Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Smart, Personalized and Adaptive ICT Solutions for Active, Healthy and Productive Ageing with enhanced Workability (AgeingatWork)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Active ageing and self-management of health
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Belgium,Greece,Poland,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Adaptive smart working and living environments supporting active and healthy ageing (H2020-SC1-DTH-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3995750.0
EU funding (EUR): 3995750.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Ageing@Work will develop a novel ICT-based, personalized system to support ageing workers (aged 50+) into designing fit-for-purpose work environments and managing flexibly their evolving needs. Advanced dynamically adapted virtual models of workers will incorporate specificities in respect to skills, physical, cognitive and behavioral factors, being extended from the work context to personal life aspects interacting with workability, health and well-being. Virtual workplace models will encode characteristics of the workplace (factory, outdoor work site, home), at both physical and semantic, resource/process levels. On top of the models, computational intelligence will be responsible to (a) assess user specificities and needs i.r.t. work conditions, both in terms of ergonomics, health and safety issues and task assignments, and (b) perform personalized predictive simulations on workability, health and well-being. Recommendations will then be provided both to the worker and company (under strict privacy restrictions), on how the working conditions must adapt. The worker models will be populated by highly unobtrusive worker sensing, both at work, at home and on the move. To foster workability and productivity, highly personalized, intuitive, age-friendly productivity, co-design enhancement tools will be developed, including ones for AR/VR-based context-awareness and telepresence, lifelong learning and knowledge sharing. On top of these, a novel Ambient Virtual Coach (AVC) will encompass an empathic mirroring avatar for subtle notifications provision, an adaptive Visual Analytics –based personal dashboard, and a reward-based motivation system targeting positive and balanced worker behavior at work and personal life, towards a novel paradigm of ambient support into workability and well-being. The integrated system will be developed by user-centered design and will be evaluated at two pilot sites, related to core Industry 4.0 processes of mining and machines production.

Keywords: virtual models,computational intelligence,ergonomics,personalized predictive simulations,productivity enhancement tools,telepresence,ambient virtual coach,industry 4 0
Palaeogenomes of a lost world: Ancient bovids of the submerged Palaeo-Agulhas Plain of southern Africa (PalaeoBovids)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219312.0
EU funding (EUR): 219312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The recent, detailed palaeoecological characterisation of a drowned ecosystem off the southern coast of Africa, known as the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (PAP), has placed subfossil collections of African bovids from archaeological sites along this coast into meaningful environmental and temporal context. For the excellent work done to describe this palaeoecosystem, genetic characterisation of the mammals that roamed its plains is lacking, despite an abundance of subfossils available. In this Action, I will use palaeogenomics techniques to generate ancient mitochondrial genomic data of six African bovid species spanning five time periods over the past ~100,000 years, including the present. The target species represent three broad feeding guilds: grazers- Cape buffalo, long-horned buffalo (extinct) and southern reedbuck, a mixed feeder- common eland, and browsers- grey rhebok and Cape grysbok. These data will be used to investigate drivers of temporal changes in genetic diversity, such as climate change, range-size change due to the emergence and submergence of the PAP with changing sea levels, the emergence of pastoralism in human societies, over-hunting by colonial settlers, and recent population fragmentation, and whether different feeding guilds were affected discordantly. The project will be hosted by Assoc. Prof. Eline Lorenzen, a respected expert in the field of African bovid phylogeography and ancient DNA, at the GLOBE Institute at the University of Copenhagen, which houses a world-leading ancient DNA facility. This Action will improve my current scientific and transferable skills and will provide the opportunity for me to learn valuable new skills that will considerably enhance my future career prospects. In this Action, I will generate the first population-level palaeogenomic data of wildlife from southern Africa and contribute novel and valuable insights into the population dynamics of African bovids in relation to climate, humans, disease and extinction.

Keywords: ancient dna,palaeogenomics,bovids,africa,conservation genetics,late quaternary,phylogeography,species distribution modelling
European University for Well-Being - Research (EUniWell Research)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Hungary,Sweden,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Support for the Research and Innovation Dimension of European Universities (Part II) (H2020-IBA-SwafS-Support-2-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998063.75
EU funding (EUR): 1998063.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

EUniWell’s mission is to contribute to the well-being of society, the planet and of the academic community - by steering research, innovation and education programmes towards contemporary societal challenges. During the preparation of the 2nd EUniWell E+ proposal, EUniWell has update its research priority areas, which provide the agenda of our 5 Research Arenas: • Health and Well-being • Social Equality and Well-being • Environmental Change and Well-being • Well-being in Teaching Future Generations • Culture, Multilingualism and Well-being. EUniWell#research: • sets up the conditions for a coordinated EUniWell research agenda, creating both the leadership and the digital collaborative working conditions and infrastructures for research on the promotion of well-being. Expert focus groups feed this strategy, and the Well-Being Incubator is set up to catalyse joint inter-/transdisciplinary research solutions to the complex well-being challenges . • taps into the potential created by the new, European scale of action to accelerate the digital and green transitions and the implementation of Open Science approaches with respect to FAIR data, digital method and infrastructure sharing. Because Open Science is about the science-society interface, we will provide specific training modules to our staff so that outreach beyond academia is a natural part of their research activity. • caters for the need of transversal career support for researchers, also with two key moments in mind: the early-career stage and then access to leadership roles. The EUniWell Skills Taxonomy ensures that the skills we develop are aligned with our well-being agenda and also the needs from our external partners. The EUniWell Research Training Academy promotes transversal skills as crucial elements of a balanced career development, fostering well-being among our staff.

Keywords: research,innovation,human capital,open science,digital transformation
GLOBal Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity research (GLOBIS-B)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Support and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: International cooperation for research infrastructures (H2020-INFRASUPP-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1005875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1005875.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Biodiversity and ecosystem research is addressing the grand societal challenge to predict the biosphere under global environmental change. To advance scientific progress in understanding the complexity of natural systems it is required that supporting research infrastructures cooperate globally to serve the essential data at different temporal and spatial scales. This includes providing the capabilities to process big and massive datasets. GLOBIS-B is a global cooperation of world-class research infrastructures with a focus on targeted services to support frontier research that deals with predicting the biosphere and measuring the indicators of biodiversity change. The project brings key scientists together with global research infrastructure operators and legal interoperability experts to address research needs and infrastructure services underpinning the concept of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs). EBVs were proposed by the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) and are a prerequisite for understanding biodiversity and ecosystem change. Integrated scientific and technical workshops will identify the required primary data, analysis tools, methodologies etc. to develop an infrastructure development agenda for computing EBVs and to explore the discovery of required and interoperable data at larger spatial and temporal scales. Applications of common standards and workflows that are ‘self-documenting’ and openly shared facilitate international cooperation, and realistic and pragmatic solutions are explored to streamline the legal bottlenecks for the reciprocal use of data and software tools from different origins. Solutions should be workable for both the scientific communities and the cooperating research infrastructures, especially in regard to achieving direct machine-machine interactions. The interaction with national, supra-national and global policy bodies contributes to potential refinements of general policies supporting legal interoperability.

Keywords: global infrastructure cooperation,ecosystem and biodiversity science,essential biodiversity variables,global change,legal interoperability,user priorities,workflow development
Cultural HERItage and the planning of European LANDscapes (HERILAND)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,Israel,Germany,Sweden,Poland,Sweden,Sweden,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Canada,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 58.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4003318.4
EU funding (EUR): 4003318.4
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

European countries have a long and successful history of conserving their rich heritage and landscape assets in town and country, and of capitalising on them culturally and economically. Throughout the 20th century, great progress was made in creating structures and promulgating principles to guide heritage and landscape conservation, but as the 21st century proceeds, society is challenged by new far-reaching changes. These include various forms of migration, greater digital connection, environmental degradation and climate change, shifts in the public/private balance in society at large, and a renewed pressure for growth. Confronted with such a fast-changing context, heritage management needs new ideas, tools and training to ensure that interdisciplinary, research-based heritage, landscape management and spatial planning are positively integrated with business activity, development and democratic decision making. Through HERILAND, a consortium of 7 key academic and non-academic organizations, with 21 partners in civil society and business, aims to empower a new generation of academics, policy makers, practitioners, professionals and entrepreneurs. Our research design positions heritage in the frame of five transformation processes which we identify as key challenges to the heritage management of the 21st century: The Spatial Turn, Democratisation, Digital Transformations, Shifting Demographies and Contested Identities, and Changing Environments. Using this framework, 15 PhD researchers will be provided with advanced training combining theoretical and instrumental knowledge in a series of research seminars, living labs and secondments with our public and private partners. By doing this, HERILAND will establish a new pan-European, trans-national, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research and training standard, which will be codified in a HERILAND Handbook for Heritage Planning and instrumentalised through an ongoing HERILAND College for Heritage Planning.

Keywords: landscape as heritage,heritage planning,co creation of sustainable heritage landscapes,heritage and democratisation,shifting demographies,changing environments and digital transformations
Training the Next Generation of Experts in Scalable Low-Code Engineering Platforms (Lowcomote)

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: Austria,Austria,Spain,Italy,Estonia,Italy,Spain,Hungary,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
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): 3941855.05
EU funding (EUR): 3941855.05
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

Low-code development platforms (LCPD) are software development platforms on the Cloud, provided through a Platform-as a-Service model, which allow users to build completely operational applications by interacting through dynamic graphical user interfaces, visual diagrams and declarative languages. They address the need of non-programmers to develop personalised software, and focus on their domain expertise instead of implementation requirements. Lowcomote will train a generation of experts that will upgrade the current trend of LCPDs to a new paradigm, Low-code Engineering Platforms (LCEPs). LCEPs will be open, allowing to integrate heterogeneous engineering tools, interoperable, allowing for cross-platform engineering, scalable, supporting very large engineering models and social networks of developers, smart, simplifying the development for citizen developers by machine learning and recommendation techniques. This will be achieved by injecting in LCDPs the theoretical and technical framework defined by recent research in Model Driven Engineering (MDE), augmented with Cloud Computing and Machine Learning techniques. This is possible today thanks to recent breakthroughs in scalability of MDE performed in the EC FP7 research project MONDO, lead by Lowcomote partners. The 48-month Lowcomote project will train the first European generation of skilled professionals in LCEPs. The 15 future scientists will benefit from an original training and research programme merging competencies and knowledge from 5 highly recognised academic institutions and 9 large and small industries of several domains. Co-supervision from both sectors is a promising process to facilitate agility of our future professionals between the academic and industrial world. re

Keywords: low code development platforms,citizen developers,collaborative development,model driven engineering
PORTABLE MONITORING SOLUTION TO SUPPORT CONTINUOUS, ACCURATE AND RELIABLE EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT OF NANOMATERIALS (NMs) FOR HUMAN HEALTH RISK ANALYSIS (NANOWATCHER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NanoWatcher is a low-cost and highly accurate innovative instrument, IPR protected, to detect and quantify nanomaterials in air to be used by non-specialised staff. Exposure to nanomaterials (NMs) (particles below 100 nm) leads to up to 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide because they are more toxic than the same material conventionally sized, able to penetrate the lungs and increase the risk of explosion in industrial settings. Moreover, 6 million workers will potentially be exposed to nanoparticles (NPs) by 2020. Current instruments to detect and quantify NPs have significant limitations in detecting polydisperse airborne NPs at industrial facilities, measure unspecific size fractions for human health (<450 nm), are costly (>€12,000), bench-top (>10kg), non-remote operated and use solvent-based working fluids. In addition, they require highly skilled professionals for data interpretation. Nanowatcher is the very first particle counter designed specifically for NM exposure assessment with selective cut-off diameters of 300 and 450 nm, 1-second resolution, and operated with smart data acquisition software for data interpretation by non-expert users. The main benefits of our solution include: portable (<2kg), remote sensing, real-time exposure analysis, stand-alone continuous operation (120h) for long-term exposure studies, water as its working fluid, low maintenance (>18 months), and low price (€6,000). Our targets are occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals working in: (i) Companies manufacturing NMs or nano-enabled products (7,706 in the EU); (ii) Companies exposed to hazardous fine dust particles (>60,000 in the EU); and (iii) External OHS services (~8,500 in the EU). We estimate that the successful implementation of the NanoWatcher project will allow us to steadily reach, after 5 years of commercialisation, €26.7 M in turnover, 29 new direct jobs, and a Return on Investment (ROI) of €4.16 per euro invested.

Keywords: nanomaterials,airborne nanoparticles,human health,exposure monitoring,nanosafety,indoor air quality,risk assessment,measurement devices,nanoparticle concentration,ultrafine particles
Function and Evolution of Attack and Response Strategies during Allelopathy in Plants (FEAR-SAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms, biotechnology for environment and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences, bioengineering and synthetic biology, biomass and biofuels, biohazards
Countries involved: Germany,Austria
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 916786.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In natural and agricultural habitats, plants grow in organismal communities and therefore have to compete for limited resources. Competition between different crop plants and between crops and weeds leads to losses of potential agricultural product and requires heavy use of fertilizer and herbicides, with negative effects for the environment and human health. Plants have evolved various strategies to outcompete their neighbours and to secure their access to resources; one of them is the release of toxic chemical compounds into the soil that interfere with the growth of neighbouring plants. Many of today’s major crops, such as wheat, rye and maize, produce phytotoxins. Conversely, crop species also suffer from chemical attack by other plants growing in their vicinity. Although many of the chemical compounds applied in this biochemical warfare have been identified, we know little about how they act in the target plant; neither do we understand how some plant species are able to tolerate this chemical attack. FEAR-SAP studies the genetic architecture that underlies biochemical plant-plant interference and the evolution of weed resistance to crop-released phytotoxins. To this end it employs a comprehensive array of molecular genetics, genomics and metagenomics analyses, unprecedented in the research on plant-plant competition. The aims of FEAR-SAP are to uncover the molecular targets of plant-derived phytotoxins and to identify the genetic components that are essential for tolerance to these substances. Moreover, FEAR-SAP investigates how the microbial community that is associated with the plant might enhance efficiency of the donor and/or mediate tolerance of the target plant. Ultimately, we will use this information to explore intelligent engineering of more refined and competitive crops, which will be at the foundation of efficient and ecologically responsible weed control and improved crop rotation strategies.

Keywords: plant plant competition,allelopathy,microbiome,population genomics,chromatin