Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Mediterranean changing relationships: global change, networks and border openings (MEDCHANGE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Portugal,Italy,Israel,Spain,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-24
End date: 2017-10-23
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174800.0
EU funding (EUR): 174800.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

MEDCHANGe focuses on the analysis of the relationships between global networks (Internet), flows (virtual and spatial mobilities of individuals, information i.e. migration also in light of gender issues such those of Moroccon female migrants; climate change migrants; tourism and heritage valorisation flows) and geographical localities in terms of local development and marginalisation/segregation. MEDCHANGe will shed lights on changing relationships at the spatial scales of some Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain) due to the dialectics of global flows, borders crossing and local structural changes. Our network of scholars will work in synergy and complementarities thru joint field research, workshops and seminars by investigating both the spatial and behavioural origins and development of our topics and their contemporary changing dynamics in selected territorial cases (Tel Aviv, Algier, Lisbon, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Naples-Caserta, Zaragoza, Genoa). In order to achieve this goal, MEDCHANGe activities are structured into three main levels: 1) a theoretical-methodological level; 2) an empirical analysis of case studies in different countries; 3) an operational level. Theoretically we will contribute to the redefinition of the concepts that denote the field of investigation,‘Mediterranean changing relationships’ namely ‘mobility’, ‘connectivity’, gender, ‘heritage’,spatial justice, entrepreneurship, inclusion, climate migration, and the idea of the ‘Mediterranean integration' in a frame of uneven development. Empirically, we aims to exchange skills, knowledge, expertise, mobilities to document the different ways in which transformations of the Mediterranean cities and villages take place, and grasp the implications of the so-called ‘virtual spatial mobilities’ in terms of inclusion, citizenship, security, intercultural dialogue. At the operational level we look forward for studying successful stories and practices of cooperation.

Keywords: euro-mediterranean,relationships,change,networks,mobility,integration,gender,connectivity,heritage,inclusion,entrepreneurship,climate,internet,spatial mobilities,virtual mobilities
Philosophy of History and Globalisation of Knowledge. Cultural Bridges Between Europe and Latin America. (WORLDBRIDGES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 604800.0
EU funding (EUR): 604800.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Bridges are built to interchange not only goods, but also knowledge, received historical heritage and ethical-political projects that can complement one another. International cooperation can only be fruitful if it is based on real dialogue, interaction and engagement, in this specific case that of Europe, Euro-Mediterranean and Latin America. The exchange scheme WORLDBRIDGES consists in facilitating exchange of ideas and experiences among philosophers and historians who deal with different aspects of globalisation and explore the options of using tools of history and philosophy to actively shape globalising processes. The main contribution of this project is to examine and stress the fundamental role knowledge has played and should continue to play in globalisation, in the so-called “society of knowledge”, supported by contemporary theories of the epistemic justification in the study of history. To facilitate the joint production of knowledge, WORLDBRIDGES aims at deepening existing cooperation as well as connecting new partners and integrating new approaches and research areas. For that purpose, the exchange scheme is designed to promote following scientific activities: networking, joint research and publication, training and dissemination. The beneficiaries are the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid, University of Potsdam, Technical University of Dresden and the Istanbul University. Partner organisations in Third Countries are the Centro de Investigaciones Científicas in Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Keywords: philosophy of history,knowledge,globalisation
Regional climate-air quality interactions (REQUA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece,France,United Kingdom,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 273000.0
EU funding (EUR): 273000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Air quality is strongly dependent on weather and is therefore sensitive to climate variability and climate change. On the other hand, air pollution affects the atmospheric composition which in turn affects the earth's radiative budget and the earth's climate. Hence the climate and the air quality are intimately interactive parts of the earth's system and the feedbacks between them can act to amplify or dampen climate sensitivity. These complex interactions are not well understood but are critical to the behavior of the system as a whole and should be taken into consideration into the design of effective policies. The REQUA project aims at strengthening the research partnership through staff exchanges and networking activities between research groups in Europe, USA and China working in the field of regional climate-air quality interactions. The general scientific goal is to advance the current understanding of interactions between different components of the earth system. The project will be based on two regional chemistry-climate models, one developed in USA and one in Europe: (i) WRF-CMAQ, a well established online modeling system, and (ii) RegCM-CHEM, an integrated regional climate model with a reduced chemical scheme. The consortium consists of a team of 8 partners, namely 4 EU research teams (from Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and UK) and 4 from third countries (USA and China). All participants have extensive experience in different aspects of air quality/climate interactions, combining different aspects expressed by different skills, tools and equipment. Most of the partners have already developed some collaboration, however the consortium is novel. The planned activities include joint research work, workshops, training courses and seminars. All activities are designed to exploit complementary expertise of the participants and to create synergies between them. They are also planned to create additional benefits for the participants in terms of transfer of knowledge.

Keywords: regional air quality-climate interactions,climate change,air quality,regional climate-chemistry modeling system,cmaq-wrf,regcm-chem
Four World Nodes for Brain Networks of Attention and Awareness (COGNITIVEFOCUS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 285600.0
EU funding (EUR): 285600.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

A Group of cognitive neuroscience institutes join forces to enhance scientific advances on cognition through a series of collaborative actions centred on knowledge and information sharing and transfer through sustained cooperation. The project aims at realizing a high-level researchers’ exchange and networking activities in cognitive neuroscience in health and disease. The research group has four Nodes: Cambridge (UK), Dublin (Ireland), Brisbane (Australia) and Melbourne (Australia). The topic to jointly investigate is the exploration of the mechanisms of human attention in healthy people and in those with disorders or brain injury. Attention is crucial in coordinating cognitive functions, and its relationship with consciousness and awareness, scarcely studied, will benefit of combined efforts from the Nodes looking at the manner this function of the brain works in normal participants and patients with brain disorders. The staff exchange will provide a very efficient opportunity to promote joint publications and to exploit the complementary expertise. The participants in the Network will exchange knowledge and get trained by using Workshops (to evaluate progress of the Network and set up new research lines), Seminars (training on specific topics), Visits (to exchange concrete methods and analysis techniques) and Experiments (research trips for collaborative experiments that would integrate expertise of several Nodes) as common coins for the integration of different areas of expertise in one common shared network. The project is embedded in and linked with several international research projects and coordinated by scientists that have been collaborating intermittently for 20 years. We plan dissemination events with policy makers both in Europe and Australia which will provide the respective communities with essential material for informed decisions on disorders of attention such as ADHD, Alzheimer, traumatic brain injury, and hypoxic/anoxic brain injury.

Keywords: attention,awareness,alertness,neurodynamics,brain injury,international cooperation.
Analysis and classification of mental states of vigilance with evolutionary computation (ACOBSEC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,France,Portugal,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 130200.0
EU funding (EUR): 130200.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last decade, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has grown and matured as a field. Gone are the days when only a mouse and keyboard could be used to interact with a computer. The most ambitious of such interfaces are Brain-Computer Interaction (BCI) systems. BCI’s goal is to allow a person to interact with an artificial system using brain activity. A common approach towards BCI is to analyze, categorize and interpret Electroencephalography (EEG) signals in such a way that they alter the state of a computer. ACoBSEC’s objective is to study the development of computer systems for the automatic analysis and classification of mental states of vigilance; i.e., a person’s state of alertness. Such a task is relevant to diverse domains, where a person is required to be in a particular state. This problem is not a trivial one. In fact, EEG signals are known to be noisy, irregular and tend to vary from person to person, making the development of general techniques a very difficult scientific endeavor. Our aim is to develop new search and optimization strategies, based on evolutionary computation (EC) and genetic programming (GP) for the automatic induction of efficient and accurate classifiers. EC and GP are search techniques that can reach good solutions in multi-modal, non-differentiable and discontinuous spaces; and such is the case for the problem addressed here. This project combines the expertise of research partners from five converging fields: Classification, Neurosciences, Signal Processing, Evolutionary Computation and Parallel Computing in Europe (France Inria, Portugal INESC-ID, Spain UNEX) and South America (Mexico ITT, CICESE). The exchange program goals and milestones give a comprehensive strategy for the strengthening of current scientific relations amongst partners, as well as for the construction of long-lasting scientific relationships that produce high quality theoretical and applied research.

Keywords: classification,evolutionary computation,genetic programming,electroencephalography,brain computer interaction,mental states,eeg,vigilance,bci
Low-toxic cost-efficient environment-friendly antifouling materials (BYEFOULING)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Greece,Spain,Sweden,Israel,United Kingdom,Portugal,Switzerland,Belgium,Malta,Germany,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-OCEAN-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9959644.0
EU funding (EUR): 7447584.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The BYEFOULING project will address high volume production of low toxic and environmentally friendly antifouling coatings for mobile and stationary maritime applications. The technology will fulfil the coating requirements as a result of the incorporation of novel antifouling agents and a new set of binders into coating formulations for maritime transportation and fishing vessels, floating devices and aquaculture. The main vision of BYEFOULING is to provide the means for industrial, cost-effective and robust manufacturing of antifouling coatings in Europe, where SMEs are both coating components developers and production technology providers. A set of procedures, guidelines and fabrication tools will be developed, enabling short time to market for new coating concepts. The main goal of BYEFOULING is to design, develop and upscale antifouling coatings with enhanced performance compared to current available products. The approach in BYEFOULING is to tackle the different stages of the biofouling process using innovative antifouling agents, covering surface-structured materials, protein adsorption inhibitors, quorum sensing inhibitors, natural biocides and microorganisms with antifouling properties. Encapsulation of the innovative compounds in smart nanostructured materials will be implemented to optimize coating performance and cost all along their life cycle. A proof-of-concept for the most promising candidates will be developed and demonstrators will be produced and tested on fields. BYEFOULING will combine a multidisciplinary leading research team from 11 European countries, which are already acting worldwide in the scientific community, with highly relevant and skilled technological partners, to build a consortium able to develop a full production line for antifouling coatings in Europe. Readily available low toxic and cost-effective antifouling coatings will increase the efficiency of maritime industry and be the enabling technology to realize new products.

Keywords: anti-fouling materials,nanotechnology,environmentally friendly,low co2 emissions,low toxic,drag reduction,maritime,aquaculture
Production of fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel from wood and other biomass (BFSJ)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Netherlands,Switzerland,Sweden,Estonia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45962441.29
EU funding (EUR): 27805038.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Swedish Biofuels AB, as the co-ordinator of a broad ranging international consortium, proposes the construction of a pre-commerical demonstration plant for the production of fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel from wood and other biomass. The consortium is to design, construct, commission and operate the plant, which will take a variety of raw materials and produce jet fuel that is compatible, without blending, with in-service and envisaged jet engines for both military and civilian applications. The plant capacity is 10,000 t/y of fuel, of which 5,000 t/y fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel, the rest is diesel and aviation gasoline. The plant is based on technology that has been developed by Swedish Biofuels and LanzaTech, which. has been validated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). The technology has been granted patent protection in Europe the USA and the other major markets of the world. The plant, in the main, uses standard equipment. The non-standard equipment, roughly 10 % of the total, is to be manufactured by AS Remeksi Keskus. The plant is to be constructed in Sweden on a site owned by Perstorp Bioproducts AB, the wood raw materials to be supplied by SCA Energy AB. The fuel will be used by Deutsche Lufthansa AG for flight tests. When the fuel is available it will used by Saab as part of a Sweden national study involving the Swedish jet fighter Gripen. All products from the plant, jet fuel, diesel and aviation gasoline will be marketed by SkyEnergy BV. The raw material base for the demonstration plant will be extended during the project by 1) the introduction of ethanol produced from municipal solid waste by Abengoa Bioenergia Nuevas Tecnologias SA 2) the use of biogas for the production of syngas by Perstorp. This will improve the plant economics and environmental impact, as will be investigated by E4Tech SARL during the project.

Keywords: biomass,jet fuel,fully synthetic jet fuel,wood,aviation
Hybrid Architecture for quantum Information using Rydberg ensembles and Superconductors (HAIRS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-X, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2073878.0
EU funding (EUR): 1590344.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to solve the long-standing problem of coupling quantum states in atoms to solid-state quantum devices. The realization of such a quantum interface represents a major breakthrough for information science, as it enables the development of a powerful hybrid architecture, where long-lived states of atoms store quantum information that can be processed rapidly using superconducting quantum circuits. Within such a hybrid approach, the problem of scalability, fast information processing and long-time storage of quantum information can all be solved on a single integrated platform. The major obstacle, thus far, has been to find a suitable quantum interface between atoms (memory) and the surface of the solid-state device (processor), hampered by too low coupling strengths and/or too fast information loss due to fluctuating atom surface interactions. In this project, we propose to develop and implement a novel approach that solves both of these problems simultaneously. On the one hand, we will make use of the strong microwave transition between highly-excited, atomic Rydberg states to achieve strong coupling to a superconducting stripline cavity. On the other hand, the key point of this proposal is the use the enormous interactions between Rydberg atoms for collective encoding of quantum information in large ensembles that will be immunised against parasitic field fluctuations by the strong interactions. We will tackle this ambitious goal within a consortium that combines strong experimental and theoretical expertise in all the necessary areas and contributes complementary setups for state-of-the-art experiments on cold Rydberg atoms superconducting quantum circuits.

Keywords: rydberg atoms - collective coupling - entanglement - hybrid architecture - superconducting circuit - cold atoms - dipole interactions - surface - electric field
Molecular Studies of Transcription and Core Promoter Regulation of Critical Developmental Genes (DPE CORE PROMOTERS)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The regulation of gene expression at the level of transcription is critical during development and growth of an organism. Specifically, regulation of embryonic development depends on complex gene networks. At the transcription level, embryonic segmentation relies on transcription factor gradients, sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins and regulatory DNA sequences such as enhancers. These enhancers recruit transcriptional activators, resulting in the recruitment of RNA polymerase II and the general transcription factors to the core promoter. The core promoter is the ultimate target of a multitude of transcription factors that control the initiation of transcription. In search of the biological significance of specific core promoter elements, I discovered that the core promoters of many developmentally important genes, particularly the Hox genes (which are key regulators of the development of the embryonic body plan), contain functional DPE motifs (Juven-Gershon, T., Hsu, J.-Y. and Kadonaga, J.T. (2008) Caudal, a key developmental regulator, is a DPE-specific transcriptional factor Genes and Development, 22, 2823-2830). My goal is to decipher the complex regulation of eukaryotic gene expression. My focus is on the contribution of the core promoter to transcriptional regulation of gene networks. My lab studies transcription of DPE-containing genes from different aspects: examination of how widespread is the use of DPE in diverse developmental pathways and gene regulatory networks; discovery of the basal transcription factors that are needed to enable DPE transcription; and elucidation of the critical mechanisms of core-promoter-specific transcription. The study of transcription and core promoter regulation is important for the understanding of development and differentiation. New insights into the regulation of gene expression under normal growth conditions will improve our understanding of abnormal regulation of gene expression, which leads to human diseases.

Keywords: core promoter,rna polymerase ii transcription,dpe,hox,caudal,breu