Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Safety in Use and Emerging Technologies in Food Packaging (SAFEMTECH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 829068.0
EU funding (EUR): 829068.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

SAFEMTECH proposal has two main scientific objectives: a) The study of the safety in use of adhesives produced at the company GOGLIO and used in the production of food packaging materials, and b) The development of active and intelligent packaging systems at industrial level. GOGLIO is a multinational company that involves the whole food packaging chain, as they produce adhesives, printing inks, valves and laminates for food packaging. The research group GUIA of the Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR) has a great expertise on the study of adhesives performance in food packaging and their safety in use as well as in the development and study of active and intelligent food packaging materials in which the leader of the group is inventor in four international patents in this area. Therefore the combination of intersectoriality and synergies between the two partners involved in this proposal will lead to the achievement of the proposal objectives. SAFEMTECH has as also other objectives which should be emphasized: a) The transference of knowledge between the partners, which is of great value in this case, as it is compulsory to develop a solution able to be efficient at industrial scale; b) The mutual collaboration at long term which starts with this project, due to the high amount of knowledge that each partner needs from the other one; c) The increase of knowledge and training for personnel involved in the project at GOGLIO and at UNIZAR, which will be of special added value for young researchers and PhD students which will participate in this project. The combination of the ideas, scientific and industrial knowledge and the joint effort from both partners will guaranty the success of this project and will allow to accomplish the planned objectives in the four years extension of the project.

Keywords: food packaging,food safety,flexible packaging,active packaging,intelligent packaging,adhesives,migration,analytical procedures,materials engineering
Targeting Functional Tendon Regeneration Using a Loaded Biomimetic Scaffold. An Integrated Pan-European Approach (TENDON REGENERATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland,Israel,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2256627.0
EU funding (EUR): 2256627.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This industry-academia proposal addresses the development of technology which will enable understanding of regeneration of injured or degenerated tendons. Biomimetic fibrous composites will be designed and developed that will mimic the structure of native tendons. The project objectives are to fabricate an optimally stabilised and effectively functionalised three-dimensional collagen-resilin composite scaffold to match the properties of native tendons. Evaluation of the optimally stabilised and effectively functionalised biomimetic constructs will be conducted in vitro (cell studies, structural and mechanical properties) and in vivo (small and large animal studies). Using textile technologies, we aim to fabricate fibre extrusions that will allow future commercialisation of the three-dimensional biomimetic construct. In meeting the scientific and technological objectives of the IAPP Programme, an inter-sectorial academic industry multidisciplinary approach will be taken which maximises the potential offered by contemporary technologies This IAPP Programme will foster increased scientific dialogue between academics, industry and clinicians. One of the key benefits will be the transfer of key scientific and experimental knowledge between the institutions enabling the consortium to widen the scope of their work, beyond what is available within their own institution and merge the available technologies. This programme will provide training of both seconded and recruited staff, both in the host and parent institutions. This training will include experimental, communication and project management skills. Platform technologies developed during the lifetime of this project will result in future joint applications by partners in the consortium to the FP7 Health and FP7 NMP programmes.

Keywords: tendon regeneration,bio mimetic,platform technology,functionalisation,collagen,resilin,musculoskeletal injuries,connective tissue disorders,biomaterials,tissue engineering,scaffolds
Realistic Virtual Humans (GOLEM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 650412.0
EU funding (EUR): 650412.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

GOLEM will share knowledge between relevant partners in Industry and Academia in order to carry out multidisciplinary research to streamline the production pipeline for virtual (digital) characters. It will radically improve their appearance and animation, while keeping them affordable and easy to customize. A unique aspect of GOLEM is that its technological and engineering advances will be used throughout the project to carry out research in the field of presence in virtual environments, and this will, in turn, provide feedback to improve and refine the technical aspects. The technical objectives can summarized as development of a marker-less facial capture system, an automatic rigging system, an interactive facial muscle animation system, automatic lip-sync based on speech recognition and realistic dynamic, real-time skin shaders. The study of presence in virtual environments will be taken to a next level given the possibility of, for the first time, using affordable, realistic virtual humans. More precisely, the goals are to deploy and evaluate full range of facial expressions and to carry out cognitive and psychophysical evaluation of presence. These objectives span a wide range of knowledge areas (animation, render, human computer interaction, neuroscience…). GOLEM is built around a solid structure of transfer of knowledge between the partners, including secondments, networking activities, workshops and seminars.

Keywords: computer graphics,human-computer interaction,virtual humans,presence,markerless capture,auto-rigging,real-time render
Investigation of influenza immune responses and vaccine efficacy correlates by global expression profiling and immunological analyses in the ferret model of influenza (FERFLU EXPRESS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239693.2
EU funding (EUR): 239693.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pandemic influenza, such as the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus strains that recently emerged in Mexico and in the US, can have serious effects on human health. Development of vaccines that are able to elicit more potent and protective immune responses as well as reducing the impact of future pandemic outbreaks is critical. Successful development of such vaccines is dependent on animal models to test vaccine efficacy and safety. Animal modeling of infectious disease also allows for transcription mapping of the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which these viruses infect as well as how the vaccines against them provide protection. We will use the ferret influenza model to build a comprehensive map the genes signatures involved at the different stages of the immune response to influenza virus infection. We will also analyze the transcriptional profiles induced by vaccination using standard inactivated and live attenuated influenza vaccine currently being administered to humans. In addition, we will study the gene expression responses triggered by virus challenge in vaccinated animals. Careful mapping of the gene responses triggered by influenza infection, as well as the mechanisms the virus use to overcome these responses will provide key information for development of vaccines and antiviral drugs against epidemic and pandemic influenza strains.

Keywords: molecular genetics,virology,vaccinology,infections
Transferring knowledgE on Academic knowledge Management (TEAM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria,Estonia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1084682.0
EU funding (EUR): 1084682.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the TEAM proposal is to enable and cultivate a dynamic partnership and two-way transfer of knowledge between TUG as a public research institution with key competencies in knowledge management and semantic technologies and the two private commercial SMEs Mendeley and ELIKO with engineering expertise in developing commercial knowledge management solutions and products through the following measures: • Exchange of know-how and experience through inter-sector two-way secondments of research staff of the participants in WP1-WP5. In total, there will be 138 PMs of secondments between TUG and Mendeley/ELIKO. • Recruitment of experienced researchers from outside the partnership for 30 PMs to Mendeley and ELIKO in WP1 and WP3. • Organisation of workshops, trainings, and summer schools to further facilitate sharing and exchange of knowledge and to cultivate the mutual partnership (T4.1, T5.1, T5.3, T7.2), • Raising awareness outside of the consortium in WP6 to create complementarities and synergies with possible new partners. TEAM project is based on a research project with an objective to develop innovative knowledge and information management solutions in the form of a software and web application and an underlying database, based on semantics for automatically organizing, extracting, classifying, and discovering research papers and additional academic content. The TEAM project aims (1) to effectively and significantly enhance the interaction at human resources level between research organisations in the public and private sector in the field of knowledge management and engineering, (2) to share knowledge and develop broad skills in project and business management, (3) to bring closer together different cultures and expectation patterns of industry and academia, and (4) to more effectively advance the contributions of research to Europe&apos;s knowledge economy and society.

Keywords: transfer of knowledge,inter-sectorial cooperation,broad skills development,capability building,knowledge management and engineering,recommendation engines,technological sciences
Internet-based Structural Health Monitoring System (ISMS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Canada,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 484954.0
EU funding (EUR): 484954.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Structural health monitoring (SHM) and non-intrusive damage detection techniques have become important research topics - motivated by the potential life-safety and very large potential economic impact of the technologies with respect to their earthquake/ disaster mitigation potential and their role as key enabling technology of condition-based maintenance practices. The potential to save thousands of civilian lives and billions of Euros currently drives efforts in mainly Asia and North America. ISMS – a collaborative effort between a Danish SME within vibration technologies in combination with two research organizations, French INRIA and Canadian UBC – aims to build a long-term partnership around the development of web-based damage detection procedures applied to instrumented civil infrastructures, which are robust to environmental changes. The innovation lies in the coupling of identification-based methods on one side, and statistical damage detection techniques on the other side – both elements communicating on a single platform on the structure. Progress within SHM research is currently hampered by the inter-disciplinary and intersectoral barriers posed by scientific fragmentation and a disproportionate emphasis on instrumentation aspects. The IAPP program is chosen as an ideal vehicle to overcome the barriers to integration: ISMS proposes the secondment of 6 researchers over a total of 28 months; the recruitment of one experienced capacity for 18 months; and accompanying networking activities. The project has the potential to develop an extended European research community of world-leading capability within SHM of civil infrastructures. The impact is foreseen not only due to the achievement of scientific project results – but through the project’s positive impact on individual research capability; the significant commercial impact and incentives; the network integration and transfer of knowledge and results within and beyond the consortium.

Keywords: technological sciences,civil engineering,structural engineering
Promoting science: does it work? Evidence from program evaluation (PROSCIE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-10
End date: 2012-05-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165540.8
EU funding (EUR): 165540.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research aims at evaluating the impact of policies that promote scientific education. It will address the effect of monetary cost reduction on enrollment into scientific subjects and achievement. It will address the impact of intense training in science at earlier stage of the educational process on subsequent take-up and attainment in science subjects. It will work out differences across gender and socio-economic characteristics in the impact of the policies; it will provide a cross country analysis of different policies aimed at promoting scientific education. Research will be mostly empirical, and exploit information in large British and Italian data sets. To accomplish the project, I will spend two years in the Department of Economics at UCL under the supervision of Professor Meghir. This is a leading institution for Applied Micro-Econometrics and Economic of Education in Europe. The department and its associated research centers do not only provide the expertise, but also the facilities and infrastructure to conduct top academic research of this kind. The project will give an important stimulus to my academic career. I will be able to draw on the unique expertise at UCL on the various aspects important for her project, develop technical skills and knowledge on my field of study, build strategic links and a more policy oriented profile. The current project has strong resonance with the EU policy of promoting women participation in science and meeting the objectives defined in the Lisbon Agenda and in the higher education strategy. It may also have beneficial spill-overs towards the creation of scientific links between UCL and my home university, the University of Turin, to which I intend to return at the end of the project, thus contributing to the regional policy of the European Community.

Keywords: social sciences,college major,science,policy evaluation
Development of a Nitric Oxide Releasing Stent for Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease (DONOR CARD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 986284.0
EU funding (EUR): 986284.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Coronary artery disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Significant advances in treating coronary artery disease have been made over the last decade with the introduction of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). PCI involves the placement of stents within narrowed arteries relieving the symptoms of angina and in some cases increasing life expectancy. The two major problems with currently available stent designs are restenosis and late thrombosis. The former is more common in uncoated stents and was addressed with the introduction of drug releasing stents. However, concerns have been raised about the increased incidence of stent thrombosis with these drug releasing stents. An innovative design of stent utilising titanium oxynitride (Titan 2) was the first of the bioactive stents which compared favourably in efficacy to the drug coated stents but with less re-narrowing than with the uncoated stents. The Titan 2 uses the fundamental biocompatibility of titanium to reduce inflammation and promote healing after stenting. Nitrous oxide (NO) is an important regulator of endothelial cell function. We will design a bioactive titanium oxynitride coated stent which will release NO after stent implantation. It is proposed that this will have beneficial effects to endothelial function after stenting and possibly reduce the incidence of re-narrowing and stent thrombosis. The new metal stent will be tested in vitro using primary human monocytes and platelets and using a human derived endothelial cell line. We aim to achieve excellent biomaterial properties as applied to coronary artery stenting, a highly biocompatible surface and to demonstrate release of NO after stent deployment. To achieve this we will combine the knowledge of our industrial, medical and scientific partners to develop a new coronary stent which will be of significant benefit to patients with coronary artery disease both in the European Union and worldwide.

Keywords: biomaterial engineering,biomedical engineering,cardiology,surface physics,medical sciences
Fabrication of three dimensional magnetic nanowires for information storage (3DMAGNANOW)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172740.8
EU funding (EUR): 172740.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the proposal is the fabrication and study of three dimensional (3D) magnetic nanowires for ultra-high density information storage. Current memory architectures are 2D, composed of one layer of active components. The extension of data storage devices into the third dimension could result in information densities of hundreds of Gb/in2, causing a technological revolution. The project aims at implementing a 3D version of the existing 2D host institution’s idea of domain wall based shift registers to store data. In this scheme, the data bits are stored using the two possible directions of the magnetisation in thin and narrow nanowires made of soft ferromagnetic materials. The fabrication of the 3D devices will be done by using a novel promising nanolithography technique: focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID), with unique capabilities for the creation of 3D nanostructures. We have recently demonstrated the required possibility to control domain walls in cobalt nanowires created by this technique. The patterning of magnetic nanostructures by means of conventional lithography, such as electron beam lithography and ion milling, will be explored in parallel. The control of the domain walls will be probed by magneto-optical magnetometry and magneto-electrical measurements. The two directions to be investigated for the creation of 3D magnetic devices will be the stacking of 2D magnetic nanowires, and the direct fabrication of 3D nanowires. The host group possesses patents protecting the ideas presented in this proposal. The success of the project would place the European Union in a privileged position to lead the next steps in the development of Information Technology.

Keywords: electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties,nanoelectronics,nanotechnology,nanodevices