Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Scanner for novel chemical reactions (CHEMREACTIONSCAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept (ERC-2017-PoC, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149875.0
EU funding (EUR): 149875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Funded by the ERC-Starting Grant COMBIPATTERNING, we have developed a novel nanolayer-based synthesis based on patterning different materials with laser radiation in form of a pan-cake spots in array format. Our synthesis robot can do it for many different materials, for >40.000 spots per glass slide, in exactly defined stoichiometries, and for <200 € costs. The robot uses short laser pulses to transfer <1ng “punched-out” material per spot from a donor foil to a synthesis slide. Then, the reactants embedded in the nano thin polymer pan-cake spots can mix with each other and thus undergo chemical reactions by heating the synthesis slide. Due to the large progress in MALDI imaging and the fluorescent scanners, the results of the reactions can be analyzed in the same array format. The masses found by MALDI imaging in some spots might help us to identify unknown chemical reactions. We believe that the nanolayer-based synthesis developed by us might be a basis for future chemistry stations linking scientists and accelerating their studies to screen for novel chemical reactions in a high throughput manner. Instead of studying the interaction between reactants in a single test glass, the chemists will just spin-coat their educts on microscope slides and supply them together with a file for desired reactant combinations to the server - chemical reaction scanner. Therefore, we want to verify the innovation potential of the nanolayer-based synthesis that should find a market where a novel synthesis strategy on combining novel building blocks should be developed, especially, in the field of novel bioactive chemicals and fluorophores.

Keywords: synthesis from nanolayers,array format,small compounds
Sounds of Dissent: Popular Music and Politics in Brexit Britain (PoPoliBB)

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: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In this research I explore sounds of dissent in Brexit-Britain in contexts of authoritarian populism and post-truth. I look specifically into the liberal and conservative poles of British dissent vis-à-vis the UK’s decision in 2016 to withdraw from the European Union. I do this through various music-related discourses that range from discussions on Brexit’s effects on British music industries and musicians, through to its coverage in social media, albums and collaborative music projects, to the intertwining of its discursive and sonic dimensions in Britain’s three festivals combining politics, arts and music; namely, Glastonbury Festival, The World Transformed Festival and Big Tent Ideas Festival. I accordingly pose the following research questions: What specific kinds of musical and music-related forms of discourses does dissent take in contemporary Britain in relation to the Brexit debate and wider political concerns? How can these popular music discourses inform our understanding of the past, present and future of Brexit-Britain, and what are the wider global implications of this? I build an interdisciplinary framework that draws on prior studies of popular music and politics in combination with perspectives from anthropology, sociology, human geography, critical theory, and feminism. Using the said approaches, I conduct a textual and discourse analysis with reference to eclectic sources, including art-based and ethnographic evidence. Critically, PoPoliBB represents the first major study to map out the discursive field of popular music and Brexit, and to point out to the complexities as well as paradoxes of political meaning-making, identities and collectivities associated with it. PoPoliBB’s outcomes will open up new avenues for studies of popular music and politics, notably through the use of art-based research methodology. They will also be exploited for the promotion of academic activism and intersectoral cooperation.

Keywords: popular music and post brexit politics,british music festivals,cultural studies of music,ethnography,art based research,textual and discourse analysis
Innovative Multi-disciPlinary European Research training netwOrk on VolcanoEs (IMPROVE)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Iceland,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Germany,Italy,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4043158.2
EU funding (EUR): 4043158.1999999997
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Based on previous and current international projects and initiatives, IMPROVE aims at training the new generation of volcano scientists who manage inter-disciplinary understanding and knowledge, pursue innovation, and cooperate in an inter-sectorial, Open Science environment. IMPROVE ESRs are trained to grow as independent scientists with broad overviews and top level expertise, able to convert their knowledge, ideas and skills into scientific advance as well as economic and social benefits. The consortium involves nine academic Beneficiaries, and three Partners constituted by one Energy State Company and two technology-developing SMEs. The underlying research aims at the definition of the underground structure and dynamics of volcanic and geothermal systems, with innovative objectives expected to impact significantly volcano science as well as science-industry relationships; and involves exploration and monitoring methods, disciplines like geology, geophysics, geochemistry, engineering, informatics, and theoretical and experimental approaches. The program includes two multi-disciplinary Field Experiments, four Network Schools, five Specialized Short Courses, three ESRs’ Workshops, one Network Workshop on science-business relationships, nine Digital Training Modules, and a Final Conference. Multidisciplinary data will be managed through a Data management Plan, and organized in a database fully available to the consortium and, after project closure, accessible by the broadest scientific community. ESRs’ training-through-research develops under multi-disciplinary team work and multiple tutorships, and includes as major training elements a variety of transferable and soft skills aimed at growing a generation of young scientists who are highly attractive for science as well as for the industry.

Keywords: volcano exploration,magma dynamics,volcano dynamics,geothermal exploration,geothermal flow circulation,volcano monitoring,science,industry relationships
Oral and Written Language interactions (OWLi)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-04-28
End date: 2023-04-27
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The development of new technologies changes the ways we use language, constantly switching from oral to written language, when we text, talk on the phone, or write an email, making it timely to study language modalities and their interactions. Speaking and writing differ at least on the motor actions they require. Nonetheless, the cognitive processes leading to word selection are likely to be similar. Establishing precisely the specificities of speaking and writing in terms of cognitive, linguistic and motor processes, as well as neural pathways, remains to be accomplished. The aim of this project is to identify the commonalities and differences between language modalities, by looking at collaborative and competitive processes at play between modalities. This project takes advantage of a combination of cutting-edge behavioural, electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques to tackle the questions at hand. First, I will evaluate the interaction between language modalities when learning the oral and written forms of novel words. Specific processes are in place during language acquisition, making it important to examine learning contexts separately. The originality of this study resides in investigating response execution mechanisms (e.g., spoken durations), and not only response initiation (e.g., reaction times). Second, I will evaluate the structural and dynamic interplay between language modalities at the neural level, combining electrophysiology and neuroimaging. By examining speaking and writing within the same experiments, this study aims to provide a more complete picture of language processing. This action will constitute an important body of knowledge relative to the modalities of language production, both during and after learning. Speaking and writing are crucial parts of our daily life and elucidating mechanisms underlying their interaction has direct implications for language education, as well as for developmental disorders (e.g., dyslexia).

Keywords: language production,typing,word learning,neuroimaging
Complexity and Simplicity in Economic Mechanisms (COMPECON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2026706.0
EU funding (EUR): 2026706.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

As more and more economic activity is moving to the Internet, familiar economic mechanisms are being deployed at unprecedented scales of size, speed, and complexity. In many cases this new complexity becomes the defining feature of the deployed economic mechanism and the quantitative difference becomes a key qualitative one. A well-studied example of such situations is how the humble single-item auction suddenly becomes a billion-times repeated online ad auction, or even becomes a combinatorial auction with exponentially many possible outcomes. Similar complexity explosions occur with various markets, with information dissemination, with pricing structures, and with many other economic mechanisms. The aim of this proposal is to study the role and implications of such complexity and to start developing a coherent economic theory that can handle it. We aim to identify various measures of complexity that are crucial bottlenecks and study them. Examples of such complexities include the amount of access to data, the length of the description of a mechanism, its communication requirements, the cognitive complexity required from users, and, of course, the associated computational complexity. On one hand we will attempt finding ways of effectively dealing with complexity when it is needed, and on the other hand, attempt avoiding complexity, when possible, replacing it with ``simple'' alternatives without incurring too large of a loss.

Keywords: games,auctions,fairness,concrete complexity,equilibrium,internet
Quantum readout techniques and technologies (QUARTET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Italy,Finland,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2651971.25
EU funding (EUR): 2651871.25
Participants: 7
Project status: SIGNED

The general aim of this proposal is to exploit quantum information to develop new powerful methods for the retrieval and recognition of classical data from physical systems. More precisely, we aim at showing a substantial quantum-enhancement in several fundamental tasks: (1) the readout of classical data from digital memories (quantum reading); (2) the recognition of classical patterns (quantum pattern recognition); (3) the optical measurement of concentration in fragile biomedical samples (quantum bio-probing); and (4) the microwave detection of target objects (microwave quantum illumination or quantum radar). These objectives are realized starting from the optimization of a general theoretical model at their basis: quantum channel discrimination. This is then developed into technical aspects which directly support our experimental proof-of-principle demonstrations. Our experimental prototypes could open the way to much more powerful and radically new forms of information and detection technologies, with direct benefit for science and the wider society. Thanks to the superior performances in the low energy regime, quantum reading may increase data-transfer rates and storage capacities of current digital memories by orders of magnitude. Quantum pattern recognition could have remarkable long-term applications in biology and medicine, in terms of non-invasive analysis of very fragile biological samples or human tissues, and better recognizing hidden patterns associated to bacterial growths or cancerous cells. Such results could provide future non-invasive techniques of medical imaging for private and public hospitals. Finally, the realization of a working prototype of a quantum radar may have non-trivial applications for the European security technology.

Keywords: quantum technologies,quantum correlations,quantum hypothesis testing,quantum sensing,data storage,pattern recognition,optical memories
Gut-brain-axis: Targets for improvement of cognition in the elderly (SmartAge)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Ireland,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Sweden,Hungary,France,France,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3946980.96
EU funding (EUR): 3946980.96
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

In Europe, the population is aging. The age-associated decline in cognitive functions represents a serious social and medical problem. Recent studies show that changes in lifestyle such as physical activity and nutritional interventions – even late in life –are beneficial for cognition. The microbiome in the gut is a central effector in the maintenance of brain plasticity and therefore represents a promising target as well as sensor for interventions that aim to improve cognitive ability in the elderly. Detailed and concise scientific investigations of gut-brain interactions, in particular in the elderly, are limited. Such studies require a multidisciplinary approach and a combination of experts from various fields. The aim of our network is to train a new generation of young scientists within a multidisciplinary consortium. The ESRs will engage in individual and well defined, jointly supervised research projects, securing excellent career perspectives and employability. By enabling ESRs to design and conduct studies in this economically and socially important field, SmartAge will elucidate the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in aging and its impact on cognition. SmartAge will apply a translational approach combining animal and human studies, nutritional and life style interventions, cognitive tests, brain imaging, cutting edge OMICS and systems biology as well as fecal transfer as proof of principle to identify key regulators of gut-brain communication with the aim to develop microbiome-based therapies. An expert team of scientists from both academia and industry such as clinicians, psychologists, nutritionists, biotechnologists and bioinformaticians will closely collaborate to strengthen microbiome research in aging which will have a direct impact on cognitive health in Europe. Specialists for public communication outreach will ensure effective and efficient transfer of outcomes to policy makers and into the everyday life of the European population.

Keywords: aging,cognition,microbiome,microbiota,gut brain axis,brain imaging,life style interventions,nutrition,physical activity
Open Innovation Digital Platform and Fablabs for Collaborative Design and Production of personalised/customised FMCG (DIY4U)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Finland,Norway,Romania,Norway,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Open Innovation for collaborative production engineering (IA) (H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6772397.5
EU funding (EUR): 5986274.5
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

DIY4U aims to develop and promote the adoption of collaborative production engineering approaches in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector. The concept is an extension of the format for paint customization at a DIY store where they can make any small quantity of any colour a customer requires. It focuses on particulate and liquid FMCG like detergents, cosmetics, food, etc. To limit the project’s scope, we will exemplify DIY4U with detergents and soaps as they are amongst the most complex FMGCs to formulate, represent 84.6 billion € market, and allow us to test DIY4U for both particulates and liquids. A key DIY4U differentiator vs. paint machines is the use of web-based portals to allow users to design their own products from home with a much broader range of performance attributes (than just colour) and then have these produced and delivered in a “designed for you” way. For example, DIY4U will enable a consumer to design and make a personal version of a washing powder with more stain power, or cosmetic (e.g. cream/foundation) that better matches an individual’s complexion. The lack of relevant digital infrastructure and efficient small-scale manufacturing facilities limits FMCG product personalisation/customisation. DIY4U will address the blockers of product customisation and small-scale manufacturing by developing an Open Innovation (OI) digital B2B/B2C platform and small-scale automated manufacturing machines (fablabs) for collaborative design and production of personalised/customized FMCG.
Smart European Energy Performance AssessmeNt And CErtificAtion (ePANACEA)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Spain,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Finland,Greece,Greece
Call: Next-generation of Energy Performance Assessment and Certification (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2653113.64
EU funding (EUR): 2466204.31
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

After 10 years of track record, the current EPCs schemes across the EU face several challenges which have led to not fully accomplish their initial objectives: lack of accuracy, a gap between theoretical and real consumption patterns, absence of proper protocols for inclusion of smart and novel technologies, little convergence across EU schemes, lack of trust in the market and very little user awareness related to energy efficiency. The objective of the ePANACEA project is to develop a holistic methodology for energy performance assessment and certification of buildings that can overcome the above mentioned challenges. The vision is ePANACEA becoming a relevant instrument in the European energy transition through the building sector. ePANACEA comprises the creation of a prototype (the Smart Energy Performance Assessment Platform) making use of the most advanced techniques in dynamic and automated simulation modelling, big data analysis and machine learning, inverse modelling or the estimation of potential energy savings and economic viability check. A relevant part of the project is to have a fluent dialogue with European policy makers, certification bodies, end-users and other stakeholders through two types of participatory actions: on the one hand a feedback loop with policy makers will be carried out through the so called Regional Exploitation Boards (REBs) covering EU-27+Norway+UK, and the dialogue with the end-users will be established by means of specific thematic workshops. Thanks to these participatory actions we will ensure that ePANACEA approach is aligned with and meets the needs of national public bodies, end-users and other stakeholders with a view to test the acceptance and to validate the methodology developed. ePANACEA will demonstrate and validate reliability, accuracy, user-friendliness and cost-effectiveness of the methodology through 15 case studies in 5 European countries.

Keywords: energy efficiency,epc buildings,calibrated simulation,dynamic simulation,inverse modelling,modular approach,smart meters,automatization,participatory process,exploitation board,cost eff