Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ADAptive circuit techniques for current-mode ultra low-power diGItal Integrated Circuits (ADAGIO)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-10
End date: 2011-05-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 127120.31
EU funding (EUR): 127120.31
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last years, the demand for ultra-low power integrated circuits with sub-1mW power consumption has been rapidly growing, due to the diffusion of applications relying on a large number of circuit nodes that are powered with tiny batteries or extract their energy from the environment (e.g., wireless sensor networks). These circuits must also be provided with sufficient computing capability for signal processing purposes, hence the design of ultra-low power digital circuits is a key aspect in this area. In this project, innovative circuit techniques to design ultra-low power digital circuits are developed. The MOS Current-Mode Logic (MCML) logic style is adopted in place of the standard sub-threshold CMOS logic, as MCML circuits were recently shown to be very well suited for ultra-low power operation thanks to the good control of their bias current. In addition, the prospective research activity targets the development of an efficient tuning scheme that adaptively varies the MCML gate bias current to compensate the inevitably large delay variations, adapt the power consumption to the available energy and the required performance, as well as to suppress the power contribution of inactive blocks. Accordingly, criteria and methods to design MCML standard cell libraries and use them in standard CAD design flows will be developed. To further reduce the consumption, an ultra-low voltage technique to halve the minimum supply voltage of MCML circuits will be introduced. Compared to sub-threshold standard CMOS logic, the joint adoption of the MCML logic style and the adaptive scheme is expected to significantly reduce the power consumption and to strongly enhance the circuit robustness against variations. Besides, the ability to tune the power consumption and the performance allows for using the same digital core for multiple applications, which is the premise to the design and the reuse of ultra-low power Intellectual Properties with assigned power specifications.

Keywords: vlsi circuit design,ultra-low power digital circuits,digital cmos integrated circuits,sensor networks
A new approach to the ecology of eusocial insects: The Allee Effects in native and invasive ant species. (TAENIANTS)

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: 2009-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168279.59
EU funding (EUR): 168279.59
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The work proposed in this project aims at studying for the first time the presence and nature of the Allee Effect (AE) in ants, including native and invasive species, through theoretical and experimental studies. The AE gather phenomena that enhance the chances of survival and further development of a species as a direct consequence of individual aggregation and cooperation. This phenomenon of population growth occurs when there is a positive relationship between a component of individual fitness and population size mainly at small populations sizes or low densities. Ecological studies commonly focus on the opposite concepts of population dynamics and competition with the AE regarded as a process of limited relevance to natural populations. Recently, however, the AE has been the focus of increased interest in the light of concerns over conservation, the problem of rarity and the associated population dynamics, showing its important implications in many areas of ecology, evolution, and conservation. Eusocial insects, such as ants, are strong candidates for all sorts of AE mechanisms, due to the very nature of their social structure. The goals of the present project are to determine the presence and the mechanisms that may cause AE in different ant species with a variety of life-strategies (from native to invasive species and from one to more queens per colony) and to investigate its relation to the dynamics of invasive species. Together with the laboratory and field experiments, we will develop population dynamics models to explore the consequences of cooperation on the size and dynamics of the different ant species and life-strategies with a focus on understanding the potential role of AE in the dynamics of invasiveness, and that will be contrasted with the experimental data. The modeling approach will allow to use results for other issues in ecology, evolution and conservation with far reaching implications for these fields.

Keywords: biodiversity,conservation biology,invasion,biology,ecology,animal ecology,applied ecology
Elaboration of an evaporative cooling technique with shear-driven liquid films (COOLING TECHNIQUE)

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: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-24
End date: 2011-11-23
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 228391.75
EU funding (EUR): 228391.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the proposal is to elaborate a new technology for active cooling of high heat flux equipment, using thin, intensively evaporating liquid films driven by the action of a forced gas flow in a narrow channel. The main practical motivation of the project is to develop a design capability and design tools that would enable effective cooling of powerful microelectronics for terrestrial and space applications. This capability must be based upon the development of a fundamental understanding of the parameters enabling high heat transfer rates in such thin film systems. It is proposed to develop such fundamental understanding through conducting systematical experimental studies, including studies in microgravity during aircraft parabolic flights. The experiments will be performed on test sections with flat and microstructured local heaters, which will be brought to the host institution (ULB) by the applicant. ULB possesses all necessary experimental facilities to organize and study shear-driven liquid film flows. In the experiments several state-of-the-art techniques will be used (Schlieren methods, Infrared thermography, Fiber optical thickness probe, High speed CCD camera). The proposed research is supposed to make significant advances in basic knowledge of liquid film heat transfer and rupture, and eventually may lead to a new practical cooling technology with broad area of applications in the marketplace. The proposed research, as well as applicant’s scientific experience, is relevant to the research interest and activities of MRC group of ULB. MRC-ULB has close collaboration with Euro Heat Pipes S.A., aiming at elaboration and creation of an advanced film cooling system for powerful microelectronics. Part of the proposed research is in the framework of ESA-sponsored MAP BOILING project of MRC-ULB. The proposed activity will reinforce mutually beneficial cooperation between ULB and IT, which has been lasting for more than 10 years.

Keywords: thermal engineering,cooling technique,shear-driven liquid film,evaporation,film rupture,critical heat flux,micro-structured surface,optical diagnostic methods,microgravity research
INitial TRAining network on Mass Independent Fractionation (INTRAMIF)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Denmark,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3036392.0
EU funding (EUR): 3036392.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Molecules containing the element oxygen can be further characterized by the distributions of the stable oxygen isotopes. In some cases, these isotopes have an anomalous distribution, which is evidence of Mass Independent Fractionation (MIF). MIF has become a powerful research tool in earth system science and its use is expected to spread from the core science disciplines to industrial applications. With INTRAMIF, we bring together experts from atmospheric and climate research, hydrology, oceanography and molecular physics. 13 ESR projects from these disciplines are connected by the common theme of MIF. Sharing expertise and world-class facilities will allow the individual groups to do research that would otherwise be impossible. This will create a center of excellence for MIF research in Europe. The associated industrial partners of INTRAMIF will integrate the research and training programs with ‘real-world’ opportunities, including commercialization of new techniques and the application of MIF to solve questions on water supplies and food authentication. The broad scientific program allows us to combine specialized training at the host institutions with a unique interdisciplinary and intra-sector network training program on the climate system involving associated partners from the industrial, political and economic sectors. The strong interest from our associated partners documents the need for highly qualified scientists with a wide interdisciplinary background. INTRAMIF will educate the next generation of scientists that can tackle new challenges to society in a changing climate.

Keywords: ozone and atmospheric composition,climate change,biochemical and hydrological cycles,biochemistry,biological oceanography,molecular physics,isotopes,oxygen
Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN-LCG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Czechia,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Norway,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4106379.0
EU funding (EUR): 4106379.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The Initial Training Network - Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN LCG) investigates European languages from an interdisciplinary perspective to expand current knowledge of how language influences and forms the cognitive representations of women and men. The diversity of Europe offers a unique opportunity to investigate the impact of language and culture in establishing and maintaining gender inequality. This issue has not yet been systematically addressed on a large scale, although the reduction of gender inequality is generally considered an important issue within Europe. Therefore, ITN LCG will provide a structured interdisciplinary research training programme for young researchers in the emerging supra-disciplinary field of language, cognition, and gender to enhance the scientific understanding of this topic and improve the quality of initial research training in Europe. For the first time, these lines of research will be investigated from cross-language and cross-cultural perspectives by bringing together 10 complementary providers of research-training and 12 associated partners from public and private sectors. ITN LCG has four interrelated research objectives: a) deriving indices for selected European languages that reflect the extent to which the features of a language result in gender related representations in speakers/listeners, b) investigating to what extent gender equality in formal standards of language and the use of gender-fair language correlates with higher levels of socio-economic gender equality, c) analysing the impact of language on gender stereotyping in social judgement and decision making, and d) developing and evaluating scientifically-based prototypes of guidelines and training tools for gender-fair communication in European languages. ITN LCG will strengthen the capability of its young fellows to contribute effectively to our knowledge-based economy and society, and will add to their intersectoral and transnational employability.

Keywords: gender,gender-related language,cognitive representations of the sexes,social roles,gender stereotypes,gender inequality,gender-fair language,psychology
Training in Systems Biology Applied to Flowering (SYSFLO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1905648.0
EU funding (EUR): 1905648.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

We will educate and train young scientists to apply an interdisciplinary systems-based approach to complex biological questions using plant reproduction as a model system. Systems approaches are not routinely taught, have been identified as an area requiring urgent PhD-level training in some European countries and require network-scale working practices. We have assembled a team with International research reputations in two key areas for the success of this project: half are experimental and half are computational/mathematical scientists. We will place 9 PhD students under the supervision of this team, focussed on this single biological problem. Students assigned to experimental groups will use advanced techniques to generate data for the computational groups. The computational students will inform, analyse, interpret and model the data and their models will be validated by the experimental groups. A series of laboratory placements will ensure a wide range of subject-specific training and exchanges between the experimental and computational groups will lead to a greater understanding at the interface of these disciplines. The integration of a team of PhD students into this project, so that they each see their contributions as essential and integral parts of the success of the strategy, combined with the supervison and co-ordinated discipline-specific and generic training schedule will produce a cohort of young scientists trained in systems biology. The core skills and approaches that will be instilled into the young scientists and the integration of industry into the project, will equip them to take a systems approach to any biological question and prepare them for a career in an academic or industrial environment. Scientific outcomes will include the use of advanced techniques to provide the quantity and quality of data required to model floral regulation, the use of computational approaches to generate predictive models and their experimental validation.

Keywords: systems biology,plant development,flowering,modelling,regulatory networks
Cenozoic evolution of the Indonesian Throughflow and the origins of Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity: Mapping the biotic response to environmental change (THROUGHFLOW)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2537227.84
EU funding (EUR): 2537227.84
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

A critical agenda for earth and life sciences is to determine how diverse tropical marine ecosystems such as coral reefs will respond to global environmental change. This will require long-term environmental and ecological data that rarely exist for living coral reefs. In contrast, the fossil record provides abundant examples that can be mined to predict future outcomes. The THROUGHFLOW network will train a cohort of eleven ESRs to enable them to reconstruct past environments and patterns of biotic change using up-to-date technologies within a collaborative interdisciplinary framework. The training program will explore the past record of change on coral reefs in SE Asia in response to reorganization of ocean currents during the Cenozoic. This region contains both the Indo-West Pacific Center of Biodiversity (the most diverse shallow marine ecosystems on Earth) and the Indonesian Throughflow (a primary control of global climate). THROUGHFLOW will reconstruct the history of these two features and develop a model for how coral reefs respond to regional environmental change. Practical training will include eleven integrated research projects and a series of joint training activities to facilitate collaboration and provide access to a variety of expertise. THROUGHFLOW will bring important new data to bear on long-standing scientific controversies, and the results will be relevant to a broad audience including industry and policy makers working to predict and plan for the effects of ongoing anthropogenic environmental change. By providing rigorous training in a range of applied techniques in geology and biodiversity, THROUGHFLOW will produce researchers able to pursue successful careers in academia or industry and will enhance the power of the European research community to tackle pressing issues related to the effects of ongoing environmental change on the biosphere.

Keywords: biodiversity inventory: systematics phylogeny taxonomy,paleontology,stratigraphy,marine ecosystems (climate change),paleoclimate (climate change),paleoceanography
Magnetohydrodynamic Problems in Astrophysics and in the Laboratory (MAGPLUS)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-16
End date: 2011-03-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 30000.0
EU funding (EUR): 30000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The reintegration grant will serve to fund some of my postdoctoral activities in the context of the multidisciplinary collaboration(MAGNET. The aims of the project are the improvement of our understanding of magnetic fields in the universe through numerical and theoretical work, and the development of freely available state-of-the-art numerical codes. During the reintegration grant I will be working on code development, on astrophysical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) problems related to the physics of young stars, accretion disks and the ISM, and on a continuation of my previous research: protostellar jets. Thus strengthening and extending my knowledge of MHD laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Although the host organization has world reputation in these fields I will also bring a new approach through laboratory experiments of astrophysical relevance. Indeed during my Marie Curie Fellowship (2005-2008) I have acquired considerable skills in the development and running of massively parallel MHD codes, to simulate both astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. I have worked on the development and modeling of a series of experiments that are providing unique insights into the physics of astrophysical jets. I have also gained project management and leadership skills: having proposed and successfully obtained funds to access the Marenostrum supercomputer in Spain, and to organize a European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop. The reintegration grant will be vital to provide a certain level of independence; in particular I intend to attend international conferences and workshops, and to take part in specialist courses to further extend my skills and career perspectives. Overall the combination of a host with an exceptional research reputation, a strong network of collaborations, including my old institute, and the multidisciplinary research programme proposed, will considerably enhance my professional integration and long-term job stability opportunities.

Keywords: astrophysics,high-energy density plasmas,jets/outflows,accretion disks
Signaling circuitry controlling fungal virulence: identification and characterization of conserved and specific fungal virulence genes as common antifungal targets (ARIADNE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Spain,France,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2908908.0
EU funding (EUR): 2908908.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Fungi are heterotrophic microorganisms with devastating impact on agriculture and human health. Agricultural production worth billions of € is destroyed annually by fungal diseases. Human fungal infections have severe consequences on the growing number of immuno-compromised patients, with high mortality rates associated with Aspergillus and Candida infections. There is a critical need to further the development of new antifungals, which requires a comprehensive molecular knowledge on fungal pathogenesis and signal transduction. ARIADNE uses a comparative biological approach at the systems biology level to identify and validate signalling target genes that play an essential causative role in fungal virulence on both plant and human hosts. To establish a comprehensive view of fungal pathogenesis seven pathogenic species will be studied, including the two major fungal pathogens of humans Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans, the devastating plant pathogens Fusarium oxysporum, Magnaporthe grisea and Mycospherella graminicola, as well as two established model pathogens of filamentous and dimorphic fungi, Ashbya gossypii and Ustilago maydis. This array of fungal species cuts across diverse taxonomic groups, covering several hundred million years of evolution. The central scientific and technological challenges for ARIADNE are to 1) integrate parallel transcriptomics, proteomics, and chemical genetics for a comprehensive set of major fungal pathogens, 2) identify evolutionarily conserved and species specific signalling effectors which act as key players in fungal virulence, 3) validate these proteins as candidate targets for small molecule inhibitors. This groundbreaking scientific and teaching approach will open up new avenues on how to look at fungal pathogenicity and will generate an unprecedented knowledge platform, which will facilitate the discovery and validation of antifungal targets in both the agricultural and the pharmaceutical sectors.

Keywords: natural sciences,biological sciences,evolutionary biology