Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
CLUstering phenomeNA in nuclear physics: strengthening of the Zagreb-Catania-Birmingham partnership (CLUNA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Brokerage facility for partners search
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Croatia,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 412834.4
EU funding (EUR): 370000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Experimental nuclear physics is one of the top research activities at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), the largest Croatian research center in science and applications. The RBI nuclear physics group has strong link with the research group at the University of Zagreb (UoZ). RBI scientists perform experiments at the RBI Tandem accelerator facility and at the top EU experimental facilities in collaboration with the prominent EU research groups in the field, including partners from the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud INFN (INFN-LNS), Catania, Italy and the Nuclear Physics Group from the University of Birmingham (UoB), UK. With this project we propose to strengthen scientific relationships, the exchange of know-how and sharing of experience between RBI, UoZ, INFN-LNS and UoB partners in the research field of our mutual interest, focusing on the studies of nuclear molecules and other areas at the forefront of research for new phenomena in nuclear physics. This will be achieved by: (i) reinforcement of RBI experimental capabilities through the upgrade of the local experimental facility, (ii) exchange of personnel between partner institutions, hiring and training of young staff at accelerator facilities, (iii) organization of workshops. Upgraded research infrastructure for low energy measurements at RBI and complementary facility at INFN-LNS for intermediate energy measurements through this partnership would increase research opportunities for even broader European experimental nuclear physics community.

Keywords: nuclear physics research,cluster structure in atomic nuclei,development of research potential,strengthening of collaboration
Nanoscale Magnetization Dynamics (NOMAD)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1517779.0
EU funding (EUR): 1517779.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of NOMAD is to develop frontier approaches to control the magnetodynamic properties of nanometer-sized molecular and metallic elements. The first part of the project recognizes the importance of molecular materials for future technologies based on magnetoelectronic devices. It addresses the stabilization of the magnetic moment of individual molecules beyond their intrinsic limits (slow timescale). Moreover, the construction of spin-sensitive probes with spatial atomic-resolution and a dynamic range extending up to the GHz regime is proposed. These shall be used to characterize magnetodynamic phenomena of individual molecules and metal particles in a nanoscopic environment (fast timescale). The second part relates to the control of magnetic relaxation and coercivity in nanoscale metallic particles. Electric-field manipulation of ferromagnetism has been proven in dilute magnetic semiconductors at temperatures below 50 K. Here, the aim is to demonstrate and optimize electric field-induced changes of the magnetic anisotropy energy in metal layers and nanoparticles embedded in a double tunnel junction, providing a direct or indirect (transition-driven) handle to their magnetic dynamics at room temperature. Metal-based materials constitute the mainstay of present magnetic technology; their electric-field actuation would lead to simpler and power-saving devices that process magnetic information using electrical signals.

Keywords: magnetic nanoparticles,molecular magnetism,electric field control of magnetic properties,magnetic relaxation and switching,stm,xmcd
Time Dependent String Theories and Cosmology (TDSTC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 441116.0
EU funding (EUR): 441116.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Great progress was made in recent years on two different fronts. Experimentally we have improved our understanding of cosmology to the level that we now have a standard model of cosmology. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this model is the realization that most of the energy in the universe is made out of dark matter and dark energy which are not well understood. On the theoretical front string theory has been developed to the level that we now understand many non-perturbative aspects of the theory. This progress offers new ways of making contact between string theory and our four dimensional real world in general and cosmology in particular. The objective of this proposal is to take advantage of this progress and to improve our understanding of string theory in time dependent situations. We are hopeful that such a progress could lead to a {\it precise} realization in string theory of the standard model of cosmology in general, and of dark matter, dark energy and inflation in particular.

Keywords: string theory,inflation
Understanding Cosmic Acceleration: Connecting Theory and Observation (COSMIC ACCELERATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2007-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Cosmic acceleration at early and late times are two of the biggest mysteries confronting cosmologists today. The initial conditions of the Big-Bang are thought to have been set during "inflation", an era of almost exponential expansion in the primordial universe. Inflation also provides a mechanism to generate the primordial fluctuations, anisotropies imprinted into the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation which result in the rich structure of matter today. Current cosmological data are, for the first time, precise enough to allow detailed observational tests of inflationary models. Intriguingly, several independent data sets show that the cosmological expansion may be once again accelerating. These observations lead to the conclusion that the universe is dominated by a negative-pressure component, ``dark energy'', which makes up roughly three-quarters of the cosmological energy density. Theoretical models for the dark energy include Einstein's cosmological constant, a dynamical component, etc. I propose to develop and apply new tools to pin down the precise mechanism of inflation and the nature of dark energy. The methodology is to identify and systematically confront broad classes of models with precision cosmological data and well-motivated theoretical priors. The data will be analysed robustly so that the final constraints do not have significant unknown contributions from imprecise models or systematic errors, and the competing theories will be compared against each other using advanced model-comparison techniques to identify the simplest models that are consistent with the data. The research is certain to improve our understanding of the microphysics of inflation and dark energy if the universe corresponds to the most "minimal" current ideas, but also flexible enough to exploit the data fully if it contains statistically significant hints of more exotic physics.

Keywords: cosmology,astrophysics
Coherent and Incoherent Imaging in Random Media and Applications (CII-RMA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2007-09-01
End date: 2012-11-11
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Wave propagation phenomena concern acoustic, elastic and electromagnetic waves and have a major impact on society because of their numerous applications. The ones concerned by the present proposal are: non-destructive testing, structural monitoring and seismic imaging. Although, imaging problems have been extensively studied by engineers, physicists and mathematicians, only recently the question of cluttered media was addressed in the context of realistic imaging applications. The word clutter is employed to express the uncertainty on the wave speed of the propagation medium, which is modeled through a randomly fluctuating inhomogeneous velocity profile. This proposal describes a research plan on developing statistically stable imaging methodologies for imaging small or extended scatterers embedded in cluttered environments. Building on efficient numerical techniques and imaging methodologies developed in earlier works this project seeks to deepen the understanding of these phenomena and provide numerical tools that permit robust and efficient modeling of the physical experiments.

Keywords: applied mathematics,computational mathematics
Narrative media/cultural interaction as means of preventing adolescent violence and political/religious extremism (MEDIA/ANTI-VIOLENCE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ERG-project draws on the results from a MC-EIF-project Media/Trauma-Therapy, pursuing the question of how the psycho-affective and narrative processes of an individual’s mental interaction with media and literary narratives interrelates with her/is life history, and how the person unwittingly implements media interaction in her/is attempts to process her/is personal experience and tackle biographically determined challenges of individual growth, thus gaining soft skills and capacities of resilience and self-management, and developing sustainable forms of interactional and emotional intelligence. Taking the research methods and results from the MC-EIF into account, the ERG-project aims at developing pedagogical interventions and moduls for cultural social work with various risk populations among European adolescents, in particular with those who are prone to violent behaviour and extremist political and religious ideologies. The interventions aim at activating personal memories about self-experienced events which individuals narratively recall in the context of consuming particular items from media and youth cultures; this will be situated in different group settings of social work with endangered adolescents as is conducted by employer NPO which works in regions mostly of East-Germany serving students of different types of public schools as well as imprisoned adolescents and consulting the professionals who work there. The scientific framework is established by resources of qualitative social studies and media-interaction research, therapy- and psycho-trauma studies, narratology as well as culture studies and pedagogy. The target is to develop and evaluate narrational methods which are appropriate and effective with this kind of population and document the results of the project, and: to establish “narrative media literacy” and “narrative interpersonal skills” as criteria and pedagogical tools of social work with risk populations among European adolescents.

Keywords: qualitative media studies,culture studies,media psychology,media pedagogy,social work,violence prevention,prevention of political and religions extremism,narratology,psycho-trauma studies
Understanding and preventing conflicts: on the causes of social conflicts, and alternative institutional designs for their prevention (PREVENTING_CONFLICTS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1330000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1330000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The research project will use theoretical models and empirical techniques to explore the causes, consequences, and prevention mechanisms of conflicts. The aim is to determine the basic elements that make countries more prone to social conflicts and then identify a set of feasible policies to prevent future episodes of violence. The project considers the causes and the propagation mechanisms of social conflicts of different intensity. The main objective of the project is to the study the institutional designs that may prevent, or mitigate, such social conflicts. Therefore, the analysis of economic institutions (such as property rights, etc.), political institutions and structure (democracy, decentralization, political systems, etc.), and the type of political leaders, that can help to prevent, conflict in potentially conflictive societies. From a methodological perspective, the project proposes to overcome some statistical pitfalls present in most of the previous literature on the determinants of civil wars and conflicts. The use of simple linear regressions, or a probit/logit specification, imposes very strong identification conditions that are likely to be violated. The current consensus, which emerges from those analyses, is that poverty is the single, most important determinant of civil wars. This result could be an artifact of simultaneity problems: the incidence of civil wars and poverty may be driven by the same determinants, some of which are probably missing. We propose to check the robustness of this consensus idea, and the importance of the institutional design, using other econometric procedures (instrumental variables and matching methods) which are subject to weaker identification conditions than the traditional regressions. Finally, we plan to investigate methods to deal with the missing data problem that plague the study of the determinants of civil wars.

Keywords: institutions,economic development,social conflict,ethnic diversity
M- and Z-estimation in semiparametric statistics : applications in various fields (MAZEST)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 750000.0
EU funding (EUR): 750000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The area of semiparametric statistics is, in comparison to the areas of fully parametric or nonparametric statistics, relatively unexplored and still in full development. Semiparametric models offer a valid alternative for purely parametric ones, that are known to be sensitive to incorrect model specification, and completely nonparametric models, which often suffer from lack of precision and power. A drawback of semiparametric models so far is, however, that the development of mathematical properties under these models is often a lot harder than under the other two types of models. The present project tries to solve this difficulty partially, by presenting and applying a general method to prove the asymptotic properties of estimators for a wide spectrum of semiparametric models. The objectives of this project are twofold. On one hand we will apply a general theory developed by Chen, Linton and Van Keilegom (2003) for a class of semiparametric Z-estimation problems, to a number of novel research ideas, coming from a broad range of areas in statistics. On the other hand we will show that some estimation problems are not covered by this theory, we consider a more general class of semiparametric estimators (M-estimators called) and develop a general theory for this class of estimators. This theory will open new horizons for a wide variety of problems in semiparametric statistics. The project requires highly complex mathematical skills and cutting edge results from modern empirical process theory.

Keywords: asymptotic theory,semiparametric statistics,smoothing techniques
WHY DO THEY DIE? DECIPHERING AND QUELLING THE LETHAL CUES OF IMMUNO-INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN SEPSIS. (COMBATING SEPSIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sepsis is a multifaceted disease that remains a serious clinical problem and causes frequent mortality in human patients worldwide. The proposed project addresses the mechanisms and prevention of early mortality in experimental sepsis. To replicate human sepsis, murine models of live Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pyogenes systemic infusion and cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) peritonitis will be used. The project consists of three aims investigating acute immuno-inflammatory signaling triggered by a septic event: Aim I will study the role and modulation of differential genomic expression upon survival/mortality in gram-negative vs. gram-positive systemic sepsis. Based on the retrospective comparison of outcome in CLP sepsis, Aim II will differentiate between the non-lethal and lethal: (1)-gene/protein expression of inflammatory cytokines and (2)-changes in neurotransmitter fluctuations in different brain regions. Aim III will employ the novel strategy of prospective outcome-based stratification and investigate the effectiveness/mechanism of immuno-modulative anti-inflammatory therapy upon survival in mice predicted to die of acute CLP-induced polymicrobial peritonitis. There is an urgent need for treatments improving outcomes in sepsis and a rise of a new effective, individual patient-based therapy against sepsis is contingent upon exhaustive understanding of its immuno-inflammatory fingerprints. Successful accomplishment of the projected study will contribute to this effort.

Keywords: health sciences,sepsis,inflammation,sirs,genomic expression,targetted treatment,mouse sepsis models
STRENGTHENING OF RESEARCH CAPACITY FOR POPLAR AND WILLOW MULTIPURPOSE PLANTATION GROWING IN SERBIA (STREPOW)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Brokerage facility for partners search
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Slovenia,Italy,Hungary,Hungary,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 550348.89
EU funding (EUR): 499994.96
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to strenghten the capacities of researchers to successfully participate in research activities at EU level, reinforcement research infrastructure of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, so that it could become the Center of Excellence in the region of Western Balkan Countries for growing of multi purpose poplar and willow plantations in Serbia, aiming at the production of biomass for energy and the phytoremediation of the contaminated sites by: Sustainable partnership and networking partners from EU countries; sending scientists for short stay in Networking partner institutions to carry out a specific research experiment related to poplar and willow plantations and the production of biomass, and application of these plantations for the phytoremediation of the damaged land and water, and also the preparation of the cooperative activities or joint RTD proposals; hosting the scientist from Networkin partners to organise the training for the researchers of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment; by the improvement of human potential - employment of two young researchers who will direct their activities to the growing of multi-purpose poplar and willow plantations in Serbia; by the acquisition of the laboratory equipment. The exchange and the dissemination of multiannual research results between the institutions, and especially the transfer by EU Networking partners enables and supports the research capacity reinforcement of the Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment what will have significant effect on the increase of area and the more efficacious establishment of Short rotation plantation in Western Balkan Countries on the less productive agricultural and contaminated soils.

Keywords: energy plantations,phytoremediation,agroforesty