Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Socio-physical Interaction Skills for Cooperative Human-Robot Systems in Agile Production (SOPHIA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Slovenia,France,Netherlands
Call: Robotics Core Technology (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6548620.0
EU funding (EUR): 6548620.0
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Collaborative robotics has established itself as a major force in pushing forward highly adaptive and flexible production paradigms in European large and small-medium enterprises. It is contributing to the sustainability and enhancement of Europe’s efficient and competitive manufacturing, to reshoring production, and to economic growth. However, still today the potential of collaborative technologies is largely underexploited. Indeed, collaborative robots are most often designed to coexist and to safely share a working space with humans. They are rarely thought to enter in direct socio-physical contact with humans to perceive, understand, and react to their distress or needs, and to enable them to work more productively and efficiently through better ergonomics. SOPHIA responds to this need by developing a new generation of socially cooperative human-robot systems in agile production. Its modular core technologies will enable dynamic state monitoring of the human-robot pair and anticipatory robot behaviours to: (1) improve human ergonomics, trust in automation, and productivity in manufacturing environments, and (2) achieve a reconfigurable, flexible, and resource-efficient production. By advancing the decisional autonomy and interaction ability of its innovative collaborative systems, SOPHIA will contribute to the reduction of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, the single largest category of work-related injuries and responsible for 30% of all workers’ compensation costs. SOPHIA’s societal relevance and the research groups’ experience in acceptability and standardization aspects of its core technologies will ensure their comfort-of-use by industrial workers, and the underlying design compliance to standards, thus strengthening the competitiveness in European manufacturing. We will illustrate and verify SOPHIA usability through the exploration of three real-world use-cases encouraging potential customers to integrate our core technologies in their workflow.

Keywords: worker ergonomics,agile manufacturing,flexible hrc,biomechanical risk monitoring and assessment,acceptability analysis and monitoring,wearable feedback devices for hrc,robot decisional autonomy
SUBduction Initiation at Magma-poor rifted margins: an Atlantic Perspective (SUBIMAP)

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: Canada,Portugal
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 225938.88
EU funding (EUR): 225938.88
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Subduction initiation is a key turning point in the Wilson cycle. How it unfolds remains a glaring unknown in our understanding of the evolution of the Earth’s oceans and mountain belts. Tectonic inheritance acquired at passive margins imposes a major control on how subduction zones may form and propagate in Atlantic-type oceans. In particular, magma-poor rifted margins seem to share characteristics that may localize compressional deformation and lithospheric rupture. The southern North Atlantic represents a unique natural laboratory to investigate the main factors that control the early stages of passive margin reactivation, prior to the onset of subduction. This project aims to study the role of inherited structures on the reactivation of passive margins using qualitative and quantitative constraints derived from examples along the southern North Atlantic rifted margins, coupled with geodynamic models of subduction initiation. The study region encompasses a number of reactivated magma-poor rifted margins that preserve different stages of the Wilson cycle, including: 1) the pristine Newfoundland margin; 2) an incipient, dormant, subduction zone in the western Bay of Biscay; and 3) an example of passive margin reactivation in Western Iberia. We will first map different styles and stages of margin reactivation along the studied Atlantic margins. Direct observations will be used to constrain kinematic reconstructions of the spatial and temporal evolution of these margins from rift to drift to reactivation. The identified key parameters that control reactivation will then be tested and explored using numerical geodynamic models. The action will involve an experienced international and multi-disciplinary team that will work closely together to further enhance our understanding of the Earth system. This opportunity will also provide the candidate with a new set of opportunities to boost her career and to develop strong coordination and leadership skills.

Keywords: geophysics,geodynamics,plate tectonics,subduction,magma poor rifted margins,rift inheritance,rifting,compressional reactivation
In/Tangible European Heritage - Visual Analysis, Curation and Communication (InTaVia)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Austria,Finland,Slovenia,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Curation of digital assets and advanced digitisation (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2984987.5
EU funding (EUR): 2984987.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Due to a wide range of digitization initiatives, cultural heritage (CH) databases have greatly enhanced access to cultural and historical data across Europe. On the one hand, tangible cultural objects from museums, archives, and libraries have become accessible online and aggregated transnationally by platforms such as Europeana. On the other hand, intangible assets—such as language-based accounts on the lives of artists—have been organized and shared as biographical databases on a national level. While these developments provide an excellent basis for the enhanced reception, utilization, and promotion of European CH, various restrictions prevent the exploitation of the existing data. The InTaVia project aims to overcome some of these barriers with a deliberate combination of research and development objectives. Firstly, it will draw together tangible and intangible assets of European heritage to enable their mutual contextualization. Secondly, it will develop new means of data creation, curation, and transnational integration. Thirdly, it will develop a visual analytics environment to help CH experts to better access, analyze, and visually communicate cultural collections and related biographical and contextual knowledge to the interested public. Thereby, InTaVia will develop an information portal for the integration, visual analysis and communication of tangible and intangible cultural assets, supporting synoptic sensemaking and storytelling about European heritage with implications for research, pedagogy, journalism, cultural tourism, creative industries and heritage institutions. The transdisciplinary project consortium extends existing work and collaborations in European research infrastructures and national digital humanities projects. The InTaVia team is composed of computer scientists specialized in visualization and computational linguists, digital humanists, HCI researchers, historians, and CH entrepreneurs.

Keywords: cultural heritage,cultural objects,intangible culture,storytelling,narrative accounts,biography data,data integration,visual analytics,natural language processing,semantic web,history
Batteries based on Calcium: from electrolyte development to full cell proof-of-concept (BATCA)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-16
End date: 2019-05-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The development of rechargeable batteries based on multivalent cations as charge carriers holds promise of enhanced energy density when compared to single valent ions such as lithium or sodium. Proof-of-concept has been achieved for magnesium batteries with complex electrolyte compositions but an analogous technology based on calcium ion would hold promise for faster reaction kinetics due to its lower polarizing character and enhanced energy density due to its lower reduction potential. The recently demonstrated feasibility of calcium electrodeposition at moderate temperatures using conventional organic electrolytes constitutes the first step towards proof of concept. The main goal of the present proposal is to achieve proof-of-concept of a full Ca-ion battery with high energy density through i) optimizing the electrolyte formulation enabling operation at room temperature by minimizing ion pairing and ii) developing a suitable high capacity cathode material. The proposed research should set out the basis for the development of new classes of electrolyte for calcium cation based batteries with high resilience upon oxidation and low tendency to ion pair formation while at the same time designing suitable cathode materials enabling calcium ion diffusion and based on suitable redox couples operating at high potential. The approach behind the scientific project relies on the synergy between the respective expertises of the applicant and the host institution in electrolytes and crystal chemistry of battery materials. This fellowship represents also an excellent opportunity to the researcher for personal and professional development providing him with novel and advanced skills to achieve a status of professional maturity and independent thinking.

Keywords: electrochemical energy storage,emerging battery technologies,electrolytes,calcium batteries
Understanding the role of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of loss in species niches, to inform conservation planning under climate change (PROTECTNICHE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The extinction of species is the most alarming consequence of global biodiversity decline, with potential dramatic effects on our economy and well-being. The current rate of climate change is predicted to further increase extinction risk, hence there is urgent need to anticipate species decline rather than reacting to it. The breadth of a species’ niche - the set of environmental conditions in which the species can persist - is the key ecological trait that allows adaptation to environmental change, but is largely ignored in conservation planning applications. The goal of the PROTECTNICHE project is to disentangle the impacts of humans, climate change, and life history on the climatic niches of terrestrial mammals to inform a conservation strategy for preventing future species declines. This goal incorporates 3 objectives: i) Attribute the global change in past species climatic niches to intrinsic and extrinsic drivers; ii) Based on the models developed in Obj. 1, define a measure of adaptability to climate change for each species; iii) Based on the outcome of Obj. 2, develop a global conservation strategy to maximise the protection of species climatic niches while minimising their exposure to climate change. The project focuses on the world's terrestrial mammals, a data-rich group currently facing significant extinction rates, to develop and theoretically ground a conservation planning approach that can be also transfered to other taxa. Building on my expertise on extinction risk analysis and conservation planning, and the habitat and climatic modelling capabilities of Dr Rondinini and the Global Mammal Assessment lab, this project will define a proactive conservation plan where actions are prioritised to preserve species adaptive potential under global change. This is a research area of primary interest in Europe, given the EC has recognised that business opportunities from investing in biodiversity conservation could be worth US$ 2-6 trillion by 2050.

Keywords: adaptive potential,biodiversity conservation,climate change,climatic niche,conservation planning,eu 2020 biodiversity strategy,extinction risk,human pressure,threatened species
Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good (LEVIATHAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Bulgaria,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2019-SyG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9994934.5
EU funding (EUR): 9994934.5
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

What is Europe? The status of the European Leviathan is in doubt today as never before. Whether in the form of authoritarian governments or populist agitation, there is intense contention over what the role, size, and scope of the state in the 21st century should be. What can a historical account tell us about the European Leviathan then and now? What holds our European community together? Amid this uncertainty our project calls attention to a common concern for the health of the individual and the well-being of the social body. We argue that post-war European history on each side of the so-called Iron Curtain is characterized by a preoccupation with health as the common good. Taking medicine as an analytical lens offers a common reference point through which a shared and integrated history of Europe can be developed beyond the usual clichés and dichotomies of the period. That is the unusual but promising argument that underlies our project. Our project is distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach: Neither economics nor politics nor ideology nor everyday life, but an integration of these perspectives makes it possible to pursue the development of the common good both, in state socialism and in the capitalist state. To do this, we propose a multi-layered investigation of medicine, which came to represent a significant—if not the decisive—institutional, conceptual and legitimating framework for all efforts towards the common good. Thus, on the one hand, the life sciences’ claim to universal truth offers a privileged perspective beyond the usual oppositions of ideology, economic and political systems. On the other hand, medicine is socially, politically, economically, technologically and culturally determined more than nearly any other field of our modern life. The innovative approach of our project goes beyond our heuristic methodology. Rather than merely studying postwar Europe’s two halves separately we aim to understand Europe as one.

Keywords: europe,post war history,history of medicine,health,east west,common good
Development of a novel wave energy converter based on hydrodynamic lift forces (LiftWEC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Ireland,France,France,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Developing the next generation of renewable energy technologies (H2020-LC-SC3-2019-RES-TwoStages, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3404730.0
EU funding (EUR): 3404730.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal is for the development of a novel wave energy converter whose primary coupling with the waves is through hydrodynamic lift forces. The objective is to determine the potential of this concept to produce renewable energy at a commercially competitive price whilst ensuring a minimal environmental/social impact. This will be achieved by a combination of numerical/physical modelling and desk-based studies of the structural design, the operational & maintenance requirements and the environmental/social impacts of the technology. The numerical/physical modelling will demonstrate the concept’s performance, thereby taking the concept to TRL4, whilst the desk-based studies will allow the socially-acceptable commercial potential to be determined. Wave energy is one of the few untapped sources of renewable energy that could make a significant contribution to the future energy system. However, a study of the literature and a patent search indicates that of the hundreds of concepts that have been developed only four couple to the waves through lift forces, whilst the rest couple through diffraction or buoyancy forces. However, coupling through lift forces has the significant advantage of reducing extreme loads (by reducing the circulation like a wind turbine) which facilitates survivability, and produces unidirectional rotation, which simplifies power extraction. Unfortunately, none of the current lift-based ave energy concepts have a high efficiency in all sea-states due to difficulties in maintaining a good lift-to-drag ratio. The novel ideas in this proposal are designed to achieve this and thus enable the commercial development of wave energy and the acceleration of clean energy solutions.

Keywords: wave energy,lift,lcoe,hydrodynamics,structural loads,environmental impact,social acceptance
Integrating Genomics and Avatar Mouse Models to Personalize Pancreatic Cancer Treatment (AVATAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2014-ADG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498687.5
EU funding (EUR): 1997228.14
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The prognosis of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer (PDAC) is very poor. Recent studies have started to elucidate the genetic landscape of this disease to show that PDAC is a genetically complex, unstable, and heterogeneous cancer. However, in-depth analysis of individual patient genomes couple with personalize Avatar mouse models is providing highly effective therapeutic opportunities for the individual patient. Thus, metastatic PDAC appears a candidate disease to implement a genomics-base, personalized treatment approach. In this project, we will conduct an open label, multicenter, randomized phase III study in patients with standard of care resistant metastatic pancreatic cancer aiming to test the hypothesis that an integrated personalized treatment approach improves survival compare to a conventional treatment. Patients randomized to the personalize treatment arm will undergo a biopsy of a metastatic lesion to perform a targeted genome analysis using next generation sequencing. In addition, we will generate a personalize Avatar mouse model from the same patient. We will employ sophisticated bioinformatic analysis as well as mining of drug response-genetic databases to select, for each individual patient, candidate therapeutic targets that will be experimentally tested in the patient´s Avatar model to select the most effective regimen that will ultimately applied to the patient. In addition, based on the genomic data, we will design an individualized monitoring plan for each patient using BEAMing technology to monitor circulating levels of mutated genes. Furthermore, with a discovery goal, we will perform in depth genomic analysis of metastatic PDAC lesions in this cohort of clinically well-annotated patients with Avatar mouse models for therapeutic validation. Overall we expect this work will contribute to our understanding of PDAC and will favourably impact the treatment of this dismal cancer.

Keywords: pancreatic cancer,avatar mouse model,personalized treatment
Cu-CHA zeolite-based catalysts for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx in exhaust diesel gas: addressing the issue of Sulfur Stability (CHASS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Sweden,Denmark
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1093793.04
EU funding (EUR): 1093793.04
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

We aim at building a scientific network to address the selective catalytic reduction of NOx in exhaust gas of diesel vehicles based on Cu-zeolite catalysts, which is the basis of the current technology implemented in diesel exhaust systems all over the world to meet the emission requirements imposed by law. These catalysts deactivate, i.e. the performance deteriorates with time, due to the high temperatures in the exhaust systems and the impact of the exhaust gas on the structure of the catalyst material. A notorious problem is the sensitivity of Cu-zeolites to the small amounts of SO2 that usually are present in a diesel exhaust gas, which limits their applicability an may also cause malfunction of an exhaust system. The goal of the network is to develop a fundamental molecular-level understanding of the processes that lead to the deterioration of the catalysts in general, with an enhanced focus on the impact of SO2, and to implement this knowledge in the development of improved materials for application in exhaust systems. We will address the deactivation of Cu-zeolite catalysts by combining four different approaches. First, state-of-the-art computational modeling based on density functional theory (DFT), to develop a detailed insight in the chemical processes leading to deactivation. Second, advanced spectroscopic characterization, including in-situ/operando techniques, to confirm the relevant chemical structures experimentally, and to be able to follow the processes that lead to deactivation. Third, microkinetic analysis to provide the necessary data to describe the deactivation process, and finally, the development of models that describe the deactivation processes with the aim to be implemented in the application for exhaust systems. The required competences and facilities will be made available to 4 early stage researchers (ESRs) in a network including two expert academic research groups, and two industrial units with complementary skills.

Keywords: nh3 scr,denox processes,automotive,catalyst deactivation,zeolites,materials characterization