected to the vicinity ecosystem in an easy and open way, fulfilling the consumers needs. Furthermore, the combination of services from different domains together with privacy-respectful user-defined share of information, enables synergies among services from those domains and opens the door to a new market of domain-crossing services. VICINITY's approach will be demonstrated by a large-scale demonstration connecting 8 facilities in 7 different countries. The demonstration covers various domains including energy, building automation, health and transport. VICINITY's potential to create new, domain-crossing services will be demonstrated by value added services such as micro-trading of DSM capabilities, AI-driven optimization of smart urban districts and business intelligence over IoT. Open calls are envisioned in the project to integrate further, preferably public, IoT infrastructures and to deploy additional added value services. This will not only extend the scale of VICINITY demonstration, but also efficiently raise the awareness of industrial communities of VICINITY and its capabilities.

Keywords: iot interoperability decentralized web2 0 neighborhood vicinity