Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet SENSODOR (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Reduction of the emission of unpleasant smell is a priority for branches of industry which introduce odorous compounds to the atmosphere. However, it is also necessary to provide verification of effectiveness of these efforts via monitoring of odor intensity. Dynamic olfactometry is the most popular method of odor measurements, but instrumental methods are increasingly applied for monitoring and evaluation of unpleasant smells generated by different fields of human activity. Electronic noses (e-nose) belongs to dynamically developing instrumental techniques which utilizes holistic analysis. Different ways in which an e-nose can be used for assessment of odor nuisance are monitoring networks, autonomous pltaforms (robots, drones, etc.) and portable devices. Although, installation of e-noses on these platforms is a very interesting way for investigation of air quality such experiment are rarely carried out due to the sensors response drift in time and too low sensitivity of these devices. These drawbacks are still fundamental problems connected to the sensors comprising the electronic nose instruments. Nanotechnology provides means to solve these problems. The researcher will develop an innovative e-nose for odor nuisance assesment based on nanotechnology. The e-nose will be validated and implemented on monitoring stations and mobile platformes for long term monitoring of odor intensity and fast localisation the source of the odor nuisance, respectively.

Mots clés : electronic noses, odor nuisance, waste treatment

Participants :
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Pologne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 224438.4 €
Projet VULNERAWEB (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Reliable Forecasts of species’ Climatic Vulnerability (FCV) are key to attain objectives in the horizon 2020 program. However, the complexity of FCV, and the massive amount of data needed for it, defy current approaches and data availability. State-of-the-art forecasts use measures of species’ thermal tolerance and of their ability to avoid overheating environments. Still, these models rely on two central premises. First, that a single combination of temperature and time of exposure will induce population declines. Yet, myriads of combinations of temperature and time of exposure can actually kill the individuals of a population. A second premise is that known parameters of thermal tolerance can identify thermal limits for the geographic distribution of species. Finally, whether these premises are true or not, most species lack the data needed to model their vulnerability to climate change. During this project, I will apply, for first time, the concepts of the Thermal Death Curve (TDC) and the Voluntary Thermal Maximum (VTM) to improve forecasts. The TDC represents all the potential combinations of temperature and time that causes population damage and the VTM represents a temperature objectively identified by the organisms as stressful. My preliminary analyses have shown that these tools multiply the power of produced forecasts and prevent dramatic biases introduced by more traditional parameters. Secondly, I will test, on a global scale, whether the known limits of animal’s geographic distributions are set by known measures of their thermal tolerance. Finally, to channel global efforts to the collection of the necessary species data and the generation of robust forecast, I will create an online platform to engage experts in climatic vulnerability world-wide through an action-reward system. This web platform will guide the collection and curation of relevant data, and deliver FCV using the best models available and international expert advice

Mots clés : climate warming, extinction, lizards, ectotherms, thermal biology, biogeography, vulnerability

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 160932.48 €
Projet ReSurface (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Repair of articular cartilage defects remains a significant clinical challenge due to gaps in our knowledge of articular cartilage development and maintenance in adulthood. This creates a lack of consensus on the ideal cell source for cell-based repair strategies and suitable methods of delivery. The overall goal of ReSurface is to develop a cell therapy platform for articular cartilage defect repair. This will be achieved by unravelling the molecular mechanisms controlling articular cartilage cell development and maintenance, generation of a panel of molecular parameters defining populations of cells that are safe and suitable for articular cartilage repair, and development of a minimally invasive method to deliver cells to the defect site. This project is highly multidisciplinary and intersectoral combining fundamental developmental and molecular cell biology with advanced engineering techniques and including significant industry and clinical collaboration throughout. This fellowship will have an outgoing phase at Dr April Craft’s Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), affiliated with Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), and a return phase to Prof Garry Duffy’s Lab at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) which is part of the Science Foundation Ireland funded Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM). Clinical collaborators will include BCH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, University College Hospital Galway (UCHG) and the Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI) at NUIG while industry collaborators include Boston Scientific Limited (BSL). Having recently completed my PhD in biomaterials development, this project will diversify my professional competencies through advanced training with intersectoral and international collaborations and provide me with the scientific and transferable skills required for my transition to an independent scientist role.

Mots clés : cartilage, orthoapedics

Participants :
- Boston Children's Hospital (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 248063.4 €
Projet SinMolTermination (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Replication-stress is a key driving force of cancer development, neurodegeneration and ageing. Many sources of replication stress associated with the initiation and elongation phases of DNA replication have been discovered. In contrast, little is known about the mechanisms of replication termination and termination-associated replication stress. Recent breakthroughs identified the first elements of a mechanism of replication termination that involved ubiquitination of the Mcm7 subunit of the CMG helicase. However, we do not know how terminating replisomes signal themselves for ubiquitination, nor how this is regulated both temporally and spatially along chromatin. By combining sophisticated single-molecule imaging techniques with the ability of Xenopus extracts to replicate DNA in a physiological manner, we will for the first time, be able to watch individual replication forks terminate. Importantly, our multidisciplinary and single-molecule approach will allow us to bypass the constraints posed by ensemble techniques that have hindered progress in this field. Specifically, we will define the spatial and temporal conditions upon which Mcm7 becomes ubiquitinated and how this is connected to the fate of the CMG helicase during termination. These observations will enable us to determine a complete mechanistic understanding of vertebrate replication termination for the first time. We will also discover how failed DNA replication termination triggers replication stress. Revealing these novel mechanisms of replication stress allows for new therapeutic targets to be identified and potentially facilitates new disease prevention strategies to be recognised.

Mots clés : single molecule, dna replication, xenopus, tirf microscopy, fluorescence, verterbrate, biochemistry, molecular biology

Participants :
- University of Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €
Projet GROWTH-SNLS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Request of financial support to cover the additional costs that researchers/staff members with disabilities face due to the increased costs of their mobility and/or to ensure necessary assistance by third persons or for adapting their work environment.

Mots clés : dry lab, wet lab, ergonomic equipment

Participants :
- Cherry Biotech (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 7070.0 €
Projet MFP-SNA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Request of financial support to cover the additional costs that researchers/staff members with disabilities face due to the increased costs of their mobility and/or to ensure necessary assistance by third persons or for adapting their work environment.

Mots clés : social care, care services, care providers

Participants :
- Rovira i Virgili University (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 12850.0 €
Projet POSTBREXIT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Request of financial support to cover the additional costs that researchers/staff members with disabilities face due to the increased costs of their mobility and/or to ensure necessary assistance by third persons or for adapting their work environment.

Mots clés : brexit, populism, euroscepticism, europe, intra party democracy

Participants :
- University of Sussex (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 12905.0 €
Projet MIONINO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Request of financial support to cover the additional costs that the researcher/staff members with disabilities face due to the increased costs of their mobility and/or to ensure necessary assistance by third persons or for adapting their work environment

Mots clés : cancer related disabilities, chronic illness, accessibility, mobility, medical equipment

Participants :
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 57563.36 €
Projet POLISS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Economic Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Smart Specialisation is a successful innovation policy concept which has become a cornerstone of the European cohesion policy and also addresses several of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the early implementation of SmartSpec policies has raised concerns among scholars and policy makers, who have pointed to a number of gaps in its conceptualisation, design and implementation. POLISS (“Policies for Smart Specialisation”) will tackle these gaps with the aim of making the design, implementation and evaluation of Smart Spec policies more effective in Europe. POLISS is a joint collaboration of 8 leading European academic institutions and 14 partners spanning local governments, development agencies, international organizations, research institutes and private companies. POLISS brings together a diverse set of actors from all the fields contributing to SmartSpec; therefore it adopts a multidisciplinary approach by integrating their insights and knowledge. Building on their expertise and everyday engagement with SmartSpec policies, POLISS aims at: a) providing new systematic evidence and methodological tools to scholars, policy makers and local practitioners for designing and assessing SmartSpec actions in EU regions and beyond; b) building a PhD programme where a new generation of experts in regional development and innovation policy will be trained and once graduated will be possibly employed in regional, national and European private or public organisations that work on regional development and innovation; c) providing a forum for coordinating the vast community of researchers and practitioners working on local development and innovation, which is often sparse and fragmented.

Mots clés : regional development, european cohesion policy, innovation policy, entrepreneurship, universities, related variety, collaboration networks, innovation system

Participants :
- Bocconi University (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 522999.36 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Pecs (Hongrie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 459430.56 €
- University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 606345.12 €
- University of Stavanger (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 584684.64 €
- University of Vienna (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 264207.24 €
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 501809.76 €
- Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 796859.64 €
Projet SOLOMON (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Smart cameras are embedded devices combining a visual sensor, a processing unit and a communication interface, allowing the processing of images on the device, such that only aggregated information, instead of raw video data, is transmitted. Smart camera networks are typically used for large-scale high value security applications such as person tracking in airports or amusement parks. However, current smart cameras are expensive and have only very limited mobility, acting as a barrier to their wider adoption. The SOLOMON project is driven by the rising demand for rapid-deployment camera networks which can adapt to provide security in the context of unforeseen situations and unfolding scenarios. This is evidenced by the rapid growth of leading body-cam company Edesix Ltd, whose VideoBadge technology is being adopted by police forces worldwide . However, recent research advances in smart camera networks have not yet been realised in dynamic body-worn camera networks, and still rely on prohibitively expensive static hardware. In the SOLOMON project we envision a novel type of lightweight, inexpensive smart camera network suitable for rapid deployment and reconfiguration, where low-cost camera devices such as Edesix’s VideoBadge, are paired with the processing capabilities of smartphones. These are then worn by people (e.g. police, security guards) or mounted on mobile robots. This not only lowers cost, but allows us to introduce a feedback loop between the sensing cameras and the acting people/robots, enabling the camera network to adapt to changes during runtime, for example to prioritise or cover newly relevant areas sufficiently. Novel techniques in collective decision making and self-organisation as well as multi-objective online learning will need to be developed, in order to achieve this vision.

Mots clés : mobile smart cameras, self organisation, online learning, autonomous ad hoc repositioning

Participants :
- Aston University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 195454.8 €
Projet smartCC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Smart interfaces alter their properties in response to an external trigger. Such devices open exciting opportunities for novel technologies with manifold applications. Electrical fields pose easily controllable triggers for smart interfaces and even allow a precise 'digital' switching between 'on' and 'off' states. The research project ‘smartCC’ will employ a biologically abundant class of biomacromolecules – coiled-coil peptides – to prepare smart selective interfaces, whose ability to specifically bind targets can be switched reversibly. Moreover, the produced interface will constitute a highly sensitive sensor by application of the attenuated total reflection infrared reflection technique. The variability of coiled-coils, employed in numerous biological systems, will also extend the potential application bandwidth of smart interfaces significantly. Molecular details of the switching and binding behaviour of the coiled-coils at the interface will be studied to test the feasibility of the envisioned working principle. Furthermore, the novel devices will be tested for an application with industrial relevance. To reach the goals of ‘smartCC’ a highly interdisciplinary approach is chosen that includes cooperation between three academic and one non-academic European partners. Thus, the implementation of this project will support bringing an emerging technology towards an economical benefit, foster intra European collaborations and mobility as well as strengthen Europe’s scientific sector.

Mots clés : coiled coils, smart interfaces, self assembled monolayer, atr ir spectroscopy, electric switching

Participants :
- Max Planck Society (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 159460.8 €
Projet SmartShip (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

SmartShip aims to bring together Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of focused Universities, Research Institutions and Companies oriented into the maritime sector in order to build a holistic integrated ICT-based framework for the sustainable, individualized and completely automated energy management of ships. To accomplish this, it will take advantage of all the know-how that the consortium brings to the project referring to ICT technologies such as Data Analytics, IoT exploitation, DSS use, visualization tools, optimization algorithms and tools and Circular Economy approach methods. Smartship aims to offer a multi-layer optimization in the fields of fuel consumption, energy efficiency and emissions control management, in full respect to the implementation of the requirements of maritime sector regulations and taking into account applications of circular economy concepts in the maritime as well. Knowledge exchange between the partners that are already involved in the maritime sector, the ICT technology industry partners and the academia partners is one of the major Smartship’s objectives and will be materialised through corresponding secondments during the whole project’s timeplan. These synergies aim to build stronger collaboration relationships between the partners with respect to their future exploitation beyond Smartship project. Summing up Smartship will capitalise on available COTS technologies and will deliver an ICT & IoT-enabled holistic cloud-based maritime performance & monitoring system, for the entire lifecycle of a ship, aimed to optimise energy efficiency, emissions reduction and fuel consumption, whist introducing circular economy concepts in the maritime field.

Mots clés : energy efficiency and fuel consumption management, maritime, vessels, emissions control, circular economy in the maritime

Participants :
- Mib developpement ecole des ponts business school (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193200.0 €
- Danaos (Cyprus) (Chypre) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 202400.0 €
- Information Technology for Market Leadership (Greece) (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 262200.0 €
- Epsilon malta limited (Malte) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 165600.0 €
- Harokopio University of Athens (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193200.0 €
- Bluesoft spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnoscia (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 239200.0 €
- Technische Universität Braunschweig (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 27600.0 €
- École nationale des ponts et chaussées (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188600.0 €
Projet KRF-CY (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Mathematics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Smoothing properties of the Kaehler-Ricci flow have been known and used for a long time. Attempt to run the Kaehler-Ricci flow from a degenerate initial data has been of great interest in the last decades. The bet result so far was recently obtained by Guedj and Zeriahi that were able to define the maximal flow for any initial current with zero Lelong number. This initial current will be smoothed out immediately. One example was also given showing that there might be no regularity at all in the case of Fano manifolds when starting from a current with positive Lelong number. However it is expected that the regularizing effect happens outside analytic sets. The first goal of this proposal is to prove such a regularity result. In the last few years, Eyssidieux, Guedj and Zeriahi have shown that every Calabi-Yau variety admits a unique singular Kaehler-Ricci flat metric. Their work establishes the existence of such singular Kaehler-Ricci flat metric but it does not establish the expected asymptotic behavior near the singular points. The main goal of my proposal is to study the asymptotic behavior and the regularity properties of these metrics/potentials near singularities. More generally, given a Kaehler-Einstein metric on a singular variety, it would be interesting to understand how we can relate the asymptotic behavior of such a metric near to the singularities of the variety. Such a result would be of great interest also in theoretical physics. Indeed, since the seminal paper of Candelas and de la Ossa in the 90's, physicists have guessed that Calabi-Yau 3-folds with the simplest isolated singularities should admit incomplete Kaehler-Ricci flat metrics which near each singularitiy look like the conifold metric. A related goal would be to go after the analogies by these singular Calabi-Yau problems in the singular G2 holonomy setting. A possible strategy would be to try to develop the techniques and the ideas recently used by Lu and myself.

Mots clés : kaehler ricci flow, positive currents, calabi yau, ricci curvature, monge amp re equations, special holonomy, g2 manifolds

Participants :
- Imperial College London (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 183454.8 €