Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Electroosmosis for Desiccant Regeneration - Innovation Technology for air-conditioning (EO-D-REGENERATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-20
End date: 2012-10-19
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140340.0
EU funding (EUR): 140340.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This fellowship application is to bring a leading researcher to the UK to transfer knowledge and skills and develop a novel technology of desiccant dehumidification and low energy desiccant regeneration using electroosmosis techniques. Dr Tian’s expertise in electroosmosis techniques will complement the existing knowledge on low energy air conditioning systems at the University of Nottingham and will fuel further development in this area through a long-term partnership of international standing. The fellow will work at the University of Nottingham for 12 month to further develop the technology for next generation air-conditioning systems suitable for low carbon buildings. Knowledge transfer will be arranged by the University of Nottingham through patent application, research seminars and workshops (conferences) involving industrial companies and SMEs. Electroosmosis (EO) is a liquid flow through capillaries in a porous EO material, which is driven by EO force with an external electric field. When the EO material is placed in contact with an electrolyte, Si-O on its internal surface dissociates to act on regions of net charge that diffuse ions to form the electric double layer (EDL). The electroosmosis can be used to regenerate the solid desiccant in the THICAC (temperature and humidity independent control air-conditioning) system. The wide range applications of high efficient THICAC system with the desiccant dehumidification are imperative in order to suppress the increasing energy consumption in HVAC systems around the world. The solid desiccant dehumidification with the novel regeneration method is needed urgently, especially in small air conditioning units to popularize the THICAC energy saving technology. However, the EO regeneration for solid desiccant is less investigated so far and further research should be carried out.

Keywords: thermal engineering,building design,environmental design
Activation of Methane and Other Alkanes with Electrophilic Gold complexes (METHANGOLD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 11.0
Total project cost (EUR): 84032.8
EU funding (EUR): 84032.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

C-H activation (functionalization) is the direct and selective substitution of a carbon-hydrogen bond by new, lower in energy C-X bonds (C-C, C-O, C-N, among others) and is one of the most important current goals in chemistry. These transformations have very broad potential in synthesis because C-H bonds are ubiquitous and their selective activation will change current practice of organic synthesis of complex molecules in research laboratories and in industry. The aim of our Strategic Action is to develop new systems for the catalytic activation of methane and other alkanes based on gold chemistry. Specifically, we wish to discover new reactions for the oxidation of methane to methanol under mild conditions using robust Au(III) complexes. Additional objectives are: (i) selective functionalization of activated C-H bonds (benzylic, allylic, or tertiary) in complex molecules using similar systems to those developed for the activation of simple alkanes. (ii). The development of new gold-oxo complexes as catalysts for the oxidations of alkenes. This proposal takes advantage of the knowledge on catalyst design and methodology development of the two research groups involved in the INTECAT project that has led in recent years, among others, to the synthesis of a series of highly electrophilic gold(I) complexes for the activation of alkynes, the cyclopropanation of alkenes, as well as for the C-H activation of alkanes via carbene-transfer processes. Theoretical work will lead us in the design and synthesis of new gold-compexes and in the understanding of the mechanism of C-H activation.

Keywords: gold catalysis,methane activation,c-h activation,organic chemistry,sustainable chemistry
PRACTICAL LIGHT TYPES FOR RESOURCE CONSUMPTION (PLATFORM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-25
End date: 2014-07-24
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219284.8
EU funding (EUR): 219284.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Eliminating errors early in the software-design life cycle is crucial to reduce the tremendous societal cost represented by defective software. Modern programming languages offer a variety of techniques for ensuring, at design time, the correctness of software systems with respect to the desired behaviors. However, these techniques do not consider usually the software aspects related to programs resource consumption, in terms of execution time, memory space, energy consumption, etc. So, new contributions and novel challenging ideas are needed. The present project aims at filling this gap achieving three main goals: 1-Showing that a concrete methodology combining the resource management facilities offered by light linear type systems and by the ideas of implicit computational complexity, with the features usually offered by practical programming languages provides extremely accurate information about the behavior of concrete programs and their resource consumption. 2-Developing a practical programming language integrating the resulting methodology in the form of a precise type system where types contain information, in the form of dependent types, about the resources needed by programs during their execution and where type checking a program will naturally corresponds to exhibit a certification of its resource consumption. 3-Demonstrating the successfulness of the language by implementing concrete resource-sensible applications. This will be done by targeting concrete examples taken from compiler correctness and component-based programming. In particular, in the latter, the modularity offered by the use of type systems will be useful to express resource consumption constraints per component, and to combine them over compositions of components. The broader interest of this proposal lies in the opportunities it will supply to improve the software quality by eliminating errors, usually difficult to fix, related to programs resource consumption.

Keywords: computer science,programming languages,type systems,light types,linear logic,resource consumption,implicit computational complexity,dependent types,functional programming,proof assistants
Political Violence Legitimization in Ireland and Cyprus (POLITICAL VIOLENCE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 265436.8
EU funding (EUR): 265436.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of my project is to produce a book manuscript and, concomitantly, to advance my career through academic and other professional achievements related to the promotion of my research. The subject of my book manuscript is the legitimization of political violence. It analyzes how political violence is viewed by a variety of constituencies (recruits, victims, third parties, and other subdivisions) in the period when it occurs as well as in later years. I do this through a paired comparison of Ireland and Cyprus. The political violence at question took place in the 1910s and ‘20s in Ireland and in the 1950s, ‘60s, and 70s in Cyprus, which is to say, amidst processes of anti-colonial contention and of post-colonial state consolidation. The focus of my analysis, therefore, is the legitimization of these events of political violence during these periods as well as in retrospect, within contemporary collective and historical memory. Drawing from the literature on terrorism, nationalism, ethnic conflict, social movements, colonialism, and collective memory, my approach develops a nuanced conceptualization of legitimization. In general, I argue that the legitimization of political violence is situational, emerging out of many parallel processes that integrate representations of violence and collective commitments (nationalism, morality, historical narratives, strategic logics, etc).

Keywords: social changes,societal behaviour,collective memory,terrorism,ethnic conflict,nationalism,colonialism,social movements
Grid connection of Wave Energy Converters: investigation on storage requirements and solutions (SEA2GRID)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166565.6
EU funding (EUR): 166565.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

"Sea2grid" project is developed in the field of Renewable Energy and it is targeted towards the exploitation of sea waves for the production of electricity to be injected into the power grid. To allow the grid connection of Wave Energy Converters it is necessary that the delivered power is conveniently smoothed and satisfies strict Grid Codes requirements. This is a critical point for very intermittent sources as sea waves. The lack of established storage solutions to mitigate this problem is, at present, one of the main bottlenecks restraining Wave Energy from grid integration and consequent commercial exploitability. The core of this project is in the systematic investigation of storage alternatives for both single Wave Energy Converters and Wave Parks (Arrays). The state of the art of storage technologies will be considered and analytical models and simulative schemes of the whole “sea to grid” process will be developed. The evaluation of the best options for the grid connection of Wave Energy Converters in terms of required storage elements and/or additional compensation provisions will be the main objective of the project.

Keywords: electrical engineering,wave energy,energy storage,grid connection,renewable energy,weak grids,compensation
Do Synechococcus regulatory networks underpin marine ecological distinctness? (SYNERGY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-03
End date: 2013-10-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209592.8
EU funding (EUR): 209592.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus have a ubiquitous distribution in oceanic waters and are responsible for around a quarter of the primary production. The genus is genetically diverse, with at least ten phylogenetically distinct lineages or clades. The in situ community structure of these organisms is complex, with the specific lineages occupying different niches to populate the world’s oceans. Whilst such molecular ecological studies are effectively mapping the spatial distributions of specific genotypes, but the factors that dictate this global community structure, and the relationship between niche and genetic potential, are still poorly defined. This is important because changes in dominant picocyanobacterial lineages indicate major domain shifts in planktonic ecosystems, allowing us to assess changes in the rates of biogeochemical cycles. We propose here to undertake a molecular approach to assess specifically how regulation of specific gene sets defines the ecological ‘distinctness’ of these lineages. We propose to focus on the key nutrient regulon of iron (Fe) since this limiting element for primary production in many oceanic environments varies both spatially and temporally with obvious ‘differences’ in more stable oligotrophic open ocean systems compared to more unstable coastal waters. Hence, there is strong reasoning to expect that differences in regulatory capacity exist between lineages occupying contrasting niches, and that such regulatory ‘constraints’, or indeed lack of constraints, facilitate occupation of specific niches (specialists) or overlapping niches (opportunists). Thus, this project will be set out to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the Fe regulon facilitating its acquisition in organisms we consider to be either specialist oligotrophs, specialist mesotrophs or opportunists i.e. with differing lifestyles, which we hypothesise is key to their successful colonization of vast tracts of the world oceans.

Keywords: synechococcus,marine ecosystems,gene regulation,iron stress,phylogeny of niche occupation
Multi-Color Sculpted Light Waves for HHG Control (MUSCULAR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183106.4
EU funding (EUR): 183106.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

At the heart of strong-field phenomena such as high harmonic generation (HHG) lie electron trajectories starting with tunnel ionization and ending ~1 fs later with recollision of the continuum electron with the parent ion. Demonstration of a ground-breaking level of control over these trajectories via the driving laser waveform is the goal of this project. We propose to develop a multi-color waveform synthesizer, sufficiently intense to drive high harmonic generation (HHG). To this end, an actively carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilized, <200-fs laser with >5 mJ pulse energy@1-kHz will be developed based on the Yb,Na:CaF2 amplifier crystal already well proven in Vienna. This 1µm-laser will pump a white-light seeded Optical Parametric Amplifier (OPA), generating 1.5-µm-signal and 3-µm-idler pulses phase-locked to the pump laser. With these 3 absolute-phase locked color components, light waveform synthesis becomes possible. We will demonstrate the enabling nature of the light waveform synthesizer by realizing “the perfect wave”: an appropriately designed waveform driving HHG with higher photon energies and far superior efficiency as compared to the benchmark set by a single-color pulse driving HHG in the saturated regime. The principles of such a waveform have recently been laid out by the group of J. Marangos (Imperial College London), with whom we will collaborate. Our goal is efficient generation of 200-eV photons by HHG. This demonstration will prove the potential of electron trajectory engineering, e.g. for generating intense femtosecond or attosecond x-ray pulses in the “water-window”or for probing attosecond dynamics in molecules with an engineered recolliding electron wave packet. The fellow is an expert of HHG and attosecond physics, and in particular the molecular imaging aspect of it. He will gain competencies in laser and OPA development and build and validate a source with fantastic potential for molecular imaging by HHG and many other fields.

Keywords: physical sciences,laser,strong-field,quantum-physics,ultrafast spectroscopy,hhg,opa
Partial migration: individual causes and population genetic consequences (STAY OR GO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2014-02-25
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193766.4
EU funding (EUR): 193766.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Partial migration, where only part of a population migrates, is widespread in the animal kingdom. Despite this, we know very little about the causes and consequences of partial migration, at least partly due to the logistical difficulties in collecting robust data in many species. I propose a project that takes advantage of an established and highly productive study system to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of partial migration in animals using an innovative combination of methods. Firstly, I will ask what drives some individuals to migrate and some to remain resident? Here I will empirically test predictions from a conceptual model that I recently developed which proposes that individual differences in predation risk and/or growth can explain patterns of partial migration. Specifically, I will investigate the role of an individual's position on a behavioural syndrome (i.e. personality) upon migratory behaviour, and predict that fish with bold personalities (that have high individual predation vulnerability) will be more likely to migrate than fish with shy personalities. I will also test the idea that individual differences in feeding niche (trophic polymorphism) influence an individual's migratory behaviour using stable isotope and geometric techniques. Secondly, I will investigate the population genetic consequences of partial migration, and assess its potential as a diversifying force in this system. The project will use a variety of cutting edge behavioural, ecological and molecular techniques to address these fundamental questions, using my established model system, the roach Rutilus rutilus. This novel project will provide a unique opportunity to answer questions on the evolution of partial migration, and indeed migration itself.

Keywords: behavioural biology,population genetics,aquatic biology,animal migration,behavioural syndromes,trophic polymorphism
Evolution and development in Myxozoa: body-plan simplification associated with endoparasitism (MYXOZOA EVO DEVO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200049.6
EU funding (EUR): 200049.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Myxozoa are endoparasitic animals that exploit invertebrates and fish. Their phylogenetic position has long been controversial. However, recent placement within Cnidaria makes it clear that myxozoans have undergone astonishing morphological simplification associated with the evolution of parasitism. Such simplification is characteristic of many parasites but the genetic and developmental bases are poorly understood. Myxozoa demonstrate perhaps the most extreme example of simplification known to date, lacking a nervous system, gonads, cilia and centrioles. Differing degrees of simplification within the group provide an ideal opportunity to investigate the genetic and developmental bases of morphological simplification in a comparative approach. The myxozoan Buddenbrockia plumatellae forms muscular worms with a polarised body plan while the very closely related Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae occurs as simple, unpolarised sacs. This fellowship proposes to generate transcriptomes of developmental stages from these two species by next-generation sequencing. Resulting data will be used to (i) compare developmental gene repertoires and expression levels of the two species and (ii) identify how myxozoans are related to other cnidarians. In a second step, expression patterns of developmental genes will be analysed by in situ hybridization. A third step will characterise the morphology and ultrastructure in regions of gene expression. Collectively, these investigations will provide a comprehensive picture of myxozoan development that can be compared to patterns in other myxozoans and free-living cnidarians. The research will (i) produce novel insights about morphological simplification associated with parasitism (ii) advance our understanding of a previously unrecognized radiation of endoparasitic cnidarians and (iii) provide training in cutting-edge techniques that will add to the candidate’s toolkit and career development.

Keywords: evolutionary biology,developmental biology,genetics,animal morphology,phylogeny,parasitism,aquatic biology,fish disease,computational biology
The Dust-Gas Synergy in the ISM (SYNISM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 246459.0
EU funding (EUR): 246459.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Interstellar dust is a fundamental component of the interstellar medium (ISM). By mediating key processes such as the absorption of stellar radiation, which is then re-emitted at infrared-mm wavelengths, it provides the necessary conditions (e.g., cloud cooling) for star formation to occur. Thus, dust determines the very processes that govern galaxy evolution. Dust is a ubiquitous component of the ISM in nearly all types of galaxies, even those at very high redshifts, where the dust has had little time to form. However, dust is an evolving component of the ISM, which responds to the local conditions. If we are to understand the processes that govern galaxy evolution it is therefore essential that we understand the evolving nature of dust in its relationship with the physical and dynamical conditions of the local ISM. The aim of this project is to study the evident synergy between interstellar gas and dust and to quantify the factors that drive dust evolution. This will be achieved by combining observations of a sample of photo-dissociation regions covering a range of local physical conditions, using the unique capabilities from ESA's newest IR space observatory, the Herschel space telescope, together with cutting edge expertise.

Keywords: physical sciences,astronomy,atomic and molecular physics,interstellar medium,interstellar dust