Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
INNOCOACH (INNOCOACH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Türkiye
Call: Peer learning of innovation agencies (H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2019-05, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are leading power of economy. To unlock their potential EU provides many instrument for them.EU funding programs are one of the most important ones as it promotes SMEs in very different ways. Innovation agencies have a vital role to promote SMEs competiveness through EU finding mechanism. If they have a structured way or methodology to transfer knowledge to SMEs, they will include more SMEs into the system which will bring many different skills and competences to SMEs, INNOCOACH will aim to improve coaching service mechanism for the EIC Pilot programs among innovation agencies through analyzing different methods and best practices around Europe. Within 12 months of period, INNOCOACH -made up of 3 organizations, including 1 chamber of commerce, 1 business Support organization and 1 innovation hub -, will develop the most effective ways of coaching on the new updated program in order to improve SMEs’ interest and satisfaction by exchanging good practices on coaching and providing sustainable synergy among related partners

Keywords: innovation,coaching
Patterns and management of ethnic relations in the Western Balkans and the Baltic States (MERWBKBS)

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: Estonia
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 136582.8
EU funding (EUR): 136582.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

‘Patterns and management of ethnic relations in the Western Balkans and the Baltic States’ This study will compare the management of ethnic relations in two Western Balkan states (Serbia and Croatia) with the management of ethnic relations in two Baltic republics (Latvia and Estonia). It will concentrate on: (a) the legal and institutional infrastructures on minority rights; (b) the impact of domestic and external actors on the management of ethnic relations. This research is placed inside the framework of the EU’s enlargement. Latvia and Estonia have been EU member-states since 2004. Croatia joined the EU in 2013 whereas accession negotiations with Serbia commenced in October 2011. By conducting research on two different post-Communist settings (two post-Yugoslav and two post-Soviet states) this comparative project will provide new insights in conflict resolution and the management of ethnic relations in the new and the aspiring EU member-states. Research questions: (a) How do the Western Balkan and Baltic models for managing ethnic relations compare to each other and to European standards? (b) How does the intersection between domestic and external actors impact on the management of ethnic relations in the Western Balkans and the Baltic States?

Keywords: minority rights,ethnic relations,nationalism,euroscepticism,international relations,geopolitics,european integration,multiculturalism,baltic states,western balkans
Understanding how selection for body weight in mouse operates at the RNA level (MICEXPRESS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to enhance our understanding of how genetic selection for body weight in mouse drives changes at the RNA level. This is a key point for quantitative genetics because a better knowledge of the genetic control of gene expression would imply a better prediction of changes in the regulatory networks and subsequently in the phenotype. Moreover, the biological insight gained by this understanding could, in turn, be used by the animal breeding industry to design more efficient breeding strategies. However, generally, genetic studies focus on understanding mean phenotypic differences among genotypes, although genes can also lead differences in the phenotypic variance between genotypes. Thus, this research will use a systems approach to model the genetic control of both, the mean and the variance of gene expression, and to identify regulatory networks than can be modified by selection. In addition, important environmental effects, such as maternal effects (e.g. uterine capacity), play an important role on the response to selection for growth in mammals. The second project aim is to elucidate how maternal effects shape the expression of genes and gain insight into the mechanisms underpinning gene by environment interactions. The recent emergence of high throughput technologies such as mRNA sequencing allows the study of the genetic and environmental makeup of cellular phenotypes. Furthermore, answering these questions require experimental designs and biological resources that are not usually available. The Roslin Institute has an extraordinary resource to carry out this research. After many generations of divergent selection for body weight multiple mouse lines were inbred, and kept inbred through brother-sister mating for over fifty generations. Four of these lines will be used in the current project. Hence, this project will capitalize on this extraordinary resource jointly with the emerging genomic tools for addressing these important questions.

Keywords: quantitative genetics,animal breeding,divergent selection experiments,gene expression,maternal effects,environmental variation,robustness,phenotypic variability,mice
Higher-Order Rewriting for Intensional Properties of Programs and Circuits (HORIP)

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: Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200194.8
EU funding (EUR): 200194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The HORIP project will employ higher-order term rewriting to characterise intensional program properties: properties concerned with "how" rather than "what" a program computes, such as complexity, compressibility and safety. Term rewriting is a formal system which can be used to specify algorithms. Unlike common programming languages, term rewriting has a simple, formal definition which admits non-determinism. Higher-order term rewriting is an extension therof, which shares these advantages but has greater expressivity. To analyse program properties, we may either use dedicated techniques, or translate queries into different fields, with term rewriting as a powerful option. In doing so, methods from widely different areas can be applied. HORIP aims to analyse intensional properties using higher-order term rewriting. The first phase will attack two lines of research ripe for success: implicit complexity and compiler correctness. For the former, the supervisor is an expert in complexity and the fellow in higher-order term rewriting. For the latter, we will work together with industry collaborator Dr. Rose, who develops the CRSX framework which seeks to describe compilers using a special form of higher-order term rewriting. Leveraging the expertise of all three parties and potential local collaborators, strong results are expected, especially since the higher-order setting avoids many intrinsic limitations of previous work. In the second phase, we extend these ideas to complexity and compressibility of logical circuits. This builds on the first year's experience with implicit complexity, and the expertise of the scientist-in-charge. HORIP is basic research, building on very recent advances from several international research groups. There are potential future business applications, as well as also purely theoretical goals. All results and related code will be published open source, so as to aid both basic and applied followup research.

Keywords: higher order term rewriting,intensional program properties,implicit complexity,logical circuits,compiler specification,crsx
Transcriptional characterization of human postnatal and adult neural progenitors and of the stem cell niches. (HUMANE)

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: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203852.16
EU funding (EUR): 203852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The presence of adult neurogenesis in humans spurs hope for brain regeneration and changed the view of the brain as an immutable structure. Adult neurogenesis was found in almost all mammals and was extensively studied in rodents. In spite of the vast knowledge accumulated in the field, data describing human adult neurogenesis is controversial. Several studies found neural progenitors in the human brain. Conclusive data was brought by the Frisén group via 14C birthdating, which showed ongoing neurogenesis in the hippocampus and striatum. Other studies based mostly on immunohistological methods and rodent neurogenesis markers, failed to identify neural progenitors in the adult human hippocampus and even questioned the existence of a stem cell niche. These conflicting reports are a clear indication that we need unbiased descriptive studies of human adult neurogenesis. The recent advances in sequencing technologies allow an in-depth transcriptome characterization at a cellular level, making possible an unbiased identification of neural progenitors and of neurogenic niches. The aim of this project is to show beyond doubt whether neural progenitors and stem cell niches are present in the adult human brain using unbiased, state-of-the-art sequencing methods. Furthermore, for the first time we will characterize the transcriptome of single postnatal and adult neurogenic progenitors and of the potential stem cell niches. Our study will not only show whether adult neurogenesis takes place in humans but will also generate tools that will lay the foundation for future studies, boosting the research in the field. Rodent studies showed that adult neurogenesis contributes to brain plasticity, cognitive flexibility and can constitute a future start for regenerative therapies. Thus, our results could open the road for using neurogenesis to fight against neurological disorders especially visible in the aging European society such as age related cognitive decline or depression.

Keywords: adult neurogenesis,neural progenitors,stem cell niche,transcriptome profiling,brain regeneration
A Web Platform for Forecasting Species Climatic Vulnerability (VULNERAWEB)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Reliable Forecasts of species’ Climatic Vulnerability (FCV) are key to attain objectives in the horizon 2020 program. However, the complexity of FCV, and the massive amount of data needed for it, defy current approaches and data availability. State-of-the-art forecasts use measures of species’ thermal tolerance and of their ability to avoid overheating environments. Still, these models rely on two central premises. First, that a single combination of temperature and time of exposure will induce population declines. Yet, myriads of combinations of temperature and time of exposure can actually kill the individuals of a population. A second premise is that known parameters of thermal tolerance can identify thermal limits for the geographic distribution of species. Finally, whether these premises are true or not, most species lack the data needed to model their vulnerability to climate change. During this project, I will apply, for first time, the concepts of the Thermal Death Curve (TDC) and the Voluntary Thermal Maximum (VTM) to improve forecasts. The TDC represents all the potential combinations of temperature and time that causes population damage and the VTM represents a temperature objectively identified by the organisms as stressful. My preliminary analyses have shown that these tools multiply the power of produced forecasts and prevent dramatic biases introduced by more traditional parameters. Secondly, I will test, on a global scale, whether the known limits of animal’s geographic distributions are set by known measures of their thermal tolerance. Finally, to channel global efforts to the collection of the necessary species data and the generation of robust forecast, I will create an online platform to engage experts in climatic vulnerability world-wide through an action-reward system. This web platform will guide the collection and curation of relevant data, and deliver FCV using the best models available and international expert advice

Keywords: climate warming,extinction,lizards,ectotherms,thermal biology,biogeography,vulnerability
Metabolites Inducers of Cross-tolerance to Biotic Stress (MICROBIS)

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-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-15
End date: 2023-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ensuring food security and accessibility represents a global challenge since world population grows exponentially while crop quality and productivity is restricted by limitations on arable areas and increasing incidence of stress conditions due to climate change. Plant pathogens are major threats for optimal crop yield and preservation of the harvest. Although plant immune responses are well characterised in isolation, pathogen infections frequently occur in combination with other stress conditions. Importantly, the outcome of plant-pathogen interactions under combinatorial stress is unpredictable as the operating molecular mechanisms differ from those triggered under each individual stressor. Certain abiotic stressors ultimately confer resilience to subsequent pathogen infection, i.e. cross-tolerance, however the network of molecular events involved remains undeciphered. Recent studies suggested that metabolites could retain stress memory and modulate combinatorial stress responses, but their potential role in cross-tolerance has been barely investigated. Hence, this MSCA is aimed at identifying changing metabolites after abiotic stress periods that enhance plant tolerance to pathogens. To this end, comprehensive conditions and time-courses for sequential stress will be defined to cultivate Arabidopsis thaliana plants under frequent abiotic stressors, namely drought and temperature shifts, followed by pathogen challenge. Subsequently, metabolome changes will be profiled and systemically analysed to retrieve central features. The biological relevance of candidates will be assessed in planta. Finally, artificial intelligence algorithms will be applied to select species of agronomic interest that metabolically respond to sequential stress as Arabidopsis does and thus initiate translation of cross-tolerance strategies into crops. Consequently, this MSCA will contribute to the development of new strategies to ensure food security under current climate change conditions.

Keywords: plant combinatorial stress,cross tolerance,plant pathogen,priming
Safe and easy retrofit with energy efficient LED-tubes (SEREEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-03
End date: 2019-08-02
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

LED is an energy-saving trend in lighting technology and offers more and more solutions to replace the fluorescent tube. Unfortunately, the change from these tubes to LED-tubes is much more difficult than the replacement of light bulbs by LED bulbs. This resulted in a trend which is a waste of resources and harmful to the environment: The whole luminaire (light fitting including casing, glass etc.) is disposed and replaced by an ‘integrated LED luminaire’ which has to be replaced in 5-7 years. We have more than 2300 Mio. fluorescent tubes in Europe. This trend produces a giant pile of expensive electronic scrap and wastes money. Our company is going to change the game: We developed a tiny box which allows to upgrade a luminaire for fluorescent tubes to an efficient LED-luminaire which works with 230V LED-tubes. Earlier, this modification was critical for safety reasons. After the modification, an inadvertently inserted fluorescent tube would blast if there was not our innovation: The patented M OLED®-Box solves the safety issue and allows electricians to retrofit the existing luminaire without the risk of injury of the users. The necessary re-certification is easy, because the M OLED®-Box is a certified component and our company delivers a helpful how-to manual in the electricians national language. The modification itself only needs 5-10 minutes. The M OLED®-Box (made in EU) has a market price of approx. € 15.-. The production is rather simple and the business model can be scaled up quickly. The potential market size is € 1000 Mio / yr. In Phase 1, the project goal is to survey the targeted markets France, Poland, Spain, Sweden and UK. Together with Austria and Germany they build starting points to conquer the whole European market. The information obtained is the base for the feasibility study. The business model will be based on distribution partners. The production is outsourced to suppliers in the EU where we have access for strict quality control.

Keywords: waste prevention,energy saving,lighting,retrofit,safety at work
Martí Franquès COFUND Doctoral Programme Special Needs Allowance (MFP-SNA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: MSCA Special Needs Allowance (H2020-IBA-MSCA-SNLS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-15
End date: 2022-08-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12850.0
EU funding (EUR): 12850.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Request of financial support to cover the additional costs that researchers/staff members with disabilities face due to the increased costs of their mobility and/or to ensure necessary assistance by third persons or for adapting their work environment.

Keywords: social care,care services,care providers
The Division of Ethics from Political Philosophy: Kant and Baumgarten on Right, Virtue, and Justice (DEKANT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ethics and political philosophy are integral to human individual activities and social interactions, and yet modern philosophy since Immanuel Kant has reinforced the separation of these two domains. DEKANT aims to resolve the confusion in the intellectual foundation of ethics and show how it can reclaim its interrelation with political philosophy. It will achieve this aim by analysing the long-neglected, yet significant, influence of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten on Kant’s division of ethics from political philosophy, or what Kant calls the ‘doctrine of virtue’ from the ‘doctrine of right’. Although, over the past 20 years, philosophers have struggled to understand why Kant separated so clearly between the two domains, we still do not have a complete grasp of this separation. The key to understanding this separation is the conceptual apprehension of Baumgarten’s legacy in Kant’s philosophy. By filling the knowledge gap and gathering fresh insights into an important but neglected figure in the history of philosophy, we can gain an improved understanding of a crucial distinction in Kant’s philosophy. DEKANT’s hypothesis is that this new understanding proves the advantage of a unified model of ethics for resolving concrete contemporary problems. By contrast to Kant’s dualist model of ethics/political philosophy in which the concept of justice is employed in the domain of the ‘doctrine of right’ alone, Baumgarten’s unified model of ethics, which includes both ethical and political theory, centrally incorporates the concept of justice. Analysing the influence of Baumgarten on Kant will thus show that developing a refined concept of justice is important for answering the questions arising from the tension between ethics and political philosophy. Working closely with Professor Reidar Maliks, a world-renowned expert in Kant and contextual methods, DEKANT will establish me as a leading scholar and enable me to obtain a tenured position in philosophy.

Keywords: immanuel kant,ethics,moral philosophy,political philosophy,right,virtue,justice,alexander gottlieb baumgarten,value theory,philosophy of law,early modern philosophy,politics