Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Aircraft Loads Prediction for Enhanced Simulation (ALPES)

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: United Kingdom,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): 1314260.09
EU funding (EUR): 1314260.09
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

A European Industrial Doctoral (EID) network is proposed to improve the prediction, and also the efficiency in calculation, of aircraft loads. The loads experienced by an aircraft in-flight (due to manoeuvres and gusts) and on the ground (e.g. landing, turning, braking) are the key element in determining the structural sizing and hence its weight. Although the structural design must ensure that structural failure cannot occur at any point of an aircraft’s operation due to excessive stresses or deflections, the aircraft weight must be as small as possible. If it were possible to obtain more accurate loads predictions than at present at the edges of the flight envelope and other critical points, and also to consider uncertainties in the calculations, then it would be feasible to produce lighter aircraft designs which are more efficient and more environmentally friendly. A further requirement is to be able to turn around all the many required loads calculations much faster, enabling a much more thorough search of the possible design space, particularly for the novel aircraft configurations that are likely to occur in the future. The ALPES (Aircraft Loads Prediction through Enhanced Simulation) EID will consist of five PhD researchers working on interrelated aircraft loads projects: Modelling of Landing, Manoeuvre and Gust Loads for Flexible Aircraft Structures for investigating combined high load events, Reduced Order Aeroelastic Modelling during Landing, Manoeuvres and Gusts, Efficient and Accurate Gust Loads Modelling, Worst Case Prediction of Gust, Manoeuvre and Landing Loads, Uncertainty Quantification of Landing, Gust and Manoeuvre Loads. Combined with a novel research programme, a highly industrially focused training schedule is planned, including placements at Airbus in the UK and France.
Supramolecular assembly of polymeric structures: a novel route to enhance soft materials properties (SUPOLEN)

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,Greece,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Italy,Denmark,France,Netherlands,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): 3901493.1
EU funding (EUR): 3901493.1
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Supramolecular polymeric assemblies represent an emerging, promising class of systems with superior versatility compared to their covalent polymeric counterparts. They offer exciting new opportunities for stimuli-responsive structures exhibiting reversible tunable properties, with applications in foodstuff, coatings , cost-efficient processes or biomedical areas. To explore their potential and define strategies for designing novel materials amenable to contemporary needs, a fundamental understanding of their very complex and diverse multiscale supramolecular structure and dynamics is needed. In this regard, a synergy of synthetic chemistry (including both model and industrial systems), physical experiment and modeling are necessary. The objective of SUPOLEN is to understand and tailor the structure and dynamics of supramolecular polymers based on well-defined building blocks, mainly monodisperse linear and star-like polymers. The systematic, thorough study of their behavior offers many possibilities for tailoring their organization and dynamic response, and allows tackling important questions such as (1) understanding the combined effect of the dynamics of the associating groups (strength, position, number and nature) and the internal dynamics of the building blocks (entanglements and architecture); (2) exploring the role played by external stimuli; (3) investigating their behavior in solution as well as in the melt; and (4) developing predictive tools for designing new materials. The proposal is highly interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial, the groups involved are world-leaders in their fields, and the tasks and partners are strategically linked. SUPOLEN reflects European leadership in the field. It offers young researchers a unique training platform with appropriate exposure to a broad range of emerging topics in soft matter and to the industrial sector. It will provide them with the needed tools for addressing relevant scientific and technological challenges.

Keywords: dynamics and structure of supramolecular polymers,soft matter and polymer physics,relaxation,supramolecular chemistry,rheology,transient network,hardening,ductile vs brittle,mesoscopic models
Training in Embedded Predictive Control and Optimization (TEMPO)

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: Norway,Belgium,Switzerland,Slovakia,France,United Kingdom,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3926584.23
EU funding (EUR): 3926584.23
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

TEMPO addresses the needs of European companies and society for embedded control technology, through training on cutting edge research in the rapidly emerging inter-disciplinary field of embedded predictive control and optimization. The key objectives are: - to expand the scientific and technical knowledge platform for Embedded Predictive Control and Optimization in Europe; - to exploit this platform to train a new generation of world class researchers and professionals that are highly attractive for employment by the European industry; - to establish structures for long-term cooperation and strengthen the relations among the leading universities and industry in Europe in this field, to continuously develop the research training platform that European industry relies on. To achieve the objectives listed above, the main tasks of TEMPO are: - to attract and train 14 Early Stage Researchers in embedded MPC and optimization via a joint academic/industrial program of cutting edge training-by-research, high quality supervision, complementary and transferable skills training, inter-network secondments, and workshops; - to create a closely connected group of leading European scientists that are highly sought after by European industry, and ready to push forward embedded MPC and optimization into new innovative products, industries and services; - to build a solid foundation for long-term European excellence in this field by disseminating the research and training outcomes and best practice of TEMPO into the doctoral schools of the partners, and by fostering long-term partnerships and collaboration mechanisms that will outlast the ITN; - to disseminate the know-how of the participants to each other and to external groups via networking activities, inter-sectoral exposure, secondments, workshops, demonstrations, sharing of learning material, public engagement and outreach activities, and open source public domain software outcomes.
Support of cloud services for multimedia delivery and consumption (CLOUDSCREENS)

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: United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1174367.25
EU funding (EUR): 1174367.25
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The CLOUDSCREEN project will not only train ESRs on their scientific and technical skills in an unique multinational, multidisciplinary and intersectoral research training network, but will also help talented ESRs to develop their confidence, personal character, entrepreneurial skills and to foster their creativity. The main training objective is to offer a unique training program, integrating scientific education, research training and immersion in an industrial environment. The training programme will let them taking necessary risks and learning from possible mistakes. It is about showing them how to work, how to manage projects and take responsibility. The research topics are highly innovative, society and environmentally relevant and above all have serious economic potential. The main research objective of the CLOUDSCREENS project is to research new topics that would contribute to creation of the future software-based services that combine cloud-based services, device-based personal spaces and smart networked objects for multimedia delivery and consumption. The project shall focus on four interconnected topics: quality of service (QoS) in multi-service environments, personal spaces, smart environments, and new generation of user interfaces. The ESRs shall concentrate their work on the research, architectural design, and prototyping for systems that can be delivered as software application from the cloud, also known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The ESRs will be encouraged to disseminate their enthusiasm about involvement in this research project. Finally, this project will contribute to creating the future leaders in science that Europe needs both for the public and private sector. It aims to develop students into excellent researchers in fields of cloud computing, multimedia processing and networking technology who are equally skilled to start an advanced carrier in the private sector.

Keywords: support of cloud services for multimedia delivery and consumption,quality of service (qos) in multi-service environments,personal spaces,smart environments,and new generation of user interfaces.
TOPIC: Targeting Cytotoxic Protein Oligomers (TOPIC)

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,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 586111.02
EU funding (EUR): 586111.02
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease are highly debilitating diseases for which no disease modifying treatment is available. This EID proposal, called TOPIC (Targeting Cytotoxic Protein Oligomers), will train 2 ESRs to target the oligomeric protein aggregate which accumulates in these diseases. These oligomers occur under conditions which eventually lead to the accumulation of fibrillar amyloid deposits. However, there is increasing consensus that the amyloid state is biologically inert and the cytotoxic species is the oligomeric structure. Our approach rests on the working hypothesis that the cytotoxic oligomers engage in a number of unwanted interactions with proteins and membranes. The 2 ESRs will combine proprietary technology to stabilize these oligomers with state-of-the-art mass spectrometry and biophysical techniques to identify, quantitate and rank these interactions within the context of the cellular interactome. The next goal (building directly on the EID outcome but outside its present scope) is to develop small-molecule inhibitors of these interactions as a therapeutic strategy to eliminate cell death and disease progression. This training programme offers a unique opportunity for the 2 ESRs to carry out central parts of translational research in both an academic and SME setting, spanning a multitude of different cellular, biophysical and mass spectrometric techniques of general use in the life sciences. Our target oligomeric proteins are α-synuclein (Parkinson’s Disease) and the N-terminal part of exon 1 of huntingtin (Huntington’s Disease). By analysing two different proteins in parallel projects, we will be able to validate the robustness of our approach and potentially identify generic small molecules to target misfolded protein oligomers in general. Our approach will allow the ESRs to develop a general therapeutic strategy that targets a major class of devastating disease affecting the daily lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Keywords: protein oligomer,cytotoxicity,aggregate,protein-protein interactions,small-molecule interaction disruptors
Aging Eye (AGEYE)

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: Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Poland,France,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3134459.69
EU funding (EUR): 3134459.69
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

AGEYE is a coherent training and career development platform for the training and career development of 12 young researchers in Vision Sciences. It aims to structure the collaboration in research and training between 5 leading academic centres in Europe, bringing together a new combination of in-depth expertise from 4 countries. Furthermore, to strengthen the contact with the industrial world, the network has the following associate partners: 2 large companies specialized in contact and intraocular lens design and manufacture, 1 SME that provides advanced ophthalmic devices for eye imaging, refractive diagnosis and 1 large company of hospitals. It places emphasis in experience-based training through cross-disciplinary research projects that will analyse, using state-of-the-art technology, how the young eye’s crystalline lens works. This information will make it possible to improve the diagnostic tools that are used for cataract and presbyopia. This, in its turn, will contribute to the development and the improvement of therapeutic solutions capable of restoring the adult eye’s visual function back to young eye’s levels. AGEYE will provide to 10 early-stage and 2 experienced researchers: (1) state-of-the-art concepts and leading-edge techniques essential to study ageing eye via the research projects, courses, and scientific exchanges within and beyond the network; (2) essential career-management skills via courses and practical activities aimed to develop their organisational, management, and networking skills; (3) an understanding of the impact of research results for the private sector and an insight of the enterprise world via exchanges and visits to the industrial partners; (4) new possibilities of career development via professional contacts in academia and industry. The long-term synergy among AGEYE partners, which are already leaders in their specific domains, will structure the European research and training capabilities in Vision Sciences

Keywords: aging,presbyopia,cataracts,visual quality
Tools, methods And training for CommuniTIes and Society to better prepare for a Crisis. (TACTIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,Poland,Türkiye,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1321427.1
EU funding (EUR): 999083.52
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of the TACTIC project is to increase preparedness to large-scale and cross-border disasters amongst communities and societies in Europe. To achieve this, TACTIC will consider studies on risk perception and preparedness (including good practices and preparedness programmes) in order to develop a participatory community preparedness audit enabling communities to assess, impacts in a multi-hazard context, their motivations and capacities to prepare for large-scale and/or cross-border disasters. This forms the basis for developing context-sensitive education and training strategies and practices that are embedded in an overarching long-term learning framework (including evaluation procedures) for increasing the overall prepares of communities and societies across Europe. Rather than taking a top-down approach to preparedness, TACTIC will pursue a collaborative project strategy by including different user and stakeholder groups in the development, testing and validation of tools and materials throughout the process of the project by conducting four case studies focusing on terrorism, floods, pandemics and earthquakes.

Keywords: preparedness,risk perception,community,audit,communication,education,training,case studies,terrorism,epidemics,floods,earthquakes,cross-boarder disasters,large-scale disasters
IMproving Preparedness and Response of HEalth Services in major criseS (IMPRESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Bulgaria,Germany,Luxembourg
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4280345.6
EU funding (EUR): 3251315.15
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

There exists a huge variety in the occurrence and characteristics of major incidents. Incident management stakeholders and in particular emergency health service providers have to deal with two basic challenges: The disproportion between the needs and the available human/material resources in the response capacity and the inherent time constraints of an emergency. These critical factors play a seminal role in the decision-making process during a crisis event, which affects all levels of command & control (strategic, operational, tactical). The drawback with current health emergency management systems lies with the command & control operations that should coordinate the actions of the separate services and turn them into an effective, multi-faceted crisis response mechanism. IMPRESS will improve the efficiency of decision making in emergency health operations, which will have a direct impact on the quality of services provided to citizens. It will provide a consolidated concept of operations, to effectively manage medical resources, prepare and coordinate response activities, supported by a Decision Support System, using data from multiple heterogeneous sources. The proposed solution will facilitate communication between Health Services (and Emergency Responders) at all levels of response and the crisis cycle with the necessary health care systems support, supervision and management of participating organizations. It will assist health services in becoming more proactive, better prepared and interoperable with other emergency response organizations. Thus, medical emergency teams will be turned, using IMPRESS, into one coherent force. IMPRESS will catalyze a dramatic and durable impact in the way in which Health Services are provided in crisis situations, and will help improve the integration of health care actors and volunteers with other Crisis Management stakeholders, providing also an overall competitive advantage of CM-related SMEs and large businesses in Europe

Keywords: decision support system,emergency health services,preparedness,training,logistics,interoperability
Visual Analytics for Sense-making in CRiminal Intelligence analysis (VALCRI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,United States,Germany,Sweden,Belgium,Austria,Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16569525.76
EU funding (EUR): 13053686.42
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of Project VALCRI is to create a Visual Analytics-based sense-making capability for criminal intelligence analysis by developing and integrating a number of technologies into a coherent working environment for the analyst we call the Reasoning Workspace. Conceptually, the Reasoning Workspace comprises three areas: (i) a Data Space which will enable an analyst to see what data and themes exist, (ii) an Analysis Space to which data can be brought into to carry out various computational analyses including statistical and text analysis, and (iii) a Hypothesis Space that will enable the analysts to assemble their evidence into coherent arguments that lead to meaningful and valid conclusions. The user interface will be rooted in the concepts of Visual Analytics – the emerging “… science of analytical reasoning facilitated by visual interactive interfaces" (Thomas and Cook, 2004), and specially designed to support the interactive dynamics (Heer and Shneiderman, 2012) required to enable real-time analytic interaction with data. The design of the user interface will move away from the traditional windows and list of lists views for presenting data, and instead to create information objects that may be directly manipulated and freely organised visuo-spatially by the analysts so that location and spatial groupings have meaning and can be manipulated directly by selection and dragging; or we can initiate Boolean operations on the content of the two or more clusters by dragging one cluster onto another. In addition, the presentation of multiple views of the information objects, in the form of network graphs, timelines, geo-spatial etc. can lead to further insight, especially when interactivity is enabled. This tight coupling between visualisation and computation is crucial for developing and maintaining cognitive momentum, the train of thought that enables creativity and sense-making.

Keywords: visual analytics sense-making criminal intelligence reasoning workspace data space analysis space hypothesis space visual interactive interfaces user interface