Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Mont-Blanc 2020, European scalable, modular and power efficient HPC processor (Mont-Blanc 2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,France,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Customised and low energy computing (including Low power processor technologies) (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10131848.75
EU funding (EUR): 10131848.75
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The Mont-Blanc 2020 (MB2020) project ambitions to initiate the development of a future low-power European processor for Exascale. MB2020 lays the foundation for a European consortium aiming at delivering a processor with great energy efficiency for HPC and server workloads. A first generation product is scheduled in the 2020 time frame. Our target is to reach exascale-level power efficiency (50 Gflops/Watt at processor level) with a second generation planned for 2022. Therefore, we will, within MB2020: 1. define a low-power System-on-Chip (SoC) implementation targeting Exascale, with built-in security and reliability features; 2. introduce strong innovations to improve efficiency with real-life applications and to outperform competition (vector instruction implementation, memory latency and bandwidth, power management, 2.5D integration); 3. develop key modules (IPs) needed for this implementation; 4. provide a working prototype demonstrating MB2020 key components and system level simulations, with a co-design approach based on real-life applications; 5. explore the reuse of these building blocks to serve other markets than HPC. Our key choices are: a) To use the ARM ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) because its has strong technological relevance and it offers a dynamic ecosystem, which is needed to deliver the system software and applications mandatory for successful market acceptance. b) To design, implement or leverage new technologies (Scalable Vector Extension, NoC, High Bandwidth Memory, Power Management, …) as well as innovative packaging technologies to improve the versatility, performance, power efficiency, reliability, and security of the processor. c) To improve on the economic sustainability of processor development through a modular design that allows to retarget our SoC for different markets.

Keywords: big data,processor
Connecting Obligated Parties to Adopt Innovative Schemes towards Energy Poverty Alleviation (SocialWatt)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Belgium,Greece,Croatia,Romania,Romania,Latvia,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Mitigating household energy poverty (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998297.5
EU funding (EUR): 1998297.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

SocialWatt aims to support obligated parties under Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive to develop, adopt, test and spread innovative energy poverty schemes across Europe. Utilities and energy suppliers will be able to build their capacity and exploit the SocialWatt tools developed for effectively engaging with their customers and implementing schemes that aim to alleviate energy poverty. Energy efficiency interventions at the household level and the increased use of renewable energy will be triggered, by promoting innovative financing options, such as Energy Performance Contracts, Energy Saving Agreements or on-bill repayment. SocialWatt will contribute to the following 3 main pillars: - Supporting utilities and energy suppliers contribute to the fight against energy poverty through the use of the SocialWatt decision support tools. They will be able to identify energy poverty among their clients, elaborate Energy Poverty Action Plans after having evaluated and selected energy poverty schemes, as well as monitor and assess the overall procedure. - Bridging the gap between energy companies and social services by promoting collaboration and implementing knowledge transfer and capacity building activities. - Implementing and replicating innovative schemes to alleviate energy poverty. Participating utilities and energy suppliers, operate in 26 European countries, with primary markets in Croatia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Spain. The latter will be the focus of the pilot cases for developing and implementing energy poverty schemes, whilst the replication of SocialWatt across Europe will be pursued. Energy poor citizens are the main target group that will benefit from the innovative schemes. SocialWatt will support energy companies to fulfil their energy efficiency obligations, as well as improve public relations, promote Corporate Social Responsibility strategies, reduce debt and overhead in managing debt and enhance their public image.

Keywords: obligated parties,article 7,energy poverty schemes,innovative financing,decision support tools,knowledge transfer,policy recommendations,corporate social responsibility
Combinatorial Applications of Random Processes and Expansion (CARPE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499010.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499010.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The concepts of Randomness and Expansion are pervasive throughout Mathematics and its applications to many areas of Science and Engineering. The mathematical study of Expansion can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and of Probability to the analysis (e.g. by Fermat and Pascal) of games of chance. In the modern era, both concepts are influential in many areas of Mathematics (this proposal will emphasise Combinatorics and Probability, and also touch on Analysis, Geometry, Topology, Number Theory and Theoretical Computer Science). Within Science and Engineering, topics related to the mathematical problems covered in this proposal include Approximation Algorithms (Counting and Sampling), Statistical Physics (Magnetism, Lattice Gases, Polymer Models), Mathematical Biology (Epidemiology), Control Theory and Fluid Flow. My recent and ongoing research has generated several exciting new ideas and methods. The most recent of these, the Cluster Expansion Method (work with Matthew Jenssen), is a far-reaching program to apply a classical tool from Statistical Physics to developing methods for describing the typical structure of models such as random homomorphisms from a discrete torus. Another exciting recent technique, Global Hypercontractivity (work with Noam Lifshitz, Eoin Long and Dor Minzer), is a structural refinement of the classical hypercontractivity theorem; we will generalise many of its applications to Mathematics and Computer Science and give several new applications, e.g. in Extremal Combinatorics (via the Junta Method). I will also develop new Absorption techniques to answer constructive mathematical questions that seem beyond the reach of Randomised Algebraic Construction (a method I developed to solve Steiner's 1852 question on the Existence of Designs).

Keywords: random structures,isoperimetry,expansion,phase transitions,hypercontractivity,extremal combinatorics
Redefining socio-environmental struggles: contributions from indigenous women from the Ecuadorian Amazon (AWAREFOREST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: France,Costa Rica,Brazil
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 256214.4
EU funding (EUR): 256214.4
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

AWAREFOREST proposes to study the sexual division of work in Ecuadorian Amazon, uncovering histories of struggles of indigenous women towards the advance of oil extractive activities. The objective is to understand if, and in which way gender constructions (characteristics, behaviors and gender roles) contribute to develop different perceptions and reactions between indigenous women and men with regard to the social and environmental impacts of extractivism. Through the concrete example of the Movement of Amazon Women Defenders of the Forest, this project will identify how these women are currently mobilizing and redefining meanings about their bodies and territories, based on shared reflections of personal and collective, local and global experiences of struggles for autonomy and self-determination. In terms of training and career advancement, the objectives will be to expand the researcher’s participation in academic networks, to consolidate her research profile and integration in the profession. As an early career researcher, this action will be fundamental for her integration in the European and South American research community. Benefiting from the supervision of experienced academics and the support of research groups, LEIJUS (Brazil) and EXPERICE/LADYSS (France), this will improve the researcher’s capacity to produce academic publications, take part in international events and collaborations, opening new career possibilities. AWAREFOREST innovative aspect translates into studying alternative knowledges and epistemologies, formed through socio-environmental struggles in the Amazonian context, opening up space for diverse forms of organization and views of life. It is crucial to promote these knowledges at a time when the world is facing the effects of rapid climate change and many other ecological disasters derived from a patriarchal, colonialist and capitalist form of using nature, destroying particularly indigenous territories, knowledges and societies.

Keywords: indigenous women,extractivism,feminist epistemologies,ecuadorian amazon,good living,socio environmental struggles
Producing advanced bio-based fertilizers from fisheries wastes (SEA2LAND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable and competitive bio-based industries and supporting the development of a European bio-economy
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Spain,Estonia,Spain,Estonia,Malta,Norway,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Switzerland,Norway,Croatia,France,France,Portugal,Chile
Call: Closing nutrient cycles (H2020-RUR-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8853401.54
EU funding (EUR): 7748383.5
Participants: 27
Project status: SIGNED

SEA2LAND aims to provide solutions to help overcome challenges related to food production, climate change and waste reuse. The SEA2LAND project will meet this challenge by improving and adapting technologies for nutrient recovery to produce biobased fertilizers (BBFs) from fish processing and aquaculture byproducts. It will promote the production of large-scale fertilizers in the EU from own raw materials, based on the circular economy model, transforming by-products into nutrients for crops. SEA2LAND will contribute to the independence and security in the supply of nutrients to European agriculture, reducing the nutrient imbalance in Europe. The basis of the project is the regional production of BBFs developing demonstration pilots that can be replicated throughout Europe, boosting local growth. The project proposes the implementation of 9 technologies in 7 cases in 6 areas representative of the fisheries sector (North, Baltic, Atlantic, Cantabric, Mediterranean, Adriatic Sea). The proposed technologies range from well-known processes (bokashi, composting, etc.) that can be a solution in some areas due to its low cost and simplicity to others more sophisticated that go from thermo-mechanical fractionation to enzymatic hydrolysis. The technologies will be applied to different by-products (typical in each implementation area), and they will produce several BBFs either for local crops and conditions, and others for exporting (with high value and effectiveness to assure a low impact). BBFs will be characterized to ensure compliance with EU regulations, including those related to organic farming. Besides, the effects on soil biodiversity, environmental sustainability and the impact on social parameters and local economy will be studied and business plans will be defined. Finally BBFs from by-products will serve to partially replace imported nutrients for agriculture in Europe, contributing to reduce the negative environmental effects of the misuse of by-products.

Keywords: biobased fertilizers,circular economy,fishery,wastes,organic agriculture,nitrogen,phosphorous
Combatting the global depression epidemic by mainstreaming the effective, safe and drug-free Sooma Depression Therapy (SOOMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2303750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1612625.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Depression is the single leading cause of disability: over 300 million people suffer from depression worldwide. This number will increase sharply following the coronavirus outbreak. Psychiatry units are overloaded in most countries already now, which is why about 75% of the people who seek help do not receive adequate treatment. It is not enough to simply scale up existing services – psychiatrists need fundamentally new approaches that help them treat more patients more effectively, without needing more resources. Sooma Oy is a pioneering Finnish medical technology SME with a mission to bring relief to the millions of people who suffer from depression. We have developed a non-invasive brain stimulation tool that has proven highly effective and safe for treating severe depression: it offers relief for most patients in just 2-4 weeks. The treatment protocol consists of 10-20 daily 30-minute brain stimulation sessions, out of which the first is performed at a doctor’s office and patients can carry out the rest at home. Sooma is therefore the ideal tool for clinics to help more patients: home based treatment will address the main bottleneck of psychiatric care by reducing the required hospital resources by up to 90%. At the moment our therapy should only be used under professional supervision. To unlock its true impact, we will build Sooma Online digital therapy platform that enables the use of Sooma at home. The platform will provide intelligent features allowing medical professionals to tailor the treatment to the individual, remotely monitor their progress, and adjust as needed. This platform will be a major breakthrough for the entire field of depression therapy. This is a high-risk complex development, and the EU funding is key for de-risking the move from early adopters to the mass market. Our goal is to disrupt the global €14 billion antidepressants market, and more importantly, to help the world to get back in order in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Measures for behaving safely in traffic (MeBeSafe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,Austria,Sweden,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Behavioural aspects for safer transport (H2020-MG-2016-Two-Stages, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7136979.0
EU funding (EUR): 7136979.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

Navigating traffic is mostly habitual; Our behaviour neither requires a lot of elaborate conscious decision-making, nor is it purely automatic/reflexive. However, most current measures intended to get traffic users to behave safer appeal to our deliberate self (awareness campaigns, speed signs), act autonomously on our behalf (autonomous braking, traffic lights), or seek to “assist” us by presenting feedback/information (Forward Collision Warning, roadside speed displays). However, the latter category of measures is often not effective as users either switch them off or do not act on the information provided. MeBeSafe is looking to directly change our habitual traffic behaviour using “nudging”. This concept from behavioural economics relates to subconsciously stimulating us to make a desired choice, without forcing us if we want to go a different way. Nudging measures are less invasive, give the user choice (but predispose him to make a desired choice) and can be provided earlier in the chain of events leading to a critical situation. We plan to implement nudging feedback both for in-vehicle Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS, existing or close-to-market), and through roadside infrastructure (e.g. measures directed at cyclists). Currently no roadside equivalent of ADAS exists, and we will prototype and demonstrate one version. We will prospectively analyse the effectiveness of suggested nudging measures first by modelling, followed by controlled experiments. We will furthermore conduct a field trial to evaluate the long-term learning effect for one proposed nudging measure. Our consortium includes automotive OEMs and suppliers, road infrastructure and fleet owners, SME’s involved in traffic data analysis, and leading organisations in traffic safety research and modelling.
Picometer metrology for light-element nanostructures: making every electron count (PICOMETRICS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding nanostructures down to the atomic level is the key to optimise the design of advanced materials with revolutionary novel properties. This requires characterisation methods enabling one to quantify atomic structures with high precision. The strong interaction of accelerated electrons with matter makes that transmission electron microscopy is one of the most powerful techniques for this purpose. However, beam damage, induced by the high energy electrons, strongly hampers a detailed interpretation. To overcome this problem, I will usher electron microscopy in a new era of non-destructive picometer metrology. This is an extremely challenging goal in modern technology because of the increasing complexity of nanostructures and the role of light elements such as lithium or hydrogen. Non-destructive picometer metrology will allow us to answer the question: what is the position, composition and bonding of every single atom in a nanomaterial even for light elements? There has been significant progress with electron microscopy to study beam-hard materials. Yet, major problems exist for radiation-sensitive nanostructures because of the lack of physics-based models, detailed statistical analyses, and optimal design of experiments in a self-consistent computational framework. In this project, novel data-driven methods will be combined with the latest experimental capabilities to locate and identify atoms, to detect light elements, to determine the three-dimensional ordering, and to measure the oxidation state from single low-dose recordings. The required electron dose is envisaged to be four orders of magnitude lower than what is nowadays used. In this manner, beam damage will be drastically reduced or even be ruled out completely. The results of my programme will enable precise characterisation of nanostructures in their native state; a prerequisite for understanding their properties. Clearly this is important for the design of a broad range of nanomaterials.

Keywords: electron microscopy,metrology,statistical parameter estimation theory,signal processing,quantitative structure determination,nanostructures
To nap or not to nap? Why napping habits interfere with cognitive fitness in ageing (COGNAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

All of us know of individuals who remain cognitively sharp at an advanced age. Identifying novel factors which associate with inter-individual variability in -and can be considered protective for- cognitive decline is a promising area in ageing research. Considering its strong implication in neuroprotective function, COGNAP predicts that variability in circadian rhythmicity explains a significant part of the age-related changes in human cognition. Circadian rhythms -one of the most fundamental processes of living organisms- are present throughout the nervous system and act on cognitive brain function. Circadian rhythms shape the temporal organization of sleep and wakefulness to achieve human diurnality, characterized by a consolidated bout of sleep during night-time and a continuous period of wakefulness during the day. Of prime importance is that the temporal organization of sleep and wakefulness evolves throughout the adult lifespan, leading to higher sleep-wake fragmentation with ageing. The increasing occurrence of daytime napping is the most visible manifestation of this fragmentation. Contrary to the common belief, napping stands as a health risk factor in seniors in epidemiological data. I posit that chronic napping in older people primarily reflects circadian disruption. Based on my preliminary findings, I predict that this disruption will lead to lower cognitive fitness. I further hypothesise that a re-stabilization of circadian sleep-wake organization through a nap prevention intervention will reduce age-related cognitive decline. Characterizing the link between cognitive ageing and the temporal distribution of sleep and wakefulness will not only bring ground-breaking advances at the scientific level, but is also timely in the ageing society. Cognitive decline, as well as inadequately timed sleep, represent dominant determinants of the health span of our fast ageing population and easy implementable intervention programs are urgently needed.

Keywords: circadian regulation,neuroimaging