Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ERA-NET ON ECO-INNOVATION - Boosting eco-innovation through joint cooperation in research and dissemination (ECO-INNOVERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: ECO-INNOVERA (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,France,Switzerland,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Luxembourg,Sweden,Belgium,Israel,Spain,Bulgaria,Denmark,Slovenia,Poland,Netherlands,Finland,Türkiye,Spain,Austria,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2010-RTD, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2360314.6
EU funding (EUR): 1999963.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

Eco-innovations (EI), i.e. “green” technologies, processes, products and services have an increasing impact for the global competitiveness of European industry. To reach a worldwide leading position, it needs to boost the implementation of EI in industry, especially in SMEs. The ERA-Net on EI will support research and dissemination in the field of EI. The success of EI is determined by criteria that will be promoted through multi-level and systemic approach, considering the social, economic, political and technological context. To promote the development and implementation of EI in Europe, following activities will be performed: (1) Pooling of Europe’s most relevant research and innovation programmes; (2) Developing a networking platform for information exchange on activities related to EI research in Europe and broadening the network, and (3) Creating a common research funding platform. Supported by 25 partners, the ERA-Net is built on 4 work packages: Strategy & network development, leader SenterNovem (NL); Joint calls, leader ANR (FR); Other joint activities, leader MATIMOP-ISERD (IL); Management & Dissemination, leader Juelich (DE). The ERA-Net aims to support research, innovation and environmental policy makers with best practices for funding EI. Researchers will also profit from facilitated access to transnational research. The development of common metrics for the ex-ante assessment will help to take the whole life cycle of a project / programme into account. Activities for a better EI transfer from research to industry and market will be performed: e.g. assessing the role of information technology and of integrated concepts like ‘green technology parks’. The public awareness of the ERA-Net and EI will be promoted via target-group selected tools and active interaction with stakeholders and/or expert networks.

Keywords: eco-innovation,research,dissemination,implementation,joint activities,joint calls,technical and non technical innovation,common metrics,indicators,sme,training
Supporting the ERA-NET Learning Platform: expanding application of the ERA-NET toolbox to a broader trans-national coordination community (ERA-LEARN 2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: General Activities
Destination: ERANET
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: ERA-LEARN 2 (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Austria,Ireland,Norway,Germany,Türkiye,Germany,Finland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2010-RTD, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 705829.82
EU funding (EUR): 575251.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Building on the successful first phase of ERA-LEARN, ERA-LEARN 2 will intensify its support for the implementation of streamlined mechanisms and increased mutual learning within the wider ERA-NET community. ERA-LEARN 2 will highlight the synergies between ERA-NETs and other forms of national and regional programme coordination and facilitate high-level analysis of policy related issues in the context of programme coordination and cooperation, including possible future developments of the ERA-NET scheme. ERA-LEARN 2 will help to optimise use of resources. It will provide tools for analysis and communication formats suitable for the exploitation of high-level expertise. In particular, ERA-LEARN 2 will - extend the NETWATCH online toolbox to further facilitate aligning and harmonising the structures and procedures needed for efficient and simplified joint call implementation; - upgrade the functionality of the toolbox to provide tools for analysis of the ERA-NET implementation; - enable and provide guidance for self-assessment of ERA-NET outcome; - provide guidance in setting up sustainable structures for call implementation; - investigate the potential for mergers or the creation of adequate management structures for facilitating a cost-efficient administration especially helping organisations with multiple ERA-NET commitments; - investigate routes to identification of themes and specific topics for ERA-NETs; - facilitate discussion on user expectations for the development and future implementation of the ERA-NET scheme and complementary forms of transnational cooperation. Aiming at wide acceptance of efforts and results this can only be done in a collective effort involving the whole ERA-NET community. ERA-LEARN 2 will thus help to establish a creative forum for the exchange of experience, good practice and ideas and for discussion of the development of the ERA-NET instrument in the context of possible methods of transnational programme coordination.

Keywords: era-net,learning platform,netwatch,transnational programme coordination,funding instruments
Global Ethics in Science and Technology (GEST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,China,India
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 892295.0
EU funding (EUR): 696820.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

GEST aims to explore the role of ethics in science and technology (S&T) policy as it is currently developing both in Europe and in the two main global emerging economies of China and India. S&T ethics has been widely debated in Europe in the last two decades leading to a number of policy initiatives that have influenced the development of new technologies in the European Research Area. The way in which ethical considerations are incorporated in S&T policy in Europe creates an environment that inevitably affects the EU’s global position. At the same time Europe is increasingly co-operating and competing with the two major emerging economies of China and India, which are also keen to develop their S&T sectors. Interdependences between these three global actors require ever closer collaboration, preferably undertaken in a highly transparent manner. However S&T debates in each of the three regions follow local dynamics that are not necessarily easily understood, even by expert communities in those regions. Interdependent development (and even positive competition) requires mutual respect and understanding, but this relies upon close collaboration in exploring common issues and significant differences. GEST aims to create such collaboration between key S&T policy advisory institutes in the three regions in order to provide a clear understanding of the role of ethics in S&T debates. GEST offers a unique chance to analyse and debate relevant issues while learning from experience gathered in Europe and in the two emerging economies. A group of experts with a wide disciplinary and geographical distribution will provide input for kick-starting a global debate on the dynamics of ethics in S&T policy. In order to address the implications for effective global governance of science, GEST will provide concrete, realistic policy recommendations in the form of a collaborative roadmap and an action plan for science in society that will consider policymaking needs in all three r

Keywords: europe china india ethics in s&t technology assessment s&t debates international collaboration
Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Israel,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Estonia,Estonia,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2025827.42
EU funding (EUR): 1495412.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Assessment of the performance of individual researchers is the cornerstone of the scientific and scholarly workforce. It shapes the quality and relevance of knowledge production in science, technology and innovation. Currently, there is a discrepancy between the criteria used in performance assessment and the broader social and economic function of scientific and scholarly research. Additional problems in the current evaluation system are: lack of resources for qualitative evaluation due to increased scale of research; available quantitative measures are often not applicable at the individual level; and there is a lack of recognition for new types of work that researchers need to perform. As a result, the broader social functions of the scientific system are often not included in its quality control mechanisms. Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) addresses these problems by developing criteria and guidelines for Good Evaluation Practices (GEP). These will be based on an ACUMEN Portfolio for individual researchers throughout the sciences, social sciences and humanities combining multiple qualitative and quantitative evidence sources. The ACUMEN Portfolio will be based on: a comparative analysis of current peer review systems in Europe; an in-depth exploration of novel peer review practices; an assessment of the use of scientometric indicators in performance evaluation; the development of new web-based indicators and web-based evaluation tools; and a comparative analysis of the implications of current and emerging evaluation practices for the career development of women researchers. ACUMEN is an integrated, comparative study in which a set of proven methods will be used on the basis of selections from one shared data set: a sample of European Research Area personnel from bibliographic and web databases as well as data harvested from websites, and data gathered through interviews and from citation indexes.

Keywords: performance indicators,web indicators,peer review,gender,good evaluation practices,evaluation portfolio
Science Education CUrriculum REsearch (SECURE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Cyprus,Germany,Italy,Poland,Slovenia,Sweden,United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1817994.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498506.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The EU lags behind its global competitors when it comes to the number of MST graduates. A special effort is required to close this gap. The overall aim of the SECURE project is to make a significant contribution to a European knowledge-based society by providing relevant research data that can help policy makers to improve MST curricula and their implementation throughout the EU in order to prepare children from an early age on for future careers in MST, whilst at the same time making MST more accessible and enjoyable for all children so that they will keep a vivid interest in science and technology, and understand the importance of their societal role. SECURE will focus on the 5 – 13 age group, because the foundation for a revived interest in MST can best be laid at an early age, when children are most susceptible for the wonders of the world that surrounds them. A rigorous research programme conducted by the SECURE consortium will scrutinise and compare current MST curricula for pupils aged 5, 8, 11 and 13 in the member states as they are intended by the authorities, implemented by the teachers and perceived by the learners. The instruments used to this end will consist of a transnational comparative screening instrument for MST curricula, of teacher and learner questionnaires and of a lesson observation instrument. The cornerstone of the valorisation strategy of the research outcomes will be the direct and active involvement of a transnational expert group of research and curriculum development institutions that will provide feedback as well as a direct access to policy makers.

Keywords: science curriculum research teachers learners comparative study mathematics technics life sciences aspirations mst policy kindergarten primary
Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment (PACITA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Netherlands,Norway,Austria,Bulgaria,Portugal,Spain,Czechia,Belgium,Ireland,Hungary,Belgium,Switzerland,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5141402.19
EU funding (EUR): 4437730.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The PACITA Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Action Plan will distribute capacity and enhance the institutional foundation for knowledge-based policy-making on issues involving science, technology and innovation, mainly based upon the practices in Parliamentary Technology Assessment (PTA). PTA supports the processes of democratic policy-making on issues involving science, technology and innovation, by providing comprehensive insight into knowledge on opportunities and consequences, by facilitating democratic processes of debate and clarification, and by formulating policy options. PACITA will a) document these practices, b) describe schemes for using them nationally and at European level, c) establish a set of training schemes for users and practitioners, d) establish a Web Portal to European TA expertise e) create a debate on such practices in countries, which do not have them formally established, f) involve experts, societal actors and politicians in European debates on these practices, g) provide three large example-projects on expert-based praxis, stakeholder involvement and citizen consultation, h) support this with a strong dissemination strategy towards the policy-makers, the scientific community, media and countries, which can favor from the mobilization and mutual learning created by the Action Plan, and i) have an independent evaluator monitor the progress and results. The consortium has 15 partners from: National/regional parliamentary offices for science and technology; Science academies; Research institutions; Universities; Civil Society Organisations. The Coordinator is a PTA institution, highly experienced in project managing, which has taken part in more than 10 EU projects including an ERA-Net, and has coordinated two FP projects and a global citizen consultation project involving 55 partners in 38 countries.

Keywords: technology assessment methodology institutionalisation decision-making participation
European Science Journalism Forum 2010 under the Spanish Presidency (ESJF-ES)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science in Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 254176.0
EU funding (EUR): 179680.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Conference under the Spanish Presidency in spring 2010 highlighting the communication of European science and research and the key science in society issues at stake. This conference will focus on the role the media, and specifically the opportunities and challenges offered by the emerging digital technologies as regards science communication and public engagement. The conference will address both conceptual and practical issues of relevance to specific professional functions and will take into consideration a diversity of disciplines. It will involve science journalists, science communicators and researchers and other relevant stakeholders in a debate on critical science journalism and communication issues, with action oriented examples of good practice in Europe and beyond.

Keywords: spanish eu council presidency 2010,media for science forum,developing the communication of science at the start of the 21st century
Rendering environmental pathogens sensitive to antibiotics prior to infection (RESTORING SENSITIVIT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Antibiotic resistance of pathogens is an accelerating problem and there is an urgent need for new antimicrobial agents. Pharmaceutical companies face numerous obstacles in developing new antibiotics, and therefore a method that will re-sensitize pathogens to well-established antibiotics harbors key advantages. We propose a system that restores antibiotic efficiency by reversing resistance of pathogens. The system utilizes bacteriophages, which possess engineering capabilities and are excellent, protected delivery vehicles. Unlike bacteriophage therapy, the proposed system does not rely on the ability of the phages to kill pathogens, but instead, to deliver genetic constructs to nosocomial pathogens rendering them sensitive to antibiotics prior to host infection. Pathogen-specific phages will be engineered with genes conferring sensitivity to an antibiotic of choice in a dominant fashion and small RNAs that target preferred resistance genes. Including a resistance marker to tellurite, a compound toxic to bacteria, will be used to generate a selective pressure, enriching for pathogens that harbor the phages. Genetic systems and molecular biology techniques will be used to maintain the phage in the pathogens and to ensure their transfer only as a complete unit, thus enhancing efficiency and providing safety measures. The proposed system may be used to render the pathogens susceptible to multiple antibiotics in a single construct. This will dramatically reduces evolvement of simultaneous resistance against multiple antibiotics. Extended treatment with the tellurite and the engineered phage will significantly enrich for antibiotic-treatable pathogens in nosocomial infections and in vast contrast to antibiotics and phage therapy, will change the nosocomial infections more susceptible to the proposed treatment. Moreover, the approach evades phage usage in the patient thus overcoming toxicity issues and neutralization of the phage by the spleen and the immune system.

Keywords: health sciences,biological sciences,applied biology,microbiology,molecular genetics,bacteriology,natural sciences,molecular design,de novo design
Universities, Knowledge and Development for the next decade (UNIVERSITY 2020)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Destination: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-04-15
End date: 2010-10-14
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 253133.2
EU funding (EUR): 200000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Spanish Presidency will organise a conference in the context of the the need to further develop links and synergies between the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Research Area (ERA) in the shift towards a knowledge-based economy with a new model of sustainable economic growth. The next decade is going to be important to shape the Europeans models of higher education and research based on the results of the Bologna and Lisbon 2010 processes and on the aspiration to develop a European Knowledge Area (EKA), as the conceptual framework facilitating the achievement of economic and social objectives of growth, jobs and social cohesion. The objectives of the conference will be: • Explore the interfaces between the EHEA and the ERA. • Reform of doctoral programmes • Modernisation Agenda for Universities: o Connections between higher education and innovation. o University contribution to socio-economic development in the knowledge society The conference is aimed to promote a strengthened dialogue between policy makers and representatives of the university world together with other knowledge-related stakeholders such as research institutions, civil society organisations and businesses. A maximum of 200 participants is foreseen.

Keywords: universities,knowledge-based economy,interfaces between the european higher education and the european research areas
HEPATIC MICROFLUIDIC BIOREACTOR (HEMIBIO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Other Actions across the Health Theme
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Norway,Spain,Israel,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-Alternative-Testing, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9400000.0
EU funding (EUR): 4700000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of HeMiBio is to develop a hepatic microfluidic bioreactor from human iPSC-derived hepatocytes, hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells (HSEC) and stellate cells (HSC), suitable for inclusion in a repeated dose toxicity testing strategy of pharmaceuticals/cosmetic ingredients. The successful creation of such a liver-device requires (a) homotypic and heterotypic interactions between the three cell types to induce and maintain their functional, differentiated state, and (b) optimisation of the matrix, oxygenation conditions, nutrient transport and physiological shear forces. The objectives are (1) to engineer the cellular components incorporated in the bioreactor to enable specific and spatially defined enrichment of the different cells from iPSC progeny, and, by gene editing, to allow non-invasive monitoring of the cellular state (differentiation and damage). (2) Aside from the molecular sensors, an array of electro-chemical sensors will be embedded in the reactors to assess liver-specific function and cellular health under repeated dose toxicity conditions, dynamically and in a high-throughput way. Cells and sensors will be built into (3) bioreactors that will be sequentially upgraded from 2D to 3D microfluidic reactors to ultimately allow full maintenance of mature functional hepatocytes, HSC and HSEC for >28 days. (4) As the ultimate goal is to use the device as a human-based alternative to rodent long-term hepatotoxicity studies, it will be of utmost importance to provide proof of concept that the 3D-devices reveal the hepatotoxicity of prototypical hepatotoxic compounds in vivo (5). “-Omics” and cell functionality studies will provide evidence that liver-like cells are present, exposed and affected by the selected toxic compounds. These ambitious objectives will be achieved by the excellent project team, composed of academic/industrial partners with unique and complementary biology, physiology, toxicology and technical skills from 7 EU Member States.

Keywords: hepatocytes,stellate cells,endothelial cells,stem cells,scaffolds,microfluidics,miniaturized bioreactor,sensors,toxicology