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

Renewable and sustainable energy systems of the future are only possible in combination with storage technologies for bridging the gap between production and consumption of energy. The use of solar energy is inherently limited by the intermittency of solar light which requires robust and efficient solutions for energy storage. One of the attractive storage options for large-scale solar systems is ThermoChemical Energy Storage (TCES) based on the use of reversible chemical reactions. TCES combines high heat storage density with unlimited storage duration, endowing the energy storage efficiency and flexibility. Currently, the number of materials studied for TCES at high temperatures remains very limited, hindering further development of thermochemical systems. The project is aimed at the search for promising TCES materials among oxides of earth-abundant metals by combining experimental and theoretical studies. First, a longlist of promising oxide candidates (< 200) will be generated based on structural databases. Then, the experimental screening will be done to outline conditions for their hydration and carbonation reactivity and measurement of relevant parameters such as sorption capacity and heat. The theoretical study bridging DFT calculations with the experimental data by means of machine learning will highlight the structure-property relationship for the broad set of oxides. Finally, several most promising materials with high storage density will be tested in a prototype of chemical heat pump operating at T = 300-600oC. As a result, a library of promising oxides for high-temperature H2O and CO2 sorption will be generated and theoretical guidelines for future target-based development of oxide systems for this purpose will be delivered. This project realized within DLR (Germany) in cooperation with Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) will bring the TCES closer to market scale. The idea is in line with the current EU policy towards renewable energy.

Mots clés : energy storage, metal oxides, hydration, carbonation, chemical thermodynamics

Participants :
- German Aerospace Center (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 162806.4 €
Projet DARE (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 : disability access needs

Participants :
- University of Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 24560.0 €
Projet MetaFun (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : SIGNED

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 : pseudoachondroplasia, skeletal dysplasia, accessibility, lab equipments, automation, lab robots, transportation

Participants :
- Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 59357.0 €
Projet CID (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : SIGNED

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.


Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 12250.0 €
Projet OCAWADHD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : MSCA other
Statut du projet : SIGNED

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 : attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, neurodiversity

Participants :
- École normale supérieure PSL (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 12160.0 €
Projet ALPHA-STEM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Research has shown that the success rate in many types of surgeries is strictly related to the experience of the surgeon. However, early in their career, trainees are not given the opportunity to operate on a sufficient number of patients nor to perform an exhaustive mix of procedures. The scenario has been further worsened by the reduction of assisted training hours in Europe (since 2009) and US (since 2011). Training and technical tasks are usually practised on cadavers, animals or using virtual simulators. However, all these alternatives present difficulties: limited availability, expensive handling and preservation processes (cadaveric training), nonhuman anatomical structures (animal training), costly set-up, and doubtful skills transfer to the real operating theatre (virtual simulators). A potential solution is to promote the use of artificial synthetic models, also known as phantoms. Phantoms are reproduction of human parts and organs that allow the trainee to practice positioning of the anatomical structures as well as hand coordination. Unfortunately, they lack of reliable tactile feedback (e.g. palpation) and real tissue deformation patterns which critically reduce the fidelity of the surgical training. The main objective of this project is to overcome the present limitations by developing phantoms capable of providing detailed anatomical structures along with an accurate tactile response when performing surgical tasks such as cutting, indention and suturing. The proposed investigation is aimed at designing, making and testing synthetic advanced materials tailored to reproduce the mechanical response of different human organs and tissues (lung, brain, liver, skin, cartilage, etc.). Direct comparisons with experimental data on organic tissues and feedback from a number of experienced surgeons will be used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions during this research journey towards safer surgeries.

Mots clés : mechano mimicking, phantoms, tissues, new materials, polymers

Participants :
- Politecnico di Milano (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 244269.0 €
- Harvard University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
Projet MeNDD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Research on dementia discourse has shown how our attitudes, views and words have a positive or negative influence on the well-being of People Living With Dementia (PLWD). In 2013, Alzheimer Europe’s report underlined worrying ethical risks of metaphor use in dementia narratives, including stigmatisation, stereotyping and social exclusion. Yet we still do not have an adequate understanding of these potential risks and of the ethical responsibility needed when ‘metaphorical narratives’ (MNs), or metaphorical scenarios, are used in dementia discourse between scientists, journalists, caregivers and PLWD. This may increase risks of conflict and misunderstanding between these different social agents. It also hinders developing a responsible (i.e., respectful) use of MNs in dementia discourse, complying with the EU H2020 emphasis on Responsible Research and Innovation and healthy ageing. MeNDD develops an innovative interdisciplinary approach combining the experienced researcher’s historical-philosophical work on MNs in the biosciences across times and in responsible health communication with the supervisor’s new model of metaphor in discourse. It joins together a historical-epistemological approach, corpus research and informant analysis to build an innovative model of ‘social awareness of dementia MNs’. It shows how science, the media, professional caregivers and PLWD use two-major dementia MNs of ‘cognitive decline’ and ‘brain plasticity’ while balancing the potential risks and the ethical responsibility in differentiated, occasionally diverging ways. The model reveals the major patterns of social awareness of the two MNs in dementia discourse, highlighting potential risks of conflict and misunderstanding between the different groups. It is designed for utilisation in enhancing a responsible dementia discourse: it can be applied in health professionals’ training, in healthcare and in public campaigns to reduce risks of miscommunication in practice.

Mots clés : metaphor, narrative, dementia discourse, risk of misunderstanding, ethical responsibility, responsible language use, linguistics, discourse analysis, ethics, health communication, social health, aging

Participants :
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175572.48 €
Projet SENOXIA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Research over the last decade has convincingly evidenced that cellular senescence and low oxygen (O2) availability (hypoxia) are distinctive features involved in the physiopathology of age-related disorders including lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Cellular senescence is characterised by a permanent and irreversible cell cycle arrest and the acquisition of an intense senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Mounting evidence has shown that the SASP accounts for most of the detrimental effects of senescent cells accumulated in aged tissues. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that modulate the composition and intensity of the SASP is a fundamental biological question with significant translational implications in age-related disorders. Senescent cells accumulate in tissues where O2 is very limited. To live under these conditions, senescent cells must adapt to hypoxia via the stabilisation of hypoxia inducible transcription factor (HIF). I hypothesise that local hypoxia determines the composition and intensity of the SASP in age-related disorders, a concept that I will name hSASP. Given the intrinsic heterogeneity of the SASP across tissues, I will test this hypothesis in lung cancer and AD models where there is a concomitant accumulation of senescent cells in hypoxic areas. I will use a variety of genotoxic agents to induce cellular senescence in lung cancer and stromal cells as well as in murine primary astrocytes exposed to a decreasing range of O2 tensions. I will elucidate the role of hypoxia in regulating the composition and intensity of the hSASP and its paracrine effects on nearby cells. Finally, I will identify relevant hSASP factors and define their functional effects on lung cancer and microglial cells. Targeting specific hSASP factors may offer new therapeutic opportunities to attenuate the adverse effects of senescent cells accumulated in age-related disorders such as lung cancer or AD.

Mots clés : hypoxia, senescence, sasp, lung cancer, alzheimer s disease, ageing

Participants :
- Fundación Pública Andaluza para la Gestión de la Investigación en Salud de Sevilla (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 172932.48 €
Projet IMEP DCCP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP) is the most important reference tool for Middle English non-verse texts. It seeks, for the first time, to locate and identify all surviving English prose texts composed between c. 1200 and 1500. In this project I will aim at developing and testing an innovative digital search tool that will greatly facilitate accessing all entries across the different IMEP catalogues and make it possible to search for texts regardless of the wide range of spelling variation. The prototype of the digital search tool will be based on a draft of an IMEP volume for one of the most famous medieval manuscript collections in Britain: the Cotton collection in the British Library. I will, additionally, edit an IMEP volume for print publication. The proposed research action formulates three main objectives. These seek to improve the functionality of the IMEP website, to expand the site with the addition of the Cotton volume and to lay the foundation for expansion of the IMEP by writing guidelines for the digitisation of further volumes. Since I am trained in manuscript studies and Middle English as well as in Digital Humanities and compilation of corpora of historical texts, I possess the necessary expertise to undertake the research action. The action includes research trips to the British Library in London as well as a secondment at the Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH). The host is the University of Oslo where local expertise is available that is highly pertinent to the research action, including the editor-in-chief of the IMEP and an IMEP advisory board member with complementary expertise in both manuscript studies, Middle English, and natural language processing. The research action will both consolidate and expand my profile to qualify me for an assistant/associate professorship.

Mots clés : middleenglish

Participants :
- University of Oslo (Norvège) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 202158.72 €
Projet SILICON (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) will soon represent the main target application of ICs, involving thousands of autonomous devices forming a large communication network for the purpose of exchanging/processing information about the physical world. From a hardware standpoint, the RF wireless transceivers of IoT devices demand the highest possible energy efficiency and a small area to enable inexpensive large-scale integration. Since analog/RF building blocks must be integrated with the mainstream digital technology, new circuit topologies and techniques must be adopted. The time-mode signaling, recently exploited in all-digital PLLs, data converters (the so called time-mode or VCO-based ADCs), opamps and filters, allows the performance of “analog” circuits to improve with the technology scaling. The proposed research focuses on a novel architecture of time-mode ADC, attempting to mitigate the fundamental limitations of such class of converters (i.e. the highly nonlinear VCO) by exploiting advanced RF techniques, thus giving rise to a hybrid time/frequency-mode operation. Studies have shown that by injection-locking an oscillator to its own delayed resonating waveform (self-injection-locking, SIL), the oscillating frequency can be made reasonably linear versus only two well-controlled parameters (i.e. the amplitude and phase of the self-injected signal). The SIL technique will be exploited to achieve a known, predictable relationship between the oscillating frequency and a certain analog quantity (i.e. the input signal). Accordingly, the proposed research attempts to mathematically overcome, and not to compensate accordingly, the nonlinear characteristic of an oscillator. By adding a simple digital frequency detector, SILICON has potential to devise a new class of data converters, the SIL-ADCs. It will also provide the applicant with cutting edge training from academic & industry leaders in the field which will be implemented using a personalised career development plan.

Mots clés : analog to digital converter, oscillator, ring oscillator, lc oscillator, injection locking

Participants :
- National University of Ireland (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 175866.0 €
Projet IoT4Win (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The IoT4Win will establish a European Industrial Doctorates (EID) training program and extend the traditional academic research training setting, equipping researchers with right combination of research-related and transferable competences, joint research training programme combines an interdisciplinary expertise of European research group, industry partners and user organisations, bring together all required knowledge, skills, and stakeholders to offer a comprehensive set of transferable skills and a training programme on ICT, data science and water engineering, including industry practice and longer-term benefit in further industrial partner collaborations and further knowledge transfer. IoT4Win will respond to well defined and interdisciplinary scientific questions and challenges on IoTs for Smart Water Network (SWN) technological area cooperating to recruit 3 ESRs to undertake research in the context of a joint research training on concepts and methodologies of IoT enabled SWN towards the PhD. IoT4Win designs 3 individual and personalised research projects covering the core SWN research areas, i.e. smart sensing and trusted communication within energy limited heterogeneous devices in IoT enabled urban water environment; dynamic sensor web and interoperable open platform with Integrated Knowledge Management for smart water networks; data security and intelligence in IoT enabled SWN. The interdisciplinary collaborations and cross industrial interactions between ICT and water sector, will expose researchers to the academic, non-academic sectors. By combining three projects, an interoperable, secure and intelligent underlying technology leading to an open platform for IoT enabled SWN applications will be developed. This platform will then be applied to and evaluated in the real water scenarios with our end user industrial partner, leading to a specialised technology platform for SWN and a best-practice smart water network demonstrator.

Mots clés : internet of things, smart water networks, data intelligence and security, interoperability, semantic web, wireless sensor network, integrated data management

Participants :
- Birmingham City University (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 546575.76 €
- SingularLogic (Greece) (Roumanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- SingularLogic (Greece) (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 220490.07 €
Projet LT2016 (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The LT2016 Researchers’ Night projects for 2016 and 2017 will take place in major Lithuanian cities, i.e. Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai and Moletai, as well as in rural areas. The project aims to enhance public recognition of researchers and their work through bringing scientists and public closer to one another and thus increasing an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citizen's daily life as well as encouraging young people to choose careers in science and research. Both events will offer a broad range of varied activities addressing all categories of the public at large, regardless of age and scientific background, i.e. notably: Meetings and activities together with researchers; Lectures, discussions; Visits to open laboratories; Real life observations and experiments; European corners; Various contests, games, exhibitions, movie and online broadcast watching. All the activities planned will actively involve researchers and will offer a balanced combination of "serious" activities and funny ones to be attractive for the general public. Activities will be hosted in labs, lecture halls, meeting places, cafes, while in the rural areas they will take place in schools or public spaces. Some activities conducted in the main sites will be broadcasted online. Common concept for the Night in 2016 and 2017 will be Learning about Technology Futures. Therefore activities of Researchers’ Night projects in 2016 will be organised with focus on Virtual Reality thus building foundations for the Night in 2017 which will focus of "science futurity" or Futures of technologies. Both events will be finalised with the grand event unifying different fields - music, science and cinema. We expect at least 500.000 people made aware of the Researchers' Night and its objectives through the awareness campaign and 11.500 direct attendees to the various events planned in 2016 as well as in 2017.

Mots clés : activities with researcher, main cities and rural areas, science and society, research impact on daily life, public recognition of researchers

Participants :
- Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 6561.25 €
- Vilnius University (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 28378.75 €
- Institute of Social Innovations (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 8434.0 €
- Vytautas Magnus University (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 3858.75 €
- Lithuanian Institute of History (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 2567.5 €
- Kaunas University of Technology (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 14803.75 €
- Vytautas Magnus University (Lituanie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 8162.5 €
- Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology (Lituanie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 67639.25 €