Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Women’s careers hitting the target: gender management in scientific and technological research (WHIST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,France,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1146582.19
EU funding (EUR): 663558.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project (duration: 31 months) concerns the experimentation of gender diversity management policies in different kinds of organisations conducting scientific and technological research (STR). It consists of a coordinated set of activities. It will primarily provide for a review on the main areas of risk for gender diversity in research settings as well as on the correspondent “ regimes” to cope with them that will allow the drafting of the provisional version of guidelines to be used for the implementation of experimental activities. These guidelines will be discussed in 3 interactive workshops, involving, representatives of both institutions which promoted some of the experiences previously analysed and research organisations potentially interested in launching programmes on gender diversity management. Special attention will be devoted to promote an exchange among universities, other kinds of public centres and private companies. Starting from the workshops’ outputs, experimental initiatives will be undertaken in 3 organisations, including both the direct promotion of new programmes and the support to programmes promoted by the organisation. The involved organisations will be provided with advice and technical assistance by the consortium members. During the experimentation, a joint working seminar will be conducted. Special attention will be given to the mutual relationships between the different kinds of actions on gender diversity management as well as on their capacity to generate a real “regime” for the promotion of gender diversity. On the basis of the experimental initiatives, the guidelines will be revised and presented at a European level conference and then disseminated. Different targets, also including non-scientific actors, will be taken into account, in order to increase the impacts of the project. A website will be created and an electronic newsletter will be published. Moreover, a policy brief on the project will be drafted.

Keywords: gender management,scientific and technological research,experimentations
Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Global Histories of Material Progress in the East and the West (URKEW)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497473.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497473.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal falls in paradigms for historical research in the comparative economic history of long-run global perspective: associated with the scholarship of Max Weber and Marc Bloch. It is focused upon cosmologies and cultures, promoting or restraining the accumulation of useful and reliable knowledge of production in the Orient and the Occident in the early-modern period - from the accession of the Ming Dynasty to the First Industrial Revolution.

Keywords: culture,technology,economic divergence
Bounded rationality and social concerns in decision processes: theory, experiments, and applications (BRSCDP-TEA)

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: Italy,Italy
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1399800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1399800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In the field of economics, individual decision making is the basic building block for studying complex environments such as markets, political systems, and social dynamics. Individual decision making is embodied in the neoclassical economically rational agent, whose only concern is the maximization of utility from his own material consumption. Two qualities of this agent are especially important for the research we will undertake: He has perfect understanding of the problems he faces - today and in the future - and unbounded computational ability to solve them. He also has no regard for the consumption of other members of the society or for their feelings about his actions. Huge empirical and experimental evidence shows that departure from these qualities is robust and significant. The failure of the existing models to incorporate bounded rationality and social concerns has proven critical in socially relevant and complex situations such as lifetime consumption and saving, taxation and expenditure policy, labour search and wage determination. The objective of this project is to bring these phenomena into the framework of neoclassical economics, to test their implications, and to tackle important applications. A novel and central feature of our approach is the attempt to retain the parsimonious methodological approach of economic modelling, which has scored groundbreaking successes in matters such as the design of auctions, markets, contracts, and voting mechanisms. Our project envisions the development of theory on individual decision making, the use of experiments to illuminate and test the theory, and the concrete application of theory - mainly to financial markets. The project will push the frontiers of the understanding of the above mentioned socially relevant situations. The explanatory power of our approach will be guaranteed by the continuous feed-back between theory and evidence- experimental and neuroexperimental, and by a departure from ad hoc modelling.

Keywords: social preferences,social economics,bounded rationality
The hybrid syntactic typology of Sinitic languages (SINOTYPE)

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: France
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1863528.0
EU funding (EUR): 1863528.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project proposes to carry out the first large scale investigation into the typology of Sinitic or Chinese languages, broadening its horizons beyond Standard Mandarin to consider the major parameters in the grammatical makeup of this language taxon with respect to the neighbouring language families of East and Southeast Asia. The principal objective is to examine and seek explanations for the apparent hybrid typology of Sinitic languages which reveal a perplexing mixture of head-final and head-initial features and consequently pose several striking counterexamples to classic Greenbergian word order correlations. The theoretical issue involved is to question accounts which purely rely upon areal diffusion to explain this, without considering language-internal development, in particular syntactic change, as an interacting component. Complicating research in this field is the fact that Standard Mandarin is generally the main, if not, only point of reference for Sinitic languages in typological studies in the West, while until recently it persisted as the primary object of analysis in Chinese linguistics in general. Thus, a macroscopic survey of the ten branches of Sinitic is first proposed to describe their fundamental syntactic properties and word order correlations in detail. Second, the project sets out to challenge and refine the hypothesis of a North-South typological dichotomy for Sinitic languages based on areal principles and advocated by Hashimoto and Norman. To this purpose, the research plan also includes a comprehensive analysis of the grammar of Waxiang, a language spoken in remote northwest Hunan province and chosen to represent the transitional zone of Chinese languages in central China . Significantly, this language shows characteristics of an intermediate nature between northern and southern Sinitic , expected to assist in elucidating the issue of hybrid typological features.

Keywords: typology,grammaticalization,sinitic languages,chinese dialects
Analysis and assessment of the new European Agri-food Law in the contexts of food safety, sustainable development and international trade (LASCAUX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1940000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1940000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In Europe, agri-food legislation has been substantially transformed between 2002 and 2007. The result is metamorphosed law that must take place at the same time in a global free market economy, in European policies of public health and sustainable development, and in the legal regulation of global trade. This metamorphosis rendered inevitable in order to respond to three essential concerns: Developing the economic sector based on a high level of food safety; Putting food law and the European strategy of sustainable development in phase; Transcribing into the new agri-food law the environmental, cultural or social values Europe wishes to defend within the international trade. This new law is extremely fragmented and disparate, a fact that might hamper its understanding. This is why there is need to make it formally and substantially homogeneous in order to study it afterwards, to develop its study at universities, to make it more easily accessible to economic operators and to diffuse its contents to non European countries wishing to have their food products accepted in Europe. This radical change in agri-food law has a particular importance since this law must take the perspective of sustainable development into account. So, it is necessary to determine the content of the sustainable development concept in relation to food legislation. Such a determination will contribute to put in light the shared and non market-oriented values for which agri-food law is or should be a key contributor. Some of them have roots which may likely go back as far as when agriculture began. Others come from our social history, Human rights, actuality& Beyond the search for these values of our origins, past or present, the effort is to envisage concretely how the cultural relations of man to soil and food are reconciled within European agri-food law and in various legal systems in the world.

Keywords: agri-food law,sustainable development,world trade organization,agriculture law,business law,comparative law,international trade,world legal systems
ESConet Trainers (ESCONET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science and society communicate
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 609778.0
EU funding (EUR): 543827.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal by ESConet Trainers is to train high-level EC-funded scientists in science communication skills, so that they can interact effectively and confidently with the mass media, so that they can make use of the internet and its capabilities, and so that they can engage European citizens in dialogue about science in society issues. Our team combines the talents of media and policy professionals, with a solid basis in science communication training. It builds on highly successful science communication training workshops and modules developed under FP6, and raises the European dimension in such training.

Keywords: science communication training,media training,dialogue,engagement
REsearch LAbs for TEaching Journalists (RELATE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science and society communicate
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 345982.68
EU funding (EUR): 312709.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

RELATE is an ambitious experimental project conceived to bridge the relations between research laboratories involved in EU funded activities and the media. The objective is to select 80 final year students from different European journalism schools and organize for each of them a visit to a high-standing research laboratory in Europe. Since the project wants to test different approaches to the involvement of research labs in such actions, the participation of scientific organisation is coordinated using 3 methods: a) two high profile research organisations, ENEA (IT) and EPFL (CH) are partners in the project and will host students at their research facilities; b) one partner, TUBITAK (TR) acts as a gateway to Turkish research organisations. Its mission is to ensure the involvement of Turkish entities in hosting the students. c) Project coordinator MINERVA will run a so-called recruitment campaign aimed at involving in the action or at signing partnership agreements for the future with research organisations other those directly involved as partners. Thus, while the project relies on a core group of partners that can already ensure the involvement of different labs (ENEA and EPFL are involved in several projects in various research areas), it will also seek the involvement of other laboratories and “test” the level of interest that such an approach generates in the research community of Europe, new Members States included. The students’ visits to the labs are organised through a common format of 5 days, in which they will be asked to carry out a practical work. The outcome of which should be the production of a fully fledged article of 3-4 pages (of a standard European weekly magazine), with interviews and pictures. The work of students will be assessed by an Advisory Board run by the EJC (European Journalism Centre) and assembled in a selection of the best articles, to be presented to the final project workshop which will target the EC services and the stakeholders of media-science relations.

Keywords: research laboratories,journalists,media,dialogue,partnerships
SECURITIES IN TIMES OF INSECURITY: ASSET RETURNS AND HOLDINGS DURING POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES IN EUROPE, 1900-1950 (INSECUREASSETS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Advanced Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2099800.0
EU funding (EUR): 2099800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project assembles a new dataset on asset returns in four European countries between 1900 and 1950. Most of the information we have today about the performance of different asset classes comes from relatively 'tranquil', stable periods. Yet what happens to the value of one's savings matters all the more when times are not good, and labor income is low. This is the fundamental insight of the consumption capital asset pricing model. The four countries in this study experienced among them the full range of 'horrors and disasters' that could befall investors. By going beyond published statistics on index values, we will obtain a much more accurate picture of how investors fared. Systematically collecting individual-level return data for four European countries at a time of great turmoil will allow me to address a number of canonical asset pricing puzzles: Why are average returns on stocks so high? Why do bonds generally do so poorly? And why would anyone hold gold, given that the long-run average return is quite low? If the recent literature on pricing assets via their value in 'disaster periods' is right, we should find that holding stocks turned out to be much riskier than normally assumed, based on the standard data sets for rich countries in the last fifty years. The opposite ought to be true for bonds and gold. To find out, I will use a wealth of notarial and bank records, combined with tax-based material, a close reading of the legal literature, and probates, to track as closely as possible how individual investors fared in an age characterized by war, political turmoil, revolution, and expropriation.

Keywords: asset returns,crises,war,revolutions,disruptions to civic order,individual portfolio choice and performance
SciCafe: The Science Cafes Network (SCICAFE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,France,Poland,Italy,Hungary,Denmark,United Kingdom,Greece,Switzerland,Finland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 916704.05
EU funding (EUR): 798862.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The SciCafe project proposes the notion of networking, exchange of best practices, and co-operation between science cafes (SC) in different cities and regions of Europe, both in their physical vicinities and in virtual space, as a vehicle for the promotion of the public understanding of science and of the public debate on scientific issues, focusing specifically on the promotion of a scientific culture at the local level. The SciCafe proposes an innovative approach that crosscuts the boundaries between the already existing initiatives, focusing both on the improvement of organisers’ knowledge on how to develop and maintain a SC and on increasing the participants intrinsic motivation to learn and understand about scientific issues, which could potentially change their attitude towards science and encourage them to follow scientific careers in the years to come. It offers tools and activities combining physical presence of its members in the existing SC, and virtual presence of members from across Europe and beyond, ensuring everyone’s active participation, irrespectively of their physical location and possible disadvantage (rural areas’ citizens). In this hybrid world of SC, the network will consist of actors from the cities who are involved in science/culture/entertainment/education/local development/citizens' participation/media, such as local authorities, universities/research centres, science communication structures, schools, libraries, local civil society organisations, enterprises based on science and technology. Today’s participant to a SC has to find it more and more attractive and not static to what it was when these initiatives were begun so such places should follow the new trends and the new technological achievements. The project will focus on: (i) To create a network of SC that will guide the next generation of SCs, (ii) To implement a series of state of the art technologies (virtual presence, social tagging) through a series of innovative scenarios.

Keywords: science cafes,network,exchange of best practices
Promoting International Debate on Ethical Implications of Data collection, use and retention for Biometric and Medical Applications (ETHICAL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Cyprus,Ukraine,Chile,Malaysia,Greece
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): 1080930.5
EU funding (EUR): 742394.53
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

ETHICAL project has a set of concrete objectives to fulfil: 1. To formulate an international dialogue on ethical implications of data collection, use and retention in medical and biometric applications, in three specific themes: potential data misuse, development of a unique identifier and international standardisation of ethical requirements 2. To develop a guide on government – industry collaboration prerequisites concerning the data collection, use and retention in medical and biometric applications. 3. To develop a code of conduct for FP7 researchers, concerning the data collection, use and retention in medical and biometric applications. 4. To identify the set of ethical requirements for international biometric and medical data sharing. 5. To create synergies with SINAPSE e-community of National Ethics Councils.

Keywords: privacy,ethics,debate,dialogue
My Ideal City (M.I.C.)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science and society communicate
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Israel,Portugal,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 776000.0
EU funding (EUR): 682070.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The M.I.C. (My Ideal City) project aims to encourage a European dimension in the communication of science and technology through museums events targeting the public. More specifically, it will support the networking around the development of a coordinated exhibition in different museums, in Member and Associate Countries, that is going to use a “virtual worlds” dimension in order to connect urban planning choices and the awareness of citizens about them, and an International Conference that will bring together academics and science centers to discuss the relationships between urban planning, cyberspace, and science events. The exhibition is going to provide visitors with a “virtual worlds” environment that will re-produce in alternative and different ways their own city as well as the other ones involved in the project. The new cities, the “ideal” ones, will make possible for citizens to re-think their urban environments and the choices done in order to make it as it appear in the virtual environment. The project will not only provide citizens with an exhibition able to raise socio – cultural awareness in relation to the urban choices, but also involve them in the planning of the “ideal cities”, giving another contribution to the spread of an open an transparent process of communication between science (sustainable urban planning), technology (the virtual environment), institutions (science centers) and people. After the exhibition evaluation, the organization of an International Conference will take place, in order to make the awareness about the potential of the mixture developed in the exhibition spread around Europe.

Keywords: virtual worlds,sustainable urban planning,science centers