Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
RESOURCE-EFFICIENT SENSING THROUGH DYNAMIC ATTENTION-SCALABILITY (Re-SENSE)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1484562.0
EU funding (EUR): 1484562.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is hard to stand on one leg if we close our eyes. We have trouble tasting food without smelling. And when we talk with other people, we observe their lips to understand them better. We, humans, are masters in sensor fusion as we can seamlessly combine information coming from different senses to improve our judgements. Intriguingly, in order to fuse information efficiently, we do not always devote the same level of attention or mental effort to each of the many sensory streams available to us. This dynamic attention-scalability allows us to always extract the maximum amount of relevant information under our limited human computational bandwidth. Would it not be great if electronics had the same capabilities? While many devices are nowadays equipped with a massive amount of sensors, they typically cannot effectively fuse more than a few of them. The rigid way in which sensory data is combined results in large computational workloads, preventing effective multi-sensor fusion in resource-constrained applications such as robotics, wearables, biomedical monitoring or user interfacing. The Re-SENSE project will bring attention-scalable sensing to resource-scarce devices, which are constrained in terms of energy, throughput, latency or memory resources. This is achieved by jointly: 1) Developing resource-aware inference and fusion algorithms, which maximize information capture in function of hardware resource usage, dynamically tuning sensory attention levels 2) Implementing dynamic, wide-range resource-scalable inference processors, allowing to exploit this attention-scalability for drastically improved efficiency The attention-scalable sensing concept will be demonstrated in 2 highly resource-constrained applications: a) latency-critical cell sorting and b) energy-critical epilepsy monitoring. This combination of processor design, reconfigurable hardware and embedded machine learning fits perfectly to the PI’s expertise gained at Intel Labs, UC Berkeley and KULeuven.

Keywords: chip design,reconfigurable computing,low power,sensor fusion,hardware software co design,resource awareness,context scalable
Detection of visual motion in the cortex (Cortical circuits)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175419.6
EU funding (EUR): 175419.6
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Direction selectivity is a feature of selected neurons in the visual cortex that is conserved in evolution. The emergence of cortical direction selectivity has been extensively studied but its circuit mechanism is still debated. My goal is to understand the circuit mechanism of cortical direction selectivity that is independent of retinal direction selectivity. I plan to approach this by using two animal models in which retinal direction selectivity has been disrupted. I will investigate the neuronal circuits of those cortical direction-selective neurons which retain their specificity in these animal models by performing single-cell-initiated functionalized rabies tracing and single-cell electrophysiological recordings. I will ask the three following questions: Do axon terminals of the principal cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) fully lose direction selectivity after the abolishment of retinal direction selectivity, or could cortical feedback from layer 6 entrain direction selectivity in a subset of LGN cell axon terminals? What is the synaptic input profile underlying retina-independent cortical direction selectivity in pyramidal neurons? What is the contribution of the local presynaptic networks to the direction-selective tuning of pyramidal neurons with retina-independent cortical direction selectivity? This work will provide insights into how cortical selectively for environmental features arises.

Keywords: visual system,cortex,feature selectivity,network tracing,genetic manipulation
Health, Labor and Environmental Regulation in Post-Industrial Europe (HEAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1420365.0
EU funding (EUR): 1420365.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Environmental quality has been improving dramatically in Europe, helped by structural transformation and by environmental regulation. Notwithstanding such improvements, environmental regulation continues to be a top priority for policy makers in Europe and other post-industrial societies. Global climate change is an important reason for this. Increasing demand for environmental quality is another one, explaining why some of the richest agglomerations in Europe have been adopting very costly measures to further reduce air pollution. Both global climate change and regional air pollution originate to a large extent from the combustion of fossil fuels, an activity that, in Europe, is costly to curb but also causes substantial damage to human health. This project contributes new tools for assessing this trade-off by (i) developing empirical models that greatly enhance spatial detail in state-of-the-art economic impact analysis, (ii) pioneering an interdisciplinary approach that links causal inference on pollution emissions at the source to chemical transport models for air pollutants, and (iii) incorporating subclinical and long-term health impacts of air pollution into economic damage estimates. Part I of the project studies the economic implications of changes in local air quality that were an unintended consequence of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme for carbon dioxide. Part II analyzes the impacts of air pollution on labor supply, health, and migration in a unified empirical framework. The key objective of this project is to provide empirical evidence that can inform environmental policy-making in the broad contexts of climate policy and air quality management. Given the ambitious concepts proposed, the global significance of the environmental problems addressed, and the focus on policy, this project has the potential to make a large impact.

Keywords: climate policy,emissions trading,cost benefit analysis,integrated assessment,air pollution,program evaluation,sickness insurance,moral hazard,valuation of health impacts
Catastrophic Interactions of Binary Stars and the Associated Transients (Cat-In-hAT)

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: Czechia
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1243218.75
EU funding (EUR): 1243218.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

One of the crucial formation channels of compact object binaries, including sources of gravitational waves, critically depends on catastrophic binary interactions accompanied by the loss of mass, angular momentum, and energy ("common envelope" evolution - CEE). Despite its importance, CEE is perhaps the least understood major phase of binary star evolution and progress in this area is urgently needed to interpret observations from the new facilities (gravitational wave detectors, time-domain surveys). Recently, the dynamical phase of the CEE has been associated with a class of transient brightenings exhibiting slow expansion velocities and copious formation of dust and molecules (red transients - RT). A number of RT features, especially the long timescale of mass loss, challenge the existing CEE paradigm. Motivated by RT, I will use a new variant of magnetohydrodynamics to comprehensively examine the 3D evolution of CEE from the moment when the mass loss commences to the remnant phase. I expect to resolve the long timescales observed in RT, characterize binary stability in 3D with detailed microphysics, illuminate the fundamental problem of how is orbital energy used to unbind the common envelope in a regime that was inaccessible before, and break new ground on the amplification of magnetic fields during CEE. I will establish RT as an entirely new probe of the CEE physics by comparing my detailed theoretical predictions of light curves from different viewing angles, spectra, line profiles, and polarimetric signatures with observations of RT. I will accomplish this by coupling multi-dimensional moving mesh hydrodynamics with radiation, dust formation, and chemical reactions. Finally, I will examine the physical processes in RT remnants on timescales of years to centuries after the outburst to connect RT with the proposed merger products and to identify them in time-domain surveys.
Prefrontal plasticity underpinning resilience against cognitive ageing. (AGEING PLASTICITY)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-03-26
End date: 2022-03-25
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As global life-expectancy increases so do pathological age-related conditions impacting cognition. The worldwide prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease is expected to rise from 46 to 131.5 million affected people in the next 30 years, which will drastically compromise quality of life for many individuals and place a considerable economic burden on society. As acknowledged by the EU Commission, there is an imperative to ‘improve our understanding of the causes and mechanisms underlying…healthy ageing and disease. Older adults differ vastly in the extent to which their cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, and decision making remain healthy. Highlighting sources of interindividual variability in this resilience to cognitive ageing, particularly in the face of neuropathology such as Alzheimer’s Disease will enhance the development of targeted neurorehabilitation interventions to prevent and redress cognitive decline. Several lines of work indirectly indicate the right fronto-parietal network (rFPN) in the brain, particularly the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, is critical for healthy cognition in ageing. This proposal will combine advanced cognitive neuroscience techniques to directly investigate whether neurocognitive markers of healthy ageing (i) relate to interindividual differences in white-matter (WM) structural organisation within the rFPN, and (ii) can be improved by upregulating activity within this network. This fellowship will be conducted at the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology under the supervision of Prof Kia Nobre, world expert on the cognitive neuroscience of attention, and in close collaboration with Prof Heidi Johansen-Berg, leading authority on white matter plasticity at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN).

Keywords: fronto parietal networks,visual processing speed,cognitive ageing,cognitive reserve
Welding Equipment for optimised, fast and accurate LongituDinal barrEl joint closuRe (WELDER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Czechia
Call: Tooling, Equipment and Auxiliaries for the closure of a longitudinal Barrel Joint: Overlap joint and Frame Coupling integration (H2020-CS2-CFP11-2020-01, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1592062.5
EU funding (EUR): 1399575.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of the WELDER project is to design, develop and deploy two robot-based, modular, flexible (Plug-and-Produce) and fully operative welding solutions (namely, ultrasonic welding and resistance welding end-effectors), including all the needed tooling and auxiliaries for performing the longitudinal barrel joint of the 8 m long fuselage at the Multi-Functional Fuselage Demonstrator. Moreover, WELDER will be focused on implementing an online monitoring and control system based on an end-to-end digital manufacturing solution, which will stablish a bidirectional dataflow to feed the whole lifecycle management digital twin and, thus, optimising the process and product performance while enabling new approval/acceptance procedures. Therefore, the successful execution of the WELDER project will become the spearhead of the aerospace industry thermoplastic adoption strategy through the provision and demonstration of the airplane fuselage welding replacing conventional joining systems that currently relies on fastening, riveting and adhesives, thus highly improving the environmental and economic performance of the aerospace sector, according to CS2 objectives. The following results will also be achieved at the end of the project: - A methodology for integrating new welding equipment (ultrasonic and resistance) on existing end-users´ facilities, regarding equipment set-up, tooling and auxiliary's integration. - Frame coupling designs validation and an optimised manufacturing process based on the resistance metal mesh embedding within the coupling product. - Inline monitoring and control digital pipeline in view to directly feeding into the demonstrators Product Lifecycle Management Digital Twin within 3D experience. - Equipment and process optimisation based on real-process data gathering and feeding into the simulation and design tools.

Keywords: ultrasonic,resistance,welding,fuselage,end effectors,thermoplastic composites,manufacturing automation,digitisation,inline digital monitoring and control,technology de risking,digital twin
The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World (MAJLIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
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): 1994000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1994000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In pre-modern times, an estimated ninety percent of the Jewish population lived under Muslim hegemony. Over the centuries, these Jews not only adopted the Arabic language for most forms of spoken and written communication, but also integrated concepts and techniques from their intellectual environment, resulting in one of the most extraordinary periods of literary creativity in all of Jewish history. Despite its importance, however, Judaeo-Arabic literature has been under-researched until very recently, due to inaccessible sources, disparate scholarly traditions and political antagonism. The overall aim of MAJLIS is to explore comprehensively for the first time the fundamental way in which the adoption of Arabic transformed Jewish literature from the 9th to the 11th century. The project focuses on the Arabic literature of the Qaraites, a Jewish intellectual movement whose religious and scholarly center, the Academy of Jerusalem, played a catalytic role in these transformation processes. It will proceed by applying state-of-the-art digital tools to analyze manuscripts produced in the Academy with the aim of (1) tracing changes in Jewish literature and contrasting them to rabbinic literary models, especially with regard to how the texts were composed, produced, authored, and organized into a knowledge framework; (2) identifying the dominant scholars and analyzing their geographical origins, professional networks and institutional integration; and (3) comparing the Academy and its literature to non-Jewish literature and non-Jewish institutions of the time. By bringing together unique expertise covering Judaic as well as Islamic studies at a time when the sources have become available to an unprecedented degree, MAJLIS will not only fundamentally add to our understanding of the history of Jewish literature, but also demonstrate that Jewish heritage in the Near East is of transcommunal and transnational importance.

Keywords: judaic studies,judeo arabic,jewish authors writing in arabic,disciplines of learning,textual,practices,digital humanities
OriginIoT - Expediting Cellular IoT Device Development (OriginIoT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3141062.5
EU funding (EUR): 2198743.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

OriginIoT™ implements a ground-breaking concept taking into account the realisation that many IoT products have many components and lines of code in common. We see many developers developing similar electronic schemas, integrating the same components and enduring the same hardships in the development process. They end-up with 80-90% of their spec very similar to many other IoT products. This project introduces game-changing cellular IoT development methodology focused on preserving knowledge from each IoT development cycle to the next. OriginIoT™ is composed of novel hardware and software enabling expedited cellular IoT development cycles, reducing time-to-market drastically for customers. Three main technology breakthroughs form the main building blocks of the solution: OriginIoT™ preserving high quality performance in a generic, miniature system-on-module (SoM); including high GNSS performance in the world’s smallest footprint, ready for mass manufacturing; OriginSmart™: allowing the user to develop IoT devices with no additional embedded programming efforts. The traditional approach of programming the hardware behaviour on its embedded microcontroller is replaced by the novel approach of setting all required functionality from a remote cloud-server; and OriginLabs™ IoT development software as-a-service (SaaS) solution. Taking the solution one step further and offering complete device development services from the web. OriginLabs™ includes a “developer-journey” step-by-step tool, comprehensible for non-technical personnel. Successful implementation of OriginLabs™ will remove all barriers that developers in the IoT industry face today and will also allow us to sell solutions directly to end-customers, who are traditionally approached by an integrator or other technology company. OriginIoT™ addresses the cellular IoT industry and the downstream GNSS market. The cellular IoT market is forecasted to reach $5.31B USD by 2022, with a CAGR of 23% over the next seven yrs.

Keywords: internet of things,cellular,originiot,gnss,embedded firmware,hardware
ADvanced ManufacturIng REsearch Fellowship Programme in the Basque – New Aquitaine Region (ADAGIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3310200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1655100.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ADvanced ManufacturIng REsearch Fellowship Programme in the Basque – New Aquitaine Region (ADAGIO) is a cross-border Programme aimed at enhancing the research and innovation (R&I) capacity and high-quality human resources of the regions of New Aquitaine and Euskadi in the selected field within their respective Regional Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3), the European Cross-Border strategies and the Research Strategy and talent attraction of the Euroregion New Aquitaine – Euskadi – Navarre. ADAGIO is a highly competitive, merit-based fellowship programme aimed at incorporating postdoctoral talent in the area of Advanced Manufacturing, to enable them to conduct their own excellent research projects, in order to produce a positive effect not only in terms of excellent science and talent attraction but also by strengthening the cross-border regional economy and society and promoting international networking. ADvanced ManufacturIng REsearch Fellowship Programme in the Basque – New Aquitaine Region will bring in 15 experienced researchers to develop a 36 month stay through 2 open calls at international level, over its 60 months of implementation. The fellows will freely decide whether to carry out a 36 month advanced research project in one of the hosting institutions or to combine it with a more applied research path oriented towards market needs, by doing up to 12 months secondments (with a minimum of 3 months) in at least one of the extensive group of highly innovative and cutting edge industrial partner organisations with strong expertise in the programme´s selected specific areas or in another partner organisation of their choice to be added during the implementation of the Programme. The postdoctoral fellows will have a full trans-national mobility experience and access to the research facilities of the organisations partnering the programme.

Keywords: fellowships,advanced manufacturing