Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Designing Dynamic Distributed Cooperative Human-Machine Systems (D3COS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Embedded Computing Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ARTEMIS (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Czechia,Germany,Germany,France,Norway,Germany,Italy,Germany,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Denmark
Call:  (ARTEMIS-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14357666.07
EU funding (EUR): 2397730.22
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Transportation based on cars, aircraft and ships is a key factor for modern human societies. Human operators have historically been in charge of the two main facets of transportation: vehicle control and traffic control. Technological innovations have progressively allowed the introduction of advanced automated assistance systems leading to a complex interplay of humans and automation which has been shown to lead in many cases to new types of human errors, incidents and sometimes accidents. It has been recognized that further automation alone cannot solve the problem and the crucial issue is how to achieve an adequate level of human-machine cooperation with shared authority. The proposal addresses missing key enablers for market penetration of innovative dynamic Distributed Cooperative Human-Machine Systems (DCoS). The proposal intends to develop affordable methods, techniques and tools which go beyond assistance systems and consequently address the design, development and evaluation of cooperative systems from a multi-agent perspective where human and machine agents are in charge of common tasks, assigned to the system as a whole. A high quality user interface is inevitable to meet user expectations and to gain market acceptance of cooperative systems with increased levels of automation. Already today the development of a user interface of Embedded Systems is a substantial cost driver that is constantly increasing. The proposal strives to boost cost efficiency of highly innovative DCoS with several interactive Embedded Systems. This will be achieved by supporting and closing the industrial development process chain from (1) DCoS composition over (2) interaction design to (3) system design and (4) interface design and by allowing to evaluate the overall system safety, efficiency and effectiveness already in early process phases. An Innovation Eco System for cooperative embedded HMI will be established during the project and will be maintained afterwards.

Keywords: cooperative system development and evaluation,reusable concepts for advanced human-machine interaction,design patterns for adaptive task and resource allocation
Trans-SAHARA: State Formation, Migration and Trade in the Central Sahara (1000 BC - AD 1500) (TRANS-SAHARA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2420593.32
EU funding (EUR): 2420593.32
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Scholarly preoccupations and much of the available evidence have tended to emphasise the Islamic era as the historic time period when the Mediterranean seaboard was firmly and regularly connected with the Sub-Saharan zone across the Sahara. Recent research in southern Libya suggests that there was a significantly higher level of Trans-Saharan trade and contact in the pre-Islamic period than hitherto recognised. The existence of an early state, contemporary with the Roman Empire, in the Central Sahara can be demonstrated from the archaeological remains of the Garamantes of the Libyan region of Fazzan. Their technological sophistication in terms of irrigated agriculture, urban settlements, mastery of pyrotechnical processes and manufacturing achievements in textiles and beadmaking are all quite remarkable. It is already clear that their population comprised a mixture of Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean African types and there is indisputable evidence that they traded with both the Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan zones. This has profound implications for understanding the nature and effects of human contact in the Trans-Saharan zone. The grant is sought to allow the research programme in Fazzan to be taken to the next level of analysis, enabling explicit comparisons and contrasts to be drawn with contemporary societies to north and south of the Sahara. Key themes to be explored include trade, human migration, technological processes and transfers, urbanisation and state formation. Equally crucial, the chronological scope of the project will be extended into the Islamic period, in order to understand how things differed then from the earlier phases of Trans-Saharan contact.

Keywords: sahara,migration,urbanisation,islamic archaeology
Strategic Conversation (STAC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1981318.6
EU funding (EUR): 1981318.6
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

I propose a five year interdisciplinary project that will develop a new, formal and robust model of conversation, drawing from ideas in linguistics, philosophy, computer science and economics. The project brings a state of the art, linguistic theory of discourse interpretation together with a sophisticated view of agent interaction and strategic decision making.

Keywords: discourse,dialogue,cooperative and non-cooperative models,strategic reasoning,empirical validation
Oral culture, manuscript and print in early modern Italy, 1450-1700 (ITALIANVOICES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1453356.0
EU funding (EUR): 1453356.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

From the palazzo to the piazza, from the church to the private household, the spoken and sung word had uniquely important roles to play in transmitting information, opinions and texts in the society of early modern Italy. Oral discussion and performance, both formal and informal, were used intensively in the culture of the literate minority, while the verbal culture of the uneducated depended mainly or solely on orality. Constant interaction between the oral and the written enriched and shaped both forms of expression. Yet the voices that were so prominent throughout the cultural life of this period have been neglected. This pioneering project will provide the first integrated study of the practices and the social, intellectual and aesthetic values of oral culture, thus opening up new horizons for the study of early modern Italian culture as a whole. The challenge is to recapture the rich but ephemeral world of Renaissance orality through correlated studies of the traces it has left in written sources such as diaries, archival records, literary texts, treatises and correspondence. The fundamental research question to be asked is: how did oral culture relate to written culture and how far was it independent of writing? The investigation will focus on four key areas: social performance, politics, religion and linguistic usage. It will encompass spaces such as courts, council chambers, churches, academies, streets, houses and the countryside; men and women of all social classes; and contexts including ceremonial and ritual events, oratory, public and private performance, and scripted and improvised entertainment. This unique research will also lead to a new understanding of the cultural functions of the exceptionally wide spectrum of languages used throughout the peninsula.

Keywords: orality,performance,manuscript,print,early modern,italy
European Research Infrastructures for Nuclear Data Applications (ERINDA)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,European organisations area,Switzerland,France,Sweden,Germany,Czechia,Hungary,Finland,Romania,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1114702.2
EU funding (EUR): 999958.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Different concepts involving critical (fast) reactors or subcritical accelerator-driven systems are being studied in view of their transmutation capabilities. These design studies imply high demands on the underlying nuclear database. The need for improved nuclear data has been expressed in the Strategic Research Agenda of the SNE-TP ( Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform). The accurate knowledge of neutron and proton induced nuclear reactions in the fast, intermediate- and high- energy domains (En = 1keV to 500 MeV) is of crucial importance for predicting the capabilities of reducing the inventory of plutonium, minor actinides, and long-lived fission products. In the past, this energy domain was not investigated with high priority because of minor importance for conventional light-water reactors. An additional challenge is the tightening demand on the accuracy of the data, especially for assessing criticality safety aspects and designing fuels for very high burn-up. The ERINDA project aims for a coordination of European efforts to exploit up-to-date neutron beam technology for novel research on advanced concepts for nuclear fission reactors and the transmutation of radioactive waste. Such waste is already existing in appreciable quantity due to the year-long operation of existing nuclear reactors and it will eventually also be generated during the running of new reactor types – albeit they can be optimized to produce much less of it. Research to the aim of finding techniques optimized for a strong reduction of nuclear waste can already be performed at existing nuclear facilities from the consortium proposed in this proposal. The main objective is to provide adequate transnational access to the infrastructures. The consortium will also provide funding for scientific support of experiments by short term visits of scientist to the participating facilities and foster the communication and disseminaton of the results by organising scientific workshops.

Keywords: transmutation of nuclear waste,innovative reactor systems (geniv,ads),high-quality nuclear data,neutron induced reactions
Neural basis of syntax in the developing brain (NEUROSYNTAX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2366688.0
EU funding (EUR): 2366688.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Language is a capacity specific to humans and thus biologically based. While our knowledge concerning the neural basis of language in the adult brain has increased considerably, little is known about the relation between language and brain during ontogeny. The present study will focus on the development of brain structure and language function in the domain of syntax. Behavioural and electrophysiological studies indicate that children's basic syntactic knowledge is well advanced at around 3 years of age. However, the ability to process complex hierarchically structured sentences only develops after the age of 5 and is still not adult-like by the age of 7. In adults, two different neural networks supporting syntax have been shown: one processing complex hierarchical syntactic structures and one processing local syntactic constraints. The latter consists of inferior frontal and anterior temporal regions connected via a fibre bundle called the extreme capsule fibre system, whereas the network supporting the processing of complex syntactic structures is based on inferior frontal and posterior temporal regions connected via the superior longitudinal fascile and arcuate fascile (SLF/AF). There is some neuroanatomical evidence that the latter fibre bundles develop relatively late in children. Here, we will investigate the hypothesis that the maturation of the SLF/AF is a prerequisite for the development of the human ability to process complex syntax. We will do so by correlating behavioural, functional and structural brain imaging data in children at different developmental stages. This research will provide fundamental knowledge about the codevelopment of language and the brain, and furthermore serve as a prerequisite for the diagnosis of atypical language development.
MYRRHA Accelerator eXperiment, research and development programme (MAX)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Spain,Portugal,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,France
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4950856.46
EU funding (EUR): 2926199.05
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The present FP-7 proposal MAX is subsequent to the recommendations of the Strategic Research Agenda of SNETP for ADS development in Europe. Its aim is to pursue the R&D required for a high power proton accelerator as specified by the MYRRHA project. There is especially a strong focus on all the aspects that pertain to the reliability and availability of this accelerator. This R&D effort builds on the large body of results and the clear conclusions that have been obtained during the consecutive FP5 project PDS-XADS and FP6 project EUROTRANS. MAX will further investigate the key issues of redundancy and fault-tolerance by real-world experience in making maximum use of already existing or to-be-built dedicated prototypes, both on the injector side and on the main superconducting linac side. At the end of the MAX project, it will be possible to generate an updated consolidated reference layout of the accelerator for MYRRHA with sufficient detail and adequate level of confidence in order to initiate its engineering design and subsequent construction phase.

Keywords: transmutation,accelerator,reliability,myrrha,r&d
Social Cohesion, Identity and Religion in Europe, 400-1200 (SCIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1983000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1983000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The period between 400 and 1200 AD saw the emergence of new fundamental modes of identification in Europe. Firstly, strong religious identities took shape and became hegemonial over vast regions where Christian communities developed. And secondly, new kingdoms with ethnic denominations were formed, and the Roman empire gave way to a pluralistic political landscape. Most ethnic designations for medieval and modern states in fact go back to that period. Both processes, not least through their interaction, created new forms of social cohesion, but also of conflict, and had a deep impact on European history up to this day that has not been sufficiently understood yet. Universal religion and ethnic/national particularism have always been regarded as opposite principles. But that is only part of the picture, and the proposed project is intended to look systematically at the ways in which religious and ethnic identities interacted, both as forms of discourse and as social practices. In studying the Early Middle Ages, the project addresses a period that has been neglected in debates about ethnicity and the rise of the nation. By choosing a long-term perspective, it attempts to historicize ethnicity and religion. Specifically, the project will concentrate on the ways in which the Bible inspired new discourses of identity and ethnicity, and in which the formation of Christian communities could enhance ethnic and political cohesion. Important political, affective and cognitive resources for the political role of ethnicity in European history were created in Late Antiquity and the Early and High Middle Ages, c. 400–1200 AD. They provided a potential that could be used at different stages in European history, not least, in the development of the modern nation.

Keywords: ethnicity,religion,christianity,early medieval kingdoms
The placebo effect – a window into the relationship between mind and body (PLACEBO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499120.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499120.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent data suggest the placebo effect to be a powerful demonstration of how mental activity that is shaped by expectation and experience can influence physiological functions. The current strategy to minimize potential placebo effects largely ignores the positive effects of the placebo response. The current proposal postulates a radically different approach: Instead of considering placebo effects a nuisance, we will explicitly investigate the mechanisms behind expectation and experience (i.e. placebo response) to develop its use for the benefit of the patient. Importantly, the same applies to the effect of negative expectations (i.e. nocebo response) that can be responsible for negative effects of treatment. Understanding the mechanisms and circumstances that promote these effects will allow us to adjust medical treatments to minimize these nocebo effects. We will investigate the mechanisms of placebo and nocebo responses in traditional fields such as pain, but also in respiratory medicine and in “cognitive enhancement”. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), pharmacological interventions and formal models we will in particular address the neuronal mechanisms underlying placebo and nocebo responses. Combining the data from all three fields (pain, respiration and cognitive enhancement) will allow us to identify domain general and domain specific mechanisms of placebo responses. These projects will be supported by a methodological work-package which will provide neuroimaging techniques to improve the assessment of placebo and nocebo relevant brain structures. Finally a large cohort of volunteers will be investigated, to assess the relationship between placebo responses, personality variables and genetic polymorphisms using a genome-wide association analysis. Insights gained in this project could have the potential to formally place placebo responses and related mechanisms such as experience and expectation into the mainstream of evidence based medicine.
Wage Dynamics, Sorting Patterns in Labour Markets and Policy Evaluation (WASP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1809520.0
EU funding (EUR): 1809520.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

WASP is aimed at developing realistic empirical equilibrium search models of the labour market, with heterogeneous agents and long-term self-enforcing contracts, that • Can help better understand rent sharing mechanisms in labour markets, • Allow for multiple sources of productivity dynamics, including deterministic human capital accumulation and idiosyncratic productivity shocks, • Do not rule out sorting by assumption, nor the possibility of mismatch – as in perfectly competitive Beckerian marriage models, • Can fit linked employer-employee data in all three dimensions: across workers, firms and time, • Can be used for policy evaluation. These research questions will be addressed within six different sub-projects: 1. Understanding tenure effects. Human capital accumulation and productivity shocks are introduced in a search-matching framework to explain the difference between tenure and experience effects. 2. Employment protection policies, wage dynamics and sorting. A search-matching model with productivity shocks is estimated on worker data and used to discuss the optimal design of employment protection policies. 3. Large firms, sorting and linked employer-employee data. Firms post more than one job offer. The model permits the use of linked employer-employee data for estimation. 4. Risk-aversion, savings and risk sharing. Risk-averse workers, subject to productivity shocks, are matched with risk-neutral employers. The model is used to measure the relative importance of self-insurance vis-à-vis insurance provided by the employer. 5. Unemployment, wage inequality and business cycle. Allowing for aggregate productivity shocks in a search-matching model with worker heterogeneity can explain the unemployment volatility puzzle and the effect of business cycles on the wage distribution. 6. Marriage, search and welfare policy. The intra-household resource allocation process is endogenised in a search model of marriage.

Keywords: wage dynamics,search-matching,policy evaluation