Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Parallel computing based on designed networks explored by self-propelled, biological agents (ABACUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Canada
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-X, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2699590.0
EU funding (EUR): 1725271.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Many technologically and societally important mathematical problems are essentially intractable for traditional, serial computers. Therefore, a significant need exists for parallel computing approaches that would be able to solve such problems faster than current serial computers. This project will develop and benchmark a novel paradigm for future parallel computing approaches, based on biological entities. Specifically, we will encode mathematical problems into networks consisting of nano- or microsized channels and nodes, and will use self-propelled biological agents to explore these networks and find the solution to the encoded mathematical problems. Due to the very large number of agents, the problem is solved in a highly parallel manner. A number of different types of micro- and nanoscale biological agents will be used, including innate objects (protein filaments propelled by molecular motors) and living systems (bacteria and fungi). The novelty of this approach lies in the use of self-propelled agents (avoiding scalability issues associated with the use of external driving forces), as well as in the combination of human intelligence (in the target-oriented design of networks) with the parallelism enabled by large numbers of biological agents. Key aims of the project will be the benchmarking against existing computational approaches, and the identification of application areas where this novel paradigm may lead to transformative applications. Benefits to society will include the ability to solve hitherto intractable problems, and the development of a sustainable and energy-efficient computing approach that is radically different from current ICT technology.

Keywords: biocomputation,parallel computing,unconventional computing,np-hard problems,molecular motors,bacteria,fungi,microfluidics,nanofluidics,nanofabrication,microtechnology
Enabling the flourishing and evolution of social entrepreneurship for innovative and inclusive societies (EFESEIIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Denmark,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Poland,France,Serbia,Austria,Albania
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3165557.5
EU funding (EUR): 2470700.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The project has four main objectives: To provide advices to stakeholders on how to foster Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation; to draft an Evolutionary Theory of Social Entrepreneurship to explain the different evolutionary paths of Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and how Social Entrepreneurship and institutions co-evolved during time; to identify the features of an enabling eco-system for Social Entrepreneurship; to identify the New Generation of Social Entrepreneurs, its features, needs and constraints as well as their contribution to Social Innovation. In pursuing these four main objectives other objectives will be reached: increasing the understating of their functioning of Social Enterprises, increase the visibility of the local, domestic and international role of Social Entrepreneurship, understand which are the main problems in accessing resources for Social Entrepreneurs, understand the degree of inappropriateness of the legal environments in relation with the daily operation of the Social Enterprise

Keywords: social entrepreneurship,social innovation,social inclusion,evolutionary theory,new generation of social entrepreneurs,enabling system
Living with Hard Times: How European Citizens Deal with Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences (LIVEWHAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: The Citizen in the European Union
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,Sweden,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Spain,Greece,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3175664.41
EU funding (EUR): 2499366.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research deals with citizens’ reactions to economic crises and their social and political consequences. It examines in particular the ways in which European citizens have reacted to the crisis that, at different degree of intensity in different countries, struck Europe since 2008, but also how they deal with economic crises and their consequences more generally. We examine both individual and collective responses by citizens, both the “private” and the “public” dimensions of such responses, and both political and non-political responses. In addition, while the focus of the research is on citizens’ responses, we also examine policy responses so as to have a baseline for assessing citizens’ reactions to crises. The project has three main objectives: (1) to provide systematic evidence of the ways in which European citizens react to economic crises and their social and political consequences, both individually and collectively; (2) to advance knowledge on the connections between individual factors, contextual factors, and the ways in which European citizens react to economic crises and their social and political consequences; and (3) to suggest a number of good practices as to how to deal with economic crises, both at the social and political level, through which their negative consequences on European citizens can be avoided or limited. The project’s objectives are addressed by means of six main types of data and methods: (1) the creation of a cross-national comparative dataset on economic, social, and political indicators; (2) an analysis of policy responses to crises; (3) an analysis of collective responses to crises in the public domain; (4) an analysis of individual responses to crises by private citizens; (5) experiments designed to assess causal effects of different dimensions of crises on citizens’ attitudes and behaviors; and (6) an analysis of alternative forms of resilience in times of crisis.

Keywords: economic crisis,citizens,resilience,policy responses,individual responses,collective responses
Patterns of Resilience during Socioeconomic Crises among Households in Europe (RESCUE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: The Citizen in the European Union
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Spain,United Kingdom,Greece,Türkiye,Finland,Ireland,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3086282.4
EU funding (EUR): 2430727.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Since 2008, Europe has been shaken by an ongoing crisis. If relevant parts of populations are exposed to socioeconomic risks, it is a distinctive characteristic of European political ethics that they must not be left alone, but should be subject to support and solidarity by budget support policy, economic development policies and social policy at different levels. But, in analogy with medical and psychological findings, some parts of the vulnerable population, although experiencing the same living conditions as others, are developing resilience, which in our context means that they perform social, economic and cultural practices and habits which protect them from suffer and harm and support sustainable patterns of coping and adaption. This resilience to socioeconomic crises at household levels is the focus of the proposed project. It can consist of identity patterns, knowledge, family or community relations, cultural and social as well as economic practices, be they formal or informal. Welfare states, labour markets and economic policies at both macro or meso level form the context or ‘environment’ of those resilience patterns. For reasons of coping with the crisis without leaving the common ground of the implicit European social model (or the unwritten confession to the welfare state) under extremely bad monetary conditions in many countries, and for reasons of maintaining quality of life and improving social policy, it is a highly interesting perspective to learn from emergent processes of resilience development and their preconditions. Thus, the main questions are directed at understanding patterns and dimensions of resilience at micro-/household level in different types of European member and neighbour states accounting for regional varieties, relevant internal and external conditions and resources as well as influences on these patterns by social, economic or labour market policy as well as legal regulations.

Keywords: economic crises,socioeconomic risks,resilience,household level,economic,social and cultural adaption,budget support,economic development and social policy
The Value Chain from Microalgae to PUFA (PUFACHAIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal,Austria,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7151539.6
EU funding (EUR): 5124066.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The overall goal of the project is to develop a robust scientific and technological basis for substan-tiating strategic and technical decisions for the industrial development of high-value products from algae. This shall contribute to develop this new and sustainable resource for market. The concept of the proposal is strictly oriented to the value chain of microalgae. Starting at the very end of the value chain the proposal picks up a concrete application of high market relevance. The main tar-geted application is the use of high purified omega 3 fatty acids (DHA/EPA) as building blocks in modern oleo chemistry to gain high value products for nutrition and pharmaceutical applications. These applications will define specifications that propagate backwards along the various value-adding stages of the value chain. These stages include biology, cultivation technology and down-stream technology. So the aim of this project is to realize a concrete exemplary value chain, de-velop the technical interfaces between the different value adding stages and investigate the still open research aspects on every single stage while addressing the needs of the value chain as a whole. Finally, an integrated processing, combining all technical steps, will be implemented for demonstration. A comprehensive and holistic sustainability approach will complement the scientific and commercial advances on each value-adding stage. A consortium with 6 companies and 3 research institutes will integrate state of the art science and technologies in order to assemble a complete process from feedstock production and harvesting to oil extraction and purification. Innovative technologies will be combined taking advantage of a complimentary partnership with the best available expertise in the sector in Europe. These pro-cesses will be evaluated for their sustainability and scaled-up from lab to demonstrative prototype level.

Keywords: micro algae,fatty acids,pufa,dha,epa
(IN)FORMING CONFLICT PREVENTION, RESPONSE AND RESOLUTION: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN VIOLENT CONFLICT (INFOCORE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Israel,Greece,Spain,Belgium,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3222926.53
EU funding (EUR): 2499491.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

INFOCORE focuses on the conditions that bring about different media roles in the cycle of conflict and peace building. It generates knowledge on (1) the social processes underlying the production of conflict news, and (2) the inherent dynamics of conflict news contents, (3) in a systematically comparative fashion. Based on this perspective, we identify the conditions under which media play specific constructive or destructive roles in preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict, and building sustainable peace. The project will provide detailed knowledge on the process of conflict news production. Specifically, INFOCORE focuses on interactions between (1) professional journalists (in various media), (2) political actors (including public authorities, military), (3) experts/NGOs (in intelligence, peacekeeping, conflict prevention/resolution, and media assistance), and (4) lay publics (individuals and groups, including economic actors). INFOCORE analyzes these actors’ different roles (as sources/advocates, mediators, and users/audiences) in the production of (1) professional news media, (2) social media, (3) and semi-public intelligence/expert analysis. To assess the roles of media for shaping lay publics’ and political actors’ conflict perceptions and responses to ongoing conflicts, we analyze the dynamics of conflict news content over time. We identify recurrent patterns of information diffusion and the polarization/consolidation of specific frames and determine the main contextual factors that influence the roles media play in conflict and peace building. Specifically, we assess the roles of individual agendas and resources, professional norms, media organizations and systems, political systems, and characteristics of the conflict situation. INFOCORE implements a gender-sensitive perspective throughout the project, contributing to the EC’s efforts to enable and strengthen the participation of women in peace and security matters.

Keywords: conflict perceptions/prevention/resolution,peace building,crisis management,early warning,journalism,media assistance,strategic communication,social media,agenda setting,framing,hate speech
Exploring the Security-Democracy Nexus in the Caucasus (CASCADE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Russian Federation,Sweden,Azerbaijan,Georgia,Armenia
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3265587.33
EU funding (EUR): 2488450.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

CASCADE will: - scrutinise Caucasian states and societies for the root causes of conflict and insecurity, conduct synergetic research on democracy and security in the Caucasus and investigate their interaction, - analyse the links between the region and its wider neighbourhood, - provide forward-looking analysis on regional security and democratisation processes, - and develop a set of proposals on how the EU could enhance its role in the region. The project will de-compartmentalise research on the Caucasus by exploring linkages between societal challenges, political developments and conflicts and investigating the interactions between the North and South Caucasus, as well as between the Caucasus and its wider neighbourhood. On the basis of a strong comparative and interdisciplinary approach, we will seek to provide a more accurate understanding of how democracy and security are perceived, understood, experienced and exploited as political and social resources by Caucasus actors and other actors involved in the region. Cooperation between researchers with backgrounds in different humanities will uncover the various facets of the relationship between democracy and security. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in the North and South Caucasus, including in the conflict areas and de facto States, CASCADE will generate a wealth of empirical data as well as new and important insights into security and democracy in the Caucasus. The project’s outcomes will also be largely policy-driven and CASCADE’s impact will be considerable in terms of shaping EU policy toward the Caucasus. The project will act as a knowledge hub to spur debate and bring together academic and policy communities from Europe and the Caucasus.

Keywords: caucasus,neighbourhood,security,democratisation,civil society,societal challenges,conflicts,energy,eu policy
Measuring Youth Well-Being (MYWEB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Socio-economic and scientific indicators
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,Croatia,Hungary,Latvia,Greece,Estonia,Slovakia,Portugal,Georgia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-03
End date: 2016-09-02
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1671590.93
EU funding (EUR): 1493481.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

MYWeB takes a balanced approach to assessing the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP) through prioritising both scientific and policy imperatives. Striking the appropriate balance between science and policy is guaranteed through the use of an evaluation/appraisal methodology which ensures that the outcomes will be methodologically robust, technically feasible and will represent value for money. A full scale pilot study in six countries means original empirical data on field experiences will provide direct evidence of the feasibility of an ELSCYP. Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including policy-makers at a European, Member State and regional level ensures that the project outcomes take into account the broadest range of policy makers. Questions about the “value added” that a longitudinal survey can offer over a cross-sectional survey will, therefore, be fully informed by policy agendas. Children and Young People are integrated into the project plan to contribute to the operationalisation of notions of well-being as well as in understanding the best modes of conducting an ELSCYP. The MYWeB consortium contains researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and provides expertise in the areas of children and young people’s well-being, childhood care; education; the environment in which a child grows up, childhood/youth work and leisure and participation. In addition, all teams are experienced in undertaking questionnaire survey research. Each Delivery Partner and Collaborator in the consortium is part of the FP7 funded MYPLACE project and have direct experience of working with one another on a large and complex project and the requirements to deliver to contract. The consortium contains a team with international repute in the methodology of longitudinal surveys ensuring that the project outcomes are informed by cutting edge scientists working in this field of methodology.

Keywords: children,youth,well-being,questionnaire,survey,longitudinal
Social Enterprise as Force for more Inclusive and Innovative Societies (seforïs) (SEFORIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Portugal,Sweden,Belgium,Russian Federation,China,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3174362.73
EU funding (EUR): 2483908.4
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The “seforïs” research project seeks to understand the potential of social enterprise in the EU and beyond to improve social inclusiveness of society through greater stakeholder engagement, promotion of civic capitalism and changes to social service provision through a) investigation of key processes within social enterprises for delivering inclusion and innovation, including organisation and governance, financing, innovation and behavioural change and b) investigation of formal and informal institutional context, including political, cultural and economic environments and institutions directly and indirectly support social enterprises. The methodology will be to start from policy and social enterprise practitioner issues to develop a theoretical framework for inclusion and innovation processes in context, followed by novel experimentation with social enterprises and in depth case study analysis to expand and enrich. Longitudinal survey data will be used to test and validate conclusions. Representative policy makers and social enterprises will be engaged throughout the process to ensure relevancy and transmission of results and findings.

Keywords: social enterprise,organisation and governance,behavioural change,action research,social innovation,financing models,institutional context,selusi,enterprise sustainability,policy-making