Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Learning under Conflict: Effects of political violence on the educational attainment of Palestinian students in the West Bank (CSPIWB)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-05
End date: 2019-07-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to examine the causal effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the achievements of Palestinian high school students in their final exams that conclude the high school degree between the years 1998-2012, and the mechanism behind it. The analysis in the project will rely on a unique data source, which will ensure a relatively clean identification of the effects of conflict on Palestinian students' achievements. Data on students' achievements and schools include unique data on the individual test scores in all subjects at the Palestinian high school final exam (the Tawjihi General Examination) for the whole population of Palestinian students enrolled in their final year of the Arts and the Scientific curricula, and information on the characteristics of all high schools in the West Bank, including unique data on the teachers. The custom-made data on political violence will be comprised of datasets stemming from different sources. The first source is Geographic Information System (GIS) data on various types of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility, including check-points, and roadblocks, within the West Bank, which enable a calculation of the gap of distance and time between individual’s locality of residence and locality of school, with and without the presence of Israeli physical barriers to movement. The second source is conflict-related Palestinian fatalities and prisoners. The importance of this study derives from the notion that academic achievement is strongly associated with future income earning, mediated by university entrance as determined by high school final exam performance. Moreover, learning about the effects of conflict on high school achievements is crucial to better understand the impact of a violent conflict on the development prospects of an economy, since high-school students represent a substantial part of the future human capital of the country.

Keywords: educational attainment,high school,test score,conflict,mobility,closures,labor market,west bank,palestine,israel
Yoctosecond imaging of QCD collectivity using jet observables (YoctoLHC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Portugal
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1693687.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

QCD is the only sector of the Standard Model where the exploration of the first levels of complexity, built from fundamental interactions at the quantum level, is experimentally feasible. An outstanding example is the thermalised state of QCD matter formed when heavy atomic nuclei are smashed in particle colliders. Systematic experimental studies, carried out in the last two decades, overwhelmingly support the picture of a deconfined state of matter, which behaves as a nearly perfect fluid, formed in a very short time, less than 5 yoctoseconds. The mechanism that so efficiently brings the initial out-of-equilibrium state into a thermalised system is, however, largely unknown. Most surprisingly, LHC experiments have found that collisions of small systems, i.e. proton-proton or proton-lead, seem to indicate the presence of a tiny drop of this fluid in events with a large number of produced particles. These systems have sizes of 1 fm or less, or time-scales of less than 3 ys. To add to the puzzle, jet quenching, the modifications of jet properties due to interactions with the medium, has not been observed in these small systems, while jet quenching and thermalisation are expected to be controlled by the same dynamics. Present experimental tools have limited sensitivity to the actual process of thermalisation. To solve these long-standing questions we propose, as a completely novel strategy, using jet observables to directly access the first yoctoseconds of the collision. This strategy needs developments well beyond the state-of-the-art in three subjects: i) novel theoretical descriptions of the initial stages of the collision — the first 5 ys; ii) jet quenching theory for yoctosecond precision, with new techniques to couple the jet to the surrounding matter and novel parton shower evolution; and iii) jet quenching tools for the 2020’s, where completely novel jet observables will be devised with a focus on determining the initial stages of the collision.

Keywords: large hadron collider,heavy ions
MITTE: Create your own mineral water like nature (MITTE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The called emerging pollutants are becoming a new health public problem as they are reaching our tap water even after the treatment. To solve this problem, the conscientious consumers opt for two options: (1) the consumption of bottled water or (2) the acquisition of home water purification machines. Bottled water is not a good solution since plastic bottles present an important environmental burden and can also release BPAs into the water. On the other hand, the commercial purification machines do not address the problem in an effective and complete way with methods consisting in a combination of several stages and lots of replacement parts, which makes them expensive and inefficient. Mitte is an innovative solution that enables the user to turn any tap water into safe and healthy mineral water right at home. The machine combines a propietary distillation method combined with a cartridge to remineralize the minerals lost during the process. In addition, Mitte has sensors in different points that are controlled through an app that allows to obtain information about the machine settings, check the status of the machine, get real time information about water quality, and also track the amount of water dispensed and the usage of the consumables, allowing for a smart demand driven replenishment of consumables . Mitte is a very competive product that uses 4 times less energy than other home distillers, remove the whole spectrum of contaminant, prove the user with healthy and safe remineralised water and is cheaper than other home purification systems. The water produced by mitte is cheap (0.10 €/L), provide a fast ROI for users of bottled mineral water and every liter of water proded reduce plastics waste, water waste and carbon dioxide emission in 30, 20 and 28 times less respectively.

Keywords: purifier,home appliance,mineralization,plastic reduction,water consumption
NANOmaterials for the REStoration of works of ART (NANORESTART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Materials for creative industries, including heritage
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Spain,Germany,Italy,Italy,Sweden,Slovenia,France,France,Netherlands,United States,United Kingdom,Brazil,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Materials-based solutions for protection or preservation of European cultural heritage (H2020-NMP-2014-two-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8667022.25
EU funding (EUR): 7918397.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

Currently there is a lack of methodologies for the conservation of modern and contemporary artworks, many of which will not be accessible in very short time due to extremely fast degradation processes. The challenge of NANORESTART (NANOmaterials for the REStoration of works of ART) will be to address this issue within a new framework with respect to the state of the art of conservation science. NANORESTART is devoted to the development of nanomaterials to ensure long term protection and security of modern/contemporary cultural heritage, taking into account environmental and human risks, feasibility and materials costs. The market for conservation of this heritage is estimated at some €5 billion per year, and could increase by a significant factor in the next years due to the wider use of nanomaterials. The new tools and materials developed will represent a breakthrough in cultural heritage and conservation science and will focus on: (i) tools for controlled cleaning, such as highly-retentive gels for the confinement of enzymes and nanostructured fluids based on green surfactants; (ii) the strengthening and protection of surfaces by using nanocontainers, nanoparticles and supramolecular systems/assemblies; (iii) nanostructured substrates and sensors for enhanced molecules detection; (iv) evaluation of the environmental impact and the development of security measures for long lasting conservation of cultural heritage. Within the project the industrial scalability of the developed materials will be demonstrated. NANORESTART gathers centres of excellence in the field of synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, world leading chemical Industries and SMEs operating in R&D, and International and European centres for conservation, education and museums. Such centres will assess the new materials on modern/contemporary artefacts in urgent need of conservation, and disseminate the knowledge and the new nanomaterials among conservators on a worldwide perspective.

Keywords: nanomaterials,gels,nanoparticles,nanocontainers,graphene,nanocellulose,nanostructured substrates for sers,semi conductor radical scavengers,conservation of modern,contemporary art
Modulating skin innervation to treat cutaneous inflammation (NEUROSKIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Skin disease is one of the most common human illnesses. At any given time, approximately one out of three individuals is affected by skin disease and it is the 18th leading cause of health burden worldwide. Despite this profound impact, skin disease continues to receive relatively little attention in global health forums, and the etiology of most of these conditions is unclear. The skin is our major interface with the external world, densely innervated with sensory and autonomic nerve fibers. Thus, neuromodulators are involved during all phases of skin damage and healing. Nevertheless, we do not fully understand the interaction between skin innervation and skin pathologies. More importantly, the therapeutic potential contained in cutaneous innervation has not been exploited. NEUROSKIN will determine how different skin innervations affect psoriasis, a major skin disease, representing the largest class of skin conditions, those that are mediated by inflammation. We will utilize a transgenic mouse model that enables optogenetic control of local peripheral innervations using light. This model was developed as part of our ERC STG to characterize the involvement of peripheral innervation on gut inflammation. In NEUROSKIN, we will extend this tool to develop additional transgenic mice relevant to cutaneous neuronal subpopulations. In these mice, we will control the activity of neurons innervating the psoriatic plaques at different stages of the disease. This will allow us to map potential of targeted neuronal interventions to treat inflammatory skin conditions. Such characterization is expected to introduce an entire set of therapeutic tools based on neurological manipulations, and allow us to repurpose drugs and other technologies (e.g electrical and magnetic simulation) for the potential treatment of skin disorders. Moreover, NEUROSKIN will introduce a new toolbox that will enable the entire community to study the involvement of skin innervation in skin functions.

Keywords: neurons,skin,cholinergic,sympathetic,immune,psoriasis,inflmmation,wound healing
Evolution of neuronal cell types, development and circuitry in the insect visual system: breaking down behavioural evolution into its constituent elements (BehaEvoDevo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cellular, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Panel description: Structure and function of the cell, cell-cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1632647.0
EU funding (EUR): 1632647.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

One of the holy grails of neuroscience is to understand how complex behaviours arise. However, surprisingly little is known about how behaviours evolve. My proposal will delve into Behavioural Evolution and Development (BehaEvoDevo) in an unbiased and comprehensive way using the insect visual system as a model. The visual system of Drosophila has been described extensively in terms of cell type composition, development, circuitry, and behaviour. My expertise in this system will be the springboard to address four fundamental questions: 1) How different is the cell type composition in the brains of different animals? 2) How do the mechanisms that are responsible for neuronal development evolve and how do they affect neuronal diversity? 3) What are the differences in the circuitry that underlies specific behaviours in different animals? 4) How do differences in neuronal composition, neuronal features, or circuitry drive different behaviours? I will combine cutting edge techniques, such as single-cell sequencing, with advanced genetic tools in Drosophila, and adapt innovative tools for genetic manipulation and circuit function in different non-model insects. I will compare how cell type composition, neuronal specification and differentiation, as well as circuitry, affect specific behaviours. I will examine phylogenetically diverse insects to generate a deep understanding of the mechanisms that are most important for the evolution of different behaviours. Moreover, I will identify fundamental principles about how developmental processes, such as neuronal specification and differentiation, evolve to control different behaviours. The cumulative results of this proposal will offer the first comprehensive assessment of the mechanisms that drive evolution of new behaviours across insects; it will also generate a blueprint for the community to compare their data in different clades of the phylogenetic tree as well as to different sensory modalities.

Keywords: evolution of behaviour,evo devo,neurodevelopment,single cell sequencing,comparative transcriptomics,drosophila,neuronal specification and differentiation,cell type evolution,neuronal diversity
Microfluidic Approaches mimicking BIoGeological conditions to investigate subsurface CO2 recycling (Big Mac)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1995354.0
EU funding (EUR): 1995354.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The management of anthropogenic CO2 will be one of the main challenges of this century given the dramatic impact of greenhouse gases on our living environment. A fascinating strategy to restore the advantages of stored CO2 as a raw material would be to consider a slow biological upgrading process of CO2 in deep geological formations. Significantly, the recent development of microfluidic tools to study pore-scale phenomena under high pressure, opens new avenues to investigate such strategies. Thus, the strategic objective of this project is to develop and to use “Biological Geological Laboratories on a Chip - BioGLoCs” mimicking reservoir conditions in order to gain greater understanding in the mechanisms associated with the biogeological conversion process of CO2 to methane in CGS environment at pore scale. The specific objectives are: (1) to determine the experimental conditions for the development of competent micro-organisms (methanogens) and to establish the methane production rates depending on the operating parameters, (2) to evaluate the feasibility of a H2 in situ production strategy (required to sustain the methanogenesis process), (3) to investigate the full bioconversion process in 2D and 3D, (4) to demonstrate the process scaling from pore scale to liter scale and (5) to evaluate the overall process performance. This multidisciplinary project gathering expertise in chemical engineering and geomicrobiology will be the first ever use of microfluidics approaches to investigate a biogeological transformation taking into account the thermo-hydro-bio-chemical processes. It will result in the identification of efficient geomicrobiological methods and materials to accelerate the CO2 to methane biogeoconversion process. New generic lab scale tools will be also made available for investigating geological-related topics (enhanced oil recovery, deep geothermal energy, bioremediation of groundwater, shale gas recovery).

Keywords: high pressure microfluidics,microreaction engineering
MArket Research for a Climate Services Observatory (MARCO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Finland,France,United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Climate services market research (H2020-SC5-2016-OneStageB, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1530053.75
EU funding (EUR): 1520303.75
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Climate‐related tools, products, data and services may greatly contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, current strategies face knowledge gaps, lack of visibility of climate services, and low awareness of key potential customers for using key information and the associated economic benefits. This reality triggers the need and potential for developing a global market for climate services. The ‘MArket Research for a Climate services Observatory’ (MARCO) proposal gathers market research firms, climate scientists, climate services practitioners, and innovation actors, around the Climate-KIC, to provide a detailed insight into the market for climate services in Europe, in line with the challenge of enabling market growth outlined in the EC’s “R&I roadmap for climate services”. The project’s key objectives are to: assess the EU market of climate services; validate and enrich the market assessment with case studies; forecast future user needs and assess market growth until 2030; unveil opportunities and promote market growth. To achieve this, MARCO will build on a phased approach with feedback loops between several methodologies to ensure validation of findings. This will start with defining the framework for market characterisation, followed by exhaustive, integrated market research combining climate vulnerability analysis deriving into potential market estimation, confronted to actual transactional market quantification, qualitative surveys, and nine case studies on specific sectors and regions. This will be followed by a gap analysis and innovation modelling to reveal the untapped market. A foresight exercise will then outline market growth till 2030. Finally, recommendations for market observation and facilitation will be expressed. Stakeholders will be involved at all points of the process, with a continuous dialogue network and two workshops. The Climate KIC and partners will ensure sound dissemination of results, all made public.

Keywords: climate services,quantitative and qualitative market research business modelling swot gap analysis foresight stakeholder consultation
European Training Network in Low-energy Visible Light IoT Systems (ENLIGHTEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Austria,Germany,Spain,Estonia,Switzerland,Türkiye,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4048337.88
EU funding (EUR): 4048337.88
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are driving a revolution in lighting systems due to their superior energy efficiency, and are already entering the Internet of Things (IoT) market with embedded sensory functionalities. By bringing connectivity to every LED bulb, Visible Light Communication (VLC) offers the opportunity to write the next chapter of the LED revolution with the language of ubiquitous networks. With VLC networking still in its infancy, ENLIGHT’EM will take the unique opportunity to design IoT systems that leverage the low baseline energy consumption of LEDs to jointly deliver lighting and networked communication. ENLIGHT’EM will explore the emerging field of low-energy VLC systems for the IoT to design and demonstrate sustainable networking solutions. ENLIGHT’EM will train a new generation of innovators and provide them with the know-how to contribute to the development of the IoT in the world of 5G and beyond. Fifteen early stage researchers (ESRs) will evolve into leading-edge experts in a diverse array of sub-fields leading to the integration of low-energy VLC into the IoT. The ESRs will acquire and hone cutting-edge skills contributing to IoT areas such as connected energy, light, living and cities through a multidisciplinary network of experts from universities, research institutes, SMEs, and large companies.

Keywords: visible light communications vlc,vlc enabled iot,optical wireless communications,networking,energy efficient,radio integration