Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative learning platform for knowledge integration in Energy Retrofit (C-mapER)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-18
End date: 2019-09-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal revolves around two specific questions: 1) to what extent multidisciplinary strategies to improve energy performance of existing buildings and neighbourhoods can be integrated; and 2) how this integration can bring technology and sustainable redevelopment of existing buildings together. It aims to develop an innovative learning platform for Knowledge Integration in Energy Retrofit (C-mapER) to develop the skills to manage complexity inherent in retrofit projects. An alternative method and an associated platform to evaluate and manage complexity, through a novel application of meaningful learning activities in designing technological solutions for energy retrofit, is the main vehicle.The objectives are to: 1) develop a conceptual framework of the key concepts and relationships that influence Energy Retrofit projects in workpackage 1 (WP1), 2) develop the beta version of the platform (WP2); and 3) test, refine, verify and disseminate the platform (WP3).The ultimate goal is to revolutionalise the traditional approach to educating future professionals, which is currently based on rote learning. This study will deliver an innovative learning platform and approach to develop practitioners who are well-placed to improve the energy performance of existing buildings through inter-disciplinary collaboration. The platform will address the lack of programs dedicated to interdisciplinary education, which helps develop the capacity to transfer information and knowledge between disciplinary boundaries and to deal with the tensions between social, economic, environmental and technological dimensions of sustainability. The outputs can be exploited at different levels within higher education sectors and professional development. By doing so, and in accordance with the main topic of the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Action, new opportunities for developing the candidate’s career at the international level are created. It is anticipated that this Fellowship will create opportunities for inter-disciplinary teaching both within the host Faculty, across Oxford Brookes University, and beyond. It therefore has the potential to become a showcase exemplifying how research and teaching can be inter-linked.

Keywords: design education,integrated project,existing building stock,energy performance,information processing,cognitive approach,meaningful learning activities,c mapping software
Planet Evaporation as a Window into Exoplanetary Origins (PEVAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1464320.0
EU funding (EUR): 1464320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Modern astronomy has truly entered the exoplanet era. Although our knowledge of what planet formation produces has grown immensely thanks to observational advances, our actual understanding of the physical processes that give rise to planets and planetary systems is limited. We now know most stars are unlike our own Sun, in that they host planets which orbit around their star with periods of months or shorter, yet many have volatile rich atmospheres. These planets must result from a dominant (if not the dominant) mode of planet formation, yet they were completely missing from our planet formation theories a decade ago. Planets which are close to their parent star are extremely vulnerable to mass-loss through evaporation, where UV/X-ray photons can heat their upper atmospheres to close to the escape temperature, causing them to lose-mass. Recently, I have played a leading role in showing that evaporation drives the evolution of the observed exoplanet population. Thus, the observed exoplanet population is not representative of the one at birth; to use it as a probe of planet formation we must understand evaporation. However, the evaporation of highly-irradiated planetary atmospheres is not well understood. This especially true for terrestrial planets where the atmospheres are dominated by heavy elements. My team will use a combination of theory, simulations and observations to build the first global and comprehensive models of exoplanet evaporation. In doing this, my team will use evaporation as a window into planet formation by answering the following key questions: 1 What are the mass-loss rates and evaporative flow structures for the full spectrum of observed planets? 2 How can we use observations of evaporating planets to learn about their compositions and histories? 3 How does evaporation affect and control the evolution of planets and their atmospheres? By understanding how exoplanets evaporate and evolve, my team will unveil the exoplanet population at birth.

Keywords: exoplanet evolution,exoplanet atmospheres
Nineteenth-Century Sociographic Journalism and the Formation of Ethnographic and Sociological Knowledge (DissectingSociety)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1477125.0
EU funding (EUR): 1477125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project enacts cutting-edge perspectives on the multigenre history of sociological and anthropological reasoning. It represents the first comprehensive study to investigate pieces of nineteenth-century sociographic journalism as formative frames/catalysts of social knowledge and science. These social sketches (often referred to as panoramic literature) provide rich ethnographic micro-analysis and often relate to debates held by statisticians, moralists, folklorists, and ethnologists. However, in the discipline-oriented histories of the social sciences and humanities, journalism has been ignored as a form of knowledge and as a founding genre of modern (disciplinary, academic) social science. By exploring the epistemic significance of sociographic journalism, the project promises to institute a cross-genre, transdisciplinary, and transnational historiography of the evolution of social knowledge and to revise mono-disciplinary and Eurocentric tales of the past and present. The project has five kinds of outcome: a series of essays, a conference, a public exhibition, a volume, and two monographs. The corpus comprises social sketches and examples of related knowledge frames (travel accounts, philanthropic reports, caricatures etc.) from Western Europe, the German-speaking countries, and (post-)colonial Latin America. The project develops an innovative mix of anthropological/historiographical approaches to examine (1) the representational techniques of sociographic journalism (e.g., methods of constructing social types, the influence of scientific paradigms); (2) how it connects with epistemic developments (e.g., towards materialist and historicizing conceptions of society); (3) its embeddedness in socio-spatial settings and its relations to academic, artistic, and governmental projects; and (4) how the journalistic sketches are to be situated against processes of urbanization, cultural transfer, nation-building, and the institutionalization of academic disciplines.

Keywords: history of anthropological thought,history of the humanities and the social sciences,media cultures
FEEDBACK IN TEAM COMPETITIONS (FeedbackTeamContest)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-07-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157845.6
EU funding (EUR): 157845.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Although the effect of feedback on performance in individual competitions is analyzed both theoretically and experimentally, there are only few studies analyzing the effect of feedback on team performance in team competitions. The purpose of this research project is to understand the role of feedback in team competitions in various environments. There will be two parts in the project. In the first part, the effect of feedback on performance in individual and team competitions will be compared (both endogenously and exogenously formed teams will be considered). In this part, there will be just one task and team performance will be the sum of team members’ efforts. In the second part of the project, the effect of feedback will be analyzed in an environment where two complementary tasks will be assigned to team members. In this case, the amount of complementarity will be the free parameter and how agents choose their teammates (endogenously or exogenously) will be varied. Both projects will be experimental studies. In addition to the significant contribution to the literature, the project plans to contribute to workplace-innovation policy of Europe, which aims at “… improving staff motivation, thereby enhancing labor productivity, organizational performance, innovation capability, and consequently business competitiveness”. The project will contribute to this objective by finding out the most stimulating tournament environment for workers.

Keywords: experimental economics,contests,comparative advantage,team formation
MULTISCALE MODELLING FOR FUSION AND FISSION MATERIALS (M4F)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Fission/fusion cross-cutting actions
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,Italy,Spain,Türkiye,Finland,Sweden,Switzerland,Belgium,Croatia,Poland,France,France,France,Czechia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Fission/fusion cross-cutting research in the area of multi-scale materials modelling (NFRP-2016-2017-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6524695.88
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of M4F project is to bring together the fusion and fission materials communities working on the prediction of microstructural-induced irradiation damage and deformation mechanisms of irradiated ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels. M4F project is a multidisciplinary one, were both modeling and experiments at different scales will be integrated to foster the understanding of complex phenomena associated to the formation and evolution of irradiation induced defects and their role on the deformation behavior. In addition, an attempt to reduce the gap between the materials science activities as model and experiments, and the needed inputs on design codes will be included
Expertise hub for a market uptake of energy-efficient supermarkets by awareness raising, knowledge transfer and pre-preparation of an EU Ecolabel (SuperSmart)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Market uptake of energy innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Sweden,North Macedonia,Belgium,Norway,France
Call: Removing market barriers to the uptake of efficient heating and cooling solutions (H2020-EE-2015-3-MarketUptake, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1467907.5
EU funding (EUR): 1467907.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Supermarkets comprise various technical disciplines: buildings, heating-, cooling- and ventilations systems. Over one million supermarkets across Europe require ca. 4% of the total electricity. New integrated technologies for more efficient supermarkets are now available and efficiency improvements up to 30% have already been demonstrated. These heating and cooling technologies offer in the mid-term both environmental and economic benefits. The uptake of such efficient solutions is mainly hindered by non-technological market barriers. SuperSmart tackles different barrier categories, both short-term (awareness and knowledge) and long-term (organizational, political, social), even though an immediate impact on the sector will be expected to come already from the removal of the short-term hindrances. The purpose of the SuperSmart hub is to establish a knowledge transfer and promotion platform devoted to the supermarket sector to educate/train and crosslink stakeholders of various backgrounds in such a way that the uptake of energy-efficient heating and cooling solutions is made possible. Specific objectives pursued by the hub for the supermarket sector contain: - Reduce the environmental impact and primary energy demand - Support the introduction of a new EU Ecolabel for Supermarkets - Determine and remove challenges hindering the implementation of eco-energy supermarkets - Raise the expertise level of the different decision makers (non –technical and tech. staff) related to energy usage of equipment and the benefit of integrated systems. Encourage to supply energy (heating&cooling) to nearby business units or local grids. - Conduct direct communication among R&D organizations, suppliers, end users and governmental bodies on potential legislative initiatives Active participation at 10 conferences & fairs and 5 dedicated workshops will disseminate the information beside trainings, and the online end-user expert panels, manufacture panels and innovation panels.

Keywords: energy efficient supermarkets,knowledge exchange,training,interaction of stakeholders
Be My Eyes - The mobile platform that allows sighted people to lend their eyes to the blind and visually impaired (BEMYEYES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In spite of being a minority, there are 36 million blind and 217 million visually impaired people in the world, with 25 million living within the EU. To them, trivial, but important things most people do not pay attention to, such as looking into the expiration date from food, read the allergen information on a food label or getting a can of coconut milk from the pantry, are daunting tasks. However, these discouraging moments follow a recognizable pattern within their everyday life. Hans Jørgen Wiberg, the inventor of Be My Eyes (and visually impaired himself), recognized this thanks to his work at “The Danish Association of the Blind”. In January 2015, the start-up BME IVS launched Be My Eyes, the largest cost-free crowdsource mobile platform, especially designed for the blind and visually impaired, lending them a “pair of eyes” when they need it. Through a live video connection, our 58,000 blind and visually impaired users can ask any of our 865,000 sighted volunteers for help to overcome their challenges, 24 hours a day in more than 130 languages. Now, we have decided to move to the next level and create Be My Eyes Enterprise, the first mobile platform where companies (our clients) provide visually-adapted customer service to their customers. By just pressing a button our platform connects the customer with specialized agents, who can solve any issue via live connection, screen sharing and screen control. We have already formal agreements with corporate clients such as Microsoft or Lloyds Bank, thus proving the viability from our business model. The global market of assistive technology is expected to grow at an annual CAGR of 6.9% until 2019. Hence, this is a growing market which lacks companies offering visually-adapted customer service. With Be My Eyes Enterprise, we want to seize this business opportunity, anticipating revenues of €11.7 million by 2024, whilst creating 30 new direct jobs within the company to satisfy our growth needs.
Accelerating Research Through Individualized Funding Intelligence (ARTIFI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-2020-02, 2020)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 145271.43
EU funding (EUR): 101690.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Researchers are under ever increasing pressure to compete for research funding. More and more time is spent on writing lengthy proposals with dwindling success rates. IDfuse is a Dutch SME that wants to help researchers identify specialised, less well known funding opportunities. In 2016, IDfuse has launched impacter.eu, a successful online tool that runs automated analyses on drafted grant applications, allowing academic researchers to strengthen their grant proposals. IDfuse envisions to go a step further in its service by providing researchers with alternative funding opportunities based on the reviewed proposal and the scientific profile of the researcher, thereby accelerating research through individualized funding intelligence (ARTIFI). The envisioned product should essentially consist of a machine learning engine that is able to actively learn from interacting with the individual researcher. Moreover, in order to be able to present researchers with opportunities that go beyond what they would typically think of, IDfuse envisions that the engine should be able to expand the researcher profile with insights that can be extracted from open source research materials, including abstracts and open access scientific publications. In order to fully explore the development of such learning algorithm, expertise in the field of artificial intelligence and active machine learning is required. IDfuse currently does not have this expertise in its R&D team and it has not been able to recruit an individual with such expertise. This is mostly due to the low availability of suitable candidates and the high salary packages that larger companies are able to offer them. EC funding for an Innovation Associate will enable IDfuse to offer prospective candidates a competitive employment contract that additionally includes a tailored training programme. With this, IDfuse is convinced that it will be able to attract a candidate with the expertise to successfully complete the project.

Keywords: academic research,funding,grants
Topologically Active Polymers (TAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499950.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499950.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Synthetic and biological polymers are everywhere, they make up a wide range of materials, from every-day plastics to living cell. The study of how polymers behave in solution is a well-established research field that allows the informed design of commercial products, from plastics to rocket propellant. Most of the polymers used in everyday applications have a fixed structure that cannot be changed in time and this assumption lies at the heart of classic polymer physics. In this project, I propose to shift this paradigm by considering polymers whose architecture can be modified in time via topological operations that cut and glue the polymers' backbone at the expense of energy. Polymers undergoing these operations can dynamically and selectively alter their architecture or topology and I thus name them "topologically active polymers" (TAPs). This project is inspired by the facts that the DNA in every living entity is constantly topologically altered in time to fulfil a range of basic functions (e.g. cell division) and that DNA is increasingly employed as a building block for responsive and multifunctional materials. I propose to computationally design and explore generic systems of TAPs and then experimentally realise them as solutions of DNA functionalised by special classes of ATP-consuming proteins. These active complex fluids are expected to display unconventional behaviours intimately linked to the accessible space of topologies, their dynamic morphology and non-equilibrium kinetics. For instance, they are expected to selectively respond to the concentration of certain proteins, e.g. Topoisomerase, that are enriched in cancer cells. Given the fundamental importance of polymer science and the ubiquity of topology-altering proteins in vivo, this exciting bottom-up project will not only open a new area of fundamental research with potential far-reaching applications but will also shed new light into the workings of certain vitally important classes of proteins.

Keywords: polymer physics,topology,microrheology,dna biophysics,active matter