Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Visegrad Initiative for Nuclear Cooperation (VINCO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Support the development of nuclear competences at Union level and socio-economic aspects
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Slovakia,Hungary,Poland,France,Czechia
Call: Regional initiative aiming at nuclear research and training capacity building (NFRP-2014-2015, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1091324.0
EU funding (EUR): 1091324.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

After a common expression of willingness to cooperate and legal establishment of V4G4 Centre of Excellence Association, VINCO project represents the next stage of capacity building in nuclear technologies in Central European countries. Participating countries defined already their specializations: helium technology in Czech Republic, design and safety analyses in Slovakia, fuel studies in Hungary and material research in Poland. Having such expertise, the joint development of Gen IV nuclear technologies with the special emphasis on gas-cooled reactors is fully possible. Thus, the main objectives of the regional VINCO project are: (i) development of the principles of cooperation and rules of access to existing and planned infrastructure, (ii) identification of the specific objectives of the R & D activities in the cooperating countries, (iii) description and analysis of the existing research, training and educational equipment and capabilities, (iv) determination of the investment priorities in cooperating countries and (v) setting up of joint research, educational and training projects. It is expected that the joint activities will result in coordination of actions allowing to obtain financing from the Structural Funds available for the Visegrad countries. These funds would allow for a huge increase of mass and modernization of the research potential in the region. Close cooperation with other EU institutions (mainly CEA, France) will ensure better description of the investments needed in Visegrad Region, tightening of pan-European cooperation and strengthening of the role of V4 countries, helping them to evolve from users to the suppliers of R&D capabilities in nuclear technologies. A major expected impact of the project would be setting up of a distributed regional research centre specialized in nuclear technologies needed to develop Gen IV reactors and to improve safe operation of existing and planned Nuclear Power Plants in the region.

Keywords: visegrad group,gas cooled reactors,generation iv reactors,helium technologies,capacity building,education and training,distributed research center,networking,mobility,benchmarking
Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources - mobility (SIFRm)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France,United States
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2019-10-15
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 264668.4
EU funding (EUR): 264668.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources (SIFR - www.lirmm.fr/sifr) project investigates the scientific and technical challenges in building ontology-based services to leverage biomedical ontologies and terminologies in indexing, mining and retrieval of biomedical data. We will build and improve an ontology-based indexing workflow (Annotator) similar to what exists for English but specialized for other EU languages, starting with French. This will be the first step in offering semantic and multilingual search and mining of biomedical data resources. Our main goal is to enable straightforward use of ontologies freeing health researchers to deal with knowledge engineering or multilingualism issues and to concentrate on biological/medical challenges. SIFR (2013-2017) is a collaborative action between LIRMM & BMIR currently mainly funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) Young Researcher program. This proposal (SIFRm) aims to fund the mobility of Dr. Clement Jonquet, SIFR’s principal investigator, assistant professor at LIRMM, to Stanford University. Stanford BMIR, head by Pr. Musen, is a worldwide leader providing (English-)ontology-based services to assist health professionals in the design of biomedical knowledge-based systems. BMIR is the birthplace of tools such as Protégé or BioPortal and scientific methodologies such as data driven medicine that Dr. Jonquet will acquire and reuse in a multilingual (e.g., French) and multidisciplinary (e.g., agronomy) context. During the return phase, a secondment is planned within INRIA ZENITH team, head by Dr. Valudriez, renown for distributed big data management. SIFRm will enable development of innovating scientific services to make annotation goes beyond English and reach another level in terms of variety and amount of data, e.g., French electronic health records. The project is a great career opportunity and guarantees a 2-way knowledge transfer between EU & US (informatics & biomedical skills).

Keywords: biomedical informatics,ontologies,semantic annotation,knowledge representation,text mining,data integration,semantic web,multilingualism,semantic indexing,big data,personalized medicine
Controlling earthQuakes (CoQuake)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: France,France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 1357240.89
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), earthquakes are responsible for more than half of the total human losses due to natural disasters from 1994 to 2003. There is no doubt that earthquakes are lethal and costly. CoQuake proposes an alternative, ground-breaking approach for avoiding catastrophic earthquakes by inducing them at a lower energetic level. Earthquakes are a natural phenomenon that we cannot avoid, but –for the first time– in CoQuake I will show that it is possible to control them, hence reducing the seismic risk, fatalities and economic cost. CoQuake goes beyond the state-of-the-art by proposing an innovative methodology for investigating the effect and the controllability of various stimulating techniques that can reactivate seismic faults. It involves large-scale, accurate simulations of fault systems based on constitutive laws derived from micromechanical, grain-by-grain simulations under Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical couplings (THMC), which are not calibrated on the basis of ad-hoc empirical and inaccurate constitutive laws. A pioneer experimental research programme and the design and construction of a new apparatus of metric scale, will demonstrate CoQuake’s proof-of-principle and it will help to explore the transition from aseismic to seismic slip. CoQuake is an interdisciplinary project as it takes knowledge from various fields of engineering, computational mechanics, geomechanics, mathematics and geophysics. CoQuake opens a new field and new line of research in earthquake mechanics and engineering, with a direct impact on humanity and science.

Keywords: earthquake mechanics,soil dynamics
Violence, State formation and memory politics: an off-site ethnography of post-revolution Iran (OFF-SITE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1223843.75
EU funding (EUR): 1223843.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How can violence be studied when access to the field is impossible? Fieldwork is a trademark of ethnography, which is fast becoming a key practice in qualitative research across disciplines. In conflict and post-conflict zones, social scientists tend to negotiate access to fieldwork through an international community of experts and practitioners. But empirical investigation proves more difficult in strong regimes that are closed or restricted, and exert (tight) surveillance over academics and the civil society. The power-knowledge apparatus draws some boundaries for researchers to respect in order to keep access to the field: thus, subjects that fall outside the domain of ‘researchability’ disqualify for ethnographic study. Consequently, research is (re)oriented by opportunities of access to the field. The study of violence (its mechanisms, effects, genealogy and everyday experiences) in repressive States thus remains a blind spot, with protracted effects on the understanding of societies that are built on this history of violence. Based on the case of Iran, this pioneering research seeks to change our ways of studying ‘locked’ societies, by adapting our methods and episteme to the global circulation of norms, data and people. Through the anthropology of the State and violence, archive ethnography and the use of new technologies, it experiments trans-disciplinary methods in the production of empirical study off-site, in order to fill a substantive gap in scientific knowledge on the Khomeini years in Iran (1979-1988), and how their legacy reappears in todays’ politics of memory. By classifying and reviewing available sources in a digital “counter-archive”, the project will establish a genealogy of post-revolutionary violence and state formation in Iran, and make this documentation available for further research. It will also document and analyze the memory politics linked to this foundational past and how they redefine the boundaries of political participation.

Keywords: anthropology of violence,historical anthropology,iranian studies,patrimonialization,collective memories
RESponsible research and innovation grounding practices in BIOSciencies (RESBIOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Develop the governance for the advancement of responsible research and innovation by all stakeholders, which is sensitive to society needs and demands and promote an ethics framework for research and innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Ukraine,Germany,Spain,Italy,Greece,Croatia,Poland,Slovenia,Bulgaria,Denmark
Call: Grounding RRI practices in research and innovation funding and performing organisations (H2020-SwafS-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499940.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499940.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

RESBIOS aims to deeply embedding RRI practices within 4 RPOs in the field of Biosciences from 4 European countries, through the implementation of RRI Grounding Actions (GAs), to achieve sustainable institutional changes in the various institutions, related to RRI keys, according the MoRRI indicators and Sustainable Development Goals. The project is focused on the biosciences sector which is one of the crossroads in the relations between science and society. The project will set a mutual learning environment including the four partners implementing GAs (“RRI beginners”), some “RRI mentors” having already participated in a EU project about RRI in biosciences, partners experienced in Evaluation and Technical assistance, an international scientific Advisory Board, representatives of other EU projects, and representatives of Quadruple Helix actors. The GAs will be structured in three strands, respectively aimed at: developing a self reflection on the change needs in the organisation and dialoguing with the potentially involved stakeholders for co-designing the experiments (co-reflexive strand); implementing the GAs in connection with societal actors in the territory and inside the research organisations (pro-active strand); developing permanent spaces of integration with society, implementing a set of institutional change inside the research organisation and reframing its governance settings (Institutional strand). An adequate management system, support to implementation and mutual learning, evaluation, communication and dissemination activities will ensure smooth project implementation. RESBIOS is composed of 9 WPs: WP1 Ethics Requirements; WP2 Co-design of GAs; WP3 GAs on Education; WP4 GAs on Open Access and Ethics; WP5 GAs on Citizens engagement and Gender equality; WP6 Supporting Institutional Change; WP7 Mutual Learning and Evaluation; WP8 Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation; WP9 Management. The project involves 12 partners from 11 European countries.

Keywords: open science,institutional change,research governance framework,gender,education,open access,ethics,citizens engagement,societal engagement,responsible biosciences
NGI Zero Discovery (NGI0-Discovery)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Netherlands,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Next Generation Internet - An Open Internet Initiative (H2020-ICT-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 7000000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The NGI vision clearly identifies major social and economic challenges that need to be addressed urgently, and articulates a powerful vision for a new phase of the internet. It tries to create an Internet of Human Values, that is resilient, trustworthy and sustainable. The overall mission of the Next Generation Internet initiative is to re-imagine and re-engineer the Internet for the third millennium and beyond. NGI Zero Discovery aims to provide an agile, effective and low-threshold funding mechanism to enable individual researchers and developers as well as small teams to research and develop important new ideas that contribute to the establishment of the Next Generation Internet. We build on decades of experience to allow clueful and committed people to focus on delivering solutions to important problems. Unique to our project is that - built on that experience - we will provide a greenhouse environment for the projects and teams that are funded within NGI. Researchers and developers are human too, and the grasp of all relevant best practises they bring along initially is necessarily limited. The demands on technology that should actually run at scale on the modern internet today are huge, and continuously changing. Having the right idea does not automatically mean that you know how to make your solution accessible to blind people, how to set up continuous integration and reproducible builds, how to orchestrate a responsible disclosure procedure, how to make sure that your application can be used with different languages and properly localised, how to engineer secure software and what state of the art attack vectors you would have deal with, how to engage with standards setting organisations, how to nurture and grow a developer community, how to write end user documentation, which software license best fits the goals of the project, how to not discourage gender identity diversity, and so on. We help people work towards achieving the NGI Vision - all of it.
Southern Europe and low fertility: micro and macro determinants of a crucial demographic and cultural revolution (SEU-FER)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project will provide a renewed perspective on Southern Europe fertility decline in the second part of the twentieth Century until today. The forces that have driven this epochal change have been broadly identified, with an established correlation between fertility decline and modernization as characterised by industrialization, urbanization, increasing education. However, at the individual level, the mechanisms that have been driving this general process of change are still blurred. In particular, the specific factors that induced women, within few generations, to give birth to fewer children at later ages are insufficiently explored. Recently reproductive behaviour has changed: increase in out-of-wedlock births, large increase in the proportion of childless women and instability of marriages. The project will take into account these profound changes, yielding results able to highlight the key components of this new scenario, stressing the differences with the recent past. European data will be used in order to allow consistent comparisons between Spain and Italy, the first countries to achieve lowest-low fertility levels. The influences on fertility decline at different levels from macro-regional, through community characteristics to individual attributes will be investigated and efficaciously disentangled through careful harmonisation and the use of appropriate statistical methodologies. The project will use macro contextual data (the socio-economic, political, environmental and territorial contexts, but also community access to services and modernization) linked to the micro level individual data (education, SES, family composition, parents' fertility). The project, based on the excellent dataset collected, will provide answers and explanations for many of the open questions on fertility decline as well as providing the first in-depth investigation of the geographic and socio-economic complexities of fertility decline in Southern Europe as a whole.

Keywords: fertility,southern europe,longitudinal data,individual biographies
Highly Biomimetic Proregenerative Scaffold for Personalized Nerve Repair (ProRegScaffold)

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: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191852.16
EU funding (EUR): 191852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

According to Allied Market Research, the market for nerve repair and regeneration is expected to reach €11 billion by 2023, with an annual increase of 13%. Autograft, the gold standard, only achieves a success rate of about 45%, despite intrinsic drawbacks including availability and comorbidities. Neural scaffolds offer the bright prospect of nerve injury treatment by guiding axon sprouting and creating a permissive microenvironment. However, current products including NeuraGen® and Neuromaix® failed to find their way towards widespread clinical practice due to their dimensional instability and the mismatch of regenerated axons, as well as showing no effect on the intrinsic regenerative capability of neurons. To address the current technological gap, this project aims to develop a proregenerative scaffold (ProRegScaffold) that completely mimic the microenvironment of host tissues to guide axonal growth, promote regeneration and stimulate integration into the existing healthy tissue. The ProRegScaffold comprises of chitosan/collagen microchannels resembling the geometries of native nervous network, which will be tailored by precisely controlling the growth of ice crystals within digitally predefined moulds. This is an automated method amenable to low-cost and large-scale production. Near infrared light responsive lipid nanoparticles will be introduced and filled with growth factors to activate the intrinsic regenerative capability of neurons. Moreover, I will complement the finite-element method (FEM) with machine learning algorithms to accelerate the design phase, analyze structural mechanics and provide proper parameters of scaffolds allowing faster axon regrowth. This project represents cutting-edge research to screen structure-activity relationships for effective nerve repair, allowing the establishment of a practical personalized neural scaffold.

Keywords: biomimicry,scaffold,ice templating,3d printing,personalized clinical therapy,stimuli responsive,nerve injury repair,tissue engineering,machine learning
Modelling and Imaging Development for precision Agriculture (MIDA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MIDA project aims at completing an innovative technology for the aerial orchard surveillance. MIDA permits to obtain a clear indication about the pathogen infection risk among fruit orchards. The forecast of infection risk is permitted by the innovative combination between weather data and drone aerial imagery. On the other hand, the historical and current weather data are modelled via an innovative neural network able to predict the leaf wetness on geographic base. The prediction is then obtained by combining the multi-spectral aerial imagery with wetness index to output a localised risk index. This index is relevant to forecast a possible microbial pathogen outbreak at single row level. The MIDA concept, EYE-SCAB, has been already successfully applied to apple orchards in Trento Region to forecast scab disease. The results show that this methodology can optimise the prevention against plant microbial disease with an 80% of confidence. A large-scale application of this technology to fruit agriculture is then expected to optimise the scab disease prevention and to reduce the massive quantity of agrochemicals currently needed. This also implies very relevant costs saving for farmers. The possibility to manage localised treatment at single row level, will indeed permit to optimise preventive treatment avoiding large epidemies with consequent harvest losses. A decreasing occurrence of fruit scab will also reduce the discard by food industry thus preventing further food waste. By implementing MIDA, Metacortex expects to foster a serious business growth in the new segment of precision agriculture systems thus diversifying its traditional product offer and opening towards a new and international market. MIDA project will further benefit from the peculiarities of Trento Region and from the viability of many stakeholders involved in apple production life cycle. These conditions can support further MIDA development and its validation activities.

Keywords: agriculture,apple,fruit,precision agriculture,drones,surveillance,pathogen,apple scab