Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Inquiries Into a Different Kind of Mind (AVIAN MIND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2226477.0
EU funding (EUR): 2226477.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mammals and birds evolved vastly different forebrains. While mammals have a cortex and can reach large brain weights, bird brains are very small and are constituted by seemingly homogeneous nuclear clusters. These glaring anatomical differences cast a dim prospect on avian cognition. However, the last years showed that several avian taxa are cognitively on par with apes and show abilities like planning, theory-of-mind, and mirror-self-recognition. How is that possible? Our inability to answer this question yet, shows that we still are far away from properly understanding the link between brain structure and cognitive functions in generic ways. To gain deeper insights into these issues, we should dare to study in depth non-standard model animals. I therefore propose to conduct a detailed neurocognitive analysis of executive cognition, memory, and consciousness in pigeons. I hypothesise that despite major macroscopic differences, the pallial cognitive network of birds is highly similar to that of mammals while their memory systems differ. To test this hypothesis, I will combine behavioural analyses, fMRI, single unit recording, and optogenetics to characterize the neural mechanisms of cognition, consciousness, and memory in pigeons. I aim to: 1) reveal the pallial network for the three executive functions: inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and working memory and will subsequently search for an avian equivalent of the default mode and executive network. 2) identify an avian pallial associative area for movement intentions. 3) examine if avian associative neurons code high dimensional event representations. 4) test if birds have evolved a non-spatial memory system that is independent of hippocampus. 5) and investigate if pigeons show signatures of consciousness akin to primates. These studies will serve a deeper understanding of the link between neural structure and cognition – a link that might be less bound to neuroanatomical specificities than hitherto assumed.

Keywords: evolution of cognition,comparative neuroscience,avian cognition,neuroanatomy,executive network,executive function s,motor function,default mode network,neural networks
Achieving world-class standards in all SHARE countries (SHARE-DEV3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Israel,Germany,Spain,France,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Individual implementation and operation of ESFRI projects (H2020-INFRADEV-1-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5493328.75
EU funding (EUR): 5493328.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The central objective of this project is to improve European coverage, stability and cross-national comparability of SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, while a sustainable funding model will be negotiated with the member states, DG RTD, DG JRC and several policy-related DGs to fully implement SHARE-ERIC in all SHARE countries. SHARE is a research infrastructure to better understand and cope with population ageing created after a joint communication by the European Council and the European Parliament to the European Commission. It has been a huge success measured by the number of users, the number of scientific publications and its public policy support. The data has world-class value as proven by the many users also outside of the EU, especially in the US. The key value of SHARE lies in its strict cross-national comparability which permits unbiased cross-national comparisons of the economic, health and social situation of European citizens aged 50 and over. To obtain this key value, SHARE aims to include all European countries, especially all EU member states. SHARE has made great progress during the first waves and has collected data in 21 countries. Moreover, substantial international coordination has to be done among these countries. To this end, SHARE has implemented an efficient and effective central management model. In contrast to this scientific and managerial success, the decentralized and member state-related funding is succeeding rather slowly in certain parts of the EU, for a host of structural reasons detailed below. This threatens the stability of SHARE, has stalled the inclusion of all EU member states, and is threatening its world-class standards. The project aims to enlarge SHARE-ERIC membership, enhance the technical architecture, introduce several scientific innovations, and support the central coordination which is crucial for the international cooperation and cross-national comparability.

Keywords: cross national comparability,population ageing,retirement,health,socio economic status,life course analysis,survey methodology
Opening a new window onto medieval glass trade and technology (WINDOWGLASSMED)

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: United States,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-10-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 271732.8
EU funding (EUR): 271732.8
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

This project will open a new window onto trade and contact in Early Medieval western Europe, applying multidisciplinary research methods to well-dated samples of glass to investigate its production, trade, and recycling from the 7th to the 10th centuries AD. Historical research at one of the leading centres for the study of the Early Medieval period will be paired with cutting-edge scientific analysis, allowing the first detailed mapping of the changing production technologies of glass in this period, the trade routes followed by different glass ‘recipes’, and the social and economic factors influencing practices such as recycling. While the chemical and isotopic analysis of glass is already used as a proxy for questions of trade and contact, the data currently available for this period are sporadic, with many samples coming from poorly-dated archaeological contexts. This is a vital period in the history of glass production, witnessing a major compositional transition from the use of natron to plant ashes in its manufacture, but the timing of this technological change – and its relationship with Early Medieval recycling practice – cannot be understood without better temporal resolution than is currently available. This project seeks to resolve these concerns by focusing upon closely-dated samples of glass from several western European countries (Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Spain), and by combining chemical analysis with archaeological and historiographical approaches. In tandem with the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilisations (DARMC), Harvard University, this project will be hosted by the glass research group at Newcastle University (led by Duckworth), which has a particular focus on analytical chemistry and the investigation of recycling, and its results will feed into broader understanding of the development of the European economy after the Roman period.

Keywords: glass medieval trade technology analysis western europe
Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework (SEO-DWARF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Greece,Greece,Switzerland,Bulgaria,Greece,France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1584000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1584000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Technological advances in remote sensing have increased the availability of satellite images with different spatiotemporal and spectral characteristics.There is difficulty for retrieving the most appropriate data for each user's needs.One key challenge is to connect the quantitative information of the EO images with the qualitative (high-level user queries) and be able to mine these connections in big archives.An inherent question arises; how to retrieve EO images based on user semantically aware questions.Content based EO image retrieval techniques have been introduced for bridging the gap between low-level image features and high-level queries.The main constraint of the existing approaches is the generalization of the problem.The formulated ontologies are not focused on the constraints of EO images.The main objective of SEO-DWARF is to realize the content-based search of EO images on an application specific basis.The marine application domain and data from Sentinels 1,2,3, ENVISAT will be used.Queries such as “Calculate the rate of increasing chlorophyll in the NATURA area” will be answered by the SEO-DWARF, helping users to retrieve the appropriate EO images for their specific needs or alert them when a specific phenomenon occurs.The research contains the:a) ontology formalization for the specific research topics,b) determination of the semantic queries for the application domains,c) algorithm development for extracting metadata from the EO images,d) design of an architecture of the platform to perform the semantic image retrieval and storage and management of the extracted metadata.All four aspects will be integrated in an innovative and user-friendly web based platform enabling the users to retrieve images for marine applications or register for a semantic alert.A strong and experienced research team, of 4 academic and 5 industrial partners, coming from Greece(3), Italy(2), Germany(1), France(1), Cyprus(1) and Switzerland(1) constitute the project’s consortium.

Keywords: copernicus,remote sensing,meta data,semantic information,ontologies
FACE: A real-time facial analysis software to improve the skincare e-commerce. (FACE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FACE is the first personal real-time facial analyser capable to generate personalised therapeutic strategies and wellbeing recommendations based on the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical expert algorithms. FACE software is a disruptive AI facial checker adapted to be used through any device (smartphone, tablet, computer) that solves different challenges.1) Improvement of user´s experience and confidence in purchasing healthcare and wellbeing products through the different selling channels, including online e-commerce platforms, and onsite specialized physical stores . 2) Generation of objective real time information about all the skin issues needed by pharmaceutical companies to develop customized skincare products to cover all the user needs for any circumstance. 3) Development of massive skincare trends analyses through the information stored in the cloud, in order to help skincare product companies in having an objective and updated market vision to define their future strategies. Market size: The global healthcare market focused in the facial skincare is now estimated to be worth some $10tn (£7.7tn; €8.9tn). 15% of global healthcare spending will be tied in some form with Value/outcome-based care concepts focused in an increase of the market information and in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for healthcare IT Application that will cross $1.7 billion by 2019. Users/Clients: End user will be all those citizens that will be interested in both wellbeing and purchasing cosmetics. Our Customers will be: 1) All those e-commerce platforms and pharmacies/parapharmacies interested in digital transformation dedicated to skincare products in their portfolio (B2B). 2) skincare pharmaceutical companies interested in market analysis and/or real-time information to develop tailored cosmetics (B2B). Business Model & Commercialisation: FACE software revenues will come from pay-per-use model and from skincare trends massive analysis reports.
AUTOmated Manufacturing of wound components for next generation Electrical mAchines (AUTO-MEA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call: Flexible and Automated Manufacturing of wound components for high reliability (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1095030.0
EU funding (EUR): 1095030.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Power density and efficiency are a central concern in all industrial sectors. For this reason, the arrival on the market of new power devices based on wide bandgap (SiC and GaN) semiconductors, with extremely short switching times, has raised a relevant interest. Higher switching frequency enables higher fundamental operating frequencies of electrical machines, leading to smaller and lighter motors, generators and passive magnetic components. Aerospace industry is one of the main areas which can benefit of these advantages. However, to fully exploit these new opportunities, a number challenges need to be addressed. In fact, as higher operating frequencies contribute to improve power density of electrical machines, they also reflect on increased power losses in windings, as well as faster devices commutations are known to trigger faster degradation of coil insulation and cause greater susceptibility to EMI. Windings are currently a main bottle-neck for improved performance. To cope with the desire of operating at high fundamental frequencies (>1kHz), coils are often required to be multi-stranded with small cross-sectional areas or litz-wire to reduce power losses and with appropriate insulation to withstand the fast switching edges. This in turn tends to lead to poor overall fill factors, large end windings, higher composite coil thermal resistance, higher losses and higher likelihood of winding failure. Aerospace electromagnetic components require alternative coil winding manufacturing processes, which can deliver compact windings with high dimensional tolerances, high space fill factor and low losses. The scope of AUTO-MEA is to develop novel methodologies and deliver an innovative and flexible coil fabrication system, which can provide programmable 3D formed coil shapes suitable for high frequency operation, effective coil insertion and automated welding strategies to form a complete winding system for aerospace wound components.

Keywords: high power and torque density electrical machines,wide bandgap devices,reliability,insulation degradation,high frequency electrical machines,fill factor,ac losses,automated manufacturing
Apertus° eXtendable Integrated Open Modular Cinema Camera (AXIOM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content, cultural and creative industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Poland
Call: Support the growth of ICT innovative Creative Industries SMEs (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-15
End date: 2016-06-14
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1224375.0
EU funding (EUR): 991687.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

AXIOM introduces the first professional, extendable, affordable and modular cinema camera platform based on Free Software, Open Design, Open Hardware, transparent development processes and extensive documentation. The project establishes an ecosystem that offers a sustainable basis for a broad spectrum of audiovisual applications and empowers enthusiasts, videographers as well as developers in the technology and creative industry sectors. AXIOM is not meant to be just one fixed product but rather an open platform stimulating the collaboration of the creative industry with a viable ecosystem for innovative (value-added) products and services. The project aims to show a best-practice example in European Open Hardware development and documentation. There is no comparable product on the market yet. AXIOM targets the demand for emerging technologies in the creative industry and imaging sectors (eg. cinema, broadcast, science or medical use): high-resolution (4K), high frame-rate (HFR), global shutter, open design (Open Hardware, FLOSS), modular system, using only open standards. AXIOM is a project of ground-breaking nature. We are expecting the project to be a best-practice-example, with very high potential to disrupt the creative industries in the imaging and video sectors. AXIOM is: -) a system between industrial and high end digital cinema camera, for a fraction of the price -) highly modular: customizable (software, hardware, FPGA) -) using open standards exclusively The proposed action includes prototyping, testing, demonstrating and piloting the AXIOM Open Integrated Modular Cinema Camera dubbed "AXIOM Gamma". AXIOM will be presented at the international M.I.T. Open Hardware Summit 2015, research data and results will be released under a free licence.

Keywords: cinema,camera,platform,video,photography,imaging,ecosystem,open hardware,free software,floss,creative industry
Design and development of advanced NAnomedicines to overcome Biological BArriers and to treat severe diseases (NABBA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Hungary,Hungary,France,Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2851274.54
EU funding (EUR): 2851274.54
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Many therapeutic targets are shielded behind biological barriers, limiting the possibility to reach them with conventional drugs or diagnostic probes. Biological barriers are even more problematic for most biological pharmaceutics, such as recombinant proteins, antibodies and gene therapeutics. The most promising solution to this challenge is the use of nano-vehicles for specific targeting and delivery. The aim of NABBA is to form European early stage researchers (ESR) with cutting-edge scientific knowledge in the field of nanoparticles (NP) for biomedical application, able to cross biological barriers. For this aim the project will train ESRs, focusing on key aspects of nanobiotechnology: (i) design and chemical synthesis of different types of NPs, (ii) related techniques of detection and characterization, (iii) strategies of loading, targeting and delivery of drugs or diagnostic probes; (iv) proof of principle of pharmacological activity including pharmacokinetics and biodistribution. As a peculiar feature of NABBA, strong emphasis will be devoted to molecular mechanisms ruling biological barriers under physiological and pathological conditions, in order to develop novel nano-technological expedients for their crossing. Strong emphasis will be devoted to advanced chemistry issues, enabling new synthetic strategies either for NP assembly or functionalization. Different biological barriers will be addressed. ESRs will strongly benefit from a network of internationally recognized scientists in the field of chemistry, nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine, and the participation of companies with relevant interests and expertises in the field. The planned cooperation programs between Academia and Industries will allow the circulation of ESRs and this will give them the opportunity for to get acquainted with the most advanced research in the field, the most sophisticated technologies and the most advanced Industrial manufacturing platforms and innovative strategies.

Keywords: nanoparticles,drug delivery,drug targeting,biological barriers
Innovative pre-fabricated components including different waste construction materials reducing building energy and minimising environmental impacts (InnoWEE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low environmental impact
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Romania,Greece,Slovenia,Greece,Poland,Romania
Call: New technologies and strategies for the development of pre-fabricated elements through the reuse and recycling of construction materials and structures (H2020-EEB-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3361000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3361000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The basic idea is to embed the waste from building demolition (fragmented bricks, fragmented plaster or concrete, fragmented glasses, machined wood from windows frame or from wood beams after demolition etc.) in a geopolymer matrix to produce prefabricated panels for different use. The main objective of InnoWEE is in fact the development of an optimized reuse of Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) materials producing high add value prefabricated insulating and radiating panels to be used in energy efficient buildings. The proposal is based on: 1) Recovery, selection and disassembling of CDW that will be characterized and eventually treated to yield suitable raw materials to be used for production of prefabricated components. 2) Development of new high performance prefabricated insulating geopolymeric panels for building walls envelopes and radiating panels for indoor wall and ceilings with low environmental impact, low embodied energy, low CO2 emissions, high thermal performance. Panels will be fabricated recycling cement, bricks, mortars, glass and wood reaching at least 30% of CDW. 3) To install the panels in demo sites characterized by different climate to evaluate their performance in terms of reducing energy use and minimizing environmental impacts. 4) To use an integrated design process and a holistic approach for the whole life cycle of the materials and components and produce a material that is cost effective, competitive, robust, reliable and low maintenance. 5) To create practical and sustainable building solutions that are easy to integrate into building designs, easy to install, take in consideration the needs of the stakeholders that strongly influence the market, and have been tested to meet all the current standards.

Keywords: construction and demolition waste,prefabricated panels,geopolymer,insulating panel,radiating panel