Staff exchanges

PHOENIX

Personnes pour le mélange européen de bioénergie

Le développement et l'adoption de formes d'énergie renouvelables et durables est devenu une priorité majeure pour l'Europe et est un thème important dans H2020. La recherche de nouvelles technologies liées à l'énergie pour réduire la dépendance de l'Europe aux combustibles fossiles non renouvelables est un besoin essentiel et nécessite plus de personnes nouvellement qualifiées dans des domaines tels que la gestion de l'infrastructure des énergies renouvelables, les nouveaux matériaux et méthodes énergétiques, ainsi que les bâtiments intelligents et les transports . La bioénergie est particulièrement pertinente pour le programme de travail, car elle setrouve au carrefour de plusieurs politiques européennes clés - de la Feuille de route du plan stratégique pour la technologie de l'énergie sur l'éducation et la formation (SET-Plan) à la Stratégie européenne de bioéconomie pour la sécurité alimentaire européenne et la politique de nutrition.

Contacts : Andreas PFENNIG

DoCMA

Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) : améliorer le transfert des connaissances et des compétences professionnelles sur les interventions fondées sur des données probantes et la technologie validée pour une meilleure prise en charge des patients

L'objectif global du DoCMA est d'améliorer la recherche internationale sur les troubles de la conscience (DoC) en renforçant la capacité de collaboration entre les participants au projet afin de tirer parti du savoir-faire scientifique et des connaissances spécialisées partagées dans le domaine.
Les partenariats joueront donc un rôle déterminant dans la réalisation des objectifs spécifiques suivants :
1) Consolidation d'un programme international commun en matière de science et d'innovation pour le développement de la recherche sur le diagnostic, l'évaluation et la prise en charge des patients par le DoC.
2) Établir une méthodologie standardisée, une approche commune et des ressources pour le partage des données afin de permettre l'accès aux données et les collaborations de recherche concernant le DoC.
3) Contribuer au transfert des connaissances et à la qualité de vie des individus, en générant de nouveaux services, technologies et/ou produits pour répondre aux besoins de la société en matière de DoC.

Contacts : Steven LAUREYS

MANAGLOBAL

Globalised governance norms and local management and business practices in Africa and on the Arab peninsula

MANAGLOBAL will explore the type of local management approaches that are practiced in selected African and Arab countries. It will explain how companies and subsidiaries become profitable and grow in emerging countries in order to highlight the gap between globalized norms and standards of management and the ordinary ways of locallydoing business. These processes of adaption are considered as glocalisation or hybridization.MANAGLOBAL will show how hybrid and innovative forms of private companies' government can be shaped by the mobility of people, capital, goods and knowledge. It will also demonstrate that local business practices (so called "poor" governance, and "insufficient" managerial skills) may become economic opportunities.Our aim is to contribute to research on management through the development of a pioneering collaborative team of 16 African, Arab and European partners, from 8 countries, including researchers, business leaders, and institutional decision-makers. We will confronte 3 methodologies:- A collaborative empirical research applying similar research approaches in all participating countries.- The study of the background, education and careers of business managers of industrial and commercial enterprises of selected countries.- The collection of ethnographic data and the production of business-related and organization-based case studiesBased on the results, MANAGLOBAL will develop a cutting-edge empirically evidenced theoretical framework on how business is conducted and organizations are managed in African and Arab countries. Moreover, the training of the next generation of managers of the region is planned via online courses and workshops.A strong training program and 340 months of secondments will assure an efficient and strong knowledge exchange, increasing skills on doing cross-cultural research on how business is conducted and organizations are locally and globally managed, and the career development of all the participants.

Contacts : François PICHAULT

DCPM

Digitalized Clone for Personalized Medicine

Background: Health consumes ~10% of GDP in the OECD, and grows an unsustainable 7-11% per year, and is ~1% of GDP for intensive care alone, driven by chronic diseases and aging populations. Limited funding leads to an #equity gap# in health funding, where more people go untreated, less treated (rationing), and/or rely on private insurance and care, creating and exacerbating inequality.Problem: This labor intensive sector has not made productivity gains, and increasing demographic demand for intensive care is multiplied by a growing need for personalized, precision solutions to care.Challenge: Reverse this trend by linking engineering, medicine, and industry to improve the quality, precision andproductivity of intensive care, and create a template for other areas of care.Objectives: Use model-based methods and novel system identification technologies to create validated virtual patient models for use inpersonalizing care to enhance its quality and productivity.Proposed Solution: Tight collaboration between engineering research, clinical medicine, and industry to create, validate, and implement precision, intensive care medicine (DCPM) using in-silico virtual patients. The proposal authors are world-leaders in creating highly validated virtual patients, and translating them to clinical useto provide precision, next-generation productive, intensive care solutions. It will merge model-based methods in metabolic, cardiovascular and pulmonary systems # 3 leading causes of intensive care admission, mortality and cost - to create individual (and then combined) virtual intensive care patients to personalize care at the bedside. The consortia leverages significant research funding in 3rd country partners for model-based medical solutions. This proposed mobility optimizes this research for maximum social and economicimpact in the EU and NZ # Doing medicine better via inter-disciplinary, in-silico solutions to productivity in intensive care.

Contacts : Thomas Desaive

CHemPGM

Chemistry of Platinum Group Metals

The CHemPGM project is a joint initiative of 7 expert organizations from the fields of chemistry, engineering, mining, metallurgy and materials science, designed to conduct fundamental research regarding the chemistry of platinum group metals (PGMs) and utilize the obtained knowledge to improve and secure the PGMs value chain. Specifically, the project aims i) to establish fundamental knowledge regarding the chemistry of the PGMs, their reactions and complexation with other metals and chemical compounds, and the corresponding reactivities during leaching, separation and recovery processes. ii) to gain a complete understanding of the mechanisms associated with the above-mentioned processes, during the utilization of secondary materials to extract PGMs and incorporate them into new materials and processes such as nanomaterials, catalysis and CO2 capture. iii) to create knowledge, provide expertise and educate the public. This will lead to the upgrading of existing processes and the development of new ones, aligned with sustainable principles, to ensure a circular operation model of the relevant industries. Through the involvement of universities, RTOs and SMEs, CHemPGM is backed by a well-rounded team, with multiyear expertise in the relevant fields, capable to deliver high-quality results regarding the project objectives. The consortium approaches the challenge from a multidiscipline aspect and proposes a balanced number of secondments alongside trainings, workshops, seminars and events that guarantee a cross-sectorial synergy among them. As a result, CHemPGM will broaden the expertise of the organizations, contribute to the advancement of the secondees and enhance the potential for innovation to its stakeholders and those inter-related with it. Overall, the methodology for carrying out the tasks involved, guaranteesthe smooth running of the project and the successful fulfillment of the objectives to contribute towards a more efficient and sustainable future.

Contacts : Stoyan Gaydardzhiev