Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A multi-method perspective on children's use of rehearsal in serial recall tasks (MMPCURSRT)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Rehearsal is a key construct in models of immediate memory and refers to the overt or covert repetition of items to counteract forgetting. A long-standing assumption is that children younger than 7 years do not engage in rehearsal, as such children tend not to show key ‘experimental effects’ thought to be signatures of rehearsal. However, given a growing debate in the adult experimental literature on the interpretation of these effects, and more recent concerns in the developmental literature about how one should understand changes in their magnitude, the questions of when rehearsal develops, and the role that it plays in supporting serial recall in children become open once again. These are theoretically and educationally important questions that cannot be addressed with the methods currently being used, and so the proposed project adopts a novel combination of three particularly informative approaches to properly address these issues. These methods from different traditions of memory research are: self-paced presentation times to index the pauses that participants insert into a task to allow rehearsal, rehearse aloud protocols that capture the participants’ rehearsal behaviour by making this overt, and trial-by-trial self-reports of strategy use. In total, 210 children between the age of 6 and 10 years will participate in three inter-linked experiments using these methods, with the relevant covariates of short-term memory capacity, working memory capacity, and articulation speed also being measured. A major strength of the proposal is that state-of-the-art multi-level modelling of the data will allow for modelling of both participant and task effects on trial level strategy use, avoiding the problems inherent in traditional analyses. This multi-method design coupled with multi-level modelling will give unparalleled insight into the validity of different methods of strategy assessment and into the key issue of children’s strategic behaviour in memory tasks.

Keywords: short term memory,working memory,rehearsal,verbal strategy use,children,validity of self reports
familiados.com - a marketplace for professional caregiving (FAMILIADOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

familiados.com is a marketplace on line where families can find, select and hire caregivers. Caregivers can create profiles, showing education, specialization, experience and availability; they also choose their hourly rate and the area where they want to work. Families, on their side, can search, find profiles with the specific skills for their need, request availability, close the deal directly with the caregiver and rate the service. All of it in an open platform, where familiados role is to facilitate the interaction, making sure that the profiles include true information, that families can evaluate their experience and that the transactions take place in a seamless and fluid way, from the beginning to the end, from selection to payment and evaluation. The two main differential features of familiados are: (1) it specializes in care services for seniors, disabled people and hospital companionship; and (2) it is focused in temporary needs, short term assignments. And the way we will fundamentally change the way this market works now is: (i) by offering caregivers a tool to professionalize their offer, allowing them to reach the market in a differentiated way and be seen as valuable professionals; and (ii) by offering families the tool to select and choose a group of favourite caregivers to take care of their needs, ensuring availability and the right professional for the right need.

Keywords: online,marketplace,caregiver,families,platform,matching
A sweet solution: novel antiviral siRNAs to help rescue the sugar beet industry (ultraRNAs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms, Structures and Functions
Panel description: Molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics, synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2020-PoC, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Beet Yellows Virus (BYV) is one of the most destructive pathogens, causing Virus Yellows disease that underlies up to 50% yield losses in sugar beet. The recent regulatory ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in EU has worsened the damage to the EU sugar beet industry. Given the urgency of the current problem caused by BYV, we propose to take advantage of a molecular biological approach to employ small molecular inhibitors called “artificial small interfering RNAs” (art-siRNAs), and demonstrate their ability to specifically bind to and deactivate BYVs within the plants. Our proposal substantially builds on fundamental research outputs from ERC Starting Grant GA680324. We aim to design art-siRNAs that are based on in vivo RNA structure features of BYV RNAs in sugar beet plants and demonstrate high efficacy in virus cleavage or degradation. We will comprehensively assess and validate the effectiveness, efficiency and safety of our structure-based designed art-siRNAs (ultraRNAs) within the laboratories, glasshouses and in-field. We envisage that our art-siRNAs will be applied to sugar beet seed pellets and will be taken up by the seedlings as they grow. When BYV infects these treated plants, we anticipate that our art-siRNAs will bind to the BYV RNA strands and deactivate them, preventing disease. We are confident that through this Proof of Concept we will be able to demonstrate the high performance of our ultraRNAs in terms of not only achieving high efficacy of BYV degradation, but also significantly reducing the quantity of art-siRNAs needed, ideal for incorporating into the seed coating. Ultimately, through follow-on work, our ambition is to provide sugar beet growers with an environmentally-friendly, safe, reliable, efficient, sustainable and long-lasting protection against the virus. Our proposed solution will help save the viability of the sugar beet industry within Europe, which contributes €15.6 billion to the GDPs of the EU-27.

Keywords: rna structure,sugar beet,beet virus,artificial small interfering rnas art sirnas,structure based design
Towards a new generation of EU peer-to-peer Energy Communities facilitated by a gamified platform and empowered by user-centred energy trading mechanisms and business models. (NRG2peers)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Slovenia,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: The role of consumers in changing the market through informed decision and collective actions (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998436.25
EU funding (EUR): 1998435.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

The main aim of NRG2peers is to support the uptake of a next generation of European peer-to-peer Energy Communities. NRG2peers sets up a gamified platform in three levels, supporting residential energy communities to increase energy efficiency and to integrate a higher share of renewable energy. The NRG2peers platform aims to support the uptake and multiplication of attractive, financially, legally and technically viable, user-centred residential energy communities in three concrete ways: Level 1: Collecting experiences from operative peer-to-peer energy communities, whose assessment schemes are already compliant with national and EU legislations, in a way to deliver Readiness Level Framework Indicators (Organisational, Institutional, Market, Technological, Social) which helps to assess a communities’ readiness to become a peer-to-peer, peer-to-community and peer-to-market (P2P, P2C, P2M) energy community, to incite investments from the public and private sector at the local level, and to support decision making and policy at the MS and EU level to ensure a prosumer-friendly environment; Level 2: Providing smart demand-response mechanisms to optimize energy consumption and peak demand at the community level. The NRG2peers platform will adopt peer-to-peer privacy-aware learning mechanisms to ensure energy optimisation whereby three main aims are 1) Financial savings for the residential customers at community level 2) CO2 and environmental savings at the community level, and 3) Local self-reliance in terms of energy; Level 3: Adopting community-based nudging mechanisms for peer-to-peer transaction of renewable energy and motivating the maximal implementation and consumption of (local) RES production and consumption. By combining 3 levels with gamified features supporting peer-to-peer behavioural-based incentives, the NRG2peers platform targets for global energy and CO2 emission savings at the community level, and investment triggered in sustainable energy in EU.

Keywords: peer to peer,energy community,gamification,platform,energy trading,blockchain
Design-Operation Continuum Methods for Testing and Deployment under Unforeseen Conditions for Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems (ADEPTNESS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Sweden,Norway,France
Call: Computing technologies and engineering methods for cyber-physical systems of systems (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4419033.75
EU funding (EUR): 4419033.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The ADEPTNESS project seeks to implement and investigate a streamlined and automatic workflow that makes methods and tools to be seamlessly used during design phases as well as in operation. We will explore the generation and reuse of test cases and oracles from initial phases of the development, to the system in operation and back to the laboratory for reproduction. Integrated in this workflow, unforeseen situations will also be detected in operation to enhance development models for increasing resilience. We will consider several aspects of uncertainties (such as uncertainties in environment, uncertainty produced due to timing aspects of CPSoS, uncertainty in networks, etc.). Additionally, automatic and synchronized deployment techniques will be investigated to improve the agility of the whole workflow that covers the design-operation continuum.

Keywords: design operation continuum,cyber physical systems of systems,software engineering,testing,deployment
Future and Emerging Art and Technology (FEAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Netherlands
Call: FET Take-Up Coordination and Support Activities 2015 (H2020-FETOPEN-2015-CSA, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 492937.5
EU funding (EUR): 492312.5
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of FEAT is to stimulate take-up of FET research results and create internationally significant new forms of impact and innovation by embedding and supporting high profile international artists to develop innovative artworks through deep engagements with FET projects. The project will embed six artists within FET projects where they will collaborate to develop and create new artworks that will be showcased internationally through exhibitions, participatory workshops, debates and media campaigns, concluding with a significant final exhibition and symposium. The project will enable FET researchers to work collaboratively with leading artists to develop new artworks that critically work with and reflect on FET project research and results to enable radically new technologies to reach the widest possible audiences through international exhibitions, the global media and socially engaged participatory events including festivals, debates, workshops and discussion events. FEAT will demonstrate how novel perspectives on ways that FET results can be used for social innovation and global development will arise through the process of collaboration and dissemination of the work. We will give confidence to FET researchers to enable them to embrace creative interactions for innovation by providing new frameworks for successfully collaborating with artists to drive innovation in Europe. Our measureable high-impact outputs will prompt new ways of thinking about ways in which FET results are shared by reaching out to non-traditional, diverse audiences and stakeholders in ways that are meaningful to them, through critical reflections, and both emotional and intellectual engagements. By catching the imagination of the public and the media by providing tangible contexts for radically new technologies within our future cultural life and enabling a space for societal debate we will significantly enhance take-up of FET research results.

Keywords: science interaction,creativity,citizen science
A bat's-ear view of natural soundscapes during flight (BATVIEW)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The knowledge of sensory systems is of central importance for our understanding of life. The brain commands the behaviour, but it banks on sensory input to do so. Biosonar is a particularly enticing sensory system to study. A seemingly exotic sense, it is in fact the main sensory modality of one in five mammalian species and it bears the big advantage that we can tap directly into the sensory stream. The echolocator only receives information when it emits sound, exerting full control over the information flow while allowing us to eavesdrop. From lab studies with bats, we thus have profuse knowledge of their striking biosonar capabilities, but paradoxically very little knowledge about how bats use these capabilities to play ecologically and economically critical roles in a large suite of ecosystems in the wild, under conditions for which they evolved. BATVIEW will utilize a unique, world-first solution to the problem of how to study echolocation of individual bats catching prey on the wing in the wild. BATVIEWs host lab has very recently developed a 2.6g ultrasound-recording and inertial-sensing tag for free-flying bats. Along with logging detailed information on flight and capture behaviour, the tag records not only the bat?s outgoing calls but also the weak returning echoes for an entire night of foraging. With such high-quality quantitative data in the form of echograms and synchronised accelerometer readings, I will answer fundamental questions of sensory and foraging ecology in an August-Krogh species, the fringe-lipped bat. In accomplishing BATVIEW?s objectives, I will (A) gain a clear and reliable assessment of the percept that biosonar provides, in order to determine (B) how the percept changes dependent on (C) different ambient conditions and (D) different behavioural contexts. BATVIEW will offer an unprecedented understanding of how sensory information flow governs behavioural transitions in the wild and pave the way into a new era of sensory ecology.

Keywords: biosonar,bat echolocation,biologging,echogram,echoic scene,acoustic scene,flight kinematics,inertial sensors,on board microphone,sensory ecology
Sustainable multifunctional fertilizer – combining bio-coatings, probiotics and struvite for phosphorus and iron supply (SUSFERT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Austria,Germany,Belgium,Slovenia,France,Netherlands
Call: Innovative bio-based fertilising products to increase the sustainability of fertilising practices in agriculture (H2020-BBI-JTI-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8487306.59
EU funding (EUR): 6549154.6899999995
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

SUSFERT addresses the massive usage of mineral fertilisers in EU agriculture, which are largely based on non-renewable resources, but are required in intensive crop production for meeting demands for food and feed. SUSFERT will develop multifunctional fertilisers for phosphorus (P) and iron (Fe) supply, which will fit into existing production processes and common EU agricultural practice. The SUSFERT innovation combines bio-based and biodegradable coatings, probiotics, the renewable P-source struvite, and nutrigels in at least four novel sustainable P and Fe fertiliser products, which may partly or fully replace unsustainable and resource-intense conventional ones. SUSFERT will test novel organic formulations, microgranules, granules, soil improvers, nutrigels and liquid fertilizer products in field trials, evaluate them regarding economic potential and environmental sustainability, ensure regulatory compliance and establish industry-scale production processes (TRL 7-8). Technological concepts include 1) probiotics based on P and Fe solubilizing Bacilli and Actinobacteria; 2) microbial siderophore (Fe chelator) produced in a demonstration plant; 3) enzymatic modification of the by-product lignin for cost effective, biodegradable controlled release coatings and product stabilization and 4) demonstration of struvite, a renewable P-source from wastewater, as a partial substitute of mineral P. Five industrial, four SME and three academic partners will contribute expertise along the whole value chain in biotechnology, microbiology, large-scale fermentation, fertiliser production and sales. We will fit the SUSFERT products into the regulatory and policy context for conventional and organic agriculture in various pedo-climatic conditions in Europe and prepare rapid market entry post-project.

Keywords: probiotics,iron fertilizer,phosphorus fertilizer,struvite,lignin coatings,sustainable
Unifying concepts in the topological design of non-crystalline materials (UTOPES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1965917.0
EU funding (EUR): 1965917.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Glasses have traditionally been enabling materials to major societal challenges. Significant breakthroughs on many areas of technological progress have been very closely linked to the exploitation of glassy materials. It is strong consensus that this key role will persist in the emerging solutions to major global challenges in living, energy, health, transport and information processing, provided that the fundamental limitations of the presently available empirical or semi-empirical approaches to glass processing can be overcome. In the coming decade, it is therefore a major task to take the step towards ab initio exploitation of disordered materials through highly-adapted processing strategies. This requires pioneering work and in-depth conceptual developments which combine compositional design, structural evolution and the thermo-kinetics of material deposition into holistic tools. Only those would significantly contribute to solving some of the most urgent materials needs for glass applications in functional devices, be it in the form of thin films, particles or bulk materials. The present project challenges today’s engineering concepts towards the conception of such tools. For that, melt deposition, isothermal deposition from liquid phases, and gas-phase deposition of non-crystalline materials will be treated - within the class of inorganic glasses - in a generalist approach, unified by the understanding that glass formation represents the only strict deviation from self-organization, and that, hence, the evolution of structural complexity in glassy materials can be tailored on any length-scale through adequate processing. Providing a topological scheme for the quantification and chemical tailoring of structural complexity, UTOPES will answer to the challenge of finding order in disorder, and will thus break the grounds for the third generation of glasses with properties beyond what is presently thought as the limits of physical engineering.

Keywords: glass,amorphous films,structural topology,structural engineering,optical materials,physical vapor deposition,chemical vapor deposition,mechanical properties,relaxation,thermal processing