Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging (CONNECTINGEUROPE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1992809.0
EU funding (EUR): 1992809.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many immigrants enter Europe both legally and illegally every year. This creates multiple challenges for the Union, including the gender and ethnic segregation of migrant groups, especially women. While it strives for an inclusive and integrated society as envisioned by the EU motto ‘Unity in Diversity’, it is still often perceived more as ‘Fortress Europe.’ This project focuses on the ‘connected migrant’, studying how virtual communities of migrants, or digital diasporas, convey issues of technology, migration, globalisation, alienation and belonging capturing the lives of migrants in their interaction with multiple worlds and media. More specifically, it will investigate whether digital technologies enhance European integration or foster gender and ethnic segregation, and, if so, how. Using a multi-layered and cutting-edge approach that draws from the humanities, social science and new media studies (i.e. internet studies and mobile media), this research considers: 1. How migration and digital technologies enable digital diasporas (Somali, Turkish, Romanian) and the impact these have on identity, gender and belonging in European urban centres; 2. How these entanglements are connected to and perceived from outside Europe by focusing on transnational ties; and 3. How digital connections create new possibilities for cosmopolitan outlooks, rearticulating Europe’s motto of ‘Unity in Diversity.’ The outcomes of this work will be innovative at three levels. a) Empirically, the project gathers, maps and critically grounds online behaviour by migrant women from a European comparative perspective. b) Methodologically, it breaks new ground by developing new methods of analysis for digital diasporas contributing to the development of ‘postcolonial’ digital humanities. c) Conceptually, it integrates colonial and migrant relations into the idea of Europe, elaborating on the notion of cosmopolitan belonging through virtual connectivity.

Keywords: the proposal focuses on gender migration in europe and digital technologies it falls under sh5,following an interdisciplinary approach that links to topics under panels sh2 and slightly to sh6
Rethinking Exchange: An Historical Inquiry into Self-love, Speech and Sociability (RETHEX)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2025-04-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171473.28
EU funding (EUR): 171473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The recent lockdown brought the commercial interaction of everyday life to a stop for most people in the world at almost the same time. This resulted in a general isolation that highlighted the extraordinary relevance of economic exchanges, also from a social and existential perspective. This experience showed how unfounded it is to think that exchange is just a matter of self-interest, as is believed both by those who criticize commerce for destroying social bonds and traditional ethical systems, and those who, on the contrary, unconditionally defend the market economy. This reduction of exchange to a matter of self-interest was not present in the formative stage of political economy when, in the late 18th century, the conceptualization of commerce was bound up with discussion on the origin of human society, and a richer connection between exchange, speech and sociability was conceived. It is thus a task of the utmost importance to rethink economic exchange today by reconsidering in their historical and theoretical depth the multidisciplinary debates on human nature, on the origin of sociability and of language. To this end, the project will be organised around three major axes associated with the following controversies: a) self-love and exchange in the debate on human nature; b) sociability, values and exchange in the debate on primitive societies; c) speech and exchange in the debate on the origin of language. The project will explore the connections between these different disputes which originated in Europe in the 17th century in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, economic science. An interdisciplinary perspective will be adopted, combining the different kinds of sources ranging over time from the Essays of Montaigne to the works of Adam Smith. Thanks to this enlarged study on the origins of the modern concept of exchange, the project aims to provide a new definition of economic relationships, as well as a new hypothesis on economic agency.

Keywords: history of economic thought,market,values,economic agency,enlightenment
High Nature Value Farming: Learning, Innovation and Knowledge. (HNV-Link)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Ireland,Bulgaria,Croatia,Finland,Greece,Croatia,Romania,Sweden,Greece,France,France,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Closing the research and innovation divide: the crucial role of innovation support services and knowledge exchange (H2020-ISIB-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2230218.38
EU funding (EUR): 2230218.38
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

High nature value (HNV) farmland designates “those areas in Europe where agriculture is a major land use and where that agriculture supports, or is associated with, either a high species and habitat diversity or the presence of species of European conservation concern, or both”. They are an important component of European agriculture, notably in terms of biodiversity, cultural landscape, territorial cohesion, quality products and employment. However, abandonment, degradation, economic and social marginalisation are long-standing challenges for the associated farming systems which are still under considerable pressure. For national and local authorities, the European Union and the Common Agricultural Policy, and for stakeholders, the challenge is twofold: • to avoid further degradation and disappearance of HNV farming and increase their socio-economic viability: this could be done by collating, evaluating and disseminating innovations as tools for their development; • to maintain their “natural value”, i.e the environmental services they provide to the society. For these reasons, our consortium, an EIP Agri Focus Group and new partners, propose a network dedicated to supporting HNV farming, networking HNV areas covering a range of different farming systems across the EU, and to focussing on innovations improving simultaneously “socio-economic viability” and “environmental efficiency”. Conceived as a “support service” for knowledge and innovation exchanges, the HNV-Link network will give a decisive new impetus to this sector, and will provide tools to organisations, actors and networks supporting HNV farmlands. The marginality of HNV areas in conventional research and development means that HNV farming-related innovation is rarely discussed in academic exchanges. Our thematic network, both grassroots-based and transnational, can really make a difference, by connecting farmers and innovation actors in line with the vision of the EIP-Agri “operational groups".

Keywords: high nature value farming,innovation brokering,networking,european agriculture,biodiversity,cultural landscape,operational groups and scientific knowledge,environmental services
Enhancing Research in Ageing at the University of Coimbra (ERAatUC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2762405.0
EU funding (EUR): 2486165.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project “Enhancing Research in Ageing at the University of Coimbra” (ERA@UC) addresses the Widespread ERA Chair call to promote excellence in science research in low-performing EU Member States, thus reducing disparities across Europe. ERA@UC will attract to the University of Coimbra (UC) a high-level leading scientist, and research team, in the field of ageing research, to develop world-leading research, advanced teaching and foster institutional governance changes towards excellence and sustainability.UC is the leader of Ageing@Coimbra, European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) Reference Site. In Coimbra and Centro Region of Portugal, science and technology are major drivers of socioeconomics development and the major instrument to tackle the societal challenge related with population ageing (> 22% of +65 old people in Centro Region). UC encloses excellence resources in biomedical research, advanced teaching, health care and innovation, especially in Ageing, Neuroscience and Vision. However, to further potentiate the outcomes of this knowledge and innovation ecosystem, further investment is crucial to leverage the quality of fundamental science to world leading standards. ERA@UC will contribute to this mission by contracting a key scientific leader with proven expertise in management, leadership and excellence research in ageing, taking advantage of human stem cells. This focus area reduces the economic and ethics impact of fundamental research in ageing, delivers outstanding discoveries in ageing mechanisms and encloses key scientific leaders with the adequate profile for ERA@UC position. ERA@UC team will stand in a strategic area for the Smart Specialization Strategy of Centro Region (health and ageing) and will shape the new Multidisciplinary Research Institute (MIA), a flagship project for UC and Regional Authority.

Keywords: ageing,excellence,research,innovation,lifespan,knlowdedge,training,phd teaching,human stem cells
VIbro-acoustics of PERiodic media (VIPER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Joint Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,France,United States,United Kingdom,Canada,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-EJD) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3131359.47
EU funding (EUR): 3131359.4699999997
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

VIPER is a European Joint Doctorate network focused on research in VIbroacoustic of PERiodic media. Structural periodic design is a powerful strategy for lightweight structures achievements while remaining a convenient solution for manufacturing aspects. One of the research targets is the inclusion of vibroacoustic design rules at early stage of products development through the use of periodic media which exhibit proper dynamic filtering effects. In order to understand how periodic concepts can improve the broadband vibroacoustic signatures and performances, the VIPER project will develop and validate tools for the design of global vibroacoustic treatments based on periodic patterns allowing passive control of structural and acoustical paths in layered concepts. Dealing with large scale periodic structural-acoustic concepts involves a multi-scale aspect that needs specific numerical tools. A two scale strategy will be pursued to handle periodicity effects: the meso-scale, related to the cell or the span size, and the macro-scale related to the final structure size. Bridging the cell scale behavior and the vibroacoustic indicators is a challenging issue which will dramatically improve the macro structural design. As the cell topology and constitutive materials are important data, VIPER will consider the combination of different materials and structural arrangements, in which viscoelastic, poroelastic, auxetic materials will play a major role. Finally, this project will also address the lack of perfect periodicity which can be considered both in view of robustness and design analysis of proposed periodicity based concepts. VIPER has a multi-disciplinary character, coupling expertise from material science, vibration and acoustics as well as applied mathematics. It can offer different applications in transports (aeronautics and space, automobile), energy and civil engineering sectors, where vibroacoustic integrity and comfort can be crucial points.

Keywords: multi scale vibroacoustics,periodic media,homogenization theory,wave propagation,poroelastic,materials,auxetic behaviours,lightweight structures,composites
Inkless by Tocano – Printing without consumables (Inkless by Tocano)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Current printers use ink as a consumable resulting in high operational costs and the production of approximately 2.3 Billion litres of environmentally unfriendly chemicals per year. The main objective of the overall innovation project is to provide a solution for inkless printing. The production, replacement, and refilling of cartridges/toners itself also have significant effects on the environment, due to the chemicals that are used, the production process (electricity, logistics etc.), and the disposal of empty cartridges/toners through landfilling. Another concern is the release of dust and ozonisation during operation, which causes health problems and air pollution. The innovative solution of Tocano B.V. provides an inkless printing technology that will overcome these issues. As a result the European environment will strongly benefits as CO2 emission is reduced up to 65 kton/year. The proposed valorisation of Tocano’s solution represents a potential total value increase for the European economy of approximately EUR 6 Billion/year. The long term ambition of Tocano is to achieve a market share of 10% in the monochromatic printing market. This is a significant step towards a sustainable and cost competitive printing industry. In this feasibility assessment the final hurdles will be taken towards a market introduction supported by a convincing demonstration of the inkless printing technology in an operational environment throughout Europe.

Keywords: printing,inkless,consumables,tocano,digital production printers,high speed office printers,coding and marking solutions,label printers
An Innovative Integrated Field Sensor system providing a precise farming tool to reduce production costs and water wastage. (Stoock)

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: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Data recording, keeping and analysis are tasks of a relatively high effort when done manually, which is inefficient and results in farmer’s double effort and high production costs. Moreover, Up to 40% of global crop yields are lost to pests and diseases every year, endangering the productivity of crops grown for human consumption and causing serious impact on the economic output of a farm. To solve this problem, we have developed Stoock, a self-sufficient solar powered multi-sensor device in a stick-like shape that will allow farmers to collect and record several physical parameters such as air temperature, soil moisture, air humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and rainfall. By deploying Stoock in different countries around Europe and the world, a completely innovative system of Edaphoclimatic Business Intelligence based on Big Data will be created. This will provide detailed advice on actions to improve the use of chemicals by predicting pests risk factors related to specific weather conditions. So far we have raised more than €650K from more than 350 private investors of 25 different nationalities in three Seedrs campaigns and allowed us invested to develop and test the Stoock to ensure its robustness and efficiency and move into the commercialisation stage. To further develop it, overcome market barriers and deploy it at a European and global level we need a further investment of €1.5M that could be partially covered by the Phase 2 grant. The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME instrument fits into our overall plan to reach the market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast sound wider deployment of the Stoock and its market uptake by integrating it with our first product already in the market: Agroop Operational.

Keywords: agriculture,smart monitoring,innovative device,field sensor
Impact of yolk-cellular blastoderm-egg shell interactions on the evolution of animal gastrulation (GHOSTINTHESHELL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cellular, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Panel description: Structure and function of the cell, cell-cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2371791.25
EU funding (EUR): 2371791.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Early animal development, including the process of gastrulation, exhibits tremendous diversity of morphogenetic mechanisms. How does this morphological divergence evolve under the constraints imposed on early embryos remains unclear. In this proposal, I will ask how interactions between cells of the early embryo, the yolk component of the egg and the attachment to the surrounding egg shell affects gastrulation morphogenesis. I will focus on the comparison of two insect embryos, Drosophila and Tribolium, that exhibit strikingly different flows and foldings of the fundamentally very similar cellular blastoderm epithelium during gastrulation. I will ask how contacts between the cellular blastoderm, the yolk-sac and the surrounding vitelline envelope confine and shape tissue movements. What are the molecular mechanisms mediating the contacts and what functional consequences their disruption has for the embryo’s viability. I will probe the tissue interactions by embryological and biophysical manipulations, in toto electron and live microscopy and through genetic manipulations of the integrin adhesion pathway that I recently showed to impact insect gastrulation by mediating cellular blastoderm-vitelline envelope attachment. Using the comparative approach, I will ask how changes in the regulation of tissue interactions sculpt gastrulation morphogenesis in these insect species. I will then expand the investigation beyond arthropods and probe the tissue-shell interaction in several non-model species in order to understand its evolutionary origin and significance for shaping animal phylogeny. Taken together, the research will bridge two relatively isolated disciplines – evolution of development and tissue morphogenesis. By combining their methodological and conceptual approach, I will shed new light on the mechanisms governing diversification of early development and lay the foundations for understanding the phylogeny of morphogenesis.

Keywords: comparative approach,evolution of development,light sheet microscopy,serial section transmission electron microscopy,drosophila,tribolium,yolk,vitelline envelope,tissue interactions
Novel Matrix Stiffness-regulated Genes in Lymphangiogenesis and Angiogenesis (STRomA)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Endothelial cells (ECs) recognize and respond to mechanical forces through their cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions and translate physical stimuli into biological responses in a process called mechanotransduction. The composition and mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) differ across the vascular tree, in its surrounding tissues and in development and diseases, such as edema formation. I have recently shown for the first time that ECM stiffness fundamentally controls lymphangiogenesis. I hypothesize that changes in ECM stiffness are a key regulatory mechanism of angiogenic processes in development and disease. A comprehensive analysis of novel ECM stiffness-regulated genes is pivotal to understand these processes integrally. In a preliminary study, I have performed differential RNA sequencing of blood (B) and lymphatic (L) ECs cultured on soft and stiff matrices. 3200 genes were regulated similarly in BECs and LECs in response to changes in matrix stiffness. Interestingly, the same number of genes was differently regulated. In the next two years, I will study the role of selected genes in lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis in vitro and in transgenic mouse models with state-of-the-art microscope and live imaging techniques. First, I will analyze an actin-regulating protein family that is significantly regulated by matrix stiffness in both, BEC and LECs, suggesting a more general role in lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis by regulating cytoskeletal dynamics. Second, I will study a molecule, which is involved in intracellular cGMP signaling and is predominantly regulated in LECs, suggesting a more specific role in lymphangiogenesis. Last, I will generate an in vitro fluorescent stiffness sensor to live-visualize changes in stiffness inside the EC. Ultimately, the proposed action can provide novel targets to modulate lymph and blood vessel formation with implications for edema treatment and will support me to become an independent group leader.

Keywords: lymphangiogenesis,angiogenesis,vascular edema,extracellular matrix stiffness,mechanotransduction,in vitro and ex vivo live imaging