Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Spanning Subgraphs in Graphs (SSiGraph)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1417365.0
EU funding (EUR): 1226107.29
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Graph Theory is a highly active area of Combinatorics with strong links to fields such as Optimisation and Theoretical Computer Science. A fundamental meta-problem in Graph Theory is the following: given a graph H, what conditions guarantee that another graph G contains a copy of H as a subgraph? This is particularly important when H is spanning, i.e. where G and H have the same number of vertices. This project will address a range of exciting and challenging extremal and probabilistic problems on spanning subgraphs in graphs, in the following two interrelated areas: 1. Spanning subgraphs in random graphs: A key aim of Probabilistic Combinatorics is to determine the density threshold for the appearance of different subgraphs in random graphs. This is particularly difficult when the subgraph is spanning, where the known results and techniques are typically highly specific. This project will lead to a unified paradigm for studying thresholds of spanning subgraphs by introducing and developing a new coupling technique. This will provide an excellent platform to study the Kahn-Kalai conjecture, a bold general conjecture on appearance thresholds, and problems including hitting-time conjectures and universality problems. 2. Spanning subgraphs in coloured graphs: Many different combinatorial problems are expressible using edge coloured graphs, including Latin square problems dating back to Euler. My objectives here concern long-standing problems on spanning trees, cycles and matchings, and, through this, the resolution of several famous labelling and packing problems. In preliminary work I have developed techniques to study these problems, techniques which will have a far reaching impact, and certainly lead to further applications, e.g. with hypergraphs and resilience problems. The objectives represent a carefully selected range of related major outstanding problems, whose solution would mark truly significant progress in the field.

Keywords: extremal graph theory probabilistic graph theory spanning subgraphs thresholds in random graphs edge coloured graphs embedding trees,cycles and matchings graph decomposition randomised embeddings deterministic embeddings probability couplings regularity techniques
Shakespeare and Indian Cinematic Traditions (ShakespeareIndia)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Current work on Shakespeare and India has largely ignored the cinematic idiom. Working with acknowledged expert in global Shakespeare, Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (MTB) of Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), experienced researcher, Dr Rosa María García Periago (RMGP), will undertake a fellowship that comprehensively examines for the first time the role of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, with a focus on regionalism, diversity, locality and gender. Rather than simply engaging with ‘Bollywood’, the fellowship will direct attention to the variety of expressions of Shakespeare in different Indian film industries, languages and diasporic contexts, the majority of which have been critically neglected. Academic outputs include a project website with database, a journal article, and a co-edited volume. Integrally important to the fellowship’s recovery mission is the centrality of women not only as subjects of representation but also as filmmakers and creative practitioners. Bringing together critical and practice-based enquiries, the fellowship includes two secondments with relevant arts organizations. These practice-led elements complement a sustained intercultural engagement programme, including public-facing lectures, a workshop/film festival and an exhibition, of benefit to QUB, the city of Belfast and beyond. The fellowship, then, will produce original research while generating local and international impact and supporting the career development and mobility of the experienced researcher.

Keywords: shakespeare,india,cinema
Sensors monitoring environmental and electrical parameters of electrical high voltage lines (Gridsense)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Feasibility study to design and market condition monitoring sensors fitted directly on High/Medium voltage lines of Distribution System Operators . These sensors will monitor environmental parameters (wind, snow accetion, temperature) as well as electrical ones (load, voltage, faults), communicate real time with DSO's SCADA and data communication backbone, in order to help them pro-actively perform preventive maintenance and increase lines' availability to facilitate Renewables integration. Such sensors will communicate Real Time using Radio or GSM communication (or other IoT protocols), be completely autonomous, low cost, and easy to install. They will allow DSOs to increase their grid's availability and efficiency, in order, amongst other things, to increase Renewables penetration. Several key players of the industry (EDF in France, Elia and Ores in Belgium, CREOS in Luxembourg) have already shown interest in this project. If the Phase 1 evaluation is successful, Ampacimon intends to proceed to apply to a SME-Instrument Phase 2 to allow the full development of these products.

Keywords: sensors,lines monitoring,smart grid,grid,condition monitoring,high voltage,distribution network,transmission network
Safe with Science (SAWE)

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: Slovenia,Slovenia,Slovenia
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157819.75
EU funding (EUR): 157819.75
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Main objectives of Sawe project are to bring researchers to the public, increase awareness of researcher’s profession, an important role in society and the impact of their work on our safe daily live with special attention to inspire the young to embark science careers. Sawe activities will bring closer to the public, especially to youngster, also the human, caring face of scientists with sense for humor and fun. For that purpose, we will implement awareness campaign with pre-events, “Stand-up Science” in 2018, 2019 and public-call for (pre)schoolchildren. On the last September, Fridays in 2018 (att. Cultural Heritage) and 2019 ERN will be organized with renewed programs in the festive and fun atmosphere. All Sawe events program activities aim at offering the public at large especially the young an opportunity to cooperate and socialize with researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. They include experiments, presentations, astronomy observations, workshops, researchers’ rock bands performed by researchers and students. Rawe ERN events will take place in Ljutomer, Maribor, Brežice, Koper, and Izola. Traditional cooperation of the primary and secondary schools’ winning teams of research and innovative projects in the frame of Youth for Maribor Progress (financed by Maribor Municipality) enable most promising youngsters to inspire their fellows and connect with the real scientists. The »European corners« will be in the heart of every RN location: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows' witnesses, information how one can become a researcher, EC’s various actions, programs, actions (incl. HRS4R, RESAVER) to present how EU cares about its researchers. Finally, yet importantly, the impact assessment includes pre-study and research prior and after events using a paper-pencil method. The impact assessment foresees intercultural comparison of results after using the same methodology as selected ERN leading partners: Prona-Montenegro, the Maastricht University and the University of Latvia.

Keywords: raising awareness,researcher,profession,multiple careers,msca fellows,science,experiments,socializing,festive spirit,public,young
Driving greater business value by unleashing hidden capacity of mobile systems (UNIVO-NG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mobile data surpassed voice on a global basis during December of 2009 and it has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years. Once the traffic in the network grows due to increased number of subscribers or new bandwidth consuming services the network must undergo expansion and operators proceed with capacity upgrades and densification increasing their investments. Reports from PWC and Accenture reveal that 66% of CapEx investment are not needed while 80% of needed investments are not done. This directly impacts on mobile users – perceived data rates are smaller, and the network availability is worse affecting data services. Most of operators have no tools for capacity dimensioning, only MS Excel. However, using Excel is simply inappropriate due to the Big Data challenge and lacking ability to include soft capacity models and multi technology processing. Utilizing our experience gained in mobile sector we at Telcap cracked technical barriers and created UNIVO, an innovative next-generation software suite that assists operators in dimensioning from an end-to-end prospective the capacity of 2G, 3G, 4G mobile telecoms networks. It helps forecast traffic growth impact based on history observation and machine learning to significantly reduce CapEx capacity investments (e.g. at RAN by average 27%) ensuring targets for GoS/QoS/QoE parameters perceived by mobile users are met throughout the entire network. Positive feedback received from 3 early adopters helps us believe we can exploit the market segment of Engineering Planning Tools worth over $914 million p.a. Considering the rapid growth of mobile data volume, within the UNIVO-NG project we aim to evolve its capabilities preparing it for massive presence of IoT devices and scheduled 5G introduction. We are convinced UNIVO-NG matches anticipated needs and expectations of mobile operators – we aim to further investigate it through Ph. 1 project.

Keywords: mobile network capex opex planning optimization management big data iot 5g qos qoe saas hypersurface probabilities
Molecular Motors for Surface Applications (MMSA)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last few decades the field of artificial molecular motors/switches has evolved into a cornerstone of chemical research. Molecular motors are now widely expected to play a leading role in the nanotechnological revolution of the 21st century as they are central to the transition from static to responsive/adaptive materials and molecular devices. Feringa's unidirectional rotary motors are unique in their potential to perform continuous work and are recognized as having a multitude of possible applications. However, necessary use of UV light as well as poorly understood behavior of surface bound rotary motors has so far hampered their development. The research outlined in this proposal is aimed at overcoming these limitations by exploring two-photon absorption pathways as well as upconverting nanoparticles to drive molecular rotation with near-infrared light. Secondly, scanning tunneling microscopy will be used to gain insight into the rotational behavior of surface bound rotary motors on the basis of individual molecules as well as their organisation into self-assembled monolayers. This knowledge will subsequently be applied to showcase three distinct, exemplary applications: Firstly, individually addressing the states making up the rotational cycle of motors incorporated into self-assembled monolayers will be studied for its potential use in molecular information storage. Secondly, the coordinated rotation of surface bound motors will be harnessed in order to achieve transport of microscale objects. Lastly, the influence of the dynamic behavior of a motor functionalized surface on stem cell adhesion will be explored. MMSA is therefore an interdisciplinary project at the interface of chemistry, surface science, nanorobotics and cell biology, placing it at the forefront of science.

Keywords: rotary molecular motors,two photon absorption,upconverting nanoparticles,self assembled monolayers,scanning tunneling microscopy,control of stem cell adhesion
Connected Electric Vehicle Optimized for Life, Value, Efficiency and Range (CEVOLVER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: EGVI (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Austria,Belgium,Sweden,France,Netherlands
Call: Integrated, brand-independent architectures, components and systems for next generation electrified vehicles optimised for the infrastructure (H2020-LC-GV-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6203303.71
EU funding (EUR): 4999700.26
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The current generation of electric vehicles have made significant progress during the recent years, however they have still not achieved the user acceptance needed to support broader main-stream market uptake. These vehicles are generally still too expensive and limited in range to be used as the first car for a typical family. Long charging times and uncertainties in range prediction are common as further barriers to broader market success. For this reason the CEVOLVER project takes a user-centric approach to create battery-electric vehicles that are usable for comfortable long day trips whilst the installed battery is dimensioned for affordability. Furthermore the vehicles will be designed to take advantage of future improvements in the fast-charging infrastructure that many countries are now planning. CEVOLVER tackles the challenge by making improvements in the vehicle itself to reduce energy consumption as well as maximizing the usage of connectivity for further optimization of both component and system design, as well as control and operating strategies. This will encompass measures that range from the on-board thermal management and vehicle energy management systems, to connectivity that supports range-prediction as a key element for eco-driving and eco-routing driver assistance. Within the project it will be demonstrated that long-trip are achievable even without further increases in battery size that would lead to higher cost. The driver is guided to fast-charging infrastructure along the route that ensures sufficient charging power is available along the route in order to complete the trip with only minimal additional time needed for the overall trip. The efficient transferability of the results to further vehicles is ensured by adopting a methodology that proves the benefit with an early assessment approach before implementation in OEM demonstrator vehicles.

Keywords: user centric design,connectivity
Nitroaromatics photophysics and photochemistry: a quantum dynamics study (NAP-QDYS)

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: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Nitroaromatics are a vast group of molecules of interest in different fields of research and applications: for example urban atmospheric contamination, energy materials and to the drug delivery sector. The simplest nitroaromatics compounds are nitrobenzene, 1-nitronaphthalene, and 2-nitronaphthalene. The study of such systems will then constitute the most natural starting point in order to investigate the properties of the nitroaromatics group of compounds. Moreover these three particular molecules are characterized by important and in some case unique photophysical and photochemical properties. For example, 1NN is the organic compound with the fastest multiplicity change ever measured. Recently, an increasing interest in NB has occurred in relation to the so-called roaming radical reactions, which are a new type of reactions that follow a mechanism not contemplated in transition-state theory. With the present project, we aim to characterize the photophysics and photochemistry of the related systems NB, 1NN and 2NN under UVA/UVB exposure through the computation of ab initio quantum chemical dynamics simulations. In particular we will study: their main decay paths, the intersystem-crossing process toward the triplet manifold, the mechanisms leading to the photoisomerization of the nitro into a nitrite group, including the possibility of roaming radical photoisomerization, and the competition among all the mentioned processes.

Keywords: photophysics,photochemistry,quantum dynamics,urban pollutants,photodegradation,rooming radical reactions,ab initio electronic structure methods
Deep BIOmodeling of human CARDiogenesis (BIOCARD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2285625.0
EU funding (EUR): 2285625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The heart is one of the first and most complex organs formed during human embryogenesis. While its anatomy and physiology have been extensively studied over centuries, the normal development of human heart and dysregulation in disease still remain poorly understood at the molecular/cellular level. Stem cell technologies hold promise for modelling development, analysing disease mechanisms, and developing potential therapies. By combining multidisciplinary approaches centred on human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), BIOCARD aims at decoding the cellular and molecular principles of human cardiogenesis and developing advanced inter-chimeric human-pig models of cardiac development and disease. State-of-the-art genetic modification techniques and functional genomics will be used to establish a molecular atlas of cell type intermediates of human cardiogenesis in vitro and unravel how their proliferation, differentiation and lineage choice are regulated in health and disease. This in vitro approach will be complemented by detailed analyses of how distinct hiPSC-derived cardiac progenitor populations commit and contribute to specific cardiac compartments in interspecies chimeric hearts in vivo. Finally, we will capitalize on the novel concept that combinations of different well-defined hiPSC-derived cardiac progenitor pools with timely-matched, native extracellular matrix from embryonic hearts will accomplish for the first time the realization of human heart organoids as 3D culture systems of developing heart structures. Clearly, BIOCARD will open game-changing opportunities for devising novel biomedical applications, such as human heart chamber-specific disease modelling, large-scale drug testing in appropriate human 3D cardiac bio-mimics, and regenerative cell therapies based on functional ventricular-muscle patches and direct cell conversion in vivo.
Feasibility assessment on the GreenFlux Service Operations Platform for Smart Charging (GSOP-SC) (GSOP-SC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this proposal is to explore the business cases for the implementation of GreenFlux’s Service & Operations Platform for Smart Charging (GSOP-SC) in several European urban areas. This will contribute to the introduction of a full service and independent software solution, connectable with any (PH)EV charge protocol, that enables any EV to plug into any electricity grid in Europe, and provide an efficient platform for EV transaction and energy management. Such a platform will facilitate a complete chain optimization, from EV user to network operator, offering excellent commercial prospects.

Keywords: smart charging,smart grid,re charging,electric vehicles,transport,interoperability