Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Trade, Productivity, and Firm Capabilities in China's Manufacturing Sector (CHINA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 944940.0
EU funding (EUR): 944940.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

China s economy has expanded at breakneck speed to become the 3rd largest trading country in the world and the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI). Entry into the WTO in 2001 was a landmark event in this ongoing process and I propose to study several channels through which it spurred China s industrial development. Crucially, I will take an integrated view of the different ways in which Chinese and Western firms interact: through trade flows, as suppliers or competitors, FDI, or knowledge transfers. First, I investigate the existence and magnitude of a causal link from the trade reforms to productivity growth. Second, I look for evidence of capability upgrading, such as increased production efficiency, an ability to produce higher quality products, or introduce new products by innovating. Third, I study the mechanisms for the impact of trade and FDI on local firms, in particular assessing the relative importance of increased market competition and the transfer of know-how from foreign firms. For this analysis, I draw heavily on a unique data set. Information on the universe of Chinese manufacturing firms is being linked to the universe of Chinese trade transactions. These are unique research tools on their own, but as a linked data set, the only comparable one in the world is for the U.S. economy. The Chinese data has the advantage to contain detailed information on FDI, distinguishes between ordinary and processing trade, and contains information on innovation, such as R&amp;D and sales of new goods. Answering the above questions is important for other developing countries wanting to learn from China s experience and for Western firms assessing how quickly Chinese firms will become viable suppliers of sophisticated inputs or direct competitors. By estimating models that are explicitly derived from new theories, I advance the literature at the interaction of international and development economics, industrial organization, economic geography.

Keywords: productivity,wto,fdi,china,industrial organization
The origins and development of the human mirror neuron system. (ODMIR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1208400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1208400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Evidence demonstrating the presence of mirror neurons in the adult human brain has led many researchers to suggest a fundamental role for the mirror neuron system (MNS) in human mentalizing behavior and social cognition. Recent findings have also suggested strong relationships between MNS impairments and neurodevelopmental disorders in which mentalizing behavior is impaired. In light of this evidence, it has become of paramount importance to understand whether or not the MNS is present at birth and how its functional properties develop throughout infancy. The current project will address these questions within the context of a neuroconstructivist framework, according to which a basic perception-action coupling mechanism would be present from birth, and undergoes a series of refinements through experience and visuomotor learning. Using behavioral, electromyographic and electrophysiological measures, the project aims to investigate action understanding and emotion recognition in newborns and infants. Behavioral looking time and eye-movement paradigms will be used to test infants ability to visually anticipate the action s goal. Electromyographic paradigms will allow for testing of when and how the activation of infants muscles is affected by the goal of the observed action or the emotion expressed by the observed face. Electrophysiological paradigms will be used to investigate modulations of infants EEG activity during the execution and observation of grasping actions.

Keywords: infant - mirror neuron
Promoting collaborative doctoral education for enhanced career opportunities (DOC-CAREERS II)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 330840.93
EU funding (EUR): 295000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

DOC-CAREERS II has been conceived as an exploratory action to test the feasibility of Regional Workshops as an instrument to foster university-business/enterprise collaboration. DOC-CAREERS I project identified that many views on opportunities, challenges and barriers hindering university-industry cooperation are shared by both partners and that there are no “one-size-fits-all” solutions or ways forward. In fact, they tend to be specific to every case, including local or regional cultural differences. In order to capture this diversity, DOC-CAREERS II will look uniquely at how universities work with their regional partners in doctoral education, especially in regions of the new EU Member States. The regional focus of the action will allow us to identify examples of university collaboration with local SME, large R&D enterprises, RTD performers, NGO’s and other industries (health care, cultural, etc.). A series of five Regional Workshops will be held in selected locations in Europe (Eastern, Southern, Central-North), with the intention to bring together partners interested in cooperation through doctoral education. If the action is proved to be successful, the Regional Workshop instrument could be promoted in the context of the future work of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE). Other possible ways forward will be explored, in particular with the other three partners of the Responsible Partnering Initiative (EIRMA, EARTO and ProTon Europe). Main expected impacts of DOC-CAREERS II include: greater awareness of skill developments and mobility strategies in doctoral training in Europe with a view of career development and employability; empirical insights for reforming doctoral programmes; improvement in regional cooperation and networking in a dialogue with different potential employers; building lasting partnerships, networks and joint initiatives aimed at improving collaboration between private and public sectors.

Keywords: doctoral education,doctoral careers,university-industry relations,collaborative research
Distributed CHP generation from Small Size Concentrated Solar Power (DIGESPO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Malta,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4536293.2
EU funding (EUR): 3278174.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The DiGeSPo project concept is a modular 1-3 kWe, 3-9 kWth micro Combined Heat and Power (m-CHP) system based on innovative Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Stirling engine technology. This CSP m-CHP will provide electrical power, heating and cooling for single and multiple domestic dwellings and other small commercial, industrial and public buildings. It integrates small scale concentrator optics with moving and tracking components, solar absorbers in the form of evacuated tube collectors, a heat transfer fluid, a Stirling engine with generator, and heating and/or cooling systems; it incorporates them into buildings in an architecturally acceptable manner, with low visual impact. Four main themes have led to the development of this proposal: (i) technical improvements in large scale, parabolic trough solar concentrators that can now be adapted for much smaller scale systems, down to the single domestic dwelling; (ii) recent studies on Cer.Met. coatings suggest that improved optical behaviour and material durability for absorbers inside evacuated tube collectors can be achieved at higher temperatures than previously possible, with very low costs achievable at high production volumes; (iii) modified Stirling cycles and new compact heat exchanger technology are improving the costs and performance of small heat engines, so that they can operate with higher proportions of Carnot efficiency on the intermediate temperatures (&gt; 350 °C) from the new CSP collectors. (iv) increases in natural gas prices, both absolute and relative to electricity prices, can under-mine the financial viability of gas-fuelled m-CHP. There is an urgent need for alternative m-CHP systems, of which solar m-CHP , whether separately or as a hybrid, is an option with high potential.

Keywords: distributed chp generation,concentrated solar power,cermet layer,stirling engine
Alage and aquatic biomass for a sustainable production of 2nd generation biofuels (AQUAFUELS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Netherlands,Israel,Spain,France,Ireland,Belgium,United Kingdom,Czechia,Belgium,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 869001.0
EU funding (EUR): 747152.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

AquaFUELS intends to focus on establishing the state of the art on research, technological development and demonstration activities regarding the exploitation of various algal and other suitable non-food aquatic biomasses for 2nd generation biofuels production. In this frame an overall assessment, critical thinking and reasoning are necessary to draft the lines of future developments. This will respond to the need of understanding the place of algae and aquatic biomass in the present and future renewable energy sources portfolio in EU, with a careful eye to sustainability and social implications. Such action can be effective only involving major stakeholders, defining the present situation in a realistic perspective and this way providing a valuable contribution to shape future developments. AquaFUELS aims to draw the detailed, comprehensive and concrete picture of the actual status quo of EU and international initiatives on algae biofuels. Based on this work, AquaFUELS will successively elaborate an overall assessment on the technology, and identify major research and industrial needs. The surveys and assessments produced by AquaFUELS will address the full life cycle analysis - from collection to fuel use - in terms of environmental, economic and social sustainability. A major mean to reach project goals will be the coordination of a critical mass of ongoing research activities, that will be actively involved in the preparation of surveys as well as in the elaboration of the assessment studies and identification of future needs. Creating and maximizing synergies among these initiatives is one of major project results. Finally, the project will establish the first European Algae Association that will promote mutual interchange and cooperation in the field of algal biomass research, production and use

Keywords: algae,biofuels
Zero Emission Platform supPOrt Secretariat (ZEPPOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Cross-cutting actions between activities Energy-5 and Energy-6
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1137996.0
EU funding (EUR): 500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ZEPPOS (Zero Emission Platform supPOrt Secretariat) is the secretariat for the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ETP-ZEP) for the period May 2009- October 2011. It is the continuation of the previous secretariat that operated from 2006 onwards under the name “ZEST”. The objective of ZEPPOS is to provide the level of support to ETP-ZEP that it needs for achieving its own goal: to enable commercial availability of technologies for CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage). Primarily ZEPPOS provides process support. This includes administrative activities but also organizational activities (initiate and structure ZEP-activities), networking activities and input for the discussions) and, if needed, fund raising and financial management. The process support is provided to the various bodies that make up the ZEP platform (the advisory council, coordination group, taskforces etc.). ZEPPOS also provides communication activities for the intra-platform coordination of activities and the dissemination of information and supports the ZEP communications director whose responsibility is the external communications. ZEPPOS provides limited desk research support at request of the taskforces. An example of that could be data collection and analysis regarding progress of individual member states in the field of policy, technology and public communication for which attempts have been made to develop country profiles. ZEPPOS is staffed by 3 people, all of which have worked for the ZEP secretariat during its first years of existence. ZEPPOS and its staff members are independent from participating organizations and constituent groups (industry, NGO’s, research)and is therefore without vested CCS-related interests. The home base of ZEPPOS is The Hague, Netherlands. Additionally it has facilities in Brussels. ZEPPOS uses advanced tools for its activities such as internet supported teleconferencing.

Keywords: ccs carbon capture storage zero emission european technology platform secretariat
Secretariat of the technology platform for the electricity networks of the future SmartGrids-ETPS (SMARTGRIDS-ETPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 849480.0
EU funding (EUR): 379214.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

At the end of 2005, the main stakeholders in the area of Smart Electricity Networs (SmartGrids), including the European Commission, established the European Technology Platform (ETP) of the Electricity Networks of the Future SmartGrdis. As a result of a call for proposals to support the establishment and running of European Technology Platforms (call FP6-2005-ENERGY4) the European Commission provided financial support to the Platform secretariat for contract duration of 30 months awarded to ZABALA (ZABALA) (coordinator of the previous and present secretariat). In June 2006 the first formal tasks started with a secretariat that provided managerial, administrative and communication support to the SmartGrids ETP. Presently, the objective of this proposal is to provide continuity to the work of the secretariat, with better matching to the ETP needs and challenges ahead, in terms of efficient, impartial and transparent management of platform activities, projects and communication strategy and so contribute to achieving the statutory platform objectives and ensure their highest quality. The four main activity lines of the secretariat are: • Support to the main bodies that are part of the internal structure of the SmartGrids ETP: SmartGrids Forum and Mirror Group with the organisation and management of periodic meetings. And internal communication exchange. • Generation of high quality results supporting in the definition, management and development of public results. • Support in the implementation of a communication strategy based around an information centre (public internet site), yearly conferences, newsletters, participation in other conferences and direct cooperation with the European Commission. • Implementing monitoring activities and quality control reviews of platform activities and results. The consortium for this project comprises three complementary partners uniting all necessary skills to achieve the objective

Keywords: smart grids,power transmission distribution networks
Quantitative Failure Consequence Hazard Assessment for Next Generation CO2 Pipelines (CO2PIPEHAZ)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,France,China,United Kingdom,Norway
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2725645.2
EU funding (EUR): 2067377.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This project addresses the fundamentally important and urgent issue regarding the accurate predictions of fluid phase, discharge rate, emergency isolation and subsequent atmospheric dispersion during accidental releases from pressurised CO2 pipelines to be employed as an integral part of large scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) chain. This information is pivotal to quantifying all the hazard consequences associated with CO2 pipeline failure forming the basis for emergency response planning and determining minimum safe distances to populated areas. The development of state of the art multiphase heterogeneous discharge and dispersion models for predicting the correct fluid phase during the discharge process will be of particular importance given the very different hazard profiles of CO2 in the gas and solid states. Model validations will be based on both small scale controlled laboratory conditions as well as large scale field trials using a unique CCS facility in China. A cost/benefit analysis will be performed to determine the optimum level of impurities in the captured CO2 stream based on safety and economic considerations. The work proposed, carried out over a period of 36 months will embody the understanding gained within safety and risk assessment tools that can be used for evaluating the adequacy of controls in CO2 pipelines, with best practice guidelines also being developed. The proposal addresses the main themes of the Collaborative Call in that it &quot;has a predominant research component and its successful outcome would allow the safe and commercial deployment of large scale near zero emission power generation technology based on CCS”. The project also enjoys strategic leadership from members the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum and highly relevant collaboration with the world’s second largest and fastest producer of CO2, China.

Keywords: co2 pipeline transportation,source term modelling,pipeline rupture,safety,hazard assessment,failure consequence modelling,carbon capture and sequestration,outflow modelling
High Efficient Very Large Area Thin Film Silicon Photovoltaic Modules (HELATHIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3132528.6
EU funding (EUR): 2108152.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Recent photovoltaic market trends point to an increased market share of thin film technologies in addition to an increased volume of module production. In particular for amorphous silicon (a-Si) and microcrystalline silicon (uc-Si) this is driven by the recently increased availability of large area deposition systems from different equipment suppliers. The present project identifies optical light confinement as a key point to increase module efficiency. The optimization of the properties of Transparent Conductive Oxide (TCO) layers at the front contact and the back reflector have to be achieved for large area deposition. Additionally, methods for the reduction of reflection losses at the front glass shall be developed. This optimization has to be done, on the one hand, for single a-Si cell modules and, on the other hand, for modules with a-Si/u-Si tandem structures, where, in the latter case, also an intermediate reflector has to be considered. Objective of the project is to push the implementation of optical layers as part of adapted thin film silicon solar cells into large scale production facilities.

Keywords: transparent conductive oxide,optical light confinement,amorphous silicon,large area module manufacturing,tandem solar cell,pecvd deposition,sputtering
Off-shore Renewable Energy Conversion platforms – Coordination Action (ORECCA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Denmark,Ireland,Netherlands,Spain,Portugal,Norway,Spain,Netherlands,Canada,Italy,Belgium,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United States,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1797870.73
EU funding (EUR): 1599032.56
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

The objectives are to create a framework for knowledge sharing and to develop a research roadmap for activities in the context of offshore renewable energy (RE). In particular, the project will stimulate collaboration in research activities leading towards innovative, cost efficient and environmentally benign offshore RE conversion platforms for wind, wave and other ocean energy resources, for their combined use as well as for the complementary use such as aquaculture and monitoring of the sea environment. The use of the offshore resources for RE generation is a relatively new field of interest. ORECCA will overcome the knowledge fragmentation existing in Europe and stimulate the key experts to provide useful inputs to industries, research organizations and policy makers (stakeholders) on the necessary next steps to foster the development of the ocean energy sector in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. A focus will be given to respect the strategies developed towards an integrated European maritime policy. The project will define the technological state of the art, describe the existing economical and legislative framework and identify barriers, constraints and needs within. ORECCA will enable collaboration of the stakeholders and will define the framework for future exploitation of offshore RE sources by defining 2 approaches: pilot testing of technologies at an initial stage and large scale deployment of offshore RE farms at a mature stage. ORECCA will finally develop a vision including different technical options for deployment of offshore energy conversion platforms for different target areas in the European seas and deliver integrated roadmaps for the stakeholders. These will define the strategic investment opportunities, the R&amp;D priorities and the regulatory and socio-economics aspects that need to be addressed in the short to the medium term to achieve a vision and a strategy for a European policy towards the development of the offshore RE sector

Keywords: ocean energy