Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Associated European Research and Technology Organisations (ÆRTOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: General Activities
Destination: ERANET
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: ÆRTOS (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Finland,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,Sweden,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2007-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2683018.0
EU funding (EUR): 1774101.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

ÆRTOs will network major applied research activities of four EU Member States (DE, FR, FI, and NL) and one Associated State (NO). Further countries will join the project later. The research activities to be networked are “National Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs)”. These are programme organisations mandated by their national government to undertake strategic research in support of societal development including economic competitiveness and innovation. They receive dedicated programme funding – sometimes referred to as “core funding” – from their government for this purpose. They are public research programmes targeted at fulfilling strategic national objectives. There are no supra-national RTOs in Europe, although some RTOs have limited extra-national activities within Europe, and inter-RTO cooperation is mostly limited to case-by-case project cooperation. Greater cooperation among RTOs would produce important efficiency gains by exploiting synergies and avoiding duplication of effort, and a stronger coordinated pan-European RTO infrastructure would enhance Europe’s attractiveness as an R&D location and so help retain industrial R&D investment here at a time of increasing globalisation. A major constraint at present on large-scale inter-RTO cooperation in Europe is the national “lock-in” effect caused by the current national core funding regimes. ÆRTOs’s ambition is to break that constraint by establishing a principle of RTO partnership based on cooperation and reciprocity. The project has the enthusiastic support of the RTO programme owners of the five participating countries. The aim of the proposed ERA-NET, therefore, is to begin the construction of a new, integrated pan-European RTO infrastructure by identifying and implementing research activities of common interest (full and variable geometry) which promise added value from greater cooperation, and by developing corresponding sustainable modes of governance and funding.

Keywords: national strategic applied research programmes,societal development,economic competitiveness,innovation
Nonlinear Panel Data Models: Heterogeneity, Identification and Estimation. (NONLINEAR PANEL)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2010-08-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 151082.17
EU funding (EUR): 151082.17
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Unobserved heterogeneity is an important factor to take into account when making inference based on micro-data. In linear panel data models it is well known how to control for permanent unobserved heterogeneity in a robust way, i.e. without assuming any parametric distribution of the heterogeneity on the population. In contrast the problem is much more difficult in nonlinear models. A significant part of the research on microeconometrics in the recent years has been about dealing with this issue and many solutions have been proposed. A first objective of this proposal is to study how well the bias correction methods recently proposed work for other specific nonlinear models and data set of interest in applied econometrics. This will provide practitioners with reliable evidence about whether the methods work for the case they are interested in and which method is better among the many that have been proposed. Unobserved heterogeneity in dynamic discrete choice models is usually only allowed through a specific constant individual term, as in linear panel data models. However, in nonlinear cases that assumption implies further strong restrictions in the model and previous explorations seems to indicate that we should allow for more heterogeneity. A second objective of this proposal is to analyze identification of a dynamic discrete choice panel model where not only the intercept but also the slope is heterogeneous. This will include to (i) see how much restrictions we have to impose on the distribution to point identify the model (or its parameters of interest) from a cross-section of a fixed periods; and (ii) study further the non-identified situations of that model by looking for partial identification. The interest on this is to know how much heterogeneity can be identify from a given data set, the minimum restrictions we have imposed to get point estimates of the parameters of interests, and what we still can learn if we do not imposed all those restrictions.

Keywords: economics,econometrics,micro-econometrics,dynamic discrete choice,unobserved heterogeneity,fixed effects,identification,applied economics
Science without Empire: Science, Medicine, Scientific networks and the Danish Halle Mission in the Danish East Indies, 1770-1845 (SCINET)

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: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 154254.02
EU funding (EUR): 154254.02
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project investigates the construction of science, medicine and scientific networks in colonial India in the period ca. 1770-1845 from a new perspective: the Danish Halle Mission and the Danish East Indies. Resent research has recognised that science and medicine were not neutral elements in the colonization but were used by the colonial powers to gain control of both the inhabitants and the environment of the colonies. However, the diffusion of science and medicine was not unidirectional from the European metropoles to the colonial peripheries. The production and spread of the so-called “colonial sciences”, which had a profound impact on the development of western society, was a much more complex process in which European and indigenous actors in the periphery had great significance. The colonised inhabitants often succeeded in reinterpreting and utilizing western science and medicine for their own purposes. The project will investigate these issues through four main objectives: - To establish all scientific and medical activities in and networks via the Danish East Indies in the period. On this basis to determine which groups participated in science, how they participated and what the intentions were behind their participation. - To investigate the networks connecting the scientific agents in the Danish East Indies to similar individuals and organisations in other parts of India and the rest of the world. On this basis to determine (using the method of Social Network Analysis) how these networks were structured and functioned. - To compare the characteristics of the scientific activities and network in the Danish East Indies with similar activities and networks based in other European colonies in India. On this basis to reveal the characteristics and results of ‘Science without Empire’. - To explore the special characteristics of religious international scientific networks by comparing the protestant Danish Halle missionaries of India with the Jesuits.

Keywords: history of science and medicine,colonial sciences,scientific networks,centre-periphery,social network analysis,protestant missionaries,danish east indies,india,germany,denmark
The role of Shigella T3S-dependent modulation of extracellular ATP release and calcium signalling in neutrophil migration. (ATP)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-06-11
End date: 2011-06-10
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162509.69
EU funding (EUR): 162509.69
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Shigella invades the intestinal epithelium following injection of type III secretion effectors (T3S) and causes inflammatory, neutrophil-mediated tissue destruction. The host lab has shown that Shigella invasion induces oscillatory Ca2+-signalling and hemichannel-dependent release of ATP, which is a potent immunostimulatory signal. I propose 1) that ATP release from epithelial cells attracts neutrophils to sites of infection and promotes their activation and 2) that some Shigella T3S effectors counter these effects during early stages of infection, to escape neutrophil-mediated killing. I will focus on the effector IpgD. I will determine the ability of IpgD to dampen hemichannel opening during Shigella invasion of epithelial cells. By means of 4D live imaging, I will correlate neutrophil migration with wild-type and ipgD mutant Shigella invasion of epithelial cells and formation of ATP gradients. Also, I will test immune functions of neutrophils exposed to extracellular ATP during wild-type and ipgD mutant Shigella invasion. Further, using a transwell chemotaxis assay and 4D live imaging, I will investigate IpgD-mediated inhibition of cytoskeletal dynamics, i.e. migration, in neutrophils. My work will assess the physiological significance of ATP release during Shigella invasion and contribute to define T3S effectors functions other than invasion, i.e. immunomodulation. This may allow to design new therapeutic approaches. Live imaging, work with live pathogens and primary immune cell cultures are new techniques for me. Together with the expertise acquired previously, the training I will receive in the lab of Prof. Philippe Sansonetti will be integral to my carrier studying host-pathogen interaction.

Keywords: shigella / neutrophils / extracellular atp / type iii secretion / cytoskeletal dynamics
Theory and Numerical Analysis for Boussinesq systems with applications in coastal hydrodynamics (BOUSS)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-03
End date: 2010-11-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163643.71
EU funding (EUR): 163643.71
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is proposed to study the Boussinesq equations of water wave theory from modelling, analysis and numerical approximation points of view. These equations consist of systems of nonlinear partial diffrential equations of evolution that model two-way propagation of long waves of small amplitude on the water surface. We will first study the well-posedness of new initial-boundary value problems (ibvp's) of physical interest for these systems in 1 and 2D, modelling surface wave flows over horizontal bottoms. We will construct efficient numerical methods for these systems and prove rigorous stability and convergence estimates. For Boussinesq systems modelling waves over bottoms of variable topography, we will study the well-posedness of associated ibvp's in 1 and 2D and prove error estimates for fully discrete finite element methods for their numerical approximation. Finally, we will develop an efficient finite element computer code for the simulation of solutions of Boussinesq systems with variable bottom, with the aim of using it in tsunami propagation studies. We will equip the code with tsunami source mechanisms and with empirical regridding techniques in one and two space dimensions to simulate tsunami run-up on the coast.

Keywords: numerical analysis,partial differential equations,boussinesq systems,initial-boundary value problems,finite elements,variable bottom topography,tsunamis,nonlinear dispersive waves
Gauge Fields, Strings and Gravity (HOLOGRAPHY)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2010-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 164002.97
EU funding (EUR): 164002.97
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Two major problems in modern theoretical high energy physics are the problem of obtaining an analytic formulation of the strong coupling dynamics of asymptotically free gauge theories and the problem of understanding the dynamics of gravity in the vicinity of spacetime singularities (e.g. black holes or cosmological singularities). The aim of the present project is to make progress in both problems with a parallel study of D-brane dynamics in string theory and black holes in gravity. Extracting non-trivial information about the strong coupling dynamics of (non)-supersymmetric gauge theories like QCD has proven a difficult task. Most examples of the holographic correspondence involve gauge theories with a high degree of symmetry and are restricted on the gravity side to the supergravity approximation, which for QCD-like theories is expected on general grounds to be fundamentally incomplete. In order to exploit the full scope of string dynamics one must go beyond this approximation. For QCD-like theories it has long been anticipated that the right setup involves string theories living in non-critical dimensions. Based on recent work in this topic, this investigation aims to make progress in this direction with a multi-faceted study of the exact stringy properties of D-branes in a well-established class of non-critical string theories, which have already been shown to incorporate interesting QCD-like theories. In parallel, we propose to examine other stringy aspects of the more traditional AdS/CFT correspondence. The second phase of the project concerns the second major problem outlined above. We propose a systematic study of the phases of black holes in higher dimensional gravity with a concrete set of methods. General relativity in higher dimensions is an active area of research and exhibits new fascinating aspects with possible applications in black hole physics and the AdS/CFT correspondence, but also possible experimental implications.

Keywords: mathematical physics,quantum field theory,relativity
Transnational call for collaborative proposals in basic nanoscience research (NANOSCI-EPLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: NANOSCI-EPLUS (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: France,Austria,Finland,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Portugal,Slovakia,Spain,Ireland,Poland,Israel,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2007-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19576716.0
EU funding (EUR): 6316233.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

NanoSci-E+ aims at launching, managing and carrying out the follow-up of a transnational call for collaborative projects in the field of basic nanoscience research, with a thematic focus on the “interfacing of functional nano-objects”. In the first phase of the proposed project, the call itself will be implemented, following modalities similar to those used for the first call run by NanoSci-ERA in 2006, while procedures will be amended in order to cope with identified weaknesses. The call will be based on a two-stage submission / evaluation procedure. The funding scheme will rely on a real (although partial) common pot to which a majority of countries will contribute. Mutualizing part of the budget permits to avoid trade-offs where the selection of projects would be determined by the availability of funds, in a manner detrimental to the objective of supporting the highest quality research. The second phase of the project will deal with the management of the call budget, the follow-up activities and the monitoring of the call impacts. Because of the direct involvement of national agencies, NanoSci-E+ should contribute to blur further the distinction between national and European programmes. It is expected to encourage researchers to “think European” since their agencies give them the opportunity to finance indifferently national or transnational projects. The class of projects that can possibly fit within the scope of the planned call is clearly transverse to many “disciplines” of nanoscience and therefore accessible for the researchers of all the participating countries. In the same time, the topic is ambitious enough and resolutely forward-looking to make necessary a circulation of ideas, competencies and talents as well as a dialogue between different scientific approaches (inter-disciplinarity). It is expected that these two ingredients make transnational collaborations on the proposed topic both likely and meeting a crucial need of the nanoscience community.

Keywords: coordination,nanoscience
Upstream signalling, global regulatory control and biochemical function of central components in the zinc homeostasis network: towards the rational design of technologies for bio-fortification (CENTZIN)

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: Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169250.31
EU funding (EUR): 169250.31
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to advance our fundamental molecular understanding of metal homeostasis in plants, enabling the rational design of bio-fortification and phytoremediation technologies. Nutritional zinc deficiency affects more than a third of the World’s population. Also, large areas of soils in industrialized nations are contaminated with high levels of chemically similar harmful metals such as lead and cadmium. Since plants are a major route for the entry of both essential and toxic non-essential trace elements into the food chain, a comprehensive molecular understanding of metal homeostasis networks governing trace element accumulation in plants is highly desirable. Following from recent progress in the field, the proposed project will tackle three selected central aspects of plant zinc homeostasis. The role of low-molecular weight chelators in subcellular partitioning of zinc will be addressed through biochemical analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana ZIF1, a vacuolar membrane protein required for zinc tolerance, through combined reverse genetics, biochemistry and recently developed sub-cellular fractionation techniques. A forward genetic screen will identify genes within regulatory pathways governing zinc homeostasis, based on unique tools and technical expertise previously generated by the applicant. Finally, molecular regulatory links within the metal homeostasis network will be revealed by combining genetic resources uniquely available in the host lab and from the applicant, and subjecting them to genome-wide transcript profiling. This research will not only advance metal homeostasis, but also our general understanding of regulation and signalling in plants. By integrating unique tools, resources and knowledge between the applicant, his laboratory of origin in Australia and the European host lab, tight collaborative links will be established, thus accelerating scientific progress and fostering continued scientific exchange between Europe and Australia.

Keywords: plant nutrition,plant genetics,molecular biology,plant physiology,soil remediation,functional biology,cell biology
Academic Censorship under State Socialism: Czech Republic and Hungary (CZ-HU CENSORSHIP)

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: Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2009-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 36202.47
EU funding (EUR): 36202.47
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The research project proposes to study broader implications of differences and similarities in censorship structures and mechanisms in academia between the Czech Republic and Hungary during late state socialism (1968-1989) as a part of European intellectual history that has only been marginally researched. There was no official censoring body during this period in either country, yet multiple layers of censorship existed not only in the media and literature, but also in academic work. The two countries show numerous similarities in censorship structures and practices, but also important differences which have had lasting effects. The project aims to conduct a comparative analysis of “coding” and self-censoring strategies of Czech and Hungarian authors in social science and humanities; to analyse and describe censoring mechanisms to which the authors were exposed; and to analyse the implications and consequences of the potential differences in censoring and self-censoring practices between the Czech Republic and Hungary. The research will employ interviews with academics who published at the time and archival sources. The project draws on empirical research already conducted by the researcher in the Czech Republic. The researcher will carry out the empirical research for the Hungarian component and will prepare a book manuscript from the project during the term of the fellowship.

Keywords: social sciences,censorship,state socialism,academic institutions,intellectual history
Decoherence in magnetic molecules as qubits (DECMMQUBIT)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 220373.32
EU funding (EUR): 220373.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The electronic structure of several magnetic molecules (polyoxometalates) deposited onto surfaces will be studied with tools of theoretical chemistry. Following this parametrization, the utilitity of these systems as spin qubits will be evaluated, including a detailed consideration of decoherence processes.

Keywords: molecular physics,computational chemistry,quantum technology,nanosystems,molecular electronics,electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties