Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-actions-marie-curie-participations-et-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Projet CAD WALK (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Dynamic plantar pressure imaging (PPI) refers to the measuring, across time, of pressure fields between the foot and the ground. PPI is used, in part, to diagnose foot problems such as metatarsalgia and plantar fasciitis. Despite the widespread clinical use of PPI, its diagnostic potential has not been fully exploited. PPI creates large and dynamic datasets that cannot be easily analysed and interpreted by the human brain. As a result, PPI images are subsampled before being clinically examined, which discards potentially valuable information. The objective for this action is to improve the diagnostic value of PPI through the introduction of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system called CAD WALK. Using concepts from my previous CAD research (STEAM), CAD WALK will build a statistical model of PPI images from a healthy population. To test a new patient, their PPI image will be aligned to the model and compared to that healthy population using statistical tests. Outliers from these statistical tests will then be highlighted to help guide a clinician’s examination of the full PPI image. As a novel addition, metric learning will be introduced to create a statistical model that is more specific to the test subject. A key goal of this action is the deployment of CAD WALK as a supported software product. To do so, we propose a Triple ‘i’ (international, intersectoral, interdisciplinary) initiative that partners me with industry (rs scan®) and clinical end users (Sint Maartenskliniek, NL) to translate my CAD research into practical use. Through this process, and a secondment with industry partner rs scan®, I expect to deepen my knowledge of industrial product development (i.e. intellectual property rights, industry regulations, customer constraints) and improve my management skills. By addressing these two gaps in my career experience, I expect to move one step closer to fulfilling my ambition of leading my own research translation lab.

Mots clés : voxel based analysis, kernel regression, atlas construction, statistical testing, medical imaging

Participants :
- University of Antwerp (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 160800.0 €
Projet DISCOSH (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Dynamically crosslinked polymer materials (DPMs) have tremendous potential in the development of the next generation of smart functional materials. The presence of dynamic or reversible bonds in the system allows DPMs to display a significant number of beneficial properties such as self-healing, (re)processability, and shape-memory which will enable an extended lifetime, with reduced replacement costs, and improved performance against mechanical challenges. Recently, substantial interest has been developed to improve the properties of DPMs through various dynamic chemistries and structural features of polymers. Similarly, dispersity, molecular weight distributions (MWDs), and monomer sequences play a vital role in governing material properties and functions. However, there is a requirement for a deeper understanding of how the dispersity, MWD, and monomer sequence impact the properties of DPMs. Project DISCOSH is anticipated to study the missing link between MW of dynamic polymers to their thermomechanical properties. The dispersities, MWDs, and monomer sequences of the underlying co-polymer will be tuned to understand the structure-property relationship of DPMs for their thermomechanical properties, self-healing behavior, and degradability of the DPMs. The multidisciplinary nature of the project involves merging one of the top ten emerging technologies in polymer chemistry (controlling polymer dispersity through living polymerization) with the advances in material properties. The fellow’s expertise in material synthesis, characterization techniques, and polymer degradation will be combined with the host’s advanced skills in the sequenced and dispersity controlled polymerization to obtain a deeper and essential understanding of the importance of the dispersity and sequence-controlled polymerization to achieve beneficial dynamic properties for next-generation materials.

Mots clés : dispersity and sequence controlled polymerization, dynamically crosslinked materials, and thermomechanical properties

Participants :
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 191149.44 €
Projet CCKinPFC (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) contributes to cognitive deficits that represent the primary cause of disability associated with schizophrenia. However, currently available antipsychotic medications are only minimally effective for cognitive symptoms, demonstrating the need for better therapeutic targets. Treatments for cognitive deficits in schizophrenia remain underdeveloped in large part because the relevant physiological mechanisms remain unclear. A major hypothesis is that in schizophrenia, GABAergic interneuron abnormalities, notably fast-spiking interneurons that express parvalbumin (PV) and generate gamma oscillations, disrupt PFC-dependent cognition in schizophrenia. PV interneurons are critical for synchronization of neural activity, but exactly how these oscillations are regulated remain unknown. Perisomatic inhibition from cholecystokinin (CCK) interneurons can alter properties of PV networks by regulating the likelihood to generate oscillations or to affect the frequency, duration, synchrony, spatial extent, or other properties of these oscillations. Yet their role in PFC is elusive and surprisingly little is known about their functional role in the emergence of gamma activity and cognition despite their structural control over their postsynaptic partners. My research plan has two aims: to characterize the circuit-specific activity dynamics of CCK interneurons in 1) PFC gamma oscillations and 2) cognition. I will use a multidisciplinary approach, combining in vitro and in vivo physiology, viral and transgenics strategies, pharmacology, fiber photometry, 2-photon imaging, and optogenetics to provide a more specific mechanistic framework for therapeutic intervention. I hypothesize that CCK interneurons significantly control the perisomatic region of pyramidal as well as PV neurons, thus contributing to the spiking properties that underlie gamma oscillations and ultimately, cognition.

Mots clés : gamma, cholecystokinin, prefrontal cortex, interneurons, cognitive flexibility, schizophrenia

Participants :
- Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 196707.84 €
Projet DysTrack (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

Dyslexia is a developmental disorder leading to reading difficulties. It affects 5–12 % of children and young adults. Unfortunately, we still lack efficient and cost effective methods to identify and remedy this disorder. Dyslexia appears to be frequently linked to hindered phonological processing at the cortical level, with drastic consequences in the presence of noise. The overarching goal of this project is to better understand cortical speech processing in the presence of noise, in order to provide novel identification and remediation methods for dyslexia. Magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography studies have uncovered the phenomenon of brain-speech tracking, that is, the tracking of continuous speech sounds by cortical activity. This tracking is suggested to reflect speech sound chunking and parsing mechanisms, and is altered in dyslexic readers. Importantly, it can be used to evaluate brain capacity to track a sound stream of interest in the presence of noise. Given that individuals’ capabilities to discriminate speech in noisy conditions improve until age ~12, we propose, as a first step, to characterize brain-speech tracking in the presence of noise 1) across the normal development and 2) in children with dyslexia. To modulate task difficulty, we will use several types of noise (from white noise to babble), with or without visual information of the speaker’s lip movements. We will then attempt to predict subjects’ reading skills based on their brain-speech tracking parameters (i.e. their fingerprint of brain-speech tracking capabilities). Finally, we will evaluate whether neurofeedback sessions can sustainably boost brain-speech tracking. These developments are instrumental to the realization of future studies intended to restore the integrity of brain-speech tracking capabilities, with the aim of alleviating the reading deficits of dyslexic readers.

Mots clés : dyslexia, speech in noise, neurofeedback

Participants :
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgique) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 172800.0 €
Projet E-GRA-MONS OPTICS (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Physics
Statut du projet : CLOSED

E-GRA-MONS OPTICS aims to couple quantum emitters (e.g. quantum dots and endohedral fullerenes) to the strong electric fields of graphene plasmons with the ultimate goal of performing fast quantum operations in the near infrared and visible spectrum. Such an integrated system will overcome the low processing speed of atoms and photons, thus providing a robust, solid-state platform for fast quantum optics. The real challenge is to integrate the features of quantum emitters and graphene plasmons into a single functional nanomaterial, understanding how the interactions at the nano-scale can impact its optical properties. To meet this challenge, this project adopts a multidisciplinary approach, combining the applicant’s experience in quantum operations using atoms and photons in conjunction with the world-leading expertise of the host organization in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The main objective is the experimental demonstration of strong emitter-plasmon coupling and plasmon-mediated interactions between emitters, which will be the fundamentals of novel quantum-optics technologies

Mots clés : graphne plasmonics, colloidal quantum dots

Participants :
- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 158121.6 €
Projet EDEN (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

EDEN is a platform for the training and career development of 10 early-stage researchers (ESRs) in Vision Sciences. It coordinates research and training collaboration among 4 leading academic institutions in Europe, providing for a new combination of in-depth expertise from different countries. Furthermore, to strengthen the contact with the industrial world, the network has the following partners: 1 large company of hospitals, 1 SME that provides advance ophthalmic devices for ocular examination and 2 large companies specialized in eye-care products. It emphasises experience-based training through cross-disciplinary research projects that will analyse the lacrimal functional unit with state-of-the-art technology and assess the structural and physiological changes occurring in Dry Eye Disease (DED) patients. This will spur the generation of newer metrics to better differentiate between normal and DED patients. Further benefits include improvements in DED diagnosis and monitoring, studies on the effect of various DED treatments, development of DED aetiology-specific treatments and exploration of the risk factors that favour development of the disease or intensify its symptoms. EDEN will offer to 10 ESRs: (1) state-of-the-art approaches and techniques essential to studying DED through research projects, courses, and scientific exchange within and beyond the network; (2) essential career management skills via courses and practical activities aimed to develop their organisational, management and networking skills; (3) an understanding of the impact of research results for the private sector and insight into the business world via interaction with the industrial partners; (4) new possibilities of career development via professional contacts in academia and industry. The long-term synergies among EDEN partners, will structure European research and training capabilities in vision science. The training structure proposed will enable each ESR to earn a double PhD title.

Mots clés : dry eye disease, ocular aging

Participants :
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 495745.92 €
- Optegra mvz gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 498432.96 €
- Laboratorios thea (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Innz medical ab (Suède) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Pologne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 448274.88 €
- University of Valencia (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 495745.92 €
- Basuch and lomb (Espagne) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Aston University (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 546575.76 €
Projet EDGE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Cofund Postdoctoral programme
Statut du projet : SIGNED

EDGE is a training and development programme of scientific excellence for postdoctoral researchers that offers a unique combination of disciplines and industry engagement to the 71 fellows it will recruit. Leveraging the strengths and assets of three Irish National Research Centres, AMBER, CONNECT and ADAPT, headquartered in TCD, EDGE will form the next generation of thought leaders in ICT. AMBER offers expertise in advanced materials that will play a pivotal role in future systems and devices. CONNECT’s focus is on future networks that will underpin the services the world needs and ADAPT brings cutting-edge expertise in digital content. EDGE researchers will work at the interface between these Centres and will generate highly interdisciplinary projects, adding value to all. Most importantly, industry will have a primary role in defining, running and supporting the projects, and will take an active part in developing the scientists, through secondments, industry events and specialised training. Applying the principles of the Charter and Code throughout the programme, the EDGE selection process is guided by the principles of Excellence, Transparency, Fairness and Impartiality. Candidates will submit proposals and fellows will be selected following an open, transparent, merit-based, impartial and equitable selection procedure, based on international peer review. EDGE offers the possibility of building skills that will address a clearly identified skills shortage across Ireland and Europe. EDGE will impact Europe through the development of a unique cohort of excellent, cross-disciplinary fellows who will have the capability of managing multidisciplinary, industrial research problems. On completion of their fellowship they will have the skillset to enter the European workforce to deliver innovation and enhance European Industrial Competitiveness across the entire spectrum from materials to content.

Mots clés : content, materials, networks, training, scientific excellence, interdisciplinary projects, industry secondments

Participants :
- Trinity College Dublin (Irlande) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 6088800.0 €
Projet EDU-DEM (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

EDU-DEM advances our understanding of the role of education in fostering democratization processes in sub-Saharan Africa from the bottom up. Education has been long treated as an area of development programming that is separate from strengthening civil society formation and democratization processes. We still face several knowledge gaps in existing research on how education increases the agency of the wider civil sphere. This void is striking and it is here where EDU-DEM makes an innovative contribution to existing debates. In doing so, EDU-DEM will 1) explore the correlations between educational attainment and civil society characteristics and agency; 2) assess how formal and non-formal education systems and programmes increase the attention to and comprehension of local politics; 3) identify innovative, multi-scalar and context-specific approaches to nurture democratization processes through education. EDU-DEM brings together the disciplines of education and international development while drawing from and contributing to research on democratization, civil society and agency. Uganda serves as a case study as it exemplifies a striking paradox occurring in the majority of sub-Saharan African states. Despite a steady increase of funds and the commitment to support development through the grassroots level, experts witness weak democratization processes on the ground. Leading local CSOs consist of a small group of well-funded, urban-based organisations, led by a highly educated elite, with only a token presence in rural areas. On the other hand, the majority of grassroots and less-visible civil society actors are frequently characterized by political illiteracy –not to mention the country’s poorly educated wider civil sphere. The findings of this project will be published in a monograph, two journal articles, policy briefs and publicized to a non-specialized audience via outreach activities (e.g.: dedicated website, media and blog articles, round-table discussions).

Mots clés : democratization, education, civil society, agency, uganda

Participants :
- University of Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 165598.8 €
Projet ELCOREL (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2016)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

ELCOREL is a consortium combining 5 academic and 2 industrial beneficiaries aimed at training young researchers in the field of the conversion of water and carbon dioxide to fuels and chemicals with the aid of electrocatalysts, of prime importance to the efficient large-scale storage of the excess renewable electricity. The consortium will (i) develop rational catalyst design principles for the electrochemical oxidation of water and the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide based on the principles of quantum chemistry and large-scale quantum-chemical calculations, (ii) prepare, synthesize, characterize and test model single-crystalline and nanoparticulate catalysts, and (iii) implement high surface area catalysts in large-scale electrolysers at industrial laboratories. The fellows to be employed in ELCOREL will be part of a unique network of academic and industrial world leaders in their respective expertises, and will receive a dedicated multidisciplinary and intersectoral training through mandatory extensive training and research periods at the non-academic partners. Furthermore, they will go through an extensive training programme balancing scientific, personal and entrepreneurial skills. ELCOREL will generate a new generation of electrochemical researchers ready to deal with the academic and industrial challenges of securing Europe’s future energy independence.

Mots clés : water oxidation, carbon dioxide reduction, energy storage

Participants :
- Fondazione Oronzio e Niccolò De Nora (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 516122.64 €
- Czech Academy of Sciences (Rép. Tchèque) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 464844.96 €
- Aalto University (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 538290.72 €
- Leiden University (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 510748.56 €
- Avantium (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 510748.56 €
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 580163.76 €
- Institut Català d'Investigació Química (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 495745.92 €
Projet EMERGENT (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : CLOSED

EMERGENT takes up the broader scope of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Ex-change Scheme of promoting knowledge-sharing-based cooperation and moves its steps forward to actual-ly support and facilitate the movement of skilled people between academia and industry committed to work on a research topic dealing with green chipless RFID tags and sensors. EMERGENT will move towards strengthening of existing inter-sectoral networks between the three EU re-search institutes and the three EU SMEs involved by implementing a total of 68 knowledge transfer se-condments in order to facilitate the joint research and innovation work aiming to realize a new class of chipless RFID tags and sensors moving from conventional sensors towards next generation pervasive interconnected systems by employing environmental-friendly substrates such as paper and low-cost printing process. EMERGENT will design hand in hand with both the chipless tag and sensor a dedicated reader for extracting the desired information. To this aim, novel signal processing algorithms will be developed and tested. EMERGENT will focus on system parameters of prominent relevance reliability, calibration) to assess the true performance of the tag, and to make comparisons among different implementations. The critical issues regarding the sensitivity and resolution of the reader will be carefully addressed and solved. EMERGENT will deliver wireless passive chipless smart tags and sensors able to sense the changing environment by collecting information about quantities of interest which may include temperature, humidity, stress, gases. EMERGENT will enhance the performance and robustness of chipless RFID sys-tems and will bring RFID sensing outside research laboratories towards self-consistent products.

Mots clés : chipless rfid tags, chipless rfid sensors, low cost printing process, low cost uwb radars, chemical interactive materials, environmental friendly sensing device, hazardous environments

Participants :
- University of Pisa (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 193500.0 €
- Ardeje printing (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 139500.0 €
- Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 99000.0 €
- Consortium ubiquitous technologies s.c.a.r.l. (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 175500.0 €
- Generation rfid s.l. (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 63000.0 €
- Rovira i Virgili University (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 243000.0 €