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Technologies for Supporting Online Music Education (TECSOME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept (ERC-2017-PoC, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Online learning has impacted and changed music education significantly all over the world in the last decade. Music schools and teachers have now access to a much wider audience, increasing their business opportunities specially by overcoming the geographical constraints. However, online music performance education cannot scale to MOOC level given that the student assessments rely on individual instructor review, as is the case in the well known online courses from Berklee Online. The need of a personal assessment procedure limits the growth and expansion of these courses. Our project, TECSOME, will solve this limitation by facilitating the learner’s assessment, making it more automatic and less human-dependent. We will build an automatic assessment system, named Music Critic, around a set of technologies developed within the CompMusic project, targeted at supporting music performance courses and helping them scale up to MOOC level. Music Critic will act as an external assessment tool able to communicate with existing Learning Management Systems (LMS) via the Learning Tool Interoperability standard (LTI). The basic workflow will be: (1) teacher prepares an exercise using the LMS and Music Critic; (2) learner uploads an audio recording of the exercise to the LMS; (3) LMS sends the audio recording to Music Critic, where is analyzed and evaluated; and (4) Music Critic sends the assessment outcome, which includes the evaluation grade and detail feedbacks, to the LMS, where it can be corrected and validated by the teacher before becoming available to the learner. In the CompMusic project we have developed technologies with which to analyze music recordings in various music styles. Some of the technologies are already being exploited in a PoC project, CAMUT, which takes advantage of music analysis technologies that target the Indian musical culture. Now, in TECSOME, we are taking advantage of some complementary technologies centered on measuring music similarity.

Keywords: music technology,mooc,music education,automatic student assessment
Next-generation flow diagnostics for control (NEXTFLOW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499062.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499062.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fast-paced advancements of hardware and machine-learning algorithms have triggered successful applications of active flow control, even though mainly limited to laboratory-scale applications. One of the main limits resides in the lesson we are able to learn today from experiments. We can successfully train actuators with probes in a controlled environment to reach a certain goal, e.g. aerodynamic drag minimization or noise reduction; on the other hand, an experimental technique that provides a full description of the flow is not available, thus generalization of the actuation effects to real applications is often prohibitive. The objective of NEXTFLOW is to conceive the next-generation flow-diagnostics aimed to flow control by leveraging the principles of completeness and compactness of the measurements. Completeness implies aiming to pursue a complete flow description, i.e. a time-resolved 3D characterization of velocity and thermodynamic variables. This will be achieved through a technique-integration approach based on data-driven methods. This grounds its basis on the principle that the superposed application of techniques is superior to their separate use. Compactness is pursued by exploring solutions with minimum technological complexity, and on developing new data output formats that are directly aimed at flow control applications. Key enablers for this task are (i) the novel concepts I recently proposed on data-driven techniques integration, (ii) the deep embedding of compressed-sensing methods in the data processing and (iii) the data-driven discovery of simplified governing equations of the dynamics. The next-generation flow diagnostics concept will deeply change experimental fluid mechanics and flow control, allowing bridging the gap between the laboratory experiment to the real application, with tremendous potential impact on numerous industrial applications.

Keywords: fluid velocimetry,turbulence,flow control,data driven methods
The evolution and regulation of major transitions in sexual systems: new insights from the brown algae (TETHYS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Germany,France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999420.0
EU funding (EUR): 1835517.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Sexual reproduction is a pervasive phenomenon that produces new genetic combinations in nearly all eukaryotic lineages. Whilst the core processes that define meiotic sex (meiosis and syngamy) are universal, sex determination systems are not evolutionary conserved but are bewilderingly diverse and have had rapid turnover rates during evolution. Transitions among sex determination systems have profound evolutionary and ecological consequences, but our understanding of the mechanisms, ultimate causes, and the consequences of transitions is still surprisingly incomplete. The goal of the Tethys project is to exploit the exceptional richness of sexual features of the brown algae to gain novel insights into the functional bases and ultimate forces associated with transitions between sexual systems, and their impact on the evolution of this important group of eukaryotes. First, we will exploit the amenability of model brown algae to genetic and genomic approaches to uncover the mechanisms and evolutionary forces driving switches between sexual systems across this group. Secondly, we will investigate the regulation and evolution of the genes involved in sexual reproduction in the context of sexual system transitions, by delineating a comprehensive transcriptional and chromatin state roadmap across key brown algal species. Finally, we will examine patterns of correlated evolution between sexual, functional and genomic traits and incorporate ecological information in order to link ecological factors to reproductive transitions and evaluate their consequences on genome structure and species diversification. Collectively, these multilevel analyses will help answer long-standing evolutionary questions about the diversity and turnover of sex determining systems in eukaryotes, but will also provide unprecedented insights into the biology of an important but virtually unexplored eukaryotic supergroup.

Keywords: sexual systems evolution,sex chromosomes,sexual reproduction,mutants,genetics,multicellularity,chromatin regulation,evolutionary genomics
Low-carbon society: an enhanced modelling tool for the transition to sustainability (LOCOMOTION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Iceland,Italy,Spain,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Norway,Greece,Croatia,Japan,Portugal
Call: Supporting the development of climate policies to deliver on the Paris Agreement, through Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) (H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6315865.0
EU funding (EUR): 6315865.0
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of LOCOMOTION is to enhance existing Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) in order to provide policy makers and relevant stakeholders with a reliable and practical model system to assess the feasibility, effectiveness, costs and impacts of different sustainability policy options, and to identify the most effective transition pathways towards a low-carbon society. Building on existing IAMs developed in the MEDEAS European project, and including knowledge from other relevant models (World6, TIMES, LEAP, GCAM, C-Roads, …), a number of substantive improvements are foreseen with respect to the state-of-the-art in energy-economy-environment modelling: • Expanding the geographical coverage and detail by creating a new worldwide multi-regional model with 7 global regions and integrating the 28 EU countries. • Improving IAMs by increasing the detail and precision of existing modules and adding new ones. • Integrating relevant functionalities from other models and comparing modelling results. • Integrating demand management policies in scenario assessment. • Representing and quantifying uncertainty. • Improving the usability of the IAMs through the development of two interface levels (professional and educational). • Exploiting and disseminating model result to three stakeholder groups: policy-makers and experts on strategic planning; experts on IAMs, modellers and programmers; and civil society. The improved IAM will be the product of an interdisciplinary work in data management, policy and scenario assessment and system dynamic modelling of relevant environmental, economic, social, technological and biophysical variables. This new IAM will be a robust, usable and reliable tool of diagnostic and scenario assessment for a sustainable transition towards a low-carbon society. LOCOMOTION will provide the different stakeholders with a more effective, user-friendly and open-source, model system for decision-support, education and social awareness.

Keywords: integrated energy economy environment assessment model,system dynamics,input output analysis,sustainability,low carbon society,policy and scenario assessment,open source simulation software
Short and long-term consequences of the early environment (EARLYSTART)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The early developmental period is very sensitive to disturbances. Parents are known to shape the early environment of their offspring through physiological and behavioural modifications. In this project, I am going to investigate what are the short- and long-term consequences of different family scenarios in development and fitness. For that, I will consider female promiscuity as a modifier of the early environment because (a) promiscuous females are more exploratory, more active, and thus, less nest-attending, and (b) males paired with promiscuous females decrease their paternal input. Therefore, offspring raised under such conditions might reach independence with a compromised body condition, decreasing their chances to survive until reproductive age. Moreover, I will explore whether females are able to compensate for the losses of paternal effort by increasing their own breeding effort, or whether chicks can compensate for the reductions in parental support. For that I will use two approaches: an empirical study with spotless starlings where I will focus on both the short- and long-term effects of promiscuity for fitness of mothers and offspring (survival and reproduction), and a comparative analysis where I will investigate the short-term effects of different breeding systems on the fitness of females and offspring. Both approaches will be integrated following a causal framework.

Keywords: dysfunctional families,early environment,extra pair,fitness,paternity,personality
Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services (CORBEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Austria,Germany,Germany,Estonia,Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Finland,Norway,Belgium,Greece,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Implementation and operation of cross-cutting services and solutions for clusters of ESFRI and other relevant research infrastructure initiatives (H2020-INFRADEV-1-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14837800.0
EU funding (EUR): 14837800.0
Participants: 48
Project status: CLOSED

The social and economic challenges of ageing populations and chronic disease can only be met by translation of biomedical discoveries to new, innovative and cost effective treatments. The ESFRI Biological and Medical Research Infrastructures (BMS RI) underpin every step in this process; effectively joining scientific capabilities and shared services will transform the understanding of biological mechanisms and accelerate its translation into medical care. Biological and medical research that addresses the grand challenges of health and ageing span a broad range of scientific disciplines and user communities. The BMS RIs play a central, facilitating role in this groundbreaking research: inter-disciplinary biomedical and translational research requires resources from multiple research infrastructures such as biobank samples, and resources from multiple research infrastructures such as biobank samples, imaging facilities, molecular screening centres or animal models. Through a user-led approach CORBEL will develop the tools, services and data management required by cutting-edge European research projects: collectively the BMS RIs will establish a sustained foundation of collaborative scientific services for biomedical research in Europe and embed the combined infrastructure capabilities into the scientific workflow of advanced users. Furthermore CORBEL will enable the BMS RIs to support users throughout the execution of a scientific project: from planning and grant applications through to the long-term sustainable management and exploitation of research data. By harmonising user access, unifying data management, creating common ethical and legal services, and offering joint innovation support CORBEL will establish and support a new model for biological and medical research in Europe. The BMS RI joint platform will visibly reduce redundancy and simplify project management and transform the ability of users to deliver advanced, cross-disciplinary research.

Keywords: biomedicine,health,research infrastructure,medicine,life science,elsi,data management,innovation
Modernization of Sexuality and the Construction of Deviance in Soviet Lithuania (MoSeLit)

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: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174167.04
EU funding (EUR): 174167.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

While the hostile attitudes towards LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) people in Eastern Europe are often attributed to the legacy of the Soviet past, scholarly research on the history of sexuality and its management in state-socialism is still lacking. The main goal of this research project is to provide the first rigorous historical analysis of the construction of queer sexuality as “deviance” in medical, criminological, educational, and other discourses and practices in Soviet Lithuania (1945-1990). Besides from this goal, additional objectives of this project are: 1) to analyse the production of queer subjectivities and the boundaries of agency of queer people in the context of socialist modernization, thus questioning the assumption about the Soviet period as merely repressive; 2) to contribute to a more nuanced and less heteronormative historical understanding of the development of modern sexuality in the Soviet Union through a close engagement with queer and feminist theory; 3) to develop a conceptual toolbox, informed by postcolonial and decolonial approaches, to the historical study of sexuality in the context of Soviet Lithuania, in this way broadening the Western-centered theoretical framework of queer studies; and 4) to join the scholarly debates on sexuality and gender within the Cold War context, the modern history of sexuality in Europe, and the cultural history and intellectual history of state-socialism. In order to achieve these goals and objectives, the project combines archival research with oral history in the examination of the construction of sexual “deviance” and the limits of queer resistance in the context of Soviet Lithuania. Employing the insights from queer and postcolonial studies, the research will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the development of modern discourses of sexuality and contemporary queer identities in Europe, and will question the narrative of modernization as sexual liberation.

Keywords: history of sexuality,queer theory,baltic studies,lgbtq studies,lithuania,history of state socialism,soviet history,eastern europe
Predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on community diversity (ALIENIMPACTS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999997.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999997.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Anthropocene, the current geological epoch, is characterised by human-induced ecological changes, which have prompted a global biodiversity crisis. Human-introduced alien plants could help to offset native species loss, augmenting diversity and maintaining the services and capital that humans derive from nature. However, alien species that become invasive are themselves a key threat to biodiversity. Alien species thus presents a huge challenge for biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: should their arrival and establishment be inhibited or disregarded as they can potentially both exacerbate and ameliorate biodiversity loss? Coupling empirical and theoretical approaches, ALIENIMPACTS will directly address this challenge by developing an approach for accurately predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on plant community diversity and identifying the circumstances under which negative impacts will occur. Using temperate grasslands as a model system, ALIENIMPACTS will use innovative field experiments and global observations to systematically quantify – for the first time – how often, for how long, to what extent, under what conditions and in what ways alien plants can impact plant community diversity. ALIENIMPACTS will develop mechanistic niche models, validated with empirical data from grasslands in North America, Europe and Australia, that will enable realistic scenarios of invasion biodiversity impacts to be forecast, now and in the future. Developing empirically accurate mechanistic models that predict invasions and their biodiversity impact is a highly ambitious goal. Its achievement will mark a step-change in ecological theory and understanding, will inform environmental policy and management, and address a critical research challenge of the Anthropocene: how to conserve the biodiversity of plants – the dominant life form on earth – under global environmental change.

Keywords: biological invasions,invasive species,community ecology,invasion science,non native alien plants,biodiversity,environmental change
Support to the OAPEN initiative (2020-2021) (ERC-OAPEN-2019)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Low value grant
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Support to the OAPEN initiative (H2020-IBA-ERC-OAPEN-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 60000.0
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The OAPEN deposit service for OA monographs was set up to support funders' OA policies. It was launched in 2014 and has been implemented for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Wellcome Trust, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), and the ERC. Through the deposit service, new publications - funded by these funders - are disseminated through the OAPEN Library. ERC-OAPEN-2019 is a continuation of the existing cooperation with the ERC. The aim of ERC-OAPEN-2019 is to support the maintenance and further improvement of the existing OAPEN services and infrastructure and to support its sustainability, as well as to help OAPEN strengthen its engagement with publishers and with researchers in support of the ERC's Open access strategy. OAPEN will engage with publishers to improve awareness of open access requirements, to Improve support for ERC researchers, and to grow self-archiving policies for books and chapters. OAPEN will engage with ERC researchers through e-mail campaigns and supporting communication material, to increase awareness of open access requirements among researchers, to increase adoption of good practises, and to grow the number of deposits. OAPEN will engage with funders to develop an alternative funding model to sustain OAPEN services.

Keywords: open access,monographs,chapters,books,oa requirements,deposit