Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Study and Understanding of gas Phase Entangled Reactions for Yarn Assembly via Robust Nanomaterial aerogelation (SUPERYARN)

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-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

1D nanomaterials (NM) display the best mechanical and electrical properties of any known material due to their capability to exploit axial properties of nanomaterials in the macroscopic world. These materials are best suited for macroscopic utilization if produced in large amounts. The synthesis of them has nevertheless limited their applicability to niche applications and have remained as a laboratory curiosity. In this proposal we intend to generate an understanding to the process in order to extract the kinetic information required to synthesize a high quality material at high yield. Such information is not straightforward because there are at least 2 additional processes occurring competitively in the reactor and they have prevented the development of large scale synthesis routes. In this work we propose to separate the numerous steps involved in the synthesis and assembly of 1D-NM in order to study and optimize the single steps required to obtain high yield and top properties of the material being synthesized. In the first unit operation, the formation of incipient 1D-NMs will be favored over its competitive reaction; the nucleation of nanoparticles (NP) and decomposition to the walls. In the second step specifically 1D-NM growth will be promoted. In the third, a device to enhance aerogelation of the 1D-NMs into a single yarn will be developed. Finally, the material will be tested and desirable properties in advanced applications, such as battery electrodes, will be associated with the synthesis mechanism. Several materials will be tested as an attempt to generate a more general understanding of the process. The model materials selected are silicon, silicon carbide and carbon nanotubes.

Keywords: nanowires,nanotubes,kinetic understanding of multistep process,competitive reactions,parallel reactions
Biophysics of circulating tumor cells, from single molecule to cell clusters (BiCiCle)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 164946.28
EU funding (EUR): 164946.28
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The major cause of cancer-associated mortality is tumor metastasis, a complex multistep process where cancer cells spread within the patient’s body. There is an emerging realization that the fearsome vectors of this cancer dissemination are clusters of so-called circulating tumor cells (CTC) that travel together in the bloodstream where they are subjected to important mechanical forces. Nevertheless, the current knowledge of how these cells are held together is extremely limited. This proposal aims at unravelling the biophysical properties of CTCs clusters from the molecular level to the multicellular level. The applicant Dr Valotteau proposes to use her experience in atomic force microscopy (AFM) to carry out this project under the supervision of Dr Rico who has well-established expertise in high speed force spectroscopy (HS-FS), in collaboration with Dr Pannequin who is a specialist of CTC. This project will be hosted by CNRS in the Laboratoire Adhesion & Inflammation (LAI) which is one of a very few laboratories worldwide equipped with HS-FS, enabling to correlate the characterization of the cell-cell adhesion with the study of the viscoelastic properties of single CTC and CTC clusters over a wide dynamic range physiologically relevant. By gathering complementary resources at the crossroad of cell biology, biophysics and nanotechnology, this BiCiCle project will fill an important knowledge gap about CTC cluster and greatly benefit to the career development of Dr Valotteau. Indeed, this fellowship will provide her a stimulating multidisciplinary environment and topic to set the basis of her own independent research project to become an academic researcher leading in the interdisciplinary field of biophysics.

Keywords: atomic force microscopy,single molecule force spectroscopy,microrheology,high speed force spectroscopy,cell adhesion,viscoelasticity,circulating tumor cell,metastasis,cadherin
Photo-controlled two-dimensional soft materials from microgel particles at liquid interfaces (PhotoSoftMat)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Switzerland
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): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Microgels are valuable building blocks both for investigating colloidal phase transitions and for the fabrication of complex materials that react and adapt to external stimuli. In particular, liquid interfaces are perfect two-dimensional (2D) templates for microgel assembly because of the long-range ordered organization that can be achieved in a fast and reliable manner. The structure of microgel assemblies at liquid interfaces can be precisely controlled by changing external parameters (e.g, temperature, pH, surface pressure). The microgels volume and compressibility can be modulated, in turn affecting their mutual interactions and final organization. The goal of this multidisciplinary proposal is to develop novel systems where light actuation can be coupled in to control microgel properties at liquid interfaces. Up to now, the external stimuli used to control 2D microgel assemblies had several limitations: the lack of spatial resolution, a poor control over the response time, and the irreversibility of the transitions. With the proposed systems, an optical trigger will allow the external control of the inter-particle interactions as well as of the particle size and compressibility with exceptional spatial and temporal resolution. Two synthetic routes are considered: i) covalent modification of the microgel structure with the addition of light-responsive co-monomers; ii) mixing of microgels with photoresponsive surfactants. Different responses are offered by these two strategies. In the former case, unprecedented local control over microgel assemblies can be achieved, opening the way to novel studies over 2D phase transitions. In the latter case, a composite system is proposed, where microgel properties, as well as macroscopic surface flows, can be manipulated by light actuation. Ultimately, reconfigurable colloidal structures endowed with multiple properties that can be advantageously switched in a fast and local manner by the external stimulation are envisioned.

Keywords: microgels,liquid interfaces,colloidal self assembly,photocontrol,light responsive materials
Automatic music transcription of polyphonic audio (DoReMIR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2980375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2086262.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

DoReMIR Music Research has already launched several successful products for music analysis and composition and has a large user base of monophonic audio analysis worldwide. The project builds on and extends a product suite called ScoreCloud with the focus on easy creation and distribution of music notation. The ScoreCloud concept is technically built on mobile and desktop apps connected with a full cloud based back-end. The product enables users to notate music directly from performance: a Google Translate for Music! The project will develop a low-cost, cloud-based, polyphonic audio transcription solution based on an interdisciplinary approach (musicology, acoustics, audio engineering, cognitive science and computing) and a user-driven design (agile iterative solution development with end-user participation in the context of music teaching and music composition). In order to circumvent the limitations of current automated transcription methods, the project uses a novel approach to musical and music signal analysis, by modelling and using high-level musical knowledge (about stylistic conventions, music cognition, etc.) and machine learning techniques. In addition to finding better solutions to certain analysis problems, the resulting systems will also be able to communicate their results in musically meaningful, high-level terms.

Keywords: automated music transcription
Moralising Misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance (MoralisingMisfortune)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1807334.0
EU funding (EUR): 1807334.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This is a study of the morality of commercial life insurance. What moral issues are raised when commercial companies define responsibilities for misfortune and the appropriateness of entitlements? What are the concerns about the financialization of life and intimacy? First, this study examines the morality of bureaucratic classifications produced by the insurance industry. Classifications reveal particular perspectives on the world and are at the heart of defining the risks covered by life insurance policies, as well as defining exclusionary clauses and who is allowed to take which policies; in addition, they are central to the exploration of consumer markets. What are the moral implications of classification and its associated bureaucratic procedures? Second, the study explores the questions life insurance raises about the value of life. Life insurance literally prices death. How much is a life worth? What lives can be compensated and who can receive compensation? Moral obligations and the allocation of blame may depend on whether financial support is given by commercial companies, kinship, or voluntary associations. This project examines the morality of the integration of life insurance into wider financial systems. The objective of the research is to gain insight into: 1. Public discourses on the role of commercial life insurance in everyday life; 2. The ways in which life insurance gives rise to particular notions of responsibility and compensation. 3. The ways in which the morality of commercial life insurance is intertwined with explaining misfortune, and with organizing care through kinship and voluntary associations. The study will be carried out in five countries: France and the Netherlands – two of the world’s wealthiest countries, with a long history of life insurance; India and Brazil – two of the world’s fastest expanding economies, with a growing insurance market; and the USA – where innovations create new moral concerns.

Keywords: ethnography,morality,financialisation,economic anthropology
Air Quality at the Urban-Rural Interface (AQURI)

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: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

AQURI Poor air quality (AQ) is of major concern to policy makers and public alike, but is proving impervious to current mitigation efforts. In many areas, the dominant source of air pollution is the formation of secondary pollutants (ozone and aerosol) from the atmospheric reactions of volatile organic compounds, over 90% of which are biogenic in origin. Yet few atmospheric chemistry models currently used to simulate AQ include dynamic representations of interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere. Furthermore, elevated ozone concentrations damage vegetation, reducing productivity and altering emissions of biogenic ozone precursors. This project will address these critical omissions, developing a ground-breaking model of the exchange of trace gases and particles between forest canopies and the atmosphere that can be used to improve the performance of AQ models. The model will be applied to determine the effects of peri-urban forests on urban AQ and vice versa. Trans-disciplinary research in plant ecophysiology and atmospheric science at key experimental sites based in a peri-urban forest in central Italy and in a boreal forest in Finland will fulfill the specific scientific objectives: - Acquire and apply advanced micrometeorological techniques to improve understanding of forest-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and particles; - Develop a state-of-the-science model of the processes involved in these interactions, improving current parameterisations of deposition and uptake of air pollutants through plant stomata and introducing the effects of ozone damage to vegetation; - Quantify the effects of future change on urban and peri-urban AQ, and the resulting impact on the productivity of peri-urban forests; - Derive parameterisations of the key processes suitable for inclusion in regional AQ models. The resultant cutting-edge model will drive future research into the interactions of the land-atmosphere-AQ system and inform future policy.

Keywords: air quality,forest ecosystems,atmospheric chemistry modelling,biogenic emissions,ozone,aerosols,biosphere atmosphere exchange,micrometeorological measurements,atmospheric measurements
The new generation of Automated active Fire Protection Systems (AFISYS)

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

Our company AGNOSYS GmbH is a small Austrian company founded in 2009 with a staff that develops and sells control systems for preventive fire protection in commercial buildings. Our latest innovation, AFISYS, is a unique software tool that analyses CAD building plans and extracts relevant information about fire protection devices through an algorithm that detects automatically the symbols of actuators. In this way, AFISYS provides a new intuitive visualization tool for the representation of the whole fire control installation, displaying high-level information, i.e. the real-time states of the actuators together with their exact position in 2D floor plans and their detailed technical data. In this way, AFYSOS has a double benefit: (1) it completely changes the work of system integrators, reducing by 95% the installation time of the visualization control system, and (2) it provides a much more efficient system for handling an emergency by the building operator: thanks to the rapid location of a fault in case of incident, the response is shortened by valuable seconds that will help save lives and assets. With this innovation, we aim at setting a new standard in the area of fire protection and building control technology. Considering the positive market situation (driven by the increasing awareness on fire hazards, the recovery of the construction sector and the rising trend of automation in commercial buildings) AFYSIS will be the key to our growth and expansion towards the European market from 2021 on, multiplying by 5 our revenues within 5 years and implying a return on investment (ROI) of 3.2 by 2024. Moreover, AFYSIS will also optimally position our company for subsequently addressing other rapidly expanding markets in the field of building management.

Keywords: fire control system,simple visualization,cad plans
Truth-not-Trust (TNT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2694082.5
EU funding (EUR): 1885857.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Logging is a universal and industry-agnostic practice, and organizations across diverse sectors are becoming increasingly vigilant about log security. Logs are the core sources for insights into the state of digital systems and are central to discovering cyber attacks. Thus, malicious actors commonly remove traces of their activities by manipulating logs. To date, the market is missing solutions that can independently monitor and verify that the logs have not been tampered with by malicious insiders or outside attackers. Without confidence in the integrity of logs, organizations are unable to mitigate cyber incidents in time as they have zero or very limited situational awareness of the occurrence and scope of cyber incidents. Guardtime AS, a pioneer in hash-based cryptography and production-grade blockchain technology implementation, has developed a breakthrough solution for log security - TrueTrail (TT). TrueTrail provides immutability and independent log verification, leveraging our proprietary blockchain technology for a decentralized trust anchor. Thereby we will bring into the market a fundamentally new approach to log security, which: • enables massive scale automated and independent log integrity assurance; • provides real-time log integrity checks and long-term log record validity; • makes any log data immutable and detects currently hidden log manipulations. We have piloted the solution and validated the value proposition with large-scale piloting with several governmental institutions as well as gained first customers from the finance sector. By completing the TNT project we can launch TrueTrail to global markets, implement a highly scalable business model, significantly shorten the sales and implementation cycles, and target new customer segments. Moreover, the SMEI funding will allow us to achieve commercial independence and technological freedom.
Safeguarding Equality in the European Algorithmic Society: Tackling Discrimination in Algorithmic Profiling through EU Equality Law (PROFILE)

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-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-05
End date: 2022-09-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As the number and reach of artificial intelligence (AI) applications are rapidly growing, empirical evidence and global awareness about the structural and systemic risks of discrimination (‘algorithmic bias’) linked to these technologies have increased over the past years. One AI technology has attracted particular attention: based on data mining, algorithmic profiling uses big data to target citizens based on their preferences, behaviors, but also social membership and status. In so doing, algorithms externally and autonomously ascribe profiles to citizens based on fragments of data. The algorithms freeze citizens’ identities and exacerbate their differences, thus shaping their reality by affecting the distribution of goods, services, and opportunities available. The PROFILE project address two key issues related to AI: 1) algorithmic profiling increases risks of inequality and discrimination and, 2) algorithmic data-based discrimination takes on different forms than human discrimination, thus casting doubt on the adequateness of existing legal remedies. These issues forms the base for PROFILE’s core research question: Is the legal framework for equality protection in the European Union (EU) adapted to and capable of tackling algorithmic discrimination? I will address the problem of algorithmic discrimination through three central inquiries: 1) How does algorithmic discrimination differ from human discrimination? 2) How do these new forms of technology-driven discrimination disrupt and challenge the anti-discrimination legal framework in place in EU? 3) What regulatory solutions can be proposed within and outside EU anti-discrimination law in order to efficiently remedy algorithmic discrimination? My ambition is both to advance legal research on AI and human rights and to concretely inform societal and policy responses to the challenge of AI regulation. The proposed project is highly topical in the light of the rapid development and use of AI applications.

Keywords: algorithmic profiling,equality,human rights law,artificial intelligence