Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
BIOdiversity Multi-Source Monitoring System: from Space TO Species (BIO_SOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Netherlands,India,Spain,Portugal,United Kingdom,France,France
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3159510.03
EU funding (EUR): 2476363.71
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

BIO_SOS (BIOdiversity multi-SOurce monitoring System: from Space TO Species is a response to the Call for proposals FP7- SPACE-2010-1, addressing topic SPACE.2010.1.1-04 “Stimulating the development of GMES services in specific areas" with application to (B) BIODIVERSITY. BIO_SOS is a pilot project for effective and timely multi-annual monitoring of NATURA 2000 sites and their surrounding in support to management decisions in sample areas, mainly in Mediterranean regions and for the reporting on status and trends according to National and EU obligations. The aim of BIO_SOS is two-fold: 1) the development and validation of a prototype multi-modular system to provide a reliable long term biodiversity monitoring service at high to very high-spatial resolution; 2) to embed monitoring information (changes) in innovative ecological (environmental) modelling for Natura 2000 site management. The system will be developed and validated within ecologically sensitive ‘sampling’ sites and their borders exposed to combined human-induced pressures. Different environmental characteristics of the selected sites have been considered in order to ensure system robustness. Sites characteristics ranges from mountain rough to flat coastal morphologies, from rangeland to human dominated landscapes and land uses. BIO_SOS intends to deeply investigate issues related to very high spatial (VHR) (and spectral) resolution Earth Observation data (EO) image processing for automatic land cover maps updating and change detection. Such maps are at the base of biodiversity indicators provision. On the other hand, it intends to develop a modelling framework to combine multi-scale (high to very high resolution) EO data and in-situ/ancillary data to provide indicators and their trends. This means the development of more appropriate and accurate models in support to a deeper understanding, assessment and prediction of the impacts that human induced pressures may have on biodiversity loss.

Keywords: biodiversity monitoring,remote sensing image understanding system,habitat mapping,longterm monitoring
Biomedical Research and the Future of Property Rights (BIOPROPERTY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 887602.0
EU funding (EUR): 887602.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This research project investigates the dynamics of private and public property in contemporary biomedical research. It will develop an analytical framework combining insights from science and technology studies, economic sociology, and legal and political philosophy, and pursues a social scientific investigation of the evolution of intellectual property rights in three fields of bioscientific research: 1) the use of transgenic research mice; 2) the legal status of totipotent and pluripotent stem cell lines; and 3) modes of collaboration for research and development on neglected diseases. These three domains, and their attendant modes of appropriation, will be compared across three general research themes: a) the production of public scientific goods; b) categories of appropriation; and c) the moral economy of research. The project rests on close observation of research practices in these three domains. The BioProperty research programme will track the trajectories of property rights and property objects in each of the three fields of biomedical research.

Keywords: property,biomedical research
European Satellite PArtnership for Computing Ephemerides (ESPACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2504119.0
EU funding (EUR): 1930256.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This ESPACE project aims at strengthening the collaboration and at developing new knowledge, new technology, and products for the scientific community in the domains of the development of ephemerides and reference systems for natural satellites and spacecraft by conjugating expertise of main European research centres involved in space sciences and dynamics, ROB, TUB, JIVE, TUD, CNES, DLR and IMCCE. The main part of the activity is focused on the extraction and analysis of astrometric data from space measurements not yet applied to the dynamics and to combine them with ground-based astrometric data. The project will also advance the European expertise in ultra-precise tracking of planetary probes and other deep space science missions. By these means, we intend to provide new dynamical models for several natural satellites, a characterization of their rotation properties, and improve spacecraft orbit determination methods for space science. The project is organised in 11 work-packages: coordination (management), radio science, laser ranging, VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry), digitized data handling, astrometry, definition of coordination reference frames and improvement of planetary coordinate knowledge, methods for determination of spacecraft and satellites’ ephemerides, formation of databases, data access and distribution methods, educational and outreach activities. The project will concentrate at achieving maximum synergy between all the work packages above in order to deliver to the professional and at-large communities the best scientific products adequate to the present-day cutting-edge space science and technology.

Keywords: astrometry - dynamics - natural satellites - ephemerides - radioscience - vlbi - laser tracking - spacecraft - orbits
Enhanced reliability and lifetime of ceramic components through multiscale modelling of degradation and damage (ROLICER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Czechia,Germany,Austria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3682246.4
EU funding (EUR): 2600000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Engineering ceramics possess superior mechanical and physical properties. The exceptional wear, corrosion and contact fatigue resistance of silicon nitride and SiAlON ceramics makes them attractive materials for high temperature metalforming tools and rolling elements for bearings. Despite the efforts devoted to study this class of materials, there still exists a gap between their microstructural properties and their potential application limits. Developing multiscale predictive models that deliver information on materials degradation mechanisms, based on realistic working conditions, will enable the systematic tailoring of ceramic materials for new applications, supported by validated evaluation techniques including tribology, damage analysis, and lifetime predictions. The optimisation of the microstructure is clearly application-dependent and should rely on co-related material development efforts and multiscale simulations. The bridging between the microstructural properties and macroscale behaviour should merge the knowledge acquired from the atomistic, microscale, mesoscale and macroscale levels. Nonetheless, the chain of information would not be complete without including means of validation that rely on experimental techniques and functionality tests in real applications.

Keywords: ceramics,silicon nitride,degradation mechanisms,crystalline materials,metalforming,bearings
Towards Neutral-atom Space Optical Clocks: Development of high-performance transportable and breadboard optical clocks and advanced subsystems (SOC2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,France,Italy,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2719635.47
EU funding (EUR): 1999331.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

A range of new applications will be enabled by ultra-precise optical clocks, some of which by using them in space, near or far distant from Earth. They cover the fields of fundamental physics (tests of General Relativity), time and frequency metrology (comparison of distant terrestrial clocks, operation of a master clock in space), geophysics (mapping of the gravitational potential of the Earth), and potential applications in astronomy (local oscillators for radio ranging and interferometry in space). We propose to (1) develop two “engineering confidence“ ultra-precise transportable lattice optical clock demonstrators with relative frequency instability < 1×10-15/root(tau)1/2, inaccuracy < 5×10-17, one of which as a breadboard. They will be based on trapped neutral Ytterbium and Strontium atoms. Goal performance is about 1 and 2 orders better than today’s best transportable clocks, in inaccuracy and instability, respectively. The two systems will be validated in a laboratory environment (TRL 4) and performance will be established by comparison with laboratory optical clocks and primary frequency standards. (2) We will develop the necessary laser systems (adapted in terms of power, linewidth, frequency stability, long-term reliability, and accuracy), atomic packages with control of systematic (magnetic fields, black-body radiation, atom number), where novel solutions with reduced space, power and mass requirements will be implemented. Some of the laser systems will be developed towards particularly high compactness and robustness. Also, crucial laser components will be tested at TRL 5 level (validation in relevant environment). The work will build on the expertise of the proposers with laboratory optical clocks, and the successful development of breadboard and transportable cold Sr and Yb atomic sources and ultrastable lasers during the ELIPS-3 ESA development project “Space Optical Clocks (SOC)”.

Keywords: optical clocks,cold atoms,ultrastable lasers,neutral atom lattice clocks,time and frequency measurements,gravitational physics,fundamental physics,metrology
Integrated Real-Time Measurement Platforms for Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle Thin Films (SNOW CONTROL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Switzerland,France,Finland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SME-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-14
End date: 2015-06-13
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4247139.26
EU funding (EUR): 2820000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

One of the major barriers towards the successful introduction of nanoparticles (NP) into many applications is the lack of a tight control on their properties ((size, shape, crystallinity, composition, core-shell, functionalization, etc). This can only be resolved by the simultaneous use of several metrology methods, to extract the relevant information in real-time and to establish of a feedback control loop. In this project we take the first steps towards this goal by proposing the required concepts and methods. The main goal of this project is therefore to develop real-time characterization metrology tools to measure the properties of nanoparticles, functionalized NPs and NP thin films. To enable a real-time and a complete characterization of NP properties we drastically extend the capabilities of Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Zeta Potential (ZP) and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and combine those into an integrated real-time NPs measurement platform. New methods to measure the flux of NPs in the gas phase and the properties of NP thin films and heterostructures will be developed based on ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet radiation. These will be combined with Grazing Incidence SAXS and Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction into a real-time NP thin film measurement platform. Standard operating procedures will be developed for these instrument combinations so that a multi-method metrology standard can be defined based on the (quasi-) simultaneous measurement of complimentary properties with the different tools. Finally, the capabilities of these integrated measurement platforms will be tested against two high throughput lines for the production of NP in solution and for the growth of NP thin films. This project will be carried out by four Small and Medium Enterprises -- all active in equipment and metrology development -- two Industrial partners and two institutes for Higher and Secondary Education.

Keywords: nanoparticles nanoparticle thin films dynamic light scattering small angle x-ray scattering vacuum ultraviolet radiation zeta potential
An integrated socioecological approach to land-use intensity: Analyzing and mapping biophysical stocks/flows and their socioeconomic drivers (LUISE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 887121.43
EU funding (EUR): 887121.43
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Land-use intensity is an essential aspect of the human use of terrestrial ecosystems. In the course of history, intensification of land use allowed to overcome Malthusian traps and supported population growth and im-proved diets. It can be anticipated that intensification will become even more decisive in the future, in the light of a growing world population, surges in biofuel consumption, and the simultaneous mandate to protect the world’s forests. Despite its importance, there is a lack of comprehensive, consistent, systematic, and spa-tially explicit metrics of land-use intensity. In consequence, the causal understanding of the factors, mecha-nisms, determinants and constraints underlying land intensification is unsatisfactory. This is due to the main-stream in land use research that predominantly operates with nominal scales, subdividing the Earth’s surface into discrete land cover units. This hampers the analysis of gradual changes, in particular those which are not related to changes in land cover. Intensification leads exactly to such changes. The overall goal of LUISE is the conceptualization and quantification of land use intensity and to contribute to an improved causal under-standing of land intensification. By applying and significantly extending existing methods of the material and energy flow analysis framework (MEFA), the full cycle of land intensification will be studied: Socioeco-nomic inputs to ecosystems, structural changes within ecosystems, changes in outputs of ecosystems to soci-ety, and the underlying socioeconomic constraints, feedbacks, and thresholds, from top-down macro perspec-tives as well as applying bottom-up approaches. The anticipated new empirical results and insights can allow further conceptualizations and quantifications of land modifications (land change without land cover change), and improve the understanding of the dynamic and complex interplay of society and nature that shapes spatial patterns as well as changes of land systems over time.

Keywords: land use,land use intensity,socioecolgocial metabolism,land use decisions,land use history
From Late Medieval to Early Modern: 13th to 16th Century Islamic Philosophy And Theology (IMPACT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1292502.0
EU funding (EUR): 1292502.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

IMPAcT will make accessible the crucially important, but much neglected 13th–16th century Islamic intellectual history on a broad scale by establishing for the first time, through an integrated database on Islamic philosophy, theology, and related fields, the bio-bibliographical data necessary for systematic research in these areas, which will fundamentally transform the quality of scholarship. The project is frontier research in the primary sense of the term, as it goes where few have gone before: the late medieval Islamic history has long been perceived as one of decline, leading to the assumption that there is little in late medieval and early modern Islam that is new or worth studying. This un-historical view has been especially damaging for intellectual history: The great majority of the relevant Arabic, Persian and Turkish sources remain unpublished. Nonetheless, the period is frequently described as “conservative” and “lacking originality.” IMPAcT’s aim is to break out of the vicious circle of the claim that there is little worth knowing about this period, and, as a consequence, the continuing lack of knowledge about it. IMPAcT’s ultimate aim is to bridge the gap between the classical and modern periods of Islamic intellectual history, and to overcome the current fragmentation of the existing expertise across Europe, the Middle East, and North America by bringing together the experts in these fields at international workshops, and by encouraging them to contribute, in the long term, to the database. The open-source, open-access, inter-operable, and fully searchable database of all published (ca. 15%) and unpublished (ca. 85%) 13th –16th century Arabic, Persian and Turkish works on the rational sciences will be supported by the edition of key texts and a dedicated website.

Keywords: islam,middle east,history of thought,intellectual networks
The Liber glossarum. Edition of a Carolingian ecyclopaedia (LIBGLOSS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: France,Italy
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 945571.0
EU funding (EUR): 945571.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Liber Glossarum is a very large dictionary (about 30000 entries), compiled in Northern France at the end of the VIIIth c., and combining encyclopaedic, theological, medical and grammatical sources. While being the first European alphabetical dictionary, it is still much neglected by modern scholars, principally because there exist only partial editions from the beginning of the XXth c. This project aims to provide a full edition of the text, based upon a large number of manuscripts, as well as to try and answer questions relative to its origin (which female monastery ?), its sources (which library was used ?), its link with the Carolingian educational reform movement inspired the Carolingian court. The edition will be completed within a few years, by a team composed of palaeographers, mediaevalists, and specialists of the various sources from which the authors of the Liber borrowed. The core of the project will be the Website http://liber-glossarum.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/, used as a platform allowing European partners to work easily in common. Such a complete edition of the Liber glossarum intends to be a solid foundation for future scholarship, allowing also closer examination of the Carolingian manuscript tradition of the great encyclopaedist Isidore of Seville, as well as a better evaluation of the importance of the Liber for the whole lexicographical tradition of the Middle Ages. Its study is of interest from three perspectives : it will provide better knowledge of a tool that was diffused throughout Europe; it will enhance our understanding of the role of well-read women in building the foundations of medieval culture ; and from a linguistic point of view, it will give an overview of the principles at work in the making of European dictionaries.

Keywords: encyclopaedias,dictionaries,female writers,transmission of knowledge,history of education
The role of Technology, Models, and Metrics in the Socially Responsible Investing Field (SRITECH)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Starting Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1213139.6
EU funding (EUR): 1213139.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I propose to study the emergence of the socially responsible investing field. Responsible investing refers to the consideration of the impact of environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) in the choice of financial investments, and the integration of these factors in traditional financial portfolio analysis and engagement activity. This phenomenon is growing quickly but whether or not these new practices will be effective in influencing corporate behaviour in more responsible ways remains an open question. In this project I will focus my attention on three related processes: the design of novel technological and data infrastructure for responsible investing, the emergence of novel investing practices, and finally the role of engagement in the process. To explore them in depth, I have designed a multi-method study of the key players in this emerging field, and structured it around three studies: study 1 will explore the design and deployment of a novel data and information platform in one of the leading information providers in the financial markets; study 2 will focus on the different ways in which asset managers are attempting to integrate ESG factors and traditional financial analysis; study 3 will focus on the engagement process at the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, with a focus on both the practices and their outcome. This study will contribute to our understanding of the relationship between socio-political values and financial value, and help further our understanding of financial markets, and provide interesting insights for finance practitioners and policy-makers on how to develop a robust responsible investing community.

Keywords: organization theory,socially responsible investing,organizational field,institutional theory,social studies of science,performativity