Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
GRaphene supramolEculAr elecTronics: a life-long training Career development project (GREAT)

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-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193594.8
EU funding (EUR): 193594.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

GREAT aims at offering to a young scientist with an excellent scientific record, possessing a Ph.D in chemistry, a cross-disciplinary and supra-sectorial training and research experience in the emerging field at the interface between physics, materials sciences, supramolecular chemistry, electrical engineering and nanoscience with the ultimate goal of offering him an education in a new field of research and broadening his skills in science and complementary subjects. The overall mission is to train the young researcher to become an independent scientist as well as to prepare him for a leading position in academia or industry. Within GREAT the training-through-research is targeted at exploiting tailor-made graphene organic based systems to study their structure and electronic properties and ultimately to assess their potential in photovoltaic applications and more generally in (opto)electronic devices. Understanding and bottom-up tuning of graphene properties is essential for its potential optoelectronic applications since organic-derivatized graphenes show improved conductivity, charge mobility and mechanical strength. To accomplish this goal, we will combine bottom-up and top-down approaches: graphene-hybrid materials prepared by either covalent modification or by supramolecular functionalization of graphene with functional molecules in a given liquid media will be self-assembled forming multicomponent architectures with a high degree of order at multiple length scales, i.e. from the nano to the macroscopic scale. These architectures will be employed as semiconducting layers in field effect transistors (FETs) and solar cells (SC’s), or as transparent electrodes as alternative to ITO electrodes. Prototype of devices will be fabricated in order to investigate in depth and in a broader context two fundamental physical properties for optoelectronics, i.e. charge injection and charge transport characteristics.

Keywords: physics,materials sciences,supramolecular chemistry,electrical engineering and nanoscience
A digital edition of the fragments of Demetrios of Scepis (DEMETRIOS OF SCEPSIS)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 135072.9
EU funding (EUR): 135072.9
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal is a resubmission of a project evaluated under the same name in the IEF-call 2010. The resubmission is motivated by the fact that the training at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is absolutely necessary for the fulfilment of the project. The project's first aim is the creation of an online edition of the fragments of Demetrios of Scepsis, a Greek author from the 2nd century BCE. In order to achieve this goal the literary and historical background of Demetrios of Scepsis will be explored. The results of this investigation will provide new insights concerning a crucial period of classical scholarship, where the methods of textual criticism still in use today, either in modern or in ancient philologies, were developed. Studies about those remote times are therefore still useful and enlightening. They provide a better understanding of the present day research and teaching environment in Humanities. Further the creation of the great centres of research such as the library of Alexandria and the one of Pergamon with the radically new methods of investigations they provided for the scholars can in many ways be compared to the situation nowadays. The new digital technologies opened a profoundly new approach to many fields in Humanities. So the project would not only be an example of the kind of researches which can be carried out with these new technologies but would also provide some reflections on the whole process by comparing it to the changes which occurred in the Hellenistic time, when these libraries were created and could be used by scholars such as Demetrios of Scepsis. During the stay at the Department of Digital Humanities the technical aspects of the project will be carried out. The texts will be annotated and enhanced with a XML markup system to prepare an internet release. The expertise of the members of the DDH and current projects developed at the DDH provide an optimal and necessary environment for these tasks.

Keywords: humanities,literature,european literature,greek literature,ancient history
THE ANTI-POLITICS OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING POLICY AND PRACTICE IN BENIN AND ITALY (AP-AT)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-05-27
End date: 2016-05-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185763.6
EU funding (EUR): 185763.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

During this Fellowship, I will expand my PhD research on the politics and practice of anti- human trafficking policy in Benin, by conducting a comparative study of Benin and Italy. I aim to examine whether the trends I found in Benin apply to the anti-trafficking field more generally, and my hypothesis is that they do. Specifically, I wish to investigate the way anti-trafficking policy and related discourse de-politicise human migration, fail to reflect or respond to empirics, and work to reinforce institutional status quos more than to protect or aid ‘victims’ and ‘the vulnerable’. The comparative nature of the study and my proposed methodology –combining political-economic analysis, interviews and participant observation with migrant sending and receiving communities, and interviews and discourse analysis with policy actors at all levels of the policy chain– make it unique in its field. Carrying it to fruition and developing the methodological, organisational and advocacy skills necessary to do so will cement my transition from promising PhD to pioneering researcher and field leader in my own right. Moreover, by enabling me to conduct comparative work, the Fellowship removes me from the silos of ‘African studies’ and ‘Trafficking’ and establishes me as a scholar of migration studies more broadly. The intended outputs of the project are various, including 3 referred journal articles, an intersectoral academic/policy-maker conference, the creation of advocacy links between institutions involved in the field, and widespread public dissemination of findings. I believe this will ultimately contribute towards establishing the EU as a world leader in anti-trafficking policy and strategy, addressing and offering remedies for the significant problems that exist internally (in the example of Italy) and externally (through donor relations in Benin). Critically, I believe that this will in turn benefit the individuals who so often suffer as a result of misguided EU policy.

Keywords: human trafficking,child trafficking,(child) labour migration,anti-trafficking policy,migration policy,policy systems,international aid,political anthropology,political ecology,ipe
Spatial organization of species distributions: hierarchical and scale-dependent patterns and processes in coastal seascapes (BAYESIANMETAFLATS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-04-15
End date: 2016-04-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 248142.0
EU funding (EUR): 248142.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hidden in intertidal sandflats of our estuaries live shellfish, worms, and crabs. We are interested in defining how the relationships between their abundance patterns and different biotic and environmental processes change from single points to across whole intertidal areas. We will determine the importance of environmental characteristics within and across spatial scales and assess their interaction with biological processes. This will be achieved by employing spatially explicit Generalised Estimating Equations within spatial scales, and multivariate spatial Bayesian models that include species interactions as well as environmental variability across spatial scales. Thereby we will be able to better understand the interplay between fine- and broad-scale patterns and processes that underpins potential resilience in these ecosystems and improve our forecast of habitat preferences under conditions of environmental change. To date, most broad-scale research on species distributions ignores spatial patterns, scale-dependent variability, and biotic interactions. This limits our statistical analyses and more importantly inferences about ecological processes we draw from them. We will will visit more than 1000 strategically positioned sampling stations in three of New Zealand’s major harbours. Predicting current and potential distributions of species is critical for evaluating management options and understanding the importance of ecological change, leading towards a better integrated management of coastal ecosystems. This is fundamentally important due to catastrophic global shifts in many marine ecosystems, following over-harvesting, pollution, and the direct and indirect impacts of climate change. This integrated and holistic approach can only be realised by pulling together an unrivalled knowledge of estuarine ecosystems, provided by the National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research, and a fully equipped toolbox, contributed by the University of Freiburg.

Keywords: spatial scale,hierarchical models,generalised estimating equations,estuarine,species distribution models,macrozoobenthos,environmental variables,bayesian multi-species models
Understanding Public Knowledge and Attitudes towards Trafficking in Human Beings: A Cross-National Study (UP-KAT)

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: Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195724.4
EU funding (EUR): 195724.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of this 24-month project is to research, evaluate, and disseminate a broader understand-ing of how Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) is understood by the general public in countries of the en-larged EU and its neighbour states. The project will assess the influence of socio-economic, demograph-ic and attitudinal factors on public knowledge and understanding of THB by situating the analysis within socio-economic and political contexts of the countries of origin, transit and destination for THB. The find-ings will aid in the development of anti-trafficking policies and targeted public awareness campaigns. Theoretically, this research will contribute to ongoing scholarly debates on how citizens can influence public policies and how public knowledge is embedded in complex socio-political processes. This will be achieved by exploring public understanding of THB as a function of individual socio-economic and de-mographic attributes, attitudes towards a broad range of issues surrounding THB (immigration, gender inequality, prostitution, consumption), and discursive construction of national policies on immigration, gender equality and social justice. The project will address the existing deficit of comparative empirical data in the field by producing three rich cross-national data sets on public understanding of THB. Data will be collected using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, including omnibus-powered face-to-face surveys of nationally representative samples of adults in Ukraine, Hungary and the UK, fo-cus groups and qualitative semi-structured interviews. In addition to the academic significance of re-search outcomes, the project will also offer and promote a set of context-specific recommendations on how to develop targeted campaigns and policies to inform public awareness of trafficking and its links to the factors of supply and demand.

Keywords: human trafficking,human rights,migration,social sciences,public policy,eu policies,public opinion,gender-based violence
Comparing the properties and the consequences of attainment versus maintenance goals (ATTMAIN)

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-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168896.4
EU funding (EUR): 168896.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Economic and social behavior is often goal directed. People and organizations can strive for two kinds of goals: They can strive for an improvement of the current state (e.g., increase the balance of a savings account-an attainment goal), or they can strive for holding on to the current state (e.g., maintain the balance of a savings account -a maintenance goal). Research to date has studied attainment goals in isolation, but it has rarely compared the properties and processes associated with attainment versus maintenance goals. As a consequence of the absence of such systematic comparisons, our understanding of maintenance goals remains limited, and our understanding of attainment goals incomplete. Recent academic research comparing the two goal types indicates that they hold different properties. However, many important questions remain open: Are attainment or maintenance goals more attractive, and under what circumstance? What types of plans are more appropriate for the pursuit of each goal type? Is individual performance affected differently by the two goal types? Under what circumstances? Are independent versus interdependent cultures more inclined towards one of the two goal types? Answering these questions is the objective of the proposed research program. Providing these answers will require a combination of laboratory and field studies. Hence, the results will be compatible with the experimental psychology tradition in goals’ research, and relevant for the field of behavioral economics. Moreover, given the importance of goals in several research domains (e.g., marketing, consumer behaviour, management, psychology) and real world contexts (e.g., saving, dieting, work, investments, charities) the results of the proposed research program are expected to affect a variety of disciplines. Finally, as much of the related research is being conducted in the USA, the proposed research program could serve as a basis for further stimulating research on goals in Europe.

Keywords: marketing,consumer behavior,consumer studies,consumer psychology,experimental psychology,goals,goal setting,attainment goals,maintenance goals
Victims and their justice motives in a restorative intervention (VICTIMS AND RJ)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-15
End date: 2015-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209033.4
EU funding (EUR): 209033.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research proposal concerns the justice motives victims of crime describe for their participation in a restorative intervention. Victim participation in a restorative intervention, which provides an active role for the victim in the search for reparation and conciliation, implies that a victim-participant is willing to engage herself in dealing with the offender. Empirical findings suggest that victims are not only looking to meet their own needs for reparation, voice and empowerment through participation in the restorative intervention. Victims also seem to consider societal interests, such as raising victim awareness and contributing to a safer society. Accordingly, restorative justice may not only serve personal motives, but also prosocial motives. Theoretical insight into such justice motives related to restorative justice remains to be elaborated. The proposed research is looking to identify and theoretically explain the personal and societal interests victims consider when agreeing to meet their offenders and confront them with the material and emotional consequences of their delinquent acts. Furthermore, it is intended to see whether such justice motives exist prior to participation or are triggered by the restorative intervention. A final empirical objective concerns the potential impact of legal-cultural differences on victims’ justice motives, more particularly of victims’ experiences in an inquisitorial or adversarial regime. The observations made in this study would advance insight into the significance, extent and evolution in personal and prosocial justice motives as well as clarify the role victims are willing to play in the aftermath of the crime in the criminal justice system, of which restorative practices are a part. To this end, semi-structured interviews will be conducted in Belgium and the UK with crime victims who have just agreed to participate in victim-offender mediation or conferencing and those who have completed the intervention.

Keywords: criminology,victims of crime,restorative justice,justice motives,self-interest,prosocial behaviour,qualitative study,belgium
Caribbean Biopolitics of Literature. Shaping Life, History and Community through the Transformative Power of Literature (CARIBIOLIT)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-24
End date: 2014-09-23
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209033.4
EU funding (EUR): 209033.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research is located at the intersection of philosophy and literary studies – Biopolitics, Postcolonial Studies and Caribbean Studies – and proposes an innovative methodology to investigate the relationship between literature and power/politics. The project is to investigate the specific ways in which, since the 1960s, major Caribbean writers (Glissant, Condé, Harris, Walcott) have written about the unspeakable violence, domination and disruption, linked to foundational issues, such as genocide, slavery, colonialism and dictatorships. Simultaneously, this has given rise to new forms of affirmative biopolitics, such as métissage and creolization, and produced new contemporary directions for individual and communal life through work on language, imagination and myth. The aim is to enrich the critical debate on postcolonial Caribbean literature by introducing the issues raised by the reflection on Biopolitics, which have so far been ignored by postcolonial critics, in order to produce new insights on the relationship between language, life, history and politics. Biopolitics investigates the complexities of the link between life and forms, origin and history and offers a great innovative potential for literary theory, suggesting new criteria and methodologies for reading the relations between texts and the world in an increasingly complex and challenging global society. The hypothesis is that Caribbean philosophic, poetic and fictional writing has tried to conceive a reversal of the immunity characterizing the genealogy of Western modernity, into new forms of community and towards a real affirmative biopolitics. The European community and Research Area are inextricably linked to the Caribbean, both by a historical legacy and enduring contemporary links, and due to its attention to power hierarchies in a precise cultural and historical contextualization, this study will be of benefit to political and cultural specialists working on European-Caribbean relations.
Host galaxy effects on the observational properties and evolution of active galactic nuclei (HGAGN)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209033.4
EU funding (EUR): 209033.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the proposed project is to study the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei. AGN are considered to be among the most energetic processes in the universe and are thought to affect the evolution of galaxies. Because of their vast energy release they often outshine their host galaxies, so the study of the AGN-host system can be very challenging. Here, we propose a multi-wavelength approach, taking advantage of the fact that different physical processes leave their characteristic signatures in different parts of the spectrum, for example hot gas being accreted onto the AGN dominates the X-rays and UV light, while star formation and stellar emission of the host galaxy have their peaks in the far-infrared and optical bands respectively. We are planning to use a sample of AGN from the regions of the sky with the deepest coverage in virtually all bands, the Chandra deep fields. New telescopes and instruments like NuSTAR, SCUBA-2, and Herschel, for which the host institute will guarantee data flow, will provide an unprecedented multi-wavelength dataset and we plan to develop new SED fitting methods to exploit it. SED fitting is one of the most promising methods to disentangle AGN and host galaxy properties, and it uses combinations of template SEDs (spectral energy distributions, i.e. broad-band spectra) of different physical processes to reproduce the observed spectrum. We plan to expand on a code developed by the researcher and ultimately make it available to the astronomical community. The results will be used to study the coeval growth of the AGN and its host, taking into account information on different processes taking place, and their interactions. This will help us understand the importance of AGN for the development of the structures we observe in the universe today.

Keywords: astronomy,astrophysics,software development