Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Ancient Philosophy and the Emergence of European Thought: Phenomenology in Conversation with Classical Studies (Phenclass)

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: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Phenomenological thinkers (most notably E. Husserl, M. Heidegger, J. Patočka, and J. Derrida) outlined influential philosophical perspectives on the ancient roots of European thought. The action’s aim is to provide a critical reassessment of those perspectives by developing an extensive comparative analysis between them and research done by prominent classicists, in particular W. Jaeger, B. Snell, J.-P. Vernant, G.E.R. Lloyd, and M. West. This comparative approach will take the following questions as reference framework: (1) How did ancient thought shape European identity? (2) How did the Greek roots of European thought interact with other sources of European culture? (3) Is there a connection between the much-debated crisis of Europe and the ancient roots of European culture? (4) Does the retrieval of the ancient roots of European culture play a role for the future of Europe? This design of the planned action implies five major innovations. (i) It is the first attempt to provide an extensive comparison between phenomenology and classical studies with a view to their respective readings of ancient thought. (ii) It is the first extensive attempt to discuss questions related to the ancient sources of European identity by addressing fascinating interdisciplinary intersections between phenomenology and classical studies. (iii) It is the first extensive attempt to challenge phenomenological readings of ancient thought by assessing them from an external viewpoint. (iv) It is the first extensive attempt to approach phenomenological conceptions of the ancient roots of Europe by avoiding a merely author-oriented approach and using a theme-oriented analysis. (v) Finally, the planned action is a concrete example of how contemporary societal, political, and cultural challenges, such as the question of European identity, can be approached by using academic scholarship, in this case two disciplines such as philosophy and classical studies.

Keywords: phenomenology,ancient philosophy,classical studies,european thought
EGNSS Hull-to-Hull (H2H)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Norway,Netherlands
Call: EGNSS Transport applications (H2020-GALILEO-GSA-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999117.5
EU funding (EUR): 2489382.25
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the proposal is to address the need of the maritime community to safely navigate in close proximity of other vessels and objects, being stationary or moving. This will assist mariners in making correct navigation decisions. And further, this will be a fundamental requirement for autonomous vessels. To achieve this EGNOS and GALILEO is taken into use to measure position of the vessel. However, these systems in the most basic form provides the position of the GNSS antenna, whereas the mariner needs to know the location of the vessel’s hull relative to other vessels or objects in the area of operation. For efficient and safe operations, the location information must be provided with high precision and high integrity.

Keywords: safe navigation,hull to hull,high precision,high integrity
Scientific and Technological Excellence by Leveraging LOFAR Advancements in Radio Astronomy (STELLAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Bulgaria,Netherlands
Call: Twinning (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5, 2020)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 899878.75
EU funding (EUR): 899877.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The Institute of Astronomy with National Astronomical Observatory (IANAO) is the premier institute of astrophysics in Bulgaria, operating the National Astronomical Observatory, and the only one in Bulgaria engaged in radio astronomy (RA) and space weather (SW) research. It has recently taken a strategic decision to significantly expand its RA scientific arm, and to work towards adopting world-class radio observing capabilities. To this end, it has begun a collaboration with the Technical University of Sofia’s (TUS) Faculty of Telecommunications, a local expert institution with strong capabilities in phased antenna array communications. ASTRON is a world-class centre of RA science and technological development. DIAS is a world-leader in advanced astronomical studies and SW research. ASTRON and DIAS recognize the importance of a partnership with the IANAO for expanding the network of the advanced European distributed telescope LOFAR, as well as for enhancing its RA and space weather capabilities. The proposed “Scientific and Technological Excellence by Leveraging LOFAR Advancements in Radio astronomy” (STELLAR) project will address the goals of all four partners by significantly increasing the LOFAR technical and scientific expertise at TUS and IANAO. It will allow IANAO and TUS to develop and strengthen collaborations with ASTRON and DIAS. STELLAR is a major step towards the realization, utilization, and further development of a LOFAR station in Bulgaria. STELLAR will achieve its objectives through carefully planned trainings for IANAO and TUS staff at ASTRON and DIAS, including lectures, workshops, summer schools, and research staff exchanges. STELLAR will have a multiplicative effect for the Bulgarian astronomical and geophysical community as a whole through the development of RA, SW, and radio technology training curricula for Bulgarian scientists and engineers, thus ensuring a sustainable effect of the project.

Keywords: radio astronomy,lofar,big data analysis,interferometry,radio frequency technology,phased array digital signal processing,space weather,training,staff exchange,summer schools
Continuous structural condition tank integrity monitoring of Above Ground Storage Tanks, aka “SafeAST, no entry: no empty.” (SafeAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Türkiye,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2827141.25
EU funding (EUR): 2201214.5
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of this action is to assist the €2.8bn European and global liquid storage and distribution industry in reducing the costs involved in ensuring that leaks do not occur from 500,000 above ground storage tanks (ASTs), thus avoiding avoid damage to the environment and the loss of revenue from the unscheduled outages of leaking tanks, currently estimated at €132m. At its core is the exploitation of Plant Integrity’s proven non-invasive storage tank floor monitoring technology capable of detecting defects as small as 25mm. Plant Integrity’s SafeAST system provides continuous structural condition monitoring of ASTs, detecting any corrosion hotspots in the internal tank floor without the need to empty the tank and manually inspect the welds. Plant Integrity provides this continuous monitoring by integrating its long range ultrasonic testing (LRUT) with sophisticated sensors and systems in order to detect defects in the annular ring and bottom plates. The principal aim of this action is to provide final pre-launch confirmation of performance data to demonstrate the capability of SafeAST in detecting time-dependent degradation of the AST tank floor. The secondary aim is to provide a package of comprehensive launch material (including validated Technical Reports, supportive marketing material, final hardware specification and software sign-off) to aid a successful launch. The five-strong SafeAST consortium comprises the Tüpras oil and gas company which operates tank farms, research and academic organisations, plus client-facing industrial product development consultancies. Its Vision is to create a highly profitable, sustainable company (cash positive in 2 years, turnover €24m in four years) capable of delivering both hardware and services worth €80k pa to the AST condition monitoring sector (t/o €800m in Europe alone) and for its core technology to be recognised as the global primary on-line monitoring method in the world’s 7600 live plants.

Keywords: non destructive testing,above ground storage tanks,lrut,long range ultrasonic testing,corrosion,detection,defects,flaws,condition monitoring
Translating from Multiple Modalities into Text (TransModal)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1900777.5
EU funding (EUR): 1900777.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Recent years have witnessed the development of a wide range of computational methods that process and generate natural language text. Many of these have become familiar to mainstream computer users such as tools that retrieve documents matching a query, perform sentiment analysis, and translate between languages. Systems like Google Translate can instantly translate between any pair of over fifty human languages allowing users to read web content that wouldn't have otherwise been available. The accessibility of the web could be further enhanced with applications that translate within the same language, between different modalities, or different data formats. There are currently no standard tools for simplifying language, e.g., for low-literacy readers or second language learners. The web is rife with non-linguistic data (e.g., databases, images, source code) that cannot be searched since most retrieval tools operate over textual data. In this project we maintain that in order to render electronic data more accessible to individuals and computers alike, new types of models need to be developed. Our proposal is to provide a unified framework for translating from comparable corpora, i.e., collections consisting of data in the same or different modalities that address the same topic without being direct translations of each other. We will develop general and scalable models that can solve different translation tasks and learn the necessary intermediate representations of the units involved in an unsupervised manner without extensive feature engineering. Thanks to recent advances in deep learning, we will induce representations for different modalities, their interactions, and correspondence to natural language. Beyond addressing a fundamental aspect of the translation problem, the proposed research will lead to novel internet-based applications that simplify and summarize text, produce documentation for source code, and meaningful descriptions for images.

Keywords: natural language processing
Reliable and specific urinary biomarkers for colorectal cancer (COLOVOC)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2023-04-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 257191.2
EU funding (EUR): 257191.2
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common neoplastic pathology in the developed world. It is the second in frequency in men after prostate cancer and the second in women after breast cancer. Survival at five years, if all stages are taken into account, is approximately 50%. That represents a mortality of 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants per year. The five-year survival of early stages, a situation almost equivalent to cure, is approximately 90%, whereas in advanced or metastatic stages it is less than 10%. Therefore, early diagnosis plays a central role in the improvement of survival rates. The main goal of this project is to find new ways to detect the cancer in the very early stages. To do so, the sample collection must be as simple, economic and convenient as possible. Only in this manner, regular screening approaching 100% of adult population will take place. The approach we propose is the identification and validation of new biomarkers in urine that can be used to diagnose colorectal cancer (CRC) at a very early stage. The central hypothesis is that CRC associated metabolites in the urine of patients can be segregated from patients with polyps (some of them precursors of CRC) and control subjects, and that their levels are correlated with clinical diagnostics of a CRC stage. Urine is an easy collectible biofluid for its non-invasiveness, and it can provide early detection of cancers. New sample measurement protocols and techniques are enhancing both selectivity and sensitivity by orders of magnitude, such as SPME and Twisters or GC/LC-MS systems (GCxGX/LC-QTOF-MS). The more sensitivity and selectivity, the more confindent diagnosis could be made at earlier stages of the cancerous process leading to a better survivability rate. Moreover, our proposal includes a multi-cohort, multi-laboratory validation of the findings, therefore ensuring that any discovery can readily be applied to any population and instrumentation around de world.

Keywords: colorectal cancer,metabolomics,biomarkers,urine volatiles,gcxgc ms,lc ms,cohort validation,instrumental bias,multivariate analysis,pattern recognition,open source software,diagnostics test
Trial Ready Small Vessel MRI Markers: Proof of Concept (SELMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149979.0
EU funding (EUR): 149979.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Problem: Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a hallmark of serious brain diseases such as acute stroke and dementia. It has a major impact on society, since it affects quality of life of many ageing individuals, and increasingly challenges the healthcare resources. Current image-based biomarkers do not reflect SVD itself, but rather macroscopic, irreversible brain damage, secondary to the abnormalities of the small vessels. This greatly hampers development of new drugs as clinical trials lack effective biomarkers directly reflecting SVD. Solution: The SmallVesselMRI ERC project (337333), yielded 7T MRI methods with the potential to offer a paradigm shift in SVD research. We have developed new MRI measures that, for the first time, allow non-invasive assessment of the condition of the small vessels themselves, including blood flow velocity pulsation in small perforating vessels, which informs on vessel stiffness. The current proof-of-concept project ‘trial-ready Small vEsseL MRI MArkers (SELMA) aims to make these novel promising vascular parameters ready for use in phase II/III clinical trials. Our ambition is to bridge the gap between high end imaging research platforms and widespread clinical MRI, in order to enable drug-target engagement studies in clinical trials for newly developed drugs. SELMA will: 1) Port the small-vessel 7T MRI pulse sequences to clinically ubiquitous 3T MRI scanners. 2) Develop a software tool that can provide robust, automated data analysis. 3) Determine the reproducibility of the SELMA biomarkers in a group of 35 healthy individuals with scan-rescan experiments. 4) Provide clinical proof of concept by a pilot study in 15 patients with SVD, measuring the vascular parameters before and after administration of a pharmaceutical agent. Using results of our proof of concept study, we will develop a business plan to approach the pharmaceutical industry to change the paradigm in drug development for SVD treatment.

Keywords: cerebral small vessel disease,biomarkers,drug target engagement
A Gendered International Law of Peace (GenderedPeace)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999705.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999705.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The ambitious aim of this cutting-edge project is to develop the theoretical foundations for a ‘gendered international law of peace’. In so doing, the project will critically engage with the UN Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, first set out in resolution 1325, 2000. By 2015, the Security Council had adopted seven further resolutions, which together provide a political agenda for change in international relations. Notwithstanding the body of research that has been generated over the 17 years, conceptual ambiguity, normative indeterminacy and conceptual knowledge gaps continue to limit the transformative potential of the WPS agenda. In addition, a lack of political commitment has perpetuated its marginalisation from other contemporary agendas and initiatives relating to sustainable peace. This project will address some of these knowledge gaps through engaging feminist methodologies to provide an enriched, and gender-sensitive reading of the international legal obligations of states, international governmental organisations and other non-state actors, and in so doing produce research of academic excellence. In developing an innovative conceptual framework for interrogating through a gender lens what is implicated by ‘peace’ and ‘security’, the research will disrupt current international legal orthodoxy in its scope and approach. Through four distinct but inter-linked streams of study, this project will develop a new understanding of the WPS agenda within the changed (and changing) geo-political context and so provide additional tools for furthering gender equality and women’s empowerment during and following conflict that will form the building blocks of a gendered international law of peace.
Ultrashort pulsed kW-class laser with unprecedented flexible GHz burst operation for high precision high-throughput industrial manufacturing (kW-flexiburst)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Switzerland,France,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Photonics based manufacturing, access to photonics, datacom photonics and connected lighting (H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5120078.75
EU funding (EUR): 5120078.75
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The next generation of material processing machines need to deliver higher precision, throughput and flexibility. Current ultrafast laser technology has demonstrated applicability for enabling high precision micromachining, but current throughput is not efficient enough for widescale industrial manufacturing and the parameters of existing lasers are not flexible enough to consistently work in the optimal conditions necessary to minimize heat-affected zone while using all of the available laser power. kW-flexiburst will develop a breakthrough laser technology using a new concept of <1 ps multi GHz seed oscillator operated in burst mode that will be amplified to 1 kW. This new oscillator can flexibly generate any burst shape, intra-burst number of pulses, at a quasi-arbitrary burst repetition rate and quasi-arbitrary intra-burst repetition rate within an unprecedented GHz range. The new range of intra-burst repetition rate, in the multi>GHz regime, will enable ultrahigh ablation rates. The flexibility offered in terms of pulse number (1 with high energy to >2000 with low energy) will also support flexible switching between optimal ablation and optimal ablation rate to achieve unprecedented laser micro-processing throughput. The ability to continuously modify the repetition rates is an ideal tool for industrial production as it enables precise adaptation of the local fluence to match optimal conditions where ablation efficiency is maximal, heat affected zone is minimal and surface finish is best. kW-flexiburst will demonstrate this concept in applications ranging from transparent materials cutting and drilling to metal surface texturing. Closed-loop monitoring and advanced synchronisation will enable parameter optimisation for temporal burst shaping and spatial beam shaping for highest productivity in micro-processing and large surface texturing. Safety issues regarding X-ray generation at kW class powers will also be thoroughly addressed.

Keywords: 1kw usp laser,3d micro structuring,micro drilling,ceramics,metal,glass,flexible repetition rate,pulse,burst on demand