Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Human-Landscape-Interactions and Global Dispersals: The SURFACE Record of Palaeolithic Arabia (SURFACE)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Australia,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 216512.4
EU funding (EUR): 216512.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

SURFACE is an international, trans-disciplinary action combining approaches from archaeology, geomorphology and remote sensing to develop novel approaches to the analysis of the distribution of surface artefacts in arid landscapes. It will use these to address models of human-environment-landscape interactions in Palaeolithic Arabia and their implications for global dispersal of hominin populations. At a key crossroads of global dispersals, and with a proven but little-studied record of Palaeolithic occupation, Southwestern Saudi Arabia possesses a surface record vital to understanding Pleistocene dispersals out of Africa. How different Homo species (H. erectus, H. sapiens), utilised their landscapes, and subsequent implications for their abilities to disperse from Africa is poorly understood, and interpretation of past hominin landscape use from present-day artefact distributions is not straightforward. Distributions are the sum of varying behaviours over time, while landscape evolution alters the distribution and availability of resources linked to these behaviours (e.g. water, raw materials) and the preservation and visibility of archaeological evidence. It is only by developing a robust, well-dated model of landscape evolution, and detailed recording of surface artefacts in relation to the geomorphological units comprising the landscape, coupled with theoretical paradigms that engage with the variable time depth of surface assemblages that the potential of this record for informing on past hominin-landscape interactions can be realised. SURFACE brings together researchers from the UK and Australia at the cutting edge of developing approaches to the surface record. It will train the ER in these interdisciplinary methods to enable her to fully exploit the globally significant Palaeolithic record of SW Saudi Arabia, and to further develop methodological and theoretical approaches to the surface record, with implications far beyond the time period in question.

Keywords: palaeolithic,arabia,landscape archaeology,geomorphology,surface artefacts,hominin dispersals
Political Economy of Trade, Institutions, and Transnational Interests, in the Atlantic (PETITIA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Why did Dutch merchants petition the Amsterdam city council for free trade in the English Empire in the middle of the Dutch Golden Age? And why was there a plan for a Dutch American Company to protect trade in the English colonies in Barbados, Virginia, and the Leeward Islands? This project posits that both were creations of a transnational advocacy network (TAN). This TAN was a cooperation between Dutch merchants and English planters in the English Atlantic colonies. This Research Action emphasizes the interdependent nature of economic interests and political decision making in international politics and diplomacy in the Early Modern period. Such an approach illuminates the historical origins of TANs predating the nineteenth century and challenges the strict national framework of petitions. This proposal highlights the importance of non-state actors in international affairs and empire building. Moreover, this approach adds a novel Atlantic perspective to both the English Civil Wars and the (first) Anglo-Dutch War(s). Finally, this project is a unique case to answer the question why a successful transnational economic network attempted to become a formal, state-chartered, organization called the Dutch America Company. This research has a two-pronged approach. [1] Reconstruct the economic exposure of the petitioners; linking names and signatures to notarial deeds relating to these English colonies. [2] Reconstruct the TAN’s coordination and strategy by comparing rhetoric and argumentation between petitions and diplomatic correspondence and pamphlets.

Keywords: petitions,atlantic history,early modern history,institution,networks,transnational advocacy
Formation and Characterization of Protein Post-Translational Modifications and Assessment of Cellular Responses by Application of Metals in Biological Systems (METALS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms, biotechnology for environment and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences, bioengineering and synthetic biology, biomass and biofuels, biohazards
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1798750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1798750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The chemistry of metals is rich and viewed in a biological context its diversity is crucial for a multitude of molecular functions in the living cell. Many of these reactions are very attractive to both academia and industry. In this proposal, I plan to develop novel applications of metal compounds to solve immediate challenges in mass spectrometry-based proteome research, but also will assess the potential risks of using nano-sized metals in our society. First, it is important to develop an efficient enzyme-independent method to synthesize large amounts of biologically relevant C-terminal amidated peptides. Presently, C-terminal peptide amidation poses a challenge in pharmaceutical production due to limitations of the two enzymes used for this purpose. The suggested approach in METALS will examine the specific binding of uranyl to artificially phosphorylated recombinant peptides. Data reveal that subsequent UV irradiation produces C-terminal amidated peptides. I will attempt to minimize the bias inherent in current phosphopeptide analysis, which comes from inefficient inhibition of phosphatases during cell lysis. Application of a recently developed gallium complex during cell lysis should limit the extent of this bias by binding phosphorylated proteins. The neutral conditions involved with the gallium complex reaction should also facilitate the possibility of enrichment of acid labile phospho-histidine peptides of which only a handful have been characterized. Finally, humans are now exposed to increasing amounts of artificially nano-metals applied via consumer products, food packages, and cosmetics. I will investigate this problem using advanced mass spectrometry, confocal microscopy, and biochemical assays of the response of human neural cells to nano-metal particles. The particular focus area will be to elucidate whether the action of nanoparticles in human neural cells may shed new light on understanding of diseases like Parkinson´s disease.

Keywords: mass spectrometry,nano particles,proteomics,proteome research,phosphoproteome analysis,bio nano interactions
Sense, Science and the Magic of Food (SESAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160785.0
EU funding (EUR): 160785.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the SESAM - Sense, Science and the Magic of Food is to create interest among young people at school and among citizens about the role of science in society by using the call for food systems transformation that is created by the climate crisis as the science case. The SESAM is bringing school youth, citizens and scientists involved in the bioeconomy and in curricular studies together around one open and public event in September 2-4 2020. The SESAM aims to demonstrate how young people and citizens by working together with academia and science can contribute to solving some of the urgent and complex sustainability challenges across global to local scales and multiple domains facing societies. The SESAM will be built around the idea of live Young Minds Food Lab that will form the physical frame for the events. The Young Minds Food Lab has been tested in several contexts at science and food festival as a way to highlight the commitment and importance of young peoples solutions to societal challenges. It builds on the idea of creating 21st century skills in learning workshops where pupil are challenged to address some of most important food and bio-economy relevant SDG´’s. The YouMiLa functions at the same time as a catchy and attention creating backdrop for the activities at the SESAM. The YouMiLa acts as a temporary science centre and includes a number of specific learning stations all manned by groups of 2.4 pupils all coached by a science teacher. All learning stations are involves one or more specific science principles from biology, chemistry and/or physics as well as one or more digital principles such as Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Robotics, Biometrics, Coding and Data Science.
Multiplatform for multi-users 3D content co-creation and collaboration in Real-time (VR/AR/Mobile) (Gravity Sketch)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Virtual and Augmented Reality are slowly infiltrating our industries, influencing everything from designing to visualising buildings before a brick has been laid. It requires more people working in 3D as more and more 3D assets and objects are required for these environments. However, still, the design process remains split into the physical 2D pen-and-paper realm and the virtual 3D realm, with Computer Assisted Design (CAD) operators as gatekeepers. The vast majority of 3D content is either scanned or designed by industry professionals, not consumers. What is needed is a solution that will allow designers to quickly and freely create directly in 3D (no 2D phase) to speed up the design process, dramatically reduce cost and time of prototyping any products by eliminating expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes from the design review process by visualizing at scale in 3D on day one. There is a need for an intuitive tool to address the shortage of designers (i.e. Automotive, industrial design, game design, film industries). We at Gravity sketch develop a multiplatform solution for the multi-user collaborative 3D content creation and visualisation in real time that saves the time of the initial design process up to 60% when building accurate manufacturing grade digital models. Our intuitive tool has been tested with series of designers and engineers in Japan, Europe and the USA form automotive, apparel, and film industry. The feasibility study will be aimed at new identified non-enterprise sectors and subscription business model. We will disrupt the 3D design workflow - one platform for real-time 3D content creation, modification, delivery/sharing. It will allow designers and teams from anywhere in the world for collaborative designing using VR/AR/Mobile devices. It is anticipated that VR/AR software could stimulate a USD 35B market by 2025. We aim at EUR 2,8B (SAM) and projected to reach 3,59% of SAM (EUR 100,5M) and increase employment from 10 to 28 by 2023.

Keywords: professional grade,cad compatible,immersive,3d design,software,augmented,virtual reality,design,gaming engine
Next Generation 12+MW Rated, Robust, Reliable and Large Offshore Wind Energy Converters for Clean, Low Cost and Competitive Electricity (ReaLCoE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Germany,Austria,Belgium,Sweden,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Demonstration of large >10MW wind turbine (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-IA, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 93.0
Total project cost (EUR): 31866360.18
EU funding (EUR): 24838257.65
Participants: 31
Project status: SIGNED

The ReaLCoE consortium is happy to submit a well-prepared proposal, founded on a highly experienced and tight-knit group in discussion since early 2017. ReaLCoE aims to accelerate a new generation of competitive and subsidy free clean energy from offshore wind energy converters (WEC) with a high performance 12+MW demonstration turbine. Our WEC technology platform developments are designed to be competitive and scalable, consolidating scientific knowledge and operational experience for a swift evolution towards 14-16 MW rated capacities. Today, only less than 30% of the cost for electricity from large offshore wind energy converters incur from the turbine itself. ReaLCoE will work to optimise innovation across the whole value chain; from initial turbine design to equipment handling in the port, to testing, financing installation and the final customer to substantially reduce the Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCoE) of offshore wind. The consortium is led by a pioneer in the sector, Senvion, who has brought together some of Europe’s most experienced and talented actors in both on- and offshore wind energy to demonstrate a 12+MW WEC. After a period of strong market consolidation, Senvion and its partners aim to jointly enter a competitive market of offshore wind energy in the 12+MW turbine class. We are confident that ReaLCoE will have a global impact on offshore wind energy market, reinforcing Europe’s technological leadership and bringing growth and job opportunities to the industrial base. Not only in the wind energy sector through the manufacturing, installation and operation of 12+MW WEC in a competitive environment; but also through the provision of cheap, clean energy across an integrated system of renewables. This paves the way for a turbine generation with rated capacities of 14-16MW and triggers hundreds of millions in investment into the European clean tech sector.

Keywords: wind energy,lcoe,levelised cost of electricity,upscaling,12 mw,modular,robust,offshore wind energy,grid parity,renewable energy,digitalisation,demonstration
Positive Entrepreneurship (PosEnt)

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-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-17
End date: 2021-03-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of Positive Entrepreneurship (PosEnt) is to train a talented researcher through a research project focused on a novel application of positive psychology in the field of entrepreneurship. The project will investigate signature strengths, positive emotions, thriving, resilience and eudaimonic well-being (WB) of entrepreneurs and their families. This multidisciplinary project will help to open a new direction of Positive Entrepreneurship research and will have an impact on science and business practice in Europe. To date the WB of entrepreneurs and their families has received only limited attention and research is: (1) rather static, (2) focused on entrepreneur-employee comparisons, (3) informed by relatively ‘old theories’ about drivers of WB of employees, (4) focused on subjective WB. What is missing is a more interactive/collective, process-oriented view that considers processes related to eudaimonic WB and thriving. The fellow – Dr. Przemysław Zbierowski, will be trained in a number of skills (concerning research, publication, dissemination and transfer of knowledge) that have been identified by him as insufficiently developed to advance his career and to achieve (1) maturity which will be reflected in professorship in home country and (2) potential to lead research teams across Europe. At the host institution – Aston University and during the secondments, the applicant will have access to unique training experience, outstanding researchers, including the supervisor – Prof. Ute Stephan, with diverse backgrounds from psychology, economics, and geography to entrepreneurship. The PosEnt output will be relevant for European science base and economic and social life. The outputs will contribute to the enhancement of EU scientific excellence by opening the innovative direction of Positive Entrepreneurship. Outputs will be practice-relevant: encouraging entrepreneurship, facilitating growth of SMEs, and enhancing welfare of entrepreneurs and their families.

Keywords: entrepreneurship,positive psychology,character,singature strength,well being,family well being,eudaimonia,thriving,resilience,positive emotions
PV FINANCING (PV FINANCING)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Türkiye,Belgium,Belgium,France,United Kingdom
Call: Market uptake of existing and emerging renewable electricity, heating and cooling technologies (H2020-LCE-2014-3, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2050938.75
EU funding (EUR): 2050938.75
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have been the fuel for successful solar PV growth stories in basically every one of today’s large solar markets. First in Europe, now in China and Japan. The US is the only exception – backed by tax credits and net-metering, leasing has become a key means of financing residential solar systems there. With many European countries phasing out FITs, the simplicity of selling solar power will be gone; and without safe and fair returns, real estate and homeowners will not invest in PV anymore. In post-FIT times, solar companies and/or electric utilities in partnership with financial institutions will have to come up with new business models and financing schemes for PV investors in order to continue the success story of the FIT era. The German Solar Industry Association as project coordinator is driven by the mission to successfully evolve those business and financing models, to disseminate them among stakeholders and to shape the necessary policy framework and to remove barriers that prevent those models from realization. Consequently, the goal of PV Financing is to help stakeholders from specific application segments with the implementation of PV projects based on new PV business models while applying innovative equity and debt financing schemes. The availability of financing for PV projects based on the new business models shall be increased and the transaction costs shall be decreased by educating investors, commercial banks and insurance companies on the PV business models and their risks.

Keywords: photovoltaic,financing schemes,business models for pv
Laser Induced Synthesis of Biocompatible Multifunctional Inorganic Nanoparticles: A Novel Route to Produce Multifunctional Contrast Agents for Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer (NIMBLIS)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166156.8
EU funding (EUR): 166156.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of this IF research proposal is to produce novel nanoparticle-based multimodal contrast agents for their use in breast cancer diagnosis by combining Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Digital Mammography, X-ray Computed Tomography and Ultrasonography. In doing so, we will develop a new high-productivity strategy to synthesize multimodal hybrid nanoparticles, which consists in femtosecond-laser-induced-ablation of a metal plate immersed into a solvent containing chemicals, in combination with direct nanosecond-laser photolysis in solution of these chemicals. This research will be coupled to an in situ study of the high-productivity laser fabrication process and the analysis of the underlying mechanisms which allows the nucleation and growth of these hybrid nanoparticles. Moreover, we will analyze the structure, composition, physical and colloidal properties of the as-synthesized hybrid nanoparticles, as well as the in vitro performance of these nanoparticles as contrast agents in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasonography and X-ray imaging techniques. We will also evaluate the citotoxicity of the as synthesized hybrid nanoparticles in normal cells and tumor breast cells lines. Finally, we will target these nanoparticles toward the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) which is overexpressed in breast cancers with a poor prognosis and higher disease recurrence, and we will evaluated in vitro the targeting ability of the obtained anti-HER2-nanoparticles conjugates for HER2+ breast cancer cells.

Keywords: ultra short pulse laser ablation in liquids,laser solution photolysis,synthesis of multimodal nanoparticles,colloidal dispersions,ultrasonography,digital mammography,x ray ct