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Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour

Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, rapid digitalisation has fundamentally transformed European working conditions. While its positive consequences are well recognised, digital transformation also puts a sorely needed part of the European workforce at risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion. IDILAB (Implications of digital transformation for migrant labour) investigates the impacts that technological progress and subsequent structural changes have on the labour market integration of migrant workers. By developing a new methodological approach, IDILAB shall provide novel evidence on migrants’ exposure to the process of digitalisation, and formulate evidence-based and innovative policy options for the EU and national governments to improve on the scope and adequacy of national and European policy directed at encouraging a fair digital transition for all, including migrants. The proposed project will contribute with new knowledge on migrants’ own perspectives on barriers and enablers for a sustainable integration in a fast-changing labour market. I, the experienced researcher (Dr Olga Gheorghiev, the Czech Republic), will work with a European centre of excellence (the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC, OsloMet, Norway), and the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

Locating Intergenerational Ties, rematriating late-19th-century unpublished photographs of Sámi Women and Children

Employing a decolonial approach inspired by critical museology and Indigenous studies, LIT aims to initiate a visual restitution/rematriation process fostering attention to Sámi people’s experiences during colonial encounters, and to illuminate individual life-stories of women and children photographed by Italian anthropologists Mantegazza and Sommier between 1879 and 1886. It wishes to generate dialogical knowledge of unpublished visual/written materials, enabling Sámi communities of interest to gain access to these scholars’ photographs. In complex socio-historical Indigenous/settler contexts such as Sápmi (the Sámi homeland), Sámi people’s control over their own heritage has proved essential to processes of cultural and ethnopolitical self-determination. Part of the Sámi visual heritage consists of photographs taken - often through mild violence and coercion - by academics engaged in physical anthropological practices involving Sámi individuals of all ages and genders. The resulting academic and divulgative publications circulated in Europe for decades, shaping and reinforcing stereotypes of Sámi peoples and cultures. Photos taken in colonial encounters by late-19th/early-20th century scholars to visualize Sámi people’s supposed biological-cultural inferiority (until a few decades ago inaccessible to the Sámi) have become important means of decolonization and empowerment through art and activism. The visual restitution of such photographs is of the utmost importance not only from a cultural heritage perspective but is also considered by Sámi institutions and individuals as an urgent necessity. LIT proposes an innovative approach based on the co-construction of knowledge and with a gender dimension. I shall reconstruct life stories of women and children photographed by Italian ethnologists, locating their descendants and returning their photographs to their communities. LIT would benefit my career, making me a leading researcher in Sami Studies and museology.

CULTUral heritage in RurAL remote areas for creative tourism and sustainabilITY

The main objective of the project is to contribute to the promotion of cultural and creative tourism activities, considering the different capacities, resources, and specificities (material, creative, human...) of the territories, as a mean to help with the sustainable development of peripheral rural areas, favoring job creation and population settlement. For this, the potential of its cultural heritage will be researched, taking into account both the artisan material culture (techniques, materials, patterns and decorative elements), as well as the intangible culture (music, oral knowledge and culinary traditions) as a resource.
 
To promote non-seasonal tourism as a form of sustainable development with a stable population settlement we are going to research the crafts linked to the territory and their implications, but we will also carry out a documentation of the productive processes. First and foremost, we are going to cater to the necessities of the local communities and pay attention to aspects related to societal groups at risk of exclusion, such as women, the elderly and the youth.

All this will be developed from a multidisciplinary perspective, for which we will count on the various teams —most of them linked to different countries— that will be part of the consortium. Each of these partners will contribute to the development, as well as to the final result of the project through input directly related to their area of ??expertise: for example, among the collaborators we have intellectual teams specialized in the digitalization of heritage, research, or communication and dissemination, as well as as various institutions that will act as a testing ground for the more practical parts of the proposal. However, if something will characterize our work, it will be the constant collaboration between all parties, as well as the exchange of advice and experiences that will help to enrich collective knowledge and guarantee optimal results.

POWERING ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO DRIVE THE CLIMATE TRANSITION

PACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together in sustainable ways. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.
Therefore, PACESETTERS will set out to:
-Create knowledge from collaborative research to keep pace with the transition
-Propose and test creative business models to set the pace of the transition
-Assess strategies of valorisation to push the pace of the transition
 
This approach will identify and analyse advanced practices that run transversally across the cultural and creative sectors; contextualise the outcomes of co-research in real-world laboratories for social imagination; further develop and promote the preliminary results of experiments in iterative support and evaluation frames. The PACESETTERS approach centres on inclusion, participation and iteration in order ensure that gender equity and diversity inform it at every step and on every level.

The result will be a critical evaluation and all-encompassing demonstration of the actual potentials of the CCIs to drive the climate transition while systematically analysing their impact on micro-, meso- and macro-level:
-Understanding the climate transition as a triple transition: green, digital and inclusive
-Innovating aPACESETTERS responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transitions by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual, short-term incentives to one that is driven by co-agency and new capacities to act together. It does so by examining the concrete circumstances, investigating possible support mechanisms and stress-testing instruments that enable art and culture, creativity and heritage to drive the climate transition.

Smart and Sustainable Host UniverCities: leveraging city-university interactions to further the twin green and digital transition

SUNSET aims to develop innovative research and training capacity around city-university interactions driving the EU’s green and digital transition. This twin transition is a defining element of the current EU policy agenda towards achieving climate neutrality and sustainable growth. The European Commission considers cities to be frontrunners in this transition agenda, but their transformational capacity and resilience crucially depends on the presence of agile and high-performing urban innovation ecosystems. SUNSET brings together (1) prominent researchers working in diverse geographical and disciplinary settings at leading universities (N=6) with (2) partners (N=16) from city governments (often participating in the Cities Mission to achieve climate neutrality by 2030), innovation companies, research institutes and civil society organizations to analyze and foster the performance of these urban innovation ecosystems: drawing on a purposeful range of interdisciplinary, international, and intersectoral exchanges, the Doctoral Network will investigate whether and how universities can successfully become key drivers of the twin transition in cities via their role as innovation partners, the implementation of campus living labs, and as architects of decision-making in governance ecosystems. Through a tailored combination of network-wide training events and academic and non-academic secondments, the SUNSET Doctoral Network will train a new generation of researchers to become future urban innovation ecosystem leaders in the pursuit of the twin green and digital transition. The findings will lead to practical guidelines regarding the design and implementation of living labs for university and city management, tailored strategies to foster more inclusive and diverse urban ecosystems, and diverse forms of scientific outreach and dissemination.

Providing research infrastructure services to support Next Generation EU

This four-year project will harness outputs from key social science RIs in Europe and other reliable sources to support the aims of the ‘Next Generation EU’ programme and to inform EU youth policy. Virtual access will be provided to the outputs through special installations (portals) developed during the project. The core of the proposal is a set of existing research ‘services’, which will be re-purposed and customised to focus directly on the five themes: Make it Green; Make it Digital; Make it Healthy; Make it Strong; and Make it Equal. 

For each area, the consortium will work collaboratively to produce seven sets of resources:

i)	A searchable inventory of relevant variables drawn from multiple cross-national datasets; 

ii)	Analytical summaries, suitable for policy makers and analysts new to the field, as well as interactive resources available through the project portal;

iii)	Harmonised and merged extracts from these datasets that reduce the burden on analysts and increase sample sizes;

iv)	New data collected through the ESS’s established CRONOS web panel infrastructure. Eleven countries will field five waves of the panel, each one dedicated to a NextGenEU theme. Free and rapid access to the data will be available through the CRONOS portal alongside analytical summaries;

v)	In-person and virtual deliberative forums with young people (aged 18-34) in four countries covering the five Next Generation EU’ themes;

vi)	An educational tool (E-NextGen) channelling our data for use in classrooms and by the general public;

vii)	Comprehensive training materials related to all project outputs.


EXPRESS 2 SPECIFY AND PROTECT THE EU SOCIAL CONTRACT (EXPRESS2)

EXPRESS2 is a project that addresses from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-sectional perspective, the growing demand for a new, more democratic, inclusive, and sustainable social contract in the EU. To achieve this, the project will work to create a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft that will be submitted to inhabitants, Member States and EU institutions that will have the possibility to participate and decide upon the conditions, rights, and obligations to be binding. The goal is to strengthen the EU agreement of association by promoting social dialogue, civic engagement, and integration. An express draft shall be achieved by means of policy dialogue, campaign implementation, collaborative workshops, advocacy planning, and innovative offline and online formats and tools to create spaces for dialogue. To this end, EXPRESS2 will involve EU policymakers and institutions throughout the project to obtain a more appealing and legitimate EU social contract draft. 
The project will also focus on identifying and analyzing disruptive elements of the social contract, such as insecurity, populism, climate change, mistrust in institutions, gender discrimination, digitalisation and pandemics. The analysis of these stressors includes both individualised and cross-sectional approaches to cover the plausible relation of multiple disruptors, their concatenation or the “trigger” effect of a disruptive phenomenon to another. By understanding these disruptive elements and their effects on the social contract, the project will propose concrete measures to ironclad the social contract and it will provide relevant information to protect it from actual and potential disruptions thus we conceive social contracts as incomplete theorised agreements and living documents. In addition to academic, policy, and socio-economic outcomes, EXPRESS2 will propose recommendations to strengthen the social contract's resilience and capacity for further development.


Mapping of Longitudinal data of Inequalities in Education

The MapIE project aims to identify mechanisms causing educational inequalities and policies or interventions compensating for them. We do a systematic review of how these have been studied internationally using longitudinal designs. We map existing longitudinal data that we describe in a public metadata database, and we analyse them to describe the mechanisms of inequalities and to identify effective policies and interventions in different local contexts. We focus on the contextual differences between the Nordic and Central European countries that have structurally different education systems. Within national contexts and using comparative research designs, we look at system-, regional- and school-level policies and practices and individual-level factors (e.g. socioeconomic status, immigrant background, gender, special educational needs) that are associated with the development of educational inequalities and the successful prevention of achievement gaps. We publish and disseminate the empirical results of the project through multiple channels to scientific audiences, policy makers and the wider public. At the end, we create a public framework for studying educational inequalities longitudinally in future studies, acknowledging the role of local contexts but aiming for comparability at the European level. 

We implement the project in seven work packages. Our consortium consists of internationally acknowledged experts in large-scale educational assessment research from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Luxembourg/Germany. The partners have a long-standing history of collaboration with each other, European researchers, and national and international education policy makers, and they bring extensive longitudinal datasets to the project. The project will considerably strengthen the knowledge base of what shapes educational outcomes over time, how to best support the learning of all students and how to reduce education inequalities in the short, medium and long term.

Contextualized pathways to reduce housing inequalities in the green and digital transition.

The project Reducing housing inequalities in the green and digital transition (ReHousIn) is committed to better understand the impacts of recent crises on housing inequalities across different European regions, especially with regard to the implementation of the green transition launched by the EU. The overall aim is to explore the mechanisms affecting the (re)production of housing inequalities under recent crisis conditions, and the impacts of the EU induced green transition in different national contexts and along different degrees of urbanisation. Based on a contextualized and comparative understanding of the mechanisms (re)producing housing inequalities, ReHousIn inquiries into multi-level pathways and inclusive local housing initiatives to spark innovative EU, national and local policy solutions towards inclusionary and quality housing, mitigating the possible negative impacts of the EU induced green transition. It conducts a comparative, multi-level analysis in 9 European countries – Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom – focusing on attractive metropolitan regions, middle-sized cities and rural areas by means of a mixed-method project design. A quantitative data analysis on recent trends in housing inequalities and their relation to crises across different levels of urbanization will provide the framework for 27 local cases studies in which the impact of multi-level trajectories of housing-system, welfare regimes and environmental policy instrumentations on the (re)production of local housing inequalities and the emergence of inclusive housing initiatives are analyzed. Based on this, ReHousIn compares mechanisms of differentiation feeding into policy labs, aiming to formulate recommendations on how to tackle negative social externalities related the EU green transition at EU, national and local levels.

Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care

European elderly care experiences labor shortages, lack of qualified workers and a mismatch between capacity and demands, causing stress, burnout, and reduced mental wellbeing among healthcare workers and informal caregivers. Leaders are crucial in promoting supportive working conditions but lack research-based measures to act upon these challenges.

Support4Resilience (S4R) will develop, implement, and evaluate a research-based Toolbox to support healthcare leaders in improving healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing in elderly care. S4R will identify resilience and mental wellbeing factors among healthcare workers and informal caregivers; explore their perspectives and needs; develop new theory on the relationship between individual and organizational resilience, and mental wellbeing; and develop recommendations and cost-effective interventions. The Toolbox with tailormade resources for policy and practical use will be available through an open access S4R Resource Bank.

The S4R Toolbox includes three main tools: 1) Mapping and identification, 2) Reflection and education, and 3) Reorganization. Measures are initiated at the organizational level and effects on mental wellbeing and resilience transpire at the frontline of elderly care. The Toolbox covers different situational contexts, types of healthcare providers and health system levels. Elderly care settings in six European countries will implement and evaluate the Toolbox through a process evaluation, effectiveness evaluation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. 

S4R provides policymakers, decisions-makers and leaders with solutions for taking action to solve specific risks for healthcare workers’ and informal caregivers’ resilience and mental wellbeing. Thus, pertinent to the work programme, S4R will support the development of resilient health systems in European elderly care through improved leadership capabilities, governance structures, and adaptive capacities.

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Molecular Genetic Studies of Ovarian Cancer

Each team will involve 4 members to the proposal, among them 3 PhD students and 1 permanen researcher (8 researchers in total).
From the LIRMM-team the students will be Lucas Isenmann, Abhijat Sarma, and Jocelyn Thiebaut, while from the UOB-team the students will be Kristine Vitting Klinkby Knudsen, Kirill Simonov, and Strømmme Torstein.
From the LIRMM-team the senior researcher is Prof. Dimitrios Thilikos, while from the UiB-team the permanent researcher is Prof. Fedor Fomin.

In order to establish links for further collaboration, we propose to initiate the study in the following directions

Direction 1: (Exact & mono-variate) Moving beyond the limits of polynomial-time computation by exploring the further possibilities and powerfulness of exponential algorithms for computing exact solutions of NP-hard problems and by providing more mathematical and computational tools, as well as structural results.

Direction 2: (Exact & multi-variate) Investigating further the multi-variate algorithmic approach and developing generic techniques for parameterized algorithm design and analysis. In particular, the study of kernelization is an important ingredient in this direction.

Direction 3: (Approximate & mono-variate) Going beyond the limits of polynomial-time approximability by exploring moderately exponential approximation and by building tools able to solve problems not amenable to polynomial-time approximation.

Direction 4: (Approximate & multi-variate) Combining both the multi-variate and the approximation approaches. This direction, still being in an early stage, appears to offer a multitude of theoretical challenges that have not been investigated so far.


These four directions will form the basis for more fundamental cooperation.

Beyond-P: Algorithm Design and Analysis Beyond the Polynomial Time

This ambitious project addresses the role of hypothalamic tanycytes and epigenetic modification in regulating seasonal time keeping in mammals using two physiological paradigms, maternal programming and hibernation. This project brings together complementary skills in: 1) seasonal and developmental chronobiology (Valérie Simonneauxs team, Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Strasbourg), and 2) in circannual rhythms and epigenetic regulation (Shona Woods team, University of Tromsø, Norway; recently awarded a prestigious Tromsø Forskningsstiftelse Starting Grant). The project focuses on established rodent models for seasonal time keeping (raised in Strasbourg’s Chronobiotron UMS 3415), and it uses a unique infrastructure at UiT for epigenetics and chronobiology. The research will be performed by a talented PhD student, Vebjørn Jacobsen Mellum (UiT). The candidate will work half of his PhD in Strasbourg and half in Tromsø. This project offers an excellent mentorship/training opportunity for both Wood (an early carrer researcher) and Mellum.  Academic beneficiaries of this research will encompass scientists studying fundamental features of neurobiology and tanycytes, dynamic epigenetic control mechanisms, obesity and metabolic disease research, as well as hibernation and seasonal researchers. This will also extend to scientists interested in comparative genomics and evolution and may offer important new insights. Further, identifying the complex molecular mechanisms orchestrating the entrance and exit of a torpor state could provide important contributions to the development of therapeutic strategies aiming at decreasing metabolic activity in the case of organ transplantation, recovery from stroke, cardiac arrest muscle disease and other ischemia/reperfusion insults.

HYPOTHALAMIC TANYCYTES AS EPIGENETIC CALENDARS

Greenhouse gas emissions are a significant driver of global climate change. Especially methane, a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, has gained attention because of emissions from increased microbial activity in thawing permafrost and the dissolution of marine methane hydrates as a consequence of ocean warming. There are also important human-made methane sources, for example, anaerobic digesters and anaerobic granular systems for wastewater treatment. In these reactor types, organic matter is purposely converted to methane to render the chemical energy captured in waste organic matter accessible for human activities, i.e., by using methane as a renewable fuel. Ideally, this human-made methane never leaves the controlled environments of the bioprocess. This is, however, not the case in reality, as along with the treated water, dissolved methane is continuously leaving the reactor and eventually finds its cataclysmic way into the atmosphere by degassing. This loss is significantly reducing and possibly offsetting the positive environmental effect of generating a renewable energy.
In this project, we will develop an innovative bioprocess to remove methane traces from the effluent of anaerobic reactors by oxidizing excess methane to CO2 by methanotrophic bacteria. Methanotrophs require a terminal electron acceptor that would ideally be oxygen. However, simply providing oxygen by traditional means, i.e., by bubbling, would accelerate the process of losing methane to the atmosphereand is therefore unacceptable. Instead, we suggest a novel, aeration-free process for methane elimination based on the syntrophic interactions between phototrophic and heterotrophic bacteria forming oxygenic photogranules. This bioprocess will improve the environmental fingerprint of anaerobic bioreactors, hence reduce the global warming potential of biogas processes in general.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions using photogranules

The use of biomass as an alternative raw material to fossil resources is of great interest for the industry. Lignocellulosic biomass consists mainly of cellulose, lignin, and hemicellulose. Various treatments (mainly thermal) allow the depolymerization or deconstruction of these solid materials and the separation into major constituents. Sugars (glucose, xylose etc) are obtained as a result of acidic or enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose, which in turn serve as reagents for the synthesis of "platform" molecules such as polyols (xylitol, sorbitol and glycerol). The oxidation products of these compounds, in particular acids and carboxylic diacids, lead to the formation of important compounds for various applications ranging from cosmetic and detergents (surfactants) to bio-sourced polymers Non-thermal activation methods, such as electrochemistry and sonochemistry (power ultrasound in chemistry), are known to increase the catalytic activity of biomass conversion while allowing excellent control of the selectivity. These two methods allow very high potential for use in the fields of organic synthesis and catalysis. The development of these non-thermal activation methods is also a very important research area towards a transition to cleaner and more sustainable chemical processes. In this project it is proposed to study the mechanisms and selectivity of conversion of cellulosic biomass-derived molecules under the combined effect of power ultrasound and electrochemistry. In order to carry out a fundamental study to understand the electrochemical conversion mechanisms under ultrasonic irradiation, both teams will lead work on targeted molecules: glucose, sorbitol and glycerol. From the proposers knowledge, no studies have been conducted to assess the use of power ultrasound for the electrochemical or sonoelectrochemical conversion of molecules from biomass.

Combining Electrochemistry and Ultrasound for Selective Biomass Conversion

The project represents new initiative of two teams at NTNU and at LIRMM for joining research activities in approaching one of challenges of modern robotics.  As outputs of the reciprocal visits, discussions and organization of experiments at NTNU and at LIRMM, we expect to reach the following:

- Several theoretical and experimental contributions that are to be prepared as at least two papers and to be submitted highly ranked journals in the robotics and control engineering subjects;

- International quality research training and networking for young researchers (and graduate students on sites) involved in the project; 

- Systematic integration of research activities of the teams for creating the solid background for new and forthcoming projects and EU initiatives

Computational Tools for Robotic Systems with Dynamic Constraints: Case Studies in Dynamic Manipulation

As stated above, the scientific exchanges will serve a two-fold objective. The first objective is a generic scientific exchange between the research groups, to foster collaboration on topics such as the creation of multilingual dialogue corpora or the development of socially-competent spoken dialogue systems. The four partners to the project share a common scientific interest in the computational study of human-human and human-machine dialogues.  In particular, the creation of multilingual dialogue corpora is a research topic of special interest to the project partners.  While large multilingual text corpora have become a common resource in the last years, very few of these resources focus on conversations. This scarcity remains an important bottleneck both for foundational research and the development of practical applications.

The second project objective will focus on writing a project proposal to Horizon 2020 on the automatic analysis of emergency calls. Medical emergencies are often characterised by numerous uncertainties, as the emergency operators need to assess a complex medical situation based on a single information source, namely the account of patients or eye witnesses on the phone. These callers are often under high levels of psychological stress and typically have no medical training. Based on the collected information, the operators must quickly decide how to handle the situation and dispatch medical resources (such as doctors or ambulances) accordingly. Harnessing this combination of high uncertainty and strong time constraints is a demanding task which is subject to considerable cognitive and emotional load. The proposed exchange will allow us to prepare in 2019 a concrete project proposal that will investigate whether novel technological solutions (drawing upon speech and language technology, machine learning and dialogue modelling) can help make emergency response services more reliable and effective.

French-Norwegian Research Effort on Applied Dialogue Modelling

Management of mixed species forest stands offers many advantages for the range of ecosystem services currently in the focus in Europe. We are currently studying the growth and management of even-aged mixed stands. Increasing interest for uneven-aged management across Europe makes it necessary to extend our knowledge about the effects of different forest structures to mixed forests that are uneven-aged and rich in vertical structure. 
We are particularly focusing on the growth of trees in these stand types and how growth and yield is affected by different thinning intensities. Thinning and selective cuttings change species composition, affect growth, and change stand structure. This important management action can therefore have substantial consequences for the ecosystem services provided by uneven-aged mixed forests.
We will use records from long-term sample plots as well as temporary sample plots to study growth and yield and how it is affected by thinning and selective cutting. We will also use terrestrial 3D laser scanning to describe tree crowns in order to better understand the underlying mechanisms causing stem growth reactions to thinning.

Growth and management of uneven-aged mixed forests

UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø is currently cultivating marine micro algae in large scale bioreactors by using CO2 in flue gases from a local ferrosilicon plant. In order to monitor to content of potential toxic metabolites in the algae cultures, we want to study if culture extracts have any effects on the transriptomes of sea urchins. This assay is established at Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls in France. To monitor survival of sea urchin embryos is a quite course bioassay, while responses on gene expression on stress-response genes might reveal more subtle toxic effects. In this project we want to test the concept on one species, and if successful we will establish a larger scale project for monitoring diatoms cultivated in the large scale bioreactors in Tromsø.

Toxicological tests for secondary metabolites produced by cultivated Arctic diatoms

Active perception by an automated movement of the 3D sensor mounted on a robot arm is essential for exploration of the scene and the object that needs to be manipulated. It is also a prerequisite for development of novel concepts for robotic automation and application of these in industries working with compliant objects such is the marine industry. Applications such as robotic sorting and manipulation involve a robot being able to interact (e.g. by grasping ) with compliant objects which are fragile and easy deformable. These objects may typically move or deform when interaction and manipulation is attempted. Given a 3D image acquired by a depth camera, one can compute the interaction vector (e.g. for the grasp), for the object of interest. Once interaction has begun, the object may become partially occluded and begin to move and deform. To both initiate the robot manipulation as well as the interaction phase, an active perception with robot by means of 3D visual servoing is necessary. Active perception enables a complete overview of the 3D structure of the object and makes possible to handle occlusion and deformation due to manipulation or movement. Research activity in activeVISION is therefore aimed at giving a robot the kind of interaction intelligence that human workers have, in order to enable robots to 'see' the scene and correctly identify and localize the objects of interest to be manipulated. 

By initiating this collaboration between INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique and SINTEF Ocean we aim a long-term collaboration and joint work towards novel concepts in active perception applicable and relevant for industries in France and Norway. Collaboration will be pursued in developing joint project applications for both H2020 program, financed by the EU commission, as well as relevant Norwegian national programs financed by the Research Council of Norway.

activeVISION - Active perception and 3D pose estimation of compliant deformable objects applicable to agriculture and ocean space sector

"Nature-based solutions are inspired or supported by nature and
simultaneously provide environmental, social, cultural and economic
benefits. Nature-based solutions, such as well-connected green and blue infrastructure, green and unsealed surfaces in cities, green roofs, natural water retention measures [...] use the properties and functions of ecosystems to provide water regulation, flood risk protection, climate change adaptation, etc. They are designed to bring more nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes and seascapes, through locally adapted and systemic interventions. They are locally attuned, resource efficient, multi-purpose, multi-functional and multi-beneficial. These key features
of nature-based solutions make them different from 'grey' infrastructure, such as artificial river banks, dikes, etc. Robust EU-wide evidence of the cost-effectiveness and longer-term social, economic, cultural and ecological benefits of these solutions is currently lacking and this has prevented their wider deployment."
The collaboration is dedicated to this issue, and aims to share the long-term experience of both partners. Each partner also has a strong international recognition on nature-based solutions such as Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs), although they have not worked together on such subject. This Aurora project will allow establishing a formal collaboration in order to elaborate common R&D proposals for Horizon 2020. This collaboration aims also at promoting education and training by research with exchange of PhD
and MSc students. More precisely, each partner has a long term experience of SCMs regarding the following topics: design, performance assessment and long term monitoring.

Collaboration on urban Water Management (CWM)

Group theory, as the mathematical theory of symmetry, has been brought to life by the French mathematicians Galois (1811-1832) and Poincaré (1854-1912) and the Norwegian mathematicians Abel (1802-1829), Sylow (1832-1918), and Lie (1842-1899). This project will bring together a French and a Norwegian team to collaborate on difficult questions that arise when we apply this theory to itself: What can we say about the symmetries of symmetry groups and closely related algebraic structures? 

We will focus on those aspects of this problem where recent theoretical advances by the senior team members promise substantial applications and computations within the next year, and where the junior members will generate contributions that will attract the attention of a larger mathematical community to them: homological stability and stable homology. In both of these terms, stabilization refers to the evolution of symmetries when the rank of the objects under investigation increases. Homological stability means that the homology eventually converges to some stable state, which remains to be computed: the stable homology.

These themes are closely related to representation stability and FI-modules (functors on the category of finite sets and injections), a "hot" topic in the United States under the influence of Benson Farb. Recently Church, Miller, Nagpal, Reinhold [arXiv.org 1706.03845] proved a weaker version of a conjecture of Djament on the stable ho-mology of congruence groups using FI-modules. In an even more recent work [arXiv.org 1707.07944] Djament proved his conjecture using ideas coming from previous work by Djament and Vespa and related to the present application.

Freedom, Symmetry, Homology

The researcher exchange project will primarily consists in performing collaborative research through two existing national projects. It is planned that the exchange will bring knowledge and methodology developed at CORIA to SINTEF/NTNU and thus allow in-flame measurement of species and temperature that would otherwise not be achievable. SINTEF on the other hand, will give CORIA the opportunity to test its technique, developed at lab scale, in realistic conditions of high power and pressure. The two running national projects will contribute with the manpower necessary for the collaboration and give access to the necessary experimental facility (HIPROX and laser at SINTEF) and equipment (laser and optical set up at CORIA). Three visit periods are planned:
- Q1-2018 at CORIA to kick-off allow the postdoc to be trained at the optical measurement technique and its different components and discuss constraints relevant to the HIPROX facility, program planning, and relevant collaboration topics.
- Q1/2-2018 at SINTEF: the PhD student will install the Laser Raman setup, adapt and optimize it to the high pressure facility HIPROX, and perform measurement with the local post-doc. A visit of the 2 PhD supervisors will also take place for shorter durations.
- Q3/4-2018 at CORIA: Final meeting to conclude the collaboration and be present at the PhD's defence. There will be discussed results obtained and analysed during the visit at SINTEF and those collected after, and to the finalize the publication of results. A plan for further collaboration will be made.

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Molecular Genetic Studies of Ovarian Cancer

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