Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Fibre break models for designing novel composite microstructures and applications (FiBreMoD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3370807.44
EU funding (EUR): 3370807.44
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Limiting the climate change-induced temperature increase to less than 2°C will require strong reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Lightweight materials and fibre-reinforced composites in particular, are a key enabling technology to achieve this goal. Current composite applications are however strongly overdesigned due to a lack of reliable design tools and predictive models for their mechanical properties. Developing, using and applying these models requires interdisciplinary researchers with a strong background in both modelling and experiments, but such researchers are scarce. The 9 beneficiaries and 3 partner organisations in FiBreMoD aim to train 13 such researchers to become multi-talented and interdisciplinary researchers that will be highly coveted in the field of composites. They will be intensively trained by leading experts with world-class facilities and will be supported by a strong industry participation and an extensive international network. The training programme places a strong emphasis on entrepreneurship and innovation skills not only by dedicated workshops but also by the involvement of the researchers in potential commercialisation. This approach will be key to improving the EU’s innovation capacity. Simultaneously, the researchers will advance state-of-the-art composite failure models to reach the required levels of accuracy and develop advanced and industry-friendly characterisation techniques for measuring the required input data. The goal will be to enable blind predictions, which means that parameter fitting or tuning of the models is no longer required. These new and unprecedented levels of understanding coupled with improved prediction accuracy will be exploited to (1) design novel microstructures for hybrid, hierarchical and discontinuous fibre composites and (2) increase the usefulness of models in practical composite applications. The developed models will be validated and used to design composite cylinders and automotive parts.

Keywords: fibre reinforced composites,strength models,microstructural design,tensile failure
Molecular Magnetic Graphene Nanoribbons (MMGNRs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1729668.0
EU funding (EUR): 1729668.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Intense research efforts are currently aimed at establishing a fundamental link between spintronics, molecular electronics and quantum computation. Novel materials could usher a true revolution in this area, and magnetic graphene nanoribbons, in particular, have attracted impressive theoretical attention. However, creating them with the necessary level of precision has, until now, proved elusive, so that the extensive theoretical work remains fundamentally untested, and the applicative potential untapped. MMGNRs will investigate these uncharted waters, by developing a radically new approach: instead of the usual methods of cutting out graphene nanoribbons from large sheets, or randomly placing magnetic molecules on graphene surfaces, we will create graphene nanoribbons from a molecular bottom-up synthetic procedure, and attach molecular magnetic centres to their sides, at well-defined periodic intervals. In this way, a spin density is injected into the graphene backbone, and the homogeneity of the sample allows studying edge spin with unprecedented accuracy. MMGNRs will test the chemical possibilities offered by this approach, and will then use low-temperature transport and pulsed electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectroscopy to reveal the classical and quantum magnetic properties of graphene spin states. The success of MMGNRs will answer three fundamental questions: are our extensive theories of graphene magnetic states, for which there is no clean experimental counterpart, right? Can we use graphene magnetic states to perform quantum logic operations? Is it possible to push the quantum effects to high temperatures, and include them into electronic nanodevices? While answering these questions, MMGNRs will open a totally new area of chemical synthesis, redefine our experimental and theoretical knowledge of spins in graphene, and assess the limits and applicative potential of graphene and molecular spintronic devices.

Keywords: molecular magnets,graphene nanoribbons,spintronics,quantum coherence,electron paramagnetic resonance
Conjugated Hybrid Polymers from Unsaturated Heavier Group 14 Building Blocks (POLY-SAAR)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159460.8
EU funding (EUR): 159460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The incorporation of heavier Group 14 double bonds (E=E) (E = Si, Ge) into the main chain of polymers poses considerable synthetic challenges. The catalyst- and byproduct-free polymerization protocols proposed herein build upon exciting preliminary results regarding molecular model systems reported by the host group. Three different strategies will give access to various unprecedented polymer types: (1) The development of a reliable protecting group strategy in Si=Si chemistry will enable the synthesis of silicon- and germanium- analogues of poly(phenylenevinylene)s (dimetalla-PPVs). (2) The reactions of difunctional bis(alkynyl)arenes and bis(isocyano)arenes, respectively, with arylene-bridged tetrasiladienes will give access to sigma-pi conjugated hybrid polymers. (3) The concept of stabilizing low-valent main-group species by N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) and subsequent removal of NHC by a Lewis acid to generate double bonds between Group 14 elements will afford poly(digermene)s. Entirely unprecedented building blocks will be used so that this project will be at the forefront of the newly emerging field of applications and property driven chemistry of heavier main-group elements. It will provide the synthetic tools necessary to exploit the anticipated unique physical and chemical properties of unsaturated main-group polymers. With this explicit focus on material aspects, the proposed research has an excellent fit with the European priorities: despite being fundamental in nature, the project targets smart polymers with bespoke properties, may well develop significant economic and consequentially also societal impact in the longer run. The synergistic combination of the areas of expertise of PKM (chemistry of Group 14 and 15, N-heterocyclic carbenes) and DS (low-coordinate main-group chemistry) will fruitfully enrich both scientific mindsets and weave close ties for future cooperation after PKM excelled in his ambition to obtain an academic position in research.

Keywords: hybrid polymers,disilenes,digermenes,cycloaddition,insertion reaction
CERTIFIABLE LOCALISATION UNIT WITH GNSS IN THE RAILWAY ENVIRONMENT (CLUG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,France,France,France
Call: EGNSS applications fostering green, safe and smart mobility (H2020-SPACE-EGNSS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3811527.44
EU funding (EUR): 2759313.47
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

According to the ERAccording to the ERA 2015 Report on ERTMS Longer Term Perspective, GNSS could prove a game changer for the European railway network by enabling a significant reduction of trackside equipment and by improving localisation performance. The conclusions of the STARS project have confirmed this potential. However, fusion with other sensors will be necessary to mitigate the known impact of local effects on GNSS performance. Capitalising on the achievements of EC and GSA funded projects, collaborating railway companies, i.e. SBB, DB and SNCF, would like to propose the project CLUG. This project will perform a mission analysis/needs identification and a preliminary feasibility study of an on-board localisation unit with the following characteristics: > failsafe on-board multi-sensor localisation unit consisting of a navigation core (IMU, tachometer, etc.) brought in reference using GNSS, track map and a minimal number of reference points; > on-board continuous localisation system that provides location, speed and other dynamics of the train; > operational and interoperable across the entire European rail network; > compatible with the current ERTMS TSI or with its future evolutions. To achieve its objectives,the CLUG's management and the design and development of the localization unit will follow agile processes taking into account former projects results – especially STARS – as well as observations resulting from new test campaigns. The CLUG consortium comprises railway companies (SNCF, DB Netz and SBB), railway signaling industries (CAF and Siemens), navigation specialists (Airbus Defense & Space, Naventik, FDC), a research institute (ENAC) and a certification expert (Navcert). Ultimately, this project is the key enabling technology for the future-proof development of train digitalisation and automation to respond to the increased mobility needs of all European citizen and goods by leveraging the train, a green safe and efficient means of transport.

Keywords: gnss egnos galileo ertms railway train signaling imu odometer localisation
European network staff eXchange for integrAting precision health in the health Care sysTems (ExACT)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Greece,Switzerland,Netherlands,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,Canada,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1090200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1090200.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the “European network staff eXchange for integrAting precision health in the health Care sysTems (ExACT)” is to train a new generation of professionals that can contribute to the future of health and healthcare (HC), by providing high-quality, multidisciplinary knowledge in precision health. The greater personalisation of HC is a driver of innovation for research, and for the healthcare system and industry. Still policy makers, HC professionals, citizens, and private companies need to take some steps to realize its potential. In order to harness this challenging landscape, the ExACT consortium provides a cohesive framework for training staff across 7 EU Countries, 1 AC and 2 TCs. During 4 years, the staff involved will be trained on research topics not available at the home institutions thanks to 74 secondments. They will attend courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, and will participate in organizing outreach activities, thus acquiring new skills. Research topics include: Integration of Big Data and digital solutions into the HC systems; Designing and promoting innovative citizen engagement models; Education of healthcare professionals and leadership; Health Technology Assessment in precision health; Ethical-legal, social, organisational and policy issues surrounding precision health. ExACT is embedded in existing cooperation structures, such as the RISE-PRECeDI project, IC PerMed, and CSA TO-REACH. The consortium consists of 14 beneficiaries and 2 partners, of which 10 are academic institutions including Stanford University where a precision health program has been launched, and 7 non academics including 2 SMEs. The participants will produce key reports, policy recommendations, scientific publications, and information materials for citizens, thus fostering public-private interactions. In the long run, ExACT will foster the integration of precision health in the EU HC systems, thus contributing to better health for Europeans citizens.

Keywords: precision health,precision medicine,big data,citizen engagement,education of health,professionals,leadership,health technology assessment,ethics
Enhancing OLED device performance using Fused Borylated Materials (B-Brighter)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2015-PoC, 2015)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149662.0
EU funding (EUR): 149662.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) are attractive for use in high efficiency illumination and flexible displays. The current state of the art OLED materials use Ir or Pt based phosphorescent materials, which whilst achieving impressive efficiencies have significant cost, and supply issues associated with rare precious metals. Metal free OLEDs are preferable based on low relative cost and ease of fabrication but to date have not been competitive with Ir / Pt based OLEDs. This is because metal free OLEDs have relatively low efficiency as light emission is due to fluorescence inherently limiting the systems to 25% of excitons. A new approach has now enabled metal free OLEDs to break this efficiency barrier – using the phenomena of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). However, TADF emitters in the deep red / Near infra red (NIR) region of the spectra (desired for applications in optical communications, night vision devices and sensors) are rare and currently sub-optimal. ERC funded research led us to discover a new methodology for forming fused pi conjugated materials that possess desirable properties for OLEDs this includes small band gaps, excellent emission in the deep red and NIR-region of the spectra and good stability. Whilst these materials exhibit excellent solid state photoluminescence quantum yields for emitters in the deep red and NIR region of the spectra their performance in OLED devices was only moderate. This is due to the absence of TADF in the materials studied to date. This work program will modify our current materials to maintain the desirable properties but to incorporate moieties that switch on TADF. Materials will be selected based on calculations (of relative S1/T1 energies), synthesised and assessed for TADF (lifetimes / effect of O2 etc.), with best in class used to fabricate OLED devices. This will lead to increases in OLED device efficiency hopefully to a level that is commercially viable.

Keywords: oleds,thermally activated delayed fluorescence,borylation,fused materials
Risk and Business continuity management in the Arctic (ArcticRisk)

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: Norway
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): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this Fellowship is for the researcher, Dr Jacob Taarup-Esbensen, to develop his professional capacity by engaging in advanced training, develop interdisciplinary skills and disseminate his work through high-impact journals. He will do this through practical experience, courses and high-quality supervision in line with the criteria for a leading independent researcher in the EU. This proposal aims to investigate multinationals (MNEs) management of risk and business continuity in the Arctic mining industry using the context of Greenland as a case. This is done by examining best practice within the industry and using the researchers experiences from MNE risk management and business continuity in other resource-rich countries, primarily Norway, and applying these to the Greenlandic context. The target result will contribute to a field of research, which is currently underdeveloped, provide practitioners with an applicable tool-set and pave the ground for research into the consequences of the industrialisation of the Arctic. The researcher expects to achieve these aims through fieldwork, advanced training, and mentoring in emergency management under arctic conditions, resource economics and sociological approaches to risk management. The ambition is that the research will contribute to our knowledge on the consequences of the expanding industrialisation of the Arctic and risk management under extreme conditions. Upon returning to the University of Stavanger, the researcher will consolidate his knowledge and experience, disseminating his research through advanced training at universities as well as public speaking based on the extensive fieldwork and research done on international business, risk management in the Arctic, effects of globalisation and policy developments in small resource-rich countries.

Keywords: risk management,arctic,emergency management,mining,greenland
Journalism, media critique and online publics (CritJourn)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-15
End date: 2022-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CritJourn will examine how journalism is critiqued online and how journalists experience these critiques. Public critiques of journalism seem to have become more visible than they have ever been in the past. In particular, critiques of the legitimacy of mainstream media representations - from different ideological perspectives - have become an everyday feature of public discourse about journalism on digital platforms like Twitter. Drawing on my established international profile as a critical communication, media and journalism researcher, the overarching aim of this project will be to develop new concepts for understanding how journalism is critiqued, and how journalists negotiate and experience media critique, by different online publics. This research is timely and important because it will illuminate our understanding of the relationship between journalism and online culture in a political moment where the bonds that have historically sustained the relationship between journalism and the public have been weakened. The overarching aim will be supported by 4 specific objectives, 2 conceptual and 2 empirical. The conceptual supplements will put communication, media and journalism research into conversation with, first, interdisciplinary debates about the nature of critique and, second, radical democratic theories about the nature of ideological conflict. The first empirical element will undertake a (quantitative and qualitative) critical discourse analysis of how UK journalists and media institutions are critiqued on Twitter. The second will interview journalists in Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands and UK about their experiences of media critique. The fellowship incorporates a training programme appropriate to my career profile. It will significantly advance my research programme, facilitate and extend my reintegration within EU research networks and boost my chances of getting a senior academic position in Europe on completion.

Keywords: media,communication and journalism studies,critique and critical theory,discourse theory and analysis,critical interpretivist research,radical democratic theory
Plasmodesmata: gatekeepers for cell-to-cell viral spread in plants (PDgate)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174806.4
EU funding (EUR): 174806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Viruses cause epidemics on all major crops of agronomic importance, representing a serious threat to agriculture and global food security. Among plant viruses, those induced by RNA are of particular concern due to their overrepresentation and the lack of effective countermeasures. As obligate intracellular parasites, their control still relies on an excessive application of pesticides against virus vectors and preventive actions consisting mainly in the detection and removal of infected plants. Virus‐resistant crop varieties are a powerful alternative but often confined to narrow germplasm base and takes long periods to introgress the resistance trait. One of the most effective and sustainable ways to avoid virus infection is to use genome editing to expand genetic tools. Therefore, plant virologists are turning their interests toward host factors that play essential roles in infection as novel antiviral targets. Cell-to-cell movement is critical for virus spread, and thus an ideal point for creating resistance. Plant viruses can exploit plasmodesmata (PD) -channels that interconnect every single plant cell- using encoded so-called movement proteins (MPs) which mediate the transport of the viral genomes cell-to-cell. Understanding the intercellular transport of viruses and the components involved offer breeding targets for genome editing to control virus spread and, thus block viral infection. Therefore, we propose here to identity comprehensively the compendium of MP-interacting proteins using high-end proteomics. Additionally, we will apply the state-of-the-art technology genome editing and advanced microscopy to define the role of MP-interacting proteins during virus transport and infection, laying the basis for novel biotech solutions in agriculture.

Keywords: plant virus,plasmodesmata,cell to cell movement,genome editing,resistance