Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Next-generation Plasma-based Electron Beam Sources for High-brightness Photon Science (NeXource)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2059493.0
EU funding (EUR): 1533849.25
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

High-quality electron beams are required for advanced light sources and for high energy physics. Engines of discovery such as free-electron-lasers (FELs) and other bright light sources, are driven by electron beams today produced in km-long state-of-the-art linear accelerators (linacs). A complementary alternative are cm-scale plasma-based accelerators, which are feasible in university-lab scale environments. The NeXource project aims at combining key advantages of both types of accelerators to realize hybrid plasma-based accelerators orders of magnitude smaller and at the same time with electron beam quality orders of magnitude better than state-of-the-art. This has far-reaching impact as it will enable the construction of table-top coherent hard x-ray sources with extreme brightness. This project is motivated by experimental breakthroughs obtained in the E210 collaboration at the linac-driven plasma accelerator facility FACET at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and by the progress at laser-plasma-accelerator facilities, combined with novel conceptual approaches towards beams with unprecedented 6D-brightness by using tailored beamloading in plasma-based photocathodes. A dedicated setup for plasma photocathode prototyping and hybrid plasma acceleration will be established at the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA) to develop beam brightness transformers. This R&D will be complemented by campaigns at SLAC, DESY, Daresbury Laboratory and laser-plasma-accelerator labs in Europe. Start-to-end simulations indicate that hard x-ray FEL’s with ultrahigh gain and other advanced light sources can be realised with such electron beams in university-scale labs, which would have transformative impact on photon science and a wide range of natural, life and material science.

Keywords: plasma wakefield acceleration,light source,x ray free electron laser,laser plasma interaction
Developing smart polymer compositions for highly sensitive multiplex PCR assays (Smartpolymer)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2021-08-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at designing, synthesizing and optimizing thermothickening polymer compositions that would behave as liquid miscible with water, exhibit a low viscosity at room temperature and turn into a homogeneous hydrogel during PCR with MCT assay, with the limited diffusion of the DNA target and PCR products and high enough diffusion of PCR reagents to permit efficient DNA amplification. For this purpose copolymers consisting of a water-soluble backbone with side chains exhibiting LCST will be the topic of choice. The proposal is very innovative because in the first time thermothickening polymers will be applied in MCT PCR assays allowing fast, sensitive and selective quantifying multiple targets within the single reaction. The contribution of the project will be in digitalizing assays and making multiple target quantification straightforward, making them high sensitive and readily incorporative into a rapid Point of Care device. This project will meet the best of the competences of the Experienced Researcher (ER) in all aspects of Organic Chemistry (high level expertize in classical Target Oriented Organic Synthesis and state-of-the-art synthetic methodologies including Diversity Oriented Synthesis, modern methods for activation of chemical processes, physicochemical methods of elucidation of the compounds structure) and BforCure expertise in the FASTGENE technology, Polymerase Chain Reaction and the microfluidic techniques. Through the present project, the ER will reach a level of maturity on several technological aspects but also on managerial and industrial aspects that will provide her new career perspectives. Following this new experience, the ER will be one step closer to act as a leader or manager of a research team.

Keywords: microfluidics,thermothickening polymers,mct pcr assay
The Globalisation of Ice Sheets: a Scientific and Political History (ICEglobe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart 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: 2022-01-10
End date: 2025-07-14
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 318656.16
EU funding (EUR): 318656.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed project 'The Globalisation of Ice Sheets: a Scientific and Political History' (ICEglobe) charts and questions the historical processes of knowledge production and utilization that have transformed the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from geographical unknowns into objects of global significance within the context of climate change. Forecasting the future of ice sheets, their contribution to sea level rise and its global consequences has become a top priority for governments and international bodies such as the IPCC. Despite the increased resources allocated to the physical study of ice sheets, however, very little attention has been given to their scientific and political history. ICEglobe argues that if our societal and governmental response to ice sheet melt is to be fully informed and effective, there is an urgent need for more nuanced analysis of how ice sheet knowledge has been produced and utilized in the past. Drawing on the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge (the host), of my secondment partner organisation, and of other repositories in Europe and internationally, the project will research the intertwined processes of scientific and cultural exchange between the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. It will examine the collaborative, technological and geopolitical contexts that have shaped ice sheet knowledge over the same period; it will question how ice sheet modelization and melt have sparked the re-emergence of debates around catastrophism and irreversibility; and it will consider how ice sheets challenge the idea and logic of human-nature reciprocity and coexistence. ICEglobe will be supervised by a Cultural, Political and Historical Geographer specialized in the Polar Regions and will be enriched by the Canditate’s longstanding interdisciplinary interest in the cryosphere. It will result in four papers and the first comprehensive monograph on the scientific and political history of ice sheets.

Keywords: history,science,environment,climate change,cryosphere,sea level,catastrophism,coexistence,global governance,glaciology,remote sensing,modelization,visual culture
INcreasing the InNOVation Management Capacity of SMEs in ISTanbul (INNOVIST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153590.8
EU funding (EUR): 122872.64
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Main objective of INNOVIST is to increase the competitiveness and the growth rate of SMEs in Istanbul by further developing their innovation management capacities. Innovation management performance of the company will be assessed by IMP3rove in a holistic approach and a well structured documentation of the results will be shared with the company. With this diagnosis, areas for increasing the innovation management and competitiveness capacity for sustainable growth of the SME will be identified. The added value of the project will be a company specific roadmap based on the IMProve diagnosis. The roadmap will contain concrete measures to significantly increase the innovation management capacity and performance of the company. Another objective of the project is to assists the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument in Istanbul by providing key account management services. INNOVIST will identify the bottlenecks that could hinder the successful exploitation of the innovation project. The aim is to identify the coaching requirements of the beneficiary by analysing the strategic needs. Establishing a connection between the most suitable coach and the company and ensuring a sustainable relation throughout the innovation project will be the heart of the key account management service. Aforementioned assistance will be provided to SMEs in 7-day service packages. Consortium plans to devote 1.5 FTE for this work package in the EEN project for the next two years. IST-BUSINNOVA aims to provide 100 service packages in Istanbul in the years 2015 and 2016.

Keywords: innovation management capacity,assessment tool,technology audit,sme instrument,account manager
Researchers Changing Society (CHANGE)

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: Finland,Finland,Finland,Finland,Finland,Finland,Finland
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 428884.25
EU funding (EUR): 233584.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The CHANGE project aims to foster collaboration between the public and researchers in Finland in order to improve our everyday life in a rapidly changing world. This project brings together 9 universities, 1 research institute and two expert organisations for science communication. It spans many facets of research in Finland and covers numerous individual researchers with diverse backgrounds and research topics. We will deliver a message of cutting edge research conducted in Finland and introduce the general public with the large number of researchers and the significant work they perform. We want to break stereotypes the general public may have on researchers. The programme for activities during the night will include content for everyone, from children to seniors. However, the specific aim is to promote research careers especially to high school and university students, and young people in general who are about to make their first real career choice. Our message is that high education is fun and could provide them with a secured future. For the first time, so many Finnish universities and organisations will unite for a widespread European Researchers’ Night and perform simultaneously activities targeted for the general public around the country.

Keywords: research in finland,science communication,centenary of finland,change,multidisciplinary,national,science,arts
Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi'ite Islam (LAWALISI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2212638.6
EU funding (EUR): 2212638.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The academic study of Islamic law has, so far, almost exclusively focused on Sunni legal thought. The legal thought and practice of Shi’ite (and other) traditions has been neglected, and this has created a rather skewed account of the history of Islamic law. This project aims to rectify this inadequacy by producing a body of research in which the Imami Shi’ite contribution to Islamic legal history is described, analysed and evaluated. Imami Shi’ites, sometimes termed Twelvers, are the largest branch of Shi’ism today. Imamis form a majority in Iran and Iraq where the major Shi’i centres of legal learning are located. In the project, we aim to examine the theories and methods used by scholars in the study of Islamic law, derived mainly from Sunni sources, and test them against the Shi’ite legal literature. The project aims to demonstrate that a non-Sunni tradition of Islamic legal thought, in this case Imami Shi’i law, can illuminate and enrich the general history of Islamic law. At times, Shi'ite law shares features with other legal schools; at other times it provides an alternative account, challenging long held assumptions concerning Islam’s legal development. The project will do this through 5 independent, but linked, Research Themes, in which research fellows and visiting professors will carry out detailed programmes of research. These will cover Imami law and doctrine, the dynamics of legal authority, the relationship between legal theory and doctrine and the influence of law on political theory. The project will facilitate opportunities to test the researchers' research findings with both international experts in the field, and scholars from within the Imami legal tradition. The Principal Investigator, Robert Gleave, has made a major contribution to this area in his research, publications and other activities for 20 years, and this project extends and expands this interest, aiming to make a lasting impact on the field of Islamic legal studies in the future.
Microtubule Dynamics during angiogenesis (MTUB-ANGIO)

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: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Restoring normal vessel structure and function is now considered as a highly promising therapeutic opportunity for angiogenesis-related diseases, including cancer. Despite extensive use of microtubule targeting compounds in vascular-directed anticancer treatment, knowledge of the cellular mechanisms underlying microtubule regulation during angiogenesis is still elusive. By combining my previous experience in endothelial cell biology and the long term expertise of the host laboratory in microtubules dynamics as well as in high resolution imaging techniques, our project is aimed at studying microtubule dynamics and microtubule function in the precise context of sprouting angiogenesis. To achieve that goal, we propose to address the role of microtubule regulatory proteins using advanced high resolution live imaging of 3D culture of endothelial cells. We will identify endothelial specific MT regulators through expression, interaction and functional studies, assess their impact on microtubule dynamics during 3D tubulogenesis and validate their role both in the 3D morphogenesis model and in vivo, using zebrafish. This project is aimed at answering fundamental questions in the angiogenesis field as well as providing new opportunities for therapeutic strategies. At the same time, my experience in the laboratory of Dr Akhmanova will allow me to develop knowledge and skills in order to prepare me to reach a position of professional maturity.

Keywords: developmental angiogenesis,microtubules,microtubule dynamics
Futuring European Industry (FUTURING)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced manufacturing and processing
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Poland,Greece,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Policy support for Industry 2020 in the circular economy (H2020-NMBP-CSA-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1470126.25
EU funding (EUR): 1470126.25
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

FUTURING aims at contributing to define the strategy for the re-industrialization of Europe, by focusing on the role of Research and Innovation within the framework of other dimensions – Economy, Society, Environment, Globalization, geopolitics– and incoming paradigms such as Circular Economy. It explores 2030 future scenarios, concerning EU Industry, through the use of foresight and other Policy Intelligence tools, to identify critical factors on which action should be taken in order to overcome barriers and to foster opportunities for the EU re-industrialization process. A large variety of experts and stakeholders, both directly as partners and externals, representing the main dimensions of the landscape in which the EU re-industrialization is going to take place, are participating. Given the number of participants, their location in different countries of Europe, it is expected that the output of the project will be widely disseminated among relevant stakeholders throughout Europe. In particular, Recommendations will provide Policy Makers, at European, National and Regional level, guidelines for future Research and Innovation activities.

Keywords: reindustrialization
BX Platform Converting real time data into more efficient trucking operations (BX Platform)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Planning departments are generally appointed to coordinate and administer all activities in logistics supply chain, with the aim to create a highly efficient schedule. Nevertheless, due to a number of factors the complexity of transport scheduling is increasing rapidly resulting to the specific needs of cutting down costs, business process improvement and improved customer service. Hence there is a need for IT-based scheduling solutions that combine orders with routes and shifts in such a way that total costs are minimized and all business rules and service constraints are satisfied. Although, APS software can be useful for automated scheduling, existing applications mainly make use of batch planning algorithms limited to tomorrow and next day’s deliveries (12-24 hours old data). What is more, they fail to adapt to today’s business where planners has to make trade-offs between optimal and feasible routes and adjust to changes in the course of the day. BX Platform reinvents the industry by enabling the concept of automated real time scheduling. Based on proprietary AI algorithms and a 24/7 running solid platform we connect the various stakeholders of the supply chain into a new market place, where real time data are converted into more efficient trucking operations and real-time communication is achieved. It results to the following unique offerings: 1) 5-10% reduced trucking costs through scheduling with real time data compared to 12-24 hours old data, 2) 25-50% reduced cost in the office: By eliminating manual scheduling support costs are significantly reduced and 3) Improved customer service: Customized portals and app to keep stakeholders constantly informed. We have achieved a degree of technological maturity which allows us to look towards the commercial stage We will need an additional investment to develop our software in such a way that scheduling can be planned automatically 24/7 based on the continuous feeding of real-time data from different sources.

Keywords: real time data,advanced planning and scheduling aps software,automated real time scheduling,reduced trucking costs,reduced cost in the office,user experience,saas
Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities (NONWESTLIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Italy,Türkiye,Türkiye
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): 1457660.0
EU funding (EUR): 1365785.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

This project is a comparative study of cultural reforms, linguistic renewal and literary renaissance movements in three imperial traditions, caught between the East-West divide: Russia, Turkey and Japan. It looks at the negotiated cultural models in modernization and westernization processes and argues that their shared historical experience resulted in a common intellectual vocabulary and narrative models shared by otherwise extremely diverse cultures. Despite these unmistakable parallels, literary studies have failed to address this shared history. This project aims to bridge this gap by developing a comparative model, drawing a polycentric and plural map of literary modernity. In three subprojects, this project investigates structural similarities in 1.Questions and concepts in literary criticism; 2.Translational practices and translated works from Europe, and 3.Narrative logic and typologies in fiction. It is the first comparative multilingual study of the non-Western literary modernities to bring these specific traditions together. It contests Eurocentric models of literary history which interprets these cases as failures or late emulations. It challenges an overemphasis on single national traditions or on postcolonial approaches, and limited body of studied texts and analysis techniques in the study of the non-West. The project follows a multi-method research strategy to conduct historical and literary comparisons between the emerging national literary systems, combining qualitative and quantitative methods in order to map transnational networks of narrative strategies, conceptual systems and translation practices. It brings new directions in Digital Humanities, expanding it to non-Western and multilingual comparative research. Finally, it makes a much-needed contribution to the current literary corpus by making unknown and untranslated texts available and accessible.

Keywords: literary modernity,non western literature,nineteenth century literature,literary theory,comparative methods