Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Power Electronics High Voltage Technologies (PHiVe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Development of power electronic technologies for >1kV aerospace applications (H2020-CS2-CFP07-2017-02, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1502326.25
EU funding (EUR): 1298978.63
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This project is about designing and demonstrating a high voltage bi-directional rectifier system rated at 300 kW, with a switching frequency of at least 10 kHz and a DC-bus higher than 2 kV. One main undertaking of the project is to deliver a lightweight efficient system. To achieve this, a mix of technological and topological studies will be carried out, including deployment of novel silicon-carbide (SiC) semiconductor technology at 1.2 and 3.3 kV with advanced multi-level power converter architectures. The project will deliver an innovative solutions, disruptive in the avionic sector and with important spin-off learning to a number of pivotal societal application domains of strategic relevance.

Keywords: power electronics,aerospace,silicon carbide,interconnect,packaging
Role of stress-induced modulation of B cell function in cardiovascular disease (SBCVD)

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: Austria,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 270349.44
EU funding (EUR): 270349.44
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. While psychological stress is a known cardiovascular risk factor, the mechanism by which the brain translates stress into CVD is poorly understood. The underlying cause of CVD is a chronic inflammatory disease called atherosclerosis, the progression and exacerbation of which have been strongly associated with the immune system, including B cells. B cells perform many functions including production of antibodies that provide immunity against disease and cytokines that modulate leukocyte function. However, it remains unknown whether B cells mediate the effects of stress on CVD. Recent studies from Prof. Filip Swirski’s lab show that stress profoundly affects the number and distribution of B cells in the body via a mechanism dependent on the activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. In this proposal, I will test the hypothesis that stress aggravates atherosclerosis by modulating B cell function. To recapitulate stress, I will employ a combination of optogenetic and chemogenetic approaches available in the Swirski lab to target specific regions in the brain and characterize the subsequent impact on the phenotype and functional diversity of B cells. I will then identify the B cell-specific mechanisms that mediate the effects of stress on the progression of CVD in Prof. Christoph Binder’s lab, thus facilitating the transfer of knowledge between USA and Europe. With the combined complementary expertise of the two labs, this project will be the first demonstration of the use of state-of-the-art neurological tools to address cardio-immunological questions with a systems biological approach. This approach will not only delineate potential therapeutic targets for immunomodulation of B cells in preventing and treating CVD, but will also provide a direct mechanistic link between stress and chronic inflammation, a general concept with implications beyond atherosclerosis.

Keywords: psychological stress,atherosclerosis,b cell function,optogenetics,chemogenetics
How our gut microbes influence how we feel – bacterial metabolites and inflammation as mediators of human microbiota-affect relationships (MoodBugs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1769600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Do our gut microbes influence our emotions? This sounded far-fetched a decade ago, but rodent research has shown that the microbial ecosystem in the gut (the gut microbiota) causally impacts affective processes. The underlying microbiota-gut-brain signalling mechanisms include the capacity of the microbiota to produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) from dietary fiber and to regulate inflammation. These rodent findings have great potential to identify new modifiable players in the (patho)physiology of affective processes and disorders, which is urgently needed given the stalled revolution in affective science, but human translation is needed to fulfill this potential. MoodBugs aims to fill this gap by investigating the relationship between the gut microbiota and stress sensitivity and fear learning, two affective endophenotypes, and the microbiota-gut-brain (SCFA, inflammation) and neur(ochemic)al mechanisms underlying it, in an interdisciplinary hypothesis-driven fashion. In a population-based study, my team showed a cross-sectional association beteen a specific microbiota profile (B2 enterotype) and mental well-being. To test directionality of this association, I propose a longitudinal and mechanistic population-based study[WP1]. To test causality, I will study the effect of depleting the gut microbiota using an antibiotic intervention on fear learning and its brain basis[WP2]. In a placebo-controlled trial, I showed that SCFA administration (1 week) attenuates the cortisol response to psychosocial stress. To test for whom and how SCFA work, I will investigate microbiota composition as a predictor of response to SCFA, and gene expression in affective circuits as the neural mechanism mediating their effect[WP3]. I will induce systemic inflammation to test its causal effect on stress and fear, and on neuroinflammation in the underlying neural circuitry as hypothesized mediator. I will also test the potential of SCFA to dampen these inflammation-induced effects[WP4].

Keywords: gastrointestinal microbiota,microbiota gut brain axis,affective neuroscience,stress,fear
Smart Water Manager SCADA system for entire grid of water wells management. (SWaM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The problem: water reservoir and water wells are fragmentarily managed. This causes high energy inefficiency of water pumping and provision operations and depletion of aquifers. The solution: the Smart Water Manager - SWAM is a system composed by a set of sensors and actuators interfaced through a remote data logger to a data mining, analytics and actuation expert system. Value Proposition: the SWAM is able to control and optimise the water pumping and the aquifer exploitation, increasing the overall energy efficiency and reducing maintenance cost of entire grids of water wells. Business Model: Main revenue streams are the royalties on the energy savings achieved by water managers trough the SWAM system (ESCO model). Users/Clients: Water Management Companies and Public Autorithies Market: 20M revenues at the 3rd year after commercialization. Competition: Specific competitors dealing with SCADA/DCS automation systems for water plants and aqueduct monitoring and innovative solution for optimising the performance of drinking water networks Revenue Streams: royalties on the energy savings achieved by water managers trough the SWAM (ESCO model). Team: Edillio Srl, Hydroingea Srl Required funding: 1,5M€

Keywords: scada,water wells,aquifer exploitation,esco model,water management
Safe maritime operations under extreme conditions: the Arctic case (SEDNA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Norway,Finland,Sweden,China,Norway,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Faroe Islands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Safer waterborne transport and maritime operations (H2020-MG-2016-Two-Stages, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6726565.0
EU funding (EUR): 6498752.5
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Maritime traffic in the Arctic region is rapidly increasing. But there has been a huge increase in marine casualties in this region due to its extremely harsh environment and the severe safety challenges for ships’ navigation teams. SEDNA will develop an innovative and integrated risk-based approach to safe Arctic navigation, ship design and operation, to enable European maritime interests to confidently fully embrace the Arctic’s significant and growing shipping opportunities, while safeguarding its natural environment. More specifically SEDNA will create and demonstrate the improved safety outcomes of: 1. The Safe Arctic Bridge, a human-centered operational environment for the ice-going ship bridge using augmented reality technology to provide improved situational awareness and decision making whilst enabling integration with new key information layers developed by the project using innovative big data management techniques. 2. Integrated dynamic meteorological and oceanographic data with real time ship monitoring and ice movement predictions to provide reliable decision making for safe and efficient Arctic voyage optimisation. 3. Anti-icing engineering solutions, using nature inspired approaches, to prevent ice formation on vessels, eliminating ice as a ship stability and working-environment hazard. 4. Risk-based design framework to ensure that vessel design is connected to all key hazards of ship operation in the Arctic. The holistic treatment of the ship design, operating regime and environment will improve safety and minimise impact over the entire life cycle. 5. A CEN Workshop Agreement on a process to systematically address safety during bunkering of methanol as a marine fuel along with safety zone guidance for three bunkering concepts: Truck to Ship, Shore to Ship and Ship to Ship. To maximise impact, SEDNA will provide formal inputs to international regulatory regimes regarding regulation adaptation requirements for its safety solutions.

Keywords: waterborne safety,arctic navigation,arctic ship routing,polar code,igf code,anti icing coatings,cen workshop agreement,ice forecasting,data mining,big data
Standardisation of GNSS Threat reporting and Receiver testing through International Knowledge Exchange, Experimentation and Exploitation (STRIKE3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,India,Finland,Sweden,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Releasing the potential of EGNSS applications through international cooperation (H2020-Galileo-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1314401.33
EU funding (EUR): 1082345.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

GNSS is being used for an ever increasing number of safety, security, business and policy critical applications and GNSS functionality is being embedded into many parts of critical infrastructures. International economies are now dependent on GNSS positioning and timing services. At the same time, GNSS vulnerabilities are being exposed and threats to denial of GNSS service are increasing. There is now a need to respond at an international level to ensure that there is (i) a common standard for GNSS threat reporting and analysis and (ii) a global standard for assessing the performance of GNSS receivers and applications under threat. This will ensure the dominance of GNSS as the backbone to our positioning, navigation and timing needs. The STRIKE3 project can be likened to the earliest developments in anti-virus software. Given the global dependence on GNSS, there is a growing need to persistently monitor the threat scene and to disclose the latest information on threats to ensure GNSS remains robust and hardened against attacks. STRIKE3 will develop international standards in the area of GNSS threat reporting and GNSS receiver testing. This will be achieved through international partnerships. GNSS threat reporting standards are required to ensure that international threat databases can be developed. GNSS receiver test standards are required to ensure new applications can be validated against the latest threats. Both standards are missing across all civil application domains and are considered a barrier to the wider adoption and success of GNSS in the higher value markets. STRIKE3 will persistently monitor the international GNSS threat scene to capture the scale and dynamics of the problem and shall work with the United Nations International Committee on GNSS to develop, negotiate, promote and implement standards for threat reporting and receiver testing. In doing so, create new opportunities for EU industry, EU products and the European GNSS programmes.

Keywords: international cooperation,international standards,gnss interferences
EEN Armenia assists SMEs involved in Horizon 2020 (H2020 Armenia)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Armenia
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15927.5
EU funding (EUR): 15927.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The lack of knowledge, skills or ability to manage innovation processes is still an issue for Armenian SMEs, The biggest EU Research and Innovation programme, the Horizon 2020 and in particular, SME Instrument will give an opportunity to Armenian SMEs, those capable for growth and internationalization, to enhance their capacity to manage innovation process and will facilitate their cooperation with R&D partners and other relevant partners from EU countries. In the scope of proposed Activity SME DNC of Armenia in consortium with NAS RA envisages the following number of 7-day service packages to be delivered in Armenia: 3 Key Account Management (KAM) package services, and 12 innovation management capacity (EIMC) package services to enhance the innovation management capacities of SMEs. In what concerns these services that address highly innovative SMEs at large, the COSME-related activity of EEN Armenia will implement specially designed activities in order to educate, stimulate and support SMEs initiatives for innovation projects.

Keywords: sme innovation,h2020,eimc
Memory technologies with multi-scale time constants for neuromorphic architectures (MeM-Scales)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Switzerland,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Unconventional Nanoelectronics (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3950628.75
EU funding (EUR): 3950628.75
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The project MeM-Scales aims at lifting neuromorphic computing in analog spiking microprocessors to an entirely new level of performance. Work in this project is based on a dedicated commitment that novel hardware and novel computational concepts must be co-evolved in a close interaction between nano-electronic device engineering, circuit and microprocessor design, fabrication technology and computing science (machine learning and nonlinear modeling). A key to reflecting "hardware physics" in "computational function" and vice versa is the fundamental role played by multiple timescales. Here MeM-Scales introduces a number of innovations. On the side of physical substrates, novel memory and device technologies, supporting on-chip learning over multiple timescales for both synapses and neurons, will be fabricated. To enable timescales spanning up to 9 (!) orders of magnitude both volatile memory and non-volatile memory as well as Thin Film Transistor technology will be exploited. On the side of computational theory, autonomous learning algorithms and architectures supporting computation over these wide range of timescales will be developed. These computational methods are specifically tailored to cope with the low numerical precision, parameter drift, stochasticity, and device mismatch which are inherent in analog nano-scale devices. These cross-disciplinary efforts will lead to the fabrication of an innovative hardware/software platform as a basis for future products which combine extreme power efficiency with robust cognitive computing capabilities. This new kind of computing technology will open new perspectives, for instance, for high-dimensional distributed environmental monitoring, implantable medical diagnostic microchips, wearable electronics or human-computer interfacing.

Keywords: neuromorphic computing,analog spiking microprocessors,thin film transistor,autonomous learning,electrochemical metallization memories,phase change memory,vacancy type oxide based memories
A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE CAREER DECISIONS OF ASTROPHYSICISTS: RELOCATION, LIFE-WORK BALANCE, AND REPUTATIONS (ASTROMOVES) (ASTROMOVES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
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: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-12-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The number of members of underrepresented groups (including women & Eastern Europeans for the EU) participating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics continues to be of concern at the local, national, and international level including it being a priority of MSCA. The issue of underrepresented groups participating fully in astrophysics has been a long-standing concern of astrophysicists worldwide. Astrophysicists recognize the importance of mobility in building a scientific career, but social science research revealed that women astrophysicists have to move more often & stay abroad longer to achieve the same career rank as men (analysis has not been done for astrophysicists embodying other forms of underrepresentation). ASTROMOVES examines the careers of astrophysicists (men, women & the gender diverse), their career decision-making and the role of mobility. 50 astrophysicists (European or worked in Europe) more than 8 years past their doctorate (>two career relocations), will be interviewed using semi-structured interviews focused on each of their career moves & their underlying decision-making process. Of interest is if their decision-making includes perceptions of scientific reputation, discrimination/bullying, family friendliness & career enhancement and how each astrophysicist ranks these. Training includes learning the latest qualitative analysis software for analysing the interviews and the latest visualization techniques for showing career moves consecutively. The research results will inform policies to support & enhance the careers of underrepresented astrophysicists with broader implications for STEM in Europe. Project deliverables include peer-reviewed articles, scholarly presentations, public lectures & a documentary film. The project will be based in the STIS department at UEDIN, proximate to the UK Royal Observatory. My career goal is to obtain a position in an interdisciplinary department similar to STIS.

Keywords: migration of highly skilled workers,academic migration,intersectionality,stem diversification,decision making
A new era of transient tracers in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans (TITANICA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2642578.0
EU funding (EUR): 2330078.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Climate change is triggering profound changes in the marine environment, especially in the Arctic Ocean (AO) and subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA), two key areas playing a crucial role in feeding the main engine of the global oceans: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Despite the utmost importance of AMOC for the climate system, there are still many open fundamental questions regarding its physical mechanisms, water mass pathways, and transport or ventilation timescales. TITANICA aims to improve our understanding of AMOC on the basis of a new set of transient radionuclide tracers (129I, 236U, 39Ar and 14C), a quartet that will allow to study and constrain oceanographic processes on timescales of years to millennia. While the combination of the two nuclear reprocessing-derived 129I and 236U will investigate the shorter transport mechanisms (<100 y) of Atlantic waters in the AO and deep-water convection in the SPNA, the natural 39Ar and 14C will provide answers for the ventilation of intermediate and deep waters (>100 y). Newly available techniques will allow the implementation of 39Ar to unprecedented possibilities, closing the time gap between the artificial transient tracers (CFCs, SF6, 129I, 236U) and natural 14C. TITANICA goes beyond the state-of-the art as it combines cutting-edge analytical techniques (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Atom Trap Trace Analysis) with novel data analysis methods pioneered by the PI and supported by binary mixing models, transit time distributions, and regional ocean modeling. During the 5 years journey of TITANICA, two PhD students and two postdocs will join the PI embarking in a suit of ocean expeditions covering the Arctic Ocean, the SPNA and the subtropical Atlantic Ocean. The new data generated and the strong collaboration with European and International partners will combine with the PI unique expertise in this field, triggering a new era of transient tracers in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

Keywords: transient tracers,atta,arctic,subpolar north atlantic,deep water formation,circulation