Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Smart Supply Chain Oriented Rail Freight Services – Smart-Rail (Smart-Rail)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Germany,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Bulgaria,Hungary,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Smart Rail Services (H2020-MG-2014_TwoStages, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5999213.0
EU funding (EUR): 5999213.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Smart-Rail has established the following objectives that are aligned with the requirements of the topic MG 2.2 and the various policy objectives: •Introduce a wide set of innovative measures aiming to improve the freight rail services offered to the shippers, focusing on five key topics: reliability, lead time, costs, flexibility and visibility. •Contribute to a mental-shift of the rail sector toward a client oriented and supply chain focus. •Develop working business models for cooperation of different stakeholders. •Develop a methodology and architecture for exchange of data/information required for the optimisation process, between stakeholders, making use of existing initiatives where available (for instance the European Corridor Management and national logistical information centres). •Establish and maintain communication with the different levels of stakeholders •Establish three Living Labs that each focus on different aspects and markets and implement the developed tools, methodologies and concepts. The purpose of the Living Labs is to test and improve the innovative measures in a real life situation. Specific and more dedicated business models, information systems and new rail services will be tested. The living labs to be implemented are: • Living Lab 1: Dedicated services; Wagonload trains. • Living Lab 2: Managing connectivity of rail with other modes; Control tower for long distance rail freight transport. • Living Lab 3: Reliability of rail and (unexpected) obstructions on the track; Betuwe route (Rotterdam-Genua corridor). •Broad and effective exploitation of the results of the project facilitated by a Smart Rail portal where all relevant information, data and tools can be exchanged and where stakeholders find each other and can share their experiences.

Keywords: living lab,rail corridors,cooperation,business models,reliability,wagon load trains,control tower,mental shift,client focus,flexibility,visibility
‘The re-privatization of the contemporary art world: private collectors and artist-entrepreneurs in the changing geographies of European art’ (Art market)

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-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-06-15
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 146591.1
EU funding (EUR): 146591.1
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project examines the idea that there is an on-going re-privatization of the European art world, in which increasingly it is private art collectors and communities of artist-entrepreneurs that are creating commercial value in the contemporary art market and redrawing our cultural landscape. The rapid expansion of the global art market has meant that art has entered a period of radical institutional, market and industry transformation. Private art collectors and artist-entrepreneurs are now competing with public institutions and the locus of power is moving from public to private actors. This change calls for new critical investigations of agency, value creation and creativity of the art world. My work addresses an area of activity that is central to both European cultural and economic development. The thriving European art scene is a key field within the creative and cultural industries identified as central to Europe’s development and integration by both the Creative Europe strategy and the Europe 2020 strategy. With new and innovative empirical research, a program of training and knowledge transfer, and an ambitious dissemination plan I aim to contribute to important non-academic and academic debates over the geography and practice of the art world, by exploring how this re-balancing is changing how and where agency and value creation now takes place. Building on geographical analysis and ethnographies of London and Stockholm based private art market actors, I aim to develop new theoretical insights into: a) how and where arts´ commercial value gets created; and b) the increased presence of entrepreneurial and private actors´ strategies in the art world. This proposal involves the training and development of an experienced researcher through: i) time spent in one of Europe’s most innovative centres for human geography research; and ii) a new intra-disciplinary and comparative empirical research project.

Keywords: creativity and innovation,regional comparative study,human geography,creative cultural industries
Advanced material for the regeneration of oral mucosa injuries (NEOFIBRIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of NEOFIBRIN is to undertake a technical, industrialization and market feasibility study on an innovative regenerative medicine treatment for masticatory oral mucosa injuries based on a new advanced material, HR018-Neofibrin. The use of this material to develop a tridimensional natural scaffold for restoring masticatory oral mucosa functional activity is expected to significantly increase treatment efficiency over currently marketed products and to provide an alternative to allogenic and autologous grafts to treat localized mucosal damage. The application of Tissue Engineering techniques in clinical dentistry has several well-known problems, key among them the generation of a supportive biomaterial with regenerative capacity without the loss of consistency. Our novel biomaterial HR018-Neofibrin was developed combining natural materials and an exclusive design to promote the progressive formation and maturation of new epithelium while maintaining structural properties. Fibrin, one of the proteins involved in wound healing, provides a temporary extracellular matrix that facilitates cell migration, invasion and proliferation. Agarose, a polysaccharide from seaweed, gives the mechanical properties that enable surgical suturing and open healing. Histocell, a SME specialized in human regenerative medicine, has obtained licensing rights to the production of fibrin-agarose based artificial tissues and scaffolds for regeneration of tissues and oral mucosa. Successful completion of Phase 1 of NEOFIBRIN will yield a robust business plan for a much larger project that will seek funding under Phase 2 of the SEM Instrument, when the company will adapt a new facility for advanced manufacturing of innovative medical devices for the production of the new biomaterial HR018-Neofibrin and undertake clinical studies to obtain CE Mark for the product. Successful accomplishment of Phases 1 and 2 will be essential for accelerating the growth of the SME Histocell.

Keywords: regenerative medicine,oral mucosa regeneration,periodontal disease,tissue engineering,advanced manufacturing
The Making of a Lopsided Union: Economic Integration in the European Economic Community, 1957-1992 (EURECON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 82.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498451.0
EU funding (EUR): 290000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The project investigates European policymakers’ views about how to make the European Economic Community (EEC) fit for a monetary union. It will thus assess the origins of the issues that are currently bedevilling the EU. From the EEC creation in 1957 to the decision to create the euro in 1992, several proposals were tabled to improve the functioning of the EEC as a possible currency area. Five interconnected domains are crucial to achieve economic integration in a currency union, and were continuously discussed before 1992: macroeconomic policy coordination, fiscal transfers, capital market integration, banking regulation, and deepening of the common/single market. The project will provide the first historical appraisal of these proposals and debates, and identify the dynamics of political and economic trade-offs and compromises, shifting priorities, and alternative approaches abandoned at the time but recycled later. The project intertwines international, legal, political, and economic history approaches in order to provide a thorough portrait of European policymakers’ paradigms, goals, and constraints in envisioning an economic union in a changing global context. It relies on pioneering multilateral, multi-archival research analysing material from all member states and EEC institutions. The project also intends to encourage the study of the critical influence of non-EEC and non-state actors and factors on the European decision-making level. To this end, the PI will lead a team of two PhD students and two Postdocs to explore specific case studies involving commercial banks, big business, trade unions and the evolution of economic thinking. The project aims to link the usually insulated scholarships of European integration, postwar European history, and national histories of economic policymaking. It will shed new light on the EU’s post-Maastricht evolution and contextualise the Eurozone’s current challenges by providing a deeper understanding of its foundations.

Keywords: european integration,economic and monetary union
DNA as a training platform for photodynamic processes in soft materials (LightDyNAmics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Italy,Slovenia,Switzerland,France,Czechia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3827591.28
EU funding (EUR): 3827591.2800000003
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Light interaction with biomaterials is the driving mechanism of fundamental biological processes, from photosynthesis to DNA photodamage, and is a powerful tool in biomedicine for analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The main goal of LightDyNAmics is to achieve a complete understanding of the ultrafast dynamical processes at the molecular scale induced by UV light absorption in DNA, and to unveil the mechanisms leading to photodamage of the genetic code. At the same time, our project will transfer this knowledge on light-matter interaction to a broad class of optoelectronic materials, highly relevant for Europe`s high-tech industries. LightDyNAmics is an academia-industry research environment training 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) by crossing the traditional border between theoretical and experimental expertise. This will be achieved by performing independent, yet interrelated and complementary research projects focussed on photoactivated dynamics of DNA, and by developing a variety of new spectroscopic and computational methods. For all the ESRs, personalised training in advanced techniques will be combined with a broad common interdisciplinary background on dynamical processes in bio-macromolecules. The consortium brings together 10 leading academic groups with multidisciplinary expertise (chemistry, physics, biology) and a unique blend of experimental and computational skills. 6 innovative companies, from SMEs specialised in click-chemistry and in biosensors to a pharma industry, will be fully integrated in the research and training programme and help promote technological exploitation of its results. LightDyNAmics will develop innovative molecular probes for DNA/protein interaction, paving the way to new diagnostic tools and new drugs. The understanding of light interaction with organic molecules will impact on basic sciences, from biochemistry to nanosciences, and on industrial applications ranging from healthcare to photonic technologies.

Keywords: molecular and nonadiabatic dynamics,photophysics,excited electronic states,charge transfer,excitons,nucleobases,guanine quadruplexes,pump probe and 2d spectroscopy,computational spectroscopy
SOcial Cognitive Robotics in The European Society (SOCRATES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Spain,Germany,Spain,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3874726.44
EU funding (EUR): 3874726.44
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

SOCRATES is a PhD training program for 15 young researchers, created to develop the field of Social Robotics with an application focus on Robotics in Eldercare. The research in Social Robotics has a common theme of Interaction Quality, which is a concept for characterization of how a specific mode of interaction is fit for a given task, situation, and user. Interaction Quality often changes, for instance if an older adult gets tired and loses focus when interacting with a robot. Interaction Quality also depends on the robot’s functionality and design, and will be addressed from a range of perspectives in five research workpackages: • Emotion: novel multi-modal methods to perceive human emotions from facial expressions, body motion, auditory and language cues • Intention: new techniques to infer human goals and intention from natural language and video analysis • Adaptivity: techniques to adapt a robot’s behaviour to user needs • Design: Novel design methods for hardware, interfaces, and safety • Acceptance: Procedures for evaluation of user acceptance Additional value and impact is generated by the unique multidisciplinary collaboration between academic disciplines that normally do not work together; computer science, cognitive science, biomechanics, ethics, social psychology, and social science. Intersectoral collaboration between academia, caregivers, business developers, and robot manufacturers will further strengthen novelty and impact by ensuring that relevant needs are addressed, and that research result are both economically and technically feasible. The outcome of SOCRATES will be a new generation of researchers with the ability to interact with scholars from different ‘schools-of-thought’ in areas that are well within as well as outside of their areas of expertise.

Keywords: social robotics,human robot interaction,elderly care,robot ethics,interaction design,natural language processing,robot safety,sliding autonomy,teleoperation
Towards the Wider uptake of Arterial Stiffness As a BIomarker for cardiovascular diseases (WASABI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aortic stiffness is a recognised cardiovascular biomarker and measurement of aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is the gold standard methodology to assess large artery stiffening. Elevated aortic PWV has been shown to predict cardiovascular, and in some cases all cause, mortality in individuals with end-stage renal failure, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, as well as in the general population. However, at present, the role of measurement of PWV as a general clinical tool remains to be established, particularly because devices on the market (ALAM Medical Complior, SphygmoCor, Mo-bil-O-Graph, PulsePen, BPLab Vasotens, or Arteriograph) are either complicate to use and relatively expensive, or only provide lower cost estimations whose clinical value is questionable. That’s why ALAM Medical has initiated an innovation project whose objective is to scale up the use of arterial stiffness as a biomarker, notably by investigating alternative sensors so as to create and distribute an easier to use and more affordable device measuring gold standard aortic stiffness and local carotid stiffness while being suitable for everyday use in numerous medical contexts. By providing a medical device with such characteristics, as well as by undertaking appropriate market awareness actions, we intend to transform our existing niche market, mainly composed of clinical researchers, into a large-scale market composed of clinical practitioners, cardiologists or physicians: arterial stiffness measurements have the potential to move from research to standard medical practice, on the model of blood pressure measurements. To this aim, during project Phase 1, ALAM Medical will select the most appropriate sensor technology, secure intellectual property rights on sensor and signal processing technologies, assemble pre-serial devices, elaborate a more detailed business plan, and design a large-scale demonstration study (included in project Phase 2).

Keywords: arterial stiffness,arterial health,pulse wave velocity,cardiovascular diseases,hypertension,renal failure,diabetes,neurocognitive disorders
SPARKLE - Training Europe's Future Photonics Research Leaders (SPARKLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3972240.0
EU funding (EUR): 1986120.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Photonics impacts our everyday lives, from the screens that drive our mobile phones, to the fibre optic based communications network that underpins the modern internet, to light based diagnostics systems that identify diseases. It also represents an enormous worldwide sector that is growing twice as fast as the global GDP and expected to reach €615 billion in 2020. Europe is at the heart of this industry with a market that has grown by over 62% over the last 10 years, investing about €10 billion per year in innovation through its 5,000 photonics companies that directly employ over 300,000 with a global market share of 15.5%, second only to China. SPARKLE is an innovative photonics focused intersectoral training, career development and mobility fellowship programme that will be open to experienced researchers of any nationality, resident anywhere in the world, seeking a prestigious career development path in the field of photonics research and innovation. These future leaders with combined skills in scientific excellence, product develop and manufacturing, will be equipped to compete at the highest levels and will ensure that Europe secures a significant proportion of the projected 10,000 new jobs per year that will be created by the photonics industry. The SPARKLE programme will offer 27 two-year fellowships. Objectives: 1. An advanced training programme in a cutting-edge research environment to train the future cohort of world leaders in the field of photonics, highly employable both in academia and industry. 2. Strengthen and raise the excellence and impact of Europe’s photonics research and manufacturing activities, and ensure that Europe continues to compete with the US and China through the transition of leading edge science into market leading products. 3. Address the expanding skills shortage in the field of photonics across Europe, specifically at experienced researcher level.

Keywords: photonics future research leaders
High-density QCD matter from first principles (DenseMatter)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1342132.5
EU funding (EUR): 1342132.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Predicting the collective properties of strongly interacting matter at the highest densities reached within the present-day Universe is one of the most prominent challenges in modern nuclear theory. It is motivated by the desire to map out the complicated phase diagram of the theory, and perhaps even more importantly by the mystery surrounding the inner structure of neutron stars. The task is, however, severely complicated by the notorious Sign Problem of lattice QCD, due to which no nonperturbative first principles methods are available for tackling it. The proposal at hand approaches the strong interaction challenge using a first principles toolbox containing most importantly the machinery of modern resummed perturbation theory and effective field theory. Our main technical goal is to determine three new orders in the weak coupling expansion of the Equation of State (EoS) of unpaired zero-temperature quark matter. Alongside this effort, we will investigate the derivation of a new type of effective description for cold and dense QCD, allowing us to include to the EoS contributions from quark pairing more accurately than what is possible at present. The highlight result of our work will be the derivation of the most accurate neutron star matter EoS to date, which will be obtained by combining insights from our work with those originating from the Chiral Effective Theory of nuclear interactions. We anticipate being able to reduce the current uncertainty in the EoS by nearly a factor of two, which will convert into a precise prediction for the Mass-Radius relation of the stars. This will be a milestone result in nuclear astrophysics, and in combination with emerging observational data on stellar masses and radii will contribute to solving one of the most intriguing puzzles in the field – the nature of the most compact stars in the Universe.

Keywords: quark matter,nuclear matter,thermodynamics,high density,equation of state,perturbation theory,effective field theory,phase diagram,neutron stars,heavy ion collisions