Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Integrate Mobile People through Innovative actions in the Euraxess Service Centres (IMPACTE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Romania,France,Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-EURAXESS-IU, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 256766.5
EU funding (EUR): 233612.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

There are several obstacles to international mobility. Cultural differences are not the easiest to overcome as they are based on immaterial factors, not like getting a visa or a place to stay. A successful professional and social integration of the researcher into a new environment will turn him/her into ambassador of international mobility, and of EURAXESS. The project will identify actions to allow better integration of mobile researchers and will test these actions, before spreading them as good practice to the EURAXESS network, and to the countries of origin of the researchers by turning them into «EURAXESS Impacte alumni». Based on a survey, the partners will identify 6 actions which will be implemented in the partner countries to a sample of researchers and to EURAXESS staff. Other High Education institutions will be associated to the actions. The partners will set up a feedback assessment form and get feedback from both researchers and EURAXESS staff. They will produce a guide for the use of the whole EURAXESS network, which will be presented during EURAXESS events. The partners will set up a network (Impacte-alumni) of mobile researchers who have attended project events who will then be in a position to promote EURAXESS throughout their careers. The consortium is composed of 6 partners, all committed to reflect, exchange and develop a skills program to integrate mobile researchers. All have experience in supporting international researchers within the EURAXESS network. They cover different regions within the EU and different challenges (cultures, research environments, clienteles). This will allow project members to test demands, needs and successful practices which can then be transferred to the EURAXESS network. The associate partner, Epigeum, is the leading publisher of high quality e-learning modules for researcher development. Vitae, the UK organisation which supports and promotes researcher development at national level, will act as a contractor.

Keywords: mobile researchers-professional cultural and social integration-training the trainers-e-learning modules-innovative practices-network of project alumni
Methods for high-throughput glycoproteomic analysis (HTP-GLYCOMET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Croatia,Slovenia,Croatia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1818077.9
EU funding (EUR): 1818077.9
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of the HTP-GlycoMet proposal is to develop technologies, which will enable high-throughput analysis of glycosylation of individual proteins from body fluids and cell membranes and apply them to understand some key processes in immunity and infections. Glycan analysis is extremely demanding from both technological and conceptual aspect and (beside one study performed by partners in this proposal) large-scale studies of glycosylation of individual proteins were not attempted previously. However, we are confident that by successfully combining complementary expertise in the (i) production of specialised monolithic chromatographic tools for high-throughput fractionation of complex biological fluids (BIA-SEP), (ii) purification of proteins from body fluids and membrane proteins (UNI-RI), (iii) high-throughput glycomic analysis by use of chromatography (Genos) and multiplexed capillary gel electrophoresis (MPI) and (iv) expertise in the field of viral immunology (MEDRI) we can achieve significant progress in this direction. All our partners are recognized leaders who already made significant progress beyond the state of the art in their respective fields. Through HTP-GlycoMet project we will organise secondments on all levels (MER, ER, ESR) to capitalize on synergistic effects of this interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration. In addition to the generation of new knowledge and the development of new innovative technologies, we will also achieve significant transfer of knowhow between academic and industrial partners. Our SME partners also expect to develop new lines of products and services through the HTP-GlycoMet programme, but also through future collaboration with HTP-GlycoMet partners beyond the lifetime of this project.

Keywords: protein glycosylation,high-throughput analytics,isolation of glycoproteins,viral infection
Hearing Minds: optimizing hearing performance in deaf cochlear implanted individuals (HEARING MINDS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 866326.93
EU funding (EUR): 866326.93
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The regular use of an adequate hearing aid increases the chance of keeping hearing impaired patients communicatively, socially and economically active. Many profoundly deaf patients are potential candidates for cochlear implantation. The optimal use of such a device requires that the cochlear implant speech processor be adjusted so that sounds perceived by the patient are representational and at a comfortable level. In prior collaborative research, new fitting processes have been developed to optimize the patient’s hearing in a more efficient and accurate way by means of an assisted or (semi-)automated fitting procedure in which a large number of the cochlear implant speech processor parameters may be adjusted, based on measured psycho-acoustic feedback from the implant user. Such an assisted fitting process drastically reduces the number of man-hours of fitting during the lifetime of the device with qualitatively better outcomes. However, the state-of-the-art still has a number of short-comings: (i) the self-learning character of the currently used fitting model; and (ii) the limited input data with respect to speech perception testing in very young child populations. The main objectives of the proposed research project are to enhance researchers’ knowledge (i) of fitting models based on Bayesian networks to reinforcement learning models such as partially-observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs); (ii) of evaluation tools to measure functional hearing capacities in ‘difficult’ listeners such as young children or elderly adults. Due to its multi-disciplinary and combined fundamental and applied nature, the proposed research crucially depends on the transfer of knowledge to create a common framework for hearing scientists bringing together insights from different disciplines targeting current issues in speech perception such as linguistics, biomedical physics, mathematics and audiology.

Keywords: deaf cochlear implants speech perception assessment automated fine-tuning of speech processors psycho-acoustics hearing assessment in 'difficult' listeners
Protein biomarker for the prediction of response to endocrine treatment in breast cancer patients (ENDOPREDICT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 570313.6
EU funding (EUR): 570313.6
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Classical pathologic parameters have been used to inform adjuvant clinical treatment choices for early breast cancer patients. There remain a significant number of patients however, who despite a reportedly favourable prognostic profile, experience metastatic disease. Elucidation of the mechanisms of tumour adaptability and the identification of predictive markers of early recurrence is the basis of personalized medicine. Work from our group has established the developmental protein HOXC11 as a powerful predictor of resistance to endocrine treatment in breast cancer patients .The aim of this project is to establish a joint industry-academia partnership to produce a commercially viable and clinically validated predictive assay/kit which based on the use of HOXC11 as a predictive biomarker of poor response to endocrine treatment in breast cancer patients.

Keywords: breast cancer,metastasis,biomarker
Monitoring systems to Assess Geotechnical Infrastructure subjected to Climatic hazards (MAGIC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Czechia,Austria,France,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1853871.03
EU funding (EUR): 1853871.03
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to develop novel systems to monitor earth structures exposed to climate hazard. Following completion of this research and concept demonstration project and subject to additional industry or commercial funding for the development of the technology, this effort is expected to eventually result in new commercial instruments and data management systems which it is in turn expected to lead to major improvement in design, maintenance, and adaptation of geotechnical infrastructure in a changing climate. The technological and scientific project will be implemented via secondments and recruitment of 182 researcher months in total including 72 months of recruitment and 110 months of secondment (51 months from Industry to Academia and 59 months from Academia to Industry). One of the major focus of the project will be the development and concept demonstration of two instruments for field measurement of pore-water tension (suction) up to 1.5 MPa, namely a high-capacity tensiometer for long-term measurement at shallow depths (<2m) and a tensiocone for rapid measurement of suction profile at great depths (up to 20m). Using proof-of-concepts prototypes developed by the academic partners in MAGIC, scientific and technological research will be carried out jointly by Industrial and Academic partners to use their respective scientific findings into a plan to assess the feasibility for the development of commercial instruments for pore-water tension measurement. MAGIC will also attempt to develop novel techniques for high-resolution imaging of water content based on Electrical Resistivity Tomography moving from proof-of-concepts prototypes already developed by academic partners. In addition, MAGIC will tackle the problem of real-time data control based on the concepts of measurement redundancy and coherence to identify faulty data due to instrument malfunctioning and/or mis-installation before these are transferred remotely. Finally, to validate and demonstrate monitoring systems, incorporating the new instruments developed by the project, MAGIC will build a unique facility consisting of a ‘benchmark’ field site instrumented with a variety of sensors for monitoring the weather-related moisture regime.

Keywords: geotechnical engineering,earth structures,vadose zone,soil-atmosphere interaction,field monitoring,tensiometer,pore-water tension measurement,water content measurement
Self-adjusting gravity table using imaging analysis for quality control (SAGT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark,Sweden,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 776454.35
EU funding (EUR): 776454.35
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Research around technologies for efficient processing and reliable quality assessment of seeds and grains is motivated by its large commercial potential, and by the needs felt by European farmers in differentiating their products against the pressure imposed by competitors outside Europe. SAGT aims at developing a new generation of gravity separators, which are real-time self-adjustable, according to the type of crop, where market quality requirements are combined with a set of best available technologies in the field of near-infrared spectroscopy and multispectral imaging. Technical objectives include optimization of process parameters control such as airflow and vibration dynamics, to make it independent of the operator’s experience. Progress in this area is currently hampered by inter-disciplinary and intersectoral barriers posed by a current fragmentation of scientific knowledge which, in this project, are addressed through a transfer of knowledge (ToK) programme. Aligned with IAPP’s objectives, SAGT proposes the intersectoral secondment of 7 researchers over a total of 34 fellow months, the recruitment of one experienced researcher for 24 months and a set of networking activities, which leverage ToK even beyond the project’s team. The project is a collaborative effort between a company specialized in the development of processing equipment for seeds and grains; a research-intensive SME provider of high-performance optical systems; and an research institute with recognized excellence in the fields of mechanical design, vibration and flow dynamics. In addition to addressing EU’s agriculture challenges and socio-economic goals, the project will strengthen the research capacity of the participants, following ERA objectives, and will have a positive impact beyond the consortium, through ToK activities integrated in a wider community network and through the exploitation of the new applications of the technology platform developed for the novel gravity separators.

Keywords: gravity separator,seeds quality control,sorting and cleaning of grains,visual systems for quality control,nirs and multispectral imaging systems,solid-solid separation,fluid dynamics.
The Efficiency of Futures Markets (FUTURES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 817402.3
EU funding (EUR): 817402.3
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The project is a cooperation between Ghent University, Belgium, Queen's University Belfast , UK, and the SME Risk & Portfolio Management AB, Stockholm, Sweden. It makes use of a unique, private data set provided by the SME involved. The data is on transactions of futures traders, so-called CTAs. These are often referred to as hedge funds, although the institutional setup and trading mechanisms show substantial differences to these. We will analyze the efficiency of the futures markets (including equity, bond, commodities, and currencies. The data allows to track decisions by individual managers or particular groups of managers. We can therefore on a daily basis observe actions CTAs take. Objectives of the project are: (i) to utilize this outstanding data set for academic research, aiming at publications in top-journals (ii) to give the SME access to the most recent academic achievemnets. (iii) to strengthen the SME's profile as a research-oriented and quantitative corporation (iv) to make academic staff familiar with the practice of asset management and (v) to establish a long-term cooperation between the partners. We will achieve this by (i) joint research (ii) a high number of intersectoral secondments in both directions (iii) teaching at the other sector's instittution(s) (iv) a doctroral, education for an SME staff member (v) the recruitment of two experienced researchers to the SME (vi) scientific conferences As a result - and since all results will be made available to third parties - the project will help to root decisions by the financial sector in science and will on the other hand help to make academic research practically relevant. Furthermore, the position of the European financial sector and European universities will be strenghtened.

Keywords: finance,futures,investment management,trading,financial econometrics,commodities
Development of hemodynamic solutions in Renal Dialysis Venous Access Failure (REDVA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2635228.47
EU funding (EUR): 2635228.47
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The ReDVA project proposes to perform a joint industry-academia research programme to overcome the scientific and technical barriers to the understanding, development and adoption of technologies to combat the significant clinical problem of the failure of renal dialysis venous access. The partnership will capitalise on the exchange of complementary inter-disciplinary knowledge and expertise between research intensive industrial partners and leading academic research centres in Renal Medicine, Vascular Biology, Vascular Surgery, Medical Physics, Clinical Imaging, (CT,MRI and Ultrasound), Imaging Contrast Media, and Computational Fluid Dynamics. This collaboration brings together the translational aspects of vascular biology, physics, applied medical physics, engineering, and clinical trials The translational approach is targeted at developing vascular surgical, medical therapeutic and medical device strategies to improve the performance and longevity of renal dialysis venous access which underpins the life supporting haemodialysis techniques used in patients with kidney failure and renal replacement programmes. Through active and ongoing knowledge transfer the partners anticipate that this synergistic and intra-sectoral multi-disciplinary research partnership will create significant momentum, enduring relationships, visionary researchers and a roadmap towards significant European market share, as well as delivering on truly excellent scientific objectives.

Keywords: kidney disease,renal dialysis,haemodynamics,doppler ultrasound,clinical imaging,computational flow dynamics
Modern Signal Processing Methods for Ultra-realistic Light-Field Displays (PROLIGTH-IAPP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Finland,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1144420.0
EU funding (EUR): 1144420.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The PROLIGHT-IAPP project aims at advancing the research and development in the area of visual media through developing modern signal processing methods for ultra-realistic light field displays. The project suggests forming a strategic intersectorial partnership between two entities: the Department of Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology and the SME Holografika, with the aim to elevate to the next level of visual media experience through the mechanisms of advanced research training, career development and knowledge exchange. In a joint research concept, the project partners adopt the notation of light field as the most complex phenomena carrying information about visual scenes and whose reproduction brings the desired higher realism. The research programme addresses the problems of capture, analysis, modelling, compression and rendering of light fields of real-world scenes, so to support the further development of the light-field display technologies and to ensure an enhanced user experience. The approach makes case of state-of-the-art displays being developed by Holografika and while tailoring capture and compression methods for them, aims also at advancing the theory of light-field modelling and its practical application on next-generation 3D displays. The knowledge-of-transfer programme relies on the complementary expertise of the two partners and effectively supports the ambitious research through six two-way secondments of mixture of researchers within the consortium and three external recruitments of experienced researchers. Training activities in the form of advanced courses and two summer schools and networking activities in the form of four workshops are planned for ensuring project-specific as well as broader training of the people involved. The project results shall bring healthy and highly-realistic visualization of real-world 3D scenes on light-field displays and will strengthen the European position in this emerging field of research.

Keywords: light-field displays