Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Inhibiting Stress in the Construction Industry (INSTINCT)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-01-03
End date: 2019-07-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Work-related stress is costing the UK economy about 10 million man-hours and €16 billion. An intervention to curb the advent of stress is proposed: ‘Stress-Blocker’ (Streblo). Cognitive psychology identifies five main personalities (Big-5): extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. How these Big-5 differ in the dynamics of stress are unexplored, particularly in the field of construction where stress is also prevalent. Behavioural science explains differences in the coping abilities of people. Thus Part A of the study is an empirical investigation of the impacts of stressors on the Big-5 and their different coping behaviours. Data from at least 1500 UK construction personnel will be collected using a questionnaire, and analysed using multiple inferential statistical techniques: hierarchical regression, factor analysis and sequential equation modelling. The findings will then inform Part B: the development of Streblo, a cloud-based IT tool for the effective recognition and deterrence of stress. Streblo will operate on artificial intelligence and its initial simulation will be carried out using of the WEKA software. Data from 1200 respondents will be used to train Streblo while the remaining 300 pseudo responses will be used to pilot (validate) the performance of the product. Streblo will also be validated with the partner organisations and project managers, through focus group meetings which will be recorded, transcribed and analysed using the ‘Nvivo’ software. Streblo will then be launched as a simple, quick-to-use and free IT app which will be accessible on mobile devices, PCs and laptops. Streblo will exploit advanced technologies to prevent stress in different construction job profiles as well as other sectors of the economy. It will be the first worldwide integrated system that is based on personality profiling and associated coping skills to empower individuals to manage event-related stress in the context of their job roles.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,cloud and it applications,cognitive and organisational psychology,coping behaviour,personality,stress management
INNOVACTIS 2019 (INNOVACTIS 2019)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 130153.75
EU funding (EUR): 130153.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to provide innovation support services in 2019 to SMEs in the regions covered by the consortium members. These innovation support services will be differentiated for two groups of SMEs: a) SMEs that have been selected as beneficiaries of the SME Instrument (Phase 1 or Phase 2), FTI or FET-Open funding schemes. For these companies, the consortium members will offer Key Account Management (KAM) services, which are accompanying services for the SMEs to identify weaknesses in their innovation capacities and suitable external coaches throughout their participation in the SME instrument. b) SMEs that have high potential for growth and internationalisation but that need to improve their innovation management capacities. These companies will receive direct assessment services from the consortium members in order to detect barriers and develop and implement an action plan in order to enhance such capacities and overcome the detected barriers.

Keywords: sme instrument,fet open,eimc,innovation,innovation management
LocationWise Payment Card Validation: A cloud based location verification system that will significantly lower cost of payment card cyber security (LocationWise)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Engaging SMEs in security research and development (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The vision of LocationWise project is to lower fraud costs incurred by banks from €1.03 to €0.55 per transaction and thus saving Europe ca. €456 million annually. Card fraud directly costs the Single Euro Payments Area ca. €1.44 billion annually and €14.55 billion globally with banks bearing 62% of costs and merchants 38%. These are not the only costs associated with payment card fraud. The other cost (amounting to €13.13 billion globally) is associated with measures to handle legitimate transactions that would have been incorrectly flagged as fraudulent and hence blocked, for example call centre costs and lost transaction fees. Reducing or minimising these costs is no easy solution as tightening fraud risk rules directly increases false positives while loosening them has the converse effect of increasing fraudulent transactions. Given that ca. 86% of adults carry their mobile phones with them there is a high probability that the location of the mobile device is close or the same location where a transaction is occurring. LocationWise automatically queries the user’s mobile device to determine his/her location without human intervention so that fraud detection systems can, with greater accuracy, apply location data to reduce the number of fraudulent transactions and false positives. Because of its access to the widest global mobile coverage and use of multiple verification methods, LocationWise gives the most accurate location data. This reduces the number of genuine card transactions that are incorrectly flagged (based on location) as fraudulent by 51% and the number of actual fraudulent transactions by 62%. Among other things, the purpose of Feasibility Study is to better understand the target market, determine optimum platform resources required to handle a given volume of transactions and to further refine IP strategy.

Keywords: fraud reduction,cyber security,real time software as a service saas
Fast track innovative drilling system for deep geothermal challenges in Europe (ThermoDrill)

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,Austria,Germany,Italy,Austria,Spain,Austria,Switzerland,France
Call: Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling (H2020-LCE-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5824745.0
EU funding (EUR): 5380995.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Europe is confronted with significant changes arising from globalisation and the currently political challenges. This means for example based on the latest developments in Ukraine and exceptionally strong European dependency on gas from Russia, deep geothermal energy particularly based on engineered geothermal systems is becoming even more important to care for Europe`s energy security. If deep geothermal energy from EGSs becomes a significant cornerstone in future energy strategy, there is an urgent need to provide cost-efficient and novel drilling technologies and concepts in order to open up new European geothermal reservoirs for energy exploitation. Therefore the overall goal of ThermoDrill is the development of an innovative drilling system based on the combination of conventional rotary drilling with water jetting that will allow at least 50% faster drilling in hard rock, a cost reduction of more than 30% for the subsurface construction and a minimized risk of induced seismic activity. In order to achieve these goals ThermoDrill will mainly address the following research and development topics: • enhanced water jet drilling technology for borehole construction and replacement of fracking; • HT/HP crystalline rock jetting and drilling fluids; • systematic redesign of the overall drilling process, particularly the casing design and cementing; • evaluation of drilling technologies and concepts in terms of HSE (health, safety and environmental) compliance. A challenging project such as ThermoDrill can only be addressed by joint and concerted actions of outstanding experts. This means that the ThermoDrill consortium partners belong to Europe`s leading experts in the field of deep drilling technologies/designs, drilling fluids, simulation, optimal shaping of tools like rockbits, etc. The consortium is already well connected through a variety of long standing research partnerships and won’t need great efforts to adjust and synchronize quickly.

Keywords: deep geothermal energy,novel drilling technologies,secure drilling fluids,life cycle perspective
Empathy and International Security (EIS)

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: Denmark
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): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This MSCA research project ‘Empathy and International Security' (EIS) uses an interdisciplinary approach combining international relations theory, history, and political psychology to ask: How can a more nuanced understanding of empathy inform more human-centric approaches to security? Despite growing awareness of the importance of empathy in international relations, no research has yet examined the tensions inherent in the concept, or how it can be used to both alleviate and transform, or perpetuate or entrench, insecurity. EIS addresses this gap. To answer this question, I examine the multifaceted nature of empathy through four distinct case studies. I use two interconnected episodes from the Cold War (Modernization and Vietnam war) to reveal that empathy is not a novel concept, but one whose meaning and application has changed over time. I will then turn to the case of recent refugee flows into Europe and the response to the global pandemic to analyze empathy's significance to contemporary security challenges and political leadership. Using a qualitative research methodology that draws on archival materials, discourse analysis and elite interviews, I compare and contrast these cases to demonstrate how empathy connects with ideas of power, interests, politics, security and gender as part of an original conceptual framework and typology. EIS combines the expertise at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and the Centre for War Studies (CWS) on human-centric approaches to international security, with my experience as a qualitative scholar on empathy in IR, and my fifteen years experience in international security policy and politics. It will combine academic research and theory development, with an applied and policy-relevant approach to make an innovative contribution to growing debates about the importance of empathy in creating more sustainable solutions to contemporary security challenges, in line with the priorities of Horizon 2020.

Keywords: empathy,emotions,international security,power,theory,strategy,policy,politics,human centric approaches,applied history
Understanding the role of macrophages in the structural degeneration of bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets (MACROVALVE)

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: Ireland,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 257561.28
EU funding (EUR): 257561.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Heart valve disease is predicted to be the next cardiac epidemic. Valve prostheses used to treat this disease are comprised of biological tissue. However, these bioprosthetic leaflets degrade, limiting their long-term efficacy. Macrophages have been found within explanted leaflets and are key determinants of biocompatible outcome. However, their role in bioprosthetic leaflet remodelling is poorly understood. Males and females for unknown reasons are also predisposed to calcific and fibrotic leaflet degeneration, respectively. MACROVALVE’s goal is to elucidate the contribution of macrophages to the fibro-calcific remodelling of bioprosthetic leaflets. First, the applicant will apply histological, multi-omics and network analyses to constitute an integrated multi-omics map of human bioprosthetic leaflet degeneration. The differential pathogenesis between male and female disease will be determined. The results will also be compared against data for native aortic valve disease at different stages: early-disease, fibrotic and calcified. Electron microscopy will be used to identify extracellular vesicles. Secondly, the discrete response of sex-separated macrophages in the presence of hormonal milieu and physiological stimulation will be investigated. Ultimately, the innovative application of these techniques to unravel the innate immune response to bioprosthetic replacements will pave the way for novel therapeutics to prolong leaflet lifespan. The project is in line with the Horizon 2020 focus area Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing. The candidate will spend the first two years of this fellowship training in multi-omics and network analyses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the United States. She will transfer these skills to Ireland during the return phase and increase Europe’s reputation as a location of cutting-edge research. Through this fellowship, the applicant will reach a position of professional maturity required for success in her future career.

Keywords: cardiovascular disease,medical device,bioprostheses
Motives beyond A1-homotopy invariance (MbHI)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project is aimed at establishing new foundations of motivic homotopy theory, which enhances Voevodsky's motivic homotopy theory. Voevodsky's motivic homotopy theory is based on A1-homotopy theory, and thus it cannot capture non A1-homotopy invariant phenomena in algebraic geometry such as algebraic K-theory (for singular varieties), topological cyclic homology, logarithmic cohomology, deformation theory, (wild) ramification theory, and so on. Our new foundation is based on projective bundle formula instead of A1-homotopy invariance, so that it has a potential to capture aforementioned non A1-homotopy invariant phenomena. To overcome fundamental difficulties to use projective bundle formula as an input of homotopy theory, we use ``derived correspondence'', which is a derived version of framed correspondence. Another key input is the notion of derived blow-ups, which was used by Kerz, Strunk and Tamme to solve Weibel's conjecture. This project consists of the construction of a new motivic homotopy category and its applications. Applications would include a construction of motivic cohomology (for possibly singular varieties) together with a motivic spectral sequence to algebraic K-theory (Beilinson's conjecture), motivic interpretation of topological cyclic homology, and motivic interpretation of logarithmic cohomology.

Keywords: motives,motivic homotopy theory,algebraic k theory,motivic cohomology
Virtual building acoustics: a robust and efficient analysis and optimization framework for noise transmission reduction (VirBAcous)

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: Belgium
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1386875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1386875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Achieving a sufficient sound insulation of buildings is a complex problem since multiple transmission paths are important, uncertainties can have a large effect, and acoustic performance requirements often conflict with structural and thermal requirements. Furthermore, accurate vibro-acoustic modelling across the entire building acoustics frequency range presently requires a huge computational effort. As a result, the acoustic development of building systems is usually based on general design rules, insufficiently accurate prediction models and many experimental prototype tests. Such development is costly and time consuming, and leads to suboptimal designs. This project therefore aims to develop an efficient yet sufficiently accurate prediction framework for the acoustic design of building systems which takes all uncertainties into account and which opens the way for design optimization. Four fundamental breakthroughs are required. First, a new approach to high-frequency subsystem modelling will overcome the limitations of the current statistical energy analysis paradigm and handle a high degree of geometric and material complexity. Second, a modelling framework for built-up systems will be developed, which incorporates different component model types and which switches between them as the frequency increases. The third development consists of quantifying the combined effect of all uncertain parameters on the overall sound insulation performance in a logically consistent and computationally efficient way. Finally, a robust optimization approach that spans the entire building acoustics frequency range and that accounts for all relevant non-acoustic performance criteria as well will be developed. Each development will be complemented by showcase applications in building acoustics, yet the fundamental nature of the developments make that they will have a profound impact in all disciplines where the study and/or control of mechanical wave propagation are important.

Keywords: building acoustics,sound transmission,numerical simulations,diffuse fields,uncertainty quantification,design optimization,topology optimization
Effect of rare-earth doping elements on the mechanical and oxidation resistance performance of silicon carbide coated carbon fibre / zirconium carbide composites for high temperature applications (EREMOZ)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-04-18
End date: 2020-04-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is an increased demand for high temperature structural materials suitable for use at>1400°C, including heat exchangers, Generation IV nuclear reactor components (e.g. control rod sheath & fuel constituents), the receiver materials of concentrated solar power (CSP) systems, high temperature thermoelectric devices and static components in gas turbines and aero engines. Ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) exhibit especially high melting temperatures and include the diborides and carbides of zirconium and hafnium (ZrC & HfC). Unfortunately, UHTCs also suffer from poor fracture toughness, relatively poor oxidation resistance and are very difficult to process since the densification temperature required is also very high. EREMOZ will address these challenges by using a non-conventional process route along with a combination of fibre reinforcement and rare earth dopants. Specifically, processing will be based on the energy efficient process of chemical vapour infiltration (CVI) rather than more conventional sintering; the former allows dense composites to be produced at much lower temperatures. The poor fracture toughness will be improved by the introduction of silicon carbide fibres (SiCf) or carbon fibres (Cf), which enhance resistance to crack propagation. Finally, oxidation resistance will be improved by the introduction of second phases, such as those based on silicon and/or rare earths, which facilitate the formation of oxide scales that inhibit oxygen diffusion. The outcomes from this project will be three fold, to: 1. Determine whether the presence of the rare earth element (e.g. La,Eu, Nd, Ce, Y) dopants will improve the properties and performance of the composites and whether they have any effect, positive or negative, on the processing required; 2. Produce composites that display enhanced toughness compared to monolithic UHTC ceramics; 3. Produce composites that display enhanced oxidation resistance compared to UHTC composites.

Keywords: composites,silicon carbide pre coated carbon fibre,zirconium carbide,rare earth dopant,chemical vapor infiltration,oxidation,microstructure,fracture toughness,thermo physical properties