Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Financing Frictions in High-Potential Entrepreneurship (Financing_Entrep)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1590330.0
EU funding (EUR): 1590330.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Entrepreneurship is widely accepted as a key driver of economic growth and is a central policy priority across the world, including in the EU through initiatives such as the EU’s Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan. While access to capital is viewed as one of the biggest hurdles to starting and growing a new business, the manner in which financing constraints for startups are invoked in academic work and policy frameworks is often poorly fleshed out. This lack of clarity is also reflected in the way policy makers sometimes invoke images of Silicon-Valley-type venture capital (VC) backed entrepreneurship when proposing reforms that are tailored towards small businesses with low growth potential. My ERC CoG project aims to quantify and address financing frictions facing ‘high potential entrepreneurship’ through three related areas of inquiry: 1. Characterizing the financing sources and constraints facing high-potential entrepreneurs and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that are responsible for driving employment and productivity growth in the economy. 2. Developing adaptations to venture capital’s funding model to overcome specific financing hurdles facing the translation and scale-up of science-based ‘tough tech’ ventures. 3. Understanding the dynamics of agglomeration in emerging industries, with a particular focus on how capital markets policy can impact where clusters of frontier technologies emerge.

Keywords: entrepreneurial finance,venture capital
Commercialising High Performance Insect Breeds via a Platform for Typing of Insect Strains (CHiPInB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 983185.0
EU funding (EUR): 688229.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Beta Bugs is the first insect breeding company focussed on creating high performance Black Soldier Fly (BSF) genetics for the rapidly emerging "insects as feed" market. This global market has received more than €480M in investment from private and public sector funders, and will be worth €2.15Bn by 2030. It also enables valorization of low-value food and agricultural waste streams into localized protein sources suitable for animal feed, making it of strategic importance to the EU's future food security since it will strengthen regional agri-food supply chains. The company proposes a solution which combines proprietary trait generation methods, quantitative genetics and selective breeding, and high throughput phenotyping (trait measurement) using proprietary technologies. The company has developed a proprietary PLATform for TYPing of Insect Strains (PLATYPIS), which combines modular rearing technologies that enable parallel maintenance of diverse strains, and high-throughput phenotyping of the insects. This provides an opportunity for targeted genetic improvement efforts in BSF that can significantly improve BSF producer productivity (e.g. faster growth rate) and BSF protein quality (e.g. nutritional profiles tailored to different livestock). As the first company focusing solely on genetics and catering to the whole market rather than in-house applications for one producer, this solution is uniquely placed to benefit from EIC Accelerator Funding. This will enable the skilled, specialized and committed Beta Bugs team to commercialize this solution, transforming the company into a highly impactful and profitable venture, capture significant market share and accelerate the development of the entire "insects as feed" industry.

Keywords: insect breeding
Development and implementation of Grouping and Safe-by-Design approaches within regulatory frameworks (NanoREG II)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Developing and standardisation of capacity-enhancing techniques, measuring methods and equipment
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,Greece,Poland,Sweden,Norway,Bulgaria,Greece,Romania,Norway,France,France,France,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Joint EU & MS activity on the next phase of research in support of regulation 'NANOREG II' (H2020-NMP-2014-two-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11933317.52
EU funding (EUR): 9995703.75
Participants: 45
Project status: CLOSED

One of the greatest challenges facing regulators in the ever changing landscape of novel nano-materials is how to design and implement a regulatory process which is robust enough to deal with a rapidly diversifying system of manufactured nanomaterials (MNM) over time. Not only does the complexity of the MNM present a problem for regulators, the validity of data decreases with time, so that the well-known principle of the half-life of facts (Samuel Arbesman, 2012) means that what is an accepted truth now is no longer valid in 20 or 30 years time. The challenge is to build a regulatory system which is flexible enough to be able to deal with new targets and requirements in the future, and this can be helped by the development and introduction of Safe by Design (SbD) principles. The credibility of such a regulatory system, underpinned by the implementation of SbD, is essential for industry, who while accepting the need for regulation demand it is done in a cost effective and rapid manner. The NANoREG II project, built around the challenge of coupling SbD to the regulatory process, will demonstrate and establish new principles and ideas based on data from value chain implementation studies to establish SbD as a fundamental pillar in the validation of a novel MNM. It is widely recognized by industries as well as by regulatory agencies that grouping strategies for NM are urgently needed. ECETOC has formed a task force on NM grouping and also within the OECD WPMN a group works on NM categorisation. However, so far no reliable and regulatory accepted grouping concepts could be established. Grouping concepts that will be developed by NanoREG II can be regarded as a major innovation therefore as guidance documents on NM grouping will not only support industries or regulatory agencies but would also strongly support commercial launch of new NM.

Keywords: nanomaterials,nanotechnologies,nanosafety,regulation,grouping,safe by design,demonstration,methodology,tool,standard,industry
BEFORE CONSUMPTION: AMBIGUOUS MORALITIES AND EQUINE LIMINALITY IN EUROPEAN HORSE (MEAT) PRODUCTION (BC AMEL)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Irresponsible breeding of domestic animals is recognised as a significant welfare issue by the European Commission. While surplus dogs and cats might end up as strays, unwanted horses typically end up at horse markets. Some might be rescued, but the majority will end their lives at the slaughterhouse. BC AMEL explores the ambiguous moralities binding young horses’ fates to practices of horse breeding, trading and rescuing, exploring what the annual conjuncture of possible life or imminent death (nonlife) signifies for individual horses, for the humans involved and for the horse (meat) production system. The primary goal of the project is to develop and test socio-hippography as a novel methodological and analytical tool for researching human-horse interactions. Socio-hippography integrates equine existence and experience into the complex fabric of human sociality. It moves beyond anthropocentrism, foregrounding the experiences of nonhuman equine informants, encompassing embodied communication and the documentation of both human and equine biographical narratives. Field research will be conducted in Austria, where a national breeding program to preserve the heavy draught Noriker horse is established and where hundreds of foals end up as meat each year. Based on a multi-sited approach expanded to include animals, the researcher will follow a cohort of Noriker foals from birth to sale (Austria) and possible rescue (Germany) over a period of two years. The researcher will be integrated into the lively, vibrant research community provided by the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) working group. Training within this multi-disciplinary network of scholars and experts in human-horse relations, and close interaction and exchange with the supervisor will enable the researcher to establish herself as an expert at the cutting edge of research into human-horse relations, and as a mediator between academia, policy makers and the equestrian industry.

Keywords: human horse relations,socio hippography,horse meat production,horse rescue and welfare
Mantis is a cloud-based Intelligent Traffic Solution built around a unique algorithm which forecasts traffic evolution saving costs and reducing emissions (Mantis)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Anyone who has ever been stuck in a traffic jam knows the frustration of sitting still in a car on the road and waiting. For road users in metropolitan areas of Germany, France, UK and USA, according to a European study conducted in 2014, this happens on average 36 hours every year. Traffic congestion costs society billions of dollars every year in the form of fuel costs, lost productivity and impact on the environment and public health. In Europe alone, the annual price tag for congestions is €200 billion, which is approximately 2% of total GDP. The Cebr estimates that, every year, vehicle idling releases 15,434 kilotons of CO2 equivalent into the atmosphere across the UK, France, Germany and the US alone. Navigation systems (Google Maps, Waze, TomTom and others) reroute users after congestion is formed, observed and reported. By then, the information cannot meaningfully impact the gridlock. Their rerouting efforts, on the other hand, cause additional congestion on the suggested alternative routes. Mantis is a cloud-based Intelligent Traffic Solution built around a unique algorithm which forecasts traffic evolution using scalable parallelization. Analysing historical and real-time data, the Mantis application predicts future traffic congestion 30 minutes before they even happen. The algorithm relies on stochastic processes which, among other things, are responsible for modelling chaotic systems such as the stock market and the weather. Mantis is poised to disrupt the automotive navigation system market estimated to be valued at €22.6 billion in 2025.

Keywords: tic interactions,scalable,traffic,congestions
Optical Topologic Logic (OPTOlogic)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,France
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3930250.0
EU funding (EUR): 3930250.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of this proposal is the development of light-induced and controlled topology for energy-efficient logic operations. We address the fact that 10% of the global energy production is used to power electronic circuits which perform logic operations for the global internet and in consumer devices, and that the projected energy consumption will increase by 20% by 2030. OPTOlogic envisions a new class of dissipation-less quantum devices generated through spatially and temporally structured ultrafast pulses of light to artificially induce and control topological protected states. With OPTOlogic, we will prepare future quantum devices based on intrinsic and light-induced topological building blocks which move and store information with minimal energy expense, whilst achieving dramatically increased computing power. We will create a computing architecture that exploits light-induced topology within which near-arbitrary patterns can be written, changed, and re-written on the fly. The required breakthrough will be achieved with a multi-disciplinary team of experts and SME which unites world-leading experimental, theoretical, and industrial expertise in condensed matter physics, ultrafast laser technology, non-linear optics, strong-field physics, attosecond metrology, quantum optics and gauge theory, quantum computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Overall, increasing the energy efficiency and speed of logical operations, OPTOlogic would have a significant economic, environmental, and social impact and address a market which was valued 426.0 million USD in 2017.

Keywords: optics,ultrafast physics,strong field physics,light matter interactions,topological phase transition
Asymmetric Csp3 – Csp3 Suzuki−Miyaura Coupling Employing 1,1-Bisboryl Alkanes (BISBORONDYKAT)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-03
End date: 2022-08-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Suzuki−Miyaura coupling (SMC) has emerged as a powerful strategy in the field of cross-coupling reactions and is widely used in synthetic organic chemistry and drug development. Asymmetric SMC reactions employing aryl/alkenyl boronic acid is well developed; however, no general Csp3 – Csp3 Suzuki-Miyaura coupling is currently available. Furthermore, the asymmetric addition of benzylic nucleophile or 1,1-difunctionalized reagents as a nucleophile is quite rare. This proposal aims to develop a general cross-coupling procedure that will effectively allow the use of 1,1-bisboryl alkanes in asymmetric SMC reactions. We intend to utilise the rhodium and copper catalysed dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformations (DYKAT) protocol developed in the Fletcher group to achieve this transformation. The corresponding enantioenriched product would feature boronic ester moiety equipped for further modification. Furthermore, the transformation would serve as an alternative protocol for the addition of difficult to install benzylic group. The method would provide a significant advancement in asymmetric cross-coupling reactions and would fortify the broad applicability of DYKATs in SMC reactions in the field of synthesis, medicinal and materials chemistry.

Keywords: asymmetric catalysis,suzuki miyaura coupling,dykat,organoborones
ERA-NET for establishing synergies between the Joint Programming on Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Horizon 2020 (JPco-fuND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: JPco-fuND (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Israel,Germany,Spain,Norway,Finland,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,Sweden,Türkiye,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,Denmark,Luxembourg,Portugal,Canada,United Kingdom
Call: ERA-NET: Establishing synergies between the Joint Programming on Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Horizon 2020 (H2020-HCO-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 81.0
Total project cost (EUR): 30953030.33
EU funding (EUR): 9999999.98
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

Over 12 million people in Europe suffer from neurodegenerative diseases (ND), yet treatments that prevent or stop the progression of neurodegeneration are still lacking. Tackling this grand challenge requires enhanced coordination of national efforts to accelerate discovery. Such synergies have been created among 28 countries in the pilot EU JPI on Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND). JPND has a long standing experience in collaborative action with €75 million of additional national funds being successfully mobilized between 2011 and 2014 to support transnational research programs. The JPND Research Strategy is now ripe for further enhancement in tight coordination with the EC through an ERA-Net Cofund instrument JPco-fuND with an unprecedented commitment of €30 million of national funds associated to a highly incentivizing EC top-up fund. Among the most burning questions, three priority topics have emerged through a consultative process between researchers and JPND members in order to unlock several major issues within ND research: the identification of genetic, epigenetic and environmental risk and protective factors, the development and maintenance of longitudinal cohorts, the creation of advanced experimental models. These are key questions of equal priority to increase understanding of ND mechanisms that will be addressed through a common joint transnational call allowing a significant acceleration of the execution of the JPND research strategy. Moreover, to expand the impact of JPco-fuND, JPND will continue to implement other actions without EU co-funding such as aligning national research strategies, making databases more accessible and interoperable, developing enabling capacities such as supportive infrastructure and platforms, capacity building, education and training. These actions are required in parallel to achieve the highest impact for the patients, their carers and for society as whole and address this grand challenge in the coming years.

Keywords: neurodegenerative diseases,grand challenge,national research plan alignment,transnational research programs,risk and protective factors,cohorts,experimental models,enabling activities
X-ray SPEctral detectors for Reliable, Intelligent and INnovative SEcurity (XSPERINSE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3558890.5
EU funding (EUR): 2619440.25
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The civil aviation sector is facing the dual challenges of high sustained demand for passenger air travel and increasing security requirements. In response to terrorist attacks passengers are required to remove liquids, aerosols and gels (LAGs) and electronic devices from hand luggage prior to it being scanned. This has resulted in longer passenger screening queues and a significant increase in the time for passenger to pass through airport security checks, reducing the number of passengers screened per hour from 350 in 2003 to average of 150 today. We have created a prototype scanning solution which complies with the new performance requirements (EDSCB C3) for hand luggage scanners. It consists of a novel multi-view, multi-spectral, CT type luggage scanner based on a new multi-energy (ME) X-ray scanner system and uses a dedicated intelligent trolley into which passengers place their hand luggage without having to unpack it. The entire trolley is then scanned, and any suspicious items automatically flagged for checking by security personnel. This provides a more relaxed security screening experience and minimises queuing. Our scanner solution increases the total passenger throughput from 150 to 600 per hour, while increasing the surface efficiency (passenger screened per sq m) with 362% and requiring 35% fewer operators. The solution also reduces the screening cost (luggage scanning cost per passenger) from EUR 5 to EUR 2.8 compared to current solutions, resulting in cost savings of EUR 55,000,000 per year. In XSPERINSE we will revise the design of the prototype scanner to produce a version that incorporates an upgraded version of the currently used ME detector tailored to the specific requirements of the scanner and implement new data analysis algorithms and reduce the scanner’s power consumption. These activities will result in demonstrating our solutions competitive advantages through a large-scale testing and prepare it for commercialisation.

Keywords: x ray,luggage scanner,multi energy,multi spectral,detector,screening,airport security,airport,checkpoint,aviation security,passengers,passenger flow