Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Dynamic Information Acquisition, Experimentation, and Communication (DINFO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1705804.0
EU funding (EUR): 1705804.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Individuals, firms, and public organizations spend significant time and reIndividuals, firms, and public organizations spend significant time and resources to acquire, collect, and process information that guides and optimizes their decision making. Information is acquired directly by own research efforts, from academic publications that selectively publish scientific research, or from self-interested third parties that control the flow of information to influence decisions, and often information can also be learned through data-collection during day-to-day business. How much and what information should be acquired? How can third parties be incentivised to provide information? What is the role of commitment and verifiability of evidence in communication between a self-interested information provider and a user of that information? How should data collected from day-to-day business be used to optimize decisions, if these decisions also affect and feed back into future data collection? How should results of scientific research be communicated if it affects both decision by practitioners as well as the choice of future research topics? This research programme aims to shed light on these questions. Recognizing that information acquisition takes time, and happens gradually, often in multiple stages, it develops dynamic models of information acquisition and experimentation. The programme has four parts: (1) It develops a novel framework to analyse frictions in dynamic information acquisition and transmission that arise in communication and persuasion. (2) It develops new techniques to analyse robust dynamic information choice. (3) It develops a dynamic model of incentives for information production and communication in scientific research that contributes to the debate on publication standards. (4) It develops a theoretical framework to analyse the optimal use of data in the nascent field of predictive policing and other applications of data-driven resource allocation.

Keywords: dynamic information choice,persuasion,experimenation,robustness,data driven resource allocation,communication of research
Fast Rotorcraft (GAM-2020-FRC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Italy,Poland,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,Latvia,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Rotorcraft ITD GAM 2020 (H2020-IBA-CS2-GAMS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171739896.46
EU funding (EUR): 48242710.15
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

The challenge in rotorcraft design is always to improve payload-lifting capability, reduce fuel burn and increase the vehicle's range – the traditional objectives in aeronautical design. The Fast Rotorcraft IADP of Clean Sky 2 consists of two flight demonstrators, the Next Generation Civil TiltRotor (NGCTR) [leader: Leonardo Helicopters] and the RACER compound helicopter [leader: Airbus Helicopters]. These two fast rotorcraft concepts aim to deliver superior vehicle productivity and performance, and through this economic advantage to users. NGCTR aims to design, build and fly an innovative next generation civil tiltrotor technology demonstrator. The configuration will go beyond current architectures of this type of aircraft and will involve tilting proprotors mounted in fixed nacelles at the tips of the wing. The wing will have a fixed inboard portion and a tilting outboard portion to minimize rotor downwash impingement in hover and increase efficiency. Demonstration activities will aim at validating the technologies/systems and operational concepts. The RACER (formerly LifeRCraft) aims at developing and flight-testing in 2020-2023 a full scale flightworthy demonstrator, which embodies the new European compound rotorcraft architecture. This architecture combines a lifting rotor with two lateral rotors at the tips of box-wings, in pusher configuration. This proposal presents the work plan 2020-2021 toward the achievement of the FRC IADP final objectives.

Keywords: rotorcraft,tiltrotor,compound aircraft,payload lifting capability,fuel burn reduction,long range
The Climates and Habitability of Small Exoplanets Around Red Stars (EXOKLEIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1984729.0
EU funding (EUR): 1984729.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The detection of life beyond our Solar System is possible only via the remote sensing of the atmospheres of exoplanets. The recent discovery that small exoplanets are common around cool, red stars offers an exciting opportunity to study the atmospheres of Earth-like worlds. Motivated by this revelation, the EXOKLEIN project proposes to construct a holistic climate framework to understand astronomical observations in the context of the atmosphere, geochemistry and biosignatures of the exoplanet. The proposed research is divided into three major themes. Research Theme 1 aims to construct a virtual laboratory of an atmosphere that considers atmospheric dynamics, chemistry and radiation, as well as how they interact. This virtual laboratory enables us to understand the physical and chemical mechanisms involved, as well as predict the observed properties of an exoplanet. Research Theme 2 aims to generalize the carbonate-silicate cycle (also known as the long-term carbon cycle) by considering variations in rock composition, water acidity and atmospheric conditions. The carbonate-silicate cycle is important because it regulates the long-term presence of carbon dioxide (a vital greenhouse gas) in atmospheres. We also aim to investigate the role of the cycle in determining the fates of ocean-dominated exoplanets called “water worlds”. Research Theme 3 aims to investigate the long-term stability of biosignature gases in the context of the climate. Whether a gas uniquely indicates the presence of biology on an exoplanet depends on the atmospheric properties and ultraviolet radiation environment. We investigate three prime candidates for biosignature gases: methyl chloride, dimethylsulfide and ammonia. Overall, the EXOKLEIN project will significantly advance our understanding of whether the environments of rocky exoplanets around red stars are stable and conducive for life, and whether the tell-tale signatures of life may be detected by astronomers.

Keywords: exoplanetary atmospheres and climate modeling including fluid dynamics,radiative transfer and chemistry,long term carbon cycle carbonate silicate cycle,biosignature gases
High precision predictions and tools for LHC Physics (PrecisionTools4LHC)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2018-10-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175419.6
EU funding (EUR): 175419.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has opened a new exciting era in fundamental Particle Physics, by reaching energies never probed before in a collider experiment. The data collected in 2010-2013 already led to an historical achievement, the discovery a new-particle with properties very close to those predicted for the “Standard Model” Higgs boson. The pivotal role played by this particle calls for an extremely accurate study of its properties. Together with the search for direct signals of New Physics at the ~10 TeV scale, this will be the major topic of research over the next 20 years, throughout the whole duration of the LHC experiment. Especially in absence of striking signature pointing to Physics Beyond the SM (BSM), the success of this long-term programme relies on the capability of extracting precise informations from the measured data. In addition to extraordinarily sophisticated experimental equipment, accurate theoretical predictions for the sought-after signals and their known backgrounds are required. The goal of this research proposal is to push the precision of Monte Carlo programs needed to interpret LHC measurements to an unprecedented level. This will be achieved combining several novel techniques developed in the Monte Carlo community and results obtained in perturbative QCD. The realization of the specific objectives detailed in the proposal will allow to model more reliably signal and background processes relevant to perform a variety of overriding precision studies. This will permit a more solid interpretation of future measurements and, in a longer timescale, will also be instrumental in continuing to improve the accuracy of simulation tools.

Keywords: lhc phenomenology,high energy particle physics theory
Understanding the role of environmental and climatic changes in shaping subterranean diversity to preserve Europe’s unique hidden biodiversity (HiddenLife)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-05
End date: 2019-06-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Climate warming and other anthropogenic perturbations are affecting ecosystems worldwide, contributing to the sixth mass extinction. Documenting and explaining a vanishing biodiversity are major challenges in evolutionary and ecological research, but understanding biodiversity is an essential step towards halting its loss and the degradation of ecosystem services, a headline target of EU 2020 biodiversity strategy. Caves are isolated and extreme habitats that, like oceanic islands, offer unparalleled opportunities for biodiversity research. Subterranean ecosystems are simpler than surface ones. Their stable climatic conditions, scarcity of food and absence of light drive the evolution of highly adapted fauna. Because of the difficulty to access and explore caves and the rarity of cave dwelling organisms, the study of the subterranean realm has lagged behind the research conducted in other experimental ecosystems. Despite of their reputedly stable climatic conditions, recent studies show that global warming may impact subterranean habitats by rising temperatures and, consequently, threatening troglobionts, which have low tolerance to temperature variations, causing the reduction of optimal habitat and driving narrowly distributed species to extinction. HIDDENLIFE project aims to improve our understanding of one of the top biodiversity hotspots in Europe–the Dinarides, and its unique cave fauna, to ensure its conservation and future well-being. Through a multidisciplinary approach that combines state of the art molecular and statistical tools, I will investigate the systematics, phylogeography, and environmental preferences of three independent lineages of cave spiders. This will contribute to untangling the mechanisms that shaped their origin and present day diversity and distribution. By projecting potential distributions under predicted scenarios of global warming, I will predict future habitat suitability and assess vulnerability of this unique and fragile fauna.

Keywords: cave evolution,phylogenomics,phytogeography,niche modelling,biodiversity loss,climatic changes
Integrating memories: Exploring knowledge integration enhancement at the intersection of education and neuroscience (Integrating Memories)

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: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2019-09-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Learning about the world is most effective when we can relate new information to previously learned knowledge structures, but underlying neurocognitive processes are still poorly understood. To successfully structure our knowledge, we can integrate separately learned instances by inferring an association between them. In the brain, this integration of old and new memories has been suggested to be facilitated by the reinstatement of prior knowledge structures during new learning, but it remains unclear exactly how reinstatement enables effective building of such knowledge structures. Especially in real-world educational settings it is vital to understand how to effectively build knowledge, but thus far direct translation of neuroscientific insights to educational practice has proven challenging. Better understanding how we build new knowledge on existing knowledge structures can lead to more efficient educational strategies and programs, helping us to learn more efficiently. I here propose to examine the neural processes underlying these reinstatement and integration processes during learning of educationally relevant information and explore how actively controlling them can benefit educational knowledge building. More specifically, I aim to examine educationally relevant knowledge building by 1) implementing parallel educational and neuroscientific knowledge integration paradigms and 2) combining results and conclusions from both paradigms to 3) explore how students can most effectively build educational knowledge structures. This approach will yield novel insights into active control of knowledge building processes that can be employed to construct more efficient learning strategies in education. This novel approach enables investigating educationally relevant knowledge building in the brain, yielding essential fundamental insights while concurrently generating new knowledge building strategies.

Keywords: memory integration,memory reinstatement,knowledge building,educational neuroscience,neuroimaging
First Fully Integrated Drone System for Maritime Operations (UPTEKO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With Upteko we want to revolutionize the maritime industry, by offering the first fully integrated drone system for ship operations. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are increasingly impacting our everyday lives in several commercial sectors. Their potential in the maritime industry is huge, especially regarding security, environmental surveillance, reduce operational costs and monitoring. Drones can easily go where the humans cannot. However, their use in the sector is still at a very early stage. Drone technologies have emerged, but they are usually limited to single tasks and they face specific challenges as restricted fly duration and difficulty in operating in extreme weather conditions. These challenges prevent the maritime industry to fully benefit from UAV technology. Our company was founded in 2018 (origin in Creative Sight, founded in 2010) with the goal to take the lead in developing the next generation of drones for maritime operations. To achieve that, our highly skilled team (most experience drone team in Denmark) developed Upteko, an autonomous, multi-rotor UAV solution to meet the industry needs. Upteko is a holistic and fully autonomous combination of features, including high quality thermographic sensors and air pollution detector, for advanced ship inspection and data mining. The enhanced monitoring services our technology provides can result in 90% less damages for vessels. Able to prevent fire incidents through hot spot identification, our innovation can also reduce the human risk factor on a ships. Moreover, Upteko allows a 17% faster and safer harbor docking, early detection of pirate attacks (via visual data) and it constitutes a solid construction able to fly at winds of up to 70km/h. Upteko has attracted the attention of the world biggest shipping companies as DFDS, Maersk and DS Norden. With an extra investment of €1.55 million we aim to become the leading supplier and operator of drones for maritime applications.

Keywords: drone,offshore operations,maritime operations,vessel inspection
SEMI-DISPOSABLE INSULIN PATCH PUMP: THE BEST SOLUTION FOR DIABETES PATIENTS (DiAMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Diabetes is the second more frequent disease in the world with around 422 M cases and about 12% of global health expenditure. Many patients, mostly with type I diabetes, depend on insulin delivery to have a high-quality life and need comfortable, wearable, easy to use and cheap medical devices. In Europe, about 60 M people have diabetes and more than 71 M are estimated by 2040. Around 6 M Europeans have type I diabetes from which about 140.000 are children (the highest world prevalence), making it an European health prority.AMF develops, manufactures and sells microfluidics components for high performance applications. We aim to offering a new solution for insulin treatment for diabetes patients and we have developed a microfluidic technology to serve as a basis for our semi-disposable insulin patch-pump. The use of our intelligent, compact and cost-effective DiAMS will disrupt the field of insulin delivery and make it a safer, more reliable and more mobile for care in hospitals and at home solution. Our system is practically invisible, composed of a patch pump, a continuos glucose monitoring (CGM) and a management interface through a LiNK component that can be controlled through the smartphone. The business opportunities are tremendous because today only Insulet Corporation and Roche offer a product on the patch-pump market, which despite its moderate success have opened the door and let us strongly compete in it thanks to our partially disposable concept and the use if orefilled insulin cartridges. Our technology has many potential applications in drug delivery in the future. DiAMS takes into account the European challenges by making the insulin treatment easier, cheaper, more accurate and more comfortable to patients. In phase 1 we plan to build a detailed feasibility study and business plan to establish the needs for DiAMS commercialization. We estimate a €3.5M funding for phase 2 and potential profits of €59 M after 5 years.

Keywords: diabetes,insulin,pump,microfluidics,advanced microfluidics,drug delivery,patch pump
Ultralight and ultrasafe adaptable 3-wheeler (WEEVIL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EGVI (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Poland,Türkiye
Call: Electric two-wheelers and new ultra-light vehicle concepts (H2020-GV-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6293944.0
EU funding (EUR): 6293944.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

L category vehicles should answer the demands for less energy consumption and affordability and represent an attractive solution in congested cities with scarce parking space. WEEVIL aims to develop a new L category 3-wheeler that is quiet, clean, energy efficient and safe, as well as attractive to the public so that the barriers for adopting it are minimized. The new vehicle concept is an ultralight and ultrasafe adaptable 3-wheeler, with a composite structure using new manufacturing processes for an affordable introduction of these materials in new vehicles. Modularity of elements (including battery packs), system integration and innovative vehicle architecture is considered in the vehicle design. The vehicle has a wheel width varying mechanism in order to allow adaptation to different speeds (wider at high speeds for stability, narrower at low speeds for space optimization and parking). WEEVIL will provide a new electric vehicle concept with innovative design to allow the user to adapt the vehicle to higher speeds or lower speeds and/or parking. Its characteristics will be lightness and safety, with a strong use of composite materials through new and affordable processing methods. A new drive-train with improved energy efficiency will be incorporated, as well as new solutions on system integration such as modular battery packs. WEEVIL solution will break the barriers for extended EV adoption in urban areas, i.e. vehicle capabilities and cost trade-off. A car-like comfort and driving experience in a reduced space (2-3 wheeler vehicle) is pursued. By providing a feasible concept adapted to the users’ expectations, the European EV car pool would be significantly enlarged, providing the pursued benefits on air quality, noise and environmental protection and also bringing traffic congestion reductions and a potential dominance of the European industry in this market.

Keywords: electric vehicle,ultralight vehicle,ultrasafe vehicle,battery management,motor efficiency