Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Driving Investment in Energy Efficiency through Energy Savings Insurance in Europe (ESI Europe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Portugal
Call: Innovative financing schemes (H2020-EE-2017-CSA-PPI, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2258921.25
EU funding (EUR): 2258921.25
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims to replicate the successful Energy Savings Insurance (ESI) model in the three highest potential countries in Europe – Italy, Portugal and Spain, train key market stakeholders, and deliver an ESI Europe Toolkit alongside a long-term business model to enable the broader roll out of the ESI Europe model in other European countries. The ESI model, developed by Stiftung BASE, consists of financial and non-financial mechanisms designed to work together to improve the risk-return profile of EE investments and overcome the associated barriers. The ESI model targets small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and creates the conditions for them to upgrade specific old inefficient technologies to new EE technologies. The ESI model presents a proven and unique market based approach that makes use of distribution channels and products that are already available on the market. The ESI model has been successfully implemented in Colombia and Mexico, and is currently being developed or planned in a further ten countries in Latin America and Asia. ESI has been recognized as one of the most promising instruments to mobilize private sector investments in EE. This proposal brings together a consortium of key players needed to implement the model in the three target countries, to distribute the outcomes and ESI Europe Toolkit across Europe, and to ensure sustainability and further outreach of outcomes. The expected impacts include (i) to have trained and increased capacity of 1,665 stakeholders after lifetime of the project; (ii) to have mobilised between €978.6m and €1,711m private investment in EE projects within six years of project start; and (iii) to generate corresponding primary energy savings of between 1,582 and 2,766 GWh/year after six years of project start.
INtersensory Cooperation in phonological DEvelopment (INCODE)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-04
End date: 2023-07-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal investigates the functional role of sensorimotor maturation in two early phonological achievements: phonological specialization (partA) and the emergence of early processing biases (PartB). PartA: Two groups of 10.5-to-12.5-month-olds will undertake two fNIRS experiment following Minagawa-Kawai et al. (2007) with a major modification: one group of infant will complete the task with Early-Learned (own) phonemes (Experiment 1); the other with Late-Learned (non-own) phonemes (Experiment 2). For each infant, we will collect two indexes of linguistic/oral sensorimotor development. The statistical analyses (ANOVAs/Linear Mixed Models) will assess whether these indexes predict, for each experiment: (i) early neurofunctional markers of phonological specialization; (b) the degree of activation in frontal-motor areas. PartB: Four groups of 6.30-to-7.30-month-olds will undertake an adapted version of the Conflict Task in Nishibayashi & Nazzi (2016). Each group will be composed by infants already producing consonants (C-prods) and infants not yet producing consonants (Non-C-prods). Each group will be assigned to one of the following conditions: (1) test of own sensorimotor knowledge: the participants will perform the conflict task; the analyses will assess whether a difference is observed between C-producers vs Non-C-producers; (2, 3, 4) Test of own and administrated sensorimotor knowledge: the participants will perform the conflict task wearing a mouth-toy that either (2) enhances, (3) inhibits or (4) is neutral with respect to the movements underlying the test items' production. The statistical analyses (ANOVAs/Linear Mixed Models) will assess if the production-status of the participants predict the emergence of the C-bias. This will be the first experiment to evaluate the effects of mouth-toys on participants endowed with different levels of sensorimotor development: will mouth-toys have the same effect on infants endowed with higher/lower sensorimotor skills?

Keywords: contribution of the sensorimotor system to speech perception,phonological acquisition,sensory contributions to speech and language development
Responsible Research and Innovation Ecosystems at Regional Scale for Intelligent Cities, Transport and Energy (RRI2SCALE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Integrate society in science and innovation issues, policies and activities in order to integrate citizens' interests and values and to increase the quality, relevance, social acceptability and sustainability of research and innovation outcomes in various fields of activity from social innovation to areas such as biotechnology and nanotechnology
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Italy,Norway,Greece,Belgium,Greece,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Supporting the development of territorial Responsible Research and Innovation (H2020-SwafS-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2009981.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999775.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

EU territorial authorities are tasked with a significant, yet extremely challenging task: to develop and implement successful regional R&I policies that spearhead sustainable development and economic growth, while simultaneously advancing inclusiveness and quality of life (Regional Dilemma). RRI2SCALE has designed a robust methodological approach to assist regional R&I governance systems to effectively and sustainably address the Regional Dilemma. RRI2SCALE sets from the identification of how RRI is currently integrated within regions [Hordaland (NO), Overijssel (NL), Kriti (GR) and Galicia (ES)], what the key constituting elements of territorial R&I ecosystems are, what citizens think of the way RRI and R&I ecosystems interact and what their suggestions for future improvements are. This insight is triangulated with future trends on smart and intelligent cities, transport and energy as key drivers for regional sustainable development and growth (identified via Delphi), to result in techno-moral scenarios depicting potential R&I trajectories and consequent impacts on policy, socioeconomic and environmental level. The scenarios will be “tested” via JRC’s Scenario Exploration System and Regional Dialogues. Their outcomes will form the basis for the elaboration of Regional Agendas and Roadmaps that will describe the concrete steps to be taken towards the integration of RRI principles into territorial R&I design. All activities, outcomes and impacts will be closely monitored by the RRI2SCALE Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, which will include a set of customised indicators for mapping the impact pathways between regional innovation and RRI. All project results, together with a training compendium on how to perform the project activities, will form the RRI2SCALE Toolkit for replication by other territories. A Memorandum of Collaboration will be signed by all regions (participating/interested), to further the sustainability of the project’s outcomes.

Keywords: research and innovation,ecosystem,societal actors,territorial development,regional development,regional authorities,science,technology and innovation,governance relations,monitoring
Bacteriocins Impact on Obesity and MicrobiotA (BIOMA)

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: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Alterations of the gut microbiota are implicated as a contributory factor in obesity-related metabolic dysregulation. Bacteriocins are antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria of many genera, including several probiotic strains. These peptides are often very specific and can kill target species without causing collateral damage to host bacterial populations. Since bacteriocins are gaining credibility as precise modulators of the human microbiome, bacteriocin-producer strains are an interesting strategy to address obesity prevention and/or treatment. However, rigorous experimental methods are required to assess this. The aim of BIOMA is to study the impact of a set of different bacteriocin-producing strains with probiotic traits, on the composition of the gut microbiota and on metabolic abnormalities in obesity, through the use of wild type strains and derived mutants that no longer produce the bacteriocins. The proposal involves two complementary approaches: 1) In vitro fermentation systems that simulates the anaerobic and dynamic environment of the distal colon will be used to assess the effect of bacteriocins production on taxonomic profiles and diversity of gut microbial populations. 2) In vivo male and female murine models will be used to study changes in microbiota and whether these changes are associated with a reduction in body weight gain and an improvement in inflammatory and metabolic profiles. A secondment at Artugen (interface of academia and industry) will be a first step to face the challenging incorporation of bacteriocin-producing probiotics into foods and pharmabiotics. From a clinical perspective, the under-utilization of bacteriocins can be ascribed to a lack of awareness of what they can achieve. The outcome of BIOMA will impact clinical practice in the foreseeable future, providing an overview of the potential of bacteriocins as microbiota modulators and as a possible strategy in the prevention/management of obesity and metabolic disorders.

Keywords: bacteriocins,microbiome,gut microbiota,lactic acid bacteria,obesity,microbial diversity
From School to Career: Towards A Career Perspective on the Labor Market Returns to Education (CAREER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499422.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499422.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Technological changes and the automation of occupational tasks present societies with a challenge: Is it still sensible to provide students with occupation-specific (vocational) education? Or are students with general educational qualifications better equipped for the future, given that what is demanded in the labor market is under rapid change? While a large literature has shown that graduates with vocational training have a comparatively smooth transition from school to work, it has exclusively focused on the early career. We do not know how and why labor market outcomes vary over the life course, or how careers are affected by changing labor markets. CAREER investigates how labor market demands change, and how these changes in the macro context affect individual workers. It takes an innovative career perspective to study how and why labor market returns to vocational and general education vary over the life cycle. Its core hypothesis is that vocational graduates have a late-career disadvantage because their occupation-specific skills hinder labor market mobility, particularly when labor market demands alter quickly. CAREER is a comparative project, and studies six countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Using computational methods on unique data of millions of historical job vacancy texts, we describe how labor markets are changing. Relying on high quality panel data we map how careers of vocational and general graduates develop in changing labor markets. Using interviews, and factorial experiments we expose the theoretical mechanisms that drive career effects. By extending the observation window from the early to the full career, CAREER shows how workers with specific or general qualifications perform in rapidly changing labor markets. This will not only enrich our understanding of the link between education and the labor market, it will also inform policy makers on a future-proof education system.

Keywords: social stratification,education,occupations,labor market
Building Distinct Actin Filament Networks in a Common Cytoplasm (SegregActin)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The ability of cells to use the actin cytoskeleton for a diversity of cellular processes is due to the fact that actin filaments, although assembled from identical subunits, are organized in a wide variety of structures of appropriate geometrical, dynamical and rheological properties. Key players in this regulation are specific sets of actin binding proteins (ABPs) interacting with each actin networks, to modulate spatially and temporally their properties. With this project, I want to understand 1/ how cells can generate the formation of actin structures of appropriate ABP composition from a common pool of cytoplasmic components and 2/ the relationship between the ABP composition of an actin network, its geometrical and dynamical properties, and its response to mechanical deformations. I will hypothesize that the generation of an actin network of appropriate ABP composition can be explained with an original model, taking into account the facts that 1/ actin filaments in cells are not all structurally identical, but adopt specific conformations that are favored and stabilized by certain families of ABPs; and 2/ the interaction of ABPs with actin depends of the geometrical organization of the filaments. Because this project imposes to study protein-protein interactions in the presence of multiple partners, I propose to develop an unprecedented strategy combining 1/ "bottom-up" reconstitutions, where limited sets of ABPs are added one-by-one in the system to understand their combined activities with actin; and 2/ "top-down" reconstitutions with protein extracts prepared from a genetically-tractable organism (the yeast S. cerevisiae), where proteins can be removed one-by-one, in order to study actin network properties in near-physiological conditions. This project will shed a new light on how cells organize their interior, and will represent a unique opportunity to understand how modifications in the expression of ABPs are associated with actin network defects.

Keywords: cytoskeleton,actin networks,cellular organization,actin binding protein segregation,reconstituted systems,single molecule imaging,mechanotransduction,lipid membranes
Enhancement of training capabilities in VVER technology through establishment of VVER training academy (CORONA II) (CORONA II)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Support the development of nuclear competences at Union level and socio-economic aspects
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Hungary,Russian Federation,Bulgaria,Belgium,Bulgaria,Czechia
Call: Education and training (Bologna and Copenhagen processes) (NFRP-2014-2015, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2063938.75
EU funding (EUR): 1017605.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the proposed CORONA II project is to enhance the safety of nuclear installations through further improvement of the training capabilities aimed at building up the necessary personnel competencies. Specific objective of the proposed CORONA II project is to proceed with the development of state-of-the-art regional training center for VVER competence (which will be called CORONA Academy), whose pilot implementation through CORONA project (2011-2014) proved to be viable solution for supporting transnational mobility and lifelong learning amongst VVER operating countries. The project aims at continuation of the European cooperation and support in the area for preservation and further development of expertise in the nuclear field by improvement of higher education and training. This objective will be realized through networking between universities, research organisations, regulatory bodies, industry and any other organisations involved in the application of nuclear science, ionising radiation and nuclear safety. The proposed CORONA Academy will maintain the nuclear expertise by gathering the existing and generating new knowledge in the VVER area. It will bring together the most experienced trainers in the different aspects of the area within EU and abroad, thus overcoming the mobility challenge that stands ahead the nuclear education and training community. The selected form of the CORONA Academy, together with the online availability of the training opportunities will allow trainees from different locations to access the needed knowledge on demand. The available set of courses will cover the whole range of training of VVER specialists from the university until reaching high professional skills and competences in the area.

Keywords: vver competence,knowledge management,transnational mobility,lifelong learning,ecvet,networking,nuclear training
Developing a novel light-weight Ready Mixed Concrete (ReMix)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Ordinary ready-mixed concrete is made of sand, cement, water, stone gravel and additives. Albeit aggregate gravel is chosen for its high compressive strength and relatively low cost, its use is associated with different problems. Due to its high density, any construction will require more steel reinforcement to support the weight of the heavy concrete. The different sizes and shapes as well as the inconsistent distribution of the gravel causes air and water voids, causing weak points and is responsible for crack propagation in the concrete structure. Despite technical problems, the usage of gravel is also responsible for significant amounts of quarrying, transportation costs and CO2 emissions. We have innovated and developed a novel process and a system (consisting of the GEM-TECHTM machine and GEM-SOLTM catalyst) that creates a ‘superior foam’, which does not drain off for at least 12 hours, providing sufficient time for the cement to set resulting in high compressive strengths. The geodesic structure that is created by the novel mixing screw action and the ingredients that are mixed systematically in the GEM-TECHTM machine without using any gravel or any admixtures into GEM-TECHTM ready-mixed material provide significant cost savings. The main objectives of the ReMix project is to investigate the feasibility of developing different size machines with different specifications, examine the commercial and technical risks of the process, develop strategies to meet different standard requirements and develop strategies to commerialise our unique product. The overall objective is to develop an advanced ready mixed concrete replacement material, which is at least 45% cheaper, 28% lighter, with high compressive and flexural strengths. Our main goal is to establish GEM-TECH technology as a novel replacement for the existing ready-mixed concrete ageing technology. This is a disruptive technology, which will revolutionise the ready mixed concrete market.

Keywords: ready mixed concrete,advance materials,construction