Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
FLow of Ancient Metals across Eurasia (FLAME): New frameworks for interpreting human interaction in Later Prehistory (FLAME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2014-ADG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2447052.0
EU funding (EUR): 2447052.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FLow of Ancient Metals across Eurasia (FLAME) is a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding human interactions in Later Prehistory across all of Eurasia. Taking existing data on the chemical and isotopic composition of copper alloy objects and combining them with typological and chronological information within a GIS framework, FLAME aims to rewrite the history of human engagement with copper and its alloys across Eurasia, from Atlantic Iberia to the shores of the Pacific during approximately the 3rd to early 1st millennia BCE. It replaces the outdated concept of provenance with a completely new interpretative paradigm (‘form and flow’), which is built upon the expectation that copper may be recycled, re-alloyed and generally re-used, thus breaking the simple linear assumption of a direct chemical or isotopic link between the copper and the ore from which it came. In this new paradigm, small shifts in chemistry are interpreted not necessarily as changing ore sources but also as the natural consequence of high-temperature processing and mixing, thus putting the emphasis on human interaction with metal rather than on sourcing. We will address major questions at a range of scales, from assemblage to continental, to look at how metal flowed literally and metaphorically through the complex societies of Bronze Age Eurasia. Our reassessment of the metallurgy will also be underpinned by new GIS frameworks and the creation of regional Bayesian-modelled radiocarbon chronologies. Previous scientific assessments of early metal have too often isolated the chemical and isotopic evidence from both the immediate archaeological context and any sense of a real time and place. FLAME brings together a broad range of skills to examine for the first time the intertwined social, scientific, chronological and geographical aspects of Eurasian early metallurgy.

Keywords: human interaction with copper alloys across bronze age eurasia
A next generation nano media tailored to capture and recycle hazardous micropollutants in contaminated industrial wastewater. (CGM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1953701.25
EU funding (EUR): 1367590.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Customem Ltd is a company founded with the long term vision to harness nature’s capacity to make biomaterials to promote human health in alignment with sustainable development goals. A next generation nanomedia that can be tailored to capture and recycle specific micropollutants in contaminated industrial wastewater. Lack of access to clean water is predicted to affect 47% of the world’s population by 2030. Contamination of water supplies by micropollutants such as metal ions, pesticides and pharmaceuticals is a major contributor to this water stress. These pollutants are released by industrial processes in the textile and manufacturing industries. Existing water treatment removes 99.96% of contaminants, but does not remove the 0.04% of micropollutants. Although the remaining contaminants seem small, they are a major problem as they are exceptionally difficult to capture but also highly toxic to humans and animals. CustoMem have developed a customisable selective nanocellulose media called CustoMem Granular Media (CGM) that is bioengineered to capture and remove all micropollutants including the 0.04% that cannot currently be removed. Customers benefit from a simple, low cost, low energy solution that is low maintenance. It allows removal of all micropollutants resulting in clean water supplies. The company is headquartered in the Imperial College Incubator UK and currently has 6 employees. The company is currently in talks with companies in the EU who have shown an active interest in the project. The Phase 2 project will allow CustoMem to finalise CGM development and accelerate its market introduction.

Keywords: micropollutants,contaminants,heavy metals,clean water
International Doctoral Training in Mathematical Sciences in Paris (MathInParis2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Doctoral programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6508800.0
EU funding (EUR): 3254400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

COFUND MathInParis2020 programme creates and scales up excellence networks to attract to Paris promising Doctoral students, under solid selection and mentoring practice, and ensure high-level Doctoral training and successful professional insertion. FSMP has a long-standing experience for project management and the present programme aims at significantly scaling up its present COFUND MathInParis programme which has initiated a growing success. MathInParis2020, as an internationally visible portal to Paris mathematics research, promotes the increase and dissemination of a new generation of international mathematicians trained in Paris, creating a new network of young innovating Doctors integrated in European Union who will develop novel key areas of expertise and act as scientific ambassadors worldwide. Ambition, mobility and curiosity, awareness of the impact of mathematics in economy, taste for risk taking, innovation and entrepreneurship are as many qualities that our laureates will acquire. MathInParis2020 creates exceptional follow-up and mentoring conditions thanks to dedicated personnel and development of the scope and modes of provision in Doctoral education, offering training in mathematics and helping to catch the many academic and intersectoral opportunities. We develop new mechanisms for transition of doctoral students to the widely increasing number of new emerging careers and promote public-private mobility by specific actions, in particular with intense intersectoral exposure. MathInParis2020 bridges academics and private sector partners, companies, banks, with the major objective of leading its laureates to successful careers. MathInParis2020 builds up innovation and new knowledge for the future in European Union.

Keywords: mathematics,applied mathematics,interactions,theoretical computer science
Coordination chemistry inspires molecular catalysis (CCIMC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Joint Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Poland,Romania,France,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3977588.16
EU funding (EUR): 3977588.1599999997
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The CCIMC EJD addresses the current lack of coordinated doctoral training at the European level on molecular catalysis. It aims to push the frontiers of knowledge in ligand design, coordination chemistry, precatalyst development, catalyst recovery and catalytic process implementation, while also offering full scale training in professional and personal transferable skills, to prepare a new generation of junior scientists to meet the economic and societal challenges of the chemical industry in the 21st century. To achieve these objectives, a consortium of 9 academic beneficiaries from 7 European countries will recruit 15 doctoral students to work on coordinated projects in close cooperation with the industrial sector. The projects use complementary know-how to address synthesis, high level spectroscopy, mechanistic and computational studies, bond activation, catalyst anchoring and confinement, optimization and scale-up. The innovative training approach also involves 8 partners from the non-academic sector that are fully integrated via secondment for all 15 ESRs and participation in the theoretical training and Network meetings. The training programme comprises a core course, tutorials and an international school, plus network meetings, international workshops and an international conference where the ESRs will present their work. The ESRs’ progress will be monitored by an Academic Board. The management structure involves all beneficiaries and partners plus students’ representatives and will receive input from an external Advisory Board. Gender balance is insured at all levels. The CCIMC outreach and public engagement will be implemented through a Communication Plan and a Dissemination and Exploitation Plan and will be monitored by an Outreach Committee. The Student Union, comprising all ESRs, will play an active role in the Network administration, in the outreach activities, and in the evaluation of the Network training.

Keywords: ligand design,bond activation,homogeneous catalysis,computational chemistry,catalyst,anchoring and confinement,biphasic catalysis,continuous flow,recovery and recycling,sustainability
INNOWAY Key Account Manager and Innovation Specialists Services – NOREIC 2020-2021 (NOREIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Norway
Call: H2020 ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK GA4 2020-2021 (H2020-EEN-GA4, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 497863.75
EU funding (EUR): 497863.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The specific objectives of the NOREIC project is to enhance the innovation management capacity of Norwegian SMEs in 2020 and 2021 by reducing barriers to innovation and to ensure that more great ideas will reach the market. The two distinct types of services under this consultation, a) Key Account Management under the EIC pilot and its successor b) Services to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs will in 2020 and 2021 be offered as an integrated part of the general support services of the Enterprise Europe Network Business Cooperation Centre (BCC) in Norway. The services will not be delivered to the same client(s) in parallel.

Keywords: eic pilot,innovation management
Repeat protein Function Refinement, Annotation and Classification of Topologies (REFRACT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,Argentina,Germany,Spain,Italy,Cuba,Switzerland,Sweden,Colombia,France,Chile,Peru,Mexico
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2392000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2226400.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The REFRACT proposal answers the RISE call, aiming at the promotion of an international and interdisciplinary collaboration on tandem repeat proteins (TRPs) through the sharing of knowledge and expertise between partners via staff exchanges. REFRACT is an international consortium aiming to extend our knowledge on the mechanism of TRP function and evolution, establishing a common classification and best practices. Starting from available state of the art computational tools and databases, which have been mostly developed by REFRACT participants, it aims drive a new level of TRP characterization leveraging the complementary expertise of 7 EU MS and 9 TC institutions in Latin America, with the latter providing useful complementary expertises. This aim will be achieved by the following steps: Benchmarking different existing methods and defining their use-cases; Coordinating the necessary next steps to analyze TRP roles in biological pathways and organism evolution; Providing a detailed description of their mechanism of function, related to their structural properties, that can be of great importance in TRP-related medical research and biotechnological applications; Building a unified and commonly accepted TRP classification from sequence and structure as well as characterizing the relationship between the two. The REFRACT implementation will take advantage of the different expertises, supporting them by a combination of research-centered, training and dissemination activities. The secondment program is designed so that all the participating institutions will be actively involved not only in the production of scientific outcomes, but also be empowered with the responsibility of planning, monitoring and discussing project advancement. The broadest possible dissemination of the results will be achieved through dedicated activities, the propagation of results into ELIXIR core data resources (InterPro, and consequently UniProt) as well as possible industrial exploitation.

Keywords: tandem repeats,protein structure,protein sequence,databases,prediction,ontology
The Neurological Basis of the Magnetic Sense (NeuroMag)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2026-03-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1990376.0
EU funding (EUR): 1061487.25
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Each year millions of animals undertake remarkable migratory journeys, across oceans and through hemispheres, guided by the Earth’s magnetic field. While there is unequivocal behavioural evidence demonstrating the existence of the magnetic sense, it is the least understood of all sensory faculties. The biophysical, molecular, cellular, and neurological underpinnings of the sense remain opaque. In this application we aim to remedy this situation, exploiting an established assay, our unique infrastructure, and state-of-the-art methodology, using pigeons as a model system. The proposal will address three questions: 1) Where are the primary magnetosensors? 2) Where is magnetic information processed in the brain? 3) How is magnetic information encoded in the brain? In Aim 1 we will explore whether inner ear hair cells are the primary sensors, and if the detection of magnetic stimuli depends on the presence of magnetic crystals or electromagnetic induction. We will employ a range of physical methods to locate magnetite, and a molecular approach to identify putative electroreceptors. In Aim 2 we will use light sheet microscopy coupled with clearing methods to undertake whole brain mapping of magnetically-induced neuronal activation in the pigeon. We will complement these studies with transcriptomic methods to molecularly and anatomically define magnetosensitive circuits within the pigeon brain. We will build on this work in Aim 3 utilising in vivo 2-photon microscopy to investigate how cells within the pigeon brain encode magnetic information. We will determine whether neurons encode for specific components of the magnetic field (i.e. inclination, intensity, and polarity) and explore whether there are spatially restricted ensembles, providing a dynamic picture of magnetically induced neuronal activity. We anticipate that these experiments will reveal a secret that nature has kept hidden for millennia; How do animals detect magnetic fields?

Keywords: magnetoreception,pigeons,magnetite,electromagnetic induction,neuronal circuits,hippocampus
Enhancing innovation management capacity of the SMEs in Central Poland-3 (KAM2CentralPoland-3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Poland,Poland,Poland,Poland
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 63102.5
EU funding (EUR): 63102.5
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The KAM2CentralPoland-3 project will be implemented by the EEN-CP consortium in central parts of Poland. The overall objective of the project is to increase the efficiency and the effectiveness of R&D and innovation investments that will contribute to smart growth in EU countries. There are two main objectives the Consortium aim to achieve by delivering services under the present Horizon 2020 call: (1) The first objective is to provide the beneficiaries of the following schemes: SME Instrument (SMEI), Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) and Future and Emerging Technologies Open (FET-Open) with a useful and value-added service which will enable them to innovate and compete on the international markets; (2) The second objective is to build its own brand of a reliable organization that provides valuable and comprehensive services, which help to increase the innovation management capacity to the business community, and in particular to innovative SMEs. Both the KAM and EIMC services are compatible with the general offers of the Consortium partners, which allows the latter to deliver services targeted at different stages of company development. Also, the above mentioned services will be addressed to the most dynamic and innovative entities which have the potential to target international markets. That, in turn, will help to build the brand of consortium members as providers of valuable services adjusted to the demand of modern companies.

Keywords: horizon2020,innovation management,key account manager,h2020,enterprise europe network
Composite Pulses for Quantum Engineering (COPQE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Bulgaria
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-07
End date: 2018-11-06
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140994.0
EU funding (EUR): 140994.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The development of integrated circuit technologies at scales approaching the quantum regime sparked an immense interest in the field of quantum information processing (QIP). These advances changed our understanding of the relation between information and quantum physics, and triggered a vast research effort into quantum engineering, which seeks to meet the practical challenges of controlling quantum systems with extremely high fidelities by encompassing both fundamental physics and engineering. With this proposal we intend to enable the systematic incorporation of composite pulses into practical quantum engineering. We will address the outstanding challenges of unwanted interactions with the environment and time-varying noise in the control fields, which lead to reduction in the fidelities of the operations. The proposal is aimed at the following research objectives: 1. Develop composite pulses for quantum engineering with qubits that are robust to decoherence and non-static control errors, 2. Create the control toolbox of robust quantum engineering with multi-dimensional quantum systems, 3. Transfer robust CPs protocols for quantum engineering to polarization physics and waveguide arrays. The proposed research will be of considerable theoretical and experimental value, as it applies to any physical system with the ability to perform single- and two-particle gates, including trapped ions and atoms, Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond and others. It will also have an impact on a wide range of fields beyond QIP, such as control theory, optics, and precision metrology. The researcher and the host group at Sofia University will combine their complementary expertise to achieve these objectives. The applicant will receive significant training in transferable skills, and expand her knowledge in theoretical methods. Additionally, a secondment at Weizmann will allow the applicant to develop experimental expertise and contribute profoundly to her career.

Keywords: quantum control,composite pulses,quantum engineering