Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Ultrafast Hyperpolarized NMR and MRI in Multiple Dimensions (ULTRANMR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2009-AdG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499780.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499780.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (nD NMR) plays a unique role in Science as a primary tool for the characterization of biomolecules, as part of drug-discovery processes, and in clinical imaging (MRI). Further progress in NMR is hampered by this spectroscopy s low sensitivity, arising from the weak interactions that it involves. The prospects of solving this problem by continuing with incremental bigger machines approaches are poor, given the high maturity reached by existing technologies. The present Project deals with this issue by departing from traditional concepts, and relying on two incipient but highly promising developments in the field. One of these pertains ex situ dynamic nuclear hyperpolarization, an approach capable of eliciting liquid state NMR signals that surpass those afforded by the highest-field spectrometers by factors e10,000. While capable of providing super-signals hyperpolarization has the drawback of involving irreversible changes in the physical state of the sample. This makes it incompatible with nD NMR technologies, requiring the collection of multiple scans identical to one another except for systematic delay variations. As second component in this high-risk/high-gain Project we propose merging hyperpolarization with &quot;ultrafast&quot; methods that we have recently developed for completing arbitrary nD NMR/MRI acquisitions within a single scan. The resulting synergy could increase sensitivity by orders of magnitude, while demanding negligibly small amounts of spectrometer/scanner time to complete nD acquisitions. This should provide an ideal starting point for the analysis of a variety of organic and structural biology problems, and provide new tools to explore in vivo metabolism focusing on cancer biomarkers.

Keywords: nuclear magnetic resonance,spin hyperpolarization,magnetic resonance imaging,multidimensional spectroscopy
EU-China Cooperation for Liquid Fuels from Biomass Pyrolysis (ECOFUEL)

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,Finland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 747000.0
EU funding (EUR): 617400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

ECOFUEL will develop an EU-China network for biofuel research by uniting activities among 2 top EU universities, 1 very best Chinese university and 1 leading research institute from Chinese Academy of Sciences. 51 researchers will be exchanged and trained with latest techniques covering the complete cycle of biomass fast pyrolysis research from fundamental kinetics, process design, modelling and scale-up, to bio-oil characterisation and upgrading. ECOFUEL will set the foundation stones for long-term strategic collaboration between EU and China to confront the challenges of climate change and sustainable development.

Keywords: biomass,biofuel,fast pyrolysis,biorefinery,thermal conversions
New analytical and numerical methods in wave propagation (NUMERIWAVES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2009-AdG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1662999.8
EU funding (EUR): 1662999.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is aimed at performing a systematic analysis, providing a real breakthough, of the combined effect of wave propagation and numerical discretizations, in order to help in the development of efficient numerical methods mimicking the qualitative properties of continuous waves. This is an important issue for its many applications: irrigation channels, flexible multi-structures, aeronautic optimal design, acoustic noise reduction, electromagnetism, water waves, nonlinear optics, nanomechanics, etc. The superposition of the present state of the art in Partial Differential Equations (PDE) and Numerical Analysis is insufficient to understand the spurious high frequency numerical solutions that the interaction of wave propagation and numerical discretizations generates. There are some fundamental questions, as, for instance, dispersive properties, unique continuation, control and inverse problems, which are by now well understood in the context of PDE through the celebrated Strichartz and Carleman inequalities, but which are unsolved and badly understood for numerical approximation schemes. The aim of this project is to systematically address some of these issues, developing new analytical and numerical tools, which require new significant developments, much beyond the frontiers of classical numerical analysis, to incorporate ideas and tools from Microlocal and Harmonic Analysis. The research to be developed in this project will provide new analytical tools and numerical schemes. Simultaneously, it will contribute to significant progress in some applied fields in which the issues under consideration play a key role. In parallel with the analytical and numerical analysis of these problems, a mathematical simulation platform will be set to perform computer simulations and explore and visualize some of the most relevant and complex phenomena.
WEB to Energy (W2E)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Austria,Switzerland,Germany,Poland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4652903.0
EU funding (EUR): 2889139.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The unbundling of the energy market requires new business models and new integrating technologies to optimize the economy of the whole value chain. To realize the Europe-wide electricity network of the future, a crucial ingredient is an open, universally accessible and standardized ICT communication infrastructure. All market participants shall be provided with required information without discrimination. The project WEB to Energy (W2E) aims to develop this open, universally accessible and standardized ICT communication infrastructure. The key idea is the consistent, homogeneous and uniform application of globally accepted IEC standards, specifically for Communication protocols (IEC 61850), ICT network security (IEC TS 62351) and Database management using CIM (IEC 61968). The W2E project develops the interfaces between all three levels and in this way opens “plug and play” and interoperability capabilities. W2E thus provides a seamless approach to standardisation from the process level, through the ICT infrastructure up to the control centre level. Field tests will provide and demonstrate the 3 pillars: 1. Customer integration: improved efficiency of energy production, to achieve energy savings and reduce peak power demand, for lower system costs and improved embedding of renewable energy resources 2. Active distribution networks: flexible and reconfigurable aggregation and management of distributed secure and unsecure (fluctuating) power sources, storage and controllable loads in virtual power plants, to reach an optimum combination of environmental protection and economical value 3. Self-healing capabilities for the distribution networks based on ICT-enabled response and thus automated fault elimination in MV feeders to increase the reliability of supply Results will be brought into IEC standardization. Industrial companies in W2E will commercialise the results, including deployment in their whole supply area.

Keywords: implementation,validation via demonstration,three pillars of smart distribution systems,customer integration,active distribution networks,self-healing distribution network
Aberrant ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis in oncogenesis (DGIRG)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ubiquitin-proteasome system controls molecular networks that underlie fundamental cellular functions such as DNA replication, DNA repair, transcription, protein synthesis, cell differentiation and apoptosis. A large body of experimental and clinical data indicates that defects in the ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation are intimately linked with cancer pathogenesis. The main objective of our research is the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms by which deregulated function of SCF ubiquitin ligases contribute to oncogenesis. To achieve our goal we propose the following aims: Aim 1. To identify novel substrates for SCF ubiquitin ligases that have been shown to play roles in tumorigenesis. Aim 2. To identify ubiquitin ligases for tumor suppressor proteins and proto-oncoproteins that are targeted by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Aim 3. To determine the contribution of defective SCF-mediated degradation to cancer.

Keywords: cancer biology,ubiquitin,cell cycle,ubiquitin ligase
European Particle physics Latin American NETwork (EPLANET)

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,France,Portugal,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3245400.0
EU funding (EUR): 3245400.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The High Energy Physics (HEP) European scientific community has developed cutting-edge, large-scale facilities that make it a world leader. Particle Physics Programmes in Europe are attracting participation of groups from non-European countries, in particular from Latin America. In the reciprocal direction, the Pierre Auger Observatory for High Energy Cosmic Rays, recently established in Argentina, receives a large European participation. The Latin American HEP community is composed of about 1000 physicists and engineers, more than a half young physicists, graduates and PhD&apos;s. In Europe, Latin American physicists collaborate with Research Institutions, Universities and with the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). Current trend is to increase participation in CERN, in view of the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Large scale LA-Europe collaboration is recent, however, and needs to be consolidated. The EPLANET program will support visits from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico to CERN and other European Institutions and from European countries to the AUGER Observatory, with short exchanges (1-2 months) for senior and longer exchanges (2-12 months) for junior investigators, for a total of about 1800 months. Visits will be used to perform research on the LHC and AUGER experiments, inside well established groups. Scientific results thereby obtained will parallel advanced training and acquisition of new techonologies in accelerator and detector physics, medical physics and ICT. EPLANET will foster the community and develop internal Latin-American collaboration to reach the critical scientific mass and profit from the educational, technological and industrial impact of HEP. The detachment of European senior and junior scientists in Latin-America will strengthen research partnership between Latin America and Europe. EPLANET will foster a sustainable collaboration between Europe and Latin America in HEP and associated technologies.

Keywords: particle physics,cosmic rays,particle physics technologies,medical physics,information technology,knowledge transfer,technology transfer
Where is the water under the Greenland ice sheet? (WATERUNDERTHEICE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (ERC-2009-AdG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499999.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent analysis of radar-depth sounder data has shown that many areas of the Greenland ice sheet have melt water under the base. The extent of the wet base and distribution of melt water are poorly known. Also lakes under the ice have not been discovered in contrast with those in Antarctica. The effect of the water beneath the ice, however, is well documented: it lubricates the bed and removes the friction between the basal ice and underlying bedrock. The ice with a wet bed flows faster, reacts rapidly to changes in climate and the basal-melt water contributes to the fresh-water supply to the ocean from the Greenland ice sheet. The primary objectives of the project are to map melt water extent of the Greenland ice sheet and its impact by tracing internal layers and analyzing bedrock returns from airborne radio-echo sounding data, and use mapping results in conjunction with ice-sheet and hydrostatic models for the movement of the basal water to predict the ice-sheet s response to climate change. The information derived from deep ice-cores that reach the bed will be used to constrain models. We will also study the basal material (dust, DNA and microbiological material) and bedrock properties from the deep-ice core sites. This will add a further dimension to the study and provide opportunities to look for life under the ice and constrain the age of the Greenland ice sheet. The proposed research is a high risk project because of the difficulty in accessing basal conditions under 3-km of ice with a potential for high payoff science. The team will consist of scientists and engineers with expertise in the palaeoclimate, radar sounding and signal processing, and ice-sheet models.

Keywords: ice sheet dynamics,radio echo sounding,palaeomicrofossils
Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology (DIADEM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2009-AdG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2402846.0
EU funding (EUR): 2402846.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal is in the area of automated web data extraction and web data management. The aim of our project is to provide the logical, methodological, and algorithmic foundations for the knowledge-based extraction of structured data from web sites belonging to specific domains, such as estate agents, restaurants, travel agencies, car dealers, and so on. One core part of this will be a comprehensive multi-dimensional logical data model that will be used to simultaneously represent both the content of a large website, its structure, inferred user-interaction patterns and all meta-information and knowledge (factual and rule-based) that is necessary to automatically perform the desired extraction tasks. I envision that, based on these new foundations, we will be able to build extremely powerful systems that autonomously explore websites of a given domain, understand their structure and extract and output richly structured data in formats such as XML or RDF. We aim at systems that take as input a URL of a website in a given domain, automatically explore this site and deliver as output a structured data set containing all the relevant information present on that site. As an example, imagine a system specialized in the real-estate domain, that receives as input the URL of any real-estate agent, explores the site automatically and outputs richly structured records of all properties that are currently advertised for sale or for rent on the many web pages of this site. We plan to develop and implement at least two such systems for two different domains, including the one mentioned. The breakthrough in automatic data extraction that we are striving for would enable a quantum leap for two interrelated technologies which are the hottest next topics in web search: vertical search, that is, web search in specialized domains, and object search, that is, the search for web data objects rather than web pages.

Keywords: data management,web data management,data extraction,xml,semistructured data,knowledge representation and reasoning,web information extraction,rule based systems,datalog
Exploring the Decoherence of Light in Cavities (DECLIC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2009-AdG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The transition from quantum to classical is an essential issue in physics. At a practical level, quantum information thrives to build large quantum systems for tasks in communication or computing beyond the reach of classical devices. At the fundamental level, the question is whether there exists, in addition to environment-induced decoherence, another mechanism responsible for the disappearance of state superpositions at the macroscopic scale. Harmonic oscillators coupled to qubits are ideal to probe the limits of the quantum domain. Among various versions of this system, microwave Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics coupling Rydberg atoms to superconducting cavities has developed tools of un-matched sensitivity and precision. Building on these advances and on the development of deterministic atomic sources, DECLIC proposes to explore the dynamics of fields trapped in cavities and to study their decoherence under various perspectives. It will implement novel ways to generate non-classical states with large photon numbers stored in one cavity or non-locally split between two. DECLIC will record the gradual evolution of these states towards classicality and locality. Along this way, it will explore promising processes such as quantum random walks and collective photonic effects leading to non-classical interferometry breaking the standard quantum limit. Beyond witnessing decoherence, DECLIC will investigate ways to manipulate and control it, either by implementing feedback procedures steering the field towards targeted states, or by engineering artificial environments protecting against decoherence specific states of light. These experiments will provide invaluable clues for the understanding of other oscillator-qubit systems exploring the quantum to classical boundary.

Keywords: quantum physics,decoherence,quantum measurement,rydberg atoms,cavity qed,quantum optics.
Optimizing Policies for Transport: accounting for Industrial Organisation in Network markets (OPTION)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2009-AdG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493318.0
EU funding (EUR): 2493318.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Traditional models of transport networks ignore the existence and strategic behaviour of large actors who are often active in transport markets. Examples of such large actors are private infrastructure or service operators, insurance companies, or vehicle manufacturers. Both for positive and normative analyses, this omission can lead to substantial errors, and therefore to seriously biased policy evaluations and recommendations. The reason is that such actors will have their own objectives to pursue, while their market power gives them ample opportunity to influence market outcomes through strategic behaviour. Ignoring their behavioural responses to policy changes therefore leads to a wrong prediction of the policy s optimal design as well as its impacts. An important reason why they are nevertheless usually ignored is the analytical and numerical complexity of transport network models in which large actors, with strategic behaviour, are active. This project seeks to develop such models. Specific applications will include models of road transport networks allowing for private road operators, vehicle manufacturers, and insurance companies; models of urban taxi markets; and networks models for public transport and aviation. Although applying to different cases, these models will have important methodological characteristics in common, particularly in that they apply multilevel optimization techniques for (transport) network models that account for strategic behaviour of and interactions between large actors. We will investigate how this behaviour affects the formation of network equilibria in transport markets, as well as the impacts and (second-best) optimal design of transport policies.

Keywords: transport networks,industrial organization,regulation,market failures