Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes (QuInnE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Sweden,Hungary,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: The European growth agenda (H2020-EURO-SOCIETY-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498869.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498869.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The EU is facing long-term structural challenges compounded by the recent economic crisis. More and better jobs are needed to lower unemployment, raise the employment participation rates of female, older, migrant, low-skilled and young workers and thus tackle social exclusion and inequality. The EU’s growth strategy, Europe 2020, wants smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, with innovation and job quality as flagship initiatives. Innovation and job quality are however currently treated separately but ought to be better integrated in policy and workplace practice. Research that can lever this to mutually boost innovation and job quality is needed. QuInnE contributes to the EU growth strategy of boosting innovation, job quality and employment by exploring the mutually reinforcing relationship between innovation and job quality and identifying mechanisms that can be accelerated to deliver both more and better jobs, which in turn help tackle social exclusion and inequality. QuInnE creates a new analytical framework of for understanding the relationship between innovation and job quality and that relationship’s impact on employment. This framework is then used to statistically analyse existing datasets to create a typology of innovation-job quality dynamics by industry and country. The analysis is then extended to assess how different types of relationships create jobs, and provide jobs that are accessible and sustainable for groups of workers currently struggling in the labour market, and reduce social inequalities by age, class and gender. QuInnE then explores how the innovation-job quality dynamic creates more and better jobs at firm level. There are three main outcomes: new scientific understanding of the innovation-job quality-employment dynamic; new diagnostic and developmental tools to help monitor and measure this dynamic at national level and improve that dynamic in firms and workplaces; evidence-based advice on developing policy to boost EU growth.

Keywords: job quality,employment,social inclusion,inequality,work organisation
SEarch, identificAtion and Collection of marine Litter with Autonomous Robots (SeaClear)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Croatia,Romania,France,Netherlands
Call: Robotics in Application Areas (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4981267.5
EU funding (EUR): 4981267.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Today's oceans contain 26-66 million tons of waste, with approximately 94% located on the seafloor. So far, collection efforts have focused mostly on surface waste, with only a few local efforts to gather underwater waste, always using human divers. No solution exists that exploits autonomous robots for underwater litter collection; the SeaClear project will develop the first. We will create a mixed team of Unmanned Underwater, Surface, and Aerial Vehicles -- UUV, USV, UAV -- to find and collect litter from the seabed and from the water column, focusing on coastal areas since that is where waste inflow concentrates. The UAV and one or several inspection UUVs map the litter, aiming to establish correlations between surface and underwater litter. One or multiple collection UUVs then classify and collect litter, using a combined suction-gripper manipulator for both small and large waste. The UUVs are tethered to offload power and computation to the USV. Our objective is to operate the robots autonomously, without remote human intervention, and to that end we plan novel developments in debris mapping, classification, and robot control. When fully operational, the SeaClear system aims to detect and classify underwater litter with 80% success rate, and collect it with a 90% success rate; all this at 70% reduced cost compared to divers. We will demonstrate these features in two case studies: one in port cleaning (with end-user Hamburg Port Authority), and the other in a touristic area (Dubrovnik -- with end-user DUNEA). Besides the two end-users, the consortium includes an SME supplying proven hardware for our platform; an experienced marine system integrator; and four academic institutions with complementary expertise in underwater and aerial robotics, sensing, mapping, and control. The feasibility of SeaClear is completed by an exploitation and dissemination strategy that actively involves scientists, public and industry stakeholders, and Digital Innovation Hubs.

Keywords: underwater robotics,marine litter,mapping,classification,control
Dynamical Band Structure Engineering (DANCE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2027-04-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1863750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1863750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The band structure of solids is mainly determined by the orbital overlap between neighboring atoms. Therefore, electronic properties are commonly controlled via the chemical composition that determines the relevant structural parameters such as bond angles and lengths. DANCE will use a radically different approach where control of the effective orbital overlap is achieved by periodic modulation of the solid with strong mid-infrared and terahertz light fields. In this way, DANCE will control the band structure including topology, many-body-interactions, and spin. The induced band structure changes will be investigated with time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. I will implement two different driving schemes that either coherently modulate the atomic positions or the momentum of the Bloch electrons. Resonant excitation of infrared-active phonon modes results in a periodic modulation of the band structure at twice the driving frequency and, thus, a modified average band structure. In addition, non-linear coupling to Raman-active phonons leads to new quasi-static crystal and band structures. Coherent modulation of the Bloch electron’s momentum becomes possible if the scattering time is bigger than the inverse driving frequency and is predicted to result in various topological phase transitions as well as dynamical localization of carriers. I will apply this approach to different low-dimensional solids with strong electron-phonon coupling and Dirac materials with long scattering times. DANCE will address the following key questions: Can we switch between metallic, insulating and topological phases? Can we shape the potential energy surface of the solid to stabilize symmetry-broken ground states? Can we generate artificial magnetic fields to control the electron spin? The success of DANCE will establish dynamical band structure engineering as a new method for electronic structure control and pave the way for novel optoelectronic and optospintronic devices.

Keywords: dynamical materials design,time and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy,resonant coherent phonon excitation,floquet bloch states,ultrafast dynamics
Chromosome Replication Visualised by Cryo-EM (CRYOREP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms, Structures and Functions
Panel description: Molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology, molecular biophysics, synthetic and chemical biology, drug design, innovative methods and modelling
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In eukaryotic cells, DNA replication is tightly regulated to ensure that the genome is duplicated only once per cell cycle. Errors in the control mechanisms that regulate chromosome ploidy cause genomic instability, which is linked to the development of cellular abnormalities, genetic disease and the onset of cancer. Recent reconstitution experiments performed with purified proteins revealed that initiation of eukaryotic genome duplication requires three distinct steps. First, DNA replication start sites are identified and targeted for the loading of an inactive MCM helicase motor, which encircles the double helix. Second, MCM activators are recruited, causing duplex-DNA untwisting. Third, upon interaction with a firing factor, the MCM ring opens to eject one DNA strand, leading to unwinding of the replication fork and duplication by dedicated replicative polymerases. These three events are not understood at a molecular level. Structural investigations so far aimed at imaging artificially isolated replication steps and used simplified templates, such as linear duplex DNA to study helicase loading or pre-formed forks to understand unwinding. However, the natural substrate of the eukaryotic replication machinery is not DNA but rather chromatin, formed of nucleosome arrays that compact the genome. Chromatin plays important regulatory roles in all steps of DNA replication, by dictating origin start-site selection and stimulating replication fork progression. Only by studying chromatin replication, we argue, will we understand the molecular basis of genome propagation. To this end, we have developed new protocols to perform visual biochemistry experiments under the cryo-electron microscope, to image chromatin duplication at high resolution, frozen as it is being catalysed. Using these strategies we want to generate a molecular movie of the entire replication reaction. Our achievements will change the way we think about genome stability in eukaryotic cells.

Keywords: dna replication,atpase motors,visual biochemistry,in vitro reconstitution
Effective Bio-based Flame Retardants for Consumer Electronics and Automotive Applications (HASNEH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Flame retardants are additives that are added to plastics to slow down fires, saving lives. It is estimated that flame retardants have reduced the number of fire deaths by 20% in the past 20 years, despite the considerable increase in the number of electronic devices in homes. However, these flame retardants have traditionally been based on chlorinated and brominated substances that have negative impacts on human health and the environment and have subsequently been banned for electronic applications in Europe. Green alternatives that have been put forward are either expensive, compromise the mechanical properties of the plastics produced or have poor flame retardant performance. This has also meant that the market penetration of bioplastics has been limited, partiocualrly in the automobile and consumer electronics markets, as there is no cost effective, high performance, green flame retardant that maintains mechanical properties in the market. As part of an EU financed project, BRIGIT, Daren Laboratories & Scientific Consultants Ltd has synthetized a series of novel and effective FR bio-additive (LS-FR) using modified lignosulfonate, a by-product of the acid digestion of wood in the chemical pulping industry. LS-FR has been validated in durable bioplastics: polyhydroxy butyrate (PHB) and polybutylene succinate (PBS). LS-FR is an effective and bio-based FR which offers for the first time, the possibility of an FR bioplastic which meets the FRs standards for the consumer electronics and automobile sectors, while maintaining adequate mechanical properties. Daren Labs aims to use the SME instrument to scale up the production of LS-FR and bring it to the automotive and consumer electronics market, generating estimated revenues in 2021 of over 4M€ with a ROI on project costs of 290%.

Keywords: flame retardants,automotive applications,consumer electronics,bio polymers,mechanical properties,bio based materials
Political Instruction in the Soviet Armed Forces: Civil-Military Relations in War and Socialist Construction, 1918-1942 (PISA)

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: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2021-03-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175866.0
EU funding (EUR): 175866.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project will provide a detailed account of the development and functioning of the Soviet institutions of civilian control over the military: the parallel hierarchy of political officers of the Political Directorate of the Red Army and the Communist Party organisations operating in the Soviet Armed Forces. Drawing on the interdisciplinary social science field of Civil Military Relations (CMR) it will investigate the nature of the relationship between party organisation, regular and political officers and provide an assessment of the impact of this arrangement on relations between officers and enlisted men and women as well as combat readiness and effectiveness during the Russian Civil War and the early stages of the Second World War. It will further offer an evaluation of this system as a means of civilian control over the military within the specific context of the Soviet state-building project in the interwar period. The origins of the Red Army as a paramilitary sub-state actor will be placed at the centre of the analysis. This project will thus contribute to multiple literatures, including the history of Stalinism and the history of military politics in interwar Europe, as well as the social science CMR literature. This research action will be pursued at the interdisciplinary Centre for War Studies of University College Dublin under the supervision of Professor Robert Gerwarth. Training objectives to be pursued during this project include familiarisation with the social science field of CMR as well as the development of the skills necessary to reach a position of professional maturity as a world-class researcher. The hosting institution will provide training in effective publication and collaboration strategies as well as mentorship and supervision of students. As the hosting institution is located in a different country to the one where the researcher is currently based, this project will also offer significant networking opportunities

Keywords: stalinism,civil military relations,ussr,interwar europe,russian civil war,wwii
Deciphering adaptive footprints of epiC evolution on different timescales (DECAF)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499938.0
EU funding (EUR): 1078828.49
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Epigenetics plays a fundamental role in the function and regulation of the genome. From an evolutionary viewpoint, a pressing question is whether epigenetic modifications are a source of adaptive variation. To answer this question substantial attention is being given to the epigenetic marks themselves, but surprisingly little is known about the evolutionary underpinnings of the genomic sites that anchor them. Using novel analytical and technical approaches, I want to address this fundamental knowledge gap. I will use the best understood epigenetic mark, DNA methylation, as a model and advance on recent findings in avian genome evolution, epigenetic inheritance and sequencing technology. This will enable me to pinpoint signatures of epigenetically driven adaptation. I have designed separate approaches at three different levels: (1) At the individual level, to identify stably methylated anchors in the avian germline with focus on a recently discovered germline-specific chromosome, (2) at the population level, to establish the selective forces acting on DNA methylation diversity in natural populations and (3) at the species level, to gain insight into how fast-mutating anchors of DNA methylation act as potential facilitators of species differentiation and barriers. Ultimately, by combining these three levels I will be able to pinpoint epigenetic anchors that are involved in molecular adaptation. The possible research outcomes will not only be valuable to evolutionary biologists and ecologists, but will also make fundamental contributions to molecular biology and possibly medical research, and will deepen our understanding of how epigenetic marks manifest themselves at the sequence level.

Keywords: adaptive evolution,dna methylation,speciation,gene flow,mutation rate variation,embryogenesis,bird genomics,whole genome sequencing,epigenetics
Music Magazine and Artist APP project (MMAA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Luxembourg
Call: Support technology transfer to the creative industries (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1191942.08
EU funding (EUR): 889268.75
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Our project has the aim to put at the disposal of the magazines a cost-effective SaaS solution for exploring new business models that will allow them a sustainable migration to digital, opening up new strategies for monetization and thus promoting quality employment for journalists and audiovisual creators in the music field. And at the same time, MMAA project will empower music artists, bands, and label records with the most valuable insights on who and where are their fans, by means of big data analysis within and beyond the MMAA ecosystem, making possible to them a clear strategy to expand their audience, with tools to work on maintaining their loyalty and monetize it. Thus, the main objective for MMAA is two-fold: (1) to become the reference SaaS solution for music magazines, both at European and global level, for improving their digital development strategy in a sustainable way; and (2) create an innovative technological user-friendly ecosystem for artists to effectively succeed in the digital age. In order to reach the previous general goal the proposed MMAA project will develop and validate in a real-world pilot a Software as a Service (SaaS) product oriented to magazines’ and artists’ specific needs and realities, regarding Content Management, New Business Models, Big Data Analysis and Mobile/Digital Marketing. The ultimate goal for MMAA project is to create the reference music digital ecosystem for music, where all the value chain of a music fan is covered in an innovative and interactive way, allowing new business model for a sustainable growth on the digital age. We envision MMAA ecosystem as the reference online space for music lovers to: • Direct interaction with their favourite artists and other fans with similar tastes. • Access to the most comprehensive concert agenda available and buy tickets. • Access quality editorial content in a personalised way. • Buy any music or merchandising from their favourite artists. • Discover new artists and bands

Keywords: technology innovation for the music sector
Using Psychophysical And Neuroimaging Tools To Identify The Mechanism Underlying Perceptual Dominancy In Vision (Perceptual Dominancy)

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: Switzerland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175419.6
EU funding (EUR): 175419.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Grouping principles are utilized for the construction of visual information into coherent percepts. Several grouping principles are usually present in the same scene and often lead to several possible organizations. However, our conscious percept is usually of one stable organization at a time. Very little is known about the mechanism by which the competition between alternative organizations is resolved. The proposed study is designed to fill this gap, and to reveal the mechanism using behavioral measures (i.e., accuracy and reaction times) as well as neuroimaging tools (i.e., EEG). The specific research objectives are: (1) Identifying the factors that affect the competition and their relations; (2) Evaluating the roles of visual encoding and mental representations in the competition; and (3) Identifying the neural correlates of the competition. Training objectives: (1) Gain knowledge in new research methods (i.e., EEG); (2) Enhance experience in mentoring and supervision to improve transfer of knowledge; (3) Refine skills in funding applications and project management; (4) Extend track record of conference presentations and publications; and (5) Expand involvement in gender issues. During the fellowship I will acquire new knowledge and skills in neuroscience to complement my expertise in cognitive psychology research. Intensive hands-on training using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities will be provided under the close supervision of world-class expert. Since there is a growing demand in universities in Europe and worldwide for vision researchers showing inter-disciplinary approaches and skills, the fellowship will have a tremendous impact on my career and open more job opportunities for me. The host lab offers a multidisciplinary approach, including computational modeling, psychophysical and clinical research, and neuroimaging. Thus, this fellowship holds endless possibilities for prosperous and innovative collaborations.

Keywords: perceptual organization,grouping,time course,mental representations,competition,priming