Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Domestication in Action - Tracing Archaeological Markers of Human-Animal Interaction (DOMESTICATION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Finland
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490915.0
EU funding (EUR): 1490915.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project will create new methodology for identification and interpretation of animal domestication, with a case study pertaining to reindeer domestication among the indigenous Sámi in northern Fennoscandia. Identification of early animal domestication is complicated due to the limited human control over the animals’ life cycles in early stages of domestication, leading to difficulties in interpreting morphological and genetic data, as well as in using traditional concepts and definitions of domestication. These problems are especially pressing in the study of reindeer domestication, characterized by very limited human control over animals. However, understanding reindeer domestication is important to local communities as well as to the scientific community due to central role of human-reindeer relation as a carrier of culture and identity among many peoples, including Sámi of northern Fennoscandia. As a novel approach, we propose a focus on interactional events between humans and animals as indications of domestication taking place. We will create methods aimed at identifying interactional events such as draught use and feeding, between reindeer and humans. The methodological package includes physical activity reconstruction through entheseal changes, pathological lesions and bone cross-sections, and analysis of stable isotopes as indicator of animal diet. These methods will then be applied for archaeological reindeer bone finds and the results will be checked against aDNA data to examine changing human-animal relationships among the Sámi. The project has a potential to break new ground in understanding animal domestication as human-animal interaction, a viewpoint pivotal in today’s human-animal studies. Moreover, the project has potential of methodological breakthroughs and creation of transferable methodology. The results will be relevant to local communities and researchers dealing with domestication, human-animal studies and colonial histories.

Keywords: animal domestication
The Socialization of Private Sector Elites in Kenya (SOPRISEKEN)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-09
End date: 2019-05-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SOPRISEKEN focuses on the sociability of professional and managerial elites in modern Kenya. Studying socialization, and in particular the membership organizations in which it takes place, is a particularly fruitful way to understand how these elites have experienced the social and economic changes triggered in Africa by the “structural adjustment” policies of the 1980s; how they have come to understand themselves as a distinct social group - the “private sector” - sharing comparable social aspirations, lifestyle and economic ethos; and how the articulation of their interests has led to the development of similar civic and political attitudes.

Keywords: african studies,elites,socialization,kenya
Understanding how biotic interactions influence the distribution of epiphytic orchids in tropical forests: An integrated network approach. (EpiNet)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-02
End date: 2021-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166320.0
EU funding (EUR): 166320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding the factors that limit species distribution is a longstanding question in ecology. In land plants, species distribution is simultaneously limited by multiple factors, including climate, dispersal ability, competition, and species' physiological tolerance. The ecological requirements of obligate inter-specific interactions impose additional, often over-looked, limitations. How complex interactions influence plant species distribution has received little attention despite its relevance for species conservation in the face of global change. EpiNet will address this gap by investigating how two obligate partners, interacting with abiotic factors, influence plant distribution in mega-diverse tropical assemblages. Tropical epiphytic orchids provide an exceptional study model because they depend on two partners to germinate and grow: a host tree and mycorrhizal fungi. To this end, I propose to study tripartite interaction networks of tropical epiphytic orchids with their partners under different ecological conditions. I will examine the effect of host trees and mycorrhizal fungal diversity on orchid species distribution across geographical and local gradients, analyzing how abiotic factors such as temperature, humidity and light availability affect these interactions. I will establish germination experiments to assess whether orchids replace mycorrhizal partners over ontogeny or retain them for a lifetime. Mycorrhizal replacement is an understudied variable that may influence seedling establishment success. The methodology combines extensive data collection in natural communities (from dry to cloud tropical forests in the Colombian Andes), cutting-edge techniques in molecular biology (mycorrhizal DNA meta-barcoding), and advanced statistical analyses (tripartite networks). This innovative and integrated approach will provide an unprecedented, comprehensive understanding of the ecological factors influencing the distribution of tropical epiphytic orchids.

Keywords: vascular plant ecology,molecular ecology,tropical biodiversity,species distribution,epiphytes,orchids,mycorrhiza,host trees,germination,network analysis
DemoWind ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (DemoWind)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: DemoWind (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Netherlands,Denmark,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions (H2020-LCE-2014-3, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 23585334.0
EU funding (EUR): 7783160.22
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

DemoWind proposes to launch and implement a coordinated, collaborative, joint offshore wind technology demonstration Call worth in excess of €100m between 2015-19 under Horizon 2020 topic LCE 18 – 2014: Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions. Partners: Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, aim to pool their national resources of up to M€21.2, matched with M€10.4 of funding from the EC. DemoWind is focussed on enabling industry, through partnership, to push technologies through TRLs 5-6 to 6-7 in transnationally funded projects. We aim to connect existing and new European offshore wind demonstration opportunities, exchange knowledge and facilitate the acceleration of cost reducing innovative technologies to commercialisation. This action will contribute to European cost reduction targets for offshore wind, economic development of the European offshore wind sector and help to maintain the EU’s internationally leading position in offshore wind. Reducing the technology cost is essential to increase the deployment of offshore wind making a significant contribution to the EU’s climate change targets, replacing aging fossil burning power plant with affordable wind energy. DemoWind has 5 work packages which will be overseen by a Management Group, and coordinated by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. A Project Secretariat will support implementation and an Advisory Board will ensure that actions remain relevant to the needs of the offshore wind industry. Other work packages include: • Preparation and launch of the transnational Call for proposals; • Proposal assessment and selection; • Monitoring of projects and evaluation of the overall programme and individual projects; • Communication, dissemination and exploitation to ensure that funded transnational projects deliver impact.

Keywords: offshore wind,cost reduction,sustainable,decarbonation,technology acceleration,coordination,collaborative
Computer-Aided Design Of Revolutionary Superalloys (CADORS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 97727.4
EU funding (EUR): 97727.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Metallic alloys are used in many industrial applications, needing the constant development of new materials with tailored properties. However, the relations between composition, processing and properties are so complex that alloy development cannot be made anymore by a traditional trial-and-test procedure, and there is a growing need for models able to predict the behaviour of alloys as a function of composition, and for computer-aided optimisation tools for alloy design. The aim of the project is to develop new predictive models, and to include them in computing tools for the design of new nickel-base superalloys for aeronautical, energy and chemical engineering applications, through an automatic optimisation of composition by multi-objective genetic algorithms. Alloy design tools already exist and rely on a number of predictive models; we intend to extend the range of predictive tools by developing, in the case of multi-phase Ni alloys, on the one hand a model for dynamic recrystallisation (DRX) and on the other hand a model for the resistance to hydrogen embrittlement (RHE). First, computational thermodynamics will allow calculating the compositional dependence of microstructure, through the prediction of the nature and fractions of secondary phases, as well as of the driving force for nucleation, which will be used to evaluate the precipitate size and density. Then, the new models will describe the roles of precipitates on DRX (by acting as nucleation sites for the formation of new grains, or at the opposite by acting as pinning centres for grain boundaries, limiting their mobility and hence retarding or inhibiting DRX), and on RHE (by influencing, among others, the distribution of hydrogen between the matrix, the precipitates, the grain boundaries and the precipitate-matrix interfaces). Once developed and assessed, these models will be integrated as new criteria in an automatic optimisation tool for superalloy design, using multi-objective genetic algorithms.

Keywords: metallurgy,superalloys,dynamic recrystallisation,hydrogen embrittlement,modelling,alloy design,optimisation
Women Translators in Italian Publishing (WTIP)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project re-evaluates women’s participation in 1930s-1980s Italian intellectual discourse, through a special focus on the intersection of translation and publishing. More specifically, it will examine the professional activity of four key women, namely: the professional translators Maria Luisa (Nini) Castellani Agosti (1913-2005) and Adriana Motti (1924-2009); and two writers who devoted significant time to translations of foreign literature, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991), in her capacity as editor of the Einaudi Press, and Lalla Romano (1906-2001), as passionate reader of French and English literature. Starting from the assumption of a greater invisibility of women in translation and editorial tasks, the project aims at rediscovering these historical figures, by reinstating their place within the literary domain and the publishing panorama of Turin and Milan. Drawing on a interdisciplinary set of methodological tools and approaches, from historical analysis, sociology of literature, translation studies and archival research, the project will identify women’s covert roles and will quantify their impact in terms of number of translated projects undertaken, the width nature and scale of networks they were able to establish and the range of suggestions received and given to support the production of books. The study will consider published and unpublished items, translated outputs and the surrounding related writings, bringing a new focus on private correspondence as a vehicle for women to express their voices and advance views in a mainly male-dominated system. At the University of Milan, I will have the opportunity to achieve these objectives through a suite of well-designed training courses, which will support archival research and will enable me to apply advanced digital tools to the historical investigation.

Keywords: translation,women,publishing,book culture,archives,italian contemporary literature
Unravelling maintenance mechanisms of immune tolerance after termination of venom immunotherapy by means of clonal mast cell diseases (MITafterVIT)

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-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191852.16
EU funding (EUR): 191852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Anaphylaxis is the most severe form of a systemic hypersensitivity reaction, which can be fatal within minutes after exposure to a trigger such as wasp venom. VIT has been the only treatment available to prevent subsequent anaphylactic wasp-sting reactions even years after treatment termination. The goal of this project is to understand molecular mechanisms of maintained immune tolerance (MIT) after completing venom immunotherapy (VIT). We aim to find biomarkers for MIT that could be specifically triggered to increase efficiency of VIT. In contrast to wasp venom anaphylactic patients of the general population, wasp venom anaphylactic patients with a clonal mast cell disease (CMD) do not maintain immune tolerance after VIT termination. These patients carry a clonal D816V point mutation in the tyrosine kinase receptor KIT. We hypothesize that the MIT in wasp venom anaphylactic CMD patients is dysregulated due to the carriage of KIT D816V mutation in immune cells. We will, therefore, compare blood plasma proteins and blood cells of venom-induced anaphylaxis patients with a CMD to patients without a CMD. This project addresses our hypothesis with three specific objectives: Firstly, we will identify plasma proteins (in work package 1; WP1) and, secondly, blood cell types (WP2) that are crucial for MIT. Thirdly, we will study the role of the identified candidates from WP1 and WP2 in maintaining immune tolerance (WP3) and investigate whether or not the detected dysregulations are due to KIT D816V (WP3). We estimate that our results will, therefore, be directly relevant for 0.3% of the European population who experience anaphylaxis and bares potential to be also beneficial for patients suffering from other allergic diseases, which account for a significant part of the population worldwide.

Keywords: anaphylaxis,venom immunotherapy,clonal mast cell disease
APPS for geotechnical field work (GEOAPPS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The construction market (including civil engineering, environment, energy and mining activities), is a very important market at international level, mainly in the emerging countries. In most of the construction activities, important geotechnical problems must be solved, like slope stability, laying foundation, etc. For solving them, it is necessary to perform a big number of in situ measures and tests, call field work. For example, in the construction of a bridge, SPT test will be needed each 2-5 m for designing the foundations. This work field requires taking measures in situ and then processes them, at the office, for then elaborating the reports to the client. This process is manual, and therefore is high time and cost consuming. Nevertheless, the apps technology and the new smartphones functionalities present a new opportunity to automatize the process: taking the measures with the smart phone, processing them in the smart phone and elaborating the corresponding reports in the smart phone for being sent to the client by e-mail, cloud uploading, server connection, etc. TERRASOLUM, as international geotechnical engineering, with expertise in apps development, detected this business opportunity with high market impact possibilities, and decided to develop a family of 30 apps for field and laboratory tests and checking and designing calculations in the field works (on-the-fly). Thanks to this apps, the end users (geologists, geotechnical engineers, builder engineers, architects, civil construction technicians) will reduce the time for taking measures from 1-2 days to 1 hours and the cost from 720€ to 75€, obtaining a very relevant improvement in their productivity. GEOAPPS will be a strategic project for TERRASOLUM. This project will allow to increase its staff in 6 persons and invoice more than 9,000,000 euros in three years.

Keywords: apps,field work,geotechnical,geoenvironmental,laboratory tests,productivity,construction
European Social Survey Sustainability (ESS-SUSTAIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Slovenia,Norway,United Kingdom
Call: Individual implementation and operation of ESFRI projects (H2020-INFRADEV-1-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2367888.0
EU funding (EUR): 2367888.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The societal challenges affecting European societies require responsive socio-economic policy solutions. The European Social Survey is an unparalleled resource enabling stability and change in Europeans’ social attitudes to be charted. Its value for science and public policy has been recognised. However, despite such recognition and the clear success and impact of the European Social Survey research infrastructure, culminating in the award of ERIC status in 2013, there remain significant challenges to ensuring its long-term sustainability. ESS-SUSTAIN represents a comprehensive response to the different challenges and it will be instrumental in securing the sustainable future of ESS ERIC. A key challenge is ensuring the appropriate number of European countries are included, representing the different areas of geographic Europe. This is a critical requirement for meaningful analyses beyond the national level, as well as for the financial viability of the infrastructure. The most important activities in this proposal are therefore those which aim (i) to enhance the long-term commitment of existing Members and Observers of ESS ERIC, (2) effect the transfer of the current guest status of some countries to more stable memberships and (3) expand the coverage of the ESS to countries not yet affiliated. Based upon the current number of just over twenty countries participating in the ESS ERIC, a further increase of its membership will translate into lower costs of participation for all, whilst also strengthening the analytical power of its datasets.

Keywords: sustainability,european coverage,grand societal challenges,social surveys