Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Healthy Ageing Research Centre (HARC)

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: Poland
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4923492.8
EU funding (EUR): 4406272.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The major goal of this proposal is to upgrade the research potential of research groups at the Medical University of Lodz investigating various aspects of healthy ageing and constituting already established Healthy Aging Research Centre. Major areas of research cover a wide spectrum of topics related to ageing: novel approaches to improve well being in the elderly, pathogenesis and prevention of neurodegenerative, respiratory, cardiovascular and kidney diseases of the old age and molecular basis of ageing. HARC has been conceived to upgrade and enhance MUL research capacity through several strategic objectives: 1) to reinforce and consolidate already existing cooperation between HARC and 15 European partners; 2) to stimulate innovation with properly protected intellectual rights by exchange of know-how and creating new links with industry (SMEs); 3) to develop state- of- the- art research infrastructure in synergy with the structural funds intervention; 4) to attract researchers with international experience to work in our centre; 5) to promote international knowledge exchange through workshops and conferences; 6) to promote HARC and raise the awareness of healthy ageing within the scientific community, industry and the general public; 7) to contribute to the solution of the problems of age-related comorbidities in less privileged region of Central Poland by exchanging knowledge with international experts and cooperating with regional authorities 8) to increase the participation of the HARC researchers in the EU FP7 and other activities (Joint Programming, Innovation Partnership on Healthy Ageing, ERA-Net).

Keywords: healthy and active ageing,clinical and molecular aspects of ageing,innovation,ipr
Towards Sustainable Zero Carbon Transport through Innovation Procurement (TRANS-FORM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Destination: Monitoring and analysis of research-related public policies and strategies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,United Kingdom,Poland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-COH-2012-Procurers, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 936713.8
EU funding (EUR): 820000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The TRANS-FORM project will apply both proven and emerging methodologies for innovation procurement to the diverse and complex area of sustainable transport in cities. It will thus advance the state-of-the-art in general and help accelerate the much needed market transformation in this important area for European society and Innovation Partnerships. A tripartite core group of nine organisations will carry out the project and draw on their existing networks of public authorities, major companies that will control extensive supply chains and national/regional innovation agencies. It will be led by innovation procurement experts from the UK and the Netherlands that will provide practical know-how and proven methodologies. The public/private sector procurement community will be represented by City Councils from Barcelona, Birmingham and Rotterdam for the public sector and also the EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. Innovation Agencies from Poland, Spain and the UK will complete the triangular partnership and provide the gateway to the fruits of FP7, national R&D and the most innovative companies in Europe. Since it will build on a strong foundation of previous European/national initiatives, the three year project will go well beyond the networking stage. A larger group of influential organisations from both the procurement and innovation communities will engage in joint procurement strategy development activities through procurement foresight workshops. The objective will be to facilitate collaborative procurement projects that have sufficient critical mass to achieve market transformation and replication impacts. These will be realised through leader-led actions and/or joint statements of procurement demand (Compacts) involving both the core consortium and a wider group of associated procurers. The lessons learned will be disseminated widely through case study publications and existing networks of procurement professionals.

Keywords: sustainable transport,mobility,city,cities,public,public procurement,private private procurement,innovation,r&d
Making Capabilities Work (WORKABLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Poland,Italy,Italy,France,Denmark,Austria,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2009-A, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2860441.6
EU funding (EUR): 2264789.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

“Making Capabilities Work” (WorkAble) will scrutinise strategies to enhance the social sustainability and economic competitiveness of Europe by strengthening the capabilities of young people to actively shape their personal and work lives in knowledge societies and cope with today&amp;amp;apos;s economic, cultural, demographic and technological challenges. Bridging quantitative and qualitative methods, WorkAble will assess the potential of innovative European strategies for dealing with local labour-market demands and regional inequalities. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, it will systematically analyse whether and how young people are enabled to participate in working life and society. Applying the Capabilities Approach as a common heuristic framework, 12 partners from different disciplines (educational science, sociology, economics, philosophy, political studies and social work) in 10 European countries will collaborate closely in a multidimensional research process. WorkAble will survey whether and how the match between young people’s supply of skills and competencies and changing labour-market needs is sustained and secured, while simultaneously broadening their options for living in and actively shaping European knowledge societies. It will explore how educational strategies are implemented and assess whether they enable young people to convert knowledge, skills and competencies into capabilities to function as fully participating active citizens. This calls for a three-phase research design: 1) a comparative institutional mapping and analysis of vocational and labour-market policies in all educational regimes; 2) case studies to reconstruct the conceptions, aspirations and practices of local actors implementing educational and training programmes; and 3) quantitative secondary analyses of national and European longitudinal data revealing how effectively these strategies enhance economic performance and close the capability gap for young people.

Keywords: capabilities,participation,labour market,education,vulnerable youth,well-being,agency
Spatial Analysis of Rural Development Measures (SPARD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Austria,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Slovenia,European organisations area
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494069.0
EU funding (EUR): 1910590.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the SPARD project is to develop a modelling tool that will help policy-makers to understand the causal relationships between rural development measures and their results in a spatial dimension. Based on spatial-econometric analysis it will include ex-post evaluation options and the extension to ex-ante assessment with the purpose of giving support to the planning of targeted RD policies, programmes and measures. The project will compile a well-structured database, to organise both indicators from the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF), distinguishing input, output, result, impact and baseline indicators, and other data specifically used by the RD management authorities in the Member States (MS), and extrapolate missing indicator values. This requires a procedure to standardize the utilisation of results amongst users at different levels. The emphasis of the project will be the development of an analytical framework that considers characteristics and needs of target areas and target groups. The key task of the project is to develop a quantitative model, using spatial econometric modelling. This will allow the identification of causal relationships of RD policy implementation. In this manner the cost-effectiveness of RDPs can be analysed in their spatial dimension. Evaluations/ assessments of selected policies and measures and their impacts will be made at the EU-27 scale. Furthermore it shall be demonstrated that the methodology is feasible at different scales of application and levels of data aggregation. Validation of the modelling framework will be carried out in 5 case study regions. The end product of SPARD will be a multiple-option and variable-scale DSS tool capable for use in horizontal and vertical evaluations. As a collaborative project, SPARD will make efforts to broaden the proved expertise of the consortium by integration of stakeholders, external experts and end-users in the overall process.

Keywords: rural development,policy targeting,spatial econometrics,modelling,decision support tool,common monitoring and evaluation framework,causal relationships,validation,stakeholder,expert knowledge
HUMANITIES ROCK! Humanities and Social Sciences on stage in Ljubljana (HUMANITIES ROCK!)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-NIGHT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2009-10-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 94352.0
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of “HUMANITIES ROCK!” is to bring researchers of Humanities and Social Sciences closer to the public at large, enhancing their role in the mainstream society, and to present research as an exciting and attractive endeavour. The Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, which celebrates 90 years of its existence this year, is the most important unit of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Slovenia. It has organised many public events and activities for support of public understanding of research in Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g., the so-called cultural days, occasional events related to public holidays and festivities, etc.). Despite well-established communication with the public in the past, the humanities are becoming marginalized, if not neglected, not only in the more and more commercialized public space, but as well within the research area. This recent marginalization is partly a consequence of the misperception of the researchers’ professional life in the field of humanities. With the main event on the 25th of September in 2009, the organizers are aiming to improve the perception and reputation of research in public. The event will carefully target the most vital and important parts of the public: children and youth, families and ageing people. The preceding awareness campaign will comprise the public tender for posters and establishment of personal contacts with media representatives. The researchers will be the stars of the night, but at the same time they will be presented on stage as ordinary people. The “HUMANITIES ROCK!” will offer many different and attractive events and activities in Ljubljana for everyone, children and schoolchildren, families and adults. The proposed activities are various presentations, excursions and short trips, workshops, role-playing games; an exhibition, conference, discussions and presentations; events on the street and experiments; a multimedia performance; a film festival, and the final.

Keywords: researchers` night 2009,social sciences,humanities,researcher,public at large,friday night,poster,activities
JOIN PHYSICISTS IN FESTIVAL (My Physics, My World) (MYPHY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Romania,Romania,Romania,Romania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-NIGHT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-06-08
End date: 2010-01-07
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 57098.0
EU funding (EUR): 51863.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to reveal to the Romanian public various aspects of physicist’s life: his work, his successes, his interests, his hobbies, his serious and funny moments, and to reinforce the bond between research and civil society. By using non-formal means like exhibitions, thematic games and competitions, documentaries and movies, and by involving in these process scientists, students, children and all categories of people, we intend to change to the better the perception of what really is a career in physics. Bucharest - the capital of Romania and 2 major cities of Romania, Cluj-Napoca and Iasi are chosen to host our actions.

Keywords: physics,physicists life,world
Belgian Researchers Animating Sport and Innovation Links (BRASIL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-NIGHT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 141062.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

During the night of September 25th, several events will be organized in eight Belgian cities (Brussels (3), Gent, Kortrijk, Liège, Louvain-la-Neuve, Mechelen, Namur and Redu-Transinne) in the frame of the European Researchers’ Night. So, nine partners are cooperating under the coordination of the Belgian Science Policy Office: six universities (Brussels (French- and Flemish speaking), Liège, Louvain-la-Neuve, Gent, Namur), one high school (Kortrijk), a non-profit body (Flanders Technology International vzw) which will hold its activities in Mechelen (Technopolis) and a private body, Créaction (the activities will be held at the EuroSpaceCenter in Redu-Transinne). The ‘Vrije Universiteit Brussel’ will cooperate with the ‘Erasmushogeschool’. Ghent University and ‘Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen’ will cooperate with their association partners ‘Hogeschool Gent’ and ‘Arteveldehogeschool’. The definition of the programme of activities has been developed by each partner. Each partner is also responsible for his own publicity campaign (local newspapers and / or radios ...) but the template will be common. The overall programme of activities appears thus quite varied, composed of games, quizzes, interactive experiments, demonstrations, on site discoveries, guided tours ... All activities offer the audience an opportunity to directly meet researchers and exchange with them on any topic, whether science-linked or not. Beside all these activities a poster contest will be organised, the launching being planned during this summer. So the “artistes en herbe” will get enough time to create the poster of the Researchers’ Night 2010, as asked by the Commission. Projects will be collected and displayed in all the venues and the winners of the competition will be announced just after the Night.

Keywords: researchers night - public awareness - science promotion - youth public - sport research
Impact of climate change and globalisation on safety of fresh produce – governing a supply chain of uncompromised food sovereignty (VEG-I-TRADE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Norway,Spain,Netherlands,Belgium,Brazil,Belgium,South Africa,Switzerland,India,Serbia,Egypt,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Spain,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7584416.25
EU funding (EUR): 5999997.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

VEG-i-TRADE provides platforms to identify impacts of anticipated climate change and globalisation on food safety, microbiological and chemical hazards, of fresh produce and derived food products. Control measures of managerial and technological nature will be developed in the supply chain of crop production, post-harvest processing and logistics to minimize food safety risks. The assessment of the performance of horticultural safety management systems by a novel diagnostic instrument at EU level exemplified by several countries in Europe and tailored on a global level including major EU trade partners from various climate zones will lead to recommendations on European and global level on quality assurance and the setting of science-based performance objectives. VEG-i-TRADE will pro-actively invest in problem solving technologies for safe produce investigating aspects of water quality and water treatment, horticultural production practices, disinfection treatment and packaging technologies. These control measures will be exploited in collaboration with SMEs and industrial partners. Baseline studies on the hazards, intervention technologies and best practices in the fresh produce chain will provide input for both microbial and chemical risk assessment to elaborate support to risk-based sampling plans, evaluate the risks of newly identified threats as affected by the global trade system and anticipated climate change. The project output will craft a discussion forum for stakeholders in the global food chain reflecting on issues of acceptable risk, sustainability of fresh produce production and long term strategy of international food trade, while making no compromise in food safety for European consumers and in respectation of food sovereignty. Risk communication to increase awareness of trade partners’ production systems and the uneven consumer behaviour will provide key conditions for prioritisation of risk management strategies.

Keywords: fresh produce supply chain,globalisation,climate change,food sovereignty,risk assessment,emerging risks
BIOmarkers of Robustness of Metabolic Homeostasis for Nutrigenomics-derived Health CLAIMS Made on Food (BIOCLAIMS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Czechia,Germany,Poland,Austria,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7818711.2
EU funding (EUR): 5999211.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The food and health relationship focuses on maintenance of optimal health, both in terms of physiology and new European legislation. Yet, most accepted biomarkers quantify (intermediate) disease endpoints or damage. This has led to major problems in demonstrating health benefits and establishing health claims, and blocks competitive economic and health developments in the food sector. BIOCLAIMS develops new biomarkers by exploiting the new concept of “health biomarkers” through quantification of the robustness of the homeostatic mechanisms involved in maintaining optimal health, based on the assumption that the ability to maintain homeostasis in a continuously challenged environment and changing physiology is key for healthy ageing. Mechanisms involved will be investigated during a series of food interventions in animal models and humans using “predisposed” conditions. Human models of presumed impaired robustness in maintaining metabolic and vascular health will be employed to study the responses of established and novel biomarkers to the challenging of homeostasis and to selected food interventions. Both advanced analytical methodology including nutrigenomics tools (transcriptomics, metabolomics, fatty acid composition, adipokine profile, macromolecule damage) and “whole body” physiological assessments will be exploited to derive a series of new biomarkers. Gender differences will be addressed. BIOCLAIMS thus delivers a series of robust biomarkers predictive of a healthy metabolic phenotype during ageing, based on stressors of homeostasis, These biomarkers will be fully characterized and evaluated for practical application in human nutrition, and compared to traditional ones. The consortium consists of 11 teams, balanced in gender and geographical distribution, with track records in animal physiology, human studies in the relevant health areas, nutrigenomics and new analytical approaches, and scientific assessment of health claims in the EU.

Keywords: health claims,biomarkers,nutrigenomics,homeostatic robustness