Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Development of a global, inclusive, digital health concierge (CONCILIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Question: How would you find the best specialist if you or your loved one were ill? Answer: by asking your physician, your friends and family or Google. However, only medical specialists have the insider knowledge of who are their most competent peers, but often use it solely to the benefit of their relatives or of their own patients. The rest of the population doesn’t have access to this information, which could have a profound impact on health outcomes (e.g. second opinions lead to changes in diagnosis or treatment plans in up to 77% of cases). The Information Company is a digital health company founded by medical and digital entrepreneurs in 2015, which has developed Concilio, a new concierge service leveraging the power of large numbers of peer-referrals in each speciality and proprietary algorithms validating and substantiating them by objective data. Its end goal is to help patients anywhere get access to the best possible care for any medical condition, reducing stress, medical costs and significantly improving clinical outcomes. The proposed SME Instrument project’s objective is to scale-up and validate Concilio’s innovative business and healthcare model, along with its technology, to enable its users to gain access to detailed and verified professional networks of thousands of specialists throughout the world, without relying on any doctor’s or medical product company’s subscription to remain unbiased and objective. To do so, phase 1 actions will include (1) the development of a multilingual, multi-users and multi-countries web-site and mobile application, (2) the securization of intellectual property and (3) the validation of Concilio’s market/commercial and economic scalability. Based on the proof of concept obtained by the company with over 15,000 doctor names across 9 specialities already existing in the database, and 1.3M€ in capital, it will enable Concilio to fast track its business to €42 million and 179 job creation by 2020.

Keywords: new business model,diseases,best treatments,best doctor,doctor patient matching,ehealth,peer recomendation,algorithms,machine learning
ELectric Innovative Commuter Aircraft (ELICA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Belgium
Call: Conceptual Design of a 19-passenger Commuter Aircraft with near zero emissions (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 750000.08
EU funding (EUR): 750000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Electric Innovative Commuter Aircraft The ELICA research project activities are focused on the conceptual design of a 19 passengers commuter aircraft based on alternative propulsion concepts, targeting near-zero CO2 emissions. The project aligns with the environmental expectations of the European Commission towards the aeronautical industry formulated in Flightpath 2050 , and is in line with the economic objectives of the European Commission to safeguard high-quality jobs in the aerospace sectors by strengthening the technological leadership and the competitiveness of the European’s aerospace industry. The high-level objective of ELICA is to provide a concept design of a 19 passenger commuter aircraft with new zero-emissions with respect to CO2, NOx, and noise. The concept should be: • environmentally friendly, i.e. with measurable reduction in estimated emission values; • economically feasible, i.e. the aircraft requirements are derived from the market demands; • and technologically innovative, i.e. the flexibility in the aircraft design space provided by new propulsion technologies should be explored and exploited. The final concept design will pave the way to an innovative aircraft demonstrator. It will be an important step stone to strengthen the technology leadership of the European aeronautical industry, in the global race for the next-generation efficient commuter aircraft for regional mobility.

Keywords: commuter aircraft,zero emission,electric aircraft
Commercial vehicles using Optimised Liquid biofuels and HVO Drivetrains (COLHD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: EGVI (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Finland,Sweden,France
Call: Optimisation of heavy duty vehicles for alternative fuels use (H2020-GV-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12430313.5
EU funding (EUR): 8984735.2
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

A consortium of industrial and academic leading players covering the entire value chain of road transport has joined forces to commonly address the need to prove feasible and environmental-friendly cases of alternative fuels to fossil diesel for road transport, acknowledging the importance of reducing GHG emissions (beyond EURO 6) with affordable developments. Commercial vehicles using Optimised Liquid biofuels and HVO Drivetrains (COLHD) has the ambition to enable EU purchasers to buy high performance, clean, safe, affordable HDVs, specifically designed to run on alternative renewable fuels, and be able to conveniently run them through EU transport infrastructure. To do so, COLHD will follow a 3-tiered approach, working on technology, infrastructure and removal of additional barriers. COLHD will optimize and further develop 3 DDF powertrains running on biogas (LBM or LBP) and 2nd generation biofuels (HVO), evaluating the several benefits under testing in the LNG Blue Corridors infrastructure. Therefore, COHLD will allow proving oil substitution on the short and medium term, addressing different markets and ranges. Aiming at finally establish a EU market for AF HDVs, COLHD will co-develop cross-wise activities involving all key target audiences: raising awareness of general public, organising workshops with fleet operators and constantly assessing the EC on required policy directives.

Keywords: biofuels,biomethane,engine,emissions,powertrain,automotive
Predicting changes in species interactions following species loss in hydroelectric reservoir islands (Lost-Biodiv)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The burgeoning energy demand worldwide has led to a proliferation of hydroelectric dams, firstly in the northern hemisphere and subsequently across tropical developing countries, which have become the new hydropower frontiers. Currently, hydropower development is already one of the primary means of habitat loss and fragmentation in tropical forests, hence a key threat to biodiversity and the ecosystem services provided to the entire humanity. After damming, all low elevation areas are inundated, while previous ridgetops in undulating terrain often become islands. The objective of this Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Action is to dissect the ecological impacts of habitat insularization induced by hydroelectric dams on ecosystem functioning, by comprehensively assessing species interactions across 35 forest islands and three mainland continuous forest sites across one of the largest hydroelectric reservoirs in South America. Firstly, specific prey-predator interactions – herbivory, insectivory and seed predation – will be quantified in situ and related to patch, landscape and habitat-quality metrics. Then, species interactions across terrestrial food webs will be evaluated using theoretical approaches based on species co-occurrence and codispersion analysis. To do so, the Experienced Researcher will use data previously collected by the host research group on vertebrate, invertebrate and plant species, and apply novel framework approaches based on mutualistic and antagonistic networks, some of them developed by the collaborator group. The innovative knowledge to be produced is expected to considerably improve strategic environmental impact assessments of planned hydroelectric dams and manage existing and future hydropower development. Moreover, while collaborating with very-high profile researchers, this Action will allow the Experienced Researcher to acquire new sophisticated analytical skills on species interactions and foodweb-related processes.

Keywords: hydropower development,tropical forests,ecosystem services
The Sources of Absolute Music: Mapping Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera (DIDONE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498690.0
EU funding (EUR): 1209575.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The belief that ‘the end of music is to move human affections’ (Descartes, Compendium musicae) has been a central issue in European musical thought since Plato. Opera was invented to recover the power of Ancient music to move the human heart, and its history is a permanent exploration of the capacity of action, words and music to convey emotions. In the eighteenth century a new type of opera consolidated with the chief concern of expressing the character’s emotions as they changed throughout the drama, inspired by Descartes’ theory of human passions. The key expressive medium was the aria col da capo, where a single, distinct passion was represented, like a concentrated pill of emotional meaning. The ideal corpus to study this issue are the 900 operas set to music by 300 composers on the 27 dramas by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782). It contains a comprehensive catalogue of emotions in music, a unique window of opportunity to scrutinize conventions that defined music expression and meaning for over a century, paving the way for the emergence of ‘absolute’ instrumental music, autonomous from any other art form. DIDONE presents an innovative approach to unveil these conventions: the creation of a corpus of 4,000 digitized arias from 200 opera scores based on Metastasio’s eight most popular dramas, to be analysed using traditional methods and big data computer technology. The comparative scrutiny of dozens of different musical settings of the same librettos will reveal how composers correlate specific dramatic circumstances and emotions with distinct poetic and musical features. The results will be applicable to three main fields: (i) opera performance; (ii) analysis and interpretation of other types of music; and (iii) composition in several scenarios, from film soundtracks to creation by Artificial Intelligence. An opera festival will be designed to recover and disseminate this hitherto ignored repertoire, which was essential to define the European musical identity.

Keywords: opera,enlightenment,human emotions,computational analysis,digital humanities,european identity
Rheology and Mechanics of Active Glasses (RMAG)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174806.4
EU funding (EUR): 174806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The mechanics and flow behaviour of living or active matter is key to biological processes like wound healing or cancer metastasis, but today there is very limited understanding of what governs the mechanical properties of such dense active systems. The proposed project will harness tools from the Statistical Physics of Glasses to provide new fundamental insights into Active Matter mechanics and rheology. This will not only help understand the deformation and flow of living glassy systems but also pave the way to the creation of designer active materials. The project will use particle-based simulations of model active glasses to construct a detailed phenomenology of their behaviour for a broad range of deformation scenarios including steady shear, shear startup and oscillatory shear. The insights from this will be condensed into a mesoscopic model that extends and builds on the very successful Soft Glassy Rheology (SGR) model, by incorporating essential biophysical ingredients and in particular the driving by active processes. This mesoscopic approach will allow scaling up to realistic system sizes and will identify the key parameters that need to be tuned in the design of new active materials. The insights gained on a wide range of systems from the cytoplasm and cellular aggregates to synthetic active matter will have a strong impact both on the academic and, in the medium term, non-academic sectors. They will reach across traditional boundaries to researchers in physics, biology and chemistry and strengthen an important interdisciplinary field within the European Research Area. The outreach opportunities provided by the fascinating behaviour of active glassy materials will be exploited with dedicated dissemination and communication activities targeted at a broad range of audiences.

Keywords: physics of glasses,active matter,mechanics and rheological response
The Alliance for Materials way to the creation of the MATerials Common House - MATCH (MATCH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Optimisation of the use of materials
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,France,France,France,Luxembourg,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: The materials 'common house' (H2020-NMP-CSA-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999100.5
EU funding (EUR): 1999100.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

With this proposal, a qualified and assorted representative group of the European Materials community, intend to propose an activity for further boosting and reinforcing a concept launched by Alliance for Materials (A4M): the creation of a strong, sustainable, inclusive network where any European Materials players (from Industry, Research, University) could feel comfortable and can gain real value for her/his own interest and expectations as far as Materials R&D&I is concerned. This partnership promotes the integration of concerted and strategic challenges of national, regional and European needs in the field. The MATCH proposal is focused in 4 main targets, crucial for the promotion of European sustainable development and innovation actions, as anticipated by future challenges to: • the enlargement and effective improvement within the existing Materials network at EU level; • the multidisciplinary connection of Materials to a large number of fields relevant for European growth and where concerted management actions are needed; • the integration with existing and/or promotion of new Materials networks at National and Inter/Regional levels; • the integration of EU and national and regional networks in a sustainable (long-lasting) effectively aligned network hubs. MATCH foresees the establishment of comprehensive networks focusing on complementary stakeholder areas to enable promotion of connections between the scientific creativity represented by academia and the enterprises to focus on market needs. As a result of the MATCH project any organisation interested in materials research in Europe will have a single reference network through which to obtain information, contacts and guidance in an efficient and transparent way. Established and well-connected material research stakeholders will be able to intensify their activities and extend their collaborative activities at European level, realising the A4M concept for the ”The Materials Common House".

Keywords: materials,networking,value chain,innovation
Stochastic Multi-Scale Modelling for the Analysis of Closed-Loop Interactions among Brain Networks (STOMMAC)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168277.2
EU funding (EUR): 168277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Brain functions likely emerge from the concerted, context-dependent operations of its microscopic and macroscopic networks. Therefore, the organization and operational principles of such complex systems may be best investigated by using multi-modal approaches, including concurrent measurements of neural activity on multiple spatiotemporal scales. Performing and interpreting such multi-scale measures, though, presents enormous challenges for both experimental and mathematical neuroscientists. Existing analysis methods, however, make limited use of newly acquired concurrent multi-scale information. To dramatically advance analysis methods for these data, I propose a novel multi-scale model that bridges the gap between single cell statistics and neural mass signals. The model describes mixed discrete statistics, covering single cell and small population spike trains, as well as continuous statistics, such as those describing mesoscopic and macroscopic measures of mass neural activity in neuroimaging experiments. These elements are combined by means of copulas, describing multivariate interactions within and between scales of activity. I will extend this method to the level of efficient applicability and, in the course of a secondment with Prof. Logothetis at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, exploit the technique to solve current problems of multi-scale analysis of interactions between cortical and subcortical brain areas. The new mathematical approach will lead to a set of new tools that I will disseminate in an Open Source format for maximal impact, and will be widely applicable to multi-modal recordings in animals and humans, in both research and clinical settings. My own application of this method to multi-modal datasets will establish a deeper general understanding of the mechanisms of large-scale communication among brain areas, with particular emphasis on the principles of communication among networks involved in the formation of declarative memory.

Keywords: probabililistic model,multi scale,multi modal,copulas,fmri,hippocampus,interactions
High-Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanets (HiRISE)

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: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496730.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496730.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Atmospheric composition provides essential markers of the most fundamental properties of exoplanets, such as their formation mechanism or internal structure. New-generation exoplanet imagers have been designed to achieve high contrast for the detection of young giant planets in the near-infrared, but they only provide very low spectral resolutions (R<100) for their characterization. For a major breakthrough in the comprehension of young exoplanets and their atmospheres, an increase of a factor 100 to 1000 in spectral resolution is absolutely required. This proposal ambitions to develop a novel demonstrator that will combine the capabilities of two flagship instruments installed on the ESO Very Large Telescope, the high-contrast exoplanet imager SPHERE and the high-resolution spectrograph CRIRES+, with the goal of answering fundamental questions on the formation, composition and evolution of young planets. The work will be organized along two axes interconnected with transverse activities: (i) the astrophysics block will investigate signal extraction from high-resolution data and atmospheric modeling, and (ii) the instrumentation block will develop a demonstrator designed to pick up the near-infrared light in SPHERE and feed CRIRES+ via a dedicated injection module and optical fiber relay. We will explore all the key aspects of the project using a combination of instrumental and astrophysical simulations, as well as laboratory validation of components and methods on our high-contrast imaging testbed. We will use the demonstrator to observe a sample of directly imaged companions and obtain high-resolution spectroscopy of their atmospheres. From the data we will (1) determine their formation mechanism through an accurate determination of the carbon and oxygen abundances in their atmospheres, and (2) map the temporal variability of their photosphere through time-resolved Doppler imaging to study dynamical processes related to the formation and evolution of clouds.

Keywords: direct imaging,high contrast imaging,exoplanet characterization,high dispersion spectroscopy,high spectral resolution