Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Τhe New Generation of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Critical Infrastructures (HECTOR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

HECTOR is a new generation of distributed fibre optic sensing systems, under the Rayleigh scatter principle, offering smart monitoring solutions based on optical fibre for numerous markets. Traditional monitoring sensors (.e.g geophones, cameras) present specific limitations as they rely on discrete sensors measuring at pre-determined points. Thus, new monitoring and surveillance technologies were developed based on the distributed fibre optic sensing technology. However, the existing DAS (distributed acoustic sensing) and DTS (distributed temperature sensing) systems present two unambiguous drawbacks. They have a limited sensing range (maximum 70-80km) and quite high CAPEX (~€150,000, excl. software). On top of that, existing companies mainly focus on the defense and oil & gas industries, having neglected others (e.g. road infrastructure). To face these needs, we developed HECTOR, our pioneering smart fiber optic sensing device. Through our unique proprietary extensors HECTOR is the only device in the world, able to extend the sensing range of more than 150km. We also managed to integrate DAS/DTS systems into a unique device and create a market expertise, in currently unexploited fields (road infrastructure, earthquake detection). Apart from tech advancements, our innovation constitutes a clear opportunity to extend the functionality of the already installed fiber network, without the need of replacing it, at a massively lower CAPEX/OPEX. Our final product is highly cost-competitive as it has an up to 3 times lower final price compared to competing solutions. Aragon Photonics is a highly innovative technological company, expert in the development of test and measurements solutions in the fields of photonics and optical communications with its own facilities in Zaragoza.

Keywords: smart fiber optic,extensors,critical infrastructure,road infrastructure,earthquake,cost competitive
CO-OPERATIVE ROBOT APPLICATION IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY FOR FANCY YARN MACHINE (CORTI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Textile industry is one of the largest industries in the world. To sustain its commercial success it becomes imperative to produce goods of high quality at reasonable prices to achieve customer satisfaction, which asks for continuous modernization of the textile machines. Each step towards innovation means streamlining activities with a versatile approach to minimize the manpower in the intensive and repetitive jobs. It is expected to have an incremental level of automatization in the textile industries implemented with human-robot collaborative models, where humans are doing “customization” tasks. CORTI project idea was born with the aim to facilitate the introduction of collaborative robot in the spinning area of the textile industry with a special outlook, at this stage, to the fancy yarn machines designed, produced and selled by Gualchieri&Gualchieri.

Keywords: collaborative robot,fancy yarn machine,human health,re qualification,manufacturing industry
Active Polymers for Renewable Functional Actuators (APRA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2012136.0
EU funding (EUR): 2012136.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The idea of mechanical actuator based on intrinsic material properties of liquid-crystalline elastomers (rather than complex engineering of interacting components) has been understood for 20+ years. The remarkable characteristics of LCE actuation (fully reversible action; large-amplitude, with a stroke of 5%-300%; stress-strain-speed response almost exactly matching the human muscle) make it highly attractive in biomedical engineering, robotics, smart textiles, and other fields. Yet, there is a profound difficulty (bottleneck), which remains the reason why this concept has not found its way into any practical devices & applications. LCE actuation requires alignment (monodomain structure) of the local anisotropy in the permanently crosslinked polymer network - which has been impossible to achieve in any useful large-scale configuration except the flat film, due to the unavoidable restrictions of two competing processes: orientational alignment and network crosslinking. Recently, we made a breakthrough, developing LCE vitrimers (polymer networks covalently crosslinked by a bond-exchange reaction). Vitrimers are much more stable than other transient elastomer networks, allow easy thermal re-moulding (making the material fully renewable), and permit molding of complex shapes with intricate local alignment (which are impossible in traditional elastomers). This project will bridge from the concept to technology, tuning the material design for robust nematic LCE vitrimers, imparting photo-actuation capacity with a controlled wavelength, and finally utilising them in practical-engineering actuator applications where the reversible mechanical action is stimulated by light, solvent exposure, or more traditionally - heat. These applications include (but not limited to): continuous spinning light-driven motor, tactile dynamic Braille display, capillary pump and toggle flow switch for microfuidics, active textile fibre, and heliotracking filament that always points at the Sun.
Enhanced quantum information processing targeting the near term (EQUIPTNT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1398436.0
EU funding (EUR): 1398436.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Progress in the fabrication, control and readout of systems consisting of a small number of qubits has catapulted quantum computation from a primarily theoretical pursuit into the lab. With the growing availability of small and relatively noise-free devices and the imminent arrival of larger next-generation equipment, new theoretical questions are being asked about the potential of quantum computation. In particular, one may ask if quantum computing devices may yield computational benefits even in the presence of noise or constraints on their size or geometrical layout of qubits. The project EQUIPTNT will characterize the computational capabilities of near-term quantum devices by studying their potential to yield disruptive boosts in information-processing power. It will investigate and design new quantum algorithms adapted to limited hardware: the aim here is to provide computational advances while maximizing noise-tolerance without placing excessive demands on experimental capabilities. It will establish trade-off relations between noise levels, computational power, and the amount and nature of available computational resources. EQUIPTNT will also develop tools for simulating the quantum many-body dynamics of information-processing setups by classical algorithms, in order to pinpoint the origin of quantum advantage, and provide means for certifying the functionality of quantum hardware. EQUIPTNT will establish new theoretical and algorithmic methods to address the question of ''best use'' for a given finite set of resources. Its interdisciplinary approach will yield novel principles for the design, simulation and validation quantum information processing protocols. Corresponding results will have direct application to near-term quantum devices, providing insights into the architecture and use of schemes tailored towards specific experimental platforms.
Theorising EDM (Electronic Dance Music) Composition Knowledge (TECKNO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2024-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 319400.64
EU funding (EUR): 319400.64
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This research project will develop a theoretical framework for the composition and production of techno, a genre of electronic dance music (EDM). The research problem this project will address is the lack of research into the musical and production techniques that govern electronic popular music in general and techno specifically. Techno is consistently the highest selling EDM genre on Beatport and producing EDM is an activity pursued by millions of enthusiasts. The pandemic has increased the number of people writing their own electronic music at home using digital technology, but the techniques of advanced approaches to techno production remain the domain of a small number of professionals whose activities do not include to educate enthusiasts. Music theorists and musicologists have so far covered only a few isolated topics and explored fragmented specific examples of EDM production. The project consists of four principal objectives: identify a range of techniques, and map their hierarchical stratification, that professional artists use to produce techno tracks that are popular on the dancefloor and/or commercially successful; map the decision making process and creative strategies that can underlie the professional production of a techno track; organise the various musical aspects of techno production in a comprehensive theoretical framework; explore the affordances of spatialisation in techno production and performance. By employing musicological analysis, spectromorphological analysis, qualitative interviews and practice-led/based research to explore techno production praxis, this project will synthesise a theoretical framework that will make a significant contribution to the fields of record production, creative process studies, popular music studies and 21st century music practice. This theoretical framework will provide researchers and producers with powerful new understandings of popular music in general and techno production in particular.

Keywords: electronic dance music,art of record production,popular music studies,songwriting,practice based research,practice led research,audio production,sound studies,techno,sound design
Structured Ensembles of Atoms for Quantum Engineering of Light (SEAQUEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at building a new versatile platform for quantum engineering of light, with the unique ability to create deterministic coherent photon-photon interactions tunable in range, strength and dimensionality. It will explore a new avenue towards this goal, combining cutting-edge advances of atomic physics with ideas inspired by nanophotonics: a cold micro-structured gas of interacting atoms will act as a Bragg mirror saturable by a single photon, strongly coupling a controlled number of spatial modes in an optical resonator. This flexible, efficient, dynamically-controlled system will be used to test the limits of fundamental no-go theorems in quantum logic, measure physical quantities inaccessible to standard detectors, and deterministically engineer massively entangled light beams for Heisenberg-limited sensing. Ultimately, it will give access to a yet unexplored regime where intracavity photons form a strongly correlated quantum fluid, with spatial and temporal dynamics ideally suited to perform real-time, single-particle-resolved simulations of non-trivial topological effects appearing in condensed-matter systems.
STING signalling modulation via the Electron Transport Chain (STIMULATE)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The innate immune response to cytosolic dsDNA via the cGAS-STING pathway has been shown to be essential in the response to various viral, bacterial and parasitic infections, in autoimmunity and in cancer. However, the relationship between STING signalling and metabolism is currently unknown. In recent years, our understanding of immunometabolism has also increased – it is becoming clear that metabolic adaptations are fundamental for immune responses. Due to its role in this wide range of clinical pathologies, the mechanism of STING signalling has received a great deal of scientific interest and several STING-targeting compounds are now reaching clinical trial stages of development. It is therefore important to understand the effect of STING activation on mammalian cells, as well as how to manipulate this response to the greatest effect. The research proposed here focuses on the relationship between cellular metabolism and innate immune signalling via STING, using an unbiased proteomics approach as well as targeted immunometabolism approaches to find STING modulating metabolic pathways. Having completed my PhD studies in immunology, I am pursuing a postdoctoral project, in the lab of Dr. David Sancho at the CNIC, that utilises my expertise and allows me to expand my technical horizons and enhance my career development. As an expert in innate immune signalling I believe that combining my knowledge with the Sancho lab’s expertise in cellular immunobiology and metabolism will lead to a better understanding of our immune system. As well as the expertise of my host lab, I will also benefit from the collaboration of leaders in proteomics and mitochondrial biology. This Individual Fellowship would greatly benefit my current research objectives and my career as a whole by allowing me to explore my research interests in a supportive environment, where I will receive the training required for the next stage of my research career.

Keywords: immunometabolism,macrophages,innate immunity,mitochondria
Advances in Research on Theories of the Dark Universe - Inhomogeneity Effects in Relativistic Cosmology (ARTHUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: France
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2091000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2091000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project ARTHUS aims at determining the physical origin of Dark Energy: in addition to the energy sources of the standard model of cosmology, effective terms arise through spatially averaging inhomogeneous cosmological models in General Relativity. It has been demonstrated that these additional terms can play the role of Dark Energy on large scales (but they can also mimic Dark Matter on scales of mass accumulations). The underlying rationale is that fluctuations in the Universe generically couple to spatially averaged intrinsic properties of space, such as its averaged scalar curvature, thus changing the global evolution of the effective (spatially averaged) cosmological model. At present, we understand these so- called backreaction effects only qualitatively. The project ARTHUS is directed towards a conclusive quantitative evaluation of these effects by developing generic and non-perturbative relativistic models of structure formation, by statistically measuring the key-variables of the models in observations and in simulation data, and by reinterpreting observational results in light of the new models. It is to be emphasized that there is no doubt about the existence of backreaction effects; the question is whether they are even capable of getting rid of the dark sources (as some models discussed in the literature suggest), or whether their impact is substantially smaller. The project thus addresses an essential issue of current cosmological research: to find pertinent answers concerning the quantitative impact of inhomogeneity effects, a necessary, worldwide recognized step toward high-precision cosmology. If the project objectives are attained, the results will have a far-reaching impact on theoretical and observational cosmology, on the interpretation of astronomical experiments such as Planck and Euclid, as well as on a wide spectrum of particle physics theories and experiments.

Keywords: general relativity,averaging problem,cosmological perturbation theory,gravitational entropies,morphological statistics,galaxy catalogues,extragalactic observations,cosmic microwave background
Terahertz Analogue-to-Digital Conversion Using Photonic Chipscale Soliton Frequency Combs and Massively Parallel Spectrally Sliced Detection (TeraSlice)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Switzerland,France
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3361735.0
EU funding (EUR): 3361735.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

High-speed digital signal processing (DSP) has seen tremendous performance increases over the last years, primarily driven by massive parallelization of logic operations in large-scale CMOS circuits. This has led to digital processors that would allow for real-time processing of ultra-broadband signals with analogue bandwidths of hundreds of GHz already today. Acquisition of such signals, however, is still impossible due to limited bandwidth scalability of conventional analogue-to-digital converters (ADC). Within TeraSlice, we will explore and demonstrate concepts that can overcome these limitations by photonically assisted spectral parallelization of ADC interfaces, thereby enabling conversion of waveforms with bandwidths in excess of 300 GHz with the potential for further scalability beyond 1 THz. The TeraSlice approach is disruptive both on a conceptual level and with respect to the underlying devices, comprising low-phase-noise Kerr comb generators and ultra-fast electro-optic modulators. The concept has the potential to disrupt a variety of highly relevant applications with substantial market potential, ranging from radar systems and wireless communications beyond 5G to electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. TeraSlice builds upon an interdisciplinary effort of internationally leading academic and industrial partners with highly complementary expertise. The project covers the theoretical base and the associated quantitative system models, the design, implementation, and test of crucial components and subsystems, as well as application demonstrations of the envisaged ADC scheme, for which we will reach out to other scientific fields such as medical diagnostics. Special focus will be on technological concepts for chip-scale integration – a key aspect for any technical application of the scheme. Based on a successful demonstration of the TeraSlice concept, foundation of a start-up is envisaged as a realistic scenario for exploitation of the results.

Keywords: photonic analogue to digital converters adc,kerr frequency combs,thz signal processing
An International Early-Stage Research Ecosystem Boosting the Attraction of Talented Early-Stage Researchers (WIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Doctoral 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: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2603520.0
EU funding (EUR): 1301760.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

WIT is a highly competitive, merit-based, International Fellowship Programme aimed at attracting 16 Early-Stage Researchers (ESR) to develop a total of 60-month stay through 2 open calls at international level (8 fellowships per call, 36-months of stay duration per fellow), in order to develop innovative projects in the fields of a) Health, b) Automotive-Mechatronics & Advanced Manufacturing and c) Energy in order to generate a positive impact in terms of excellent science, innovation, and talent attraction and retention, particularly at a regional level, strengthening the regional economy and promoting international networking.

Keywords: fellowships,health,automotive mechatronics and advanced manufacturing,energy,navarra