Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Terahertz Photonics for Communications, Space, Security, Radio-Astronomy, and Material Science (TERAOPTICS)

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: Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Lithuania,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3974527.44
EU funding (EUR): 3974527.44
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching objective of TERAOPTICS is to provide high-level training in the field of THz Photonics to a new generation of high achieving early stage researchers to provide them an inspiring research program and intellectual, scientific, technical and transferable skills trainings to enhance their career opportunities in academia and industry and to create the new generation of excellent, creative and risk-taking researchers and engineers. This goal will be achieved by a unique, internationally renowned, interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial network of academic and non-academic beneficiaries and partners providing both formal (workshop-style) and informal (hands-on) research training in a most stimulating professional environment, non-academic placements and scientific conferences.

Keywords: photonics,terahertz,integrated photonics
New Mobility Data and Solutions Toolkit (nuMIDAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Belgium,Greece,Czechia,Netherlands
Call: Advanced research methods and tools in support of transport/mobility researchers, planners and policy makers (H2020-MG-2020-SingleStage-INEA, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499728.75
EU funding (EUR): 1499728.75
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The mobility ecosystem is rapidly evolving, whereby we see the rise of new stakeholders and services. Examples of these are the presence of connected and automated vehicles, a large group of organisations that rally to establish various forms of share mobility, with the pinnacle being all of these incorporated into a large Maas ecosystem. As these new forms of mobility offerings start to appear within cities, so do the new ways in which data are being generated, collected, and stored. Analysing this (Big) data with suitable (artificial intelligence) techniques becomes more paramount, as it leads to insights in the performance of certain mobility solutions, and is able to highlight (mobility) needs of citizens in a broader context, in addition to a rise in new risks and various socio-economic impacts. Successfully integrating all these disruptive technologies and solutions with the designs of policy makers remains a challenge at current. let alone being able to analyse, monitor and, assess mobility solutions and their potential socio-economic impacts. nuMIDAS bridges this (knowledge) gap, by providing insights into what methodological tools, databases, and models are required, and how existing ones need to be adapted or augmented with new data. To this end, it starts from insights obtained through (market) research and stakeholders, as well as quantitative modelling. A wider applicability of the project’s results across the whole EU is guaranteed as all the research is validated within a selection of case studies in pilot cities, with varying characteristics, thereby giving more credibility to these results. Finally, through an iterative approach, nuMIDAS creates a tangible and readily available toolkit that can be deployed elsewhere, including a set of transferability guidelines, thus thereby contributing to the further adoption and exploitation of the project’s results.

Keywords: trends,concepts,methods and tools,data,solutions,toolkit
Advanced Protein-Based Materials for Cartilage Repair (ChondroGEL)

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: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a type of joint disease that results from breakdown of cartilage and subsequent damage to the underlying bone. Polymeric biomaterials have rapidly expanded to promote cell differentiation and tissue regeneration, and are uniquely placed to provide sophisticated solutions for the treatment of OA. Among them, hydrophilic, biocompatible 3D networks, called hydrogels, represent the gold standard for tissue regeneration, owing to their high-water content and tuneable mechanical properties. However, incorporation in hydrogels of proteins and growth factors that are essential to induce tissue differentiation, is not trivial. By merging advanced hydrogel technology and cutting-edge cell biology research, we propose to develop a novel in situ protein-based crosslinked hydrogel system based on chondrogenic bioconjugates for controlled cellular differentiation. This unique approach allows for non-surgical administration of hydrogels with controlled and tuneable mechanical properties that retain their protein cargo at the treatment site. Furthermore, as the hydrogel is directly built from the required growth factors, even distribution throughout the macromaterial is ensured. This new treatment modality will allow for both short-term relief of pain through mechanical support of the inflamed joint, while providing important biological cues for the differentiation of administered stem cells into chondrocytes for cartillage repair. Furthermore, the implementation of a fluorescence life-time imaging microscopy (FLIM) approach for monitoring changes in cell behaviour will allow for rapid identification of lead materials significantly earlier in the development pipeline than is currently available through conventional methods. While this work is focused on developing hydrogels for cartilage repair, it is envisaged that the knowledge and experience gained throughout this project will allow for other therapeutic targets to be explored in the future.

Keywords: hydrogels,stem cell therapy,cell differentiation,cartilage regeneration
Brain growth under social pressure: mathematical modelling of brain growth when individuals face social challenges (SocialBrain)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-10-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Growing and maintaining a large brain entails substantial energetic costs. A large brain can evolve if costs are compensated by benefits from associated cognitive abilities. Leading hypotheses for brain evolution consider benefits arising from the solution of ecological and social problems. However, progress has been hindered by the unavailability of mathematical theory generating testable hypotheses from known causes. I will develop testable mathematical models that yield quantitative predictions for brain mass through ontogeny when individuals evolve under social pressures. The goal is to assess the relative role of the social and ecological hypotheses in brain evolution, particularly in humans. I will formulate the models using elements of metabolic theory and life history theory, and the analysis will require methods from optimal control and differential game theory. This is a strongly interdisciplinary research project, and I will ensure its success by working with leaders in the respective fields of social evolution theory (Dr Andy Gardner, St Andrews), cognition (the world-class multi-departmental team at St Andrews), and differential game theory (Prof Maurizio Falcone, Sapienza). This work thus brings together a diversity of state-of-the-art elements and proposes an innovative, challenging, and important project, to produce a novel and readily usable tool to study brain evolution.

Keywords: brain evolution,evolutionary biology,life history,mathematical modelling,differential games,metabolic theory of ecology
Establishing the value and business model for sustainable eHealth services in Europe - VALUeHEALTH (VALUeHEALTH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Methods and data
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Belgium,Switzerland,Belgium,France,France,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: eHealth interoperability (H2020-PHC-2014-single-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999818.13
EU funding (EUR): 849755.63
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

VALUeHEALTH will establish how eHealth interoperability can create and deliver value for all stakeholders, for a sustainable market in scaling up cross-border services. We will develop an evidence-based business plan for interoperability, beginning with CEF support and then sustainable revenue streams for developing and operating self-funding priority pan-European eHealth Services beyond 2020. Our rich multi-stakeholder consortium of experienced partners and funded experts will fuse many essential viewpoints to action the work and importantly endorse and champion our business plan to ensure sustainability of the CEF beyond 2020. Starting with use cases already proposed for the CEF by the eHealth Network, we will adopt a robust methodology to prioritise additional use cases relevant to Member States for cross-border and also within border health needs. We will design a business model and multiple stakeholder Value Propositions for European-scale interoperability, construct the multisided market needed to sustain investments in CEF services and perform Cost Benefit Assessment and risk assessments. We will analyze costs for delivering the prioritised use cases, developing and maintaining the required assets and derive a costed deployment roadmap for generic and healthcare-specific services. We will provide a gap analysis of standards, specifications and translations plus their priority and estimated cost. We will collate success strategies for promoting EHRs, and of organisational changes needed to capitalise on richly interoperable EHRs, as a roadmap of scale-up adoption strategies, incentives and funders. Finally, we will integrate and validate these results in a definitive Business Plan and Sustainability Strategy for public-private investment in digital eHealth services, as clear guidance to the CEF on how it may construct its digital service infrastructure Building Blocks for health, to ensure maximum value and optimal sustainability beyond 2020.

Keywords: interoperability,architecture,standards,services,electronic health record,use case,value proposition,business plan,cost benefit assessment,roadmap,adoption strategy,connecting europe facility
Policies, Innovation And Networks for enhancing Opportunities for China Europe Water Cooperation (PIANO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Austria,Sweden,China,France,Denmark,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Strategic cooperation partnerships (H2020-WATER-2014-one-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1107375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1107375.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of PIANO is to create a strategic cooperation partnership for water research and innovation between Europe and China, promoting the creation of networks of companies (including SMEs), entrepreneurs, not for profit organisations, policy makers, regulators and funding bodies to create business and social opportunities for China Europe Water Cooperation. PIANO will contribute to and is endorsed by the China Europe Water Platform (CEWP), and its 10 active EU Member States. First, PIANO will strengthen the existing CEWP network to create a comprehensive China Europe water research and innovation network. Second, based on a comparative analysis of the water innovation landscape in Europe and China, PIANO will identify European technological water innovations with potential for implementation and replication in China. In addition, PIANO will identify opportunities for joint development to address water challenges, where both Europe and China lack market ready technological water innovations. Third, PIANO will identify drivers and barriers for implementation and replication of technical innovations. PIANO will also identify strategies to overcome obstacles and take advantage of drivers, to facilitate creation of business opportunities. Fourth, PIANO will promote knowledge exchange and a policy dialogue to create an enabling environment for the uptake of technological water innovations. Fifth, PIANO will develop a shared strategic research and innovation agenda between Europe and China in the water sector. PIANO will align with current and future strategic initiatives to optimise opportunities for the EU and China across the water sector. To ensure success and achieve high impact, PIANO will be executed by a consortium of 9 leading European partners from both public and private sectors. Also, 13 leading Chinese partners are active PIANO participants, including the Ministries of Water Resources and of Environmental Protection.

Keywords: none
Information Content of locAlisation: fRom classical to qUantum Systems (ICARUS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to study quantum dynamics in the presence of disorder, and specifically the Anderson and many-body localization transition to a phase where transport and thermalization are absent. Localization in quantum systems has both deep fundamental implications in many different fields and exciting practical applications in quantum technology. In this action the researcher, who is experienced in the statistical physics of quantum disordered systems, will address in a novel and timely way this topic. She aims to improve understanding of it with a three-fold approach: a quantum information experimental effort; new theoretical tools coming from the study of random matrices and the physics of glassy systems; and a joint work with a non-academic entity on numerical methods that use artificial neural networks for the classification of the localized phase. She will perform this work in the perfectly suited environment of the Thermodynamics and Energetics of Quantum Systems research group at Trinity College Dublin.

Keywords: many body localization,quantum information,jamming transition,random matrix theory,neural networks
Spreading Whose Word? Transnational Imams, Religion and Politics in Turkey’s Mosques Abroad (France, UK, USA) (TRANSIMAMS)

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: United States,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269857.8
EU funding (EUR): 269857.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Since the early 2000s, Muslim Diasporas in Europe and the USA have raised a growing interest in the public and academic spheres. While building upon this interest, the proposed research aims to bring an original contribution to the field by adopting a transnational perspective that focuses on the religious policy of Turkey towards its diaspora. The study will concentrate on the imams sent to Europe and the USA to work in the mosques managed by the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). The ethnographic study of these “transnational imams” aims to go beyond a state-centered analysis of Turkish religious policy abroad in terms of “soft power” or “religious diplomacy”. Instead, it proposes to evaluate the modalities and limits of this policy by concentrating on the training, motivations, mobility and achievements of these imams, as well as the ways they are perceived by different components of the Turkish diaspora, with special focus on France, the UK and the USA. The interdisciplinary approach at the crossroad of political science, sociology and anthropology will address the political and religious dimensions of the ideology conveyed by the Diyanet imams and question their impact on the Turkish communities settled abroad, in terms of religious practices, political affiliation, integration and possible radicalisation. The comparative perspective will take into account the history and social characteristics of these distinct Turkish diasporas and the different traditions of state/religion relationship in the three countries under study to analyse the strategies of the Diyanet and evaluate its results. Thus, by focusing on Turkey’s religious policy abroad, the proposed study aims to bring an original contribution on political Islam as a transnational ideology that mobilises state resources, religious establishments and local communities to spread a polymorphous political and religious discourse.

Keywords: turkey,politics of religion,political islam,transnational ideologies,integration
Comprehensive anatomical, genetic and functional identification of cerebellar nuclei neurons and their roles in sensorimotor tasks (CN Identity)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1400000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1400000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How does the brain integrate diverse sensory inputs and generate appropriate motor commands? Our cerebellum is a key region for such a sensorimotor processing, empowered by its sophisticated neural computation and constant communication with other brain regions. The well-timed cerebellar information is integrated and funneled to other brain regions through the cerebellar nuclei (CN). Yet, how CN circuitry contributes to the cerebellar control of sensorimotor processing is unclear. My recent work indicates that the CN activity serves various functions ranging from the online motor control, the amplitude amplification of cerebellar outputs to the control of motor planning. Given these advances, I am now in a unique position to decipher the properties of CN neurons and identify their specific roles in different forms of sensorimotor processing. It is my central hypothesis that depending on the specific demands of the task, CN neurons can either facilitate or suppress the activity of downstream regions with millisecond precision; and the anatomical, genetic and functional properties of CN neurons are tailored to the particular task involved. To test this hypothesis, I will 1) identify the activity patterns of different CN modules during the acquisition and execution of two sensorimotor tasks and characterize the relevant extra-cerebellar inputs to these modules; 2) identify the connectivity-transcription logic of different CN modules and link them to their task-specific outputs; and 3) examine the impacts of manipulating anatomically and/or genetically defined CN neurons on the downstream regions during different sensorimotor tasks. I will accomplish these key objectives by developing various novel electrophysiological, optogenetic, molecular and imaging techniques. My research is likely to break new ground, demonstrating that the identity of CN neurons is determined by their differential temporal demands of sensorimotor tasks controlled by different brain structures.

Keywords: cerebellar nuclei,sensorimotor processing,cortico cerebellar loop
Dye-Based Metallo-Supramolecular Cages for Molecular Recognition, Catalysis and Biomedical Applications (DyeMetalloCage)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-13
End date: 2024-01-13
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The training program DyeMetalloCage(DMC) is an ambitious and well-designed project that has been conceived to make a ground-breaking impact within the interdisciplinary field of self-assembly, material science, nanochemistry, catalysis and biomedicine. This project is aimed at bringing metallo-supramolecular chemistry to unprecedented levels of applicability, developing novel assemblies constructed through supramolecular tools as new material for technology and biologically relevant functions. The proposal is focused on the preparation of cutting-edge metello-supramolecular assemblies based on subphthalocyanines, BODIPYs, and azaBODIPYs, and the study of their abilities to: (1) Behave as molecular receptors for the complexation of different fullerene derivatives in aqueous medium; (2) modify the reactivity and the kinetics of addition reactions over fullerenes in the interior of the cage; and (3) behave as supramolecular amphiphilic photosensitizers for biomedical applications. The applicant will gain new knowledge during the fellowship at the host organization. The training provided by the program will contribute to improve the development of his career in a number of ways. The highly multidisciplinary aspect of this project proposal will allow interaction with various experienced and young researcher different fields, including chemistry, physical chemistry and biochemistry. This will make a two-year long MSCA fellowship in the host group into an invaluable preparation for an independent professional career in academia or industry in near future. The training offered by the host group is of the highest quality, which is translated into the achievements and track record of former Ph.D. and postdoctoral students.

Keywords: subphthalocyanines,bodipys,molecular flasks,host guest,photodynamics therapy