Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
X-RAY LASERS, PHOTON SCIENCE, AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY (XLASERS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Theory predicts that with an ultra-short and very bright coherent X-ray pulse, a single diffraction pattern may be recorded from a large macromolecule, a virus, or a cell before the sample explodes and turns into a plasma. The over-sampled diffraction pattern permits phase retrieval and hence structure determination. The first free-electron lasers (FELs) capable to deliver ultra bright and very short X-ray pulses for such experiments have recently started operations. These are the most brilliant sources of X-rays to date, exceeding the peak brilliance of conventional synchrotrons by a factor of 10 billion. In the duration of a single flash, the beam focused to a micron-sized spot has the same power density as all the sunlight hitting the Earth, focused to a millimetre square. The interaction of an intense X-ray pulse with matter is profoundly different from that of an optical pulse. A necessary goal of the programme is to explore photon-material interactions in strong X-ray fields. Our aim in structural biology is to step beyond conventional damage limits and develop the science and technology required to enable high-resolution studies of single biological objects near the physical limits of imaging. Eligible targets include single virus particles, organelles, cells, nanocrystals, and isolated macromolecules. A particular aim of the planned work is to obtain high-resolution structures for giant viruses. The challenges engage an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon structural sciences, biology, atomic and plasma physics, optics and mathematics. The potential for breakthrough science is great with impact not only in biology or physics but wherever dynamic structural information with high spatial and temporal resolution is valuable. The overall relevance of the programme extends beyond basic science, to technologies of essential importance to a future Europe.

Keywords: x-ray lasers,photon science,strong field physics
Stacks in Representation Theory, Relative Trace Formula and analysis of Automorphic Periods (STACKSRTFPERIODS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1179000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1179000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

One of the central problems in number theory is to prove some reasonably sharp bounds for values of $L$-functions and of corresponding automorphic periods (they are usually called "subconvexity bounds"). In this project I propose to study two new tools in representation theory of reductive groups over local fields -- Densities on Stcks and Mirolocalization of representtions. I am going to use these tools to obtain very strong subconvexity bounds for periods of automorphic representations. This is an extension of my recent work with A. Reznikov where we established these bounds in some special case. These tools will also have many other applications to problems in Representation theory and the theory of automorphic forms (e.g. Langlands' functoriality conjecture).

Keywords: stacks,representation theory,automorphic representations,periods of automorphic functions,relative trace formula
Adaptive Security and Privacy (ASAP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499041.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499041.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

With the prevalence of mobile computing devices and the increasing availability of pervasive services, ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) is a reality for many people. This reality is generating opportunities for people to interact socially in new and richer ways, and to work more effectively in a variety of new environments. More generally, Ubicomp infrastructures – controlled by software – will determine users’ access to critical services. With these opportunities come higher risks of misuse by malicious agents. Therefore, the role and design of software for managing use and protecting against misuse is critical, and the engineering of software that is both functionally effective while safe guarding user assets from harm is a key challenge. Indeed the very nature of Ubicomp means that software must adapt to the changing needs of users and their environment, and, more critically, to the different threats to users’ security and privacy. ASAP proposes to radically re-conceptualise software engineering for Ubicomp in ways that are cognisant of the changing functional needs of users, of the changing threats to user assets, and of the changing relationships between them. We propose to deliver adaptive software capabilities for supporting users in managing their privacy requirements, and adaptive software capabilities to deliver secure software that underpin those requirements. A key novelty of our approach is its holistic treatment of security and human behaviour. To achieve this, it draws upon contributions from requirements engineering, security & privacy engineering, and human-computer interaction. Our aim is to contribute to software engineering that empowers and protects Ubicomp users. Underpinning our approach will be the development of representations of security and privacy problem structures that capture user requirements, the context in which those requirements arise, and the adaptive software that aims to meet those requirements.

Keywords: software engineering/requirements engineering ubiquitous/pervasive computing adaptive software/systems
Hierarchical Self Assembly of Colloids: Control and Manipulation from Nano-Granular (HIERARSACOL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494334.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494334.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Goal: to significantly extend our ability to manipulate the Self Assembly (SA) of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into complex 1D/2D/3D architectures (regular clusters, (composite)strings/rods, sheets, submicron colloidal crystals/liquid crystal phases of the NPs) over multiple length scales going from nano to that of granular matter. In the nano-regime quantum size effects cause materials properties to become strongly size dependent and thus highly tunable. Moreover, the synthesis of many NPs (metals, semiconductors, magnetic materials) is advanced enough that they can be made to crystallize into regular 3D lattices with new exciting functionality caused by collective effects. By performing SA in several independent stages, materials properties can be further tailored in new ways because of both access to different length scales and different NP combinations. In order to make systematic progress we will determine inter-NP potentials using 3D imaging. Both using subdiffractive confocal microscopy and cryogenic tomographic transmission electron microscopy. We will also use external fields (optical tweezers, electric/magnetic fields, shear) both to realize the complex architectures, but also to change particle properties dynamically. E.g., in monodisperse droplets of nematic phases of luminescent rodlike NPs an electric field can dramatically affect the scattering and emission of individual droplets. The droplets can subsequently be ordered in strings, sheets or crystals. Repeating the SA again delivers supra structures on the granular scale to tune e.g. heat or reagent flows. These projects combined will not only deliver new fundamental knowledge on SA, but the results are also expected to be directly useful for realizing applications based on the new meta-materials realized such as in displays, lighting, (optical) storage, (bio)sensing, catalysis, spintronics, photonic crystals, and the opto-electronics field in general.

Keywords: self assembly
Evaluation Practices in Financial Markets (EPIFM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2175252.0
EU funding (EUR): 2175252.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

EPIFM will be a social-science (rather than, as conventionally, an economic) investigation, by a team bridging science and technology studies (STS), sociology and politics, of how professional participants in financial markets evaluate financial instruments such as shares and bonds. These evaluation practices are crucial to the operation of financial markets (they help determine the activities to which investment capital does and does not flow, and for example played a key role in the genesis of the credit crisis), but surprisingly little is known about them. EPIFM will study evaluation practices in depth and in their technological and institutional contexts. It will examine differences amongst how different groups of market practitioners conduct evaluation (including patterned differences that we conceptualise provisionally as ‘evaluation cultures’) and will investigate the factors that shape evaluation practices, factors that we expect to include technological change, organisational processes, external regulation and the articulation between monetary evaluation and other ‘orders of worth’. EPIFM’s methodology will predominantly be qualitative, including semi-structured interviewing, fieldwork at finance-industry conferences and training courses, documentary analysis, and – where possible – direct observation of practices. Amongst the phenomena EPIFM will investigate is automated trading, in which evaluation, buying and selling are delegated to (usually ultrafast) computer systems operating without direct human intervention. By achieving its objectives of understanding the patterning and the shaping of evaluation practices, EPIFM will foster the exciting new specialism of ‘social studies of finance’ and encourage a much-needed broadening and deepening of social-science research on financial markets.

Keywords: economic sociology,international political economy,financial crisis,epistemic culture,social studies of finance.
Experienced Researcher Fellowship Programme at the "Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)" (EPFL FELLOWS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-COFUND, 2011)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5713779.36
EU funding (EUR): 2285511.74
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The “École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne” (EPFL) is one of the two Écoles Polytechniques Fédérales in Switzerland. The School is ranked as one of Europe’s top research institutions with respect to education, research and training-through-research, and offers young researcher several mobility programmes to encourage them to exert the researcher profession, to guide them in their career development as a researcher and to enhance the sharing and transfer of knowledge between scientists and the population of the countries. EPFL has been running these fellowship programmes for several years now and they have been shown to be very successful. At this moment, EPFL lacks a fellowship programme for incoming, experienced scientists, which could complete the doctoral and prospective researcher fellowship programmes. We will extend the current programmes with a new incoming mobility programme called EPFL Fellows, which aims to attract non Swiss resident experienced researchers from any nationality to the EPFL and/or to re-integrate national PhD (doctoral degree of a Swiss Institution) after a stay in a Third Country (of at least 3 years). These incoming fellowships intend to improve the scientific training of the experienced researchers and to assist them in establishing a research base at an important time point in their scientific careers. The fellowships may be requested in any scientific discipline within the EPFL given experienced researchers a unique opportunity to deepen their research skills within highly qualified research groups with excellent track records. The program will fund 12 fellowships of a maximum duration of 24 months each year/call. The school possess the necessary capacity and experience to assure the overall management of the programme. One call per year (1 in year 1 and 1 in year 2 ) will be published with a deadline of October 1. This new fellowship programme will enable EPFL to further develop his high quality resources, by introducing a new trans-national dimension of his offers, both in terms of incoming mobility or the return and re-integration of Swiss researchers after a stay abroad.

Keywords: technological sciences
South Moravian Programme for Distinguished Reseachers II (SOMOPRO II)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-COFUND, 2011)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4766562.27
EU funding (EUR): 1906624.91
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SoMoPro programme provides incoming grants in the field science, technology and medicine to the most promising experienced researchers of any nationality to undertake a research training programme in the South Moravian region. The programme runs an open, merit-based competition for the applying researchers, founded on international peer review. The freedom of the fellows to choose a research topic and the appropriate Research Organization fitting their individual needs are key elements of the SoMoPro. Funding is provided to cover expenses related to the fellow and his/her research project - a living allowance, a travel and mobility allowance and a research costs contribution. Additionally, the host research organization receives contributions to overheads. There are two main aims of the SoMoPro programme: 1) provide training and career development to researchers 2) build on the growing activities and projects in the field of R&D and innovation in the region of South Moravia and enhance their effect by attracting top-class researchers to work and undertake research training in the region from 1 to 3 years, with a view to developing mutually-beneficial research co-operation. SoMoPro Programme was established in 2009 after a successful application to COFUND scheme. Since then two Calls had been open, one in 2009 and second in 2010. Altogether 26 research fellows were selected. The next Calls (3rd and 4th) are covered by the follow-up SoMoPro II Programme. The upcoming 3rd and 4th Calls, beside the financial contribution which would enable us to finance more fellows, further increase international importance/recognition of the programme as it represents a certain mark of quality. We believe that this state is for the benefit of both the fellows by having a status of Marie Curie fellows, as well as the regional Research Organization as it may help to increase the number of high-quality applicants.

Keywords: health sciences,natural sciences,physical sciences,technological sciences
InnoEnergy Pathways (INNOENERGY PATHWAYS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-COFUND, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-15
End date: 2017-12-14
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2390976.0
EU funding (EUR): 956390.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

INNOENERGY PATHWAYS is addressed to experienced researchers and offers them the possibility of contributing to the development of the full range of projects within the KIC InnoEnergy. KIC InnoEnergy is one of the three Knowledge and Innovation communities selected by the European Institute of Technology. It is an innovation driven community gathering key actors of knowledge triangle: research organisations, Higher Education institutions and industrials. Candidates will be selected through an open call, generating a continuous flow of researchers. Researchers fulfilling the eligibility requirements will have access to the subjects being developed within the KIC, as well as the partners involved. Thus, fellows will be able to propose a project within the available fields. If selected, they will join a world class scientific community, developing the disruptive innovations of tomorrow. Each fellowship will be awarded for 2 years, and fellows will be integrated at the InnoEnergy partners. The novelty and added value of our proposal lies in three aspects: - It is addressed to sciences and engineering as well as management researchers on energy issues. - The individual fellow’s project includes a 6-month “disruptive period”, during which the fellows will be dedicated to either to innovation activities (“hard science researchers”) or to one fully applied innovation activities (“soft science researchers”). - The fellows will also participate to a KIC InnoEnergy summer school, mixing techno and social sciences perspectives on research and innovation projects. Thus the programme will allow researchers to acquire new skills, leading to a multi-competence profile, attractive for employers. The involvement of industrial partners will lead to career opportunities, together with the new ventures and start-ups generated by innovation projects. The ambition the programme is to offer a life-long training opportunity to researchers willing to open up their career to innovation

Keywords: innovation management,engineering,energy technology,energy management,energy market analysis,renewable energies
HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: HERA JRP CE (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Austria,Germany,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,Croatia,Iceland,Ireland,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Norway,Portugal,Slovenia,Sweden,Belgium,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2011-RTD, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17571467.0
EU funding (EUR): 5798584.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

The HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE) consortium will establish a single joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into the causes and consequences of cultural encounters. To understand cultural encounters is to understand the history and meaning of Europe itself, from the earliest periods of human settlement to the present day. Its effects impact on the activities of everyday life to the broader arenas of ideology and societal institutions. The proposed JRP will invite transnational project proposals that address general historical and theoretical issues, as well as those that investigate more focused aspects of cultural encounters. The programme will investigate the phenomenon of cultural encounters in spatial terms as well as temporal terms. The new knowledge generated by the HERA JRP Cultural Encounters will be disseminated to inform and develop effective European policies in all these areas. Research Funding Organisations from 18 countries have pooled a substantial amount of their national funding (€ 13.955.935) for this transnational funding scheme thus increasing the efficiency and impact of public research funding. EC support is requested to the level of 33% of the total contribution to the joint call budget. Commission support will be used to top-up research funding alone. All other costs will be carried by the HERA JRP CE partners. The selection phase for the HERA JRP CE involves the final preparatory activities for the Call for Proposals, capacity building activities to inform researchers in all participating countries and a commonly-agreed two-stage evaluation process involving an independent, international Review Panel and remote assessments by experts. In the research phase, the HERA JRP CE also supports scientific networking activities in order to foster new innovative research and implement knowledge transfer activities to stimulate wider public awareness about the important contributions of new humanities research.

Keywords: humanities,joint transnationalcall,pooling national funding,cultural encounters,knowledge exchange activities