Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
REDUCING POST-HARVEST LOSSES TO INCREASE FOOD SUSTAINABILITY (REPLAY)

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,Netherlands,Belgium,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 266700.0
EU funding (EUR): 266700.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Main postharvest losses are caused by physiological, pathological and physical damage; being these causes in many instances interrelated. Harvested products are highly heterogeneous and conventional postharvest approaches are not sufficient for an optimum profitability of these foodstuffs. These methods are usually based on controlling the physiological and sanitary status on pre-harvest, for which only a part of the harvest is analysed as a representative of the whole group. In order to overcome this problem, REPLAY will develop innovative tools and methodologies for a sustainable management of post harvested food. This objective will be achieved through a staff exchange structure that will contribute to: (i)food quality assessment; (ii)processing technologies; (iii)food chain sustainability assessment; (iv)dissemination and (v)innovation and competitiveness. To strengthen these research areas, the project foresees staff exchange and networking activities between European and Third Country partners, high-level training of personnel and to create and reinforce networks for future joint research projects. The relevance of this proposal lies in increasing the added value and the profitability of harvested food management, starting from their origin, by the prompt sorting of commodities in more accurate and homogeneous subgroups (quality grades). Primary processing techniques and adequate preservation processes would be assessed for the selected commodities to improve their shelf-life. Emerging preservation technologies will facilitate alternatives for low valued raw materials through the development of novel products. The exchange scheme will take advantage of the complementarities and synergies generated by the four European leading partners (AZTI-Spain; DLO-The Netherlands; KUL-Belgium, AGROPARISTECH-France) and six Third Country leading partners (INTI-Argentina; AGRESEARCH-New Zealand; CSIRO-Australia; OSU-United States of America; ITESM-Mexico; USACH-Chile).

Keywords: v101 environment and sustainability,food,crop,postharvest,losses,quality,sensors,processing technologies,novel products,sustainability,environment,consumers,industry,market
ULTRAFAST PHOTONIC PROCESSES & INTERACTIONS (UP-PI)

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,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 306600.0
EU funding (EUR): 306600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project involves researchers from Dublin City University, Ireland, the Optoelectronic Research Centre, United Kingdom, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Our main objectives are to: 1/ Deliver a dynamic programme of scientific and engineering missions strongly focused on young researchers (longer term mission, months), but also encompassing experienced researchers (shorter term mission, weeks). 2/ Ensure that visiting researchers are integrated into existing research activities at the host centre, and have full visiting researcher status with access to facilities and equipment on the same basis as local staff. 3/ Manage a network of structured projects with defined deliverables and milestones. 4/ Ensure research visitors are exposed to training opportunities, research seminars, summer schools and short courses/modules relevant to their research or professional development. 5/ Deliver high impact outputs from the joint research activities. These will include; 5a/ Establishment of a framework for future networked collaborations building on this programme 5b/ Joint publications in high impact international journals 5c/ Joint grant applications under FP7/FP8, and National European programmes. The overarching goal of this 4-year project is to contribute positively and proactively to these interlinked challenges by establishing an EU-India research and education program designed to reinforce scientific and technological excellence in high speed and ultrafast photonic interactions and processes in systems from atomic ensembles to devices. The programme will deal with the design of non-linear materials, and its characterisation, the generation and applications in communication and biotechnology of short pulses in extreme ultra-violet and in telecom spectral range, and the use of these ultra-fast materials for short pulse characterisation.

Keywords: p108 optics and quantum optics,p109 lasers and laser physics,p207 semiconductors,g205 micro- and nanoelectronics - optoelectronics,g111 modelling tools,p212 nanophysics
Engineering Technology-based Innovation in Medicine (ETIME)

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: Hungary,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 252000.0
EU funding (EUR): 252000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Background: Healthcare systems worldwide are increasingly unable to meet growing demand for and cost of healthcare. Changing demographics leading to increasing demand for services of increasing cost exacerbate this problem. Thus,healthcare costs are an increasingly unaffordable share of economically constrained national budgets. More specifically, an average 10% of healthcare costs are for acute and intensive care, which equates ~1% of GDP in many EU countries – a significant share. Highly trained doctors and nurses are the scarce and costly resource in critical and acute care. Thus,improving care and productivity in intensive and acute care units by merging engineering, technology and medicine presents a significant research and economic opportunity and challenge. The Specific Problem: While acute and critical care doctors have a range of technology and sensors at their disposal, their ability to rapidly provide the more consistent, patient-specific care required to improve productivity and patient outcomes is limited. In particular, they are unable to take full advantage of the wealth of data they are presented to best utilise the pumps,ventilators and other technologies used to provide care. The Solution: The application of clinically validated computer models of patient physiology that can be made patient-specific using data at their bedside can integrate this patient data into a clear physiological picture of patient-specific condition and response to treatment, as well as help guide therapy. These computer models can be combined with automation technology to improve both the productivity and quality of care, alleviating demand on scarce and costly personnel. Proposed Answer: Model-based Therapeutics (MBT) is an emerging field combining computer models of human physiology, clinical data and automation of care to create innovative solutions to major clinical problems. This project will create an international MBT consortium centered on 3 major core projects.

Keywords: medical devices,healthcare productivity,physiological modeling,model-based therapeutics,intensive care,accurate glycemic control,mechanical ventilation,cardiovascular systems,innovation
NUTritional LABeling Study in Black Sea Region Countries (NUTRILAB)

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: Moldova, Republic of,Bulgaria,Romania,Romania,Bulgaria,Romania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 484500.0
EU funding (EUR): 484500.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Health professionals agree that the relationship between diet and health is important. Our eating habits can help or hurt our overall health and well-being. Good eating habits include being a smart shopper and selecting foods that reflect the Dietary Guidelines. The food label was designed to help people choose foods for a healthful diet. By using the food label, we can compare the nutrient content of similar foods, see how foods fit into our overall diets, and understand the relationship between certain nutrients and diseases. Health claims describe the relationship between a nutrient or a food and the risk of a disease. Products that make a health claim must contain a defined amount of the nutrient that is directly linked to the health-related condition.Nutrition labels can help you choose between products, and keep a check on the amount of foods high in fat, salt and added sugars that you're eating. Nutrition labels can also provide information on how a particular food or drink product fits into your daily diet. Consumers are often confused by health claims on food labels, according to a review of research carried out on behalf of the Agency in anticipation of a new European regulation on health and nutrition claims. The overall aims of NUTRILAB are: Bring together, review and analyze current research on consumer understanding of claims, and also labeling where this would inform our knowledge of consumer understanding of claims. Gather information on how consumer understanding of claims varies across different population groups, to gain insight into the understanding of the 'average consumer'. Draw conclusions from existing research to see whether there are areas where further information would be useful, and to inform the direction that any additional research conducted in future could take. We will reach these targets as a multidisciplinary team across Europe, sharing knowledge, developing new approaches.

Keywords: food processing,food labeling,diet,health,nutrition,nutritional value,consumers
Imagining Development: A multidisciplinary and multilevel analysis of development policies and their effect in the post-socialist world (PSDEV)

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: Estonia,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Latvia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 256000.0
EU funding (EUR): 256000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of this project is to establish, maintain and make sustainable a world class research group with a focus on (foreign and domestic) development policies in post-socialist spaces. Thanks to its wide geographical and disciplinary focus, this IRSES will provide an international and intercultural environment for a team of researchers to connect, reflect, come up with new findings and establish new collaborations in order to help them further their regional specialism and professional development. Experts of this kind are in high demand and this IRSES will help to ensure that Europe is able to meet that demand. This IRSES is based on learning-by-doing, but learning in a highly structured and supported environment. The project, in addition to creating experts in this field, will also contribute a significant body of knowledge in its own right. The research will explore the way development (be this local or national, political or social) in a series of post-socialist states has been conceived, implemented and applied to different political, economic and geopolitical realities across the region and the response that has generated from this implementation.
Extension, enhancement and strengthening of established collaborations to create a knowledgebase for biomarker based research on aging (BIOAGE)

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: Austria,Norway
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 109200.0
EU funding (EUR): 109200.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

BIOAGE is collaboration between five distinguished universities and research institutes in Europe, New Zealand and Australia. The overall aim of the proposed staff exchange programme is to build, extend and strengthen sustainable collaborations between the partners so as to create a knowledge base for biomarker based research with focus on ageing. Within this aim the exchange objective is to provide researchers with: 1] an international platform to learn, train and apply novel biomarker as well as sampling techniques and methods, 2] discuss the opportunity to formulate new joint collaborative research and funding proposals and 3] the possibility to participate in large Human Biomonitoring studies and 4] international exposure and intercultural understanding. The exchange programme consists of visits ranging from 1-8 months for PhD students, postdoctoral and early career scientists and experienced researchers to enable research collaboration, access to an extended infrastructure base and the development of biomarker expertise at partner institutions. The expertise and facilities of the partners are highly complementary and the synergy lies in the combination of expertise on biomarker quality and validation, sampling techniques, clinical trials with elderly, nutrition and physical activity interventions as well in the experience of performing large international biomonitoring studies. The work plan consists of four work packages, one around management, one on biomarker validation and quality, one around invasive and non-invasive sample techniques specifically in clinical trials with elderly and one around the knowledge of planning, participating and data analysing of large human biomonitoring studies. BIOAGE contributes to the EC priorities since it uses mobility to transfer knowledge and will create a network through which European centres of excellence will be enhanced through links with researchers from the rest of the world.

Keywords: exchange programme,transfer of knowledge,biomarker,ageing,biomonitoring
Bio-based polyurethane composites with natural fillers (BIOPURFIL)

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,Latvia,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 96600.0
EU funding (EUR): 96600.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of this proposal is to create multinational partnership between European and South American research teams in order to exchange knowledge and experience concerning "state of the-art". Such solution will strengthen research cooperation and transfer of knowledge between partners from Poland (Cracow University of Technology), Latvia (Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry), Spain (University of the Basque Country), Argentina (National University of Mar Del Plata) and Brazil (Paraíba Federal University). Participants have different expertise areas to share the experience of preparing of bio-based composites. It allow to develop modern bio-composites, for which there is a growing demand in both continents. Short and longer-term periods of staff exchange between participants allow to more rapid advances in carrying out of investigations, as well as advancing current knowledge in the form of joint-author high citation index papers. The project consists of four stages: synthesis of bio-based polyols, preparing natural fillers, producing bio-polyurethane matrix composites reinforced natural fillers as well as tests and evaluation of final product. Each of partner brings added value to proposed stages and is needed in the implementation of the overall project.

Keywords: c124 porous materials,c128 nanomaterials,c129 biomaterials synthesis
A progress of tuberculosis and HIV/tuberculosis treatment assessed by fingerprinting of small molecule-biomarkers in patients from Eastern Europe (TB PROGNOSIS)

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: Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 133000.0
EU funding (EUR): 133000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

A dramatically high incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extended drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) was reported in WHO European Region. Countries in Eastern Europe still fail to control TB and in, for example, Ukraine, a number of new TB cases is as high as 100-299 per 100 000 (data for 2010). TB is often accompanied by HIV on this territory. In EU countries, patients with MDR and XDR-TB recover with the efficiency of only 32%. For successful control of TB, quick diagnosis is among most important factors. In low-income countries, TB diagnostics is restricted mainly to clinical manifestations and sputum smear microscopy. TB clinical symptoms are often obscured in HIV positive individuals and sputum smear test detects only up to 60% of TB cases. Modern more efficient methods are not affordable. Furthermore, there are few tools to judge the efficiency of a certain therapy in already confirmed TB cases. We hypothesize that cheaper and quicker detection of TB is possible as well as assessment of the treatment progress over the time. It could be done through measurement of small molecule biomarkers in body fluids of the patients. A network has been created between Umea University, Sweden, Metchnikov’s University/TB Clinics, Ukraine and University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Spain that has access to a modern metabolomics facility and an extensive work experience with TB and chemical analysis of biomedical samples. We propose to collect samples from Ukrainian TB and HIV/TB patients under treatment and analyze them with several chromatographic methods in order to detect relevant biomarkers. We plan also to genotype M.tuberculosis isolates from these patients, monitor possible antibiotic resistance development and evaluate the host response. An array of these methods will help to get a detailed and dynamic clinical description of the cases and assign certain small molecules levels to respective events during treatment of TB, MDR-TB and HIV/TB co-infection.

Keywords: tuberculosis,mdr-tb,biomarkers,epidemiology,metabolite analysis
Towards regularity (FLUX)

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,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 227400.0
EU funding (EUR): 227400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The ``FLUX'' project is devoted to the mathematical analysis of an array of problems originating from different domains of real world applications. They include: fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, geophysics, phase transitions and image processing, meteorology. The language for rigorous formulation of models of these phenomena is the theory of partial differential equations. In addition, we face free boundary problems. Our goal is the complete analysis of the model equations. This begins with establishing global in time existence of properly defined solutions. This is a well-known fact that the notion of solution has to be adjusted to the specific problem we study. Once the first task is complete, the regularity and asymptotic behavior will be tackled. Although these equations describe different phenomena, they share common features and hence similar techniques can be applied to analyze the solutions. The cooperation within the project should result in the development of new mathematical tools to deal with problems appearing in the mentioned above applications. The wide exchange on the level of PhD students and young researchers, that we are planning, will lay down foundations of a long lasting cooperation. Many researchers from the external institutions are world-renowned experts in their fields. Their participation in the project should clearly benefit the European partners. This project is a revised and greatly improved version of the ``TOUCH'' proposal, which we submit aware of the fact, that the previous proposal constitutes a lower bound for evaluation of this one. We have thoroughly studied all pointed out weaknesses and corrected them by: reducing the number of both involved nodes and of packages and, simultaneously, creating comparatively small network of nodes with possibly numerous interactions; specifying previously lacking managerial and financial aspects, as well as giving more precise justification for detailed shape of the proposal.

Keywords: m112 partial differential equations,m113 mathematical physics
EuroNanoForum 2013 Nanotechnology Innovation: From research to commercialisation – the bridge to Horizon2020 (ENF 2013)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Finland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2012-CSA-6, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 953249.2
EU funding (EUR): 599913.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The EuroNanoForum 2013 Nanotechnology Innovation: From research to commercialisation – the bridge to Horizon2020 conference is proposed to be held in Dublin during the Irish presidency of the European Union. It will be organised by Enterprise Ireland, the Government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. The conference will be held from June 18th to June 20th 2013. The first 2 days of the conference will feature plenary sessions, presentations, workshops and several accompanying activities which will be used to explore the scientific, industrial and societal issues targeted by the conference. A third day will be used to foster networking at the various levels using industrial and research centre visits, a brokerage event and an investor’s forum. The main focus of the conference will be the commercialisation of nanotechnology, exploiting its potential for new applications, pushing it from an enabling technology through to development and on to end product use. With Horizon2020 and its new structure beginning in 2014 the conference will be used to look at how nanotechnologies will fit into the targeted key priority areas of Excellent Science, Industrial Leadership and Societal Challenges. ENF2013 will be part of the official Irish EU presidential calendar hosted by the Office of Science and Technology of the Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation.

Keywords: nanotechnology,nanoscience,innovation,research,commercialisation,horizon2020