Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Institutions, Policy and Culture in the Development Process (IPCDP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1599996.0
EU funding (EUR): 1599996.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at developing theoretical and empirical research on the structural transformation that accompanies economic development and on the determinants of its success or failure. This transformation involves changes in policies, institutions, and even preferences and social hierarchies. The project consists of four subprojects. Since China represents the most spectacular ongoing episode of economic transition, four of them focus on the Chinese experience, while the remaining ones address general issues in growth and development. The first subproject analyses some puzzling features of China&apos;s recent growth experience, such as the coexistence of high growth with increasing capital export, and the falling labour share, with the aid of a theory which emphasises the efficiency gains associated with the reallocation between firms of different productivity. Since changes in income distribution are an important element, and a concern, of the Chinese transition, the three following subprojects focus, respectively, on the crisis of the system of old age insurance, the effects of the rise of the middle class, and the introduction of special economic zones in the 1980s. Two subprojects study different aspects of competition policy in development. The first one focuses on intellectual property right protection, emphasising the link between innovation, technology adoption and human capital accumulation. The second one studies the coordinating role of industrial policy and how its scope changes with development. The last two subprojects focus on culture. The diffusion of preferences and values that foster cooperation rather than conflict is no less important than incentives for technology adoption. Likewise, the rise of an &quot;entrepreneurial spirit&quot; is an engine of growth in the development transition. We plan to study the emergence and cultural transmission of preferences that are conducive to economic growth, and how they interact with the process of structural change.

Keywords: appropriate institutions,china,distance to frontier,growth,industrial policy,innovation,patience,pension,political economy,social conflict,spirit of capitalism,technical change,transition.
Two WAYS for Communicating European Research about Life Sciences with Science Festivals & Science Centres/Museums, Science Parliaments & Impact Survey (2WAYS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science and society communicate
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Israel,Austria,Germany,Denmark,Finland,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 992076.0
EU funding (EUR): 966600.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This 24-month project joins ca. 30 science festivals and science centres/museums all over Europe, increasing visitors for both and also the impact on citizens, aiming to analyse this impact – under the main topic “Life Sciences”. It consists mainly of three building blocks within “Launch” and “Finals”: • “Exchange” of new types of presentations between European science festivals • “Science Parliaments” debating and deciding • “Impact Comparison Study” to evaluate all the tools. Life Sciences are a model to debate implications of science on our society. The project process: The coordinator issues a Call for new interactive science presentations, developed by Pairs of Partners (festival organiser, science museum/centre) from two countries including scientists. They develop together - following a set of quality criteria - a presentation to communicate a current peer-reviewed cross-national European research project in the area of “Life Sciences”. The selected ~30 Partners will meet at a Launch Event to learn through the exchange of expertise and experiences. They will also receive all of the necessary project information at this event. Then the 2WAYS Exchange starts: The presentations are exchanged between the Partners and presented at both of their festivals – all over Europe. Each festival has also a debate area called “Science Parliament”, where structured debates are organised with moderators, hearing experts, standardised main questions to collect comparable results among all Partners. An “Impact Comparison Survey” is conducted to analyse the impact of the presentations/de¬bates on the opinions of the visitors (questioning before/after participating). The 2WAYS Finals brings together all of the presentations making up the Exchange. The individual results of the Science Parliaments’ debates will be discussed on a European level to form overall recommendations. All of the activities will be documented in detail for later use by others.

Keywords: science communication,science festivals
CERADA – Central European Research And Development Area (CERADA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Czechia,Poland,Czechia,Slovakia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 648853.2
EU funding (EUR): 587173.27
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Partners in the project represent and focus on the strong industrial sector in the cross-border region of Czech and Slovak Republic nad Poland, which is transport devices sector (automotive and aircraft) with a strong background in material research. The purpose of the project is: - The recognized need of more effective supporting system of the R&D sector, focused on the significant, traditional and developing industrial sector in the Regions, transport devices (automotive and aircraft) and material research available in the CERADA cross-border region. The join needs, capacities and potentials and communication tools have to be institutionalized in an acceptable and effective form, which the submitters concern to be a supporting system for clustering initiatives in R&D. The barriers resulting low involvement of investing industries in the R&D, existing in all sectors – scientific, educational, social and business sectors, have to be pulled down, through the project’s impulse in the addressed Regions. This also applies to the historical barriers in the cross-border region. - The absent communication and coordination among the regions in planning and supporting large investment in new RTD facilities especially with the respect to the effective use of private, national and European Funds, especially Structural Funds available in the particular Countries and Regions.

Keywords: transport devices sector,automotive,aircraft,research and development,structural funds,knowledge transfer,technology transfer,join action plan,cerada cluster
IRIS - Interests & Recruitment in Science. Factors influencing recruitment, retention and gender equity in science, technology and mathematics higher education (IRIS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Italy,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1284514.0
EU funding (EUR): 999584.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

IRIS (Interest & Recruitment in Science) addresses the challenge that few young people (women in particular) choose education and career in science, technology and mathematics (STM). Women represent the greatest recruitment potential to STM; moreover, a higher participation from women may expand the ways of thinking and working within this area and contribute to gender equity. To understand and respond to this challenge, diverse causes and cures must be sought, ranging from school experiences and youth culture via higher education STM curricula and recruitment efforts, up to research department culture, PhD choice and employment patterns. IRIS aims to contribute to understanding and improving recruitment, retention and gender equity patterns in higher STM education. 1. On what priorities, values and experiences do young people base their educational choice? - How may youth's educational choice be interpreted through sociological perspectives on late modern societies? What makes many women turn away from STM? - Which considerations determine choice of PhD research topic for female and male STM students? 2. What are the success factors for efforts aimed at recruiting more (female) students to STM? - What features of STM education, in secondary school and at university level, influence recruitment of (female) students? - What are the effects of STM recruitment initiatives? 3. In what proportions, and for what reasons, do STM students opt out of STM education? - Are there differences in opt-out-rates between countries, institutions and genders? The main instrument will be a questionnaire to be completed by first-year students. All partners will contribute to instrument development, data collection and analysis, each with a specific focus. Questionnaire data will be complemented by literature reviews and smaller quantitative and qualitative studies. Central stakeholders will be brought into the work and results will be disseminated widely.

Keywords: science,technology,mathematics,recruitment,retention,study choice,gender equity,girls,interests,priorities,curricula
UPGRADING OF RESEARCH EQUIPMENT FOR DYNAMIC TESTING OF LARGE SCALE MODELS (UREDITEME)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 777480.0
EU funding (EUR): 693253.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is no doubt that that the Institute is the largest and most important RTD centre of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in any S&T field. In the 1980s the Institute invested about four million Euros in the development of its dynamic testing laboratories as well as for the education of young scientists in well known centers in Japan, USA and several European universities. Therefore, it is most worthwhile investing in its tradition and know-how and helping upgrade its infrastructure and human potential, to recover and surpass its capacity, level of activity and excellence and international standing. In order to enhance the participation of IZIIS in international cooperation and in the integrated European Research Area, it is necessary to take action now in the direction of reinforcement of the Institute’s RTD capacities. This will have a strong impact on further improvement of the quality of research in the area of seismic risk reduction and protection of structures from other environmental dynamic or technological hazards. It will save human lives and property in future earthquakes and reduce economic losses, producing in the long-term positive economic and social effects. On the other hand, creation of extraordinary working and research conditions, access to hi-tech infrastructures will keep our people at Institute and even engaging young and ambitious researchers from the wider region. Reinforced and upgraded RTD capacities will improve much more our competitiveness in respect to the European and World research centers and also to joint participation with other laboratories from the EU member states in research programmes financed by EU within the frames of FP7 and other calls from EC.

Keywords: earthquake engineering,dynamic testing,seismic risk reduction
Structuring of the building energy innovation offer and the technology transfer in the Midi-pyrenees region. (INCITE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Facilitating the emergence of new regional research driven clusters and mutual exchange of information
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,France
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 218515.5
EU funding (EUR): 170034.75
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

According to the European Commission expertise, the building sector accounts for nearly 40% of the EU total energy consumption. In this context the implementation of new technologies in the building industry is crucial as far as the energy efficiency objective is concerned. The InCITE project aims to establish a regional cluster in the field of building energy. It will constitute the innovation, construction, industry and environmental technology center (InCITE). The project will be based on the public-private partnership between ARMINES research entity, the AGATE local economic development agency and the TBC private company specialized in the construction innovation. The project management will be assured by the AGATE agency on behalf of the General Council – the local authority. The project partners aim to set up a cluster that will correspond to the local market profile and that will cover all necessary competences from generating ideas into the industrialization of products in the domains of renewable energies, building intelligent management, dynamic isolation, thermal isolation, natural insulation, new building materials and new construction methods. The cluster will be open for any other institutions and enterprises interested in the building energy efficiency issues. Therefore one of the most important project tasks will consist of communication and creation of a regional network. InCITE Project will become a regional development tool that will contribute to the growth of employment and entrepreneurship. By promoting the sustainable development in the energy sector and innovation, the project will also have a positive impact on the European level. The project web site will be available in English version so that it could be consulted by actors from other European regions.

Keywords: building energy,energy efficiency,construction innovation,environmental technology,ecobuilding cluster.
Center of Excellence in Low-Energy Ion-Beam Research and Applications (LIBRA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2474646.0
EU funding (EUR): 1403398.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at unlocking and strengthening the research potential of the group of the Tandem Accelerator Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP group) of NCSR "Demokritos", Athens, Greece. The action plan of the proposed project includes: a) Mobility of researchers to strengthen the existing trans-national collaborations, establish new ones and facilitate exchange of know-how and expertise, b) Recruitment of young highly-qualified researchers and technical personnel, c) Development and/or acquisition of advanced scientific tools, enabling an active participation of the group in research activities at EU level, d) Acquisition of state-of-the art instrumentation to increase its research capabilities of the laboratory, e) Upgrade of certain accelerator components to improve the group's response to the socio-economic needs of the country and the wider region, f) Organization of scientific events, g) Dissemination and promotional activities including establishment of a user's group. The research program to be realized include: 1.) The study of stellar nucleosynthesis, with emphasis on the so-called p process, 2) The experimental search for critical-point symmetries in nuclear structure, and 3) The development and implementation of novel analytical nuclear techniques related to cultural heritage, biomedicine and environmental control.

Keywords: ion-beam based research in nuclear physics and related applications
Balkan Histories: Shared, Connected, Entangled (ENTANGLED BALKANS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Bulgaria
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1560000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1560000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

THE OBJECTIVE of this project is to explore the various ways in which the histories of the Balkan peoples were shared, connected and entangled, and in some cases became structurally inter-dependent in the course of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries; also to explore transfers and crossings within the region and from Western Europe and Russia. What is offered is a provisional open-ended and long-term research program guided by a general paradigm , frame of reference and key concepts. I would rather keep the project open and flexible with regard to substantial issues, though with a clear vision of the general (transnational) perspective. A list of topics includes national and social movements, disputed territories, minorities and refugees, cultural and political transfers. The variegated topics demand expertise in different areas and a trans-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary treatment without regard to established disciplinary boundaries. Systematically applying the transnational and relational perspective to the study of a region as complex as the Balkans has huge cognitive potential and innovative power. The new perspective and cutting-edge methodologies will reveal fresh vistas and bring insights to a number of topics that cannot be restricted in advance. Older research objects will look different and acquire new meanings in the new context and entirely new historical objects will be constituted. The national paradigm of self-contained national histories will be challenged. Such a project may well have wider social and political relevance. There is a positive and integrative value in showing how entangled the histories of the present-day Balkan nations and states were and still are. I would like to imagine such research as promoting good relations rather than fostering divisiveness and separation. This project will also be an input to the European integration of the region, which will hopefully involve the rest of the Balkans in the near future.

Keywords: balkans,modern history,entanglements,transfers
Controlled Component and Assembly-Level Optimization of Industrial Devices (CASOPT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1247128.0
EU funding (EUR): 1247128.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The CASOPT Project Consortium consisting of ABB, University of Cambridge, Technical University of Munich and Technical University of Graz proposes to facilitate a paradigm change from state-of-the-art Simulation-Based Design to novel Optimisation-Based Design of complex electromagnetically-driven industrial products. This new design philosophy will first enable automatic, physics-governed re-sizing / miniaturisation of complex environmentally-friendly device assemblies and at the same time enforce a re-thinking of industrial design in general. Our complete physics-based optimization system includes: component-level optimisation, automatic mesh smoothing/exporting, fast Boundary-Element solvers, design-criteria evaluation, assembly-level optimisation and is importantly supported by high-performance computing. Within this highly multidisciplinary and inter-related project we compiled a team of world-class experts in numerical analysis, multi-physics simulation and optimization, geometric design and parallel computing. The realisation of this project essentially relies on already available site competencies, knowledge transfer through secondment and is supported by additionally recruited experts.

Keywords: electrical engineering,optimization,simulation-based design,design criteria,numerical methods,engineering desing,electromagnetics,optimization methods,boundary element method
Phantom phenomena: A window to the mind and the brain (PHANTOMMIND)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2334000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2334000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Phantom experiences occur in almost all amputees but are among the least understood sensory phenomena. Recently changes in the representation of body maps in the brain were found to be related to phantom pain and it has also been demonstrated that there are great similarities between nonpainful phantoms and bodily illusions such as the rubber hand illusion. This research has also shown that the brain does not process the physical but the perceived reality, which opens the door to manipulations of the perceived reality in basic research and the treatment of phantom pain. Behavioral intervention methods such as prosthesis, sensory discrimination or mirror training influence phantom limb pain and alter brain function. Thus, phantom phenomena are an excellent tool to study the neural basis of somatosensory and specifically bodily perception and this lead to new treatment methods such as brain-computer interfaces or virtual reality applications for phantom pain and similar pain states. The detailed analysis of the various types of phantom phenomena and bodily illusions and their relationship to each other is now timely. The aim of this proposal is therefore (1) an exact assessment and analysis of the interrelationship various phantom phenomena such as phantom limb awareness, painful phantom sensation, telescoping, prosthesis use and proneness to bodily illusionsor plasticity of body image in a large sample of amputees, (2) the analysis of the neural correlates of these phenomena in small subgroups of amputees using functional magnetic resonance imaging as well as transcranial magnetic stimulation, (3) the analysis of determinants and neural correlates of bodily illusions in healthy controls to identify potential common neural mechanisms and (4) use of prosthesis and virtual reality training early after amputation in order to understand how manipulations of the body image and sensory feedback alter the development and the brain correlates of phantoms.

Keywords: phantom limbs,phantom pain,brain,mind,functional imaging,pain treatment,body awareness