Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Lost in an Ocean of Information? Media in the Everyday Life of Conspiracy Theorists (Media andConspiracy)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160800.0
EU funding (EUR): 160800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The question of truth receives much societal attention today as fake news, alternative facts and conspiracy theories seem everywhere. People speak in alarmed terms about filter bubbles, echo chambers, the distrust of official knowledge and the dawn of a post-truth era. The contemporary media landscape plays an important role in the rise and spread of these alternative forms of knowledge, but how is largely unknown. Wishing to delve deeper than current media hypes and moral panics allow for, I propose to ethnographically study the role of media in the everyday life of conspiracy theorists (CT) from a cultural sociological perspective by means of the following three research projects. 1) To study what media sources (TV-channels, newspapers, internet sites, blogs, Facebook pages/groups, etc) do CTs use to inform themselves about the world and why, I will ask them to keep a “media diary” for two weeks and reflect on that in a follow-up interview. 2) To study how CTs use media technologies in a world where search engines and social media algorithms filter the information people receive, I will ask them in an interview setting to perform several search queries online to show me they use or circumvent such filtering technologies. 3) to study how do CT’s read (interpret, appropriate and authenticate) media contents (texts and videos), I will conduct a photo/video elicitation interview to actively study how they do so and ask them to reflect on their practice. These three objectives together should illuminate the way people engage with media (technologies) in an era of information overload. Such insights are valuable not just for scholars interested in the topic itself, but speak more broadly to professionals in the field (e.g. journalists, policy makers, government officials, scientists, NGO’s and politicians) who have to deal with the broader distrust of official knowledge in Western European societies, especially as enacted by the internet.

Keywords: new media studies,conspiracy theories,media usage,media readings
METABODY: Body Metacognition, Mentalization and Metamorphosis (METABODY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1989376.25
EU funding (EUR): 1939232.25
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

We live in a socio-economic world that affords us with increasing options and technologies to control and present our bodily appearance to others, including by managing our eating habits, or by digital and even surgical body modification. These proliferating phenomena raise the age-old question of how we negotiate the balance between the invariance and invention of our identity. Addressing this question in relation to modern body image phenomena requires a radical new way of studying the concept of body image. METABODY proposes the novel concept of Body Imagining to capture the idea that our body image is not a fixed representation in the brain, but rather a dynamic inference based on prior expectations and new information. Studying the balance between prior beliefs and new information could thus hold the key to understanding modern body image phenomena. Moreover, existing studies have failed to investigate the metacognitive level of these inferences. METABODY will test the novel hypothesis that body image disturbances are not the result of biases merely in the 1st order ability to perceive one’s body, but also in the 2nd order ability to evaluate the reliability of these perceptions in given contexts. Specifically, three empirical work-packages will study how individuals balance their own embodied experience against: (1) external perspectives on the body during multisensory perception (Body Metacognition), (2) social perspectives during interpersonal encounters (Body Mentalizing) and (3) future and ideal body perspectives during decisions about body modification options with uncertain outcome (Body Decision Making). Ultimately, METABODY will address in innovative ways the timely question of how we negotiate the balance between the invariance and invention of our identity in a time when changing the body is offered as an easy way to change the self.

Keywords: embodied cognition,metacognition,awareness,body image,eating disorders,mental health
Communication and rehabilitation for people with Disorders of consciousness via Brain-Computer Interfaces (DOC-Stim)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Persons with a disorder of consciousness (DOC) have little or no ability to interact with people and devices. They are unable to control voluntary movement, and hence they cannot speak, blink, use devices for communication, or otherwise convey their needs and desires. Recent work from our group and others has shown that new methods and devices based on real-time EEG can help re-assess DOC patients’ cognitive functions and provide basic communication for them. Other work found that new tools to noninvasively monitor and stimulate brain activity could substantially improve recovery of persons with stroke or other disabilities. EEG data can detect each patient’s motor imagery and thereby influence multimodal feedback in real-time. This feedback may include VR avatars, functional electrical stimulation, and potentially even magnetic or electrical stimulation of motor areas of the cortex. This promising new research direction requires extensive collaboration across disciplines and sectors, and experienced researchers (ERs) with relevant experience. We will capitalize on our progress in both communicating with DOC patients and our new system for rehabilitation to get the project started quickly. The project will explore to create a new system that will be used to collect data with DOC patients. We will analyze the resulting data to develop new knowledge and contribute to improved tools that therapists and physicians can use. DOC-Stim includes extensive dissemination and communication activities to convey our project results to numerous audiences. The varied training activities will supplement the ER’s training-by-research to help prepare him for a high-impact career working across industrial, academic, and medical sectors. DOC-Stim will help position the ER for a leadership position in a rapidly growing new field while fostering technologies that could help restore movement for people who currently have little hope.
The Interpretation of Differentia during Late Antique and Early Christian Thought (INdifference)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Logic has often made major progress in historical circumstances that invited fierce debate and confrontation. The development of Christian thought during periods of crisis in the Church is no exception to this rule. This project explores for the first time how the philosophical notion of the differentia, a crucial term in the construction of definition in ancient logic, penetrated Christian thought and became the cardinal idea for the determination of orthodoxy during the theological debates about the nature(s) of Christ in the sixth and seventh centuries of our era, following the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE). The standard account explains these debates in terms of different interpretations of what it means for something to exist. The proposed project argues that the differentia came to be regarded as the condition of the possibility for existence as such, as the theologians improved the sophistication of their controversies by adopting and developing the terms of a logical debate among Neoplatonists in late antiquity. The theological debate on the reality and number of the nature(s) of Christ will be seen to rest on the opposition between interpreting the differentia as a real feature of reality–as the Chalcedonians did, or as merely a concept–which is the anti-Chalcedonian position. Designed as an interdisciplinary study of the interpretations and the evolution of the notion of the differentia, this project will disclose unknown chapters in the history of both theology and philosophy. At the same it will provide further support for the thesis that doctrinal wars outside philosophy were indeed waged, and settled, by adopting and developing the tools of logic. This strategy may well hold a promise for the doctrinal wars of the present, as well as for new developments in philosophy and logic.

Keywords: ancient logic,religious conflict,anti chalcedonianism,neoplatonism,philosophical categories,differentia,genus,metaphysics of parts and wholes
Comprehending Prokaryotic Argonaute Systems (COMPASS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496463.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496463.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Eukaryotic Argonaute proteins are known for their central role in RNA interference pathways. Yet, the evolutionary origin of Argonaute proteins lies in prokaryotes, where other proteins essential for RNA interference are absent. Therefore, prokaryotic Argonaute proteins (pAgos) must have distinct ancestral functions. Although a handful of closely related pAgos interfere with exogenous DNA invaders such as plasmids, pAgos are extremely diverse in terms of sequence conservation and domain architecture. In addition, many pAgos genetically associate with various putative enzyme domains, which suggests that they are functionally interdependent. As such, different pAgos must rely on distinct mechanism and are expected to fulfil a range of different roles. Therefore, the function of most pAgos remains completely unknown. The COMPASS project will map the function of unexplored pAgo systems, in which pAgos associate with auxiliary proteins. I hypothesize that in these systems, pAgo binds exogenous DNA sequences in a guide-dependent manner. This can result in the recruitment and/or activation of the auxiliary proteins. As pAgo-associated auxiliary proteins are homologous to proteins involved in DNA recombination, NAD+ turnover, or protein deacetylation, these pAgo systems are expected to fulfil completely novel roles ranging from stimulating horizontal gene transfer to triggering programmed cell death. The uncharacterized roles of these pAgo systems and the mechanisms underlying their functionality will be elucidated by a multidisciplinary approach combining microbiology, protein biochemistry, and X-ray crystallography techniques. Not only will the results facilitate a deeper understanding of the evolutionary diversification of pAgos, it will also enable the repurposing of programmable pAgo systems for the development of genetic tools that facilitate guide sequence-directed DNA recombination and high-sensitivity detection of target DNA sequences.

Keywords: argonaute,prokaryotic immune systems,horizontal gene transfer,programmed cell death
Multifunctional smart inhibitors for anti-corrosive coatings, enabling a significant reduction of maintenance costs on metallic surfaces (ADDPRIME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Smallmatek (SMT) has been a pioneer in the development of nanotechnologies to avoid metals corrosion and in providing consultancy services on the area of environmental monitoring. Our strong know-how leads us to create and invest in a revolutionary solution to avoid metals corrosion: the ADDPRIME. Corrosion results from a negative interaction between metallic materials and the surrounding environment. Costs related with corrosion constitutes 3% of the annually GDP of industrialized countries. Only in Europe, €701billion are spent per year to solve corrosion related problems. The most widely used solutions to protect metallic structures combine high-toxic corrosion inhibitors with coatings. However, both components suffer a negative interaction between them, resulting in a low anti-corrosive protection. Furthermore, current solutions allow for small savings of 15% of global costs of corrosion. We, at SMT, developed a new patent based-technology that increases in 6 times the metals corrosion resistance. ADDPRIME uses encapsulated corrosion inhibitors that are released by stimulus of specific triggers. Our technology has the capacity to entrapped corrosive environmental species. Moreover, our solution is based on a nanotechnology with up to 3 times less toxicity than the current solutions, resulting on a low environmental impact. By using ADDPRIME, coatings companies will have cost savings up to 27% in the production of anti-corrosive coatings. End users of our solution, such as maritime markets, will have up to 60% savings on maintenance costs. ADDPRIME technology will help Europe keeping the leadership in the production of ambitious anti-corrosive “smart” solutions. With the exploitation of ADDPRIME, we expect to create 37 new job positions and enter in new markets such construction, industrial, maritime and automobile, where metallic surfaces are exposed to extreme conditions, achieving a turnover of 21M€ by 2023.

Keywords: anti corrosive coatings,multi functional inhibitors,nanocontainers,environmentally friendly,inhibitors
CHILDREN AND GENDER INEQUALITY (GENEQUALITY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1800510.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800510.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Women continue to face large and persistent drops in terms of all labor market outcomes at the arrival of children. Researchers now understand that these “child penalties” on women may account for a substantial fraction of the large level of gender inequality that persists in the labor market in all developed nations. But the mapping that goes from children to gender inequality and welfare still remains mostly unchartered. First, research has only been able to identify the effect of children once they arrive, missing all the potentially large anticipatory effects of children, in terms of education, marriage choices, etc. that significantly impact the lifetime trajectories of men and women. Second the mechanisms underlying the persistence of “child penalties” and of such strict gender specialization at the arrival of children are not well understood. Comparative advantages have a hard time accounting for the stickiness of large “child penalties” despite the massive changes in relative education and in the relative cost of child care. Is it about preferences then, or cultural norms? If so, how are these formed? Finally, we still do not understand how these “child penalties” actually translate into welfare. Building on unique administrative data pooled across countries, on new measures from the field of natural language processing, on compelling quasi-experimental designs and on established techniques in public finance that parsimoniously map empirical moments into welfare evaluation, GENEQUALITY will i) shed new light on the impact of children on gender inequality, ii) provide new evidence on the mechanisms underlying strong gender specialization in parenthood, iii) map the welfare consequences of “child penalties”, and iv) characterize the optimal policies aimed at addressing them.
INNOVACTIS 2020-2021 (INNOVACTIS 2020-2021)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: H2020 ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK SGA4 2020-2021 (H2020-EEN-SGA4-2020-2021, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276007.5
EU funding (EUR): 276007.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to provide innovation support services in 2020 and 2021 to SMEs in the regions covered by the consortium members. These innovation support services will be differentiated for two groups of SMEs: a) SMEs that have been selected as beneficiaries of the EIC Pilot. For these companies, the consortium members will offer Key Account Management (KAM) services, which are accompanying services for the SMEs to identify weaknesses in their innovation capacities and suitable external coaches to address the identified weaknesses. b) SMEs that have high potential for growth and internationalisation but that need to improve their innovation management capacities. These companies will receive direct assessment services from the consortium members in order to detect barriers and develop and implement an action plan in order to enhance such capacities and overcome the detected barriers.

Keywords: sme instrument,fet open,eimc,innovation,innovation management,support
Suspended timber floor insulation project (Ufloor)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the UK, 6.2 million1 homes, in the Netherlands, 2.65 million2 homes built before the 1920s have uninsulated suspended timber floors, and based on our preliminary research across the EU (such as Belgium, NorthFrance, North-Germany) it is anticipated that further ~10 millions of homes have similar floor construction due the same climatic and ground-water conditions, resulting in a 18.3 million homes European market. Alongside wall and loft insulation - where significant traction has already been made across the European and global insulation market - floor insulation is essential for maintaining the thermal coherence of the property and eliminating unwanted draughts. Moreover, heat loss through floors accounts for up to 20-25% of the total heat loss of older properties. Despite the above, floor insulation has not become widespread yet, which can be attributed to three major factors: i) householder resistance to disruption caused by floorboard and carpet removal; ii) the inability to crawl below the floorboards due to constrained floor depths in Europe; iii) high costs (£4,000 per property) and resultant long payback period (~25+ years). Solution: To exploit this opportunity, SHS have developed a prototype design for a low cost, automated under floor insulation system (Ufloor) to i) eliminate structural disruption; ii) speed up the insulation process; iii) make suspended timber floor insulation accessible to the mass market. It achieves this by using a proprietary telescopic applicator (with an integrated camera for guiding movement) that can access the subfloor void through airbricks. Economic Impact: Successful deployment of Ufloor will enable SHS to provide a solution that is 60% cheaper, 5x faster and 80% less disruptive than incumbent methods, saving up to 2,900 kWh (£150) per year. By the end of year 5, this translates into 100,000 new installs, providing additional revenue o £13m to SHS with an IRR of over 50% to seed investors.

Keywords: energy efficiency,carbon savings,fuel poverty,building physics