Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Multiscale computational approach to the design of polymer-matrix nanocomposites. (COMPNANOCOMP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Greece,Germany,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2011-EU-RUSSIA, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2252768.0
EU funding (EUR): 1491798.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at the development of multiscale simulation methodology and software for predicting the morphology (spatial distribution and state of aggregation of nanoparticles), thermal (glass temperature), mechanical (viscoelastic storage and loss moduli, plasticity, fracture toughness and compression strength), electrical and optical properties of soft and hard polymer matrix nanocomposites from the atomic-level characteristics of their constituent nanoparticles and macromolecules and from the processing conditions used in their preparation. The hierarchical simulation methodology and software to be developed will be validated against two main categories of systems: silica-filled natural and synthetic rubbers and carbon nanotube filled thermoset resins. The novel ground-breaking modelling methodology should significantly improve the reliable design and processability of nanocomposites contributing to the EU Grand Challenges for reduction of CO2 emission, energy savings by light-weight high-strength nanocomposites, mobility and improved living environment. The successful outcome of the project will constitute an important advance in the state of the art and will have immediate industrial, economic and environmental impact. The multiscale simulation methodology of EU-COMPNANOCOMP focuses on soft nanocomposites (thermoplastics) whereas the complementary RU-COMPNANOCOMP focuses on glassy nanocomposites (thermosets)(grey in proposal). RU-COMPNANOCOMP is completed with EU partners for experimental validation of the multiscale modelling codes. Both EU and RU consortia work on the development of algorithms to be integrated in a multiscale modelling software package for further commercialization. A total of 213.5 man months completed with 26 man months from own resources is proposed with a project duration of 36 months appropriate for achieving the challenging objectives. EU-COMPNANOCOMP has a total cost of 2.3 million € with EC funding of 1.5 million € requested.

Keywords: multiscale modelling,nanocomposites,macroscale properties
Solution for cost-effective integration of renewable intermittent generation by demonstrating the feasibility of flexible large-scale energy storage with innovative market and grid control approach. (ESTORAGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13314884.73
EU funding (EUR): 7820198.97
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of eStorage is to develop cost-effective solutions for the widespread deployment of flexible, reliable, GWh-scale storage across EU, and to enhance grid management systems to allow the integration of large share of renewable. The key issue we plan to address is the need for power regulation during low demand periods, when only inflexible baseload generation and intermittent renewable generation are operating. In contrast to conventional generation, a storage plant able to regulate its consumption could help to avoid curtailing wind. Conventional Pumped Storage Hydro Plants (PSP) can only regulate their power in generation mode; variable speed technology for PSP can bring the additional flexibility in pumping mode as well. Developing technically and economically feasible solutions in eStorage will allow upgrading a significant part of European PSP capacity to variable speed, providing up to 10 GW of additional regulation capability with no environmental impact and little administrative burden, all at a much lower cost than developing new plants. We will also develop and demonstrate solutions for coupling the dispatch of storage plants with renewable generation using advances Energy Management Systems. This will enable storage plants to maximise their value in the balancing markets. From simulation studies, demonstration results and storage potential analysis we will evaluate the system-level benefits of storage and identify development barriers. eStorage gathers major stakeholders from the entire value chain across EU (Elia – TSO, EDF – Generation Company, Imperial College – Academic Institution, Kema – Engineering Consultancy and Alstom – Equipment Manufacturer).

Keywords: renewable,pumped hydro storage plant (psp),variable speed,dispatch,grid,it tools,caes,regulatory framework,market design,recommendations,benchmark
Time in Intercultural Context: The Indigenous Calendars of Mexico and Guatemala. (TIMEINTERCULTURAL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

European libraries and museums hold a small corpus of – still quite enigmatic – ancient screenfold manuscripts from the Aztecs, Mixtecs, Mayas and other indigenous cultures in Mexico and neighbouring Central America. The central structuring principle of these pictographic and hieroglyphic texts is the prehispanic calendar, which was not only the dominant framework for historiography and astronomical observations, but was also used for divination, medical treatment, ritual performance, community organisation and moral codes. The comments from authors writing shortly after the Spanish conquest (A.D. 1521) are crucial, but give a generalised, incomplete and biased picture. A wealth of additional and very relevant information is still to be found in the on-going use of this calendar by “daykeepers” (specialists in traditional healing and other rituals) in contemporary indigenous communities in the region. So far, however, little attention has been paid to this fascinating cultural continuity, which is very rapidly disappearing. This research project, then, has three interrelated aims. 1) To document the endangered knowledge, ideas, practices and oral literature related to the indigenous calendar, still in use in Mexico and Guatemala, through simultaneous ethnographic fieldwork in seven indigenous regions: PhD cands, PI, field assistants, documentary-video team. 2) Connect the resulting data and insights to the historical information in order to extract an in-depth interpretation and reading of the ancient manuscripts, which in turn will lead to a better grasp of the symbolic meaning and social function of time in Mesoamerican thought and culture: PhD cands, PI. 3) Produce a comparative and theoretical analysis of the role of perceptions and conceptualisations of time in the construction of memory and identity, and of how this role is affected by (and influences) long-term and intensive cultural interaction (colonization – modernization - globalization): Postdoc, PI.

Keywords: time perception,divination,ceremonial discourse,cultural interaction,indigenous peoples,latin america,heritage,identity
Proposal for a harmonized European methodology for the safety assessment of innovative reactors with fast neutron spectrum planned to be built in Europe (SARGEN_IV)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,European organisations area,Germany,Finland,Czechia,Switzerland,Italy,Hungary,Lithuania,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Slovakia,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1293111.75
EU funding (EUR): 999128.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative was launched in November 2010 to anticipate the development a fleet of fast reactors with closed cycle. Three fast neutron technologies have been selected: • the Sodium cooled Fast Reactor with the ASTRID prototype • the Lead cooled Fast Reactor with the ALFRED demonstrator which will be preceded by a pilot plan MYRRHA • the Gas cooled Fast Reactor with the ALLEGRO demonstrator With the objective of future assessment of these advanced reactor concepts, the SARGEN_IV Project is intended to gather safety experts from recognized European Technical Safety Organizations from Designers and Vendors as well as from Research Institutes and Universities to: - develop and provide a tentative commonly agreed methodology for the safety assessment, - identify open issues in the safety area, mainly addressing and focussing on assessment relevant ones, - detect and underline new fields for R&D in the safety area - provide a roadmap and preliminary deployment plan for safety-related R&D, including cost estimation. Firstly, the proposed methodology requires the identification and the ranking of the main safety issues related to these reactors which needs a strong collaboration with other European projects as CP-ESFR, GoFastR, LEADER and CDT.. Secondly, a review of the safety methodologies proposed by international organizations and those issued from national practices and European consortia in order to define the tentative commonly agreed methodology which will be therefore applied to specific safety issues relevant for the selected reactors. The project beneficiaries are convinced that fostering to harmonization of the various European safety approaches will be very beneficial and will streamlining EURATOM contribution to Generation IV International Forum in the safety field. It will also improve relations between safety assessment and research programmes efficiency in the development of new concepts.

Keywords: innovative generation-iv reactors safety assessment harmonization sfr gfr lfr
Arctic Domestication: Emplacing Human-Animal Relationships in the Circumpolar North (ARCTIC DOMUS)

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
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497830.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497830.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This 6-year project aims to co-ordinate field research in each of these fields to elaborate a new model of emplaced human-animal relations evoking recent theoretical concerns of the definition of the person, the attribution of agency, and renewed attention to ‘built environments’. The project will work inductively from empirical observations in seven field sites across the circumpolar Arctic from the Russian Federation, to Fennoscandia, to Canada. The circumpolar Arctic originally provided many of the primary thought experiments for classic models of cultural evolution. It has now again become the focus of powerful debates over the balance between the protection of cultural heritage and the development of natural resources to fuel a future for industrial economies. The human-non-human relationships chosen for study cover the full range of theoretical and political discourse within the sciences today from primary encounters in domination to contemporary bio-technical innovations in farming. The team will transcend typical ‘existential’ models of domination between people and animals by describing complex social settings where more than one species interact with the cultural landscape. The team will also challenge existing definitions between wild and tame by instead examining what links these behaviour types together. Further, the team members will examine how domestication was never a sudden, fleeting intuition but rather a process wherein people and domesticates are sometimes closer and sometimes farther from each other. Finally, the research team, working within the above mentioned literatures, will develop a renewed model – a new way of describing – these relationships which does not necessarily rely upon metaphors of domination, competition, individual struggle, origins, or hybridity. The strength of the team, and the principle investigator, is their demonstrated ability to carry out fieldwork in this often difficult to access region.

Keywords: arctic,indigenous,circumpolar,ecology,neolithization,domestication
Post Scriptum: A Digital Archive of Ordinary Writings (Early Modern Portugal and Spain) (P.S.)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Portugal
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1815857.0
EU funding (EUR): 1815857.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project P.S. proposes to build up a campaign of systematic collection, edition and historical-linguistic study of personal letters written in the Early Modern Ages (17th to early 19th century) in Portugal and Spain. The documents in question are original epistolary writings made by servants, children, wives, lovers, thieves, soldiers, artisans, priests, political fighters, and many other types of social agents whose paths were crossed by the prosecuting ways of the Inquisition and the civil courts, two institutions that used to seize personal correspondence as instrumental proof. Since the documents are accompanied by the ‘sociological interviews’ carried out by inquisitors and judges, they allow researchers a well-contextualized study of traditional communities in their inter-personal modes of relation. The sources’ texts contain very frequently an (almost) oral rhetoric through which emotions were expressed, commonsense was stated, non-orthodox beliefs were confessed and trivial incidents were narrated. Until now, it has been difficult to discover more than thin samples of this Early Modern ‘popular’ discourse. The P.S. project will not only assemble a large collection of it, but it will also match its philological treatment – an online digital edition following Textual Criticism standards – with the cultural and linguistic study of its contents.

Keywords: discourse analysis,literacy,written culture,forensic linguistics
Sound change and the acquisition of timing in speech (SCATS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1934590.0
EU funding (EUR): 1934590.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the proposal is to relate historical sound change to the acquisition of the temporal control of speech. The motivation for the experiments is that the mis-perception of timing relationships and the failure to normalize perceptually for context effects are driving forces for sound change; and that such mis-perception is especially likely during the relatively long period between early childhood and adolescence during which there is a high degree of instability in timing in speech production. These aims will be investigated for first language speakers of Cantonese, German, and Polish, which are languages whose timing relationships in the coordination of consonants and vowels are markedly different due to their different complexity of syllable structure. In order to relate patterns of temporal control to their perceptual consequences, physiological techniques including ultrasound and movement analysis will be used to quantify the dynamics of the co-ordination and overlap of speech sounds. Such data will be obtained from pre-school children, young adolescents, and adults of the three target languages. Speech timing will be analysed for processes such as palatalisation, assimilation, vowel harmony, and dissimilation that have been shown to be implicated in diachronic changes in several languages. This first ever comparative physiological and perceptual analysis of speech timing in children and adults in different languages will provide a new way of confronting how synchronic-diachronic relationships are related that until now have been typically based on static, symbolic analyses without explicitly modeling time. The studies will provide new insights into the acquisition of temporal control and more generally into a central question in both cognition and linguistics of how abstract, discrete symbolic categories are related to fine-grained motor dynamics and their perceptual consequences - and also how such relationships are acquired and change.

Keywords: phonetics phonology sound change speech science
Size Matters in Numerical Cognition (SMINC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2251330.0
EU funding (EUR): 2251330.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Numerical cognition is essential to many aspects of life and arithmetic abilities predict academic achievements better than reading. Acquiring a solid sense of numbers and being able to mentally manipulate numbers are at the heart of this ability. In recent years research has been marked by looking for the underlying mental operations, an effort to unravel the neural tissue that supports these operations, and identifying low-level deficits that underlie deficiencies in numerical cognition such as developmental dyscalculia. This accumulated body of results led to a widely accepted view of an innate, domain-specific, core numerical knowledge based on the ability to perceive and manipulate discrete quantities. However, several findings suggest that this wide agreement needs to be examined carefully; 1) similar to their sensitivity to discrete quantities (e.g., enumeration of objects), infants show sensitivity to non-countable continuous dimensions like perception of area (Brannon, 2006) and size (Lourenco, 2010). Mix et al. (2002) surveyed the literature on quantification in infancy and early childhood and suggested that the literature provides no clear-cut evidence that infants use numbers to perform quantitative tasks and that there is evidence that infants respond to amount of substance, rather than discrete numbers, in what had seemed to be numerical tasks. 2) Developmental trajectories similar to those with numbers have been shown to rely on domain-general rather than domain-specific abilities (Holloway, 2008). During development, language may provide a medium that bridges between core domain-specific systems (Munkholm, 2001; Platt, 2009; Spelke, 2003). Lastly, 3) numbers are intimately associated with non-countable dimensions (e.g., area, brightness). Accordingly, the current proposal examines the possibility that there exists an evolutionarily older system dedicated to the perception and evaluation of non-countable dimensions (e.g., sizes or amounts).

Keywords: numerical cognition,dyscalculia,intraparietal sulcus,evolutionary algorithms,archer fish
The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre (AESTAPP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2285295.0
EU funding (EUR): 2285295.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to systematically explore an entire field of current forms of theatre, which despite its outstanding cultural and political significance has so far largely been ignored by theatre studies. Over the past two decades, notwithstanding intense competition from television and electronic media, theatre has been able to reassert and even reinforce its relevance in many different parts of the world and in widely diverse cultural fields (politics, business, social work, development aid, health care, and education). This renewed relevance originates not in traditional, experimental, or commercial theatre but rather among the many different types of applied theatre, which set in motion constructive social processes while upholding theatre’s aesthetic claim. Theatre with clear social, political, or economic aims is experiencing an unprecedented boom. The study will analyse this cross-cultural trend against the background of new theories of the aesthetics of performances and rehearsal processes. This theatre studies approach promises precise insights into the aesthetic forms of applied theatre, which constitute the (hitherto barely researched) foundation of its political effects. It will furthermore bring to light the ethical issues of applied theatre: intense aesthetic experiences – often linked with risks when it comes to performances – do not readily fit in with the claim to restore children, youngsters, patients, and other target groups to health, integrity, and self-confidence through theatrical practice. The project aims to show how aesthetic, political, and ethical aspects interact in the practice of applied theatre. Investigations will focus on carefully selected case studies in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, whose comparison will make it possible for the first time to capture the worldwide landscape of applied theatre in its full diversity, but also in its overarching structures and interrelations.

Keywords: aesthetics,politics,performance theory,theatre in education,psychodrama,drama therapy,theatre for development,communication management,youth culture