Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Luminescent liquid crystalline materials based on metal clusters (MESOCLUST)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 259975.0
EU funding (EUR): 259975.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The “MESOCLUST” project, which predominantly addresses fundamental research but also aims to take the benefit of further industrial applications, explores a completely new concept regarding the liquid-crystalline materials, namely CLUSTOMESOGENS, reported for the first time in 2010 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3351). The main objective of this proposal is the design of new hybrid materials showing liquid crystalline properties as well as bright luminescence in the red-NIR range by coupling metallic clusters with mesogenic units. The metal atom cluster has two important roles: on one hand, can control the self-organization process of the material, and, on the other hand, add its intrinsic properties (luminescence, magnetism, redox) to the final material. Among the different families of metal clusters, octahedral clusters (Mo6 and Re6) were retained for this proposal because of their wide range of physical and chemical properties and, in particular, for their luminescence properties. The novelty of this work consists in compensating the lack of processability of M6 clusters synthesized by solid state chemistry (essentially due to their ceramic-like behaviour in the solid state) by designing nanohybrid inorganic-organic materials that subsequently show liquid crystal properties. It allows therefore their self organization at the molecular scale by a simple heating-cooling process. This project will give more opportunities to the host group to stay the leader in the field at the international level. Although at a first glance, the work is of peculiar interest to academics from a range of backgrounds, in particular to supramolecular, coordination, solid state and material chemists as well as physicists, there is a considerable industrial and commercial potential in the medium and long term as stated in the SusChem Strategic Research Agenda.

Keywords: physical sciences,liquid crystals,metallomesogens,metal clusters,molybdenum,rhenium,nanohybrid materials
Gangs policies: youth and migration in local contexts (YOUGANG)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 144628.0
EU funding (EUR): 144628.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project intends to study the development of policies relating to gangs by using the Spanish experience as a case study. Over the last few years a rising interest in gang has emerged as a consequence of the French banlieue explosion and other violent events concerning, mainly but not only, young migrants and second generations all over Europe. These phenomena generated a huge flow of media stories resulting in moral panic and stigmatization processes against vulnerable subjects, as well as public interventions at local and national level. The project aims to investigate local policies - that have moved from a social exclusionary approach to a social integrationist one – with a focus on its successes and limitations. The social integrationist approach attempts to: a) reduce inter and intra-group violence; b) foster internal democratic leaderships; c) support gender empowerment inside groups; d) translate group practices of self help and sociality into formal youth association; e) support member integration within society by encouraging public recognition of their cultural practices. In this respect stakeholders (local administrators, gang leaders, media opinion leaders, social workers, police officers, ..) play a decisive role in determining the quality of outcomes. The project will use a qualitative and ethnographic methodology, based on interviews and observational data, focusing mainly on stake-holders perspectives and practices. A set of specific interviews with female gang leaders will allow to analyse the impact of policies in gender relations within gangs. Focus groups, blog and visual sociology will be applied to promote stakeholders’ reflexivity and to increase dissemination of the project’s findings. A panel of international experts will contribute by: putting the Spanish case in a European and more global perspective; assessing achieved results; theorizing an alternative approach to gangs; supporting best practices and guidelines formulation.

Keywords: youth migrants policies gangs,sociology
Seismic Inversion and Stochastic Spectral Analysis of Thermohaline Staircases in the Tyrrhenian Sea (SEISSEA)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-15
End date: 2013-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170363.2
EU funding (EUR): 170363.2
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Seismic oceanography is the application of seismic reflection profiling together with conventional oceanographic techniques to the study of physical oceanographic processes. Seismic oceanography data were acquired in April and May, 2010 in the Tyrrhenian Sea and imaged so-called thermohaline staircases. Thermohaline staircases are regular, well-defined, step-like variations in vertical temperature and salinity gradients that form when temperature and salinity increase with depth and nearly compensate with density. They are important indicators of mixing processes such as double-diffusive convection. The candidate proposes the development of three new seismic oceanography techniques: a) advanced seismic data analysis, b) inversion of seismic data to obtain estimates of temperature, salinity and sound speed, and c) stochastic spectral analysis, which will allow discrimination between areas dominated by turbulence and those dominated by internal waves and provide estimates of their associated scale lengths. The results of this project will undoubtedly advance the tools of seismic oceanography and will provide some of the constraints necessary to generate ocean circulation models. Since the ocean is responsible for a large portion of heat redistribution, the results will also be useful to climate scientists whom use circulation models in the study of climate change.

Keywords: natural sciences,physical sciences,inversion,stochastic heterogeneity mapping,spectral analysis,seismic oceanography,thermohaline staircases,tyrrhenian sea
Stone-working across the ancient Mediterranean. Building techniques, artisans and cultural identities: a view from North Africa (SWORM)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 250659.0
EU funding (EUR): 250659.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research concerns a multi-disciplinary study of stone-working techniques in the ancient Mediterranean starting from an archaeological analysis of built structures. In particular it focuses on the so-called opus Africanum, a group of masonry techniques characterised by vertical frameworks of stone blocks. It arrived in North Africa as a consequence of the Phoenician colonisation, and thereafter spread through the Mediterranean basin, especially to Italy, Spain and France. Its attestations from the late Punic age (2nd c. BC) until the end of the Roman period (5th c. AD) will be analysed with the objectives of understanding how ancient technology spread in the ancient world, what were the political and socio-economical conditions that allowed its diffusion as well as the role of artisans and patrons, and how we can extract information on their cultural identity through building techniques. The Applicant proposes to carry out a two-year research period at the UMR 8546 of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where a team working on the Archaeology of Construction is leaded by the Applicant’s supervisor. Combined with the Applicant’s own experience, this will allow the further development of a new methodological approach for studying ancient architecture and for integrating archaeology, anthropology, geology, and seismology. A database on building techniques will be developed together with custom-made free software to obtain 3D realistic models of ancient monuments based on digital pictures, from which points-clouds with RGB values can be processed. This project will be of mutual benefit for the Applicant and the Host organisation, and will enhance EU scientific excellence through new agreements with North African institutions for new fieldwork projects. Dissemination of results by scientific publications and organisation of a workshop will stimulate the creation of a researchers network working on the topic of this project in the Euro-Mediterranean area

Keywords: ancient studies,archaeology,stone-working,building techniques,ancient technology,north africa,archaeology of construction,knowledge exchange,euro-mediterranean area,multi-disciplinary approach
Identity development in adolescence: Longitudinal studies on identity transitions, antecedents, and consequences in various gender and ethnic groups (ADOLESCENT IDENTITY)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185040.8
EU funding (EUR): 185040.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Adolescents need to develop their own identities in order to become responsible adults and citizenships. Furthermore, formation of a firm identity is necessary to promote adolescent mental health and to prevent endorsement of risk and delinquent behaviours. The purpose of this project is to examine identity formation over time and to investigate antecedents and consequences of adolescent identity changes. In order to overcome current shortcomings of the identity research field this project will (a) use as framework a recent process model of identity aimed at disentangling the dynamic by which identity is formed and revised over time; (b) analyze identity formation in junior and high school students; (c) adopt longitudinal designs to directly test causality links involving identity changes, their predictors, and their effects; (d) take into account contextual influences that may impact adolescent identity; (e) examine ethnic differences, to test whether immigrant adolescents living in the Netherlands face the identity formation task differently from their autochthonous peers; (f) investigate gender differences, to find peculiarities and similarities between boys’ and girls’ identity paths; (g) translate main findings in meaningful recommendations for practitioners and policy makers that could use evidence-based results to plan interventions aimed at promoting healthy adolescent development. This project includes three studies aimed at addressing the following research questions: how does identity develop over time? Which are the effects of identity transitions on depressive and anxiety symptoms? (Study I); Which are the life events that can be predictive of identity changes over time? How does early adolescent identity predict middle and late adolescent developmental paths? (Study II); Do dyadic adolescent-best friend relationships influence identity formation and how (i.e., through identification or differentiation dynamics)? (Study III).

Keywords: developmental psychology,adolescence,identity,transitions,anxiety,depression,life events,healthy development,friendships,longitudinal,gender,ethnicity,dyads,applications
Molecular Aggregation and Microsolvation in Ultracold Helium Nanodroplets (MOLHENANO)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-25
End date: 2013-04-24
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162742.4
EU funding (EUR): 162742.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project MOLHENANO is to carry out the study of molecular aggregates (pyridine clusters; amino acid clusters; acids and amino acids microsolvated in water) embedded in superfluid helium nanodroplets by means of high resolution infrared spectroscopy at the Physical Chemistry Department II of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB). In the first part of the project, Pyridine molecules will be studied as an example for molecular aggregation processes. The study deuterated and fluorated pyridine will be studied to determine the effect of charge and mass distributions in the dimer formation. The results that will be obtained for the dimer can be used to predict intermolecular interactions in large aggregates. In a second part of the project the applicant will continue the investigations already started on the microsolvation of hidrogen cloride. Specifically the effect of the deuteration on the dissociation mechanisms will be explored. The microsolvation investigations will be extended afterwards with the study of the amino acids arginine and phenylalanine. Specifically the question of which form, neutral or zwitterion, is present for each experimental condition will be addressed. In particular a systematic study on increasing the number of water molecules will be carried out to determine how many water molecules are necessary for the transition to zwitterionic configuration. After concluding the above experiments the interaction of two amino acid monomers will be studied. Since there is no thermal energy available inside helium nanodroplets the final configuration for the dimer would differ from the absolute energy minimum configuration. Explore this striking effects will be another aim of MOLHENANO project.

Keywords: superfluid helium nanodroplets,infrared depletion spectroscopy,microsolvation,molecular aggregates,amino acids
ENvironment, EPigenetics and the Initiation of Allergic asthma (ENEPIA)

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: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 244190.0
EU funding (EUR): 244190.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Allergic disease is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disease with an enormous impact on health and well being and a high economic burden in Europe. The increasing incidence in the last decades is well documented and parallels the environmental changes of Industrialized countries. Although there appears to be a link between environmental factors and the high prevalence of allergic disease, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. However, the environment may influence susceptibility to allergic disease through inherited epigenetic modifications of DNA. Environmental exposures such as diet, drugs, toxins and social environment seem to influence the risk of developing allergy in children. These exposures have been linked to methylation and acetylation of specific immune-related genes. Using a mouse model of allergic asthma, we will investigate epigenetic changes in lung and immune cells to determine whether known epigenetic modifiers influence the susceptibility of allergic asthma in the offspring. Moreover, we will attempt to determine whether the effect occurs pre- or post-natally and will test the effects of epigenetic modifiers on gender and in mouse strains varying in their predisposition to Th2 immunity. The results from these experiments are expected to lead to a new understanding of the interaction between the environment, epigenetic changes and susceptibility to allergic disease. These results may have significant clinical implications on environmental exposure during pregnancy and ultimately may identify strategies to prevent allergic disease in high risk children.

Keywords: health sciences,allergic disease,allergy,epigenetics,environment
Engineering aspects and mechanisms of a natural pyrrhotite simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal (PSNOP) biofilter technology (PSNOP)

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: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 273095.0
EU funding (EUR): 273095.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to develop a natural pyrrhotite simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal (PSNOP) biofilter technology for treatment of wastewater lacking organic matter. In PSNOP biofilters, natural pyrrhotite particles are used as the biofilm carrier. By seeding the PSNOP biofilters with anaerobic sludge, sulfur autotrophic denitrifying bacteria biofilms will be grown. Sulfur autotrophic denitrifying bacteria will utilize pyrrhotite as the electron donor to reduce nitrate to nitrogen gas; simultaneously, iron and hydroxide ions generated during autotrophic denitrification will remove phosphorus via chemical precipitation and coagulation. The main research contents will include: (1) to investigate the engineering aspects of PSNOP biofilters in nitrogen and phosphorus removals from synthetic and real wastewaters; and (2) to analyze the mechanisms by examining the ecological structure in biofilms, oxidation of pyrrhotite, and denitrification and phosphorus precipitation kinetics. The applicant is a highly experienced researcher and develops the PSNOP idea from his experience in sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification and environmental mineralogy. With genuine mobility, he will transfer knowledge to the host group and the Europe. Being highly multidisciplinary, this project will: (1) generate a novel environmental technology which has a commercialization potential, and lead to fundamental understanding of sulfur autotrophic denitrification and biofilms, all resulting in increasing European competitiveness; (2) attract a top-class researcher active in a third country and increase the research excellence and multidisciplinary activities at the Community; (3) create long-term collaborations and mutually beneficial co-operation between research institutes in Europe and China; and (4) benefit the applicant's research career by training him as an independent researcher with specialized facilities, advanced techniques and European research culture.

Keywords: autotrophic denitrification,biofilm,chemical precipitation,environmental technology,nitrogen,phosphorus,tertiary treatment,wastewater treatment
The Role of Human Motivation in Visual Attention and Awareness under Load (LOADEMVS10)

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-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 201049.6
EU funding (EUR): 201049.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Perceptual load theory has been credited with solving the long-standing debate in Psychology about the locus of selection. According with this theory, the degree to which distracting information can be ignored depends on the level of perceptual load involved in the task. However, this theory has not as yet been tested with motivationally-salient stimuli. It is not clear whether tasks of high perceptual load allow people to ignore distarctor information which has high motivational salience. Information that has been associated through learning and resulted in highly predictive outcome (called motivationally salience), should gain more attention than those less predictive, regardless of valence. Here I propose to investigate the effects of high motivational value on visual selective attention and the associated neural correlates. The proposal represents a novel approach to study the interaction of selective attention and motivation in the human brain. It brings together different areas of research on attention, awareness, emotion and motivation.

Keywords: social sciences,psychological sciences,cogniitve science,attention,selection,motivation,brain