Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
FACing ReSearch (FACERS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT, 2011)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 43209.85
EU funding (EUR): 40000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Main idea: researchers and their work are the engine of progress in society but they are also normal people who have the same problems, expectations and hopes as everyone else. Their faces are like doors that lead you through to their professional and personal stories. The invitation to meet researchers is already suggested in the title of the “Facing Research” project, that the University of Trento is organizing for Researchers’ Night 2011. Objectives: the aim of the event is to support the cohesion and the intellectual exchange with the non-academic community, during one Night, in the sign of edutainment. Among the main objectives there are: introducing the extraordinary normality of researchers, overcoming mistrust and prejudice; making citizens aware of how important it is to support research and bringing young people closer to careers in research. Project: the idea was conceived after the positive experience of Researchers’ Night 2010: when the University of Trento promoted an experimental event, in an ideal connection with the European initiative. The involvement and enthusiasm of researchers and Phd students, as well as of a very interested audience, persuaded organizers to repeat the initiative in a better framed way, avoiding the mistakes made before, giving value to those aspects the public appreciated and setting the event in a more suitable place to meet with the city: the main square of Trento. Development: the marquee set up in the square will host various initiatives (hands-on demonstrations, games, meetings with researchers, activities for children, the experiments and restaurant area, the Europe information area), all with some main aspects in common: active participation of visitors, direct interaction with researchers, edutainment approach, choice of up-to-date issues and a clear language. The bars around the square will become Research Cafés and the event will end during the night with a cabaret show dedicated to research.

Keywords: research,faces,interaction,dialogue,edutainment,daily life,progress,social impact,worldwide.
Be in contact with Research And its Institutions Network for a night (BRAIN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT, 2011)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 295912.0
EU funding (EUR): 105000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

BRAIN (Be in contact with Research And its Institutions Network for a night) is a project proposed by the “Associazione Frascati Scienza” to reach the specific objective of bringing researchers closer to the public at large through the organization and holding of the 2011 Researchers’ Night to be held on Friday, 23 September 2011 in the Frascati area and in others research centers located in central Italy: the research centers of the main Italian institutions (ASI, CNR, ENEA, ESA-ESRIN, INFN, INGV and INAF) located in the south of Rome area; the three Universities of Rome (La Sapienza, Tor Vergata and Roma 3); the research centers in L’Aquila (LNGS-INFN), in Napoli (INGV, TELETHON Foundation), in Pisa (EGO VIRGO – INFN) and in Teramo (Galileum Museum – INFN); in the Frascati and Grottaferrata cities. The coordinator has a long and soundly experience in managing the Researchers’ Night, it has successfully organized the initiative since 2006. The main idea governing BRAIN is to show that researchers are human beings , and furthermore that European researchers are human beings and all belong to one big research family integrated in the European society. The project is articulated in harmonically and well-equilibrated informal, pleasant, enjoyable and attractive activities alternating to those linked with science. Several edutainment activities and events addressed to the public at large will be organized with researchers being actively involved and directly in contact with the visitors in order to: promote the European dimension of researchers, valorize the job researcher, enhance researchers integration, reinforce the links between researchers and citizens and promote scientific careers among young. The event concepts are to: promote the aggregation process of the Frascati Scienza with the main Local, National, European and Internationals key actors/stakeholders of research and other activities fields, promote the outreach of the event to young people

Keywords: researchers citizens
Introducing Science and Art to Slovenian Youth in Citizens (INSARTY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT, 2011)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 54972.1
EU funding (EUR): 54972.1
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

“Researchers and Scientist in the centre of the everyday life”, will be the focus of the all activities of the Researchers’ Night 2011 project. The project is addressing different audience but most of the efforts are directed towards the teenagers’ attitude on how they look upon research and science in general. The young generation as a potential pool for future researchers and scientist will be encouraged for career in science and technology. Organized events will provide insight about the opportunities the research brings as a profession by use of popular communication tools and methods. The project is addressing both audiences, youth and adults as the later are one of the source of information for the younger generation. Activities envisaged will provide enough information about the chance and challenge with the opportunities and fascinations that science brings, and the economic benefits such as growth, employment and environment protection. Investing in research will be also presented along the mutual fertilization of creative thinking in art, science and technology. The key to success of the project will be "communication" by use of technology, between people, art and science. Communication will be used to change the stereotypes about professions; researcher is not an individual, detached from real life, working lonely in laboratories, surrounded by complicated technology. The project will bring the researchers, their work and life closer to the general public by games, expositions, shows, installations, in a festive, vibrant manner, connecting natural and social sciences with art and fun. The atmosphere will be friendly by use of easily understandable communication methods suitable for various type of audience. At the main event a “European corners” will inform on programs EU for research and science. The preceding awareness campaign about the Researcher's night will comprise the public tender for posters and photo exhibition with final award delivery.

Keywords: researchers and scientist,teenagers,youth,career in science and technology,popular communication tools and methods,economic benefits,communication,awareness campaign,general public
Natural History Museum Science Night (NHM NIGHT2)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT, 2011)
Start date: 2011-04-20
End date: 2011-11-19
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.5
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NHM NIGHTS2 will deliver the mass participation of a diverse public audience in a unique event to meet many of the Natural History Museum’s most dynamic and engaging scientists from around the world in an unprecedented festival of scientists in central London. With a rich and vibrant community of research scientist and PhD students that are accomplished science communication practitioners the NHM is well position to breakdown existing public stereotypes of researchers, to drive home to the public the role and value of scientists and to inspire the next generation of young researchers. 7,000 participants will visit the Natural History Museums in London and Tring to be greeted by over250 scientists delivering more than 57 different engaging activities and formats alongside professional educators in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. The impact of this event on the 7000 participants will be profound, perhaps life-changing for some, and at an approximate spend per head of €55 represents excellent value to foster a long term engagement with science. The intense and wide reaching awareness campaign will ensure mass participation and broad awareness of the NHM NIGHTS2 project as well as the European Researcher Nights initiative across Europe. This campaign aims to reach a wider audience of over 25 million people giving excellent return of less than €0.01 spend per head. The 250 scientists from NHM and Imperial College will promote the diversity (gender, ethnicity, age) of our researchers. As well as addressing science and research this event will be unique in celebrating EU research, international collaborations and the global nature of science as a human endeavour of immeasurable value to society.

Keywords: natural history,public engagement,research,museum,science festival,biodiversity
A Hungarian Night for Researchers 2011- Hungary-EU Research Careers (HEURECA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT, 2011)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 117678.08
EU funding (EUR): 105000.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

We will focus on enhancing researchers’ public recognition. Researchers, presented as persons that everyday people can relate to, can draw attention to science; and can make science seen as a casual but interesting adventure. Better understanding science can also lead to improving researchers’ recognition. Thus, the main message of the event will emphasize the human, accessible yet important figure of the researcher working for the benefit of the society. RN is an event that attracts a growing number of visitors and cooperating bodies each year. This year we plan a brand new exciting project that retains some indispensable elements from the previous events. We will actively involve young people because we believe that future scientific and technological development lies in their hands. The main driving forces and themes of our programmes are connection and interaction. Connection and interaction between different scientific fields, Science and Arts, scientists, science and children/pupils/students, researchers and laymen, science and companies, research and everyday life, research and hobby; between partner universities, research institutes and industrial companies. Connection and interaction with media is also indispensable in order to enhance researchers’ public recognition and to raise awareness of the importance of science and research by putting in the spotlight scientific achievements and researchers. Our choice of key theme is reinforced and further coloured by the fact that 2011 is the International Year of Chemistry – so we will closely examine chemical bonds, unions and interactions as well. Again, we will involve the public in a wide range of exciting scientific activities that are interconnected and are implemented through intense cooperation between the consortium members. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet researchers and get more deeply acquainted with the world of science.

Keywords: science,research,education,researchers,public recognition,etc
LINKs between Researchers and Society (LINKERS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT, 2011)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75325.0
EU funding (EUR): 70000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The LINKeRS project aims at enhancing public recognition of researchers' work and of the benefits that science and research bring to society. The main idea of the project, which will take advantage of synergies with the events of Italia 150 and profit of the heritage of ESOF 2010, is to invite researchers from Piedmont, Italy and Europe, to establish links between the world of science and society, in particular young people. A rich and wide range of activities, involving young and communicative researchers, as well as more experienced scientists, will be offered, including open-air experiments, performances, talkshows, guided visits to science museums and laboratories, Pizza with the Prof, school contests. LINKeRS will create a genuine atmosphere to share experience among reasearchers and the general public, in order to raise consciousness about science and at the same time stimulate scientists to communicate their work and make science more understandable and closer to people. The impact of the event will be carefully monitored and assessed by questionnaires based on performance indicators, from which indications for future activities and science communication strategies will be obtained.

Keywords: researchers,science in society,science communication,popularisation,public awareness of science,scientific careers,scientific culture,knowledge society
An unforgettable night for well-being with researchers of the Federative Universities of Basilicata, Molise and Puglia Regions in the Mediterranean Area (UNIFEDERLAB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT, 2011)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 122646.0
EU funding (EUR): 55000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

UniFederLab will be animated by several different actions all focused on “Innovation and well-being” in important cities of the south part of Italy such as Bari, Foggia, Lecce, Brindisi, Barletta, Campobasso, Potenza and Matera. Events can be of different types: demonstrations, quizzes, games, exhibitions, shows, concerts, talk shows, competitions with prizes. A EU corner will be present in each location where people can find news, projects financed by EU, poster. The focus will be on research in the areas of nutrition, health and sustainability (food, clean energies, biodiversity, environment and neuroscience). All proposed events are designed in according to the tips logic (trendy, interactive, participative and sustained).

Keywords: promoting research social capital increasing attractiveness of the researcher's profession
A High-Level Paradigm for Reliable Large-scale Server Software (RELEASE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,Greece,France,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3424104.0
EU funding (EUR): 2400000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The exponential growth in the number of cores requires radically new software development technologies. Many expect 100,000-core platforms to become commonplace, and the best predictions are that core failures on such an architecture will be common, perhaps one an hour. Hence we require programming models that are not only highly scalable but also reliable. The project aim is to scale the radical concurrency-oriented programming paradigm to build reliable general-purpose software, such as server-based systems, on massively parallel machines. The trend-setting language we will use is Erlang/OTP which has concurrency and robustness designed in. Currently Erlang/OTP has inherently scalable computation and reliability models, but in practice scalability is constrained by aspects of the language and virtual machine. Moreover existing profiling & debugging tools don't scale. The RELEASE consortium is uniquely qualified to tackle these challenges and we propose to work at three levels: - evolving the Erlang virtual machine so that it can work effectively on large scale multicore systems; - evolving the language to Scalable Distributed (SD) Erlang, and adapting the OTP framework to provide both constructs like locality control, and reusable coordination patterns to allow SD Erlang to effectively describe computations on large platforms, while preserving performance portability;- developing a scalable Erlang infrastructure to integrate multiple, heterogeneous clusters. We will develop state of the art tools that allow programmers to understand the behaviour of massively parallel SD Erlang programs. We will demonstrate the effectiveness of the RELEASE approach using demonstrators and two large case studies on a Blue Gene. Erlang is a beacon language for distributed computing, influencing both other languages and actor libraries and frameworks. Hence we expect the project to make a strong and enduring impact on computing practice in the two decades.

Keywords: scalable computing,programming languages,distributed systems,virtual machines,erlang,concurrency,blue gene,multicore
Sustainable Cleaning and Disinfection in Fresh-Cut Food Industries (SUSCLEAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Spain,Hungary,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Portugal,France,France,France,France,France,Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2011-5, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3859568.43
EU funding (EUR): 2999992.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

SUSCLEAN will contribute to the development and implementation of a new generation of environment-friendly equipment sanitation and food product decontamination technologies ensuring food safety. Susclean is focused on minimally-processed vegetables (MPV) i.e. vegetables physically altered from their original form by slicing and cutting but remaining in a fresh state. We will develop knowledge, methods and tools aimed to; a) design new decontamination approaches for MPV and sanitation strategies for their processing equipment along the supply chain; b) propose guidance and recommendations to renew the best available processing techniques (BAT); c) consider the impact of sanitation and decontamination strategies in line with the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention Control (IPPC) 2008/1/CE, and d) improve the hygienic design of equipment for the fresh-cut product industry. The hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) method will be carried out from post-harvest to processing, taking into account shelf-life after packaging. For each critical point considered, we will study the microbial colonisation patterns, improve the equipment geometry and surface features, and propose innovative and/or optimised current sanitation and decontamination strategies. This will lead to holistic cleaning and disinfecting strategies combining the design of alternative equipment geometries and surfaces (preventive), proposals for innovative cleaning techniques (curative) and application of alternative disinfecting agents (remediation). These achievements will lead to reduction of the use of water and chemicals (chlorine) up to 20-50%, whilst ensuring food safety, sustainable practices and preserving fresh-cut food European quality and competitiveness. A well-balanced partnership has been built with research institutes and industries (SMEs and one end-user large corporation). 40% of the budget will be devoted to SMEs.

Keywords: sanitation,decontamination,minimally-processed vegetables,best available processing techniques,hygienic design,hazard analysis critical control point,biofilm
Task-oriented search and content annotation for media production (TOSCA-MP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Italy,Belgium,Germany,Austria,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5356341.0
EU funding (EUR): 3574000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

TOSCA-MP aims to develop user-centric content annotation and search tools for professionals in networked media production and archiving (television, radio, online), addressing their specific use cases and workflow requirements. This will be achieved by scalable and distributed content processing methods performing advanced multimodal information extraction and semantic enrichment. Other key technology areas will include search methods across heterogeneous networked content repositories and novel user interfaces. An open standards based service oriented framework integrates the components of the system. TOSCA-MP will enable professionals in media production and archiving to seamlessly access content and indexes from distributed heterogeneous repositories in the network. This will be achieved by providing technologies that allow instant access to a large network of distributed multimedia databases, including beyond state-of-the-art metadata linking and alignment. The distributed repositories can be accessed through a single user interface that provides novel methods for result presentation, semi-automatic annotation and means of providing implicit user feedback. TOSCA-MP enables content holders to leverage scalable distributed processing in the network. The networked approach enables the use of in-house or external service models. Thus, content holders can use these services without giving content out of their hands. Advanced genre-adaptive indexing methods provide multilingual speech processing, object detection, quality analysis, semantic enrichment based on visual and speech analysis, enrichment from external sources and multimodal content clustering. The project will develop models of key user tasks in the audiovisual media production workflow. These models are used to adapt the components of the system to the specific and dynamic requirements of real user tasks in the media production domain, and to evaluate the tools in a cost-effective way.

Keywords: media production,federated search,distributed repositories,user feedback,semantic enrichment,metadata extraction,semantic search,benchmarking