Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Multimodal imaging of spatial attention networks in the human brain (MULTIMODALATTENTION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168256.91
EU funding (EUR): 168256.91
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Neglect, extinction and simultanagnosia constitute a group of debilitating disorders of spatial attention frequently associated with right hemisphere damage. A fronto-parietal distributed network for attention has been described but many questions remain to be answered. One major problem is the difficulty in translating anatomical information derived from animal studies to humans. Until recently there has been no direct way of studying anatomical connections or dynamic interactions between cortical areas in man. Hence, this projects aims at defining the anatomical and dynamic details of the spatial attention networks in the living human brain using state-of-the-art methodology to image connectivity. 3 different but complimentary connectivity measures will be used. Diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) allows the study of white matter connections in the living human brain. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) connectivity measures (e.g. dynamic causal models DCM) offer a dynamic picture of connections on a time scale of several seconds. Electroencephalography (EEG) measures extend to a shorter time scale and are sensitive to interactions between cortical areas invisible to fMRI methods. The project has three overall objectives: i) to develop a novel multimodal imaging methodology allowing unprecedented access to the in-vivo anatomical, functional and dynamic characteristics of a large scale neurocognitive network. ii) to bridge the gap between monkey and human connectional anatomy in the field of attention iii) By proposing a dynamic anatomical framework we hope to understand the clinical heterogeneity of disorders of spatial attention, helping clinicians predict recovery and plan patient-specific therapeutic strategies.

Keywords: health sciences,neuropsychology,brain research,human anatomy
Innate immunity crosstalk in immunoregulation (INNATE_CROSSTALK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2009-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 86868.7
EU funding (EUR): 86868.7
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Innate immunity is believed to protect mammalians from most infections. In the majority of cases, the quick responses by innate effector cells clear the infection before adaptive immunity develops. In recent years it has become evident that the early crosstalk between different innate immune cells also has a role in the development of adaptive immunity. In particular, NK-dendritic cell (DC) interactions have been identified as key events in shaping the adaptive immune response. However, the role of other innate cells in these interactions has been less characterized. In this project, we will study the interaction of activated neutrophils with NK cells and the impact of neutrophils on the crosstalk between NK cells and DCs, which is of importance for the development of the ensuing adaptive immune response. We also aim to identify the ligands for the two innate immunity receptors, IRp60, which is expressed by NK cells and neutrophils, and NKp30, an activating NK cell receptor that is of importance in the NK-DC crosstalk. The identification of these ligands would enhance our understanding of the interactions occurring between these different innate immunity cell types.

Keywords: health sciences,immunology
Machine Learning Methods for Complex Outputs and Their Application to Natural Language Processing and Computational Biology (JOINTSTRUCTUREDPRED)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153931.96
EU funding (EUR): 153931.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project, we are interested in developing machine learning methods for complex inference problems that occur frequently in real world applications. Such problems are ubiquitous in many fields, ranging from natural language processing to bioinformatics, from computer vision to information retrieval. Examples include automatic translation of documents across languages, motion tracking of individuals in video sequences and identifying 3D structure of proteins. The predominant approach for such problems is to define simpler subtasks, to solve these subtasks in a cascaded manner and to use the output of the subtasks as input for the target task. This approach suffers from error propagation along the cascaded processes. Moreover, it does not take the correlation among the tasks into account, which might be a valuable source to improve the performance of each task. We propose a principled machine learning method for complex inference problems which overcomes the limitations of the cascaded approach and takes a unified approach in modeling the target task and the subtasks. Based on the assumption that the correlated tasks on an input space should have similar smoothness properties, we propose a novel and efficient learning method that performs optimization of the multiple tasks respecting the proposed model. We propose applying this method to various applications in natural language processing and computational biology. This project has the potential to contribute towards technological advances in a large spectrum of applications.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,intellegence agents,bioinformatics,computational linguistics
Testing non-standard Higgs and top-quark production and decay at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider: a collaboration between theory and experiment. (LHC-PHYS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 234536.33
EU funding (EUR): 234536.33
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This collaborative project is in the area of high energy particle physics phenomenology, with focus on some extensions of the Standard Model. The proposal is a research programme where the applicant's expertise on various theoretical aspects of non-standard Higgs and top-quark production in hadronic collisions is perfectly matched with that available at the host institution. The NExT Institute has in fact several leading world experts on the phenomenology of the Standard Model and beyond at present and future high energy colliders both at theoretical and experimental level (with groups working on the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at the CERN's LHC facility, where the aforementioned studies will take place). More than that, NExT's mission is to promote fundamental research where theorists and experimentalists work together in the process of new physics discovery and the applicant is the ideal catalyser for this, having done so in the past. Hence, this project will produce forefront research, mutually advantageous to both parties, based on a new raw model of young researcher with interdisciplinary skills. We are especially interested in the search for a Higgs boson, the only particle not yet discovered predicted by the SM or extensions thereof. The Higgs boson is potentially the key to answer the fundamental question of why elementary particles have mass. Its search is therefore the primary goal for the LHC. New physics can also be hidden in the top quark though, the heaviest and least known of all particles detected so far, hence our project is also concerned with it. Overall, our goal is to contribute to a better understanding of the world of particle physics, by proposing theoretical models and developing and optmising both Monte Carlo and real data analyses to confirm or disprove them experimentally. This application is ideally timed, as the data taking phase of the experiments at the LHC is due to start in 2007/8.

Keywords: particle physics,cern,large hadron collider,proto-proton collisions,higgs-boson,top-quark,precision measurements,quantum field theory,computational physics
Controllable global illumination for film production (CGI-FOR-FILM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202676.7
EU funding (EUR): 202676.7
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ultimate objective of the project is to start a new interdisciplinary computer graphics research group in the return host under the direction of the fellow. This leading position will allow him to fully exploit the skills acquired during the outgoing stage at the renowned Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics, and will be the foundation of his long-term independent research career. The central source of the new skills will be the execution of the proposed research, where our goal is to allow the artists in film production to create more compelling realistic computer-generated imagery through establishing global illumination as a common tool for image rendering. To reach this goal, we propose several novel scientific aspects, the most significant being the study of visual importance of various distance components of light transport on the perceived quality of synthetic images. Results of this study will drive the design choices in our development of new algorithms and data structures, such as: a) new illumination caching strategies for efficient global illumination computation in scenes with complex geometry and materials, b) memory-efficient representation of the light transport operator for real-time relighting in cinematic lighting design. In addition, a novel interface will be developed to provide artistic control over global illumination computation. The proposed research, encompassing several disciplines, such as psychophysics and cognitive sciences, statistical data modeling, and human-computer interaction, is designed specifically to deepen and widen fellow’s expertise and add to his multidisciplinary skills.

Keywords: technological sciences,computer graphics,global illumination,cinematic lighting
Evaluation of Methyl-mercury production and decomposition by using Hg-197 radiotracer produced out of mercury enriched in Hg-196 isotope (HG-197 MEHG ASSESS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2009-10-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 93988.54
EU funding (EUR): 93988.54
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mercury (Hg) is in the form of monomethylmercury (MeHg) a biological neurotoxin, harmful to the wildlife and to humans. MeHg species is produced from Hg2+ by natural processes occurring within the water bodies. MeHg can also be degraded by natural processes; therefore, the net MeHg production arise form the combination of both kind of processes. The analytical tools to assess these processes consist in the use of labelled Hg in laboratory experiments to trace Hg transformations. One of the factors affecting Hg transformations is its concentration. MeHg production studies performed up to present in the water column are few and limited, due to the limitation of existing techniques in simulating natural levels or real environmental contamination situations that involve levels of Hg2+ from 0.1 to 50 ng.L-1, while most studies in sediments involve unrealistic Hg2+ additions, since Hg concentrations at natural or low contaminated levels range from 10 to 200 ng.g-1, with a bio-available fraction for MeHg production from 0.1 to 10 %. Recent collaboration between the author and the DES of the Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI), Slovenia, showed the feasibility of these studies using the short-lived radiotracer Hg-197 produced out of Hg enriched isotopically in Hg-196, allowing realistic Hg2+ additions to study MeHg production both in the water column and sediments. This project propose the development of analytical techniques to study de-methylation processes in water and sediments, by using traced MeHg in laboratory experiments. These processes are currently assesed using either C-14 and Hg-203 radiotracers, but the use of Hg-197 radiotracer will allow much lower MeHg additions, and hence realistic simulations of natural de-methylation processes. The project also consider the application of the Hg-197 radiotracer in the evaluation of MeHg production, including reduction of Hg2+ to Hg0, in different real situations in environmental studies on going in the DES of the JSI.

Keywords: methylation of hg,de-methylation of hg,reduction of hg,radiotracer 197hg,stable isotope 196hg,sediments,water,natural sciences,water quality monitoring
Novel kind of graphene based materials and its blend with polythiophenes (GRAPHENETHIOPHENE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-11-19
End date: 2011-11-18
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 167697.15
EU funding (EUR): 167697.15
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Diamond and graphite, the two well-known allotropes of carbon, were familiar from the ancient times. Fullerenes, the third form of carbon, were discovered in 1985 and carbon nanotubes in 1991. Thus three dimensional (3D) (diamond and graphite), 1D (nanotubes) and 0D (fullerenes) allotropes were known. Since the breakthrough in 2004 that two dimensional allotropes of carbon, graphene has been reported. It can be used in molecular electronics applications, such as field-effect transistors, research into this novel material has exploded. Graphene, a single sheet of graphite, consists of a hexagonal array of sp2-hybridised carbon atoms. The material has excellent electrical properties, is cheap to make and requires no helicity control, giving it a definitive advantage over other carbon-based materials such as nanotubes. In addition, the electronic properties of graphene sheets can be influenced by introducing atomic defects, using programmed self-assembly, and by changing the charge carrier concentration in bilayer graphene. Unfortunately though, the conductivity as of yet cannot be switched off, which impedes its incorporation into switchable systems. Recently, the poor material properties of the graphene were improved considerably by dispersing the single carbon sheets inside a polymer matrix, providing a path to a broad class of conductive composite graphene-based materials. The construction of small graphene sheets by chemical synthesis has recently been reported by Müllen. This bottom-up chemical synthesis of such large, unsaturated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon surfaces, however, has proven very laborious and time consuming, requiring a huge synthetic effort. Therefore, the aim of this proposal is the construction and physical characterisation of a novel class of materials which closely resemble graphene, by facile chemical synthesis, which can be synthetically tailored and post-processed to tune the material properties: clickgraphene.

Keywords: physical sciences,graphene,clickable graphene,polythiophenes,polymers,nanomaterials,nanocomposite,humanities
European Career of Researchers (E*CARE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Bulgaria,Austria,Slovakia,Switzerland,Cyprus,Czechia,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-5-3-ERA-MORE, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 228906.0
EU funding (EUR): 228906.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The overall goal of the E*CARE project is cogently formulated as follows: to strengthen the services of ERA-MORE members in support of researchers’ mobility, and to enhance the collaboration among Mobility Centres with different background on the basis of shared experience, practices and tools. The wider strategic goal of the project is to support EC efforts for building a single labour market for researchers, and the ERA as a whole. Furthermore, the following more specific objectives have been identified: to gather structured information on remaining and emerging obstacles concerning researcher’s career and mobility, and on recent trends at national level; to develop a guide for best practices related to services provided to mobile researchers by other organizations, and the country approaches to bridge the researchers’ career and mobility barriers; to strengthen the competences of MCs’ staff through twinning and exchange of best practices and experience with more mature MCs and, finally, to raise the awareness on ERA-MORE and the MCs among a wide group of stakeholders. The project objectives will be implemented through a series of activities such as: Conduction of surveys on obstacles for researchers’ career and mobility; preparation of National reports on researchers’ career and mobility; collection of best practices related to researchers’ career and mobility; preparation of a Best Practices Guide; provision of tools supporting the exchange of Mobility Centres’ experience and knowledge; holding of twinnings activities simultaneously held with the 5 Management Board meetings. The concept is that during those meetings, the partner hosting the MB meeting will present its national network, its experience, examples of good practice etc. to the consortium so as a discussion among partners to follow for future cooperation and exchange of good practices.

Keywords: researcher's career and mobility,surveys on mobility obstacles,collection of best practices,twinning activities
Mobility Support Centre Macedonia (MSC-MACEDONIA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 205924.0
EU funding (EUR): 197958.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the frame work of the implementation of the Mobility Strategy for the European Research Area and to improve the living and working conditions of mobile researchers in Europe, the European Commission has initiated the start-up funding for participation of Macedonia in the European Network of Mobility Centres-EURAXESS Services (hereafter EURAXESS Services Network). The Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science has recognized the above-mentioned initiative as a very important issue and appointed the working group to submit the proposal which aims at establishing the Macedonian Network of EURAXESS Services Centres (ESC). The Network will be constituted by the Bridgehead Organization (BHO) itself functioning as EURAXESS Services Centre and four additional EURAXESS Services Centres (ESC) located in each of the four State Universities in Macedonia, but also leaving the door open for private Universities to join the Network. Obstacles to be overcome: • Non-existence of mobility centre(s) • Non-existence of a network of the mobility centres Thus, identified is the necessity of establishing initial EURAXESS Services Centre (ESC) equivalent with the bridgehead organization (BHO) identified in the National Agency for European Educational Programs and Mobility of R. Macedonia and consequently four EURAXESS Services Centres (ESC) located in the four State Universities in Skopje, Bitola, Tetovo and Stip with the main purpose of: - Encouraging more abundant international mobility of researchers; - Removing obstacles to the mobility of the researchers and overall human resources in Europe - Enhancing the EU’s attractiveness for research talent - Offering researchers and their families (whether incoming from Europe and wider or outgoing from Macedonia), comprehensive and up-to-date information and personalised assistance in all matters relating to their professional and daily lives.

Keywords: researchers,mobility,support,macedonia
Trans-national co-operation among National Contact Points for Marie Curie Actions (People NCP’s) (PEOPLENETWORK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Israel,Poland,Italy,Greece,Ireland,Switzerland,Bulgaria,France,Greece,Türkiye,Malta,North Macedonia,Hungary,Portugal,Austria,Spain,Netherlands,Estonia,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-5-4-NCP, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2120267.45
EU funding (EUR): 1980877.09
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

National Contact Points (NCPs) play a crucial role in the Framework Programme as providers of information and assistance to potential participants (applicants) of new projects and contractors in on-going projects. They reach out to the European research community in order to inform and raise awareness about the funding opportunities of the Framework Programme, to advise and assist potential applicants in the preparation, submission and follow-up of grant applications, and to offer support during the execution of projects – especially with respect to the management and administrative aspects of projects. Moreover, due to its closeness to the European research community, the European Commission perceives the NCP Network as an important instrument for gathering feedback on possible problems and difficulties in the implementation of the Framework Programme. One of the great strengths of the NCP system is its national orientation and ability to provide support to applicants in their own native language. This is carried out by experts that are not only well versed in the modalities of the Framework Programme, but, as a rule, also possess keen knowledge of the national research landscape in their respective fields. On the other hand, however, this national orientation poses certain problems. The decentralised system – organised and financed nationally – has led to the development of a collection of heterogeneous structures. In an effort to address the weaknesses described above, the project proposal PeopleNetwork aims at the development and implementation of a coordination mechanism for stimulating closer cooperation among National Contact Points for the PEOPLE programme in the Seventh Framework Programme. PeopleNetwork will facilitate the improvement of the overall quality of NCP services across Europe in the area of mobility and increase the transparency of EU fellowships and training opportunities to ensure equal access for all.