Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enhancement of the Innovation Potential in SEE through new Molecular Solutions in Research and Development (INNOMOL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5313649.2
EU funding (EUR): 4738978.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The InnoMol project will foster a research pipeline at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI) and facilitate new avenues of innovation and technology for the investigation of relevant diseases. As InnoMol goals are oriented to the future development of possible diagnostic, preventive and/or therapeutic approaches for the major diseases of the world, it is essential to have access to a center of excellence that can provide the cross-functional and project-oriented alignment of resources and expertises along the value chain leading towards an innovative product. The project will bring together and reinforce 3 major worlds of life sciences, e.g. Medicine, Biology, and Chemistry to create a productive, state-of-the-art environment that is unique in the region and will bridge the gap between the pre-commercial and commercial phases of R&D, thus enhancing the relevance of the RBI’s position in the European Research Area (ERA). The fully assembled research pipeline will enable inter- and, multidisciplinary research in the field of Molecular Biosciences with focus on DNA-Protein, Protein-Protein, Protein-RNA, DNA-RNA and DNA-DNA interactions. The tangible outcomes of the Action will be innovative molecular solutions for investigating major global diseases in order to transfer the knowledge to the community for the generation of wealth and public wellbeing.

Keywords: epigenetics,methylation,methylome,biosensor,biochip,microarray,nappa,mass spectrometry,proteome,protein-protein interaction,omics,third generation sequencing
Expand the Centre of Competence in Future Cities of the University of Porto to Strengthen Inter-Disciplinary Research and Knowledge Transfer to the Industry in the Norte Region of Portugal (FUTURE-CITIES)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1794757.64
EU funding (EUR): 1615224.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the project is to expand the recently created POLARIS Centre of Competence in Future Cities of the University of Porto, thereby unlocking the full potential of interdisciplinary research in urban technologies, while strengthening knowledge transfer activities in close cooperation with local and global industrial partners. To this end, this project will support the following main activities: 1. Expand human potential by fostering a critical mass of researchers with inter-disciplinary expertise: promote the active exchange of knowledge on information and communication technologies for future cities through thematic workshops and conferences; foster talent in key scientific methodologies, such as distributed control, transportation science, operations research, broadband networks, public policy and large-scale systems, in order to improve the research portfolio of the centre of competence; 2. Build research capacity for city-scale experiments: acquire and install critical equipment for developing large-scale test beds and prototypes in the areas of intelligent transportation systems and urban sensor networks, which leverage the city of Porto as a natural living lab for future city technologies; 3. Raise international awareness and connect POLARIS affiliates to the global knowledge networks: work with mentoring institutes based at prestigious universities in Europe, namely Supélec, University College London (UCL) and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), which have agreed to serve as mentors by sharing their knowledge and promoting the exchange of key personnel; in addition, continue to deepen the strong partnerships have been established with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), which include joint research and training programs.

Keywords: future cities
USE OF MODEL ORGANISMS TO RESOLVE CRUCIAL BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS ON THE PATH TO INNOVATIONS (MODBIOLIN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3433112.0
EU funding (EUR): 3062818.7
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences (BCAS) with about 400 employees and 100 PhD students is among largest research institutions of the Czech Republic. Biomedical investigations on model invertebrates that include studies of Gene cascades in development regulation, Molecular mechanisms of biological clocks and Interactions between parasites - arthropod vectors – hosts, and the Use of Arabidopsis as a model in targeted crop breeding, aspire to reaching highest EU standards with the aid of MODBIOLIN project. All 14 teams involved in the project approach in productivity their peers in advanced EU countries but further increase of BCAS output is hindered by insufficient infrastructure. MODBIOLIN will improve infrastructure by promoting knowledge exchange with excellent EU researchers and institutions, by upgrading and expanding equipment, recruiting experienced researchers, fostering collaboration within ERA, developing methods of self-evaluation, and improving the protection of intellectual property and its exploitation in innovative technologies. The acquisition of digital luminescent microscope will allow tracking various processes in living cells and thereby further improve BCAS competitiveness. The consent of 9 outstanding EU scientists to serve on the Steering Committee of MODBIOLIN and the partnering with 4 top research institutes from France, Germany and Great Britain are viewed as strong ERA support of BCAS ambitions. The project will have considerable socio-economic impact in the region and will promote public awareness of the EC role in research support and the importance of research for EU economics and welfare.

Keywords: model organisms,developmental gene cascades,circadian clock,host-vector-parasite relationships,use of plant models
The role of Chronic DNA damage in Ageing and Age-related pathology (CODEAGE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3647707.0
EU funding (EUR): 3647707.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Ageing is an inexorable homeostatic failure of largely unknown aetiology that leads to increased vulnerability to disease limiting the quality of life in the elderly and creating high costs to the society. Until recently, the daunting complexity of the ageing process, the conspicuous lack of tools to study it, and a dearth of experimentally tractable model systems have greatly hindered any hypothesis-driven reductionist approaches to understand the molecular basis of ageing. Whereas molecular and cellular damage is thought to be a cause of ageing and age-related pathologies, little is known about the molecular events that underlie ageing or determine longevity. A large number of progeroid syndromes that are characterized by an early onset of age-related pathology are linked to inborn defects in genome maintenance thus pointing towards damage in (nuclear) DNA as a major culprit of ageing and age-related pathology. DNA damage fuelled by intrinsic and environmental sources of genotoxic insult and by errors of genome maintenance mechanisms invariably accumulates with advancing age. The outcome of DNA damage is diverse and generally adverse: DNA lesions may physically obstruct essential processes including DNA replication and transcription. In addition, DNA damage activates checkpoint responses that lead to a reduction in cell proliferation potential (cellular senescence) or to an increase in cell death. As a result, depending on the type and severity of DNA injuries and the cellular response to DNA damage, these cellular mechanisms impair organ maintenance and function during ageing. The CodAge ITN proposes an integrated approach in studying the role of Chronic DNA damage in Ageing and age-related pathology.

Keywords: l404 ageing,l311 cell genetics,l103 dna biosynthesis - modification - repair and degradation,l101 molecular biology and interactions
Veneto Researchers' Night 2012 (VENETONIGHT 2012)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-NIGHT, 2012)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 314778.4
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Built on the successful experiences of Researchers’Night in Venice 2010 and Researchers’Night in Veneto 2011, VenetoNight 2012 will ensure a continuity of the event in Veneto Region, in order to reinforce the impact of the past two editions. 2010 and 2011 Researchers’ Nights created an expectation in the public that science is fun and accessible to everyone, regardless of age and scientific background. Moreover, the project will strengthen the collaboration between the institutions settled in Venezia, Padova and Verona which build the consortium. On 28th September 2012 several activities will be organized in the three locations. The project focuses on letting citizens directly experience science; in each location the activities will be organized around the five senses: citizens will be invited to touch, listen to, scent out, watch, and taste science. Four European Corners, settled in strategic points of the cities, will encourage participants to approach the Research World and its European dimension. Researchers will be performers, guides, animators, singers, always interacting with the public at large, showing that their work is closely related to society and that they are ordinary people with an amazing job. A special attention will be devoted to children and students attending the last two years of secondary school. Children-targeted events will show that science can be fun, and tailored activities for young people will promote research careers as a concrete opportunity for many of them. The communication campaign, common for the three cities involved, will be planned in advance, aiming at reaching about 1.500.000 people. A special information campaign is foreseen at regional level within schools. A reinforced impact assessment will include questionnaires before/during/after the event. A great part of the Impact Assessment will focus on secondary school students. More than 10.000 participants and an effective media coverage during VenetoNight 2012 are expected.

Keywords: awareness of researchers' life and job,promotion of scientific career,edutainment,promotion of european dimension of research,involvement of young people.
ManuFuture View on Horizon 2020 (M-FUTURE2013)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Lithuania,Finland,Lithuania,Poland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2012-CSA-6, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 484193.48
EU funding (EUR): 444876.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

In order to increase the coordination efforts the MANUFUTURE2013 conference is proposed with a special focus on expressing the ETP MANUFUTURE community’s view on the Horizon 2020 – the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020). The event is planned for the second half of Lithuania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU (in autumn 2013) at the time when legislative acts on Horizon 2020 will have been adopted by the EU Parliament and Council already, thus the conference will serve as a forum of stakeholders to discuss the possibilities on how to better operationalize Horizon 2020 and respective national initiatives. The project’s specific objectives are as following: • First, to prepare a conference implementation plan, including a conference programme and a plan for the follow-up actions and outreach activities, by organizing the work of the Conference Organizing Committee: identifying and selecting stakeholders to be involved as keynote speakers, panel and round-table moderators, preparing a well-timed and structured conference programme and the list of outreach activities; • Second, to implement the conference plan achieving above average (70%) turnout of the confirmed attendees from the key stakeholder institutions (national agencies and the EU institutions, European industry associations and technology platforms, high-level expert groups and major research consortia) and preparing a Position Paper, reflecting the consensus reached at the conference; • Third, to run outreach and dissemination activities and follow-up events: a) organizing visits for press and conference participants to manufacturing sites, b) holding a competition for pupils and students in technical creativities and practical applications of modern engineering technologies, and c) distributing conference materials through social media and professional networks in order to gain publicity and achieve the impact. The objectives will be achieved by organizing during the mid-term of Lithuania’s Presidency of the EU (autumn 2013) the high-level policy conference “MANUFUTURE 2013: MANUFUTURE View on Horizon 2020”, which will address the needs of manufacturers in the field of research and development in industrial technologies and the synergy between the initiatives of the EC and the Member States within the framework of global challenges and regional capacities.

Keywords: conference,research,manufuture,lithuanian presidency,innovation,engineering,event
Frontiers in Quantum Materials Control (Q-MAC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland,France
Call:  (ERC-2012-SyG, 2012)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9966873.0
EU funding (EUR): 9966873.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The overarching goal of the present proposal is to exploit materials design, coherent optical methods and multiple theoretical approaches to deterministically control ordered states of strongly correlated electron materials, also referred to as “quantum” or “complex” materials. The underlying ideas can be applied to vast number of problems in materials physics, but the stated goal is that of optimizing superconductivity at higher temperatures than achieved so far, possibly even at room temperature. The proposal starts from research strands that follow challenging but well-establish paths, such as the use of complex-oxide heterostructures and strain engineering at interfaces to modulate the electronic properties. In a second class of investigations, coherent optical control of lattice dynamics with strong field THz transients is proposed to “anneal” the competing order quenching superconductivity. This builds on our recent discovery of light-induced transient superconductivity in high temperature cuprates, a remarkable process not yet understood or optimized. We will use a combination of femtosecond optical and x-ray experiments with Free Electron Lasers, together with time dependent real-materials simulations. Perhaps the most ambitious goal will be to develop laser-cooling techniques to reduce quantum phase fluctuations between planes of cuprate superconductors. Finally, we propose to use static and dynamic techniques to engineer new phases of condensed matter, for example by engineering new materials with a single band crossing the Fermi level, to optimize superconductivity. A unique combination of complementary expertise, from materials design, to coherent and ultrafast optical and x-ray physics, with materials and quantum optics theory, will be key in making true progress in these areas.
Quantum Computer Lab (QC-LAB)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2012-SyG, 2012)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The world of atoms is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics. Over the past century, quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement have been observed and studied with great precision. Today, we are entering a new era in which we can hope to explore quantum mechanics in larger objects. The science of quantum mechanics in more complex objects is barely known and as a result quantum mechanics is rarely explicitly used in technology. Theoretically, superposition and entanglement could be exploited as a new resource in a wide variety of future applications. We focus on information science and investigate the use of quantum mechanics in computing, i.e. a quantum computer (QC). If information is encoded in quantum superpositions and processed by exploiting entanglement, a QC can solve computational problems that are beyond the reach of conventional computers. Building a QC is, however, an enormous scientific challenge because the fragile quantum bits need to be protected from and corrected for even the smallest disturbances by the environment. Meeting this challenge requires a synergetic effort combining the best of quantum theory, electrical engineering, materials science, applied physics and computer science. This proposal aims to achieve a robust, exemplary QC. We propose a circuit containing processor qubits (two types: superconducting transmon qubits and spin qubits in silicon quantum dots), memory qubits (two types: topological qubits with nanowires and donor qubits), and a quantum databus (superconducting striplines). Our goal is to demonstrate a 13-qubit circuit that incorporates fault-tolerance through implementation of a surface code. We will demonstrate back-and-forth quantum state transfer between processor and memory qubits. Our team brings together the required expertise into a single “QC-lab” enabling us to bring our understanding of quantum mechanics to the next level and push QC to the tipping point from science to engineering.

Keywords: topological quantum computing,qubits
Monitoring and management of flowing rain water in Baltic Sea catchment areas (BALTICFLOWS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,Estonia,Germany,Latvia,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2947617.6
EU funding (EUR): 2447880.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed BALTIC-FLOWS project concerns rainwater monitoring and management in Baltic Sea catchment areas. Rainwater forms streams and rivers, and in urban environments, heavy rainfall can amount to stormwater and floods. Over the years, much of this rainwater ends up in the sea. In Northern Europe, the Baltic Sea conceals a history of water quality from streams, rivers and urban runoff in catchment areas. Encircled by a mix of Nordic, Central and Eastern European countries, the Baltic Sea is at the mercy of a diversity of national practices and policies. The project shall lay the foundation for development of new capacities and policies for effectively monitoring and managing the quality and quantities of rainwater moving from one place to the next. The project focuses on streams, rivers and cities in Baltic Sea catchment areas, not on the sea itself. The strategies, knowledge and expertise created during the project can be exploited elsewhere in the Union and in other global regions. The project will support the development of research-driven clusters in each region; enhanced capacities in diffuse load monitoring and urban stormwater management will lead to new business opportunities in the global market for water monitoring and management know-how and solutions. A total of 47 organisations will be participating in the project: 16 project partners in five European regions - Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia and Sweden, one project partner from the UK specialised in the Chinese environmental sector, and 30 supporting partners, including entities in participating regions, entities in the international regions of Russia, China, Vietnam and Brazil, inter-regional financing entities operating in the Baltic Sea region, and a Russian-Belarus collaboration forum. The project primarily addresses domain b) of the REGIONS-2012-2013-1 topic, but is also strongly related to themes in domain a).

Keywords: baltic sea,environment,water preservation,water quality,water quality monitoring,urban stormwater,rain water harvesting,sensor,sensor network,tallinn,turku,hamburg,riga,uppsala