Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
European Coordinating Body in Maths, Science and Technology Education (ECB) (ECB)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Finland,Spain,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,Italy,Austria,Estonia,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom,Sweden,Slovakia,Denmark,Spain,France,Switzerland,Denmark,Sweden,Israel,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-CAREERS, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8161949.0
EU funding (EUR): 3578912.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

The European Coordinating Body in Maths, Science and Technology Education (ECB) is a large-scale strategic response to the FP7 call to reinforce links between science education and science and technology careers in the private sector through reinforcing the partnership industry/education. The overall aim of the ECB is to increase young Europeans’ interest in mathematics, science and technology (MST) education and careers, addressing two challenges: lack of interest in the subjects and the future skills gap (by 2020, there will be 20 million high-skilled jobs and 30 million medium-skilled jobs using MST in Europe). The partnership proposed for the ECB is a multi-stakeholder consortium of 26 partners in 17 countries, associating Ministries of Education, Businesses (major European companies, National science platforms, Organisations representing the interests of industry) and Universities. The financial model of the ECB is based on a shared contribution provided by the major stakeholders of the project; a significant part of the budget is devoted to dissemination and impact activities. Through innovative initiatives and coordinating and building on existing school/business partnerships in the field of MST education across Europe, the ECB will develop a repository of practice, disseminate and stimulate good practices in MST and encourage new practices. Two key areas of work are a portal with an observatory of industry-education information, guidance and good practices in Europe and networks of over 1000 primary and secondary schools (with a leading pilot network of 150 schools) which will validate the best practices, design a programme of activities and organise seminars for teachers on industry-education cooperation in MST education. A set of major dissemination and exploitation activities are designed to mainstream and sustain good practices and so increase numbers opting for MST in schools, and ultimately increase the number of Europe’s researchers and scientists.

Keywords: european coordination body,maths,science,technology,education
Immersion in the Science Worlds through Arts (ISWA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science and society communicate
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,United Kingdom,Lithuania,Switzerland,Slovakia,Austria,Portugal,Italy,Sweden,Poland,Greece,Czechia,Germany,Spain,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1225522.4
EU funding (EUR): 1103791.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to use art to communicate emotions related to the understanding of nature and to stimulate students create artistic initiatives able to demonstrate commonalities of artistic and scientific fascination. The objective will be pursued according to two strictly related aspects: 1)produce artistic works based on scientific phenomena at a professional level; 2)stimulate students of EC schools to produce their own works and to organize an international competition to prize the best ones. (We consider this a form of very deep and long lasting interactive action that we prefer to the sometimes superficial and ephemeral interactive processes available in some popularization science exhibitions). Practically we intend to realize artistic events based on scientific issues per each of the following artistic disciplines: 1)Modern dance 2)Cinema 3)Contemporary art 4)Imaging 5)Literature The produced art work will be exploited in a double way: a)By presenting them in live events in the different countries involved in the project addressing not only the targeted category of persons (high school students (15-18 years), but also the general public; b)By organizing a competition among the EU high school students for each of the 5 considered discipline (with a consequent interactive process involving potentially thousands of students). The consortium includes several scientists, artists, art critics, film directors, actors, musicians and specialists in science popularization, who will work together to achieve the goals synthetically above reported. The activities will be coordinated by the project leader who is, at the same time, a well known scientist and a person active since long time in several artistic activities. Universities, research institutes, dance schools, museums, theatres will be involved, together with the famous European Synchrotron Radiation Facility which hosts every year thousands scientists, including Nobel price winners.

Keywords: science,art,modern dance,cinema,contemporary art,imaging,literature,student competition
Global Systems Dynamics and Policy (GSDP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,China,Switzerland,Italy,Italy,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1528127.0
EU funding (EUR): 1315000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

GSDP is an initiative to develop a research program for the study of global systems in an ongoing dialogue with decision makers. GSDP will operate as an open network evolving through workshops, working papers, publications, and open conferences. It will consolidate an international community of researchers engaged in dialogues with decision-makers, and will generate a variety of research and consultancy projects in Europe and elsewhere.GSDP will operate over a period of three years. In the first year, researchers and practicioners will meet in workshops and seminars to produce reports on the state of the art in the relevant fields. They will not only assess the scientific literature, but also carefully look at how the science-policy interface is currently defined. At the end of the year, a first annual conference will help to synthesise the different reports in view of the envisaged research program.In the second year, analogous reports will be produced about challenges and questions in research and at the science-policy interface. The first two years will provide answers to three questions. What do we need? What do we know? What are we struggling with? In the third year, these answers will be transformed into a research program for global systems science by first producing a set of components, then combining them into a coherent picture.The researchers involved come from computer science, physics, economics and a variety of other fields. GSDP is embedded in an active network of more than 100 researchers, and in a variety of stakeholder relations with businesses, political authorities, and NGOs. Many links exist to the U.S., and care has been taken to establish strong linkages with China.The work will be broken down into seven work packages that operate in parallel, synchronized by annual conferences and interacting through meetings, documents, and intensive use of ICT.

Keywords: global systems,computer simulation,science-policy interface
Modelling basis and kinetics of nanoparticle interaction with membranes, uptake into cells, and sub-cellular and inter-compartmental transport (NANOTRANSKINETICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-EU-USA, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1305596.8
EU funding (EUR): 993013.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The prediction of biological (and in particular toxicological) impacts has, as its basic pre-requisite, the correct prediction of the sites of action and localization of the nanoparticle in living organisms. We have identified the need for a paradigm shift in modelling these properties for nanoscale objects. The interactions between bare particles and organisms (cells, biological barriers) is radically different in the presence of proteins and lipids derived from the biological environment (the ‘protein corona’). The bare particle characteristic is therefore insufficient to describe the system. Similarly, nanoparticles are trafficked and translocated between sites by active biological processes where traditional ‘equilibrium’ principles for small molecules no longer apply. NanoTransKinetics is firmly based on advanced high quality experimental data on the distribution of nanoparticles in cells, across barriers, and (more limited) in vivo. We frame phenomenological models in a modular manner by abstracting the essential relevant principles of particle-protein (and matrix) interactions, cellular and barrier transport mechanisms of nanoparticles, fitting them to experimental data. More detailed models allow for explicit checking of mechanisms and movements of individual particles into cells and across barriers. Enormous amounts of experimental data are now available to validate the models. A predictive capacity requires only simple input data on particle, corona and similar characteristics. The basis of these claims has been checked in preliminary studies, and a limited number of interactions, particles fluxes (and control parameters) between prescribed sites are sufficient to specify the system at each level of description. Resources (reaching far beyond the program itself) have been mobilised in experimental work in the Partners laboratories, and EU and US collaborations. The output will be predictive tools for use in nanosafety research and regulation and beyond.

Keywords: phenomenological models,toxicological endpoints,apoptosis,uptake and trafficking,correlation functions,nanoparticle-protein interactions,nanoparticle-cell interactions
20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE EC-US TASK FORCE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH (EC-US TF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 66560.75
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

On the occasion of the XX anniversary of the EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research, the next working groups annual meeting will be held on Barcelona (June 2-5). This special celebration day will be an open Conference; it will give information and training trough bioscience and biotechnology concepts. The event will be held at the Barcelona Biomedical Reserach Park premises, PRBB (www.prbb.org) and will join scientists with renowned international prestige, from United States of America and Europe. During the Conference, the different sessions will analyze the evolution and impact of the Biotehcnology from the Task Force Group creation. It will serve also to define the challenges, the new research lines and priorities in the United States of America and Europe. The commemoration day will be followed by the annual meeting of the working groups of the Task Force. The Spanish Presidency of the European Council is a good frame to enforce the visibility of such important event, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( www.upf.edu) and PRBB are excellent hosts for the occasion.

Keywords: biotechnology,task force
The Europeanisation of Everyday Life: Cross-Border Practices and Transnational Identities among EU and Third-Country Citizens (EUCROSS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: The Citizen in the European Union
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Denmark,Spain,United Kingdom,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2195175.4
EU funding (EUR): 1744058.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The EUCROSS project examines the relationship between the manifold activities of EU residents (nationals, mobile EU citizens, and third-country nationals) across the borders of nation states and their collective identities. Specifically, the project will: 1) map out individuals’ cross-border practices as an effect of European integration and globalisation; 2) assess the impact of these practices on collective identifications (also controlling for the inverse causal process). Which cross-border practices are more likely to foster some form of identification with the EU – e.g., contacts with foreign friends and/or unwanted foreigners, periods of labour mobility abroad, buying property abroad, business and tourist travel, or consumer relations with international companies? Under which contextual and individual conditions do these experiences promote a higher sensitivity to ‘Europe’ – rather than the ‘local’ or the ‘global’ – as an identity catalyst? Which social groups are more prone to adopt a European mindset in the wake of the Europeanisation of everyday life? To disentangle empirically the factors and mechanisms that link together the cross-border practices facilitated by European integration, globalisation and/or other dimensions of collective identity, we adopt a two-stage, mixed quantitative/qualitative approach. In the first stage, we will carry out a quantitative survey among nationals, intra-EU movers (Romanian citizens) and third-country nationals (Turkish citizens) who reside in six European countries (Denmark, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom). In the second stage, we will interrogate, via in-depth interviews, the meaning given by individuals to cross-border practices, their collective identifications, and the role that the European Union, globalisation, and the nation play in these personal narratives, among a select typology of respondents to the quantitative survey.

Keywords: cross-border practices,identifications,europeanisation,globalisation
Paving the ground for the second generation of a highly effective, application oriented MicroNano Manufacturing community in Europe (MINAM 2.0)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,France
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-CSA-4, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 791447.8
EU funding (EUR): 615200.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

MINAM 2.0 will contribute to enabling a new dimension of quality with respect to the cooperation of the single groups in the micro- and nanotechnology (MN) manufacturing. MINAM aims at bringing together existing and well established (local) Micro Nano related organizations: the microclusters in the European regions, networks of Excellence, Associations, Research infrastructures, European projects and decision makers in the MN community. Through regional clusters with their strong industrial backbone MINAM 2.0 considerably contributes to the participation of the industry in European decision processes in this thematic area. The cooperation between MINAM and European application and technology platforms promoted at European level will improve the exchange between application requirements and technical capabilities, aiming at the identification of common objectives and requirements. MINAM will provide a significant contribution to identification of Cross sectional Joint Research agenda (together with other ETP´s) and allows for a derivation of concerted partial roadmaps for the different thematic areas in MNT (Assembly, Micro/Nanotechnologies, System integration). To obtain sustainability MINAM 2.0 will be established as a “one stop shop” hub for exchanging information, adding value to all players in this area of interest. The hub will also push the improvement of cooperation between the regional key players in the European regions. A close connection to Manufuture, Nanofutures and other ETPs in the NMP area will ensure that double activities are cut down to a minimum and strenghten the production technology as a whole through its specific view on aspect of highly micro relevance, such as precission assembly, characterization, micro sensorics, etc. For the intended target application areas (EUROP, Nanomedicine, Food ...) all this will lead to an improved information flow about new developments in Nano-Microsystems as one of the key enablers for new products

Keywords: regional cluster,one stop shop services,joint strategic research agenda,micro nano manufacturing,cross sectional information exchange,european technology platforms
Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks (GREEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Belgium,Denmark,Hungary,Spain,Italy,Norway,Belgium,United States,South Africa,Singapore,China,Australia,Japan,Argentina
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10158762.6
EU funding (EUR): 7944718.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

GREEN will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities. It aims at an understanding of the prospective directions of the emerging global governance structures and Europe’s place in them. Analysis will focus on the extant actors from the 20th century, the 21st century rising powers, the increasingly influential non-state actors (from civil and non-civil society) and the new transnational regulatory networks of public and private policy makers and regional agencies. While multi-polarity, with Europe as a pole, is a possibility, alternative scenarios are also plausible. A shift from a trans-Atlantic to trans-Pacific locus of power, or the “depolarization” and fragmentation of authority are such alternatives; both could marginalize Europe. But these are questions to be researched; not assertions to be made. The project will have 5 components: i) conceptual analyses of an emerging multi-polar world and the theory and practice of international organisation and networks in that world; ii) evolving EU policy and practice; iii) the effects of regional leadership from Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas; iv) projects on the EU and multi-polarity within the fields of human rights and security, energy, resources and environment, trade and finance; v) a foresight study detailing scenarios for EU policy towards the emerging world order. The research will be theoretical, policy-oriented and with an interactive dissemination strategy to assure feedback from its target-publics. The work will be undertaken by a manageable consortium of partners (from Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Spain, Italy and Norway with a strong track-record of collaboration on these issues) accompanied by leading institutes from the USA, Argentina, Singapore, China, Japan, Australia and South Africa to act as hub-and-spokes for their regions.

Keywords: multi-polarity,multilateralism,europe,global economy,rising powers,experimentalist governance,security
Detection of endpoints and biomarkers of repeated dose toxicity using in vitro systems (DETECTIVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Other Actions across the Health Theme
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,European organisations area,Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Estonia,Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-Alternative-Testing, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8674850.66
EU funding (EUR): 4337425.33
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Assessment of repeated dose toxicity is a standard requirement in human safety evaluation and relies on animal testing as no alternatives are currently accepted for regulatory purposes. An integrated research strategy for the replacement of animal tests needs to comprise the development of biomarkers of long-term toxicity in human target cells. To this aim, the DETECTIVE project will set up a screening pipeline of high content, high throughput as well as classical functional and “-omics” technologies to identify and investigate human biomarkers in cellular models for repeated dose in vitro testing. In view of industrial use in automated high throughput systems, essential questions of repeated dose toxicity such as stability and robustness of readouts will be investigated in a first phase. This will be the foundation for innovative biomarker development based on integration of multiple data streams derived from “-omics” readouts with traditional toxicological and histopathological endpoint evaluation. Toxicity pathways identified in “-omics” readouts can thus be further investigated by the functional readouts. DETECTIVE will initially use human hepatic, cardiac and renal models as common target organs of repeated dose toxicity. Ultimately, the strategy for establishing biomarkers will also be applicable to other organs or organ systems affected by systemic toxicants. It is also expected that DETECTIVE will be able to define human toxicity pathways relevant for all organs. Based on integrative statistical analysis, systematic verification and correlation with in vivo data, the most relevant, highly specific, sensitive and predictive biomarkers will be selected. Within DETECTIVE, partners from academia, industry and research will hence generate pathway- and evidence-based understanding of toxic effects, moving toxicology beyond descriptive science towards mechanism-based prediction.

Keywords: repeated dose toxicity,biomarkers,-omics,cell function,endpoints,epigenetics,pathways,imaging,electric activity,impedance,transcriptomics,proteomics,mirna,metabonomics,human cell models.