Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet PhoLED (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The PhoLED project seeks to largely surpass the optical performance of state-of-the-art light emitters devised for illumination applications and contribute to solve some of the main technical limitations that the current technology presents. This project aims at integrating novel optical nanostructures and emitters, such as colloidal quantum dots or nanophosphors, to yield the next generation of light-emitting devices in which full spectral and angular control over the emission properties will be possible. The approach focuses on the development of: i) new synthetic routes to achieve efficient nanophosphors, and ii) preparation and processing strategies, based on surface textures and colloidal scatterers, to attain large area optical nanostructures possessing photonic properties that will allow a precise control on the intensity, angular distribution and color quality of light emission. Results achieved within this project will provide significant advance both in the comprehension of fundamental phenomena as well as in the development of versatile solid-state lighting devices of optimized efficiency, aiming to overcome technical barriers and maximize performance. The project’s outcome is twofold: a substantial expansion of the preparation of optical nanostructures to control light-mater interaction, and the practical realization of nanostructured light-emitting devices with unprecedented properties.

Mots clés : optical materials, photonics, nanostructures, phosphors, leds, solid state lighting

Participants :
- Spanish National Research Council (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 158121.6 €
Projet PhotoFluo (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The PhotoFluo project consists in a consortium of three teams (two from Europe and one from Canada) committed to work for developing novel fluoropolymers suitable for optical and electronic devices, membranes for fuel cells and Li batteries, microfluidics, and biomaterials. This ambitious goal will be achieved starting from designing new perfluoropolyalkylether building blocks (PFPAE) improving safety (not bioaccumulative like perfluoroalkylics) and having chemical inertness, flexibility in a wide temperature range, very low refractive index and wettability. PFPAE will be chain extended to tune final properties; exploiting OH functionalities, these precursors will be functionalized to make telechelic macromonomers for suitable crosslinking (via both radical and ionic processes). The polymers will be synthesized by photoinduced polymerization, chosen as an efficient and eco-friendly process: the polymer formation is fast (no more than minutes compared to hours requested by thermal processes), is solvent free, is carried out at room temperature consuming low amount of energy, permits spatial resolution, as it mainly occurs in the illuminated areas. After obtaining an original portfolio of PFPAE polymers, they will be fully characterized and tested in view of innovate applications. The project is conducted by research groups with a relevant scientific record in the fields: (i) fluorochemistry (TWU, Canada), (ii) photopolymerization (iii) polymer science (POLITO, Italy and ENSCM, France). The combination of expertises makes the objective feasible. For the implementation of the program, 24 secondments are planned to exploit the complementarities of the different expertises of each groups, to share them and to reinforce young researchers career. The project includes a strong dissemination plan to report on the results, not only to the scientific community, but also to potential users and non-specialized audience.

Mots clés : perfluoropolyalkylether, fluorinated monomers, fluoropolymers, photopolymerisation, polymer characterisation

Participants :
- Trinity Western University (Canada) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Polytechnic University of Turin (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 81000.0 €
- École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 58500.0 €
Projet PlantIMS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The Plant Hormones (PHs) influence the plant growth, seed germination, fruit maturation, and fruit ripening, hence they play significant roles in the production of food crops. The detection of PHs is thus of great importance for the plant physiology studies and for research and applications in agriculture. The conventional PHs detection techniques employ mainly high-performance liquid and gas chromatography (HPLC, GC) and their combination with mass spectrometry. These techniques are reliable and sensitive; however, time demanding and require complex sample preparation methods. The Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) has the potential to be developed as a fast and sensitive detection method for PHs. The objective of this project is to apply the IMS technique for PHs detection. Within the project, we plan to optimize operation parameters of IMS to improve the sensitivity and selectivity, and also to develop suitable sampling methods and methodology for detection of the PHs from plants and for online monitoring. The host institution (HI) offers an excellent multidisciplinary research environment and enables the fellow access to their unique experimental techniques in the field of IMS instrumentation including IMS-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (IMS-TOFMS). In addition, HI will provide expertise in the field of ion chemistry, plasma physics, access to available analytical methods, and interdisciplinary collaboration in the field of plant physiology. The fellow will contribute with her unique experience in the application of IMS in analytical sciences, to develop the sampling methods and methodology of IMS measurements of PHs. The project will boost the fellow’s research skills, enables her to gain experience in interdisciplinary research, and start an independent researcher career.

Mots clés : ion mobility spectrometry, atmospheric pressure ionisation, gc ims, sampling, detection, plant hormones, real samples, online monitoring

Participants :
- Comenius University Bratislava (Slovaquie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 155364.48 €
Projet RAMOBRIS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The RAMOBRIS project aims to develop a novel and multidisciplinary strategy for evaluating the risk of critical bridges against scour, combining hydrological/hydraulic and scour information deriving from both measurements and forecasting, and structural vulnerability assessments. Although scour is the leading cause of bridge failures in Europe and the rest of the world, current practices for bridge scour risk management are quite inefficient, being often based on expensive, potentially inaccurate, and time-consuming visual inspections. Moreover, current procedures do not allow an explicit quantification of the expected direct and indirect losses due to the occurrence of floods. The proposed project aims at overcoming the limitations of current procedures through a novel and multidisciplinary approach exploiting the experience of the fellow in hydraulic monitoring and analysis, with the one of the host and partner organisations in structural health monitoring, structural analysis, risk assessment, flood forecasting and scour analysis. The objectives of RAMOBRIS will be [1] to critically review monitoring techniques available for assessing bridge scour risk; [2] to define a cost-effective monitoring strategy for forecasting and measuring river flow, bridge scour, and bridge-performance; [3] to define an innovative probabilistic framework for real-time scour risk monitoring, using a Bayesian approach to combine the information from heterogeneous monitoring and forecasting systems; [4] to provide a framework for bridge vulnerability assessment based on nonlinear structural analysis under different hydraulic loads and for different bridge typologies, and to estimate current and future risk of bridge collapse due to scour, taking into account climate change effects. The research achievements will significantly contribute to the objectives of the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection and to achievement of a resource efficient economy and society.

Mots clés : bridge scour, structural health monitoring, risk assessment, vulnerability analysis, flood forecasting

Participants :
- University of Strathclyde (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 212933.76 €
Projet REFIND (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2017)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The REFIND project aims to create a standardized methodology for large-scale palaeontological surveys. The protocol will be applied to the recovery of single exposed fossils, by comparing high-resolution multispectral images with the response of fossils to laboratory-light wavelengths. Where fossils cannot be directly detectable, my method applies the use of GIS spatial analyses to the palaeogeographical distribution of species, filtered with biotic and abiotic data, to recognize suitable areas for new fossil localities. Images will be acquired by multispectral sensors placed on satellites and drones, and predictions will be computed using softwares for spatial raster analyses. Results will consist of thematic maps predicting the location of new exposed fossils and sites, and coordinates will be partially verified through field expeditions. The proposed software tools are available to the large public only since recent years, and their application is now crucially important for preventing the destruction of undiscovered palaeontological heritage by humans and climate changes. The REFIND project will allow researchers to minimize costs and risks related to field research, and to access the first Fossil Endmember Library and to the largest database for Late Pleistocene fossil evidence. The implementation of my results will change the approach of European researchers to palaeontological field work and add to the importance of the European historical fossil collections. I have previous experience in both fields developed in the REFIND project, being developed in the project, allowing me to achieve of all the proposed results. The acquisition of new skills during the fellowship will significantly upgrade my career potential, because multispectral and raster analyses, cutting-edge studies in Europe, have never been applied to palaeontology for such innovative goals. For the same reason, high interest is expected from the research community.

Mots clés : multispectral analyses, paleofauna mapping, giscience, database managing, fossil recovery

Participants :
- University of Oregon (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 262269.0 €
Projet RecRoad (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The RecRoad project aims to reconstruct the Roman road going from Aquileia, in the north-east of Italy, to Singidunum, on the Danube river. This was one of the main road axes of the Empire and it connected the Venetian area with the Pannonia Superior and the Danubian limes: the road was longer than 450 miles, passing through the Alps, it ran along the river Sava, crossing its course several times. The road's general layout can be followed in the itinerary sources but an attempt to accurately reconstruct the course of the road on the ground has never been tried before and may greatly improve our knowledge of the evolution of the territories that it crossed over the time. After an in-depth study of the original itinerary of the road, the project aims also at the analysis of the consequences of its construction on the landscape from different point of view (culture, settlement dynamics, religion, trade, …), so that better comprehension of the territorial and cultural connections, will be possible. To reach these goals, the project will consider and use all the sources and the new technologies avalaible to archaeologists, in a multi-disciplinary approach. All the collected and generated information will be geo-referenced and published in an online Atlas. The main output of the project will be an interactive atlas available online, where it will be possible to visualize the reconstructed route in its geographical context, the reliability degree of the individual segments and the sources that were identified with reference to the single stretch of the road to which they pertain. In addition, new strategies and initiatives for the protection and knowledge dissemination will be developed. For the first time, all the sources today avalaible to archaeologists will be used to identify the original track of a Roman road and to study the importance of the consequences that its presence had on the territory and on the way ancient people conceived the landscape where they lived.

Mots clés : roman archaeology, landscape archaeology, ancient route, remote sensing, ancient, landscape, danube, upper moesia, webmapping, geomatics, roman road, aquileia, singidunum

Participants :
- Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 185076.0 €
Projet SUBUN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Researcher AK Puszko will be in charge of the development of peptidase inhibitors with potential interest in the treatment of Malaria. Malaria is the most important human parasitic disease and multi-resistant parasites seriously threaten its treatment and control. The situation strengthens the constant need to fuel the antimalarials pipeline with candidates active on new targets, expressed at essential stages of Plasmodium. The egress of merozoites from infected host cells is such a pivotal step that strictly depends upon parasite proteases, including a novel highly promising target, the Plasmodium-specific subtilisin SUB1, for which no useful inhibitor has been discovered yet. SUB1 plays a key role in the egress from hepatocytes and erythrocytes, including for male gametes (involved in parasite’s transmission via the Anopheles vector), indicating that an inhibitor would have both prophylactic and therapeutic value and obey to most severe WHO’s criteria of future anti-malarials, i.e. targeting all stages of parasite life cycle. Based on Hosts’ promising results, including the resolution of crystallographic structures of SUB1-inhibitor complexes, the SUBUN project aims at identifying highly potent and selective SUB1 inhibitors, active against parasite growth in vitro and in vivo. Such innovative pre-lead candidate(s) will be patented before results dissemination within academia, industry and to wider audience. This project will combine expertise in molecular design, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, structural biology and parasitology. In this multidisciplinary context, the project will benefit AK Puszko who will gain extensive knowledge in new fields well established in the Host and secondment Host laboratories. This, together with scientific and transferable trainings, opportunities to develop network, communication to non-scientific audience, will strengthen her ability to become a leader in the new topic and establish her own research group in the future.

Mots clés : plasmodium, peptidase inhibitor, peptidomimetics, subtilisin, malaria

Participants :
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 196707.84 €
Projet RIFP (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The Rutherford International Fellowship Programme (RIFP) will be a new, high-quality Post-Doctoral scheme aimed at research excellence and promoting researcher mobility and training. The Programme will be open to applications across a very diverse range of science areas, spanning the world-class expertise of facilities and departments run by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), the Daresbury Laboratory (DL) and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC). Included will be the ISIS neutron and muon source, Diamond Light Source, RAL Space, RAL Particle Physics, the Central Laser Facility, Accelerator Science and Technology, Scientific Computing and STFC Technology Department. The Fellowships will be a unique opportunity for researchers to work within high quality interdisciplinary science campuses. RAL/DL/UKATC provide excellent environments for post-doctoral researchers: they have a wide variety of facilities and equipment for researcher use, experienced science staff to support Fellows' research, and are visited by many thousands of researchers every year who use the central facilities, ideal for networking and collaboration. The Programme will support 36 2-year Fellows over its 5-year term. There will be three, annual calls for proposals, widely publicised to attract the highest quality researchers. Fellowships will aim for scientific excellence, with consideration also for interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral activity. Fellows will be supervised by experienced STFC and Diamond researchers, who will be concerned not just with their scientific progress but with their wider training and development. STFC provides excellent working and employment conditions which researchers will benefit from. STFC departments will gain high-quality international researchers working within them. Because this is a new Programme it is expected to have high impact for the Fellows themselves and their host department.

Mots clés : neutrons, muons, x rays, synchrotrons, physics, chemistry, engineering, bioscience, accelerators, proteins, geology, archaeometry, space science, particle physics, astronomy, technology

Participants :
- Diamond Light Source (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, organization partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- UK Research and Innovation (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 2548800.0 €
Projet SASPAT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The SASPAT project presents two main goals: (a) to train the talented young researcher Dr. Jose M. Porro, in the attractive growing field of Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (MSMAs), where the host and partner institutions have developed their expertise and knowledge; and (b) the design, development and optimisation of smart patterned MSMA surfaces for applications in industrial sectors such as microfluidics and optical microswitching. The aim of the project is to exploit the effect of the martensitic transformation on the patterned MSMAs to fabricate tunable smart surfaces. The training program includes learning the processes for growing single crystals and epitaxial thin films made of MSMAs, the patterning of the surfaces using top-down and bottom-up lithography techniques, and the structural and magnetic characterization of the patterned surfaces to explore and optimize their optical response and wettability upon the application of the corresponding stimulus. During his short research career, the fellow has gained expertise in the field of nanomagnetism and patterned magnetic nanostructures, acquiring hands-on experience with several lithography techniques and both structural and magnetic characterization techniques. Nonetheless, to further boost his career, the fellow needs to broaden his knowledge in the field of magnetism, and within this project he will be able to acquire expertise in the field of MSMAs, as well as to complement the already known characterization techniques with new ones present at the BCMaterials and the partner institutions. Furthermore, the fellow will gain additional high-level training through two three-month secondments at the IMEM-CNR research institute in Parma, Italy, and at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, an industry-oriented teaching institution. This project will also increase his supervision experience, project and intellectual property management expertise, and research funding and proposal writing skills.

Mots clés : magnetic shape memory alloys, martensitic phase transformation, smart surfaces, nanopatterning

Participants :
- Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 158121.6 €
Projet SHARPER (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : European Researchers' Night
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The SHARPER project (Sharing Researchers’ Passion for Excellence and Results - The European Researchers’ Night in the Centre of Italy, 2014 – 2015) wants to make the researchers’ quest for excellence accessible to everybody in cities and communities where researchers act and live. Excellence is one of the main goal that researchers aim at through high level research projects that can generate innovative results. Enthusiasm, emotions and knowledge are the driving force leading researchers constantly to face new challenges. Making this process accessible means to share with people this quest for innovative results. SHARPER will take place on 26th of September 2014 and the 25th of September 2015 simultaneously in Perugia, Ancona and L’Aquila, the capital cities of three regions in the centre of Italy: Umbria, Marche and Abruzzo. The network of cities together with their Research Institutions and science communication teams provides a group of excellence at national and international level. Perugia combines its tradition as University city with the presence in the city of a fifteen years experienced team (Psiquadro) of science communicators with a European profile. In L’Aquila, The Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, the University and the GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute) provide examples of world leading researchers teams. The Università Politecnica of Ancona is a growing Institution in the field of technological applications of research. SHARPER will include: street labs, exhibitions, performances or other communication actions in venues plenty of symbolic and practical value for the future development of the cities and their future based on excellence and innovation. The SHARPER communication actions will engage students, family groups and citizens actively involved since the planning phase of the project. At least 20.000 visitors are expected in the three cities each year during the Night.

Mots clés : excellence passion emotion enthusiasm night knowledge accessibility cities fun young engagement sharing innovation italy future workshop games show street public challenge carousel social researchers

Participants :
- Observa Science in Society (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 29081.0 €
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 56063.0 €
- University of Perugia (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 34688.0 €
- Psiquadro societa' cooperativa - impresa sociale (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 95280.0 €
- Marche Polytechnic University (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 33938.0 €