Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enhanced Buying Experiences in SMART CITIES (SMARTBUY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Sweden,France
Call: Integrating experiments and facilities in FIRE+ (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1669087.82
EU funding (EUR): 1420775.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

SMARTBUY intends to provide the technological infrastructure for small and medium sized retailers to become THE PLACE to buy for the people that don’t want to lose the advantages of in-store purchasing at the same time that they want to experiment the advantages of eCommerce; comparison of prices, choice of providers, reviews and specification awareness, etc. Smart Buying converts Smart Cities’ physical stores in a Smart geographically distributed mall by providing the logical consistency needed for conducting centralized searches in heterogeneous and geographically distributed physical stores. SMARTBUY project pursues the following main scientific, technical and business objectives: • Analyse and take advantage of the available infrastructures provided by ORGANICITY Project in the framework of the FIRE initiative as well as the IoT Innovation Lab for the validation of the Smart Buying platform. • Customization of a Cloud secure platform for the provision of services supporting the process of ubiquitous smart buying. Services provision to potential customers • Provision of customized multichannel systems for the interaction of potential customers with the platform. Web portal and Mobile Apps (for Android and IOs) with geolocation capabilities. • Validate Smart Buying system on top of the FIRE infrastructures provided by ORGANICITY project and IoT Innovation Lab. • Enhance and improve Smart Cities ecosystem by the incorporation of a smart and highly replicable system • Guarantee the access of SME retailers to Smart Buying System. This proposal relates to the Topic ICT-12-2015 Integrating experiments and facilities in FIRE+. In order to address the specific callenges of this topic, Smart Buying will be based on mature components provided by the partners of the consortium and FIRE infrastucture. The project will be validated on top of the infrastructures provided by ICT-11-2014 project “ORGANICITY” Project in the framework of the FIRE initiative.

Keywords: showrooming,webrooming,online shopping,geolocated marketing services,mobile applications,retailers,smes
Post-Snowden Circuits and Design Methods for Security (Cathedral)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2369250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2369250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Summary: Comprehensive set of circuits and design methods to create next generation electronic circuits with strong built-in trust and security. Electronics are integrating/invading into the human environment at an amazing speed, called the Internet-of-Things and next the Internet-of-Everything. This creates huge security problems. Distributed (e.g. body) sensors, pick up often very private data, which is sent digitally into the cloud, over wireless and wired links. Protection of this data relies on high-quality cryptographic algorithms and protocols. The nodes need to be cheap and lightweight, making them very vulnerable to eavesdropping and abuse. Moreover, post-Snowden, society realizes that the attack capabilities of intelligence agencies, and probably following soon of organized crime and other hackers, are orders of magnitude stronger than imagined. Thus there is a strong demand to re-establish trust in ICT systems. In this proposal we focus on the root of trust: the digital hardware. The overall objective is to provide fundamental enabling technologies for secure trustworthy digital circuits which can be applied in a wide range of applications. To master complexity, digital hardware design is traditionally split into different abstraction layers. We revisit these abstraction layers from a security viewpoint: we look at process variations to the benefit of security, standard cell compatible digital design flow with security as design objective, hardware IP blocks for next generation cryptographic algorithms and protocols (e.g. authenticated encryption schemes, post-quantum public key schemes), integration into embedded HW/SW platforms, and methods to provide trust evidence to higher levels of abstraction. To strengthen the security we investigate the links between the layers. Finally an embedded application is selected as design driver, the security evaluation of which will be fed back to the individual layers.

Keywords: secure electronic circuits,digital hardware,electronic design methods,resistance to attacks,hardware security evaluations
The Magnetised Cosmic Web (MAGCOW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Germany,Italy
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 67.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1465943.0
EU funding (EUR): 1265943.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

On large scales cosmic matter is distributed in a web consistent of clusters, filaments, walls and voids. While the dark-matter skeleton of the cosmic web is closely traced by galaxies and galaxy clusters, the gaseous distribution has never been directly imaged at any wavelength. This situation might change within the next decade, thanks to the new generation of radio instruments that will survey the sky: LOFAR, MWA, ASKAP and the Square Kilometer Array. Non-thermal components, relativistic particles and magnetic fields are thought to have a spatial distribution that is broader than that of thermal baryons. For this reason, the new generation of radio telescopes should might be able to detect the tip of the iceberg from the rarefied intergalactic medium, provided that magnetic fields are sufficiently amplified in these regions. The detectable signal is expected to be weak and complex because of the contribution from radio galaxies and to the presence of diffuse fore- and backgrounds. The developments proposed in this ERC proposal are exactly designed to address this complexity, and turn future radio observations into a unique probe of the growth of magnetic fields and of the acceleration of particles. This will be possible through the theoretical exploration of plasmas in extreme conditions with sophisticated numerical simulations. With these simulations I will be able to predict the specific radio signature for the origin of extragalactic fields. This will enable the community to use radio surveys in a quantitative way and to determine the origin of extragalactic magnetism, a longstanding puzzle connected to many open questions of modern astrophysics. The legacy of this project will be its quantitative representation of non-thermal processes on the largest scales, ultimately going to be fully exploited by the Square Kilometer Array.
CROSS FERTILISATION THROUGH ALIGNMENT, SYNCHRONISATION AND EXCHANGES FOR IoT (CREATE-IoT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Norway,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal
Call: IoT Horizontal activities (H2020-IOT-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3718972.65
EU funding (EUR): 2999999.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

CREATE-IoT’s aim is to stimulate collaboration between IoT initiatives, foster the take up of IoT in Europe and support the development and growth of IoT ecosystems based on open technologies and platforms. This requires synchronisation and alignment on strategic and operational terms through frequent, multi-directional exchanges between the various activities under the IoT Focus Areas (FAs). It also requires cross fertilisation of the various IoT Large Scale Pilots (LSPs) for technological and validation issues of common interest across the various application domains and use cases. CREATE-IoT will align the activities with the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) and will coordinate and support the upcoming LSPs in sustaining the ecosystems developed during those projects through mapping the pilot architecture approaches, address interoperability and standards approaches at technical and semantic levels for object connectivity, protocols, data formats, privacy, security, trusted IoT, open APIs and share the road-mapping with international initiatives. The project will foster the exchange on requirements for legal accompanying measures, development of common methodologies and KPI for design, testing and validation and for success and impact measurement, federation of pilot activities and transfer to other pilot areas, facilitating the access for IoT entrepreneurs/API developers/makers, SMEs, including combination of ICT & Art. CREATE-IoT will build strong connections with Member States' initiatives and other initiatives and will transfer learning points to the broader IoT policy framework that include contractual PPPs (e.g. Big Data, Factories of the Future, 5G-infrastructure), Joint Technology Initiatives (e.g. ECSEL), European Innovation Partnerships (e.g. on Smart Cities) as well as other FAs (e.g. on Autonomous transport). It will also maintain a coordinated working relationship with the parallel CSA that is centere on RRI-SSH.

Keywords: security,privacy,trust,standardisation
Conscripted Volunteering: An Ethnographic Study of Community Engagement Schemes in the Israeli Military (ConscriptedVolunteer)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Militaries increasingly engage their soldiers in activities framed as ‘community engagement’ or ‘volunteering’, ranging from facilitating activities for children to delivering food to the needy. ‘Conscripted volunteering’, as I term this phenomenon, is part of a broader ‘moralization’ of contemporary society that glorifies ‘volunteering’ as a prominent route for ethical conduct. Under neoliberalism, ‘volunteering’ becomes an object of intensified political interest and promotion. While ‘volunteering’ that is facilitated by militaries can be considered as a means to enhance their public legitimacy, inspired by corporate techniques of reputation management, I propose to analyse it also as a governmentality technique that reinforces the ideological and ethical adherence of soldiers. The proposed research project explores the intensive implementation of ‘conscripted volunteering’ in the Israeli military, a military which is considered a paradigmatic case in studies of armed forces. The project provides a theoretically-informed, in-depth ethnographic account of a phenomenon that has so far been neglected in the literature. It examines why and how ‘conscripted volunteering’ emerged and became widespread in the Israeli military, how these volunteering schemes are assembled, organised and managed, and how this new type of soldiers’ engagement affects their notions of morality, citizenship and subjecthood. These questions are addressed through in-depth interviews, participant observations and content analysis. The project uniquely converges the thematic areas of military studies and volunteering research; it brings together the candidate’s expertise in studying the rise of ‘volunteering’ with the host institute’s specialization in anthropology of military and security. The project contributes to the increasing interest in military-civic entanglements, and to the critical analysis of the emergence of ‘volunteering’, and of its causes, meanings and implications.

Keywords: volunteering,israel,militarization,civil society,ethnography,subjectivities,ethics,armed forces,military anthropology,neoliberalism,governmentality,humanitarianism
THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL UNIQUE SOCIAL ECOSYSTEM CONNECTING ATHLETS, APPS, PRODUCTS AND COMPANIES AROUND THE SPORT SECTOR. (RunIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

An estimate of 50 million Europeans, 12% of the total population, are engaged in running as a way to stay healthy and/or to challenge themselves and there has been a marked surge in running events all over Europe with more people running marathons than ever before. The total consumer expenditure per year is calculated in 9.596.363.000€ in Europe. This represents an average of 192€ per runner per year. RunIN solves the actual problem that sporty people and vendors face when looking for information, tickets/products/ equipment or consumers respectively as there is no site of reference and it is all scattered today.. RunIN connects and integrates different vertical services related to running, biking and triathlon through a unique, usable, social and friendly ecosystem that allows monetizing this huge market since consumers easily find what they look for and vendors can also reach consumers. RunIN will disrupt the existing sports sector by changing the current business paradigm taking into account new opportunities arising from having an unique “Sport Identity” and stimulating under one single platform a more collaborative and social interaction between the different stakeholders and consumers. This innovation is made possible thanks to Big Data, Mining, Machine Learning and Business Intelligence techniques. The information and set of services that revolve around the social layer of the ecosystem is the niche market that RunIN aims to capitalize. With the right functionalities, athletes and companies start interacting within the RunIN ecosystem, which allows to monetize both B2B and B2C opportunities. Thanks to the SME Instrument support (which speeds up the adequate team growth, communication plan, technological roadmap implementation and commercialization of RunIN from 2018), the company expects to create by 2020 over 40 high qualification jobs and generating a turnover of more than 21M€.

Keywords: running,athletes,new bussiness competitions,marathons,sports,social,market opportunity,data mining,machine learning,business intelligence
Fuel Cells HydroGen educatiOnal model for schools (FCHgo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Poland,Denmark
Call: Strengthening public acceptance and awareness of FCH-technologies by educating pupils at schools (H2020-JTI-FCH-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 502498.75
EU funding (EUR): 502498.75
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

FCH have a central role to play in the development of renewable energy sources and, consequently, in the reduction of environmental damage caused by conventional energy sources such coal or oil. A dedicated model of education is needed, especially one directed at the coming generations, in order to make the ecological thinking a fundamental part of our culture and habits, in the context of the industrial priorities in this field. Working out such forms of education is the purpose of FCHgo. Along the project, a wide activity of dissemination of a toolkit for teachers and pupils at the primary and secondary school level will be realized, ensuring technical and pedagogical excellence. Our methodological approach - takes into account the cognitive tools of pupils at various stages of development - uses different forms of expression by employing narrative forms of communication and - includes the presence of stakeholders and industries active in the field, to tell the stories of successful applications and fostering careers in this field. FCHgo will result in a set of tools, namely: an educational toolkit with narrative explanations of the technology, its functioning and applications, translated in 10 European languages; a website as connecting point for all the users and containing a wiki-space; a set of workshops in the classrooms of 6 countries, involving pupils from 8 to 18 to test and improve upon the materials and set the indicators for the activities’ evaluation; the first edition of an annual award to the best idea/solution to employ FCH, including an award ceremony; a final guideline describing an educational program delivery model, linked to priorities defined by industry.

Keywords: fuel cells hydrogen technologies,social acceptance,narrative approach,renewable energy sources,training of trainers,stakeholder involvement
Ground-breaking rotating biological contactor concept for small WWTP (DISKIFAS)

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: 2020-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Wastewater treatment plants current main need is to remove nitrogen from waste water with an effective procedure and a reduced energy cost. This is of particular relevance for small size populations (accounting for up to 70 % of the market), now that the compliance with the regulation is going to be more strictly required. However, the process involved – which covers nitrification and denitrification- is highly energy demanding, implying high economic costs. Most current technologies consume large amounts of energy and the few technologies solving energetic issues (based on biodiscs) are not able to satisfactory handle denitrification phase, remaining treatment process uncompleted. In this context, ACAI DEPURACION S.L. has developed DISKIFAS, the unique solution in the global market to efficiently remove nitrogen with low energy consumption, by means of the incorporation of an anoxic reactor to the biodisc technology. This technical achievement requires an optimal adhesion of nitrifying bacteria to the biodisc, as well as the adjustment of the wastage and influent flow.

Keywords: biodiscs
Plain language for financial content: Assessing the impact of training on students' revisions and readers' comprehension (PLanTra)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166320.0
EU funding (EUR): 166320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With the responsibility for financial decisions shifting from institutions to individuals, the ability to understand financial information (known as ‘financial literacy’) is paramount. Having reduced financial literacy results in higher risk of over-indebtedness, and in reduced ability to manage one’s wealth. Text simplification, involving the use of plain language, is one of the strategies adopted to meet the needs of low-literacy readers. The comprehensibility of financial texts has received attention at the European level. An action plan developed as part of the EU policy on consumer financial services lists opaque terms and conditions among the concerns raised by customers when conducting cross-border shopping. Despite plain language efforts, the comprehensibility of financial content has not been increasing consistently. Scholars have therefore emphasised the need to train business (communication) students in text simplification and provided resources to that end. There is, however, lack of empirical evidence on the benefits (or lack thereof) of plain language training. This project aims to address this research gap by investigating the impact of plain language training on: (i) how financial texts are simplified by business students; and (ii) the resulting comprehensibility of simplified financial texts among lay readers with different levels of financial literacy. To do so, I will conduct two experimental studies. For the first study, focusing on the simplification process, I will use keystroke logging, retrospective interviews, and screen recording. For the second study, dealing with the comprehensibility of financial content, I will use multiple-choice questions. This project can identify simplification-oriented revisions that are implemented by business students and that are beneficial for comprehension of financial content. Ultimately, these findings can guide financial institutions in their efforts to meet the needs of readers with low financial literacy.

Keywords: plain language,business students,financial literacy