Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
INFORMATION-THEORETIC LIMITS FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS (IT-DNN)

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: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203852.16
EU funding (EUR): 203852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last decade, deep-learning algorithms have dramatically improved the state of the art in many machine-learning problems, including computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and audio recognition. Despite their success, however, there is no satisfactory mathematical theory that explains the functioning of such algorithms. Indeed, a common critique is that deep-learning algorithms are often used as black box, which is unsatisfactory in all applications for which performance guarantees are critical (e.g., traffic-safety applications). The purpose of this project is to increase our theoretical understanding of deep neural networks (DNN). This will be done by developing novel information-theoretic bounds on the generalization error attainable using DNN and by demonstrating how such bounds can guide the design of such network.

Keywords: information theory,deep neural network,generalization error
SMark2.0, our next level product authentication, anti-counterfeiting and track and trace system (SMark2.0)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SMark2.0 is the connection between nanotechnology and blockchain that allows a brand new, unique and ground-breaking approach to authentication, identification and track-and-trace. Counterfeiting is causing severe business damages, reducing tax incomes and directly or indirectly affecting the life of EU citizens. Our mission is to offer break through solutions to protect people & businesses through reliable, yet simple ways to authenticate the origin of the goods. SMark2.0 is a four layer, product identification, authentication, anti-counterfeiting and track-and-trace system with a breakthrough physical part (SMark NanoLabel manufactured using our Integrated Customisation System) and a highly disruptive and decentralised secure network (Blockchain Framework) that is able to give a complete solution in B2B, B2C and B2G (B2ALL) relevance. Furthermore, SMark2.0 has an innovative business model, which is able to minimise the system installation costs, gives the opportunity for SMEs to use our scalable system as well. In this proposal we present our current status (SMark1.0 pilot), our market experience and the corresponding action plan required to turn it into a commercial product (SMark2.0) with scalable production and business methods. According to our business projection we will break even 2 years after commercialisation and realise a substantial Return on Investment (RoI) by the 3rd year.

Keywords: anti counterfeit technology,security nano label,blockchain framework,scaleable production and,business model
Supramolecular assembly of Janus Carbon Nanotubes into functional 3D microparticles (Supra-CNT)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2019-01-12
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The remarkable mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are only valid for individual particles, and are generally lost when bulk CNT materials are integrated in devices. The controlled manufacturing of macroscopic functional and high-performance CNT-materials, retaining the compelling properties of individual tubes, has hence become of paramount importance to allow their full exploitation within commercial products. With the Supra-CNT project we aim at tackling this compelling issue by performing an unprecedented sequential engineering of the architecture of CNT materials, from the nano-, to the micro- and macroscale level. Specifically, we intend to synthesise Janus amphiphilic CNTs, which will be able to self assemble into well-defined 3D microparticles following the instructions encoded in their pre-organised functionalisation. These structures will then be employed in large area self-assembly to form higher order macro-assemblies (i.e. colloidal crystals), achieving an unprecedented degree of hierarchisation and tailoring of the CNT material. By providing such controlled multiscale engineering, Supra-CNT will shed light on the structure-property relationships characterising CNT bulk materials. This knowledge will allow for the implementation of a property-conservative manufacturing of CNT-based materials, boosting their performance–to–cost ratio, and integration in a vast set of applications with high societal and industrial impact, such as high performance filters, catalysts, and energy storage devices.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes,multi scale material engineering,janus particle,amphiphile,self assembly
Virtual Instructor-Led IT Developer Training Program (VILT-DEV)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With at least one million unfilled IT developer jobs worldwide, the digital sector represents a substantial opportunity for professional training entities to positively impact socio-economic, technological and pedagogical challenges. O’clock offers a revolutionary and innovative way to respond to this worldwide lack of skilled digital professionals: Virtual Instructor-Led Training for IT developers. O’clock’s program allows anyone to attend a full-time professional training program from home while benefiting from regular contact with experienced instructors. Using O’clock’s custom-designed, innovative pedagogical tools, instructors and students interact live in a virtual classroom just as easily as they do in a traditional, physical classroom. The teaching method, designed in-house specifically for people with no prior computer programming knowledge, enables students to apply for and obtain entry-level IT developer positions in a professional business context in just 5 months. O’clock’s innovative training program principally targets adults seeking a rapid career change. The program features an additional innovative aspect which guarantees its efficiency: students can enroll in the program free of charge and pay their tuition once they have successfully landed a job. Following the successful launch of its program in France, in January 2017, O’clock would like to evaluate opportunities for a wider international deployment. The goal is to create 280 jobs, train 5,000 people annually worldwide and generate a turnover of 30 million euros by 2020. In order to best prepare a worldwide rollout of its innovation project, O’clock intends to conduct a 4-phase feasibility study to determine the best and most appropriate countries to target for expansion and evaluate the technological and pedagogical adaptations required to ensure the successful commercialization of its concept.

Keywords: digital skills,e learning,it developers
Preparing for Unveiling the Nature of the Cosmic Acceleration (PUNCA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 67.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499952.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499952.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In less than a decade, various large cosmological surveys, such as Euclid, DESI and eROSITA, will start collecting data. These aim to bring ground-breaking changes to our understanding of the accelerated cosmic expansion - one of the grand challenges in physics today - by improving the precision in determining key cosmological parameters to percent level and testing the various theoretical models, such as dark energy and non-standard gravity. They will, for the first time, allow General Relativity to be tested to such precision beyond the local Universe. However, such exciting goals can only be achieved if the accuracy of theory predictions is greatly improved to match that of observations. I propose to tackle this challenge by using state-of-the-art numerical techniques to study the leading theoretical models beyond standard LCDM in unprecedented accuracy, thereby preparing for their tests by 3 most promising cosmological probes - weak lensing, redshift space distortions and galaxy clusters. This numerically very demanding project is made possible by our recent developments of efficient simulation and analysis pipelines for each of these probes. I will build the PUNCA team which has a wide expertise to study constraints by these probes using accurate theoretical predictions from my planed simulations, and which will work closely to assess the power of novel joint constraints. To link model predictions to observations, and to understand critically their systematics, I will make realistic mock galaxy catalogs using simulations of unprecedented resolution and sophisticated galaxy formation models. The results will have important implications for fully exploiting the potential of upcoming surveys (e.g. Euclid, DESI, of which I am an active member, and eROSITA) in testing models. The pipelines and expertise developed will be useful for analysing real data from those surveys. Given the starting times (2017-20) of the latter, this project (2016-21) is extremely timely.

Keywords: cosmological tests of gravity,weak gravitational lensing,numerical simulations
Uses and meanings of the word crusade in the late Middle Ages (CRUCIATA)

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: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 101926.08
EU funding (EUR): 101926.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The program aims at a global understanding of the crusading phenomenon in the Middle Age by a study of the uses and meanings of the word "crusade" in European sources in the end of the 13th and 14th century. Based on recent pragmatic linguistic theories, it proposes a completely new approach of an old debate on the definition of the crusade by understanding the uses of the word in their context. Though quite uncommon in medieval texts, the word “crusade” is particularly polysemous: it isn’t used to precisely indicate an event but to create linguistic categories, bringing together various realities in order to give sense and unity to the growing diversity of crusading activities. The research will focus on previously identified documents using the word “crusade”, mainly various English and French chronicles. A close study of these texts, their authors, addressees, intentions and uses of the word “crusade” will provide new insights on how crusading was conceptualized and how diffused and accepted this conceptualization was. At the same time, working in the Centre of Medieval Studies in Stockholm and organizing conferences with other crusading scholars will allow confronting the hypothesis with other sources and views and thus making the conclusions more relevant. Various papers will be delivered, orally or written, for specialized or large audiences. The innovative methodology of the program will be widely diffused as well as the new conceptualization of the crusading phenomenon. Apart from its interest to crusading scholars and historians, these conclusions will bring answers to current questionings about the crusades and their relation to nowadays East-West relations by showing how much the conceptualization of the crusade –what is a crusade and what is not- has never been more than a linguistic choice, very often linked to political views.

Keywords: crusades,pragmatic linguistic
European Travel Writing in Context. The Socio-Political Dimension of Travelogues 1760-1850 (EUTWIC)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171460.8
EU funding (EUR): 171460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

"Euopean Travel Writing in Context" investigates the thesis that travel writing is a fundamental medium in the process of the major political and social changes in Europe from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th century. In particular, the processes of the formation of collective national identities and cultures as well as the process of the formation of the middle class with its emphasis on the individual’s identity are implicitly depicted, performed and negotiated in travel writing of the period. The growing popularity of travel writing at the time underlines its increased social and political importance. Furthermore, the socio-political functions of the genre are displayed in its changed form and content: from the late 18th century, travel writing increasingly changes from scientific reports to more entertaining literary forms. What is more, the particular features of the genre with regard to form and content (such as the oscillation between fact and fiction, inter- and meta-textuality and multilingualism) correspond to its multiple functions. It is my main objective to analyse the performative character of travel writing with regard to its social and political importance during the transition period from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th century. In order to do so and for the first time in travel writing studies, I propose a comparative analysis of travelogues by European writers between 1760 and 1850. I aim at identifying the particular structures and characteristics of the texts that make them a fundamental medium of the social, cultural and political developments at the time. Hence, EUTWIC will give a much more detailed understanding of the complex functions and characteristics of the hugely popular genre of travel writing. Furthermore, it will help us to gain a better understanding of the processes of the formation of the nation states in Europe that started in the 18th century and are still going on and the construction of individual identities.

Keywords: travel writing,european authors 18th and 19th century,performance of nation building,performance of individualisation,genre theory
Molecular Subtype Specific Stem Cell Dynamics in Developing and Established Colorectal Cancers (CRCStemCellDynamics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Annually 1.2 million new cases of colorectal cancer (CRC) are seen worldwide and over 50% of patients die of the disease making it a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. A crucial contributing factor to these disappointing figures is that CRC is a heterogeneous disease and tumours differ extensively in the clinical presentation and response to therapy. Recent unsupervised classification studies highlight that only a proportion of this heterogeneity can be explained by the variation in commonly found (epi-)genetic aberrations. Hence the origins of CRC heterogeneity remain poorly understood. The central hypothesis of this research project is that the cell of origin contributes to the phenotype and functional properties of the pre-malignant clone and the resulting malignancy. To study this concept I will generate cell of origin- and mutation-specific molecular profiles of oncogenic clones and relate those to human CRC samples. Furthermore, I will quantitatively investigate how mutations and the cell of origin act in concert to determine the functional characteristics of the pre-malignant clone that ultimately develops into an invasive intestinal tumour. These studies are paralleled by the investigation of stem cell dynamics within established human CRCs by means of a novel marker independent lineage tracing strategy in combination with mathematical analysis techniques. This will provide critical and quantitative information on the relevance of the cancer stem cell concept in CRC and on the degree of inter-tumour variation with respect to the frequency and functional features of stem-like cells within individual CRCs and molecular subtypes of the disease. I am convinced that a better and quantitative understanding of the dynamical properties of stem cells during tumour development and within established CRCs will be pivotal for an improved classification, prevention and treatment of CRC.
Accellta Market Study (Accellta)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME boosting biotechnology-based industrial processes driving competitiveness and sustainability (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) and hPSCs-derived differentiated cells, such as cardiomyocytes and neuronal cells, are rapidly advancing discoveries in drug screening and development processes and hold much promise for personalised regenerative medicine. The affordable mass production of industrial-grade high quality hPSCs will enable meeting the research and clinical demands of the rapidly growing stem cell market. Accellta Ltd. offers a range of innovative solutions for culturing mass quantities of premium quality stem cells in a cost-effective manner. These solutions are the result of research dated since 1998 at the Stem Cell Centre at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. As a newly developed SME, this company has exceptional expertise in innovative hPSC culturing solutions, including growing stem cells in 3D suspension, with unique, animal-free reagents. These technologies are protected by numerous pioneering, granted and acknowledged patents and since its establishment in 2012. This SME already succeeded to license its IP to multi-national cell research companies. Accellta's future vision is to become a leading provider of premium quality differentiated cell lines and services to customers, which include pharmaceutical and biomedical companies. Despite the huge market potential, proper industry and market research plan is essential and organizing a professionally conducted study, using proper consultation and market research databases, is of the utmost importance. Understanding the market's direction and demands would provide the directives in which the company can proceed and find success. Accellta has the know-how, intellectual property, team and infrastructure required to emerge as a leader in this field. The company's remarkably unique techniques in pluripotent stem cell culturing would provide high quality hPSCs-derived differentiated cells will advance drug development and regenerative therapies.

Keywords: human pluripotent stem cells cell culture cardiomyocytes neuronal cells suspension