Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Technique in the Arts. Concepts, Practices, Expertise (1500-1950) (ARTECHNE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1907944.0
EU funding (EUR): 1804889.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The transmission of ‘technique’ in art has been a conspicuous ‘black box’ resisting analysis. The tools of the humanities used to study the transmission of ideas and concepts are insufficient when it comes to understanding the transmission of something as non-propositional and non-verbal as ‘technique’. The insights of the neurosciences in, for example, the acquisition and transmission of drawing skills are not yet sufficiently advanced to be historically restrictive. However, only in the most recent years, the history of science and technology has turned to how-to instructions as given in recipes. This project proposes to undertake the experimental reconstruction of historical recipes to finally open the black box of the transmission of technique in the visual and decorative arts. Considering ‘technique’ as a textual, material and social practice, this project will write a long-term history of the theory and practice of the study of ‘technique’ in the visual and decorative arts between 1500 and 1950. The three central research questions here are: (1) what is technique in the visual and decorative arts, (2) how is technique transmitted and studied, and (3) who is considered expert in technique, and why? This project will make a breakthrough in our understanding of the transmission of technique in the arts by integrating methodologies typical for the humanities and historical disciplines with laboratory work. Also, by providing a history of technique in the arts, this project lays the historical foundations of the epistemologies of conservation, restoration and technical art history precisely at a moment of greatest urgency. The connection between the history of science and technology and the expertise in conservation, restoration and technical art history (in the Ateliergebouw in Amsterdam) this project envisions builds the intellectual infrastructure of a new field of interdisciplinary research, unique in Europe.

Keywords: history of knowledge,art and science,recipes
Assessing Climate TransItion OptioNs: policy vs impacts (ACTION)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2023-05-02
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269002.56
EU funding (EUR): 269002.56
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

ACTION project aims at enhancing transparency and comparability among countries’ climate change policies while offering insights into a fair and just transition toward the sustainable development. The Paris Agreement, adopted at the end of 2015, affirms the urgency to tackle climate change and foster a climate-resilient and inclusive low-carbon development. The pledge-and-review approach launched by the Agreement requires more than 190 States to periodically update their climate plans toward more ambitious actions. This calls for new systematic tools to track countries’ commitment toward the achievement of global objectives (i.e. limiting the average temperature increase well below 2°C) as well as for a comparison, which considers synergies and adverse impacts arising from national specificities. Falling at the intersection of public policy, climate change economics and climate science, ACTION will develop a quantitative approach to empirically evaluate national climate policies in terms of stringency, determinants, and economic impacts. By assessing the effectiveness of current measures and by identifying successful elements and obstacles, ACTION will support the EU and its Member States to better design their future climate agenda. ACTION will be hosted in two highly qualified institutions: during the outgoing phase (24 months) at Harvard University, under the guidance of Prof. Aldy, and during the incoming phase (12 months) at Ca’Foscari University under the supervision of Prof. De Cian.

Keywords: climate change policy,policy evaluation,applied econometrics,public policy
Future proofing strategies FOr RESilient transport networks against Extreme Events (FORESEE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Resilience to extreme (natural and man-made) events (H2020-MG-2017-Two-Stages, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4995147.5
EU funding (EUR): 4995147.5
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

Transportation systemic risks are not well understood across modes, regions, and critical interdependent sectors, creating uncertainty about risks resulting from a major system disruption. There is a lack of resilience schemes, especially for the long term, integrated into transport infrastructure due to the inability to monetize resilience for investment decisions, and there are also strong barriers to its implementation to operating practice. The overall objective of FORESEE is to develop and demonstrate a reliable and easily implementable toolkit for providing short and long term resilience schemes against traffic disruption due to flooding, landslide and structural damage for rail and road corridors and multimodal terminals. It will help move towards a performance based risk assessment framework, relying on: a) an update on best available methodologies, practices and solutions with data-enhanced: models, solutions and cost benefit assessments, b) the development of new solutions regarding drainages, pavements and landslides, and c) a detailed strategy for its successful implementation, integrated into the infrastructure life-cycle usual procedures. Prestandardization activities will be carried out throughout the life of the project. The FORESEE toolkit will include: a) A reliable Data Acquisition System, satellite and terrestrial, b) A Situation Awareness System for the prediction and alert of extreme events c) New materials and systems regarding permeable pavements; drainage and culvert systems, and slope stabilization systems d) A Decision Support System to provide better informed resilience schemes e) Guidelines on Standards, Design and Technological recommendations. The setting up of a Stakeholders Reference Group at early stages of the project, will guarantee the accounting for the demands and the acceptance of all endusers. FORESEE will enhance international Cooperation by twinning with world leading institutes.

Keywords: structural health monitoring,decision support systems,satellite data,landslides,pavements,resilience,transport infrastructure,extreme events,adaptation strategies
Extensible Processing Units (XPUs) as Enablers of the High-Performance Low-Power Embedded Market (XPU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

According to Frost & Sullivan (2017), https://store.frost.com/global-autonomous-driving-market-outlook-2018.html, in 2024 there will be in Europe more than 1.5 million cars which will have at least conditional automation with each car requiring an average of about 2000€ in chips to enable automatic driving. Thus the total available market in Europe will reach 3000M€ in 5 years with a robust CAGR of 30%. Markets in USA and China will be of similar size. The requirements for Level 5 autonomous cars (fully-autonomous vehicles with performance equal to that of a human driver in every driving scenario including extreme environments) will require substantially high processing power not currently available with today’s microprocessors. Processors in future cars not only must deliver increasing higher computing power but also they must do so as efficiently (low-power) as possible given strict automotive safely constraints. Furthermore, fully-autonomous cars require robust real-time features and dynamic balance between safety, performance and power. In contrast, current microprocessors are either high-performance but are not power efficient (e.g., Intel), or are low-power but unable to reach top performance (e.g., ARM), and generally do not have a strong real-time capability. These key bottlenecks are hindering advances towards fully automated vehicles. MOSAIK has defined a novel modular architecture designed from the ground-up to solve these urgent challenges. To keep European Industry leadership (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/our-insights/a-long-term-vision-for-the-european-automotive-industry) setting the framework for car connectivity and user experience is a must. And to do so European industry needs a European Semiconductor company able to reach very high-performance at low power and provide the balance between performance, security and power consumption the industry is asking for.

Keywords: risc v isa,hpc high performance computing,automotive industry,aerospace,robotics
A Physics-Informed Machine-Learning Platform for Smart Lagrangian Harness and Control of TURBulence (Smart-TURB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Italy
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2248875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2248875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Where is it difficult to control, predict and model a flowing system? to search and navigate inside it? to be prepared against extreme events? to tame them? It is in turbulent flows. Turbulence is ubiquitous and unsolved from the point of view of out-of-equilibrium fundamental physics, uncontrollable from the engineering aspects, and a deadlock for brute-force numerical and experimental investigations. Indeed, progress by using conventional methods has been slow. In this project, I propose to explore new avenues crossing the boundaries between Theoretical Engineering and Applied Physics using algorithms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to study and control turbulence in an innovative way using smart Lagrangian objects in a vast array of flows. I am committed to: (i) develop original applications of AI algorithms to track and harness moving coherent structures and/or statistical turbulent fluctuations, (ii) optimise flow navigation of buoyant objects and active surface drifter, (iii) invent collective search protocols to locate emissions from fixed or floating sources, (iv) minimise turbulent dispersion of a swarm of autonomous underwater explorer and (v) perform new in-silico experiments for data-assimilation, to predict extreme-events, or to control turbulent fluctuations by novel Lagrangian injection/adsorption mechanisms. The unifying fil-rouge of my project is to gain a Deep Understanding of turbulence by performing cutting-edge Lagrangian numerical studies. The project is both methodology oriented, with the grand challenge of developing fully unconventional applications of (Deep) Reinforcement Learning for fluid dynamics, and problem driven, delivering a series of specific optimal control strategies for important realistic flow set-ups and applications to the geophysical fields. With my experience and the impact of my contributions in the discipline, I am confident that I offer the highest chances to carry out this ambitious project with success.

Keywords: turbulence computational fluid dynamics lagrangian fluid dynamics extreme events intermittency data assimilation nudging reinforcement learning optimal control field taxis
Tailor-made Recycled Aggregate Concretes (TRAC)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Sweden,China,Thailand,Viet Nam,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 450000.0
EU funding (EUR): 450000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Concrete is the main construction material used on earth. The increasing population and urbanization has led to construction of new high-rise buildings and demolishing existing old low-rise ones. This has become not only the cause of natural resources depletion at an alarming rate but also gradually becoming a challenge for environmental preservation. Concrete industry consumes a majority of natural resources and produces a large amount of construction waste. In order to ensure sustainable, cost-effective but still profitable concrete production, extensive research is needed to investigate how concrete industry can produce green concrete by using less nature resources and producing less waste. The aim of the proposed research is to develop tailor-made concretes by using more recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) for structural applications. The use of RCA as granular material in pavement design has been a long history. However its use in structure concrete has not been widely accepted, primarily due to the poor quality found in RCA. To overcome this technical difficulty one has to understand the behaviour of RCA and to find a way in which the quality of the RCA can be improved and controlled during its mixing process. This requires a systematic research into various specific aspects of RCA and recycled aggregate concrete products. This proposed RISE programme is to bring together an international team of researchers with a wide variety of skills, to tackle the challenges faced by construction industry. The proposed research covers the fundamental study of cementitious materials as well as their applications in different construction fields. The outcome of the research will provide vital information on how to revolutionise the production of concrete materials and how to engineer concrete mixes using various different components to tailor-made the properties of the resulting concrete.

Keywords: construction technology,durability,fire safety,concrete mix design
Set to change: early life factors restricting and promoting neurocognitive plasticity through life (Set-to-change)

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: Norway
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999996.88
EU funding (EUR): 1999996.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Cognitive function in old age can be predicted from how you functioned when you were young. This is remarkable, as there are substantial cognitive age changes. Are we neurodevelopmentally set to change through life in certain ways? The objective of Set-to-change is to test whether and how early life environmental factors and genetic makeup interact to regulate neurocognitive plasticity through the lifespan. Neurocognitive plasticity; i.e. changes in brain and cognition in response to environmental demands over time, shows huge individual variability, for unknown reasons. Neurodevelopmental origins of functional variation through the lifespan are acknowledged, but the pathways need to be identified. As individual constitution and environment are intrinsically correlated, to make progress beyond state of the art, this can only be tested in an experimental setting. The novelty and ground-breaking nature of the project lies in the synthesis of a targeted experimental approach testing differences in neurocognitive plasticity by training of younger and older adult mono- (MZ) and dizygotic twins (total n = 400 individuals), with varying degrees of prenatal environmental variance, as indexed by their extent of discordance in birth weight (BW). BW discordance in MZ twins enables me to disentangle early environmental and genetic influences on neurocognitive plasticity. I will employ a novel ecologically valid memory intervention utilizing navigation with true locomotion and prospective memory in virtual reality. Twins will be assessed with brain MRI, cognitive, health and epigenetic measures at multiple time points spread across 2.5 years pre- and post- 3 months intervention in a AB/BA crossover design, to investigate neurocognitive plasticity and age change longitudinally, as well as possible lifestyle and epigenetic mediators. I hypothesize that early life environmental influences will interact with genetic makeup in determining neurocognitive plasticity in adulthood.

Keywords: lifespan,neuroimaging,plasticity
Eco-innovative maceration system based on LFHP ULTRAsound technology for WINEmaking (ULTRAWINE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1131262.5
EU funding (EUR): 791359.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

AGROVIN will put in the market ULTRAWINE, a low frequency high power (LFHP) ultrasound equipment designed for optimizing the extraction of phenolic compounds from grape skins during the first stages of winemaking. Our proposed innovation allows completing the grape maceration process in 6 hours while current systems take approximately 4 days, with 30 times less energy and the ability to process triple amount of grape. ULTRAWINE renders a high quality must with an intense colour and aroma, setting the adequate basis for an excellent wine. The general objective of ULTRAWINE is to put into the market a high performance equipment to assist the extraction of phenolic compounds in the grape peels based on low frequency high power (LFHP) ultrasound technology, in a period of 24 months, with the aim of selling an accumulated amount of 130 units by 2021.

Keywords: wine,phenolic compounds,meceration,grapes,efficiency,ultrasound,vinification
Promoting Energy efficiency & Developing Innovative Approaches in schools (PEDIA)

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: Cyprus
Call: Aggregation - Project Development Assistance (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 500000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Large-scale energy renovations of school buildings have a high perceived investment risk, while the many actors involved deem the endeavour an even more complex procedure. The importance of energy renovation of buildings has been addressed by National (NEEAP, NECP) and EU (EPBD, Green Deal) policies. PEDIA was conceived for removing legal, administrative, technical, and market barriers, eliminating the existing fragmentation through the achievement of the following objectives: 1.Upgrade of 25 schools to the Nearly Zero Energy Building (NZEB) level and improvement of the thermal comfort levels for the users 2.Activation of an Innovative Financing Solution for schools’ energy efficiency upgrading 3.Establishment of a long-term energy renovation strategy for school buildings 4.Increase of energy savings, Renewable Energy Sources penetration, and reduction of CO2 emissions 5.Monitoring and continuous improvement of energy efficiency through Energy Management Systems - EMS (ISO 50001) Thus, PEDIA introduces a procedural framework for schools’ energy upgrade to meet NZEB level, by integrating to the existing renovation practices a selection ranking system, energy audits, Green Public Procurement (GPP), and an Innovative Financing Solution. The ranking system will assist the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth in Cyprus to the selection of school buildings for energy upgrade, based on environmental, energy, socioeconomic criteria. Upon finalization, the conduction of the energy audit will indicate the cost optimal energy interventions, which in turn will provide the technical specifications for the GPP. As a final step, the establishment of an EMS to the school buildings will ensure future energy savings and continuous improvement of energy performance. Ultimately, the PEDIA project will directly trigger 7.5 M€ investments in energy upgrades of school buildings and will build solid long-term capacity to further renovate the whole school building stock in Cyprus.

Keywords: energy renovation,energy efficiency,nearly zero energy buildings,renewable energy sources,schools