Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
TRafficking as A Criminal Enterprise (TRACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security and society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Sweden,Romania,Bulgaria,Netherlands,France
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1126383.65
EU funding (EUR): 1006492.37
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

TRafficking as A Criminal Enterprise (TRACE) aims to support stakeholders in combating and disrupting human trafficking, one of the largest criminal enterprises in the world, by assessing and consolidating information surrounding the perpetrators and the wider trafficking enterprise. TRACE adopts a multi-disciplinary approach: legal, criminological, socio-economical, psychological and law enforcement-oriented, in order to provide a full account of the phenomenon, and build upon on-going European and national projects and activities. It will focus on the activities of the perpetrators by developing an understanding of the structure, social relationships, modus operandi, travel routes and technologies associated with different types of human trafficking (human trafficking for sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, forced criminal activities etc.). Based on the analysis of perpetrators’ behaviour TRACE seeks to be able to better identify who is in danger of being trafficked and furthermore, who is vulnerable to becoming involved in human trafficking (including those who may have been victims themselves). TRACE acknowledges that human trafficking involves a chain of criminal behaviours, activities and processes and will consolidate up-to-date information, good practice and expert opinion to provide stakeholders with an intervention strategy based on policy recommendations for disrupting the trafficking chain. These recommendations will be based on stakeholder consensus reached via interviews, expert workshops, and the final conference. TRACE has designed its dissemination plan, including the development of briefing papers, to disseminate relevant up-to-date information surrounding the different facets of the project to relevant stakeholders in order to support their efforts in disrupting the business of trafficking in human beings.

Keywords: human trafficking,criminal enterprise,organised crime,anti-trafficking,sexual exploitation,forced labour,begging and criminal activities
Protection Measures for Merchant Ships (PROMERC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,Sweden,Greece,Netherlands,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3131456.0
EU funding (EUR): 2224958.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

There is a bewildering array of ongoing actions in the field of countering pirate assaults and there are a large number of options available to shipping companies to mitigate the risk of piracy and to deter pirates. However there is scant information regarding their operational effectiveness or the cost benefits of their use, particularly when employed in combination as part of a holistic approach addressing; the particular vulnerabilities of each vessel, non-lethal response measures and armed security guards, crew training and abilities, shipping business practices and pressures, pirate tactics and the impact of environmental factors (visibility, currents, waves and wind speed) on all. The users need tools to assess the available counter-measures, the current and future threat situations, identify and quantify the risks and aid their decisions before and during their voyages. PROMERC aims to reduce the vulnerability of EU merchant fleets and maritime supply lines to criminal abduction and extortion and thereby reduce risk to mariners, shipping, and the environment, while also reducing costs. This will be delivered through the provision of: - Independent review and recommendations about non-lethal technologies for pirate avoidance and opposing the boarding of vessels by pirates. - An automated voyage planning support tool to aid shore based authorities, which will balance routeing to mitigate risk against incurring additional fuel costs due to re-routeing and increased speed. - An automated decision support tool to provide seafarers with real time threat assessment, evaluation of possible courses of action and a recommended course of action. A manual to aid in the selection and use of appropriate counter piracy measures in a layered holistic defence. - Recommendations on the further development of counter piracy measures.

Keywords: countering pirate assaults,deter pirates,vessel protection,reduction vulnerability of merchant fleets,reduction piracy risks,independent review non-lethal technologies,decision support tool
The European non-coding RNA network (RNATRAIN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Sweden,Czechia,Switzerland,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3474400.0
EU funding (EUR): 3474400.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is a new research field in rapid development. It holds the potential to explain many fundamental biological phenomena and there is a vast prospective for the development of ncRNA-derived diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Hence, biotech and pharmaceutical companies are actively looking into this unexplored territory for novel targets. Therefore, there is a substantial and unmet need for the training of scientists in ncRNA biology, methodology and exploitation. The regions encompassing protein coding potential (exons) in humans only amount to 2% of the genome. New sequencing techniques have evidenced that mammalian genomes are pervasively transcribed and have revealed the existence of multiple classes of ncRNAs. Although our knowledge on the multitude of transcripts produced by the non-coding 98% of the genome is still very sketchy, pivotal roles have been established for ncRNAs in organismal development and homeostasis, in cellular proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis and in a broad range of human pathologies. Hence, there is a need to educate young scientists in this emerging and important research field. Aside from increasing our collective understanding of essential biological phenomena, ncRNA also constitute a vast and largely unexplored territory for the development of novel therapeutics and diagnostics. Accordingly, we propose to form a European RNA training network, RNATRAIN. This network will be devoted to educating the next generation of European researchers focusing on the functions and importance of ncRNAs in multidisciplinary projects in which the ncRNAs are studied in the context of development, differentiation and disease. Towards this, a group of 9 top-quality European research laboratories and 3 companies from 8 countries will train, to the best level, a cohort of early-stage researchers using cutting-edge technologies to dissect the functions and potentials of ncRNAs through integrated multidisciplinary projects.

Keywords: non-coding rna,research training,commercialisation,methods development,differentiation,development,disease
Nanochemistry of molecular materials for 2-photon functional applications (NANO2FUN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,France,Belgium,Spain,Poland,Italy,India,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3651982.19
EU funding (EUR): 3651982.19
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Nano2Fun's main target is the education of a new generation of scientists with a solid multidisciplinary scientific background, a good attitude to team-work in an international environment and a well-developed propensity to exploit advances in fundamental research towards innovative applications. To achieve this ambitious goal, a network of advanced research laboratories operating both in the public and private sectors is proposed where a group of 17 young and brilliant researchers will be trained through research. Technological development through research and knowledge transfer are the flag-words of Nano2Fun, a multidisciplinary project that will bring the techniques of two-photon microscopy (2PM) and two-photon polymerization (2PP) to their full maturity, allowing their exploitation in commercially and industrially relevant applications. The precise chemical and photophysical control of the 2PM and 2PP processes at the nanoscale will be achieved through a coordinated effort of 16 teams with well-established expertise in the diverse and complementary research fields of (a) molecular and supramolecular synthesis, (b) advanced optical spectroscopy and photophysics, (c) theory and (d) the 2PM and 2PP technological applications. The effort of the academic research teams will be fully integrated with applied research and development going on in the advanced R&D laboratories of the 5 partners from the private sector in a virtuous loop that will cooperatively enhance the effectiveness of Nano2Fun team. The inherently multidisciplinary character of the research, that spans a full range of disciplines between chemistry and physics, and is precisely located where fundamental research meets commercial and industrial applications, offers an extremely profitable environment for the education of young researcher both in public and private sectors in a lively international environment at the forefront of research.

Keywords: two-photon microscopy,two-photon polymerization,optical spectroscopy,non-linear optics,theoretical spectroscopy,chemical synthesis,supramolecular chemistry,organic nanoparticles
The impact of chromosomal instability on health: Molecular causes and consequences of aneuploidy (PLOIDYNET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3017790.0
EU funding (EUR): 3017790.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Aneuploidy, an abnormal number of chromosomes, is a hallmark of cancer cells, affecting the majority of all human tumours. Aneuploidy arises when errors occur during mitosis, as the duplicated chromosomes are distributed between the two new daughter cells. Paradoxically, aneuploidy appears to have detrimental consequences for the physiology of untransformed cells in vitro, inhibiting rather than stimulating proliferation. This suggests that cancer cells have acquired mutations that help them cope with aneuploidy. Although it is clear that aneuploidy can contribute to cancer, the molecular consequences of aneuploidy remain elusive, as does how aneuploidy contributes to malignant transformation. The scientific aim of this network is to determine and compare the molecular consequences of different levels of aneuploidy, both in vivo and in vitro. Our network will train 9 Early Stage Career and 2 Experienced researchers in the aneuploidy field. To this aim, we are combining the expertise of labs that study the causes of aneuploidy with labs that induce aneuploidy in model organisms and study its consequences and also with labs that focus on the development of therapeutics that selectively kill aneuploid cell progeny. Our network is comprised of 11 full participants in 4 member states and 1 associated country and one associated partner, and includes 3 commercial enterprises. Within this network, we will provide technical training through research projects, but also through workshops and dedicated courses organized by the participants of this network. A significant part of the training will be provided by the industrial partners. Participating investigators and trainees will meet at a yearly conference to exchange and discuss results. Trainees will thus become experts in the field of aneuploidy while rapidly building up a scientific network for themselves, putting them in an excellent position to become future leaders in this field.

Keywords: chromosomal instability,causes and consequences of aneuploidy
Emergency Responder Data Interoperability Network (REDIRNET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Improving Security systems integration, interconnectivity and interoperability
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Slovakia,United Kingdom,Belgium,Slovenia,Luxembourg,Spain,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4327171.8
EU funding (EUR): 3498968.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Over the past 5 years the majority of the REDIRNET consortia have participated in Projects SECRICOM and FREESIC; this has involved partners engaging significantly with a wide range of public safety officers across the EU. A benefit of this engagement has been the recognition that in addition to agency interoperability of communications a pressing need exists for agency interoperability of additional IT systems such as databases, sensor systems and cameras. REDIRNET provides a framework for addressing this need with detailed mapping of user preferences and related legal requirements using innovative technologies. The consortium is aware that frequently it is non-technical issues that hinder agency interoperability regardless of the quality of technical solutions. Consequently user engagement across a range of agencies EU-wide will be ongoing throughout the duration of REDIRNET. This will lead to the first of two elements of the REDIRNET framework - a quality repository of user identified interoperability issues and proposals for their resolution The second element of REDIRNET will be technology. REDIRNET will provide a decentralized framework for interoperability for first responders’ systems based on a public meta-data gateway controlled by the agencies themselves via a REDIRNET socio-professional web. Agencies will be able link up to partner agencies of their choice and operational need; they will also be able to manage the scope of such interoperability. To help set up these link-up arrangements REDIRNET will be enhanced with semantic web methods in accordance with the vocabulary and processes of the user community. Inter-operating agencies will need only to develop one gateway (to REDIRNET) leading to a cost effective solution; agent technologies will also be developed to facilitate the integration of user systems into REDIRNET.

Keywords: first responders,crisis management,data network,interoperability,standardization
Chromatin in Plants – European Training and Mobility (CHIP-ET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Germany,France,Spain,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1780030.99
EU funding (EUR): 1780030.99
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The Research Training Network CHIP-ET will focus on the study of protein complexes that modulate chromatin structure to activate RNA polymerase II–mediated transcription. Research will address how developmental and environmental stimuli such as light and circadian rhythm signal to these complexes to modulate transcription. The interactome of the complexes will be determined, as well as their genome-wide target genes and the common and specific components in their molecular networks. The impact of perturbation of complex components or regulators on plant development and stress tolerance will be analyzed in the Arabidopsis plant model and will then be further tested in maize in order to generate Intellectual Property and licensing opportunities. The Bayer Crop Science industrial partner will modulate these genes in canola (oilseed rape) in order to improve field performance and yield. Four research objectives have been defined: (1) Biochemistry and nuclear architecture of chromatin complexes (2) Chromatin complex components and regulator’s function in plant development, circadian clock and stress tolerance (3) Chromatin complex target genes (4) Chromatin and crop improvement. As central part of the project, six pre-docs and one PostDoc will be trained by five academic and one industrial partner. In addition to training through research projects, workshops, visiting experts and secondments in the partner laboratories, the trainees will attend courses/seminars promoting the development of complementary skills. Existing bilateral collaboration amongst some of the network partners will form the basis from which the network will be consolidated. The partners provide multi-disciplinary cutting-edge technologies and know-how in chromatin research that will create synergy and added value for Europe. Full participation of the industrial partner will make trainees aware of exploitation of research results and the importance of molecular breeding for a sustainable agriculture.

Keywords: plant biotechnology,rnapii transcription activation,chromatin complexes,tandem affinity purification,rna-seq,chip-seq,microscopy,arabidopsis,maize,canola,growth,yield,field performance
Sustainable multifunctional coating resins for scavenging applications (SUSCOAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 464214.3
EU funding (EUR): 464214.3
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of this programme is to enhance the career perspectives of early stage researchers (ERS) by providing the unique opportunity to be exposed to research and training in both an academic as well as an industrial environment. This will be facilitated through the partnership which has been set up between the Polymer Chemistry Research (PCR) group of the Ghent University and the industrial partner DOW Benelux B.V., bringing together two world class research partners active in the field of polymer chemistry. This partnership will offer excellent multidisciplinary doctoral training opportunities for the ESR in the development of renewable and sustainable coating resins with multifunctional properties and will foster a long-term collaboration between both partners. The PCR group has developed the fundamentals of the novel thiolactone platform chemistry and the research aim of this project is to exploit this chemistry to develop a novel chemical platform for renewable smart coating development.

Keywords: polymer chemistry,coating,scavenging,sustainable materials,smart coatings,click chemistry,high-throughput,renewable,multidisciplinary,intersectoral,coating characterization,thin films
Organic Bioelectronics (ORGBIO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Germany,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Croatia,Ireland,Sweden,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3784176.88
EU funding (EUR): 3784176.88
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Organic Bioelectonics is a new discipline which holds promise to shape, direct, and change future medical treatments in a revolutionary manner over the next decades. At the moment Europe has a unique leading position in this area, being almost all the world-leading groups in this field located in Europe and constituting the core of this international training network. However, realizing the promise of “Organic bioelectronics” requires research and training not only crossing disciplines, such as electrical engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, and materials science, but also crossing our European countries. “The EU will add value on the global scene only if it acts jointly”. OrgBIO is at the core of European technological innovation and will become an indispensable part of the educational canon. It will establish a world-class training platform spreading around the highly interdisciplinary / intersectorial European-led area of organic bioelectronics. Education along with science and entrepreneurial mindsets and attitudes is the core of the OrgBIO training programme, which aims at excellence and innovation, at all level. Excellence in science is guaranteed by the world-leading groups which founded this research area. Innovation in education is guaranteed by the involvement of researchers on education, business experts. Using different sensors, actuators, electronic and interconnect technologies the network will develop multifunctional systems based on organic devices and materials with high sensitivity that are also flexible, conformable and present over large areas for various biomedical / biological applications in the life science. Multi-analyte and disposable analytical systems manufactured by large-area printing methods will provide services to the individuals and healthcare community. Targeted implemented interactions with a wide network of venture capitals and business actors will immediately transfer the research outcome to the European Industry.

Keywords: biophysics,biochemistry,polymer chemistry,organic electronics,bioelectronics,biosensors,biointerfaces,electrochemistry