Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Empire, classical history and world discoveries. Uses of classical scholarship in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Portuguese expansion. (EMPIRECLASICS)

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: Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 144847.2
EU funding (EUR): 144847.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will investigate the uses of classical antiquity in the discovery, perception and incorporation of the extra-European realities of the early modern Portuguese empire. It will analyse the phenomenon from a markedly broad perspective, comparing it to the Spanish, British, and Dutch experiences overseas. The project will analyse the presence and meanings of classical referents in both written and visual representations of worlds overseas (historical accounts, geographic descriptions, images of “conquerors” “natives” and ultramarine territories...). Three specific areas of interest will be examined. The first is the utilization of the classics for anthropological description, and for reflecting on social institutions and customs. The second concerns their use as a narrative model, a pattern for personal action, and a rhetorical resource. The third is the influence of classical sources in developing an overarching political and historical interpretation of the discoveries, and the ways in which this contributed to a reassessment of the Portuguese and European past and historical consciousness.

Keywords: modern history,political history,reception,representations,imperialism,comparativism,history of reading,world history,ancient history,anthropology.
Integrable systems in the theory of waves in fluids (INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-02
End date: 2011-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 229902.27
EU funding (EUR): 229902.27
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is aimed at studying nonlinear differential equations that arise in fluid mechanics. The equations that arise in nonlinear theories have many remarkable mathematical properties. The best known examples of such equations are the KdV, sin-Gordon and Nonlinear Schrödinger equations which are exactly solvable (integrable). In the recent years the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation has caught a tremendous deal of attention from mathematicians with different areas of expertise: spectral problems, integrable systems, analysis, differential geometry etc.The interest in the Camassa-Holm equation inspired the search for various generalizations of this equation with interesting properties and applications. A two-component generalization of the CH equation recently gained wide popularity. The project aims to investigate two main strands. The first one concerns the applied side of the integrable systems. It will focus on the investigation of the application of the two- and multi-component generalization of the CH equation (MCH) in models from hydrodynamics, theory of shallow water waves and the theory of metamorphosis. The second strand will be dedicated to the purely mathematical analysis of MCH, including development of solution techniques, investigation of global properties of the solutions etc.

Keywords: differential equations,nonlinear evolution equations,integrable systems,solitons,kdv equation,camassa-holm equation,shallow water waves,nonlinear waves
The Forest as Habitat in Transylvania of the 18th Century: Society, Economy and Environment in the Edge of the Hapsburg Empire (FORTR18)

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: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-15
End date: 2011-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215194.02
EU funding (EUR): 215194.02
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The central point of the proposal is the analysis of the interdependencies between rural communities and the natural environment of the forest in the 18th century Transylvania, as well as the perils to which the environment was exposed as a consequence of this relationship. At the same time, one will study the modes of perception by which the people approached their environment, thus being exposed also the contemporary normative procedures of acting on the environment, with the possible result of a better understanding of the relativity of today’s concepts about nature and the environment. The domains by which the investigation begins will follow the anthropological constants that act at the structural level and often put in opposition the “utilization” of forest chiefly for economic purposes and the “conflict” generated by the fulfillment of these needs, as well as the moral, customary or juridical barriers that refers differently to the material resources of a community in general. The so-called anthropological constants that belong to the human nature and to the individual character can hide certain variables, favourable or unfavourable to the society, because they depend on the cultural system infused on various social levels, from micro- to macro social groups, everyone having different perceptions, which nevertheless sum up at the scale of the whole society. That’s why the present study will analyze how and to what extent the Enlightenment produced in Transylvania a mutation in the vision of the individual and the society about the environment. In the 18th century appears the concept of „durability of the forest”, which is important not only for the economic functions, but also for the ecologic and social ones. The study analyzes the policy of the Imperials from Vienna regarding the Transylvanian forests. The forest is perceived in a cultural fashion correlating the reception through documents with that through non-material culture.

Keywords: forest,environment,ecosystem,social sciences,humanities,natural sciences,mentalities
Religion in selected writings of Voltaire (VOLTAIRERELIGION)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 164269.69
EU funding (EUR): 164269.69
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of this project is to contribute to the definitive publication and diffusion of the work of Voltaire (1694-1778). His vast output has only been partially edited according to strict philological and critical principles, and often only the most famous works have been studied in any depth. A complete knowledge of all of Voltaire’s works would be of the utmost importance in spreading, upon strict and uniform philological criteria, the complex thought of a philosopher: an overall study of these works will furnish a clear and complete picture of the development of Voltaire’s ideas about religion, particularly with regard to the Jewish religion. My work will therefore highlight the links between Voltaire&apos;s anti-judaic texts and the rest of his work, using the Jewish religion as a connecting thread. I will work as a fully integrated member of the academic team preparing the Œuvres complètes de Voltaire / Complete works of Voltaire for publication. This team aims to produce the first ever complete and fully scientific edition of the writings of Voltaire. In detail, I will myself edit the Sermon du Rabbin Akib (1761), Catéchisme de l’honnête home (1763), Les dernières paroles d’Epictète (1766), Note sur les juifs (1760s), Fragment sur les juifs (1760s) and Lettre sur le Messie (1760s), and I will assist with other Voltaire works regarding Jewish religion. This project will immeasurably deepen our understanding of Voltaire as a writer and thinker. As part of a long-standing endeavour to re-edit and thus make available Voltaire’s writings to a worldwide audience, my proposed study will illuminate an area of European Enlightenment thought which will be of significance to all scholars working in this area.

Keywords: enlightenment,religion,politics,exegetics,non-christian religions,french literature,tolerance,theocracy
ERA-NET ROAD II (ENR2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: ENR2 (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: France,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Finland,Sweden,Norway,Switzerland,Austria,Poland,Denmark,Hungary,Lithuania,Belgium,Slovenia,Germany,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1571171.95
EU funding (EUR): 1499550.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

ERA-NET ROAD II’s aim is to strengthen the European Research Area in road research by coordinating national and regional road research programmes and policies. The consortium comprises owners and managers of road research programmes in fifteen countries and two regions, i.e. the eleven National Road Administrations active in the first ERA-NET ROAD plus four more National Road Administrations and two Regional Road Administrations. Jointly, they will promote, develop and facilitate collaborative trans-national programming, financing and procurement of road research. ERA-NET ROAD II intends to build on the success of the first ERA-NET ROAD, which was funded under the Sixth Framework Programme. It made considerable progress towards the networking of road research programmes across Europe and was able to develop working procedures, identify common strategic research opportunities and launch a number of joint trans-national research projects. ERA-NET ROAD II will build on that work, focusing on implementation of joint activities and funding of joint trans-national research. The partners in ERA-NET ROAD II will ensure that coordination between road research programmes owners from both within and outside the Consortium is broadened and deepened, and new partners will be invited to join the consortium. Two trans-nationally funded programme calls will pave the way towards achieving an expenditure of 10% of public road research budgets on collaborative research by 2013. The project will also liaise with other public and private stakeholders in transport research programming in Europe and encourage collaboration with non-European research programmes. At the end of the project, collaborative research will have become “business as usual” for National Road Administrations. A permanent and self-sustaining structure will have been established and embedded that will take forward the trans-national coordination of road research programmes after completion of the project.

Keywords: trans-nationally funded cooperative road research broadening structuring road research access facility joint calls transport
Air Transport Net (AirTN) (AIRTN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: AIRTN (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Slovakia,Austria,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands,Belgium,Switzerland,France,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Sweden,United Kingdom,Croatia,Slovakia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2090537.47
EU funding (EUR): 1900000.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

The AirTN ERA-Net was established under FP6 as a network of Member States whose ministries and agencies manage public funded national research activities and programmes in Aeronautics and Air Transport. The results from AirTN in FP6 are prerequisites for the implementation of joint activities to enhance co-operation and coordination of national and regional research programmes. AirTN in FP7 will strengthen this coordination and strive for long lasting co-operation. It will bring added value to the foundation of the European Research Area and the development of a European Research Policy, especially in relation to aeronautics and air transport. The focus will be on the Implementation of Joint Activities and the funding of transnational research. The governing objective of all AirTN activities is to continue strengthening the European Research Area within the framework of the ACARE Strategic Research Agenda.

Keywords: aeronautics
Superconductivity in quantum-size regime (SCQSR)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 227984.41
EU funding (EUR): 227984.41
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent technological advances resulted in high-quality superconducting metallic nanofilms and nanowires being in the clean limit for the confined motion of electrons. Potential application of such nanostructures stimulated active research of their physical properties. These properties are mainly governed by the size-quantization of the transverse electron spectrum. This effect has a substantial impact on the basic superconducting characteristics, e.g., the order parameter, the critical temperature, the critical magnetic field and the critical current. This project focuses on theoretical description of various superconducting properties of nanostructures in the clean regime. The theoretical tools to perform this involve the formalism of numerical self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations, the Eliashberg equations approach, Richardson exact solution of the discrete BCS model and the functional integration method. The study intends to clarify important question concerning the enhancement of the superconductivity due to quantum confinement and ways to optimize the targeted properties of superconducting structures. The results are expected to be of interest to a broad community of physicists working in the field of superconductivity as well as to technologies designing novel applications based on superconducting nanostructures.

Keywords: condensed matter properties,superconductors
A Synthetic Molecular Machine Capable of Complex Task Performance: Processive Sequence-Selective Synthesis ('RIBOSOME MM')

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172434.64
EU funding (EUR): 172434.64
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to synthesize and demonstrate the successful operation of one of the first synthetic molecular machines capable of performing a complex task at the molecular level. The target is to mimic translation, the process through which protein is synthesized on the mRNA template in the ribosome. To achieve this ambitious task (in a very basic form) through the action of a wholly artificial molecular machine system we propose to utilize a [2]rotaxane in which the macrocycle component acts as both a catalyst and a molecular transporter, abstracting bulky aromatic amino acid substituents from a sequence-specific ‘thread’ and transporting them in turn to the next amino acid fragment before mediating the formation of a new amide bond between them. The design is such that the macrocycle is forced to approach each amino acid in sequence, and is unable to pass until the cycle is complete, imparting sequential integrity to the oligopeptide synthesis. The mechanically interlocked nature of the rotaxane ensures processivity during the machine’s operation. Although biology uses threaded molecular architectures to transfer chemical information during sequence-specific oligomer and polymer assembly (proteins, oligo- and polysaccharides, DNA and RNA), such effects are unprecedented in artificial systems. We hope that our synthetic studies will provide a breakthrough in the development of artificial molecular machines that can perform real tasks at the molecular level including, ultimately, the synthesis of unnatural sequence-specific oligomers and polymers that are not accessible by other routes.

Keywords: nanotechnology,supramolecular chemistry,synthesis,artificial molecular machine,2d time-of-flight mass spectrometry,fret
Metabolic Targeting of GnRH Neurons: Molecular Mechanisms and Neuropeptide Pathways (META-GNRH)

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-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-08-15
End date: 2012-08-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222090.0
EU funding (EUR): 222090.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Reproduction, an essential function for perpetuation of the species, is under the control of a sophisticated network of regulatory signals, which include nutritional cues and metabolic factors. Disorders of reproductive maturation (puberty) and function are becoming increasingly common in Europe, and other developed countries, and appear to be linked to the rapid increase in metabolic disorders within the community ranging from energy insufficiency to obesity. It is suspected that information on metabolic status is integrated into the control of fertility at the level of the GnRH neuron, the key cell regulating fertility in all mammalian species. How this occurs is not known. The global aim of this project is to gain insight into the neuroendocrine and molecular mechanisms responsible for the metabolic regulation of puberty and fertility, and their eventual alteration in conditions of disturbed energy balance. To this end, a combination of in vivo and ex vivo approaches, using conventional and genetically-modified rodent models, will be implemented in order to evaluate (i) the effects of selected metabolic hormones (ghrelin) and metabolic neuropeptidergic pathways (NPY, AgRP, alpha-MSH) on GnRH neuronal activation, and (ii) to analyze the putative role of the sensor of intracellular energy status, mTOR, in mediating the actions of the above signals on GnRH neurons. It is anticipated that implementation of the project will expand greatly our knowledge of the physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the metabolic control of reproduction. In addition, completion of the proposed workplan will allow the applicant to get acquainted with powerful genetic methodological tools that will strengthen further his experience in neuroendocrinology, boosting his future research career and paving the way for closer scientific collaborations between the outgoing and return Institutions.

Keywords: health sciences,gnrh,puberty,fertility,kiss1,metabolism,energy balance,ghrelin,npy,pomc,hypothalamus,neuroendocrinology
A two-photon survey of the plasticity of the neocortical microcircuit: searching for plasticity hotspots. (TOPLACIR)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 234427.01
EU funding (EUR): 234427.01
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The cortex has been described to display synaptic plasticity, which is determinant for the function of cortical microcircuits. Although there is a large literature on neocortical plasticity, most of the experiments addressed the connections of pyramidal cells located in particular cortical layers, so the majority of intracortical connections are yet unexplored with respect to their plasticity. Moreover, these studies are contradictory in that apparently synaptic plasticity rules like spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) could be different in different neurons. Therefore, to understand the cortical microcircuit it appears necessary to characterize the different types of plasticity that these circuits are implementing and examine precisely how work the cell-specificity of the synaptic plasticity. The aim of this project is to characterize the plastic rules present among different subtypes of cortical neurons involved in a same microcircuit. I will focus on cortical microcircuit of pyramidal layer 5 cells which are the output cells of the cortex. Using calcium imaging coupled with two-photon photostimulation, I will identify connected cells and determine the extent of a cortical microcircuit that controls layer 5 cells. When connected cells will be identified, electrophysiological recordings and morphological reconstruction will allow me to characterize the cells involved in this microcircuit. I will characterize the plasticity forms which can occur between different connected cells using STDP protocols. The induced plasticity will be correlated with the nature and morphology of the considered connected cells to characterize the cellspecificity of the plasticity in a cortical microcircuit and to describe for the first time the rules of plasticity of cortical microcircuits. Furthermore, the return phase of the project will allow me to use these techniques developed by Pr Yuste to explore the dynamics of basal ganglia neural networks in my return host laboratory.

Keywords: neurobiology,neurophysiology