Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Intracranial COnnection with Neural Networks for Enabling Communication in Total paralysis (ICONNECT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120216, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498829.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498829.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

iCONNECT aims to give severely paralyzed people the means to communicate by merely imagining to talk or make hand gestures. Imagining specific movements generates spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal activity in the brain which I intend to record and decode with an intracranial Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system. Many people suffer from partial or full loss of control over their body due to stroke, disease or trauma, and this will increase with population ageing. With both duration and quality of life beyond 60 increasing in the western world, more and more people will suffer from the consequences of function loss (mostly stroke) with the prospect of living for decades with the handicap, and will stand to benefit from restorative technology that has yet to be developed. I believe that functionality can be restored with brain implants. My goal is to develop a BCI that can interpret activity patterns on the surface of the brain in real-time. For this we need to discover how the brain codes for (imagined) actions, how codes can be captured and decoded and how an intracranial BCI system impacts on a user. I will use state of the art techniques (7 Tesla MRI and electrocorticography, ECoG) to explore brain codes and develop decoding strategies. Interactions between user and implanted device will be studied in paralyzed people. I will directly link decoded movements to animated visual feedback of the same body part, expecting to induce a feeling of ownership of the animation, and thereby a sense of actual movement. This research is only possible because of the latest developments in imaging of human brain activity, machine learning techniques, and micro systems technology. My lab is unique in bringing together all these techniques. Success of the project will lead to deeper understanding of how sensorimotor functions are represented in the human brain. The ability to ‘read’ the brain will add a new dimension to the field of neural prosthetics.

Keywords: invasive,neural decoding,closed-loop,brain-computer interface,bci,motor imagery
Mathematical Methods for Robust Financial Risk Management (ROFIRM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120216, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1871400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1871400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Reliable techniques in finance should take into account the unavoidable modelling error. This is the main focus of this project that we intend to address from two viewpoints raising new questions in applied mathematics. Our first research direction is to device robust risk management methods which use the market observations and the no-arbitrage principle. A classical result in financial mathematics essentially states that, in idealized frictionless financial markets, the price processes of tradable securities must be a martingale under some equivalent probability measure. We propose to adopt a conservative viewpoint by deriving the bounds over all possible choices of martingales. By accounting for the rich information corresponding to the prices of European call options, we arrive naturally to a new optimal transportation problem. We intend to analyze several questions: clarify the connection with the Skorohod embedding problem, understand better the duality, develop the corresponding numerical techniques, explore the robust portfolio optimization problems under such constraints, and understand their impact on the risk measurement. The second direction of research proposed in this project concerns the recent theory of Mean Field Games, recently introduced by Lasry and Lions. Our intention is to address this theory from the probabilistic point of view. The main observation is that the MFG equations, consisting of a coupled system of a Fokker-Planck equation and a semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, can be viewed as an extension of the theory of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDE) with mean-field dependence. This theory provides a simple modelling of the interactions which may be used to explain important phenomena on financial markets as the contagion effect and the systemic risk. In particular, the connection with FBSDEs opens the door to probabilistic numerical methods.

Keywords: optimal transportation,forward-backward stochastic differential equations,mean field.
Robust Organic Tectonics (ROBOT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120216, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496371.2
EU funding (EUR): 2496371.2
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal will transform the area of organic crystal engineering by introducing a new level of ‘designability’ into functional molecular crystals. In the last 20 years, extended frameworks, and particularly metal-organic frameworks, have changed the perception of what is possible in terms of purposeful crystal engineering. This is because these frameworks comprise strong and directional extended bonding. By contrast, molecular crystals are not usually dominated by a single, directional motif. It remains highly challenging, therefore, to predict structure in molecular organic crystals, despite their enormous potential for synthetic diversity and function. If crystal structure is not predictable then ‘design’ of function is impossible. We will develop ‘robust organic tectons’—that is, organic molecules that assemble in a modular and predictable way without forming intermolecular coordination or covalent bonds. Our ambitious end goal, which goes beyond the state-of-the-art, is to predict physical properties for organic molecules a priori, based only on chemical formulae, thus guiding the synthetic programme. We will target solids with unprecedented properties—for example, chiral porous organic crystals that combine both shape selectivity and site-isolated, ‘orthogonal’ functionality, inspired by enzymes. To take a longer view, modular and computationally-led engineering of organic crystals could underpin future applications that are conceptual at present, such as molecular computing. The proposal comprises an integrated blend of chemical synthesis, supramolecular synthesis, characterization (e.g., PXRD), and computation (e.g., crystal structure prediction and molecular dynamics). Overall, we would summarize this as materials chemistry, but underpinned by physical chemistry and computation.
Performance Active Nanoscale Devices Obtained by Rational Assembly (PANDORA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120216, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494730.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494730.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The key challenge of this proposal is to create artificial nanostructures that perform active tasks inspired by biology such as transport, chemical synthesis and molecular motion. Instead of bio-molecules, ligand-stabilized metal nanoparticles will be used as the main components that will operate embedded within a biological or non-biological matrix, i.e. a cell compartment, a membrane, an emulsion or a gel. Chemical multi-functionality of the nanoparticles will be achieved through a simple but conceptually new modular approach by which rationally selected different functional moieties are attached to the surface of the particles. While the global vision behind this proposal is to build the foundation for a technological implementation of active nanomaterials that operate far from chemical equilibrium, the research itself is purely fundamental. It seeks to demonstrate that the thermodynamic conditions essential to living organisms can also be applied to artificial nanoscale assemblies and enable these to imitate some functional aspects of life.

Keywords: gold nanoparticles,non-equilibrium chemistry,bio-inspired nanotechnology,nano-electrochemistry,active nanoscale devices,dissipative systems
Responsible Research and Innovation in a Distributed Anticipatory Governance Frame. A Constructive Socio-normative Approach (RES-AGORA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Denmark,Austria,United Kingdom,France,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3708885.95
EU funding (EUR): 3003406.99
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The EU seeks to become a genuine Innovation Union in 2020 striving for excellent science, a competitive industry and a better society without compromising on sustainability goals as well as ethically acceptable and socially desirable conditions. Europe thus needs to develop a normative and comprehensive governance framework for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). This is the major goal of Res-AGorA. The Res-AGorA framework will build on existing RRI governance practices across and beyond Europe. It will be reflexive and adaptable to enable the inherent tensions in all governance of RRI to be actively addressed by procedural means aiming to facilitate constructive negotiations and deliberation between diverse actors. The project will achieve these objectives through a set of work packages providing an empirically grounded comparative analysis of a diverse set of existing RRI governance arrangements and their theoretical/conceptual underpinnings across different scientific technological areas (WP2 and WP3), a continuous monitoring of RRI trends and developments in selected countries (WP5) and, based on the cumulative insights derived from these work packages, co-construct with stakeholders the central building blocks and procedures of an overarching future governance framework for RRI (WP4). This governance framework will deliver cognitive and normative guidance that can be applied flexibly in different contexts. Res-AGorA will thus have direct impact on RRI practices (science, industry, policy), and strategic impact in terms of the political goals (Horizon 2020) and competitiveness (Lead Market through growing acceptance of new technologies). Res-AGorA will ensure intensive stakeholder interaction and wide dissemination of its tangible and intangible outputs in order to maximise impact, including comprehensive and interactive stakeholder engagement, liaisons with other ongoing RRI activities funded by the SiS Work Programme, and a final conference.

Keywords: responsible research and innovation,(meta-) governance,anticipatory,responsive,reflexive,stakeholder involvement,co-construction,participation,ethical acceptability,societal desirability
BioEnergy Sustaining the Future : Joint Strategic Planning and Programming to Enable the Implementation of Bioenergy Demonstrations. (BESTF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: BESTF (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Finland,Denmark,Spain,Switzerland,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2012-RTD, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 63.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10112529.27
EU funding (EUR): 3337134.63
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

BESTF will bring together a number of national and transnational initiatives in the field of bioenergy. These include; research, development, demonstration and financial instruments. They have been stimulated and driven by both public and private participants. By integrating these actions, risk will be minimised and confidence will be provided to private investors in support of bringing bioenergy closer to market and in Europe. This project aims to kick-start large scale investment in close-to-market implementation of bioenergy thereby helping to achieve the key objectives of the European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative (EIBI) Implementation Plan: “To enable commercial availability of advanced bioenergy at large scale by 2020, aiming at production costs allowing competitiveness with fossil fuels at the prevailing economic and regulatory market conditions, and advanced biofuels covering up to 4% of transportation energy needs by 2020. To strengthen EU technology leadership for renewable transport fuels, serving the fastest growing area of transport fuels in the world”. This project will closely address the requirements of Topic ENERGY.2012.10.1.1: ERA-NET_Plus – Bioenergy Demonstrations of the European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative, aligning it to the wider strategic European requirements: to increase the security of energy supply and to increase the sustainability of energy supply. BESTF will implement a single collaborative funding call that will support projects focused on the generation of bioenergy: energy generated directly or indirectly from sustainable biomass. These projects will have been based on prior high quality research undertaken at a European, national or industrial level but require a final “non-economic step to demonstrate the performance and reliability of all critical steps in a value chain so that the first commercial unit can be designed and performance guaranteed from the outcome of the demo unit”.

Keywords: bioenergy demonstration biomass feedstock commercialisation de-risking biochemical thermochemical processing collaboration biofuel
Governance of REsponsible innovATion (GREAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,France,Ireland,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2236052.45
EU funding (EUR): 1780571.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The GREAT project will develop an empirically based and theoretically sound model of the role of responsible research and innovation governance. The project will explore the dynamics of participation in research and innovation, and investigate the characteristics of responsible practices. It will investigate the nature of new partnerships among various stakeholders, researchers and policymakers that are developing within innovation networks and the influence that these developments have on knowledge production and policy. This will be done a. by determining the characteristics of research and innovation b. involving diverse groupings and c. determining the social processes involved in responsible research and innovation practices. In doing so, the GREAT project will address all three issues requested in the call: a. It will explore the knowledge and research potential of multi-stakeholder approaches in research; b. it will investigate how responsible innovation is involved in research processes and c. it will use this knowledge to inform policy makers on how to integrate responsible innovation in further research activities.

Keywords: responsible innovation,ethics,governance,participatory research,normative framework
An internet portal for sharing knowledge and inspiring collaborative action on gender and science (GENPORT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Slovakia,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-15
End date: 2017-05-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1675197.57
EU funding (EUR): 1496372.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Though the wealth of gender and science resources developed in Europe over the last decade offers enormous potential for knowledge sharing and informed, these resources are dispersed, and have varying degrees of visibility and usability. Globally, too, major gaps in the dissemination of past and present knowledge persist, while new knowledge is constantly being produced. This information needs to be offered in accessible, timely, value-added ways to enhance the potential for its exploitation. Our project creates an internet portal that fulfils this need. Based on extensive consultations with leaders in the field, we will develop an open entry-point to high-quality research, policy reports and practical resources on gender, science, technology and innovation. Five major European country clusters, representing the main gender and science policy environments, will provide resources for initial dissemination and provide the platform for growing the collection worldwide. Policy support will be provided through research syntheses and ICT-enhanced policy briefings. To ascertain the enabling factors for the portal’s sustainability, we will engage stakeholders early on and often, leading to a wider sustainability strategy focusing on ‘crowd-sourcing’ the portal: drawing stakeholders in, sharing knowledge, creating web tools to add value to resources, and exploiting social media to boost the impact of key messages. On-line community activities will generate demand for and use of the portal; 4 concertation meetings and stakeholders events will create synergies for increased collaborations; 20 genPORT ambassadors will promote the portal internationally; and, targeted sustainability actions will attract post-project sponsorship. Our portal, showcasing a vast array of resources and innovative user interaction, will boost practical and policy action by illuminating the contribution of gender equality to science excellence.

Keywords: gender and science,internet portal,gender equality,policy support,policy transfer,policy evaluation,knowledge sharing
Synthetic biology – Engaging with New and Emerging Science and Technology in Responsible Governance of the Science and Society Relationship (SYN-ENERGENE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Denmark,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,United States,Switzerland,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,France,Slovenia,Norway,Germany,Finland,Sweden,United Kingdom,Canada
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4590081.43
EU funding (EUR): 3960810.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

Synthetic biology (SynBio) offers huge potential for applications in energy, health and the environment. It also brings with it various challenges such as regulatory issues of biosafety, biosecurity and intellectual property rights, as well as potential environmental and socio-economic risks in developing countries. As yet, however, there is scant public knowledge about the technology. It is thus essential to establish an open dialogue between stakeholders concerning SynBio’s potential benefits and risks and to explore possibilities for its ‘collaborative shaping’ on the basis of public participation. SYN-ENERGY will organise a wide range of mobilisation and mutual learning processes relating to these challenges. Besides a number of well-established European and international networks, the consortium encompasses and can mobilise a wide variety of stakeholders from science, industry, civil society, policy, education, art and other areas. Learning processes will contribute to a better understanding of SynBio research and innovation and to enhanced public engagement, while at the same time stimulating reflection on novel approaches to an inclusive governance framework that is capable of fostering responsible research and innovation. The processes will involve citizens and specific publics through well-established and innovative means of engagement, and will support the convergence of stakeholders and perspectives. Activities will be structured by four platforms, highlighting SynBio’s future, public, cultural and research & innovation perspectives. The iterative mutual learning process within SYN-ENERGY will be open to change in order to accommodate the dynamics of an emergent field. By dint of its approach, design and consortium, SYN-ENERGY will be a Science in Society activity with significant impact, raising public awareness of SynBio and yielding benefits for involved stakeholders, public discourse and European policy making in an international context.

Keywords: synthetic biology,innovation,future,public engagement,cultural perspectives