Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Tracking the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Kermanshah Valley, West Central Zagros Mountains, Iran. (MUP-Trans-Zagros)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The long history of Palaeolithic research in the Kermanshah Valley has revealed a number of sites associated with the Middle to Epipalaeolithic sequences including well-known site of Warwasi Rockshelter. Despite this importance, our knowledge of the Palaeolithic occupation there and even in Iran is suffering from the lack of a clear, up-to-date and scientific work on stratigraphy, settlement systems/dynamics and accurate absolute dating. To overcome some of these problems, the applicant has conducted a Palaeolithic research project in the Kermanshah Valley. This project includes an intensive survey and test excavations around the Warwasi Rockshelter to provide new evidence on the settlement systems, anatomically modern human demography and the process of cultural changes during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. This project has resulted into the discovery of 255 Palaeolithic sites and over 7000 Middle though Epipalaeolithic artefacts recovered from the Kermanshah Valley. Furthermore, the test excavations in three caves in the area uncovered stratified Middle to Upper Palaeolithic sequences. The MUP-Trans Zagros aims to identify the ghost lineage between Middle and Upper Paleolithic occupations in one of the key regions in the Middle East by multi-proxy and basic approaches of GIS for settlement systems/dynamics, absolute dates and micromorphology analysis of the newly discovered and excavated sites in the Kermanshah Valley. For these aims, the applicant will be greatly benefited from training and experiences offered by the department of Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge University in the interdisciplinary researches on the Eurasian’ Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition.

Keywords: paleoanthropolohy,middle to upper paleolithic transition,zagros mountains,kermanshah valley
Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings 2 (SAVES2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Cyprus,Belgium,Bulgaria,Greece,Greece,Lithuania,Romania,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Engaging private consumers towards sustainable energy (H2020-EE-2016-CSA, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1526900.67
EU funding (EUR): 1526900.67
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings 2 (SAVES2) will catalyse sustainable energy behaviours among over 219,000 university students in seven countries to help them reduce their exposure to fuel poverty. It incorporates two strands that engage with students living in university accommodation (Student Switch Off) and in the private-rented sector (SAVES). Student Switch Off is an energy-saving competition that will reach 38,000 students living in 144 dormitories in 14 universities of the partner countries in each academic year from 2017/18 to 2019/20. By identifying and training student ambassadors in each dormitory, and by motivating the ambassadors to encourage their peers to save energy, we will create a race between students in dormitories, each competing to save the most energy and win prizes. It will tap into online student communities through social media, using engaging digital communications (quizzes, photo competitions) to raise awareness of how students can save energy in a fun way. The centrepiece of each competition will be an energy dashboard that updates students in near-real time on the performance and position of their dormitory in the competition – providing feedback and encouraging further action. The private-rented sector engagement work (SAVES) will reach over 100,000 students when they are looking for, moving into and living in the private-rented sector. It will enable students to make better informed decisions at the point at which they are selecting a rental property – thereby routing purchase decisions towards higher efficiency properties. SAVES2 will incorporate national-level partnerships with smart meter delivery agencies to develop student-focused communication materials highlighting the benefits of smart meters. It will provide ongoing advice and support to students via energy-efficiency and bill management training, peer-to-peer advice sharing via video blogs and regular e-mail and social media communications.

Keywords: students,energy saving,private rented sector,fuel poverty,dormitories,behaviour change,smart meters,energy performance certificates
Characterisation of pressurised liquid hydrogen (LH2) releases (P-LH2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies were identified amongst the new energy technologies needed to achieve up to 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050 in the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan. This is not only for automotive applications but also for distributed energy storage and power to gas technology. The transport of liquefied hydrogen (LH2) is considered as the most effective option for scaling up the hydrogen supply infrastructure. However, LH2 implies specific hazards, which are very different from those associated with the relatively well-known compressed gaseous hydrogen. Experience with LH2 in a distributed energy system is lacking. The release of pressurised LH2 jet is accompanied by flashing, intense phase changes, cryogenic jets, droplets, spray and rainout, etc. The wide flammability range of hydrogen and low ignition energy further necessitate special consideration for fire and explosion safety. P-LH2 aims to develop robust modelling strategies for pressurised LH2 jets; and to train the Experienced Researcher (ER) and develop a two-way transfer of knowledge in an interdisciplinary project. To achieve these overall goals, the following five specific objectives are specified: 1. Develop and validate a robust solver LH2FOAM within the frame of OpenFOAM® for pressurised LH2 jets to assist facility siting and safe operations of LH2 technologies in transport, storage and utilization in the forthcoming upscaling of hydrogen supply infrastructure and the development of LH2 specific international codes and standards; 2. Establish the principle structure, morphology and behaviour of LH2 jets in realistic conditions including flammable envelope; 3. Investigate effect of wind speed and direction, confinement and obstacles on large-scale LH2 releases; 4. Foster a two-way transfer of knowledge between the ER and participating organisations; and 5. Disseminate and communicate the P-LH2 results to wider audiences in order to maximise its impact.

Keywords: pressurised liquid hydrogen,crygenic fluid,releases,flashing,multiphase flows,safety
Optimized auxiliary electronics system for Quantum Computing (QC) research (QCAux)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

QDevil offers auxiliary equipment that allows researchers to control their quantum experiments, reducing noise and interferensces at the same time, allowing them to spend more time on their qubits rather than in the construction and maintenance of the auxiliary equipment necessary for their experiments. Since 2016 the company has worked closely to academic and private Research Centres in the field of Quantum Computing, developing products aimed at reducing costs and efforts. As a result of the work of its founders, Mr. Jonatan Kutchinsky and Mr. Ferdinand Kuemmeth, QDevil offers its prototypes to early adopter researchers, consisting in a low-pass Filter: QFilter; a Digital-Analogic/Analogic-Digital converter: QDac; a breakout box: QBox; and a board to hold the silicon substrate with the qubit: QBoard. All these equipment have been developed in close collaboration with QC R&D centres, achieving a current configuration of 48-channels. Our products are used to maintain the stability of the qubits by applying low-frequency signal, while supporting strong magnetic fields up to 10 Tesla and cryogenic temperatures down to 10 milikelvin. However, the growth in qubits and consolidation of quantum computing require many control signals to ease the path for the market entry of quantum computers, foreseen by some experts in five years, thus, we need to add to QCAux a larger number of channels to support researchers' work. We estimate the current potential of QCAux in 960 channels, but a more conservative objective has been set in this proposal, aiming to get 480 channels. Im order to achieve this x10 improvement, we have to introduce new materials, designs and manufacturing methods, so, we need to perform a Feasibility Study in order to discover the best options to make this enhanced QCAux a reality, which will be matured and piloted in the Phase 2 project for the benefit of the Quantum Computing researchers.

Keywords: quantum,computing,qubit,control,electronics,experiment,noise,high frequency,low noise,filter,analog,digital,converter,cryogenics
Toward fully physics based probabilistic seismic hazard assessment using physics informed neural networks (TerraPINN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In regions of high seismicity, it is essential for society to understand the associated seismic hazard. A cornerstone of seismic hazard assessment is the ability to predict what kind of ground shaking occurs from a particular type of source at some given location; however, given the immense expense of full 3D viscoelastic seismic wavefield simulations, researchers typically rely on empirical relations that do not capture the path effects of wave propagation, which can significantly increase ground shaking by waveguiding and other effects. I propose to use a novel development in scientific machine learning - Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) - to solve the 3D viscoelastic wavefield propagation problem. A fully trained network will drastically reduce the time required to compute the seismic response for arbitrary sources and receivers, enabling fully physics based seismic hazard in a probabilistic framework. PINNs utilize our knowledge of the physics, in this case the equations of motion for continuous media, to regularize learning, which reduces the required amount of training data by many orders of magnitude. We will utilize the PINN wavefield solver in a testbed study of physics based seismic hazard assessment for Southern California, with the goal of producing a framework that is computationally accessible to apply across the world.
Demonstration of a new diagnostic device for the Overactive Bladder syndrome (OABCAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ALBYN MEDICAL has developed, in cooperation with the Chemnitz University of Technology and the University Hospital of Cologne (Germany), a specific diagnostic system for the Overactive Bladder syndrome. This diagnostic device is implanted by cystoscopy and measures the bladder pressure autonomously, relating the bladder pressure with the urination, controlled or not, and it determines if the pressure rise appears only when a voluntary urination occurs or if also occurs other times as in the accidental urine loss. Thanks to the new diagnostic device a reliable diagnostic evaluation is obtained and thus high treatment costs of the current Overactive Bladder over-diagnosis are avoided improving the sustainability of the European Health and Care systems.

Keywords: overactive bladder,diagnostic device
The role of tumour microenvironment in metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (MetResistance)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498176.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498176.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of this proposal is to investigate the role of tumor microenvironment in metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (mHRPC). Prostate Cancer (PC) is the most common malignancy in men in Europe while mHRPC is the most lethal form of the disease, causing over 95% of PC related deaths. Extensive clinical and preclinical research using state-of-the-art tumour models has led to the development of several new therapeutics that, unfortunately, provide only marginal patient benefit. One key element missing in standard preclinical models is the relevant metastasis microenvironment associated with mHRPC that may dramatically affect disease outcome. Here, I plan to significantly advance our understanding in mHRPC associated microenvironment with the first androgen dependent PC bone metastasis model I developed that mimics both the pathology and disease progression in patients. My preliminary data indicate that metastasis associated stromal cells may form a unique bone metastasis microenvironment that promotes mHRPC. I aim to identify the underlying molecular mechanisms using a multidisciplinary approach combining intra-vital microscopy, dynamic ADT resistance reporter system, innovative adoptive transfer approach and genetic tools of lineage specific knockout. This work is also designed to translate findings made in mouse models into human disease using innovative humanized in vivo models of mHRPC. The findings generated in this project will lead to innovative therapeutic approaches that can effectively treat mHRPC thus relieve this lethal threat on European societies. MetResistance will make a step change in the field of cancer medicine research by providing new standards to study therapy resistance of metastatic cancer an area representing the number one challenge in cancer research and patient care.

Keywords: tumour microenvironment,macrophage,mesenchymal stem cell
Nanopeptides and Nanosaccharides for Advanced and Sustainable Materials (PEPSA-MATE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,Australia,Spain,Germany,Italy,Italy,Cuba,Greece,Czechia,Brazil
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1232800.0
EU funding (EUR): 961400.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

Long-range research and innovation goal towards transformative biomaterials and technologies: The long-range goal of PEPSA-MATE is to develop and translate sustainable nanostructured functional materials, based on peptides and polysaccharides, using computer-based theoretical design approach and innovative fabrication technologies.PEPSA-MATE will generate a library of functional nanosaccharides and nanopeptides to be used as building blocks for the fabrication of advanced biomaterials. Key Research and Innovation Goals: The objective of PEPSA-MATE is to turn biopolymers into sustainable products using innovative technologies. This will result in alternative biomaterial to conventional, non-degradable synthetic polymers and inorganic materials. Scientific impact: Translation opportunities will be explored in three topic research areas; 1) Phytoglycogen nanoparticles to fabricate bioadhesives, bioplastics and drug carriers; 2) Ultrasonic fabrication of biofunctional nanopeptides; 3) Nanostructured saccharide microparticles as universal platform to deliver a wide range of therapeutic molecules. Impact on early-stage researchers: PEPSA-MATE involves key participation of junior researchers providing strong support for the development of their careers. Intersectoral dimension: PEPSA-MATE will develop intersectoral collaborations between a SME and academic partners to boost entrepreneurship creativity towards sustainable products and processes. Interdisciplinary dimension: PEPSA-MATE will bring together interdisciplinary and complementary expertise in the field of nanomaterials science, polysaccharides and peptides chemistry, acoustic technologies, cell biology, biophysics, and computational modelling. International dimension: PEPSA-MATE will enable long-term, transformative research collaborations between research groups and SMEs settled in European Countries (Italy, Czech Rep., Germany and Spain) and in four non-EU Countries (Australia, Brazil, Cuba and South Africa).

Keywords: glycogen,peptides,green sonochemistry,bioplastic,drug delivery system
Co-design of novel contract models for innovative agri-environmental-climate measures and for valorisation of environmental public goods (Contracts2.0)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Italy,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Poland,Slovenia,Sweden,Hungary,Belgium,Hungary,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Contracts for effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental public goods (H2020-RUR-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998188.75
EU funding (EUR): 4998188.75
Participants: 28
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of Contracts2.0 is to develop novel contract-based approaches to incentivise farmers for the increased provision of environmental public goods along with private goods using result-based, collective, land tenure and value chain approaches. Newly developed contract-based approaches are environmentally more effective, economically viable for farmers and support the longevity of contractual arrangements. Moreover, they enlarge farmers’ entrepreneurial freedom and responsibility, and are better adapted to the relevant temporal and spatial scales of specific environmental goods. Contracts2.0 improves existing and designs new contracts in rural areas to realise synergies on the ground: Therefore, Contracts2.0 adapts a Design Thinking process using a six-step iterative process of analytical and creative steps to design and test novel contracts. Further, Contracts2.0 describes novel contract design principles as well as policy guidelines to provide facilitating policy framework. Contracts2.0 activates the experience of 11 existing innovation initiatives and 13 action partners around Europe as a basis for the novel contracts. The initiatices are involved in all steps of the project and i) are pivotal in our analysis of existing initiatives in our 'innovation labs', ii) support experimental testing of novel contract features, and iii) test novel models on the ground. Contracts2.0 provides: An inventory and SWOT analysis of existing result-based, collective, land tenure and value chain approaches; a catalogue of factors facilitating and hindering existing approaches; a set of novel contract design principles; a guideline for policy framework fostering contract-based approaches and the development of appropriate agri-environmental-climate policies; a set of tailor made communication and dissemination materials for target audiences, and new cooperation and innovation networks for ongoing improvement of rural development policies and instruments.

Keywords: cooperative governance,public and private agri environmental climate contracts,ecosystem services indicators,co design of change and innovation,common agricultural policy,social network analysis