Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative Intelligent Rail (IN2RAIL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Austria,Sweden,Sweden,Belgium,Finland,Poland,Poland,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Greece,Poland,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: I²I – Intelligent Infrastructure (H2020-MG-2014_TwoStages, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17998546.0
EU funding (EUR): 17998546.0
Participants: 69
Project status: CLOSED

IN2RAIL is to set the foundations for a resilient, consistent, cost-efficient, high capacity European network by delivering important building blocks that unlock the innovation potential that exists in SHIFT2RAIL: innovative technologies will be explored and resulting concepts embedded in a systems framework where infrastructure, information management, maintenance techniques, energy, and engineering are integrated, optimised, shared and exploited. IN2RAIL will make advances towards SHIFT2RAIL objectives: enhancing the existing capacity fulfilling user demand; increasing the reliability delivering better and consistent quality of service; reducing the LCC increasing competitiveness of the EU rail system. To achieve the above, a holistic approach covering Smart Infrastructures, Intelligent Mobility Management (I2M)and Rail Power Supply and Energy Management will be applied. Smart Infrastructure addresses the fundamental design of critical assets - switches and crossings and tracks. It will research components capable of meeting future railway demands and will utilise modern technologies in the process. Risk and condition-based LEAN approaches to optimise RAMS and LCC in asset maintenance activities will be created to tackle the root causes of degradation. I2M researches automated, interoperable and inter-connected advanced traffic management systems; scalable and upgradable systems, utilising standardised products and interfaces, enabling easy migration from legacy systems; the wealth of data and information on assets and traffic status; information management systems adding the capability of nowcasting and forecasting of critical asset statuses. Rail Power Supply and Energy Management create solutions to improve the energy performance of the railway system. Research on new power systems characterised by reduced losses and capable of balancing energy demands, along with innovative energy management systems enabling accurate and precise estimates of energy flows.

Keywords: rail power supply,energy management,systems approach,track,sandc,tunnels,bridges,maintenance,information,smart metering,monitoring,noise,vibration,dispatching system,iso55000,iso8000
Transforming Open Responsible Research and Innovation through CHARM (TORCH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Hungary,France,Netherlands
Call: Support for the Research and Innovation Dimension of European Universities (Part I) (H2020-IBA-SwafS-Support-1-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2163011.05
EU funding (EUR): 2163011.05
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

European Universities need to strategically rethink and contribute to define the role of Europe in the 21st century when the Planet faces unprecedented global challenges. Our future depends on our capacity to Reconcile Humanity with the Planet and, for this, we need a transformative European research and educational experience. The future CHARM-EU R&I dimension will promote a challenge-driven transformative agenda with a transdisciplinary and intercultural vision laying its foundation in 3 cross cutting principles of Responsible R&I: Interdisciplinarity/Transdisciplinarity, Gendered innovation, and Ethics and Integrity; and on 4 transformational modules: establishing a common R&I agenda and action plan; reinforcing cooperation with non-academic actors; mainstreaming of comprehensive Open Science practices; and involvement of citizens, civil society and public/cities authorities in R&I. The TORCH project will help CHARM-EU to become a complete European University by enhancing the academic and research networks already started with the Erasmus+ Project. The TORCH proposal will drive impact at three different levels: alliance level, institutional level and societal level, with priorities in accelerating and catalysing processes of institutional change, in stepping up the support to Gender Equality in R&I policy and in exploring and supporting citizen science. The future R&I dimension, based in three interconnected stages, represents three open questions: What, How and With Whom. The What focus on the challenges at which CHARM-EU will drive its efforts. Three thematic areas, related with the SDGs, have been proposed as a start aligned with the learning areas identified for the CHARM-EU pilot. The How is the approach to these challenges, CHARM-EU will build its R&I upon the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation and Open Science. Finally, the With Whom will foster transdisciplinary and interculturality through Cooperation and Engagement with other sectors.

Keywords: institutional transformation agenda,transdisciplinarity,knowledge creating teams,responsible research and innovation,open science,public engagement,business cooperation,common science agenda
Program Analysis for Safe and Secure Software Evolution (PASS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1955129.0
EU funding (EUR): 1955129.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Constant evolution is an inherent property of modern software systems. Software evolves to implement new features, adapt to new hardware and platforms, fix bugs and security vulnerabilities, or improve non-functional properties such as performance and energy consumption. While these changes have an overall positive impact, they are also responsible for a large number of critical bugs and security attacks. The reason is twofold: first, software changes are not vetted enough, due to the difficulty of reasoning about all possible new behaviours that they introduce. Second, even when critical errors in deployed changes are later discovered and fixed, users take a long time to update their software to the latest version, mostly because they are concerned about the potential negative impact of an update. The PASS project aims to tackle both problems and help software evolve safely and securely. It takes a holistic approach to the challenges of safe and secure software evolution, by combining offline program analysis to verify or comprehensively test software changes, with runtime mechanisms for keeping the software updated and secure against potentially erroneous changes that make it into the deployed system. This is an ambitious project, which requires fundamental advances at the intersection of program analysis, software engineering, and computer systems to develop practical cross-version specifications, scalable patch verification, in-production testing and analysis, and low-overhead reversible software updates.

Keywords: reliability,security,verification,testing,software updates,software evolution
Data Driven Precision Agriculture Services and Skill Acquisition (DRAGON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Twinning (H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2017-Twinning, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 962750.0
EU funding (EUR): 962750.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Precision Agriculture (PA) is an evolving farming management strategy using digital technologies & techniques to monitor and optimise agricultural production processes. PA methods, harnessing data streams from satellites, mobile phones, Internet of Things (IoT) and technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, have the potential to increase quantity & quality of agricultural outputs while reducing input (water, energy, fertilisers, pesticides, etc.) and waste. One of the main challenges facing PA is a low rate of adoption of PA technologies & practices, especially concerning the "big data in agriculture". One of the reasons is the lack of skills for executing efficient communication and in turn fuel the adoption rate of the data-driven PA innovations. There is also a need to enhance scientific & technological (S&T) skills for executing sophisticated data analytics on multiscale/multisource agricultural data, addressing all classes of data source, environment/region/individual farm/individual animals/plants, in order to extract more accurate and impactful actionable information and knowledge from the combined data. DRAGON capacity-building strategy will enable expertise and skill transfer from Agri-EPI Centre, the UK and Wageningen University in the Netherlands to BIOS in order to enhance 1) BIOS’ researchers’ S&T capacity for performing multi-scale/multi-source data analyses; 2) BIOS’ researchers’ capability to communicate practical big data-related knowledge to various stakeholders across the supply chain and the non-scientific local communities. Specifically, this means that BIOS knowledge technologies research group, currently focused on data analytics only (science-driven research), will be enhanced through DRAGON into BIOS Knowledge & Innovation Group (KIG) concentrating on interdisciplinary innovation-driven R&D within a co-creation environment. Post DRAGON BIOS’ KIG will be competitive in the PA sector on European and Global levels.

Keywords: data science,big data,data storytelling
Novel NMDA receptor signaling in cortical synaptic depression (NovelNMDA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1340544.0
EU funding (EUR): 1340544.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Long-term synaptic plasticity is an experience dependent increase or decrease in synaptic signaling between nerve cells that can last from hours to days or even longer. It is thought to represent the cellular substrate of learning and memory by providing an information storage mechanism in the brain. At many excitatory synapses, plasticity-induction processes involve NMDA receptors, glutamate-gated ion channels. I recently discovered a new form of NMDA receptor signaling during spike-timing dependent long-term depression at layer-4-to-layer-2/3 synapses in rodent somatosensory cortex, which requires glutamate binding to the NMDA receptor but not ion flux through its channel. This non-ionic signaling mechanism via the NMDA receptor represents a strikingly overlooked signaling pathway at glutamatergic synapses, and its discovery may overturn much of the long-term depression field, which has focused on calcium influx through the NMDA receptors as the relevant signal in plasticity. Indeed, the discovery of non-ionic NMDA receptor signaling in the postsynaptic membrane even calls into question our current understanding of the basic properties of synaptic signaling. By combining electrophysiology and two-photon imaging and uncaging, we will address the fundamental properties of non-ionic NMDAR dependent plasticity at cortical layer-4-to-layer-2/3 synapses, determine in which synaptic subcompartment plasticity occurs, assess whether signaling depends on a particular NMDA receptor subtype, and examine whether non-ionic NMDA receptor signaling represents a general mechanism at other glutamatergic synapses. This work will lead to a detailed functional understanding of the novel non-ionic NMDA receptor signaling process and its role in synapse function and plasticity.

Keywords: nmda receptor,spike timing dependent plasticity,long term depression,synaptic plasticity
Festival of Science European Researchers' Night 2018 - 2019 in Slovakia (ERN18-19 SVK)

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: Slovakia
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 520000.0
EU funding (EUR): 299600.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

European Researchers' Night has been successfully implemented in Slovakia from 2007 and has covered 5 from 8 regions all over Slovakia. In 2017 festival took place in 5 cities, the event featured more than 1.470 researchers and innovators and was attended by uEuropean Researchers' Night has been successfully implemented in Slovakia from 2007 and has covered 5 from 8 regions all over Slovakia. In 2017 festival took place in 5 cities, the event featured more than 1.470 researchers and innovators and was attended by up to 155.000 visitors. The core element of the project success is the close communication and cooperation with R&I community. Festival programme gives enough space to all scientific disciplines and tries to cover every field of research in Slovakia. Increasing of young people attendance, namely pupils and students, is supported by creative activities and direct communication with researchers not only from academic community but also innovative companies. The main objectives are to increase awareness of research and public recognition of researchers and their work by presenting latest outcomes and encourage young people to embark on research career and stimulate their interest in study of STEM disciplines. The concept for ERN 2018-2019 will have the same focus, but with two different themes. The main theme of ERN 2018 in Slovakia is “Researchers in us” and for 2019 will be “Try it! It´s SCIENCE”. Active participation of researchers from different institutions focusing on various subjects of research will create great platform for showing young people how lively and impulsive could scientific career be. People will have an opportunity to spend all day visiting different presentations, stands, lectures and discussions, testing scientific applications, and getting in touch with real researchers. Thanks to these direct exchanges and discussions they can discover the "human face" of researchers and are more likely to remember their successes or stories.

Keywords: science communication,public recognition of researchers,innovators,promotion of research careers,cultural heritage,design,slovakia,100 years of czechoslovakia
Superfluidity and ferromagnetism of unequal mass fermions with two- and three-body resonant interactions (PoLiChroM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Superfluidity and magnetism characterize a wealth of interacting fermion systems encompassing solid-state, nuclear and quark matter environments. From the interplay of these phenomena, the two following issues have been raised: Can superfluid pairing bear a mismatch in the two Fermi surfaces? Can a homogeneous fermion system become ferromagnetic via a zero-ranged interparticle repulsion? Despite decades of interdisciplinary investigations, such questions have not gotten undisputed answers so far. Here, I will experimentally address these problems with a new model system composed of ultracold fermionic Chromium and Lithium atoms with resonant interactions. The two species will mimic electrons of different spins, or quarks of different colours, but exhibiting the high degree of control of an atomic quantum simulator. In particular, two features make this system stand far beyond any other available one: the peculiar Chromium-Lithium mass ratio enables a resonant control of three-body elastic interactions on top of the usual two-body ones, together with an extraordinary suppression of atom recombination into paired states in the regime of strong interspecies repulsion. The first property greatly enhances the observability of elusive polarized superfluid regimes, such as the Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phase, where pairs condense in nonzero momentum states, and the Sarma or “breached pair” phase, where a homogeneous gapless superfluid coexists with unbound particles. The second makes such mixture a prime platform for the quantum simulation of Stoner’s model for itinerant ferromagnetism, whose study has been denied in nowadays experiments, where pairing instability plagues the formation of sizeable magnetic domains. I will use high-resolution imaging of the system and state-of-the-art spectroscopy schemes for disclosing such exotic phases via a thorough investigation of the phase diagrams of Fermi-Fermi mixtures with attractive or repulsive interactions.

Keywords: few body physics
Discovery and Characterization of Hydrogen-Based High-Temperature Superconductors (SuperH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1432500.0
EU funding (EUR): 965022.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

After the discovery of superconductivity at above 200 K in the hydrogen sulfide system, two clear conclusions can be drawn: i) there is lots of room for discovering new hydrogen-based high-temperature superconducting compounds, and ii) first-principles calculations can guide the discovery of these materials. In fact, the possibility of high-temperature superconductivity in the hydrogen sulfide system had been predicted before the experiment. However, in order to be accurate and reliable for this type of compounds, first-principles calculations need to go far beyond the state-of-the-art to correctly incorporate the large quantum effects intrinsic to hydrogen atoms. Huge errors on the superconducting properties of materials are often obtained with state-of-the-art methods, misguiding experimental effort. In this project we will develop a new method that will make first-principles calculations correctly incorporate such quantum effects and, thus, reach an unprecedented precision and accuracy. With the use of the novel first-principles method we will characterize correctly the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen-based superconductors, aiming at understanding clearly why and when these materials become high-temperature superconductors. We will also investigate the possibility of high-temperature superconductivity at ambient pressure in this type of compounds. In the end of the project, we will focus our theoretical effort to the discovery of new high-temperature superconductors, focusing on hydrides, hydrogen-storage materials, and organic compounds.

Keywords: superconductivity,first principles calculations,hydrogen compounds,quantum lattice vibrations
European Researchers' Night in Latvia 2018-2019 (NIGHTLV-2018-2019)

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: Latvia,Latvia,Latvia,Latvia,Latvia
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 261053.75
EU funding (EUR): 209203.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the Project is to raise the awareness of the larger public, especially young people, about science as well as to familiarize them with the scientist’s profession; to show the impact of sciences such as natural sciences, social sciences and humanities on everyday human life; to bring researchers closer to the Latvian society and to raise the interest of young people about research. Aim of the activities is to enhance public recognition of researchers’ profession and their role in Latvian society. A number of attractive, amazing and interactive events will be organized in Riga and in a number of towns covering the whole territory of Latvia.

Keywords: researchers night public event