Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
IMPACT TB: Implementing proven community-based active case finding interventions in Vietnam and Nepal (IMPACT TB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Health care provision and integrated care
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Netherlands,Nepal,United Kingdom
Call: Implementation research for scaling-up of evidence based innovations and good practice in Europe and low- and middle-income countries (H2020-SC1-2016-RTD, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4912423.75
EU funding (EUR): 4912423.75
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to assess the facilitators and barriers to scale-up of two proven active TB case finding and comprehensive patient care models in Vietnam and Nepal as examples of these low and lower-middle income country settings. We will use these data to develop an evidence-based framework for scale-up of implementation by the respective National TB Programs in consultation with relevant stakeholders and governments. This will facilitate programmatic adoption of realistic and optimised active case finding strategies by national TB control programmes. We will compare two alternative implementation strategies in each country appropriate to the local level of current service delivery. For Vietnam, we will compare implementation using salaried employees with volunteer counsellors. For Nepal, we will compare two diagnostic testing strategies as a component of active case finding: traditional smear microscopy or the novel Xpert Omni molecular testing. We will determine the health economic impact of active case detection under the different models and model the long-term epidemiologic impact and cost-effectiveness. The research seeks to achieve the following objectives: 1) Implementation of active case finding with comprehensive patient support in 6 districts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam detecting 1,450 additional cases in 2 years. 2) Implementation of active case finding with comprehensive patient support in 4 districts of the Central Development Region of Nepal, detecting 1,050 additional cases in 2 years. 3) Health economic evaluation of alternative implementation models in low (Nepal) and middle income (Vietnam) scenarios to inform policy. 4) Consultation with policy makers, stakeholders and end-users to evaluate facillatators and barriers to scale-up at health system and individual level and development of an evidence-based framework for scale-up for each country. 5) Transmission modelling of epidemic impact and long-term cost-effectiveness.

Keywords: tuberculosis,active case finding,policy,health economics,translation,scale up,transmission
Light-Matter Interfaces for Quantum Enhanced Technology (LIMQUET)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Bulgaria,France,France,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3833637.12
EU funding (EUR): 3833637.12
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum technology means the ability to organise and control the components of a functional system governed by the laws of quantum physics. The goal of this project is to train high-level young researchers through the development of innovative techniques to interface light and matter at the quantum level using atoms, nanostructures and photons, with applications in optics and quantum information processing. Well-trained and versatile researchers are needed to satisfy the demands of this rapidly growing field, in which there is also a strong drive and low threshold for industrial involvement. A prerequisite for success is the enhancement of the close connection between experimental, technological and theoretical studies. The proposed network, Light-Matter Interfaces for Quantum Enhanced Technology, LIMQUET, consists of seven academic and three industrial beneficiaries, complemented by one industrial partner. The academic partners are experienced but reasonably young groups with already established collaborations. The industrial partners have experience in developing and manufacturing high-quality components for research and industrial purposes. Within the Network, we anticipate highlights in (i) light-matter interfaces at the quantum level through the realisation of quantum networks using atoms, ions, and photons, (ii) the interfacing of light with light, in particular for light storage, (iii) adapting strategies originally developed in quantum optics to an integration into designed nanostructures, and (iv) the development of robust tools for quantum control and photonics. The training Network will enhance and use the synergy between the partners to produce a high-level doctoral training program in the field of quantum research and technology, including complementary skills and a pertinent impact of outreach activities. In order to enhance their career perspectives, all the ESRs will be jointly supervised and will be hosted on secondment by a company of the project.

Keywords: quantum technology,light matter interfacing,cavity quantum electrodynamics,trapped atoms and ions,quantum information processing,nano optics,optimal control,control by laser,quantum plasmonics
Federating European Electronics Ecosystems for Competitive Electronics Industries (5E)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Electronic Smart Systems (ESS) (H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999772.5
EU funding (EUR): 999772.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In view of the fierce global competition, decision makers in Europe acknowledge challenges that the electronics industry faces. The launch of large-scale investments and support measures to drive innovation, such as ECSEL, PENTA, IPCEI, are an important step in strengthening this key sector of the economy. Europe needs to define long-term visions and strategies for the whole European electronics industry in order to keep its competitive edge and foster value creation. A major contribution is currently ongoing with the revision of the EC strategy on electronics, which will be taken into account in the proposed project. At the same time, digitisation of industry and society is a megatrend that urgently requires electronics as the hardware building blocks complementing and interacting with other areas like software, communications, computing, robotics and photonics. 5E will underpin digitisation, and support specifically the electronics industry in seizing opportunities by federating – not merging – the 3 European electronics ecosystems. Federation will be achieved by developing a joint vision based on the state of play and focusing on interfaces, as well as on opportunities for collaboration and cross-fertilisation. A technology and application meta-roadmap will be elaborated and implemented in the 3 electronics areas, in application sectors, in the areas of digitisation, as well as on the European and regional policy levels. Dedicated actions will further reinforce cooperation and outreach across Europe - in all relevant value chains, sectors, areas and target groups – and at the international level. Targeted actions reach out to EU projects, large industry, SMEs, start-ups, demand-side, users and wider public, and include a toolbox, digital library and showcase as well as a contest. 7 influential partners with deep technological and methodological expertise join forces and are supported by 37 Associated Partners (industry, demand-side, digitisation, regions).

Keywords: ec strategy,joint vision,european electronics sector,electronics industry,hardware,cross fertilisation,electronics smart systems,nanoelectronics,flexible and wearable electronics,roadmap
Terahertz based Ultra High Bandwidth Wireless Access Networks (TERAPOD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Germany,Spain,Ireland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Networking research beyond 5G (H2020-ICT-2016-2, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3467593.75
EU funding (EUR): 3467593.75
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The saturation of wireless spectrum access is leading to innovations in areas such as spectrum resource usage. It is widely thought however that the low hanging fruits of innovation for wireless communication are all but exploited with only marginal gains possible. For a real step change towards the coveted 1Tbps wireless transmission, new areas of the spectrum must be utilized. Recent breakthroughs in terahertz systems are overturning the “Terahertz gap” stigma associated with the previously difficult to access spectrum. With the emergence of viable THz communications systems on the horizon, it is crucial to develop a technology roadmap for THz communication for beyond the 5G timeframe. The aim TERAPOD is to investigate and demonstrate the feasability of ultra high bandwidth wireless access networks operating in the Terahertz band. The project will focus on end to end demonstration of the THz wireless link within a Data Centre Proof of Concept deployment, while also investigating other use cases applicable to beyond 5G such as wireless personal area networks, wireless local area networks and high bandwidth broadcasting. The project seeks to bring THz communication a leap closer to industry uptake through leveraging recent advances in THz components, a thorough measurement and characterization study of components and devices, coupled with specification and validation of higher layer communication protocol specification.

Keywords: thz communication
White Islam: A New Religion for Europeans (WhIsE)

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: Netherlands,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-09-01
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 271052.16
EU funding (EUR): 271052.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The project investigates how Islam provides a new framework of ethical norms and religious practices for a number of Europeans who are dissatisfied with the social role occupied by the Christian Churches and who express their concerns about the continuous secularisation and cultural liberalisation of their societies. Contrary to prominent Islamic thinkers in Europe who aim to reconcile the Islamic doctrine with liberal values, these Europeans embrace Islam precisely for its supposed opposition to the current norms of modern Western societies. The study seeks to understand how certain groups among European converts to Islam refer to this religion for expressing critique of economic and cultural liberalism. The project will focus on the ideas developed by members of the Murabitun World Movement (MWM) in the period between the 1970s-2000s. Specifically, the project will investigate works produced by MWM branches in Germany and Russia, for there had been different readings of what this conservative European Islam was supposed to entail. WP1 encompasses a collection of data related to the activities and publications of the MWM members. WP2 includes fieldwork in Europe that centres around interviews with MWM affiliates. The outcomes of these two phases include a database suitable for future research inquiries, as well as a visualised network that enables understanding the scope of the MWM activities. WP4-5 centres around disseminating research results across the scientific community, as well as outreach activities that target policymakers and the broader public. WP6 deliverables place emphasis on deepening PI’s research skills and extending the collaboration networks.

Keywords: far right,islam,white supremacy,russia,germany,conversion,malikism,world murabitun movement,critical discourse analysis
Multiple Designer Organelles for Expanded Eukaryotic life (MultiOrganelleDesign)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms, biotechnology for environment and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences, bioengineering and synthetic biology, biomass and biofuels, biohazards
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499068.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499068.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The emergence of organelles dedicated to specific cellular functions drove the evolution of more complex eukaryotic organisms. We recently created membraneless organelles inside eukaryotic cells dedicated to orthogonal translation, which opened a new path to residue-specific protein engineering using genetic code expansion. We now want to design novel organelles into eukaryotes that will internally enact the entire central dogma of molecular biology. This will supplement the complex eukaryotic cell with an additional simple and easily tailored orthogonal machinery that can also facilitate transcription and replication. This will enable us to create eukaryotes that have more than four additional expanded genetic codes, and we will explore the functional space occupied by these novel living systems. The organelles will be enhanced to process specific signals to e.g. modify RNA or degrade specific proteins. Besides these curiosity-driven goals, specific applications will allow us to road test our technology. We will directly use these approaches to advance protein engineering in eukaryotes to create proteins and artificial peptide polymers having multiple, noncanonical functionalities suitable for diverse biotechnological applications and new bioinspired materials. We will also develop organelle design into a truly universal and powerful labeling method fully compatible with eukaryotic host cell physiology that has single-residue precision and goes way beyond the state-of-the-art of any fluorescent labeling technology. The approaches will be general and truly flexible in how translation can be tailored in terms of protein, RNA and codon choice, including sense codons and type of new functionalities. Progress made in recent decades has shown that protein design and engineering can revolutionize biology. We can only imagine what can be achieved with designed functional organelles inside eukaryotic cells and how they might enable the creation of new living systems.

Keywords: genetic code expansion,phase separation,noncanonical amino acids,membraneless organelles
Olmedo Smart Ambulance real-time diagnosis System (OSAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

According to the current state of the art, ambulances are not fully exploited as part of first aid system. In mass trauma cases, e.g. after earthquakes or accidents, accurate diagnosis on site and an accurate system to prioritise the most critical cases can help save lives. However due to unavailability of real time diagnostic integrate system and remote expert assistance from a doctor, accident victims can be misdiagnosed and given inadequate treatment and hospitalization. Additionally, in case of serious injuries, it is very important to position the patient in the right way, and if the location floor is irregular the stretcher should help to overcome the barriers without any movement that can further damage the patient. We, Olmedo Special Vehicles S.p.A, an established company specialised in the transformation of vehicles for leisure, medical care and clients with disabilities, have developed the answer to these needs: OSAS. It is composed of 2 main components: 1) an ambulance equipped with our X-Link system to connect all the ambulance medical devices among them and with the hospitals; 2) a new stretcher with embedded sensors for detecting and transmitting patient’s vital signs in real time, and a system that automatically adjusts posture to suit patient’s condition and maintains it using is gyro-stabilising technology. OSAS will improve patient care since the first moment, logistic efficiency by 25% and ambulance availability by 20%. Journeys for staff and patients will be less stressful, due to availability of remote expert help and ergonomic design of ambulance. Additionally, the project will allow the company to increase its market share in the current markets and enter new profitable ones. By the end of the fifth year of commercialization we will earn cumulative profit of €6.2 M.

Keywords: smart ambulances,stretcher,remote health care,early diagnosis,telemedicine,ambulance dispatch system
Speeding up the virtual reality revolution with realistic & real-time animation of hand-to-object interaction (VirtualGrasp)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2918625.0
EU funding (EUR): 2043037.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Gleechi was founded in 2014 by Dan Song (a PhD in biomedical engineering), Kai Hübner (a PhD in computer science & robotics) & Jakob Johansson (a successful serial entrepreneur), building up on 8+ years of advanced research at Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in enabling robots to use their manipulators more efficiently. Gleechi develops VirtualGrasp – the first and only standard software solution that creates realistic real-time hand animation & hand-to-object interaction in virtual environments. With predictive & adaptive machine learning algorithms that analyze the physical properties of a virtual object, decipher the most appropriate and realistic grip formation for the hand model and snap to that position, VirtualGrasp will enable immersion and presence in virtual reality not attainable by current ad-hoc methods, such as pre-animation. The global market for virtual reality software is forecasted to reach €32.8bn by 2025 (with videogames, healthcare and manufacturing being the largest segments). Providing a crucial enabling technology for interaction with objects in virtual space, Gleechi aims to address three lucrative market segments: 3D videogames, training in manufacturing and stroke rehabilitation, and grow to €160m+ in revenues and 140+ employees by 2026. Gleechi has been awarded Super Startup of 2015 by Veckans Affärer and is supported by several Swedish Innovation clusters, including STING, VINNOVA, KTH Innovation, EIT ICT Labs, and ALMI. Gleechi was listed as one of the hottest tech startups in Sweden 2018. In 2016 VirtualGrasp was listed as one of the 5 Swedish innovations that “could change your life”. Gleechi’s customers and partners include HTC, CEA, ABB, Intel, Karolinska Institutet and others. In this 24-month Phase 2 project Gleechi is requesting a €2m contribution to advance its technology, productize it, trial in 3 segments and prepare for the market introduction.

Keywords: virtual reality,hand motion,hand interaction
Graphene-based adaptive thermal shields for satellites (SmartIR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As satellites get more miniaturized, they place unique thermal control challenges. Because of their low masses, they experience large temperature variations in the very tough and rapidly varying outer space environment. However, due to the lack of efficient active infrared materials, dynamic control of thermal radiation from satellites has been a challenge. As a result of the research undertaken in the SmartGraphene (ERC-CoG-2016-682723), we have successfully demonstrated graphene-based active infrared (IR) surfaces which can electrically control its thermal emissivity over the entire IR spectra. These active IR surfaces can provide new enabling technologies for active control of thermal radiation and heat management for outer space applications. This project (SmartIR) aims to develop a prototype for adaptive thermal blankets using multilayer graphene. The proposed thermal blankets will consist of electrically reconfigurable and flexible active graphene layers integrated with radiation sensors and control electronics that can be conformally wrapped onto solid objects to dynamically modulate their thermal emission and absorption. This project will focus on demonstrating prototype thermal sheets, performance characterization in a space simulator and conducting a market feasibility study of the developed technology. The expected outcome of the project is to bring the technology to a development stage TRL 5-6 that could enable novel active thermal management

Keywords: graphene,thermal management,satellites,smart surfaces