Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Earth Observation for Monitoring and Observing Environmental and Societal Impacts of Mineral Resources Exploration and Exploitation (EO-MINERS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Israel,Germany,Germany,Slovenia,United Kingdom,South Africa,France,Czechia,Czechia,Kyrgyzstan
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4142443.44
EU funding (EUR): 3120837.52
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

European Commission Vice President Günter Verheugen, responsible for enterprise and industry policy declared &quot;European industries need predictability in the flow of raw materials and stable prices to remain competitive. We are committed to improve the conditions of access to raw materials, be it within Europe or by creating a level playing field in accessing such materials from abroad.” The global dimension of access to raw materials was on the agenda of the G8 Summit on June 2007. On that occasion a Declaration on &quot;Responsibility for raw materials: transparency and sustainable growth&quot; was adopted. Several national and international initiatives, both from the private or the institutional sectors, arised to address the sustainable development of the extractive industry and the reduction of its environmental footprint. Meanwhile, the extractive industry is facing increasing environmental and societal pressures, being regulatory or not, during all phases of a project, from exploration to exploitation and closure. The social acceptability of a project is among the major key issues to be dealt with. EO-MINERS scientific and technical objectives are to: - assess policy requirements at macro (public) and micro (mining companies) levels and define environmental, socio-economic, societal and sustainable development criteria and indicators to be possibly dealt using EO - use existing EO knowledge and carry out new developments on demonstration sites to further demonstrate the capabilities of integrated EO-based methods and tools in monitoring, managing and contributing reducing the environmental and societal footprints of the extractive industry during all phases of a mining project, from the exploration to the exploitation and closure stages - contribute making available reliable and objective information about affected ecosystems, populations and societies, to serve as a basis for a sound “trialogue” between industrialists, governmental organisations and stakeholder

Keywords: earth observation,extractive industry,etp-smr,environmental & societal footprint,geo - geoss
Argentinean Bureau for Enhancing Cooperation with the European Community in the Science, Technology and Innovation Area. Phase II (ABESTII)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of S&T Partnerships
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Argentina,Italy,France,South Africa
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2009-2, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 663210.0
EU funding (EUR): 490985.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

ABEST II was conceived as a natural continuation of the successful ABEST/A-EU 6th Framework Programme project whose main objective was to promote joint participation of Argentinean and European scientists in the activities proposed by the 7th Framework Programme by improving the process of providing information on programmes and funding about cooperation with third countries. ABEST II will deepen these awareness and information activities stressing the promotion of the participation in some specific FP7 Programmes like People and will operate in such a way that after completion, a permanent self-sustained office within the Directorate for International Relations of the Ministry for Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina and a network of research and development institutions from Argentina and the European Union will continue with the promotion and support of the bilateral cooperation activities. ABEST II will also go beyond ABEST/A-EU through working in some specific objectives like better identifying and demonstrating mutual interest and benefit in S&amp;T cooperation between the EU and Argentina and sharing best practices via joint fora such as workshops and presenting the state of the art and the prospects for cooperation in particular fields. One special activity will be added for promoting the participation of Argentinean SME in FP7 activities. Activities were organized around five Work Packages that will be executed by a team of four institutions from four different countries (Argentina, Italy, France and South Africa). Another four institution from three different countries (Spain, Belgium and Austria) with a long tradition of cooperation with Latin America will participate as members of the Steering Committee providing guidance, advice and experience to the project. The project is coordinated by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina, the institution that manages the bilateral agreement in S&amp;T between A

Keywords: bilateral coordination for the enhacement and development of science and technology partnerships between argentina and the european union
European Language Diversity for All: Reconceptualising, promoting and re-evaluating individual and societal multilingualism (ELDIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: The Citizen in the European Union
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Austria,Estonia,Slovenia,Sweden,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2009-A, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3747657.23
EU funding (EUR): 2669266.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Due to new language policies, new forms of mobility, new media and technologies, new methods of research, new dangers to minority languages, and new forms of globalization, the linguistic landscape in Europe is experiencing a profound transformation. There is a wealth of research on the teaching and use of major European languages as vehicular languages, and abundant information on the use of minority and heritage languages in Europe. However, as a basis for coherent language policy-making in Europe, we still need a systematic way to describe and measure the balance between different European languages and the impact of this balance on linguistic and cultural diversity. The project ELDIA (European Linguistic Diversity for All) combines linguistic, sociological, legal, and statistical experts from seven European countries into a consortium committed to investigating multilingualism and linguistic diversity. The research will be based on societal context analyses and fieldwork among both majority and minority speakers from samples of carefully selected multilingual speaker communities along the main cultural watershed of Europe, on both sides of the great East-West frontier and in different socio-political contexts. The central aim of the project is to create an easily applicable measurement instrument, the European Language Vitality Barometer (EuLaViBar), which can be used for the investigation of further language situations within and outside Europe. The project will also create a novel dataset for future research and will substantially contribute to the international networking of early-career researchers. Above all, by departing from the reality of multilingualism and focusing on multicultural identities and the agency of individual speakers, the project will contribute to the practical and scholarly understanding of the mechanisms of language diversity in an unprecedented way.

Keywords: vehicular languages,minorities,language policy,linguistic market,media,education,speaker agency
The development of tools and effective strategies for the optimisation of useful secondary METAbolite PROduction in planta (METAPRO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Israel,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Romania
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4137742.0
EU funding (EUR): 2981469.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In the METAPRO project we aim to optimise the production of several useful isoprenoid derived secondary metabolites to demonstrate the tools and strategies developed for the generic production of useful secondary metabolites in plants. Astaxanthin (ketocarotenoids) and the apocarotenoid crocin have been selected to demonstrate the application of the technologies adopted and developed. These compounds are of high-value and used in the industrial and health sectors. Both are classical secondary plant metabolites being formed in slow growing species that are not readily amenable to agricultural production. They are non-essential to the plant, synthesised at a defined developmental stage, in specialised tissues, cells and/or cellular compartments. In order to generate cheap renewable bio-resources of these compounds with improved economic and environmental potential, natural variation will be exploited and genetic engineering approaches implemented. Astaxanthin and crocin will be engineered into Solanaceae host platforms. Tomato fruit and potato tuber are ideal cell factories for this class of molecules, as at defined developmental stages their tissues and specialised cellular compartments are pre-disposed to high level isoprenoid formation. To optimise production in these hosts the METAPRO project aims to use modern and emerging technologies to (i) elucidate regulatory mechanisms involved in synthesis, (ii) optimise storage by increasing, altering and transport from, the cellular compartment responsible for synthesis and accumulation, (iii) improve stability of the products in the cell and during bioprocessing and (iv) implement improved transformation, transcription and translation tools for more efficient engineering and improved yields and quality. To achieve these objectives and deliver scientific excellence with impact a multidisciplinary pan-European team with complementary expertise, industrial (SME) participation and global interaction has been constructed.

Keywords: secondary metabolites,solanaceae,isoprenoids,genetic engineering,natural variation
European Union – United States Research Cooperation Network: Link to the United States (LINK2US)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Supporting the EU access to third country programmes
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United States,Austria,Hungary,Italy
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 526625.0
EU funding (EUR): 376693.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This project seeks to enhance the awareness of and participation in, by European scientists and research organisations, U.S. national collaborative funding schemes in order to help strengthen cooperative research with American counterparts under bilateral science and technology agreements. Because the U.S. federal research funding structure is highly decentralised with many different U.S. government scientific entities involved depending on the fields of interest, accessing potential opportunities requires a clear understanding of the various funding schemes available. This project proposes to map opportunities of collaborative funding schemes and rules for participation. Potential obstacles to participation will be analysed so that they may be avoided or that solutions may be found. Analysis of the bilateral S&amp;T cooperation agreements with respect to reciprocity conditions and the monitoring of European researchers participating in the U.S. collaborative programmes will be conducted to improve the effectiveness with which the EC and EU national authorities ensure matching reciprocity from the United States. The project will raise awareness and disseminate information of the Project’s findings and analyses through a multi-faceted information network consisting of a website, electronic and physical communications including awareness-raising events, and a virtual help desk to provide assistance to European researchers on the intricacies of U.S. programmes and funding opportunities.

Keywords: european union and united states,research cooperation,u.s. access opportunities
Supporting EU Access to Brazilian National research programmes - Acesso por Ciência e Technologia no Brasil (APORTA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Supporting the EU access to third country programmes
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,France,Brazil
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 692627.5
EU funding (EUR): 499476.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

APORTA meets the cahallenge of a lack of awareness among EU researchers about the opportunities of participation in Brazilian research and innovation programmes. APORTA aims at enhancing the access opportunities, and hence the active cooperation of EU member states research units (institutions?) in the national research and innovation programmes facilitated by Brazil. Essentially, the project focuses on the substantial collection of information regarding national research and innovation capacities and programmes within Brazil. Together with this, Brazilian authorities are made aware of the advantages of programmes accessible for EU-participation. However, the primary objective is to disseminate this information to the widest possible number of researches and other stakeholders in the European Research Area, aiming at the creation of effective collaboration activities between the EU and Brazilian research community (oder: research groups). In addition the project contributes to the work of the Brazilian-European Steering Commission by identifying how stronger synergies can be achieved between FP7 and Brazilian national and innovation programmes. The results of APORTA will be publicly available on a (proposed) common ACCESS4EU web portal, and presented during information days and relevant events in Europe. The expected impact of the project will be the reinforcement of the current bilateral S&amp;T agreement between Brazil and the EU, an increased participation of EU scientists in Brazilian research and innovation programmes, and a better understanding of the reciprocity of such programmes on both sides.

Keywords: brazil,research,innovation,s&t programmes,access,reciprocity,obstacles,dissemination
FOSTERING EUROPEAN UNION - CARIBBEAN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NETWORKS (EUCARINET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bi-regional coordination of S&T cooperation including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,France,Spain,Jamaica,French Guiana,Dominican Republic,Cuba,Curaçao,Netherlands,Guyana
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1745944.7
EU funding (EUR): 1532485.03
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The EUCARINET project is a 4 years Coordination Action whose main goal is to strengthen bi-regional sustainable policy dialogue on S&amp;T between EU Member States (MS), Associated States (AS) and in the Caribbean Region, the Caribbean ACP States, the overseas Departments and Collectivities, the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). The project will work at policy, programme and institutional (research entities) level, thus contributing to a threefold objective: 1) create the conditions of the sustainable multi-stakeholders policy dialogue on S&amp;T between the European Union, its member states, its associated states and the Caribbean Region, leading to a joint definition of S&amp;T co-operation policies, 2) Foster interregional (UE-CARIBBEAN) and intraregional cooperation in leading to the identification and prioritisation of common research areas of mutual interest and benefit. 3)Stimulate and support the participation of the Caribbean research stakeholders in FP7, with a first emphasis on the “People Programme”. In order to do that, the consortium of thirteen members both from EU and the Caribbean will implement a 5 WP&apos;s workprogamme: management, dialogue platform establishment, priorites setting, instrumentsfor sutainable cooperation and dissemination/networking.

Keywords: caribbean,bi-regional,networking,policy dialogue,science,technology,innovation,priorities,mapping,capacity building,national contact points,science-industry clusters
Towards a “Topography” of Tolerance and Equal Respect. A comparative study of policies for the distribution of public spaces in culturally diverse societies (RESPECT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Czechia,France,China,United Kingdom,Italy,Russian Federation,Slovenia,Hungary,Lithuania,Israel,Germany,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2009-A, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1722980.4
EU funding (EUR): 1262933.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Tolerance has been increasingly invoked as the inspiring ideal of a number of social policies in European democracies. Appeals to tolerance have animated especially the political debates on those policies addressed to accommodate minorities’ requests. Among such requests those for the allocation of public spaces have recently acquired pride of place in the political agendas of many European and extra-European countries (e.g. the allocation of space for Roma sites; Muslims’ requests to build places of worship and housing policies for migrants). Despite such a generalized political and societal relevance of the notion of tolerance, some problems may occur when policies inspired by it are implemented. In particular, the implementation of tolerance-inspired spatial policies may result in the marginalisation of differences and thus risk undermining social cohesion. What conception of tolerance may be invoked to limit such a risk? To answer this question, we shall test the hypothesis that grounding tolerance on equal respect for persons may contribute to the development of spatial policies capable of resolving the tensions between tolerance and social cohesion in culturally diverse societies. In particular, the project pursues 4 objectives:1.to develop a conceptual taxonomy to clarify the liaisons between tolerance, respect and spatial issues;2.to study the ways in which appeals to tolerance have informed the development of spatial policies;3.to investigate the influence of cultural diversities on the interpretations of tolerance in different national contexts;4.to extrapolate from the above studies an overall view of the connections between tolerance and equal respect. Our findings will be of interests to national and international Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), policy makers at a European, national, regional and municipal level and international academics engaged in the study of urban integration in different social, religious, cultural, and political contexts.

Keywords: tolerance,respect,political theory,spatial policies,urban marginalisation,cultural differences,social cohesion,integration,migrants,minorities,sociology,political philosophy,ethics
Micro-simulation for the prospective of sustainable cities in Europe (SUSTAINCITY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Combining economic, social and environmental objectives in a European perspective
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,France,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Greece,Germany,Italy,France,United States
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2009-A, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3884803.8
EU funding (EUR): 2695652.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Increasing concerns about sustainable development and the growth of urban areas have brought forth in recent years a renewed enthusiasm and need for the use of quantitative models in the field of transportation and spatial planning. This project proposes to improve urban simulation models and their interaction with transport models. Unified operational models that favour a microscopic approach, such as UrbanSim and ILUTE (Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environment Modelling System) have recently gained a lot of interest both in the land use and transport communities. Nevertheless, in their current forms these models still require further development to support a comprehensive analysis of the main environmental and socio-economic questions of the sustainability of urban growth and the relevant public policies. The goal of this project is to address the modelling and computational issues of integrating modern mobility simulations with the latest micro-simulation land use models. The project intends to advance the state-of-the-art in the field of the micro-simulation of prospective integrated models of Land-Use and Transport (LUTI). On the modelling side, the main challenges are to integrate a demographic evolution module, to add an environmental module, to improve the overall consistency and, last but not least, to deal with the multi-scale aspects of the problem: several time horizons and spatial resolutions are involved.

Keywords: demography,urban and transport modeling,urban economics