Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, OLive and Durum wheat food systems (MED-GOLD)

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: Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Greece,Colombia,Belgium,Greece,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Exploiting the added value of climate services (H2020-SC5-2017-OneStageB, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4990967.5
EU funding (EUR): 4990967.5
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

MED-GOLD will demonstrate the proof-of-concept for climate services in the agriculture sector by developing case studies for three hallmarks of the Mediterranean food system: grapes, olives and durum wheat. Agriculture is primarily climate-driven and hence highly vulnerable to climate variability and change. Evidence suggests that the Mediterranean region is under immediate threat of shifting climate patterns and the associated ecological, economic and social effects. Developing a capacity to turn the increasingly big climate-related data into tailored climate services that can inform decision-making in agriculture, is therefore a priority both in Europe and worldwide. The long-term goal of this project is to make European agriculture and food systems more competitive, resilient, and efficient in the face of climate change, by using climate services to minimize climate-driven risks/costs and seize opportunities for added-value. The MED-GOLD project aims to develop climate services for olive, grape, and durum wheat crop systems that are the basis for producing olive oil, wine and pasta. This set of crops and related food products is of utmost climatic, ecological, economic, and cultural relevance to the Mediterranean region. Because olive oil, wine and pasta are not only hallmarks of the Mediterranean diet but also food commodities with a global market, there is considerable potential for developing climate services with high added-value for olive, grape, and durum wheat. A key challenge is to co-design prototype pilot service applications involving both suppliers and users in the three major traditional Mediterranean crop systems so as to demonstrate the added-value of data/information-driven responses to changes in the climate system. The operational decision-making of users will be reviewed to either identify key decisions or introduce new actions that can benefit from climate-related information at different timescales from months to decades.

Keywords: climate services,agricultural sector,olives oil,wine,pasta,olives,grape,durum wheat
Advanced Uninterrupted RAdio (AURA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

AURA (Advanced Uninterrupted RAdio) is a new concept of in-car radio that aims at replacing the in-dash AM/FM/DAB and Satellite radios worldwide. AURA overcomes the limitations of the existing in-car radio technologies (mutual interference, limited number of stations, poor signal coverage in difficult environments, etc.) using a sophisticated combination of a buffering technology and a multicasting packetized data transfer as described in our Patent application. AURA delivers high quality listening for a potentially unlimited number of radio stations, while ensuring a location-independent, interference-free and interruption-free experience, even under conditions of dropouts and outages in the wireless segment of the network, where other technologies cannot operate. AURA is a highly scalable client-server technology because it uses a hybrid multicast system to optimize the bandwidth of the wireless segment of the network. The client connects to the server via a Digital Wireless Network to receive high quality audio, and may communicate its position in order to receive location-based services such as traffic data and geo-targeted adverts. Current AURA prototype utilizes a PC as server and a smartphone as Client device. AURA development is based on AvMap solid Know How in Software and Hardware design and will be brought to market through AvMap long-term relationship with carmakers and Telco companies: AvMap is Tier1 supplier of satellite navigation and connectivity systems for European and Global carmakers. The outcome of Phase 1 will be a detailed feasibility study including costs’ assessment and economic viability obtained with the implementation of a larger scale prototype infrastructure involving a multitude of users and stakeholders. AURA has the potential to become the next must-have equipment for car manufacturers in the European market. Moreover, AURA can generate more opportunities for other SMEs creating a Long Tail of radio contents and advertising.

Keywords: car radio,live media streaming transmission
Gender-related differences in expression of microRNAs in cystic fibrosis (GENDER-CF)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175866.0
EU funding (EUR): 175866.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary disease involving a defective ion channel, resulting in altered epithelial cell function and consequent infective/inflammatory airway exacerbations. Progressive loss of lung function is the leading cause of death in CF patients. It is statistically noted that females have a disadvantage in survival and morbidity; this is commonly referred to as the CF gender gap. Recent studies have implicated the female sex hormone, estrogen, in this gender gap. CF patients show altered microRNA expression and some of the affected miRNAs are predicted to target genes encoding key inflammatory mediators such as Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and tumour necrosis factor a receptor associated factor-6 (TRAF6). This highly innovative proposal, to be implemented at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI), aims to study the regulation of key miRNAs by estrogen and investigate if this plays a role in the CF gender gap. I will combine my own expertise in pulmonary innate immunity with the host PI’s world-class knowledge of CF and miRNA research. The research will further our understanding of inflammation in CF to aid development of better therapies. I will develop professionally as I: a) diversify my competencies through the acquisition of new laboratory skills (e.g. qPCR, flow cytometry), b) strengthen my transferable skills (e.g. project management, public engagement, data dissemination) and c) expand my collaborative network through secondments to other world-renowned research teams in Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands and University of Heidelberg, Germany. I will contribute richly to research at RCSI as I am already equipped with skills applicable to ongoing work in the team and am keen to take an active role in student supervision. The opportunities carried by this fellowship will form the cornerstone of my career, accelerating my progression towards my goal of achieving a position of independence in respiratory immunology research.

Keywords: microrna,cystic fibrosis,estrogen,toll like receptor 4
Time- and space- resolved ultrafast dynamics in molecular-plasmonic hybrid systems (QUEM-CHEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1901400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1901400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project aims at developing theoretical and numerical methods to simulate space- and time-resolved ultrafast dynamics in novel hybrid molecular-metal nanoparticle systems. The excitation of collective electron dynamics inside the metallic nanoparticles induced by external light fields leads to strongly re-shaped electromagnetic near-fields with complex spatial and temporal profile. The interaction of these modified and enhanced near-fields with molecules located in close vicinity to the metallic nanoparticle is the origin of many astonishing physical and chemical phenomena, such as the formation of new quasi-particles, new mechanisms for chemical reactions or the ultra-high spatial resolution and selectivity in molecular detection.. Besides being of fundamental interest, this interplay between near-fields and molecules promises great potential on the application side, potentially enabling revolutionary breakthrough in new emerging technologies in a broad range of research fields, such as nanophotonics, energy and environmental research, biophotonics, light-harvesting energy sources, highly sensitive nano-sensors etc. This necessitates a solid theoretical understanding and simulation of these hybrid systems. The goal of project QUEM-CHEM is the development of new approaches and methods beyond the state of the art, aiming at a synergy of existing but independently applied methods: • Quantum chemistry (QU) in order to calculate the quantum nature of the molecule-metallic nanoparticle moiety, • Electro-dynamic simulations (EM) describing the complex evolution of the light fields and the near fields around nanostructures, as well as • Dynamical methods to incorporate the response of the molecule to the near-fields Thus, the possible outcome of this highly interdisciplinary project will provide new knowledge in both, physics and chemistry, and might have impact on a large variety of new arising critical technologies.

Keywords: ultrafast dynamics,nanoplasmonics,hybrid nano systems
Going Local in the Perso-Islamic Lands: Afghan Geniza, Islamisation and Language in the pre-Mongol Islamic East (GO.LOCAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1470090.0
EU funding (EUR): 1470090.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Multilingual and culturally diverse adaptations – not doctrinal uniformity or Arabisation – have allowed Islam to dominate the eastern Islamic lands in what is today Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia. While Islamic fundamentalism exemplified by the bombing of the Bamiyan Buddhas has dominated the discourse on Islamisation in the region, it remains unclear when and how such forms of adaptations arose. Previous research has argued that caliphal and sultanic authority underlie local realities in the pre-Mongol Islamic East. But the latter show central control, suggesting the underlying mechanisms at local level might be different. A better model for the spread of Islam in the East and its countryside might be local innovation and adaptation. In 2013 and 2017 when the newly discovered Afghan Geniza was made publicly available for the first time, it became possible to test this hypothesis for the pre-Mongol Islamic East. Using both a top-down and bottom-up testing approach, GO.LOCAL will test whether Islam is a manifestation of cumulative culture – currently the implied hypothesis in the field – or whether it is best accounted for with the local anchoring model. That is GO.LOCAL will evaluate whether Islam and Islamisation are more similar to local innovations in authority and language than developments at imperial capitals and other central hubs. The outcomes and conclusions of GO.LOCAL will therefore inform several fields at once (e.g. history, sociolinguistics, anthropology, archaeology and theology). This proposal is the first to test the local anchoring account developed by classicists in the Islamic East. If its predictions are confirmed, then multilingualism and cultural diversity will have emerged as far more important as factors in Islamisation than previously assumed. GO.LOCAL will radically transform our understanding in the evolution of Islam, Islamisation and religion more generally.

Keywords: islamisation,documentary research and diplomatics,digital humanities,islamic history,iranian languages,khurasan
circuit Quantum Magneto-Mechanics : interfacing single molecular spins with nanomechanical resonators in the quantum regime. (cQMM)

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: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 157184.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The spin degree of freedom is a natural candidate to carry quantum information. Because of a generally weak coupling to its environment, it benefits from long lifetimes even in solid-state devices. The counterpart of this natural isolation is the challenge to engineer efficient control and readout of these spin states. Even more challenging is the coupling between distant spins, which is fundamental requirement to perform quantum computations. Among the various types of existing spin systems, molecular spins have shown remarkable properties. They are stable, they can be produced in large numbers of absolutely identical molecules and their properties are tuned and defined via chemical synthesis. The host group is recognized as an international leader in the field of molecular spins and has recently demonstrated elementary quantum information processing with such spins. Besides, it is known that in a solid state context, the dominant source of decay for molecular spins comes from the coupling to their mechanical environment via spin-phonon coupling. These phonons are often seen as a nuisance, but they actually constitute an interesting degree of freedom that has recently been intensely investigated in the field of circuit quantum electromechanics. The ER has acquired experience in this field during his 3.5 years of postdoc in the group of Konrad Lehnert (USA), a pioneering group in this field. We propose to take advantage of the natural spin-phonon coupling in molecular magnets, maximize it, and use it as a resource to control and readout molecular spins on fast time scales. The architecture consists of a molecular spin deposited on a mechanical oscillator in the quantum regime, which is controlled using the powerful techniques available in circuit quantum electromechanics. Such an interface could enable the coupling of distant molecular spins, but also the coupling to other degree of freedom such as optical photons, superconducting qubits or other spin systems.

Keywords: single molecular spins,quantum electromechanics,nanomechanical resonators,superconducting microwave circuits
Intimate partner violence disrupts the brain-heart axis in women. (PINK)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The WHO defines Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) as any behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological, or sexual harm to those in that relationship. IPV claims millions of victims worldwide, and women are by far most deeply affected. IPV poses unique challenges: it often goes undetected outside of the family unit and remains hard to treat due to its complex interpersonal nature. This evidence calls for better prevention, early screening, and interventions. Deepening our grasp of the deep wounds inflicted by IPV to the woman's heart and brain would help in achieving these unmet milestones. Multiple threads knit together estrogens and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a neurotrophin that, via the TrkB receptor, governs brain and heart well-being. Estrogen replacement increases BDNF expression in brain regions of ovariectomized mice, and the deletion of bdnf in the forebrain induces anxiety/depression in female mice. Here, I will test whether perpetuated IPV alters estrogen levels in premenopausal subjects, impairing BDNF/TrkB signaling, triggering cerebral/cardiac dysfunction, and interrupting the information flow between heart and brain. To test that, and the benefits eventually afforded by selective TrkB stimulation, or social enrichment (that boosts BDNF in the hippocampus), I built a mouse model of IPV morphed from the resident-intruder test: a highly aggressive male and a socially-defeated female. Strengthened by a cadre of collaborators expert in Neuroscience, Endocrinology, Cardiology, and Epidemiology, I seek to shed a mechanistic light on the brain/cardiac “wounds” inflicted by IPV on women, proposing some unprecedented remedies to prevent the transition from early alterations to overt heart, or brain disorders, or both. A better mechanistic understanding of the impact of IPV on women may help to maximize screening, intervention and prevention of IPV at the individual, interpersonal, and societal level.

Keywords: intimate partner violence,stress,bdnf,estrogens,diastolic dysfunction,anxiety,brain heart axis
Holographic Vision for Immersive Tele-Robotic OperatioN (HoviTron)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium
Call: Interactive Technologies (H2020-ICT-2019-3, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1652285.0
EU funding (EUR): 1537385.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

HoviTron - Holographic Vision for Immersive Tele-Robotic OperatioN – develops all hardware and software modules for replacing conventional, stereoscopic Head Mounted Displays (HMD) with a Light Field HMD that provides Holographic Vision with perfect Eye Accommodation and Vergence for ergonomic and Immersive Tele-Robotic Operation. The scene in which the robot operates will be captured by an array of conventional cameras and/or light field cameras to recreate - in real-time - the proper light field in the HMD of the tele-operator steering the robot. The project also aims at evaluating the benefits of such Light Field HMD for the tele-operator, who is expected to experience a more comfortable and less tiring workload than with a conventional, stereoscopic HMD.

Keywords: light field displays,immersive video,depth image based rendering,correct eye accommodation and vergence,tele robotic vision
Energy saving and reducing carbon dioxide emission by applying advanced ammonia/water absorption chillers and decentralised Trigeneration (CCHP) technology to small and medium enterprises (TRISORP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3083548.75
EU funding (EUR): 2158484.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The UN have recently succeeded in Paris on the urgent and highly prioritised need to meet new climate goals within the coming decades, which will result in the request for a broad engagement in new approaches and technologies for sustainable energy production and more efficient use of energy, well reflected in the work programme of EU and esp. Horizon 2020. In this context, TRISORP proposes an innovative approach to cold production that fully fits with these objectives and promises a significant contribution to energy efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It has high potential to significantly reduce primary energy consumption and process costs for clients whereby generating significant business and employment growth with focus on Europe. The innovative approach of TRISORP is based on a revolutionary new, but field proven technology for heat-driven absorption chillers in the small capacity range, which allows for cost efficient system design for medium size applications, for which no alternative to the state-of-the-art, inefficient and environmentally harmful compression chillers is available up to now. The consequent application of the “intelligent simplicity” principle has reduced investment burdens and increased the overall profitability for clients so dramatically that, for the first time, absorption refrigeration becomes applicable in mass markets. The technology allows for saving up to 73% of primary energy consumption and thus up to 73% of greenhouse gas emissions of cold production. The initial addressable market segment is relevant and the unique selling proposition of KKS promises a high market share and profitable business. Additionally, the market is expected to grow significantly.

Keywords: heat,cold and power trigeneration,supermarket,energy saving,absorption chiller