Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Fickle Formulas. The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Measurement (FICKLEFORMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Macroeconomic indicators are integral to economic governance. Measurements of growth, unemployment, inflation and public deficits inform policy, for example through growth targets and the inflation-indexation of wages. These indicators tell us “how economies are doing” and citizens often punish politicians who fail to deliver on them. Their air of objectivity notwithstanding, it is far from self-evident how these indicators should be defined and measured. Our choices here have deeply distributional consequences, producing winners and losers, and will shape our future, for example when GDP figures hide the cost of environmental degradation. So why do we measure our economies the way we do? Criticisms of particular measures are hardly new but their real-world effect has been limited. The project therefore asks: which social, political and economic factors shape the formulas used to calculate macroeconomic indicators? Extant research offers detailed histories of statistics, mostly in single countries. But we lack theoretical and empirical tools to describe and explain differences in measurement formulas between countries and over time. FICKLEFORMS will provide such understanding through five sub-projects. The first systematically compares the evolution of four indicators in four central OECD countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany. The second analyses the timing and content of statistical harmonization efforts through the United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank. The third constructs a new database of “measures of measures” to quantitatively test hypotheses emerging from the previous sub-projects. The final two sub-projects reach beyond the OECD and study the politics of macroeconomic measurement in China, India, Brazil and South Africa. This project will promote public debate over meaningful measures, allow policy-makers to reflect on current practices, and sensitize academics who use macroeconomic data about their political roots.

Keywords: international political economy,comparative political economy,economic governance,global standards harmonization
Systematic exploration of peroxisomal structure and function (PeroxiSystem)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cellular, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Panel description: Structure and function of the cell, cell-cell communication, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, organogenesis, growth, development, evolution of development, organoids, stem cells, regeneration, therapeutic approaches
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Peroxisomes are ubiquitous and dynamic organelles that house many important pathways of cellular metabolism. This key organelle propagates cellular signals for differentiation, development and metabolism, and thus it is no surprise that a large number of diseases, including metabolic disorders, have been linked to peroxisomal dysfunction. Despite the importance of peroxisomes many fundamental questions remain open. For example, we do not know the entire proteome of peroxisomes, the extent of their metabolic functions, how peroxisomes change to meet cellular requirements or how they interact and communicate with other cellular organelles. In this proposal we suggest to employ our expertise and unique toolsets, successfully applied in the study of whole organelles, to shed new light on peroxisomes as a cellular unit – a PeroxiSystem. We propose to combine state-of-the art high content tools with mechanistic studies to uncover new peroxisomal proteins under a variety of growth conditions (Aim1), map the functions of unstudied peroxisomal proteins using both systematic and hypothesis driven approaches (Aim 2) and unravel how peroxisomes communicate with other organelles (Aim 3). To perform these studies we will build on expertise attained during an ERC StG: combining high throughput genetic manipulations of yeast libraries alongside high content screens. Importantly, we will try to bridge the knowledge gap in peroxisomal biology by creating new tools that can be applied to this unique organelle. Our findings should make an important step towards an unprecedented, thorough and multifaceted understanding of peroxisomes, their cellular geography and roles as well as their regulation when presented with various metabolic conditions. More broadly, the approaches presented here can be easily applied to study any organelle of choice, thus providing a conceptual framework in the study of cell biology.

Keywords: peroxisomes,saccharomyces cerevisiae,systematic,high content screens,protein protein interactions,genetic interactions,membrane contact sites,gfp library
DYNAMIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLIMATE RESILIENT ADAPTATION PACKAGES IN EUROPEAN REGIONS (IMPETUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Switzerland,Norway,Greece,Greece,Greece,Switzerland,Latvia,Latvia,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Climate-resilient Innovation Packages for EU regions (H2020-LC-GD-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16224768.85
EU funding (EUR): 14872468.129999999
Participants: 33
Project status: SIGNED

As climate change progresses irrevocably, urgent measures are needed for building resilience and adaptive capacity. In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, effective climate resilient regions cannot be built at expense of productive sectors, or without fair societal consensus. IMPETUS will develop and validate a coherent multi-scale, multi-level, cross-sectoral climate change adaptation framework to accelerate the transition towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy. IMPETUS Resilience Knowledge Boosters (RKBs) will build a robust Quintuple Helix stakeholders' community (human dimension) complemented with reliable data and assessment methods to support decision and policy making (digital dimension). This will result in a community empowerment to co-design, assess, deploy, and monitor climate adaptation Innovation Packages, including R&I methodological, technological, governance, awareness, behavioural, economic, financial and pathway components. IMPETUS RKBs will be deployed and validated in all 7 EU biogeographical regions (Continental, Coastal, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Arctic, Boreal, Mountainous) covering all Key Community Systems, climate threats, and multi-level governance. IMPETUS consortium is made of selected local, regional and national public authorities; R&D organisations; SMEs and large enterprises; and international organisations, to build upon, upscale and demonstrate a wide range of R&D solutions. IMPETUS has a clear earmark to ensure continuity after the project lifetime through consolidated and interconnected RKBs and communities at different scales.

Keywords: co creation,digital and human dimension,bio geographical regions,quintuple helix,nature based solutions,innovative technologies,funding and insurance,governance models,behavioural change
Technology and Political Change: Nuclear Power in the Post-Soviet Union (TechPolChange)

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: Spain
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-02-28
End date: 2019-02-27
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Focusing on the case of nuclear power in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine (1990-present), this research and training project analyzes the relationship between political elites, scientific experts and the public in the context of political change and incomplete democratization. The project will move beyond existing studies and analyze the co-evolution of risky technologies and political systems in transition. To date, research on political transition in Russia and Ukraine has not sufficiently taken into account science and technology (S and T). Similarly, the analysis of S and T has been disconnected from changes in political institutions and practices. This project will consider how Ukrainian and Russian policy makers and specialists have navigated new political circumstances and forms of public engagement to advance nuclear power programs. It will study how nuclear technologies are governed, how they are received in society, and evaluate public controversies over costly and potentially risky large scale technological systems. This research has relevance for Horizon 2020 concerning reliable and clean energy, as well as the impact of technopolitical change on the European periphery on Europe's energy, security and integration. The project will be based at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) under supervision of Albert Presas Puig, a specialist in the history of nuclear energy in Europe and in science under Francoism. It's integration into the UPF system will create synergies with scholars who study authoritarianism and science, nuclear power, European integration, and the public and science, and situate the Russian and Ukrainian experience into the larger European experience. The project includes undergraduate and graduate teaching in the domain of science, technology and politics; develops strategies with regard to academic writing and publishing and enables outreach of researcher's expertise both with academics and concerned citizens in European Union and its periphery.

Keywords: nuclear power,russia,ukraine,technopolitics,public understanding of science,public participation,sociotechnical controversies,technology and risk assessment,democratization,hybrid regimes
Stories of Tomorrow - Students Visions on the Future of Space Exploration (STORIES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Australia,Spain,Germany,Finland,Greece,Greece,Bulgaria,Greece,Greece,France,United States,Portugal
Call: Technologies for Learning and Skills (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2703375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2559625.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The STORIES project aims to contribute to a dynamic future of children’s ebooks evolution by a) developing user-friendly interfaces for young students (10-12 years old) to create their own multi-path stories expressing their imagination and creativity and b) by integrating the latest AR, VR and 3D printing technologies to visualize their stories in numerous innovative ways. In the heart of this intervention lies the vision for integrated curricula and deeper learning outcomes. The project will offer these innovations through a single environment, the STORIES Storytelling Platform which will be the place for students’ artistic expression and scientific inquiry at the same time. The creations of the students (paintings, models, dioramas and constructions, 3D objects and landscapes, animations, science videos and science theatre plays) will be captured and integrated in the form of interactive ebooks. The STORIES technical team will design advanced interfaces in which students will be able to augment characters, buildings, greenhouses and different 3D geometrical structures on a tablet or their computer and inspect their work using a mobile device. The outcome of their work will be detected and tracked, and the video stream is augmented with an animated 3D version of the character or the artefact. The platform will be tested in real settings in Germany, Greece, Portugal, France, Finland and Japan, involving 60 teachers and 3000 students (5th and 6th grade). To achieve this, the proposed project is developing a novel cooperation between creative industries and electronic publishing, educational research institutions in the field of STEM, schools and informal learning centres. The consortium includes 15 partners from Europe, USA, Japan and Australia. But STORIES is going beyond that: The consortium will cooperate in the design of the platform and in the development of the storyline mechanism with Eugene (Eugenios) Trivizas, well known writer of children's books.

Keywords: storytelling,e books,deeper learning students profiles in steam,technology enabled science education,student driven learning,virtual and augmented reality,3d printing,creativity
Sustainable Intelligent Mining Systems (SIMS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Sweden,Finland,Poland,Poland,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden
Call: Raw materials Innovation actions (H2020-SC5-2016-TwoStage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16139600.0
EU funding (EUR): 12709745.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Vision: The SIMS project aspires to create a long lasting impact on the way we test and demonstrate new technology and solutions for the mining industry. With a selected consortium ranging from mining companies, equipment and system suppliers to top-class universities, the SIMS project will boost development and innovation through joint activities aiming at creating a sustainable intelligent mining system. SIMS aims to develop, test and demonstrate new innovative technologies within the designated consortium, consisting of well developed mining operations, selected due to their maturity regarding innovative technologies, world-leading equipment and system suppliers, highly specialized SMEs and top-class universities. The consortium origins in the EIT Raw Materials partnership, and has joined for this proposal due to the common challenges and needs. Objectives: Efficiency - To increase resource efficiency and competitiveness Safety - To reduce the risk of rock falls and exposure of workers to hazardous situations Environment -To minimize environmental impact of mining operations Trust - To increase public trust, awareness and acceptance for mining. How: We address the call intelligent mining on land and aim to develop, test and demonstrate relevant technologies all aiming at realizing the vision of the intelligent mining system. To meet the project vision and support EU strategies as outlined in the call we have addressed the project objectives by selecting pilot test areas and tests that will support this. Relevance: Specific challenge Raw materials “Innovative pilot actions”: We will bring the most innovative new products in the area of mining and test these in a real life environment in the selected test mines. Addressing actions stated in: EIP-SIP Raw Materials Technology pillar 1A (priority area raw material research and innovation coordination), 1B (technology area for primary and secondary raw materials production).

Keywords: sustainable mines innovative pilots raw materials
Piezoelectronic Transduction Memory Device (PETMEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Norway,Finland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Generic micro- and nano-electronic technologies (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3998461.25
EU funding (EUR): 3340621.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Computer clock speeds have not increased since 2003, creating a challenge to invent a successor to CMOS technology able to resume performance improvement. The key requirements for a viable alternative are scalability to nanoscale dimensions – following Moore’s Law – and simultaneous reduction of line voltage in order to limit switching power. Achieving these two aims for both transistors and memory allows clock speed to again increase with dimensional scaling, a result that would have great impact across the IT industry. We propose to demonstrate an entirely new low-voltage, memory element that makes use of internal transduction in which a voltage state external to the device is converted to an internal acoustic signal that drives an insulator-metal transition. Modelling based on the properties of known materials at device dimensions on the 15 nm scale predicts that this mechanism enables device operation at voltages an order of magnitude lower than CMOS technology while achieving 10GHz operating speed; power is thus reduced two orders.

Keywords: piezoelectric,piezoresistance
MULTISCALE ANALYSIS OF PRECIPITATE IN Al-Cu ALLOYS (MAPAA)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2022-06-20
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Al-Cu alloys have a wide range of engineering applications due to their low density and high strength provide by a fine dispersion of nm-sized precipitates. The optimization of the mechanical properties of these alloys has been traditionally carried out through costly experimental “trial-and-error” approaches. In this project, a novel methodology is presented to determine the precipitate structure resulting from high temperature ageing and the resulting strength of the alloys from first principles calculations. The strategy is based in two main pillars. The first one is the determination of the Al-rich part of the Al-Cu phase diagram by means the construction of effective cluster expansion Hamiltonians that can extrapolate first-principles calculations in combination with statistical mechanics approaches based on Monte Carlo simulations to include the entropic contributions, enabling parameter-free predictions of the phase diagram. The second one is the combination of this information with phase field modeling to predict the homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation and growth of precipitates during high temperature ageing and with molecular dynamics and dislocation dynamics simulations to predict the strengthening provided by the precipitates. The approach developed in this proposal will improve the predictive power of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering in Al-Cu alloys. The applicant will transfer her expertise and international connection in the field of multiscale modelling to the host institute. She will work with researchers of the host institution to prompt new areas of research that can attract new funding and receive regular training on transferable skills. All these activities will enlarge her portfolio of skills and will ensure further development of her career.

Keywords: al cu alloys,phase diagram,first principles,statistical mechanics,effective hamiltonians,monte carlo,precipitate,phase field,molecular dynamics,dislocation dynamics
Visible Light-Mediated Synthesis of Nitrogen-Centered Radicals: New Reactivity via Photoredox Catalysis and Electron-Transfer Complexes (NCR)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nitrogen-containing molecules are among the most important class of compounds due to their relevance as medicines, agrochemicals, organic materials and dyes. Nitrogen-centered-radicals are a class of very versatile synthetic intermediates with great potential in the synthesis of N-containing molecules. However, to date, difficulties associated to their generation have severely limited their use and exploitation. Here we propose the development of two conceptually novel and general ways to prepare Nitrogen-centered radicals using visible light as sustainable and inexpensive source of energy. These processes will capitalize on recent developments in the host group that has disclosed the use of easy-to-make aryl oximes for the organocatalytic generation of iminyl radicals. This proposal seeks to substantially expand this visible light chemistry through the development of methods for the generation and use of any known Nitrogen-centered radical. The power of this approach will be demonstrated by the short synthesis of the complex molecule legionaminic acid, responsible for the spread of hospital-acquired infections. Furthermore, these methods will be integrated with other reaction platforms that, taking advantage of visible light as source of energy, will engage the Nitrogen-centered radical in new reactivity modes, to allow novel and powerful multicomponent reactions. Through the use of this strategy, the rapid construction of many relevant and complex N-containing molecules will be possible. The development of such an innovative and ambitious project at the University of Manchester will be facilitated by generating, transferring, sharing and disseminating knowledge, and will enhance my career development following the training plan envisioned.

Keywords: c n coupling,photocatalysis,nitrogen centered radicals,hydroamination,radical chemistry