Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Silicon Carbide Nanowires for Electronic and biosensing applications (SiCWIRE)

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: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 138807.0
EU funding (EUR): 138807.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SiC nanowires (NWs) combine the properties of 1D materials with that of SiC and devices based on SiC NWs would present concrete advantages. The main objective of the project is to develop the technology of SiC nanowire field effect transistors (NWFETs) and demonstrate devices suitable for two areas of application: 1) More Moore: Logic applications. SiC NWFETs have the potential of high temperature operation and eventually of efficient power dissipation and thus they can address main issues in semiconductor device scaling. 2) More than Moore: Biosensor applications. SiC exhibits superior to Si chemical stability and biocompatibility and SiC NWFET-based biosensors can thus, exhibit challenging performances. Top-down technology approach (lithography and plasma etching) will employed to obtain, suitable material quality (residual doping lower than 1E17 cm-3, same carrier mobility as bulk material and if possible, in-situ doping for channel and contact regions). The targeted performance of the SiC NWFETs is 200ºC operation, an Ion/Ioff ratio above 1E6, a subthreshold swing less than 200mV/decade and an electron channel mobility above 200 cm2V-1s-1. These electrical characteristics address the needs of logic applications while for biosensor applications are largely enough and can be relaxed. The biosensing operation of SiC NWFETs will be shown by detecting different substances (DNA, heavy ions, phenyl groups…). Towards this aim, a large part of the work will be devoted to the study of the relevant functionalization ways for SiC NW surfaces and stability of these surfaces to various aqueous solutions. The main research work will be conducted in INPG while industrialization issues will be investigated in partner organization (CEA-LETI). The fellowship will enhance the professional maturity of Dr. Zekentes with a consequent effect in his career by reaching a higher researcher-grade (“Research Director”, the highest one for Greek researcher) and higher academic positions.

Keywords: nanowires,nanowire field effect transistor,surface functionnalization
towards geoHazards rEsilient infRastruCtUre under changing cLimatES (HERCULES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Australia,Germany,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,China,New Zealand,Bolivia, Plurinational State of,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom,Kazakhstan,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2371500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2016000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

HERCULES brings together a multidisciplinary team crossing boundaries within technology, systems thinking and society to develop a step change in the understanding and monitoring capabilities of geohazards and in turn produce ground breaking new methods to boost the resilience of current infrastructure under changing climates. The programme will undertake fundamental research to ascertain the pathways and grow our capacity to assess and predict risks due to geohazards. The proposed study will employ a range of novel research approaches across multiple scales, from the macro-scale through to the micro scale including the integration of Earth Observation techniques, laboratory investigation and by investigating the ground behaviour at the scale of soil particles experimentally using tomography and numerical techniques such as the Discrete Element Method. Our approach is unique in that the design and implementation of the technology is informed not only through the combination of laboratory and field studies, data interpretation and numerical simulations, but also coproduced through consultation with the local community. We will use crowdsourced geographic information with real-time environmental data and models to provide a decision-making framework to be adapted to local needs for the monitoring and early-warning of geozahards to improve urban resilience. The goals of the project are to: i) exchange knowledge in a multidisciplinary environment between academia and industry; ii) develop new insights, approaches and technologies that support the needs of end-users to make both the built environment and infrastructure more resilient to the increasing threat of natural hazards due to the effect of a more variable climate; iii) train Early Stage Researches (ESRs) during their secondments between Institutions who will form the next generation of researchers leading academic and industrial technological developments in this field.

Keywords: landslides,floods,engineering modeling
Material Model of Case-Hardened Steels for Turbo Gear Applications (MatCH4Turbo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: VHCF material model for case hardened gear steels for application in an epicyclic power gearbox (H2020-CS2-CFP08-2018-01, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2365530.0
EU funding (EUR): 2365530.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of this joint effort between WZL of RWTH Aachen and Leibniz-IWT Bremen is to allow the extension of a fail-safe calculation of material life for future case-hardening steels considering the VHCF regime, which is indispensable for the new generation of epicyclic gear applications. To achieve this top-level objective, several sub-objectives have to be completed such as: a) Develop fast rotating recirculating sub-element test rig for determining tooth root bending strength under reverse bending conditions; b) Gain material data for two new case hardening steel developments in the VHCF-regime; c) Develop and validate a VHCF material model. With respect to the call, the consortium is able to fulfil the requirements of experience in test rig development, manufacture and instrumentation as well as a quality controlled management of facilities and processes for a recirculating rig testing (WZL). The gear test processing includes all aspects of test gear design, instrumentation measurements, measurement uncertainties and limitations. Especially due to the fact, that WZL has a gear testing environment that is already officially approved by aircraft engine producers a high potential for a successful dissemination of the project results into industry is expected. The methods utilise FE-based strength analysis in weakest link models and analysis to ISO 6336 standard (WZL). The consortium is capable to characterise the material and failure mechanisms by residual stress measurement by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, and metallography at highest standard as well as to describe material failure phenomena in the VHCF regime through theoretical models (Leibniz-IWT). Based on the combined experiences the collaboration of WZL and Leibniz-IWT allows for a successful derivation of VHCF material model for case hardened gear steels for application in an epicyclic power gearbox.

Keywords: very high cycle fatigue,vhcf,lifetime,fe based model,murakami,gears,epicyclic gearbox,planetary gearbox,advanced recirculating gear test rig,aircraft engine,ultra high bypass ratio,uhbr
Embedding Sparse Combinatorial Structures using Sublinear Expanders (ESCSSE)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159460.8
EU funding (EUR): 159460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Expanders are highly connected sparse graphs with certain expansion properties. The theory of expanders has enjoyed surprising growth in the past several decades, partial due to its close interplay with other areas of mathematics and theoretical computer science, including analysis, number theory, probability, complexity theory and design of robust networks. This proposed research is highly intra-disciplinary, concerning a variant called sublinear expanders. This notion is essential in the recent resolutions of several long-standing conjectures. The goal of this proposal is to develop general framework using sublinear expanders for embedding problems concerning sparse combinatorial structures that arise naturally in extremal graph theory, geometry and topology. The supervisor Professor Szabó is a world renowned expert in combinatorics, working on problems at the interface of algebra, graph theory, probability, and topology. His expertise on expander graphs and cycle embeddings will play a key role in the proposed project. He is also experienced in advising junior researchers, having advised 4 post-doctoral researchers and 13 PhD students. Dr. Liu obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2015. He then moved to the University of Warwick as a post-doctoral researcher. In September 2016, he was awarded by the Leverhulme Trust an Early Career Fellowship, a prestigious award for young researchers in the UK. He has published 21 papers, most of which appeared in journals of international repute. His work has established novel connections between extremal combinatorics and additive number theory. This proposed project will help Liu further improve his skills on teaching, research and supervising to pursue an academic career.

Keywords: sublinear expanders,topological minors,cycles,routers
The formal demography of kinship and family (FORMKIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1232861.0
EU funding (EUR): 1232861.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Every individual is connected to a network of kin --- her/his family in the broad sense of that term --- that develops and changes as the individual ages. Family network affect demographic, economic, and health-related aspects of life and society. Despite its undeniable importance, remarkably little formal theory exists to show how kin dynamics are determined by mortality, fertility, and other variables. This project will develop a comprehensive mathematical model for kinship. It will be applicable to any kind of kin, in any population, based on any kind of age-classified or multistate structure. At the individual level, it will provide deterministic and stochastic properties of kin and kin characterstics, account for both dead and living kin, apply to age-, stage-, or multistate models, incorporate time variation, and include a general sensitivity analysis. At the cohort level, it will yield the means and variances of the lifetime experience of kin of any specified type. At the population level, the models will provide the distributions of kin characteristics, and the sources of their variance, as a function of population growth, and provide a link to population projections. The mathematical methods will be based on a novel development of coupled systems of subsidized matrix population models and their stochastic counterparts, on variance partitioning within and between ages, and on stochastic models with rewards. The use of matrix methods will provide results vastly exceeding any approximate or simulation procedures now in use, and be readily implemented in matrix-oriented stastical software. As a proof of concept and to search for patterns, exploratory analyses will be conducted using national and international life table and fertility data, model life tables, and detailed individual register data. A sequence of research workshops are planned to help communicate the results and develop new ideas and applications.

Keywords: formal demography,population models,mortality,fertility,multistate models
Bright and biologically powered chemiluminescent labels for cell and tissue imaging (BioPoweredCL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Italy,France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1449750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1449750.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Imaging is one of the most powerful technique to visualize molecules, tissues, to understand and follow processes and it is the most used diagnostic tool in vitro and in vivo, Current biomedical imaging techniques can have high sensitivity, good spatial/temporal resolution and, in some cases, high tissue penetration but cannot combine all of these desired properties without using harmful radiations (or toxic labels) or very expensive equipment. Optical imaging techniques represent the best compromise among them; however, their ability to scale to human body is precluded. The main restriction of fluorescence imaging is that it requires light excitation which is limited by tissue absorption and scattering. Such limitations are not present in chemiluminescence imaging since light production occurs through a chemical reaction, resulting in higher penetration depth and best sensitivity. However both natural and artificial chemiluminescent systems require a continuous flow of exogenous reactants since all substrates are irreversibly consumed. BioPoweredCL aims to develop an unprecedented strategy to enable molecular imaging by realizing near infrared luminophores that harvest energy from the cellular respiration chain, in order to emit light without being consumed themselves. BioPoweredCL takes advantage of the most recent progress in artificial light production to develop a novel imaging technique where the absence of an excitation source overcomes the current limitations of fluorescence imaging while the regeneration of the luminophore overcomes the limitations of bioluminescence imaging. If successful it could replace current techniques based on harmful ionizing radiations such as X-rays or γ-rays. To reach such a grand-challenge the work plan is articulated into three different phases: 1) synthesis of new luminophores; 2) electrochemical characterization and energy cell harvesting; 3) in vitro experiments where the full potential of the approach will be validated.

Keywords: chemiluminescence,bioluminescence,electrochemiluminescence,luminescence,thermally activated delayed fluorescence,bioimaging,self assembly,luminescent compounds,sensing
CONCERTED ACTION SUPPORTING THE TRANSPOSITION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DIRECTIVE 2018/2001/EC ON THE PROMOTION OF THE USE OF ENERGY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES (RECAST) (CA-RES4)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Iceland,Germany,Spain,Estonia,Ireland,Austria,Cyprus,Malta,Poland,Norway,Belgium,Bulgaria,Finland,Croatia,Hungary,Lithuania,Romania,Slovakia,Slovenia,Sweden,Greece,Latvia,France,Netherlands,Denmark,Luxembourg,Portugal
Call: Concerted Action supporting the transposition and implementation of the recast Renewables Directive (H2020-IBA-SC3-RENEWABLES-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4991760.01
EU funding (EUR): 4991760.01
Participants: 29
Project status: SIGNED

The Concerted Action supports the implementation of the RES directive. In particular, the Concerted Action facilitates sharing experience and good practice of implementation, finding common approaches as well as cross-learning and cooperation. The work carried out within the CA-RES is designed to meet the needs of RES Directive implementing organisations. The action will provide added value compared with measures taken by each MS acting on its own. The Concerted Action will help make knowledge available to all participants through access to a network of national experts engaged in implementation of the Directive. The CA-RES4 will do this through a structured framework that will facilitate the exchange of information and experience through a series of meetings and other communication tools. It will provide participants with an opportunity to learn from others implementation process and policy approaches and build national policy capacity, but also to explore opportunities for bi-lateral or multi-lateral cooperation and identify areas for possible future convergence and harmonised approaches amongst participating countries. The CA-RES4 builds upon the success and structures of the previous phases of the CA. The CA-RES community has developed during the course of the previous phases into a unique network of experts and will be strengthened. The objective is to provide participating countries with the most pertinent information that may lead them on the most efficient path towards an effective implementation of the RES Directive 2018/2001/EC in the EU. The expected impact of the Action consists of a more harmonized approach and improved implementation of the RED II in participating countries, a strengthened network of experts as well as the transfer of good practices between countries.

Keywords: renewable energy directive,dialogue platform,implementation,knowledge and best practice exchange
Biodegradable Water-Soluble Cylindrical Block Copolymer Micelles and their Applications in Nanomedicine (JTIM)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-03-15
End date: 2020-03-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly in solution has attracted considerable attention for many decades because it can yield ordered nanoscopic core-shell structures (micelles) with a wide range of morphologies. These aggregates offer potential applications in many fields, and cylinders are among the most promising for uses in nanomedicine (e.g. as drug delivery vehicles). In this proposal, state-of-the-art strategies to access well-defined micelles with tailored structures will be applied to the preparation of biodegradable monodisperse cylindrical micelles and block comicelles in water. Once formed, the micelles and their hierarchical assemblies will be characterized in detail and explored in potential nanomedical applications. To achieve these objectives Dr. Jia Tian, an exceptionally talented young scientist from China who performed his Ph.D. in a top supramolecular chemistry group in China (Zhan-Ting Li, Fudan University), will work in the internationally leading polymer and materials research group of Prof. Ian Manners (Bristol, UK) where he will learn polymer synthesis and state-of-the-art self-assembly techniques and will obtain a broad background in polymer and BCP synthesis, self-assembly, and polymer materials science. Armed with the new knowledge and experience gained, following the fellowship Dr. Tian aims to obtain an academic position in China where soft materials such as biodegradable BCPs and their applications in nanomedicine will play a key role.

Keywords: crystallization driven self assembly
The origin and early development of philosophy in tenth-century al-Andalus: the impact of ill-defined materials and channels of transmission. (PhilAnd)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2016-ADG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495335.0
EU funding (EUR): 2186812.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of PhilAnd is to conduct a large-scale exploration of how, and under which form, philosophy appeared for the first time in al-Andalus. This issue is pivotal to understanding the history of sciences and ideas, and the role of the Arab-Muslim world in this transfer to Medieval Europe. Its relevance today also lies in the fact that it addresses questions of cultural and religious identities, since the formative stage of philosophy in al-Andalus proved decisive in shaping the intellectual background of many later authors from the Peninsula, whether Muslims, Jews, or Christians. At the crossroads of major lines of enquiries in scholarship and in line with recent discoveries having important chronological implications, PhilAnd focuses on the 10th century, a period usually disregarded by historians on the assumption that philosophy as such was not cultivated in the Iberian Peninsula before the 11th-12th centuries. Its originality is also to put emphasis on ‘ill-defined’ materials and channels of transmission, a field which remains largely unexplored. This project consists of five topics designed for highly-specialised scholars, and of another three transversal types of exploration conducted in the form of conferences convened with leading experts in the world. The final objectives are to test the hypothesis: 1) that the emergence of philosophy in al-Andalus significantly predates the currently accepted time; and 2) that the impact of this formative stage was considerably wider than commonly acknowledged. This project also seeks to provide a better evaluation of the originality of the first Andalusī philosophers with respect to their Oriental forerunners. This cutting-edge investigation is likely to stimulate major changes in our perception of how this primeval stage of philosophy in al-Andalus determined the subsequent developments of rational speculation among the three monotheistic communities of the Peninsula and the intellectual formation of Europe.

Keywords: arabic philosophy,islamic science,andalus,knowledge transfer,neoplatonism,ismailism