Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Land-Ocean Connectivity - from Hydrological to Ecological Understanding of Groundwater in the Coastal Zone (EGOMARS)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-15
End date: 2013-06-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260975.0
EU funding (EUR): 260975.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The coastal zone, where fresh and saltwater meet, hosts some of the most dynamic, diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. Ecological and hydrological land-ocean connectivity are important drivers of these ecosystems. This study will advance the understanding of hydrological-ecological coupling and connectivity, by studying relationships of key fauna with coastal groundwater hydrology in the tropical realm on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The use of groundwater proxies embedded in shells of fast-growing molluscs as bio-indicators for hydrological-ecological coupling in the coastal zone will be explored, and the usage pattern of a groundwater-fed coastal inlet by the iconic Queen Conch Strombus gigas will be documented. High-resolution sclerochronology in a sessile hydrological sentinel, the bivalve Isognomon alatus together with traditional hydrological investigations will be used to document variability of groundwater exposure to resident biota, and shell sclerochronology of the roaming Strombus gigas and concurrent acoustic telemetry will explain habitat usage of this endangered and socio-economically important species in the Caribbean Sea on whole-of-life scale.

Keywords: coastal ecosystems,environmental indicators (environment,fisheries and aquaculture interactions)
Infants' understanding of social interaction (INFANT INTERACTION)

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: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185964.8
EU funding (EUR): 185964.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How do infants come to understand social interactions between other people? The first objective of the current project is to examine when infants recognize the joint and individual goals that underlie others' social interactions. This will be achieved with a developmental study using eye tracking to examine infants' expectations of others' behavior in social situations. The second objective of the project is to explore the role of both specific and general social experience in the development of social interaction understanding. To do so, a second study will compare infants' understanding of a social interaction between others in an eye tracking task to two types of social experience: their specific experience in a similar social interaction and their general quality of social experience (as indexed by their caregiver relationship quality). The research training objectives that will be achieved during the fellowship include developing and expanding the fellow's skills in research methods including eye tracking and infant behavioral and observational paradigms, and in data analysis methods, including computer programming. Additional complimentary skills will be gained in areas such as management, mentoring, and dissemination of findings.

Keywords: developmental psychology,cognitive science,infancy,social cognition
A conserved mechanism regulating shoot and root lateral organ placement (PHYLLORHIZOTAXIS)

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: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 237249.8
EU funding (EUR): 237249.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Plant architecture is largely determined by branching patterns in the shoot and root systems. Shoots of seed plants, such as the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, branch via lateral bud outgrowth, where branches are patterned along the stem at the base of a leaf. Roots branch laterally from an internal cell layer surrounded by differentiated tissues, at a distance from the root tip. Despite the differences in ontogeny and the divergent evolutionary origin of root and shoot lateral branches, both processes are controlled by the three redundantly-acting AP2-domain containing transcription factors PLETHORA3, 5 and 7 (PLT3,5,7). These proteins control phyllotaxis, the pattern of lateral organs in the shoot, and rhizotaxis, the spacing of lateral roots. Although the phytohormone auxin is known to be intimately involved in both phyllotaxis and rhizotaxis, the PLT3,5,7 module represents the first genetic element to be implicated in control of both processes. Thus, the goal of this proposal is to illuminate the genetic network surrounding PLT3,5,7 gene activity in both the shoot and root contexts. Early results suggest that auxin lies both upstream and downstream of PLT action, pointing to a positive feedback loop which could be at the heart of a pattern generating system. To investigate this network further, genes surrounding PLT action will be identified using genetic, bioinformatic and biochemical strategies. Physical and genetic interactions will place these genes in a genetic hierarchy. Dynamic expression of these genes in living shoots and roots will be monitored using real-time confocal microscopy, and changes in the network dynamics will be observed in plt mutants and in auxin manipulation experiments. The results from this project will illuminate the similarities and differences between these two PLT-bases patterning pathways and will be of interest to developmental, computational and evolutionary biologists alike.

Keywords: natural sciences,developmental biology,genetics,molecular biology,molecular evolution,plant genetics
Designing Bifunctional Nano-Alloy Catalysts for Bio-Renewable Feedstock Valorisation (BIFUNC-NANOCAT)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-15
End date: 2013-05-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184540.8
EU funding (EUR): 184540.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The principal goal of “BIFUNC-NANOCAT” is to develop efficient and selective bi-functional catalyst systems having both acid/base catalysed and an oxidation functionalities for the valorisation of biomass to produce bulk/speciality chemicals effectively in an environmentally benign route. Oxidative valorisation of the lignin and cellulosic constituents of biomass for the production of value added products by bi-functional heterogeneous catalysts using environmentally benign oxidants like O2 or H2O2 in a green solvent medium is the key aspect. The proposed bifunctional nano-alloy catalyst will also be tested for the oxidation of bio-renewable feedstock materials (platform molecules) and model compounds using green oxidants like O2 or H2O2 in an ionic liquid medium replacing stoichiometric oxidants like permanganates or chromates. We intend to use the catalysed oxidative dehydrogenation of bio-renewable benzylic alcohols (e.g., veratryl alcohol, vanillyl alcohol and cinnamyl alcohol) as a substrate activating strategy for the synthesis of amines, benzimidazoles, and as a general strategy for the N-alkylation of amines in a single pot. In situ spectroscopic techniques, like ATR-IR, UV-Vis, Raman, along with X-ray absorption methods (e.g. XAFS, including XANES and EXAFS as well as related microscopy methods, such as STXM), coupled with isotopic labelling studies would be employed to understand the interaction between substrates and catalysts, especially to characterize the adsorbed species and the compositional effects of the nano-alloys made and during catalytic reaction. It is proposed to study the feasibility of performing some of the above mentioned reactions in a continuous fashion using different reactors like fixed bed reactor (FBR), micropacked bed reactors (MPBR).

Keywords: chemistry,heterogeneous catalysis
Local ownership and peace missions (PEACE)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 192849.6
EU funding (EUR): 192849.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to provide an integrated theoretical model to understand the use of the "local ownership" concept in contemporary peace missions, through the prism of the international involvement in the Balkans (Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina) and in Africa (Liberia and Sierra Leone). The project will zero in on the use of the "local ownership" concept, drawing from the literature on development studies and security sector reform and applying these insights to the field of peace missions.

Keywords: peace studies,international relations,development policy,security sector reform,international interventions,balkans,africa
Investigating the role of the immune system in the development of fibrosis in the lung (LUNG FIBROSIS)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239221.6
EU funding (EUR): 239221.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Chronic lung disease is a very common cause of morbidity and mortality across Europe. For example, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes over 30,000 deaths/year in the UK with a rising incidence and it is estimated that by 2020 COPD will become the third leading cause of death and the fifth leading cause of chronic disability worldwide. In the EU approximately 41,300 lost work days per 100’000 population are due to COPD while productivity losses amount to €28.5 billion annually and patient care totals €10.3 billion annually. To date, therapies to limit/reverse fibrosis in the lung have failed to provide long-term beneficial effects and new therapeutic targets are desperately needed. The work proposed in this application will allow me to investigate the role of the immune system in general, and more specifically the macrophage, in fibrosis and identify new therapeutic targets. The themes highlighted in this proposal complement priority areas identified within the FP7: Health program including Innovative therapeutic approaches and intervention and Translational research in major diseases. In this fellowship I will investigate the role of cellular immunity and in particular the macrophage in orchestrating the environment in the lung that determines the fibrotic response to injury. I will investigate whether specific macrophage phenotypes contribute to loss of function by driving aberrant epithelial repair and fibrotic remodeling in the lung. I hypothesis that manipulation of lung macrophage phenotype by treatment with azithromycin may limit fibrosis in the lung.

Keywords: health sciences,immunology,fibrosis,neo-macrolides,macrophages,epithelial cells,fibroblasts,epithelial to mesenchymal transition,obliterative branchiolitis,obliterative airway disease
Synchronous Regime Shifts Across European Seas (SYNRESH)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-20
End date: 2014-01-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 272980.0
EU funding (EUR): 272980.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Regime shifts are abrupt changes encompassing a multitude of physical properties and ecosystem variables, which lead to new regime conditions. Regime shifts can cause large-scale losses of ecosystem services with severe consequences for human well-being. Recently regime shifts have been documented for various marine ecosystems. Novel research has found that many of those occurred quasi-simultaneously, raising the question about global-scale environmental forcing. In particular, all European seas seem to have underwent regime shifts in the late 1980s (Conversi et al., 2010). Understanding such co-occurrence is key to differentiating the role of large/hemispheric scale (climate) impacts from local/basin scale (eutrophication, overfishing, etc) impacts. This differentiation is in turn essential for both addressing marine ecosystem protection strategies, and understanding the climate – biota relationship in global warming scenarios. The aims of this project are (i) to address, via a comparative, multi-basins approach, the large-scale synchrony in regime shift timing and its drivers, and (ii) to begin to address the development of prevention and mitigation strategies to be used in future ecosystem-based managements.

Keywords: marine sciences,climate change impact (climate change),anthropogenic impact on ecosystems,regime shifts,science policy
Global civil society, new diplomacies and the EU External Action. Transforming socio-environmental conflicts through non-violent international support of empowerment processes. (TRANSCON)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193849.6
EU funding (EUR): 193849.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to analyse the potential role of EU External Action to deal with non-violent processes of conflict transformation in the particular context of socio-environmental conflicts. It will examine practices, strategies and tools developed from the scope of environmental citizenship to contribute to the empowerment of local parties for non-violent conflict transformation. This research will determine recommendations to improve the EU civilian crisis management and the EC conflict prevention system to deal with socio-environmental conflicts. These objectives will be achieved through the use of the environmental citizenship concept to reinforce transnational entities working on conflict transformation and to generate new forms of participative global citizenship, and data collection from non-violent socio-environmental resistance experiences, new diplomacies interventions and environmental citizenship participation projects. Research methodology also includes the design of indicators for analysing socio-environmental conflict escalation and socio-environmental impact of the EU External Action; comparative approaches between EU and Latin American experiences of socio-environmental conflicts and citizenship; the adoption of a dissemination plan and the elaboration of policy papers to provide ideas and recommendations to the EU. The project is relevant for the work programme because it will benefit the Community level because it will allow the improvement of the European Commission “conflict prevention” system. The research results will show different approaches for addressing resources more efficiently and they will allow the development of new tools and mechanisms in the areas of EC co-operation assistance (trade, investments, aid, human rights, democracy, rule of law, etc.). This research will also benefit to the European Union level through its contributions to the civilian crisis management system which will strength the EU External Action.

Keywords: international studies,peace studies,conflict resolution,contemporary history
The History of Tibetan Medicine in Exile (TIBETAN MEDICINE)

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: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-22
End date: 2013-06-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183606.4
EU funding (EUR): 183606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will produce the first critical in-depth history of Tibetan medicine in exile from 1960 to the present, focusing particularly on the dynamics of its globalization, commoditization and pharmaceuticalization. The investigation will use a combination of historical and ethnographic research methods in order to document the past half-century of exile-Tibetan medicine's development at the interface of traditional knowledge, modern science, the global market and nationalist politics. The research objective is to trace Tibetan medicine's global spread (particularly to Europe) in the past few decades, and make it understandable to various audiences (academics, medical professionals, policy makers) by documenting its causes and dynamics. The aim is thus to provide a solid - and so far non-existent - basis for any academic, political or technological engagement with Tibetan medicine in particular, and other Asian medicines - like Ayurveda or Chinese medicine - in general. The results are expected to be published in the form of one book and several journal articles. The project draws from - and speaks to - a number of academic disciplines, including history of medicine, medical anthropology, socio-cultural anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies and Tibet studies. The proposed research will not only address an increasingly important public health issue in Europe (the rapid spread of alternative and complementary medicines), but also transfer cutting-edge knowledge on the globalization of Asian medicines to its European host and enhance European scientific excellence through several top-level academic publications.

Keywords: humanities,social sciences,health sciences
The forcing of sea level rise in the Arctic, the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea (FORSEANAM)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-15
End date: 2014-06-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 247586.8
EU funding (EUR): 247586.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding the processes that drive sea-level variability is a complex issue, as it involves various local, regional and global features with different time scales, some of them still poorly understood. For this reason, our current capability for producing reliable projections of future sea-level rise is very limited. Advancing the scientific understanding of the key processes that drive sea-level variability is thus required to reduce the uncertainties associated with present projections and allow effective adaptive coastal planning. In this project we attempt to improve our understanding of the sea-level variability observed during the last decades in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, identifying and understanding the processes that are crucial to refine sea level projections for the future, all in the geographical framework that is most relevant for the European coasts. The project will make use of in situ data sets, including long tide gauge records and Argo floats, as well as remote sensing data from a variety of satellite sensors including radar altimetry, gravimetry and scatterometry. Ocean models will be used to understand the dynamics of the different processes that drive long-term sea level variability. Focus will be on regional-scale trends, and decadal fluctuations in addition to the underlying long-term trend. In particular, we will study the relationship between the Atlantic and the Arctic oceans, and examine the dynamics of low-frequency basin-scale fluctuations. We will also assess how changes in the Atlantic affect Mediterranean sea level. In particular, we will determine the role of the Strait of Gibraltar in the relationship. The project will provide an international scientific platform through which the fellow can gain exceptional training and establish international and multidisciplinary collaborations with scientists at the forefront of this research field.

Keywords: physical oceanography (climate change),sea-level variability,sea-level rise,atlantic,mediterranean,arctic,gibraltar,observation systems,grace,ocean modelling
Scepticism, metaphysics and sciences (SMS)

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-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242959.0
EU funding (EUR): 242959.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Metaphysics is not recognized as a branch of philosophy in Ancient Greece, and Sextus Empiricus is not an exception in this sense; indeed, his attack on dogmatic philosophy is launched from the perspective of the traditional tripartition of philosophy into logic, physics and ethics. However, several parts of Sextus’ work deal with matters that we would count as metaphysical, in particular the passages where he discusses the dogmatic conceptions of the principles of sciences, of parts and whole, and of time and space. In all these passages, the background of Sextus’ attack is provided by claims of Plato and Aristotle, a fact all the more remarkable if one considers that when it came to attacking dogmatic Logic, Physics and Ethics the Stoics were mostly his privileged target. On the dogmatic side, the Platonists and Aristotelians of the Imperial period discussed the metaphysical subjects attacked by Sextus. Thus, it is worth reading Sextus’ attack in the light of Imperial Platonism and Aristotelianism. Yet this line of inquiry has been little pursued. My project ‘Scepticism, metaphysics and sciences’ aims to deepen our understanding of the connection between Scepticism and metaphysics at the beginning of the common era by dealing with the three topics I mentioned above: the principles of sciences, parts and wholes, space and time. The first part of my research will analyse the dialectic between Aristotle and his disciple Alexander of Aphrodisias on the one hand, and Sextus on the other, in relation to the crucial question on the existence of the principles of sciences and the possibility of knowing them. The second part will deal with the debate opposing Sextus to his Platonist rivals on the notions of parts and whole. Finally, the third part will provide a comparative analysis of the attack launched by Sextus on the dogmatic notions of space and time and of the relevant Peripatetic texts.

Keywords: ancient philosophy,sextus empiricus,aristotle,plato,imperial platonism and aristotelism,principles of sciences,mereology,metaphysics of space and time