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Rethinking the status of refugees beyond the camp: a Lefortian response to Agamben’s critique of democracy and human rights (RECAMP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-15
End date: 2014-03-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Liberal theorists of democracy traditionally believe in the rule of law and universal human rights. Yet a group of anti-liberal thinkers such as Agamben have recently argued that rights are not universal but depend on political institutions that can arbitrarily take away these rights. For them, the current plight of refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants in Western democracies illustrates their point. It shows that our democracies allow for an increasing lawless space (‘the camp’) where people become rightless and are exposed to the arbitrary intervention of a police force. Yet I believe that the radical anti-liberal view is as problematic as the liberal view it seeks to replace. In my project, I will therefore develop an alternative theoretical framework that offers a ‘third way’ that would criticize liberal theory without therefore embracing the radical conclusions of anti-liberal critics. To develop this alternative, I will draw on the political theorist Lefort. I will first develop an alternative to Agamben’s theory based on Lefort’s paradigm and then see what this alternative model would mean for our understanding of refugees and illegal immigrants. I will then examine how the alternative model could respond to four major objections and publish the research-results.

Keywords: humanities
Hypervalent Chemistry and Catalysis (HYPERCAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The use of hypervalent compounds as homogeneous redox catalysts represents a departure from the stoichiometric use of main group reagents in synthesis. The methods proposed here are expected to hold significant promise for application in complex small molecule synthesis. The repertoire of oxidative ligand coupling reactions developed is expected to complement, and in some cases compete with, known transition metal catalyzed processes. A vital corollary to the synthetic studies outlined above involves the development of a more intimate understanding of the stereoelectronic features that govern ligand coupling reactivity. Although there currently exists no broad and effective treatment of main group ligand coupling that links data about one- and two-electron redox potentials to the observed bond forming reactivity, probing this connection may prove crucial to unlocking additional facets of this chemistry.

Keywords: physical sciences,chemistry,organic chemistry,green chemistry,sustainable chemistry,hypervalent compounds
Temporal Information in Crossmodal Stimuli (TICS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-29
End date: 2016-06-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Timing of information is essential for many aspects of human perception and action. Information coming from different sense organs is processed in separate areas of the brain, so there must be a mechanism that relates back the information about timing of signals. This project will analyze some of the properties of this mechanism and to find out how asynchrony, duration, and time course of signals, are processed by the brain. The goal of this inquiry is to determine how multisensory information can be presented so as to manipulate the perception of virtual objects. Three perceptual effects will be studied: the range of asynchronies at which stimuli are perceived to be synchronous and are integrated into one percept, the effect of distance on audiovisual simultaneity perception, and how information obtained through multiple sensory signals is integrated in the time domain. In particular, a new method will be employed to assess what are the limits of the mechanism devoted to establishing whether two signals are integrated. Theoretical and experimental work will be performed to determine what are the mechanisms that allow for overcoming the effect of perceptual asynchronies of audiovisual signals created by distance. Finally, a theoretical and experimental investigation will be preformed to find out what are the conditions that allow to maximally reduction of uncertainty about temporal estimates when multiple sources of information are presented.

Keywords: experimental psychology,cognitive science,neurosciences
Exploring the Effects of Emotion on Human Cognition (EMOTIONCOG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Emotions evoke a profound modulation of human cognition. Emotional events are susceptible to preferential perceptual processing and are more likely to be remembered than neutral ones. But how does the emotionality of a stimulus lead to enhanced perception and memory? The series of experiments proposed will investigate the underlying human neurobiological mechanisms by which emotion modulates these two cognitive processes. This will proceed through the integration of basic psychological tasks, human psychopharmacology and an examination of functional neuronal measures in humans, employing intracranial EEG recordings from patients with depth electrodes, magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The core hypothesis is that emotions evoke an amygdala-dependent modulation of other brain areas; higher-order visual cortex and hippocampus for effects on perception and memory, respectively. A central theme is that the noradrenergic (NA) system is critical for this interplay between different brain areas. Emotions can also evoke deleterious effects on memory, particularly for stimuli that precede the emotional event, but the mechanisms underlying this are also poorly understood. Initial experiments presented here will characterise the temporal profile of this retrograde amnesia, as well as the neurophysiological and biochemical correlates. The next study, to be performed in the context of simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings, tests whether response inhibition-induced associative memory impairment has a NA basis. A final study examines how the spatial frequency of emotional stimuli modulates both perceptual and memory-related neuronal activity in healthy controls and patients with depression, a condition characterised by abnormal emotional processing. Thus, by employing a combination of neuroscience techniques, the proposed studies will address a number of critical, outstanding questions regarding the way in which emotion modulates cognition.

Keywords: neurosciences,neurobiology,neurophysiology,clinical pharmacology,emotion,memory,perception,fmri,intracranial recordings,noradrenaline,psychopharmacology
Solar Eruptions and Flares: Bridging the scale gap (SERAF)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As the human civilization relies on more and more advanced - frequently space-based - technologies, various natural factors, which have not been significant in the past, come now into play. The variations of plasma and magnetic field in the surroundings of the Earth - commonly known as the 'space weather' - represents a clear example. Since the main driver of the space weather has to be found in the solar activity - namely CMEs and flares - detailed understanding solar eruptions is necessary for space weather predictions. It is commonly accepted that the formation of current layers and subsequent magnetic reconnection play a key role for the change of magnetic field topology in eruptions and energy dissipation in flares. Nevertheless, many questions remain open in research of this process. Namely, one fundamental problem has not been resolved yet: The issue of energy transport from large to small scales. It is known, that free magnetic energy is accumulated on much larger scales (~1000km) along the current layer formed behind the ejecta than is the typical predicted width of dissipative (kinetic) current sheets (~10m in solar corona). The question arises, how to bridge this enormous scale gap - what is the nature of energy transport from large to the dissipation scales. This issue is closely related to the enigmatic duality between coherent large-scale structures and signatures of fragmented small-scale energy dissipation observed simultaneously in solar flares. In the proposed project we plan to study this fundamental problem using - above all - advanced numerical simulations that extend over a broad range of scales. As a follow-up of our modeling we shall formulate the model-specific results of the simulations in the form directly comparable with observations, namely in radio and X-ray domains, and use the targeted observations as the model tests. The project aims at solar eruptions but its results are relevant for broad-scale magnetic reconnection in general.

Keywords: astrophysics:solar physics,solar flares,solar eruptions,magnetohydrodynamics,electromagnetism,computational physics
Genetic adaptations to climate in Arabidopsis thaliana (CLIMATE_ADAPTATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

A major goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the phenotypic and genetic bases of adaptation to the environment. Since plants have limited mobility, aspects of climate play an especially important role in their survival and reproductive success. Some of the earliest evidence for this comes from phenotypic clines with the environment . The proposed research will identify the specific genetic variants – including previously not assayed rare single nucleotide polymorphisms and structural variants – that underlie adaptations to the environment in the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. These results will then be used as a starting point to examine the broader context of adaptation in the Arabidopsis gene interaction network as well as the specific evolutionary histories of a few of the most compelling candidates. This research brings together scientists working at two different institutes for work at the intersection of Mathematics and the Life Sciences, and it combines recently collected and emerging data sets with cutting-edge computational methods. The results will clarify how quantitative traits evolve in response to climate, a necessary first step for accurately predicting responses to future climate change, and will inform research to produce sustainable crop varieties.

Keywords: landscape ecology (climate change),evolutionary biology,ecological genetics,population genetics,plant genetics,environmental genomics
Development of an Automatic harvesting system for green asparagus with stalk detection in Ambient Light (AMLIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Poland,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1394580.0
EU funding (EUR): 1036000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The main problem of harvesting green asparagus is the great need of seasonal workers. Usually between 1.5 and 2.5 workers are needed per ha. The high labour costs and unsatisfying working conditions have created over the last four decades the demand for a partial mechanization of the harvesting process. The increasing labour costs and the lack of in time labour supply have forced the asparagus farmers to optimize the harvesting process and to introduce harvesting aids. Several types of machines for the support of manual harvesting are available. However, all approaches towards fully automatically harvesting have failed so far, mainly for the following reasons: a) None of the currently available harvesters approach the yield and quality of hand harvesting, because of the aggressive harvest mechanization b) Damage to emerging spears with its immediate negative effect on yield and/or lack of profitability has slowed or stopped further experimentation or commercialization The AmLight project will overcome the current problems of automatically harvesting by implementing the following objectives: • Research & development of the AmLight detection system • Research & development of a harvesting mechanism • Research & Development of a self-driven carrier unit • Research & Development of a control program

Keywords: ground penetration radar detection,3d imaging,selectiv cutting and lifting
Interactive Devices for Efficiency in Automotive with Increased Reliability and Safety (IDEAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ENIAC (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Czechia,Czechia,Poland,Greece
Call:  (ENIAC-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2015-05-01
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9950109.0
EU funding (EUR): 1661669.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of IDEAS “Interactive Power Devices for Efficiency in Automotive with Increased Reliability and Safety”, - is to develop advanced packaging for power supply components and new generation memory systems having application on Electric and ICE propelled vehicles and aiming at covering complementary aspects which haven’t yet addressed into the main running ENIAC and ARTEMIS Automotive projects. One of the main challenges of the introduction of the electronic systems in the automotive ,in particular for electrified vehicles, is the reliability and the availability of the power supply systems, which must assure the functionality to all the subsystems (See Figure 1). In this context the packaging of the supply systems play a crucial role and efforts needs to be dedicated to improve the thermal performances of them. On the other side the control systems which relies on multi-core microcontroller and complex software architectures, are requiring increasingly stringent constraints from the memory devices which needs to be designed for very high bandwidth, speed and reliability. The key objective is the enhancement of the power train platform to ensure the thermal performance and the reliability requirements in particular vs. thermal & power cycles and life time. Another key objective is to develop a new memory system specifically designed for the aggressive requirements as required for the control systems of advanced ICE or Electrically propelled vehicles. Main requirements will be a very high bandwidth to ensure a fast access for real-time operation with concurrent access to allow the usage of multi-core processor, coupled with very high safety requirements, and additional legacy interface to permit the In-System Programming, and a very high robustness for the automotive environment.

Keywords: intelligent car safety,reliability,power packaging,power efficiency,electric vehicle,ice
Battery Management with Solar Powered Devices (BATTMAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ENIAC (Art-185)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Norway,Austria,Finland
Call:  (ENIAC-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2015-03-01
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5773504.0
EU funding (EUR): 964176.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The BattMan project on Battery Management for Solar-Powered Devices is planning to: Design and develop battery-pack systems which manage photovoltaic power feed efficiently and deliver optimized, reliable, low-cost and predictable performance. Batteries and battery management systems are the essential storage elements in any solar-powered application. These systems can be employed in a variety of different markets and applications, as will be described below, yet reliable long-term service of the battery and system is the common challenge for all of the applications. The BattMan project therefore focuses on these essential elements and targets solar-powered, off-grid street lighting poles as a challenging demonstrator. It will be simulated, specified, designed, prototyped, demonstrated and validated in the project. The objectives of the BattMan project are therefore to develop: Obj1 – Improved battery chemistry and battery packs for predictable, reliable, safe, and long life operation Obj2 – Improved battery management systems for ensuring specifications, including state-of-health (SoH) and state-of-charge (SoC) reporting, cell balancing and temperature stabilization Obj3 – Enhanced efficiency of the overall energy chain in the system, including maximization of system performance for both the application requirements and battery lifetime Obj4 – System integration of electronics with photovoltaic panels, PV optimization and applications of the systems for supporting an internet of energy for smart grids Obj5 – System and prototype designs for the demonstrator application of the Solar-powered Off-grid Street Lighting The knowledge gained within this project will be generated to be used to support a variety of applications. The consortium partners in this small, targeted project bring world-class experience, and consist of battery suppliers, battery management system developers, photovoltaic panel producers, lighting system manufacturers and universities.

Keywords: battery,battery cells,battery management,battery management system,energy management system,battery chemistry,battery packs,solar power,off-grid,street lighting,internet of energy
A new nanotechnology-based paradigm for engineering vascularised liver tissue for transplantation (NANOBIO4TRANS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Biotechnology, generic tools and medical technologies for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Sweden,Ireland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7738695.4
EU funding (EUR): 5968093.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Organ transplantation is often the only life saving medical approach for several diseases, in spite of many associated problems (lack of organ donors, rejection, life-long heavy medication). The innovative therapeutic approach of the 21th century is focusing on bioartificial organs as an alternative solution.Tissue engineering and stem cell biology have uncovered groundbreaking opportunities for cellular re-programming, i.e., some cell types can be changed into a pluripotent stem cell (PSC) by over-expressing key transcription factors. These induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) share two key characteristics with embryonic stem cells (eSC): self-renewal and pluripotency (ability to differentiate to form any cell type in the human body). Crucially, they are generated from adult cells circumventing many ethical concerns associated with using human eSC. The discovery of human iPSC (hiPSC) enables the growth of an almost unlimited supply of a patient´s own cells, potentially conferring the ability to grow and regenerate tissues and organs from ‘self’, which is expected to resolve organ rejection-related issues. Similarly, recent developments in material science and nanobiotechnology resulted in engineered materials and devices (manipulated and controlled by physical and chemical means), with unique functional or analytical properties. NanoBio4Trans will merge hiPSC-, polymer hybrid scaffolds and biosensor technologies to develop new tools (beyond state-of-the-art) for use in transplantation and biomedical research. The international, trans-sectoral, and multidisciplinary consortium with complementary and leading expertise in material sciences, cell- and molecular biology, sensor technologies, and bioanalytics, aims at developing, optimising and validating a highly vascularised in vivo-like BAL as an extracorporeal bioartificial liver (EBAL), ready to be perfused with human blood plasma, and to be exploited in modern medical technology.

Keywords: liver transplantation,induced pluripotent stem cells,bioartificial liver,vascular networks,advanced metabolic sensor systems