Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
innovative Systems for Personalised Aircraft Cabin Environment (ISPACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Czechia,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2906887.0
EU funding (EUR): 2058900.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The focus of this proposal is to improve passengers’ comfort and well-being while fulfilling specific human needs in the treated case "living environment in an airplane". To address the individual passenger and her/his needs this will be done in the frame of an individual and innovative seat environment. Thus passengers’ choice with regard to comfort will be increased directly. Therefore, iSPACE will provide concepts and step-change technologies in order to reach a revolution in personalised passenger climate control. The overall aim of iSPACE is to provide aircraft manufacturers and suppliers with know how and innovations to address the individualisation of the cabin environment. This will ultimately provide a step-change in passenger comfort during flight. Furthermore, validated tools for the simulation of individualised cabin environment will be developed. The scientific and technological objectives of iSPACE are to: Develop concepts for individualisation of passenger cabin environment and prove its general feasibility. Develop and prove emerging step-change technologies for individualisation of passenger cabin environment. Provide simulation tools for individualised cabin environment and give recommendations for existing and future commercial aircraft. iSPACE is in line with former projects funded by the EC which investigated the cabin environment with a philosophy on human centred design. So far most of these projects did investigate the current status (HEACE) and/or studied the impact of environmental parameters on the human perception of cabin comfort (FACE, ICE). Recommendations for future technological developments are on the way to be set (ICE). Thus only fields of development have been explored and problems have been identified. One way of addressing these problems technologically is the individualisation of cabin environment. iSPACE follows this track and pushes the vision of individualisation of passenger cabin environment and comfort into reality.

Keywords: passenger comfort and well-being,individualised aircraft cabin environment,personalised climate control,technological concepts at seat level,validated numerical simulation tools
Microbiological Transformation of Anthropogenic Nitrogen in Coastal Environments (MICROTRANCE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 186068.97
EU funding (EUR): 186068.97
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The anthropogenic perturbation of the nitrogen cycle has the potential to change the coupling of fundamental element cycles in aquatic ecosystems. Coastal areas as transition zones between land and sea are directly affected by this due to heavy industrialization, dense human colonization, and massive riverine inputs of artificial reactive nitrogen (Nr). In order to better predict the potential impact of increasing Nr supply on the biogeochemistry and ecology of coastal areas and to evaluate the consequences for the adjacent ocean one need to understand the flux of inorganic and organic nitrogen through the lower food web (bacteria to zooplankton). Biological research on a micrometer scale, however, is often limited by methodological drawbacks like e.g. size independent separation of cells and instant rate measurements. MicroTRANCE wants to overcome these constraints by stable isotope tracer experiments, state-of-the-art cell identification and sorting by Flow Cytometry, and highly sensitive rate measurements using Membrane Induced Mass Spectrometry. The proposed interdisciplinary research will cover eutrophicated as well as pristine coastal habitats and includes advanced lab work. This approach will lead to a better insight into nitrogen transformation processes due to a high functional and cellular resolution. The scientific aim of MicroTRANCE is to study the cascading effects of increasing inorganic nitrogen inputs on the linkage between primary production and the microbial loop with respect to the coupling of the nitrogen cycle with carbon and phosphorous in coastal environments. Thus, MicroTRANCE will help to close gaps in our knowledge regarding the flux of reactive nitrogen as urgently recommended e.g. by the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI). Moreover the proposed research contributes to an integrated coastal policy as recently called by the European Commission (Impact Assessment Summary, Brussels, Oct. 2007).

Keywords: natural sciences,nitrogen cycle,din,coastal,heterotrophy
Implementation of a Transeuropean Knowledge Voucher System (KVOUCHER)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Destination: Coordination of research policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Italy,Finland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Poland,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-COH-2007-2.2-OMC-NET, 2007)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 897833.6
EU funding (EUR): 809104.96
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

KVoucher aims at implementing a transregional Knowledge Voucher System that will facilitate contact making and initiating first projects between SMEs from one region and so called Knowledge Institutes (KIs) from other regions in different countries. A Knowledge Voucher is a coupon that entitles SMEs to receive a certain amount of consultancy or research from knowledge-intensive organisations, so-called Knowledge Institutions (KIs). A company in one region will through a KVoucher get the possibility to “buy competence” and carry out a joint activity with a provider – a KI,– in the other region. The project will reach its overall goal through the achievement of the following specific objectives: • Prepare a standardized methodology and toolkit for the description, analysis and benchmarking of existing voucher systems and apply it to the partner regions • Develop common specifications for a shared transregional voucher system as well as a mechanism to adapt it to any specific EU environments. KVoucher will become integrated with existing systems in partner regions, and will be the foundation for a new system in partner regions that do not have one. • Provide SMEs, Knowledge Institutions and stakeholders with proper tools in order to access, use and maintain a voucher system • Analyse the conditions under which a joint Kvoucher pilot could be carried and prepare an action plan for its implementation • Implement a real-life joint pilot in order to validate the transregional voucher system with some SMEs in each partner region getting a voucher to receive support from KIs located in the remaining partner regions • Design and apply a set of indicators in order to evaluate the performance of the transregional voucher system • Execute the proper dissemination actions in order to create awareness in the partner regions and expand the voucher system beyond the consortium boundaries through the creation of a network of Observers

Keywords: knowledge vouchers,knowledge institutions,smes,knowledge transfer
Global Value Chains as an Emerging Challenge for National and European RTD Policies (GLOVAL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Destination: Coordination of research policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Slovenia,Austria,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Finland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-COH-2007-2.2-OMC-NET, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-02
End date: 2011-11-01
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1015840.0
EU funding (EUR): 871877.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Private enterprises operate increasingly through and within global value chains (GVCs). This affects not only the spatial distribution of production activities. The research strategies of firms are changing too and research linkages are also globalizing, and this change is further reinforced as more and more firms adopt strategies of “open innovation”. As a consequence, firms’ original locations and (national) research partners easily lose importance as the role of global networking partners grows. This has consequences – now, and increasingly in the future we believe – for national research and technological development (RTD) policies in Europe. The impacts of RTD measures are less easily detectable. The gains from RTD executed by or for enterprises are less transparent, more indirect. The benefits of direct (national) public financial RTD support may gravitate to other locations and markets than originally intended or desired. The key question for policy makers in Europe is whether and how RTD support policies can be designed and executed in relation to players in GVCs in order to get a sufficient and best possible return for the public money invested GLOVAL will address this question by examining good policy practice and seeking to offer RTD policymakers practical tools for appraising public RTD investments in cases with a significant GVC dimension.

Keywords: private r&d,global value chains,public rtd support,open innovation,rtd project evaluation,optimal policy mix
Three-dimensional structure of stratified turbulence (3DZZI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165444.54
EU funding (EUR): 165444.54
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A new flow instability, known as zig-zag instability, has been revealed to be at the origin of the spontaneous formation of decoupled horizontal layers in stably stratified fluids (density decreasing along the vertical). Such layered structure is widely observed in the atmosphere and oceans. It governs the vertical transport of pollutants and chemical components and the dissipation of momentum. A critical problem is, for example, the thermal inversion in urban areas that causes the stagnation of pollutants and small particles in the lower part of the atmosphere. The main goal of this research is to investigate the linear and nonlinear evolution of the zig-zag instability in complex stratified flows as previous work has been restricted to prototype flows. This will improve the fundamental understanding of stratified turbulence, a crucial step towards developing accurate parametrization of stratified turbulence in numerical models of the atmosphere and oceans. The research will be carried out through theoretical and numerical studies and with new designed laboratory experiments and measurement techniques which may result in the development of patents with the collaboration of the European industry. This project provides the opportunity to work on a highly interdisciplinary topic at an internationally renowned institution, the Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique at Ecole Polytechnique, offering the possibility to translate research results into academic papers and patents, which can be used in both academic and practitioner contexts. Understanding the dynamics of stratified turbulence will be valuable to improve climate models and to support future predictions in forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change reports.

Keywords: physical sciences,applied mathematics,stratified flows,hydrodynamic instabilities,turbulent flows,buoyancy,atmospheric flow,ocean and atmospheric mixing,stability analysis,numerical simulations
EUROpean network of trans-national collaborative RTD in the field of NANOMEDicine (EURONANOMED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: EURONANOMED (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: France,Spain,Spain,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Spain,Hungary,Israel,Iceland,Latvia,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Sweden,Türkiye,Lithuania,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1529032.8
EU funding (EUR): 1332494.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Nanomedicine is an emerging field with a large potential for developing public welfare and economic growth. Critical issues for bringing up this potential in Europe concern especially the maturity of the economic players and their capability to move effectively innovation from knowledge to industrial technology and to clinical and public health applications. Industrial players need therefore to collaborate closer with scientific partners and with clinicians. The second issue is the ability of companies to establish multidisciplinary networks with the research and the clinician communities, increasing their efforts towards biological preclinical and clinical validations. This will shorten the delay for patients to benefit from the innovation and increase the competitiveness of European actors. Therefore EuroNanoMed targets the creation of a mechanism to support trans-national collaborative RTD projects between academic laboratories, companies, especially SME’s, and clinicians/public health setting, in the field of Nanomedicine, using a bottom up approach. In consequence, EuroNaNoMed will develop coordinated European-wide programmes based on common joint transnational calls and funding. The thematic of these two calls will focus on the strategic research priorities of the European technology platform “Nanomedicine”: diagnostics, targeted delivery and regenerative medicine. EuroNanoMed achieves an effective critical mass: the 19 participating national/regional programmes expect to dedicate significant budget to the calls, approximately 15-20% of the sum of their national/regional Nanomedicine budgets. The Long Term Vision of EuroNanoMed is the design of a European-wide integrated programme with a coordinated funding. Potential scenario for implementation will be suggested.

Keywords: nanomedicine -diagnostics - targeted drug delivery - regenerative medicine
A comparative study of the structural and dynamical forces in orb webs during prey impact and under wind-loading (WEBSTRUCT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171867.63
EU funding (EUR): 171867.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Spider orb webs are semi-permanent records of foraging behaviour making them ideal to examine the interaction of environmental conditions and behavioural decisions. The spider adjusts the detailed geometry of the web to a wide range of factors in order to tune the primary function of the web, prey-capture, while at the same time ensuring its structural integrity. Here I propose to study how orb spiders adapt their webs to the stability of the environment. Spiders that invest more are expected to be better in tuning web structure to match environmental conditions and are expected to show more complex adjustments in web-geometry to unpredictability than low investment spiders. Four goals will be pursued: (i) Comparative examination of the energetic costs of web-building for three ecribellate and one cribellate orb weaver using rather different web-silk integration. The cost of web-building is known to significantly higher than the material costs. (ii) Analysis of the effect of web costs on the adaptability to prey type and (iii) of the effect of web cost on the adaptability to wind-loading and wind predictability. The geometry of the orb and the web-building behaviour are both expected to depend on the predictability of the environment (iv) The use of finite element models in order to analyse prey impacts and wind-loading both as separate and integrated effects. The results are expected to be of considerable interest for both the design of biomimetically inspired light weight structures and the analysis of animal decision making.

Keywords: animal ethology,animal physiology,comparative biomechanics,spider webs,biomimetics
Effectiveness of Central Bank Communication (ECONOMETRICS_CBC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 151391.75
EU funding (EUR): 151391.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project examines and compares the consequences of European Central Bank and Federal Reserve’s decisions and announcements on the whole distribution of financial market expectations about future monetary policy moves. The value added of this study is two-fold. First, we contribute to the rapidly expanding literature on central bank communication by shedding further light on asset price reactions to monetary policy: by looking at the whole distribution of market expectations, we can assess whether central bank communication increases “fundamental” uncertainty and thus whether public announcements are welfare improving or reducing. Moreover, by carrying out a comparative study exercise and comparing two different communication policies, ECB versus Fed, we can draw important normative conclusions on what is the most effective communication policy. Other improvements include the time-series analysis of a full interest rate cycle, the potential better methods to extract risk-neutral PDFs, and the precise assessment of the effects of the ECB’s words, separately from the effects of its deeds, by using tick-by-tick option price data to derive the whole distribution of market expectations. Second, we contribute to the empirical finance literature by analyzing the effects of a new type of news item, specifically the information originating from central bank announcements, rather than scheduled macroeconomic announcements. The effects that we document have relevant implications not only for a better understanding of the monetary policy transmission mechanism, but also for yield curve modeling and for the microstructure of bond markets. The methodologies developed and the results found will be important both for a monetary economics and a finance audience. More generally, many of the findings and prescriptions stemming from this research project could be straightforwardly and directly applied to designing national Governments’ communication policies.

Keywords: monetary economics,financial econometrics,central bank communication,implied risk-neutral pdf,comparative study,ecb and fed,monetary policy and news shocks,ultra-high-frequency option data.
Genomes and Evolution: Systematic Comparative Analysis of Homeobox Genes and their Non-coding Regulators (HOMEOREG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181350.76
EU funding (EUR): 181350.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The evolution of animal morphology is related to the evolution of the genome. In recent years, much research has focused on homeobox genes: a large and diverse group of genes, most of which encode transcription factors utilized in many aspects of embryonic development of animals. Their expression is controlled by non-coding regulators, DNA sequences that affect expression at the transcriptional (e.g. cis-regulators) or post-transcriptional (e.g. microRNA) level. Comparative genome analysis has showed that many (but not all) homeobox genes are widely conserved between evolutionarily divergent animal groups, while some non-coding regulators are also conserved but often over shorter time periods. Complicating these comparisons are many gene duplication events, gene losses, and varying rates of sequence change. Rarely has there been a systematic comparison allowing these data to be related to animal evolution. I have recently constructed a web-based platform ¨HomeoDB¨ that presents a robust evolutionary classification of animal homeobox genes facilitating comparison of those genes between animals. In its first release, HomeoDB includes all homeobox genes from human, amphioxus and fruitfly: over 500 genes in total. In recent years there has been a great expansion in genome sequence data, and many more animal species are having genomes sequenced. This gives a timely and unique opportunity to expand HomeoDB with data from additional species, additional elements, and additional functionality. In this project, I will carry out a systematic analysis of homeobox genes and their non-coding regulators, throughout the major branches of animal evolution. This will involve both lab-based experiments and bioinformatic analysis, coupled with expansion of the data depository and comprehensive functionality of HomeoDB. The outcome will be new insights into the relation between genome evolution and animal diversity, plus a resource of wider benefit to the scientific community.

Keywords: genomics,biodiversity,animal morphology,developmental biology,molecular evolution,evolutionary biology,phylogeny