EarlyMusicDiplomacy brings together academic and non-academic actors active in the field of early music and specialists in cultural policy and management in order to build a new way of approaching and perceiving early music. Through the response to Europe's cultural heritage and arts - promoting our values at home and abroad, EarlyMusicDiplomacy intends to draw new paths: a functional and economic model from research to dissemination of early music, a platform for the promotion of a musical heritage, and a global image of an artistic practice for the European and global public. These avenues will reinforce the unique place that early music occupies in Europe, both in our intellectual and cultural practices and in its capacity to attract worldwide attention. The world of culture is constantly changing, and these transformations have been accelerated by the pandemic that has hit musical practices particularly hard. For several years now, however, musicologists and musicians, concert organisers and recording producers, music publishers and museum curators have been wondering how to renew their actions. These questions concern all fields: from raising awareness among new audiences to record production, from music publishing to the organisation of festivals, from the training of musicians and musicologists to the expansion of professional opportunities. A singularity of the field of early music (understood as an approach based on a historically informed approach), lies in the intersection of actors, skills and objects. The richness and diversity of these horizons contribute to giving 'early music' in Europe a unique place. There is no equivalent in America or Asia of such a dynamic: publishers of books, scores or recordings, violin makers, concerts and festivals, musical or musicological training centres, and places of experimentation are almost exclusively located in Europe and exert a strong power of attraction on students and audiences from all over the world. The EarlyMusicDiplomacy consortium will contribute to projecting this movement into a future that includes early music in the dynamics of the cultural and creative industries (CCI) and affirms its anchorage in the cultural values of Europe. In order to achieve this, several preconditions must be met, based on four essential pillars: collaboration, innovation, awareness-raising and promotion. The means implemented to consolidate these pillars will be deployed according to various modalities which suppose the elaboration of a common roadmap between academic and non-academic partners. All of them are driven by the desire to make this rich heritage heard and seen by anchoring it in the reality of social practices and by linking it to the technologies in use and under construction. It will therefore be a question of responding to the challenges posed by distribution platforms, digital editions of scores, the sharing of research results, the development of shared pedagogies, promotion actions, and the contribution of this early music to real European musical diplomacy by measuring its symbolic and economic value.

Our vision consists of revolutionizing dental and orthopedic surgery by introducing a new paradigm, model-based theranostics, which consists of an integrative coupling of therapeutics, diagnostics and numerical simulation in order to optimize the performances of the surgical protocol and to predict its clinical outcome. The success of surgical protocols involving endosseous implants is limited by i) the empirical methods employed to assess implant stability, which is a strong determinant of the surgical outcome, ii) the absence of therapeutic approaches to stimulate osseointegration phenomena and iii) the difficulty of predicting the implant outcome. The aim of UltraSimplant is to develop a radically new unified model-based theranostic concept using innovative ideas in the domain of quantitative ultrasound (QUS). The new concept will combine characterization, simulation and stimulation of osseointegration phenomena, leading to the foundation of a revolutionary approach capable of providing a decision support system to the surgeon, to improve osseointegration in a patient specific manner and to predict the surgical outcome, thus leading to a drastic decrease of the implants failure rate. We will conceive and validate (in vitro, in silico, in vivo and in a clinical trial) a minimum viable product and consisting of a medical device using QUS techniques to assess dental implant stability. A validated model of the evolution of the bone-implant system will take into account the complex multiscale nature of the interface in order to validate in silico the QUS device and to predict the effect of ultrasound stimulation and implant outcome. The model will be used in order to optimize the parameters to be employed in the stimulation. UltraSimplant will first focus on dental implants because of the important failure rate and to the easy access of the implant. In the long term, model-based theranostic approaches will be applied to other implants in orthopedic surgery.

The project " SP2R " (Sustainable Phosphate Recovery and Re-uses” aims at establishing, around a French leadership, an European partnership of professionals and structures the activities of which develop in the field of the use of the Phosphor and mainly Phosphates (P-PO4). This network will have for objective to implement innovative strategies for a sustainable management of P-PO4, integrating all the practices and the users, since the individual practices until the intensive activities, at every level of scale. This approach joins in the concept of circular economy which aims at to find solutions, by working at every level of the production line and the consumption, by looking for it more thrifty common strategies. This challenge meets one of the priority of the European program H2020, in the action SC14-2016-2017 "Innovative Actions for a more effective management of raw materials" of the societal challenge "Climate, efficiency of the resources and the raw materials". Our global approach of the problem of inventory managements in P-PO4 will associate skills, know-how and multidisciplinary controls of work with synergic answers to the economic, technological and scientific challenges. It is in this spirit that we wish to make our contribution to the European level in the management of a resource P-PO4, essential in the life but also the cause of environmental concern (diffuse pollution, eutrophication of lakes). More precisely, the objective of our consortium is to slow down the impoverishment of stocks, to limit the economic dependence of the non-producing consumer countries, to reduce the irremediable emissions of phosphates and so to limit the pollutions, to develop more effective technologies of recovery and recycling of the P-PO4, better adapted to the various sources of waste, to master better the life cycle of the used P-PO4. Knowing that more than 89 % of phosphates is used for agricultural applications and of food production, the 1st stake is to optimize and to develop technological processes for a total recovery of the P-PO4 stemming from liquid waste and from solid. We shall answer the scientific and technological challenges (weakness of the efficiencies on conversion and still too high energy current cost of the processes of chemical and biological dephosphatation, division into sectors of the solutions) by innovative strategies of traceability of the P-PO4 on all these activities, use of anion exchange inorganic membranes presenting extremely high selectivity towards phosphates. These materials (Layered Double Hydroxides (LDH), Green rusts (LDH FeII-FeIII) and calcined by-products) will be implemented, in an innovative way, as membranes or reactive suspensions for P-PO4 sequestration. The technology will be adapted to every type of effluents and will allow the separation of the P-PO4 immobilized and concentrated for later stages of reformulation. These P-PO4 loaded solids will be tested for their P-PO4 release performance, under field conditions, to estimate and optimize their fertilizing power. Finally, these LDH and green rusts phases can be integrated as activators into bioreactors designed for the conversion biomass of organic phosphates, according to one conditions operating already highlighted in laboratory. The support of the program MRSEI, will allow us to strengthen our already strongly multidisciplinary consortium, joined by an international industrial group (SAUR) of the domain of the water treatment and cleanup, by going to look for the missing partners (branch of industry, sector of the agricultural research, the industrialists of the chemistry) and identifying even better all the stakes and the bolts to build an ambitious answer as high as the challenge.

This project examines how the current changes in the political information environments in European democracies affect the conditions for a healthy democracy. As a theoretical background we employ the concept of ‘political information environment’ (PIE) that includes both the supply and demand of political news and information. Supply refers to the quantity and quality of news and public affairs content provided through traditional and new media sources, demand captures the amount and type of news and information the public wants or consumes. Recent changes in the political information environment may lead to a growing number of uniformed, misinformed and selectively informed citizens, potentially endangering the functioning of democracy. To examine these concerns, the study aims at investigating the following: (1) how do citizens today gain political information and how does this relate to their political attitudes and behaviour; (2) what is the content and quality of the information citizens are exposed to; (3) where do divides between being informed and not being informed exist, across and within European societies, and (4) how can citizens be empowered to navigate and find valuable information. We will do this through a series of comparative, innovatively designed studies, including web tracking, comparative surveys, focus groups and survey-embedded experiments in 14 European countries and the US. These countries vary on a number of key contextual factors relevant for the study, covering both “young” and established democracies with different democratic traditions, media systems, and news consumption habits.