Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ACCIÓ programme to foster mobility of researchers with a focus in applied research and technology transfer (TECNIOspring PLUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND-FP) (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10195200.0
EU funding (EUR): 5097600.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

TECNIOspring PLUS Fellowship Programme is proposed by ACCIÓ, the Catalan Agency for Business and Competitiveness, attached to the Ministry for Business and Labour of the Government of Catalonia. With a budget of 10,044,000 € (circa 50% EU contribution) and a duration of 5 years, TECNIOspring PLUS programme will be addressed to experienced researchers, who will develop their research career in their area of interest, with focus on technology transfer. The programme will fund 72 fellowships, offering high-quality professional opportunities, with living plus mobility allowance well above the amount required by Marie Sklodowska-Curie WP, through its two types of mobility schemes, incoming and outgoing+return. Fellows will be free to choose their research project, with a focus on innovation and technology transfer, and a suitable host organisation fitting their individual needs and interests. The fellowship programme will have four selection rounds following fixed deadlines, allowing a fair competition between applicants. Calls for proposals will be advertised at international level, including EURAXESS website among others. TECNIOspring PLUS programme will receive joint applications of an experienced researcher and the host organisation of his/her choice (the beneficiary). Host organisations will be entities of the academic or industrial sector belonging to the Catalan Research and Technology Transfer System, recognized with the TECNIO accreditation. ACCIÓ already manages a COFUND project under FP7, TECNIOspring fellowship programme (GA nº 600388). TECNIOspring PLUS goes beyond the earlier grant. ACCIÓ wants to increase its impact and further align it with the best practices of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programmes by: increasing no. of fellowships and living allowances, opening the programme to industry, incorporating public engagement activities, offering interdisciplinary opportunities and fostering the international dimension.

Keywords: technology transfer,applied research,tecnio entity,incoming mobility,outgoing return mobility,intersectoral,interdisciplinary,international
Quantification of Free and Bound Water Concentrations in Human Cortical Bone Employing Hybrid Hard-tissue MRI: Towards Comprehensive Osteoporosis Assessment (ROCHESTER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Osteoporosis weakens bones and increases the risk of unexpected fractures. Worldwide, it causes over 8.9M fractures annually. Cortical bone consists of 3 major parts; minerals, organic matrix and water. Bone Mineral Density (BMD) is the most widespread marker to assess bone quality. There is recent evidence, however, that bone mineralisation offers only an incomplete view of bone quality. In turn, bone water (including free and bound water molecules) does convey richer information about bone quality by probing both bone porosity and the organic matrix. We propose to develop a novel diagnostic imaging technique based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that offers a comprehensive assessment of cortical bone quality and osteoporosis. The quantification of free and bound water molecules in cortical bone will be done in vivo as their alternation are potential biomarkers of the cortical bone quality. We will use hybrid hard-tissue MRI to capture information from short transverse-relaxation time (T2) species. We will develop MRI strategies that will go beyond the state-of-the-art in imaging bone tissue (herein referred to as “hard-tissue MRI” employing novel pulse sequences from the ultra-short echo-time (UTE) family. A key novelty lies in the hybridisation of UTE/short echo time (STE) acquisitions. By solving a set of coupled equations derived from these acquisitions using machine-learning techniques, we will define new quantitative imaging biomarkers associated with cortical bone free and bound water concentrations. The biomarkers will improve diagnosis of osteoporosis and alleviate its burden on healthcare systems (€37Bn cost to EU in 2010). It offers further potential in assessing bone development in pediatric imaging where ionizing and invasive methods cannot be employed. The project brings together expertise in bone MRI from a senior incoming fellow with the world-class expertise in biomedical image analysis and bone research as well as a pioneer centre in clinical.

Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging,human cortical bone,osteoproasis,ageing,tissue quantification,image based modeling,t1 map,p map,free and bond water,proton density
Sewage chemical information mining – development of a novel concept for the assessment of human exposure to pollutants through wastewater analysis (SCHEME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human populations worldwide are exposed to a large number of chemical pollutants from contaminated food, personal care products and the surrounding environment. Exposure to these compounds is generally assessed by human biomonitoring - the analysis of biomarkers (excreted parent compounds or metabolic products) in biological matrices from individuals, mostly urine. Due to the several limitations of this approach, a novel concept - sewage chemical information mining (SCIM), has been proposed. This approach is based on the analysis of specific human biomarkers in urban wastewater, but its potential in studying human exposure to pollutants has been scarcely investigated. The SCHEME project aims to contribute to the practical development and broadening of the SCIM field by developing a comprehensive analytical methodology for the determination of biomarkers of exposure to a wide range of organic pollutants, including different classes of personal care products and industrial chemicals. The biomarkers will be selected using the pharmacokinetics data and Human Metabolome Database and analysed by ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry. The developed methodology will be applied in four European cities as case studies. However, the results of this exploratory study could lead to implementation of this novel, relatively inexpensive and near real-time approach for the assessment of human exposure to pollutants. By monitoring temporal and spatial trends, communities with the highest exposure could be promptly identified. Therefore, the results of the SCHEME project will be highly valuable for obtaining relevant epidemiological information and will contribute to preventing human health problems related to pollutants exposure. The fellow’s expertise, gathered in top international research institutions, and the outstanding infrastructure and capabilities available at ICRA, makes an ideal conjunction for the successful completion of the project.

Keywords: organic pollutants,wastewater analysis,wastewater based epidemiology
Citizen Scientists Investigating Cookies and App GDPR compliance (CSI-COP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Integrate society in science and innovation issues, policies and activities in order to integrate citizens' interests and values and to increase the quality, relevance, social acceptability and sustainability of research and innovation outcomes in various fields of activity from social innovation to areas such as biotechnology and nanotechnology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Israel,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Finland,Greece,Hungary,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Exploring and supporting citizen science (H2020-SwafS-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999143.75
EU funding (EUR): 1999143.75
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

The CSI-COP project will investigate GDPR compliance to better understand how far we are being tracked-by-default as we use the Internet visiting websites and apps on our mobile devices. CSI-COP will engage citizen scientists to address the growing concerns in society around privacy issues, and the methods that attempt to ensure integrity in the collection and use of data. Regardless of background, a community of CSI-COP citizen scientists will be recruited from across Europe and beyond. A series of free-to-attend workshops and a MOOC will be developed with training material to informally educate about GDPR. CSI-COP’s community of citizen scientists will be a) fully trained to explore cookies and apps for embedded trackers, b) supported throughout their research, CSI-COP citizen scientists will investigate cookies on websites they normally visit, and apps on smart devices they use daily, and c) encouraged to record and report to the CSI-COP consortium the number and types of trackers they uncover in cookies and apps. CSI-COP’s well connected eleven partner consortium made up of seven universities, one non-profit, two SMEs and one Association will promote and support the citizen scientists as role models, with the university partners inviting them post-project as pro-privacy champions. The unique findings on digital trackers uncovered by the citizen scientists will be systematically mapped by CSI-COP consortium producing a taxonomy of trackers. The tracker taxonomy will be used to create an online repository. The repository will be available as an open-access knowledge resource on trackers embedded in cookies and apps. The knowledge resource will be a tool useful for a variety of stakeholders including data protection researchers, GDPR compliance regulators, tech journalists, software developers, parents, teachers, higher education curriculum developers, and any organisation that provides computers for public use such as libraries.

Keywords: data protection,privacy,cookies,apps,trackers,technology,gdpr,profiling,marketing
MADE IN SCIENCE (MADE IN SCIENCE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 320750.0
EU funding (EUR): 320750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

“MADE IN SCIENCE” will be the slogan of both the NIGHT 2016 and 2017. “MADE IN SCIENCE” is the trademark of research, which shows the strength of researchers’ job. The aim of the project is to communicate to societies the importance of the “production chain” of science in terms of quality, identity, creativity, security guarantee, trans-nationality, “Know-how” and responsibility. In its implementation “MADE IN SCIENCE” constitute a big challenge for researchers who will have to design and organize the activities of the NIGHT 2016 and 2017, alongside young students participating to the "Alternanza scuola lavoro" project aiming to effective training on the job. This approach certainly contributes to attract young people to enter a scientific or research career. “MADE IN SCIENCE” is coordinated by Association Frascati Scienza and is hosted in the research areas in Italy where more than 10.000 international researchers live: public and laboratories areas of the major Italian cities (Trieste, Bologna, Milano, Ferrara, Catania, Pisa, Bari, Cagliari, Pavia, Firenze, Napoli, Genova, Sassari, Parma, Palermo, Gorga, Grottaferrata, Monteporzio Catone); the areas in Frascati/Roma where institutions ASI, CNR-ARTOV, ENEA, ESA-ESRIN, INGV, INAF, INFN are located (coordinating node); the national Research institutes CINECA, GARR, ISPRA; the four Universities of Rome Sapienza, Tor Vergata, Roma Tre; the European Gravitational Observatory in Pisa (EGO), University of Cagliari, University of Parma, LUMSA University (Roma and Palermo) and University of Sassari. With reference to the previous editions of the NIGHT managed by Frascati Scienza, this proposal involves 20 cities throughout Italy and almost doubles the number of researchers that will actively contribute to the “MADE IN SCIENCE” project each year. Frascati Scienza is supported in the project by many local, regional and national institutions and has a long experience in managing successfully the Researchers' Night since 2006

Keywords: european researchers night,impact assessment,science,trademark,production chain,value
Intragranullar calcium regulation of mucin secretion and sorting. (ICaRMuSs)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The epithelium in the airways and gastrointestinal track are covered by a mucus layer which protects the epithelium from mechanical and microbial insults. The most abundant proteins in the mucus layer are mucins which are synthesized and secreted by goblet cells. Mucus function is largely dictated by mucin composition and goblet cells can modify their secretory properties to adapt to the continuous changes the epithelium is encountered with. Mucins are heavily glysosylated and packed into secretory vesicles in the Golgi apparatus. A calcium signal triggers the fusion of the secretory vesicles with the plasma membrane releasing mucins to the extracellular space. The role of intragranular calcium remains a mayor gap in our understanding of mucin physiology and how goblet cells precisely control mucus composition remains only a matter of speculation. These are highly relevant questions as defects in mucin secretion cause mucus abnormalities, epithelial stress and dysfunction that can lead to microbial deleterious infections, chronic inflammation and more aggressive pathologies such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In this project I will address how calcium regulates the trafficking, sorting and secretion of mucins, filling current gaps in our understanding of mucus physiology. I will genetically engineer mucin-secreting cells with the CRISPR/Cas9 tools to add GFP and RFP to MUC5AC and MUC2 loci and describe granular composition by super resolution microscopy and FACS. I will use a first-in its kind probe to measure intragranular calcium concentration and finally I will purify secretory granules and sequence them with mass spectrometry to determine which membrane proteins are important for mucin secretion. This project will allow me to apply my experience in highly relevant questions in cell biology and it will also enhance my creative and innovative potential through advanced training and international mobility.

Keywords: mucus,mucin,secretion,calcium,golgi,protein sorting,exocytosis,microscopy,crispr,mass spectrometry,super resolution
Gender, party politics and democracy in Europe: A study of European Parliament's party groups (EUGenDem)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Finland,Finland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1976482.0
EU funding (EUR): 397100.75
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Given the crucial importance of European Parliament’s party groups to democratic representation in the European Union, it is surprising that there is limited empirical and theoretical understanding that relates to how they conceive of gender, gender hierarchies and gendered relations, or how they seek to address gender inequalities. Nor do we know what the conditions are for increasing a gender equal democracy in the EU in the face of the current political context shaped by political crises. This project aims to provide a systematic analysis of the gendered policies and practices of European party politics. The research comprises a comparative study of the eight European Parliament (EP) party groups and generates empirical findings about the significance of gender in the current party political transformations in Europe. Further potential lies in the key methodological innovation whereby the proposed project links informal institutions and discourses to affects and emotions, generating research designs with which the persistence of gender inequalities can be analysed more thoroughly than current gender and politics research allows. More nuanced conceptualizations, and theories about inclusive representation, gender justice and democracy at the transnational level, are a likely consequence of adopting an innovative methodological approach where empirical findings inform the theoretical level. Therefore, the project may have a high societal impact as it speaks directly to the current political crises in Europe, and provides an understanding of their gendered underpinnings. Thus, the key ambition of this research project is: based on a thorough empirical understanding of gender and party politics at the European Parliament to build novel methodologies, concepts and theories about inclusive representation, gender justice and democracy.

Keywords: gender,european parliament,political parties
Shaming States: Social Sanction and State Behaviour In World Politics (SWP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-15
End date: 2023-06-16
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 244269.0
EU funding (EUR): 244269.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The proposed research project will evaluate the effects of group-induced social pressures on states’ foreign and national security decision-making. It will focus on one type of socially imposed sanction: shame. It will seek to identify the conditions under which this social incentive affects the foreign policy behaviour of three countries, the United States, Israel and Russia, gauging whether shaming strategies can act as constraints on states’ power and global social status. The project’s main objective is to undertake the first systematic comparative analysis of the mechanisms and effects of shaming practices on decision-makers’ behaviour in world politics. The project seeks to fill a notable gap in the existing literature on state responses to social sanctions mechanisms in international politics in three crucial ways. Drawing from multidisciplinary theoretical analyses, ranging from International Relations (IR) theory to social psychology, it will be the first contribution of its kind to systematically assess the effects of shaming mechanisms in comparative perspective via three country case studies. The research will look at different international and domestic actors and levels of analysis, namely decision-makers, bureaucracies, and public opinion, in order to map state responses as accurately as possible. The proposed programme of research will employ an innovative multi-method design that combines qualitative methodology with experimental scenario-based surveys.

Keywords: foreign policy analysis,social influence,cognitive approaches in international relations theory,global governance,international cooperation and institutions