Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Holographic Integrated Display and Optics (HIDO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-C, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1647687.0
EU funding (EUR): 1263243.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The possibility to create an augmented reality vision has been investigated since the 60’s. Most augmented reality systems require the use of a Head Mount Display (HMD) to project a virtual image in the user’s eyes. To date, no HMD featuring good field of view, good resolution and small dimensions has been developed. This has been one of the major bottlenecks to create an augmented reality market. Although, several interesting concepts emerged during the last years (Google Glass project is a recent example), all of those rely on a display decoupled from the optical system. This creates constrains on the mechanical configuration of the eyewear which increases volume and mass. Moreover, those systems have difficulties to cope with corrective vision requirements of a significant part of the users. The proposed project brings forth a completely disruptive solution using an innovative optical design where the display and the optical system are merged together in a single lens. This opens a new paradigm in the design of a HMD. First: it decreases the mass and the volume of the system. Second: it allows very large field of view. Third: it makes possible fashion and variable designs without any severe geometrical constrain. Fourth: it allows integrating correction optics inside the HMD lens. Fifth: it creates the possibility to use the traditional eyewear market to leverage the augmented reality market (similar design, similar distribution configuration, similar customization). The proposed design uses the most advanced technologies in optics, holography and OLED displays and integrates them in a single piece. This Lensplay (lens and display in one single physical element) will open up complete new ways for humans to interact with information computers. It will be a breakthrough that will ultimately change the world sees itself.

Keywords: head mounted displays,hmd,near the eye micro display,see-through,holography,oled,transparent,backplane,augmented reality
Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception and Attention (NEURO-VPA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Attention is a control system that optimizes behavior by altering the way that incoming sensory information is processed. Determining how attention influences the way that information is represented throughout the brain is a core problem in sensory neuroscience. Recent evidence from primates suggests that attention can change tuning in single neurons at higher stages of visual processing. Tuning changes imply that many visual representations are not fixed, but rather can be changed dynamically according to task demands. However, it is currently unknown whether attention causes tuning changes in the human brain. This proposal investigates how attention changes tuning for a broad range of semantic features across the entire human brain. To address this issue, the proposal uses functional MRI to record blood-oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals while humans search for specific object or action categories (e.g., “Humans” or “Vehicles”) in natural movies. The proposal leverages an innovative voxel-wise modeling framework to characterize how attention changes tuning for hundreds of semantic features. This framework will enable separate characterization of attentional influences on response baseline, response gain and tuning. The proposal consists of two broad Aims. Aim 1 focuses on how attention changes the way that objects and actions are represented in the brain. Aim 2 addresses the computational principles that govern attentional tuning changes. These experiments will provide crucial information for understanding how the brain dynamically changes representations to optimize behavior during natural vision, and they will provide the first quantitative semantic models that accurately predict BOLD responses during natural visual search. The results will advance our understanding of cognitive processes such as learning and memory that depend on attention, and they will have implications for developing treatments and interventions for attention-related mental disorders.

Keywords: sensory neuroscience,cognitive,computational modeling,neural encoding,selectivity,tuning,vision,perception,visual search,attention,semantic,category,object,action,functional mri,bold.
ERA-NET Plus on Cultural Heritage and Global Change Research (HERITAGE PLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: HERITAGE PLUS (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Cyprus,Denmark,France,Norway,Portugal,Spain,Lithuania,Netherlands,Poland,Israel,Sweden,Romania,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2013-RTD, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9286119.0
EU funding (EUR): 3064419.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the HERITAGE PLUS proposal is to pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national programmes and the European Community and to launch a single Joint Call for Proposals for research projects in the cultural heritage field that will be evaluated and managed jointly by the participating programmes. The 18 Partners have a strong background in designing, promoting and managing transnational, collaborative research programmes having participated to the Era Net Projects NET HERITAGE, HERA and DCNET and implemented the Joint Programming Initiative “Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe” (JPICH). Within JPICH, the launch of the first pilot call, actually open, represents the factual commitment of Partners to implement transnational research programming. The HERITAGE PLUS project is fully in line with the JPICH as part of the implementation of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) and of the Action Programme. Consequently the HERITAGE PLUS call will be focused in topics on tangible cultural heritage research, developing new methodologies, technologies and products for the assessment, protection and management of historical and modern artefacts, buildings and sites, while not excluding interlinked aspects of digital and intangible heritage, following the interdisciplinary basic criteria on which the JPICH SRA devolved. This collaborative approach will provide a better use of public resources, while the European Community contribution to the Joint Call budget will stress the high interest generated by this common action. This ERA NET PLUS action will support the JPICH by proposing concrete solutions for pooling national expertise and resources and establishing closer and robust collaboration among the participating States in the field of cultural heritage. The HERITAGE PLUS action will improve the coordination of national research activities and policies in the domain of cultural heritage research.

Keywords: joint call,research programming,cultural heritage,transnational action,call procedures,call topics,peer review evaluation,dissemination,marketing,project funding,monitoring and assessment
Information and Communication Technologies and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture (ICT-AGRI 2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: ICT-AGRI 2 (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Denmark,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Latvia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Switzerland,Spain,Spain,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2013-RTD, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2373549.8
EU funding (EUR): 1997101.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

Information and Communication technologies (ICT) and robotics for sustainable agriculture

Keywords: robotics,agriculture,environment,farm management,variable rate application,controlled traffic,presion agriculture,precision livestock farming,quality control,agricultural robots
Algorithmic Foundations of Large Markets (TRUTH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this proposal is to study the theoretical foundations of computationally efficient large markets. Market Design is a task that is traditionally carried out by economists and game theorists. However, as markets are becoming larger one must take into account computational considerations as well. The field that integrates methodologies from classic mechanism design and computer science is called Algorithmic Mechanism Design. Specifically, Game Theory and Mechanism Design study how selfish players interact. A traditional example is an auction for a single item, where mechanism design studies how to achieve a certain goal, e.g., social welfare or revenue maximization. However, when there are multiple heterogeneous items that may exhibit complementarities and substitutabilities, designing mechanisms becomes much more challenging. While classic mechanism design does offer some solutions, these solutions usually do not scale well, as they are not computationally efficient. The goal of this proposal is to understand whether this gap can be bridged. Most research in Algorithmic Mechanism Design focuses on dominant-strategy auctions, where every bidder always has a bid that is at least as good as any other possible bid. This proposal has two related objectives: (1) prove that in some settings there are no computationally efficient dominant-strategy mechanisms, and (2) develop techniques that will allow characterizing the set of dominant-strategy mechanisms in important auction domains, and design new families of dominant-strategy mechanisms. The proposal is expected to advance the state of the art in problems that are at the heart of Algorithmic Mechanism Design (and, more generally, at the heart of Algorithmic Game Theory).

Keywords: algorithmic mechanism design,theory of computer science,algorithmic game theory,algorithms and complexity
Are Reemployment Programs Effective in Periods of High Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from the UI System (REA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This 2-year project will examine the efficacy of reemployment programs in helping displaced workers find jobs and improve their labour market outcomes during periods of high unemployment. For this purpose, we will examine the effectiveness of reemployment programs implemented by two US states, Florida and Nevada, from 2009 through 2010, a period of high unemployment. Each of these programs: 1) used random assignment to determine which new Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients would receive reemployment services, 2) provided a unique combination of services to program participants, and 3) collected data that provide information on the characteristics and outcomes of UI recipients. The random assignment design of these programs combined with the fact that they provided a diverse set of services provide a unique opportunity to produce reliable evidence on the effectiveness of various reemployment strategies during periods of high unemployment. This project will use Florida and Nevada administrative data to address the following research objectives: • What is the effect of reemployment programs in helping displaced workers improve their labour market outcomes during periods of high unemployment? • Are reemployment programs effective in reducing the use of UI benefits? • Do program impacts vary across key socioeconomic groups? • Do reemployment programs lead to significant savings for the UI Trust Fund and, if so, do these exceed program costs? • What reemployment strategies are most effective in improving the labour market outcomes of displaced workers and in producing savings for the UI program? The findings of this project will provide important insights in the efficacy of various reemployment strategies and help EU policymakers identify strategies that are likely to be effective in improving the labour market outcomes of displaced workers during periods of high unemployment.

Keywords: unemployment,reemployment policy,labour market,unemployment compensation
Role of Nano-Titanium Dioxide Immunotoxicity in Infectious Disease paThology (TITOXPATH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The rise in use of nanotechnology has significantly increased risks of human exposure and interaction of nanoparticles with the immune system, potentially jeopardizing host responses to infection. There is a critical need to define the functional immunological consequences of chronic nanoparticle exposure. Lack of this knowledge could potentially confound efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases in people whose immune system responses may have been affected by exposure to nanomaterials. The objective of the proposed studies is to define genetic and innate immune responses of zebrafish neutrophils to exposure to nano-TiO2 as well as functional consequences in host responses to disease causing pathogens. The hypothesis is that exposure to nano-TiO2 will 1) cause measurable changes in leukocyte transcriptome response and neutrophil function; and 2) increase morbidity and mortality in disease challenged zebrafish. The rationale for the proposed research is that insights into nano-TiO2 dependent changes in host immune response to pathogens will allow better assessment of risks associated with chronic exposures to metallic oxide nanoparticles. The public health relevance of the proposed research is reflected in the fact that nano products are rapidly accumulating in the environment and their potential for causing adverse health effects is growing proportionately, but the contribution of environmentally-relevant nanoparticle doses to modulation of infectious disease pathology remains unclear. The proposed research is significant because it is expected to increase our mechanistic understanding of the biological activity of nano-metallic oxides and assess their potential for chronic toxicity, and to allow us to evaluate the safety of metallic oxide nanoparticles. Integration of Dr Palic to EU scientific community network will be greatly enhanced with this opportunity to retain and expand collaborations with knowledge transfer from the U.S. to Germany.

Keywords: l808 environmental toxicology of metallic nanoparticles,l601 innate cellular immunity,pathogenesis of infectious diseases,l613 aquatic veterinary medicine,high throughput sequencing
Transcribed-Ultraconserved Regions as novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets in liver cancer (LIVERNCODE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common malignancy in the world. In Scotland incidence of liver cancer has increased of 60% in men from 2000 to 2010. The outcome of patients with advanced HCC remains poor. Thus, novel therapeutic approaches based on targeting oncogenic driver pathways in HCC are urgently needed, as well as informative prognostic markers that guide the use of existing and novel therapeutic strategies. Non-coding-RNAs (ncRNA) are implicated in liver carcinogenesis. Sequence conservation across species has been postulated to indicate that a given ncRNA may have a cellular function. A genome-wide survey identified 481 genomic sequences that showed 100% identity across the human, mouse and rat genomes. These ultra-conserved regions (UCR) are transcribed as ultraconserved ncRNAs (T-UCR). As they are so finely conserved we hypothesize they may have an essential role in regulating cell homeostasis and that may give rise to cancer when are aberrantly modified. In these studies we will profile the expression of T-UCR in human HCC tissues and in mouse HCC models that have genetic abnormalities similar to those found in human HCC to select the best candidate T-UCRs with a role in HCC pathogenesis and progression. In vitro analyses will be performed to characterize the transcript of T-UCR and assess the mechanism of action. We will evaluate the prognostic value of selected T-UCR by retrospectively and prospectively assessing their expression in a series of human HCC from patients who underwent radical resection or liver transplantation, in order to assess whether their expression may predict tumour recurrence. As we have in vitro data on the efficacy of anti-T-UCR, we propose to study if therapies based on the silencing of T-UCR may prevent tumour formation in animal model. These studies will provide evidence for the use of T-UCR as biomarkers and therapeutic targets in HCC.

Keywords: liver,hcc,ncrna,t-ucr,mirna,prognosis,therapeutics
Emulsion-templated structuring of liquid oil for future development of saturated fat-free food products (SAT-FAT-FREE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The dangers of consuming high amounts of saturated fats have been well-documented in the past couple of decades. Surprisingly, even after much negative publicity and consumer concerns, the replacement of saturated fats in manufactured food products has been very slow. Some promising alternative systems have been identified as the future of oil structuring without the presence of saturated fats. However, their potential for food applications are yet to be proven in actual product conditions. Emulsions are the most common colloidal systems that forms basis of many of the edible food products, hence, structuring approaches based on the use of emulsions as the templates can be considered ideal for food application provided we restrict ourselves to the use of food-grade materials. The proposed research is an ambitious project to enhance the fundamental understanding of the complex physico-chemical and colloidal aspects that accompany the process of oil structuring. The specific objectives of the proposed research is to focus on the use of food-grade materials such as proteins and polysaccharides to generate oil continuous and water continuous emulsions and further use these emulsions as templates to change liquid oil into soft, elastic gel-like systems.

Keywords: emulsion technology,edible soft matter,oil structuring,food technology,lipid science and technology,saturated fat free
Photopatterning of Cellulose Films for Creation of 2- and 3-Dimensional Nanostructures (PHOTOPATTTOCELL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

While photolithographic techniques are well established for patterning of semiconductors, they have not been employed for polysaccharide based materials to a large extent. The main idea of this project is to generate nano-patterned cellulose thin films using ideas and concepts from semiconductor industry to create 2 and 3 dimensionally structured cellulose surfaces. As starting material for the generation of cellulose surfaces, trimethylsilyl cellulose (TMSC) containing (2-photon sensitive) photoacid generators (PAG) is used which is deposited on different kinds of surfaces by spin coating. The use of mask aligners and UV-light or 2-photon absorption lithography converts exposed areas to cellulose (silyl groups are cleaved off by the generated acid) while in the unexposed areas TMSC remains. After the patterning step, TMSC can be selectively dissolved using an appropriate solvent or, alternatively, the converted cellulose can be digested using cellulases. Using the latter route remaining TMSC can be converted to cellulose in an additional step. As a result, 2 and 3 dimensionally nanostructured films can be obtained which have a large potential as material for semiconductor industry, in medicine (for growth of stem cells, antifouling materials) and in optical materials (refractive index changes). While the main focus of the project is to generate nano-structured cellulose films, this approach can be easily extended to other polysaccharides as well. The whole project aims at reducing organic solvents and to use mainly so-called eco-solvents.

Keywords: cellulose model films trimethylsilyl cellulose patterning photolithography