Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced Intra-Operative Navigation in Arthroscopy Surgery (in.nav)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1867660.0
EU funding (EUR): 1307362.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Perceive3D (P3D) is an ICT driven company specialized in computer vision technology that creates advanced image software solutions for assisting and guiding the surgeon during minimally invasive procedures. In this project, P3D will specialize its state-of-the-art in.nav software technology for arthroscopic procedures of the knee and hip, providing the first effective solution for Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (CAOS) in arthroscopy. The outcomes of the project will be two software applications (nav4ACL and nav4FAI) that will provide real-time intra-operative measurements to aid the surgeons throughout the procedures by providing measurements of the joint structure. Guiding information is provided in accordance to the literature to support the surgeon’s decision, leading to a system that will improve clinical outcome for patients and reduce healthcare costs. As part of the Horizon 2020 SMEInst-01 phase I project, P3D performed a feasibility study for the development of in.nav navigation software for two arthroscopic procedures: the Antero Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction in knee arthroscopy, and the removal of Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI) in hip arthroscopy. A pressing need for assistive systems has been reported for the procedures for these frequent pathologies. This phase II project will leverage these results and translate the in.nav prototype into two commercially viable software products for ACL and FAI procedures. P3D will demonstrate the use and advantages of the in.nav navigation software through tests in post-mortem subjects and will prepare the applications for integration into existing surgical workflows and market deployment. P3D has already approached Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) in the targeted procedures (Knee and Hip) to endorse the in.nav technology and P3D will extend its IP portfolio around this in.nav navigation technology.

Keywords: surgical,navigation system,minimal invasive procedures,arthroscopy,computer system
Transform safety-critical cyber-physical systems into distributed solutions for end-users and partners (TRANSACT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Components and Systems
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: ECSEL (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria,Germany,Poland,Finland,Norway,Norway,Belgium,Finland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark
Call: ECSEL-IA (H2020-ECSEL-2020-1-IA-two-stage, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 26544588.75
EU funding (EUR): 6904533.33
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

Market trends show advanced usage of safety-critical systems with novel services based on smart data analytics. Customers require continuous updates to applications and services and seek lower cost (Bill-of-Material, BoM) and easy to install solutions (maintenance) for safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). To respond to these trends, TRANSACT will leverage edge and cloud technologies and establish business partner eco-systems to enhance safety-critical systems in regulated environments. TRANSACT will transform local safety critical CPS into distributed safety-critical CPS solutions with a heterogeneous architecture composed of components along a device-edge-cloud continuum. The distributed solutions incorporating data and cloud services will simplify the CPS devices, reducing their software footprint, and consequently their BoM and Lower of Cost or Market. Business-wise, system manufacturers thus transform to solution providers. To that end TRANSACT will research distributed reference architectures for safety-critical CPS that rely on edge and cloud computing. These architectures shall enable seamless mixing of on-device, edge and cloud services while assuring flexible yet safe and secure deployment of new applications, and independent releasing of edge and cloud-based components vs. on-device. Moreover, safety, performance, cybersecurity and privacy of data will be kept on the same level as on-device only safety-critical CPS architectures. By also integrating AI services into distributed CPS, TRANSACT will enable fast development of innovative value-based services and business models leading to faster market introduction in the various multi-billion euro markets addressed by TRANSACT. Encouraged by ARTEMIS' 2019 publication on embedded intelligence, TRANSACT will be a crucial enabler for Europe to shift towards a solution-oriented market "so as to still matter in the Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems field of tomorrow’s world."

Keywords: cyber physical systems,edge computing,safety critical systems,distributed solutions,system of,systems,system architecture,system design,system integration,digital services,ehealth
Science Communication for Religious Studies: Creating a New Researcher Profile by Laying the Foundation of a Laboratory. A Film Documentary Project Located in Central and Eastern Europe (CROSS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156980.64
EU funding (EUR): 156980.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

CROSS is a project of an experienced historian of “Research Freedom” in Religious Studies. 7 years ago, he entered the forum of discussions in Central and Eastern Europe, which reveals itself as particularly vibrant today. Now, he seeks to launch a major project located at the University of Olomouc in Czech Republic, next to a leader of this debate. CROSS is also a project of an historian who, after 3 decades of research, feels the limits of academic barriers, and wants to move over the borders of the scholarly studies. The acronym means “Communication for ReligiOus StudieS”. CROSS aims to reach out, to improve public understanding of Religious Studies by the way of a documentary film. The project is located at the University that hosts the major Science Documentary Festival in Europe. After a period of training in Film Studies and Media Studies, a collection of interviews of 30 scholars in 10 countries in Central and Eastern Europe will be recorded in order to let the free voice of Religious Studies scholars be heard. CROSS will use personal story-telling on the topic “Freedom of thought and expression” which shall serve as life lessons, not academic lessons. It will explore how personal, not strictly scientific experiences, even of public concern in everyday life, can become stories to which people can relate to and through which connections can be established and awareness raised. The project will involve students in training-workshops for processing the documentary, and for laying the basis of a laboratory for future research. CROSS addresses the first principle of the European Charter for Researchers: “Research Freedom”. It is an interdisciplinary project for a new research profile “Communication for Religious Studies”: a new way to communicate research, an innovative guidance, and the first-ever documentary on Religious Studies.

Keywords: research freedom,science documentary,central and eastern europe
Modifying All Solid State Lithium Battery Interfaces (MASSIF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-17
End date: 2024-04-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

The project proposal MASSIF aims at improving the fundamental understanding and control of interfaces of a battery type based on Li active materials all solid state batteries (ASSLB). The main objective is the investigation and optimization of the interfaces developing between the solid electrolyte and the electrochemically active material particles electrodes. The acquired knowledge would allow the design of optimized interfacial layers (also called artificial Solid Electrolyte Interfaces, art-SEI) capable of warrant stable interfaces. The art-SEI should allow intimate contact between the active material and the conductive particles. Our research program involves hybrid electrolytes in combination with solid state electrolytes (SSE); this approach proves to be useful to generate an art-SEI. We are going to pay attention to the positive electrode-solid electrolyte interface, which has been studied as much as the metal Li solid electrolyte interface. With this in mind, they are going to use Li2S as a positive electrode, and the last task of the project will develop a full cell using Si as a negative electrode. Si was selected as a negative electrode to avoid the problems related to Li; it is known that Li reacts with most of the SSE. The project also takes in to account the training of the researcher and the career development plan to achieve the goals and independence of the researcher. The interdisciplinary and network of the host institution will be also used to push the career of the researcher forward.

Keywords: solid electrolyte interface,li2s,battery
Ethical and Societal Implications of Data Sciences (e-Sides)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: BDVA (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Big data PPP: privacy-preserving big data technologies (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999940.0
EU funding (EUR): 999940.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Data-driven innovation is deeply transforming society and the economy. Although there are potentially enormous economic and social benefits this innovation also brings new challenges for individual and collective privacy, security, as well as democracy and participation. The main objective of the CSA e-SIDES is to complement the research on privacy-preserving big data technologies, by analysing, mapping and clearly identifying the main societal and ethical challenges emerging from the adoption of big data technologies, conforming to the principles of responsible research and innovation; setting up and organizing a sustainable dialogue between industry, research and social actors, as well as networking with the main Research and Innovation Actions and Large Scale Pilots and other framework programme projects interested in these issues. It will investigate stakeholders’ concerns, and collect their input, framing these results in a clear conceptual framework showing the potential trade-offs between conflicting needs and providing a basis to validate privacy-preserving technologies. It will prepare and widely disseminate community shared conclusions and recommendations highlighting the best way to ultimately build confidence of citizens and businesses towards big data and the data economy.

Keywords: privacy preservation,responsible research,big data
Growth in Groups and Graph Isomorphism Now (GROGandGIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1965340.0
EU funding (EUR): 1965340.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In recent years there has been spectacular progress in studying growth in groups. A central result in this new area, obtained by Pyber-Szabo' (with a similar result proved by Breuillard-Green-Tao), shows that powers of generating subsets of finite simple groups of "bounded dimension" grow fast. Extending this Product Theorem Szabo' and the PI also proved a weaker version of a conjecture of Helfgott-Lindenstrauss. The Product Theorem has deep consequences in the study of groups, number theory and random walks. A central open question of the area is to remove the dependence on dimension in our Product Theorem. The PI formulated a new Conjecture, as a step forward. The way to further progress is via combining techniques from asymptotic group theory and probability theory. It is from this perspective that the current GROGandGIN proposal addresses issues concerning random walks. We examine how recent probabilistic arguments for random walks in the symmetric group may be transferred to matrix groups. While the first results in the subject of growth concern matrix groups we see an evolving theory of growth in permutation groups. This relies on earlier work of Babai and the PI which aims at finding proofs which do not use the Classification of Finite Simple Groups (CFSG). Similarly, Babai's famous Quasipolynomial Graph Isomorphism Algorithm builds on ideas from CFSG-free proofs due to him. The PI has recently removed CFSG from the analysis of Babai's algorithm. Our method goes "halfway" towards removing CFSG from proofs of growth results for permutation groups, currently a major open problem. The GROGandGIN initiative plans to improve various other parts of Babai's paper, working with several people who look at it from different angles, with an eye towards obtaining a Polynomial Graph Isomorphism algorithm. The GROGandGIN team will also study growth in Lie groups since the theory of random walks in Lie groups has been revitalised using analogues of our Product Theorem.
Investigating the formation and early evolution of the Moon with a combined experimental and analytical approach (MoonDiff)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to investigate one of the fundamental events in the early evolution of the solar system; the timing of the formation and initial differentiation of the Moon, by combining isotopic analyses of lunar samples with new experimental constraints on the partitioning behaviour of key radiogenic parent-daughter elements. Previous isotope analyses of lunar samples provided model ages interpreted to represent key processes in the Moon’s early geologic evolution, although these interpretations remain speculative and are often conflicting. In particular, recent work by the experienced researcher (ER) has provided new insight into the Pb isotope systematics of lunar rocks and the framework for a model of magmatic evolution in the Moon, but uncertainties associated with the partitioning behaviour of U and Pb, severely hinder data interpretations. Hence, the ER will perform a series of experiments replicating the temperature and pressure conditions during lunar core formation and in the hypothesised Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO). These experiments will be performed in the Vrije Universiteit high-pressure laboratory (Work Package (WP) 1), building on their recent studies. Experimental run products will be subjected to comprehensive analysis (WP 2); e.g. scanning electron microscope imaging to characterise phase assemblages while major, minor and trace element concentrations will be determined using electron microprobe and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in order to determine partition coefficients. These partition coefficients will then be incorporated into new models of lunar differentiation and LMO crystallisation (WP 3). Finally, the ER plans to test these models with secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) measurements of Pb isotope systematics in a range of lunar basalts collected during the Apollo missions and lunar meteorites (WP 4).
Understanding the initiation virulence gene expression in African trypanosomes (scTRYPseq)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

African trypanosomes are flagellated parasitic protozoans that cause the devastating, lethal disease sleeping sickness, as well as causing economically damaging livestock infections across sub-Saharan Africa. Trypanosomiasis was targeted for elimination by the WHO and others in the London declaration by 2020. Trypanosomes are transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly, which restricts their geographic distribution. In the salivary gland of the fly, parasites coat their surface with approximately 10 million copies of a single variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) in a single layer which is protective against the mammalian immune system and prepares trypanosomes for infectivity. This VSG is expressed in a mono-allelic fashion from a specialized telomeric expression site. VSG coat is an important virulence mechanism; without this coat, parasites are rapidly lysed by mammalian complement. This project will address a fundamental question in trypanosome biology: How do African trypanosomes express a single VSG in its coat? I will address this questions primarily using single cell RNA-seq. First, I will establish an inDrops pipeline at the Institut Pasteur in collaboration with Prof. Andrew Griffiths at ESPCI (Paris) using cultured T. brucei, which will allow me to parameterize this novel single cell RNA-seq pipeline. Then using this protocol, I will generate single cell transcriptomes from tsetse fly derived parasites, constructing a gene expression profile for development of trypanosome infectivity. inDrops is a truly disruptive technology that allows massively parallel indexing of cellular mRNA, allowing transcriptomic analysis of thousands of single cells. These finding will have broad significance in the field; firstly, they will provide the first high-resolution single-cell transcriptome of this pathogen, and they will constitute a significant advance in our understanding of gene expression and the acquisition of infectivity in African trypanosomes.

Keywords: african trypanosome,virulence gene
Request for special needs lump sum (SNLS) support (MEMO2 JULI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Special Needs Allowance (H2020-IBA-MSCA-SNLS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 32922.0
EU funding (EUR): 32922.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To carry out research successfully the ESR needs additional support. This is to cover additional costs of required assistance by third persons so that the ESR can effectively complete the required laboratory work, data analysis, reading and writing, and fieldwork within the project timeline.

Keywords: educational support
Combinatorial and geometric methods in representation theory (COMBGEOREP)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-20
End date: 2022-01-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Representation theory is the study of complex algebraic structures such as groups and rings via their actions on simpler algebraic structures, such as vector spaces. The naturality of this idea of studying complex problems by ‘linearisation’ means that representation theory has strong interactions with many areas of mathematics. This project lies in the area of representation theory of algebras and homological algebra. The overall goal is to develop homological and geometric methods to study representations of algebras creating links with combinatorics, group representation theory, algebraic and symplectic geometry. The principal research objectives are: 1) Use the geometry of Riemann surfaces to study skewed-gentle algebras and their tau-tilting theory. 2) Develop cluster-theoretic techniques in negative Calabi-Yau (CY) triangulated categories by: a) constructing negative CY cluster categories; b) developing the theory of simple-minded systems in stable module categories. The geometry of surfaces provides equivalences between derived categories of gentle algebras and Fukaya categories in symplectic and algebraic geometry. The extension of these methods to skewed-gentle algebras should significantly broaden the scope of this interaction between algebra and geometry. The theory of negative CY categories is considerably underdeveloped despite their occurrence in important contexts such as stable module categories in group representation theory. Cluster theory provides powerful combinatorial methods for positive CY categories which initial work by Coelho Simões suggests is amenable to development in the negative CY setting. The project will be carried out by Raquel Coelho Simões under the supervision of Jan Grabowski at Lancaster University. It will serve to establish Coelho Simões as a research leader in her field through work in a highly active research area at an institution sitting in a broad network of universities with major strength in the field.

Keywords: calabi yau triangulated category,stable module category,skewed gentle algebra,riemann surface,geometric model,cochain dg algebra,cluster category,simple minded system,mutation