Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bridge for Researchers in Danger Going to Europe - Step II (BRiDGE II)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Make scientific and technological careers attractive to young students, and forster sustainable interaction between schools, research institutions, industry and civil society organisations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Switzerland,Serbia,Bulgaria,Greece,Sweden,Greece
Call: Science4Refugees (H2020-SwafS-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 606718.75
EU funding (EUR): 606718.75
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Bridge for Researchers Going to Europe – Step II is a 24-month long EURAXESS project to support the long-term careers of 300 highly skilled refugee researchers and their integration into the labour markets of the European Union member states and its associated countries. It provides high quality guidance, mentoring and training for refugee researchers, especially postdocs and professors displaced for more than two years in Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. BRiDGE II aims to meet their individual career planning needs by providing 300 career case plans, while activating and supporting 190 academic and 90 industrial mentors, along with EURAXESS network members. It provides four trainings, four webinars and two networking events for refugee researchers, two trainings and two networking events for academic and industrial mentors, and fitting webinars for them to enhance the quality of collaboration and increase the success rate of their mentorship. BRiDGE II launches four peer groups and provides 45 internships/months for refugee researchers. The project trains and involves additional EURAXESS staff members across the European Research Area and provides course materials, guidelines and tools for further public use. It supports dual career and gender equality measures, by introducing a quota and piloting a dual career study for refugee researchers. The project partners strive to anchor diversity as a positive value in society and fight prejudice and discrimination against minorities in academia and society. The long-term integration of refugees in the academic and non-academic labour markets is an important step towards achieving this and is beneficial to many facets of society. Finally, the project establishes an advisory board of experts and community representatives, which will in turn provide insights concerning this important societal change and makes this information available to the public for further analysis and conclusions.

Keywords: refugees,researchers,career development,career planning,integration of minorities,euraxess services,societal change
WHat this Awl Means: A functional and social analysis of prehistoric metal awls from Europe (WHAM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The researcher is moving from Italy to Newcastle University (UK) to carry out WHAM, the first ever functional and social study of early European metal awls, 5000-1600 BC. Awls are amongst the first objects to be made from metal in prehistoric Europe, yet their purpose, uses, and social significance have never been explored. To address this problem, the project will investigate what early awls were used for, in what crafts, by what agents, and with what degree of specialism. By researching widespread, yet understudied, early metal tools, the project will overturn orthodox narratives claiming prehistoric metallurgy to be a male-dominated skilled technology. The multidisciplinary method selected for the research integrates the microwear analysis of 130 prehistoric awls (and of 70 objects worked with them) from three sample regions in Europe; the testing of replica awls in various prehistoric crafts; and the contextual analysis of awl burials. The project’s importance is thus: (1) it is the first Europe-wide functional and social analysis of a category of poorly understood metal objects; (2) it is the first ever attempt to examine both awls and worked objects as a coherent technological assemblage; and (3) it is the first ever multidisciplinary study of early metal awls integrating microwear analysis, experimental archaeology, and the social analysis of awl burials. Whilst working on the project, the Researcher will acquire new expertise in multi-method artefact analysis. He will also develop an innovative non-contact approach to archaeological trace recording (using dentistry-grade intraoral scanners) during a three-month secondment at the University of Padua, Italy. The research training received at Newcastle and Padua will equip him with sought-after skills facilitating his reintegration into the academic job market after a three-year break. In turn, he will transfer his knowledge of early stone/shell technology and experimental archaeology to Newcastle.

Keywords: european prehistory,archaeological science,microwear analysis,experimental archaeology,social archaeology
Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure (ACTRIS-2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Germany,Spain,Germany,Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Switzerland,Finland,Hungary,Sweden,Switzerland,Norway,Norway,Belgium,Bulgaria,Greece,Poland,Poland,Romania,Belarus,France,France,France,France,France,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Integrating and opening existing national and regional research infrastructures of European interest (H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10126484.54
EU funding (EUR): 9541194.51
Participants: 53
Project status: CLOSED

ACTRIS-2 addresses the scope of integrating state-of-the-art European ground-based stations for long term observations of aerosols, clouds and short lived gases capitalizing work of FP7-ACTRIS. ACTRIS-2 aims to achieve the construction of a user-oriented RI, unique in the EU-RI landscape. ACTRIS-2 provides 4-D integrated high-quality data from near-surface to high altitude (vertical profiles and total-column), relevant to climate and air-quality research. ACTRIS-2 develops and implements, in a large network of stations in Europe and beyond, observational protocols that permit harmonization of collected data and their dissemination. ACTRIS-2 offers networking expertise, upgraded calibration services, training of users, trans-national access to observatories and calibration facilities, virtual access to high-quality data products. Through joint research activities, ACTRIS-2 develops new integration tools that will produce scientific or technical progresses reusable in infrastructures, thus shaping future observation strategies. Innovation in instrumentation is one of the fundamental building blocks of ACTRIS-2. Associated partnership with SMEs stimulates development of joint-ventures addressing new technologies for use in atmospheric observations. Target user-groups in ACTRIS-2 comprise a wide range of communities worldwide. End-users are institutions involved in climate and air quality research, space agencies, industries, air quality agencies. ACTRIS-2 will improve systematic and timely collection, processing and distribution of data and results for use in modelling, in particular towards implementation of atmospheric and climate services. ACTRIS-2 invests substantial efforts to ensure long-term sustainability beyond the term of the project by positioning the project in both the GEO and the on-going ESFRI contexts, and by developing synergies with national initiatives.

Keywords: climate change,air pollution,atmospheric hazards,services to end users,technological innovation
3DBattery µBattery innovative thin-film flexible Lithium-Ion battery manufacturing (3DBattery)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is a rapid rise of smart consumer wearable devices in recent years, from go-pros to smart watches and the burgeoning field of Augmented Reality (AR) eyewear. These new and emerging industries require batteries that are increasingly thin, lightweight, flexibly-shaped, and bendable to fit existing and future smart electronics –e.g. fitting within the wrist band of a smartwatch, or the rims of smart glasses. As a result, most require strict size volumes of below 1cm3 to fit these smaller-sized wearable gadgets. Existing smaller batteries that are flexible, do not have the energy and power densities required for sustained high performance. Many leading solutions only have energy densities of below 150Wh/L, a far cry from the ideal >240Wh/L density needed for sustained smart functionality usage. For example, the Google Glass was widely lambasted for its poor battery life, despite an official estimate battery life lasting “one day of typical use”, but rarely lasting 30 minutes when video recording. In order to power these new generation of devices, high capacity, longer duration batteries, in a variety of shapes and sizes become instrumental. 3DB’s innovative technology and materials can create smaller lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries with higher power and energy densities, which are flexible mechanically and can be easily manufactured in a range of shapes and sizes. 3DB will enable longer battery life, ensuring device manufacturers premium batteries, which bend with, fit precisely, and sufficiently power smart wearable devices. For example, an Apple smartwatch lasting up to a week compared to current battery life of a matter of hours, and a Google Glass that lasts as much as an 8 hour video recording. 3DB’s advanced manufacturing technology will allow battery manufacturers to produce bespoke battery types for smart wearables, through a single installation platform, for multiple battery specification types.

Keywords: flexible batteries,wearable devices,high energy density,high power density,li ion
Developmental principles for the functional specialisation of inhibitory circuits in neocortical areas (DEVINCI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The mammalian neocortex consists of discrete, but highly interconnected, functional areas that collectively encode features of the environment, form associations between stimuli and drive behaviour by transforming sensory input into motor output. All neocortical areas are organised into six layers containing two major classes of neurons, excitatory glutamatergic pyramidal cells and inhibitory GABAergic interneurons. However, each area has distinctive cytoarchitectonical features and inputs that largely determine its computational capabilities. As pyramidal cells comprise the large majority of neurons in the cerebral cortex, much emphasis has been made on their contribution to the differential organisation of cortical areas. In contrast, interneurons have received little attention in the context of the functional specialisation of cortical areas, even though their distribution is highly heterogeneous. The central tenet of this research proposal is that distinct patterns of inhibitory connectivity may accompany, and perhaps even determine, the functional specialisation of neocortical areas. We hypothesise that interneurons play an important role in the tuning of circuits in each cortical area, and therefore that quantitative differences in the relative distribution of specific classes of interneurons, which arise during development, reflect functional specialisations. The overall aim of this research project is to understand how developmental mechanisms ‘sculpting’ the distribution of inhibitory neurons across different neocortical areas contribute to their functional specialisation. This project has the potential to transform our understanding of the organisation of inhibitory circuits in the mammalian neocortex.

Keywords: development,diversity,neural circuits,cerebral cortex,interneuron,gaba
Redox Polymer with synergetic electrical and ionic conducting properties for all-Organic Batteries. [RPOB] (RPOB)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Designing safer, more efficient and environmentally friendly energy storage technology is of great importance for the sustainable development of our modern society. All-organic batteries have been identified as a promising, environmentally friendly alternative to the current Li-ion battery technology. However, all-organic batteries suffer several challenges, currently limiting their implementation: i) fast capacity fading due to dissolution of redox polymer in the liquid electrolyte and ii) low redox polymer loading, leading to impractical electrode loading for battery applications. RPOB proposal aims to develop redox block copolymers with synergetic properties, allowing both electronic and ionic conductivities as well as redox activity, for application in solid-state all-organic batteries. This approach will enable the design of a single component redox polymer electrode with a well-defined 3D-interconnected network, unlocking the electrode capacity to a practical level. The translation towards solid-state all-organic batteries will also eliminate the current issue related to the dissolution of redox polymers. The MSCA Fellowship will provide Dr. Goujon with a strong set of technical, professional and transferable skills, especially with the acquisition of valuable polymer synthesis, which will complete his practical expertise in solid-state battery technology. The Innovative Polymers Group directed by Prof. Mecerreyes at POLYMAT-University of the Basque Country is one of the top-class groups in the area of redox polymers. The multidisciplinary aspect of the RPOB project, along with the secondment to the group of Prof. Steiner at Adolphe Merkle Institute, will ensure that Dr. Goujon has the necessary competencies, trackrecord and scientific network required to make the RPOB project a success, and ultimately reach his career goal of becoming an independent researcher in either a leading university or a R&D batteries company, and securing his European reintegration.

Keywords: redox block copolymer,solid state all organic batteries,self assembly,3d bicontinuous cubic,mesophase
Development of a multipurpose test rig and validation of an innovative rotorcraft vertical tail (TAILTEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Greece,Czechia
Call: Development of a multipurpose test rig and validation of an innovative rotorcraft vertical tail (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 696750.0
EU funding (EUR): 696750.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objectives of TAILTEST project are to perform structural tests to support the certification process of a rotorcraft tail and to develop and validate advanced numerical models for the simulation of debonding propagation in structural joints. A multipurpose test rig is required to serve the purposes of performing rotorcraft vertical tail structural tests, as well as, testing of representative structural joints (e.g. fin spar to skin). The starting point of the technical developments of TAILTEST will be the design and manufacturing of this multipurpose test rig. The results of the tests performed using the multipurpose test rig will have triple use: • they will support the certification process of the innovative fin, (testing of the innovative fin) • they will be used for the validation of the fin global FE model and • they will contribute to the investigation of stiffness and strength of novel joining technologies (testing of novel hybrid joint concepts). One key characteristic required by the test rig design is that the test rig will have variable stiffness, such that the actual behaviour of the fuselage at which the fin will be attached will be properly emulated. Having the test rig available, structural tests at sub-scale level will be performed, by incorporating the minimum amount of modifications at the test rig design. In this way, the multipurpose test rig will be exploited to the sub-scale level testing, too. Results of the tests at sub-component level, e.g. fin spar to skin hybrid joints, will facilitate the validation of advanced numerical models, which will be developed for predicting the debonding at the hybrid joint. These numerical models will be applied in the simulation of static and fatigue crack growth (debonding) of bonded composite joints. The model’s input parameters will be obtained from experimental tests on coupon level.

Keywords: multipurpose test rig,full scale rotorcraft fin,linear variable differential transformers,digital image correlation,high versatility and cost efficiency
Structural characterization of a Kir potassium channel and its involvement in Andersen’s syndrome (KIRPAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The inward rectifier potassium (Kir) channels belong to a family of integral membrane proteins that selectively control the K+ ion permeation in cell membranes. They are ubiquitously expressed throughout the human body and regulate the membrane electrical excitability and K+ transport in many cell types. The gating of Kir channels is modulated by various intracellular ligands, with phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) being an essential molecule to Kir channel activity in eukaryotes. The physiological importance of the Kir channels is highlighted by the fact that genetically-inherited defects in the Kir channels are responsible for a number of human diseases, such as Andersen’s syndrome (AS), Bartter’s syndrome, and neonatal diabetes, which are often chronically debilitating and for which there are no efficient therapeutic treatments. This project goals to obtain high-resolution structures of the human Kir2.1 channel wild type (WT) and an AS-causing mutant (R312H) located at interaction site of PIP2, in the presence and absence of PIP2 as well as the description of the molecular mechanisms allowing gating of the channels in the WT and mutated forms with/without PIP2 using advanced molecular dynamics simulations techniques. For this, this project proposes the integration of cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) combined with image analysis (single particle analysis or 2D crystallography) with a recently developed molecular dynamics simulations approach (MDeNM), which is a powerful tool to structurally characterize functional motions occurring over long time scales. The description of full gating mechanism of human Kir2.1 channel and the PIP2 role on its dynamics, as well as the understanding of the clinically-relevant disease-causing mutation impact on the structure, dynamics, and function of Kir channels can provide the structural basis for investigating potential rationally-designed therapeutic modulators for the AS treatment.

Keywords: kir potassium channel,ion channel,andersen s syndrome,cryo electron microscopy,structural molecular biology,molecular dynamics simulations