Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
An innovative solution to neurological walking and balance disabilities (GONDOLA AMPS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3562743.75
EU funding (EUR): 2493920.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s and cerebral stroke cause motor disabilities, resulting in walking and balance impairment. These disorders severely affect patient’s independence and quality of life. State-of-the-art treatments and medications have little or no effect. Gondola AMPS is a game-changing proprietary medical device by Gondola Medical Technologies that delivers Automated Mechanical Peripheral Stimulation (AMPS). After treatment, most patients experience a drastic improvement of their motor symptoms. This non-invasive treatment takes less than two minutes and two applications a week are sufficient for a long-lasting effect. Gondola AMPS has already been adopted by 450 patients in several countries; boosted self-confidence and quality of life are consistently reported. The treatment can be delivered at home via a personalised device or at medical settings with a multi-patient device. In the EU only, more than 7 million Parkinson patients and stroke survivors are affected by long-term disabilities and this will continue to grow at a rapid pace. Mobility losses and related care, equipment and infrastructure, bear huge costs estimated to represent an annual €50+ billion. Gondola AMPS contributes to addressing this major economic and societal challenge. The invention is patent-protected in several countries. Ten clinical trials and as many peer-reviewed scientific publications conclude to the effectiveness of Gondola AMPS at strongly improving motor symptoms. Gondola AMPS brings a non-invasive and cost-effective answer to a widespread unmet medical need. Break-even is planned in less than three years while making Gondola Medical Technologies a global leader. To support this strong growth more than 150 highly qualified jobs will be created across Europe and eventually in USA, Canada and Japan.

Keywords: parkinson s disease,stroke,gait,balance,clinical trials,neurorehabilitation,neurological,treatment,non invasive,medical device,mechanical stimulation,stimulation points
Green Locally Unwanted Land Uses (GREENLULUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1453868.0
EU funding (EUR): 1453868.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project examines the role played by the restoration and creation of environmental amenities in the redistribution of urban quality of life. Since no large-scale study has been conducted to measure if greener cities are less racially and socially equitable, I will analyze whether greening projects tend to increase environmental inequalities in 40 cities in the US and Europe and under which conditions such projects can address equity concerns. First, the study will a) develop a new method (an index) to quantify the racial and social impact of greening projects and to compare cities’ performance with each other; b) provide a spatial and quantitative analysis of neighborhood demographic, real estate, and environmental data; and c) apply the index methodology on a unique ranking of cities. Second, my research will analyze the response of private investors to the greening projects and identify the impact of new development projects proposed, approved, and implemented during or upon the completion of greening projects on the neighborhood socio-demographic characteristics. I will assess the extent to which development projects seem to encourage and/or accelerate gentrification, as such projects have been shown to be signs of residents’ exclusion. Additionally, this study will qualitatively analyze cases of community mobilization developed in response to new environmental amenities, through fieldwork in 16 critical neighborhoods (one neighborhood case per city) among the 40 cities. Last, this study will use qualitative methods to analyze the policies and measures that municipalities develop to address exclusion in “greening” neighborhoods. This groundbreaking longitudinal, systematic, in-depth, and large-scale project in the field of environmental justice will lead to a paradigm shift by hypothesizing that the social and racial inequities present in sustainability projects make green amenities Locally Unwanted Land Uses (LULUs) for poor residents and people of color.

Keywords: urban planning,environmental justice,gentrification,political economy of sustainability planning and urban development,racial and social inequalities,social movements,urban sociology
TRA VISIONS 2020 (TRA VISIONS 2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Belgium,Finland,Greece,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Support for dissemination events in the field of Transport Research (H2020-MG-2018-SingleStage-RTD-MOVE, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 699750.0
EU funding (EUR): 699750.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The scope of this proposal, as requested by the call, is to organise two competitions for transport research awards to be announced at the TRA conference in 2020: - a young researcher competition with the goal of stimulating the interest in the field of sustainable transport among young researchers and students. - a competition for senior researchers in the field of innovative transport concepts based on results only from EU-funded projects.
Mass-Mobility-Size for light ions/clusters (MaSMob-Lion)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Estonia,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160615.68
EU funding (EUR): 160615.68
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Atmospheric new particle formation adds large spatial and temporal variations to the number size distributions of atmospheric aerosol particles, which brings great complexity in evaluating their health and climatic impacts. It is therefore crucial to understand the formation of atmospheric new particles from gas phase and their subsequent growth at a fundamental level. This solution however is obscured by the over-simplified theory in describing the free-molecular mass-mobility-size relationship. The MaSMob-Lion project is proposed to refine the theoretical basis of the mass-mobility-size relationship to improve its accuracy and reliability in describing the initial particle formation from gas phase. In MaSMob-Lion, the ER will focus on the carrier gas polarizability and conformation effects of <10 nm particles. These effects on mass-mobility relation will be probed experimentally with isomeric monomers and multimers in different carrier gases using the tandem mass-mobility setup and their linkage to particle size will be rationalised through the effective diameter approach with correction terms. Especially, the ER attempts to extend the parameterisations down to the sub-1 nm range for a consistent mass-mobility-size system capable of describing the gas-to-particle phase transition and the subsequent growth. These new knowledges will be used in formulating an easily implementable simple model to assist a quick conversion between mass, mobility and size. Aerosol particles can be measured by their mass and mobility. But in addition, sub-3 nm particles can also be studied via a growth-based method in a supersaturated condensable vapour. The ER will also conduct alternative and complementary mass-mobility study through supersaturation. While aiming to obtain a holistic picture on the mass-mobility-size relationship that can be used to compare different measurement techniques, these additional data will also be used in model validation and refinement.

Keywords: ions,clusters,aerosol particles,size,mobility,mass
Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs with the Enterprise Europe Network Canarias 2019 (E3Canarias 2019)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25928.0
EU funding (EUR): 25928.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The E3Canarias 2019 project aims at continuing the activities carried out since 2014 under E3Canarias, E3Canarias 2015-2016 and E3Canarias 2017-2018 projects, enhancing the innovation management capacity of the Canary Islands’ SMEs through the delivery of 7 to 10 days service packages, targeted to the most innovative small and medium size companies in the islands, as well as giving support to the Canary Island beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument, Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) and Future and Emerging Technologies Open (FET-Open) as Key Account Manager (KAM) services. An average of 15 SMEs will be mentored, combining two services: - A minimum of 7 SMEs beneficiaries of enhancing the innovation management capacities service. The number could be increased depending on the companies’ ambition, motivation and resources availability. - A maximum of 4 beneficiaries of the HORIZON 2020 dedicated SME instrument phase 1; 2 beneficiaries of SME instrument phase II; 1 beneficiary in FTI and 1 beneficiary in FET-Open. For the delivery of the services, 2 staff members are actively involved in the KAM community and have close cooperation with National NCP for SME Instrument, FTI and FET-Open and 3 staff members are experts for innovation management trained via the IMP3rove-Academy for EIMC services.

Keywords: innovation,capacity building,sme instrument,fet open
Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-2019): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence (UrbTerr)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 74.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1424724.0
EU funding (EUR): 1424724.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Since 2004, public spaces in European cities have been hit by more than ten major terrorist attacks, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. Whilst trying to come to terms with recent acts of urban terrorism, governments, security agencies, and local communities are bracing themselves for further attacks. UrbTerr will offer the first in-depth comparative analysis of memory discourses and responses to recent acts of urban terrorism in four European countries that have suffered particularly as a result of this wave of violence: Spain, the UK, France, and Germany. Drawing on concepts and methods from memory studies, cultural studies, feminist theory and anthropology, UrbTerr will document and analyse a range of voices in contemporary debates on urban terrorism in Europe and problematise the narrow concept of imagination and creativity underpinning recent counter-terrorism measures and a great part of the academic literature on this subject. It will: (1) analyse the collective forms of forgetting, remembering, and imagining that have shaped urban spaces in the four countries after recent terrorist attacks; (2) develop a new materialist approach to terrorism and use this framework to critically assess policies and material security infrastructures that were created in response to these attacks at a local and European level; (3) use performance art as a creative tool to develop and experiment with alternative forms of remembering and different visions of the future. Outputs of the project will include a website with footage of interviews with city residents, politicians, architects, political activists, and other key actors, as well as other resources for terrorism research, two academic monographs, articles in peer-reviewed journals, a co-edited volume, two PhD theses, and a series of thought-provoking public art performances that will spark critical debates about securitization processes in contemporary Europe.
Imaging tumor vessels as a marker for p53 mutation status in cancer (IMaP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2024-05-18
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203852.16
EU funding (EUR): 203852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The p53 protein is mutated in over 50% of cancers. Because its expression often promotes tumor growth and is associated with resistance to treatment, there has been great interest in treating cancers based on p53 mutation status. However, the use of p53- targeted therapies requires knowing the mutation status. DNA sequencing is one approach, but requires invasive biopsies, and newer sequencing techniques still face technical hurdles. Non-invasive imaging techniques offer an alternative approach for detecting mutation status. Given that p53 regulates blood vessel growth, and that vessel imaging is used clinically to monitor response to cancer therapy, I hypothesize that tumor vessels could be used as an imaging marker to identify p53 mutation status. To test this hypothesis, I will measure relationships between p53 mutations and vessel structure/function using my expertise in 3D cell biology, vessel imaging, and image analysis and the unique expertise of the host lab in p53 biology, proteomics, and flow cytometry. The objectives of this interdisciplinary work are: 1) to screen the effect of p53 mutants on vessel structure in vitro; 2) to characterize the molecular response of endothelial cells to p53-targeted therapies; and 3) to image the structure and function of vessels in mutant p53 tumors in vivo. If a relationship is found between p53 mutation status and tumor vessel features, then it could lead to the development of the first imaging marker of p53 mutation status. This marker could help clinicians select p53-directed therapies to personalize therapy for each cancer patient. Apart from scientific impact, the proposed work will also expand my career prospects and scientific network in Europe. Under the mentorship of the host lab supervisor Prof. Sir David Lane, who discovered p53, I will receive focused training to strengthen and diversify the scientific and transferable skills I need to transition from postdoctoral scientist to junior group leader.
Understanding Lectins' network language with chemical tools: new insights for immunological purposes. (LectiNet)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Ireland,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2025-01-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 275561.28
EU funding (EUR): 275561.28
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Dendritic cells (DCs) are the most potent antigen-presenting cells due to their ability to prime T-cell immune responses. The numerous endocytic transmembrane receptors located on their surface can recognise and process endogenous and exogenous antigens. Despite DCs being efficient sentinels, pathogens, unfortunately, in some cases can evade their guard, and cause viral, bacterial infections, and cancer. The DCs mechanisms behind the lack or the presence of an immune response are not fully understood. Chemistry offers powerful tools to prepare synthetic antigens, mimicking the natural one. Synthetic antigens can, not only be exploited to disclose the relationship between the antigen chemical structure and its processing by the immune cells but also used to train the immune system to fight pathogens. The overall aim of LectiNet is to reveal how cooperative engagement of human C-type lectin receptors (CLRs) on DCs surface influences antigen internalisation, trafficking, and presentation. This will be achieved by targeting CLRs with heterogenous multivalent polymers and analysing DC signaling and antigen routing. LectiNet hence will disclose multitarget polymers as vectors to selectively deliver antigens through DCs following a pre-designed pathway to fight viral infection and cancer. In this global fellowship, I will benefit from the joint supervision of Professor Laura L. Kiessling from MIT and of Professor Paul V. Murphy from NUIG. LectiNet will provide me an excellent training to complement my current knowledge in synthetic chemistry, with immunology cell biology and polymer chemistry, placing me in a unique interdisciplinary area in the European research scenario. LectiNet will explore novel delivery strategies of vaccines for infectious disease and cancer and provide novel insights into the role of CLRs co-engagement.

Keywords: c type lectin carbohydrates polymers antigen chemical biology endocytosis cancer hiv dendritic cells imaging flow cytometry vaccines
Autonomous and Unmanned Vessels in International Law: Yara Birkeland as a Challenge to the Law of the Sea (P-ADMIRAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Other Widening
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Widening Fellowships (H2020-WF-03-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-12-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149625.6
EU funding (EUR): 149625.6
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Dynamic technological development and the growing demand for 'green technologies' have been the main reasons for the intensification of engineers' works on autonomous and unmanned vessels in recent years. Currently, the partnership of the companies Yara and Kongsberg Maritime is the first one in the world to create a fully unmanned, environmentally friendly, partially autonomous cargo vessel Yara Birkeland. Her operation is estimated to begin by mid-2020 and is to take place only within the territorial sea of Norway mainly due to numerous doubts regarding international legal regulations. The unclear legal situation of autonomous and unmanned vessels stipulates one of the main grave obstacles for their worldwide operation. Due to their enormous potential, especially the possibility of limiting the human involvement in maritime transport (thus, lowering the fatality rate in the shipping industry), there is a strong demand to create an appropriate legal regime enabling their universal operation. The possibility of making maritime transport less dependent on the human factor is significant for humanity, especially in the context of the recent pandemic of the SARS-COV-2 virus (their worldwide usage would also be a response to such disasters). The Project ADMIRAL will tackle the problem of the lack of exhaustive legal studies regarding the possibility of the operation of these types of vessels worldwide in the contemporary law of the sea and international maritime law systems. Thus, this explorative study will analyze the legal situation of autonomous and unmanned vessels in international law. The Project ADMIRAL aims to verify the central research hypothesis, which is that the contemporary law of the sea does not offer a satisfactory legal framework towards a worldwide operation of autonomous and unmanned vessels. As a consequence, Project ADMIRAL will determine the regulatory barriers preventing their global operation and propose durable solutions.

Keywords: law of the sea,maritime law,autonomous ships,unmanned ships,shipping industry
ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics (AIFORS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020-6, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499957.5
EU funding (EUR): 2499957.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The six-year AIFORS project will create an ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER). This ERA Chair will enable UNIZG-FER to attract an outstanding researcher and five team members to independently implement an ambitious research strategy in symbiotic robotics. This will open UNIZG-FER to a new research direction with a high potential for research outputs and technology innovation. The project will also allow UNIZG-FER to drive structural changes to increase their capacities for research funding, to encourage researchers’ mobility, to align the human resources and research management policies to the European Research Area principles, and to better disseminate and exploit research results. It is expected that the AIFORS project will significantly step up UNIZG-FER’s research and innovation excellence and build capacities to sustain it beyond the project and across research groups.

Keywords: artifical intelligence,autonomous robots,learning robots,human robot interaction,trustworthy robotics