Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Probing r-process nucleosynthesis through its electromagnetic signatures (KILONOVA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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 Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The lightest chemical elements –Hydrogen and Helium– were created about a minute after the Big Bang. Elements up to Iron are forged by fusion reactions in stars. Heavy elements between Iron and Uranium are produced by a sequence of neutron captures and beta-decays known as rapid neutron capture or r process. The freshly synthesized r-process elements undergo radioactive decay through various channels depositing energy in the ejecta that powers an optical/infrared transient called “kilonova” whose basic properties like luminosity and its dependence on ejecta mass, velocity, radioactive energy input, and atomic opacities I contributed to determine for the first time. Our predictions have been dramatically confirmed by the observation of a kilonova electromagnetic transient associated with the gravitational wave signal GW170817 providing the first direct indication that r-process elements are produced in neutron-star mergers. Additional events are expected to be detected in the following years, representing a complete change of paradigm in r-process research as for the first time we will be confronted with direct observational data. To fully exploit such opportunity it is fundamental to combine an improved description of exotic neutron-rich nuclei involved in the r-process with sophisticated astrophysical simulations to provide accurate prediction of r-process nucleosynthesis yields and their electromagnetic signals to be confronted with observational data. Based on my broad knowledge and expertise in all the relevant areas, and the unique experimental capabilities of the GSI/FAIR facility, I am in prime position to advance our understanding of r-process nucleosynthesis and determine the contribution of mergers to the chemical enrichment of the galaxy in heavy elements.

Keywords: r process nucleosynthesis,physics of exotic neutron rich nuclei,neutrino matter and,nucleus reactions,electromagnetic transients,neutron star mergers,accretion disks,magnetohydrodynamic
Accelerating the decarbonisation of islands’ energy systems (ISLANDER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Germany,Croatia,Belgium,Greece,Greece,Greece,France,United Kingdom
Call: Decarbonising energy systems of geographical Islands (H2020-LC-SC3-2020-EC-ES-SCC, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8336492.5
EU funding (EUR): 6996000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

Borkum is an island of about 30 km2 and 5,500 residents, located 20 miles from the north-western coast of Germany. Following concerns of the population regarding air quality due to a new coal fired power plant, Borkum started on a path towards renewable energy many years ago. Following several initiatives in that direction including a citizen dialogue, the island decided to become emission-free and fully decarbonized by 2030. Within this framework, the ISLANDER project will showcase the process of making Borkum a fully autonomous and decarbonised island energy system. Specifically, the project will focus on delivering: a) Distributed RESS systems (Renewable Energy + Small-scale Storage). b) Complementary short-to-seasonal, large-scale electricity storage. c) Seawater district heating coupled with heat storage and sized for 100 residential units, to make use of the heat of the North Sea water as a source of heating and cooling. d) Deployment of an EV charging network. e) A smart IT platform conceived to holistically perform the optimal aggregation of all these components while also implementing Demand Response (DR). f) An optimisation tool to optimally design zero-carbon island energy systems. To achieve such 2030 objectives of financing and maintaining the further roll-out of renewables and storage technologies across the island, the ISLANDER partners will facilitate the kick-start of a Renewable Energy Community in Borkum right during the project following a concrete roadmap. Additionally, and as part of an ambitious plan to replicate the project results, the partners have developed a 3-wave replication strategy including: Wave 1) Replication in the Follower islands, Wave 2) Replication in the related archipelagos. Wave 3) Further replication to the rest of EU islands.

Keywords: small scale storage systems,distributed renewable energy resources,seasonal storage,seawater district heating,ev charging network,heat storage,smart it platform,demand response,optimisation
Fluid Corpus Manipulation: Creative Research in Musical Mining of Large Sound/Gesture Datasets through Foundational Access to the Latest Advances of Signal Decomposition. (FluCoMa)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997431.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997431.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The FluCoMA project instigates new musical ways of exploiting ever-growing banks of sound and gestures within the digital composition process by bringing breakthroughs of signal decomposition DSP to the toolset of techno-fluent computer composers for the first time. Cutting-edge musical composition has always been dependent on, critical and subversive of the latest advances of technology. Unfortunately, there is a contemporary challenge inherent to aesthetic research in computer composition: an ever-expanding gap between DSP advances and their availability to musical investigators. One such advance is signal decomposition: a sound can now be separated into its transient, pitched, and residual constituents. These potent algorithms are partially available in closed software, or in laboratories, but not at a suitable level of modularity within the coding environments used by the creative researchers (Max and SuperCollider) to allow groundbreaking sonic research into a rich unexploited area: the manipulation of large sound corpora. Indeed, with access to, genesis of, and storage of large sound banks now commonplace, novel ways of abstracting and manipulating them are needed to mine their inherent potential. FluCoMa proposes to tackle this issue by bridging this gap, empowering techno-fluent aesthetic researchers with a toolset for signal decomposition within their mastered software environments, in order to experiment with new sound and gesture design untapped in large corpora. The three degrees of manipulations to be explored are (1) expressive browsing and descriptor-based taxonomy, (2) remixing, component replacement, and hybridisation by concatenation, and (3) pattern recognition at component level, with interpolating and variation making potential. These novel manipulations will yield new sounds, new musical ideas, and new approaches to large corpora. At present, no library exists allowing such cutting-edge research on creative fluid corpus manipulations to be done

Keywords: computer composition,digital sound synthesis,creative music technology,large corpus manipulation,sound taxonomies,music information retrieval,signal decomposition dsp,creative coding environments
Type and Proof Structures for Concurrent Software Verification (Mathador)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999895.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999895.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Verification of concurrent software is a notoriously difficult subject, whose complexities stem from the inability of the existing verification methods to modularize, and thus divide-and-conquer, the verification problem. Dependent types are a formal method well-known for its ability to modularize and scale complex mathematical proofs. But, when it comes to programming, dependent types are considered limited to the purely functional and terminating programming model. The grand challenge of this project is to remove the limitation and scale dependent types to support implementation of stateful concurrent programs, and their correctness proofs, simultaneously. By applying the modularizing power of dependent types to both programs and proofs, the project will obtain novel and scalable foundations for the field of concurrent software verification. Writing mechanized proofs of software, concurrent or otherwise, is generally considered infeasible. But if one chooses the right linguistic abstractions to express the proofs, we argue that it does not have to be so. This observation is supported by our encouraging preliminary results. The project will discover further novel linguistic abstraction that facilitate engineering of practically feasible formal proofs, and experimentally evaluate them by mechanically verifying extensive concurrent programs drawn from realistic applications, such as concurrent garbage collectors, OS kernels, and popular open-source concurrent libraries. The project is high risk because it proposes novel foundations for concurrent software verification, whose development requires deep intertwining of logic and program semantics theory, with significant hands-on implementation and experimentation with formal proofs. But it is also high gain, as scaling concurrent software verification is the most significant open problem of present-day programming languages and semantics research.

Keywords: software verification,concurrency,dependent type theory,hoare logic
Development of the Gas-Solid Vortex-Rotor Reactor (GSVRotor)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2014-PoC, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149900.0
EU funding (EUR): 149900.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project includes Proof-of-Concept research, as well as preparation and submission of a new patent application. The intention of the current proposal is to develop a novel gas-solid reactor that drastically reduces the limitations of these reactors. Moreover, novel fields of applications will be sought. This new Intellectual Property of UGent will be a subject of its following licensing.
Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought (c. 1220-56) (INNOVATION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499095.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450568.29
Participants: 2
Project status: SUSPENDED

INNOVATION anticipates a breakthrough in scholarly understanding of the medieval origins of modern Western philosophy. This breakthrough will be achieved by exposing the pioneering nature of early thirteenth-century Franciscan thought and its pivotal significance for the subsequent formation of the Western philosophical identity. The work of early Franciscans has largely been neglected in scholarly circles, on the assumption that they merely codified the work of past authorities, where later Franciscans developed innovative ideas that laid the foundation for the development of modern philosophy. INNOVATION will contest this assumption by producing the first comprehensive study of the sources, method, content, and later medieval reception of early Franciscan thought. In conducting this study, I will implement a groundbreaking method of reading scholastic texts, which is attentive to the way that practice informed theory in the high Middle Ages. This ‘practice-led’ hermeneutic will provide a resource for re-envisaging the entire state of the art in the study of scholasticism. As regards early Franciscans, it will allow me to identify novelty, often due to the use of Islamic sources, where past scholars have perceived unoriginality. On this basis, I will highlight previously unnoticed connections between the early and late Franciscan schools. By these means, I will illustrate how Western thought has been nourished by the ethos of a particular religious order and by Islamic thought, pointing up a shared Muslim-Western philosophical identity that is often overlooked but urgently needed to overcome severe fractures in today’s society. At the same time, I will emphasize that Franciscan ideas only became modern once removed from their practice-led context. In juxtaposing the cultural paradigms of philosophy and religious practice, consequently, I will advance knowledge by producing the first nuanced scholarly account of the Franciscan origins of modern Western thought.

Keywords: franciscan studies,origins of modernity
The Physiology of Nutrient Sensing by mTOR (NutrientSensingVivo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1846494.0
EU funding (EUR): 1846494.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A major role of metabolic alterations in the development of several human diseases, as diabetes, cancer and in the onset of ageing is becoming increasingly evident. This has a deep impact for human health due to the alarming increase in nutrient intake and obesity in the last decades. Fundamental aspects of how aberrant nutrient fluctuations trigger deregulated hormone levels and endocrine signals have been elucidated, being a prime example the phenomenon of insulin resistance. In contrast, how changes in nutrient levels elicit direct cell-autonomous signal transduction cascades and the consequences of these responses in physiology are less clear. The signalling circuitry of direct nutrient sensing converges with that of hormones in the regulation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase, a driver of anabolism, cell growth and proliferation. Deregulation of mTORC1 activity underlies the pathogenesis of cancer and diabetes, and its inhibitor rapamycin is approved as an anti-cancer agent and delays ageing from yeast to mammals. In spite of its importance for human disease, our understanding of the nutrient sensing signalling pathway and its impact in physiology is largely incomplete, as only a few years ago the direct molecular link between nutrients and mTORC1 activation, the Rag GTPases, were identified. The present proposal aims to determine how the nutrient sensing signalling pathway affects mammalian physiology and metabolism, and whether its deregulation contributes to cancer, insulin resistance and aging. In particular, the objectives are: 1) To identify novel regulators of the Rag GTPases with unbiased and candidate-based approaches. 2) To establish the consequences of deregulated nutrient-dependent activation of mTORC1 in physiology, by means of genetically engineered mice. 3) To determine the impact of the nutrient sensing pathway in the effects of dietary restriction and nutrient limitation in glucose homeostasis and cancer.

Keywords: mouse models,signal transduction,mtorc1,nutrients,aging,physiology,rag gtpases
HeatTANK – The cool way to store heat. Energy efficient solution for cooling telecommunication data centers (HeatTank)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The information and telecommunication sectors are responsible for up to 2% of the global green-house gas emissions. Data centres and telco sites run 24/7. The cooling system alone may account for up to 40% in average of the energy demands of a data centre, resulting in a significant cost factor to owners and operators, especially for telecommunication service providers. Our company, HeatVentors Ltd, invented and patented HeatTANK, an innovative solution that can be used to optimise cooling process by storing cooling energy in phase change materials (PCM) in a controlled and optimised way. Our solution will complement or even replace conventional compressor-based air conditioners for data centres. Our pilot project results showed that using HeatTANK reduces the cooling costs of a telecommunication site by 54% with 3,96 years ROI. The leading actors of telecommunication and energy sector expressed their interest to our solution, such as IBM, Vodafone, T-Systems from ICT industry as well as MVM and E.ON from the energy sectors. According to the pre-orders, we will step to the Hungarian market in 2019 Q2 and to the international market in 2019 Q4. Our talented group participated at several start-up competitions with success, for example, we are European winners of InnoEnergy PowerUp! competition in 2017. and won Special award at Women Start-up Competition Europe in London. Our company is accelerated by Climate-KIC and got investment from KIC InnoEnergy. This Phase 1 project will help us to carry out a feasibility study aiming to elaborate different use-cases and refining our business plan.

Keywords: phase change material pcm,cooling system,data centres,telecommunication sites
Societal and political engagement of young people in environmental issues (STEP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Türkiye,Sweden,Türkiye,Greece,Greece,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: Societal and political engagement of young people and their perspectives on Europe (H2020-YOUNG-SOCIETY-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3157941.07
EU funding (EUR): 2559187.5
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the project is to develop and pilot test a cloud eParticipation SaaS platform, (available as a mobile application and through a web platform) enhanced with web / social media mining, gamification, machine translation, and visualisation features, which will promote the societal and political participation of young people in the decision-making process on environmental issues. The project will employ innovative social media analytics and monitoring tools, as part of effective strategies that will be developed, in order to engage young citizens in the pilot activities and increase their motivation to participate. Four pilots in an operational environment have been selected for the deployment of STEP solution in 4 locations: Italy, Spain, Greece, and Turkey, with the participation of one regional authority, 3 municipalities, and an association of municipalities. The pilots are expected to involve testing by 8.200 young users and 85 policy makers. 65 decision-making procedures with an impact on the environment are expected to be tested. The project will assess the usability, effectiveness and impact of the STEP service project in embedding open engagement in public sector processes, and will identify the key barriers for wide scale deployment. Dissemination activities specifically designed for the needs of young people and policy makers will be employed. A business strategy will be developed for the wide take-up of the integrated STEP platform and its reusable components, individually, or in combinations. The potential for scalability and adaptation to other regions will be assessed, and organisations that can be involved in the wide deployment of the platform and its components will be approached.

Keywords: social media mining,web mining,machine translation,visualisation