Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
EOSC Photon and Neutron Data Services (ExPaNDS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Support to the EOSC Governance (H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-3, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5998103.75
EU funding (EUR): 5998103.75
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The ambition of EOSC Photon and Neutron Data Services (ExPaNDS) is to enrich the EOSC with data management services and to coordinate activities to enable national Photon and Neutron (PaN) RIs to make the majority of their data ‘open’ following FAIR principles and to harmonise their efforts to make their data catalogues and data analysis services accessible through the EOSC, thereby enabling them to be shared in a uniform way. EOSC currently provides a range of services that needs to be adapted to the ever-increasing requirements of scientific experiments held at various PaN RIs. It is essential that these services become standardised, interoperable and integrated to fully exploit the scientific opportunities at PaN RIs. ExPaNDS therefore seeks to: Enable EOSC services and to provide coherent FAIR data services to the scientific users of PaN RIs; connect PaN RIs through a platform of data catalogues and analysis services through the EOSC for users from RIs, universities, industry etc.; gather feedback and cooperate with the EOSC governance bodies to improve the EOSC and develop standard relationships and interconnections between scientific publications, PaN scientific datasets, experimental reports, instruments and authors (via ORCID). Concretely ExPaNDS proposes to standardise and link all the relevant PaN RI catalogues to ensure that the user community has access to both the raw data they collect, which is linked to their research session at the various national RIs, and relevant peer review articles produced as a direct result of their usage. It is paramount that we develop a common ontology to fully integrate all the elements of the catalogues as well as a roadmap for the back-end architecture and functionalities. We also propose to develop a powerful taxonomy strategy in line with the requirement of the EOSC user community. The proposed activity will feed into the OpenAIRE infrastructure integrating and linking entities from a wide range of scholarly resources.

Keywords: eosc,photon and neutron ris,fair data,open data,metadata catalogue,eosc data analysis services,community engagement,community training
Boosting the discovery using τs in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (BoostDiscovery)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1420000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1420000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Almost ten years into the highly successful program both in ATLAS and CMS, our understanding of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has deepened. Nonetheless, what lies beyond the SM remains one of the most urgent questions of physics in the 21st century. To move forward, one must think outside of the box and leap into uncharted waters. Searches today are aiming at the high-energy frontier, while low-mass resonances are mostly overlooked by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Consequently, far-reaching hints of new physics may silentlyhide in the data. Motivated by numerous New Physics (NP) scenarios that often predict light states, such as extended Higgs sectors, axion physics, or dark sector models, among others, the PI will develop new techniques to search for low-mass resonances decaying into two collimated low-pT hadronic τ leptons. τs, being the heaviest, third-generation leptons, provide a unique experimental opportunity to search for low-lying states that would otherwise go undetected. In particular, novel methods to identify boosted hadronic τ+τ− pairs will be established. These techniques will then be used to pave a new path towards discovery of low-mass resonances produced through various production modes. As part of this proposal, the PI will also develop new trigger-level capabilities to further extend the reach of this program at Run-3. As a former leader of the ATLAS Beyond the Standard Model physics group, and current leader of low-mass resonance searches, the PI is ideally positioned to establish a strong research team and take this project to completion, laying the groundwork for the discovery of new physics beyond the SM.

Keywords: atlas,physics beyond the standard model,beyond the standard models higgs searches
Phytogenic HEat Stress Prevention in farm Animals (Phespa)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Delacon is a pioneer and worldwide market leader of phytogenic (plant-derived natural products) feed additives for livestock. Delacon’s objective with the PHESPA project is to develop and market a transversal nutritional solution based in phytogenics to counteract the detrimental effects of heat stress in farm animals. Heat stress is a critical problem for livestock when a high environmental temperature is accompanied by high humidity. Heat stress in the summer months has been estimated to cause huge economic loses to the farming industry in Europe, especially in the Mediterranean countries. Current solutions to heat stress in livestock include energy-consuming air conditioning, ventilation or sprinkling the animals and pens with water. Delacon proposes an innovative approach to mitigate heat stress with the development of nutritional solutions which improve productivity, are all plant-derived, sustainable, and safe. The R&D team of Delacon has identified 3 substances that were screened in vitro and verified in a relevant environment with broilers. By effectively reducing the effects of heat stress, the animals’ immune system is supported and the risk of infections is reduced. The creation of an effective heat-stress prevention product line thus positively influences food safety, via improvement of animal product quality. The heat-stress prevention product will increase the sustainability of animal production in Europe and globally. The main users will be integrators (feed mills and farmers) that have the entire production chain under control, and they will benefit from improvements in every part of the cycle. With the PHESPA project the technological and economic feasibility of the product, its commercial potential, its future market acceptance and impact, profitability and opportunities in the European and the global markets will be evaluated.

Keywords: phytogenics,nutrition,farm animals,heat stress
Polariton Assisted White Light Generation in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (PLAS-OLED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Finland,Finland
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499707.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493137.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The global lighting market consumes 20 % of total electric power generated, producing an enormous 400 million metric tons of CO2 annually. The need for more efficient light sources has driven the blossoming of light-emitting diode (LED) research and technology. However, inorganic LEDs for solid-state lighting contain rare earth and toxic heavy metal traces that have negative environmental impacts. Recently, organic LEDs (OLEDs) have been introduced as promising general lighting sources. Unlike LEDs, OLEDs can be fabricated using energy-efficient processes and ecological materials. Therefore, the hazards of LEDs can be addressed by shifting to OLED lighting. Currently, the best OLED lamps are limited to 50 lm/W and lifetimes of around 5000 hours. To convince the market to embrace OLED for general lighting, white OLEDs (WOLEDs) need to reach the luminous efficacy and luminance of inorganic white LEDs (100 lm/W, 10000 hours lifespan). In the PLAS-OLED project, to address this need, I propose the fabrication of a novel WOLED architecture. The new idea here is the conversion of monochromatic OLEDs into WOLEDs with polariton modes. Polariton modes are exciton-dressed degenerate states, meaning that polaritons can be utilized to convert a single-color emitting exciton (e.g., green color) to multi-color emission (e.g., blue and red). Moreover, polaritons states have been reported to accelerate emission rates in organic semiconductors, and to induce reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) for harvesting non-radiative triplet excitons or converting slow phosphorescence to fast fluorescence. Thus, polaritons can also increase the luminous efficacy and luminance of WOLEDs. By conducting comprehensive photoluminescence and electroluminescence experiments, I aim to demonstrate that polaritonics is a disruptive technology for converting monochromatic OLED into inexpensive, efficient, stable, and bright WOLEDs.

Keywords: strong light matter interactions for manipulating electronically excited states in organic semiconductors,organic semiconductor polaritons,organic light emitting diodes,oleds,reverse intersystem crossing risc,thermally activated delayed fluorescence,tadf,harvesting triplets with polaritons,microcavities,strong light matter interactions,electrical injection in organic semiconductors
Fully Recyclable A-PET (FRA-PET): a sustainable and cost-effective oxygen barrier food packaging (FRA-PET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1810437.5
EU funding (EUR): 1241056.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Each year, over 381 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced worldwide - equivalent to the mass of two-thirds of the world population. Around 13 million tonnes of this plastics end up in the oceans, causing serious threat to the environment and global health, and an economic burden of €7 billion per year globally. This global emergency calls for new solutions to increase plastic recycling rate. About 14% of the global plastic waste is represented by food packaging. PolyEthylene Terephthalate (PET) is the most common plastic resin used in the food packaging industry. To increase food shelf life, PET is commonly combined with other chemicals, such as EVOH, to create multilayer PET/EVOH plastic sheets that offer an efficient barrier to oxygen penetration to the plastic food tray. While representing a need for food quality preservation, the presence of an EVOH layer makes food plastic trays not recyclable. Unfortunately, since PET/EVOH trays cannot be sorted from fully recyclable PET trays (i.e., those not containing EVOH), they cause all the food trays to be discarded rather than recycled – accounting for 1.1 million of tonnes of PET trays either incinerated or landfilled each year only in Europe. Point Plastic offers FRA-PET, a game-changing additive to produce fully recyclable PET barrier package for food preservation. Thanks to additive proprietary chemical formulation, FRA-PET food trays provide the highest efficiency oxygen barrier and best performance in food quality preservation without requiring EVOH use. FRA-PET enables to increase the current recycling of plastic barrier food trays from 0% to 100%, sustaining the circular economy of plastic. FRA-PET has the potential to become the new gold standard for PET packaging. The key objectives of the project are to optimize the FRA-PET chemical formulation, validate FRA-PET trays performance through a pilot study with two food manufacturers, and obtain certifications for commercialization in Europe.

Keywords: a pet,pet food packaging,food tray,oxygen barrier,fully recyclable,sustainability,circular economy of plastics,plastic waste,food waste
Personalized whole brain simulations: linking connectomics and dynamics in the human brain (BrainModes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1870588.0
EU funding (EUR): 1870588.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Background. We have detailed maps of brain structure and function, yet are lacking understanding of how the highly connected units interact and give rise to mental processes. The Virtual Brain (TVB), a whole brain simulation framework, aims to bridge that gap. Yet it is still developing. We are proposing here breakthrough advances that reveal mechanisms of brain function and foster collaboration between research groups. Vision. Clinical applications that simulate individual patient brains and predict trajectories of recovery or decline or test therapies to select the best one for that person. Goal. Using biologically realistic brain models and multimodal functional and structural imaging data to elucidate control mechanisms of the human brain in aging. A database collects key data and allows identifying most generic models and mechanisms below the spatial and temporal resolution of non-invasive imaging techniques taking into account the complex interaction in the brain that without a model would be impossible to keep track of. Objectives. 1) Parameter optimization for large parameter space search and a library of dynamical regimes linking dynamical regimes and underlying mechanisms to biological (cognitive) age. 2) Identifying the role of intrinsic plasticity for network reconfigurations in the resting state and its age dependency. 3) Model based identification of task related plasticity mechanisms and their functional consequences for network reconfigurations in coordination learning in aging. 4) An interactive tool that provides access to the dynamical regimes library and makes pre-computed simulations easily accessible allowing researchers to benefit and learn from existing work. Impact. Understanding development, aging and brain disorders from the perspective of disruption of information processing architectures provides an opportunity for new interventions that re-establish control in brain pathology hence posing a breakthrough in the health and biotech sector.
Implementation of services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs by the Enterprise Europe Network Paris Ile-de-France Centre (PIC2) (PIC2INNO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-06-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196875.0
EU funding (EUR): 157500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In a survey undertaken in 2011 for DG Enterprise and Industry, SMEs and SME support organisations considered the inability to manage innovation processes efficiently and effectively as the second most important barrier to SME innovation (after 'lack of financial resources'). The current proposal builds a bridge between existing regional support schemes and the opportunities offered by European research and innovation support schemes (in the first place Horizon 2020). The PIC2INNO project aims at delivering services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs by the Enterprise Europe Network Paris Ile-de-France Centre – PIC2. Its geographical area covers the Paris Ile-de-France region and the Centre region. It proposes to set up dedicated resources and process to enable SMEs to grow their innovation capacity, and to improve their record in the participation into and coordination of European projects. The objective of this project is to: - Provide SMEs benefiting from the SME instrument with a regional support (“Key Account Manager”, hereafter KAM) - Provide a selection of SMEs that have a significant growth potential in the region with an evaluation of their innovation capacities, and an action plan to address identified bottlenecks. (“Innovation Management System Advisers”, hereafter IMSA) The project will aim at initiating between forty (40) and sixty (60) 7-day service packages, (according to the SMEs needs), with a substantial progress for most of them by the end of 2014.

Keywords: research innovation enterprise europe network management capacity sme support een key account manager kam instrument
Monetary Spaces and hierarchies in Europe. Impact of Complementary Currencies (MICCO)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2019-03-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research seeks to measure and analyse the social and economic impact of selected Community Currencies in Europe with the use of a self-assessment Total Quality Management model called Common Assessment Framework. Complementary Currencies (CC) are a type of money designed to circulate alongside the Central Bank’s money to address objectives that the conventional money system does not. CC are tied to a specific demarcated community (i.e. locality, mutual-credit networks, sectoral vouchers). The Common Assessment Framework (CAF) engages the organisation and its beneficiaries and performs a study of its structure and operation at a particular point in time and place. The study will further organizational theory for sustainability and community building, contributing to the Europe 2020 strategy. It builds upon previous efforts funded by the European Union, namely Digipay4growth and CCIA, by studying the social and economic impact of these projects in order to further theorise CC from a systems and complexity theory perspective. The research will link micro-impact indicators at an organizational level, such as employment generation and access to financial services, with macro indicators at the national level, such as the enhanced GDP that includes well-being and life satisfaction, according to the Beyond GDP initiative of the European Commission. The research on CCs as an anti-crisis mechanism is topical at a time when the European Union member states and especially Greece are striving to cope with the financial crisis and its impact on national economies and societies. Several countries have experienced GDP declines and rising unemployment rates, while in Greece the indicators are even worse than during the Great Depression. In that line, the priorities of Europe 2020 include community currencies because of their effectiveness towards social innovation, new modes of sustainable economy, employment and enterprise creation, and local regeneration.

Keywords: monetary innovation,total quality management,complexity theory,agent based modelling,action research,impact measurement
Understanding the Role of Antisense lncRNA in Vernalization, Memory and Life History (UNRAVEL)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the integration of complex developmental and environmental cues to determine flowering time occurs via tight regulation of FLC. During winter, prolonged cold quantitatively down-regulates FLC expression at the whole-plant level, acting via a cell-autonomous epigenetic switch. A long non-coding RNA, COOLAIR, is transcribed antisense to FLC and plays a key role in this switch. COOLAIR knockout lines show slower silencing of FLC in the cold and altered chromatin modification dynamics. However, the mechanism by which this is achieved remains unclear. My objective is to determine the relationships between COOLAIR transcription, secondary structure and function in the epigenetic silencing of FLC. I will determine in vitro and in vivo secondary structures for COOLAIR in two natural A. thaliana alleles with functional differences in FLC silencing and flowering time. Using both natural alleles and site-directed mutagenesis to disrupt COOLAIR secondary structure, I will assess resulting FLC silencing and flowering phenotypes to investigate the structure-function relationship. Finally, I will develop a method for identifying specific protein-binding partners and sites in COOLAIR. This research will significantly enhance our knowledge of the mechanism underlying cold-mediated silencing in FLC specifically, and of the integration of long-term environmental signals in plants in general. More broadly, it contributes to our emerging understanding of the role of lncRNAs in an epigenetic silencing mechanism that is conserved across the higher eukaryotes. This proposal is directly relevant to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme goals: developing my creative potential and diversifying competences through international mobility and advanced training in technical and transferable skills; enhancing contact networks for both myself and my host organization through academic, commercial and public engagement; and catalysing significant career development.

Keywords: arabidopsis,epigenetics,flowering time,rna structure,proteomics,lncrna