Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative Methodologies for New Food Product Development: combining Sensory Science and Experimental Economics (NEFOMET)

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: Norway
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 216034.2
EU funding (EUR): 216034.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

European food industries have to continue developing new food products in order to improve their competitiveness on the increasingly competitive food market. It is a generally accepted fact that far too many new food introductions on the food market fail every year which negatively affect business performances in the food industry. This high failure rate is widely recognised to be due to the lack of incorporation of the consumer-voice in the process of new food product development (NPD). Afterall, consumers take into account a large number of product attributes, both intrinsic and extrinsic, when making food choices. The food industry requires a manageable protocol for NPD which includes more realistic marketing information. The project aims to illustrate a formalised and innovative methodology which combines both intrinsic and extrinsic food attributes, therefore acquiring a better understanding of consumer acceptance of novel food in real market buying situations in order to contribute to the improvement of the process of NPD. With this in mind, a multidisciplinary and international research approach is necessary which involves different scientific disciplines, such as food and economic sciences, as well as strong collaboration among research institutes and the food industry. Points of investigation will be high quality novel foods which are expected to be introduced into the food market in the near future. Novel foods to be investigated will be identified through qualitative research carried out with experts and food industries. Then, sensory analysis and qualitative consumer research will be performed. Finally, quantitative consumer survey will be designed and carried out by applying a new scientific methodology based on an innovative experimental economic approach. Comprehensive dissemination activities in terms of publications, seminars and implementation of the new protocol at food industry level will ensure a wide spectrum of information in the results.

Keywords: econometrics,competitiveness - innovation - research and development,food and sensory sciences,social studies of science and technology,marketing,agroindustry,behavioural economics,statistics
Remote Enantioselective Functionalization of C–H bonds in Saturated Nitrogen Heterocycles (ENAFUNTRAMECAT)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The development of existing and invention of new synthetic methodologies in recent years has greatly facilitated the preparation of molecules that would once have been considered an insurmountable synthetic challenge. Over the past four decades, the synthetic community has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in the field of transition metal-catalyzed C–C and C–Heteroatom bond forming reactions. The field of C(sp2)–H bond functionalization has grown rapidly over the past decade, providing many new and efficient routes for the synthesis of desirable compounds and a plethora of literature is available including a large number of reviews. In contrast, there are only a handful of reports in the literature where C(sp3)–H bond functionalization is efficiently achieved and field remains largely untouched regarding the development of new and efficient methodologies. However, despite the advances in the field of enantioselective reactions, the use of transition metal catalysts with appropriate and effective chiral ligands is still in its infancy. The overall aim of this project is to develop new chemistry to functionalize the beta-carbon of simple heterocyclic compounds like pyrrolidine and piperidine in enantioselective fashion. Finally we will apply the newly developed catalytic enantioselective C–H functionalization in bioactive natural product/drug molecule synthesis.

Keywords: transition metal-catalyzed reactions,enantioselective functionalization,c-h bond functionalization,organic chemistry,tandem reactions,c111 method development in chemistry,c112 catalysis
Myanmar freshwater biogeography; understanding a zoogeographical transition zone (MYANMAR-FISH)

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-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-05
End date: 2015-08-04
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The tropical rivers of Asia are hotspots of freshwater fish biodiversity, yet little scientific attention has been devoted to understanding this diversity in a regional biogeographical context. One major unresolved question is the nature of the freshwater faunal break between Indian and Southeast Asian zoogeographical realms and the evolutionary relationship of species that occur in the transition zone (Myanmar) to species with more westerly and easterly geographical distributions. This project will examine the evolutionary diversification of key groups of Asian fishes with a focus on Myanmar, where recent easing of political tensions has enabled thorough ichthyological exploration for the first time. Four groups have been specifically chosen as representative components of South Asian ichthyofauna, and include economically important, ecologically specialised, taxonomically difficult, and relatively unknown species. A robust phylogenetic framework is essential to test hypotheses about the origin of regional zoogeographical barriers and formation of freshwater biodiversity hotspots. Molecular genetic data will be used to determine evolutionary relationships for four key fish groups. The latest methods of dating species divergences using fossil and molecular data will be used to calibrate the phylogenies in time. Results will be interpreted alongside information on historical river geomorphology and climatic data to identify the processes that have promoted diversification and led to the formation of Myanmar fish biodiversity hotspots. The project will utilise state-of-the-art genetic techniques. It will bring together one of the worlds foremost Myanmar fish taxonomists and an experienced molecular phylogeneticist specialising in Asian ichthyology. It will provide information on evolution, relevant to the conservation of biological diversity in threatened ecosystems in a developing Asian country.

Keywords: v303 biogeography,v309 systems evolution - biological adaptation - phylogenetics - systematics,v302 biodiversity - comparative biology,v304 conservation biology - ecology - genetics
CONSTRUCTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF A NOVEL, ULTRA-COMPACT, ULTRA-FAST HARD X-RAY COHERENT SOURCE (NOVELXSOURCE)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2016-04-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) of relativistic electron beams, and High Harmonic Generation (HHG) are two of the driving applications of high-power, short-pulse laser interactions with matter. Quasi-monoenergetic relativistic electron beams can be produced when short laser pulses are focused at intensities exceeding 10^18 W/cm^2 on usually low-Z gas targets. The gas is instantly ionised and a non-linear plasma wave is created. For sufficiently large amplitude plasma waves, the wave breaks, injecting electrons inside the plasma wave where they are accelerated, so far up to energies > 1 GeV within ~ cm. However, high-Z trace elements can be further ionised at close to the peak of the laser pulse, thus releasing more electrons into the plasma wave. These ionisation-injected electrons are accelerated due to the open trapped Hamiltonian curves they lie on. This can significantly reduce the laser requirements for injection and so acceleration can proceed in a more controlled fashion. HHG occurs when a ~1mJ, ~10 fsec laser is focused on a neutral high-Z gas jet. The bound electrons of the atoms move in response to the ultrafast oscillation of the laser’s electric field. Harmonic photons up to keV energies, are produced through the recollision of the accelerated (but not ionised) electrons with the parent atoms. Novel experiments using multiple gas jets and a combination of different Z gases, has shown an increase in the conversion to high harmonic as well as the control of their coherence. This research proposal will focus on optimising ionisation induced LWFA production of electron beams, producing high harmonic photon beams from novel gas targets, and finally counter-propagating the two beams, so as to produce a novel, ultra compact, ultrafast, high-energy, hard x-ray coherent source. Such a table-top source has a wide range of applications from the probing of hot-dense matter, and to non-destructive, high resolution, ultrafast biomedical imaging.

Keywords: p106 electromagnetism,p107 atomic - molecular physics,p109 lasers and laser physics,p105 gas and plasma physics,photonics,advanced light source concepts
Improving Resilience of Urban Societies through Advanced Technologies (IRUSAT)

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-2012-IOF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2018-01-27
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 351295.6
EU funding (EUR): 351295.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Urban societies depend heavily on the proper functioning of infrastructure systems such as electric power, gas, potable water, and transportation networks. Normally invisible, this reliance becomes painfully evident when infrastructure systems fail during disasters. Moreover, because of the network properties of infrastructures, damage in one location can disrupt service in an extensive geographic area. The societal disruption caused by infrastructure failures is therefore disproportionately high in relation to actual physical damage. As a result of the project, new retrofitting strategies will be developed to improve the resilience of infrastructures to withstand natural hazards. The project aims to improve the resiliency of buildings, bridges, and communities in general through new advanced technologies such as base isolations, viscous dampers, etc. Base isolation systems that are able to control the shape of the floor response spectrum will be analyzed, in particular their behavior under vertical excitations. Attention will be given to infrastructural systems’ components and then it will be extended to performance of component assemblages (e.g., bridges, pipeline networks, etc.). The project will range from field work of specific lifeline damage in New Zealand, Japan and Italy after the earthquakes to laboratory simulations done in the laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley with scaled models and numerical analyses. Complexities of infrastructures, which include societal as well as technical issues will be addressed in the project. The project will try to answer through an interdisciplinary approach to the following questions: How, for instance, will the failure of one bridge affect businesses throughout the urban area that rely on the transportation system? How will the failure of one infrastructure system disrupt other infrastructure systems? How can repairs following a disaster be planned so they minimize social and economic losses?

Keywords: g303 civil engineering - maritime/hydraulic engineering - geotechnics - waste treatment
Planet Hunting: Exploration and research at the leading edge of high-contrast imaging (PLANET HUNTING)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-15
End date: 2015-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184709.4
EU funding (EUR): 184709.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main focus of this project is to search for extrasolar planets (exoplanets) with two innovative direct imaging surveys, designed to answer a specific list of open questions in our understanding of planet formation and evolution, and making use of the best facilities and observing methods available. The SPOTS project (Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars), initiated and led by the applicant, will survey 67 young nearby spectroscopic binary stars in search of circumbinary planets. Such targets have been actively avoided by most previous surveys, leaving vast parts of the planetary parameter space unexplored. Through SPOTS, the applicant will establish first stringent constraints on the circumbinary planet population and conduct a statistical comparison with the large body of similar studies on single stars. Since binarity is predicted to have different effects on the two competing planet formation mechanisms, the results will provide invaluable insights on a wide range of physical processes involved in planet formation and evolution. The applicant will furthermore take a leading role in the commissioning and GTO survey of the SPHERE ZIMPOL imaging polarimeter for ESO's VLT, drawing on his years of experience in co-developing the instrument. He will employ ZIMPOL's peerless performance to search for reflected light from cold planets in the habitable zones of the most nearby stars, as well as to image the tell-tale signs of planet formation in circumstellar disks. Both surveys offer good chances of extremely high-impact discoveries (first imaged circumbinary planet, first imaged habitable-zone planet), and provide important, lasting contributions to the field even in the case of non-detection, promoting European research excellence. The projects rely on IEF mobility to combine the applicant's and the host institute's complementary and synergistic skill sets, experiences, and resources.

Keywords: p301 astronomy - astrophysics and cosmology
Orthogonally Functionalized Binary Nanopatterned Polymeric Substrates for T cell activation and proliferation in Cancer Immunotherapy (OFB-SCI)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161968.8
EU funding (EUR): 161968.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Harnessing the power of the immune system to fight malignancies remains a challenging goal although important progress has recently been achieved. For example, cancer remission of terminal leukemia patients was accomplished with genetically modified autologous T cells (Dr. June, University of Pennsylvania, 2011). However, these adoptive T cell therapies are limited by the availability of target specific T cells that are extracted from each patient, expanded ex vivo, and transferred back to the patient. To extend cancer immunotherapies to clinics, the current T cell expansion technologies need to be improved to efficiently produce the large amounts of T cells that are required. To overcome this problem we propose the development of orthogonally functionalized binary nanopatterned polymeric substrates that will act as efficient artificial ‘T cell proliferation machines’. These binary nanopatterns will consist of gold and oxide nanoparticles that will be orthogonally functionalized with either anti-CD3 or anti-CD28, which are the biomolecules that trigger T cells and activate their expansion. These substrates will introduce an unprecedented fine control in the nanoscale that will certainly contribute to the understanding of the immune processes that remain enigmatic in spite of their fundamental role in the survival of species. The OFB-SCI project proposes a truly multidisciplinary and intersectorial research in the field of Cancer Nanotechnology with a clear ambition to transfer the knowledge acquired to the industry in the near-future facilitating the introduction of novel cancer immunotherapies in clinics. Overall, this project will offer a first class training experience to a promising young European researcher, Dr. Guasch, based on a broad and challenging yet feasible program carefully embedded in a genuine interdisciplinary environment such as Prof. Spatz’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Heidelberg (Germany).

Keywords: c102 nanochemistry,c105 surface science,l406 cancer and its biological basis,l818 biomimetics,l701 medical engineering and technology,l602 adaptive immunity,c141 organic chemistry
Linguistic Aspects of Pro Se Litigation (PRO SE LANGUAGE USE)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 231283.2
EU funding (EUR): 231283.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal concentrates on linguistic difficulties faced by lay people who represent themselves in court without a lawyer (pro se litigants). The proposed research analyses pro se litigants’ linguistic choices during the most challenging stages of a trial (i.e. opening and closing speeches and witness examination). The research project will concentrate on the following problematic areas for pro se litigants: questioning strategies (types of questions used, function of questions used), power relations and witness resistance, turn-taking management, interaction between pro se litigants and witnesses, interaction between pro se litigants and legal professionals, politeness strategies, use of discourse markers, rhetorical devices, forms of address. The main outcomes will be two handbooks: (1) a handbook for lay people on linguistic features typical of courtroom discourse and features they need to incorporate in order to present their case effectively; (2) a handbook for judges and legal professionals with explanation of linguistic problems lay people are likely to experience and advice on what can be done to help them. The research project combines the following quantitative and qualitative research methods: corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, semantic-pragmatic approach. The proposal includes training directly connected with the research topic: use of quantitative methods, corpus linguistics, courtroom discourse, police investigative interviews and witness resistance. It also invloves training that will help the researcher build on her existing experience as a court certified interpreter and a forensic linguist expert in authorship analysis. The fellowship will help the researcher establish herself as an expert on linguistic aspects of pro se litigation and help her reinforce her expertise in authorship analysis, forensic text analysis, trainer of police forces and future interpreters.

Keywords: pro se litigants,courtroom discourse,witness examination,cross-examination,opening/closing speech,types of questions,turn-taking,discursive tools,politeness,mitigation
GRaphene Enhancement of the Photocatalytic Activity of Semiconductors (GRAPES)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Graphene has emerged as one of the most exciting materials in recent years. This interest has now spread to the field of photocatalysis, with the intention of utilizing graphene as a two-dimensional photocatalyst material, and with the potential to harness graphene’s redox properties for opening up new opportunities in next generation photocatalyst systems. The proposed project is aimed at developing new robust-light hybrid materials based on semiconductor nanoparticles-graphene, targeting the improvement of their photocatalytic activity in different supports. This project opens a new opportunity to solve a wide number of environmentally problems as wastewater and air pollutants treatments, or sustainable solar fuel as the photocatalytic splitting of water to obtain hydrogen.

Keywords: g311 materials engineering,c128 nanomaterials,c131 environment chemistry