Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Becoming Muslim: Cultural Change, Everyday Life and State Formation in early Islamic North Africa (600-1000) (EVERYDAYISLAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498688.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498688.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Muslim conquests of North Africa in the 7th century transformed the everyday lives of communities– between 800-1000, the region experienced an economic ‘Golden Age’, visible in the growth of urban populations, intensified exchange across a vast trading system and the introduction of new agricultural practices and technologies. New social-religious norms underpinned the development of a distinctly ‘Islamic cultural package’ marked by the spread of new aesthetics, public and private architecture and Muslim dietary practices. Despite significant recent advances, much of our knowledge continues to reflect the experience of rulers and elites, rather than the bulk of the population. Our understanding of the timing and process of these innovations is hampered by a reliance on later literary sources, monumental architecture and the high arts, the absence of high-resolution archaeological data and an incomplete understanding of what these changes meant for the people living on the ground. Through new excavations and scientific analysis using state-of the-art methods, legacy datasets and written sources, this project will explore the underlying reasons for the spread of Islamic way of life in North Africa between ca. 600-1000 CE. In so doing, this project aims to make a paradigmatic shift in scholarly understanding of the impact of Muslim rule by focusing on local populations, their houses and their everyday practices. It will take a comparative approach and study long-term changes in housing, agriculture, diet and technology in three key regions: 1) the central Medjerda valley in Tunisia, the famed granary of Roman and Islamic Africa; 2) the fertile Sebou Basin in Morocco, at the centre of the Idrisid state; 3) the Saharan oasis belt of the Wadi Draa in Morocco, on the margins of settled life. The ambitious objective is to rewrite the history of Muslim rule and the Islamisation of daily life from the perspective of the communities living through this pivotal period.

Keywords: muslim rule,islamic world,north africa,islamic archaeology,daily life
The role of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) in plant acclimation to ambient light (RPAAL)

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: Czechia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 144980.64
EU funding (EUR): 144980.64
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) is an evolutionarily conserved histone methyltransferase complex that catalyses trimethylation of lysine 27 of histone H3 (H3K27me3), which leads to epigenetic gene repression. In Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana), CURLY LEAF (CLF) and SWINGER (SWN) are two major H3K27 methyltransferases and core components of PRC2 in the sporophyte, playing essential roles in the regulation of plant development. However, the knowledge of how PRC2 participates in operational control in plants is scarce. Recently, altered phenotypes of PRC2-depletion mutants grown under different light intensities were observed. Hence, here I raise the hypothesis that PRC2 acts in fully differentiated cells to modulate the ambient light acclimation. At first, short- and long-term light acclimation responses that require PRC2 activity will be identified, employing plant morphology and physiology tools. Next, PRC2-governed molecular mechanisms and PRC2-modulated light signaling pathway in the light acclimation will be established. Molecular tools (RNA-seq and ChIP-seq) will be used to profile transcriptome and H3K27me3 distribution to establish the patterns of epigenome and transcriptome alteration in WT and mutants. At last, the focus will expand to select other chromatin modification mutants displaying altered light acclimation responses. In summary, for the first time, dynamics of PRC2 repression in fully differentiated cells in response to light acclimation will be determined and it will lay a solid foundation for studying other chromatin modifiers in future. The project builds on combining my experience in plant physiology and ecology and gaining research experience in the field of developmental epigenetics. The fellowship proposal is designed in a way to enhance my independent thinking capacity, organizational and management skills and responsibilities, which are necessary to become an excellent and independent researcher and group leader in the future.

Keywords: histone post translational modification,polycomb repressive complex 2,light acclimation,photosynthesis
Learning through Categories in Social and Economic Interactions (LTCSEI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: France,France,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1523217.01
EU funding (EUR): 1370434.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The analogy-based expectation equilibrium (Jehiel, 2005) has been introduced to cope with strategic environments in which agents form their expectations by bundling data that come from different sources (see also the valuation equilibrium defined in Jehiel and Samet, 2007). An essential next step is to make progress on when and how subjects bundle data to facilitate learning. Various principles are proposed to discipline the choices of analogy partitions in ABEE and of similarity classes in VE: the observation-based principle views the bundling as a consequence of a lack of accessibility to missing information in past interactions, the psychologically-based principle views categorizations as the consequence of observed similarity in early interactions, the culturally-based principle views the bundling of actions into similarity classes either as a consequence of a common labelling of actions or as a consequence of ethical considerations that lead us to think of different actions as having similar consequences. The impact of such principles will be studied both theoretically and experimentally with the goals of explaining a number of new phenomena and shifting the conventional wisdom in behavioural economics that has pointed out a number of anomalies in behaviors without systematically relating them to imperfections in the learning process. In addition, I will be concerned with the aggregation of different types of feedback such as data on one own performance or data on others’ attitudes in multi-context environments, as well as putting the proposed approach of learning through categories in the broader perspective of the literature on bounded rationality

Keywords: learning through categories,bounded rationality,heuristics
A Novel Solution for Aircraft Washing and De-Icing (Runway-Star)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3551315.0
EU funding (EUR): 2485920.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Runway Star RS-500 is a fully automated dual-use aircraft de-icing and washing facility designed to address two significant industry problems. First, de-icing of aircraft is a safety-critical yet costly process. It relies on skilled operators manually applying up to 5000 litres of de-icer, which is both wasteful and environmentally damaging.. RS-500 will reduce de-icing fluid use, eliminate wind-borne losses and improve airport efficiency by reducing washing and de-icing cycle times. It lowers costs, recovers up to 95% of excess fluid and provides full audit trails. The second industry problem relates to the current inability of airline operators to cost-effectively clean aircraft. Currently, washing coincides with infrequent aircraft servicing. Dirty aircraft consume1-2% more fuel due to increased aerodynamic drag. RS-500 will integrate efficient, automated washing within its de-icing facility, allowing airlines to increase wash frequency, reducing fuel consumption. With a payback of less than 18 months, RS-500 is an attractive investment for stakeholders and the system has generated overwhelming interest from airport owners, aircraft operators, and ground handlers. Scale model demonstrations and de-icing trials have been completed with excellent results. The system provides a new approach to washing and de-icing operations and MSG have recently applied for patent coverage in Europe, the US and Canada. The project has already received significant offers of support, engineering expertise and components for the control system. Customers are waiting - a state airport operator has already indicated their interest in purchasing 4-8 systems, subject to successful demonstration activities. Horizon 2020 financial support is essential to enable MSG Production to demonstrate the system and exploit significant market opportunities.

Keywords: de icing,washing,aircraft,safety,transport efficiency,aerospace,fuel use,environment
New RAN TEchniques for 5G UltrA-dense Mobile networks (TeamUp5G)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Greece,Norway,Switzerland,Poland,Portugal,Denmark,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3722253.48
EU funding (EUR): 3722253.48
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

In TeamUp5G we believe that motivation from involvement and engagement is key to learning. We want to place creative young researchers in front of the real world, enabling them to work on real-life technical issues, working across multiple European countries and organizations, presenting at workshops in front of industrial users/stakeholders, and becoming involved in standardization activities. We also want to provide them with communications skills, the ability to work in groups and an understanding of integrity and ethics in research. The project focus is ultra-dense small cell systems as an important component in future heterogeneous 5G networks (commercial deployment in 2020) and beyond. TeamUp5G considers aspects such as enhanced multi-antenna techniques, efficient backhaul/fronthaul, massive MIMO, communications in the millimetre-wave bands and visible light communications, as well as spectrum sharing and aggregation to enhance system capacity, decrease delay and energy consumption, and improve overall service quality. The research team of 15 young researches supervised by committed experts from the industry and academia will advance the state of the art with the design of novel physical/link/medium access control algorithms and protocols to enhance capacity and user satisfaction, new dynamic spectrum management, opportunistic optimisation of radio resources and cognitive radio techniques, together with self-organization capabilities, with different levels of collaboration, and techniques and methodologies to save energy. Both mobile broadband and internet of things applications and traffic will be harmonised. The new developed techniques will be analysed by simulation and prototyping and some show-cases (immersive video, drones) will be developed to illustrate the novelty and applicability of our ideas. The consortium will train the young researchers on how to contribute and will actively participate in the activities of standardization bodies.

Keywords: small cells,energy awareness,spectrum management,interference management,5g hetnets,massive mimo,millimeter waves,visible light communication,full duplex,data gathering,security
Molecular diversification of inhibitory neurons during development (GIDE)

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: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493382.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493382.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cortical interneurons are a diverse class of inhibitory neurons that play a particularly important role in the stability of the neural circuits underlying cognitive and higher order brain functions. A growing body of evidence suggests that perturbation of interneuron development can result in a variety of complex neuropsychiatric disorders, including autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Thus, elucidating how interneurons develop and integrate into canonical brain circuits is crucial for understanding the brain in both health and disease. During perinatal development, intrinsic and environmental processes cooperate to establish the adult form of brain connectivity and behaviour control. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying these interactive processes, I propose to combine genetic fate-mapping techniques with high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing technologies to gain a detailed understanding of neurogenesis at the cellular level and elucidate how an immense diversity of interneuron subtypes is generated (Aim 1). Furthermore, I will utilize a novel retroviral barcoding strategy to reveal how much of an interneuron’s fate is genetically predetermined by lineage within progenitor zones of the ventral forebrain (Aim 2). Finally, I will study the genetic mechanisms that enable cell intrinsic programs to be shaped by environmental activity-dependent processes during the critical window of development (Aim 3). Candidate genes resulting from these aims will be functionally characterized through gain of function and loss of function methods. This proposal takes full advantage of my extensive training in viral and mouse genetic techniques, single-cell transcriptomic data processing, and in vivo manipulation of neuronal activity. I am confident that I will be able to successfully complete the proposed aims while exploring fascinating and long-standing questions of developmental neurobiology.
SYNERGISTIC APPROACH OF MULTI-ENERGY MODELS FOR AN EUROPEAN OPTIMAL ENERGY SYSTEM MANAGEMENT TOOL (Plan4Res)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom
Call: Tools and technologies for coordination and integration of the European energy system (H2020-LCE-2017-SGS, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3905060.0
EU funding (EUR): 3905060.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Plan4RES is a collaborative research and innovation project which aims at developing an end-to-end planning tool to successfully increase the share of renewable energy into the European Energy system without compromising on system reliability. The targeted platform will account for the Pan-European interconnected electricity system, potential synergies with other energy systems, emerging technologies and flexibility resources, providing a fully integrated modelling environment. Moving away from a monolithic approach will enable to overcome mathematical and computational challenges. The objective is to strive towards a system where a multiplicity of models, properly organized in a functional hierarchy, synergistically contribute to the analysis of such complex systems. Targeting all main stakeholders of the power system, from generation to retail through grid operators, this innovative modelling platform will deliver a full system planning capability while considering a large set of future uncertainties, thus acting as a decision making tool for future investments. Allocation of multi-energy resources, system flexibility, assets portfolio assessment, advanced ancillary services or impact assessment of regulation are among the key features that the tool will deliver. Three case studies will provide the necessary validation of the platform, showing the adequacy and relevance of the developed modelling framework, especially key advances included in Plan4Res (multi-energy integration, investment planning under uncertainties, TSO/DSO flexibility Cost integration…) and data base. Those studies, performed on a European scale, will also demonstrate the efficiency of the modelling and solving of the tool. Moreover, the case studies will demonstrate the benefit of using tailored versions of Plan4Res for various stakeholders: multi technology provider, TSO, utility or energy provider.

Keywords: electricity,pan european energy network,end to end energy system planning tool,flexibility,modelling
NBIA INTERACTIONS POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAMME (INTERACTIONS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4854960.0
EU funding (EUR): 2427480.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Niels Bohr International Academy (NBIA) is a permanent research centre within University of Copenhagen. It functions as a primary venue for basic research in theoretical and mathematical physics, including the model description of physical systems and data. Constantly focusing on new developments, the NBIA spearheads the introduction of new research areas by attracting international, high-profiled young scientists working on brand-new topics. NBIA provides the unrestricted intellectual environment essential to enable curiosity-driven, breakthrough research by fostering a cross-disciplinary scientific culture. To this end, the NBIA endeavours to attract to Denmark the best and brightest international talent from all over the world, with total commitment to selecting the very best candidates, regardless of race, religion or gender. INTERACTIONS supports the ambitious goal of the NBIA is to become the leading European institution of its kind. The idea behind the Niels Bohr International Academy is a throwback to the days when scientific breakthroughs resulted from close interactions between people driven by their own curiosity. INTERACTIONS: With this application for an ambitious EU-supported programme called INTERACTIONS we aim to use the NBIA as a platform to enhance the internationalization and cross-fertilization among different subjects within theoretical physics and associated sciences for the benefit of Europe. Through this programme we will train some of the brightest theoretical physicists available from all over the world. We provide • Exceptional opportunities to interact and collaborate with top international research environments • Opportunities to develop independent research projects and create independent research groups • Employment under world leading salary and work conditions • Acquisition and sharpening of scientific and technical skills to strengthen fellow career opportunities

Keywords: theoretical physics,mathematical physics,international collaboration,excellence
Advanced telemedicine button-based platform as a versatile solution for care organisations to manage elderly patients medication and treatment plans remotely (Klikkit)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1372185.0
EU funding (EUR): 960529.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Klikkit combines Bluetooth buttons, a hub (hardware) and a software platform. A set of independent colour-coded buttons allow end-users to confirm adherence of treatment, e.g. taking pills on time. The buttons are re-programmable and can alert the end-user by sound at any interval specified. The button can be directly attached to any type of treatment, e.g. a pill box, a cream, an inhaler or even a water bottle. Any end-user can use as many buttons as they like. The buttons are designed to be highly visible and alerts are very easy to hear. Each button is dedicated to a treatment, and the client can name each accordingly via the software platform. The input from the buttons provides the client with an overview fed into current health management systems on individual treatment adherence. Programming of a button is as easy as using any smart-phone app. The hub compares to an internet router. It is an install-and-forget device, which supports stability and ease-of-use of the solution. The software platform can integrate with any health management solution, and compiles input from the buttons, i.e. patient adherence information. The platform offers overviews of input from end-users individually, in groups and as a population.

Keywords: medication adherence,buttons smart trackers,elderly,habit forming,chronic diseases,behavioral science