Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Investigation and Maturation of Technologies for Hybrid Electric Propulsion (IMOTHEP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Sweden,Russian Federation,Belgium,Belgium,Poland,Romania,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Canada
Call: Future propulsion and integration: towards a hybrid/electric aircraft (InCo flagship) (H2020-MG-2019-SingleStage-INEA, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18675947.5
EU funding (EUR): 10392845.0
Participants: 36
Project status: SIGNED

To meet the goal of a carbon neutral growth of commercial aviation, the top level objective of IMOTHEP is to achieve a key step in assessing the potential offered by hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) and, ultimately, to build the corresponding aviation sector-wide roadmap for the maturation of the technology. The core of IMOTHEP is an integrated end-to-end investigation of hybrid-electric power trains for commercial aircraft, performed in close connexion with the propulsion system and aircraft architecture. Aircraft configurations will be selected based on their potential for fuel burn reduction and their representativeness of a variety of credible concepts, with a focus on regional and short-to-medium range missions. From the preliminary design of aircraft, target specifications will be defined for the architecture and components of the hybrid propulsion chain. Technological solutions and associated models will then be investigated with a twenty year timeframe perspective. In order to identify key technological enablers and technology gaps, the integrated performance of the electric components and power chain will be synthesized by assessing the fuel burn of the selected aircraft configurations, compared to conventional technologies extrapolated to 2035. The project will also address the infrastructures and tools required for HEP development, as well as the need for technology demonstrations or regulatory evolutions. Eventually, all these elements will feed the research and technology roadmap of HEP, which will constitute the final synthesis of the project. To achieve these ambitious goals, the four-year project is supported by 7 R&D institutes, 11 industries (from aviation and electric systems), a service SME and 7 universities from 9 EU countries, plus 6 RTD organisations from Canada and Russia. The requested EU grant is 10 392 845 Euros.

Keywords: hybrid electric propulsion,roadmap,regional,small and medium range,waste heat recovery,thermal management,overall power system architecture
Marine phytoplankton as biogeochemical drivers: Scaling from membranes and single cells to populations (SEACELLS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2014-ADG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2704190.0
EU funding (EUR): 2704190.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SEACELLS addresses fundamental questions in phytoplankton biology from cellular to population scales. Our recent studies of phytoplankton, primitive photosynthetic marine protists that play important roles in ocean biogeochemical cycles, are providing exciting new information on the roles and evolution of membrane transport, cell signalling and metabolic regulation. The research builds on a number of recent findings, including the discovery of cell membrane properties that were thought to be typical of animal cells but now must be considered to be of much more ancient origin. The proposed 5-year programme brings together single cell biophysics, imaging and state of the art molecular biology with in situ studies of natural oceanic phytoplankton populations, focussing principally on two significant groups, the diatoms and coccolithophores. A major aim is to gain critical mechanistic understanding of membrane transport, cellular regulation and key physiological processes at the single cell level along with information on the microenvironment that surrounds cells. This will be used in conjunction with modelling studies to determine how phytoplankton cells regulate their immediate environment and how this in turn interacts with metabolic activity. In order to understand how the physiological properties of single cells in the laboratory translate to behaviour of natural populations we will examine cell physiological properties in natural populations. Knowledge of cell- to-cell variability will provide insights into the plasticity of populations and their responses to changing ocean conditions. Underpinning this is the transfer of single cell technology developed in the laboratory to ship-board platforms. SEACELLS presents a discipline-spanning approach, providing opportunities for cross-fertilization of knowledge and ideas from molecular biology through cell biophysics to in situ oceanography with wide reaching outcomes.

Keywords: phytoplankton,membranes,signaling,populations,diatoms,coccolithophores
Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT/cloud Testbeds and Applications (FIESTA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Greece,Korea, Republic of,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: FIRE+ (Future Internet Research & Experimentation) (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5484662.0
EU funding (EUR): 5135287.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Despite the proliferation of IoT and smart cities testbeds, there is still no easy way to conduct large scale experiments that leverage data and resources from multiple geographically and administratively distributed IoT platforms. Recent advances in IoT semantic interoperability provide a sound basis for implementing novel cloud-based infrastructures that could allow testbed-agnostic access to IoT data and resources. FIESTA will open new horizons in IoT experimentation at a global scale, based on the interconnection and interoperability of diverse IoT testbeds. FIESTA will produce a first-of-a-kind blueprint experimental infrastructure (tools, techniques and best practices) enabling testbed operators to interconnect their facilities in an interoperable way, while at the same time facilitating researchers in deploying integrated experiments, which seamlessly transcend the boundaries of multiple IoT platforms. FIESTA will be validated and evaluated based on the interconnection of four testbeds (in Spain, UK, France and Korea), as well as based on the execution of novel experiments in the areas of mobile crowd-sensing, IoT applications portability, and dynamic intelligent discovery of IoT resources. In order to achieve global outreach and maximum impact, FIESTA will integrate an additional testbed and experiments from Korea, while it will also collaborate with IoT experts from USA. The participation of a Korean partner (based its own funding) will maximize FIESTA’s value for EC money. Moreover, the project will take advantage of open calls processes towards attracting third-parties that will engage in the integration of their platforms within FIESTA or in the conduction of added-value experiments. As part of its sustainability strategy, FIESTA will establish a global market confidence programme for IoT interoperability, which will enable innovative platform providers and solution integrators to ensure/certify the openness and interoperability of their developments.

Keywords: iot testbed,experimental infrastructure,experiments,cloud computing,smart cities,semantic interoperability,iot global market confidence
Pancreatic cancer as a treatment target of Dwarfbody-Therapeutics (PANTREAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Dwarfbody-Therapeutics (DB-Tx) is a new company, established in 2016 as a spin off from a frontrunner research team in Gastro-Intestinal Cancers in the AMC Amsterdam. DB-Tx aims to transform current, ineffective treatment of these aggressive cancer types by co-administering highly effective and safe low molecular weight antibodies (“Dwarfbodies®”) to significantly increase therapeutic outcome. The superiority of the Dwarfbodies® compared to competing molecules and their anticancer effects have been published in various high ranked journals. Now PANTREAT primarily aims at broadening the initial target market for the Dwarfbodies® by creating additional proof-of-concept, reports on production, test Trial Centers and a sound business plan. Results will be compiled into a sound company portfolio, which will form the basis for further development of the Dwarfbodies® and obtaining investments and supportive grants and partnerships. Finally, this will lead to highly attractive licencing deals from 2020 onwards.

Keywords: pancreatic cancers,aggresive cancers,nanobodies,gmp supply
Application Centric IP/Optical Network Orchestration (ACINO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Israel,Italy,Greece,Sweden
Call: Smart optical and wireless network technologies (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2887055.0
EU funding (EUR): 2887055.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The Internet has evolved into a three layer structure: at the top layer sit the applications generating traffic that is groomed at the IP and/or OTN layers and finally transported at the optical layer. Specific application needs, such as latency or protection requirements, are seldom guaranteed, because they are usually implicit and even when they are not, the need of the grooming layer to map large numbers of small flows into the small numbers of very large and static lightpaths is an obstacle to effective service fulfillment. ACINO proposes a novel application-centric network concept, which differentiates the service offered to each application all the way down to the optical layer, thereby overcoming the disconnect that the grooming layer causes between service requirements and their fulfillment in the optical layer. This allows catering to the needs of emerging medium-large applications, such as database migration in data centers. To realize this vision, ACINO aims to develop an open source, vendor-agnostic modular orchestrator, which will expose to applications a set of high level primitives for specifying service requirements, and then perform multi-layer (IP and optical) planning and optimization processes to map these requirements into a set of lightpaths. The orchestrator will also be able to perform re-optimization, by means of a novel online in-operation planning module. The ACINO consortium has strong industrial foundations, and plans to demonstrate the advantages of its approach in a testbed with commercial equipment in a carrier environment. ACINO’s approach directly addresses the lack of dynamic control of optical networks, by automating planning and configuration tasks, and tackles the limitations in inter data center connectivity by allowing applications to request detailed and complex custom services to be provisioned in a timely manner. Overall, ACINO’s open source and vendor-agnostic approach will foster the emergence of open industry standards.

Keywords: application centric,network orchestration,multi layer ip,optical optimization,in operation planning,open source,commercial testbed
Safe and accurate fetal monitoring (FETAL MONITORING)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nemo Healthcare BV is a high-tech startup company – established after years of research - that focuses on the development of innovative technology for fetal monitoring. Fetal monitoring is essential to safeguard the health of mother and child during gestation and birth. The goal is to timely detect problems, such as preterm birth, oxygen deficiency (fetal hypoxia) or growth restriction, so proper action can be taken to mitigate the effects of these problems on both mother and child. Fetal monitoring consists of simultaneously monitoring uterine contractions and the fetal heart rate. Current methods are unsafe or not accurate (especially among overweight or obese patients (BMI>25; about 30% of the pregnant population). There is a clear market need for fetal monitoring technology that is accurate, safe (non-invasive), easy to use and applicable independent of the BMI level of pregnant women. Since overweight and obese women face higher risks of complications and their number is steadily increasing, the need for improved monitoring technology is becoming more urgent every day. Nemo is responding to this market need through the development of an innovative electrode patch and hardware/software module that can simultaneously record uterine activity and fetal heart rate – independent of BMI levels. The solution of Nemo is characterized by unique and smart algorithms that can accurately and real-time filter contractions and the fetal heart rate from unprocessed abdominal electrophysiological signals, successfully eliminating noise or interference. The solution will be able to transfer the recorded data wirelessly. The solution will create a breakthrough in the field of fetal monitoring: it will result in better diagnoses, improved quality of care, a reduced number of birth-related problems, increased user friendliness (for medical staff as well as the patient) and lower healtcare cost (through remote monitoring, reduced treatment and avoidance of unneccesary surgery).

Keywords: fetal monitoring,uterine contractions,fetal heart rate,non invasive,pregnancy,birth,electrode patch
PEATland modelling for global carbon cycle and climate models (PEATmod)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
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-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2019-07-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Prediction of future climate change can only be achieved through models of the global climate system and its interactions with earth system processes. The reliability of the predictions depends on building the best understanding of these processes. Changes in the global carbon cycle are a source of major uncertainty in models and terrestrial carbon stored in peatlands is a critical element of this. The action proposed here will bring state-of-the-art process modelling into global vegetation models that are used in projections of future climate change. An improved understanding of peatland dynamics and functions will also have implications for management and climate mitigation strategies for wetlands, agriculture, land-use, and energy. I have worked extensively in North America on one of the most sophisticated peatland process models. I will work with Dan Charman and Angela Gallego-Sala at Exeter to build this model in to one of the most widely used dynamic global vegetation models so that peatlands and their carbon balance are better represented within global climate models. The work will thus allow quantification of the impact of peatlands on the global carbon cycle in the past and in the future. The action will bring top level expertise in peatland modelling back to Europe and build a bridge between the North American peatland modelling community and those in Europe. It will expose me to training and development in the necessary skills, people and laboratories to take this work forward independently in a European institution in the future. The supervisors at Exeter will develop their already strong record in carbon cycle and climate modelling and further develop links with other European workers and key groups in North America. Overall the action will provide a secure launch pad for my career, bring cutting edge skills to Europe and build stronger and long lasting linkages between European and North American science.

Keywords: carbon cycle,peatlands,climate change,vegetation dynamics,global models
Ultrathin Mixed Matrix Membranes (MMMs) Derived from Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Nanosheets for Organic Solvent Nanofiltration (OSN) (MONSON)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Energy efficiency is at the heart of the EU’s 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) technology is an emerging technology that can potentially achieve organic liquid separation on a molecular scale with less than half the energy consumption than conventional distillation processes. The main obstacle is the lack of OSN membrane materials with three key properties: high flux; high selectivity; and excellent stability. This project seeks to develop ultrathin OSN membranes comprising metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheets in ultrathin polymer matrix in the form of mixed matrix membranes (MMMs). This research work is based on combining recent technology breakthroughs in: (i) 1-nm-thick MOF nanosheet based molecular sieve membranes, developed by the Applicant; and (ii) highly cross-linked sub-10-nm-thick OSN polymer membranes developed by the Host group. This is a timely and highly original research concept to create a new generation of high performances, and brings the full potential of MOF materials to the field of OSN membranes to produce highly stable OSN membranes with ultrafast solvent permeation and finely tunable (molecular weight cut-off) MWCO curves. In addition, the in-depth studies on controllable synthesis of MOF structures, rational design and synthesis of polymer networks, and microstructural optimization of MOF-polymer composites are expected to lead to application-oriented fabrication of high-performance membranes and functional thin films for a wide range of applications. This project will bring together the complementary expertise of both the applicant and the Host with the aim of developing mutually-beneficial research cooperation between Europe and China. This high-quality and highly innovative research will open up the optimum career possibilities for the applicant by broadening his research horizons, enriching his research experience, and strengthening his network with European colleagues.

Keywords: organic solvent nanofiltration,metal organic frameworks,nanosheets,mixed matrix membranes
Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation (Nunataryuk)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Iceland,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Iceland,Austria,Germany,Germany,Norway,Norway,Belgium,Finland,Sweden,Norway,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,Denmark,Portugal,Canada,United Kingdom
Call: The effect of climate change on Arctic permafrost and its socio-economic impact, with a focus on coastal areas (H2020-BG-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11467317.5
EU funding (EUR): 11467317.5
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

Most human activity in the Arctic takes place along permafrost coasts, making them a key interface. They have become one of the most dynamic ecosystems on Earth because permafrost thaw is now exposing these coasts to rapid change: change that threatens the rich biodiversity, puts pressure on communities that live there and contributes to the vulnerability of the global climate system. NUNATARYUK will determine the impacts of thawing coastal and subsea permafrost on the global climate, and will develop targeted and co-designed adaptation and mitigation strategies for the Arctic coastal population. NUNATARYUK brings together world-leading specialists in natural science and socio-economics to: (1) develop quantitative understanding of the fluxes and fates of organic matter released from thawing coastal and subsea permafrost; (2) assess what risks are posed by thawing coastal permafrost, to infrastructure, indigenous and local communities and people’s health, and from pollution; (3) use this understanding to estimate the long-term impacts of permafrost thaw on global climate and the economy. NUNATARYUK will be guided by a Stakeholders’ Forum of representatives from Arctic coastal communities and indigenous societies, creating a legacy of collaborative community involvement and a mechanism for developing and applying innovative evidence-based interventions to enable the sustainable development of the Arctic.

Keywords: permafrost,climate change,arctic,coast,adaptation,mitigation,co design