Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Genome Evolution in attine aNTS (GENTS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The colonies of eusocial insects (ants, bees, wasps, termites) are second in complexity only to human societies. They evolved by natural selection, in contrast to human sociality which has mostly cultural elements. In addition, insect societies have reproductive division of labor between sterile workers and fertile queens, a form of specialization that resembles germ-line and somatic cell differentiation in metazoan bodies. Social evolution theory increasingly understands the origin and elaboration of multicellular bodies and insect societies in a joint framework of inclusive fitness theory. This approach (A.F.G. Bourke, The Principles of Social Evolution, OUP, 2011) both emphasizes the power of cooperation to achieve higher levels of organization, and the corrupting tendencies emanating from lower-levels of selection that maintain selfish traits. Genomic imprinting is the most fundamental mechanism that maintains selfish tendencies at the genome level, potentially affecting all forms of social life. While genomic imprinting is increasingly well understood in mammals, its frequency and operation in insect societies is unknown. The present proposal aims to resolve this problem by combining Chinese genome sequencing excellence (BGI Shenzhen) with a cutting-edge research program in evolutionary biology (the Copenhagen Centre for Social Evolution) while focusing on one of the best studied social insect models, the fungus-growing ants. The ambitious work proposed is feasible because it is supported by significant additional funding from the combined host institutions. It implies a genome re-sequencing program with multiple components to obtain uniquely detailed insights into the fundamentals of recombination, the epigenetic mechanisms that maintain and regulate genome-level tendencies towards (social) corruption, and the validity of genomic imprinting theory as a general conceptual framework for social evolution at the molecular level.
Nano-Voids in Strained Silicon for Plasmonics (NOVOSIP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belarus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at exploring the use of nanovoids and nanodots prepared as plasmonic structures to enhance the efficiency of Si single-crystalline photovoltaic (PV) devices. Fabrication and experimental investigation of plasmonic structures in strained Si/SiGe multilayered structures will be carried to enhance light harvesting in solar cells due to both near-field and far-field effects. The main idea behind the production of nanovoids and nanodots is based on the ability of compressively strained thin SiGe alloy layers, incorporated in a Si matrix during epitaxial growth, to collect small-sized molecules (H, He, C) or vacancies, induced by irradiation. Further, thermal treatment results in the formation of nano-voids which are strictly assembled within the strained SiGe layers. The following key processes will be used: Molecular beam epitaxy of strained Si/SiGe/Si structures followed by irradiation with light ions (hydrogen, carbon) and rapid thermal treatment. This structure will then be additionally used as a template for segregation and self-assembling of metallic or carbon nanodots. The fundamental investigations of the structural, optical and electronic properties of the strained Si/SiGe layers will be carried out with a range of available methods for structural, electronical and optical characterization. By placing the nanovoids and nanodots in a highly doped emitter layer close enough to the p-n-junction that the near-fields will extend into the depletion layer, the effects of near-fields will be obtained. This will give a contribution to the electron-hole pair generation, and this will be additional to the far field effects. Being formed periodically, strained layers with self-assembled nanovoids or nanodots will display fundamentally unusual electronic and optical properties. These effects have not previously been experimentally studied in a solar cell configuration. The present system offers a unique configuration for such investigation.
Evolution of mutator bacteria in a community context (EMBCC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Argentina
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2016-02-08
End date: 2017-02-07
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed fellowship is designed to provide to a promising post-doctoral specialization in the microbial evolutionary ecology field by pursuing a period of training in Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Exeter in the UK. Under the supervision of a world’s leading expert in this field, and with further theoretical training, the Fellow would employ this 2 year period to develop and expand upon her highly commended PhD research into how the evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutation rates is affected by natural microbial communities. This goal will be carry out by taking two different approaches: i) to study what is the impact of natural competitors in the evolution and adaptation of mutator bacteria in a soil community context by using a direct experimental evolution system; ii) to investigate what is the role of community complexity in the selection of P. aeruginosa mutators in cystic fibrosis (CF) chronic airways infections by exploring the correlation between community diversity and prevalence of P. aeruginosa mutators in artificial and natural CF communities. The project will be interdisciplinary; bridging the gap between microbial ecology and clinical microbiology fields and having broad ecological and medical consequences. In addition, with the inclusion of a return phase, this proposal will foster long-term collaborations between Exeter University, UK and Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina; favoring the transference of knowledge and enhancing EU scientific excellence in research related to microbiology, evolutionary ecology and infectious diseases in order to extend the current state-of-the-art of mutator bacteria evolutionary dynamics.
The compilation of a second generation ‘web-based’ ornithological atlas for Kenya (BIRD ATLAS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Kenya
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Kenya’s avifauna is one of the better studied in Africa, second probably only to South Africa. Despite this, and whilst there are many bird watchers active in Kenya and thousands of tourists visit Kenya specifically for ornithological safaris, we still know very little about changes that have occurred in species’ distribution and status over the past 25-50 years. Range extensions and contractions have been noted but only from ad hoc observations. While records of birds found in Kenya are very much up to date, a real gap exists in our understanding of avian distributions and the contribution of changing global climate on observed species distribution patterns. Over a timeline of 2 years based at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, during which the applicant will initiate the project and receive thorough training in the techniques required to achieve the project, followed by a third year return to the National Museums of Kenya, where the applicant will transfer these techniques to local parties who will be vital to the continual expansion of the project, this proposed project will provide the applicant with the required training to enable him to take community based observational data, and use it in order to deliver a demand driven, continually evolving web-based bird atlas for Kenya. In addition to mapping the current avian diversity, the atlas will contain climate-based species niche modelling and genetic data, in order to provide a comprehensive view of the avifauna and its future prospects. This will consolidate the position of the host institute as one of the most innovative Natural History Museums in the world, in particular with regards to moving away from standard ‘collecting’ to innovative new ways of bringing natural history to the public.
The evolution of the Grassland biome: exploring past events to predict future scenarios (GRASSLANDS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Argentina
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Knowledge of the evolution of the grassland biome throughout the Earth's environmental history is important for the reconstruction of links between diversification/extinctions events and climate. Biomes are now being impacted by anthropogenic environmental change on an unprecedented scale, and one mean of understanding how component species will react is to study the effects of past environmental changes. Hence, understanding the evolutionary history of grassland ecosystems in the context of past biotic and abiotic changes is relevant to the way we will manage them under future environmental change. A new perspective on the history of the grassland biome is beginning to emerge from key developments in palaeontology and molecular phylogenetics that will be integrated interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in the present project for the first time. GRASSLANDS aimed at understanding the timing and nature of grasslands' most important components, the grass (Poaceae) and daisy (Asteraceae) families, through the combination of fossil data, molecular phylogenetics and computational approaches. The potential contribution of GRASSLANDS to our understanding of the evolutionary history of these families and grassland ecosystems in general is significant and will certainly provide new insights into the rise of flowering plants as the dominant components of almost every terrestrial ecosystems.
IST-Africa Initiative (2012 - 2013) - Regional Impact of Information Society Technologies in Africa (IST-AFRICA 2012-13)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: International Cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,South Africa,Namibia,Lesotho,Mozambique,Botswana,Tanzania, United Republic of,Uganda,Kenya,Burundi,Senegal,Mauritius,Cameroon,Egypt,Tunisia,Eswatini,Malawi,Ethiopia,Zambia,Ghana
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1046007.0
EU funding (EUR): 933349.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

IST-Africa (2012 - 2013) is a strategic collaboration between 1 European partner and 18 African Ministries and National Councils responsible for ICT /STI adoption, policy and research representing North Africa (Egypt, Tunisia), Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi), East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Ethiopia), West Africa (Senegal, Ghana) & Central Africa (Cameroon). The main objectives of IST-Africa (2012 - 2013) are to: Support Information Society & ICT R&D dialogues and increase cooperation between EC, AUC, EU & African MS and key regional organisations; Support work of European Expert Group & implementation of 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership; Organise events synchronised with dialogue meetings, providing input on common R&D priorities and strengthening EU-Africa research links; Identify and analyse African ICT research priorities and provide recommendations for future Africa - EU co-operation; Strengthen cooperative research links between European and African organisations to establish strategic partnerships; Support development of NCPs in partner countries IST-Africa (2012 - 2013) will: Organise 2 Thematic Working Group Meetings; Facilitation of 2 informal Dialogue Meetings of European Expert Group (hosted by EU Member States or EC) to support EC; Organise 2 Ministerial level research conferences in Africa and meetings with RECs & other Regional stakeholders; Engage with national and regional African S&T/ICT Stakeholders to identify research priorities; Organise FP7 Training Workshops in new Partner Countries (Ethiopia, Tunisia, Swaziland, Malawi) to create awareness about Calls, validate priorities, inform recommendations; Organise 2 IST-Africa Workshops at European conferences to highlight African research capacity; Maximize regional impact by engaging with relevant Technology Platforms and publishing content

Keywords: support to dialogues,cooperative ict research,international partnership building,research priorities,information society,acp
Platform for optimising the design and operation of modular configurable IT infrastructures and facilities with resource-efficient cooling (COOLEMALL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Poland,Germany,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,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): 3589460.0
EU funding (EUR): 2626438.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

An increasingly important factor in the construction of data centres is the use of modular building blocks as opposed to bespoke facilities. This modular approach is becoming popular due to lower costs, shorter building times, and flexibility of design. However, as this flexibility gives a broad spectrum of configurations, there is significant scope for analysing the energy efficiency aspects of the modular approach. In order to have a deep insight into the total energy consumption of both large data centres and smaller facilities more research is needed to determine how intrinsically efficient the approach is. Thus the main goal of CoolEmAll is to provide advanced planning and optimisation tools for modular data centre environments. Once developed, these tools should help to minimise the energy consumption, and consequently the CO2 emissions of the IT infrastructure with related facilities. This will be achieved by: (i) Design of diverse types of computing building blocks (ComputeBox Blueprints) precisely defined by energy efficiency metrics; (ii) Development of simulation, visualization and decision support toolkit (SVD Toolkit) that will enable analysis and optimisation of IT infrastructures built of these building blocks; Both activities will include three important aspects when considering the energy efficiency of modular data centres: cooling techniques, applications properties, and management policies. To achieve these goals CoolEmAll will follow the interdisciplinary approach using project partners’ expertise and technologies in relevant areas. Validation of results will be done by both real-life and simulation studies. The former will be possible thanks to the small scale real prototype of ComputeBox with fine-grained monitoring. Simulation studies will allow analysing and optimising energy efficiency in specific scenarios and designing ComputeBox Blueprints leading to potential energy savings of 10-50% depending on a specific case.

Keywords: energy efficient data centres,simulation and visualisation,energy-efficiency metrics,thermal-aware wokload management,energy consumption of applications
Epixfab services specifically targeting (SME) industrial take-up of advanced silicon photonics (ESSENTIAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Finland,Netherlands,Ireland,Canada
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1652974.0
EU funding (EUR): 940000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

ESSenTIAL will bring silicon photonics within reach of European small and medium sized enterprises, thereby building on the track record of the Silicon Photonics Platform ePIXfab (www.epixfab.eu) and its integration into Europractice. To this end, ESSenTIAL offers affordable access to standardized active and passive silicon photonic IC and packaging technology, a path from design to manufacturing and hands-on training. Based on a consortium of major research institutes with silicon photonics expertise, ESSenTIAL will reach out to European industry and will support them to evaluate silicon photonics in the context of concrete applications and markets. To ensure low-cost early access and scalability to manufacturing, the maturity of silicon photonic IC technology will be enhanced by setting up a library of generic devices, a level of process and device benchmarking and a well maintained design flow. For the first time, devices in a standard package will be offered to allow easy testing. Training on the IC and packaging services will be offered, including hands-on design training. Maturity, standardization and sustainability will be driven by a steadily growing user base, from Europe and elsewhere. ESSenTIAL will ensure that ePIXfab will keep Europe’s lead in fabless silicon photonics and will turn it into and industry-relevant platform.

Keywords: silicon,photonics,access,training,sme
Components for Highly Advanced time-Resolved fluorescence MIcroscopy based on Nonlinear Glass fibres (CHARMING)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,France,Germany,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3630244.0
EU funding (EUR): 2760000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The project CHARMING aims at developing compact and fully fibred visible lasers for fluorescence spectroscopy, high resolution confocal microscopy and tryptophan imaging. These applications require pulsed operation (about 100 ps at repetition rates from 1 to 80 MHz), various wavelengths in the visible (from 515 to 630 nm typically) and in the UV (for tryptophan imaging), high average power (up to 500 mW for high resolution) with a polarisation maintaining fibre delivery when possible. These wavelengths cannot, in most of the cases, be addressed directly. Therefore, in order to respond to these applications with fibre based solutions different technological building blocks have to be developed. The project CHARMING will focus on the development of semiconductor laser sources in the 1.1 μm to 1.2 μm band, Bismuth and Raman amplifiers, pulse gating and wavelength conversion fibre based solutions. This last function is certainly the more challenging in the project. Periodically Poled Singlemode Fibres (PPSF) for Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) have been proven at laboratory scale but breakthrough approaches are required for this technology to be integrated in future systems. Various innovative approaches, in particular the use of Micro-structured Optical Fibres (MOF), will be investigated to convert this promising technology into potential products. SHG and other functions developed in CHARMING will be integrated in gain-switched and modelocked lasers at different wavelengths in the visible. The compatibility of these sources with the requirements of the imaging applications targeted in the project will be demonstrated. Finally, the performances of the devices will be pushed beyond these specifications (in the Watt level) for targeting a broader potential impact (like for instance, applications in micromachining).

Keywords: non-linear,optical fibre,laser,spectroscopy,microscopy
Smart integration of GaN & SiC high power electronics for industrial and RF applications (SMARTPOWER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Romania,Greece,Hungary,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7410112.0
EU funding (EUR): 5075000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

For industrial motor-drive, UPS and solar inverters applications and aerospace or telecom RF applications, new emerging power semiconductor technologies, respectively SiC and GaN, have demonstrated their higher performances than the actual technologies (Si and GaAs) in terms of reduction of losses, increase of efficiency and power handling. But to increase the efficiency of the power modules and in the same time reduce their size and make them more cost effective, these SiC and GaN technologies still have to be associated with new efficient cooling and packaging solutions. The goal of SMARTPOWER is to carry out the packaging and thermal management developments required to achieve the efficient and cost-effective implementation of SiC- and GaN-based power modules respectively into industrial power inverters and RF transmitters systems. This main objective is supported in the project by two routes of research: - The developments of key enabling technologies required to the integration of the power modules into viable systems: efficient and reliable thermal interface materials and electrical interconnect, highly efficient thermoelectric modules andintegrated temperature sensor. - The development of new 3D packaging techniques and the associated thermal architectures that will allow to integrate the core chips, together with the enabling technologies, in a viable and cost effective manner. The RTD developments will be demonstrated into the realisation of two high power modules: (i) SiC-based inverter for UPS, solar and motor-drive applications (ii) GaN-based RF transmitter for aerospace and telecom applications. The SMARTPOWER consortium (15 partners from 7 European States) gathers all the competences required to achieve these objectives. It is well balanced and involves all the supply chain partners in order to anticipate the cost-effective introduction of these new technologies and future products on the market.