Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Geography and economy of the imperial properties in the Roman World (from Augustus to Diocletian). (PATRIMONIVM)

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: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 88.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493478.75
EU funding (EUR): 1493478.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

PATRIMONIVM aims at conducting the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary socio-economic study of the properties of the Roman emperors from Octavian/Augustus to Diocletian (44 BC – AD 284) using a complete documentary base for the entire Roman world. Imperial properties were extended throughout the empire and included residences, cultivated land, pastureland, woods, mines, quarries, luxury items and slaves. This immense richness was a key element for the maintenance of the position of supreme power, since the emperor could use it to carry out all sort of public expenditure and to confer benefactions to individuals and communities. Moreover, large imperial possessions (vast landed estates, quarries) had relevant local economic repercussions. Since their owner was both the head of the empire and a global economic player, we can trace a tendency to trans-regional uniformity in the patterns of exploitation and a positive effect on the economic and, in a certain way, cultural integration of peripheral areas. No major survey of the available documentation has been produced since the beginning of the 20th century and many questions about the acquisition and use of the properties remain unanswered. The project aims at filling this gap creating a powerful online relational database of all published sources; every record will contain geodata and will be related to separate databases of all known persons (administrators, peasants etc.), regions and bibliographic references. A multidisciplinary and comparative study, developed through the project’s rich scientific activity, will allow to understand the role of the properties as a structuring factor of Roman economy and as a vector of human mobility and socio-cultural transformation. Innovative hypotheses on imperial investments, the role of the emperor’s freedmen and other aspects will be tested. A series of five books, among which an authoritative history of the imperial properties, will disseminate the project’s results.
Understanding Planet Mars With Advanced Remote-sensing Datasets and Synergistic Studies (UPWARDS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Belgium,France,United Kingdom
Call: Science in context: sample curation facility and scientific exploitation of data from Mars missions (H2020-COMPET-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2103593.75
EU funding (EUR): 2103593.75
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The goals of the UPWARDS project match the topics, challenges and scope of the Compet-8-2014 call. UPWARDS has as its overarching objective the revision and exploitation of data from the European Mars Express (MEx) mission as well as other Martian missions using a synergistic combination of state-of-the-art atmospheric/subsurface models and novel retrieval tools. UPWARDS will 1) address major open science questions which require an integrated understanding of the Mars coupled system from the subsurface to the upper atmosphere; 2) prepare for ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter data analysis and exploitation; and 3) deliver enhanced scientific context and datasets for ExoMars 2018 Rover operations and future missions. The UPWARDS Consortium undertake five grand science themes which challenge our current understanding of the complex couplings of the Mars’ climate: 1) exchange of trace species between subsurface & atmosphere; 2) global cycle of Martian water; 3) surface properties and behaviour of suspended aerosols and dust storms; 4) drastic changes at the day/night terminator; 5) coupling of the lower and upper atmosphere and escape to space. All topics are addressed by experts in the field, exchanging results and knowledge in a truly synergistic and interdisciplinary collaboration. All topics share a common methodology and work flow: 1) compilation of new or unexploited data from MEx; 2) generation of added-value products with new/validated tools developed in the Consortium; 3) analysis and combination of the results with state-of-the-art models. Included is a novel data-assimilation devoted to supply as an end-product, the first of its-kind 4-D (x,y,z,t) database for ExoMars and beyond. The dissemination of UPWARDS high-level data products and the outreach activities by the scientists who produce them, will pave the way for establishing a long-term competency in Martian research at a global recognized level, and breed a new generation of European scientists.

Keywords: mars interior,surface,atmosphere and escape,retrieval tools,data analysis with state of the art physical models,exomars 2016,2018 and beyond,enhanced products from previous missions
Perinatal Life Support System: Integration of Enabling Technologies for Clinical Translation (PLS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Netherlands
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2876131.25
EU funding (EUR): 2876131.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Every year, 800.000 babies are born extremely preterm (EP; <28 weeks of age) worldwide. A large proportion of survivors from this group of smallest infants face lifelong disabilities, including breathing, cardiac, neurological and metabolic problems. Current treatment requires the preterm initiation of body functions for which the respective organs are not prepared. This affects primarily the lungs which need to provide gas-exchange under air (i.e. oxygen-based mechanical ventilation), and the gut, which is needed for energy and nutrition. This approach causes major therapy-related morbidity such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, necrotizing enterocolitis and germinal matrix bleeding. The Perinatal Life Support (PLS) consortium envisions a medical device that can support the safe development of EP infants outside the womb by preserving the innate fetal cardiorespiratory physiology ex vivo, with the following enabling technologies: 1. A liquid-based environment with oxygen and nutrient exchange using an ´artificial placenta´; 2. Continuous and non-invasive monitoring of fetal parameters such as heart rate and oxygenation; 3. Computational models for fast and objective clinical decision support based on physiological data input; 4. A fetal manikin that can accurately simulate EP infants in an intensive care setting. The PLS project will be carried out by an interdisciplinary group of academia and industry with experience in modelling, monitoring, engineering, obstetrics and neonatology. The technology underlying PLS is applicable to conditions where ex vivo life support is required e.g. organ perfusion, regeneration and transplantation. The integrated system will allow major progress towards translation for an urgent medical need, where new solutions are lacking as preclinical models are inadequate and clinical trials not feasible. Innovative simulation technology will enable technical validation of PLS, with demonstration of functionality in a final Proof-of-Principle.

Keywords: life support,premature baby,fetus,neonatology,intensive care,organs,simulation,mathematical models,vitals monitoring,manikin,artificial placenta,liquid ventilation,clinical translation
Intelligent sunlight system for energy efficient indoor lighting (SUNIGENT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will develop, demonstrate and bring to market an innovative intelligent sunlight system for energy efficient indoor lighting. The project will bring together architects, construction companies, light designers and other daylight-, lighting-, energy- and sustainability stakeholders to fully utilize the potential in flexible daylight. The first phase will investigate the feasibility of the innovation project and plan for phase 2 and 3. Phase 2 comprises demo activities with potential users. The project will bring the innovation from TRL 6 to TRL 9. Phase 3 include market launch on European and global markets.

Keywords: energy efficiency,fibre optics,netrolight,sunlight,daylight,indoor lighting
DESIGN STUDY FOR A EUROPEAN VACCINE INFRASTRUCTURE (TRANSVAC-DS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Design Studies (H2020-INFRADEV-2019-3, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1879216.25
EU funding (EUR): 1879216.25
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

The TRANSVAC-DS project further builds on the outstanding success of EC-funded projects:TRANSVAC1 and TRANSVAC2 and proposes the establishment of a truly sustainable European vaccine infrastructure, which will build upon the lessons learned, activities and achievements of the TRANSVAC1/2 projects. Two infrastructure projects -TRANSVAC1 and TRANSVAC2- have been funded by the European Commission which -through the provision of state-of-the-art scientific-technical vaccine development services, technical training, and innovative vaccine research and development- have provided very significant support to European vaccine researchers and developers. Support has been, and is being provided to the development of human and veterinary prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. The twenty-five partners in the TRANSVAC-DS consortium that will contribute to the outcome of the project represent ten EU Member States and Associated Countries and include leading organisations from the European vaccine R&D field. The main output of TRANSVAC-DS will be a conceptual design report that will describe in detail the maturity of the concept and be the basis for the establishment of a permanent and sustainable vaccine infrastructure of direct relevance to and benefit for Europe and further afield. As part of the design report, a five-year business plan will be delivered together with an implementation plan that will guide the further establishment of a sustainable European vaccine infrastructure.

Keywords: vaccines,randd,infrastructure,europe
PFMaker, the Advanced Interactive Video Tool (PFMaker)

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: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

People are accessing, consuming and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. Up to this point, companies are spending 171 billion dollar in digital advertising per year. However, online advertising is intrusive, boring and even bothering. Almost a 92% of people give up Pre-Roll ads with the option Skip-Ad, when this option is not shown, 15% of people close the entire video to avoid the ad. In-Video Ads doesn’t work better, 15% of viewers close the image shown at bottom, barely a 3% click on that kind of ad. In order to overcome these problems we have tested in a relevant environment a new interactive video format that increases user engagement. In spite of this, producing interactive video contents is still expensive and barely unprofitable, thus increasing the total production costs up to a 50%. The purpose of this innovation project is to develop a new tool and interactivity market ecosystem to create fully advanced interactive experiences in a cost effective and profitable way. This tool will be named PFMaker and will reduce the time of production of an interactive video by a 67% and its development costs by up to 81%. This tool will allow the quick creation of interactive videos with advanced user interactions such as 3D Graphics and Augmented Reality. At this stage we have conducted a pilot project to verify the interest in a relevant environment, but a deeper feasibility study is needed in order to minimize the investment risks. Our feasibility study will consist of an international market and user research and an IPR analysis. PlayFilm is a young tech startup, with greatly experienced executive team, that has already received the interest of big companies and support of the accelerators programs. PlayFilm aims to shake the entertainment industry through a new advertising format which not only does not interrupt the user experience, but also adds value

Keywords: interactive video,interactive advertising,funny advertising
Boosting scientific excellence and innovation capacity in biorefineries based on marine resources (BLUEandGREEN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Norway,Finland,Portugal
Call: Twinning (H2020-TWINN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 996687.5
EU funding (EUR): 996687.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The exploitation of the ocean unraveled a huge diversity of organisms producing innovative compounds used as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals and antifoulings. The aim of BLUEandGREEN is to strength the performance of CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, from the low performing Member State Portugal, in the emergent area of marine biotechnology. This will be done by the establishment of a scientific strategy for stepping up and stimulating scientific excellence and innovation capacity in partnership with four internationally-leading counterparts at the EU level: the University of Helsinki, Finland, the University of Bergen, Norway, GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, and Fundación MEDINA, Spain. BLUEandGREEN scientific strategy includes: to review the latest research and innovation advances in the sector, identify and address institutional network gaps and deficiencies; to raise staff´s research profile and excellence by training and mentoring; to increase stakeholder interaction and mobilization to research and innovation partnerships; to guide research to contribute to economic growth; to deliver a framework for strengthening a long-term research and innovation environment in marine biotechnology. The network enhancement will enforce cluster dynamics in close interaction with industrial partners to contribute to regional, national and EU Blue Growth strategies, especially to marine biotechnology industry. The implementation of brokerage with stakeholders and market-oriented projects will dismantle trade barriers, increase the ways of communication among partners and promote knowledge enhancements and its conversion in business. Being Portugal, especially North Portugal, a peripheral region, this will contribute to the change its economic landscape, giving new opportunities for development and job creation and reinforcing the role of marine biotechnology in the economic development of Europe.

Keywords: scientific excellence,innovation mentoring,stakeholder brokerage,market oriented research,blue growth strategy
Educational Robotics for STEM (ER4STEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Make scientific and technological careers attractive to young students, and forster sustainable interaction between schools, research institutions, industry and civil society organisations
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Malta,Greece,Bulgaria,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative ways to make science education and scientific careers attractive to young people (H2020-SEAC-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1630612.5
EU funding (EUR): 1630611.75
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Many children lose their natural curiosity for how things function and interrelate to each other along the way into their lives as young adults. The Educational Robotics for STEM (ER4STEM) project aims to turn curious young children into young adults passionate about science and technology with a hands-on use case: robotics. The domain of robotics represents a multidisciplinary and highly innovative field encompassing physics, maths, informatics and even industrial design as well as social sciences. Moreover, due to various application domains, teamwork, creativity and entrepreneurial skills are required for the design, programming and innovative exploitation of robots and robotic services. Children are fascinated by such autonomous machines. This fascination and the variety of fields and topics covered make robotics a powerful idea to engage with. Young girls as well as boys can easily connect robots to their personal interests and share their ideas through these tangible artefacts. ER4STEM will refine, unify and enhance current European approaches to STEM education through robotics in one open operational and conceptual framework. The concept is founded on three important pillars of constructionism: 1. engaging with powerful ideas, 2. building on personal interests, and 3. learning through making (or presenting ideas with tangible artefacts). The ER4STEM framework will coherently offer students aged 7 to 18 as well as their educators different perspectives and approaches to find their interests and strengths in robotics to pursue STEM careers through robotics and semi-autonomous smart devices. At the same time students will learn about technology (e.g. circuits), about a domain (e.g. math) and acquire skills (e.g. collaborating, coding). Innovative approaches will be developed to achieve an integrated and consistent concept that picks children up at different ages, beginning in primary school and accompany them until graduation from secondary school.

Keywords: creative stem,educational robotics,pedagicial innovations,student workshops and conferences
Effects of group dynamics on selection, development and demography in cooperative vertebrates (Group-Dynamics-TCB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: South Africa,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499244.0
EU funding (EUR): 1665444.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In social animals, the characteristics and dynamics of groups affect the development of individuals, the selection pressures operating on them and the demography of populations. Using existing study populations of two social mammals (Kalahari meerkats and Damaraland mole-rats) that offer unique and complementary opportunities for research, we shall (1) explore the effects of variation in group size on growth, behaviour, hormonal status and gene regulation in both species and test suggestions that (i) increasing group size generates divergence in development among group members and the formation of incipient castes and (ii) that breeding extends female longevity rather than reducing it; (2) assess the extent and causes of variation in group longevity and in the frequency with which groups generate new breeding units, model the relative impact of selection operating at different levels on the evolution of cooperation, and investigate whether there is any indication that the behaviour of individuals is adapted to increasing group persistence or proliferation; (3) examine the effects of group size and group dynamics on the dynamics of populations and their responses to variation in rainfall, temperature and epidemic disease (TB), generalise these models to explore the population dynamics of cooperative breeders and explore their consequences for the evolution of cooperative breeding. Our work involves novel approaches to the measurement and analysis of development, communication and gene regulation in wild animals, and to modelling multi-level selection and the dynamics of hierarchically structured populations. It will provide insight into the social mechanisms affecting individual development, multi-level selection and the population dynamics and management of group-living animals.
How insulin resistance in the dorsal vagal complex affects glucose metabolism and feeding behaviour (CNS-Insuin-Res)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The central nervous system (CNS) integrates peripheral hormonal signals to regulate glucose homeostasis and feeding behavior. Obesity can cause the development of insulin resistance in the brain and completely disrupt the regulative functions of the CNS. Restoring the brain’s ability to modulate metabolic functions could be very important to prevent the negative outcomes of obesity and diabetes. The Dorsal Vagal Complex (DVC) in the brainstem senses insulin to regulate glucose metabolism and feeding behavior in rodents. Three days of high fat diet feeding (HFD) is sufficient to completely disrupt the insulin response, thus causing an increase in blood glucose levels and overnutrition. I propose to understand the molecular events that trigger the development of insulin resistance in the DVC and understand the neuronal networks involved in the regulation glucose metabolism and feeding behavior in the DVC. I will use a combination of in vitro molecular approaches and in vivo physiological readouts to shed light on the physiological functions of this area of the brain. Identification of novel target molecules that are involved in the development of insulin resistance may also provide the basis for the development of new pharmacological approaches to counteract the development of obesity and diabetes.