Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Safe Electrical Wiring and Interconnection System (SEWIS) (SEWIS)

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: Ireland,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Human Safe HVDC Interconnection components (H2020-CS2-CFP11-2020-01, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1072344.0
EU funding (EUR): 797844.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The increasing electrification of different systems on an aircraft is an irreversible trend that will move faster and intensify in the coming future. More electrification is expected to happen in the future with a complete elimination of the hydraulic system and possibly with addition of electric and distributed propulsion systems. However, technological hurdles exist for power generation, distribution, and conversion systems in the high power and high voltage ranges with the necessary efficiency and power density required for a transport-class aircraft. Combined with the lower atmospheric pressure, frequent temperature variations, vibrations, and fluid contamination risks, and increased electrical power faults such as partial discharge, parallel/series arc faults, and others can be even more dangerous in an aircraft and cause catastrophic vehicle damage and safery risks for operators in installation and maintenance operations. Optimizing the weight of EWIS without compromising the safety and reliability of the aircraft operation is the main challenge. The project SEWIS (Safe Electrical Wiring and Interconnection System) aims at developing innovative high voltage EWIS components cable and connectors with embedded safety and health monitoring features. Thanks to reactive local fiber optics and electrical sensors distributed inside the cable and the connectors, detecting local electrical faults and ageing of insulation, the safety and reliability of EWIS will be satisfied. SEWIS enables customisation of high voltage EWIS at far greater levels than anyone in this industry has achieved before. SEWIS paves the way to future high voltage European standards of the electrical distribution system.

Keywords: ewis,cable,connector,voltage,power,health monitoring,sensor,safety,fiber optics
MASS POLITICAL LIFE WRITING (POLITICALLIFEWRITING)

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-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Self-narration is extraordinarily common in contemporary culture. The practice constitutes an extremely popular literary genre, is widespread on the internet in the form of diaries updated daily by huge numbers of web users, and is used in organisational training and as a tool in personal therapy education. Employing an interdisciplinary approach – drawing on social history, sociology, semiotics and textual analysis – my research project will examine one of the "archaeological" elements underpinning this success: the mass political use of the autobiographical form, first by communism and subsequently by feminism after the Second World War, with a focus on the Italian experience. The Italian Communist Party (PCI) was the largest communist party in the Western world, and Italy’s experience of feminism is one of the most significant on the European continent. Both movements made intense political use of the autobiographical form. The Italian communists inherited the activist autobiographical framework characteristic of the Bolshevik experience. Self-narration was a prerequisite to joining the PCI until the second half of the fifties; however, this organisational practice became obsolete over the course of the sixties. The link between autobiographical accounts and political activism was subsequently revived by feminism in the seventies, in the context of consciousness raising groups. The main objectives of the project are the following: A) to analyse the mass political use of the autobiographical account in Italy since the Second World War; B) to use this analysis to produce an innovative interpretation of the actual success of self-narration. They will be fulfilled through research in the archives of the PCI and the Italian feminist movement. I will use Italian historical events as a case study to highlight the obscure political origins of a specific activity – self-narration – that unites various contemporary national cultures of Europe in a transnational manner.

Keywords: feminism communism cultural studies discourse analysis life writing
UAV-Fuvex Blue Growth (UAV-Fuvex)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Cross-cutting marine and maritime research
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Supporting SMEs efforts for the development - deployment and market replication of innovative solutions for blue growth (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The EU fishing sector faces various challenges. The European shipbuilding industry accounts for 10% of the world’s production. EU’s fishing fleet is moving toward increasingly sustainable fishing systems and toward creating an intelligent blue economy. Marine pollution exert significant pressure on the conservation and health of the oceans and their flora and fauna; and work to monitor and control these activities cannot be carried out because of the capabilities and cost of current technology (costs could be reduced 80-fold). UAV/drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) technology is an emerging technology with a number of applications, and is not being used in the fishing and maritime monitoring sectors because no efficient solutions have yet been found (solutions that meet needs, contexts and user requirements). The reduced number of legal flight limitations of drones in marine environments is an advantage that could be exploited to incorporate this technology in support of fishing activities and in tasks related to monitoring and control, in turn boosting the European drone and shipbuilding industries. At Fuvex we have developed an unmanned hybrid (airplane-multirotor) aircraft (protected by patent), with vertical take-off/landings on any flat surface and efficient cruise mode, with twice the level of autonomy in comparison to helicopters/multirotors and an average reduction of 50% of costs compared to other drone solutions on the market; it offers specific solutions and applications for the fisheries sector (cost reductions >78%), marine and coastal surveillance and control (cost reductions >95%), and search for marine resources. The global UAV drone market is expected to reach USD 5.59 billion by 2020, at an estimated CAGR of 32.22% between 2016 and 2020. Fuvex is addressing a SAM (Served Available Market)> €335 million. The objective of this phase 1 is to complete a feasibility study to find out the workability and profitability of the business venture.

Keywords: uav drone unmanned aerial vehicles blue growth fishing naval s maritime coastal monitoring surveillance hybrid control vessel shipbuilding remotely qpca 05 patent pb201531576 autonomy carlos matilla
International Network on Ionic Liquid Deep Eutectic Solvent Based Metal Organic Frameworks Mixed Matrix Membranes. (INDESMOF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Argentina,Spain,Spain,United States,Portugal,Chile,Portugal
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 774000.0
EU funding (EUR): 774000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of INDESMOF Marie Curie RISE action is to establish a new and lasting research consortium to improve and exchange interdisciplinary and intersectoral knowledge on the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced composite adsorbents for environmental remediation of heavy metal polluted water sources, able to provide high capacity and high selectivity filters for the industry. The main research core of INDESMOF is based on the nano-encapsulation of Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) within the ordered porous structures of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF), in order to obtain a highly porous MOF material, combined with the metal chelation and solvation specificity of DES. Incorporation of high-capacity high-selectivity adsorbent materials within polymeric support is a crucial challenge faces in INDESMOF towards the real application of the MOF@DES materials in water filtering systems, indispensable for mining and industrial water environmental remediation technologies. Development and improvement of advanced filtering technologies requires the joint effort of a multidisciplinary researcher collective, involving the expertise of participants on different disciplines including physics, chemistry, environmental chemistry, materials and polymer science and engineering. Background knowledge and knowhow of INDEMOF´s partners combine the complementarities and synergies needed to undertake an integrative and concerted effort through innovation and breakthrough actions towards the fabrication of advanced and specific filters for polluted water remediation. Results will be widely disseminated through publications, workshops, post-graduate courses to train new researchers, a dedicated webpage, and visits to companies working in the area. In that way, we will perform an important role in technology transfer in the design of highly active and selective adsorbents and their performance against real water polluted samples.

Keywords: heavy metals,adsorption,water remediation
Genetically Evolving Models of Science (GEMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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 Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2182339.0
EU funding (EUR): 2086937.75
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The development of scientific models suffers from two related problems: ever-growing number of experimental results and scientists’ cognitive limitations (including cognitive biases). This multidisciplinary project (psychology, computer modelling, computer science and cognitive neuroscience) addresses these problems by developing a novel methodology for generating scientific models automatically. The methodology is general and can be applied to any science where experimental data are available. The method treats models as computer programs and evolves a population of models using genetic programming. The extent to which the models fit the empirical data is used as a fitness function. The best models–potentially modified by cross-over and mutation–are selected for the next generation. Pilot simulations have established the validity of the methodology with simple experiments. To demonstrate that the methodology is sound, can be used with complex datasets and can be generalised across sciences, four related strands of research are planned. First, ‘Building New Tools’ develops the methodology and creates techniques to understand and compare the evolved models. Second, ‘Explaining Human Data’ uses the methodology to explain a wide range of data on human cognition. This will be done in two steps: (a) data without learning (working memory and attention); and (b) data with learning (categorisation, implicit learning and explicit learning). Third, ‘Explaining Animal Data’ develops models to account for various aspects of animal behaviour, focusing on conditioning and categorisation. Finally, ‘Explaining Neuroscience Data’ extends the methodology to account for data combining information about cognitive and brain processes. This project explores virgin territory and thus opens up a new field of research. It combines insights from experimental psychology, cognitive modelling, cognitive neuroscience and computer science, disciplines in which the PI has strong track record.

Keywords: cognitive modelling,genetic programming,methodology,categorisation,implicit learning,explicit learning,animal cognition,cognitive neuroscience,scientific discovery
Techno-Past Techno-Future: European Researchers' Night (TPTF_ERN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,Croatia,United Kingdom
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 365710.48
EU funding (EUR): 336073.5
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Science, research and innovation should be and through history they have been a drive of social and economic progress. Today more than ever our society is driven by scientific discoveries, innovation, and technology development. We cannot imagine our lives without privileges of modern society which were enabled by some of greatest researchers and innovators of 19th and 20th century. At the verge of fourth industrial revolution we should not forget our heritage and debt we have towards innovators such as Nikola Tesla – one of the fathers of second industrial revolution or researchers such as Marie Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Goal of this project Techno-Past-Techno-Future: European Researchers’ Night (TPTF-ERN) is complementary to the common main objective of European Researchers’ Night as it aims at deepening the understanding on what science and innovation represent. Researchers should be viewed as artists in their own way as their work is a way of expressing their creativity and originality. Their work changes the way we look at the world.

Keywords: excellent science,research,innovation,popularization,croatia,msca,nikola tesla,rudjer boskovic,lab fab app,impact,scientific discoveries,technology development
Experimental and theoretical determination of van der Waals forces between and within two-dimensional materials (vdWForcesIn2D)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Luxembourg
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a rich structural diversity and therefore are of high interest for applications in material science, chemistry, and biology. Many applications rely on interfacial stacking of 2D materials, hence understanding interactions between and within 2D materials are of paramount importance. During this fellowship, we will develop a strategy enabling rapid and high-throughput measurements of van der Waals (vdW) forces between 2D materials and their binding energies with each other by using atomic force microscopy. In contrast to existing experimental techniques, we will conduct experiments in the multilayered thin films having various numbers of 2D sheets with metallic, semiconducting, and insulating electronic properties. For this, we will use a tipless cantilever for the long-range macroscopic vdW force measurements between large areas of surface in a fast and reliable way. Next, vdW force measurements within 2D materials will be realized with the help of a new hollow probe. This new construct will allow using freestanding 2D materials for making direct contact with a surface and measurement of binding energy in the format of adhesion energy. Since the binding energy experiments are more complex as highly affected by surface roughness, we believe that this new implementation will help to uncover those properties much accurately. In summary, our experiments will provide much needed experimental benchmarks for the development of theoretical vdW methodologies, analysis of which is proposed in the final work package, while allowing the researcher to reintegrate the European research community after a fruitful post-doc abroad.
Exploring the role of host-parasite genotypes in the congenital transmission of Chagas disease: an emergent infectious disease in Europe (ChaConGen)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,Argentina
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224496.96
EU funding (EUR): 224496.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Chagas disease (CD) is a parasitic, systemic and chronic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Approximately 30% of chronically infected people develop cardiac, digestive, neurological or mixed alterations. CD affects 7 million people worldwide, mainly in endemic areas of 21 continental Latin American countries, where T. cruzi is mainly a vector-borne disease. In non-endemic regions, a major role is played by congenital (mother-to-fetus) transmission, leading CD to become an emerging disease in Europe and other non-endemic regions. It is increasingly clear that more efforts are needed at the basic research level to improve our understanding of the molecular and clinical aspects of this route of transmission. Understanding the genetic bases of the interaction between the host and the parasite could shed light into the molecular mechanisms behind congenital transmission. In this project, we aim to use state-of-the-art genomic techniques to understand the relationship between T. cruzi genotype and the host genotype in congenital transmission of CD. Identifying the factors governing this matter will not only help to better understand the mechanisms behind the diseases, but it could also help to target the group of infected pregnant women at higher risk of transmission. We will examine the parasite and the host genotypes in blood samples from infected pregnant women transmitting and not transmitting the infection. We will assess parasite diversity by developing a new strategy for T. cruzi genetic typing based on the MinION, a portable long-read DNA sequencer. For the genotyping of the host, we will use genome-wide SNP arrays. We will use multivariate analysis for determining putative relationships between host and parasite genotypes and congenital transmission of CD. This project will provide the first attempt at determining genetic causes of congenital CD considering both, host and parasite genotypes by applying the state-of-the-art genomic techniques.

Keywords: chagas disease,congenital transmission,pregnancy,newborn,t cruzi,host parasite genotype,typification,snp array,nanopore sequencing
Life histories of the Neolithic Transition: Estimating and modelling European life history events and human fertility rates (EUROLIFE)

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-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-12-07
End date: 2017-12-06
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The EUROLIFE project will develop and test an advanced microscopic method for establishing human fertility rates in Europe over the period of the postulated Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT) c. 7000-4000 BC. Dental histological evidence taken from radiocarbon dated archaeological assemblages will be used to accurately estimate variation in female fertility rates across the NDT and clarify the precise origins, shape, and structure of the associated rapid European population growth. This work will simultaneously provide paleodemographic profiles for the archaeological samples studied, allowing reconstruction of ageing profiles and other life history events with a direct histological analytical method. For the first time an explanatory hypothesis for the NDT that predicts increased female fertility will be rigorously tested at both local and regional European scales with direct evidence from individuals’ life histories. This project will improve the Tooth Cementum Annulation (TCA) method to identify numbers of pregnancy/fertility events and to distinguish them from other life-history events. A clinical study on a large data set of human teeth (n. 200) with documented life-history information will enable rigorous archaeological protocols to be constructed. These protocols will be used to estimate fertility rates, life-history parameters, and aging profiles in a chronologically linked series of extant Mesolithic/Neolithic European skeletal collections in Europe. As multiple radiocarbon dates already exist for the proposed ancient samples and archaeological contexts, extant dates will be used to create preliminary Bayesian time-series models. In summary, the EUROLIFE project will develop and test a highly innovative analytical technique to establish fertility rates, life history events and ageing profiles within the context of their larger populations through time. It will also provide a robust clinically supported protocol for future demographic research.

Keywords: human life histories,human fertility,dental anthropology,tca method,paleodemography,prehistory,ageing profiles,bayesian oxcal radiocarbon modelling