Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Environmental Sensors for Energy Efficiency (ESEE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ENIAC (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Austria,Finland,France,France,France,France,France,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (ENIAC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 29122435.0
EU funding (EUR): 4368364.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

ESEE – Environment Sensors for Energy Efficiency targets the markets, were with highly reliable information regarding environmental conditions measures can be deducted, which safe the use of energy. The research will be performed on several different sensor technoglogy approaches and finally validated in a test environment, e.g. under the environmental conditions of an aircraft. In addition an appropriate sensor network and innovative communication approaches will be investigated and create to enable air management systems to react on different sensor informations.Innovative approaches based on Silicon MEMS technologies, surface reactions and spectroscopic methods are in focus of the research. Intention is to provide solutions for energy efficient management and introducing this new solutions after the successful conclusion into the market of building control, air craft cabin monitoring and for electric cars indoor air control. The societal benefit will be the provision of healthy air in indoor environments in combination with a huge amount of safed energy due to the avoidance of preparing unnecessarily new fresh air. The applications of the interconnected sensors can be easily extended to other presence depend use of energy, e.g. heating and light.

Keywords: environment sensors for energy efficiency
AMerican Bridge for the Excellence in Research with Europe (AMBER)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,France,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-EURAXESS-IU, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 419485.6
EU funding (EUR): 375124.51
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of AMBER is the implementation of precise and sustainable actions to increase the researchers’ mobility between Latin America and Europe. These actions would improve the intercontinental mobility providing continuity to those researchers who currently develop their activity in Europe, facilitating the return of European investigators avoiding the brain drain, and attracting high-skilled scientists. To reach this general objective three secondary goals are defined: (1) To provide access to qualified information, in the "Knowledge triangle" (education, science and technology and innovation), to LAC researchers, avoiding the current spread information (*1 *30). This activity will benefit the prior stage to the researcher’s arrival. (2) To minimize the problems caused by the existing administrative barriers (immigration, homologation, idiomatic, recruitment’s procedures, …) to expedite the integration of the LAC researcher in the European destination (*4). This activity will benefit the researcher and its family both prior to and during the stay. (3) To support the Career Development Plan of the researchers in their stay in Europe by means of actions focused on facilitating and assuring the residence of Latin-American researchers improving the conditions of stay and work, by raising the quality of the assistance provided, through the implementation of a Training Plan of the mobility managers on scientific cooperation with Latin America (*1 *30)

Keywords: latin american researchers,mobility,career development plan
Green Initiative for Future Optical Networks (GRIFFON)

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,Germany,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1541532.47
EU funding (EUR): 1541532.47
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

At present, there is a large demand for green optical networks, viz. backbone optical networks with an increased optical fibre capacity and transmission distance at low operating cost and reduced power consumption. This is dictated by growing applications of e-commerce, e-banking and e-business, broadcasting media and medical applications. GRIFFON addresses the disruptive change in information and communication solutions towards drastic energy saving (green) technologies in the context of fast development and delivery of new technology, as well as cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary staff training. GRIFFON offers increased communication capacity through coherent technique with advanced modulation formats and polarisation multiplexing of signals, increased distance and reduced power consumption by applying an ultra-long second cascade fibre Raman amplification with supressed polarisation impairments, viz. polarisation dependent gain (PDG) and polarisation mode dispersion (PMD). The project merges four complimentary fields of expertise brought by well-recognized participants: VPI – advanced modelling and design of fibre optic communications links; Aston – high-speed communication systems and Raman technologies; KTH – the development of high-speed transmitters, receivers and modulators for high-capacity fibre optic communications; and ACREO – digital signal processing techniques and algorithms for compensation of linear/nonlinear transmission impairments in coherent communication systems, to create synergy in development of innovative devices and products for new generation of optic fibre communication and secure communication systems. The proposed Academia-Industry Knowledge Transfer Programme will stimulate development of new photonic products, training the researchers through secondments, exchange of skills and recently emerged technologies and will assist to establish a long-term collaboration between the university groups and industry.

Keywords: fibre optic coherent communications,fibre raman amplifier,digital signal processing,linear and nonlinear transmission impairments
Hyper-Spectral Imaging and Sensing in the THz Frequency Range (HYPERIAS)

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,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1522305.4
EU funding (EUR): 1522305.4
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

HYPERIAN seeks to exploit the advantages of combining efficient THz generation from tuneable sources with direct detection using silicon CMOS technology to construct a THz system for hyper-spectral imaging and identification of materials, including explosives in near-field and stand-off modes. Hyper-spectral imaging within HYPERIAS will be supported by activities in the area of imaging algorithms suitable for the focal-plane CMOS arrays. The combination of these activities will result in self-contained systems suitable for concealed weapons and explosives detections at stand-off distances. Dedicated activities targeting a detailed analysis and evaluation of different application field, especially in the security application area, will be incorporated into the proposal, in order to guide system conception and development along the application requirements, to develop automatic hyperspectral material recognition algorithms and to integrate such into the developed hyperspectral imaging and sensing instrumentation.

Keywords: thz frequency band. high power narrow linewidth,widely tuneable thz source,cmos narrow bandwidth thz detector,hyper-spectral imaging,sensing of materials including explosives
Patient-specific stem cell-derived models for Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders (STEMMAD)

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,Hungary,Denmark,Thailand,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 59.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2782409.73
EU funding (EUR): 2782409.73
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Future treatment of incurable neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), and Huntington’s disease (HD), has to be tailored to individual patients or cohorts of patients to obtain an optimal effect. The STEMMAD project is aimed to create a highly innovative international collaboration between 2 R&D intensive SME and 3 distinguished academic partners, including one ICPC Third Country partner. The program will enhance the competitiveness of the SME partners and will have a great impetus in an area of immense societal importance: Neurodegenerative diseases and their potential cure. It is our overall aim, by advanced molecular tools, to derive patient-specific in vitro neural cell models that will allow for such customized treatment. Skin biopsies and blood samples will be collected from genetically and clinically well-characterized patients. Fibroblasts and mononuclear blood cells will be isolated and reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which, in turn, will be differentiated into neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and specific neurons. We expect that these neurons will express molecular characteristics of the patient’s “disease phenotype” and thereby be representative as patient-specific neural cell models. The models will be characterized for functional disease parameters, used for studies of molecular pathogenesis. The iPSC reprogramming and neural differentiation will be controlled by advanced molecular technologies including manipulation of microRNA (miRNA) expression as well as the use of plasmid minicircles with reprogramming factor genes, thus leaving the genome free of transgenes. To ensure the success of the project, direct transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into neurons, without an intermediate “stem cell” stage, will also be attempted as an alternative strategy for generating patient-specific neural cell models.

Keywords: alzheimer's disease,stem cells,in vitro models,cell reprogramming,non-coding rna
Laser Digital Micro-Nano fabrication for Organic Electronics and Sensor applications (LASERMICROFAB)

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: Greece,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1125353.41
EU funding (EUR): 1125353.41
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

LaserMicroFab proposes a joint research programme exploiting on the knowledge and expertise of two academic partners (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and CNRS-LP3) and one SME, Oxford Lasers (OL) through inter-sectorial exchange of knowledge, networking activities and training in the areas of advanced laser processing for organic electronic devices and biosensors. The goal for this project is to develop Laser digital micro-fabrication processes such as selective laser micro and nano-patterning, laser micro-curing and laser micro-printing for precision patterning of complex materials, such as metallic nanoparticle (NP) inks and organic materials. The developed laser processes will be employed for the micro-curing of metallic nanoparticle (NP) interconnects to achieve submicron spatial resolution, for the nanostructuring of ultrathin (<50 nm) layers and for the printing of organic semiconductors for electronics and/or photovoltaics applications. Moreover, patterns of biomolecules will be printed using the laser micro-printing process with high spatial resolution (<10 μm) without compromising the viability of these delicate structures. The integration of laser micro-fabrication processes and the design of a laser platform based on the Oxford Lasers equipment (DPSS pulsed lasers ranging from nanosecond (ns) to femtosecond (fs) duration pulses) will be achieved, in collaboration with the research groups from NTUA and the CNRS-LP3. The success of this project will have a great impact on the market potential of Oxford Lasers’ products and the research excellence of NTUA and CNRS-LP3 in the fields of materials engineering, biotechnology and chemical engineering, ensuring its multidisciplinary character. At the end of this project, a full set of parameters will be established and optimised as an innovative tool for material processing and will be further exploited for new applications and market areas.

Keywords: laser micro and nano fabrication,laser patterning,organic electronics
Switching the disease off: Effects of spatial and temporal inactivation of mutant huntingtin in Huntington disease (SWITCH-HD)

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: Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999005.82
EU funding (EUR): 999005.82
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Huntington Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder, which is caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene. Mutant Huntingtin (mhtt) is expressed ubiquitously in the brain but the most affected region is the striatum. Marked atrophy also occurs in other brain regions such as the cortex and the hypothalamus. The latter has been linked to disturbances in sleep pattern, energy metabolism and emotion, all of them non-motor symptoms of HD that occur early in disease. In the project SWITCH-HD we will, for the first time, analyse, which mhtt containing brain area is causing which symptom in HD. We will investigate the role of mhtt in the striatum and in the hypothalamus by down-regulating mhtt in these brain regions at different disease stages using lentiviral delivery of Cre recombinase into a unique transgenic rat model of Huntington disease (BACHD rats). The effect of switching off mhtt in these brain regions on behaviour, metabolism, neuropathology, neuroimaging and potential biomarkers will be investigated. Translation of the results of this study to humans will allow to develop more specified treatments against HD. SWITCH-HD brings together the expertise of the SME JSW Life Sciences (JSW, Austria) and the University of Tübingen (EKUT, Germany). JSW will contribute and transfer its expertise regarding stereotactic applications, gene delivery by lentiviral vectors and behavioural studies. EKUT will contribute and transfer their expertise in regard to generation and comprehensive characterisation of transgenic rat models of HD. Co-operation and transfer of knowledge is dedicated to gaining new insights relevant to pathogenesis and treatment of HD as well as the establishment of new tools. Transfer of knowledge will be implemented through secondments, recruitments and meetings. There will be a structured exchange of researchers from both partners at project milestones facilitating the training of newly recruited team members

Keywords: huntington disease,striatum,hypothalamus,bachd rat,cre-recombinase
Endometrial and embryonic genomics, searching for biomarkers in assisted reproduction (short title: Search for Assisted Reproduction Markers) (SARM)

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: Estonia,Sweden,Spain,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2659068.29
EU funding (EUR): 2659068.29
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Infertility is a serious medical concern preventing the parenthood in 10% of couples. Infertility treatment using assisted reproduction techniques (ART) is popular in Europe with up to 5% of children born thanks to medical help. Despite many technological improvements the overall pregnancy rate after infertility treatment using the most commonly practiced in vitro fertilization (IVF) remains only 30% per single cycle. The specific features of human reproduction include the high prevalence of diverse chromosomal pathologies in oocytes and early embryos, and significant dysregulation in gene expression in embryo and endometrial tissue, both being the risk factors for implantation failure and decreased pregnancy rate after IVF. Hence, the intrinsic motivation for the current SARM project stems from the perceived need to contribute to future IVF improvements and benefit from the recent breakthroughs in technological innovations. Our primary research objective is to unravel the molecular nature of human preimplantation embryo development and endometrial maturation. This ambitious goal will be achieved by exploiting highly sophisticated single-cell genomics tools, such as fine-resolution mapping of DNA copy-number changes by using SNP-arrays and sequencing platforms, and characterizing single-cell transcriptional landscape by RNA-sequencing. These studies are likely to propose novel embryonal and endometrial biomarkers useful for selecting the most competent embryos for transfer or identifying the causes of female infertility of endometrial origin. The SARM consortium consists of 2 industrial (IVIOMICS, Paterna/Spain and Competence Centre on Reproductive Medicine, Tartu/Estonia) and 3 academic (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm/Sweden; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and University of Tartu/Estonia) partners, forming a strong, stimulating and coherent research environment ensuring the pooling of complementary scientific skills in reproductive genetics and medicine.

Keywords: assisted reproduction techniques,chromosomal pathologies,endometrial receptivity,infertility,in vitro fertilization,dna/rna sequencing,embryo development and preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Self-organising MESH Networking with Heterogeneous Wireless Access (MESH-WISE)

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: Sweden,Sweden,Greece,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1711620.86
EU funding (EUR): 1711620.86
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Wireless mesh networking is being considered as a promising solution for scalable and ubiquitous Internet access for one decade already. Still, major limitations remain to be overcome before the concept matures to fulfil the promise. What’s more, the potential of integrating the mesh networking paradigm in the context of heterogeneous technologies has not been yet sufficiently explored. Pursuing advancement along these lines, towards shaping next generation mesh networking, calls for cutting-edge research and development (R&D) efforts with inter-sector knowledge renewal and integration. The MESH-WISE project responds to these needs by mobilising a joint academic-industry task force on two complementary themes. First is the development of novel mechanisms for deployment and resource allocation of self-organising mesh networks. The second theme comprises the investigation of multi-purpose and heterogeneous mesh networking and its emerging applications such as traffic offloading, emergency deployment and provisioning, and sensor integration. Designing future wireless mesh systems based on heterogeneous radio technologies with self-organising capabilities necessitates original R&D actions. The MESH-WISE project takes a holistic view in developing models, protocols, and algorithms in a wide spectrum, from theoretical analysis to proof-of-concept and prototyping. Towards these ends, the MESH-WISE project follows the approach of intensive inter-sectorial exchange of knowledge and know-how between the consortium partners. In addition to R&D, MESH-WISE contributes to competitiveness development by training researchers. The knowledge transfer programme is designed on a mutual-benefit basis between the academic and industrial partners, to promote new career opportunities and development in the European Information and Communication technologies (ICT) arena, and thereby generate new types of expertise and human capital for the European Research Area (ERA).

Keywords: algorithms,mesh networking,heterogeneous access,modelling,resource management,protocols