Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Indigenous Research, Institutionalisation and Neo-Politicisation: A Conjunctural Analysis of Sami Research in Finland (INREPOSA)

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: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-15
End date: 2022-02-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

INREPOSA combines Cultural and Indigenous studies to study the shifting terrains of research relating to the Sami in Finland. Western scientific interest on the Sámi - the Indigenous People in Northern Europe - has a long and rich (colonial) history, but the emergence of "Sámi research" as an academic field of its own is usually associated with Sámi demands for Indigenous and academic decolonisation. To date, this field has become highly institutionalised across the Nordic states, but at the same time also the hopes, desires and political, economic and cultural interests that are projected on it have been multiplied, in tandem with the Arctic region's growing importance in the eyes of European states, and due to the general revival of Indigenous cultures and identities. The project aims to examine how this conjuncture of institutionalisation and neo-politicisation is shaping the relationships between Sami politics, research and the state, and what are its consequences for research-based policy-making, as well as for Sami research as a critical discipline committed to Indigenous decolonisation. The project is grounded on conjunctural analysis associated with the work of Stuart Hall. In addition, it will test the relevance of Settler Colonial Theory for understanding the Finnish state's policies in the Sami region. The research materials include relevant literatures and research texts, policy documents and statements issued by the Finnish government, Sami political institutions and organisation and other stake-holders, and other textual materials. This material is analysed interpretatively using critical discourse analysis and ethnographic methods. The project is conducted as part of the international research group "Social Dimensions of Sami Research" at the Tromso University Museum, and its main publication outcome is a single-authored original research monograph.

Keywords: arctic societies,decolonization,conjunctural analysis,critical discourse analysis,cultural studies,indigenous research,knowledge based policy making,politics,settler colonial theory
General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance (GAINS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Solutions for General Aviation and Rotorcraft (H2020-SESAR-2016-2, 2016)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1694762.5
EU funding (EUR): 1453690.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The objective is to validate concepts on avionics and use of instrument flight procedures tailored to General Aviation that enable integration and inclusion of GA within high density airspace or environments in which GA is constrained due to proximity of adjacent airports or airways for scheduled airlines or the military. The project builds on the concept demonstrated to the EVA project considering the suitability of ground monitoring from aerodromes with basic ATS or ground services and testing the viability for the use of PBN procedures more tailoured to the capabilities of GA and the limitations of operations in dense airspace.
Non-relativistic Renormalization Group flows from supergravity (RGxGRAV)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Greece
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): 165085.44
EU funding (EUR): 165085.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

We will uncover and address new features of strongly interacting systems by systematically deforming scale invariant fixed point theories by couplings for operators which explicitly break spacetime symmetries. Such deformations can induce interesting classes of Renormalization Group flows to low energy theories with applications to diverse physical systems. Quantifying the properties of these flows along their trajectory, by studying the behaviour of various observables such as spectral functions and quantum entanglement, may lead to new constraints on the scale dependence of quantum field theories, and better informs our understanding of the phase diagram of strongly coupled matter. Presently, there is no satisfactory framework for describing universal properties of Renormalization Group flows from strongly interacting theories deformed by spatially varying couplings. The primary objective of this proposal is to advance our understanding of such systems and begin assembling this universal framework. In particular: 1) We will establish a new class of interacting quantum field theories which lack Poincare invariance at fundamental scales, yet are under calculational control at strong coupling. 2) We will study the energy scale dependence of a wide variety of observables in this new class of theories, using precision techniques based on holographic duality. 3) We will build upon our results to extract universal features of such deformations, as well as to develop interdisciplinary connections between these systems and those of relevance in condensed matter and cosmological settings. These objectives will be met by uniting the complementary expertise of the researcher and host supervisor participating in this proposal. Through collaboration, professional training, and a two-way transfer of knowledge, the research program of the host will be enhanced and the researcher's career potential maximized.

Keywords: gauge,gravity duality,supergravity,renormalization group,superconformal field theory
Expectational Visual Artificial Intelligence (EVA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499562.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499562.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Visual artificial intelligence automatically interprets what happens in visual data like videos. Today’s research strives with queries like: “Is this person playing basketball?”; “Find the location of the brain stroke”; or “Track the glacier fractures in satellite footage”. All these queries are about visual observations already taken place. Today’s algorithms focus on explaining past visual observations. Naturally, not all queries are about the past: “Will this person draw something in or out of their pocket?”; “Where will the tumour be in 5 seconds given breathing patterns and moving organs?”; or “How will the glacier fracture given the current motion and melting patterns?”. For these queries and all others, the next generation of visual algorithms must expect what happens next given past visual observations. Visual artificial intelligence must also be able to prevent before the fact, rather than explain only after it. I propose an ambitious 5-year project to design algorithms that learn to expect the possible futures from visual sequences. The main challenge for expecting possible futures is having visual algorithms that learn temporality in visual sequences. Today’s algorithms cannot do this convincingly. First, they are time-deterministic and ignore uncertainty, part of any expected future. I propose time-stochastic visual algorithms. Second, today’s algorithms are time-extrinsic and treat time as an external input or output variable. I propose time-intrinsic visual algorithms that integrate time within their latent representations. Third, visual algorithms must account for all innumerable spatiotemporal dynamics, despite their finite nature. I propose time-geometric visual algorithms that constrain temporal latent spaces to known geometries. EVA addresses fundamental research issues in the automatic interpretation of future visual sequences. Its results will serve as a basis for ground-breaking technological advances in practical vision applications.

Keywords: video understanding
Isolation and Segregation Landscape. Archaeology of quarantine in the Indian Ocean World (ISLand)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Netherlands,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 253052.16
EU funding (EUR): 253052.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed research presents an experimental and completely novel investigation within the historical archaeology, applied to isolated contexts. The main objective of ISLand is to provide a new way of thinking about human interactions within colonial empires and bringing colonial studies into dialogue with medical history and the emerging concept of healthscaping. It seeks to do so by studying quarantine facilities in the Indian Ocean World during the long nineteenth century, a crucial period for the history of European empires in that region and a flashpoint for the conceptualization of modern public health. Quarantine, traditionally viewed as merely a mechanism for the control of disease, will be analyzed as the outward material response to important changes taking place socially, ecologically, and politically at the time. The project is a part of an international, interdisciplinary effort, combining history, archaeology, and anthropology. The researcher will tap numerous archival sources and archaeological data from selected sites, examine them through social and spatial analysis, and systematically analyze a test case in Mauritius through the most innovative methods that target landscape and standing archaeology. The broader impacts of ISLand have relevance for current European approaches to the migration crisis, where the threat of disease has been ignited as a potentially debilitating consequence of immigration from extra-European countries. The training-through-research project at the Stanford University, the top institution where acquiring knowledge and skills in historical archaeology, will allow the applicant to develop into a position of professional maturity with a specific interdisciplinary set of skills. With the support of the host institutions in EU, the researcher will promote historical archaeology in European academy, stimulating new approaches in usual archaeological research and an interdisciplinary approach with cultural anthropology.

Keywords: quarantine,mauritian archaeology,indian ocean world,healthscaping,segregation and isolation
Plug and play enzymes for an accelerated uptake of Biocatalysis in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PlugBioIn)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME boosting biotechnology-based industrial processes driving competitiveness and sustainability (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 681125.0
EU funding (EUR): 476787.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

At present there is a mismatch between the extensive interest of the pharmaceutical industry to utilize enzyme technology in their production processes and the number of such processes commercially implemented. To overcome this mismatch c-LEcta aims at offering a smart platform of Plug & Play enzymes for the three most relevant enzyme classes (alcohol dehydrogenase, transaminases, and nitrilase). The platform will address the needs of the pharma industry for performing essential biocatalytic reactions suitable for the production of million fold applied chiral active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) like Atorvastatin, Rosuvastatin and Duloxetine. The API market is valued at $101.08 billion in 2010. The unique selling proposition of this platform is to comprise ~100 high quality enzymes per class, which are pre-qualified for a wide range of important structural patterns, applicable for synthesis processes and easily scalable. Therefore, the business opportunity is to take advantage of the great potential of biocatalysis since the platform allows matching timelines and cost requirements. Up to now such service was not available without contract signing and extensive development timelines and costs. The development cost may be reduced up to ~80% by using the new platform technology compared to the conventional work flow. In manufacturing, the total production cost of a product will be typically reduced by > 30%. The platform will be promoted to a medium volume market with high growth rates. c-LEcta will address the global market, which is going to be widened step-by-step. Subject matter of Phase 2 c-LEcta is to refine the design of the enzyme platform, to scale up the enzyme production, synthesis process development and pilot-scale application in order to demonstrate and to assure rapid availability of enzymes in pharma development and for subsequent commercialization.

Keywords: biocatalysis,bioeconomy,enzymes,pharmaceutical industry,chemical synthesis
Innovative REtrofitting for Substandard COnstruction (IRESCO)

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: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Society worldwide is more exposed to seismic hazards due to rapid population growth and urbanization. Since the turn of the millennium, fatalities due to earthquakes were over 60,000/year, with a $300 billion/year estimated direct economic loss. Recent major earthquakes (China 2008, Haiti 2010, Lorca 2011, Japan 2012, Nepal 2015) have highlighted yet again the vulnerability of the existing substandard building stock in Europe as well as in developing countries, mainly due to inappropriate design and poor construction practices. Although new technologies, such as Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP), are effective for strengthening substandard structures, their high material cost is an obstacle for their widespread application, especially in developing countries. This project aims to develop an innovative and economic strengthening solution by using a novel mortar-based composite (R-SRG), which comprises of recycled high strength steel cords, by-product of tyre recycling, embedded in an inorganic grout matrix. This novel technique can be efficiently used for flexural, axial and shear strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) members and it is cost effective (more than 40% cheaper than using FRP), fire resistant, sustainable, and has low environmental impact. While proof of concept studies by the applicant have demonstrated the efficiency of the SRG technique, this project bridges the knowledge gap by developing fundamental understanding, design-oriented models and performance-based design guidelines so that this new technique can be introduced in practice. The outcomes of this project will lead to a new generation of low-cost and efficient retrofitting systems for deteriorated or seismically deficient structures with high impact on both economy and society.

Keywords: performance based design,earthquake engineering,novel composite material,strengthening,retrofitting,recycling tyres,sustainability
A disruptive smartphone application to measure three-dimensional spaces to digitally evaluate and view associated surface data (roometric3D)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

B&M THYSSEN GmbH is a German ICT-SME specialized in the development of onsite or room measurement software. We have developed and patented a disruptive and cost-effective method to measure rooms and spaces simply, accurately and quickly using a smartphone camera and internal sensors. With the project, we aim to further develop, test and commercialise the roometric3D smartphone application. Traditional onsite or room measurement methods are complicated, time-consuming and error-prone. These methods are taught in vocational training and are based on the use of tape measures, and square and triangulation formulas. However, these traditional methods are too slow and not commercially competitive in today’s business environment, and there is also shortage of workers with onsite or room measurement qualifications, partly due to the trade not being attractive to young people. Even with availability of other onsite or room measurement solutions like 2D mobile apps, hybrid between mobile apps and laser, apps with flow plans, tachymeter, laser with handsets or tachymeter (stand devices), the customer still faces a limited choice of: • Low-cost, fast, but low accuracy solutions (target group: consumers), • Mid-price, slow, cumbersome, mid-accuracy solutions (target group: tradespeople), • High-cost, high (millimetre) accuracy solutions (target group: surveyors). roometric3D will provide a highly competitive advantage in all three criteria: speed, cost and accuracy and will enable the measurement of 3D spaces, which currently no competitive smartphone app can provide. We have a clear business opportunity to expand our sales and grow our company by commercializing our disruptive roometric3D smartphone app. The app will allow fast and easy measurement of rooms and spaces in three dimensions for the first time using the smartphone’s built-in camera and sensors.

Keywords: onsite measurement,smartphone app,3d measurement software,building information modelling
Selection and evolution of phage-encoded anti-CRISPR genes (anti-CRISPR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CRISPR-Cas immune systems protect bacteria against their viruses (phage). However, some phages encode anti-CRISPR (Acr) genes that block CRISPR-Cas activity. While the molecular understanding of Acr activities and structures are racing ahead, their impact on the ecology and evolution of phage/bacteria populations remains unexplored. I first aim to identify the ecological factors that influence the selection for Acr genes, to explain why some phages encode many Acr whereas most encode none. Next, by running long-term co-culture experiments, I will examine whether CRISPR-Cas can evolve to escape Acr inhibition and whether Acr genes can reciprocally adapt to restore activity. These experiments will reveal how CRISPR-Cas and Acr coevolve and allow to mathematically predict the long-term stability of Acr activity. I will also explore the genetic bases of this coevolution through deep-sequencing analyses. This multidisciplinary project combines my expertise in phage biology, that of the host in experimental evolution and bioinformatics and that of collaborator in mathematical modelling. It is expected to open new avenues of research for downstream medical and bioengineering applications. This high-quality 'training-through-research' will allow me to widen my scientific expertise, develop essential complementary skills and constitute an international collaborative network. The visibility and impact of this research will be increased by a strong dissemination and communication plan. I also aim to reinforce my public engagement activities with a dual objective of making science accessible for everyone and inform about phage research. Carrying out this project within the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter (EU accredited), a top department in ecology and evolution worldwide, and under the supervision of two world leading scientists in their fields, will be crucial for the development of my career as an independent European researcher.

Keywords: bacteriophage,co evolution,crispr systems