Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Elaboration of advanced-level models for density management of coniferous and broadleaved even-aged natural stands and plantations in Europe (EURSDMDPINEBIRCHOAK)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-14
End date: 2011-09-13
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163033.61
EU funding (EUR): 163033.61
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims to improve the predictive abilities and practical applicability and to extend the modeling framework of the Stand Density Management Diagrams (SDMD). The established SDMD for Scots pine plantations in Bulgaria will be re-evaluated employing methodological improvements, a disaggregation system for stand structure characterization will be developed and verification of the newly elaborated compound model will be performed. Another research objective is to examine the methodology of the SDMD with biomass data from natural broadleaved stands from north-western Spain in comparison with the Dynamic growth model by the host research team. The implementation of the research activities will be combined with a training program which will enhance the applicant’s qualification in the forest models research area by study of the methodology of the management-oriented whole-stand level model elaborated by the host team for even-aged stands. Another training objective is to broaden the professional background of the applicant by study of methodology for evaluation of the carbon sequestration capacity of the forest ecosystems. The co-operative research program will result in development of new-generation compound density control model combining whole-stand-level and distribution models and the comparative studies will provide assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of two types of whole-stand level models and their possibilities to complement each other in solving silvicultural problems. The competency of the applicant in the field of forest models will be extended and the applicant’s qualification to deal with complex studies on the terrestrial ecosystems will be broadened during the course of the research and training programs. The knowledge and the professional experience acquired and the established scientific contacts will increase the applicant’s competitiveness and will enhance her potential to reach professional maturity.

Keywords: natural sciences,forest models,plantation silviculture,carbon sequestration capacity,density management,stand density management diagrams
Networking and Integration of National Programmes in the Area of Wood Material Science and Engineering in the Forest-based Value Chains (WOODWISDOM-NET 2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: WOODWISDOM-NET 2 (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Germany,Norway,Sweden,France,Ireland,Slovenia,Hungary,Latvia,Latvia,Türkiye,Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2008-RTD, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1420728.8
EU funding (EUR): 1332960.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The first ERA-NET on wood material science and engineering, WoodWisdom-Net started in 2004 with 12 partners from 5 countries. In 2006 the network expanded with 6 partners (3 new countries). As a main result, late 2006 the first joint Transnational Research Programme (2006-11) with 17 projects of a total volume of over 20 M€ was launched. WoodWisdom-Net 2 with 19 partners from 12 countries aims at deepening and strengthening the transnational cooperation based on experiences and existing cooperation structures, procedures and mechanisms but also on variable geometry approach (organisations from new partner countries) for broadening the network activities and EU impact. Based on learning and streamlining the core of joint activities is further development of the WW-Net Research Programme and evolution of the network towards a common research and funding platform for sustained cooperation. The overall objective is to promote the transformation of the European forest-based industry from resource-intensive to value-added knowledge-intensive industry based on sustainable use of renewable raw materials. This is to be reached by: - creating and establishing a common research and funding platform for long-lasting cooperation by deepening and broadening cooperation, and strengthening the ongoing WW-Net Research Programme to cover the whole innovation chain from science to business by launching new calls, reinforcing industrial involvement and developing management of a transnational programme - assisting in development of innovative, eco-efficient processes, products and services along forest-based value chains – promoting competitiveness - promoting utilization of decisive knowledge for new applications at a crossroads between different technologies and disciplines - transformation of F-BI from traditional separate value chain industry to optimized multiple value industry addressing to customer needs, reduced resource consumption, and increased value creation.

Keywords: trans-national,innovative,wood,forest,forest-based,value chains,networking,integration,wood material science,wood material engineering
INFORMATION TRANSFER WITH CORRELATED NOISE AND MEMORY EFFECTS IN QUANTUM COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (MEMORY QUANTUM ICT)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160996.91
EU funding (EUR): 160996.91
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play increasing central role in the socio-economic, scientific and technological development of our information society. Recently, the peculiar features exhibited by matter at the microscopic (quantum) level, reached by continuous miniaturization, have delivered very interesting advances in many ICT areas, i.e. quantum information science. At this level noise plays an important role, although so far scientists have mainly investigate the impact of uncorrelated noise on quantum ICT (QICT), i.e. noise sources not exhibiting correlations in space and in time. However, investigating the latter will become increasingly pressing with the continuing miniaturization of information processing devices and with higher and higher transmission rates over quantum channels. Here, we will investigate and characterize in a universal framework correlated noise and memory effects in QICTs, which will have a significant impact to realistic optical and solid-state implementations. Particularly, we will deepen a new many-body approach to memory channels (Plenio and Virmani, 2007) and generalize it to bosonic channels, e.g. optical fibers used in long-distance secure quantum communication. Finally, we will propose experimental tests of the expected results, opening up new horizons for realistic QICTs, i.e. fast communications and nanotech processors. This highly original and innovative proposal has the advantage of uniting quantum information theory and condensed matter physics, two very fruitful branches of physics, in which European scientists both on the theoretical as well as on the experimental side are renowned worldwide with Imperial College being a centre of excellence. Under the tutoring of a leading expert in the field (Prof. M. Plenio), it will help the fellow, Dr. F. Caruso, whose previous expertise makes him well-suited for this project, to become a fully independent researcher aspiring to leading academic positions.

Keywords: quantum mechanics,solid state physics,quantum information processing and communication,noise correlations,memory quantum communication channels,optical and solid-state implementations
The process of professionalization in European science, 1789-1850 (PROSCIENCE)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 228551.42
EU funding (EUR): 228551.42
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The modern science was born in Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century, but it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that the scientific research became “professionalized” as we know it today. Such a process of “professionalization” was a milestone in the development of the European intellectual heritage and made Europe the world leader in the production of knowledge. Its comprehension might offer new hints and suggestions for drawing the future of Europe as leading the growth of knowledge. The project aims to investigate such a complex process taking into account both the historical context and the role of new episthemic, methodological, and axiological ideas developed by scientists around 1800. The collaboration with the CNRS Institut des Text et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) in Paris is crucial for the project and stimulating the growth of complementary competences of the Researcher. The ITEM has developed methodologies in order to follow the genesis of concepts from textual sources. Recently the ITEM has applied such methodologies and tools to the history of science, and this project can strengthen and enlarge such an application. Besides, the ITEM has recently elaborated information technology tools which are devoted to the electronic treatment and presentation of the textual sources. Such tools will contribute to reinforce impact and visibility of the project’s results. Pursuing the project in such an innovative way will have a significant impact on both our understanding of the process of professionalization in science and the scientific career of the Researcher.

Keywords: humanities,history of science,history of ideas,information technology for the humanities
MODULI OF PRINCIPAL G-BUNDLES OVER CURVES (MODPRINBUN)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-07-07
End date: 2012-11-06
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210566.08
EU funding (EUR): 210566.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The applicant Christian Pauly plans to stay at the emerging geometry group of the ICMAT (Insituto de Ciencias Matematicas) at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) in Madrid. The proposal describes three research tasks related to principal G-bundles over projective varieties, which have seen recent important progress (strange duality of generalised theta functions, construction of moduli spaces in any characteristic). Special attention is given to the case when the base variety is a curve. Links with conformal field theory and string theory enrich this subject (Verlinde formula) and lead to interesting new problems. The research is carried out in collaboration with several members of the research group: Luis Alvarez-Consul, Tomas Gomez and Oscar Garcia-Prada. Training for the applicant will be provided by the research group in gauge theory and symplectic geometry.

Keywords: mathematics,algebraic geometry,moduli spaces,vector bundles,principal g-bundles,projective varieties,gauge theory,generalised theta functions,conformal field theory
Forced Labour in West Central and South Central Africa: an Afro-European colonial heritage in comparative perspective, 1930-1970 (FORCED LABOUR)

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: Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2010-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 140450.72
EU funding (EUR): 140450.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Forced labour is a typical phenomenon of 20th-century European colonial structures in sub-Saharan Africa. While having been abolished in most parts of colonial Africa after World War II, it has, as a particular heritage of the Afro-European encounter, been partly or fully re-instated in many African countries after the end of the colonial period. Moreover, the practice (or practices) of colonial forced labour did not only have a strong influence on economic realities in the countries concerned. They also shaped the social relations between local authorities and their subjects, as all the colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa strongly relied on local collaborators. Hence, the practice and the abolition of forced labour did not only affect the contact situations and mutual visions between African subjects and European rulers, but they also had a strong impact on local balances of power in which the European side was only marginally involved. While the practice of forced labour has been identified (and condemned) as a typical aspect of European domination in sub-Saharan Africa, there is an impressive lack of studies on local realities of repressive labour organisation. Our project intends to close this gap, focusing on a large but nonetheless particular region of West Central and South Central Africa. Our four case studies (from Angola, Zambia and Gabon) will describe processes between 1930 and the 1970s, and compare experiences that involve the decolonisation process and post-colonial redefinition of labour relations, with two Angolan cases in which the colonial power maintains its hold on the territory until 1974. The comparison entails archival work including both a territorial perspective and local case studies, and interview series that relate to the same local cases. The project is planned for five years, and necessitates an intensive initial two-year research phase that would strongly benefit from a research grant.

Keywords: humanities,history,contemporary history,sub-saharan africa,forced labour,repression,angola,gabon,zambia,france,portugal,united kingdom,social change,chieftaincy,decolonization,reform
Realistic computational modelling of large-scale wave propagation problems in unbounded domains (WAVE PROPAGATION)

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-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 147798.72
EU funding (EUR): 147798.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The correct prediction of the propagation of noise and vibration in soil or air is of great relevance with respect to environmental protection in Europe. Here, the numerical modelling of wave propagation in unbounded domains is required. This task belongs to the major research fields in computational mechanics, since the correct description of radiation damping in infinite media is a challenge, and the available information on material and loading data is frequently uncertain. The main objective of this proposal is to further develop a numerical method for the realistic simulation of large-scale wave propagation processes in unbounded domains. During the outgoing phase the scaled boundary finite element method developed at the outgoing host will be combined with the mixed-variables technique derived at the return host, thus the project builds on the strengths of both partners. During the return phase the applicant will substantially widen her scientific profile by extending the developed algorithms to include aspects of generalized uncertainty modelling. Carrying out the project, the fellow will acquire complementary skills such as skills in writing and reviewing scientific papers, presentation skills, teaching experience and research management skills. This will be achieved through participation in conferences, joint organization of a mini-symposium on SBFEM, co-teaching of a final year subject and joint supervision of PhD projects during the outgoing phase. After the fellowship the applicant intends to apply for funding of a junior research group under her leadership. Her long-term career objective is a professorship at a European university. By providing the prerequisites to obtain such a position, in particular through managing this multi-partner project and by providing international research experience, the project strongly contributes to the applicant's career development and the enhancement of European excellence in computational mechanics.

Keywords: structural engineering,computational mechanics,unbounded domain,wave propagation,radiation damping,scaled boundary finite element method,time-domain,soil-structure interaction,uncertainty
Innovative Tools for Event Selection in high energy physics (ITES)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 234126.49
EU funding (EUR): 234126.49
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project focuses on the development of innovative tools and strategies optimized for high energy physics event selections. The main goal is the development and the test of high precision real time tracking systems for the CDF and LHC experiments and the study of their impact on specific physics cases. CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab) is an experiment located at the Tevatron hadron collider at Fermilab (Batavia,USA). Tevatron accelerates protons and antiprotons and then makes them collide head-on inside the CDF detector. Since its start in 1988, CDF has produced several physics results of primary importance, such as the top quark discovery in 1995, and will continue collecting good quality data for the next few years, up to the complete turn-on of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider located at CERN, which will make collide proton beams at a center-of-mass energy ten times greater than Tevatron. The goal of the project is to build and test at CDF a fast tracking processor suitable to the very high luminosity scenarios characteristic of Tevatron final data taking period, and then adapt it to the LHC environment. In parallel, new analysis strategies will be investigated in order to maximize the physics reach of the CDF experiment exploiting the new features provided by the developed tool.

Keywords: high energy physics,hadron colliders,higgs particle,heavy quarks,trigger,vlsi,fpga,pattern matching,multivariate analysis techniques,electronics,experimental physics
Diversity Oriented Synthesis of Peptide Derivatives as Antibiotics (ANTIBIOTICS DOS)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171867.63
EU funding (EUR): 171867.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our aim is to find new antibacterial molecules with novel mechanisms of action, by applying new and innovative approaches in organic and medicinal chemistry, such as diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) and chemical genetics. The concrete objectives are: -Development of diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS) using solid phase and solution synthesis to obtain collections of highly diverse and complex small cyclic peptide derivatives including small cyclic di- tri- and tetra- peptides as well as bicyclic diketopiperazines (DKP&apos;s). -Development of new methodologies for solid phase organic synthesis: optimization of relatively new reactions such as RCM or enyne metathesis on solid phase. -Biological screening of the molecular libraries on cultures of human pathogen bacteria and selection of the most active compounds to identify new modes of antibacterial action. This project addresses major challenges in both therapeutics and organic synthesis, such as bacterial resistance to existing drugs, development of new methodologies for solid phase organic synthesis and diversity-oriented synthesis and chemical genetics in Europe. It is a multidisciplinary project that involves a highly valuable education for the candidate in new scientific aspects related to his research field.

Keywords: organic chemistry,medicinal chemistry,biochemistry,diversity-oriented synthesis,chemical genetics,solid-phase synthesis,peptide synthesis,diketopiperazines,antibiotics,bacteria resistance
Allelic Exclusion of Antibody Gene Expression (KAPPA FLEX MOUSE)

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-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 232967.52
EU funding (EUR): 232967.52
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Antibody genes in B lymphocytes are assembled from multiple rearranging gene segments, enabling the immune system to protect us from a huge diversity of pathogens. Each B lymphocyte expresses only one antibody specificity on the cell surface (monospecificity), even though there is more than one allele for each antibody chain, a phenomenon termed allelic exclusion. Allelic exclusion requires asynchronous rearrangement of antibody genes combined with feedback inhibition to prevent the assembly of more than one productive allele. This proposal aims to analyze how epigenetic genome modifications influence the asynchronous rearrangements of antibody genes by defining and then altering the precise distribution of histone modifications. Further, to determine the significance of monospecificity to B lymphocyte development and function, this proposal aims to establish a novel gene-targeted mouse that expresses a diverse, but allelically included antibody repertoire. This will provide new insights as to how the immune system reacts specifically against foreign pathogens while maintaining self-tolerance. Hence, this proposal will elucidate the mechanism and importance of allelic exclusion of antibody genes in the immune system. The project will be conducted through a collaboration between the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and the University of California, Berkeley, USA. The outcome of this proposal will improve our predictive knowledge of various human diseases including infections, cancer and autoimmune diseases, and thus support sustainable healthcare in the EU.

Keywords: immune system,lymphocyte,antigen receptor,immunoglobulin,allelic exclusion,recombination,chromatin,autoimmunity