Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Accelerating Digital Innovation in Schools through Regional Innovation Hubs and a Whole-School Mentoring Model (iHub4Schools)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Italy,Switzerland,Norway,Finland,Lithuania,Georgia,United Kingdom
Call: Mentoring scheme for schools: mainstreaming innovation by spreading the advanced ICT-based teaching practices to a wide circle of schools (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 995875.0
EU funding (EUR): 995875.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

iHub4Schools will propose mechanisms to accelerate whole-school digital innovation in and across schools through establishment of Regional Innovation Hubs. Our aim is to support a minimum of 75 European schools and 600 teachers to implement project approaches by establishing regional innovation hubs as sites of establishing and multiplying school-to-school mentoring structures. This will be achieved, firstly, through different support mechanisms that will focus on supporting the collaboration between digitally advanced and less advanced teachers and schools through a variety of peer learning approaches and engagement structures. Secondly, iHub4Schools will develop a whole-school mentoring model that is locally, methodologically and technologically adaptable. It embraces both inter- and intra-school levels, and integrates a continuous monitoring methodology by including novel evaluation approaches and the Learning Analytics Toolbox. Regional Innovation Hubs will be established in 5 European countries and the mentoring model will be piloted with 600 teachers in 75 schools. Long-term sustainability will be ensured by a systematic stakeholder engagement strategy that will integrate initiatives and partners on a local level, such as local municipalities, school boards, teacher associations and network, for these activities to be carried out on the long term. Regional impact will be sustained by the upskilling of the teachers to implement technologies meaningfully to teaching and school heads to scale and sustain the innovation in and across the schools.

Keywords: whole school mentoring,evidence informed decision making,school improvement,co creation,regional innovation hubs
Sediments and Subduction Interface Mechanics: from micro-scale creep to global plate tectonics (S-SIM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1575000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1575000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project seeks to test the hypothesis that sediment subduction strongly influences both the short-term (seismic) and long-term (million-year) mechanical behavior of the subduction interface. The underlying basis of this hypothesis is the possibility that sediments exhibit fundamentally different frictional and viscous properties than subducted mafic oceanic rocks— specifically that sediments are weaker at all conditions along the plate interface. To test this hypothesis, I have split my approach into three complementary and carefully linked tasks, including Task I. Observations from Exhumed rocks, Task II: Rock Deformation Experiments, and Task III: Numerical Modeling. Task I will involve field geological campaigns in three sites representing different conditions of the plate interface, from shallow to deep. Task II will involve three suites of experiments (closely linked to the field sites) aimed at quantifying the rheological properties of mafic rocks at different pressure-temperature conditions. Task III will involve two types of numerical models: 1) seismo-thermo-mechanical modeling aimed at assessing the influence of heterogeneity on seismic slip behaviors, and 2) large-scale mantle convection modeling aimed at quantifying relationships and feedbacks between subduction interface rheology and plate speeds. This research has high potential to impact a number of Earth Science and related disciplines: establishing a lithological control on plate boundary strength, and hence on both subduction seismic behaviours and plate speeds, would establish a fundamental link between plate tectonics, climate, and life on planet Earth.

Keywords: subduction zones,rheology,rock mechanics,mantle surface connections,plate tectonics,field geology,microstructures,experimental rock deformation,earthquakes,episodic tremor and slow slip
From ecology to neurobiology: spatial cognition in rainforest frogs (FrogsInSpace)

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: France,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-20
End date: 2022-07-19
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 257619.84
EU funding (EUR): 257619.84
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ability to navigate the environment has a profound impact on animal survival and reproductive success. Sex and species differences in spatial abilities are widespread, but understanding the mechanisms underlying variation in spatial cognition and how these differences arise through evolution remains challenging. I propose an interdisciplinary project aimed at understanding the sex and species differences in spatial cognition of tropical poison frogs from ecological, cognitive, neurobiological, and evolutionary perspectives. Poison frogs are ideal for understanding the evolution and neural mechanisms of vertebrate spatial cognition because sexes and closely related species show contrasting life histories and spatial behaviors. Specifically, species differ in whether females or males provide parental care to tadpoles and have larger home ranges. This offers a rare opportunity to link the sex and species differences in life history with differences in spatio-cognitive abilities at the behavioral and the neural levels. Recently, I have used tracking to study variation in frog space use, developed assays for quantifying navigational performance under natural conditions, and demonstrated that poison frogs rely on spatial memory for navigation. Building on this groundwork, I will collaborate with experts in behavioral neuroscience and movement ecology to (1) reveal sex and species differences in poison frog spatial cognition, (2) identify neural mechanisms governing sex differences in spatial cognition using cutting-edge neuroscience tools, and (3) integrate ecological, behavioral, and neural aspects of poison frog spatial behavior using modeling. FrogsInSpace is an ambitious yet realistic project that will establish a novel study system and integrate a broad range of expertise to address important questions in comparative cognition. It will be critical for my development as an expert working at the interface between animal ecology, cognition, and neurobiology.

Keywords: spatial cognition,movement ecology,sex differences,neuroethology,neuroecology,amphibians
A scalable and sustainable grid-scale energy storage system utilising 3rd generation flywheel technology for effective integration of renewable energy. (Teraloop EES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3465625.0
EU funding (EUR): 2425937.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Electrical energy storage (EES) is a fundamental enabler to the deployment of renewable energy and provides cost-savings in other markets. The market is projected to grow from 1.1 GW in 2016 to 21.6 GW in 2025. Pumped hydroelectric storage (PHS) accounts for 98% of global energy storage, however they are geographically limited, environmentally impactful and require huge upfront costs. Other state-of-the-art solutions available in the market i.e. batteries for EES cannot scale-up to meet the demands on the electrical grids and networks. This results in an underutilisation or ineffective use of renewable energy sources. Teraloop has created a highly scalable, kinetic energy storage system, which draws upon proven technologies (flywheel energy storage, magnetic levitation and brushless motors.), innovatively configured for grid-scale storage with minimal visual and environmental footprint. The scalability of the system makes it suitable for a range of applications such as voltage support, frequency regulation, peak shaving, T&D upgrade deferral & congestion relief, load following and arbitrage.

Keywords: energy storage,renewable energy,grid scale
Foundations of Cryptographic Hardness (FOC)

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: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1239838.0
EU funding (EUR): 1239838.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A fundamental research challenge in modern cryptography is understanding the necessary hardness assumptions required to build different cryptographic primitives. Attempts to answer this question have gained tremendous success in the last 20-30 years. Most notably, it was shown that many highly complicated primitives can be based on the mere existence of one-way functions (i.e., easy to compute and hard to invert), while other primitives cannot be based on such functions. This research has yielded fundamental tools and concepts such as randomness extractors and computational notions of entropy. Yet many of the most fundamental questions remain unanswered. Our first goal is to answer the fundamental question of whether cryptography can be based on the assumption that P not equal NP. Our second and third goals are to build a more efficient symmetric-key cryptographic primitives from one-way functions, and to establish effective methods for security amplification of cryptographic primitives. Succeeding in the second and last goals is likely to have great bearing on the way that we construct the very basic cryptographic primitives. A positive answer for the first question will be considered a dramatic result in the cryptography and computational complexity communities. To address these goals, it is very useful to understand the relationship between different types and quantities of cryptographic hardness. Such understanding typically involves defining and manipulating different types of computational entropy, and comprehending the power of security reductions. We believe that this research will yield new concepts and techniques, with ramification beyond the realm of foundational cryptography.

Keywords: foundation of cryptography,minimal hardness assumption,hardness amplification
Global Inheritances: Personal Identification and Inheritance Rights in the Early Modern Spanish Empire (GLOBAL INHERITANCES)

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: France
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): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to study the ways in which the institutions of the early modern Spanish Empire identified the legitimate heirs of mobile individuals coming from the Iberian peninsula who died suddenly, often without making a will, while they were in the monarchy’s extra-European territories, thousands of kilometres away from their home towns and the places where their heirs lived. In the context of a global scale empire, and in the absence of reliable official documentation such as civil and property registers, both the property and identity of these mobile individuals was extremely uncertain. Who were the deceased? What property did they own? Who and where were their heirs? When they died thousands of kilometres away from Europe, how did the institutions transmit the inheritance to their legitimate heirs? How could the courts be sure who they were? How could heirs demonstrate their identities in order to safeguard their rights to succession? For those hundreds of thousands of subjects of the Catholic Monarchy now on the move around four different continents – and for their families too – identifying themselves and demonstrating their identities was an urgent and growing need. Demonstrating their identities in court was a fundamental pre requisite for heirs claiming inherited property and, even more importantly, ensuring legitimate property inheritance was a central priority of the institutions themselves. Over the course of the sixteenth century, in fact, the Catholic Monarchy set up specific courts, the so-called "Juzgados de Bienes de Difuntos" (courts charged with handling the estates of the dead), to take temporary possession of goods left without owners and for the purposes of identifying their legitimate heirs. This project will analyse the extraordinary and as yet little used documentation produced by these courts and concentrate its attention on the case of colonial Mexico, a crucible of empire building.

Keywords: early modern spanish empire,early modern mexico,history of personal identification,procedures,history of property and inheritance rights,history of identity,connected history
Multimodal imaging of the in vivo fate of bone transplants (VIVOIMAG)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Israel,Belgium,Greece,Greece,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 472500.0
EU funding (EUR): 472500.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of VIVOIMAG is to develop bone implants including a new contrast agent sensitive to enzymatic activity of metaloproteases, which will permit for the first time to follow the integration and cell differentiation activity in bone tissue bioreactors in vitro and in grafts in vivo using existing non invasive magnetic resonance imaging techniques. The proposal aims at integrating a magnetically functionalized extracellular matrix material into the bone scaffolds, seeding them with cells, implanting them in animal models and following the fate of the implants in vivo using MRI. The aim is to obtain similar results with the magnetically modified scaffolds as the ones obtained currently but having now endowed the grafts with enzymatic reporting activity that can be monitored noninvasively in the living animal. There are currently no methods to detect in situ and in vivo this enzymatic activity without previously sacrificing the transplanted animals, therefore the successful accomplishment of this project would have huge and prolonged impact in the medical field of tissue regeneration. The VIVOIMAG project brings together a multidisciplinary consortium of specialists in different areas of bone implant research, nanoparticles formulation and characterization, magnetic resonance and scintigraphic imaging, who will join forces in order to propose and assess a novel technique for the evaluation of the progress of bone implants in vivo, which can substitute existing invasive techniques based on biopsies. A well planned exchange program among academic and industrial partners will facilitate knowledge sharing, maximize collaborative work and finally achievement of project objectives. The consortium, being aware of the scientific and social importance of bone tissue engineering, has planned a series of dissemination and training activities, aiming at making project knowledge and outcomes available to the scientific community and society.

Keywords: tissue engineering,bone implants,scaffold,magnetic nanoparticles,magnetic resonance imaging,scintigraphic imaging,small animals,labelling,spect,osteogenesis,metalloprote
molecular and functional characterization of EmergiNG INflammasomES (ENGINES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and Immunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system, related disorders and their mechanisms, biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, innovative immunological tools and approaches, including therapies
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2372637.0
EU funding (EUR): 2372637.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Inflammasomes play a pivotal role in host defense. They function as intracellular surveillance systems by sensing pathogens or indirectly by responding to the perturbation of cellular homeostasis. While our understanding of inflammasome biology is growing at a rapid pace, we still have an incomplete understanding of how these systems detect pathogenic insults, or how these sensors operate at the molecular level. Just recently, NLRP1 and the closely related CARD8, a functionally distinct subgroup of inflammasome sensors, have been ‘de-orphanized’ for their unique mode of action. More than other sensors of the inflammasome family, NLRP1 and CARD8 display a high level of divergence across different species and NLRP1 ranks among the top genes experiencing positive selection in primates. In our search for a physiological NLRP1 trigger, we have now made the surprising finding that human NLRP1 operates as a direct sensor for dsRNA, a key non-self signature of viral replication. To obtain a detailed mechanistic framework for NLRP1 and also CARD8 function, I here propose a challenging and pioneering endeavor: employing functional genomics, proteomics and chemogenomics, we will identify signaling networks upstream of NLRP1 and CARD8. Taking cell biological, biochemical and structural biology approaches, the mechanism of action and structure of these sensors will be elucidated. Further, screening a large panel of pathogens, we will characterize their role in response to infection in vitro and implementing novel humanized mouse models for the NLRP1 and the CARD8 inflammasomes, we will assess the relevance of these sensors for antiviral immunity and immune cell homeostasis in vivo. Altogether, this work will not only comprehensively profile the role of these emerging inflammasome pathways, but also uncover fundamental molecular principles of inflammasome biology. Gaining these insights, this work also holds the promise of developing novel, innovative therapeutic strategies.

Keywords: innate immunity,antiviral immunity,inflammasomes,dsrna,nlrp1,card8,caspase 1
Investigating Natural, Historical, And Institutional Transformations - Cities (INHABIT Cities)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-14
End date: 2018-08-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of INHAbIT is to improve understandings of the dynamics of water service provision in urban environments in the global South. In particular, INHAbIT will explore historical processes and transformations that have shaped water service configurations, the politics of socio-technical urban water supply systems and the socio-ecological processes shaping the urban waterscape. INHAbIT is innovative in that it takes an interdisciplinary approach and aims at developing new methodologies and conceptual approaches. To this aim, INHAbIT has identified three objectives, which combine theoretical, methodological and empirical elements: undertake a theoretical synthesis that brings urban political ecology perspectives into engagement with institutional bricolage; explore and test innovative methodologies for tracking informality and investigating socio-natural processes; undertake empirical work and building up a robust body of rigorously researched historical and qualitative data on natural, historical and institutional transformations that have shaped and continuously re-shape water service realities in Lilongwe (Malawi) and Maputo (Mozambique). While taking a critical approach, INHAbIT is also cognizant of the needs of policy makers and practitioners for solutions that work for serving with adequate water a growing population. The researcher, Maria Rusca, will explore the implications of INHAbIT’s research findings for policy and practice and disseminate accordingly. INHAbIT, thus, will be both scientifically innovative and policy relevant.
Digital Resonant Laser Printing for Mass Customization of Flat Optics (DeLight)

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: Denmark,Denmark
Call: FET Innovation Launchpad (H2020-FETOPEN-4-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 98848.75
EU funding (EUR): 98848.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Flat optics is used in everyday, compact devices like mobile phones and other portable devices, where size and weight is important. DeLight will transform the holographic resonant nano-scale laser printing of flat optics using template dielectric meta-surfaces, developed by DTU in FET OPEN CHROMAVISION, into a commercially attractive and sustainable business and a University spin-off. The DeLight ultra-high resolution laser printing technology enables mass-customization of flat-optics, with a wide application field, such as opthalmic lenses, advanced optical filters, and optical sensor technology for the Internet of Things (IoT). DTU has filed three international patent applications on the technology and published the research results in high impact journals (Nature Nanotechnology, Science Advances, Nature Reviews Materials). At present, the technology is at TRL4. The technology is demonstrated in the lab. The main project activity will be: 1) Develop a business case, 2) Identify the market segments and needs, 3) asses technology with end-users and 4) initiate a University spin-off.

Keywords: laser writing,flat optics,mass customization,optical gratings,optical elements