Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Passive Thermal Energy Storage based on PCMs for energy saving in air conditioning (TubeICE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TubeICE project deals with the design, industrialization and commercialization of an innovative Phase Change Material (PCM) tubular shaped PTES unit, able to store energy within the range 22-27°C. TubeICE unit is composed by a pipe shell where a Positive Temperature Eutectic solutions is packed: in summer, the storage unit exploits the temperature gradient between night and days, being charged during the night (when temperature is lower) thanks to the solidification of the PCM and discharged during the day by the liquefaction of the material, thus allowing a reduction of air conditioning energy consumption; in winter, TubeICE increases the thermal inertia of the building, being charged through material liquefaction when thermal energy is available. The technology developed and proposed by PCMPro delivers breakthrough properties: • thanks to the development of the innovative PCM and to a compact innovative design, the energy density is 73 kWh/m3, much higher than competing technologies; • installing the storage unit on the ceiling area, 12 tubes can be packed per m2 using standard 50mm pipe brackets, giving a storage of 1.74 kWh/m2; • the application of an eutectic alloy leads to a constant charging and discharging temperature, with benefits in terms of conditioning quality and easiness in storage management; • as already demonstrated by the first pilot installations in a number of offices/shops and in an educational facility located at Coventry in U.K., the integration of TubeICE leads to a global energy consumption reduction within the range 10-40% depending on the location and the building properties, thanks to the maximization of free-cooling (and the consequent reduction of energy intensive mechanical cooling) and to the nighttime free storage. • TubeICE is maintenance free and assures a long durability (10 years and more).

Keywords: passive thermal energy storage,phase change material,energy efficiency,building sector
The effects of unemployment on health of family members (HEALFAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 82.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1477556.25
EU funding (EUR): 1477556.25
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Previous research has investigated the relationship between unemployment and health from a perspective of an isolated individual. HEALFAM takes a novel approach and examines how transition to unemployment triggers diffusion of ill mental and physical health within families. It investigates how becoming unemployed affects health outcomes of partners, children and elderly parents of the unemployed and whether the magnitudes of these influences differ across families and societies. Thus, instead of viewing the unemployed as functioning in isolation, HEALFAM assesses the consequences of unemployment for family members taking a multi-actor perspective and international comparative approach. Guided by the life course theoretical framework, which views health and well-being as a process rather than a state and calls for considering interrelatedness of individuals, HEALFAM employs longitudinal data that provide information about multiple members of families. In order to analyse these datasets, HEALFAM uses longitudinal dyadic data analysis techniques as well as multilevel models for longitudinal data. HEALFAM aims to open a new frontline of research on health and wellbeing from a life course perspective. It benefits from my knowledge on three interrelated social phenomena: (1) the role of labour market career and experiences of unemployment (2) family structure and intra-family resources (3) social antecedents of health and wellbeing among family members. It draws on high quality register and panel survey data as well as the expertise at the interdisciplinary research centres that I am connected to at Umeå University. Through international collaborations, it brings together experts in multiple disciplines carrying out research taking a life course perspective.
Technology Review of Alternative and Novel Sources of Clean Energy with Next-generation Drivetrains (TRANSCEND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Alternative energy sources and novel propulsion technologies (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 348335.0
EU funding (EUR): 348335.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

TRANSCEND (Technology Review of Alternative and Novel Sources of Clean Energy with Next-generation Drivetrains) is initiated by the research centre NLR in response to the Clean Sky 2 CfP9 under the topic “Alternative energy sources and novel propulsion technology”. The objective of TRANSCEND is to shape the future of green aviation propulsion in 2050, complementing the development plan of Clean Sky 2. TRANSCEND evaluates the environmental impact at aircraft and air transport levels of alternative energy sources and novel propulsion technology for aircraft with entry-into-service before 2050. In addition, TRANSCEND provides a TRL-based technology roadmap for promising propulsion technologies and a roadmap regarding economic viability and availability for the associated alternative energy sources. Support for TRANSCEND results is generated from the start through the Advisory Board, which consists of representatives of stakeholders for exploitation (e.g., KLM, EASA). TRANSCEND will base its results on a thorough literature study, complemented with interactions with numerous experts, including three expert workshops. We will evaluate alternative energy sources and novel propulsion technologies, their integration into aircraft, and their diffusion into seat classes into the air transport system. We will generate support of stakeholders and experts through dedicated communication and dissemination. NLR’s strong track record in propulsion technology and, partly in alternative energy sources, NLR’s extensive experience in Clean Sky and European innovation (RIAs, IAs) and policy support (in CSAs and nationally), and the broad network of NLR motivates this application. Delft University of Technology (TUD) as TRANSCEND partner adds its expertise, experience, and network in alternative energy sources. The TRANSCEND total grant request to the JU is € 348335. The project will be conducted in 35 months in close alignment with the topic leader and other stakeholders.

Keywords: alternative aviation fuel,aircraft propulsion,technology roadmap,environmental impact
Digital Flows: Analysing Digital-Native Hip-Hop Culture (DIGITAL-FLOWS)

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: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

DIGITAL-FLOWS is a groundbreaking investigation of digital-native hip-hop culture, imparting new insights to European policy areas concerning Internet use, education, social equality, the creative economies, and connected communities. The overarching aim is to uncover and analyse the dynamic cultural politics of hip-hop music and community on the Internet, with three specific objectives: to design and apply a groundbreaking web-oriented, two-part methodology of data-driven and case-study research into online cultural networks; to apply musical, thematic, and political/feminist/critical race analysis to digital data objects (music, video, text) as expressions of hip-hop culture, politics, and aesthetics; and to generate conclusions on European priorities concerning online cultural expression, engagement, and education for sharing with policymakers. Among hip-hop's vast international listener base are many young and/or marginalised individuals, with unanswered questions about safety and security, communal opportunities, and wellbeing benefits of interaction with hip-hop's diverse and dynamic cultural expressions online. DIGITAL-FLOWS pioneers new approaches to these questions, generating high-impact outputs for academic and target audiences and policy recommendations concerning Internet use, education, and integration. The project will set a new benchmark in interdisciplinary studies of digital-native culture and provide a transferable model for web-oriented studies of popular culture more broadly. The research takes place in association with the CIPHER: Hip-Hop Interpellation initiative at University College Cork, an ERC funded team working in intersectoral collaboration with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Utilising UCC's CIPHER research network, DIGITAL-FLOWS' investigation of Internet-based music culture will establish me as a field leader in digital/popular musicology and inaugurate a cutting-edge methodology for the study of online cultural expression.

Keywords: digital digital native hip hop internet gender race sexuality expression community politics streaming technology data analytics net neutrality archive discourse text thematic coding analysis
A JUST TRANSITION TO THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY (JUST2CE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: South Africa,Spain,Italy,Ethiopia,Spain,Italy,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,Zimbabwe,Ghana
Call: Understanding the transition to a circular economy and its implications on the environment, economy and society (H2020-SC5-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3620042.5
EU funding (EUR): 3620042.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

JUST2CE is based on the assumption that a critical evaluation of the CE paradigm, of its economic, societal, gender and policy implications, and of the outcomes of its implementation (which industrial sectors will benefit the most? Which stakeholders’ groups can be classified as winners and which one as losers) has not been conducted yet. A direct consequence of this gap is that the political economy and geopolitics of transition have been neglected in CE studies. European, and more in general global productive systems are characterised by geographical specialisation – e.g. extractive Vs productive economies; core-periphery and north-south relations – that seek to maximise profits along the traditionally designed linear supply chains. These, often unequal and asymmetric, relations might seriously hamper the transition to a CE. To date, no studies have shed light on how such relations should be reconfigured to achieve circularity. This represents an urgent and major research gap that will be addressed by this project, which will therefore provide useful insights to policy-makers for evaluating the feasibility of the transition to the CE. JUST2CE aims at understanding, in critical and thoughtful way, under which conditions a responsible, inclusive and social just transition to a circular economy is possible and desirable, what technical, political and social factors can enable or hamper such transformation and how these aspects can contribute to the development of transitional policy measures. The conviction underpinning the project is that the success of a transition towards a sustainable circular economy does not merely depend on the development of new technologies - artefacts or processes - but also in the reconfiguration of the governance of productive processes into more democratic and participatory mechanisms of designing and managing technology.

Keywords: responsible research and innovation,gendered innovation,global environmental justice
In Ovo’s automated sexing solution for chicken eggs (InOvotive)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3520293.75
EU funding (EUR): 2464205.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In Ovo is a company that develops products for the worldwide poultry industry that improve both resource efficiency and animal welfare. In Ovo is a spinoff from Leiden University and applies scientific knowledge to realise great solutions. We have partnered with key stakeholders from the European poultry value chain and are on track to deliver our first product to the market: an automated sexing solution for fertilised chicken eggs. This will make the killing of 6.5 billion male chicks in the egg producing industry obsolete. As such, we will solve one of the largest and oldest problems for the poultry sector. Our in ovo sexing solution is an automated, accurate and high-throughput biochemical screening. This high-tech solution enables hatcheries to remove male eggs from incubators early in the breeding process, allowing them to hatch only female layer chickens. The increase in animal welfare results in a value increase of layer chickens and the end-product: table eggs in the supermarket. In 2016, we identified a single biomarker that allows for the fast, high-throughput, determination of the sex of an egg. Since 2017 we have been developing our current Alpha prototype, realising a throughput of 1,800 eggs per hour with 95% accuracy. Now, in this project, we will scale this prototype to realise the required throughput defined by the sector: 10,000 eggs per hour. This will enable hatcheries to process their complete capacity using an in-line process. We believe that a technical innovation is only as good as the business case that is being built around it. Therefore, we not only develop clever technologies, but use our network to demonstrate our in ovo sexing solution to mobilise every stakeholder of this problem and ensure a quick market adoption.

Keywords: poultry,chickens,egg sexing,automated chicken gender detection,animal welfare,biomarker,biotech,eggs
GrowMeUp (GrowMeUp)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Active ageing and self-management of health
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Cyprus,Switzerland,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: service robotics within assisted living environments (H2020-PHC-2014-single-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3415930.0
EU funding (EUR): 2790430.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

GrowMeUp’s main aim is to increase the years of independent and active living, and the quality of life of older persons (age of 65+) with light physical or mental health problems who live alone at home and can find pleasure and relief in getting support or stimulation to carry out their daily activities over the ageing process. GrowMeUp will provide an affordable service robotic system able to learn the older persons needs and habits over time and enhance (‘grow up’/scale up) its functionality to compensate for the elder’s degradation of abilities, to support, encourage and engage the older persons to stay longer active, independent and socially involved, in carrying out their daily life at home. State of the art cloud computing technologies and machine learning mechanisms will be used, enabling the GrowMeUp robot to extend and increase its knowledge continuously over time. Robots will share and distribute their knowledge through the cloud, so that other “connected” robots can learn from each other's experience, increasing thus their functionality/competencies and simultaneously reduce learning effort. Implicit daily activities support will be provided in a human like way characterized by behaviour and emotional understanding, intelligent dialoguing and personalized services provision. GrowMeUp will be introduced early enough to the elder person, creating thus a positive long-term relationship between the elder and the robot, considering persons as active collaborators with whom the robot can interact, so as to increase its knowledge about their personalized needs. Furthermore, the robot will be connected to a virtual care network that will provide for continuous care, but also motivation and education to the older persons of how to best use the platform. A group of relevant stakeholders will use the system over a nine month pilot period. The goal is to achieve global leadership in advanced solutions supporting active and healthy ageing.

Keywords: ict services,older persons care at home
GPU-WEAR, Ultra-low power heterogeneous Graphics Processing Units for Wearable/IoT devices (GPU-WEAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Greece
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1951915.0
EU funding (EUR): 1366340.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Think Silicon S.A. (TSi) has become one of the only six companies in the world that have a proven capacity to develop Graphics IP technology. This technology is essential for fulfilling the ever increasing demand for wearable and IoT devices. Dealing with the levels of power consumption required by those devices represents a major challenge and TSi has demonstrated and patented novel multi-disciplinary approaches spanning circuits, architecture, compiler and API level optimization techniques. This proposal is about bringing the world’s first ultra-low power optimized heterogeneous multicore embedded graphics processing unit (GPU), low-power software library and associated run-time system to TRL9. The technical advances are to be complemented by a comprehensive innovation management strategy covering IPR protection, commercial exploitation and alliance formation. Central to supporting uptake is the release of platform and tools to the Open Developer Community, in line with best practices in the sector. Support by the SME Instrument would enable TSi to accelerate the disruption of the global market for GPUs through faster and properly executed market introduction. Key benefits to Europe include amplified export revenue (TSi has offices in Silicon Valley and Canada as well as sales representation in Asia), increased employment along with encouragement of private investment in a region significantly affected by the economic crisis (Greece), but most importantly solidifying expertise and IPR in a strategic ICT sector that underpins multiple industries including healthcare, fitness/wellness, infotainment and manufacturing. The IoT market outlook is experiencing high growth with revenues of $32.2B in 2019 with a CAGR of 20% and low power technologies become the key factor being successful in this market. Recently formed business partnerships with major semiconductor companies reinforce the value of TSi’s offering and its potential in the ultra-low power GPU market.

Keywords: ultra low power,graphics processing unit,wearable,iot market,graphics api,heterogeneous systems,semiconductor,ip cores,llvm compiler,khronos group,opengl es,vulkan,opencl verilog hdl
Preparing Cryptography for Modern Applications (PREP-CRYPTO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1975813.75
EU funding (EUR): 890467.48
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Cryptography currently faces fundamentally new challenges. Modern applications like Big Data or Cloud Computing require cryptographic methods that go far beyond secure communication. Such cryptographic methods have only been invented in recent years: namely, since 2009, several unexpected and game-changing *new cryptographic building blocks* have been introduced. Most prominently, constructions of fully homomorphic encryption, code obfuscation, and multilinear maps have been proposed. These constructions have opened the door to applications that were previously believed unattainable, such as the secure outsourcing of computations. However, the concrete schemes proposed are currently scrutinized for cryptanalytic attacks, and it appears that many of them are *considerably less secure* than initially hoped for. Moreover, most constructions of new cryptographic building blocks still constitute "possibility results" rather than practically relevant schemes. In fact, while being improved continuously, most existing constructions are still far too inefficient for practical use cases. The goal of this project is to *prepare these new building blocks for modern applications*. Specifically, we will give new constructions of these new building blocks that - are *secure in a strong sense*, - have a *significantly extended functionality*, and - are *efficient* when tailored to specific applications. The technical means to achieve our goals is to *combine* these new building blocks with well-established *algebraic* cryptographic tools. For instance, we plan to mesh obfuscation with cyclic groups, in order to obtain more secure and more powerful multilinear maps. Our work prepares the ground for *practical real-life applications* from new cryptographic building blocks.

Keywords: obfuscation,multilinear maps,fully homomorphic encryption