Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Childhood Self-Control, Social Conditions, and Adult Health (SELFCONTROLHEALTH)

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-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-03-15
End date: 2020-03-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187866.0
EU funding (EUR): 187866.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The capacity to delay gratification and control impulses emerges in childhood and may profoundly shape the lifestyle behaviours and resulting health conditions that afflict many and burden health systems across Europe and rest of the world. Childhood self-control appears to be malleable and as such has been identified by policy-makers as a key prevention target with potential long-run benefits. Yet, empirical evidence demonstrating links from early self-control to adult outcomes remains scarce. This Fellowship will inform estimates of the benefits of fostering self-control by drawing on under-exploited childhood self-control measures from six pre-existing large scale (N>1,000) prospective studies of individuals whose health behaviour and health has been tracked for up to 55 years. Already, using these incredible resources the applicant has identified how childhood self-control predicts population patterns of smoking and weight gain across life. He now aims to advance this work and the scientific literature by identifying: (i) the specific life-span health consequences of early self-control (e.g. biomarkers, chronic conditions, mortality rates), (ii) the key behavioural and socioeconomic pathways that explain these linkages, and (iii) the social conditions where self-control may have the greatest health impact. The Fellowship will both enrich and benefit from the strengths of the host institution in Childhood and Human Development research. Strong input from a world-leading researcher in this area, Prof. Richard Tremblay, will help enable the applicant to make a disciplinary shift from behavioural medicine to an integrated life-course perspective where adult health is viewed through the lens of child development. This interdisciplinary mobility coupled with a strong programme of advanced training will ensure the Fellowship rapidly advances both the applicant’s career development and the exciting programme of work outlined in this proposal.

Keywords: behavioural medicine,health psychology
Sustainable development at the Black Sea (SUST-BLACK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Protection of the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, water , biodiversity and ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Romania
Call: Presidency event (conference): 'Sustainable development at the Black Sea' – Romania, first half of 2019 (H2020-IBA-SC5-PRESIDENCY-RO-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Romanian Presidency of the EU Council in the first Semester of 2019 is an excellent opportunity to build, strengthen, promote and disseminate its strategic goals, which are in accordance with the EU policies and objectives. Positioned both in the lower part of the Danube Region and the Western Black Sea, Romania has been strategically interested in strengthening cooperation in both regions. The “Sustainable Development at the Black Sea” Conference under the auspices of the EU Council Presidency is an excellent opportunity for Romania as well as the whole EU to take major steps towards the development, approval and implementation of a Strategic Agenda in the Black Sea region. This will support and guide the way towards a knowledge-based society, where innovation and smart activities bring the sustainable social and economic growth in the entire Black Sea region. The conference will bring together all major categories of stakeholders with active and potential roles in building a sustainable and innovative society in the Black Sea region. Besides the research and academic communities, the Conference will bring together actors from all the Black Sea countries, supporting a smart connection between Europe and Asia, aiming to bring to life the “Silk Road” of the future. Decision and policy makers, academics, professionals, local communities, environmental NGOs, business persons will work together in five parallel sessions. The scope is to identify policy options and priorities, as well as plan future actions. Outcomes of the parallel sessions will be used to strengthen and support the “Bucharest Declaration” aimed to build a Sustainable and Innovative Society around the Black Sea. The Conference will thus be a landmark also on a process started by the EC in 2016, which has grouped DG R&I, DG MARE, the Eastern Partnership and a group of researchers in the Black Sea countries to develop a strategic plan to back the smart and sustainable growth in the region.

Keywords: romanian presidency,conference,black sea,danube region
NightWatch - Clinically-proven detection and alert system for critical nocturnal epileptic seizures. (NIGHTWATCH)

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

More than 50M people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, characterized by uncontrolled seizures, and about 30% find no relief from those despite taking medication. Nocturnal seizures can be critical; each year at least 33.000 people in EU die of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), 40% of which could be prevented by attending the seizures on time. This is a continuous challenge for patients and caregivers, with important social and societal consequences (anxiety, depression, lack of sleep), and high intramural care costs (over €20 billion per year in EU). The NightWatch is a registered medical device that detects and notifies wirelessly remote caregivers in case of heavy nocturnal seizures in just few seconds. The bracelet uses a combination of heart rate and movement measurement, a unique AI algorithm conceived by three Dutch institutes specialised in epilepsy, automatically adapting to different patient patterns to minimize false alarm rate. It has been clinically tested and can detect > 90% of all types of urgent nocturnal seizures making it the most reliable system available. The NightWatch targets caregivers, patients and professionals who seek an effective alarm system for severe nocturnal seizures. It improves their quality of life giving them peace of mind, higher level of independency, reduces cost of care by reducing the need for intramural attention, and prevents deaths caused by SUDEP. With a trend to-wards home care and self-monitoring pushing market growth (expected to reach €4.0 billion in 2019), wearables becoming the preferred type of seizure monitoring. EU leads the seizure monitor devices market (46%), followed by North America (28%). NightWatch is the flagship product of LivAssured, a Dutch company created in 2013 as a spin-off to take over the commercial exploitation of the research results of the Tele-Epilepsy Consortium on nocturnal seizures. With its full commercial exploitation, we expect an accumulated profit of €19M and a ROI of 4

Keywords: epilepsy,seizure detection,sudep,wearable,nocturnal seizures,heart rate monitor,movement monitor
Charting key molecules and mechanisms of human immune Dysregulation (iDysChart)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and Immunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system, related disorders and their mechanisms, biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, innovative immunological tools and approaches, including therapies
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999263.0
EU funding (EUR): 1241971.25
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

The central challenge for the immune system is to efficiently recognize and neutralize foreign antigen while protecting self. If the latter fails, autoimmunity and/or autoinflammation may occur, as observed in many human diseases. Though several human genes involved in the process have been identified we still lack: i) a comprehensive appreciation of all contributing molecular pathways, ii) an understanding of the interplay and epistatic relationships among the various elements and iii) a satisfactory strategy to counteract dysregulation based on an understanding of the regulatory logic. I hypothesize that there is only a finite number of pathways involved and that it should be possible to mount a synergistic strategy to create a first chart of the entire “territory”. Key to this endeavor is the identification of sufficient elements by mapping immune dysregulation genes to “anchor” the chart onto signposts of which the human pathophysiological relevance is certain. From these signposts, contextualization and integration is achieved by interaction proteomics and network informatics mining the existing data universe, validated through biochemical and imaging tools to power an established set of immune assays. While it may be preposterous to claim feasibility with one ERC grant, I propose that once such a chart exists, even at initial low resolution, it can help reconcile disconnected observations and coalesce future work while being immensely improved in accuracy and mechanistic understanding by the entire community. iDysChart will work towards these goals by 1) identifying novel monogenic causes of autoimmune/autoinflammatory diseases, enabling elucidation of fundamental mechanisms, 2) creating a network-level understanding of molecular pathways of immune dysregulation and 3) employing chemical and genetic screens to complement human disease gene discovery in predicting the core human immune dysregulome and investigating potential avenues for therapeutic modulation.

Keywords: inborn error of immunity,immunodeficiency
Single Photons from Isotopically-pure Rubidium Atoms in a Long fibre (SPIRAL)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 132884.0
EU funding (EUR): 132884.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Single photon sources are essential for applications of quantum optics. For optical quantum computing the process is probabilistic and so the larger the number of photons the less time required for success. Therefore, there has been a push to increase the brightness of single photons sources. This goal of this action is to develop a source of heralded single photons with a very high spectral brightness, based on four-wave mixing in an alkali-vapour contained in a hollow core photonic crystal fibre. This will exploit the higher efficiency expected from using a hollow core fibre to boost the brightness of the single-photon source. Also, by using optical fibre technology, this photon source should be very simple to integrate into other systems. Once the photon pairs are generated, the major challenge of this system will be to split them from themselves, as well as removing the vast number of remaining pump photons. Since all three wavelengths of the light emerging from the fibre are very close to each other, and the beams are spatially overlapped, many common techniques (such as using interference filters and/or spatial filtering) will not work. However, we have identified a scheme using an atomic Faraday filter which will allow a beam splitter to be formed for the photon pairs, whilst simultaneously removing the pump photons.

Keywords: single photons,quantum optics,magneto optical effects,faraday effect,fadof,hollow core fibre,atomic physics
The Silence of States in International Law (State Silence)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499763.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499763.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

International law is the law between States. It is identified by observing the behaviour of States and deriving rules from their behaviour. But, what happens when States do nothing? Can States be bound by their own silence? Can international law develop through the silence of States? Can States be responsible for doing nothing? What happens when States do not appear before international courts and tribunals? These questions are immensely significant for States, international courts and tribunals, domestic courts, and individuals, who are all interested in knowing what the obligations of States are and how they can be enforced within and outside international courts and tribunals. Yet, there are major gaps in our understanding of the meaning of State silence and its legal effects. This project is the first comprehensive study of the silence of States in international law. It will explore and analyze whether the silence of States can bind them, and if so, under which circumstances; the role of State inaction for the responsibility of States; and the effect of State inaction in the field of international dispute settlement, focusing particularly on the proceedings before international courts and tribunals. It aims (a) to make a major contribution to knowledge on the meaning of silence by providing a comprehensive taxonomy of the ‘silences’ of States and on the legal effects of different ‘silences’; and (b) to critically analyse whether a change in the law may be called for. The project will conduct research in wide-ranging and geographically representative State practice available in the six official languages of the United Nations, international jurisprudence and literature. It will also employ empirical analysis of the reasoning of government officials’ and international judges in order to assess the advantages and disadvantages of States silence, in the form of non-appearance, in international judicial procedures.

Keywords: silence of states,inaction,sources of international law,responsibility of states,dispute,waiver,non appearance before international courts and tribunals
Deeply Explainable Intelligent Machines (DEXIM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 67.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Explanations are valuable because they scaffold the kind of learning that supports adaptive behaviour, e.g. explanations enable users to adapt themselves to the situations that are about to arise. Explanations allow us to attain a stable environment and have the possibility to control it, e.g. explanations put us in a better position to control the future. Explanations in the medical domain can help patients identify and monitor the abnormal behaviour of their ailment. In the domain of self-driving vehicles they can warn the user of some critical state and collaborate with her to prevent a wrong decision. In the domain of satellite imagery, an explanatory monitoring system justifying the evidence of a future hurricane can save millions of lives. Hence, a learning machine that a user can trust and easily operate need to be fashioned with the ability of explanation. Moreover, according to GDPR, an automatic decision maker is required to be transparent by law. As decision makers, humans can justify their decisions with natural language and point to the evidence in the visual world which led to their decisions. In contrast, artificially intelligent systems are frequently seen as opaque and are unable to explain their decisions. This is particularly concerning as ultimately such systems fail in building trust with human users. In this proposal, the goal is to build a fully transparent end-to-end trainable and explainable deep learning approach for visual scene understanding. To achieve this goal, we will make use of the positive interactions between multiple data modalities, incorporate uncertainty and temporal continuity constraints, as well as memory mechanisms. The output of this proposal will have direct consequences for many practical applications, most notably in mobile robotics and intelligent vehicles industry. This project will therefore strengthen the user’s trust in a very competitive market.

Keywords: zero shot learning,explainable ai
Massive QCD-Electroweak Corrections to Higgs Production Through Gluon Fusion at NNLO (EWMassHiggs)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

So far, the standard model has been an enormous success and even after years of experimental measurements no significant discrepancy between the predictions from computations assuming the standard model and experimental observations has been registered. In order to find an indication of new physics beyond the standard model, we will therefore need to improve the accuracy of both experimental data and theoretical predictions. While experimental predictions are automatically improved with each new measurement, there are various ways in which theoretical predictions can be refined. Most theoretical predictions for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are computed as an expansion in the strong coupling constant, as QCD corrections dominate scattering processes at hadron colliders. Due to the high energy in the collision, the mass of some particles is negligible in comparison, and computations are often performed considering all particles to be massless. To improve theoretical predictions, one can compute the scattering amplitudes describing a scattering event at the LHC to higher orders in the coupling constant. This requires us to compute scattering amplitudes with more and more loops as well as more and more external particles and is the standard approach to improve theoretical predictions. Another way to improve theoretical predictions is to relax some of the common approximations, like considering all particles to be massless, that are done in order to make the computations more manageable. In the proposed project, I will analyse the mathematical properties of scattering amplitudes with mixed QCD-electroweak corrections in order to improve current computational methods for such observables. In particular, I will compute corrections to Higgs production through gluon fusion at the LHC including both strong- and electroweak interactions at next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) with a full dependence on the mass of electro-weak gauge bosons.

Keywords: higgs,gluon fusion,mixed qcd ew,nnlo,elliptic polylogarithms,mass dependence,numerical evaluation
Development of an innovative welding process for the rapid assembly of thermoplastic brackets to thermoset-matrix composite structures (BRACKETWELD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Rapid Assembly Of Bracket For Structure-System Integration (H2020-CS2-CFP01-2014-01, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 332500.0
EU funding (EUR): 332500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of the BRACKETWELD project is to contribute to the green and cost-efficient integration of system and aircraft structure by the development of an innovative technology for the rapid assembly of thermoplastic brackets in general, and in particular PEI brackets, to thermosetting composite components currently used in aircraft structures. This innovative assembly technology is based on the idea of using the fast and efficient ultrasonic welding technology to assemble thermoplastic brackets to thermosetting composite structural components. As thermosetting materials cannot be welded, a thermoplastic surface media will be strongly attached to the thermosetting composite structure by a co-curing process, being this surface media used as an anchor interface for the latterly welding of the thermoplastic brackets by any fusion bonding technique, and especially by the ultrasonic welding. The key challenge for the development of this innovative technology will be the development of the appropriate surface media that must be compatible with the typical thermoplastic materials used for the injection of brackets, while at the same time achieving a high adhesion strength to the thermosetting composite laminate during the curing of the structural components. The integration of brackets into the structure of the aircraft will lead to significant weight, manufacturing costs and energy reductions compared to the current adhesive bonding methods, since is that there is no need for surface preparation, adhesives, and curing time nor expensive quality control procedures. The project is launched under the Platform 2 of the Large Passenger Aircraft IADP (LPA), “Innovative Physical Integration Cabin–System–Structure”, orientated to the development, assessment and selection of integrative concepts, which will be completed by specific technologies development to optimize assembly and integration of elementary parts, subcomponents and modules.

Keywords: ultrasonic welding,brackets,thermoset composites,surface media