Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Centre of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials (NANOMAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 892205.6
EU funding (EUR): 795550.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of the NANOMAT project is to build the research capacity in converging sciences and micro/nanosystems at the Research Centre for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Kaunas University of Technology (RCMN-KTU), to the highest European level and create a European Centre of Excellence in Nanostructured Materials. RCMN-KTU is a very promising European research organisation as demonstrated by its participation in five FP5 and FP6 networking projects in the fields of nanoscience and microsystems. The Centre of Excellence will be created through a range of capacity building activities derived from RCMN-KTU’s SWOT analysis. The activities will increase RCMN-KTU’s competitiveness and visibility in the most advanced topics of converging sciences and micro/nanosystems: 1. Nanostructures by ionic self-assembly of porphyrins; 2. Near field optical microscope for cells research; 3. Electro-mechanics of cells and biostructures; 4. Growth and formation of carbon nanotubes structures by chemical vapour deposition; 5. Development of gas sensors based on functionalized porphyrin nanotubes; and 6. Development of micromachined silicon cantilevers for scanning shear force microscopy applications. Central to the activities are twinning partnerships with 3 specialist research groups: Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, University of Bristol; Micro and Nanosciences Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology; and the National Centre for Microelectronics, Barcelona. RCMN-KTU will increase its human potential by hiring 3 young experienced Lithuanian researchers and organising training stages. RCMN-KTU will increase its technology potential by upgrading its existing scanning probe equipment by Nano-Raman,TERS, confocal microscopy and purchasing a controlled frequency synthesizer and ultra-high resolution frequency discriminator. Finally, the NANOMAT project addresses research priorities identified by the EU Technology Platforms MINAM and Nanomedicine as well as FP7 NMP and ICT Work Programmes.

Keywords: nanotubes,self-assembly,biocells,nanomechanics,scanning probe microscopy,snom,nanowires,nanoelectronics
Knowledge and Excellence in European Nanotechnology - Regions (KEEN-REGIONS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,France,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1110312.75
EU funding (EUR): 969999.96
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

EU Commissioner Janez Potonik stated that “nanotechnology is an area which has highly promising prospects for turning fundamental research into successful innovations.” The potential applications of nanotechnology are wide-ranging and rapidly increasing, demonstrating a field that has the potential to act as a powerful catalyst for economic development. To gain a competitive position in this exciting terrain and to foster industrial innovation, EU research infrastructures require more and more resources: multidisciplinary competencies, investments for up-to-date technical equipments, skilled HR, and strong links to the business community. To this end, many well-established research centres in Europe are working in research-driven clusters, aggregates of key-players who are not just researchers, but networks of competitive companies and public authorities. This is the case of Veneto Nanotech (Veneto), Minatec (Rhone-Alps) and Gaia (Basque Country) , which together control more than 200 M€ public investments, 2000 researchers, and 200 research laboratories. If these 3 clusters are to collaborate, combining and integrating their enormous wealth of resources to increase synergies and to complement one another, it will create a huge potential for research and economic development at the EU level. This is precisely the goal of KEEN (Knowledge and Excellence in European Nanotechnology)-Regions. A three-step approach (mapping and analysis of existing resources, interactive exchanges and mutual learning, and a focused integration process) will lead to a Joint Action Plan, constructed by all interested stakeholders. Following a bottom-up philosophy and utilising the direct involvement of Regional Authorities, the JAP will ensure a quick and comprehensive implementation. KEEN also aims to eventually expand beyond these 3 clusters, exchanging methodologies and strategies with other EU clusters.

Keywords: nanotechnology,research,economic development,clusters,research infrastructures,join regional policies
The Center for Antibody Production Rijeka: Upgrading the Central Research and Service Infrastructure for the South Eastern Region of Europe (CAPRI2010)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 775700.0
EU funding (EUR): 619770.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Center for Proteomics was established at the Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka in 2006 with focus on monoclonal antibodies (mAb) development for cutting-edge applications including proteome analysis. Since its inception, the Center has succeeded in establishing several high level scientific collaboration projects in the Region and EU. The most important project is aimed at the development of mAbs against the entire Varicella Zoster Virus proteome. The Center has now several hundred hybridoma cell lines at its disposal secreting mAbs to a large variety of target proteins. This collection will soon be made available to the scientific community. The Center is a member of "ProteomeBinders", an EU FP6 CA project, aimed at planning a resource of affinity reagents for analysis of the human proteome. Thus, the Center is strategically positioned to serve as a key resource for basic and clinical scientists in the Region and an important resource to the European scientific community. CAPRI2010 will extend the mission of the Center in order to attract scientists and enterprises from the Region and from the whole of Europe with interests in the fields of mAb technology and proteome analysis. It will enable the Center to achieve self sustainability on the long run. The key activities of CAPRI2010 consist in the establishment of new scientific collaboration in mAb development and application, e.g. in proteome analysis. Through the support intended by this REGPOT call, the entire region will benefit from the activities of the Center through (1) upgrading the infrastructural resources and (2) mobilizing human resources by providing special training and education. The Center is unique and will therefore optimally serve the development of research and technological potential in the South Eastern Europe through aggregation of knowledge and resources, thus enhancing the capacity and competitiveness of these countries to participate and contribute to future EU research projects.

Keywords: monoclonal antibodies,protein expression,proteomics,research infrastructure,human resources mobilization
KAM and innovation management improvement services for Lithuanian SMEs (SME Coach LT 2015)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Lithuania,Lithuania,Lithuania
Call: Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 83767.0
EU funding (EUR): 83767.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of SME Coach LT 2015 is to increase effectiveness and efficiency of investment in R&D and Innovation by enhancing innovation management capacity of Lithuanian SMEs -beneficiaries of the new dedicated SME instrument under Horizon 2020, and SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation. Specifically, the project will support SMEs - beneficiaries of the SME instrument- in identifying project-specific barriers and weaknesses and gaps in their innovation capacities that hinder realization of growth opportunities, and pointing to suitable coaches to address the identified weaknesses. The second specific objective is supporting SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential internationalization in enhancing their innovation management capacities. The proposed support concept differentiates between two types of support: the case level of the innovation project led by the SME - beneficiary of the SME instrument of the Horizon 2020 and in intervention at the corporate level (or "subject") in the case of companies having high innovation and internationalisation potential. The nature of barriers and challenges related to each situation is different. The Key Account Manager will support SMEs SME Instrument beneficiaries in identifying critical issues and gaps with regards to their innovation idea and guide them to relevant lead coach who will support the company throughout their innovation journey. The Key account Manager will use a holistic and dynamic business innovation model, supported by Business Innovation Roadmap Tool, available under Creative Commons License from smE-MPOWER network. When supporting companies having innovation and internationalization potential, but not part of SME instrument, we will use IMP3rove Academy’s diagnostic tool which measures the performance of the company’s innovation management system.

Keywords: coaching,sme instrument,innovation management
Dynamical magnetic excitations with spin-orbit interaction in realistic nanostructures (Dynasore)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1994879.0
EU funding (EUR): 1994879.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nano-spin-orbitronics is an emerging and fast growing field that aims at combining three degrees of freedom − spin, charge and spin-orbit interaction − to explore new nanotechnologies stemming from fundamental physics. New magnetic phases of matter are investigated using, in particular, atomic design to tailor beneficial physical properties down to the atomic level. Storage, transport and manipulation of magnetic information within a small set of atoms does not only require a fundamental understanding of their ground-state properties from the perspective of quantum mechanics, but crucially also their dynamical excited states. We propose to go beyond the state of the art by investigating from first-principles the dynamical properties of chiral spin textures in nanostructures from 2-dimensions to 0-dimension with these nanostructures being deposited on different substrates where spin-orbit interaction plays a major role. Understanding their response to external dynamical fields (electric/magnetic) or currents will impact on the burgeoning field of nano-spin-orbitronics. Indeed, to achieve efficient manipulation of nano-sized functional spin textures, it is imperative to exploit and understand their resonant motion, analogous to the role of ferromagnetic resonance in spintronics. A magnetic skyrmion is an example of a spin-swirling texture characterized by a topological number that will be explored. This spin state has huge potential in nanotechnologies thanks to the low spin currents needed to manipulate it. Based on time-dependent density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory, our innovative scheme will deliver a paradigm shift with respect to existing theoretical methodologies and will provide a fundamental understanding of: (i) the occurrence of chiral spin textures in reduced dimensions, (ii) their dynamical spin-excitation spectra and the coupling of the different excitation degrees of freedom and (iii) their impact on the electronic structure.

Keywords: chiral low dimensional magnets,magnetic nanodevices,dynamical magnetic excitations,spin orbit interaction
RESPONSE - to society and policy needs through plant, food and energy sciences (RESPONSE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Doctoral programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5695200.0
EU funding (EUR): 2847600.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

35 new ESRs will contribute through their inter-sectoral research to European coordinated efforts for stewardship in transformation to sustainable food systems, sustainable energy systems and to ensure sustainable land use. RESPONSE DP combines research with empowerment of ESRs to interact with stakeholders, policy-makers and the public to make sure that research is responsive to the needs of society. RESPONSE DP is unique: ESRs can choose a collaboration with a Partner Organisation at the science, -policy, -society interface or with private enterprises to take out their mandatory 1-12 months secondment. Co-supervision is provided during the fellowship through academic and non-academic partners. All ESRs will be enrolled in the curriculum of the existing and forefront PSC Doctoral Programme “Science and Policy”. Each ESR will contribute to one Stakeholder Meeting and one Citizen Consensus Conference. As part of the research process they learn how to address the values, needs and expectations of societal actors and how to co-create knowledge. In this new Doctoral Programme, ESRs will benefit from the research environments of 3 world-leading universities (ETH Zürich – beneficiary, Universities of Zurich and Basel – recruiting Partner Organisation) represented by their international renown centers: Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center (PSC, joint research center of ETH, UZH and UNIBAS), the World Food System Center (WFSC, ETH) and Energy Science Center (ESC, ETH) and of 15 non-academic Partner Organisation (9 EU public, 5 EU private, 1 non-EU public). RESPONSE DP will integrate 16 further non-recruiting Partner Organisations with proven co-supervision & secondment capacities in M1. RESPONSE DP implements the triple “i” dimension of doctoral training: international mobility of ESRs, inter-sectorial opportunities and the contribution to interdisciplinary research areas.

Keywords: sustainable energy and food systems,sustainable land use and agriculture,environmental science,soil ecosystem,plant production,responsible research and innovation,evidence based policy making
Decoding the Cancer Glycoproteome Driven Immune Response (GlyCANswer)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-15
End date: 2021-05-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174167.04
EU funding (EUR): 174167.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer continues to be the most formidable challenge in modern medicine and the second leading cause of deaths worldwide. However, in recent years, the treatment of unresectable cancer has undergone a paradigm shift with the advent of immunotherapy. Yet, despite the great progress in the field, the majority of cancer patients still do not respond to any of the available immunotherapeutics and no reliable biomarker exists to predict those patients that would benefit from it. In order to facilitate the development of new strategies for immunotherapy, and to identify improved predictive biomarkers for treatment response, the GlyCANswer project envisions to elucidate how the cancer glycoproteome dictates the immune response. The GlyCANswer project aims to unravel the interplay between the cancer cell glycoproteome and immune recognition in the two most frequent malignancies worldwide, namely lung and breast cancer. By using a combination of cutting-edge glycoproteomics, glycomics and immune profiling approaches in innovative mouse models and cell culture systems, the GlyCANswer project will 1) map the immunomodulatory glycosylation of cancer cells 2) explore the detailed mechanisms of glycan-mediated immune regulation 3) identify new biomarkers and provide new therapeutic targets for immune therapy.

Keywords: glycosylation,cancer model,immunology,glycoproteomics,immunotherapy
Music Processing for Cochlear Implants Based on Auditory and Neural Modelling (MUSICIAN)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243352.8
EU funding (EUR): 243352.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Cochlear implants (CIs) have been tremendously successful in restoring speech communication for deaf people. However, the enjoyment of music through CIs is still quite limited. The objective of the proposed project "MUSIc processing for Cochlear Implants based on Auditory and Neural modelling" (MUSICIAN) is to extract and transmit the most prominent features of music (rhythm, pitch, timbre) such that the listening effort of CI users is reduced and their music appreciation is improved. To this end, we propose to perform fundamental research into measuring and modelling the CI user's music perception and to develop improved processing methods capable of simplifying music signals to their most essential aspects. The project thus addresses the information bottleneck composed of the electrode array and its interface with the auditory nerve and will be help to reduce the perceived distortions of music in CI listeners. Within the proposed programme, two labs with extensive experience in signal processing and audiology, the Institute of Communication Acoustics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, (beneficiary residing in Bochum, Germany) and the Auditory Engineering Laboratory at McMaster University (partner organisation residing in Hamilton, Canada) will host the experienced researcher Dr. Anil Nagathil who is a pioneer in the development of music processing methods for CIs. The proposed interdisciplinary project will enable Dr. Nagathil to acquire knowledge from several scientific domains and to integrate this expertise into the methods of auditory modelling and music processing. The outcome of this project has substantial commercial impact and the potential to improve the quality of life of hundreds of thousand CI users worldwide.

Keywords: cochlear implants,music processing,hearing science
Smarter Grid: Empowering SG Market Actors through Information and Communication Technologies (SmarterEMC2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Türkiye,Türkiye,Greece,Greece,Greece,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Distribution grid and retail market (H2020-LCE-2014-3, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3751891.25
EU funding (EUR): 3072655.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Power systems undergo massive technological changes due to the ever increasing concerns for environmental and energy sustainability. The increase of RES and DG penetration is one of the main goals in Europe in order to meet the environmental targets. However these goals will require new business cases and must be based on innovative ICT tools and communication infrastructure. On parallel, following the M/490 EU Mandate, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI proposed a technical report describing the Smart Grid Reference Architecture and the Smart Grids Architecture Model (SGAM) framework. A key objective of new Research and Innovation projects should be to provide solutions and ICT tools compatible with the SGAM and the standardization activity in Europe. Such new projects should also support the standardization activity by proposing additions or changes related to their objectives. Another key issue to address is whether the existing telecommunication infrastructure is sufficient to support in mass scale the new business cases and Smart Grid services. SmarterEMC2 implements ICT tools that support Customer Side Participation and RES integration, and facilitate open access in the electricity market. These tools take into account the SGAM as well the future structure of the Distribution Network as described by the relevant EU bodies and organizations. The project supports standardization activity by proposing adaptation to data models of market-oriented standards (IEC 62325-351) and field level standards (IEC 61850). Moreover, the project is fully dedicated towards achieving a maximum of impact. To validate the proposed technologies, the project includes 3 real-world pilots and large-scale simulation in 3 laboratories. The former will demonstrate the impact of Demand Response and Virtual Power Plants services in the real world settings, while the latter will reveal the ability of the communication networks to support massive uptake of such services.

Keywords: active customer participation,demand response,virtual power plants,distributed energy resources