Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Who gives life? Understanding, explaining and predicting donor behaviour (DONORS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2024-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1252720.0
EU funding (EUR): 1252720.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Background: Why do individuals repeatedly help strangers even when this incurs personal costs? Current evidence on prosocial behaviour is contradictory, scattered across disciplines, restricted to one-country studies, not taking into account contextual influences, and fails to capture its dynamic nature. An integrated model is needed to increase understanding of prosociality as a societal core value. Aim: To break with monodisciplinary approaches, and grasp the dynamic and contextual nature of prosocial behaviour, I propose a life course model to link individual determinants, social network characteristics and societal contexts. I will test the model in the case of blood donation, as example of real world prosociality where a stranger is helped at a donor’s personal costs. Approach: DONORS comprises three interlinked work packages. 1) Dynamic interplay among individual and network determinants of donor behaviour over the life course. 2) Genetic determinants of prosociality. 3) Contextual variation in donor behaviour. To validate my model, I use six unique, complementary datasets, including prospective, retrospective, country-comparative survey, genetic and registry data. Innovation: 1) A multidisciplinary view —including demography, sociology, psychology— within a dynamic life course approach to enhance theory building. 2) A multi-method design, linking sociological survey with objective health-registry data and combining psychosocial with genetic data. 3) Using country-comparisons to account for the societal contexts in which donor behaviour occurs. Impact: DONORS will inspire a new era of multidisciplinary research on prosocial behaviour. With backgrounds in Medicine, Social Sciences and Psychology, years of experience in science and practice and high-level, award-winning international publications, I am uniquely suited to combine insights from social and health sciences to set the stage for a comprehensive, innovative scientific view on donor behaviour.

Keywords: life course approach,blood donor behaviour,behavioural genetics,country comparison
Talent Attractiveness, A Competitive Edge For European SMEs (TALENT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Netherlands
Call: Peer learning of innovation agencies (H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2019-05, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

TALENT project is aiming at sharing experience and knowledge, but also challenges and issues to design best practices about Talent Attractiveness for the benefits of local SMEs, in a measurable and replicable manner. Because talent is one of the key resources for the SMEs, and for private companies in general, TALENT consortium of three European economic development and innovation agencies working respectively in Lyon (France), Berlin (Germany) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands) decides to assess what innovative measures shall be undertaken to support SMEs in their talent attractiveness effort. Gaining, keeping, and retaining talent is currently one of the highest priorities of business and more generally economies and their stakeholders. Hence, and because each territory is unique in its drivers and assets, peer-learning is the most valuable way to improve existing and create new dynamics for methodologies geared towards European SME communities. To reach the goals, the consortium will work in a dual collaborative mode: working as a group, and involving each relevant local stakeholders to contribute to the initiative, first of which the SMEs and their community leaders. The peer-learning process will be divided in three steps: (a) get an actual picture of the existing practices, needs and challenges in the three cities, Lyon, Berlin and Rotterdam, (b) improve and design methodologies to support SMEs’ challenges to attract talent, (c) finalize the Design Option Paper with generic approach for replication among other European regions. During the workshops organized in each step, definition, identification, targeting and attracting Talent will be on the agenda priority. The consortium is looking to identify best practices, applicable for any territory interested to investigate of the talent attraction dynamics, from the learning experience of each of the three territories.

Keywords: talent,attractiveness,human resources,competitiveness
Smart motes for industrial and utility inspections (SMarble)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: FET Innovation Launchpad (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-03, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Pipe networks for both industry and utilties face a major replacement investment over the next decenium as many of these networks are reaching the age for which they where build. Without proper inspection techniques however we may be replace perfectly good pipes and leaving bad ones as we simply do not know their state. Industrial mixing tanks are heavely used in the proces industry and are a major energy user in plants as larger masses have to be brought into motion. Optimizing this proces could improve the quality of the mixing proces and lower the energy usage. Both cases would benefit from enhanced inspection methods and the floats from the Phoenix project are already making their way to these systems. Within SMarble we want to show that these inspections can benefit from more technologies from Phoenix. Phoenix floats are inserted in operational pipe and tanks and measure their own interal movement. After extraction this data is analysed and the results can be used for extracting information about both the process and the environment through which the motes move. The floats move have no propulsion or steering and thus essentially operate while the system is in normal operation. In the Phoenix project two additional technologies have been developed, ultrasound measurement for both ranging between motes and to walls, and, based on the ultrasound measurements, and modelling of the environment. In SMarble we want to create and show the business case for bringing these technologies to market. Through two pilots and market analyses we want to assess the technology, its economic and societal potential.

Keywords: pipeline inspection,mixing tank optimization,ultrasound measurement,environment modeling
PLAsticiTY of Perceptual space Under Sensorimotor interactions (PLATYPUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Australia,Germany,Germany,United States,Canada
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1066500.0
EU funding (EUR): 891000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Space is the foundational characteristic of visual perception and we generally perceive it as continuous and uniform. Behavioural measurements and the properties of our sensory systems however, demonstrate that this is an illusory situation and our percept is constructed by the brain. One example is our lack of awareness of the blind spot that exists in each eye. Space is non-uniformly represented in the visual brain and this representation is dynamically influenced by motor behaviour, in particular by eye movements. The PLATYPUS consortium will investigate the dynamic nature of spatial sensation and perception, focussing on the continuous mutual interaction of motor behaviour and perception. Our research objectives integrate human behavioural and cutting edge non-human primate electrophysiological research techniques and focus on translation of basic into applied research. Focussing on the adaptive nature of vision and action, strategies to perturb and probe perceptual space and geometry will allow measurement of spatial and geometrical perception in humans and the representation of such in non-human primates. This research will extend to applications for people wearing progressive lenses which distort action and space perception, patients with a blind area in their visual field and for virtual reality technology development. PLATYPUS researchers will grow existing and establish new collaborative teams, sharing research techniques, knowledge and mentoring between established and with upcoming researchers in academia and industry. Individuals will benefit from intense scientific and career development training while institutions will benefit from the exchange of state-of-the-art techniques. The ultimate outcome will be increased understanding of the continuously updating neural construction of space and the production of assistive technologies for people needing corrective lenses, with ocular or visual discontinuity and for the growing virtual reality industry.

Keywords: eye movements,visual perception,perception and action
Hand-held broadband hybrid graphene-quantum dots spectrometer (SPECTRODOT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Optical Spectrometry is a powerful non-destructive, high throughput technique used extensively for threat and hazardous substance detection, food inspection, process and environmental monitoring and quality control amongst others. The market is fragmented into many niche markets, mainly due to the different wavelengths ranges of interest. Hybrid graphene-quantum dot photodetectors can enable versatile spectrometer covering the whole spectral range from UV to mid-IR. The main goal of SPECTRODOT is to develop a prototype low-cost, hand-held spectrometer with broadband range from 400 to 2500 nanometres.

Keywords: hand held,spectrometer,graphene,quantum dots,photodetector
Role of midline thalamic neurons during memory related hippocampal and cortical network activity (HippoFronThal)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Hungary,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-20
End date: 2024-12-09
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 235191.36
EU funding (EUR): 235191.36
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Emotional memories guide our social interactions, everyday decisions, and are indispensable for survival. However, malfunction of brain networks involved in emotional processing may lead to a variety of anxiety-related and other psychiatric disorders, harmful for the individual and a burden, even a threat, to society. Emotions are associated with generalized arousal, however, it is not well understood how arousal systems play role in emotional memory processing at the network level. HippoFronThal aims to investigate the role of a specific thalamic arousal system in emotional processing. The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex are the core of an evolutionary conserved distributed system for governing experience-based behavior. Previously we identified a molecularly specific neuronal population within the dorsal midline thalamus, which efficiently convey arousal to large parts of the forebrain. These neurons are uniquely connected to the hippocampal-prefrontal system, possessing a strategic position to modulate hippocampal-cortical information transfer. The specific goal of HippoFronThal is to investigate, how neuronal activity of the dorsal midline thalamus interacts with network activity of the hippocampal-prefrontal system during emotional processing. To accomplish this goal, I will utilize molecular-genetic approaches to ensure anatomical specificity, perform high throughput electrophysiological recordings with outstanding spatio-temporal resolution, apply optogenetics to cell-type specific circuit interrogation with high spatio-temporal specificity, and use ecologically relevant behavioral essays to examine thalamic involvement in innate and memory related emotional processing. HippoFronThal will improve our understanding in how arousal circuits interact with memory circuits in the brain. These results might help clinicians to target specific neuronal population or mechanisms in order to treat anxiety-related disorders in humans.

Keywords: arousal,emotion,memory,thalamus,hippocampus,neocortex,synchrony
Biodiversity drivers in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems: Pollination and the evolution of mating phenotypes in yellow flaxes (Linum spp.) (FLAXMATE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain,South Africa
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2024-12-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207163.2
EU funding (EUR): 207163.2
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The role of pollinators and plant sexual diversity in the evolution of Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems (MTE) floras is a silver bullet target for biodiversity research and conservation in Europe. The setting of the floral sexual organs (the mating phenotype) has the most crucial implication in the function of the pollinator - flower interaction, i.e. in the efficiency of pollen transfer. However, it has never been studied quantitatively and in depth in evolutionary biology. FLAXMaTE will approach the evolution of the mating phenotypes in Linum, an intrinsically Mediterranean genus and a classic study system for the evolution of heterostyly with all its polymorphic species located in two MTE regions: the Mediterranean Basin (MB) and the Cape Floristic Region (CFR). In contrast with previous studies based in phenotypic categorisation or two-dimensional measures, I will for the first time characterize the mating phenotype of Linum species and their pollinators through an innovative three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach using computed tomography. To disentangle the macroevolutionary patterns of the mating phenotypes in Linum and the convergence of polymorphisms in MTEs, I will build a phylogeny of Old World yellow flaxes and I will use comparative methods to relate the evolution of the mating phenotypes with the MTE distribution, the pollination niche of species, and the diversification rates of the clade. The genomic basis of the convergence will be also studied through the sequencing of the S-locus in polymorphic MB and CFR species. To test the role of pollinators and the mating function as biodiversity drivers and agents of the evolutionary convergence of stylar polymorphisms, I will test the similarity in the mating function of Linum in pairs of populations and species from the MB and CFR through pollen transfer experiments using a novel methodology based in quantum dots.

Keywords: pollen transfer,heterostyly,s locus,macroevolution,microevolution,phylogenomics,3d geometric,morphometrics,quantum dots
Precision tests of the Standard Model using Beauty to Charm decays (Beauty2Charm)

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: 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): 1450020.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450020.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The present matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe cannot be explained by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. I propose to look for the presence of new physics beyond the SM in Charge-Parity (CP) asymmetries using beauty mesons decaying to charmed mesons (Beauty2Charm). A unique feature of these decays is that the SM contribution can be precisely measured using relations between ten decay modes all of which can be measured with in a coherent manner at a single experiment: LHCb at the Large Hadron Collier (LHC). The proposal will make measurements of ten branching ratios and eight analyses sensitive to CP violation using data collected by LHCb in order to test these relations. CP asymmetries larger than a few percent would be an unambiguous signal of the presence of new physics. In order to make these measurements at the required level of precision, I will lead a major upgrade to the way that the LHCb experiment selects proton proton collisions and for which I have laid the conceptual foundations. Real-Time Analysis will enable a dramatic increase in the the efficiency and signal yield of the decay modes relevant to this proposal, and reduce systematic uncertainties. To test and commission this upgrade I will lead the first ever measurements of beauty hadron production using final states without leptons. The experience gained in the commissioning phase will result in increased efficiencies for the CP sensitive channels leading to the world's most precise measurements and world-leading sensitivity to new physics.

Keywords: flavour physics,cp violation
Analysis of eye vergence responses for the early detection and monitoring of cognitive and mental disorders (MindTrack)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cognitive and mental disorders such as Dementia, Alzheimer´s, depression and Parkinson's disease, some of them closely related to ageing populations, have high social and economic burden. Nowadays, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, gerontologists and general practitioners rely on subjective, time-consuming semi-structured interviews and their knowledge and expertise to detect cognitive and mental disorders. Braingaze presents MindTrack, an unique, patented observer-independent support tool for the early detection and treatment monitoring of these disorders based on the analysis of small, involuntary eye movements (cognitive vergence). Our solution includes our own biometric software platform with interactive games designed to capture eye-related information and a remote cloud server for data interpretation thanks to the AI algorithms. MindTrack technology which falls into the Healthcare Information Technology market, has been already validated for ADHD and dyslexia detection (92% accuracy) and treatment with leading hospitals across Europe and now we want to develop a new marketable tool for the early detection, objective diagnosis and treatment monitoring of these other cognitive and mental disorders.

Keywords: eye vergence,biomarker,cognitive disorders,mental disorders,depression,parkinson,dementia,alzheimer s,medical device,neurology,psychiatry,geriatrics,diagnosis,early detection,monitoring
Doctorate Programme on Emerging Battery Storage Technologies INspiring Young scientists (DESTINY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Doctoral programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8136000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4068000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the global context of the launched "European Battery Alliance" and "European Technology & Innovation Platform, Batteries Europe", many Universities, Research Centres and supporting organisations have agreed to build the Battery 2030+ consortium as an ambitious European initiative for long-term research on ultra-performant batteries, with a clear focus on addressing obstacles preventing future batteries to reach their true potential. The MSCA COFUND DP project DESTINY will contribute substantially to the launching of this initiative at the education level through its advanced DP training adhering to key research areas of the Battery 2030+ long-term roadmap, including the development of a materials acceleration platform (MAP) and the establishment of the battery interface genome (BIG), combined as BIG-MAP. DESTINY will also contribute to short-to-medium term roadmaps identified by Batteries Europe so as to bring know-how and new emerging technologies for the future, for both industrial and academic professionals. DESTINY is a DP programme coordinated by the French CNRS, that will create a paradigm change in battery research, in line with the new European context. The 5-year project will train 50 PhDs on: 1) Reinvent battery materials discovery and engineering, 2) Develop smart batteries and functionalities 3) Implement new technologies in industry. All of these benefit from the combined excellence of the DESTINY consortium : 40 partners from 12 European countries, including Universities, Research Centres, Large Scale Facilities and 8 Companies. All candidates will be trained at the very forefront of battery research to enable them to accelerate and exploit novel technologies from a solid basis of knowledge and skills. Interdisciplinary competences and skills will be favoured through the complementarity within DESTINY. In addition, DESTINY includes a broad set of trainings in transferable skills: personal effectiveness, research governance and entrepreneurship.

Keywords: batteries,energy storage,electric vehicles,materials science,electrochemistry,sensors,multiscale modeling,smart functionalities,supercapacitors,reverse engineering,advanced spectroscopies