Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Idea, Ideal, Idyll: Garden Cities in Central Europe 1890s-1930s (GARDENCITYIDEA)

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: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project examines processes of cultural and intellectual exchange between Britain and Central Europe, with particular regard to ideas of urban and architectural design. It focuses on the utopia of the garden city, invented by Ebenezer Howard in the classic work To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, published in 1898. Howard sought not only to reform architectural design, but also to effect social change through facilitating new forms of communal living, including the role of women. Soon after, the first garden cities were built in Britain. It is generally accepted that the visions of British thinkers and designers such as Howard was influential in central Europe. However, beyond Germany, the impact of British ideas and practices in central Europe has only been studied in a schematic way. This project therefore interrogates the transfer of ideas from Britain to central Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, their implementation, development and application in particular, garden towns and garden suburbs. Its main focus is on the Czech and Slovak lands (part of Austria-Hungary before 1918, afterwards, Czechoslovakia), but it also makes comparative reference to Austria and Germany. Equally, the project examines how urbanist ideas from central Europe were then transferred back to Britain, in the form of the company town built in East Tilbury in England by the Czech shoe company Baťa in the 1930s. It will be the first systematic and comparative study to take into account not only the local national context (as well as that of the German speaking countries), but also the wider networks of ideas and practices that were in circulation. As such, it asks a key question: How and why were the utopian ideals of English garden cities “translated” into the Czechoslovak and wider central European context? Conversely, how were such ideas “fed back” into British architecture and urban planning by Czechoslovak architects and planners?

Keywords: modern architecture and urban planning,theory of architecture,garden city movement,britain,czechoslovakia,austria humgary
ExcEED – European Energy Efficient buildingdistrict Database: from data to information to knowledge (ExcEED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low environmental impact
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Italy,Belgium
Call: Performance indicators and monitoring techniques for energy-efficiency and environmental quality at building and district level (H2020-EEB-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 749633.75
EU funding (EUR): 749633.75
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The European Union is undertaking consistent action to enforce and promote energy efficiency in building sector. The new energy efficient constructions, expression of the European efforts to decrease CO2 emissions, represent a growing share of the building stock. Now there is an unavoidable need to learn from what we are doing, or have recently done, to improve the quality and the performances of the future building sector. This proposal plans the creation of European Energy Efficient building & district Database (ExcEED). ExcEED will be a solid and well-structured database with measured and qualitative information from beyond the state of the art buildings. The key aspects of the database will be: • A set of tools that allows geo-clustered, statistical, and knowledge analysis of the data; • A collection of tailored Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will “transform data into information”; • The ability to analyse building-district interaction; • The existence of the database and associated analyses will be guaranteed beyond the project conclusion thanks to a model of financial self-support; • The ability to continuously gather new data thanks to specific features (e.g. occupant surveys) that increase project visibility among designers with interest in the major rating schemes (e.g. LEED); • The connection with the major EU financed databases on buildings (i.e. Building Observatory). The advanced tools and KPIs associated to the database will allow the analysis of energy performance and environmental quality at the level of single building/district, geo-cluster of buildings, and European new or renovated building stock. The analysis will result in knowledge to inform single building managers, designers, and European policy makers.

Keywords: energy efficient database,survey
Predicting neuropathic pain episodes in spinal cord injury patients through portable EEG and machine learning (Pain_App)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203852.16
EU funding (EUR): 203852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neuropathic pain (NP) is a common symptom arising as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system. The traditional approach to manage NP patients is to initiate treatment with conservative pharmacological therapy before interventional strategies. However, first-line drug treatments have shown modest efficacy with less than 50% of pain relief. Since NP is present in ~70% of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), people with this pathology represent a reliable population to study NP. Interestingly, previous studies have shown a clear correlation between NP and changes in electroencephalography (EEG), which is a good indicator of the state of the central nervous system. Hence, I hypothesise that NP episodes in SCI patients can be predicted based on the classification and identification of features extracted from EEG recordings in resting state and during an imaginary motor task. In recent years, digital health technology has emerged as a useful tool to improve data management strategy under the full control of the patient. In this project, I will employ state-of-the-art digital health technology (a smartphone app and a portable EEG) to collect data from SCI patients daily for one month, including pain self-assessment scales and physiological indicators. I will set up a digital-health-based study using a software platform already established by the host institution. The collection of these data will allow me to develop a personalised model to predict the onset of NP episodes using machine learning techniques. Predicting the occurrence of NP episodes will increase the medication efficacy, which in turn will prevent an aggressive development of pain events while minimising the side effects produced by excessive drug doses. The expected results of this project will remarkably improve the quality of life of SCI patients with NP.

Keywords: neuropathic pain,spinal cord injury,digital health,machine learning
Genetic and lifestyle regulators of cardiometabolic risk in individuals gaining weight (GeneLifeCard)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The current obesity pandemic is a major threat to public health systems worldwide. The majority of obesity-related health care costs are due to cardiometabolic impairments such as insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, which increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, many obese individuals seem resistant to cardiometabolic complications, the “metabolically healthy obese (MHO)”, while some normal weight individuals suffer from comorbidities similar to the obese. Genetic mechanisms may partly explain this paradox. Recent genome-wide studies have identified multiple genetic loci associated with increased overall body fat and subcutaneous fat deposition but lower cardiometabolic risk. Vice versa, the fat-decreasing alleles at these loci are associated with higher cardiometabolic risk. Some lifestyle factors, such as higher physical activity and smoking, are associated with lower body fat but show directionally opposite effects on cardiometabolic risk. At present, it remains unclear whether genetic predisposition to higher subcutaneous fat storage or healthy lifestyle behaviors may uncouple long-term weight gain from cardiometabolic risk during adulthood. Thus, the primary aim of the present project is to examine whether genetic and lifestyle factors abolish the impact of long-term weight gain on cardiometabolic risk by meta-analyses of five prospective cohorts with repeated measures of body weight and cardiometabolic traits. I will also examine whether these factors predict a MHO status in middle-age and the maintenance of such status over time. My results will provide new biological insights and may enable targeted lifestyle interventions against obesity-related cardiometabolic impairments. Moreover, the project will greatly advance my career by allowing me to learn highly valuable research skills in the area of genetic epidemiology, complementing my previous expertise in the field of cardiovascular epidemiology.

Keywords: genetic epidemiology,obesity,adiposity,type 2 diabetes,cardiovascular diseases,public health,weight gain,epidemiology,genetic association study,body fat distribution,lifestyle,risk factor
A new approach to revealing the composition of kimberlite melts and their deep mantle source (KimberliteNewApproach)

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: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overarching aim of this project is to provide novel constraints on the composition of the Earth’s deep mantle, particularly its volatile content, by undertaking an innovative geochemical and isotopic study of the deepest formed melts on Earth: kimberlites. Kimberlite melts are derived from depths in excess of 150-200 km. They are important as the major host of diamonds and because entrain xenoliths (i.e. fragments) of upper mantle and deep crustal rocks during ascent to the surface, providing a major source of information about the geochemistry of the deep Earth. Despite their importance, the composition of primary kimberlite melts and their exact mantle source are hotly debated issues. This is due to contamination of kimberlite melts by mantle and crustal rocks during magma emplacement and near surface alteration of primary kimberlite mineralogy. To determine the composition of primary kimberlite melts, I will employ a novel approach that combines radiogenic (Sr-Nd-Pb) and stable (C-O) isotope fingerprinting of melt inclusions in kimberlitic magmatic minerals (i.e. olivine and spinel), using innovative ultra-sensitive techniques. This approach will constrain if the carbonate-dominated melt inclusions truly represent examples of pristine kimberlite magma by quantifying processes like crustal contamination and degassing that may have altered the melt composition. I will investigate kimberlites from targeted localities from different parts of the world (South Africa, Canada, Greenland, Russia) and of variable age (Proterozoic to Cretaceous) to assess if there are spatial and/or temporal controls to kimberlite composition. The melt inclusions C-O isotope data, coupled with O isotope analyses of kimberlitic olivine, spinel and perovskite, are designed to test if recycled crustal material occurs in the deep mantle source of kimberlites, which would provide important new constraints on the global cycle of volatiles through geological time.

Keywords: kimberlite,melt inclusions,radiogenic isotopes,stable isotopes,volatiles,crustal recycling,carbonate melts,tims
Higgs and Beyond the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, systematic developments. (HIGGS-BSM-EFT)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212194.8
EU funding (EUR): 212194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The focus of this proposal is to systematically develop the Standard Model effective field theory and to use this formalism to study the Higgs boson. The need to engage in this effort is clearly well motivated considering current Large Hadron Collider (LHC) results. Developing the general effective field theory framework to include quantum mechanical corrections is essential if future deviations in Higgs properties are to be systematically studied at high precision in a model independent manner. Higgs properties are currently only roughly known, with large errors. The upcoming data set from LHC will be at least five times as large as the data set gathered in the initial run. Further, the LHC will now be operating at twice the collision energy compared to the initial run. Using this rich data set, Higgs properties will be determined with about an order of magnitude improvement in experimental precision. Resolving more precisely the properties of the Higgs is expected to give evidence for the effects of fundamentally new particles and interactions, involved in stabilizing the Higgs mass against quantum corrections. Utilizing the resources of this grant, calculations of the most important quantum corrections to Higgs production and decay processes in the general effective field theory of the SM will be undertaken. This work builds upon past contributions in this area by the experienced researcher. Phenomenological analyses to refine our knowledge of the Higgs Boson will also be further developed. The final goal that this proposal advances towards is nothing less than to decode, and discover, a more fundamental theory of nature from a pattern of precious clues embedded in future LHC data.
Novel Biomaterial for Improved and Cost-efficient Wound Healing (BIOCURE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME boosting biotechnology-based industrial processes driving competitiveness and sustainability (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

Wound treatment is a major healthcare cost for all developed countries. The global market for advanced wound care products was projected to be $ 3 billion in 2012, with an annual growth above 10% and representing one of the leading medical product sectors . However, this represents only some 15-20% of the overall cost of wound treatment, where hospitalisation and nurse time represent the remaining costs. BIOVOTEC aims to pursue a major market opportunity by developing a novel biomaterial based cost-effective wound dressings that can be used for initial treatment of all wounds at risk of delayed or non-healing, reducing the incidence of chronic wounds. BIOCURE range products will be safer, potentially more effective, much more easily scalable and significantly lower in cost when compared with the available advanced wound healing products. BIOCURE is an opportunity for BIOVOTEC to enter the world-wide advanced wound care market and maintain the European competitive position in the growing biotech and wound management sector. The accomplishment of the project objectives will thus represent a significant business opportunity for BIOVOTEC. Furthermore, BIOCURE will positively impact clinicians and patients through early stage treatment or resolution of chronic wounds. In the feasibility study, we plan to develop and test business models for two key European markets (Scandinavia and UK). The results from this study will allow us to develop viable business models, supply chains and product requirements, thereby minimizing the financial risks of following investments in development of an approved/qualified products and clinical validation in a phase 2 SMEINST project. The phase 2 project will develop industrial process, validate and demonstrate the benefits of BIOCURE product range before large-scale commercialization.

Keywords: efficient wound care and healing,eggshell membrane,biotech processes,waste recycling,healthcare
Innovative toilet assistive device enabling people with reduced mobility to become independent (Dignum)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

People with reduced mobility often suffer from bowel problems. Spinal cord injury (SCI), multiple sclerosis (MS) and cerebral palsy (CP), are some of the illnesses that lead to the loss of the ability to control the bowel reflex. The loss of bowel control often means that the evacuation requires extensive amounts of time and the assistance of health care providers or attendants. Moreover, bowel dysfunction is one of the most devastating sequelae of these patients, because it not only affects morbidity, but it also can severely disrupt a person's quality of life. IndGear has developed an innovative assistive, multifunctional device – Dignum - which enables for the first time, people with reduced mobility to use bathroom and perform bowel care and multiple hygienic tasks on their own, such as insertion of enema, cleaning, wiping and inspection for pressure ulcers. Dignum can be safely used by people with reduce or none sensation in the lower body since the device has an integrated module for visual inspection (screen, camera, and lights) which minimizes risks of injuries to the perineum and anal region. The SME Phase 1 project will be crucial for the maturation of the business plan, including the analysis of reimbursement schemes and regulatory work and the development of a business model compatible with geographical market expansion and growth. In the SME Phase 2 Project we aim to clearly demonstrate and validate the benefits of our device through large scale demonstrations – crucial for a wide penetration in this sector. Overall, this project opens not only an important economic opportunity for IndGear - expecting over €17.1 million revenues, 5 years post-project - but will ultimately lead to contributing significantly to improve quality of life of end-users as well as important cost savings for the society.

Keywords: reduced mobility,bowel control,hygienic tasks,toilet assist device,spinal cord injury,cerebral palsy,multiple sclerosis
Direct Experimental probe of the Lorenz invariance violation in the Top-quark physics at the ATLAS experiment. (DELTA)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Serbia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140021.76
EU funding (EUR): 140021.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Standard Model (SM) is a theory which accurately describes the elementary constituents of matter and interactions between them at the energy scales we have been able to probe in experiments up to the present day. However, since in the Nature we observe physics phenomena beyond the SM, it is expected that the SM is a low-energy effective approximation of a theory that describes the physics of particles and their interactions in a broader way. Lorentz Invariance is a fundamental symmetry of the SM, but it is not expected to be conserved necessarily at the high energy scale of quantum gravity where space-time could undergo violent fluctuations. The violation of the Lorenz invariance (LIV), which is predicted by some extensions of the SM theory, would manifests itself at energies accessible by the experiments nowadays. I propose to preform the first search for the possible LIV in the top quark interactions at the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will pioneer the use of innovative approaches to analyse collision data taking into account detector orientation in the space-time continuum. The project will comprise phenomenological study to identify observables most sensitive to LIV, development of the novel framework for analysing data as a function of the sidereal time, study of the time-dependence of the ATLAS detector performance and state-of-the-art collision data analysis. My long-standing experience with measurements targeting the final states with top quarks and Higgs boson decays, provide me with unique expertise to perform this search and unlock the hidden potential of the LHC collision data. In addition, I plan to use my expertise in the jet flavour tagging and further improve the performance of the b-jet tagging algorithms for the upcoming LHC Run-3 data-taking period. My knowledge, skills and technical expertise gained over the course of last several years, supported by the extensive expertise in the key areas of IPB and CERN teams