Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
REmineralisation, OPTIcs and Marine partIcle siZE (REOPTIMIZE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-13
End date: 2018-06-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Remineralisation of the particulate matter that sinks from the surface to the deep ocean is a crucial component of the biological carbon pump, because it ultimately influences the Earth’s climate. Due to the difficulties to observe this process, however, little is known about the variability of mesopelagic (~200-1000 m) remineralisation. REOPTIMIZE aims to improve knowledge of mesopelagic remineralisation by exploiting – for the first time – time-series of optical proxies of particle size and oxygen consumption collected by autonomous robotic platforms (i.e., Bio-Argo floats). These new estimates of remineralisation, acquired at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution, will improve our knowledge of the biological carbon pump and ultimately reduce uncertainties in current and future estimates of the ocean carbon budget. REOPTIMIZE will combine models and field measurements. Field data from the Atlantic Meridional Transect cruises will be firstly exploited to extend current relationships between optical proxies and particle size from the ocean surface to the mesopelagic zone. Then, spectral light backscattering data acquired by a fleet of Bio-Argo floats in under-sampled oceanic areas will be converted to size-revolved carbon biomasses. These biomass estimates will then be combined with simultaneous oxygen consumption rates and analysed, by means of simple models of particle dynamics, to derive particle disaggregation rates in the mesopelagic. These inter-disciplinary and innovative activities will establish a two-way exchange of knowledge between the Researcher’s and the host institution and to enhance their European and international network of collaborators. Outcomes of REOPTIMIZE will have an impact on the European strategy for global ocean observations.

Keywords: remineralisation,carbon pump,carbon fluxes,mesopelagic,marine bio optics,light backscattering,particle size,bio argo floats,oxygen consumption,high spatio temporal resolution data
Magnesium and Aluminium Gas Injection Technology for High Pressure Die Casting (MAGIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TiK – Technologie in Kunststoff GmbH (TiK) was founded in 2004. The company is Europe-wide and especially in the automotive sector known as specialist for plastic injection moulding and the use of gas injection technology. In recent years, the company developed to one of the most innovative companies in product and process development for plastic components. The European automotive industry is faced with wide-ranging challenges in the common years. Especially electric mobility, lightweight design and intelligent use of materials is essential for current and future car development. In modern cars, many components are already produced in die casting, which is the most promising technology regarding cost-effective large-scale production. To extend the application possibilities of this technology, TiK developed a new and disrupting process, which enables the use of gas injection in aluminium or magnesium high pressure die casting and the production of components with hollow structures. Through this, significant cost savings can be achieved by the elimination of upstream and downstream manufacturing processes and weight can be reduced drastically by using lighter materials, but also new constructional possibilities for complex, hollow and thin-walled components with a load-adjusted design. By MAGIT, fluid-transporting components can be realized. These can be used for cooling of power electronics or temperature controlling of vehicle batteries. The new technology primarily addresses the European die casting industry for non-ferrous metals, which is a continuously growing market with an expect CAGR of 3.8% in the common years. Besides the gas injection system, which will be direct sold by TiK, further system- and customer-specific services will be offered by the company. By the innovative technology, TiK expects to generate additional cumulative turnover of 20 million € and an increase in staff headcount of 23 in 2023.

Keywords: lightweight construction,design,automotive,aluminium,magnesium,co2 reduction,resource saving,mass market,adjusted design,weight reduction,fuel saving,electro mobility
Teotihuacan Virtual Sound Map: Exploring the Sonic Sphere of the City of the Gods, Mexico (TVSM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2022-09-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 337400.64
EU funding (EUR): 337400.64
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The pre-Columbian site of Teotihuacan in the highlands of central Mexico has captured the public imagination for centuries. For the Aztecs, it was the city of the gods and birthplace of humankind. Archaeological excavations of the UNESCO World Heritage site revealed that the unearthed relics are the cultural remains of a powerful society, dominating the period of Classic Mesoamerica during the first half of the first millennium CE. However, many aspects of this culture are still not well understood, including the role that sound and music played in its urban environment. With the aid of new technologies in geo-referenced sound mapping and multimedia applications, the ER will recreate and play the musical instruments of Teotihuacan, test their sounds both under laboratorial conditions and on-site in different architectural settings, and create a virtual sound-map of the city on the basis of the results. This research will contribute to a better understanding of the site and the sonic interaction with it of its inhabitants and, as will significantly develop the global field of archaeoacoustical research. The Teotihuacan Virtual Sound Map will create a model for exhibiting sound in the actual environment of ancient sites, which can also be applied to other settings. Through this project the ER will develop skills in field and studio/anechoic chamber recording, acoustic analysis, architectural and environmental acoustics, multimedia applications and virtual exhibition making. The ER will conduct field work in 5 distinct urban settings of Teotihuacan with 10 recording positions, using 15 replicas of Teotihuacan musical instruments; create an app with the virtual sound map of the site; create a website with the interactive sound map; create a print version of the map in form of a leaflet; give 2 workshops at the host organization, lecture at 2 international conferences and 2 national meetings; organize 1 international conference; and publish 2 research.

Keywords: archaeoacoustics,music archaeology,architectural acoustics,acoustic ecology,phenomenology,contemporary museography,virtual cultural heritage
EUROPEAN INVENTORY OF SOCIETAL VALUES OF CULTURE AS A BASIS FOR INCLUSIVE CULTURAL POLICIES IN THE GLOBALIZING WORLD (INVENT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Israel,Switzerland,Finland,Croatia,Serbia,France,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: The societal value of culture and the impact of cultural policies in Europe (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999875.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The New EU Agenda for Culture (2018) represents an exceptionally significant step forward in European cultural policy. However, it seems to us that this remarkably important new focus of the EU on the sphere of culture is accompanied by theoretical and methodological challenges, which should be considered in the process of realizing the presented goals. The changes which Europe and the world have undergone over the last thirty years are so drastic that they require a different approach to creating cultural policy. Our intention is to study how the way of life and cultural participation of European citizens has been influenced by the mega-trends of globalization, European integration and the migrations that accompany them, the digital revolution, and the rising social inequalities, and point out why this requires “social turn” in cultural policies. The bottom-up approach that we will use will also provide us with insight into multiple, often mutually contradictory, concepts of culture and understandings of societal values of culture among various social (demographic, socio-economic, ethnic, religious…) groups in European societies, and at the same time offer the foundation for new methodologies for capturing the societal value of culture. The task that we have set for ourselves in this project is to identify, through research, the cultural and social preconditions required for the goals of the New EU Agenda for Culture to be realized. This is the overall goal of our project, aimed at supporting the values of culture vital for the preservation and improvement of the European project, by means of striving to promote identity and belonging, inclusiveness, tolerance, and social cohesion. We intend to identify the elements which need to be present in cultural policies both at the European and national levels, in order to aid the realization of the strategic objectives of the New EU agenda for culture.

Keywords: cultural policies,globalization,european integrations,digitalization,increasing social inequalities,cultural participation,inclusiveness,tolerance,social cohesion in the eu
Switchable rhodOpsins in Life Sciences (SOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2020-SyG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2028-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7971388.75
EU funding (EUR): 7971388.75
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Bistable rhodopsins are naturally photosensitive G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) that can be toggled between stable ON and OFF states using light. They are responsible for photosensitivity and vision across animals (including humans), and a potential source of powerful optogenetic tools enabling bidirectional control of influential intracellular signalling cascades across all body systems using light. Lack of understanding of structure-function relationships for these proteins curtails understanding of their biology and their engineering for optogenetic purposes. PI Kleinlogel first demonstrated that chimeras between bistable rhodopsin and ligand GPRCs can be functionally active and provoke a strong physiological response when expressed in vivo. PI Schertler has extensive experience in the structural analysis of rhodopsins and has successfully solved the first structure of a recombinantly expressed bistable rhodopsin. PI Hegemann has longstanding experience in the spectroscopic characterisation and engineering of photoreceptor proteins and is one of the founding fathers of optogenetics. PI Lucas pioneered cellular systems suitable for analysing spectral properties and G protein selectivity and had a leading role in elucidating the physiological role of the bistable rhodopsin melanopsin. Together, the team aims to understand how structural features of these influential photoreceptors define their bistability, bichromicity, kinetics, and G-protein selectivity (Objective 1). We will exploit this knowledge for rational engineering towards colour tuning and G protein selectivity for optogenetic tools (Objective 2) and to probe physiological functions (Objective 3). The result will be a decisive step towards a general theory of structure-function relationship in photoreceptors and will produce a new generation of powerful optogenetic tools enabling defined GPCR signalling activities in any cell type.

Keywords: structure based protein engineering,single particle cryo electron microscopy,time resolved serial room temperature crystallography,optogenetics,retinal proteins,g protein coupled receptor signalling,cellular functional protein analysis,photobiology,photochemistry,electrophysiology,tissue specific in vivo expression
Automatic Rail Safety Solution (SDO-MET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1481155.5
EU funding (EUR): 1036808.85
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

By 2025 1800km of rail lines will be automated worldwide. With the increase in automatic train operation comes the need to create an innovative platform and track protection system to ensure the security of passengers while maintaining increased efficiency in public transport. According to the European Railway Agency in 2012 there were a total of 5122 railway incidents involving people across Europe of which 1016 were serious injuries, 1133 were deaths and 2973 were suicides. The combined costs of fatalities and serious injuries cost the EU more than 1.5 billion euros in 2012. SDO-MET (Metro Object Detection System) is an innovative technology that aims at helping usher in the next era in automated public transport. Our platform and track security system provides a safer, lower cost, and easier to install alternative to current systems. Using an innovative system of sensors and cameras our goal is to make metro platforms and track areas safe and efficient for users and operators of automated trains. Our goals for phase 2 are to further develop and refine SDO-MET in order to have a market ready product. Our main focus, on a technical level, will be the implementation of the two SoA visual systems necessary for SDO-MET. The potential customers are the main operators of the railway sector such as Barcelona Metropolitan Transport, Metro de Madrid and Brussels Metro with whom we currently have trade relations. Other potential customers include project engineers and manufacturers /distributors of railway equipment such as SIEMENS, BOMBARDIERS, THALES, etc. During the development of our first prototype over the past 5 years we have developed a business plan and commercialization strategy. These and other feasibility activities, along with the willingness to pay already expressed by our collaborators, makes us confident that SDO-MET has market scalability and will be successful on a global scale. The potential worldwide market is for SDO-MET is 497 metro lines (452.7 B €).

Keywords: mobility,rail,smart rail services,rail vehicles,european rail safety system,sustainable mobility,intelligent security transport systems,user behaviour
Next Generation European DIH Network (DIHNET.EU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Poland,France,Netherlands,Luxembourg
Call: Coordination and Support Activities for Digital Innovation Hub network (H2020-DT-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 997812.49
EU funding (EUR): 997812.49
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Digital Innovation Hubs have become the national and European instrument to speed up digitization in SMEs/MidCaps to ensure the EU’s future industrial leadership. Most EU Member States DIHs have established, in a growing number of regions and sectors, complemented by regional and national networks. Also the EC is deploying a vast number of initiatives to support DIH activities. The next step is to build a pan EU network that coordinates and integrates this wide variety of initiatives and ensure collaboration and quality. DIHNET.EU just does that: build a network of networks involving hubs, competence centres, and regional and national programmes and infrastructures. The aim of this EU DIH network is to ensure the best possible support to SMEs and midcaps. DIHNET.EU will contribute to this in the following: - Enhancing collaboration between stakeholders from the European DIH Community to better support SMEs/MidCaps with their digitisation, by creating awareness, understanding and activating the ecosystem on DIHs challenges and possible solutions. - Offering DIHs an online infrastructure to facilitate their collaboration. This platform will support the DIHNET.EU Community with a wide range of services, information and tools that will help DIHs to communicate, align, collaborate and synchronise activities. - Developing a clear overview of the DIH related services provided in Europe and align them. - Upgrading the DIH Catalogue: identifying/activating activities in the DIH Community in coherence with regional, national and EU policies. - Creating a strategy to reinforce the specialization of these services to SMEs and MidCaps, as well as support its uptake by relevant DIH and DIH networks. - Creating a vision and strategy on a self-sustaining business model for this network of DIHs, and to make this operational. The project is carried out by TNO, Tecnalia, Fundingbox, euRobotics, BluMorpho and FEDIL, have strong experience in DIHs and well connected to the EU DIH community.
European Cbrn Innovation for the maRket CLuster (ENCIRCLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Finland,Poland,Belgium,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) cluster (H2020-SEC-2016-2017-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-10
End date: 2021-09-09
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997085.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997085.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

To improve its resilience to new CBRN attacks and threats, the EU needs a specialized, efficient and sustainable industry, competitive on a less fragmented EU market and globally. Capitalizing on its experience in the EDEN Demonstration Project, in other CBRN relevant projects, and in the CBRN market and supply chain, the ENCIRCLE consortium proposes an innovative approach to reach this goal in a short to long term perspective so that SMEs and large industries can propose and invest in the best innovations on the market. This approach results in 5 objectives aimed at prompting the innovation and business development, and filling market gaps in the project timeframe: 1. Create an open and neutral EU CBRN cluster, 2. Provide a sustainable and flexible vision and roadmap for the development of the European CBRN market and innovations, 3. Provide integration with platforms (systems, tools, services, products) by proposing standardized interfaces and future EU standards to integrate CBRN technologies and innovations developed from the Part b projects, 4. Support CBRN safety, security and defence commercial and market services, 5. Improve and facilitate European CBRN dissemination and exploitation. The project will be conducted by a consortium of specialized industries, trade associations and research organisations with flexible and lean procedures under the advice of the EC Community of Users. It will rely on two large interactive communities: practitioners and customers, and industrial and technological providers, the latter including many SMEs. To optimize the needs and gaps assessment and the innovation development, acceptance and success, ENCIRCLE will establish formal links with other consortia such as the future Part b projects. The main expected impact is to enhance the EU CBRN industry competitiveness and enlarge its market while increasing the benefits of the EU research and innovation to improve CBRN preparedness, response, resilience and recovery efficiency.

Keywords: cbrn,cluster,industry,smes,practitioners,competitiveness,market,resilience
Surface Lifetime Investigation for Characterization and Enhancement of passivating contacts in c-Si solar cells (SLICE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-05-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the context of high-efficiency solar cells based on crystalline silicon (c-Si), the integration of passivating contacts between the metal electrodes and the c-Si substrate has been identified as the next step to further improve the photovoltaic conversion efficiency. Passivating contacts consisting in a highly-doped poly-crystalline silicon (poly-Si) layer on top of a thin layer of silicon oxide (SiOx) offer the most promising approach to bridge the gap between device efficiencies in R&D and those in production. However, their development has mainly proceeded through “trial and error” so far, resulting in a limited understanding of their underlying working principle. More specifically, the surface passivation provided by poly-Si contacts is a combination of different mechanisms, among which the limiting one is still unclear due to: i) the interplay between these different mechanisms and ii) the challenge of characterizing thin-film stacks with features to the nanometric scale. Moreover, p-type poly-Si contacts, which are of prime interest since they could provide an alternative to the conventional contact at the rear side of mainstream p-type c-Si solar cells, have so far demonstrated lower passivation properties than their n-type counterparts, the fundamental reason for this difference remaining unclear. Within the SLICE project, a dedicated methodology based on lifetime spectroscopy scpecially adapted to the c-Si surface will be applied to identify electrically active defects limiting the lifetime of charge carriers at the interface between poly-Si contacts and the c-Si. The investigation of different passivating thin-film stacks of iterative complexity will enable to relate their properties to their fabrication process. The insights gained from this original characterization of interfacial defects will support the fabrication of better passivating poly-Si contacts and ultimately solar cells with higher efficiency.

Keywords: c si solar cell,passivating contacts,lifetime spectroscopy