Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
European Supply of SAfe NUclear Fuel (ESSANUF)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ukraine,Finland,Slovakia,Slovakia,Belgium,Sweden,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call: Supporting the licensing of Western nuclear fuel for reactors of VVER design operating in the EU (NFRP-2014-2015-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2053913.75
EU funding (EUR): 2053913.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of the project is to create greater security of energy supply and contribute to the security of supply of nuclear fuel for Russian designed pressurized water reactors (VVER) operating in the EU by diversification of fuel sources in the short / medium term and in full compliance with nuclear safety standards. By that, the project addresses the topic NFRP 16 – 2015. The scientific objectives of the proposed project include increased knowledge concerning the behaviour of the VVER-440 fuel during operation. State-of-the-art methods will be verified against an extensive database, including operating experience from several VVER-440 reactors as well as a number of other reactor designs and a wide range of operating conditions. The ability to accurately predict the fuel behaviour will be improved and thereby also the safety margins. New knowledge as well as identification of needs of technology development and improvements will be created in the fields of technologies for mechanical design, thermo-mechanical fuel rod design, and safety analysis for VVER fuel. In addition to the technological advances, the project will identify the variation in licensing requirements between the authorities in the different countries. Through such identification, it will become clear that standardization would be beneficial and will foster a dialogue between the authorities/regulatory bodies. The new knowledge will be exploited through innovation processes but will also be used for further research and recommendation to policy makers as well as for creating impact among the target groups of the project. Results will be presented to the members of the VVER community, i.e. the utilities, universities and other organizations with close links to the nuclear energy industry. Articles and papers presenting the work and the results of the project will be targeted for nuclear industry, magazines and conferences.

Keywords: nuclear fuel
Mechanofluorochromism: from molecular engineering to the elaboration of smart materials (MECHANO-FLUO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499172.16
EU funding (EUR): 1499172.16
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The MECHANO-FLUO project aims at preparing mechanofluorochromic molecules and materials, understand and tune their photophysical and mechanofluorochromic properties, and implement these new materials as quantitative mechanical force sensors. Mechanofluorochromism relates to fluorescent compounds in the solid state for which emission spectrum changes upon application of a mechanical stimulus. The interest for this phenomenon has enormously increased for the last 4 years but studies aiming at understanding the structure-mechanofluorochromic properties relationships are still in their infancy and many examples remain purely qualitative. In the MECHANO-FLUO project, I will synthesize a library of mechanofluorochromic molecules responsive to different mechanical stimuli (pressure, shearing), with various sensitivities. I aim at relating the molecular structure to the sensitivity to different mechanical stimuli. Two aspects seldom explored in the literature so far will be particularly studied. The first one is the study at the micro- to nanoscale, so as to obtain an amplification of the mechanofluorochromic response and develop ultra-sensitive mechanofluorochromic probes. The second one is the quantification of the mechanofluorochromic response, from the nano- to the macroscopic scales. Two applications will be investigated. The first one is stress metrology: fluorescent materials with a quantitative mechanofluorochromic response could give access to the stress level in various materials and thus constitute an entirely new method for in situ control of the damaging of materials classically used in the nuclear industry or the aeronautics. The second one is mechanobiology: I hope to provide a tool for direct force measurement at the cellular scale, which would have tremendous implications for the comprehension of biological phenomena where mechanotransduction is implied, especially embryogenesis and tumor proliferation.

Keywords: nanomaterials,fluorescence,mechanofluorochromism,photophysics
Growth detection and quantification (GDQ) (Prolifimeter)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The growth rate of both bacterial and human cells has a central role in the clinical management of infectious diseases and malignancies. Virulent and aggressive bacterial strains have higher growth rates, which will decrease in response to successful treatment. Proliferation rates are also instrumental in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of various cancer types, as the proliferation rate of human cells is one of the hallmarks of malignancy, evident by the widespread use of various proliferation indices such as mitotic figure counting, PCNA and Ki-67 antibodies. An integral part of cell growth is DNA replication; in mid-replication, each replicating cell will have a second, partial, currently synthesized genome. This creates variations in DNA copy-number along the genome across a population of cells from which growth-rate is inferable. Based on our novel ERC-funded method, which accurately measures bacterial growth rates from metagenomic samples, we will further the development of our methods towards obtaining an entirely new facet of information about pathogens in infectious diseases, or an accurate estimation of tumor proliferation rates. Our approach is expected to be superior to the current state-of-the-art as sample preparation is simple and requires no immunological staining or examination by an experienced pathologist, increasing validity and reproducibility.

Keywords: bioinformatics,human microbiome
RENewable AdvancEd GAsification FeedstockS (RENEGAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Refgas Limited has found a unique combined solution addressing both – energy and waste – issues. Company has developed an advanced gasification system that uses bio-waste to produce clean and high quality synthetic gas that can be used for power generation for electricity and heat. The Refgas system uses downdraft gasification technology that is widely accepted as the cleanest and most efficient method of converting biomass and other feedstocks into valuable synthesis gas (syngas), capable of directly fuelling standard engines to generate heat and power (CHP). Refgas’ clever patented processes includes 7 stages of syngas cleaning and cooling which ensures that its product gas is ultra clean and of the highest quality possible. The final ambition of Refgas team is to have proven solution with oil industry quality. The objective of the RENEGAS project is to develop a feasibility study by addressing specific areas where Refgas skills and resources are lacking (policy and market analysis and local feedstock analysis in Europe, USA and other worldwide markets, production scale-up and sales strategy development), first focusing on the manufacturing industry market opportunity and further on other potential segments. The 5 months project comprised of 3 tasks will be managed by the team of Refgas and will result in an innovation commercialization feasibility study and an elaborated business plan as a roadmap for scaling-up and market replication of the innovation.

Keywords: advanced gasification,syngas,waste to energy,bio waste,clean energy,zero emission
Citizens of photography: the camera and the political imagination (PHOTODEMOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2449086.0
EU funding (EUR): 2449086.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Citizens of photography: the camera and the political imagination will study a set of questions which recent transformations in political and photographic theory have made possible and which the current ‘war of images’ makes urgent and necessary. Recent conceptual work suggests that photography makes available a form of citizenry, a form of civil imagination that may be available in advance of conventional political citizenship. This argument has been made chiefly with respect to photojournalism and the ‘photography of atrocity’. This project will investigate this hypothesis with respect to everyday photographic practices of self-representation. It asks whether arguments about the “distribution of the visible” (Rancière) and the way in which political possibility is related to “a certain field of perceptible reality” (Butler) can be illuminated through the study of quotidian practices of photography. This question of the literal ‘visibility’ of the citizen has emerged through the PI’s ethnographic and historical work in India where democratic protocols are fundamentally embedded. The PI’s work has proposed that photography’s ‘egalitarianism’ and ‘seriality’, its ‘individuating’ propensity, and its subjunctive ‘as if’ quality all work to constitute citizens as potential co-equals, able to consciously chose idioms of self-representation. Historically informed ethnographies of vernacular photographic practices in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Greece, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria will generate data that will permit the rigorous testing of these formulations. Photographs clearly have the power to crystalize and precipitate political sentiment. This project involves the relocation of a set of insights about photography and politics from one domain (photojournalism) to another domain (self-representation), where those questions are rarely asked, but may be more consequential.

Keywords: visual anthropology,photography,political imagination,social transformation
Transformation of neighbourhoods in a child-friendly way to increase the quality of life for all citizens. (Metamorphosis)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Romania,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: New ways of supporting development and implementation of neighbourhood-level and urban-district-level transport innovations (H2020-MG-2016-Two-Stages, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3413922.5
EU funding (EUR): 2950005.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Metamorphosis is on transforming neighbourhoods with a focus on children. Metamorphosis starts from the premise that when a neighbourhood has many children on its public spaces, this is a major indicator that it is well designed as a sustainable neighbourhood. The word sustainability itself is already inseparably combined with children as it implicates “designed for the next generations”. Thus Metamorphosis will address the challenges of the topic 4.5. from this perspective and will thus: 1. Transform car-oriented neighbourhoods into children-friendly neighbourhoods achieving behavioural change and increase in the quality of life 2. Build the vision needed for such transformations 3. Answer basic research questions related to neighbourhood transformation 4. Achieve creative breakthrough innovations – in development, in design, in governance and in planning procedures – for public spaces in neighbourhoods and urban districts 5. Through the above described mechanisms, develop and implement children friendly mobility solutions 6. Evaluate take-up, involvement, process and impacts using innovative evaluation methodologies 7. Develop and implement innovative transfer instruments to transfer Metamorphosis-innovations from city to city and country to country, also beyond the duration of the project Children can help to develop positive emotions for the neighbourhood (and this is a key issue, as behaviour and decisions are mostly determined by emotions, and only to a much lesser degree by rational arguments such as cost-benefit). Thus: - children can easily find a direct way to their parent’s hearts - to be against children’s needs and demands isn’t socially well accepted Metamorphosis will include trial implementation cities with completely different neighbourhoods. Each city will participate with up to four different neighbourhoods, selected to have a wide variety: in size, structure, density and diversity.

Keywords: child friendly,innovative processes,neigbourhood,traffic calming,reclaim public space
The First Responder (FR) of the Future: a Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) for Collaborative Response, increasing protection and augmenting operational capacity (INGENIOUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Germany,Spain,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Cyprus,Greece,Greece,Korea, Republic of,Sweden,Norway,Greece,Switzerland,Greece,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Technologies for first responders (H2020-SU-SEC-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8961111.25
EU funding (EUR): 8616111.25
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

Today’s First Responders (FR) are using technology of the past. During their primary mission of saving lives and preserving society’s safety and security, FRs face a multitude of challenges. In both small scale emergencies and large scale disasters, they often deal with life-threatening situations, hazardous environments, uncharted surroundings and limited awareness. Threats and hazards evolve rapidly, crossing municipalities, regions and nations with speed and ease. Armouring public safety services with all the tools that modern technology has to offer is critical. Such tools holistically enhance their protection and augment their operational capacities, assisting them in saving lives as well as ensuring their safe return from the disaster scene. INGENIOUS will develop, integrate, test, deploy and validate a Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) for Collaborative Response, which ensures high level of Protection & Augmented Operational Capacity to respond to the disaster scene. This will comprise a multitude of the tools and services required: 1) for enabling protection of the FRs with respect to their health, safety and security; 2) for enhancing their operational capacities by offering them with means to conduct various response tasks and missions boosted with autonomy, automation, precise positioning, optimal utilisation of available resources and upgraded awareness and sense-making; 3) for allowing shared response across FR teams and disciplines by augmenting their field of view, information sharing and communications between teams and with victims. The NGIT armours the FRs at all fronts. The NGIT will be provided at the service of the FRs for extensive testing and validation in the framework of a rich Training, Testing and Validation Programme – of Lab Tests (LSTs), Small-Scale Field Tests (SSTs) and Full-Scale Field Validations (FSXs) – towards powering the FR of the future being fully aware, fully connected and fully integrated.

Keywords: collaborative and coordinated response,augmented reality,protection of frs,wearables,autonomous and swarms of uavs,indoor and outdoor positioning,detect active and passive threats,mobile apps for frs
Low energy ELEctron driven chemistry for the advantage of emerging NAno-fabrication methods (ELENA)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Iceland,Switzerland,Norway,Poland,Slovakia,Sweden,Belgium,France,Czechia,Netherlands,United States,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3840800.35
EU funding (EUR): 3840800.35
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

Chemistry is fundamental to nanotechnology, as chemistry can prepare specifically tailored molecules to serve, in a bottom-up approach, as the building blocks for the fabrication of functional and structured nano-materials. Nanotechnology is the technology of the 21st century with applications from electronics to biotechnology and medicine. The next decade will thus be characterized by an increasing industrial demand for novel nanostructures with individual physical and chemical properties tuned to specific applications. This, in turn, requires increased flexibility and control over material composition, shape and resolution. To meet this demand the chemistry and the physics behind new and emerging nanoscale fabrication methods must be well understood and this understanding must be systematically deployed to advance these methods into commercially viable fabrication technologies. Simultaneously to ensure that Europe is a significant player in this economically and technologically important industry, the European nanotechnology industry must have access to well trained individuals with both the technical skills and a broad understanding of the physical and chemical parameters governing the performance of next generation processing techniques and, the skills and drive needed for further innovation and entrepreneurship in the nano-technology field. ELENA addresses these scientific and training needs by: i) studying the chemistry underpinning two emerging nano-technology writing techniques; Focused Electron Beam Induced Processing and Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography, ii) exploiting knowledge gained in (i) to develop these techniques such that they may be made commercially competitive, and iii) training a new generation of European scientists with a fundamental understanding of the physics and chemistry behind these processes and the mind set for innovation and entrepreneurship to provide an exemplar for up-skilling European nanotechnology industry.

Keywords: extreme ultra violet euv lithography resist material chemistry,focused electron beam induced deposition febid,precursor chemistry
Molecular divergence in a marine animal-microbial symbiosis since the closure of the Isthmus of Panamá (PANSYMBIOSIS)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2024-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174806.4
EU funding (EUR): 174806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Recently it has become clear that host-associated microbes play a major role in host adaptive responses to environmental change. To predict future responses, we can explore the past and use geological events, which provide valuable insights into adaptive mechanisms because these events were major drivers of evolution. The formation of the Isthmus of Panamá separated a previous, ancient ocean and all of its marine life into the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. These two oceans have developed into very different habitats. Closely related animal populations that were separated by the Isthmus had to adapt to diverging environmental conditions. Today we find closely related species pairs, i.e., geminate species, that are genetically very similar but live in highly divergent habitats. This provides a powerful study system to explore drivers and processes of speciation, diversification, and adaptation. In this project, I am integrating this knowledge to study the evolution of an animal-microbial symbiosis that was divided into several geminate species pairs by the Isthmus of Panamá. I am going to compare lucinid clam populations (Lucinidae) and their endosymbiotic bacterial chemosymbionts (Candidatus Thiodiazotropha) at the genomic and transcriptomic level. Lucinid clams are an excellent model system in this context because their shells are preserved as fossils and we know that they have existed before the Isthmus closed. Hence, I can calibrate the rates of molecular evolution with the closure of the Isthmus. By studying several populations of hosts and bacterial symbionts, I will be able to use population genetic theory to inform how this symbiosis evolves in response to changing environmental conditions.

Keywords: microbiome,symbiosis,evolution,ecology,allopatric speciation,marine