Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Manufacturing of Integral Stiffened Skin Panels (MISSP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands
Call: Novel manufacture of low weight skin without chemical milling (H2020-CS2-CFP04-2016-02, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 899742.5
EU funding (EUR): 899742.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

MISSP (Manufacturing of Integral Stiffened Skin Panels) project aims at proposing new manufacturing concepts for metallic aircraft cargo doors. The main objective of this project will be to develop cheaper and greener structures as an alternative to CFRP doors but also applicable for any stiffened skin panel structure. This will be made possible by the use of advanced materials, manufacturing techniques and design concepts. Expensive and polluting chemical milling operations shall be replaced by flat mechanical machining, while multi-parts riveted components shall be replaced by more integrated structures reducing the number of parts and the time-consuming mechanical riveting assembly processes The project will be divided into 3 main technical work packages, followed by a cost and performance analysis. The first work package shall focus on the manufacturing of the external door skin with the aim of replacing the chemically milled pockets by mechanically machined ones. Both stretch-forming on tailored tool blocks and high energy hydroforming alternative will be investigated. In the second work package, stringers shall be integrated to the Al-Mg-Sc 5028 skin by flat welding (FSW or LBW) followed by creep forming. Finally, the third package shall be dedicated to the manufacturing of an integral structure, drastically limiting the number of assembly operations. To this aim, an innovative solution is proposed: a plate shall be deformed by high energy hydroforming and subsequently machined into the final cargo door integral structure. To support the advanced manufacturing technologies proposed in this challenging project, use shall be made of numerical modelling that will help designing appropriated tools and optimizing process parameters to achieve high quality demonstrators that shall be delivered to the topic manager.

Keywords: integral skin panel stretching almgsc explosive forming door
Missing persons' families: experiences and knowledge, circulation of persons and things, and solidarity after Mass Fatality Incidents (MissingFamilies)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-03-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

If people go missing, their families are left with big questions about someone’s status as being dead or alive. While families of missing persons are dependent on forensic experts and expertise to have their kin identified after mass fatality incidents (MFIs) like war or political violence, forensic experts cannot do their job without support of families. However, due to technical, political or financial constraints, forensic experts and their services often are unavailable in the wake of MFIs. In such circumstances, civil society organizations like family associations become advocates for forensic interventions or initiate forensic activities themselves. While local experience and knowledge are highly relevant for the global problem of missing persons, those experiences hardly flow from the local to elsewhere, including the global. In the proposed project MissingFamilies, I ethnographically attend to the work of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) in The Hague by studying ICMP’s civil society initiatives at its Hague headquarters and in Mexico, Colombia and Iraq. Attending to civil society programs and stakeholders in the three mentioned countries, I focus on the “circulation” of local experiences, knowledges and solidarity to elsewhere, including the global. Seeking inspiration from Science and Technology Studies, and actor-network theory in particular, MissingFamilies contributes to empirical understanding of the global problem of missing persons and their surviving families; it adds new theoretical and conceptual vocabulary to the materialities of absence and presence; it furthers the notions of circulation and solidarity in the wake of MFIs; and provides opportunities to improve future MFI operations.

Keywords: forensic science,civil society,mass fatality incidents,science and technology studies,actor network theory,expertise,solidarity
Deciphering the developmental roots of childhood sarcoma cells – combining single cell sequencing technologies and machine learning (CAtS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-11-09
End date: 2022-11-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Each year more than 35,000 European children and young people are diagnosed with cancer. Childhood cancer remains a major public health and socioeconomic issue in Europe and around the world. Cancer arises when a single cell transforms and divides uncontrollably, resulting in a malignant mass of tumour cells. To study cancer, we must understand how these normal cells change. Our current understanding of how normal cells vary across the many tissues of our body is poorly understood. Child development represents a unique challenge in understanding our cells, as children’s bodies change at a cellular level entirely different than adults. This is reflected in the spectrum of cancers diagnosed in children compared to adults, particularly in bone and soft tissue cancers (sarcomas) where they present in less than 1% of adults' cancers and nearly 21% of children's cancers. With the advent of high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), it is now possible to analyze cell populations at remarkable scale and resolution. The primary purpose of this project is to use scRNA-seq to reconstruct the phylogenetic cellular lineage of childhood and adult sarcomas, and corresponding normal tissue. This fellowship aims to (1) discover and define differences between normal and cancer cell biology at single-cell resolution and (2) use machine learning to determine the cell type (cell-of-origin), the somatic changes and transcriptional trajectories of normal cells that lead to malignant transformation in children compared to adults. This project represents the highest resolution map of the intratumour genetic heterogeneity and clonal evolution of sarcoma ever produced. Another outcome of this project will be a reference map of all of the somatic mutations and expression profiles of normal bone and cartilaginous tissue. This will be a pivotal resource for the global research community - the ‘Bone’ and ‘Cartilage’ branches of the ‘Developmental Human Cell Atlas’.

Keywords: cancer genomics,single cell,rna sequencing,sarcoma,paediatric cancer,machine learning,bone cancer
Reforming Schools Globally: A Multi-Scalar Analysis of Autonomy and Accountability Policies in the Education Sector (REFORMED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1002307.0
EU funding (EUR): 1002307.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Most countries in the world are facing reform pressures to make their education systems more effective and responsive to the new challenges generated by the global economy. In this scenario, managerial policy ideas such as school autonomy and accountability, which aim to modernize public education and strengthen its performance, are spreading broadly. To date, a wide range of countries with different administrative traditions and levels of development have adopted school autonomy with accountability (SAWA) policies, whilst the most active international organizations in the education sector, like the OECD, are strongly promoting them globally. Constituting SAWA as a global model of education reform generates two main questions. First, why and how are SAWA policies disseminating globally, and to what extent does this reform model generate international policy convergence in education? Secondly, how and under what particular contextual and institutional circumstances do SAWA policies work and for whom? The fact that existing scholarly research has achieved inconclusive and mixed findings concerning the SAWA effects on learning outcomes and equity makes this second question especially relevant. To address these gaps in existing literature, REFORMED develops a comprehensive research approach that scrutinizes the different, but mutually constitutive stages of global education policy, from the inception in global agendas stage to their operationalization and effects in multiple contexts. Specifically, the project analyzes how and why SAWA policies are being adopted and re-formulated by policy actors operating at different scales (from international bureaucrats to teachers), and inquires into the institutional frameworks and policy enactment processes that explain the different effects of SAWA at the school level. A robust and multi-scalar methodological strategy that combines quantitative and qualitative methods will contribute to advancing such an innovative approach.
Intelligent Non-woven Textiles and Elastomeric Responsive materials by Advancing liquid Crystal Technology (INTERACT)

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: Luxembourg
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1929976.0
EU funding (EUR): 1929976.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A grand challenge in today’s materials research is the realization of flexible materials that are also intelligent and functional. They will be the enablers of true breakthroughs in the hot trends of soft robotics and wearable technology. The standard approach to the latter is to decorate rubber sheets with electronic components, yielding two serious flaws: rubber is uncomfortable as it does not breath and solid state electronics will eventually fail as a garment is flexed and stretched when worn. While the softness of rubber is ideal it must be used in the form of textile fibers to provide breathability, and for long-term failure resistance we need intelligent components that are soft. A solution to this conundrum was recently presented by the PI with the concept of liquid crystal (LC) electrospinning. The extreme responsiveness of LCs is transferred to a non-woven textile by incorporating the LC in the fiber core, yielding a smart flexible mat with sensory function. Moreover, it consumes no power, providing a further advantage over electronics-based approaches. In a second research line he uses microfluidics to make LC rubber microshells, functioning as autonomous actuators which may serve as innovative components for soft robotics, and photonic crystal shells. This interdisciplinary project presents an ambitious agenda to advance these new concepts to the realization of soft, stretchable intelligent materials of revolutionary character. Five specific objectives are in focus: 1) develop understanding of the dynamic response of LCs in these unconventional configurations; 2) establish interaction dynamics during polymerisation of an LC precursor; 3) elucidate LC response to gas exposure; 4) establish correlation between actuation response and internal order of curved LCE rubbers; and 5) assess usefulness of LC-functionalized fibers and polymerized LC shells, tubes and Janus particles in wearable sensors, soft robotic actuators and high-security identification tags.

Keywords: responsive materials,actuators,liquid crystals,elastomers,wearable technology,soft robotics,electrospinning,microfluidics
Augmented Reality Vision for Surgery (ARVisS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

On European scale, out of an estimated 3.45 million new cases of cancer, the most common sites are female breast, colon, lung and prostate. These four cancers represent half of the overall burden of cancer in Europe, with an economic impact estimated over 125 billion euros. With a potential of global implementation, Trivisio's ARVisS system range will provide more accessible, yet strongly improved, accuracy, completeness and time efficiency in the surgical management of the common, high incidence, malignant cancer tissues. A novel approach is proposed implementing advanced microscopy, in combination with real-time fluorescence and 3D, in-sight image guidance by pre- and intraoperative diagnostic data. Bringing these three main benefits in a straightforward, easy-to-use fashion to the practicing surgeons, the proposed medical device has the potential to bridge the current gap between traditional surgical glass loupes with external information and high standard microscopy devices. Realization of this challenge is possible when Trivisio’s leading know-how and available state-of-the-art technologies, such as augmented reality and optical see-through head-mounted displays, are integrated in a simplified resection tool for healthcare. Higher success rates, time efficiency and subsequent financial cost of more common surgical interventions can then be achieved at only 25% of the current investment budget. Higher survival chances are aimed at by the decrease of post-operative side effects and a reduced cancer recurrence, leading to a lowering of the financial pressure on both medical institutions and national health care systems.

Keywords: cancer surgery fluorescence augmented reality guidance optical see trough head mounted displays
Biological Physics of Living Active Nematics (BPLAN)

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: Physics
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The growth of a bacterial colony is a fascinating example of a biological process that can be interpreted in physical terms as the interaction of a collection of elementary units - the cells - with the surrounding environment and within themselves, whereby energy is harnessed and dissipated, thus determining inherent non-equilibrium conditions. Although bacterial cells are one of the simplest forms of life, scientists have so far found difficult to build theoretical models of bacterial growth and morphology as well as to perform controlled experiments of the real systems occurring in nature. These difficulties arise from the naturally occurring conditions that are characterized by a large degree of complexity in both morphological and chemical terms. The aim of this project is to investigate through novel experimental approaches the biological physics which is at the foundation of the formation of 2D bacterial microcolony and its successive development to a 3D structure. To this purpose, several experimental techniques, from traction force microscopy, through laser ablation and soft lithography will be exploited. Furthermore, experimental results obtained from these studies will be of great relevance for the validation of numerical and theoretical models of bacterial colony morphogenesis and antibiotics exposure. The planned research activities will be carried out in one of the top research laboratory in Europe for active matter and within the wider context of École Normale Supérieure, a world renowned academic institution in the fields of statistical mechanics, soft matter and optics. This project aims thus at providing fundamental insights into the development of early stages of bacterial community formation, trying to establish what physical parameters related to the cells, the environment and their interactions determine the transitions from a 2D to a 3D structure, and lastly to gain control over these parameters.

Keywords: cell growth,biofilms,morphogenesis,tissue,antibiotics,laser ablation,active nematics
Safe Data Enabled Economic Development (Safe-DEED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Austria,Austria,Belgium,Greece,Netherlands
Call: Supporting the emergence of data markets and the data economy (H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2996400.0
EU funding (EUR): 2996400.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

As privacy and trust remain key in the data sharing debate, Privacy enhancing technologies (PET) will play a prominent role by 2025. Safe-DEED takes a highly interdisciplinary approach, bringing together partners from cryptography, data science, business innovation, and legal domain to focus on improving Security technologies, improving trust as well as on the diffusion of Privacy enhancing technologies to keep up pace with global macrotrends and the data economy, to enable the fastest possible growth. Furthermore, as it has been recently shown that even among large companies, many have no data valuation process in place, Safe-DEED provides a set of tools to facilitate the assessment of data value, thus incentivising data owners to make use of the scalable cryptographic protocols developed in Safe-DEED to create value for their companies and their clients.

Keywords: multi party computation,data value
COpernicus Applications and services for Low impact agriculture in Australia (COALA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling European research in support of international space partnerships
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Spain,Australia,Spain,Belgium
Call: International Cooperation Copernicus – Designing EO downstream applications with international partners (H2020-SPACE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1698736.28
EU funding (EUR): 1698736.25
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

COALA will develop Copernicus-based information service for irrigation and nutrient management for the Australian agricultural systems, starting from the consolidated past experiences of the proposed European partnership, but based on strong collaboration with Academic Australian institutions and business players in the agricultural sector of Australia. Operational farming advisory services will be further developed on one hand to include nutrient managements on the other to provide water accounting data from the farm to the district and/or basin scale. COALA will monitor crops development, water and nutrient status, irrigated areas by means of innovative algorithms based on Sentinel Earth Observation data, which will be accessed by means of the new cloud platforms (DIAS) of Copernicus. In-situ and other source of data will be used to improve the accuracy of the products for the final users, which will be on three different levels: i) farmers, ii) irrigation infrastructure operators, iii) basin authorities. COALA will demonstrate that Copernicus data and new DIAS infrastructure can greatly improve the availability of information for management decisions on irrigation and nutrient management at all decision levels, from the Water Authority in charge of monitoring the implementation of the basin exploitation plan, to the farm level, passing through the irrigation infrastructure operators, in charge of managing irrigation distribution infrastructures. COALA tools and data will improve the decision making and policy for sustainable use of water and nutrients in multi-functional ecosystems. Through this project, it will be possible to explore new business opportunities in Australia for the European industry of Earth Observation services.

Keywords: dias,australia,crop water requirement,nutrient management