Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Large Area Photonic Crystal Chemical Sensors (PHOTOSENS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6854058.4
EU funding (EUR): 4900000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The PHOTOSENS project aims to develop a low-cost, mass-manufacturable, nano-structured, large-area multi-parameter sensor array using Photonic Crystal (PC) and enhanced Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) methodologies for environmental and pharmaceutical applications. Integrating the PC and SERS based sensors with integrated optics coupling structures within a single sensor platform allows the implementation of a high-performance multi-parameter sensor. Currently, utilization of multi-parameter sensing is hindered by the lack of low-cost and, highly reproducibility fabrication methods for nano-structured surfaces. PHOTOSENS addresses these challenges by developing new roll-to-roll nanoimprinting manufacturing methods. Scientific work includes development of the multilayer nanophotonic sensor structure, nanoimprint materials for large-area fabrication, functionalized molecularly imprinted polymers (MIP) and high-volume manufacturing methods including Roll-to-Roll (R2R) nanoimprint processes for nano-texturing of large-area plastic films. PHOTOSENS will greatly increase understanding of photonic and plasmonic dispersion and field localisation effects in periodic nanostructures, such as Photonic Crystals, and their applicability to sensing purposes. PHOTOSENS demonstrates a multi-parameter large-area sensor platform for environmental and pharmaceutical sensing. The consortium is composed of 4 world-class research organisations, 2 SMEs and 3 large companies from 6 European countries representing the complete supply chain from technology developers to end users. The position of these organizations in their respective markets guarantees that the results of the project will be widely exploited providing the companies with a technological advantage over their global competitors and thus creating new high-tech jobs in Europe in this rapidly growing market.
Integrated Process Chain for Automated and Flexible Production of Fibre-Reinforced Plastic Products (FIBRECHAIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Czechia,United Kingdom,Germany,France,France,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,Czechia,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9926776.45
EU funding (EUR): 6497212.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Lightweight components and their energy-efficient production will form one of the most important key factors for the European industry to fulfil the ever increasing global demands. Nowadays, for 3D-shaped, multi-layered products based on flexible materials only specialized and semi-automated manufacturing equipment is available. The project “Integrated Process Chain for Automated and Flexible Production of Fibre-Reinforced Plastic Products (FibreChain)” aims at the development of worldwide first automated turnkey manufacturing systems for fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composites (FRTC) addressing public and private transportation, mechanical, chemical and civil engineering as well as consumer goods. FibreChain will generate 20.8 billion € in 5 years and promote a world leading European fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) industry. FibreChain will more than double the productivity by cost-effective, energy-efficient and flexible manufacturing of FRTCs products due to: -Customised and yet highly automated production -Multi-functional (laser) equipment -Near-Net-Shape production (scrap rates down to 3%) -Integrated measurement systems -Knowledge and simulation models along all processes A multidisciplinary consortium from 7 European countries with outstanding competencies in material, machine tools, manufacturing, laser technology, metrology, simulation and control will accomplish an integrated process chain and make available: -Process-adapted prepreg materials with carbon, aramid, glass, basalt and natural fibres -UD-prepregs to overcome drawbacks of fabrics and impregnation processes -Energy-efficient out-of-autoclave production -Laser systems and processes for integration of tape laying, cutting and joining -In-situ integration of holes and inserts during thermoforming -Integrated material/process data base, simulation and quality assurance system Thus, OEMs and SMEs synchronise their production of FRTCs with the technological inputs from lean manufacturing systems.

Keywords: thermoplastics,continuous fibre-reinforced,laser,tape laying,integrated process chain,handling systems,simulation models
From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history (ADNABIOARC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1088386.0
EU funding (EUR): 1088386.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The colonisation of Europe by anatomically modern humans (AMHs) ca. 45,000 years before present (BP) and the transition to farming ca. 8,000 BP are two major events in human prehistory. Both events involved certain cultural and biological adaptations, technological innovations, and behavioural plasticity which are unique to our species. The reconstruction of these processes and the causality between them has so far remained elusive due to technological, methodological and logistical complexities. Major developments in our understanding of the anthropology of the Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, and advances in ancient DNA (aDNA) technology and chronometric methods now allow us to assess in sufficient resolution the interface between these evolutionary processes, and changes in human culture and behaviour. The proposed research will investigate the complex interface between the morphological, genetic, behavioural, and cultural factors that shaped the population history of European AMHs. The PI s interdisciplinary expertise in these areas, his access to and experience of relevant skeletal collections, and his ongoing European collaborations will allow significant progress in addressing these fundamental questions. The approach taken will include (a) the collection of bioarchaeological, aDNA, stable isotope (for the analysis of ancient diet) and radiometric data on 500 skeletons from key sites/phases in Europe and western Anatolia, and (b) the application of existing and novel aDNA, bioarchaeological and simulation methodologies. This research will yield results that transform our current understanding of major demographic and evolutionary processes and will place Europe at the forefront of anthropological biological and genetic research.

Keywords: palaeolithic,mesolithic,neolithic,human ancient dna,genes,demographic history,stable isotope analysis,craniometry
Philosophy of Canonical Quantum Gravity (PHILOQUANTUMGRAVITY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Starting Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1478386.0
EU funding (EUR): 1478386.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research proposal addresses from a philosophical perspective the greatest unsolved problem of theoretical physics, namely the formulation of a quantum theory of gravity. Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two main revolutions of 20th century physics. These theories have radically modified our conceptions about time, space, motion, matter and causality. However, the formulation of a quantum theory of gravity capable of harmonizing these new insights in a consistent synthesis remains an open problem. The absence of an experimental guidance, the conceptual nature of some of the obstructions encountered, and the philosophical origin and scope of the problems to which general relativity and quantum mechanics provided a provisional solution explain why philosophy can play an essential role in helping to accomplish this unfinished revolution . The general objective of this research proposal in philosophy of physics is to address the main (interrelated) foundational issues raised by canonical quantum gravity, notably 1) the consequences of canonical quantum gravity for the ontology of space and time, 2) the debate concerning the relational or substantival commitments of canonical quantum gravity, and 3) the so-called problem of time. In order to accomplish this goal, this research proposal relies on two intermediate subprojects. The first one addresses some foundational problems of general relativity which are of direct relevance for its quantization. The second one addresses the philosophy of canonical quantization. Far from tackling these subjects from scratch, this research proposal interlocks my previous work 1) on the philosophy of quantum mechanics, 2) on the philosophy of gauge theories, and 3) on the canonical quantization of gauge theories.

Keywords: philosophy of physics,quantum gravity,quantum mechanics,general relativity
Corporate Governance (GOV)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1110980.0
EU funding (EUR): 1110980.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this proposal is to apply for an ERC Starting Grant to support a careful study of the design and implications of corporate governance. Corporate governance is the set of mechanisms that are designed to address the conflicts between the managers and owners of assets when there is a separation of ownership and control. These mechanisms are intended to monitor the person who has control over the assets so that the use of the assets does not conflict with the incentives of the owners of the assets. Boards of directors, institutional shareholders, and the market for corporate control are some examples of corporate governance mechanisms that are expected to mitigate the potential conflicts between owners and the managers. Based on the prior work of others and my own, I am convinced that an attempt to measure the role of the individual style and preferences in corporate decision making and corporate governance will be fruitful. The series of research I conducted so far developed my perspective as a researcher, making me appreciate better the importance of capturing, to the extent possible, the entirety of the construct of interest. Given my current research interests, I propose to undertake the following three categories of research to understand: (1)how the individual style; and (2) inter-group dynamics aspect of corporate governance play a role in corporate decision making and outcomes, and (3) to evaluate (and be able to make future recommendations) about the regulation of corporate governance. The overarching objective of this proposal is to expand our thinking of corporate governance to include the human element in the design of mechanisms and contracts.

Keywords: corporate governance
Lexical information processes and their spatio-temporal dynamics (LIPS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1251345.0
EU funding (EUR): 1251345.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Adult speakers of a language know several tens of thousands of words. Unless they suffer from some neurological disorders, those words can be readily used on a daily basis. This is done by retrieving lexical information from long term memory, and selecting its most relevant aspects. Cognitive models of word selection distinguish stages of processing concerned with semantic, lexical, and form properties of the words. Contrastive hypothesis have been considered to describe how appropriate lexical items are uniquely identified among all known words. Various sections of temporal cortex are known to play a prominent role in lexico-semantic processing, whereas frontal cortex is known to act as a controller of memory retrieval. More specifically, posterior left lateral and medial areas are capable to detect and resolve conflict among candidate words in cases where uncertainty arises. Despite detailed accounts, current descriptions of lexical information processes are rather static. Discussions of cognitive processing models have often been framed on structural, rather than dynamical, arguments. In addition, a vast majority of studies characterizing lexical information processing are based on low temporal resolution brain imaging techniques. The main objective of this project is to go beyond these descriptions by characterizing the spatio-temporal dynamics of word selection processes. The evidence will come from electro-encephalographic (EEG) and magneto-encephalographic (MEG) recordings of brain activity elicited in well-defined cognitive tasks. Innovative temporal pre-processes should allow discriminating brain activity from articulation artefacts. The evidence will also come from intra-cranial event related potentials, recorded in patients suffering from pharmaco-resistant forms of frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy. These data have high spatial and temporal resolution, and will provide strong constrains on lexical information processing models. A description of the dynamic interactions between brain regions during word selection will change the way we think about this basic behaviour. Besides this intrinsic interest, word selection provides a very natural way to connect relatively simple decision processes (e.g. those engaged in basic visuo-motor tasks) with more integrative processes involved in information retrieval from long term memory. Better understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of lexical information processes will also be highly valuable for improving pre-surgical evaluation procedures in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy.

Keywords: word selection,compatibility,epilepsy,electroencephalography
Changing Families: Causes, Consequences and Challenges for Public Policy (CHANGING FAMILIES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1037000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1037000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The household and family structure in every major industrialized country changed in a fundamental way during the last couple of decades. First, marriage is less important today, as divorce, cohabitation, and single-motherhood are much more common. Second, female labor force participation has increased dramatically. As a result of these changes, today s households are very far from traditional breadwinner husband and housekeeper wife paradigm. These dramatic changes generated significant public interest and a large body of literature that tries to understand causes and consequences of these changes. This project has two main goals. First, it studies changes in household and family structure. The particular questions that it tries to answer are: 1) What are economic factors behind the rise in premarital sex and its destigmatization? What determines parents incentives to socialize their children and affect their attitudes? 2) What are the causes and consequences of the recent rise in assortative mating and diverging marriage patterns by different educational groups? 3) Why are marriage patterns among blacks so different than whites in the U.S.? The second aim of this project is to improve our understanding of income risk, the role of social insurance policies and labor market dynamics by building models that explicitly considers two-earner households. In particular, we ask the following set of questions: 1) What is the role of social insurance policies (income maintenance programs or progressive taxation) in an economy populated by two-earner households facing uninsurable idiosyncratic risk? 2) How does marriage and labor market dynamics interact and how important this interaction for our understanding of labor supply and marriage decisions?

Keywords: economic demography,marriage markets,socialization of children,social insurance,marital sorting,taxation of households
Musical Transitions to European Colonialism in the eastern Indian Ocean (MUSTECIO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1181555.0
EU funding (EUR): 1181555.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MUSTECIO's aim is to produce, for the first time, a history of transitions from pre-colonial to colonial musical fields in the eastern Indian Ocean. It will focus on India and the Malay peninsula, largely during the period of British expansion, c.1750-1900, and combine research methodologies from both history and ethnomusicology. Previous scholarship has argued that colonialism created a rupture with past systems of knowledge in colonised musical fields. We will seek to show that the story is more complex: although musical fields did undergo large-scale changes, the continuity of pre-colonial systems alongside these changes suggests gradual transformation, not radical disjuncture. Colonial infrastructures in the eastern Indian Ocean did not, in other words, wholly displace the long-standing networks that preceded them, and even facilitated new exchanges of indigenous cultural capital that were otherwise unmediated by the colonising powers. The process we will map entails overlapping but chronologically staggered layerings of pre-colonial, colonial and hybrid discourses, undertaken in several language-cultures and by different constituencies over time. We will also suggest that viewing India and the Malay peninsula as a single, multiply-connected region (and not as separate cultural arenas as is still paradigmatic in ethnomusicology) throws substantial and unexpected light on these patterns of transition. Finally, we will suggest that the best way to map these patterns of transition is to bring pre-colonial and colonial musical pasts, and multiple indigenous- and European-language archives, into sustained critical dialogue. By doing this on an unprecedented scale, MUSTECIO will seek to develop a new historical model for the interactions of music and colonialism: one that will persuasively account for both continuities and transformations in musical knowledge systems in the eastern Indian ocean.

Keywords: ethnomusicology,colonial history,cultural history,transitions to colonialism,indian music,malay music,s & se asia,mughals,awadh,malay states,tamil diaspora,calcutta,penang,singapore
Risk Incentives in Financial Institutions and Financial Instability (RIFIFI)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: France,France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 564000.0
EU funding (EUR): 564000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of this research project is to develop a new framework for the study of the informational frictions that separate investors from sophisticated traders operating in complete markets. I plan to develop a model of “generalized risk-shifting,” in which traders in complete markets can secretly take fair bets with any arbitrary distribution. The goal is to study the interplay of this generalized risk-shifting with traders’ career concerns. When investors learn about trading skills from observing traders’ realized returns, taking exposures on risk factors with rare adverse realizations may help a trader temporarily improve her reputation and attract more funds. The first intermediary step of this project consists in fully characterizing the payoff functions that lead a trader to gamble inefficiently in a one-period setting. The second step consists in solving for contracts that are risk-shifting-proof in a dynamic career concern environment. Finally, the model is well suited to be taken to hedge fund data

Keywords: delegated asset management,agency problems,hedge funds,traders' compensation,financial regulation