Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
breAkThrough innovaTion pRogrAmme for a pan-European Detection and Imaging eCosysTem (ATTRACT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Innovation and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Finland,Switzerland,France
Call: Fostering co-innovation for future detection and imaging technologies (H2020-INFRAINNOV-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19999072.5
EU funding (EUR): 19999072.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The ATTRACT Phase-1 project proposes a new collaboration paradigm aligned with the ‘Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the World’ philosophy. Its objective is the identification and initial development of breakthrough detection and imaging technology concepts for expanding fundamental research frontiers and suitable for future industrial upscaling for novel applications and business. It promotes the involvement of national and pan-European Research Infrastructures and their associated research communities, industrial organizations (especially SMEs) and innovation and business specialists. It proposes a co-innovation approach in which scientific and industrial communities jointly pursue and generate breakthrough concepts in close and equal partnership. The project implementation starts with the launch of an Open Call by the project consortium for €17 million of financial support to Third-Parties. The proposals received will be peer-reviewed by an Independent R&D&I Committee of top experts in the field of detection and imaging technologies. After this process 170 breakthrough technology concepts will receive €100,000 of seed funding each (“lump sum”) to develop the concepts further during one year. The funded projects will then present their results in a Final Assessment Conference in Brussels. The ATTRACT Phase-1 consortium members will provide business assessments to the funded project teams to enhance awareness of future commercial applications. Furthermore, two pilots based on design thinking methodologies will be run for/with interdisciplinary master level students, aimed at discovering and generating social value applications inspired by the technologies of the funded projects. The ATTRACT Phase-1 project consortium comprises top partners capable of catalysing a large variety of key stakeholders towards a future unique European innovation ecosystem. The project will take 28 months to complete.

Keywords: detection,imaging,co innovation,research infrastructures,industry,breakthrough,open science,open innovation,design thinking
Exploring the function of peripheral vision in humans using virtual reality (Peripheality)

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: Cyprus
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-02
End date: 2021-02-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 151648.8
EU funding (EUR): 151648.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to determine the functional significance of the peripheral visual field for human perception and its interaction with the motor system. While it is well established that central vision serves to resolve the fine details of the visual world and the objects in it, the reduced spatial resolution in the peripheral part of our visual field suggests that peripheral vision may have a very different role. In this project we will use an innovative combination of Virtual Reality (VR) with physiological recordings and computational modelling to examine the hypothesis that the peripheral visual field acts as a change detection mechanism. Specifically, under conditions resembling those encountered in everyday life, we will explore the presence of serial dependency (SD) effects, i.e., the integration of past with current information during visual processing. These experiments will provide the first evidence that SD strategies are employed during everyday activities in complex environments in daily life, while the nature of the SD effects (i.e. positive vs. negative) will allow us to deduce differences in the functions of the central and peripheral visual system. Importantly, the experiments will also allow us to assess whether peripheral vision is involved in a multisensory and hypersensitive "alarm system", an idea that has recently been proposed in the literature. Finally, by employing computational modelling methods we will attempt to provide a comprehensive theoretical account for experimental findings. Overall, this interdisciplinary project is expected to provide important insight into the basic mechanisms of human vision that are responsible for maintaining the equilibrium between visual stability and change detection over the whole visual field.

Keywords: vision,perception,peripheral visual field,change detection,serial dependency effects,virtual reality
Reconfigurable Intelligent Sustainable Environments for 6G Wireless Networks (RISE-6G)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: 5G PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Italy,Greece,Sweden,France,France,France,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: 5G PPP – Smart Connectivity beyond 5G (H2020-ICT-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6499613.75
EU funding (EUR): 6499613.75
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Visions and plans on forthcoming B5G/6G networks aim to provide flexible connect-compute technologies to support future innovative services and uses cases. Considering the 2030 horizon, B5G/6G networks need to create the basis for human-centred smart societies and vertical industries. To this end, innovation is expected to: (a) support the long-term sustainable transformation of networks into a distributed smart connectivity infrastructure, where new terminal types are embedded in the environment; (b) provide the end-to-end connectivity-computation system with high flexibility and dynamism that accommodates future ever-evolving and heterogeneous applications, regulations and specific user-/service-/location-based needs. RISE-6G vision builds on the latest advancements on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology for radio wave propagation control, in order to achieve intelligent, sustainable and dynamically programmable wireless environments that go well beyond the 5G capabilities developed under 3G PPP release 16. RISE-6G objectives are to (i) define novel network architectures and operation strategies incorporating multiple RISs; (ii) characterize its fundamental limits capitalizing on proposed realistic and validated radio wave propagation models; (iii) devise solutions to enable online trade between high-capacity connectivity, Energy Efficiency, EMF exposure, and localization accuracy based on dynamically programmable wireless propagation environments, for legislation and regulation compliant spectrum use, data protection, and EMF emission; and (iv) prototype-benchmark proposed innovation via two complementary trials with verticals. RISE-6G project is poised to actively participate in standardization bodies and bring its technically advanced vision into the planned industrial exploitation. This will secure the European technology leadership, supporting the creation of new European-conceived service and business opportunities in the B5G/6G global race

Keywords: metasurface,energyefficiency,sustainability,intelligent environment
Revenue diversification pathways in Africa through bio-based and circular agricultural innovations (DIVAGRI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries and supporting the development of a European bio-economy
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,South Africa,Germany,Austria,Germany,Spain,Namibia,North Macedonia,Bulgaria,Türkiye,Ghana,Botswana,Mozambique
Call: Diversifying revenue in rural Africa through bio-based solutions (H2020-SFS-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8994693.75
EU funding (EUR): 8994693.75
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

Water-scarce regions in Sub-Saharan Africa are most vulnerable to climate change and fluctuations in seasonal rainfall patterns. Agriculture is the most important economic sector in those areas and adaptation strategies must include technical support to subsistence and smallholder farmers who need to apply innovative technologies and practices to cope with environmental stresses and create revenue generating activities. The DIVAGRI project proposes a wide range of bio-based innovative solutions adapted to specific conditions in target countries. Ecosystem restoration in combination with diverse crop production in regenerative agricultural systems, mobile biorefineries for biomass conversion to high-value compounds and bioenergy, and the highly innovative clay-based micro-irrigation system “SLECI” (Self-regulating, Low Energy, Clay-based Irrigation) are solutions developed by DIVAGRI. In addition, building on community participation and co-development of collaborative business models, the project will enable smallholder farmers to increase income and generate new economic opportunities while guaranteeing food security, real rural opportunities, and sustainability. The focus of this project is not only on the primary production sector but also on the food and bio-based industries, thus promoting new partnerships between producers, processors, retailers and consumers and opening new sustainable avenues for businesses, services and value chains in support of rural communities. Developing innovative bio-based technologies characterised by the efficient use of resources and utilisation of waste and by-products, DIVAGRI contributes to the EU research priority of making the transition towards circular agriculture and bioeconomy.

Keywords: other water sources,solar desalination,clay based micro irrigation,biodiversity,ecosystem services,biorefinery,inter cropping,soil health,capacity building,knowledge bank,farmer cooperation
Best chemical risk assessment professionals for maximum Ecosystem Services benefit (PRORISK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Estonia,Norway,Slovakia,Czechia,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4024982.52
EU funding (EUR): 4024982.52
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

Vision of PRORISK is to provide a unique value by creating a novel platform for training a network of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in the field of advanced Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA). ERA is nowadays rapidly changing from relying on simplified descriptive laboratory tests to incorporating mechanistic, ecological and socio-economic process information. This revolutionizes the risk assessment making it increasingly comprehensive, realistic and relevant, also under consideration of other modulating effects such as non-chemical stressors or impact of global change. ESRs in PRORISK will gain the abilities to address this major challenge in risk assessment paradigm shift. They will work as future experts at the interface between the key concepts of sustainable protection of ecosystems and health - i.e. adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) and ecosystem services. Young researchers within PRORISK will develop and integrate mechanistic understanding, in-depth analyses of chemical-biological interactions and exposure, and functioning of ecosystems. They will be able to tackle increasingly complex data. They also will be able to critically evaluate robustness of risk predictions and assess the socio-economic costs of environmental damage. PRORISK will allow the ESRs to develop the critical capability to synthesize processes across different levels of biological organization and different mechanistic, ecosystem and socio-economical concepts. This will empower ESRs to shape future regulatory missions protecting the ecosystems services and assuring thus sustainability of ecosystem services and prosperity long beyond the PRORISK project.

Keywords: risk assessment,ecosystem services,adverse outcome pathways,chemical biological,interactions,chemical exposure,modes of action,socio economic evaluation,environmental modelling
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF NOVEL NONISOCYANATE POLYURETHANES (NIPU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Joint Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Belgium,Sweden,Belgium,France,France
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3168250.2
EU funding (EUR): 3168250.2
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

NIPU-EJD is an European Joint Doctorate in “Synthesis, Characterization, Structure and Properties of Novel Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes”. NIPU-EJD is set up by a consortium formed by 7 Academic beneficiaries: University of Mons (B), University of Liège (B), University of Bordeaux (FR), University of Montpellier (FR), University of the Basque Country (SP), Royal Institute of Technology (SE) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (D), together with 8 non-academic partners organizations collaborating in the research-related and transferable training. NIPU-EJD will offer to 12 early stage researchers (ESRs) the opportunity of being awarded with double doctoral degrees in two different countries. The program vision of NIPU-EJD is to create a new generation of high-skilled, creative, entrepreneurial scientists, who will be the future leaders in the emerging and important area of sustainability towards the development of sustainable non-isocyanate polyurethane (NIPU) systems. At its infancy from industrial prospective, NIPU-based systems represent the most sustainable alternative to conventional polyurethanes in different sectors (insulation, coatings, etc.), responding the urgent needs for sustainability in terms of raw materials innovation, improved safety, production processes and recycling. To address these scientific and technological challenges including polymer syntheses, polymer engineering, sustainability and applications (latexes, coatings, etc.), NIPU-EJD will aim to implement a long-lasting research and training network in the realm of NIPU by combining frontier research projects and industrial developments for economic and sustainable benefits in Europe. The intersectorality of the industrial partners will enable the NIPU-EJD to increase the ESR’s employability, to improve R&I capacity between participating organisations and to create better transfer of knowledge between the different sectors in the area of sustainable polymers.

Keywords: non isocyanate polyurethane,renewable monomers,sustainable processes,coatings and adhesives,foams,composites
Ultrasonic Endoscopes for DEEP Light Focusing (DEEP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1862462.0
EU funding (EUR): 1862462.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Subcellular light focusing is the primary enabler of a number of characterization, diagnosis and treatment tools in biomedicine and life sciences, including microscopy and spectroscopy techniques or phototherapies. However, limited by the scattering of light, current approaches are only optimized to operate at depths below a fraction of a millimeter inside tissue. Deeper light focusing – which is fundamental for sound biological conclusions or accurate treatments –always comes at the expense of increased invasiveness, restricted sample availability, or loss of spatial or temporal precision. The overall objective of DEEP is to overcome the above limitations and develop an original non-invasive strategy to focus light inside tissue at a millimeter depth (or above) and in real-time while maintaining subcellular spatial confinement. Specifically, by exploiting the deep penetration of ultrasound and its ability to locally modify the optical properties of a sample, we will generate in-situ virtual endoscopes that will act as embedded optical lenses or waveguides inside living tissue, thus redirecting light toward a deeper focus. Throughout DEEP, we will implement a hybrid ultrasonic-optical system able to (i) generate ultrasonic endoscopes with particular shapes and propagation characteristics that maximize the coupling and guiding of light inside tissue; (ii) operate in synergy with cutting-edge imaging methods such as two-photon or optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy to extend their imaging depth; (iii) analyze via fluorescence correlation spectroscopy the intracellular dynamics inside organoids at microsecond temporal resolution; (iv) combine laser-irradiation therapies with the real-time in-situ monitoring of the structural changes induced inside tissue. Ultrasonic-enabled virtual endoscopes will lead to an unprecedented control of light inside living systems, opening the door to transformative advances in personalized medicine and molecular biology.

Keywords: acousto optics,deep light focusing,additive manufacturing,photoacoustic microscopy
Textual Integrity of the Qur’an: Sunni and Shi'i Historical Narrations on the Falsification (TIQ)

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: Germany,Sweden,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 251434.52
EU funding (EUR): 251434.52
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The Qur’an is the central text in Islam and 1.9 million Muslims around the world strive to shape their lives according to the principles and rulings derived from it. Yet the textual integrity of the Qur’an has largely been taken for granted and some aspects of it have not been investigated, especially the idea of the falsification (tahrif) of the quranic text. Since the 2nd century AH, a group of Muslim traditionalists have claimed that certain verses were removed from the quranic text after the death of the Prophet, making the present quranic text incomplete. Sunni traditionalists (Hashwiyya) advocated the existence of this falsification (in the form of omission of some of the verses of the Qur’an) within a legal framework, while Shi'i traditionalists (Akhbaris) perpetuated the concept to support the succession of the Prophet and sanctity of the Twelver Shi'i Imams. The limited existing studies on the subject are mostly reviews of the opinions of past and present scholars. Further, while the falsification has been advocated by both Muslim groups in different ways, the notion has been largely attributed to the Shi'is. As a result, to this day, it has been a cause of tension between Sunni and Shi'i communities due to the firmly established view regarding the integrity of the Qur’an. Dr Seyfeddin Kara’s primary goal is to uncover the historical origins of a neglected aspect of the textual history of the Qur’an through undertaking a multidisciplinary study combining quranic studies, hadith studies, Islamic law and biblical studies. “Uncover” means to date the relevant Muslim traditions and reveal the interaction/influence between the Sunni and Shi'i traditionalists in the development of the notion of falsification from the 2nd to the 5th centuries AH. In his previous study on Ali b. Abi Talib’s quranic codex, SK tested new suitable methods and theories to study the textual history of the Qur’an.

Keywords: qur anic studies,hadith studies,isnad cum matn method,shi i studies,the early history of islam
PROGnostics based Reliability Analysis for Maintenance Scheduling (PROGRAMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Spain,Spain,Italy,Hungary,Greece,Greece,Greece
Call: Novel design and predictive maintenance technologies for increased operating life of production systems (H2020-FOF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5995272.5
EU funding (EUR): 4847697.5
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The main objectives of this project are to develop a model-based prognostics method integrating the FMECA and PRM approaches for the smart prediction of equipment condition, a novel MDSS tool for smart industries maintenance strategy determination and resource management integrating ERP support, and the introduction of an MSP tool to share information between involved personnel. The proposers' approach is able to improve overall business effectiveness with respect to the following perspectives: • Increasing Availability and then Overall Equipment Effectiveness through increasing of MTBF, and reduction of MTTR and MDT. • Continuously monitoring the criticality of system components by performing/updating the FMECA analysis at first implementation or whenever a variation in the system design or composition occurs. • Building physical-based models of the components which have a higher criticality level or which status is difficult to monitor. • Determining an optimal strategy for the maintenance activities. • Creating a new schedule for the production activities that will optimize the overall system performance through a Smart Scheduling tool ensuring collaboration among the MDSS, the ERP and the RUL Estimation tool. • Providing, in addition to traditional data acquisition and management functions in a machine condition monitoring system, robust and customizable data analysis services by a cloud-based platform. • An Intra Factory Information Service will be developed to allow the company staff to be quickly informed of changes in the machine tool performances and to easily react to eventual production and maintenance activities rescheduling. The production and maintenance schedule of complete production lines and entire plants will run with real-time flexibility in order to perform at the required level of efficiency, optimize resources and plan repair interventions.

Keywords: predictive maintenance,scheduling strategies