Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXCHANGE FOR BIOMEDICAL DEVICES DESIGN AND PROTOTYPING (IREBID)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 745200.0
EU funding (EUR): 745200.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

During the last five to ten years, the healthcare sector is increasing its research activity, not only because final terminal cases are looking for solutions, but also diagnosis, treatment and life-long care are becoming ways to reduce costs of health care. Also, doctors and patients are constantly looking for better technologies in products such as orthopedic prosthesis, diagnostics, surgery instrumentation, drug dosing and delivery systems. In the meantime other maturing manufacturing systems with high level of knowledge (e.g. automotive manufacturing field) have been decreasing its research activity and well-developed technological advancements and solutions are not exploited as much as they can be in other fields. The main objective is to create and reinforce synergies between applied investigation fields of engineering and medicine in order to develop new solutions for the healthcare sector. The project will help in creating a high level expertise and understanding on Design, Prototyping and Manufacture for Medical Devices using computing tools, biomaterials and other biocompatible engineering materials. IREBID project is focused on developing novel and innovative medical devices, based on four big activities, Workshops (Seminars given by experts in medical field), Lecture (Short Senior Researcher Visit), Joint Research Projects (Collaboration between two or more partners) and Meetings. The expected result of the project is to develop solutions for the sector of biomedicine (new medical devices) and bioengineering such as, Development of coronary &quot;stents&quot;, devices which can slowly dose the medicine, improve existing developments, develop artificial joint replacements and orthopedic prosthesis, new optimized geometries and coatings for some invasive medical tools such as needles, scalpels and surgical tools and fabrication of functional graded scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Keywords: technological sciences,biomedical engineering,design engineering,manufacturing engineering,materials engineering,process engineering
Mathematical studies on critical non-equilibrium phenomena via mean field theories and theories of nonlinear partial differential equations (MANEQUI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Greece,Greece,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-15
End date: 2014-04-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 176400.0
EU funding (EUR): 176400.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the present project is to unite, in a cooperative and synergetic way, the work of researchers from 5 European institutions, 2 in Italy (Naples Federico II and Naples Second University) and 3 in Greece (FORTH Heraklion, University of Crete and University of the Aegean), in order to consolidate and definitely establish scientific collaborations with a Third Country (Japan). The focus of the research project will be in mathematical analysis, particularly nonlinear elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, including applications to problems of particular relevance in various fields in Physics, Biology and Medical Sciences, such as material sciences, chemotaxis, tumour growth, all finalized towards results of international relevance. The marked interdisciplinary features of the proposed researches are expected to greatly benefit of the complementary backgrounds and fields of interests of the participants. This project is motivated by an already existing collaboration between some European members of the project with first class scientist Professor T. Suzuki of Osaka University, as well as with other Japanese mathematicians. We emphasize that the availability of direct interaction among the European institutions and the Third Country has already been partly implemented by Professor Suzuki’s visiting and lecturing at Naples Federico II University (2007 and 2008) and in Greece (2007) as well as by numerous stages of Italian and Greek participants at Japanese institutions. The collaboration in Japan will mainly take place at Osaka University, where Professor Suzuki will coordinate the activities and supervise the training programme of the European early stage researchers, and at 3 other Japanese universities. The present requested financial support would allow to maintain, reinforce and extend the already existing collaboration, as well as to provide an invaluable training of young European mathematicians at prestigious Japanese research centres.

Keywords: mean field equations,phase transitions,nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations,blow-up,variational methods
Novel opportunities for diagnosis and therapy of Wilson’s disease in India (WILSONINDIA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2011-04-04
End date: 2015-04-03
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 111600.0
EU funding (EUR): 111600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to develop human potential in medical research and technology by joint research efforts. An ongoing research partnership for Wilson’s disease (WD) was chosen by WilsonIndia to improve joined research, knowledge and career opportunities by developing a sustained partnership of EU with India. WilsonIndia targets the highly advanced knowledge of the EU of inherited fatal WD that has recently evolved as a model for establishment of novel research strategies in medicine. The technology involved by WilsonIndia comprises DNA chip-based diagnosis and adult stem cell-based therapy of liver disease. Gained knowledge by WilsonIndia can easily be transferred to other diseases and third countries other than India. The central part of WilsonIndia comprises staff exchange of young and experienced researchers, technicians and members of SME between the EU and India. WilsonIndia attracts experts from various fields (medicine, genetics, physics, biology, SME) and will undertake a joint project to (i) study important characteristics of WD in a world wide international dimension by on-site research visits, (ii) improve and validate state-of-the-art technology for diagnosis and therapy of WD, and (iii) aggravate the transfer of highly advanced knowledge in medical sciences from the EU to other parts of the world which have a dynamic and fast growing market. WilsonIndia targets a sustained collaboration between the EU and India with respect to research and technology transfer. As a result of the proposed activities WilsonIndia expects to broaden the quality of human resources at various career levels including young and experienced researchers and SME, and to multiply ongoing technology transfer between the EU and third countries for further improvement of career development and reciprocal benefits.

Keywords: wilson disease,gene chip,cell-based therapy
Membrane-active peptides across disciplines and continents: An integrated approach to find new strategies to fight bacteria, dengue virus and neurodegeneration. (MEMPEPACROSS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181800.0
EU funding (EUR): 181800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Peptide-lipid interactions are critical in several biomedical matters that seem uncorrelated at a first glance. MEMPEPACROSS deals with some of these: 1) Lipid membrane-interactions are the key for the understanding of dengue virus assembly and can constitute a target for its inhibition. Viral hemorrhagic fever caused by dengue virus is a serious threat to Europe, as its vector is already present in several European Countries and the virus can easily be introduced. 2) Gene-encoded antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are innate defenses to prevent colonization and infection by microbial pathogens. Most these peptides strongly interact with lipid membranes. Their antimicrobial efficacy and the difficulty of the target organism to develop resistance make AMPs promising candidates for new generations of drugs to fight highly threatening antibiotic-resistant strains of pathogens. 3) Peptide-membrane interactions are also relevant for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer disease. The identification of the conditions necessary for the triggering of the disease-inducing protein aggregation and the search for strategies to inhibit these processes are the key-aspects to be addressed. The societal impacts of the scientific matters to be addressed are golden opportunities to improve public awareness of Science. The project includes a strong component of Science communication and management. The expertises of two European institutions – Institute of Molecular Medicine (Lisbon, Portugal) and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) – and of three Brazilian institutions – the Federal Universities of Rio de Janeiro and Ceará, and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – will come together with common goals and a concern for the: 1) improvement of the scientific state-of-the-art, 2) effective societal impact of the achievements of the project, and 3) dissemination of the project outputs among both technical and non-technical audiences.

Keywords: peptide-membrane interaction,dengue virus,assembly,antimicrobial peptide,cell-penetrating peptide,defensin,crotamine,neurodegenerative disease,amyloid,science communication.
Humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces (HUMAVIPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Czechia,France,Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3432157.0
EU funding (EUR): 2636000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Humanoids expected to collaborate with people should be able to interact with them in the most natural way. This involves significant perceptual, communication, and motor processes, operating in a coordinated fashion. Consider a social gathering scenario where a humanoid is expected to possess certain social skills. It should be able to explore a populated space, to localize people and to determine their status, to decide to join one or two persons, to synthetize appropriate behavior, and to engage in dialog with them. Humans appear to solve these tasks routinely by integrating the often complementary information provided by multi sensory data processing, from low-level 3D object positioning to high-level gesture recognition and dialog handling. Understanding the world from unrestricted sensorial data, recognizing people's intentions and behaving like them are extremely challenging problems. The objective of HUMAVIPS is to endow humanoid robots with audiovisual (AV) abilities: exploration, recognition, and interaction, such that they exhibit adequate behavior when dealing with a group of people. Proposed research and technological developments will emphasize the role played by multimodal perception within principled models of human-robot interaction and of humanoid behavior. An adequate architecture will implement auditory and visual skills onto a fully programmable humanoid robot. An open-source software platform will be developed to foster dissemination and to ensure exploitation beyond the lifetime of the project.

Keywords: audio-visual integration,3d recognition,human-robot interaction,humanoid robots,motion control,cognitive architectures,open-source software
Smart multipurpose knowledge administration environment for intelligent decision support systems development (SASD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2010-08-02
End date: 2015-03-01
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 28800.0
EU funding (EUR): 28800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Background and Aims Since 2002 four scientific teams in Europe and Australia have been collaborating on Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS) research and development. Our aim is to take the specific experience based knowledge representation developed in Australia and to integrate it with knowledge acquisition models and approaches researched by European teams which would result in a novel, more advanced and comprehensive approach to smart knowledge administration. The need for such research and development in knowledge based society is apparent. Our Vision and Proposal To maintain our collaboration efforts to reach the overall aim of our research we envisage the need for verification and integration of individual cases developed by the four separate teams: • Decisional DNA and Technological Trust Application for Multi-domain Knowledge Structure (Newcastle/Australia) • Semantic Enhancement of Virtual Engineering Applications (VICOMTech/Spain) • Smart Modeling Approach of IT Project Management for Small and Medium Companies (GUT, Poland) • Mortgage Market Knowledge-Based Modelling in the Changing, Economical Conditions (GUT, Poland) For integration purposes we propose an extensive and well planned exchange of researchers engaged in research and development of the above individual cases. Expected Results The proposed exchange would significantly support the collaboration that is required at this stage and which can be achieved only by immersing researchers in research environments developed by other teams. Our current collaboration that is based on e-mails and teleconferences is no longer sufficient. The proposed higher level collaboration would integrate the individual efforts into overall multi purpose smart knowledge administration platform as required in the age of global economy.

Keywords: technological sciences,inteligent systems,semantic web,decision support systems
Biofuels from Solid Wastes (BIOFUEL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye,Romania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 108000.0
EU funding (EUR): 93600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project consisted of three parts. Various types of lignocellulosic biomasses and common used plastics will be used for production of fuels. In the first part, production of bio-oil from lignocellulosic biomasses will be carried out by one-step and two-step pyrolysis systems. The commercial and labor made catalysts will be used in two-step pyrolysis. For each selected lignocellulosic biomasses, the variance of the composition of bio-oil obtained from pyrolysis will be characterized from the point of the composition and fuel characteristics. In the second part, mixtures containing biomasses and plastic materials of different origin will thermally degraded in order to obtain valuable products such as gases, liquids or carbonaceous residue. Various methods (one-step or two-steps processes) and catalysts will be tested to increase the quality of degradation products from biomass/plastic mixtures. The composition and properties of the upgraded degradation products will be determined to identify their possible utilization. In the last part of proposed project a detailed investigation of catalytic gasification of biomass/plastics and biomass-derived tar will be performed using steam as a gasification agent in the temperature range of 600-900 ºC. Iron-oxide (in-lab-made) and dolomite and red-mud will be used as catalysts. The products of gasification will be characterized with GC-TCD, GC-FID and GC-MS. As conclusion, this project brings together a very strong team proposing solutions to energy and environmental problems. The different techniques for production of bio-fuel and chemicals from biomass and plastic wastes as renewable sources will be investigated. Bio-fuel (gas or liquid) will help to meet the government target for bio-fuel production (EC Directive 2003/30) and co-pyrolysis and co-gasification of plastic with biomass will help to meet the government target for Packaging Waste (Directive 94/62/EC).

Keywords: biofuels,biomass gasification,biomass pyrolysis,recycling technology
International Network for Early Childhood Health Development (INECHD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 720000.0
EU funding (EUR): 619200.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The general aim of the INECHD is to strengthen collaborative interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer on early childhood health development and well-being. Recent research from numerous disciplines clearly highlights the importance of early childhood development (pregnancy to school entry) for the prevention of long term health and social adjustment problems. Large interdisciplinary-international research projects are needed to understand the interplay between bio-psycho-social mechanisms and to find effective preventive interventions. The network brings together partners from three continents: Europe (University College Dublin-Ireland and Inserm, France), North America (Laval and Montreal universities in Canada) and South America (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile) to initiate, reinforce and extend research and knowledge transfer collaborations. Leaders of the program have extensive experience of longitudinal-experimental studies and international collaborations. Staff exchange will enable partners to share data banks from large population-based longitudinal studies and experimental interventions, plan new studies and develop a web-based tool to transfer best practice knowledge to service providers and policy makers in four of the European Community languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Over a four year period a total of 48 researchers will benefit from secondments. European researchers will spend a total of 200 months in North and South America, while South and North Americans will also spend a total of 200 months in Europe. An emphasis will be placed on training early career researchers for international and interdisciplinary longitudinal-experimental studies on early childhood development.

Keywords: health sciences,child development,epidemiology,public health,obstetrics,paediatrics,child psychiatry,psychology,economics,education.
Experimental & Computational Hybrid Assessment Network for Ground-Motion Excited Soil-Structure Interaction Systems (EXCHANGE-SSI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171000.0
EU funding (EUR): 167400.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the project proposed is to establish the framework of an extended and continuous research staff exchange between E.U. institutions and the Mid-America Earthquake Centre and other advanced US centres, in order to promote the transfer of knowhow with respect to the application of the most advanced experimental and numerical analysis approaches (i.e. geographically distributed hybrid multi-platform experimentation) currently available in the U.S. for the study of complex soil-structure interaction effects in seismic design and assessment of bridges. This is made feasible by a sequel of well-planned research staff visits, the organization of focused research workshops, as well as by the preparation and performance of two geographically distributed (in the US and EU) joint hybrid experiments as a means to ensure knowledge transfer and maximize the impact of human mobility. It is believed that the partnership of EXCHANGE-SSI can bridge the existing technological gap between US and the EU, permit the effective networking of existing infrastructure and as such, it can create the momentum required (and currently missing) for long-lasting integrated high level joint EU-US research on common problems related to the use of hybrid experimentation for soil-bridge interaction studies.

Keywords: physical sciences,technological sciences