Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Translational Research into Psychiatric disorders: genetics, genomics and neurobiology of psychosis and autism (TRIP)

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,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 714000.0
EU funding (EUR): 573300.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism, constitute an extraordinarily high public health burden. Few novel treatments have emerged in recent years, because their aetiology is poorly understood. The recent development of new, high resolution, high-throughput research technologies, including large-scale genetic studies using microarrays and genome sequencing, high-resolution neuroimaging, neurobiology and medical/bioinformatics provide an opportunity to advance the field rapidly through the translation of knowledge on fundamental aetiology into benefit for the patient. TRiP is a joint initiative by five of the world’s leading psychiatric research centres, two in Europe and one in the USA with two emerging powerhouses of neuroscience research in China, formed to accelerate basic and clinical research into mental illness. These key research players will exchange state of the art research methodology and provide training in psychiatry research. The international dimension in TRiP directly addresses the IRSES action, which encourages long-term research collaboration between MS/AC and eligible third country partners. The participants are ideal partners, because of their world-class research expertise, complementarities, and track record of cooperation, which will result in enduring scientific exchange and collaboration between key players in the field in the EU, China and the USA. TRIP will harmonize state of the art research across the centres in order to tackle the most difficult research problems in biological psychiatry, allowing the harmonisation of phenotype measurements in patient populations, the development and dissemination of complex and advanced techniques and methodologies, the pooling of resources for direct comparison and combination of large datasets, the cross-disciplinary training of future leaders in this field and the translation of these findings for patient benefit, such as drug development and clinical genetics.

Keywords: health sciences,neurosciences,neurobiology,psychiatry,genomics,clinical genetics
Reef ECOlogy and design of Marine PRotected Areas (RECOMPRA)

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: Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 312900.0
EU funding (EUR): 312900.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Reef ecosystems are among the most productive areas of the planet, they play a major role in coastal fisheries as nursery and feeding grounds, and they further provide a huge array of ecosystem services. Coastal ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to human actions causing the erosion of marine biodiversity and the collapse of marine resources. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly used to conserve resources and protect biodiversity. The anticipated ecological effects of MPAs are multiple and affect populations, communities and ecosystems, as well as the associated fisheries and tourist activities. RECOMPRA proposal aims at consolidating an existing research network established by mutual bilateral relationships among EU (Spain, France and Italy) and South-American (Brazil and Argentina) labs which common objective is to study specific aspects of reef ecology, in order to provide sound criteria for the design, monitoring and management of MPAs in a scenario of global change. Special emphasis is given to strengthening the interplay between ecological and social sciences, in order to reach robust, long-lasting institutional arrangements for the governance of the coastal realm. The proposal is organised in 1 Work Package devoted to coordination activities, plus 3 thematic Work Packages covering the following topics: (1) reef fish mobility and connectivity, (2) functional response of reef environments to disturbance in scenarios of global change, and (3) MPAs network design for ecological function, marine governance and ecosystem services. The proposed staff exchange scheme is to be used to improve joint research of both early-stage and experienced personnel. This research is to be performed mostly in a number of MPAs where extensive investigations are being developed at present, so that this network is aiming at reinforcing data collection in these pilot sites, and promoting shared analyses and synthesis of results at different spatial and temporal scales.

Keywords: coastal zone ecosystems and management,marine protected areas,environmental policies,fisheries management,global change
European and South African HIV co-infection research consortium (ESAHIVCOINFRES)

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: Belgium,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 340200.0
EU funding (EUR): 340200.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of the proposed staff exchange program is to establish a long lasting collaboration between South African and European research teams involved in HIV co-infection research. This effort ultimately should lead to new ways to improve the care/treatment for patients with HIV co-infections and to decrease the high mortality among persons with HIV infection in Africa. South Africa is the country with the largest number of HIV tuberculosis (TB) co-infected patients in the world. With this program we will explore new ways to diagnose and treat TB more rapidly and investigate why HIV co-infected patients still die despite increasing access to effective anti-retroviral HIV treatment. South Africa has also a huge burden of disease caused by Hepatitis B and Human papillomavirus infections. So far, HIV research in Africa has neglected to address non-TB HIV co-infection research questions. With this exchange program we will explore how to close this research gap. During the project we will: train early stage researchers in state-of-the-art field research, laboratory techniques, data collection and data analysis, build a network of researchers interested in HIV co-infection research, formulate and perform new collaborative research projects by intensifying research partnerships and networking activities. The consortium consists of very complementary partners (2 South African and 4 European) with a common interest in HIV co-infection research. The University of Cape Town is an extremely interesting partner because it is one of Africa's leading teaching and research institutions. The University of Limpopo offers many research opportunities because of its focus on rural Africa and on working with disadvantaged communities. Existing links between partners and research funds that are already available will facilitate the rapid start of the exchange program. The envisaged 4-year program will consist mainly of visits of early stage researchers (PhD students)

Keywords: health sciences,hiv,tuberculosis,south africa,co-infections
Oxide Nanostructures for Wireless Chemical Sensing (WIROX)

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,Italy,Greece,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 384300.0
EU funding (EUR): 317100.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Wireless sensor nodes (the so called ”Smart Dust”) are autonomous devices incorporating sensing, power, computation, and communication into one system. The incorporation of electrical gas sensors in motes is a scientific challenge which has not been solved yet. The objective of the project is to build up an international partnership to tackle these scientific challenge developing self-powered autonomous nano-scale chemical sensors which harvest energy from the environment. The objective will be pursued by packing together scientists from top level institutions and training young researchers to the twofold task of developing self heated nanowire based chemical sensors and Quantum Dots Solar Cells and integrate the latter for powering the first in a mote. Long lasting collaborations will be developed through exchange of people and realization of different research activities. Primary application will be Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB), which are already some of the largest and most prevalent deployments of “sensor networks” in the world, although they are not typically recognized as such. Wireless gas sensing of air quality could strongly increase the performance of HVAC systems (among NMP 2012 topics).

Keywords: physical sciences,nanowires,chemical sensing,quantum dot solar cells
Video Quality Driven Multimedia Streaming in Mobile Wireless Networks (QOSTREAM)

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: Serbia,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 366600.0
EU funding (EUR): 356100.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Robust and efficient multimedia transmission over wireless networks to mobile users is a challenging task due to large bandwidth consumption, quality of service (QoS) requirements, real-time and power constraints, heterogeneous receiver capabilities and error-prone wireless transmission environment. The necessity for seamless access and exchange of large amount of multimedia content anytime and anywhere by mobile users is driving intensive research within this field as it provides a number of business opportunities through commercial multimedia applications provisioning such as digital TV, video-on-demand, video conferencing, 3D TV, interactive gaming, social networking, etc. To address the ever-increasing consumers’ requirements and ensure QoS, the emerging solutions for multimedia streaming over next generation wireless networks need to be adaptive to the specific conditions of the network and the receiver devices and take into account each individual user experience. Current state-of-the-art approaches in multimedia processing and communications are not driven by the quality of the users’ experience and the project proposed is aimed at addressing this problem. The goal is to design a system that would be able to dynamically adjust the multimedia signal processing and communication parameters based on the appropriate video quality feedback provided by the receiver devices themselves, thus assuring optimal delivery for each specific configuration of the mobile wireless network. The main objective of this Project is to establish new partnerships and to reinforce already existing paths of cooperation between participating European and non‐European research institutions through a coordinated multiannual joint research programme in the field of quality-driven multimedia processing and communications for multimedia streaming over emerging wireless networks.

Keywords: technological sciences,wireless systems,multimedia techniques,signal processing
Mobile Cloud Computing: Networks, Services and Architecture (MONICA)

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,France,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 361200.0
EU funding (EUR): 361200.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the MONICA project is to accelerate the transfer and deployment of research knowledge between European countries and China in order to obtain better understanding of mobile cloud computing in terms of its networks, services and architecture. In particular, the transfer of knowledge, mainly as a result of researcher’s mobility, will focus on a new vision of mobile cloud computing paradigm. This new vision advocates the seamless integration of both arms of a mobile cloud computing platform, each locating at the different layers, namely, cloud computing at the application layer and mobile wireless networks at the network and transmission layer. This integration calls for cross-layer information exchange of the two layers to create a mobile cloud computing system where mobile network operators, service providers and end users all benefit. This staff exchange programme will also help develop new research links and deepen and strengthen the current research links amongst the partners and help build up long-term, world-class research in this exciting new research field of mobile cloud computing.

Keywords: mobile cloud computing,wireless networks,cloud computing,cross-layer design
Biomimetic Approaches of Natural Functional Surfaces with hierarchical micro & nano structure and the extreme Wettability (BIOAPPRONFS WETT)

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,France,Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 220500.0
EU funding (EUR): 220500.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Proposal Full title: Biomimetic Approaches of Natural Functional Surfaces with hierarchical micro & nano structure and the extreme Wettability (Acronym: BioApproNFS Wett) Abstract: In the natural world, plants and animals have evolved over time to best adapt to the environment. They interact very effectively with the surrounding environment by exchanging energies and mass flow across their cuticles making use of specific micro structures and functions to achieve the perfect energy balance. The proposed international research staff exchange programme of “BioApproNFS Wett” brings together five leading universities from four different countries to collaborate in the research area of biomimetic approaches of natural functional surfaces and the extreme wettability. The aim of the proposed programme is to facilitate research staff exchange between the leading institutions in biomimetics so that complementary and synergistic skills can be acquired as per the needs and skills offered by the respective partners. These can then be exploited in the future through initiatives as part of the international joint laboratory that will be established through this project. The programme will have major benefits for early staged researchers from high education institutes and also the industrial companies from both Europe and China. Through research collaboration and staff exchanges, the state-of-the-art technologies of studying biomimetics (or bionics), such as micro scaled fabrication, functional nanoparticle coating, hierarchical micro & nano structure, and surface wettability will be studied and/or applied. Major programmes of the research staff exchanges include research visits, training for early staged researchers, and organising regular open research seminars, workshops and conferences. The dissemination and exploitation will be based on joint research publications and open seminars where the industrial community will be actively encouraged to attend.

Keywords: biomimetics,natural functional surface,superhydrophobic,superhydrophilic,wettability,nanoparticles coating,micro fabrication,plant surfaces,lotus effect
Bioactive compounds from Turkish marine macro organism and associated fungi for EU industries (BACT)

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: Türkiye,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 96600.0
EU funding (EUR): 96600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years, marine natural product bioprospecting has provided key structures and compounds that proved their potential in several fields (human heath, food, cosmetics, veterinary medicine, etc.), particularly as new therepautic agents for a variety of diseases. Most of the marine secondary compounds are still in preclinical or early clinical development process, but some are already on the market, such as cytarabine, or predicted to be approved soon, such as ET743 (YondelisTM). The marine environment also represents a largely unexplored source for isolation of new microbes (bacteria, fungi, etc) that are potent producers of bioactive secondary metabolites. Therefore, this explains why most of the research on marine natural products is in fact search for useful bioactive compounds. The marine organisms will be collected from Turkish water in geographic range and different ecological habitats under the terms of Convention of Biological Diversity The aim of the project is to identify new natural marine compounds that can serve as lead structures for new products in EU industries. The target fields are drug discovery and cosmetic industry. This project enables Europe to compete with USA and Japan.

Keywords: natural sciences,health sciences
Non-equilibrium dynamics of soft and active matter (SOFTACTIVE)

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,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 777300.0
EU funding (EUR): 405300.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

**The joint exchange programme “Non-equilibrium dynamics of soft and active matter” (SoftActive) aims at bringing closer communities of physicists working at the forefront of statistical/nonlinear physics of out-of-equilibrium systems. Although many aspects of this very wide topic will be covered, the project is centered on the dynamics and fluctuations in soft and active matter, a subject of crucial importance in quantitative biology/biophysics. **The three countries involved, France, Germany, and Japan, and indeed almost all the participants of SoftActive, have a long history of collaboration on these topics, which are well-developed in each country. But these past and present collaborations have remained, so far, mostly bilateral, and it has become clear that further integration is needed. In particular, the groups involved in this proposal are leaders of the emerging field of "active matter" which is so far particularly well represented in France, Germany, and Japan. It is now time to structure international ties, which will strengthen the quality of research and allow for a rapid and organized growth. **The SoftActive project mirrors the “Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Soft and Active Matter” project just approved recently within the “Core-to-Core” program of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). It is divided into four main scientific topics, in parallel to the JSPS-funded Core-to-Core project: -Nonlinear response and non-equilibrium dynamics of liquid crystals and related problems -Slow dynamics of colloids and related problems -Dynamics and fluctuations far from equilibrium -Dynamics of active soft matter **The scientific goals will be reached via the exchange of researchers, notably young ones for long-enough periods of time to insure efficient transfer of knowledge, plus a comprehensive calendar of project-wide events in the form of schools and workshops.

Keywords: active matter,biophysics,soft matter and polymer physics,nonequilibrium statistical physics,nonlinear dynamics
Mobility between Europe and Argentina applying Logics to Systems (MEALS)

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,Germany,Germany,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 573300.0
EU funding (EUR): 573300.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Computing systems are getting ever more ubiquitous, making us dependent on their proper functioning. Therefore we require that they are correct (i.e. they conform their intended behavior), safe (i.e.its operation does not have catastrophic consequences), reliable, available to provide the intended service, and secure (i.e., no user without appropriate clearance can access or modify protected data). Guarantees for such charcteristics rely on rigid specification and analysis techniques for both the required system functionality as well as its behavior. Formal methods provide a mathematical approach to model, understand, and analyze systems, especially at early development stages. In this project we focus on three aspects of formal methods: specification, verification, and synthesis. We consider the study of both qualitative behavior and quantitative behavior (extended with probabilistic information). We aim to study formal methods in all their aspects: foundations (their mathematical and logical basis), algorithmic advances (the conceptual basis for software tool support) and practical considerations (tool construction and case studies). The MEALS project includes five tightly interconnected thematic work packages. They focus on quantitative analysis of concurrent program behaviour (WP1), reasoning tasks for specification and verification (WP2), security and information flow properties (WP3), synthesis in model-based systems engineering (WP4) and foundations for the elaboration and analysis of requirements specifications (WP5). The crosscutting concern of all these work packages is the development of formal techniques for the specification, verification and synthesis of dependable ubiquitous computing systems. Five carefully planned MEALS gatherings and workshops give the project an effectve structure for knowledge transfer, communitiy building, and result dissemination, aimed at a sustained transcontinental collaboration.

Keywords: software engineering,formal methods,specification,verification,synthesis,dependability,security