Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Lean Development – new principles for innovation management and a more time and cost efficient development of novel products (LEAP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland,Liechtenstein,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 913061.0
EU funding (EUR): 913061.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

How to stay competitive by innovating and by developing new products and technologies is a central question to almost every industry in Europe, which today faces a growing globalization and rising market competition. With the proposed IAPP we shed light on new principles for innovation management and new product development. The principles are based on the concept of lean management, which has its roots in the Japanese Automotive industry (i.e., at Toyota) and which has been applied successfully in worldwide, especially in the area of production and manufacturing. By deploying lean management to product development, we close a relevant research gap and satisfy industry requirements. At the same time we contribute significantly to a substantial strengthening of Europe`s product development capabilities. In particular by researching and developing the concept "lean development" we derive novel management guidelines as principles which provide an integrated conceptual basis for a more time and cost efficient new product development (NPD). Questions we answer are: "How can we develop products more efficient by applying lean principles?" and "How may lean development be implemented in Europe?" The proposed IAPP illuminates these and other related questions by an intense TOK between four highly committed firms from different European countries (one is an SME), the ETH as a very capable and knowledgeable research institution, and an external (recruited) researcher who is very committed to the project and who is very experienced in the lean principles and the Japanese working culture on the one hand and product development on the other hand. Moreover, by conducting the method of experimental research we develop principles for lean development which are applicable, yet theoretically founded. Thus industry and academia benefit from each other highly.

Keywords: social sciences,management of new product development,lean management,lean development,lean innovation
Indoor radio network PLANning and optimisation (IPLAN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2175089.0
EU funding (EUR): 2175089.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

It is estimated that 2/3 of the calls (voice services) and 90% of data services (e.g., Internet access) using wireless technologies take place indoors. How to plan and design good indoor radio networks has become a paramount issue. However, the vast majority of the work on Radio Access Network (RAN) Planning and Optimisation (P&O) has been done for outdoor rather than indoor. As a result, there lack good indoor RAN P&O tools. In this project, indoor radio network P&O methods and tools will be developed. The tools will provide some 20-30% performance improvements, reduce power usage and radio wave pollutions (thus reduce the health concerns) of indoor radio systems, and improve information security (due to the reduction of signal leakage). The objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Research and develop fast and accurate radio propagation models that can be used for indoor radio network planning and optimisation. 2. Investigate various issues arising from the use of femtocells, for example, the study of interference between femtocells, between femto and outdoor macrocells. 3. Investigate how to effectively reduce power usage and radio wave pollutions in indoor environment. 4. Develop an automatic indoor radio network planning and optimisation tool suite that will fill the gap in the indoor RAN P&O market. Achievement of these objectives will lead to fast and accurate indoor radio propagation models and advanced indoor radio network P&O tools that can be used to plan and optimise WiFi, UMTS/HSPA/LTE, WiMAX for indoor coverage.

Keywords: radio network,indoor,femtocells,network planning and optimisation,radio network planning tool,broadband technology,radio engineering
Towards Commercialization of Polymeric Ionic Liquids (PIL-TO-MARKET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 490578.0
EU funding (EUR): 490578.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

“PIL-to-Market” Marie Curie IAPP project is composed by a high-tech Small Medium Enterprise (SME) from France named SOLVIONIC engaged in commercialization of ionic liquids materials and technologies and the Research Institute CIDETEC from Spain . The main goal of the project is to forge an alliance between the industrial and academic partner in order to pave the way towards the commercialization of novel polymeric ionic liquid products. This will be mainly accomplished by a join research programme which will be supported by exchange of know-how and experience through secondments of research staff of the participants, by recruiting experienced researchers and networking events. The ambitious goal behind the project “Towards the Commercialization of Polymeric Ionic Liquids” needs from the expertises and complementarities of both partners, the basic science related to the synthesis and characterization of polymeric ionic liquids and the scale-up and commercialization expertise of new ionic liquid products. The projects fits within the Marie Curie Schema by fostering dynamic pathways between public research organisations and private commercial enterprises, in particular SMEs. PIL-to-MARKET will benefit both the participating institutions and the career prospects of the seconded and recruited fellows and the European society in general by improving the competitiveness of our industrial and academic institutions.

Keywords: physical sciences,macromolecular chemistry,applied chemistry
European-South African Partnership in Nutrition Research (ESAP-NUTRES)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187200.0
EU funding (EUR): 187200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ESAP-Nutres is a collaboration between the Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, the Netherlands (P1), the Eidgenossische Technische Hochshule (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland (P2), and the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa (P3). The overall aim is to build up and extend long lasting collaboration between partners as a basis for investigating the causes, consequences and solutions of malnutrition in developing countries. Apart from nutrient inadequacy, this also includes the prevention of obesity and related disorders since prevalence is increasing rapidly in developing countries. A solid basis for long lasting collaboration is already present in the form of two joint PhD projects that are in the starting up phase, involving each of the partners to a certain extent. The proposed exchange programme is focused on researchers that are at the begining of their carreers and includes PhD students as well as postdocs, with ample support from senior staff. The expertise of the three partners is highly complementary, and the synergism lies in a combination of expertise on nutrient bioavailability (P1, P2), nutrient interactions (P2, P3) nutrient-gene interactions and epigenetics (P1, P3). This will result in exploiting the effects of malnutrition both at the functional and at the physiological level, making use of state-to-the-art nutrigenomic tools. The exchange programme will enable the two European partners to strengthen their leading role in international nutrition research focused on finding sustainable solutions for malnutrition in developing countries. It will also support the South African partner to continue its development in a regional leading research and educational institute in nutrition science, thereby having a large impact in Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole.

Keywords: health sciences,nutrition related disorders,nutritional sciences
USE OF NANOMATERIALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS (NANO-ENAG)

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
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 46800.0
EU funding (EUR): 46800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the joint research programme is to study nanomaterials for environmental and agricultural applications. The global objectives of this project will be: 1. to synthesize and characterize low cost nanomaterials such as layered double hydroxides (LDHs) or fine grained poorly crystalline Fe-Al or Fe-Mn oxides. These nanomaterials will be used in native form and complexed with an organic matrix, named polymerin, recovered from olive mill wastewaters (OMW); 2. to study the behavior of nanomaterials for retention of pesticides and biophenols and to develop slow-release formulations of these chemicals, with particular emphasis on assessing their bioavailability; 3. to totally detoxify OMW through fractionation on nanomaterials.

Keywords: nanomaterials,ldh,pesticides,biophenols,olive mill wastewaters
The interrelation of Tense, Aspect and Modality with Evidentiality in Australian Aboriginal languages (TAMEAL)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 82800.0
EU funding (EUR): 82800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present research project focuses on the relationship between tense/aspect and modality with evidentiality in Australian Aboriginal languages. These languages are good candidates for such a study, for they possess tense-aspect markers with both modal and evidential uses, as well as fully grammatical evidentials. From a purely theoretical point of view, tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality (TAME henceforth) are known to form a semantic cluster with deep-running synchronic and typological connections. Thus many so-called tense-aspect markers exhibit evidential readings, and vice-versa, evidential markers are often derived from tense-aspect markers (Aikhenvald 2004). Recent works (e.g. Faller 2004, 2006, Chung 2007...) have highlighted the necessity of proposing a complex theoretical (and formal) approach to evidentiality, and have started trying to integrate evidentiality and tense-aspect within a unified theoretical framework, comprising an explicit semantics/pragmatics interface. Indeed, TAME markers often associate a semantic with a pragmatic contribution; some have been identified as illocutionary force-level items. In addition, evidentiality and modality are known to be 'sister' categories, overlapping to some extent. Current research on modal items is increasingly focusing on an integrated theory of modality and tense/aspect (cf. Arregui 2007, Ippolito 2006, Kaufmann 2005); this makes it all the more desirable and fruitful to propose an integrated account of tense/aspect, modality and evidentiality, which would help us delineate and articulate better these four connected yet distinct categories. It is our goal to bring together specialists of the different subfields at stake (tense/aspect, modality, evidentiality, Aboriginal linguistics), to turn what is today a merely emerging theoretical convergence into an in depth, large scale unified theory, developed from a rich, and – sadly – endangered empirical object: Australian Aboriginal languages.

Keywords: social sciences,linguistics,formal linguistics,semantics,pragmatics,australian aboriginal languages,tense,aspect,modality,evidentiality
Constructive Mathematics: Proof and Computation (CONSTRUMATH)

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
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 57600.0
EU funding (EUR): 57600.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed programme focusses on constructive analysis, algebra and topology, the extraction and implementation of programs from formal proofs, and constructive reverse mathematics. Through a network of three European and two third-country institutes, all of them among the leading groups in the relevant research, we aim at facilitating the interplay between the above branches of constructive mathematics, which range from the foundations of mathematics to real-world applications in computer science.

Keywords: constructive analysis,constructive algebra,constructive topology,constructive reverse mathematics,program extraction from formal proofs
CROss-DIsciplinary knowledge transfer for improved Natural hazard ASsessment (CRODINAS)

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
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 55800.0
EU funding (EUR): 55800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The assessment of natural hazards is of the uttermost importance but because of its multidisciplinary rarely manages to incorporate all the relevant strands of evidence. Several mathematical formalisms have been proposed (including for instance Bayesian Belief Networks and Event trees) but the problem of "filling" these formalisms with data, knowledge and especially of fully taking into account the "human dimension" of the necessary multidisciplinarity remains widely open. In order to tackle this problem we propose a three-way staff exchange program between the University of Udine, Italy, the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain, and St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Over the last years these three institutions have been collaborating on topics related to natural hazard assessment. The University of Udine has a long record of joint work with the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid mainly devoted to volcanic hazard, but site effects, and the corresponding risk assessment, are assuming growing importance in the collaboration. Lately, a new formalism for risk assessment, based on both logical and probabilistic inference, has emerged as a result of collaboration between St. Petersburg State University and the University of Udine. This formalism is a step ahead from Bayesian Belief Networks, and is currently one of the major advances in probabilistic risk assessment. The staff exchange program should empower our mutual collaboration and make the ongoing research a success. We plan mutual visits between all participating institutions. Scientifically, we intend to unite the site effects research and geophysical considerations developed in Madrid and Udine with the logical and probabilistic framework developed in St. Petersburg. The three institutions have exceptionally qualified researchers, and their mutual synergies have already been established through a long history of joint publications.

Keywords: natural sciences,risk assessment,site effects,probabilistic approach,bayesian belief network,seismic hazard,event bush
Legume Improvement (LEGIM)

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,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 120600.0
EU funding (EUR): 120600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of this project is to develop a joint training and cutting edge research program based on “state of the-art”, technologies that will strengthen the research partnership between the University of Pretoria-CSIR in South Africa, the Newcastle University, UK and VIB Ghent, Belgium in an area of common research interest, legume improvement, which is of major agronomic importance both in the EU and in Africa. This aim will be achieved through short and longer-term periods of staff exchange between the African and European partners and networking activities between the three institutions. The ultimate goal of this project is to achieve more rapid progress in advancing current knowledge and concepts through combined endeavour leading to joint-author high citation index publications and similar outputs. In this way, we will establish a long-term research cooperation between the three institutions based on active technology and scientific knowledge application and transfer. The scientific aim of the research exchanges is to identify and characterize genes and proteins that control in legume nodule development and senescence under optimal and stress conditions. A comparison of these processes will not only allow us to gain an improved fundamental understanding of nodule biology but also advance current knowledge that can be ultimately be used for the improvement of legume crops in African Agriculture.

Keywords: natural sciences,agricultural sciences,genetic engineering,plant physiology,plant development,environmental biology
dynamical complex systems (DYNEURBRAZ)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 365400.0
EU funding (EUR): 365400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The program exchange concerns researchers in fundamental mathematics. The topic is the study of dynamical systems. Dynamical systems represent the mathematical way to study chaos. One of the sources of inspiration was the strange attractors discovered by meteorologists (the famous "butterfly effect"). This exchange program concerns a large part of the European experts in that topic. As Brazil stands for the strongest country in dynamical systems, the aim of this programme is to allow a deep transfer of knowledge from Brazil to Europe and a long term cooperation between the best European researchers and their highly renown Brazilian pairs. This exchange programme will give each researcher the opportunity to work in groups on their specific topics but also to benefit from knowledge developed in interconnected topics. To this purpose the project has been divided in the following three broad categories : Quasi-periodic dynamics, Hyperbolic dynamics and Bifurcation theory

Keywords: chaos theory,dynamical systems,quasi-periodic dynamics,hyperbolic dynamics,bifurcation theory
Biomimetic sensors as new generation of biotechnological devices for food safety and quality monitoring (BIOMIMIC)

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
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 129600.0
EU funding (EUR): 129600.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the past decade, development of biomimetic ligands have enabled rapid advances as alternative candidates to antibodies in many biotechnology fields. The Research will focus on the development of a new generation of biomimetic sensors for food safety and quality monitoring. The approach of the project will be oriented to test the performances of enzymes or antibodies versus new computationally-designed biomimetic ligands which work by mimicking the biological binding site. In particular it will be tested the performances of new computationally-designed biomimetic ligands which work as mimicking the biological binding site, overcoming the disadvantages of biological materials (unstable, expensive to produce) and matching the continuous trend to reduce the use of animals for the production of biological reagents. Choosing a ligand to achieve some desired structure is still largely a subject of trial and error. The key point of this research will be taking advantage of molecular modelling to obtain candidates with the aim of reducing to orders of magnitude the efforts to obtain specific receptors. These new ligands will be coupled with different transducers used in sensors technology known to give fast, reproducible and sensible analytical responses often in real time. This approach is promising to produce inexpensive biotechnological devices to be used in food safety and quality monitoring by combining the selectivity of biomimetic ligands with abiotic properties such as greater stability in harsh environments, with the powerful properties of biosensing techniques. All important analytical parameters i.e. reproducibility, sensitivity, selectivity, stability, etc, will be studied. first using standards and, after optimization of the protocol, on real samples. As model, typical food target will be used such as xenobiotics.

Keywords: biomimetic sensors,biotechnological devices,food safety and quality monitoring,molecular modeling design,biosensing technique