Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Novel conducting copolymErs for Multicolor Electrochromic DEviceS (ECDs) (NEMEDES)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-03-25
End date: 2015-07-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174475.2
EU funding (EUR): 174475.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One large sector of electronics industry is that of electrochromic devices (ECDs). Electrochromism is the reversible optical change in a material induced by application of an external voltage. Many inorganic and organic species show electrochromism. Conducting polymers (CPs) are a class of electrochromic materials (ECs) which gain importance rapidly, due to the combination of processability, fast response times, and high optical contrasts and the ability to modify their structure to create multicolor ECDs. The most common applications of ECDs include a variety of displays, smart windows as well as spacecraft thermal control and computer data storage. Smart windows can be used in buildings and automotive applications in order to control the incident daylight and glare according to the occupants’ comfort. They are considered a proper technology for sustainable development and their market is expected to grow in the following decade since their use leads to minimization of the power consumption in buildings and cars. One of the main challenges is to develop novel CPs for multicolored ECDs, capable for large scale production. To date, the multicolor EC polymers reported have several important disadvantages, such as low stability and poor processability. The aim of the proposed project is to produce copolymers with proper absorption spectra through the entire visible region of the electromagnetic spectra, study their electrochromic behaviour and apply them in multicolored ECDs. The main objective is to manufacture ECDs with exceptional operating characteristics and enhanced stability by designing the monomers and the polymerization procedure in order to produce copolymers with defined structures. Since these materials are intended for commercialization, the entire production know how, from monomer synthesis to copolymerization to device manufacture, will be developed in a manner that it can be easily scaled up to industrial scale.

Keywords: materials engineering,polymer technology,electrochromic devices,conducting polymers,multichromism
Antwerp Yiddish Noun Plurals (AYNP)

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: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 88500.0
EU funding (EUR): 88500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project will explore structure and acquisition in contemporary Yiddish used by the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox (UO) community in Antwerp, Belgium. This community lives in a unique multilingual situation that includes three main languages; Yiddish and Dutch - two living languages competing as native tongues, and Loshn Koydesh(Classical Hebrew) - restricted only for praying and not used for daily communication. Our window onto native Antwerp Yiddish is the system of noun plurals, whereby a singular noun (e.g. kind 'child') takes on a plural suffix (kinder 'children'). The aim of the project is two-fold: First, to describe the system of noun plurals as it is currently used by adults, taking into account the intensive contact with Dutch, and second, to understand how this system is acquired by children from the same community. In order to achieve these aims, the project will include two phases: the first is the Baseline Study, in which a confrontational noun plural naming task will be administered to 100 Antwerp Yiddish speaking adults. Data analyses will describe and explain the properties of the plural system in Antwerp Yiddish. This baseline will serve as the basis for the second phase of our project – the Developmental Study, in which 100 UO children in five age groups (3, 5, 7, 9, 11) will be administered two tasks: (1) a structured noun plural naming test and (2) a semi-structured naming test based on a set of pictures. Data will be analyzed according to methods of quantification of morphological diversity as well as quantitative normalization procedures in corpus analysis. Thus, this project will enable an international collaboration between the applicant's research experience in the Israeli context, and the linguistic expertise available in Antwerp University. This interdisciplinary cooperation will facilitate transfer of knowledge and training skills for the benefit of the applicant's career development and the enrichment of the European research area.

Keywords: germanic languages,psycholinguistics,dialectology,ultra-orthodox yiddish,inflectional systems,noun plurals,language contact,language variation and change,language acquisition,corpus analysis.
Discourse connectives and the mind: a cross-linguistic analysis of processing and acquisition (DISCOM)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191675.4
EU funding (EUR): 191675.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Discourse connectives like ‘because’ or ‘so’ in English can be used to relate various kinds of propositional contents, such as two events unfolding in the world (The temperature rises because the sun is shining) or a premise and a conclusion in the mind of a speaker (Max is ill because he didn’t come to work). The proposed study will make use of an array of state-of-the-art empirical methods such as eye-tracking, comprehension experiments, constrained elicitation and corpus analysis in order to investigate the cognitive differences between these different uses of connectives along four complementary axes: their acquisition by normally-developing children and children suffering from autism, their processing by adult speakers, and a cross-linguistic comparison between closely related languages. In addition to enriching our knowledge of the way connectives work, the planned studies will provide answers to several on-going scientific debates with far-reaching implications, both applied and theoretical. In the domain of language acquisition, they will provide important answers for the debate on the relation between language and cognition, and more specifically on the role of children’s mother tongue as a trigger for language acquisition and cognitive development. These studies will also reveal possible differences in processing between school-age children and adults, with important pedagogical implications for syllabus design and the evaluation of textual productions. In the field of autism, they will bring an important contribution to the understanding of the linguistic and communicative impairment of this population. Finally, the cross-linguistic comparisons will contribute to the development of a collaborative multilingual database of connectives, containing a more accurate representation of their meaning than the one found in bilingual dictionaries.

Keywords: psycholinguistics,comparative linguistics,french language,pragmatics,language acquisition,discourse processing,autism
Ice Dynamic Investigations with Seismological Components (ICEDISC)

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-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193594.8
EU funding (EUR): 193594.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Glacier ice mass loss presently contributes 1.8 mm per year to global sea level rise. The cause of this loss can be divided into two primary categories: negative surface mass balance and increases in ice discharge into the ocean. The latter is also known as dynamic mass loss. Predicting global sea level changes is primarily limited by gaps in our understanding of glacier sliding and iceberg calving inhibiting the inclusion of dynamic mass loss in ice sheet models. The main issue is the inaccessibility of a glacier’s base and its calving front, which significantly limits the amount of conclusive data on physical processes in these regions. To get around this problem, I propose to implement an interdisciplinary approach that investigates glacier sliding and iceberg calving using new seismological techniques. The main component focuses on the linkages between changes in glacier surface melt and basal sliding, by investigating the subglacial drainage system with a seismic noise analysis technique. In the second part of this study, I propose to analyze regional seismograms and satellite images to develop and refine quantitative monitoring tools of iceberg calving. The Institute des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble will serve as a host institution, contributing their extensive experiences and resources in the field of seismic noise analysis. For the first time, such an analysis will be applied to glacier seismograms, which will extend my scientific skill set in interdisciplinary research of glacier seismology. As an integral part of ISTerre's scientific community, I will have the opportunity to extend my professional network, continue to supervise students and dovetail my previously developed outreach activities into the institute's programs. Overall, this project will help me flourish in my career as an independent researcher with a strong record of international mobility.

Keywords: natural sciences,physical sciences
New technologies to support eating in Anorexia Nervosa: a neuroimaging study (ET4AN)

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-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200371.8
EU funding (EUR): 200371.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Problems associated with abnormal eating behaviour cause a significant burden on individuals, society and health services. This project focuses on anorexia nervosa (AN), an illness which is characterised by low weight, body dissatisfaction and restriction of food intake. The aims of the project are: a) to develop the candidate as independent researcher; b) to conduct a proof of concept study that will test an intervention aimed at reducing food associated fear, anxiety and avoidance in people with AN; and c) to investigate clinical, psychological and neural biomarkers associated with acute AN and with treatment outcomes. The study will be centred around a randomised controlled trial that will compare an intervention that uses self-help mobile technologies and guided virtual exposure to food with treatment as usual (TAU). A multimodal assessment that will employ clinical, cognitive and functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) measures will be conducted pre- and post-intervention. It is hoped that the results obtained from this study will allow the development of an evidence-based, feasible and cost-effective treatment for AN, which is part self-directed, deliverable through the use of new technologies. In addition the project will hopefully contribute to the understanding of the aetiology of AN. Achievement of the aims of the proposed fellowship will be facilitated by the fact that the candidate is well qualified; the project is being conducted within a large and established eating disorders group in King’s College London and lastly, because it will done in conjunction with a multidisciplinary and international team.

Keywords: anorexia nervosa,fmri,new technologies,treatment,exposure,self-help
Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy based on Artificial Mesoscopic Structures (SMARTS)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174475.2
EU funding (EUR): 174475.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Studies of the dynamical process of biological samples benefits from real-time imaging microscopy which can provide wide-field high resolution with sufficient material contrast. Hence, fluorescence-based microscopy has become one of the essential tools of modern biology. However, fluorescence techniques as other optical tool suffer from a fundamental resolution limit due to the wave nature of light. While resolution is denoted by the ability to discern different objects, much effort has been devoted to improve the spatial resolution of far-field fluorescence microscopy and it has spurred the emergence of many innovative techniques. Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy has shown the best lateral resolution among the far-field techniques. However, based on point scanning, it is too slow to catch fast molecular dynamics in an image time series. Photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM) and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) are equally powerful techniques that strictly spoken do not improve the spatial resolution, but the localization precision to pinpoint single molecules. The major drawback is that image acquisition is time consuming and thus makes them even less compatible for fast real-time imaging. Henceforth, the lifesciences community is still missing a microscopy technique that provides both high speed and super-resolution. To hurdle these limitations, we propose a fluorescence method that is based on artificial mesoscopic structures that are fully biocompatible and allow for super-resolution imaging of molecular dynamics in live cell with video-rate acquisition speed. Using an artificial mesoscopic structure one can manipulate light and design new components not previously realized such as a “perfect lens”. It has the potential for a breakthrough in biotechnology and may close the gap between Electron Microscopy (EM) and Fluorescence Microscopy (FM) even further to link structure and function of a biomolecule respectively.

Keywords: microscopy,optical and dielectric properties,biophysics
Development of Modern Density Functional Methods: Combining the Correlation Factor Model and the Local Hybrid Approach (CFMLHA)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221718.6
EU funding (EUR): 221718.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the proposed project is the design of new approximation to the exchange-correlation energy of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). The work will be based on two different approaches to the exchange-correlation energy density. The so-called local hybrid approach relies on a position-dependent mixing of approximate DFT exchange and exact exchange. Alternatively, the exchange-energy density can be obtained from an exchange-correlation hole constructed by multiplying an exchange hole with a correlation factor. This is referred to as the correlation factor (CF) model. The two approaches appear to be quite different at first sight, however, both aim to recover exact exchange in regions of the system with negligible correlation and they use the same local variables to achieve this goal. Building on the similarities, we will combine the strengths of these approaches while avoiding their problems. First, we propose to develop a new correlation factor model employing the exact exchange-energy density. Second, we suggest to develop a hybrid scheme with the local mixing coefficient derived based on the results of the correlation factor model. The CF ansatz, which does not itself involve any unknown parameters, will in this way help to replace the empirical parameters in a local hybrid functional. Finally, we intend to compare the exchange-correlation holes of the correlation factor model with those of the local hybrids, which will serve for the mutual improvement of the holes.

Keywords: computational chemistry,quantum chemistry,molecular physics,molecular chemistry
Energy Transfer in Supramolecular Nanostructures (EASE)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 353579.0
EU funding (EUR): 353579.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The primary aim of this project is to substantially expand the frontiers of current investigations on synthetic polymers for photovoltaic applications by in silico studying new supramolecular assemblies. The main features of efficient natural photosynthetic centres will be used to understand how to improve artificial devices. One of the key issues which this proposal addresses is the inherent difficulty associated with achieving artificial polymers capable of reaching high quantum yield in energy conversion. Up to now it is known that the best performing systems in bulk heterojunctions reach a 5% conversion efficiency; with the actual technology it is estimated that the upper limit is roughly 10%. The present project strives for tackle the barrier of organic solar cell efficiency: to this end state-of-the-art computational techniques will be used to catch the unique features of natural photosynthetic centres which allow for high quantum yield. Recent experimental and theoretical investigations on the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex have revealed that coherent Quantum Dynamics could be the key to explain its performance in energy conversion. To reproduce coherent dynamics, a regime of intermediate coupling between the exciton and the phonon bath should be attained in the electronic energy transfer process. Such regime has been reached by evolutionary paths in many other natural systems. From the theoretical point of view very little is known about the main features/parameters governing the coherence among chromophores; only recent advances have paved the way to the study of quantum dynamics in supramolecular (natural or artificial) systems. Classical Molecular Dynamics simulations and ab initio calculations will be performed to get an insight on natural systems and to develop a theory relating structural and functional features.

Keywords: computational chemistry,quantum chemistry,molecular physics,molecular biophysics,photochemistry,chemical physics
Extending Soybean Lifespan (SOYLIFE)

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-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 270145.8
EU funding (EUR): 270145.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The lifespan of crop plants is crucial for agricultural production. In particular, the duration of leaf photosynthesis and the stability of chloroplast proteins are important determinants of grain yields. Environmental stresses such as chilling and drought impair the functions of chloroplast proteins and inhibit photosynthesis leading to premature senescence and yield losses. Despite its paramount importance in crop productivity and quality, lifespan control has remains poorly characterised and understood, particularly in grain legume crops. This project focuses on lifespan controls in soybean leaves (as the source of assimilated carbon metabolites) and nodules (as the source of assimilated nitrogen metabolites). Crucially, this project will determine how the lifespan of these organs is altered in transgenic plants by ectopic expression of cysteine and serine protease inhibitors. The transgenic soybean lines required for these studies have already been generated in order to test and establish proof of the concept that manipulation of protease inhibitors can effectively extend organ lifespan especially under stress conditions. The transgenic lines express either the rice cystatin, (OC-I), a maize serpin or a Bowman Birk (BBI) type inhibitor. The effects of OC-I expression in soybean chloroplasts will be compared with cytosolic expression on key parameters such as photosynthesis, growth and development under optimal, drought and chilling stress conditions. In addition, the effects of ectopic expression of the BBI inhibitor and the serpin on leaf and nodule development will be studied, together with effects of targeted OC-I expression in nodules. Combining the extensive knowledge and experience of the fellow in protease inhibitors with the expertise of the host lab in stress biology, key scientific questions will be addressed while assisting the fellow to further his career in entrepreneurial consultancy, knowledge brokering and technology transfer.

Keywords: stress tolerance,nodules,photosynthesis,symbiotic nitrogen fixation