Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
China and Europe taking care of healthcare solutions (CHETCH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 688800.0
EU funding (EUR): 688800.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The research project intends to contribute actively to the cooperation between Europe and China, investigating opportunities for mutual integration in the healthcare sector. Cooperation and potential synergies will be examined from a comprehensive perspective, including policies at national and local level, the legal environment, medical practices, healthcare industries and related businesses. An interdisciplinary approach is followed. Researchers in the social science and humanities areas will compare the European and Chinese healthcare systems at different levels, including value systems and ethical issues. The economic expert will analyse the integration reached so far, in the healthcare industries (i.e. technologies, pharmaceutical products, etc.) on the basis of foreign direct investments, trade and micro economic data. The typical cost-benefit tools will be used to evaluate the economic impact of integrating Western Medicine (WM) and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices, supporting the medical team of experts. The legal instruments will help define obstacles and plausible solutions that can be generated by the regulatory environment, as well as appropriate solutions to enhance collaboration both at institutional, medical practices and business levels. The team of experts in the medical field will investigate best practices of traditional medical systems using a modern science framework. The team will develop a process of recognition and scientific validation of TCM versus Complementary Alternative Medicine, at different levels. CHETCH is based on the idea that a Europe-China partnership could be a win-win strategy. Europe and China have complementarities that could help each other face their specific needs in the long run.

Keywords: healthcare,china,healthcare industries,traditional chinese medicine
Managing the Impacts of Mega-Events: Towards Sustainable Legacies (CARNIVAL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-15
End date: 2017-11-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 852600.0
EU funding (EUR): 852600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This IRSES project looks at why the economic and social impacts of mega events are often not realized to their full potential. The project also examines best practice in creating sustainable impacts for mega-events using a trans-continental perspective and considers cultural and other contextual differences in the perception and management of impacts. The partnership created to conduct this research includes the United Kingdom, Brazil, the United States of America, South Africa and Germany. Through examining past mega-events and attendance at current mega-events the project team will provide a comprehensive view of constraining and enabling forces affecting the management of impacts of a variety of different types (sporting and non-sporting) events. The final results of this study will provide a guide for governments and host cities to enable them to ensure the significant investment in mega-events has real and long lasting impacts for a range of stakeholders. This guide will be useful at the bidding, planning and management stages of mega-events to ensure sustainability in the legacy of those events.

Keywords: mega-events,impacts,maximisation,sustainability,management,legacy
Social Innovation in the Water Treatment Sector in the Amazon (AGUASOCIAL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 315000.0
EU funding (EUR): 315000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The AguaSociAL joint exchange programme aims to strengthen research cooperation and knowledge sharing between Brazil and Europe within the water related sciences. This venture will provide on-site training related to the rationale and benefits of water treatment techniques and technologies combined with social innovation approaches. AguaSociAL will seek to investigate and support community-driven development techniques and technologies for improving access to Water. This approach responds to the Europe 2020 Strategy of ‘promoting social innovation for the most vulnerable populations, with a particular emphasis on the provision of innovative education and training”, AguaSociAL will facilitate R&D activities that focus on the Amazonian Region, and will explore a range of issues, including: environmental protection; socio-economic factors and sustainable development, with a specific emphasis on water treatment and social innovations by local communities (especially vulnerable ones). Research will be undertaken to identify existing and potential water treatment, reuse, recycling and sanitation technologies that are socially accepted and community owned. Such approach should enable the linkage of scientific and traditional local knowledge, while simultaneously supporting a co-learning process towards sustainable development. To this end, a joint-thread of research/training activities will be set up for researchers from Brazil (States of Pará & Amazonas) participating to Training activities in EU and EU researchers seconded to Brazil within Case Study Workshops, with short exchanges (1 month) for senior and longer exchanges (2-3 months) for junior investigators, for a total of about 150 person months within 3 a year’s period. Scientific achievements are reached through inter-connected trainings and field workshops in interaction with social actors, for the acquisition of new approaches to water treatment combined with social technologies, in a multi-disciplinary approach

Keywords: socio-economic development,water management,water treatment technologies,health & sanitation,global change,social innovation,environmental pollution
New and old World perspectives for forest ecology and management in a context of global change. (NEWFORESTS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 405300.0
EU funding (EUR): 405300.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The NEWFORESTS exchange program brings together researchers from 5 research institutions: two from public research centres in Spain, Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) and Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), one French institution, Bio-Archaeology and Ecology Centre (CBAE), and two Canadian Universities (University of Quebec in Montreal, UQAM, and in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, UQAT) hosting two of the main hubs of the Centre for Forest Research (CEF). During three years, a total of 36 senior researchers will participate in the program with a total of 328 man-months including experienced and early stage researcher, technical and management staff from the different centres. The aim of this proposal is to create a competitive platform at the international level to analyse the responses of forest ecosystems to global changes and integrate current knowledge in sound and innovative forest management and planning approaches. The general objective of the program is to determine how to effectively integrate woodland management (including non-management options) into strategies aimed to adjust and mitigate global change. The program is organized in 5 thematic work packages ranging from the basic understanding of forests dynamics, biodiversity and functioning (WP 1 and 2) to research on interactions between global change drivers determining disturbances regimes (WP 3) and the integration of the gathered knowledge into advanced modelling tools (WP 4) and sound management guidelines at different spatial scales (WP 5). Finally, a project management WP (6) depicts the practical organisation and management of the project. A fundamental aspect of the program is that it stresses not only the responsibility of human society as a major driver of global change, but also recognizes that we have an opportunity to mitigate this change through informed, proper management decisions.

Keywords: forests,global change,forest management,modelling,disturbances,functional ecology,biodiversity,quebec,canada,spain,mediterranean,boreal,france
Quality-of-Experience Improvement for Mobile Multimedia across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (QUICK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 378000.0
EU funding (EUR): 378000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

With the rapid innovation in sophisticated wireless communication technologies, the past years have witnessed a dramatic growth of content-rich and resource-hungry mobile multimedia applications that demand high Quality-of-Experience (QoE). The overall objective of this project is to bring together a highly qualified group of researchers from both European countries and China to explore the strategies for QoE improvement of mobile multimedia across heterogeneous wireless networks. Built upon the solid ground of cooperation and knowledge transfer between the partners, this project will be unique in its advocate of the seamless integration of network-aware adaptive multimedia processing at the application layer and multimedia-driven heterogeneous wireless networking at the transmission layer. The optimal interaction through a cross-layer design plays an important role in efficient utilization of scarce wireless communication resources to deliver mobile multimedia and improve the users perceived QoE with the aim of creating a new era where multimedia service providers, network operators and end users all benefit. The techniques to be developed will fill important gaps in the fundamental understanding of QoE-improved wireless multimedia communications and provide the theoretical underpinning for system design and algorithm implementation. By strengthening the mobility of European and Chinese researchers, the project will bring new blood and ideas into the academic research of both regions. Moreover, this staff exchange programme will help to cross-fertilise and exchange ideas in order to accelerate the development and knowledge transfer of wireless multimedia networks, set up future joint research projects, and build up long-term world-class collaboration. This project will contribute to the development and maintenance of the European research community’s leading international profile and global influence in the fields of wireless networking and multimedia processing.

Keywords: information systems,electrical engineering,wireless networks,multimedia
Multicoloured ambipolar conducting polymers for single polymer optoelectronic devices (AMBIPOD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland,United Kingdom,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 571700.0
EU funding (EUR): 571700.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at conscious development of novel conjugated polymers featuring multielectrochromic properties that can find application in polymer electrochromic or electroluminescent devices. Our aim is to obtain new π – conjugated polymers, containing both electron-donor and electron-accepting units by first selecting their monomeric precursors using quantum chemistry tools. Following synthesis, electrochemical phenomena and changes in spectroscopic properties taking place during their redox charging, will be elucidated. These materials will combine interesting spectroelectrochemical properties with tuneable electronic conductivity and for this reason they can be applied in organic optoelectronic and in electrochromic devices. Detailed identification and understanding of their redox processes will allow developing ways to tailor their physicochemical properties. Our goal is to find, synthesise, characterise and device-test these oligomeric or polymeric materials which should be easily both “p” and “n” doped. Such materials will feature low electron band gap and hence should exhibit strong electromagnetic absorption in the visible region manifesting colour. Such materials should be applicable as both as hole and electron transporting layers, effectively simplifying the construction of electroluminescent devices. This is our key scientific goal. The second one would be to investigate the possibilities of tuning the energy of emitted light taking advantage of different redox states our envisioned polymers should exhibit. The complementary advantage of these materials should be the low threshold voltage for light electrogeneration, which would decrease the operating voltage of electroluminescent devices. Joint implementation of the proposed project will allow each partner to explore new fields related to his area of scientific interest giving one of a kind opportunity to find reliable and proven partners for future scientific collaboration.

Keywords: conducting polymers,quantum chemistry,organic synthesis,physical chemistry,device fabrication,optoelectronics,electrochromism,electroluminescence.
Dual-Imaging Nano/Micro-sized Theranostics (against cancer) (DINAMIT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265300.0
EU funding (EUR): 265300.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Objectives of the joint exchange program “DINaMiT” is to develop state-of-the art remotely responsive magnetic/metal nanoparticle functionalized drug delivery carriers for dual optical and magnetic resonance imaging modalities, equip such probes with theranostic detection/delivery capabilities and apply them for in-vivo study of anticancer drugs. To implement ambitious goals of such a program seven work-packages will be pursued. Each work-package will constitute of a necessary step for reaching the milestones and overall goals of the exchange programme. Functionalization of delivery carriers by nanoparticles is an important issue of successfully achieving the goals of the project. Optical imaging is the technique of choice for working with cell cultures and for routine fluorescent sample characterization. A significant advancement of the scientific research program is addition of magnetic response capabilities for such carriers, which results into dual optical / magnetically responsive system. Functionalized by nanoparticles, delivery carriers can be remotely activated based on the localized heating, which induces the permeability change of the carriers, but which does not affect the surrounding tissue. We envision using two-photon microscopy for deeper in-tissue reach. Magnetic functionality is viewed as a complementary approach which will allow even deeper reach. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique widely used for in-vivo diagnostic and tracking investigation. Polymeric and natural (red blood cells) delivery vehicles will be used for assembling ther-anostic carriers. Theranostic functionalities will be introduced by assembling the so-called multicompartment structures. Indeed, after such carriers are assembled and imaging/activation system is developed, in-vitro as well as in-vivo applications of such a system will be pursued. For in-vitro applications cell culture tests will be used, while that will be transferred for real in-vivo applications.

Keywords: theranostics,dual-imaging,drug carrier,mri,nanoparticles
An international network on new strategies for processing calcium phosphates (REFINED STEP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Latvia,France,United Kingdom,Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 455400.0
EU funding (EUR): 455400.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The next generation calcium phosphates demand refined processing routes for capturing the full potential of this elite class of materials. Calcium phosphates are unique with their potential to accept replacement ions in the structure, be processed through intermediate phases, and modify their crystal structure. This project will a) investigate the formation of high temperature processing in a radio frequency inductively coupled plasma, and b) process calcium phosphates through metastable states to capture structural modifications for enhancing properties. Both apatites and tricalcium phosphate will be addressed as the main calcium phosphates. The processing and microstructure assessment will form an iterative process to understand an extended design potential for skeletal implants. The consortium collects expertise in plasma processing, mechatronics, characterization and modelling, and biological testing disciplines. This represents the full chain of events from the development of a biomaterial to the clinical application and therefore provides feedback within the system to optimize processing requirements, an approach that has not been used with first generation biomaterials. Exchanges are planned between Europe (Austria, France, Latvia, United Kingdom) and countries with EU agreements (Australia, Belarus, Canada, Russia).

Keywords: calcium phosphates,plasma processing,hydroxyapatites,implants,characterization,modelling
Hierarchical Functionalization of Graphene for Multiple device fabrication (HIGRAPHEN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 277200.0
EU funding (EUR): 277200.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project is based on the application of layer-by-layer (LbL) technology for the development of a versatile and generic procedure for the fabrication of hybrid devices involving graphene and materials of a different nature such as polymeric, organic, and inorganic entities. The project aims to achieve the organization and integration of graphene sheets with heterogeneous components of different sizes and compositions into higher level structures/assemblies and devices. Components include polymer molecules, magnetic nanoparticles, nanorods and quantum dots. The development of new design principles and methods to control tunable dimension at the nanoscale, structure and property complexity of graphene. The project aims to integrate, graphene, with inorganic particles and polymeric and organic species to develop building blocks for assembly and to understand the principles underlying their interaction. The projects aims to integrate graphene assemblies into anticorrosive coatings and devices for opto electronic applications and energy conversion

Keywords: graphene,layer by layer,nanoparticles,self assembly,conducting polymers,polyelectrolytes,impedance,capacitors,anticorrosive
Coordination and Collaboration between reference collections of plant pests and diseases for EU Plant Health Policy (Q-COLLECT)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,Italy,Netherlands,Switzerland,France,France,Netherlands,Germany,Austria,France,Germany,Netherlands,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 603994.4
EU funding (EUR): 499946.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

International trade is increasing tremendously in recent years with a lot of import and export material going in and out of the European Union. Within this context there is also the increasing risk of importing unwanted organisms via this trade. Organisms include plant pests and pathogens, some of which may be on the quarantine list of the European Union. Also climate change may increase the ability of plant pests to survive regions other than those of their origin. Within the field of Plant Health a decline in taxonomic and phytosanitary experience has become eminent in the last decade; also relevant phytosanitary collections are under pressure. This will affect all members of the EU and other nations as well. To regulate and control plant pathogens there is an increasing need for efficient and reliable identification and detection tools. For their development and validation, good and well maintained collections containing relevant species are indispensable. A significant number of plant pest collections are still present within Europe but they are dispersed, widespread and of very variable quality. NPPO’s, mandated laboratories, universities and research institutes all have their own collections related to their specific work and scope. Many of these collections are connected to a single specialist. Within Europe there is a need to improve the infrastructure supporting phytosanitary important collections so as to more efficiently use the available infrastructure and improve collaboration in the field of phytosanitary infrastructure with regard to means, knowledge, expertise on taxonomy, development of detection methods and collections of phytosanitary important organisms. The main outputs to be disseminated from the project will include an inventory on characteristics of phytosanitary important collections within Europe and guidelines to improve quality standards and access and to design and build sustainable networks of reference collections.

Keywords: phytosanitary reference collections quarantine organisms plant pathogens pests