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Design of Experiments to OPTIMIZE design solutions for a Power reduction Gearbox (OPTIMIZE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-03, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 599709.0
EU funding (EUR): 449781.75
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project's goal is the realisation of a dedicated experimental DOE, to evaluate the effect of tolerance variation in the gear efficiency. Users of cylindrical gears in aeronautics demand continuous improvement such as increased power density, lightweight, compact size, reduced manufacturing costs, reduced noise, increased reliability and reduced operating costs. From one point of view, causes of gear failure may include a design error, an application error, or a manufacturing error. Design errors include such factors as improper gear geometry, utilisation of the wrong materials, finishing quality levels, lubrication systems, or other specifications. In this project the effect of variation of Pressure angle (α), Total cumulative pitch deviation (Fp), Total profile deviation (Fα) and Total helix deviation (Fβ) will be analysed using a full factorial DOE to analyse 4 X’s variables at 2 levels, in order to study the following Y’s effects; Load capacity (contact pressure, root bending stress), Teeth wear (pitting, scoring/scuffing), Noise (transmission error) and Power losses. With the support of Load Tooth Contact Analysis tools (LTCA) it is also possible to predict the transmission error graph with or without load and it is possible to display the grids of the bearing pattern and transmission error, with or without load, shaft angle, or run out to produce a map envelop of the expected behaviour of the gear set. Actual difficulty of these prediction tools is the lack of validation studies available. An specific numerical and experimental study will be performed in order to analyze the effect of tooth profile optimization.

Keywords: ltca,power gearbox,doe,manufacturing tolerances
Policy into Practice: EURAXESS Researcher Skills for Career Development (PIPERS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Destination: Supporting a single market for R&I and delivering the ERA Framework
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,Greece,Serbia,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-CDRP-2013-EUR-CD, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-13
End date: 2017-02-12
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 610650.07
EU funding (EUR): 569590.92
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The PIPERS project (Policy into Practice: EURAXESS Researcher Career Skills for Career Development) is led by the British Council along with 5 partners and 15 associated Third Parties from both the EURAXESS Service Network and other academic and non-academic stakeholders from across Europe and Israel. Its aim is to support researcher career development. To do so the project will identify and cascade existing good practice and training resources, develop new tools to support proactive management of researcher career paths and provide an efficient and sustainable way of disseminating these across the Network. The objectives of the project will be pursued over a 28 month period. Core activities will include policy dialogue with employer stakeholders and groups representing researchers’ interests; dissemination of good policy practice and training resources in researcher career development through the development of an e-platform and the delivery of nine “train the trainer” workshops for researcher career development staff and four demonstration workshops with researchers; and the development and testing of a self-assessment tool for researchers to enable them to be proactive in their professional and career development. By identifying existing best practice and resources from the EURAXESS Service Networks and the wider research community and bringing staff from these institutions together to learn how to best cascade the training, the project will both strengthen interaction between research institutions in the management of research careers and ensure the relevance of the resources. Researchers will be able to set personal targets and demonstrate evidence of achievements based on knowledge and behaviours which will help them to navigate often complex research careers, both within academia and industry as well as skills such as information literacy, leadership, interdisciplinary working and public engagement which will help them to maximise the impact of their research.

Keywords: euraxess service network,researcher career development,researcher professional development,self-assessment,training
Homoclinic bifurcation in mechanical systems: theory and application (HOMMECH)

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: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The theory of dynamical systems aims to understand the nature of the behaviour of solutions of evolution equations, describing processes in a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Dynamical systems that arise in the context of applications often admit additional structure with important consequences for the dynamics. For instance, mechanical systems often possess symmetry and Hamiltonian structure. Many mechanical systems are described by Hamiltonian equations, such as the celebrated Henon-Heiles model of galactic motion, the motion of nonlinear three-dimensional vibrations of strings, localized travelling waves in Hamiltonian lattices (Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain), vortex dynamics (related to hydrodynamics problems) and non-holonomic dynamics. The main goal of the proposed project is to develop mathematical methods of the bifurcation theory for dynamical systems with special structures. In particular, the focus will be on bifurcations involving homoclinic solutions, which lie at the basis of the understanding of complicated recurrent dynamics, better known as chaos. While homoclinic bifurcations have been extensively studied in the context of general systems (without additional structure), the problem of homoclinic bifurcation in Hamiltonian systems has received relatively little attention, despite its obvious relevance for many practical applications. This is mainly due to the fact that homoclinic bifurcations in Hamiltonian systems are often much more challenging than those in general systems. The project objectives include the study of global bifurcations in systems with different types of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits leading to a creation of novel methods for the study of Hamiltonian systems with symmetry. An important objective of the proposed project is the application of these mathematical methods to study the dynamics of an axisymmetric rigid body in a gravity field, which is a fundamental open problem in the field of theoretical mechanics.
Advanced control of renewable energy generation systems based on fuel cells\wind power (ACRES)

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-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The European Union is conscious about the fundamental problems arisen from the current energy system, based mainly on hydrocarbons and has a firm commitment to encourage renewable energy technologies research. Among experts in energy there is a growing trend to promote Decentralised Electrical Generation Systems (DEGS) with modular efficient non polluting generation plants. DEGS that incorporate hydrogen as an energetic vector are of particular interest. Hydrogen can be easily produced, stored and efficiently converted into electricity by means of fuel cells, adding great flexibility to DEGS. However, fuel cells based DEGS exhibit complex non linear behaviour, have inaccessible variables and withstand severe disturbances, so special controllers are required. A wide range of linear controllers have been already proposed, but the validity of the results cannot be extrapolated. The development of advanced control systems for fuel cell based DEGS that incorporate renewable energy sources is then not merely a challenging area of research, but is also a field of great interest for environmental, social, economic and strategic reasons. The key aim of this project is the development of advanced controllers capable to improve the efficiency of fuel cells\wind power based DEGS. They will be implemented and tested in the ACES labs in Barcelona. The results of this implementation will be used to assess the theoretical developments and will also provide a technology demonstrator to aid technology transfer to industry. The main objectives of the proposed project are threefold: - Scientific. Advanced controllers will be developed to improve the efficiency of DEGS - Knowledge transfer. The Visiting Professor will instruct and train the host group in new control techniques, particularly higher order sliding mode. - Strategic. The Visiting Professor will advise the host group in the new trends of renewable energies generation systems integration and control.
Optical dissection of cortical dopamine signaling (ODICODAS)

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)
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Coordination, execution and learning of skilled movements strongly depend on motor cortex function, which, in turn, depends on the modulatory action of different neurotransmitters. In particular, dopaminergic inputs to the motor cortex have been associated with synaptic plasticity, changes in cortical excitability and modulation of cortical motor maps. The integrity of dopaminergic terminals is required for the acquisition of novel motor tasks, but not for the performance of already learned ones. Despite evidence pointing to the importance of dopamine in the learning of novel motor skills, technical limitations have impeded solving several key questions. For instance, what are the exact behavioral conditions leading to dopamine release in the motor cortex during skill learning? Are dopamine fibers in the motor cortex synchronously activated affecting large cortical areas? Is dopamine necessary and/or sufficient for cortical motor learning? I will address these questions by combining my expertise in the field of dopamine signaling with the use of novel optical techniques recently developed by the European host institution and thereby dissect the role of dopamine with never-before-reached level of spatio-temporal accuracy. Specifically I aim to use in vivo two-photon imaging and optogenetic manipulations of genetically targeted dopamine axon terminals in the mouse motor cortex in combination with quantitative behavioral testing and characterize their role in the learning of novel motor skills. By recording and manipulating dopamine axon activity in the motor cortex I will test the hypothesis that dopamine acts as a necessary global signal of reward prediction error at the motor cortex level. This project will provide novel insights in the exact contribution of dopaminergic neurotransmission to motor learning and to cortical microcircuit plasticity and will further our knowledge on the basic neuronal mechanisms governing our behavior.
A genomics approach to increasing disease resistance in dairy cows through improvements in innate immunity (INNATELYBETTERCOWS)

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-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our hypothesis is that genetic selection for high yielding dairy cows has been associated with reduced innate immune responses. This predisposes cows to common diseases such as mastitis and endometritis, reducing fertility and decreasing longevity. We propose that this trend could be reversed by identifying key genes involving innate immune function and selective breeding of more robust cows. The research objectives are: (1) to perform genome wide association studies to identify regions associated with relevant health traits; (2) to use comparative genomics to identify candidate genes associated with innate immune responses; (3) to test endometrial responses to lipopolysaccharide in cells with up- or down-regulated expression of a candidate gene involved in innate immunity; (4) to sequence selected candidate genes in different cattle populations to discover novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); (5) to validate the relevance of these genes in association studies with disease in two new populations of UK and Chinese dairy cows and (6) to perform a functional validation study on blood cell responses to bacterial pathogens in cows with differing genotypes for the selected candidate genes. The project combines the expertise of Huazhong Agricultural University, China (HZAU) and the Royal Veterinary College, UK (RVC) in farm animal genetics and genomics, dairy cow production and the innate immune system. The objectives will be met by the mobility of Professor SJ Zhang to the UK, when she will work closely alongside a team of four RVC scientists led by Professor DC Wathes and share with them her experience of selection for disease resistance. A return phase will support a validation study and transfer results back to HZAU. Both groups have worked together before, are experienced in knowledge transfer to the dairy industry and are committed to use the information generated to breed healthier cows, improving profitability and welfare and reducing antibiotic usage.
Does Trade Multilateralism have a Future?: Reviving the WTO’s Credibility as the premier Multilateral Trade Negotiating Forum (MULTITRADE)

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: India
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-11-10
End date: 2015-08-09
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11250.0
EU funding (EUR): 11250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the present climate of weak economic prospects, the developed countries have seen a growing disenchantment with globalisation and trade liberalisation. Irrespective of their stated interest in enhancing export revenue to bridge fiscal gaps, strong protectionist tendencies are surfacing. Also, the focus seems to be shifting from multilateralism, made evident from the failure to conclude the on-going Doha Round of WTO negotiations and the recent spurt in FTA negotiations worldwide. On the other hand, developments since the recent financial crisis indicates that the WTO is yet to lose it’s relevance as the multilateral referee of global trade relations, as least insofar as its rule-making and dispute-settlement roles are concerned. The laudable resilience of the global trading system and WTO institutions notwithstanding, recent experience with Doha Development Round negotiations has highlighted the need for systemic changes in WTO, in the interest of making the organisation more credible and efficient. It is in this context that this project proposes to analyse possible contours of a reinvigourated multilateral trade negotiation system and trade liberalising philosophy, one that can meet the trade challenges and political-economy realities of the 21st century. To do this, the project will look at the contours of a more constructive engagement and leadership by emerging economies (and in particular Brazil, India and China) in the international trade negotiations, especially given that the major industrialised countries have now reduced their leadership in the WTO-led multilateral trade negotiations. The project will also evaluate the acceptability of a developing-country-led negotiating template that might emerge as result. Finally, we would discuss how the WTO could be reformed to institutionalise systems and governance modalities that foster/boost dynamic comparative advantages for all Members, and the specific role of emerging markets in restoring WTO’s supremacy.
Reductions and exact solutions of boundary value problems with moving boundaries by means of symmetry based methods (BVPSYMMETRY)

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: Ukraine
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2016-05-10
End date: 2017-05-09
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Boundary value problems with moving boundaries are widely used in mathematical modeling a huge number of processes, which arise in physics, biology and industry. While these processes can be very different from a formal point of view, they have the common peculiarity: unknown moving boundaries. The most important subclass of such boundary value problems (BVPs) is the Stefan problems, in which the movement of unknown boundaries is governed by the well-known Stefan boundary conditions. BVPs with moving boundaries, particularly the multidimensional Stefan problems, are the main object of the proposed project. Developing new theoretical foundations and algorithms for reduction of such BVPs to those of lower dimensionality and construction of exact solutions of BVPs in question is the main aim of the project. Applied goal is to compare the analytical results derived with those obtained by means of the appropriate numerical techniques in the case of a wide range of the physically and biologically motivated problems. Moreover such comparison will demonstrate the real interdisciplinary aspect of the proposal. The novel idea of the project is to develop the algorithms mentioned above using such symmetry based methods as the classical Lie-Ovsiannikov method, the Bluman-Cole method of non-classical symmetry, conditional symmetry method and their recent extensions. The main results to be achieved: new definitions of (generalized) conditional invariance for BVPs with a wide range of boundary conditions will be derived; algorithms for how to construct all possible conditional symmetries for the given class of BVPs will be determined; new analytical results (conditional symmetries, reductions and exact solutions of BVPs) will be established by application of the algorithm to a wide range of nonlinear BVPs modeling the tumour growth processes and melting-evaporation processes.
Differential role of atypical Rho GTPases Miro-1 and Miro-2 for controlling mitochondrial dynamics and transport (MITOTRAFFICBYMIRO)

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: India
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Regulated transport of mitochondria is essential for providing ATP spatio-temporaly to power nerve cell function and calcium buffering during release of neurotransmitters or post-synaptic receptor activation. The major player of this transport machinery is Mitochondrial Rho GTPases Miro-1 and Miro-2 present at the mitochondrial outer membrane which controls binding to the Kinesin for transport along microtubules. Miro-1 and 2 are paralogs shares ~60% homology in mammals (while nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and plants have 3 paralogs) while others have only one copy of Miro proteins. Using high resolution 3D live cell imaging, co-immunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometric identification, expression of genetically encoded sensors in combination with pharmacological, electrical and optogenetic stimulation of neuronal activity in vivo, the molecular mechanism that allow two Miro proteins to tailor the spatial distribution and morphology of mitochondria will be explored. A key goal will be to explore the differential role of the Miro-1 and Miro-2 which can regulate diverse cellular processes such as constitutive and activity-dependent mitochondrial transport, ER-Mitochondria contact and calcium signalling in cultured cells and dendritic shafts and synapses in vivo. I will also try to identify novel proteins that interact with Miro-1 and Miro-2 proteins and their role in maintaining mitochondrial morphology and transport. To extend this knowledge further the role of Miro proteins in axonal transport and calcium signalling in vivo will be investigated with a deletion model in C. elegans. These studies will significantly advance our current understanding of the role played by mitochondrial trafficking for controlling diverse cellular function and may also help understand of how disrupted mitochondrial trafficking and function contribute to diseases.