Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Who Should Have a Say? Preferences for Unequal Representation (UNREP)

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: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Equal representation is at the core of representative democracy, but are citizens actually in favour of it? There are good reasons to think that citizens may take a variety of stances toward unequal representation (i.e. differential group influence over policy) particularly when it comes to groups that elicit strong emotional reactions (e.g. racialised minorities). Citizens may think that policy-affected groups deserve extra input (due to affectedness), less input (due to bias), or the same amount of input as everyone else. However, it is impossible to say anything meaningful about these attitudes since we know almost nothing about them. This lack of knowledge is a serious shortcoming with real-world implications: these preferences shape politics and, by extension, the functioning of representative democracies. My proposed study is thus relevant not only for recent debates in political science over both the extent and origins of unequal representation, but also for contemporary politics – with its surging populist claims that certain groups have excessive influence over policy. This project looks beyond an abstract commitment to equal democratic representation, investigating how citizens feel about the influence of specific groups on concrete issues. It does so by employing large-scale, representative panel surveys and innovative survey experiments in the US and the Netherlands, whose key similarities and differences allow us to maximise the insights derived from a two-country comparison. Through methodological triangulation, this project will lead to novel insights, revealing the nature and determinants of preferences around unequal representation. The findings from this research will produce important results both for those seeking to better understand the connections between inequality and democracy and for anyone interested in the representation of marginalised groups and the growing appeal of populism.

Keywords: public opinion,representation
Playmoss Pro: The music fan club 2.0 (Playmoss)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Playmoss (www.playmoss.com) is a music platform and community of music lovers, with more than 300,000 active monthly users. Currently, Playmoss is developing Playmoss Pro, a new service which will allow music artists to create groups of fans 2.0 and to share exclusive content with them, such as pre-releases of new songs and music videos, pre-announcements of news, discounts on tickets, discounts on merchandising or video in streaming. In exchange the fan segment known to the music industry as “super-fan” will pay 2 - 3 € to access such content.

Keywords: music,culture,playmoss,enterteinement
Role of SIK3 in energy homeostasis (ObeSIK3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,Japan
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-04-16
End date: 2024-08-05
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 253227.84
EU funding (EUR): 253227.84
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In the last decades, obesity has become a growing health burden hence the importance of understanding its pathophysiology and the need to search for new therapeutic targets. Yanagisawa/Funato Lab (Y/F Lab) has recently discover that a splicing mutation in the Salt-inducible kinase 3 (Sik3) gene is involved in determining sleep need , and as well in a likely defective energy homeostasis since mice mutant for exon 13 of the Sik3 gene present an obese phenotype. The main objective of my proposed action is to identify the role of SIK3 in the central nervous system (CNS) in the regulation of energy balance and study its suitability as a target to develop an anti-obesity therapy. To achieve this, I will use virogenetic approaches in Sik3-ex13 flox mice and a neuron-specific mutant mice line for exon 13 of Sik3 gene will be generated. The molecular characterization of the animal models will be conducted by using several cutting-edge techniques such as RNA-Seq and phosphoproteomics. The identified targets will be functionally analyzed using genetics approaches. In sum, by doing the proposed project I will expect to uncover the influence of a potential new sensor in metabolic homeostasis. Moreover, this work in combination with the one going already on in Y/F Lab in relation to sleep may allow to understand the interrelationship between sleep disorders and obesity.

Keywords: obesity,sik3,energy balance,central nervous system
Automatized Design of Injection Molds (AUTOMOLD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Austria
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149829.0
EU funding (EUR): 149829.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this project is to develop the proof of concept for a novel injection-molding design workflow, making mold design accessible to a new, semi-professional user base of designers, engineers, and artists. It will provide a more more cost-efficient way of bringing lower-volume and customized products to the market. Recently, the related Materializable ERC Starting Grant has lead to the invention of novel computational tools for mold design, where the decomposition of a general 3D shape into moldable parts - together with the generation of the corresponding mold geometry - is performed fully automatically. The three main advantages of our method are (i) a drastic reduction of the time requirements of mold design (from hours/days down to minutes) and (ii) the discovery of highly efficient shape decompositions with curved part boundaries, which are very hard to design manually due to their counterintuitive nature. Furthermore, our method allows (iii) a non-expert to refine the aesthetics of the decomposition without being aware of the specifics of molding; these are enforced in the background. In order to evaluate the industrial and commercial potential of this invention, we propose the development of a software prototype for automatized mold design.

Keywords: computational fabrication,computer graphics,computer aided design,injection molding,mold design
Vulnerabilities under the Global Protection Regime: how does the law assess, address, shape, and produce the vulnerabilities of protection seekers? (VULNER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Inclusive societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Canada,Lebanon
Call: International protection of refugees in a comparative perspective (H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3194775.0
EU funding (EUR): 3030932.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

‘Vulnerability’ is increasingly used as a conceptual tool to guide the design and implementation of the global protection regime, as illustrated by the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the subsequent adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and of the final draft of the Global Compact on Refugees. However, ‘vulnerability’ lacks a sharp conceptualisation and still needs to be accompanied by a thorough understanding of its concrete meanings, practical consequences and legal implications. This research project aims to address these uncertainties from a critical and comparative perspective, with a focus on forced migration. It will provide a comprehensive analysis of how the ‘protection regimes’ of select countries address the vulnerabilities of ‘protection seekers’. The select countries are in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Norway), North America (Canada), the Middle East (Lebanon) and Africa (Uganda and South Africa). The analysis adopts two different yet complementary perspectives. First, the way the ‘vulnerabilities’ of the protection seekers are being assessed and addressed by the relevant norms and in the practices of the decision makers will be systematically documented and analysed through a combination of legal and empirical data. Second, the various forms and nature of the concrete experiences of ‘vulnerability’ as they are lived by the protection seekers, including the resilience strategies and how they are being continuously shaped in interactions with the legal frameworks, will be documented and analysed through empirical data collected during fieldwork research. Ultimately, the very notion of ‘vulnerability’ will be questioned and assessed from a critical perspective. An alternative concept, such as ‘precarity’, may be suggested to better reflect the concrete experiences of the protection seekers.

Keywords: global protection regime,vulnerability,refugee camps,resettlement,common european asylum system,gender,minors
Combatting Banking Fraud with SiS-id: A unique solution for preventing corporate payments fraud using AI and blockchain (COBAFRA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Corporate banking fraud is on the rise. 70% of companies in France alone reported fraud or attempted fraud last year. At the international level, 30 % of companies lost between 85 thousand and 4,2 million EUR. Fraud is without borders and growing in sophistication. Preventing fraud is now the No. 1 priority for Financial Directors. Over half of fraud committed is supplier fraud. How can companies be assured they are paying the genuine supplier and not a fraudster who had usurped its identity? My SiS-id, a highly secure, innovative platform helps guarantee that payments go to the right company and keeps the banking identity of companies safe online. My SiS-id is different because: - It is not a payment system but an interface that addresses the identity part of the payment process. It integrates with customer and supplier existing systems - SiS-id has integrated AI and blockchain into its solution to reinvent and enhance the traditional data-pooling and enrolment models - My SiS-id benefits both customers and suppliers. Information has to be acquired and authenticated one time only to be made available to all - It is a viral business model: customers invite their suppliers onto the platform, suppliers in turn invite their suppliers and also their customers - The solution was co-developed with 13 pioneer customers (CFOs and Treasurers) to ensure it solves the business need, not technology for technology sake - My SiS-id is blue ocean strategy. No other such solution currently exists. The other solutions on the market only tackle parts of the problem. The platform was developed in just 23 months and launched commercially in November 2017. The platform is currently being deployed in 2 clients in France, and 7 further companies are at contract stage. Our 13 pioneer accounts have shared their intention to deploy the solution at a cross-border level. Fraud has no borders and we believe the market potential in Europe and beyond is potentially considerable.

Keywords: blockchain,banking fraud detection,payment fraud detection,data analysis,supplier enrolment,payment decision,payment security,search and detection,machine learning
Quantum Physics with Attosecond Pulses (QPAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project lies at the crossing of attosecond science, photoionization of atoms and molecules and quantum optics. Progress in the performances of the attosecond sources, in particular regarding repetition rate, now enables us to perform photoionization studies of atoms and molecules using advanced coincidence/three dimensional momentum techniques. Adding an additional dimension, the phase, which is accessible by attosecond interferometric techniques, we will able to follow in time the quantum properties of the studied processes. The aim of the present application is to perform quantum optics experiments, not with photons as in conventional quantum optics, but with electron wave-packets created by absorption of attosecond light pulses. Our objectives are - to characterize and study in the time domain the quantum coherence of attosecond electron wavepackets, - to control quantum interferences of electron wavepackets using a small number of attosecond pulses and - to create and follow in time entangled two-electron attosecond wavepackets. The experiments will use advanced laser systems, attosecond sources and electron detectors. A unique 200-kHz repetition rate laser system based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification technology, combined with an efficient attosecond source and a three-dimensional momentum electron detector will open the door to attosecond experiments where the kinematics of the light-matter interaction can be recorded. The success in achieving the above objectives will not only lead to a major leap forward in attosecond science and atomic and molecular physics in general; it might shed new lights in fundamental quantum physics, given the originality of the studied systems, attosecond electron wave packets and the versatility of the tools, providing four dimensional information (momentum and time) for multiple particles.

Keywords: attosecond pulses,photoionization,quantum physics,interferences,coherence,entanglement
Global-leading smart manufacturing through digital platforms, cross-cutting features and skilled workforce (ConnectedFactories 2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Belgium,Greece,Sweden,Belgium,Hungary,Finland,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart Factories (H2020-DT-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1984131.25
EU funding (EUR): 1984131.25
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The ConnectedFactories II CSA focuses on the following targets and activities: 1) Supporting a common and structured understanding of key enablers and cross-cutting factors with regard to the deployment of digital technologies, including digital platforms, for manufacturing, serving both as generic guidance, as well as for providing a mapping/analysis framework for use-cases, 2) Identifying pathways to the industrial take-up of digital technologies and digital platforms by taking into account legacy systems, industrial requirements and challenges, 3) Situating inspiring research and industrial state-of-the-art cases on these pathways and show how key enablers and cross-cutting factors are addressed along these pathways, 4) Stimulating the matching of skills transfer offering with skills demand across Europe, 5) Engaging with the research and industrial actors in both European and local fora: manufacturing companies, suppliers, etc., and herewith make sure that requirements and boundary conditions are reflected in the pathways to digitalisation of manufacturing, the use cases, the key enablers and cross-cutting factors, 6) Generating a broad awareness about the key enablers and cross-cutting factors, pathways and inspiring cases. - The objectives of the ConnectedFactories II CSA and the associated activities will build on the results and the methodology of the ongoing ConnectedFactories CSA (concluding in August 2019).

Keywords: digitalization of manufacturing,digital manufacturing platform,skills,digitalization maturity
3D Thin-Walled Ceramic and Ceramic-Metal Components using Electrolytic Plasma Processing (3D Cer-Met)

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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149500.0
EU funding (EUR): 149500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal relates to the Proof of Concept stage investigation of exciting new findings in the ERC Advanced Grant ‘IMPUNEP’ project relating to the study and use of plasma-based processes. These findings offer significant advantages for the creation of complex 3D ceramic and ceramic-metal products at relatively low cost in an environmentally friendly manner. The potential applications of this new technology are very wide-ranging, and include the creation of new products as diverse as healthcare devices, MEMS and aero/automotive parts. Before we properly and fully identify the most promising applications, we need to investigate key aspects of the performance of materials created by this new method. This aspect wasn’t envisaged in the original proposal and involves research into the mechanical properties (especially the strength and elastic modulus) of these 3D parts and their response to deformation and dynamic displacements, as well as their physical (including electrical) properties. These components will be highly resistant to attack by aggressive (e.g. acidic) media as well as highly tolerant to both low (cryogenic) and high (combustion) temperatures. The expected applications opened up by this new method to produce ceramic and ceramic-metal components of complex shape are extensive. Hence the need for this Proof of Concept study, which will focus on validating the process for 3D ceramic-metal and ceramic parts and evaluating the mechanical, chemical, electrical and physical attributes of the 3D shapes, and will explore their potential applications in this pre-demonstration phase.

Keywords: ceramic metal composite,electrolytic plasma,thin walled nanocrystalline ceramic
Towards Carbon-Neutral Composite Crashworthiness (TEMPEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-03-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-18
End date: 2023-10-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 147815.04
EU funding (EUR): 147815.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The transport sector is currently facing global economic uncertainty, tough market competition, stringent EU emission and efficiency targets, increased vehicle occupant safety requirements, and pollution and safety scandals which have damaged its reputation. These factors require engineers to increasingly adopt the use of composite materials, to come up with cheaper, safer, and more environmentally friendly solutions. However, even if these materials enable the production of light energy-efficient vehicles, most carbon fibre composites are expensive, and thus the majority of their current applications are limited to the aerospace and motorsport industries. Furthermore, conventional composites have a high manufacturing carbon footprint, and they are typically non-recyclable at the end of life of the components. Natural fibre composites (NFCs) are now being used in the automotive industry, as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly option to conventional carbon fibre composites, albeit limited to non-safety critical components, due to their poorer mechanical performance. The TEMPEST research programme aims to explore the possibility of using a novel NFC material offering improved mechanical performance (developed by partner organisation Bcomp) in safety-critical structural components. Furthermore, by collaborating with McLaren Racing, who have been developing composite crash structures for over two decades, the project aims to advance on the current state-of-the-art in the fields of experimental and numerical crashworthiness, all the while trying to reduce the carbon footprint of such structures. The project also aims to enhance the creative and innovative potential of the researcher, wishing to diversify his competences to include sustainable composite material development, while advancing his international and intersectoral mobility, through collaboration with four industrial partners from the transport and materials sectors.

Keywords: composites,crashworthiness,carbon neutral,fe modelling