Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
LEaDing Fellows (LEaDing Fellows)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND-FP) (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-01-02
End date: 2022-05-01
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12744000.0
EU funding (EUR): 6372000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The LEaDing Fellow Programme offers 90 two-year postdoc positions to ambitious and excellent researchers who want to perform research in a challenging, internationally esteemed and multidisciplinary environment. The aim is to help them to develop new research skills and a view on career options in academic research or in an industrial or public setting. The programme is a joint initiative of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the beneficiary, and the partners Leiden University (LEI), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Erasmus University Medical Centre (Erasmus MC) and Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). The partners work closely together on solutions relevant to complex, global, 21st-centrury challenges. These correlate with many themes on the European ‘Horizon 2020’ research agenda. Particularly, the Leading Fellows Programme offers opportunities for postdocs to work on inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral projects of their choice in multidisciplinary teams in the fields of: European economic and financial governance; education and learning; sustainability; global heritage & development; governance; metropolis and main-ports; frugal innovation for Africa; entrepreneurship; safety and security; health, life sciences, health and technology; science and technology. Partners' cooperation with non-academic organizations – established industry, start-ups, government, etc.- evolved in public-private-partnerships, providing ample opportunities for postdocs to explore new career opportunities. The LEaDing Fellow Programme offers training in a wide range of transferable skills that allow fellows to further boost their career opportunities in leading positions in industry or public institutions requiring an academic research background. Fellowships include options for visits, internships and collaboration at the partner institutions and their co-operators.

Keywords: innovation,post doc,career development,enhance employability,inter sectoral collaboration,skill development
Complex eco-evolutionary dynamics of aquatic ecosystems faced with human-induced and environmental stress (COMPLEX-FISH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 75.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999391.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999391.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Resilience and recovery ability are key determinants of species persistence and viability in a changing world. Populations exposed to rapid environmental changes and human-induced alterations are often affected by both ecological and evolutionary processes and their interactions, that is, eco-evolutionary dynamics. The integrated perspective offered by eco-evolutionary dynamics is vital for understanding drivers of resilience and recovery of natural populations undergoing rapid changes and exposed to multiple stressors. However, the feedback mechanisms, and the ways in which evolution and phenotypic changes scale up to interacting species, communities, and ecosystems, remains poorly understood. The objective of my proposal is to bridge and close this gap by merging the fields of ecology and evolution into two interfaces of complex biological dynamics. I will do this in the context of conservation and sustainable harvesting of aquatic ecosystems. I will develop a novel mechanistic theory of eco-evolutionary ecosystem dynamics, by coupling the theory of allometric trophic networks with the theory of life-history evolution. I will analyse the eco-evolutionary dynamics of aquatic ecosystems to identify mechanisms responsible for species and ecosystem resilience and recovery ability. This will be done through systematic simulation studies and detailed analyses of three aquatic ecosystems. The project delves into the mechanisms through which anthropogenic and environmental drivers alter the eco-evolutionary dynamics of aquatic ecosystems. Mechanistic understanding of these dynamics, and their consequences to species and ecosystems, has great potential to resolve fundamental yet puzzling patterns observed in natural populations and to identify species and ecosystem properties regulating resilience and recovery ability. This will drastically change our ability to assess the risks related to current and future anthropogenic and environmental influences on aquatic ecosystems.

Keywords: eco evolutionary dynamics,ecosystems,life histories,recovery ability,resilience
Emergency response made easy. Expansion to EU. (InCaseIT in EU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
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

Pilotech has an ambition to expand its Emergency Response business into EU. In order to do this, it needs to gather market knowledge and product requirements in EU. Pilotech is seeking to partly finance a feasibility study covering market intelligence and product insight through SME instrument – phase 1 (€ 50 000 ) Our mission: Runaway Tiger, Chemical leakage, Aircraft accident. It is not the fact that you have an operation with risk that matters, but how you handle it if it happens. InCaseIT from Pilotech is an operational crisis management system delivered as a Software as a service (SaaS). It will enable large corporations and smaller businesses to document preparedness, mitigate risk and respond adequately if unwanted incidents should happen. How to approach the international market (EU), where to focus, finance requirements and aligning the value proposition to the customer profiles. These are the key points for the feasibility study. We expect the identified system changes to be within reach as some of our present customers are international corporations. Hence the main learning points will be on the business side of the study. Pilotech has developed InCaseIT and sold InCaseIT to 35 customers covering branches like airlines, chemistry factories, property owners, hotel operators, amusement parks, Red Cross, ship builders mainly in Norway. Given our go to market strategy proves valid, Pilotech will reach a revenue in 2022 of € 7MM (30% profit margin).

Keywords: crisis management,mobile solutions,preparedness,alert
Molecular additive manufacturing through DNA nanotechnology (DNAMAKER)

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: United Kingdom
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): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last decades, DNA nanotechnology has been established as a robust method for the production of static, large two- and three-dimensional structures as well as dynamic systems based on the interaction of multiple small strands through strand displacement. In the proposed project, Dr. Erik Benson will join Professor Turberfield’s group to develop the first demonstration of atomically precise manufacturing based on DNA nanotechnology. In his Ph.D. studies, Erik developed methods for the design of wireframe DNA nanostructures and used several experimental techniques to study their assembly. He will combine these skills with Professor Turberfield’s expertise in DNA nanomachines and dynamic DNA toehold systems to develop a first-generation molecular printer. The printer will be constructed by DNA origami, and consist of a guide rail that host a sliding write head whose movements are externally controlled by the introduction of DNA strands. The addition of activator strands will trigger a DNA hybridization catalyst placed at the tip of the write head, causing it to modify the target surface at the precisely determined positions. The principles developed in this project can be expanded into two and three dimensions by the connection of multiple linear motors. The development of robust, externally controlled linear motion at the nanoscale can also find application in other fields including nano-manipulation, biophysics, and controlled catalysis.

Keywords: dna nanotechnology,dna origami,strand displacement,molecular additive manufacturing,nanotechnology
Low energy passenger comfort systems based on the joule and peltier effects. (JOSPEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: EGVI (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Spain,Croatia,France,Portugal,Denmark,United Kingdom,Luxembourg
Call: Optimised and systematic energy management in electric vehicles (H2020-GV-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6668288.0
EU funding (EUR): 6668288.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of JOSPEL project is the development of a novel energy efficient climate system for the optimization of interior temperature control management in electrical vehicles through an integrated approach that combines the application of the thermoelectric Joule and Peltier effect, the development of an efficient insulation of the vehicle interior, the energy recovery from heat zones, battery life increase duration enhancement as a side effect of thermal management, battery consumption reduction by Peltier cooling integration, innovative automated and eco-driving strategies and the electronic control of power flows. Main objective is the reduction of at least 50% of energy used for passenger comfort (<1,250 W) and at least 30% for component cooling in extreme conditions with reference to electric vehicles currently on the market.

Keywords: electric vehicles,joule effect,peltier cell,thermal insulation,pmma,eco driving
Agent-based support tool for the development of agriculture policies (AGRICORE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Italy,Türkiye,Greece,Poland,Poland,Greece
Call: Analytical tools and models to support policies related to agriculture and food (H2020-RUR-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3937248.75
EU funding (EUR): 3937248.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The AGRICORE project proposes a novel tool for improving the current capacity to model policies dealing with agriculture by taking advantage of latest progresses in modelling approaches and ICT. Specifically, the AGRICORE tool will be built as an agent-based approach where each farm is to be modelled as an autonomous decision-making entity which individually assesses its own context and makes decisions on the basis of its current situation and expectations. This modelling approach will allow to simulate the interaction between farms and their context (which will account for environment, rural integration, ecosystem services, land use and markets) at various geographic scales – from regional to global. To do so, advances in big data, artificial intelligence algorithms, mathematical solvers and cloud computing services will be applied to optimise the extremely-long parameterisation and calibration phase required by current agent-based tools, to better mimic the modelling of farmers’ behaviour and interactions, to credibly assess the local effects of global events and EU policies, and in general to improve policy design, impact assessments and monitoring. The AGRICORE tool will be made as a highly modular and customisable suite, and it will be released as an open-source project so institutions can transparently update and improve the tool as needs arise.

Keywords: agent based modelling,mathematical programming,agricultural policy impact assessment,environment and climate,socio economics,ecosystem services,databases,geo information,spatial data analysis
Nanostructural surface development for dental implant manufacturing (NanoSurf)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Ukraine,Italy,Estonia,Italy,Poland,Poland,Latvia,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1008000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1008000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The project NanoSurf is targeted to strengthen international and intersectoral collaboration in dental implant research, sharing new ideas and knowledge transfer from research to market and vice versa. We will investigate nanostructured metal oxide coatings, 3D scaffolds, obtained by electrospinning deposition of organic nanofibers and lazer patterning of the implant surface using biotechnology, cell engineering and nanotechnology. Interdisciplinary project research and innovation goals are targeted to develop a new class of dental implants with advanced mechanical properties and improved surfaces, treated with nanotechnological methods which will demonstrate high biocompatibility, antibacterial properties and integration with a patient’s bone. The developed devices will simplify dental surgery and avoid bacterial inflammatory complications after the implant surgery. This can provide better dental services and improve health of EU society. The project partners will provide research and training activities in the fields of fabrication and characterization of Zirconium-Titanium (ZrTi) alloy-based dental implants, sol-gel deposition of metal oxides, biopolymers and organic/inorganic nanolaminates, laser patterning, electrospinning, structural characterization, cell engineering, modeling analysis and commercialisation of scientific achievements from research results to final product. Research and management training will be provided to experienced and early stage researchers to strengthen their personal skills, improve their track record and expertise via new scientific papers and conference presentations and strengthen a development of EU research human resources. Long lasting collaboration between partners, based on co-supervising students and preparation of novel collaborative project proposals is foreseen. Dissemination of project results will make an impact on development of EU research potential in the fields of bio-, nanotechnology and applied science.

Keywords: dental implants,metal alloy,zirconium titanium,young module,surface modification,sol gel,lipss,electrospinning,nanopaterning,osseointegration,dental surgery,implantology
Dissection of the mechanisms causing the epistasis between antibiotic resistance mutations in Escherichia coli (ResistEpist)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2021-02-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 148635.6
EU funding (EUR): 148635.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health. Bacteria can become resistant by acquiring genes that counteract the action of antibiotics or by mutation of their targets. These targets are usually involved in essential processes and typically resistance mutations can impair bacterial growth in absence of antibiotics. However, combination of certain mutated alleles can result in an alleviation of this cost, thus favouring the acquisition of multiple resistances. This project aims to understand the mechanisms underlying the epistasis between resistance mutations. Decreased biosynthesis has been considered the main cause of the fitness cost associated to antibiotic resistance mutations. However, our preliminary results suggest the existence of additional causes, such as genomic instability or proteostasis imbalance. The study of these phenotypes in single and double resistant mutants of Escherichia coli will allow us to determine the nature of these epistatic interactions, as well as further understanding essential biological processes, and will provide information for the development of new treatments against multi-resistant infections.

Keywords: antibiotic resistance,epistasis,transcription translation coupling,genome instability,proteostasis imbalance
Problem Definition in the Digital Democracy (PRODIGI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2483765.0
EU funding (EUR): 2483765.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How does an issue become a political problem? No issue inherently requires political responses. Instead, political actors construct arguments regarding the nature of a given problem and connect them to particular policy actions. For example, and to preview PRODIGI's substantive focus, some see digital technology as a threat to democracy and advocate for stricter regulation, while others emphasize its potential to improve participation and argue that tighter rules stifle innovation. This phenomenon, known as "problem definition," has long been recognized as a fundamental aspect of any policymaking process. Theoretically, PRODIGI argues that the notion of problem definition needs to integrate the dynamics induced by digital technology, such as new forms of political communication that bypass traditional gatekeepers. The state of the art does not adequately describe these new dynamics. On the one hand, the literature on digital technology and politics has not explicitly recognized problem definition as a a key aspect. On the other hand, the agenda setting and problem definition literatures have not integrated the role of digital technology in their arguments. Specifically, PRODIGI pursues four objectives: 1) develop a theory of problem definition that accounts for the role of digital technology; 2) develop new methods to measure problem definition based on computational social science; 3) analyze problem definition in the case of policy responses to digital technology's implications for democracy; and 4) analyze the effects of problem definition on opinions using survey experiments. PRODIGI breaks new ground in two ways. First, it puts forward original theory and methods to study a longstanding question that has acquired new relevance in digital environments. Second, it applies the new theory and methods to an important societal challenge, namely, how politics responds to digital technology's impact on democracy.

Keywords: public policy,computational social science,digital technology and politics
ADDI-OPTIMISE - Process Efficiency & Quality Assurance in Metal Additive Manufacturing (ADDI-OPTIMISE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-2019-02, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 120875.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Croom Precision Medical (CPM) is an SME with over 35 years’ experience in partnering with global healthcare and aerospace companies as an outsourced manufacturing service of high precision components and medical devices. The overall goal of this ADDI-OPTIMISE project is to achieve a significant step change in the quality and yield of regulated components produced by metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) and as a result to deliver enhanced cost competitiveness. CPM wants to capitalise on our existing practical know-how to develop new services for application in its own business but also as a service to other European AM businesses. When evaluating the metallic AM process in a regulated medical, aerospace or automotive production settings, there is significant process flow challenges in place which requests high value metallic volatile material enter multiple environments for sieving, cleaning and recycling. This introduces multiple opportunities for hazard and material contamination from foreign particles. The competitive advantage for this project and its innovation will be realised by the ability to translate advanced technology, in-situ process monitoring information, post-processing and validation into superior product performance, reduced process waste and improved lead times against current AM processes. The output of the project will provide a robust platform that will allow us to develop multiple product lines and services to meet the needs of a rapidly developing sector. We have a vision of accelerating the uptake of additive manufacturing and disruptive technologies from the SME right through to the multinational in a bid to meet market demands in the highly regulated aerospace and medical fields. Additive Manufacturing or 3D printing in metals is disrupting these global market segments at an accelerating pace where new approaches and engineering challenges are presented for part quality, system validation and process control.

Keywords: additive manufacturing,3d printing,medical,aerospace,metal am,scaling production,industry 4 0,data engineering,machine learning,quality systems,regulated environments,validation