Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Closed Loop NeuroStimulation of Attention (CLONESA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-01-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is estimated that we spend up to 50% of our waking hours lost in thought and although mind-wandering (MW) has been associated with adaptive features of cognition such as creativity, it has also been linked with maladaptive patterns of thought that lead to states of reduced attention that can affect safety, learning and mental health. The level of intentionality with which MW is pursued has recently been identified as a key moderating factor between beneficial and detrimental consequences, and has been linked to the thickness of the prefrontal cortex as well as disorders of attention. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to this structure has been shown to modulate the underlying neurocognitive processes of executive control with the potential of correcting the trajectory of maladaptive patterns of activity and the promise to improve attention in health and disease. However, the potential of NIBS to restore and improve brain functions has been challenged by the inter- and intraindividual variability in the response to neurostimulation. CLONESA seeks to identify the individual neurocognitive markers of attention and optimal neurostimulation parameters for the development of a “closed-loop” system able to assess and modulate neural patterns of activity in real time for prospective use in a plug n’ play device for precision medicine. These patterns will be detected with EEG-based neuroadaptive systems (NAS) during tests of sustained attention and the optimal alpha-tACS parameters will be identified with Bayesian optimization. Lastly, the findings will be implemented and tested on a large scale with a commercial closed-loop neurostimulation device for a rapid translation of neuroscientific research to personalized interventions towards cognitive enhancement and treatment of attentional disorders. The present action will pioneer the intersection of NAS, NIBS and translational research for the benefit of healthy and clinical populations.

Keywords: mind wandering,vigilant attention,executive control,transcranial current stimulation,closed loop systems,electroencephalography,alpha oscillations,prefrontal cortex
Accurate irrigation controller with multi-sensoring and interactive cloud-based platform to evaluate real plant needs and save up to 80% of water (RAINOLVE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain,Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1954321.25
EU funding (EUR): 1368024.88
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Irrigation of private lawns is becoming more and more an economic burden for owners and a source of environmental concern for the society due to the high-water consumption it entails. In Europe we are using almost 380 m3 of water spending an average of 728 € per year for a garden of 500 m2 (a small garden of just 10x50 m) whose real needs would be 210 m3 for 405 €. If we consider the number of households with a garden requiring irrigation (we estimated more than 1,5 M in our target market), the water need is hugely impacting from both economic and environmental point of views. Under this context, Precision Irrigation such our irrigation controller is the only option. This growing technology which optimizes the usage of water is expected to expand its market share by 13% from 2016 to 2023. RAINOLVE is the fruit of a collaboration between RAIN, an Italian engineering and manufacture leader in irrigation products; and INOLVE, a Spanish SME specialized in software, for the development of an accurate irrigation controller. RAINOLVE is a multi-sensor coupled with intelligent cloud-based platform with vast botanical and agronomical database to calculate and check the exact plant water, fertilizer and light needs in function of each site conditions. RAINOLVE will provide a highly accurate irrigation technology with low return over investment (less than 1 year) allowing savings up to 19,000€/ha/year: water (up to 80%), fertilizer (up to 40%). RAINOLVE technology stands in a TRL7, with a real scale prototype tested in different field sites. RAINOLVE project main objective is to optimize, test and validate the technology to take it to industrial production and successful commercialization. We estimate that RAINOLVE will be able to generate an annual revenue of 9 M EUR and 36 new job positions among RAIN and INOLVE, in addition to save 340 M m3 of water in Europe, accounting for almost 400 M EUR.

Keywords: irrigation,plant needs,water saving,irrigation technology,platform,efficiency,irrigation controller,precision irrigation
NEutron Capture-enhanced Treatment of neurotoxic Amyloid aggRegates (NECTAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Sweden,France
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3217278.76
EU funding (EUR): 3137562.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

NECTAR proposes an alternative and revolutionary strategy to address AD (Alzheimer’s Disease) treatment, suggesting and investigating a therapy based mainly on nuclear physics principles and phenomena, i.e. neutron capture nuclear reactions and structural damage of AD Aβ aggregates induced by ionizing radiations (IRs). AD is the most common cause of dementia. There is no cure and no new FDA medication has been approved since 2002. NECTAR aims to develop, test and prove the feasibility, safety and effectiveness of a Capture-Enhanced Neutron Irradiation of Aβ aggregates exploiting the synergy between an external beam of low energy neutrons which irradiate the whole brain and specifically engineered radiation enhancers capable of increasing the administered dose only in the Aβ aggregate site. NECTAR will develop: 1) biocompatible probes containing Gd/B-enriched molecules able to cross the BBB and target selectively the Aβ aggregates; 2) a detailed modelling, validate by innovative dosimetric measurements, of the secondary radiations set in motion at μm and nm scales and related to: (a) the different types of Aβ aggregates and to their radio-induced structural modifications which further relate to neurotoxicity and biological effects, (b) the macroscopic irradiation of the brain and the compatibility with its tolerance assuming a prolonged, highly fractionated low energy neutron irradiation protocol. NECTAR brings an interdisciplinary network of research teams from 7 academics: UNIPV (neutron irradiation), UNITO (probes preparation and testing), MNEGRI (AD mouse models), SU (cellular effects of IRs at low doses and low dose rates), IRSN (IRs metrology), UKESSEN (AD clinics), UKJ (clinical radiotherapy, including advanced particle radiotherapy) and an innovative start-up Raylab (n-spectrometry and miniaturised dosimeters). The positive completion of NECTAR would open the route for the application of IRs-based treatments to other forms of amyloidosis and proteinopathies

Keywords: alzheimer s disease,a aggregates,a ligands,hadrontherapy,neutron capture nuclear reaction,low energy neutron irradiation,high let radiation biological effects,sub cellular dosimetry
A Collaborative Platform to Unlock the Value of Next Generation Internet Experimentation (HUB4NGI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Poland,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Future Internet Experimentation - Building a European experimental Infrastructure (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1427065.0
EU funding (EUR): 999565.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the HU4NGI project is to bootstrap the current Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative and turn it into a dynamic, collaborative, and participatory innovation ecosystem capable of more effectively supporting and coordinating activities across the whole R&D landscape. The main idea is to build on top of the results and major achievements of ongoing Research and Innovation initiatives and projects, while giving a major impulse to the whole NGI community by providing an interactive framework that will assist the target stakeholders, including new comers and outside players in related domains, via a unique set of tools and mechanisms. The selected coordination and support tools and mechanisms will be at the core of the NGI ecosystem, which will offer and online collaboration environment to facilitate exchange and promotion of know-how, technical activities to be coordinated, strategic liaisons to be established and managed, performance and progress for the overall NGI initiative to be monitored and assessed.

Keywords: fire coordination and support activities,fire impact,fire strategy and vision,fire community engagement,collaborative platform
A New Strategy for Vibronic Spectroscopy of Radicals (RadSpec)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1687500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1687500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal aims to develop a novel strategy for high resolution vibronic spectroscopy of radicals, with unprecedented sensitivity, specificity, and applicability. The proposed scheme will provide answers to longstanding quantum mechanical questions about non-adiabatic dynamics, and, in combination with a unique, recently developed transparent microreactor source of reactive molecules, enable the pursuit of unknown reactive intermediates. Radicals and transient reactive intermediates are centrally important to chemistry but notoriously difficult to study. The proposer has recently led several successful experimental and theoretical efforts directed at molecules and transition states thought to be extremely difficult if not impossible to characterize. Here we propose to launch a revolutionary approach to spectroscopy of these important species, exploiting a key insight into dissociation dynamics on top of elements of state of the art laser spectroscopy techniques in the infrared, ultraviolet, and vacuum ultraviolet to forge a new universal method. It possesses the high sensitivity and mass selectivity of ion detection, while simultaneously being multidimensional and fully rovibronic in scope to extract the maximum possible information about coupled nuclear and electronic dynamics. We anticipate that this advance will also be of great interest and utility to a broad swath of researchers in related fields, such as combustion, atmospheric chemistry, and surface science, who require the ability to track rare but reactive species. The nitrate and cyclopentadienyl radicals will initially be targeted as particularly important examples, and we also plan to hunt for as yet unobserved reactive intermediates using our new spectroscopic scheme alongside the flexibility of our molecular source to rationally explore chemical phase space.

Keywords: vibronic spectroscopy,radicals,reactive intermediates
POLlution Know-how and Abatement (POLKA)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,India,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4022674.92
EU funding (EUR): 4022674.92
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Combustion of hydrogen from renewable sources is an emerging technology that can replace fossil fuels and so provide carbon-neutral energy. The goal of POLKA is to solve serious technical problems, which are unique to hydrogen combustion: thermoacoustic instabilities and flashback. Thermoacoustic instabilities are large-amplitude pressure oscillations caused by an escalating interaction between the flame and acoustic waves; they tend to occur unexpectedly and cause major hardware damage. Flashback is the dangerous phenomenon of the flame propagating backwards into components not designed for high temperatures. The ultimate vision of POLKA is to create new physical insight and advanced simulation tools, so as to underpin the development of hydrogen-fuelled combustion systems (gas turbines, aero-engines, boilers furnaces, etc). The methods to be used are a combination of experiments, numerical simulations and analytical techniques. Experimental validation of numerical and analytical results is a high priority. POLKA will train a cohort of 15 ESRs, each enrolled in a 3-year doctoral programme. The research project is divided into 15 interlinked sub-projects, each forming an individual PhD project for an ESR. The ESRs will be equipped with a wide portfolio of skills, including traditional academic research, and also transferable skills in outreach and gender issues. This will be supplemented by a unique integrated training programme in innovation, exploitation and entrepreneurship. Secondments are an important part of the training programme. The ESRs will develop an innovation-oriented mind-set and have excellent career perspectives in the renewable energy sector. The POLKA website will feature an extensive range of open-access training resources, which will be maintained beyond the formal end of the project. POLKA has a balanced consortium, both in terms of gender (5 female and 6 male main supervisors), and in terms of sector (6 academic and 4 industrial beneficiaries)

Keywords: gender balanced network hydrogen combustion thermoacoustic instability flame flashback gas turbine boiler decarbonisation
Advanced laser ablation barrier films for organic and large area electronic devices (ALABO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: A new generation of components and systems: Engineering of advanced embedded and energy and resource efficient components and systems
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Poland,France,Netherlands
Call: Advanced Thin, Organic and Large Area Electronics (TOLAE) technologies (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3937270.0
EU funding (EUR): 3937270.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of this project is developing organic electronic building elements on flexible substrates with monolithically integrated barrier foils as substrate. The barrier acts as the inevitable protection against atmospheric gases as water vapor and oxygen, as the most crucial agents for unwanted material degradation processes. This topic is one of the keys for enhancing both the performance of TOLAE components and addresses some of the main technology barriers of TOLAE: lifetime and cost-performance-ratio. Organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules have been chosen as test objects for a scalable and general approach suitable also for other TOLAE devices. Monolithical integration of barrier foils means in this case that the full device is made immediately on top of ultra-barrier coated plastic foil, which further is coated with a transparent electrode. This leads to significant cost reduction, which is one of the key needs for wider use of TOLAE devices. The project ALABO develops direct laser scribing processes on flexible substrates, coated with ultra-barrier systems. The project results will be applicable to a number of TOLAE technologies, such as OPV, OLED, OTFT and thin-film inorganic PV on polymer foil substrates. The consortium will investigate and develop new manufacturing processes, which will increase the performance and functionality of TOLAE devices suitable for smart systems. OPV can be part of such smart TOLAE systems. By developing direct laser structuring on top of such ultra-barrier foil, the consortium develops advanced materials, as well as new production technologies supported by dedicated monitoring and material testing technologies for well-scalable manufacturing processes. As an outcome, more functionality will be integrated into less material, since in - contrast to state-of-the-art encapsulation processes - the devices will need only one foil per side, instead of at least two today.

Keywords: flexible opv,laser structuring,barrier meausrement,integrated processing,r2r manafacturing
Deep Understanding of Patient Experience of Healthcare from Social Media (DeepPatient)

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,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed multidisciplinary project aims to develop an automated tool to process large-scale social media data in order to understand patient feedback and provide a decision support dashboard for healthcare professionals and senior decision-makers to allow for timely responses to address patients' concerns. In particular, it will extract information relating to patient feedback and experience, automatically map the extracted opinions into various aspects of healthcare services, discover connections between elements that result in a perception of low and high quality of service and present results in a visual dashboard to facilitate timely interventions. The project requires expertise in text mining, statistical modelling, visual analytics and healthcare research. The Systems Analytics Research Institute (SARI) at Aston University will provide a suite of scientific training in Bayesian model learning and information visualisation. Additionally, the Fellow will be trained to improve his soft-skills such as foreground intellectual property (IP) protection, communication skills, financial and management skills. On the other hand, the research team will benefit from the Fellow’s strong experience in deep learning for sentiment analysis, acquired during his PhD. The Fellow will benefit from a tightly knit and extremely complementary team of academic and clinical advisors. This project will be directed by Dr. Yulan He with complementary interaction with Dr. Dan Cornford, both from SARI. Additionally, it will be carried out in collaboration with Research and Development department of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT), under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Chaplin, expert in patient experience analysis. Dr. Chaplin will take an active role in training the Fellow in their relevant user studies.

Keywords: patient experience,bayesian modeling,deep learning,topic modeling
The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870 (FMSystem)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499853.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499853.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FMSystem transforms the conventional narrative of the violent rise of the European states system by revealing how belligerent competition also involved cooperation. States were not autarkic actors. Their emergence was co-dependent and entailed developing ways to obtain war-making resources from beyond their jurisdictions. This project adds a new conceptual framework to understand this process and broadens the research focus to include the role of non-state actors in minor as well as major countries. It will identify the variety of war-making resources and assess how far their availability was dependent on accessing external expertise and sources of supply. The standard historical perspective will be decentred by shifting the analytical focus away from sovereign states and their political capitals, and instead towards urban ‘fiscal-military hubs’ functioning as centres of expertise, resource accumulation and production. Achieving these objectives will produce the first holistic study of the rise of the European states system, and of the relation between war and political development across the crucial phase between about 1530 and 1870. It will reveal the extent to which this process was doubly transnational, involving (i) transactions conducted through external hubs leading to (ii) the exchange of resources between states and non-state actors across political frontiers. Further, it will gauge the importance of this Fiscal-Military System to both the growing scale of warfare and the emergence of the modern sovereign state as defining the global political order. A team of researchers, closely coordinated by the PI and counselled by an international scholarly board, will examine the system through six key hubs across Europe. The research will produce a major monograph, a conference and volume engaging with global history and non-European scholarship, and a number of ground-breaking studies on regional and thematic aspects of the project.

Keywords: transnational,european,fiscal military,sovereign states system,warfare,economics