Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
FLAVOURS OF FERMI SURFACE IN THE ABSENCE OF A CONVENTIONAL FERMI LIQUID (FermiSurfaceFlavours)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2127851.0
EU funding (EUR): 2127851.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum oscillations have revealed signature Fermi surfaces in a diverse range of materials families, with breakthrough advances made by a synthesis of theoretical modelling, experimental vision, materials preparation, and advances in measurement technique. Traditionally, the very observation of a Fermi surface has been taken to imply an underlying Fermi liquid. In this proposal, we seek to transcend this traditional paradigm in the field of correlated electron systems and define a new framework for the observation of quantum oscillations associated with a novel Fermi surface in the absence of a conventional Fermi liquid. Guided by a selection of theoretical proposals, we identify for study materials families starting from the more readily modellable correlated Mott insulators and Kondo insulators without the complication of mobile electrons. We progress to regions where mobile electrons are introduced – where we select for study the doped Mott insulating cuprate superconductors. Eventually we access the intervening region of unconventional quantum critical physics where a Fermi surface in the absence of a conventional Fermi liquid transitions to a Fermi surface underpinned by a conventional Fermi liquid, by lattice-density tuning of selected materials. We propose to investigate the Fermi surface of these regimes of correlated materials phase space that defy conventional Fermi liquid behaviour by the use of advanced quantum oscillation techniques in selected high purity correlated materials, under either ambient pressure conditions or under lattice-density tuning, and using high magnetic fields. We expect the project outcome to have a substantive impact on our understanding of correlated electron systems, especially in hitherto opaque regions of phase space where Fermi liquid behaviour breaks down. We thus anticipate a new era where quantum oscillations serve as a diagnostic for novel phases of correlated matter that lack a conventional Fermi liquid description.

Keywords: fermi surface,non fermi liquid,spin liquid,quantum critical point,spinons,fractionalized phases,mott insulators,kondo insulators,correlated electrons,quantum oscillations,high magnetic field
Trade Law for the Data-Driven Economy (TRADE LAW 4.0)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1600975.0
EU funding (EUR): 1600975.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Data has been conceptualized as the ‘new oil’ and although this is a flawed statement, it catches well the value attached to data as a driver of economic growth and innovation, and as a force of change in all facets of societal life. Accordingly, data has emerged as an important topic in contemporary law and policy—on the one hand, because it is critical to understand whether and how different societal areas have been affected by digital transformations, including disruptive phenomena like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and on the other hand, because governance toolkits, including legal rules, need to adapt to reflect these implications. Despite the urgency attached to both tasks and the intensified mobilization of policy and research efforts to address them, the topic of data-driven transformation has been explored in a fragmented manner. The domain of trade law has been particularly slow to react—neither do we have a full understanding of the impact of digitization on the entire body of global trade rules, nor have we seen legal adaptation. To put it plainly, despite living in times of industries 4.0, we have trade rules grounded at 1.0. The project addresses these flaws by conducting research in three interrelated fields that seek to: (1) enhance our understanding of the implications of digital disruption for trade law and vice versa, including through a thorough analysis of all existing trade rules that matter for data, as it flows across borders and is regulated domestically; (2) boost our toolkits for tackling the tensions inherent to the data-driven economy by mapping and analyzing all available mechanisms for reconciling economic and non-economic objectives, with a strong focus on data protection but including also other values, such as freedom of speech, that may be important for national constituencies; and ultimately, (3) suggest design for trade law that can be sustainable in an environment of fluid technological change.
DNA-Fast light dRiven data technologY with multiplexed optical encoding and readout (DNA-FAIRYLIGHTS)

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,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3116536.25
EU funding (EUR): 3116536.25
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Modern society has an ever-increasing need for long-term, high density data encoding and storage. DNA technology allows to store data at unprecedented density, and functionalized DNA integrates digital bits placed along a single strand to encode information, which is available at low cost with natural (not-synthetic) DNA. DNA-FAIRYLIGHTS will raise this concept of functionalized natural DNA for data encoding and storage to a completely new level by decorating DNA carriers with a precise sequence of metallic nanomaterials with well-defined optical responses. These hybrid DNA structures will allow for direct optical readout, and the different resonance wavelengths will allow to go far beyond (0,1) encoding. In DNA-FAIRYLIGHTS we will design ultrasmall plasmonic and light-emitting particles with at least 9 different distinct optical responses that will enable multiplexed data encoding. We will develop concepts for linking/unlinking and orientational reconfiguration by external stimuli that will allow for reconfigurable memories and computation. The DNA-FAIRYLIGHTS project will provide: (i) a revolutionary technology that utilizes the DNA to arrange metallic nanomaterials in sequences with with nm precision; (ii) a novel approach to fabricate functionalized DNA that allows for integration of metal nanomaterials for data storage and manipulation; (iii) a next-generation model to encode and store information along the DNA; (iv) an optoelectronic/microfluidic system to modulate the arrangement of the metallic nanostructures along the DNA in order to dynamically control the information content; (v) readout devices with single particle sensitivity with fast response and decoding of the stored information in one functional unit. Each result of DNA-FAIRYLIGHTS will provide mile stones for novel technologies in next generation biomolecular synthesis, hybrid solid-state / biological systems, bioimaging, nanoplasmonics, DNA data storage, steganography and bio-optoelectronics.

Keywords: metal nanoparticles,nanoclusters,plasmonics,nanopores,dna data storage
A novel control paradigm for large-scale hybrid networks (CLariNet)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

I will develop efficient on-line control methods for large-scale Networks with Hybrid Dynamics (NHDs) in the presence of uncertainties, where hybrid dynamics refers to a combination of continuous dynamics, mode switches, and/or topology changes. This topic is one of the core fundamental open problems in the field of systems and control. It is also important from a societal point of view as today’s society depends heavily on the reliable and efficient operation of road, railway, electricity, gas, and water networks, all of which are examples of large-scale NHDs. Control of large-scale NHDs is a very complex problem due to the large size of the networks, the presence of disturbances, and the hybrid dynamics, while a limited computation time is available. State-of-the-art control methods are not suited for large-scale NHDs as they either suffer from computational tractability issues or impose additional restrictions, resulting in a significantly reduced performance. To address this problem, I will create a new on-line control paradigm for large-scale NHDs based on an innovative integration of multi-agent optimization-based and learning-based control, allowing to unite the optimality of optimization-based control with the on-line tractability of learning-based control. I will bridge the gap between optimization-based and learning-based control for NHDs through the use of multi-scale multi-resolution piecewise affine models, explicit consideration of the graph structure of the network, the unique knowledge and experience I have in both optimization-based control and learning-based decision making, and an interdisciplinary integration of approaches from systems and control, computer science, and optimization. This will result in systematic, very reliable, highly scalable, high-performance on-line control methods for large-scale NHDs. I will demonstrate their feasibility, benefits, and impact for green multi-modal transportation networks and smart multi-energy networks.

Keywords: model based control,optimization based control,learning based control,control of large scale networks,hybrid systems,model predictive control,reinforcement learning
CAbin LIning auTOmation (CALITO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Belgium,France
Call: Design for Automated Installation of Linings and Hatracks in Cabin and Cargo (H2020-CS2-CFP03-2016-01, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1546875.0
EU funding (EUR): 850000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

It is our objective to redesign cabin and cargo lining parts and the connected mounting system to establish the basis for an automated installation e.g. by light weight parts or simplifying geometries. The interior parts and brackets will be designed to allow plain handling during installation. In respect to this, the alignment of neighboring parts will be based on a "hidden gap"-concept. For most easy leveling of the robot, the mounting system will ensure consistent reference points throughout the bracket variants. As SFS intec GmbH has already designed the bracket logic concept for the A350 program, the hereby used clic and snap mounting system will be optimized e.g. by integrating the idea of separated load pathes to reduce bracket variants and equalize manufacturing tolerances of the structure. Multi layer panels (separation of functional and design features in different layers) and new materials with optimized CO2-Balance will be considered as well as brackets including different functions (connecting, damper, insulation…) within one or more ATA-Chapter (Mulit -ATA-Part, electric connection, mechanic connection). To minimize adaptation effort on the aircraft structure, mounting of connector brackets to the structure shall be included in the installation process of Cabin and Cargo lining. The first permanent fixation to the Aircraft structure parts takes place during installation. To disassembly the lining parts a clic and snap connection between the to parts of a bracket shall be dissolved.

Keywords: hidden gaps,self adjustment,multi ata,clic and snap system,reduction of variants,mulit layer lining,modular standardized brackets,material research for minimized co2 footprint of parts,weight
Imaging ultra-small angle x-ray scattering with edge-illumination: exploiting sub-pixel information in medical diagnostics, materials science and security screening (EI-USAXS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The capability to image the microscopic features of a sample with an imaging system with much coarser resolution opens tantalizing opportunities to all applications of x-ray imaging. First and foremost, it can reveal features that are currently inaccessible: coupled with e.g. a widely available x-ray microscope with a resolution of a few microns, it can reveal information on nanoscale details. However, one can also envisage a use of the same capability to maintain a given, required level of resolution while using much larger pixels, which could allow lower dose in medical imaging, faster scans in industrial or security inspections, cheaper imaging system or any combination of the above. The method to image the Ultra-Small Angle X-ray Scattering (USAXS) distribution developed by the Experienced Researcher (ER) of this application enables exactly this tantalizing feature. It was developed as an additional, advanced feature of phase-based “dark field” imaging methods enabled by e.g. grating interferometry (GI), and was the subject of two recent Phys. Rev. Letters. GI is a phenomenal new phase imaging approach but has limitations in terms of transferability to systems that could be used clinically or by industry. Since real-world implementations of his method are the ER’s key objective, he has identified in edge illumination (EI) phase contrast imaging, developed by the supervisor of this project, the tool that would enable the development of a prototype making the ER’s USAXS imaging method widely available. This project will develop this prototype and test it on significant samples in medicine, material science and industrial and security scanning in direct collaboration with the end users. It will complement the ER’s skills on the development of benchtop imaging systems and significantly enlarge the range of his interdisciplinary skills and collaborations. At the same time, it will enrich the host group by providing access to a new imaging method with huge potential.

Keywords: x ray imaging,ultra small angle x ray scattering,edge illumination,medical diagnostics
Fair Pensions and Population Ageing (PenAgeing)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2020-PoC, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Demographic changes in survival rates and age structures require adaptions in public policies. This grant will produce a social benefit by providing policy makers with two kinds of tools that they will need to make these adaptions, fair normal pension ages and consistently up-to-date measures of population ageing that take the changing characteristics of populations into account. An important area of adaption is national pension policy. Recently changes in pension policies have been driven by financial considerations and have aroused a great deal of dissent. One reason for the unhappiness with proposed pension reforms is that they place the burden of reform inequitably. People generally dislike inequitable policies. In this grant, we will produce a detailed case study of equitable pension ages. In the ReAgeing project we dealt with fairness in a very general framework. In this grant, we present an innovative methodology that produces scenarios of equitable normal pension ages using the details of a specific pension system. This grant shows how fairness can enter public policy discussions of ageing. In the future, new problems with respect to population ageing could arise and new data will certainly become available. In the ReAgeing grant, we produced many new measures of population ageing that took the changing characteristics of populations, such as remaining life expectancy and health into account. Our presentations were based on data that were available at the time of writing. In order for the results of the ReAgeing grant to remain relevant requires a second innovation, a way to keep the new measures of population ageing up-to-date. We do this with two pieces of software that can immediately be updated every time the UN produces a new round of data. We cannot predict exactly how demographic conditions will change. With these pieces of software, we can be sure that we will have the tools to deal with them.

Keywords: pensions,pension ages,population ageing,characteristics approach to population ageing,reageing,fair pensions,equitable pension ages,intergenerationally equitable normal pension ages,intragenerationally equitable normal pension ages,world ageing data explorer,reageingss r package,shiny server,cran r package,easily updated software,world population ageing,world population prospects
Copernicus Assisted Lake Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service (WQeMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Germany,Cyprus,Greece,Finland
Call: Copernicus evolution: Research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services (H2020-SPACE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500506.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499506.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

WQeMS aims to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service to the water utilities industry in relation with the quality of the ‘water we drink’. Therefore, it will focus its activities on monitoring of lakes valorized by the water utilities for the delivery of drinking water. Sentinel data (i.e. Sentinel -2 and Sentinel-1) will be exploited for quality monitoring at a fine spatial resolution level, following validated processes with in situ data. The proposed WQeMS will exploit the Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS ONDA), instead of setting up its own download and processing infrastructure. Linkages with the existing Thematic Exploitation Platforms (TEPs), such as the Hydrology TEP for monitoring flood events and the Food Security TEP for supporting the sustainable intensification of farming from space will be pursued. Following cases are to be treated in real time in cooperation with drinking water production companies (public and private): - Slow developing phenomena (business-as-usual scenario), such as geogenic or anthropogenic release of potentially polluting elements through the bedrock or pollutants’ leaching in the underground aquifer through human rural activities, may influence water quality. Changes in the monitored chemical dissolved substances may be then detected. - Fast developing phenomena (e.g. floods spilling debris and mud or pollutant spills of chemicals in the lakes or algal bloom and potential release of toxins by cyanobacteria) produce huge quantities of contaminants at a short time interval bringing sanitation utilities at the edge of their performance capacity. Monitoring of the extent of the effluents in the lake; thus, providing a warning about the risk of water contamination, assist in mitigating impact, both for the water drinking water production and the environment.

Keywords: drinking water,water quality,open surface standing water,sentinel 2,in situ data,dias,extreme events,risk management,water safety plan
Structural and mechanistic basis of MICAL regulation (MICAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-02-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156980.64
EU funding (EUR): 156980.64
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MICALs are a family of redox enzymes that directly bind and disassemble actin filaments. An increasing body of evidence in recent years indicates that MICALs play essential roles in many tissues for myriad activities requiring discrete changes in the cytoskeleton, including axon guidance, cell morphology, synaptogenesis and neuronal plasticity. MICALs are a component of classical signalling pathways and are best known as effectors for semaphorin-plexin signalling. Although the field has made enormous advances in understanding MICAL function at the level of genetic and cellular experiments, our knowledge of the molecular-level mechanisms of MICAL signalling in cytoskeletal dynamics remains poorly understood. The overarching aim of this proposal is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying MICAL signalling. I aim to address two fundamental and long-standing questions: (1) How do MICAL proteins precisely turn their activity on and off? (2) How do cytoplasmic segments of plexins pass the signal on to MICALs and what mechanisms control signalling? I will use a hybrid approach integrating single particle cryoEM with high-resolution X-ray crystallography to determine the overall architecture of MICAL and to elucidate molecular mechanisms of MICAL autoinhibition. In parallel, I will aim to determine the high-resolution structure of MICAL in complex with plexin to dissect molecular mechanisms of MICAL activation. All previous attempts to tease out the mechanisms governing MICAL signalling failed because full-length MICAL is expressed at a relatively low level in many expression systems. The project will greatly benefit from my previously developed protocol describing the production of MICALs in milligram quantities. Our findings will reveal fundamental principles of MICAL signalling, which will open new possibilities in the manipulation of cell signalling, and pave the way towards the treatment of MICAL associated neurological disorders.

Keywords: mical,signalling,plexin,cytoskeletal dynamics,semaphorin,autoinhibition