Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
On-chip Phase and Polarization Engineering of GaN-based blue/UV VCSELs via Metasurfaces (MetaVCSEL)

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: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-04-28
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203852.16
EU funding (EUR): 203852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) play a key role in the development of modern optoelectronic technologies, thanks to their unique characteristics such as low power consumption, high modulation speed, and large-scale two-dimensional array capability. To further expand the spectral range of VCSELs from the red/near-infrared region down to the blue/UV region is attracting significant interest. This will lead to versatile applications in for example retinal scanning displays, visible light communications, chemical sensing, and sterilization of viruses and bacteria. However, blue/UV VCSELs are suffering from poor beam quality and unstable polarization property due to the lack of effective beam shaping solutions. The recent advances in two-dimensional metamaterials, also known as metasurfaces, open new perspectives for the manipulation of light properties, including amplitude, phase, and polarization with exceptional subwavelength spatial resolution. In particular, the ultra-thin, flat, and compact characteristics of metasurfaces greatly facilitate their integration with semiconductor laser for the development of a miniaturized laser system with a controllable optical wavefront. Seizing on the timely opportunities provided by the latest metasurface technologies, this project aims to develop the very first solution for on-chip beam-shaping blue/UV VCSELs by exploiting metasurface optoelectronic integration, which will unlock the potential to tailor both the phase and polarization properties of blue/UV lasers at an ultra-compact wafer-level. This will give rise to high beam quality lasers with small divergence angle and vector lasers in the blue/UV regime, paying their way toward real-world applications.

Keywords: metasurface,semiconductor lasers,vcsels,beam shaping,nanophotonics
Applying novel analytical methods to elucidate bio-nano interactions at individual cell level in plants (PhytoENM)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-12
End date: 2023-10-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Phytonanotechnology (use of Engineered Nanomaterial, ENMs, in agriculture) supports the controlled release of agrochemicals (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) and target-specific delivery of biomolecules (e.g., nucleotides, proteins, and activators) for increased disease resistance, nutrient utilization, and crop yield. Along with the groundbreaking potential of such techniques, one should be careful about their trophic transfer to plants. This topic has been rarely studied, compared to the toxic effect of ENMs in human systems. However, assessment of ENM toxicity to plant cells is critical to the implementation of nanotechnology in agriculture and support of global sustainability and the EC's European Green Deal. The proposed project addresses potential key cellular processes involved in the delivery of ENMs to plants and the safe use and social acceptance of phytonanotechnology, assessing potential adverse effects, including the risks associated with the transfer of ENMs through the food chain. To do so, novel analytical techniques are essential that could study metal-based ENMs and their distribution within individual cells. The development of Single Particle ICP-MS (SP-ICP-MS) is a new area of research which allows rapid detection and analysis of ENMs in a variety of matrices and applications, as it allows discrete pulses of positively charged ions to be detected and measured in a time resolved manner using microsecond data acquisition rates. PhytoENM will go beyond, applying the concept of Single Cell ICP-MS (SC-ICP-MS), where individual cells are rapidly analyzed for their particulate & ionic content, something that has not been done before in plants. The project will also use novel stable-isotope labelling techniques pioneered by the applicant team. This would allow the understanding of the interaction of metal-based ENMs in single cells spatially, and the related mechanistic pathways, leading to information on their distribution and potential toxicity.

Keywords: phytonanotechnology,engineered nanomaterials,nanosafety,plant single cells,single particle inductively,coupled plasma mass spectrometry,single cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Responding to the Trend of Human Enhancement Drugs: the Case of Drug-Free Bodybuilding Culture in European Context (HumEnBody)

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: Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200194.8
EU funding (EUR): 200194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present project sets out to explore the hitherto uncharted culture of drug-free (‘natural’) bodybuilding that has been emerging in different parts of the world as a response to a dominant, pharmacologically-enhanced model that has thus far monopolised public attention and debate. My aim is to critically investigate the practices, discourses and structures that constitute ‘natural’ bodybuilding and make sense of it in light of a ubiquitous gym/fitness culture and the wider phenomenon of human enhancement. Focusing on Europe as a significant and intriguing site in this emerging global mosaic of body cultures, the research will employ a combination of qualitative methods to trace the development of ‘natural’ bodybuilding across diverse geo-cultural areas of the continent.

Keywords: bodybuilding,human enhancement,pieds,drugs
Socrates and Plato on Epistemic Authority (SPEA)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Estonia,United States
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 228421.8
EU funding (EUR): 228421.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

It often happens that we accept as true what other people tell us, and by doing so, we acquire knowledge about the world. We trust each other, and we often grant teachers and experts authority over our beliefs. The inter-subjective nature of belief formation has recently moved into the very center of epistemology. However, it is rarely mentioned that the reflection on the role of other people in our knowledge-acquisition has a distinguished historical pedigree, one that still deeply affects the way think about these issues. In particular, the Greek philosophers’ treatment of the notions of authority, trust, and disagreement has exerted strong influence on the subsequent history of philosophy. Up to now, however, there has been no systematic study of this important aspect of Greek thought. This project, “Socrates and Plato on Epistemic Authority”, focuses on the role attributed to what philosophers call “epistemic authority” (i.e. authority over belief) in knowledge acquisition and belief formation in the classical era of Ancient Greek philosophy (esp. in Socrates and Plato). Thus, the project aims to improve the understanding of Greek epistemology and to offer a historical background and an independent contribution to a central epistemological topic.

Keywords: ancient philosophy,history of epistemology
Whole-Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education (WhoLoDancE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Greece,Greece,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Technologies for better human learning and teaching (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3332585.0
EU funding (EUR): 3332585.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Whole-Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education WhoLoDance is aiming at both researching and innovating contemporary learning theories of embodied cognition and dance education, building on advances on neuroscience, pedagogical and learning theories, educational psychology together with new technologies in artificial intelligence and knowledge management. Dance is a diverse and heterogeneous practice and WhoLoDance will develop a protocol for the creation and/or selection of dance sequences drawn from different dance styles and appropriate for different teaching and learning modalities that can provide the base content for the capture, cataloguing and analysis of dance movement for the creation of different interactive and immersive learning tools. WhoLoDance will support learning the essential components of dance, enhancing movement skills, and creating solutions for supporting the composition, re-use, and distribution of interactive educational content and services, with assessment and feedback functionalities making use of immersive real-time tools to learn dance choreographies. WhoLoDance will explore smart learning environments for providing dance students with adaptive and personalised learning and assessment, through multi-modal/multi-sensory interaction technologies and advanced immersive real-time training interfaces. WhoLoDance will create and deliver the proof-of-concept of a motion capture repository of dance motions built in a method allowing interpolations, extrapolations and synthesis through similarity search to enable new and powerful dance teaching paradigms. Finally WhoLoDance aim is to create a digital environment that will provide dance educators and students, as well as creators (choreographers) the opportunity for capacity building and networking, bringing together practitioners from different physical spaces, and will allow them to communicate chorographical ideas and movement concepts online and work collaboratively.
Microwave Microscopy for Advanced and Efficient Materials Analysis and Production (MMAMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Switzerland,Switzerland,Belgium,Greece,Poland,France,France,France,France
Call: Systems of materials characterisation for model, product and process optimisation (H2020-NMBP-2017-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3992176.25
EU funding (EUR): 3992176.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Products which require complicated material systems and nanoscale structural organization, e.g. third-generation solar cells, are often difficult to develop. This is because electronic properties of bulk semiconductors are often masked or at least strongly superimposed by material interface properties. Additionally these interface properties are also complex and thus make product design difficult. This project aims at solving this problem by offering a nanoscale characterization platform for the European manufacturers of coatings, photovoltaic cells, and semi-conductor circuits. It is proposed to use a combination of scanning microwave microscopes, dielectric resonators, and simulation to measure the material and interface properties of complicated material systems and nano-structures. A metrological system of cross-checks between different instruments, models and simulations with associated error bars is indispensable for obtaining trustworthy results. Scanning microwave measurements will be directly used for three-dimensional characterization of electrical properties of nanostructured semiconductors used in organic and hybrid photovoltaic cells. The objective is to accelerate the development of high efficiency cells and to have measures to predict performances in early stages of prototype production. Where process monitoring of materials with nanostructures is necessary, a dielectric resonator is used to translate insights from scanning microwave microscope measurements to fabrication environments. Such dielectric resonators could be directly integrated in production lines for monitoring thin film deposition processes. An open innovation environment will make the uptake of the results easier for European industry. A database containing exemplary measurement datasets of scanning microwave microscopes will be available in calibrated and raw versions. Simulation results of tip-semiconductor interactions will be made available on the EMMC Modeling Market Place.

Keywords: scanning microwave microscopy,advanced material analysis,modelling platform,open innovation environment
Autonomous Indoor Outdoor SafetyTracking system (AIOSAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands
Call: EGNSS professional applications (H2020-GALILEO-GSA-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2032650.0
EU funding (EUR): 1764262.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The Europe population experiences yearly about 2 million to 2.5 million fires with 20 to 25 thousand deaths and 250 to 500 thousand reported injuries. Moreover, EUFireAcademy states European countries suffered 558 fatalities per million inhabitants due to fire hazards during the year 2010. Even though satellite-based positioning technology allows rescue workers to already operate efficiently, GPS availability, reliability, and accuracy are often poor during fire operations, for example due to thick smoke, dense forests, rough terrain and inside buildings. In this context, the objective of AIOSAT (Autonomous Indoor & Outdoor Safety Tracking System) is to progress beyond the state of the art by defining the AIOSAT concept that aims to overcome aforementioned limitations of GNSS usage in rescue interventions. For this purpose, GNSS positions are enhanced with EGNOS and fused with position information inferred from IMU and RF. The main paths to the goal will be to define 1) the end-user requirements for the AIOSAT system, 2) the Advanced Positioning Subsystem 3) the Communications Subsystem 4) the tracking and alerting (TA) application and, 5) build an integrated prototype system validated during field tests. The dissemination and use of the project outcomes are the ultimate objective. Therefore, in order to use and spread the knowledge acquired, a set of concrete, quantitative and customized activities is planned. The main strengths of the AIOSAT consortium are threefold.1) It is composed of world class organizations with extensive and successful prior experience in the research topics related to the technologies employed. 2) The consortium involves two end-users, a technology provider, a university, a university-level military academy and two SMEs aiming at exploiting the project results as subsystem integrators, software and service providers. And 3), last but not least, the small consortium size avoids inefficiencies and work overhead typical for larger projects.

Keywords: firefighters,rescue operations,tracking and alerting ta,communication system,gnss,egnoss,dead reckoning,high availability,high coverage,rf positioning,information fusion
Calcium-sensitive functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a breakthrough technique to follow brain-wide intracellular calcium dynamics defining multi-scale neuronal activity (BrainwideNeuroCaSens)

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: Germany,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-12-31
End date: 2024-12-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 264669.12
EU funding (EUR): 264669.12
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Neuroscience’s ultimate goal of achieving a holistic understanding of brain function requires a cross-scale integration from single-cell physiology to global network topology. While remarkable achievements towards this goal have been made, brain research faces the challenge of incorporating molecular and cellular neurobiology into the context of macro-scale network activation. Calcium is a reliable marker of neural activity and calcium imaging is among the most widely used methods in modern biology, although the technology for measuring large-scale calcium dynamics remains limited. BrainwideNeuroCaSens seeks to pioneer magnetic calcium-responsive sensors in the context of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a tool for a brain-wide interrogation of neural systems, providing an order of magnitude speed increase and a neurophysiologically precise readout, thereby far surpassing other noninvasive neuroimaging methods. These magnetic calcium-responsive sensors with physicochemical properties similar to optical imaging dyes, make use of the whole-brain, noninvasive imaging capabilities of fMRI and allow to detect translationally relevant, molecular precise correlates of neuronal activity in otherwise inaccessible deep structures and large regions of the mammalian brain. While focusing on dynamic functional connectivity relationships to study stimulus-responses and intrinsic network dynamics, the proposed experiments have significance for understanding brain-wide neural circuits in health and disease, offering pre-clinical potential for neurodegenerative pathologies. BrainwideNeuroCaSens’ offers a molecular precise readout of global neural network function and thereby opens the possibility for therapeutic strategies aiming at a restoration of network disruptions, for example in but not limited to, Alzheimer’s disease. BrainwideNeuroCaSens will bring the next-generation imaging technique of molecular fMRI to the EU and make the applicant pioneer in this field.

Keywords: molecular fmri,calcium imaging,in vivo neuroimaging,systems neuroscience,molecular and cellular neuroscience,slow wave activity,alzheimer s disease
A Human Neural Platform for Assaying Antigen-Antibody Interactions for Autoimmune Encephalitis (NeurAntigen)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2020-PoC, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Autoimmune encephalitides (AE) are a category of diseases that result from an immune attack against proteins present in patient’s own brain cells (antigens). Clinical symptoms include both neurological and psychiatric manifestations, that differ greatly between patients and during disease progression. Upon prompt diagnosis and immunotherapy symptoms gradually resolve. Current epidemiological studies estimate an annual incidence of encephalitis of any aetiology is 2-3 patients per 100.000 per year. However, given that new autoantibodies are being discovered on a half-yearly basis, the incidence of AE is increasing over time and is nowadays comparable to infectious encephalitis. Methods to diagnose AE rely on immunodetection of autoantigens, using rat brain tissue or transfected cells as a source of neural cell surface proteins. Despite being successful in identifying known autoantibodies, in 50% of all AE cases the affected antigen is unknown and cannot be detected using current technologies. Therefore, there is an urgent clinical need for a diagnostic kit that is able to detect all cell surface neuronal antigens. Thanks to the skills acquired during the ERC-StG, we have developed a platform to identify the presence of autoantibodies against neuronal surface antigens in patient serum or CSF using human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) derived neural cells. Moreover, first experiments validate that our technology can detect an autoantigen in seronegative samples. In the context of this project, we aim to conduct the necessary steps to bring a successful diagnostic approach developed in the bench towards its application as a diagnostic device at the bedside. To this end, we will develop a minimum viable product (MVP), to assess its capability to detect new AE-associated antigens, to distribute it to reference diagnostic laboratories for benchmarking and to explore the possibility of licensing the invention to a third-party company.

Keywords: autoimmune encephalitis ae,ipsc technology,in vitro diagnosis,human ipsc derived neuronal,cultures