Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Social selection and social plasticity in virtual ecosystems (INTERACTIVE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

INTERACTIVE is a multidisciplinary project that aims to understand how and when social interactions maintain behavioural diversity. We test predictions rooted in ecological and evolutionary theory to investigate i) how behaviours of social partners affect individual fitness (social selection), ii) how individuals adjust their behaviours in response to others (social plasticity) and whether plasticity is under selection, iii) how experience affects individual decisions. To answer our questions, we use ‘big data’ on human behaviour derived from a novel source, virtual ecosystems of cooperative multiplayer videogames. Our study system is the online multiplayer videogame ‘Dead by daylight’, where players repeatedly interact and cooperate to achieve a common goal. The project applies state-of-the-art theoretical and analytical tools from quantitative genetics and behavioural ecology to an exceptionally large, detailed, and complete dataset mapping behaviours of millions of players across millions of social interactions over years of gameplay. This unique dataset provides us an unprecedented opportunity to test, refine, and increase the predictive power of ecology and evolutionary theoretical models by overcoming empirical constrains common in research on nonhuman animals. INTERACTIVE combines the host’s expertise in quantitative genetics, selection analysis, and social evolution, with my strong background in behavioural and evolutionary ecology. I will develop analytical skills in high demand in the academic market, build a cross-disciplinary profile and strong ties with the industry, enhancing my competitiveness. This project is a vital step forward towards my career goals of reaching a position of professional independence in research and becoming a leading expert in the evolutionary ecology of social interactions. Findings from INTERACTIVE will improve our understanding of how social interactions shape the evolution of animal societies, including our own.

Keywords: selection,indirect effects,behaviours,interacting phenotypes,reaction norms,plasticity,human behaviour,online multiplayer videogames
Research, Connections, Networks and Culture - Use of Projects, Games, Research And Digital in Education (Reconnect Restart 3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Serbia,Serbia
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020bis, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-03
End date: 2022-02-02
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 80750.0
EU funding (EUR): 79000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The project proposal under the title ReConNeCt Restart 3 (REsearch, CONnections, NEtworks and CulTure - Use of Projects, Games, Research And Digital in Education) extends on the previous experience gained in the ReConNeCt project that ran in 2019 and 2020, and after having major changes caused by global pandemic, the main idea of bringing together researchers and the public at large of all ages, will be done in mixed environment live experience with researchers and digital (Virtual and Augmented Reality) enhanced events. As the brink of a new decade always signifies changes and modernization, and since the digital science industry in Serbia is currently blooming, we want to a make the digital science the main theme of the EU Researchers Night in 2021. Placing the digital in focus of our program reflects the trends and interests of the new generations that will create and sustain the future (Gen Y and the coming Gen Z). Naturally, the digital and the virtual overcome the physical and spatial barriers and hence magnify the impact on the young audience whose lives and interactions are nowadays dominantly conducted on a digital plane.

Keywords: european green deal,digital,innovative,green,sustainable,engaging,entrepreneurial,ground breaking,excellent,collaborative,impactful,enabling,outreach,stakeholders engagement
Moduli Spaces associated with Singularities (ModSingLDT)

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: Hungary
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 151850.88
EU funding (EUR): 151850.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to investigate enumerative invariants of the Hilbert schemes parametrizing zero-dimensional subschemes of some basic classes of surface singularities as well as of its higher rank analogues, and find connections between these enumerative invariants and the Chern-Simons theories on the links of the singularities. This question will open brand new relations between algebraic and topological invariants of these singularities. The main tool to approach the problem will be to develop representations of vertex algebras on the cohomologies or derived categories of these moduli spaces conjecturally giving rise to analogues of the Nekrasov parition function on the singularities. Then we will use recent new developements about a specific motivic measure with values in the Grothendieck ring of geometric dg categories to prove some simplification of the aimed correspondence. In the end we will raise these simplified results to the general level. This project will allow the researcher to broaden his area of expertise as well as to develop new directions in his research lines. He will complement his knowledge in low-dimensional topology at one of the most prestigious research institutes and under the guidance of one of the worldwide leaders in this field.

Keywords: hilbert scheme of points,normal surface singularities,vertex algebras,nekrasov partition function,chern simons theory
Technological Change and Welfare State Reform (WELTECH)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163673.28
EU funding (EUR): 163673.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

WELTECH investigates how and why European welfare states have reacted and adapted to technological change, which – next to climate change and demographic change – arguably constitutes one of the biggest challenges societies face today. The ambition is to make an original and pathbreaking contribution to the theorisation of welfare state change more generally. Rethinking and going beyond the dominant concepts of institutional path dependence and power resources theory in the welfare state literature, the project does so by placing macroeconomic concerns at the centre of a novel conceptualisation of welfare state reforms. In other words, the project hypothesises that policy makers, in deciding over different reform trajectories, are guided primarily by concerns over how to maintain and further stimulate economic growth. In order to make sense of welfare state change, it is therefore crucial to understand a given country’s specific Growth Model, i.e. the composition of different drivers of economic growth, as well as the social bloc composed key voters and important producer groups that prop up the national growth model. To this end, the project carries out a comparative case study of three countries with distinct welfare regimes as well as growth models, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom over the years 2000-2020. WELTECH conceptualises welfare state reforms in the social investment framework analysing in particular how technological disruption has led to changes in different stock, flow, and buffer policies.
Scattered radiation reduction tool to improve computer-aided diagnosis performance in digital breast tomosynthesis (SCARtool)

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: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women worldwide. This has motivated the establishment of breast screening (BSPs). X-ray mammography is the current gold standard technique in BSPs for early breast cancer detection. However, this technique suffers from performance limitations due to tissue superposition which can either mimic or obscure malignant pathology. For this reason digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is currently being investigated. DBT consists of a series of projected images of the breast with potential to overcome the aforementioned limitations. However, DBT shows high levels of scattered radiation within the image receptor which can reduce significantly the visibility of breast lesions and the lesion detection performance of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems. CAD systems are frequently used in BSPs to provide useful information to radiologist regarding breast lesion location and characterisation, thus CAD’s performance is critical to achieve acceptable breast cancer diagnosis rates. The aim of this fellowship is to develop a novel tool to reduce scattered radiation directly from clinically acquired DBT projections. These scatter-reduced images will be incorporated, for the first time, into a new DBT CAD system to significantly improve the detection of subtle lesions as microcalcification clusters (MCC). The scatter reduction will be achieved after adapting an existing convolution-based algorithm for synthetic DTB images to work with clinically acquired DBT images. The CAD experience of ViCOROB and the DBT experts’ support from UDIAT guarantee the success of this project as well as the correct transfer of knowledge from the lab to the clinical site. The proposed tool will enable radiologists to detect more accurately breast lesions and therefore reduce the mortality in breast cancer patients. It is also planned to commercialise the output CAD tool to clinical sites through existing medical imaging companies or via a spin-off.

Keywords: scattered radiation,digital breast tomosynthesis,breast imaging,breast cancer
Standardized Qualifying tests of electrolysers for grid services (QualyGridS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,Norway,France,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Establish testing protocols for electrolysers performing electricity grid services (H2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2811262.5
EU funding (EUR): 1996795.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the QualyGridS project is the establishing of standardized tests for electrolysers performing electrical grid services. Alkaline electrolysers as well as PEM electrolysers will be considered individually in performance analysis and in an assessment of business cases for these electrolysers’ use. A variety of different grid services will be addressed as well as multiple hydrogen end users. The protocols developed will be applied to alkaline and PEM electrolysers systems, respectively, using electrolyser sizes from 50 kW up to 300 kW. Additionally, a techno-economic analysis of business cases will be performed covering the grid and market situations in the most relevant regions of Europe. The consortium adressing these tasks includes three electrolyser manufacturers and well as research institutions with plenty of experience. Inclusion of a European standardisation institution will allow for maximum impact of the protocols. An advisory committee including TSOs from several countries and a key player in US electrolysis research will support the project with valuable advice. Experience from previous FCH-JU electrolyser projects and national projects is available to the project.
Bird Inspired Autonomous Flight (BIAF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998546.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998546.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The agile and efficient flight of birds shows what flight performance is physically possible, and in theory could be achieved by unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) of the same size. The overall aim of this project is to enhance the performance of small scale UAVs by developing novel technologies inspired by understanding how birds are adapted to interact with airflows. Small UAVs have the potential to dramatically change current practices in many areas such as, search and rescue, surveillance, and environmental monitoring. Currently the utility of these systems is limited by their operational endurance and their inability to operate in strong turbulent winds, especially those that often occur in urban environments. Birds are adapted to be able to fly in these conditions and actually use them to their advantage to minimise their energy output. This project is composed of three tracks which contain elements of technology development, as well as scientific investigation looking at bird flight behaviour and aerodynamics. The first track looks at developing path planning algorithms for UAVs in urban environments based on how birds fly in these areas, by using GPS tracking and computational fluid dynamics alongside trajectory optimization. The second track aims to develop artificial wings with improved gust tolerance inspired by the features of feathered wings. Here, high speed video measurements of birds flying through gusts will be used alongside wind tunnel testing of artificial wings to discover what features of a bird’s wing help to alleviate gusts. The third track develops novel force and flow sensor arrays for autonomous flight control based on the sensor arrays found in flying animals. These arrays will be used to make UAVs with increased agility and robustness. This unique bird inspired approach uses biology to show what is possible, and engineering to find the features that enable this performance and develop them into functional technologies.

Keywords: unmanned air vehicles,bio inspired,aerodyamics,path planning,flight control,bird flight
Converting DCs in Energy Flexibility Ecosystems (CATALYST) (CATALYST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Romania,Greece,Poland,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Bringing to market more energy efficient and integrated data centres (H2020-EE-2017-RIA-IA, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2982805.0
EU funding (EUR): 2299103.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Data Centres (DC) are among the largest yet increasing energy consumers, due to the rising digitization of human activities. RES integration and energy efficiency improvements have the potential to reduce significantly DC carbon footprint, while increasing at the same time the auto-consumed energy, thus improving DC security and resiliency of supply against climate change. However, very few solutions, despite validated in lab, have been successfully deployed on operational DCs, mostly due to technological fragmentation, excessive CAPEX and lack of appropriate business models. CATALYST will address these challenges through turning existing/new DCs into flexible multi-energy hubs, which can sustain investments in RES and energy efficiency by offering mutualized flexibility services to the smart energy grids (both electricity and heat grids). By leveraging on the outcomes of FP7 GEYSER and DOLPHIN projects, CATALYST will adapt, scale up, validate and deploy an innovative, adaptable technological and business framework aimed at i) exploiting available DC non-IT legacy assets (onsite RES/backup generation, UPS/batteries, cooling system thermal inertia, heat pump for waste heat reuse) to deliver simultaneous energy flexibility services to multi-energy coupled electricity/heat/IT load marketplaces ii) deploying Cross-DC cross-infrastructures (e.g. heat vs IT) IT workload orchestration, by combining heat-demand driven HPC geographical workload balancing, with traceable ICT-load migration between federated DCs to match IT demands with time-varying on-site RES (“follow the energy approach”) iii) providing marketplace-as-a-service tools to nurture novel ESCO2.0 business models. The adaptation and replication potential of CATALYST will be demonstrated through carrying out four different real life trials spanning through the full spectrum of DCs types (fully distributed DCs, HPC, co-location, legacy) and architectures (from large centralized versus decentralized micro-DCs).

Keywords: data centres energy efficiency,smart grids,smart district heating,water cooling,heat reuse,electricity,heat demand response
Proto-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Hybrid Systems for Generation-Next Bionic Devices (PROGENY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Sweden,Romania,Bulgaria,France,France,France,Netherlands
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3609755.0
EU funding (EUR): 3609755.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

PROGENY targets a foundational and sustainable innovation, exploiting unique properties of designer soap films as advanced functional materials, to be used in fundamentally new type of biomimetic devices and sensors categorized as Proto-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (POEMS). A common soap film is uniquely characterized by a proton conducting, flexible, semipermeable, quasi 2-D aqueous phase, which doubles as a smooth (3.2Å roughness) and low defect substrate for self-assembled surfactant monolayers on its opposite surfaces. Synthetic surfactants are aliphatic oligomer tails modified with hydrophilic head groups, and have been traditionally designed for use as detergents or colloidal stabilizers. The scope of modifying 1D molecular wires and 2D conjugated polymers, to create novel surfactants, is wide open. These electronic molecules will be designed to significantly reduce surface tension in aqueous solution, self-assemble at water-gas interfaces, and mechanically stabilize a new class of electronic soap films, allowing radical innovations in POEMS. PROGENY will consolidate an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts, and its seminal set of deliverables will be foundational to consequent R&D activities in POEMS. As a final demonstrator (TRL 3-4), we will deliver - Gated electron-proton hybrid transistors that can host living cells, as foundational precursors to bionic device prototypes targeted in Phase II. Within the project, new electronic surfactant molecules will be synthesized, characterized and modelled; new categories of electronic soap films will be characterized and tested; new devices will be designed and fabricated. In an environmentally responsible research effort, all new materials will be tested for eco-toxicological impact. Sustainability of POEMS technology and its socio-economic impact will be indicated by a prospective (ex-ante) life cycle assessment (LCA). PROGENY will also deliver a white paper and a basic business plan.

Keywords: surfactant,computational materials science,soap film,eco toxicology,ex ante life cycle,assessment
UPSCALE OF AN INNOVATIVE, PIONEER AND SUSTAINABLE BIOMATERIAL (BacLEATHER) FOR THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY (BacLEATHER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The global leather business is still mainly dependent on raising and slaughtering of billions of animals. This, in the XXI century is not only an inefficient and cruel process but also, it creates a huge environmental impact, which could be avoidable. Unfortunately, brands and shoes manufacturers have no ecological alternative to natural leather that can reproduce successfully its key characteristics from the consumer point of view. Existing alternatives in the market, mainly PVC bases synthetic leather, do not only show poorer performance from client perspective but also they still create a huge environment impact. Potential clients across the world (Inditex and Louis Vuitton in Europe; Puma, Adidas and Nike in USA) do confirm there is a clear trend towards the development of safer, toxic-free, sustainable, environmental-friendly and more ethical footwear and leather goods. Furthermore they confirm the need of new materials to increase their productivity and profitability while reducing the use of hazardous chemicals in tanning practices. Considering the size of the leather market (estimated around 100bn$ by 2019, CAGR 3,4%) and these comments from clients, we see very high potential in upscaling to industrial level the results we obtained so far with BacLEATHER, a leather-like biomaterial. This material is produced by bacterial fermentation through a proprietary technology and mimics leather characteristics. Patent Shoes, S.L. has already been able to produce the material in short series and we have already established a collaboration with TEMPE, from GRUPO INDITEX (one of the most important brand footwear companies, owner of ZARA brand, among others) in order to prepare the material for its market-fit within the footwear vertical. We see in the BacLEATHER project a clear investment opportunity, in which we seek entering the fast growing leather-like market and achieve a five-year cumulative cash flow of €16,75 M€, meaning a 5-years ROI of 610%.

Keywords: sustainability,ecoleather,footwear,bioprocessing,ecofriendly,biomaterial