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pSafety Certification of Software-intensive Systems with Reusable Components (PSAFECER)

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: Sweden,Austria,Austria,Spain,Spain,France,France,France,Italy,Italy,Latvia,Sweden,Sweden,Latvia,Sweden
Call:  (ARTEMIS-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10419107.99
EU funding (EUR): 1739991.03
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

The competitive edge of the European industry in the embedded systems domain is an enabler to achieve a leading position in the growing global market of safety-relevant embedded systems. The main success factors in this context will be the ability to understand the key reasons for the huge increase in cost and development time, and to adopt efficient methods and processes for development of these safety-relevant embedded systems. Also, increased requirements for certification from legislation, together with the perceived trend towards 'product-oriented' standards (from 'process-oriented' ones), demand fundamental paradigm shifts in the certification perspectives. pSafeCer is targeting increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market by composable safety certification of safety-relevant embedded systems. The industrial domains targeted are within automotive and construction equipment, avionics, and rail. pSafeCer will also develop certification guidelines and a training example for other domains, thus considerably increasing its market impact. A primary objective is to provide support for system safety arguments based on arguments and properties of system components as well as to provide support for generation of corresponding evidence in a similar compositional way. By providing support for efficient reuse of certification and stronger links between certification and development, component reuse will be facilitated, and by providing support for reuse across domains the amount of components available for reuse will increase dramatically. The resulting efficiency and reduced time to market will, together with increased quality and reduced risk, increase competitiveness and pave the way for a cross-domain market for software components qualified for certification. pSafeCer brings together leading companies and SMEs across Europe (including OEMs, technology, tool, and competence providers, as well as certification and standardisation experts), which together with selected universities and research institutes are capable and motivated to realize the pSafeCer objectives.

Keywords: safety certification,embedded architecture,safety critical embedded systems,model based development,software intensive systems,reusable software components
Carbon Nanotubes Technologies in Pulsed Fibre Lasers for Telecom and Sensing Applications (TELASENS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 201400.0
EU funding (EUR): 201400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes (CNT), quantum dots, nanowires, are prime candidates as building blocks in nanotechnology, because they assemble themselves and have a combination of unique electronic, optical, thermal and mechanical properties. The optical properties of nanomaterials mainly depend on their size and shapes and can be optimized in a very broad spectral range. Importantly, such materials can display the resonant optical nonlinearities useful for generation of ultrashort pulse lasers, pulse shaping applications and noise suppression. Our goal is to create an ambitious research exchange program, with a strong interdisciplinary nature, crossing materials engineering, physics, chemistry and soft matter sciences to achieve a major breakthrough in the understanding of the optical properties of nanomaterials. This knowledge will be useful for development of efficient nonlinear optical (NLO) devices, using novel speciality fibres and waveguides. The final target of the program is implementation of a NLO device in fibre lasers in order to achieve ultrashort pulse generation in the optical range important for telecommunication, environmental and biological sensing. The exchange program will benefit from participation of leading experts in nanomaterials, optical spectroscopy, computation chemistry, fibre optics and lasers from both EU and Partner countries. Therefore it will be a very attractive and useful opportunity for training of early stage researchers.

Keywords: telecommunications engineering,optical fibre,lasers,nanocomposite
Emotional learning and extinction: integration of central and peripheral neural correlates. (EMOLEARN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 121800.0
EU funding (EUR): 100800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

With a life-time prevalence of 25%, anxiety disorders are the most frequent psychiatric disorders and alone accounted for 147 billion Euros EU health care costs in 2004. The aim of this Marie Curie collaborative research project is to combine and share scientific expertise and shed more light on the dysfunctional neurocircuitry of anxiety disorders. Our current understanding has largely benefited from research on fear and fear learning. Indeed, it has been proposed that disturbed prefrontal cortex (PFC) functions as consequence upon a hyperresponsive amygdala (bottom-up) or/and a lack of PFC-amygdala top-down control are main reasons for affective disorders. In the present project we plan to further identify and disentangle underlying structures and temporal dynamics of both mechanisms using the integration of peripheral and central psychophysiological measures that allow for a millisecond resolution. Firstly, we will concentrate on the role of the PFC in early sensory processing of fear-relevant stimuli using an implicit fear learning paradigm. We propose that the PFC does not only play a part in late, but also in very early modulation of the neuronal fear response. Secondly, we will study how contingency awareness influences the strength of the CS-UCS association in fear conditioning. Using an explicit learning paradigm, both psychophysiological and neuronal correlates of fear learning will be investigated. At last, we will explore the biological basis of extinction learning and reappraisal, two approaches that play a major role in cognitive-behavioral therapy of anxiety disorders. We will study correlates of these processes in implicit and explicit learning tasks in order to study short- and long-term effects of therapeutic interventions. The basic hypothesis is that apart from an impaired top-down control also alterations in bottom-up affective regulation are important for the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders and a successful therapy thereof.

Keywords: health sciences,neurosciences,neurophysiology,neuropsychology
Enhancing Scanning Ion-Selective Electrode Technique (SISET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 238800.0
EU funding (EUR): 238800.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The SISET joint exchange programme aims to establish long-term research cooperation between Portuguese, Belgian, Belarusian and Chinese scientists in the field of instrumental techniques for corrosion science. Collaboration brings together the experts from conventional and localized electro analytical techniques, electro chemical modeling, corrosion science and protective coatings in order to develop new experimental protocols for studying corrosion and healing processes on a micro scale. The work programme intends to synergistically unite the existing localized electro analytical techniques via realization of new ideas allowing their simultaneous use. Combination of two or even three localized techniques dramatically increases the value of data acquired by each of them since all numerical parameters are collected without considerable time lag and therefore can be unconditionally used as the input parameters for modeling and simulation. For example, SVET-SIET measurements performed simultaneously correlate information about two essential components of corrosion processes: electrochemical oxidation-reduction equilibriums with acid-base chemical interactions, dramatically improving the understanding and prediction of corrosion processes. In view of indicated project objectives, no high financial investment is required since the individual techniques are well developed and the research activities at the partner institutions are already in progress. To achieve the goals, complementary combination of the existing expertise and groundwork is needed. Mutually beneficial transfer of knowledge will be implemented through an intensive exchange program between five partner organizations.

Keywords: analytical chemistry,instrumental techniques,localized techniques,sensors,corrosion
Developing Multidomain MEMS Models for Educational Purposes (EDUMEMS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland,Poland,Belgium,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 279300.0
EU funding (EUR): 279300.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) represents a modern field in engineering with a significant impact on industrial applications. By combining together electrical, mechanical, thermal and optical elements, MEMS revolutionize the market of sensors and actuators. Clearly, each discipline mentioned above is a long-established and thoroughly researched field. However, there are still many MEMS phenomena left to be explored. The reason is twofold: - MEMS are fabricated in the micrometer scale and microscale-related phenomena have not yet been fully researched - MEMS allow merging many disciplines together and, therefore, mutual dependencies in the microscale between previously unrelated domains are created. Thus, it leads to appearing new research areas when two or more domains meet. The complexity, multi-domain character and diversity of MEMS devices require the designers to specialize in several interdisciplinary domains in order to create a successful design. Currently, there are many research groups across Europe involved in one particular discipline. However, only few of them may have researchers specializing in all of them, which may limit or even impede MEMS research in Europe. Therefore, the primary objective of the project is to combine efforts of European research teams for the purpose of forming an international interdisciplinary group working on a project of a MEMS device (EduMEMS), which incorporates multi-domain phenomena. Each partner involved in the project specializes in at least one research field related to MEMS. The researchers from each domain will be sent to other partners to work on the project and organize courses and lectures related to their specialization. Each partner will then gain knowledge about the domain, which previously he has not specialized in. As a result, each partner should expand their narrowly-specialized research to other disciplines and become capable of performing multi-domain MEMS research independently.

Keywords: electrical engineering,electromechanical engineering,thermal engineering,microsystems
Product-Service System across Life Cycle (PROSSALIC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Israel,Denmark,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239400.0
EU funding (EUR): 210000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, customers’ purchase habits have changed: they do not buy more goods or services in the traditional sense, perceiving them as two separated entities. They rather look for a solution, whose value encompasses many intertwined components, some of them being services and some being goods. In this context, the Product-Service System (PSS) concept finds its root. The servitization process of a product manufacturer into a provider of a PSS still constitutes a major managerial challenge. This challenge is based on a new kind of solution, which considers the continuum between services and products, where services represent a key element for gaining competitiveness. Theoretical and practical experiences show that servitization pushes organisations to change their strategies, operations and value chain, technologies, people expertise and system integration capabilities. As a consequence, different competences are requested to be analysed to have a complete vision of the PSS phenomenon. An international interdisciplinary working group is important to fulfil the need to provide a complete vision of the PSS. Due to the vastness of the area, it is relevant to bring together, in the context of a collaborative scheme of research exchanges, the reciprocal knowledge of the partners. The project proposal links 10 members: 4 EU, 2 AC, and 4 third country partners, which have agreed for a common exchange program on the analysis of the “Product-Service System across Life Cycle”. The exchange program aims to facilitate the deployment of a collaborative scheme focused on the exchange of the knowledge required to develop new models/methods/ICT tools to support the PSS across all its Life Cycle phases. Each member provides complementary knowledge on the field. The project will concern the exchange of a set of various activities of PhD students, researchers and professors. The planned exchange scheme will enable the reciprocal transfer of knowledge between the members.

Keywords: product-service system,life cycle,servitization,pss operations management,pss marketing,pss it,pss engineering
Inflammatory Bowel Disease: an EU-NZ integrated approach for characterizing its molecular multifactorial mechanisms (REINFORCE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Austria,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 536300.0
EU funding (EUR): 344400.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Over the past 20 years there has been a dramatic rise in the incidence of Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), both in EU and NZ. IBD refers primarily to two major disorders such as ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), chronic conditions characterized by inflammatory lesions involving gut mucosa. CD is also an emerging problem amongst children. Etiology of IBD is still unknown, however several studies demonstrate multifactorial mechanisms contributing to its pathogenesis (i.e. immunoregulatory defects, genetic mutations, dysbiosis of commensal enteric microbiota, alterations in mucosal permeability, alimentary factors). The complexity of these factors makes necessary for a researcher to acquire the widest spectrum of advanced techniques enabling the deeper understanding of IBD onset and recurrence and developing useful therapeutic strategies. Both Eu and NZ have significantly contribute to IBD research advances, by developing outstanding research expertise and being equipped with the most advance methodological tools. REINFORCE consortium is a multidisciplinary scientific network, in which each partner is a leader in IBD mechanisms. The high level of synergies within REINFORCE consortium, highlighting the cross-talk among different disciplines, will provide a multidisciplinary training for EU and NZ researchers. This joint exchange programme represents a unique opportunity to lead to a high degree of novelty in IBD training by allowing to build up a new profile of researcher able to tackle the different aspects of IBD. REINFORCE has settled down a series of specific and technical objectives which will guarantee the ESRs and ERs to be provided with training tools ensuring the use of the most advanced molecular and cellular techniques. Training modules will concern: (i) IBD Modulation of Immune response, (ii) IBD Characterization and modulation of gut microbiota, (iii) IBD intestinal epithelial barrier, (iv) Nutrition and genetics on IBD.

Keywords: health sciences,inflammatory bowel disease,ibd holistic approach,intestinal mucosa,immune response,gut microbiota,nutrition,genetics
A Unified Model of Induction (UNIIND)

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
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 240000.0
EU funding (EUR): 240000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

In a recent paper with Larry Samuelson and David Schmeidler, we have proposed a model of inductive learning that unifies Bayesian, case-based, and rule-based learning. The model allows one to study the dynamics of induction, and, in particular, it showed that under fairly reasonable conditions, a reasoner who does not know the process she is facing is likely to converge to put more weight on case-based reasoning viz. a viz. Bayesian reasoning. The present proposal aims to generalize and extend this project in several directions. First, we intend to develop a decision theory under uncertainty that would accompany it, thereby unifying several existing decision theories and studying the dynamics of their relative importance in determining people's mode of decision making under uncertainty. Second, we intend to extend the present model, which is akin to representation of information by a capacity, to a multiple-capacity model, bringing together ideas from the multiple-prior model with the capacity model, and examining the implications of such a model to decision making. Third, we wish to study the origin of counterfactuals and their usage, based on a variant of the basic model, and to study their implications to game theoretic analysis. Fourth, we plan to study the dynamics of case-based vs. rule-based reasoning, as determined endogenously by the accumulation of data, and to extend our empirical similarity approach to this set-up.

Keywords: bayesian,case-based,rule-based,learning,induction
The Evolutionary Origins of Agriculture (EOA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Advanced Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999388.4
EU funding (EUR): 1999388.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The transition from a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of settled agriculture is arguably the most fundamental change in human development since the origin of the human species, and the major question is why hunter-gatherer populations abandoned this way of life in favour of an agricultural existence. A crucial element in this change is the evolution of the crops upon which agriculture is founded. This proposal seeks to understand the selective pressures driving the this evolution through an investigation of the key phenotypic traits associated with crop domestication, providing insights into the ways in which plants were changed by human exploitation, as well as non-human environmental factors. This research programme brings together experimental ecology, molecular biology, and archaeobotany to address the three key elements for understanding the selective pressures acting on early crop evolution: (1) the relationship between human and environmental pressures and plant ecological characteristics, (2) early genetic trait selection in crop plants, and (3) the temporal and spatial location of trait selection. DNA methods will be developed for establishing the order in which traits were selected during domestication, and experimental ecology will investigate the reasons behind plant trait selection, for example whether through conscious selection for increased seed size or unconscious selection for associated traits related to the competitive ability. Improved morphometric measurement of archaeobotanical material will permit precise pinpointing of the appearance of domestication traits, and so identify the primary selective pressures driving the evolution of crop plants in different time periods and geographic locations. We will take advantage of recently developed methods to open up new areas of investigation for future research into both the origins and subsequent development of agriculture, and its role in the emergence and maintenance of civilisation.

Keywords: archaeobotany,functional ecology,molecular biology