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Novel Flexible Sheet Forming for High Value Manufacturing (FLEXFORM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Developing environmental friendly & sustainable manufacturing technologies has become a driving force to maximise resource efficiency, to reduce energy consumption & environmental pollution. In addition, with ever increasing global competition, it is crucially important for European manufacturers & SMEs to develop core competence of future advanced manufacturing technologies. This IIF project proposes the development of a new flexible sheet forming process to support sustainable technologies of rapid manufacturing high value-added, small batch & customised sheet metal parts, with reduced costs & lead time. The project will support an experienced researcher, Dr Bin Lu, of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) China to visit the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Sheffield (USFD) UK for 24 months. Bringing his unique knowledge & expertise in the flexible sheet metal forming technologies and skills in numerical modelling & optimisation techniques, Dr Lu will be focusing on the development of a new concept of Laser Assisted Double Side Incremental Forming using WaterJet (DSIF-LWJ), design of a bespoke prototype machine & manufacture of three sheet metal parts for industrial demonstration. The project will benefit from transfer of knowledge to the host USFD in fundamental research of combined effects of laser & waterjet on material plastic deformation as well as advanced flexible sheet forming, hybrid process control & system integration technologies. By demonstrating scientific advances & economic potentials of the flexible sheet forming of DSIF-LWJ, the project will not only enable the share of the candidate’s knowledge & expertise, develop long-term collaborations, but also make a contribution to help European manufacturers & SMEs enhance their technical capabilities & overall competitiveness in high value added & user driven production therefore strengthen the EU’s competitive position to meet future challenges of sustainable manufacturing.
Iconicity and ecology of languages: new insight (ICON-ECO-SPEECH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Brazil
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7500.0
EU funding (EUR): 7500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the present project, we propose a pioneer research that will provide new insights into human language ecology and evolution by exploring three rarely studied natural traditional oral practices with a multidisciplinary methodology. These are alternative speech forms that always rely on a spoken language and that consist of mapping voiced speech signals into very different types of sounds, such as whistling, instrumental music and animal calls. These speech transformations are respectively called ‘whistled languages’, ‘the singing/speaking mode of musical instruments’ (or ‘instrumental speech’), and ‘onomatopoetic words named after animal calls’. One of the main focuses of the project will be to analyze the interrelations between production and perception in such emulation processes based on iconicity with voiced speech (with methods of linguistic description as well as behavioral and electrophysiological experiments). Indeed, each of these phenomena transforms speech in a way that highlights some language-specific phonetic and phonological processes as well as some key perceptual processes of human speech recognition. The second principal axe of the project will be to analyze the impact of the biotope on human language because such oral practices are the result of both productive and perceptive adaptations of speech to real ecological situations (both social and biological). We will focus on the impact of the acoustic constraints imposed by typical natural biotopes on such special speech forms (such as dense forests, plain open fields and deserts). Our project will include a study on how such environmental constraints also affect shouted and normal speech, as well as a comparison with animal communication adaptation to the same constraints. The applicant is one of the main specialists on these topics for which he has developed pioneer methodologies. This project will reinforce the Franco-Brazilian collaborations of the international network he has already built.
Potential Antimalarial and Anticancer Lead Compound Discovery from Cameroonian Medicinal Plants (PLANTMEDS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Cameroon
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cameroon enjoys a rich biota including a plethora of medicinal plants, which have traditionally been used for hundreds of years to treat various ailments, and form the basis of the country’s primary healthcare system. Medicinal plants of the genera Fagara (F: Rutaceae), and Hannoa and Pierreodendron (F: Simaroubaceae) belong to the Cameroonian flora, and are used by the local people to treat malaria, cancer, rheumatism, bacterial infections, pain, inflammations, typhoid, skin infection and other serious disorders. Previous studies carried out on certain species of these genera afforded various phytochemicals (quassinoids, furoquinoleine, acridones, cathinone alcaloids, triterpenoids and steroids) and revealed interesting pharmacological properties (cytotoxicity, antiplasmadial activities). This project proposes to employ a combination of chemical fingerprinting-based dereplication, assay-guided fractionation and reversed-phase preparative high performance chromatographic methods to identify potential anticancer and antimalarial lead compounds from plants of the genera mentioned above, selected on the basis of ethnobotanical information as well as literature data. The structures of the isolated compounds will be elucidated by spectroscopic means (UV, IR, MS, NMR and X-ray). Structural modification to increase activity of compounds will be carried out applying modern semisynthetic approaches in order to establish structureactivity relationships. Total synthesis will also be carried out to increase to quantity of the lead compounds. Suitable in vitro bioassays, relevant to cytotoxicity, antimalarial and toxicity determination will be utilised to aid isolation processes as well as for the determination of bioactive potencies of the isolated lead compounds. The main objective is to discover and develop bioactive natural products and their analogues as clinical trial candidates.
Nanoparticle based direct absorption oscillating heat pipes for solar thermal systems (NANODAOHP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Developing sustainable solar energy technology becomes extremely important to secure our energy future. A highly novel solar thermal technology, from both nanotechnology and phase change approaches, is proposed in this project to address the limitations associated with conventional solar thermal collectors. In this innovative technology, direct absorption nanoparticles are used to overcome the surface-controlled heat transfer limitation and absorb solar energy directly in the carrying fluid, and oscillating vapour bubbles (in oscillating heat pipes) are used to drive the fluids instead of pumps. Preliminary studies have shown the feasibility of the new concept, which has both prosperous scientific and applicaton propsects. Scientifically, it extends the direct absorption nanoparticles into a phase change domain, and practically it could promote the emergence of a new generation of solar collector. A systematic program is proposed in this project to address the challenges associated with the novel concept, which extends from suitable direct absorption nanofluid formulation, understanding the role of nanoparticles in the evaporation and condensation process, to its performance in ossillating heat pipes. The project is an ambitious, highly novel piece of work ideally suited to a Fellow with a strong background in solar energy and thermal science and engineering. The Fellow in question, Dr Lizhan Bai is perfectly (perhaps uniquely) suited to drive this project to success as he has independently designed, constructed and experimented with a number of challenging flow and heat transfer devices, especially heat pipe systems, and has outstanding analytical and mathematical modelling capability, which will contribute uniquely to the project. It will allow significant knowledge transfer into Europe, especially heat pipe systems, and create potentials long term collaborations and mutually beneficial co-operation between Europe and China.
Spark Plasma Sintering Nanostructured Thermoelectric Sulphides (NANOTESULPHIDE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Thermoelectric (TE) power generation, which offers potential for converting waste industrial heat into useful electricity, is foreseen to become increasingly important in the near future because of the need for alternative energy sources. How big this role is likely to be depends not only on the efficiency of TE materials but also on the crustal abundance and toxicity of their raw materials. BiSbTe intermetallic compounds, PbTe and SiGe alloys have served as the most widely used TE materials in the past half century. However, the key constituent elements, such as Te (0.001 ppm by weight), Sb (0.2 ppm), and Ge (1.4 ppm) are rare in the Earth’s crust, and Te and Pb are toxic. In this project, TE sulphides operating in the medium temperature ranges, instead of tellurides are chosen as the research starting point to explore TE materials with high figure of merit zT, which requires higher Seebeck coefficient, higher electrical conductivity, and lower thermal conductivity. A combination of band structure engineering and nanostructuring will be simultaneously investigated as an effective approach for improving TE performance. We will identify promising optimized compositions and sinter powders by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) to produce three kinds of TE metal (Cu, Bi, Ti) sulphides. Also, grain size and morphology controllable bulk nanomaterials will be fabricated by nonequilibrium routes, for example, melt spinning or mechanical alloying followed by SPS. The main objective of this work is to develop high performance nanostructured TE sulphides and modules to replace current commercial materials that use costly, scarce and toxic elements. Moreover, this project will help to clarify the physical mechanisms behinds the two strategies, band structure engineering and nanostructuring. The effect of thermodynamic process of the nonequilibrium preparation route on the electrical and thermal properties will be studied and the mechanisms involved will be established.
Researchers' Night 2012 Szczecin Time (SCIENCE HUNT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-NIGHT, 2012)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 51600.0
EU funding (EUR): 30000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Try to imagine living without mobiles, the Internet, robot surgeons or notebooks. It is impossible, indeed. The job of researcher is, no doubt, pivotal in the development of any society. Civilizations need them and so they should pay them tribute as their achievements make lives easier, longer and healthier. The best way to demonstrate significance of the job is to make its doors open to the public. The idea standing behind the call of the Researchers’ Night (RN) serves its purpose. The proposed Science Hunt has four basic goals to achieve: 1)show the job significance, 2)integrate the world of science and the public sustaining the European visibility, 3)attract the young to embark on the research career and 4)”edutain”. The following activities will help: 1)Science Hunt Game (6 routes of scientific attractions and a RN bus travel), 2)knowledge mine (a scientific town – a concoction of education and entertainment), 3)scientists ‘after work’ (a series of attractions letting the heroes of the Night have fun), 4)music and cabaret to keep the festive character. If we add the main venue in the form of a XIV-century castle, success guaranteed. Science Hunt will take place in Szczecin. It is coordinated by one university – Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny.

Keywords: hands-on experiments,interactive exhibitions,researchers,science,edutainment,promotion of research career,regional cooperation,european visibility
Quantum optics of carbon nanostructures (QOCAN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Iceland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 96000.0
EU funding (EUR): 96000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

A scientific trend, which has emerged in recent years, is to combine the methods of quantum optics with the advances in design and preparation of various nanostructures. This innovative field of physics, arising from the achievements of modern nanotechnology, offers the possibility of both the fundamental study of light-matter interaction in unusual artificial quantum systems and the development of optoelectronic nanodevices with unique characteristics. The proposed theoretical research lies within this interdisciplinary trend and joins two different important fields of the modern physics: the first one is devoted to the quantum optics, the second deals with the carbon-based nanostructures – carbon nanotubes and graphene. The main goal of the research is to combine the efforts of four scientific teams from Britain, Iceland, Russia and Brazil in achieving the following objectives: to develop fundamentals of the interaction between carbon nanostructures and quantum light, to reveal and analyse various quantum-electrodynamics effects in carbon nanostructures, and to create a theoretical basis for using carbon nanostructures as elements of novel optoelectronic nanodevices.

Keywords: p212 nanophysics,p108 optics and quantum optics
Society Heading for Awareness in Research Engagement (SHARE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-NIGHT, 2012)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 86150.0
EU funding (EUR): 80000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The Researchers’ Night in Piedmont and Aosta Valley has been for all past editions a regular appointment for the different publics of science. The 2012 edition will be organised on past experiences and activities established in the different venues with important novelties but not only. Indeed, the acronym SHARE could be the flagship for a new venture to be shared throughout Italy and Europe on the basis of the single organisers best practices. Exchanging activities and sharing of goals will strengthen even more the spirit of this important European event. The SHARE process will start in Piedmont and Aosta Valley, where the Partners have identified the best initiatives that will be exchanged between the different locations, and then will be extended to Italy and Europe thanks to a dedicated website. The “Night” in Piedmont will be also an opportunity to actively take part in the “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All” declared by the UN for 2012. Specific initiatives, games, public engagement activities will be organised on this issue. The energy topic will also be a chance to better involve the industrial world and put it in touch with researchers and general public. In terms of activities for the second year will be organised “Pizza with the Prof”, an informal meeting between students and researchers in front of a good pizza. New for 2012 will be the “Coffee corner for science”, short multimedia presentations of researchers followed by discussions with public in front of a coffee or a beer. And then games, experiments, exhibitions, talk-shows, music and much more thanks to the involvement of more than 500 researchers. The European dimension of the event will be provided by the usual participation of the Ispra JRC, CERN and Enterprise Europe Network but will be strengthened by collaboration with the Smart Cities and PLACES projects in which the city of Torino is deeply engaged. The appointment is for September 28, 2012 in Piedmont and Aosta Valley.

Keywords: researchers,science,technology,society,europe,engagement,awareness,communication,dialogue,sharing,knowledge,innovation,experiments,games,shows,exhibitions,citizens,youth,stakeholders
European Research in Cyprus (EURECY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-NIGHT, 2012)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 92160.0
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Researchers’ Night events have been successfully organised in Cyprus by the Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) since 2006. RPF in collaboration with the major public and private research organisations aim to organise in the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, on the 28th of September 2012 the Researchers’ Night event with even higher success than the previous years. The project proposal, entitled: “European Research in Cyprus - EURECY” incorporates the taking over of European Union Presidency by Cyprus in the second half of 2012 as well as the fact that 2012 is the European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. The”EURECY” project consists of four (4) Work Packages, all to be lead and coordinated by the RPF who will have the overall administrative, legal, accounting and financial responsibilities. The project objectives is the attraction of a large number of people from the various age groups, without any age or scientific background limitation in order to meet with researchers in person, the enhancement of the public recognition of researchers and their work and the stimulation of the appreciation towards the positive impact of the researcher’s job in daily life of citizens, and finally the promotion of research careers, in particular among younger people, like school and university students. During the event, a balanced mix of public-oriented, “edutainment” activities will take place, like research exhibition and interactive hands-on-scientific experiments, competitions, the European Corner, performance of “magic-tricks explained by science, educational games for children and parents, art and science activities, music performance, “meet and greet” sessions, cocktail etc. The event will be hosted under the auspices of the Ministers of Education and Culture, Dr. G. Demosthenous, and Health, Dr. S. Malas. Both Ministers, before being appointed in August 2011, were high caliber career researchers in the field of Engineering and Genetics, respectively.

Keywords: organisation fo the researchers' night 2012 event in cyprus by the research promotion foundation through the implementation of the eurecy project
Building bridges through research: Тhe right way to the European Union (RNMKD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-NIGHT, 2012)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50304.0
EU funding (EUR): 35000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FYR Macedonia is experiencing constrains in relation to science, technology and innovation, similar to those of the other South Eastern European countries. This in turn prevents developing a strong research community and environment. Thus, this project aims to enhance public recognition of researchers and scientists, celebrate the fruits of their work, stimulate interest in research among wide non-academic audience including youth and encourage consideration of research and basic science as a profession. The specific objectives of the project are: • To depict the researchers as ordinary people who perform extraordinary jobs that fuel our society ahead; • To bring the profile of the researcher and the scientist in the Macedonian society closer tothe “ordinary” Macedonian people, through general awareness campaign and by involvement of important R&D stakeholders in the Researchers’ night activities; • To present the wider public the role of science and research in the societal and economic development of the country; • To explain science concepts to children and youth in activities which will provide fun, competition, creativity and education; • To enhance youth’s understanding of science and research and prop up thinking of how they can contribute to the societal development in future, through a series of scientific activities, including showcases of scientists and their work and how have these impacted the societal development; • To involve the academic community in a series of specific activities, including conducting, funding and publishing research. In achieving those objectives, the project will target wide audience and involve a variety of stakeholders within Macedonian society.

Keywords: macedonia,cherishing research,building bridges,european union