Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
VRACE - Virtual Reality Audio for Cyber Environments (VRACE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria,Germany,Austria,Belgium,Finland,France,France,Netherlands,United States,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3961342.8
EU funding (EUR): 3961342.8
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

„Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have the potential to become the next big computing platform, and as we saw with the PC and Smartphone, we expect new markets to be created and existing markets to be disrupted.“ (Understanding the Race for the Next Computing Platform, Goldman Sachs 2016). While its technology is still considered in the early stages of development, it is already mature in the video game area. VR/AR has the potential to change the way we do business, social interactions or education, but its applicability beyond gaming requires further development. An important field of research is the audio part. The importance of sound becomes evident when considering how people orientate themselves in space. Unlike seeing, hearing allows us to perceive instantly from all angles, and plays a leading role in giving us clues where to look at. To support natural orientation in VR/AR, the visual and auditory information has to closely match, as otherwise the illusion is shattered and the experience is not convincing. VRACE aims at providing physically correct and perceptually convincing soundscapes in VR. This goal is pursued through dedicated training of ESRs in all VR-related domains, namely physical modelling, sound propagation, audio rendering and psychoacoustics. Specific research projects involve modelling of sound sources, such as musical instruments, voices, vehicles, colliding objects or environmental sound sources, studying sound propagation in complex interior spaces like concert halls and in outdoor environments such as urban or rural areas and investigating human perception and localisation of sounds. With an estimated revenue of $80bn by 2025 (G&S) the demand for trained VR audio experts will increase rapidly. Besides advancing methodologies in this cutting-edge technology, VRACE will train 15 ESRs who will multiply and spread this knowledge in industry and academia. VRACE thus gives European industry a competitive edge in this global race.

Keywords: structural acoustics,room acoustics,musical acoustics,audio engineering,spatial audio,virtual testing,procedural audio,sound synthesis
in vivo optogeneticS, elecTrophysiology and phArmacology with an ultRasonically-powered DUST for Parkinson's Disease (STARDUST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Germany,Belgium,Finland,Sweden,France,Brazil,Denmark,Denmark
Call: FET-Open research and innovation actions (H2020-FETOPEN-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3803057.5
EU funding (EUR): 3787932.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the STARDUST project is to realize a novel wireless implantable and independent micro-scale device (200x200x200 µm3) enabling in-vivo electrophysiology, optogenetics and ultra-localized drug delivery in freely moving animals. The device will be used to target specific neural circuits of the brain and test a new therapeutic approach for Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The methods used in this project are based on cutting-edge miniaturized technology combining integrated chips, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), local drug delivery, integrated electrodes and micro-scale light emitting diodes (µLEDs). STARDUST will benefit from these advances and for the first time provide an implantable ultrasonically-powered miniaturized device for in-vivo optogenetics, local drug delivery and electrophysiological monitoring – all in one single device. The proposed device is expected to provide an output power of 1-20 mW/mm2 for optogenetics with two different wavelengths, one for neuron activation and one for triggering drug-delivery; STARDUST will provide proof of concept. The main novelty of the STARDUST project is the convergence of multiple, interdisciplinary fields including optogenetics, triggered drug-delivery, miniaturized ultrasonic energy harvesting, material science and nanoelectronics. The main ambition of the project is to develop a new technology platform to be used for future implantable in-vivo optogenetic devices for monitoring and treating diseases, with an optional local drug delivery add-on beyond 2025. Establishing proof of concept of the STARDUST platform will be the foundation for other applications within photodynamic therapy such as cancer treatment and other neurological and non-neurological disorders.

Keywords: optogenetics,parkinson s disease,implantable biomedical device,low power electronics
Resonances and Zeta Functions in Smooth Ergodic Theory and Geometry (Resonances)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Mathematics
Panel description: All areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1904305.0
EU funding (EUR): 1904305.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of this research project is to develop new and original methods to address a number of fundamental questions in the development of smooth ergodic theory and dynamical systems. Furthermore, this theory will have important and diverse applications to many different areas of mathematics (in particular geometry, but also number theory and topology). The questions we are interested in are specifically related to the study of resonances, which characterise statistical properties of dynamical systems via the correlation function and the zeta function. The generality of the approach draws heavily on the PI's experience with the ergodic theory of hyperbolic systems, an area of research in which the PI has played a leading role for many years, but the risk and ambition stems from the novelty and risk inherent in trying to apply new ideas. There are three major strands to this work although they are bound together by interactions both at the level of the conclusions and the methodology. (a) The first is the development of new methods for determining numerically basic characteristic values, which are theoretically poorly understood, for classical (``chaotic'') hyperbolic systems. The important new development is a completely rigorous estimate on the approximation. (b) The second main theme will be the establishment of a radically new theory of resonances and correlation functions for a broader classes of systems, for which there is presently no existing theory. Typically these examples arise in geometry, and will help advancing our understanding of problems in that area. (c) The third main topic will be applications to specific major problems, particularly in hyperbolic geometry, and number theory. A key ingredient in our approach is the blending of classical ideas from classical thermodynamic formalism with more progressive functional analytic techniques that continue to emerge.

Keywords: resonances,dynamical zeta function,smooth ergodic theory,thermodynamic formalism
Electric LOsses Balancing through integrated STorage and power Electronics towards increased synergy between Railways and electricity distribution networks (E-LOBSTER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call: Next generation innovative technologies enabling smart grids, storage and energy system integration with increasing share of renewables: distribution network (H2020-LCE-2017-SGS, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999102.5
EU funding (EUR): 3999102.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

European distribution networks and light-railway networks present common issues: both have been developed as independent networks, relying on the resilience and robustness of existing power supplies. However, RES progressive penetration introduced an increasing degree of uncertainty on the direction of power flows. Both networks are looking at integrated solutions targeting: i) reduction of electricity losses ii) increase the grid stability in a high local RES penetration scenario iii) accommodate the needs of new energy actors such as EVs, electrical storages and prosumers. Electrified transport networks such as light railways could act to enhance distribution grid stability providing ancillary services inter-exchanging electricity. However such potential is still unexploited. E-LOBSTER intends to capture such potential through the development of an innovative, economically viable and easily replicable electric Transport-Grid Inter-Connection System that will be able to establish synergies between power distribution networks, electrified transport networks (metro, trams, light railways etc.) and charging stations for EVs. The proposed solution encompasses the integration of high power flow Electric Storage with smart Soft Open Points providing flexible control. The system will be managed by an integrated Railway + Grid Management System which starting from the real time analysis of energy losses will be able to optimize the interexchange of electricity between the networks maximizing local RES self-consumption. The hardware and software control platform will be demonstrated at TRL 6 in one substation owned by Metro de Madrid. Business models and standardisation needs will be deeply analyzed and measures to unlock existing barriers will be promoted and in parallel the knowledge generated from the project will be further exploited for the definition of the up-scale design of a full scale E-LOBSTER system, paving the ground towards replication across the EU.

Keywords: light railways,distribution networks,power electronics,lithium batteries
New integrated system to automatically record impact of interictal epileptic activity on behavior, reactivity, and consciousness of epilepsy patients (DigRTEpi)

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: Germany,Switzerland,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 257860.8
EU funding (EUR): 257860.8
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Behavior, reactivity and consciousness of epilepsy patients may be unpredictably impaired by seizures. For one important aspect in the daily lives of epilepsy patients, driving, international and national guidelines exist. These guidelines for the fitness to drive require worldwide a period of seizure freedom. In addition, a compatible electroencephalography (EEG) recording is required for vocational drivers in many countries and for all traffic participants in few countries including Switzerland. It’s about the occurrence of epileptiform EEG potentials in-between seizures that are not perceived by epilepsy patients and not visible to observers, called interictal epileptic activity (IEA). Detailed EEG compatibility specifications have however not been formulated. In an interdisciplinary approach with neurology, medical electronics engineering, behavioral neurosciences, and informatics, we aim at developing the first integrated system that automatically records the impact of IEA on behavior, reactivity, and consciousness in epilepsy patients, called DigRTEpi Test. This test should support physicians in their assessment of IEA effects on reactivity and thus provides objective and standardized support in the decision on EEG compatibility and the fitness to drive in clinical practice. The new system will circumvent digital latencies by computers and software, record patients’ effective reaction times and thus will open a new dimension of accuracy. A new open-source video-EEG synchronization and compatibility with various commercial EEG recording devices will grant user-friendliness. Patients will benefit from a better understanding of the impact of IEA on their daily activities of life because IEA effects can be made plausible to them by reaction time prolongations, and thus decisions on EEG compatibility may be better accepted. In future, we also work towards integrating the DigRTEpi Test into guidelines for the fitness to drive.

Keywords: epilepsy,simulated driving,impact on reactivity,cognition and behavior,automated epileptiform burst detection,machine learning,digital latency of computers
Trans in Translation: Multilingual practices and local/global gender and sexuality discourses in Polish transition narratives (TRANSlation)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project Trans in Translation (acronym: TRANSlation) focuses on Polish gender transition narratives published on selected social media in order to investigate their use of multilingual and cultural/linguistic translation practices in navigating local/global gender and sexuality discourses. TRANSlation will answer the question of how such creative language of transition stories works to individualize, localize and modernize the representation of transition, resisting the understanding of “transsexuality” – still prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) – as a concept imposed by powerful Western medical epistemologies and their textualities. In order to answer this question, a continuously updated corpus of blogs and YouTube channels will be created and investigated linking linguistic/cultural approaches to multilingualism/translation – including queer, feminist, postcolonial and ecological perspectives – with procedures from corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, narrative and multimodal analysis. With such a multidisciplinary methodology, while the focus on multilingualism and translation embeds it in language and translation studies, TRANSlation offers significant contributions to gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial studies as areas of the social sciences. TRANSlation offers an original, innovative and unprecedented study on the production of knowledge by Polish transgender social media users; operationalizing the explanatory potential of concepts, themes and connections applied in the project it will also significantly benefit modern linguistic and translation theory. TRANSlation will also contribute to a better social and scientific understanding of gender transition and greater visibility and social awarness of transgender issues through the investigation of transition narratives and active collaboration with transgender NGOs in Poland. This way, TRANSlation will aid the EU’s work towards more equal and inclusive European societies.

Keywords: transgender,gender transition,transsexuality,gender and sexuality,translation,transcultural,multilingualism,critical discourse analysis,narrative analysis,multimodal analysis,feminism,queer
Effects of Electric Fields on tuRbulent Combustion (EnFoRCe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France
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): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The application of an external electric field has proven to be a very effective way of controlling combustion. Laboratory test cases have shown that this technology is capable of controlling many aspects of premixed and non-premixed combustion in small burners as well as in industrial-scale systems. However, the fundamental aspects of this interaction between a reacting flow and an electric field remain mostly unknown and this prevents the application of this technology in industrial applications. The complexity of the required models and the large computational cost associated with the simulation of the electric response of a flame to an electric field have so far limited the numerical analysis of this type fo flows to one-dimensional and two-dimensional configurations taking into account only laminar flames. Considering that most of the industrial burners are operated in the turbulent regime, it appears necessary to shed light on the behavior of electrified flames at high Reynolds number. In this context, the present project proposes to study the behavior of a turbulent reacting mixing layer impinged by an external electric field using a detailed description of the reacting and transport phenomena involved in this flow. The calculation of this complex configuration will be allowed by the use of the parallel computing paradigm proposed with the "Regent" programming language recently developed at Stanford University. The result of these calculations will allow me to extensively define the modification induced by the imposed electric field on the thermochemical fields produced in the turbulent reacting layer as well as the impact of the electric force on the statistical properties of the turbulence. Moreover, the database obtained with these calculations will be used as a benchmark solution for the development and validation of a reduced-order model necessary for the calculation of electrified reacting flows in industrial applications.

Keywords: ionic wind,turbulent combustion,turbulent mixing layer,diffusion flames,sub breakdown electric fields,chemi ionization
DEEP – SOFTWARE FOR EXASCALE ARCHITECTURES (DEEP-SEA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: European High Performance Computing
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EuroHPC (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Sweden,Greece,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Extreme scale computing and data driven technologies (H2020-JTI-EuroHPC-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15069476.25
EU funding (EUR): 7534738.15
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

DEEP-SEA (“DEEP – Software for Exascale Architectures”) will deliver the programming environment for future European exascale systems, adapting all levels of the software (SW) stack – including low-level drivers, computation and communication libraries, resource management, and programming abstractions with associated runtime systems and tools – to support highly heterogeneous compute and memory configurations and to allow code optimisation across existing and future architectures and systems At node-level the European Processor Initiative (EPI) will integrate general purpose CPUs and accelerators within the package and combine DDR and HBM memories. Consequently, DEEP-SEA will implement data placement policies for deep memory hierarchies, improving application performance on future EPI-based platforms. At system-level, CPUs and accelerators (e.g., various EPI chip configurations, or GPUs) are efficiently integrated following the Modular Supercomputer Architecture (MSA). The DEEP-SEA SW stack will enable dynamic resource allocation, application malleability, programming composability, and include tools to map applications to the MSA. Result is a SW environment enabling applications to run on the best suited hardware, in a scalable, and energy efficient manner. Targeting a high Technology Readiness Level (TRL), the project builds upon SW developments from previous EU-projects and international open source packages widely used in the HPC community, extending them with focus on compute and memory heterogeneity. This enables close collaborations within the HPC community and Centres of Excellence (CoEs). The DEEP-SEA SW elements will be extended in a collaborative co-design approach with EU-applications, considering relations and dependencies between the various levels of the stack. Therefore, ambitious and highly-relevant EU-applications will drive the co-design, evaluate the DEEP-SEA software stack, and demonstrate its benefits for users of European compute centres.

Keywords: programming environment,co design,exascale,compute and memory heterogeneity,modular supercomputing architecture,software stack,performance analysis,modelling,resource management,scalability