Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cross-Layer Optimization for Visual Sensor Networks (CLOVISEN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-16
End date: 2013-03-15
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is concerned with the cross-layer optimization of wireless visual sensor networks that are based on Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA). Sensor networks are comprised of typically low-weight distributed sensor nodes that can communicate with each other and/or with a centralized control unit. In this proposal, we are interested in visual sensor networks, where each node is equipped with a camera and transmits video information. Applications of visual sensor networks include surveillance, automatic tracking and signalling of intruders within a physical area, command and control of unmanned vehicles, and environmental monitoring. Most of the previous research on sensor networks has focused on networks that transmit scalar information such as temperature, pressure, acoustic data, etc. Visual sensor networks are much more challenging due to the high bit rates and delay constraints required for video transmission. The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) Reference Model for layered networks consists of seven layers: Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application. These layers were originally designed so that the information flow between them could be minimal. Thus, each layer could be optimized independently. However, recent research has shown that the joint optimization of the network layers can significantly improve performance, especially for the case of wireless networks. This is the concept of cross-layer optimization. Most of the previous research only considers a subset of the OSI layers in the optimization. In this project, we propose cross-layer optimization for visual sensor networks, which will consider the whole range of layers, from the physical layer to the application layer. The cross-layer optimization will be based on Game Theory Principles.

Keywords: wireless systems,computer engineering,communication engineering,signal processing,image processing
DOTUBE: Interactions between semiconductor nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes (DOTUBE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many applications in Nanotechnology require the complete understanding of the material`s surface in order to control further interactions against specific targets. The goal of the proposal is to understand the interaction between CdSe nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes (or graphene) as well as the chemical reactivity of such composites. We will investigate the ligand environment of the CdSe nanoparticles attached to carbon nanotubes by means of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy as main investigation technique. We expect to obtain evidences of the structural properties (composition of the connected facet), type of interaction (coordinative or ionic) and to evaluate the strength of the bond. Once we understand the cited information, we also expect to improve the carrier injection into the tube by proper chemical functionalization. The results of the chemical studies will be applied to understand the interaction between nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes and to optimize the photoelectrical response.

Keywords: carbon chemistry,organometallic chemistry,cdse semiconductor nanoparticles,quantum dots,carbon nanotubes,graphene,nmr spectroscopy,reactivity,photoconductivity,supramolecular functionalisation
Where We Fly: Low Cost Carrier Journeys and Locations and their Roles in Promoting European Intercultural Dialogue, Shaping European Representations and Establishing Social Networks (WHERE WE FLY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-02-16
End date: 2014-02-15
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to identify and understand the roles played by Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) in constructing our changing of sense of European social and cultural space and promoting intercultural dialogue in Europe. It seeks to increase knowledge about the new rationales, representations and relations that underlie the increased opportunities and proliferation of routes opened up by LCCs, and to explain their impact on the ways we perceive, communicate and imagine ourselves through origins, journeys and destinations in Europe. In the process, the project considers the identifications and motivations (including both push and pull factors) for LCC travel, be it for leisure (weekend breaks, holidays, visiting friends and family, stag and hen nights, cultural, sporting and sexual tourism) or business (commuting, outsourcing, temporary migration, expansion of markets). Equally, the project is concerned with documenting and analyzing spatial and temporal representations of LCC travel, including journeys and destinations, as evidenced in the promotional material of LCCs (marketing, branding, in-flight magazines, websites) and representations of the companies and the journeys in popular culture (from internet video sharing and social networking sites to instances described in film and text). However, as the 2005 film One Day in Europe suggests by the bi-national cameos it explores, contact between cultures, communities and individuals in Europe, while increasing in volume, is not always marked by greater cultural understanding, and the project is equally concerned with uncovering the new forms of disparity and disadvantage, resentment and prejudice within the borderlands of regional airline Europe.

Keywords: european intercultural dialogue,air travel,cities,branding,ethnophotography,transnational,humanities
Sustainable Oriented and Long-lasting Unique Team for energy self-suffIcient cOmmuNities (SOLUTION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Austria,Austria,Finland,Slovenia,Austria,Croatia,Croatia,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-06
End date: 2014-11-05
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20560606.23
EU funding (EUR): 11235626.62
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The SOLUTION project mobilises public / private resources to build showcases of energy self sufficient communities in Austria, Croatia, Finland and Switzerland (together with the associated Slovenian community) with a strong potential for replication throughout Europe. SOLUTION is designed to respond to the needs of an effective take-off of the European SET-plan by demonstrating novel applications of different energy technologies and techniques integrated in an intelligent way within model areas. Although the individual demonstration projects are independent from each other, being designed to fulfil local energy needs and using local resources, there are many similarities between them. The implementation plan is a mix of local and integrating activities, such as 1)sharing latest research results especially of electricity storage, customer behaviour and intelligent RES integration, 2)demonstrating appropriate energy solutions in order to reach self-sufficiency, 3)establishing adequate business environment favourable for CONCERTO demonstrations, 4)serving as benchmark for sustainable communities and spreading best-practice, 5)developing a transparent SOLUTION model for immediate replication. By deploying an interdisciplinary approach, an innovative / cost-efficient mix of actions, a set of sustainability oriented solutions will be pointed out and transferred to and among the identified target groups of SOLUTION. The outcomes and related benefits will be fully exploited by an effective range of actions generating local activities with high visibility character together with the major stakeholders. Thus the members of the consortium will act as forerunners towards the low carbon future. The consortium composition is a balanced mix of representative model areas ready for demonstration and of 17 communal, industrial and scientific European partners (incl. 6 SMEs) with a wide geographical spread, complementary resources and expertise.

Keywords: supply and demand management,energy storage,optimisation of buildings,devices,behaviour,economical considerations,socio-economic aspects,collaboration,team effort,model area,replication
Set theory, topology and Banach spaces (LOGICANDBANACHSPACES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our research plan has two main strategical lines. One is to apply the advanced methods in set theory that we have learn along our stay in Paris as IEF fellow into Banach space theory, through collaboration and discussion with the Functional Analysis group in Murcia and other places in Spain. The other line is to continue our research in the border line of set theory, topology and Banach spaces in such topics as infinite-dimensional topology or spaces of continuous functions.

Keywords: functional analysis,set theory
Laser technologies in the analysis, conservation and restoration of historic stained glass windows. (LASERGLASS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-25
End date: 2012-05-24
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Protection and conservation of historic stained glass windows is one of the most important, urging challenges for the European Cultural Heritage. Through many ages these valuable objects have been exposed to various atmospheric conditions: water, sunlight, wind, temperature changes; biological activity, human devastation and a deep air pollution. Those damaging factors caused irreversible changes in the glass structure and corroded the glass bulk. In the typical historic stained glasses the bulk glass is covered with a protective silica gel layer and with a superficial layers (corrosion crust, dirt, polymers and micro-organisms). Due to the lack of the homogeneity and the complexity of problems occurring on the corroded glass, the conservation of stained glass meets important difficulties in the chemical analysis of the bulk glass composition and in the removing of corrosion and dirt layers. The classical renovation methods employs chemical or mechanical treatments which present many disadvantages. As the alternative method, the laser cleaning was proposed. This project aims to realize the complex study on the interaction between laser irradiation and a corroded glass, followed by the construction of the laser cleaning station, dedicated to stained glass windows, equipped with LIBS and LIF. To prove the effectiveness of the developed system, the entire stained glass window panels from XVII century will be analyzed and cleaned. In the following, the obtained cleaning results will be compared with ones obtained by the traditional methods. Additionally the project will employ advanced, modern surface analysis techniques as SEM/EDX, AFM and Optical Coherence Tomography. In the evaluation step the physical, chemical, biological and climatic studies will be carry out to investigate whether laser cleaning is safe for the historical glass. In all parts of the research the stress will be put on the interdisciplinary cooperation between scientists and art conservators.

Keywords: stained glass windows,historical glass,laser,libs,lif,oct
HIGH PRECISION HAPTIC DEVICE DESIGN (HIPHAD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-06
End date: 2013-04-05
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

While the robots gradually become a part of our daily lives, they already play vital roles in many critical operations. Some of these critical tasks include surgeries, battlefield operations, and tasks that take place in hazardous environments or distant locations. In most of these tasks, remotely controlled robots (teleoperation systems) are used instead of autonomous robots. Haptic subsystems are used in most of the teleoperation systems. These systems are interfaces that provide sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations and/or motions to the human operator. Teleoperation systems must be reliable when used in critical tasks; hence, all of the subsystems must be dependable. Therefore, the haptic subsystems must meet certain goals such as high precision positioning in order to enhance dependability. The project “High Precision Haptic Device Design” aims to improve the precise positioning of haptic devices by using parallel manipulators. Parallel mechanisms are ideal candidates for precision positioning applications. Hence, their multiple kinematic chains provide them with higher load carrying capacity and stiffness. Also, it is a great advantage to use parallel platform mechanisms which are inherently ideal mechanisms for precise positioning to provide vibration isolation at the same time. In addition, semi-active vibration control is proposed to be used by employing magnetorheological technology to configure dampers. The utilization of this design is not limited to assistive robotic surgery application but it is to be used for teleoperation applications with high precision requirements. The applications range from bomb disposal tasks to underwater rescue missions to telesurgeries. Overall, by employing the state-of-the-art haptic device design and control designs, a more reliable and precise system will be developed and configured which will allow these systems to be used in a wider range of critical missions.

Keywords: robotics,electromechanical engineering,design engineering,haptics,teleoperation,control engineering,parallel positon/force controller
Environmental risk assessment of four pharmaceutical compounds employing genomic tools and the seabream, Sparus aurata. (ERA4PHARM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human and veterinary pharmaceutical drugs are more and more consumed worldwide. Their detection in the environment and their bioactivity has now raised concern for potential adverse effects on non-target species. Notwithstanding recent attention for their environmental presence, there are significant research gaps for existing pharmaceuticals with regard to their potential ecological consequences. In this study, the four most abundantly used pharmaceuticals: Acetaminophen, Carbamazepine, Trimethoprim y Atenolol, will be examined for their long term effect on the genomic and proteomic expression of the gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata. These endpoints provide useful information on the xenobiotic-induced impairment resulting in the activation and silencing of specific genes by elucidating the underlying molecular mechanisms of higher level damage. Gene expression and protein products will be evaluated in liver and brain as target tissues by microarray and 2D differential gel electrophoresis (2D DIGE) techniques, and significantly up and down regulated proteins will be identified by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS–MS). These responses will be compared with the histopathological effects observed by histomorphological and histochemical techniques to link the toxic responses at different organizational levels. Together with already available toxicity data for this species and the chosen pharmaceutical compounds, we aim to elucidate toxicity mechanisms at molecular level that are linked with effects at higher organizational level. This will help to improve extrapolation techniques from laboratory tests to derive potential ecosystem effects. Also, the knowledge of molecular pathways and proteins involved in toxic processes forms the base for the development of specific biomarkers which will supply decision makers with information for the further monitoring of the effects of pharmaceuticals in the environment and the regulation of these compounds.

Keywords: environmental genomics,genomics,proteomics,ecotoxicology,coastal ecosystems,environmental risk assessment,toxicology,anthropogenic impact on ecosystems
Dynamical Systems in Low Dimensions (DS-LOWDIM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-15
End date: 2012-04-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We study dynamical systems on metric spaces (non-compact, in general) given by a continuous action of the (semi-)groups of N, Z and R. The problems considered can be roughly divided into two big topics: minimality and dynamical zeta functions. Minimality. Besides proving several basic results in a very general settings we focus on homeomorphisms on (non-compact) surfaces of finite type and three-dimensional flows. In the first case we study existence of minimal systems and sets on given spaces; topological structure of minimal sets; embeddings of Cantor-like and Denjoy-like minimal systems and their properties; construction of dynamically relevant foliation (eg. free foliation) with connection to Brouwer theory; existence of invariant sets for quasi-periodically forced systems on the closed and open annuli. In the latter case we are focused on the Gottschalk conjecture and related problems. Dynamical zeta functions. This topic is closely related to topological entropy and topological pressure. We study the notions of the Artin-Mazur, Milnor-Thurston and Ruelle zeta functions for systems on graphs, dendrites and similar continua. We define topological pressure for non-autonomous systems and prove its basic properties. We investigate topological entropy in the non-compact case. One of our main goals here is to contribute to the solution of the Entropy conjecture.

Keywords: dynamical system,minimal map,minimal set,surface homeomorphism,three-dimensional flow,quasi-periodically forced system,dynamical zeta function,topological entropy,topological pressure.
The Most Massive Stars in the Local Universe (MOSTMASSIVESTARS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-15
End date: 2013-09-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I propose to continue a wide-ranging study of the most massive stars in the Local Universe, which I have undertaken as the Giacconi Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore, USA). The study involves discovering and measuring the parameters of massive stars in eclipsing binaries both in the Milky Way and in nearby galaxies. Determining accurate fundamental parameters for dozens of massive stars at a range of metallicities will for the first time provide significant constraints for massive star formation theories, models of stellar evolution and the elusive upper stellar mass limit. The proposed survey will contribute to the understanding of these rare objects by providing the fundamental stellar properties: the mass and radius, for stars located in a variety of environments. During the past 3 years, I have obtained extensive data and first results in the investigation of massive stars. A Marie Curie Fellowship at the National Observatory of Athens (Greece) will allow me to extend and deepen this effort and to bring it to conclusion, as well as to transfer the expertise acquired over the past 12 years in the USA to the host institution.

Keywords: physical sciences,astronomy