Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Intranet of Neurons: A Minimally-invasive and High-capacity Transcranial Telemetry Network for Large-scale Brain-wide Neural Recordings (IoN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998036.0
EU funding (EUR): 1732906.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

With the increase of people suffering from various neural disorders, the need for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to regain sensory-motor or cognitive functions are expected to become acute in the coming decades. However, the existing BCIs can only control simple motions, e.g., grasping, and are far from realizing our vision to help paralyzed patients to walk again. This is due to the lack of a high-bandwidth wireless BCI, capable of supporting the recording from a large number of neurons with high spatial and temporal resolution, while having large spatial coverage, brain-wide. In IoN, we target to achieve a breakthrough in the ability to transfer data from intracortical recording devices, e.g., multi-electrode arrays, by developing a transcranial telemetry system that enables the efficient transfer at high data rate from such high channel count sensors (e.g., imec’s Neuropixels with 1000 channels). Most importantly, it will also fulfil the form factor required for minimally-invasive surgery, needed to minimize the surgical risk and the complications after insertion. Furthermore, IoN will significantly scale up brain-wide recordings, by introducing a new telemetry network that has the capacity to support 16 distributed recording nodes (enabling a total of 16,000 channels), which has never been demonstrated from any BCIs before. To reach these challenging targets, we propose i) a novel hybrid signal propagation method to achieve a 500Mbps data rate with a 10mm^2 implant area, 20× smaller than the state-of-the-art; ii) a completely new “spike-Aloha” protocol to maximize the network capacity, supporting 166× more channels. The technology developed in IoN will be an important transformational step to revolutionize the way neuroscientists and neurologists collect and process brain-wide neural data. By introducing this miniature, energy-efficient, and high-capacity wireless telemetry network, we want to help patients with disability to regain the quality of life.

Keywords: brain computer interfaces,wireless communications,wireless networks,cmos asic design,implantable electronics,low power electronics,integrated micro systems,impulse radio ultra wideband
Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550 (RiP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1415627.5
EU funding (EUR): 1415627.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project RiP aims to provide a groundbreaking new interpretation of late medieval theories of mind and cognition by focusing on the influence higher cognitive (rational) powers exert on lower (sensory) ones in the neglected tradition of Augustinian philosophy of perception. Due to increasing difficulties in explaining the unity and objectivity of perceptual experience, late medieval authors came to question the dominant Aristotelian theory, with its passive account of perception and emphatic separation between sensory and intellectual functions. This led to a resurfacing of the Augustinian tradition, which is characterized by an emphasis on activity and top-down processing, built around the notions of intentionality and self-awareness. The project investigates the hypothesis that perception changes from being explained on the basis of a model of the soul that is metaphysically composite of really distinct clusters of functions to a model in which rationality permeates the functions previously attributed to lower cognitive capacities. It is the 'flow of reason', an expression found in a late sixteenth-century textbook. The project has therefore two main objectives: (1) to offer the first systematic study of late medieval theories of perception, focusing on the relation between the senses and intellect (2) to retrace the shift in late medieval philosophy of perception that led to (a) a progressive questioning of direct realism in cognition and (b) the incremental reduction of all psychological functions to the mind. The results of the project will allow a better understanding of the philosophical assumptions of late medieval theories of cognition, shedding new light on the historical background of early modern and contemporary conceptions of rationality.

Keywords: perception,rationality,intentionality,activity,mind
Out-of-equilibrium nanophotonics (OUTNANO)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168277.2
EU funding (EUR): 168277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

OUTNANO is about developing a new generation of nanophotonic devices by exploiting ultrafast dynamics of electrons driven out-of-equilibrium. Photonic sciences profoundly impact our society, enabling the development of high-technology devices that are currently employed in our daily life: DVD players, LEDs, laser printers, barcode scanners, displays, sensors, optical fibres, medical equipment and many others. Among the future frontiers of photonics, the achievement of ultraviolet lasers, compact white-light sources, and on-the-chip signal processing play a crucial role for several applications, e.g., all-optical computing, spectroscopy, imaging techniques, bio-sensing, cancer treatment, dental surgery, and micro-machining. Extreme exploitation of optical nonlinearities in nanophotonic components is fundamentally important in tackling these challenges, as frequency conversion mechanisms can be enhanced to generate ultraviolet radiation. Besides, optical nonlinearity enables active controlling of light by means of light, a basic requirement for developing all-optical devices. The high field enhancement provided by plasmonic materials and metamaterials is crucial for the full exploitation of nonlinear effects. Currently, the inherent high losses of these materials hamper their efficiency and their application in new-generation photonic devices. OUTNANO aims at tackling these challenges of nanophotonics by using ultrashort optical pulses with time duration of few femtoseconds, which drive the out-of-equilibrium electron plasma in the collisionless regime, where ohmic losses are suppressed. This novel regime enables the development of low-loss plasmonic circuits for on-chip all-optical computing and the engineering of highly nonlinear nanophotonic devices with enhanced efficiencies for generating UV radiation and for achieving ultra-compact white-light sources.

Keywords: plasmonics,metamaterials,nanophotonics,nonlinear optics,nonlinear plasmonics,nonlinear
iDriver (iDriver)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Intelligent wireless Driver for outdoor LED lighting application

Keywords: led street lights,power supply,driver,intelligent wireless network
Lightweight Infrastructure for Global Heterogeneous Trust management in support of an open Ecosystem of Stakeholders and Trust schemes. (LIGHTest)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Greece,Finland,Türkiye,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Trust eServices (H2020-DS-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8422722.88
EU funding (EUR): 7595955.63
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of LIGHTest is to create a global cross-domain trust infrastructure that renders it transparent and easy for verifiers to evaluate electronic transactions. By querying different trust authorities world-wide and combining trust aspects related to identity, business, reputation etc. it will become possible to conduct domain-specific trust decisions. This is achieved by reusing existing governance, organization, infrastructure, standards, software, community, and know-how of the existing Domain Name System, combined with new innovative building blocks. This approach allows an efficient global rollout of a solution that assists decision makers in their trust decisions. By integrating mobile identities into the scheme, LIGHTest also enables domain-specific assessments on Levels of Assurance for these identities.

Keywords: trust,trust list,trust infrastructure,global,level of assurance,trust translation,delegation,mandates,mobile identities,authentication,electronic signature
Sustainable Tourism evidence-informed Policy (SusTPol)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SusTPol [Sustainable Tourism evidence-informed Policy] advances the understanding of using sustainability indicators to inform the governance of urban tourism. EU tourism policies recognise the importance of sustainability for competiveness, and the Commission contracted the University of Surrey to develop the European Tourism Indicator System. Yet the Commission still equates success to tourism’s contribution to growth and employment, and both Eurostat and European Cities Marketing measure tourist volume and expenditure, but not data on the impact that tourism has on residents or the environment. This IF contributes to implementing Communication “Europe, the world's No 1 tourist destination – a new political framework for tourism in Europe” and the Europe 2020 Strategy, by 1) experimenting with performance indicators of how tourism contributes to the EU policy on the Urban Environment, and 2) empowering policy makers so tourism contributes to implementing policies for sustainable urban planning and design. SusTPol analyses how tourist boards learn about sustainability indicators, adapt them to their needs, transform their governance systems and exploit the competitive benefits accrued. SusTPol collects baseline data (O1), supports tourist boards implement change in the form of policy-making experiments to support sustainable tourism development (O2) and conducts a Realist Evaluation (O3) of the contextual factors that allow for the use of indicators to support the selection and implementation of policy mechanisms that promote sustainable development. The tourist boards in the cities of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Barcelona (Spain), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Vienna (Austria) agreed to participate as pilots, adapting their tourism planning, visitor management and marketing based on the results of residents’ social impact assessment of tourism. The outcomes will inform European Cities Marketing, enhancing the transferability and impact of this project.

Keywords: sustainable tourism,indicators,destination management organisation,urban tourism,evidence informed policy
Up-scaling the global univocal identification of medicines (UNICOM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Methods and data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Italy,Spain,Estonia,Estonia,Ireland,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Greece,Norway,Croatia,Sweden,Belgium,Finland,Finland,Poland,Greece,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United States,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Scaling up the univocal Identification of Medicinal Products (H2020-SC1-DTH-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20730965.5
EU funding (EUR): 18994883.5
Participants: 42
Project status: SIGNED

This innovation action will give a powerful impulse to implementation of ISO IDMP (ID of Medicinal Products) standards in EU Member States drug databases, supporting safe cross-border ePrescription/eDispensation and effective pharmacovigilance. Once EU-interoperable data on medicines taken by patients become available, further benefits will accrue through better health data for improved clinical decision support, patient empowerment, public health and clinical research. New opportunities will arise for pharma industry, software developers, SMEs providing smart apps and others, thereby fostering their innovation capacity and competitiveness. The many challenges still to be faced on this road will be tackled by a powerful consortium assembling all relevant actors, with critical mass for impact throughout the EU. After 10 years of development, the IDMP suite of standards is ready for implementation. Though some isolated implementation work has started, the time is now ripe for a more concerted effort towards large-scale implementation, contributing to this global interoperability endeavour and delivering benefits to EU citizens. Project ambition centres on conversion of key regulatory and clinical processes to use IDMP. These information value chains must be converted over their full length from data input to data repositories to data usage. Project work spans all three areas, focussing on the most challenging, the implementation of EU and national SPOR (substances, products, organisations, referentials) data bases, including establishing an EU Substance Reference System (EU-SRS). Such information is fundamental to cross-border ePrescription where safe dispensation may require reliable identification of substances in available products. 19 countries are represented, including 26 national Drug and eHealth Agencies. Stakeholders are involved through their associations. Duration is 4 years, budget € 21 m, with requested funding € 19 m.

Keywords: idmp,cross border ehealth,pharmacovigilance,ehealth network,drug database,standardisation
EMBODIED MINDFULNESS: Performance Training for Deaf and Hearing Actors (EMBMIND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-12-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Mindfulness is a cultivated state of awareness which has been shown to enhance psychological resilience, emotion regulation, and well-being. Mindfulness training entails the development of particular modes of attention, intention, body awareness and presence - all of which are also foundational skills for the performer. Evidence suggests that a mindfulness training programme for performers would develop key professional skills whilst at the same time enhancing performers' mental health resilience, currently an area of concern. The proposed project will develop and test the efficacy of a mindfulness training programme for Deaf and hearing performers through an exploration of mindfulness practices which focus on the body. The ER will examine the role of the physiological mechanisms which underpin awareness, and which are instrumental in the development of mindfulness; these are interoception, proprioception and exteroception. The ER will use the resulting information to design an embodied mindfulness practice for performers. The project utilises an innovative practice-led research methodology, with two groups of subjects: Deaf and hearing actors. The ER will investigate, document, discuss and provide evidence-based support for a performance training practice that can deliver enhancements to both physical awareness and mindfulness. By analysing the links between proprioception, interoception, awareness and mindfulness, and by examining the Deaf experience of embodiment, the ER will contribute new knowledge on the role of the body in mindfulness practice, and will develop an embodied mindfulness training that is fully accessible to both Deaf and hearing actors.

Keywords: actor training,mindfulness,proprioception,interoception,body awareness,british sign language,deaf culture,deaf gain,embodiment,embodied mindfulness
ECO-FRIENDLY CERAMIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR (MBR) BASED ON RECYCLED AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES FOR WASTE WATER REUSE (REMEB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Cyprus,Colombia,Norway,Türkiye,France
Call: First application and market replication (H2020-WATER-2014-two-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2361622.5
EU funding (EUR): 1869853.88
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The main objectives of the REMEB project are the implementation and validation of a low-cost ceramic membrane bioreactor (MBR) in a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP), the study of the impact and replication of the technology for the reuse of the water in regions with water scarcity and the industrial sector, and finally, the definition of a proper business plan to start the commercialization of the technology, once the project will be finished. The low cost recycled ceramic membranes of the project are based on residues obtained in agricultural and industrial processes (sub-products), such as olive oil solid wastes, marble working wastes and chamotte from fired scrap, in addition to the typical raw materials used in the ceramic tile industry. The project aims to achieve several specific objectives: valorization of wastes from different agricultural or industrial processes, manufacturing of an innovative product using recycled materials, validation of a new MBR with a lower initial and running costs by using low cost ceramic membranes and comparison between REMEB MBR and the MBR in operation in the WWTP selected for the validation. Replication of both, manufacturing and validation tasks, is assured by repeating the processes in the facilities of some participants. Manufacturing membrane replicability will be performed in Turkey and Italy. The replication study of the MBR implementation in the urban and industrial wastewater sector will be performed in Colombia and nearby countries, Cyprus and nearby countries and Europe. Furthermore, evaluation of the environmental impact of product and process will be carried out by the method of LCA. Finally, a marketing and dissemination plan of the technology will be done by the entire consortium. It is expected that this technology would be implemented massively, principally due to the low cost of REMEB MBR (3.5 times lower than a MBR of organic membranes and 2.5 times lower than a ceramic MBR).

Keywords: agro industrial wastes,low cost ceramic membrane,waste water treatment,water reuse,water scarcity,market replication and impact
Astrophysical Dynamics and Statistical Physics of Galactic Nuclei (GalNUC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Hungary,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 75.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1511436.0
EU funding (EUR): 320286.96
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

We address some of the major unsolved questions of galactic nuclei using methods of condensed matter physics. Galactic nuclei host a central supermassive black hole, a dense population of stars and compact objects, and in many cases a bright gaseous disk feeding the supermassive black hole. The observed stellar distribution exhibits both spherical and counterrotating disk-like structures. Existing theoretical models cannot convincingly explain the origin of the stellar disks. Is there also a “dark cusp” or “dark disk” of stellar mass black holes? Are there intermediate mass black holes in the Galactic center? We examine the statistical physics of galactic nuclei and their long term dynamical evolution. A star orbiting a supermassive black hole on an eccentric precessing orbit covers an axisymmetric annulus. The long-term gravitational interaction between such annuli is similar to the Coulomb interaction between axisymmetric molecules constituting a liquid crystal. We apply standard methods of condensed matter physics to examine these astrophysical systems. The observed disk and spherical structures represent isotropic-nematic phase transitions. We derive the phase space distribution and time-evolution of different stellar components including a population of black holes. Further, we investigate the interaction of a stellar cluster with a gaseous disk, if present. This leads to the formation of gaps, warps, and spiral waves in the disk, the redistribution of stellar objects, and possibly the formation of intermediate mass black holes. We explore the implications for electromagnetic and gravitational wave observatories. Dark disks of black holes could provide the most frequent source of gravitational waves for LIGO and VIRGO. These detectors will open a new window on the Universe; the proposed project will open a new field in gravitational wave astrophysics to interpret the sources. We also explore implications for electromagnetic observations.

Keywords: black hole physics,gravitational waves,nonlinear dynamical systems,hamiltonian physics,mean field theory,active galactic nuclei,accretion disks,disordered systems,quenched states