Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Industrial scale-up of the first all-natural solid fat based on olive oil to produce healthier bakery foods (CreamOlive)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The CreamOlive project addresses the global need of healthy and high-quality production of bakery food, by introThe CreamOlive project addresses the global need of healthy and high-quality production of bakery food, by introducing the first all-natural fat based on olive oil which is solid at room temperature, thus making it suitable to large industrial processes. This allows producing food with up to 60% lower saturated fat content, capturing the growing “palm oil free” and “free from” trend in the food industry. Palm oil is the most used fat in food production thanks to its very low cost, high availability, and adaptability to industrial processes. Recently, health and environmental concerns are turning palm oil into an unpopular choice amongst consumers. Several food producers who started to go “palm oil free”, adopting alternatives as butter, margarines, or melanges, which often present drawbacks (high saturated fat content, raw material low availability, high cost, etc.). Industrial producers need to diversify their offer with a viable trade-off between industrial needs (cost and adaptability), quality (palatability, crispness, taste), and healthiness (low fat and good-for-you features). Thanks to its patent-pending mechanical process, Mida+ managed to produce a solid formulation with 80% of extra virgin olive oil as fat component. Saturated fats are 60% lower than in palm oil, without using the controversial mono and diglycerides, additives used in most of the margarines which may contains trans-fat acids. CreamOlive has excellent organoleptic features and shelf-life equivalent to palm oil. Furthermore, the unmatched plasticity of the product makes the food product lift with 20% less fat than other competitors, thus increasing its price competitiveness. The Phase 1 project aims at the validation of the CreamOlive value proposition with customers, which will allow fine-tuning the pricing strategy, the business model, and the European commercialisation strategy.

Keywords: bakery food,palm oil,fats,healthy food
Soft Robotic Human-Machine Interfaces for Rehabilitation (SoRoHuMI)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Soft Robotics is an emerging technology that bridges the gap between humans and potentially harmful robots by developing devices, which are intrinsically safe to interact with. Former studies on Soft Pneumatic actuators (SPAs) show that they can be used for fine manipulation of fragile environments including interaction with living beings for rehabilitation purposes or as wearable devices for humans. The modeling and control challenges involving early designs of SPAs remain unanswered and hinder the application spectrum of such potentially disruptive innovation. Given the flexibility and scalability of SPAs, they can be also used as haptic devices in distributed surfaces. The development of these technologies has been limited to testbench prototypes and their integration into a single platform for sensing and actuating at different scales has not been successfully implemented yet. To address this need, we propose the design and control of Soft fluidic actuated interfaces for Human-Machine interaction for rehabilitation devices. The development of scalable interfaces require a novel approach of actuation and sensing co-design for variable impedance devices in contact with humans. Besides representing a step forward in the applicability of the Soft Robotics concept, the devices can also provide an intrinsically safe solution for rehabilitative robotics to address the challenge of physical interaction. Through this project, the ER will reach a level of maturity on technological aspects in this rapidly growing research field. The proprietary microfluidic control developments at Elvesys will be feeding directly the advancement of this research. Also, the ER will benefit from entrepreneurship skills specific to SME environments, including market research, product valorization and finance management. Following this new experience, the ER will reach the level of autonomy and leadership to envision managing a research team in the industrial level.

Keywords: soft robotics,human machine interaction,impedance control,microfluidics
Diffusional limitations to C4 photosynthesis (DILIPHO)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Spain,Australia
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 245440.8
EU funding (EUR): 245440.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

C4 plants are leading grain (maize, sorghum), sugar (sugarcane), and biofuel (miscanthus) producers. Their higher productivity potential arises from the operation of a Carbon Concentrating Mechanism (CCM), which is an effective ‘turbocharger’ of the assimilatory machinery. In recent years there has been a considerable drive towards engineering a CCM into C3 crops as a possible strategy to boost agricultural productivity. This emerged as an alternative strategy to the traditional breeding, which seem to be inadequate to ensure complete food and nutrient security in the face of global warming, population growth, and decreasing arable land availability. Advanced breeding of C4 plants is currently impinged on negatively by lack of knowledge of fundamental C4 physiology. This lack of fundamental knowledge calls for a deeper understanding of the biochemical underpinnings of C4 photosynthesis and quantitative predictions of the effect of genetic manipulation. For C4 photosynthesis to operate, a substantial flow of metabolites is continuously exchanged between two partially isolated compartments in the leaf parenchyma (mesophyll and bundle sheath). This project (DILIPHO) hypothesizes that under low turgor the exchange of metabolites slows down, thus jamming the C4 machinery. DILIPHO consists of three phases. Firstly, the applicant Chandra Bellasio will learn concepts of advanced Mathematics and Biophysics, and develop a mechanistic model to study metabolite transport at leaf level, DILIMOD. Secondly, the hypothesis will be experimentally tested. In the hypothesis will be experimentally tested. Thirdly, the model will be interrogated to mechanistically explain the dataset and to answer fundamental questions in C4 ecology and physiology. The findings and the theoretical tools that will be developed in DILIPHO are urgently needed, and have a notable potential to benefit advanced breeding, the economy and the society as a whole.

Keywords: plant,physiology,photosynthesis,turgor,model,diffusion,limitation,assimilation
FORest conservation and EcoSysTem Accounting. Towards the integration of private and public values into land use decisions modeling at farm scale. An application to Andalusia montes (FORESTA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 231283.2
EU funding (EUR): 231283.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research aims to develop a methodology of economic analysis applicable at a microeconomic scale (farm), as the relevant private land use decision unit, to evaluate and predict the potential interactions between land-use, governmental (eg. forestry measures accompanying of the Common Agricultural Policy) and market based (eg. Payments for Environmental Services) incentives to enhance forest resources conservation and increase the supply of ecosystem services. This project aims to create a theoretical framework able to consider all the relevant decision variables for social planners and private landowners, taking into account a bundle of market and non-market values, such as carbon sequestration, regulated water yield, public recreational uses, biodiversity and landscape conservation. Those values will be consistently integrated into an ecosystem accounting approach applied at the farm scale The empirical application of the model will consider different typologies of private farms and use explicit spatial economic and biophysical information available for Andalusia (Spain) forest and pasturelands, which are jointly referred as montes. This application is intended to illustrate the particularly powerful application of ecosystem accounting framework to capture the trade-offs between a bundle of ecosystem services, which arises from the broad scope that includes the contribution of ecosystem services to current measures of economic activity even at a relatively smaller scale as it is the farm territory. The farm-scale study acknowledges the need to address trade-offs by bridging the interests of landowners and external actors through compensation for the provision of environmental services, and also to address heterogeneity in response to governmental or market-based incentives to integrate results at geographical scale that is relevant for policy analysis (eg.: a natural protected area).

Keywords: ecosystem accounting,total social income,valuing natural capital,forest conservation,land use modeling,payments for ecosystem services,andalusia
Presenilin 2 - a protector against Alzheimer's disease (BRAINPROTECT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Croatia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 192338.0
EU funding (EUR): 192338.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Accumulation of neurotoxic amyloid beta peptides (Ab) in the brain is considered to be the central event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Ab is released from the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) during specialised processing events. This proposal aims to examine presenilin 2 (PS2) protein-mediated molecular and cellular events that are protective against Ab accumulation and AD and, as such, is aligned with the objective of the FP7’s Health Research Programme that focuses on “Research on the brain and related diseases”. We propose that cerebellum, an area of the human brain that is inherently resistant to AD, holds the key regulator(s) against AD. Indeed, we have recently shown that mature APP is significantly reduced in human cerebellum compared to entorhinal cortex and hippocampus - the most susceptible human brain regions to AD. Our further preliminary results have shown that PS2 protein is significantly overexpressed in cerebellum compared to other brain regions. We hypothesise that PS2 overexpression in cerebellum is, at least in part, responsible for reduced APP maturation leading to reduced Ab generation and protection against AD. We will examine a protective role of PS2 against AD in a multidisciplinary project performing molecular and cell biological as well as proteomic analyses in vitro (at a cellular level) and in vivo (in an animal model of AD) as well as in human brain samples. We will also test whether PS2 alterations contribute to AD-like phenotype in a rare lysosomal disorder Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPCD) in which cerebellum is the most affected brain region and whether PS2 contributes to APP-CTF/Ab degradation and Ab reduction through its role in autophagy-lysosomal system. These studies will reveal a novel role for PS2 in APP and Ab metabolism and its function as a brain protector. Our understanding of the protective mechanisms in the human brain will pave the way for development of adequate therapies against AD and NPCD.

Keywords: alzheimer's disease,niemann-pick type c disease,neurodegeneration,brain vulnerability,beta-amyloid precursor protein,app,presenilin 2,ps2,cerebellum,autophagy-lysosomal system
Localized objects formed by self-trapped gravitational waves (GRAVITYWAVESTARS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269743.8
EU funding (EUR): 269743.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to investigate geon-type solutions in Einstein's theory of Gravitation. Geons are reminiscent of stars, consisting of self-trapped nonlinear gravitational waves, in some sense they are gravitational wave stars. A very important application of geons, provided they have good stability properties and sufficiently long lifetimes, is that they can provide a natural component for the mysterious dark matter content of the Universe without invoking unobserved new type of matter fields. I plan to develop a new approach to construct geon-type solutions, which circumvents the formidable difficulties posed by Einstein’s equations without any obvious symmetry. The approach will be based on combining analytical methods (suitable perturbation theory, asymptotic analysis) and numerical ones (spectral methods in space and time). The main challenges are the following: the mathematical and numerical construction of geons by solving the gravitational field equations, the study of their stability, the computation of their lifetime, and the investigation of their consequences on our Universe. The numerical construction of geon solutions will be made possible by the numerical code named Kadath, which has been developed recently by my proposed host researcher, P. Grandclément at Paris Observatory. The Marie Curie grant would make possible a two-year personalized training period, which would enable me to apply spectral methods professionally in General Relativity by using the state of the art program libraries on large computer clusters. The research collaboration in the multidisciplinary environment of Paris Observatory would considerably widen my research scope, and would present an important step in my research career in that I would be able to obtain a senior researcher position and be able to found a research group in my home country.

Keywords: general relativity,geons,numerical methods,spectral methods,nonlinear gravitational waves,localized objects,self-trapping
Solar Collector and PCM Thermal Façade for Low Carbon Buildings (SOLPCM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-08-15
End date: 2016-08-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 309235.2
EU funding (EUR): 309235.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This International Fellowship will bring an excellent Chinese researcher Dr Xin Wang from Tsinghua University to work in Europe. The project has been carefully chosen to match Dr Xin Wang’s expertise in Energy Storage for Energy Efficiency Building as well as Heat and Mass Transfer in Built Environment with the expertise in sustainable energy and buildings technologies at the University of Nottingham so as to maximize the benefit to Europe. Dr Xin Wang has strong experience of PCM energy storage for building applications and energy efficient building technology. She has strong expertise on heat and mass transfer for energy storage and building performance simulation and control system development. The participation of Dr Xin Wang could bring the expertise of PCM energy storage for energy efficient building applications and associated technology transfer into European countries. The six Creative Energy Homes project at Nottingham University directed by Professor Saffa Riffat has showed their flexibility to allow testing of different aspects of building construction and sustainable technologies in order to identify the most cost effective and environmentally sound solutions for affordable homes. All these technologies and trainings will combine with Dr Wang’s technology in this project to enhance the efficiency of power saving for the sustainable building technology. There are seven main steps in this project: (1) CFD simulation of air flow and energy outputs in the novel façade; (2) The novel façade design and integration of solar collector and PCM; (3) system simulation of the COLPCM façade coupled to a building and optimisation. (4) Development of COLPCM system control; (5) Prototype of the COLPCM façade development, construction and lab-testing; (6) Installation and commission of the prototype system in a building and testing the system under real-life context; (7) Assessments of economic, environmental and life cycle impacts of the COLPCM façade system.

Keywords: phase change material,solar collector,low carbon building
Novel materials for organic electronics (NMAOREL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-06-02
End date: 2016-06-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A series of new conjugated polymer materials and conjugated small molecules based on new isoindigo analogues core for high performance, air stable, ambipolar OTFTs and/or OPV will be developed. The main requirements of the materials are: (1) enough solubility for solution processability; (2) decreased LUMO level (increased electron affinity) and HOMO level (to achieve air stability) with a low band gap; (3) highly organized microstructure with favourable molecular orbitals packing along the larger and planar pi-system direction.

Keywords: new isoindigo analogues cores,tetrabromo isoindigo,donor-acceptor polymers,small molecules,solution processing,thin film transistors,organic photovoltaics
Effects of global change on hydro-geomorphological hazards in Mediterranean rivers (FLOODHAZARDS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-12-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161968.8
EU funding (EUR): 161968.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mediterranean river basins are characterized by high (often extreme) temporal variability in precipitation, and hence discharge. Mediterranean countries are considered sensitive to so-called global change, considered as the combination of climate and land use changes. All panels on climate evolution predict future scenarios of increasing frequency and magnitude of floods and extended droughts in the Mediterranean region; both floods and droughts are likely to lead to huge geomorphic adjustments of river channels so, major metamorphosis of fluvial systems is expected as a result of global change. Water resources in the Mediterranean region is subjected to rising pressures, becoming a key issue for all governments (i.e. clear imbalance between the available water resources and the increasing water demand related to increasing human population). Such pressures are likely to give rise to major ecological and economic changes and challenges that governments need to address as a matter of priority. Changes in river flow regimes associated with global change are therefore ushering in a new era, where there is a critical need to evaluate hydro-geomorphological hazard from headwaters to lowland areas (flooding can be not just a problem related to being under the water). A key question is how our understanding of these hazards associated with global change can be improved; improvement has to come from integrated research which includes all physical conditions that influence the conveyance of water and sediments, and the river’s capacity (i.e. amount of sediment) and competence (i.e. channel deformation) that, in turn, will influence physical conditions of a given point in the river network. This is the framework of the present project; it is directed to develop an integrated approach which both improves our understanding of how rivers are likely to evolve as a result of global change, and addresses the associated hazards of fluvial environmental change.

Keywords: global change,hydro-geomorphology,hazards,water,sediment