Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Time and quantification in cognition, communication and cultural practice (TINCULT)

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-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-10-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project investigates the relationship between time and number in human cognition, focusing on how this relationship is culturally and linguistically configured. This area remains under-researched in traditional societies speaking endangered languages. The experienced researcher will carry out a field-based investigation in three indigenous minority communities of Brazil. The languages of these communities have small number systems with less than five basic numerals, have no metric time systems in which time is quantified as clock or calendar time, and use exclusively event-based time intervals, in which the time interval is indexed to an event or activity. The cognitive domains of time and number both manifest cross-cultural and cross-linguistic differences and their spatialisation in thought, language and familiar cultural artefacts is a key topic in cognitive science. Cultural artefacts for time reckoning (e.g. calendars, clocks) are numerically as well as spatially organised. The project will look at the role of number in event-based time reckoning, analysing it not only in language but also in gestural communication. Speakers do not use spatial metaphors for past and future – instead, they use embodied psychological metaphors such as REMEMBERING IS SEEING. This suggests that the linguistic spatialisation of time is a consequence of cultural practices and artefacts. The project combines methods employing linguistic and non-linguistic experimental tasks, gesture analysis and ethnographic observation. As well as being highly innovative in its scientific impact in the interdisciplinary field of language, cognition and culture, it will generate information to be used in indigenous education and language/culture revitalisation and is important for understanding human-environment relations in traditional non-Western societies. The project findings will be communicated through scientific articles, and to wider audiences through the production of a documentary.

Keywords: event based time reckoning number quantification space cognition culture artefact endangered languages multimodal communication gesture metaphor field experiment ethnography amazonia tupian panoan
MODULAR INNODRIVE Powered Reel Drive in maritime environment (MODULAR INNODRIVE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Scope of the present proposal is the technical and economic feasibility evaluation of the industrial production and distribution into the EU market of a Modular Powered Reel Drive (PRD) for maritime operations of cable laying and retrieval. The proposed solution, compared to existing products, enables to operate with a significantly wider range of reels, both in terms of reel’s diameter and weight. The result is an innovation that increases safety, flexibility, efficiency and efficacy of maritime cable laying operations. The innovation applies to the maritime cable laying sector, since technology and the market expressed the need for underwater physical interconnections for energy and power networks in sea environments. This requirement is considered to be one of the greatest challenges for a reliable and effective use of world resources. The solution has several advantages compared to currently available PRD because the MODULAR INNODRIVE provides: • Increased efficiency-flexibility • Time and costs reduction • Safer operations INNOVO Ltd. intends to implement a feasibility study in Phase 1 aimed to achieve the following goals: • Develop the MODULAR INNODRIVE through additional technical adjustments of INNOVO’s 600 mT PRD (the highest product capacity available into the market) to fulfil the modular requirements. This will further position the company at the forefront of maritime cable laying technology. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and business strategies for production are additional issues that need to be tackled. INNOVO has the opportunity to develop the proposed solution with its well established industrial partner, CONCRANE S.r.l., an offshore crane manufacturer since more than 60 years, whose headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Trieste, Italy. • Develop a marketing and sales strategy in Europe with the following goals: o Market analysis o Business development o Risk assessment analysis o Identification of customers' best solutions

Keywords: modular approach,powered reel drive,cable laying,offshore,transport of energy and telephonic data,maritime industry
Biomaterials derived from food waste as a green route for the design of eco-friendly, smart and high performance cementitious composites for the next generation multifunctional built infrastructure (B-SMART)

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-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-30
End date: 2020-09-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims to develop new intelligent cementitious nanocomposites for multifunctional built infrastructure made by combining ordinary Portland cement (OPC) with cheap bio-nanomaterials synthesised from root vegetable waste such as carrot and beetroot waste streams produced by the food processing industry. These innovative cementitious composites are not only superior to current cement products in terms of mechanical and microstructure properties, but also use smaller dosages of cement thereby significantly reducing both the energy consumption and CO2 emissions associated with the cement manufacturing. Further, as a result of these bio nanomaterials, the resulting cementitious composites exhibit an astonishing piezoelectric effect enabling concrete structures to perform multiple functions such as: 1) self-monitoring mechanism to sense, feel and diagnose impending catastrophic structural failures and 2) green energy production by converting mechanical energy (i.e. vibration and impact induced by transport systems, wind and water waves) into inexpensive and readily available electrical energy source. Capturing this waste energy source from the built infrastructure surfaces is of great importance as it can be used to power the built-in-self-monitoring systems, houses and conventional auxiliary systems such as lighting posts, traffic lights, advertising boards and electric vehicle charging stations.

Keywords: bionanomaterials,smart cementitious,energy harvesting,self sensing
Discovery and expansion of new markets for mobile digital pathology & cell measurement tool (Segmentum Imaging)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Digital pathology is the acquisition, management and interpretation of cell or tissue pathology information from digitised images of microscope glass slide samples. Pathology measures quantifying cell numbers, densities and morphologies are routine across academic research and medical diagnosis and extremely time consuming. The state of the art for digital pathology utilises AI and automated image processing for rapid sample analysis and cell/pattern recognition and quantification. However, these systems are very expensive targeted at large pharmaceutical and medical research laboratories, requiring investment beyond the means of most academic, smaller bioresearch laboratories or diagnostic laboratories. The AI is also highly specific, trained to quantify or recognise particular cells or structures which limits their use to highly-specific pathology tasks. Outside of highly-funded institutions, pathology analysis remains very manual and time-consuming, creating bottlenecks at expensive microscopes (causing under-utilisation of equipment) and results in repetitive strain for researchers carrying out highly repetitive and tedious sample counting and analyses. Our solution: Segmentum Imaging (SI) is a tablet-based system which provides a streamlined toolset for convenient and accelerated pathology measurements with a flexible and intuitive UI with no loss of accuracy. SI still leaves the user in control of the measures as made on the screen but streamlines the process to such an extent that the typical manipulations and calibrations performed on each image by conventional system are now performed by the software. All data capture and organisation is now performed automatically, removing an error-inducing step. Value Proposition: SI vastly decreases the time taken to undertake pathological studies for faster results, proven to be 80%-90% with similar accuracy to the best current systems.

Keywords: digital pathology,cell analysis,image analysis software
The impact of genetic background in the activity of single neurons (NeuroContext)

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: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159815.04
EU funding (EUR): 159815.04
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Behaviors are quantitative traits, influenced by natural genetic variants in many different genes. Ultimately, polymorphisms impact the activity of single neurons to modify behavior. However, studies to dissect neuronal circuits are performed in a single genetic background, without the genetic context where they evolved. In this action, I propose to study neuronal activity in a more natural genetic context, by manipulating the activity of single neurons and measuring the resulting impact on behavior in several genetic backgrounds. This will allow determining how robust are neural circuits to genetic perturbation and identifying polymorphisms that modulate neuronal activity at the single neuron resolution. To study the impact of genetic background in neuronal activity, I will use D.melanogaster, which offer versatile genetic tools to manipulate activity of single neurons, resources for rapid analysis of population genetics and robust behavioral assays. One conserved behavior that flies share with many other species is the freeze or flee response to threats. Many aspects of this behavior have been dissected in flies, including the role of descending neurons (DNs), which connect the brain to motor centers. In here, I will inhibit the activity of DNs previously shown to impact the freezing behavior in response to looming stilmuli. This will be performed in several genetic backgrounds, using a collection of inbreed lines with fully sequenced genomes. With this, I will identify polymorphisms that interact with the action of single DNs, trough genome wide association study (GWAS). The candidate genes from this analysis will be tested for their role in modulating the neuronal activity. NeuroContext will elucidate how genetic polymorphisms, present in natural populations, interact with the activity of single neurons. This will greatly impact the future research in neurosciences, by informing on how genetic backgrounds have to be considered in research programmes.

Keywords: drosophila melanogaster,descending neurons,genetic background,gwas,freeze or flee,dgrp
The skeletal effects of historical transitions in lifestyle (TRANSITIONS)

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-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-02
End date: 2021-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last 10 millennia humans have changed the way we live, moving from mobile hunter-gathering to farming and the urban living we are most familiar with today. Since 2008 more than 50% of the global population live in cities. But what effect has this had on our bodies? Understanding how we have adapted to past transitions is vital to interpreting archaeological remains and to anticipate the physical effects of this ongoing modern transition to a highly technologically dependent urban species. The goal of TRANSITIONS is to develop the research capacities of the European Fellow, in his broad area of interest in human variation and evolution. It will provide advanced training in the context and study of the skeletal consequences of changes in lifestyle and activity through a series of defined objectives for resaerch and training that compare skeletal form and function within and between past populations with different subsistence and lifestyle strategies; hunter gatherers, agriculturalists and urban dwellers. The results will provide new insights into how different lifestyles and their functional consequences affect skeletal form. Multiple factors impact on the skeleton, yet there is a discernible, consistent trend with increasing modernity towards ‘gracilization’. Thus, despite the multifactorial causes, to what extent are skeletal effects similar or different between transitions to agriculture and to urban or other ways of life? The answer will reflect how flexible our responses are to similar and different pressures and the extent to which we can use knowledge of historical transitions to interpret archaeological material and anticipate current and future ones. As well as providing advanced training by applying cutting-edge techniques, The ER will be supervised and trained in broader aspects of academic activity, knowledge transfer and career development, enabling him to position himself as a potential research leader.

Keywords: osteoarchaeology,skeletal form and function,transitions,morphometrics,skeletal functional analysis
Specificity or generalization? Neural mechanisms for perceptual learning with variability (VarPL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1867332.0
EU funding (EUR): 853691.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The visual system is equipped with a powerful plasticity mechanism, perceptual learning, which serves to improve perception of consistent inputs. However, the signals it receives are extremely variable. How variability affects perceptual learning is unclear. Here, I ask how the visual system tackles the challenge of variability for learning: variability could impair perceptual learning, or, like in language and motor learning, result in the ability to generalize from trained to new materials. To create effective training programs, e.g., for clinical applications, it is crucial to know how to reap the benefits of variability, or, conversely, to overcome the challenges variability poses. Yet, the neural mechanisms by which the visual system copes with variability are unknown, hampering this endeavor. To close this gap, I propose a new theory, derived from the architecture of cortex: I hypothesize that perceptual learning is not limited to early visual areas, but flexibly occurs at a ‘sweet spot’ along the visual hierarchy whose functional properties match the variability in the given environment. To test this theory, I build on a multimodal, multispecies approach I have previously developed to study learning: I will identify general principles by which variability affects perceptual learning in behavior, dissect the critical neural circuits in macaque monkeys and humans with neuroimaging, determine the functional characteristics of neurons contributing to learning by electrophysiology, and establish their causal relevance using electrical stimulation. This unique combination of species and techniques is ideally suited to unravel the neural mechanism for coping with variability in perceptual learning. By elucidating the computations and mechanisms by which the visual system handles one of the most characteristic aspects of its inputs, I aim to provide the basis for neuroscience-based training paradigms that help alleviate vision deficits.

Keywords: perceptual learning,vision,variability,human,macaque monkey,fmri,electrophysiology,microstimulation,psychophysics,inter species comparison
Pyrophosphate Surrogates with Low polarity as part of glycosyltransferase ligands (PyroSuL)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

PyroSuL (Pyrophosphate Surrogates with Low polarity as part of glycosyltransferase ligands) is a project focused on the development of synthetic building blocks acting as surrogates for the pyrophosphate moiety in glycosyltransferase inhibitors. The final aim of this project is obtaining less polar ligands and inhibitors able to permeate across cellular membranes, which is the bottleneck for these inhibitors to have in vivo biological application. Through structure-based design, new surrogates will be explored. Interaction studies will be carried out through firstly computational approaches, and spectroscopic (nuclear magnetic resonance) and spectrometric (mass spectrometry) techniques will be employed. Surrogates showing promising affinity with the pyrophosphate recognition zone will be synthetically incorporated to substrate-like compounds, bearing a nucleoside and a carbohydrate or mimic. Final derivatives are supposed to show good protein affinities and membrane permeability properties.

Keywords: glycosyltransferase,inhibitors,pyrophosphate,surrogates
Safe Copper Engineered for Release and Efficacy on Agricultural Land (SafeCEREAL)

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: Serbia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140021.76
EU funding (EUR): 140021.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The most recent scientific investigations in the field of sustainable nano-agrochemicals show that foliar application of copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) to plant leaves can be new strategy to reduce Cu deficiency in wheat, decrease Cu bulk emissions to the environment and reduce diseases (e.g. wheat leaf rust, tan spot, and Fusarium head blight) that are heavily affecting wheat production sector in the EU and globally. Therefore, resolving the environmental fate of CuNPs after foliar application will be an important step for their practical use. The goal of this Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship and SafeCEREAL project is to allow reliable assessment of environmental risks and benefits of using CuNPs in agriculture. Major research targets are to investigate the complex interactions between CuNPs and wheat after foliar application (WP1), gain further knowledge of the possible CuNPs’ interaction with soils under more realistic scenarios (WP2), and perform risk assessment of CuNPs’ release to groundwater by reproducing environmentally relevant release scenarios (WP3). The achievement of these goals requires a multidisciplinary approach including environmental nanotechnology and chemistry, plant physiology and applied geophysics – all of which are part of the research conducted at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia, who will readily engage all its resources and mobilize its international partnerships. This fellowship will involve carefully planned public outreach activities and focus on a wide range of transferable and technical skills that will strengthen the Applicant, the Host, and the scientific community in the European Research Area and globally. Importantly, this project will lead to greater professional maturity of the Applicant by providing her the interdisciplinary expertise to design, lead and deliver future research projects; and identifying her as leading young scientist in the new area of research focused on realistic scenarios.

Keywords: copper nanoparticles,foliar application,wheat,environmental fate,environmentally relevant release,scenario,risk assessment,natural soil samples,cunps plant interactions,cunps soil interactions