Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet TRACES (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2018)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

TRACES is a nationally extensive project, aiming to foster visibility of multidisciplinary science and its results, as well as interaction and collaboration between the public and researchers in Finland. The ultimate aim is to enhance involvement and evidence-based impact of research in the society in order to improve our everyday life in a rapidly changing world. Grounded on successful earlier nation-wide NIGHT-collaboration in 2016-2017, this project brings together several universities, research institutes, research funding agencies, and expert organisations for science communication. It spans many facets of research and covers numerous individual researchers with diverse backgrounds and research topics. We will deliver a message of cutting edThe project aims to foster collaboration between the public and researchers in Finland in order to improve our everyday life in a rapidly changing world. This project brings together several universities, research institutes and expert organisations for science communication. It spans many facets of research in Finland and covers numerous individual researchers with diverse backgrounds and research topics. We will deliver a message of cutting edge research conducted in Finland and introduce the general public with the large number of researchers and the significant work they perform. We want to break stereotypes the general public may have on researchers. The programme for activities during the night will include content for everyone, from children to seniors. However, the specific aim is to promote research careers especially to high school and university students, and young people in general who are about to make their first real career choice. Our message is that high education is fun and could provide them with a secured future. Many Finnish universities and organisations have united for a widespread European Researchers’ Night and will simultaneously perform activities targeted for the general public around the country.

Mots clés : research in finland, science communication, traces, multidisciplinary, national, science, arts

Participants :
- University of Oulu (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 28000.0 €
- Tampere University (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 57500.0 €
- University of Jyväskylä (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 110000.0 €
- University of Eastern Finland (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 48750.0 €
- University of Helsinki (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 20125.0 €
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 45600.0 €
Projet TRACKWAY (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

TRACKWAY aims at training the next generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative researchers combining projects at the frontline of the research in functional dispersed polymers with interdisciplinary training in transferable and specialized skills. Based on the synergetic collaboration between BASF, a leading industry in dispersed polymers and University of the Basque Country, a reputed academic institution in the field, the research programme faces the challenge of innovation aiming at creating new waterborne dispersed polymers with new functionalities and lower environmental impact. In particular, it aims at developing intrinsically autonomous self-healing coatings, waterborne adhesives with controlled temperature responsiveness, and non-leaching exterior coatings that will avoid the long-term environmental concern caused by the leaching of surfactants from roofs and facades. The research program is complemented with training in basic and industrially-relevant transferable skills and with exposure of the young researchers to different environments and ways of thinking beyond the consortium. The young researchers trained in this interdisciplinary and intersectorial programme will be able to face the challenge of converting knowledge into useful, marketable and sustainable products, which will make them highly valuable by the large EU industry in this field as well as for many other industrial sectors and academia.

Mots clés : waterborne polymers, self healing coatings, temperature sensitive adhesives, alkali soluble resins, controlled radical polymerization

Participants :
- BASF (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 378324.72 €
- University of the Basque Country (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 376309.44 €
Projet Train2Wind (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

TRAIN2WIND is a PhD TRAINing school analysing enTRAINment in offshore WIND farms with computer models and experiments. By its very nature, a wind turbine extracts energy from the wind, which is replenished from the wind field on the sides and above due to the ambient turbulence. However, offshore the turbulence is lower, and wind farms are typically larger than onshore, therefore the wind can only be replenished from above in a process called entrainment. TRAIN2WIND will investigate the entrainment process using advanced high-resolution computer modelling and wind tunnel models together with measurements of the wind field above, in and downstream of large wind farms, using lidars, radars, satellites and Unmanned Aerial Systems. Some of the largest operators of offshore wind farms will provide access to the data and the wind farms in order to investigate whether there is a limit to offshore wind power installation density coming from the refreshment of momentum in very large wind farms or clusters. For them, and for the government agencies currently preparing the Marine Spatial Plan for the European waters, updated knowledge of entrainment and the associated potential limits to wind power extraction offshore is paramount to avoid mis-allocation of tens of billions of euros when planning offshore wind farms too dense or too close. Besides the natural science package, one humanities PhD student will investigate the collaboration between the researchers from a social science and collaboration tools perspective. The project will not only train PhDs, it will also give shorter opportunities to fellows who just want to commit to one year at a time, thus training a total of 20 fellows.

Mots clés : entrainment, offshore wind power, wind power, wind energy, wind farm, atmospheric boundary, layer, wakes, lidar, drones, rpas

Participants :
- University of Tübingen (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 969022.2 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 750071.04 €
- University of Bergen (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 828303.24 €
- Technical University of Denmark (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1388436.0 €
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 297522.0 €
Projet TRANSECT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

TRANSECT is a research project aiming to explore how the cultural and religious pluralism of the Maghreb is represented in the contemporary Maghrebi novel in Arabic and disseminated globally by means of the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (IPAF). The definition of Maghreb adopted by TRANSECT is a restricted one, only including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, the three States which were encompassed by the French colonial project. TRANSECT aims to explore the ways in which the national and regional identity of the Maghrebi countries has been re-constructed into multi-faceted paradigms, codes and modes of literary production. The scope of the research has been narrowed to a coherent and homogeneous corpus of selected novels drawn from the longlists of the IPAF from 2009 to 2020. The common thread of interest among these novels is both geographic and thematic, since they are all centred around the themes of inter- and intra-religious dialogue, peaceful coexistence and pluralism in the Maghreb. TRANSECT addresses two clusters of questions: 1) Which idea of the Maghreb is shaped by the novels longlisted at IPAF and sold by Abu Dhabi? How is this “Maghreb pluriel” appropriated and marketed by the Emirati cultural policymakers? Which purposes of cultural diplomacy does it serve? 2) To what extent and how do these novels address national issues before aspiring to become pieces of World literature? How do they contribute to reposition the image of the Maghreb within the Arab region? How does this literature dialogue with national reconciliation processes, contributing to cultural peacebuilding through the construction of a non-exclusionary national identity?

Mots clés : maghreb, arabic novel, book prizes, postcolonialism, pluralism, religion, intellectual history, diversity, nationalism, gulf, united arab emirates, morocco, tunisia, algeria, pacific coexistence

Participants :
- International University of Rabat (Maroc) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Sapienza University of Rome (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 223245.12 €
Projet TY2020 (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

TY2020 is a nationally extensive project, aiming to foster visibility of multidisciplinary science and its results, as well as interaction and collaboration between the public and researchers in Finland. The ultimate aim is to enhance involvement and evidence-based impact of research in the society in order to improve our everyday life in a rapidly changing world. Grounded on successful earlier nation-wide NIGHT-collaborations in 2016-2019, this project brings together several universities, research institutes, research funding agencies, and expert organisations for science communication. It spans many facets of research and covers numerous individual researchers with diverse backgrounds and research topics. We will deliver a message of cutting edge research conducted in Finland and introduce the general public with the large number of researchers and the significant work they perform. We want to break stereotypes the general public may have on researchers. The programme for activities during the night will include content for everyone, from children to seniors. However, the specific aim is to promote research careers especially to high school and university students, and young people in general who are about to make their first real career choice. Our message is that high education is fun and could provide them with a secured future. Many Finnish universities and organisations have united for a widespread European Researchers’ Night and will simultaneously perform activities targeted for the general public around the country.

Mots clés : research in finland, science communication, tutkijoiden y, multidisciplinary, national, science, arts

Participants :
- University of Jyväskylä (Finlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 129000.0 €
Projet 3D-SITS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Tactile sensors are essential components that enable robotic systems to interact safely and effectively with humans and the environment, they also offer significant potential for use in modern healthcare systems. Compared to visual and auditory senses, the tactile sensory system provided by human skin are complex, combining large number of high performance, multi-modal sensory elements in soft 3D structures to extract information during interaction with objects. To be effectively applied in real-world environments, tactile sensors must have both high compliance and high performance, and also need to be durable and robust to the repeated physical interaction. Researchers seeking innovations in tactile sensing have explored and exploited new materials, novel composites/structures, fabrication techniques and transducer mechanisms. Although remarkable progress has been made in developing 2D flexible sensing skins, a third dimension in soft sensing technology should be investigated to emulate multimodal, highly sensitive receptors, and ultimately the human sense of touch. This action involves an experienced researcher, Dr Hongbo Wang, under the supervision of Dr Lucia Beccai for 24 months to work on the project “3D Stretchable Inductive Tactile Sensors for Soft Artificial Touch” (3D-SITS), at the Center for Micro-BioRobotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Italy. In this project, I propose to use elastomers with embedded helical coils and zig-zag planar coils to form multi-modal, stretchable sensing nodes. By investigating this overlooked transducer mechanism, together with novel design and fabrication techniques, that allow us to build truly soft, durable, high-performance, distributed, 3D tactile sensing systems at component level (artificial receptors) and then system level (soft robotics and wearable skin), providing a leap forward in the area of artificial touch for the next generation of robots, wearable systems and human–machine interfaces.

Mots clés : soft tactile sensing, inductive coils, bio inspired design, soft robotics

Participants :
- Italian Institute of Technology (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 180277.2 €
Projet PODI (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Taking as its point of departure the adoption of the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities the fellowship – Realizing the political rights of persons with disabilities (PODI) – examines under which conditions disabled people’s organisations are most likely to achieve voice and influence on decision-making processes of importance for their own lives and for society as a whole. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires state parties, and the EU, to ‘closely consult with and actively involve persons with disabilities’, notably ‘through their representative organizations’. Enhancement of opportunities for disabled people’s organisations to fully participate in policy process will assist the EU in furthering its wider ambitions to engage civil society, and to fulfil its international treaty obligations to the UN on disability rights. The fellowship –will produce new knowledge to help make this a reality. It will launch the first cross-national and multilevel study of disability movements in Europe, beginning with in-depth data from four European countries (Germany, Italy, Norway and UK), and from EU and UN institutions. PODI will collect and analyse data on individual and organisational level as well as at national, EU and international level. PODI will identify implementation facilitators and barriers and make proposals for indicators to aid the EU and the Member States in monitoring their fulfilment of the UNCRPD (Articles 4.3, 29 & 33). A European centre of excellence (the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK) will collaborate with an experienced researcher (Dr Rune Halvorsen, Norway) and civil society organisations of persons with disabilities (via the European Disability Forum) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

Mots clés : citizenship, disability, social movement, political participation, globalization

Participants :
- University of Leeds (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 97727.4 €
Projet GREEN NIGHT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Taking its name from the European Green Deal, GREEN NIGHT stands on the main pillars and policy areas of the strategy with a general outlook on how science can support the aims and targets set out for Europe?s near future. The current global climate emergency urges an immediate and large-scale response from the countries. For the first time, climate change and environmental issues are seen to have migrated to the center of global policymaking. As a result, GREEN NIGHT highlights the importance of raising awareness of the general public, especially young people, on the necessity of the green transformation for the future of our planet. GREEN NIGHT acknowledges that it is essential to protect and restore natural ecosystems for sustainability. Doing so, GREEN NIGHT will focus on main action areas of energy, food, waste, and transportation, and demonstrate the leading role that sciences have in how to achieve this transformation. GREEN NIGHT project brings together four of the ten higher education institutions in Izmir, Turkey as well as the provincial directorate of national education. The consortium represents the scientific research ecosystem and educational management in ?zmir. The HEIs cooperate in local, national and international research projects, joint social responsibility campaign and activities all of which create strong institutional linkages between HEI partners. IZMEM, being the highest local public body responsible for the coordination of educational activities in preprimary, primary and secondary level in ?zmir, brings the public educational expertise into the project. The night activities will be carried out in four campuses around the city, each with its general theme selected from the main topics. Scientists and researchers from a wide range of disciplines will be able to create workshops, seminars, demonstrations, hands-on experiments, games, competitions, shows, or simulations.

Mots clés : science, msca, green energy, waste management, green deal

Participants :
- Izmir il milli egitim mudurlugu (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 13750.0 €
- Ege University (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 30625.0 €
- Izmir Institute of Technology (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 23500.0 €
- Izmir Kâtip Çelebi University (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 32625.0 €
- Yaşar University (Turquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 36875.0 €
Projet TANYFEEDNEURONS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Tanycytes are specialized hypothalamic glial cells located at the interface between blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain areas that control food intake. Little is known about their physiological roles. Recent studies indicate that tanycytes sense the extracellular glucose, release the intercellular messenger adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and the energy metabolite lactate, both of which can potentially modulate neuronal activity. Tanycytes also transport the blood-borne anorexigenic peptide leptin from the blood to the CSF and brain parenchyma. Understanding how this glia may be able to interact with neurons from the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARH) that control food intake is critical to identify new cellular targets for the development of therapeutic strategies for treating metabolic disorders. Therefore, the series of experiments presented in the proposal are designed to determine how tanycytes may influence electrical activity of ARH neurons. More specifically, the project is based on answering the following questions: i) Does purinergic signaling in tanycytes modulate activity of ARH neurons? ii) Do tanycytes interact with ARH neurons through a metabolic network? iii) How do tanycytes redistribute captured leptin towards ARH neurons? Towards this end, I will use electrophysiological techniques in acute mouse brain slices and newly-developed genetic tools that allow selective manipulations of tanycyte signaling. Additionally, I propose to investigate how changes in metabolic status (e.g. obesity) may influence tanycyte-ARH neuron communication, providing new insights into functional mechanisms contributing to metabolic disorders. The TANYFEEDNEURONS project will provide direct evidence for tanycyte-neuron communication in the context of energy homeostasis and will identify tanycytes as potential therapy for metabolic disorders, which are age-related diseases and lead cause of death in Europe.

Mots clés : energy homeostasis, arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus, tanycytes, gliotransmission, connexin 43 hemichannel, gap junctions, metabolic coupling, glucose, lactate, leptin, obesity

Participants :
- Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 185076.0 €
Projet InnovaTron (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Tc99m is the most widely used isotope in nuclear medicine. Production is almost exclusively done with a few ageing research reactors worldwide. Recent shutdowns of some those reactors have resulted in a worldwide Tc99m shortage. Europe is affected, because it is the second largest consumer of Tc99m worldwide. In response to growing concerns about Tc99m availability and the increasing demand in medicine, alternative production routes are being explored in the community. Direct production by proton cyclotrons looks the most promising solution. Cyclotrons offer several advantages, one of them being the possibility for local production, as is done for other commonly used medical isotopes. Large-scale production of Tc99m requires high proton beam intensities. InnovaTron focuses on a cutting-edge research project in accelerator design. The key challenge is the design of an innovative compact high-intensity cyclotron, named ‘self-extracting cyclotron’. In this machine, the proton beams exit without using an extraction device. Such devices usually prevent the extraction of high beam currents as would be needed for Tc99m production. A prototype machine was built by the company IBA around the year 2000. Self-extraction was successfully proven by extracting a current close to 2 mA. However, rather poor beam quality was observed resulting in too high machine activation and a maximum extraction efficiency not larger than 80%. This was encouraging but not yet good enough for industrial applications. InnovaTron will improve the magnet design and the beam-optics of the self-extracting cyclotron based on new technological solutions. It will be realized using high-level computer-aided design and beam physics studies. Key goals are: i) high currents up to 10 mA or more, ii) extraction efficiency higher than 95%, iii) beam quality at least a factor three better than the prototype. This cyclotron will allow production of high quantities of Tc99m and other frontier medical isotopes.

Mots clés : cyclotron, tc 99m, technetium, high intensity, self extraction, beam dynamics, simulation, extraction, design study, proton beam, radio isotopes, isotope production, space charge, magnet

Participants :
- Ion Beam Applications (Belgium) (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 166320.0 €