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Roughness design towards reversible non- / full-wetting surfaces: From Fakir Droplets to Liquid Films (HYDROFAKIR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1131840.0
EU funding (EUR): 1131840.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Creating tunable surfaces that are able to undergo reversible transitions between superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic behaviour is a challenging and vital issue due to their potential use in applications involving self cleaning, very low flow resistance and liquid handling without moving mechanical parts. Superhydrophobic surfaces arising from micro-scale roughened hydrophobic materials spontaneously exhibit transitions to become superhydrophilic when their material wetting properties are suitably modified by external stimuli. The reverse transition, however, requires external actuation/ perturbation which can be strong as to deteriorate the liquids handled and therefore limit the use such techniques in applications. Here we plan to combine continuum and mesoscale computational analysis of wetting phenomena in solid surfaces to create designer roughness that will minimize, or even eliminate, the strength of the actuation required to achieve full- to non-wetting reversibility. The modelling will be done in a continuous dialogue with surface fabrication and wetting tests. Wetting experiments will be performed along with novel microactuation techniques for liquid interfaces.

Keywords: superhydrophobicity,surface roughness design,droplets
Research Infrastructures and the Regional Dimension of ERA (RIC2009)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Resilient Infrastructure
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2009-07-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158180.0
EU funding (EUR): 104000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The sixth Conference relating to Research Infrastructures entitled „Research Infrastructures and the Regional Dimension of ERA” will take place in Prague on 24-25 March 2009, under the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU. It is expected to have this event for around 300 participants. The importance of excellent research infrastructures throughout Europe is being more and more imminent. Nevertheless, it is still important to show these benefits from different angles. There is still a gap existing between the new member states and the rest of Europe in the terms of research infrastructures. The objective of this conference is to motivate policy makers to pay real attention to a strategic approach towards member states policies in the field of research infrastructures, to motivate member states to coordinate their policies and as a main goal, to show the need to develop a European policy and priorities in the field of research infrastructures including the capacities of all member states in a concerted way. The conference should answer, or at least establish discussion on the main issues dealing with the problems of new member states in the field of research infrastructures. This conference wants to exploit the good examples of already existing solutions to the development of research infrastructures throughout Europe. The existence of excellent research infrastructures leads to the competitiveness of those regions. Every research infrastructure is a natural knowledge triangle. In this frame the research infrastructures contribute to the development of human resources in the region, to technology transfer in the region and to the production of knowledge in the region. The first part of the conference has for its aim to establish a proof for this statement. The second part of the conference tackles themes about the application of this statement to praxis.

Keywords: research infrastructures,new member states,region,europe,human resources
Development and Verification of a Bibliometric model for the Identification of Frontier Research (DBF)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: ERC other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,France
Call:  (ERC-2009-SUPPORT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 466883.0
EU funding (EUR): 333416.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the proposed work is to provide a bibliometric monitoring for the peer review process of the ERC grant schemes. Particular interest will be devoted to the extent the grant applications fulfil attributes of frontier research and the influence of these attributes on the decision of the panels. For this purpose, bibliometric parameters corresponding to what was defined as frontier research by the EC’s High Level Expert Group (HLEG) in 2005 will be elaborated and applied on the relevant information available in the grant applications as well as in the relevant publications authored by the applicants prior to their submission of their grant application. By doing so, a bibliometric ranking of the submitted applications will be obtained which can be compared to the ranking/selection made by the peer review process. By comparing the two rankings, it shall be found out whether the peer review process shows a systematic bias in one or more categories of researchers or projects. A per case analysis for the most evident deviations will be carried out under the involvement of experts in the respective field in order to identify either the need for adaptations in the bibliometric model or the need for drafting suggestions for the improvement of the peer review process. The work shall result in a methodology that allows the ERC to monitor the operation of the peer review process from a bibliometric perspective and potentially shall yield additional elements in the future execution of the peer review process. Such elements could be periodic monitoring activities for each call or a methodology for the pre-evaluation of future grant applications in order to support the reviewers or the panel members with an additional input and orientation for the assessment of such applications.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis,frontier research,peer review process
Emerging Research Areas and their Coverage by ERC-supported Projects (ERACEP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: ERC other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2009-SUPPORT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 609688.8
EU funding (EUR): 414118.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project refers to the research topic &quot;Emerging research areas&quot; within the CSAs of the ERC work programme. Its main objectives are to identify topically emerging re-search areas within all science areas and to analyse to what extent ERC-supported activities cover and contribute to these research areas. Thus we will investigate whether the basic mission of the ERC, namely &quot;..to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engi-neers to be adventurous and take risks in their research&quot; is reached in a satisfying way. Thereby the project also contributes to the question, whether the bottom-up approach of ERC funding meets the expectation of being able to support new lines of research with impact on the development of dynamic creative and innovative areas of research in Europe. The concept of our project combines two approaches. The first one concerns the identification of topically emerging research areas assuming that excellent, truly creative research can be found in particular in these emerging areas. Growth analyses will be combined with advanced bibliometric analyses (bibliometric coupling, cross-citation and text mining) and validated via expert assessments. The second approach comprises a mapping of ERC-funded research to emerging fields and an assessment of the ex-pected impact of ERC-funded research in terms of contributions to creative and innova-tive research areas in Europe. In addition ERC-funded research activities referring to distinct areas not covered by the landscape of emerging fields will be identified and assessed. Conclusions on the impact of ERC funding on stimulating research in emerging areas will be drawn and recommendations for optimizing ERC procedures will be developed. The methodological approaches will be compiled to a toolbox for analysing the signifi-cance of ERC-funded research in relation to the worldwide landscape of emerging research areas.

Keywords: emerging research areas,mapping erc grants,international comparisons,bibliometrics,text mining,patent analysis,expert assessment,science clusters
Improved Polycrystalline-Silicon Modules on Glass Substrates (POLYSIMODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Czechia,Germany,France,Germany,Germany,Australia
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6298866.0
EU funding (EUR): 4431394.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to improve the efficiency and the cost-effectiveness of thin-film polysilicon solar modules. Thin-film polysilicon solar cells have recently emerged as a promising thin-film alternative to bulk crystalline Si. With Solid Phase Crystallization (SPC) of amorphous Si, CSG Solar AG recently achieved mini-modules with an efficiency of around 10%, matching the efficiencies of the best European micromorph mini-modules. The efficiency of polysilicon modules will be enhanced in this project by improvement of the crystallographic and electronic quality of the polysilicon material and by the develoment of advanced new methods for light confinement. By in-depth characterization of the polysilicon material, a better understanding of the relationship between the processing parameters, the electrical and optical properties of the material and the resulting device properties will be obtained. The main goals are to have large-area polysilicon modules with an efficiency of 12% and with a cost of 0.7 Euro per Watt peak at the end of the project. The active participation of CSG within this project will allow the consortium to produce module demonstrators by using the pilot line of CSG and also to accurately determine the effect of newly developed process steps on the cost-effectiveness of polysilicon modules. This makes sure that there is a good chance to bring the developed technologies directly into real mass production at the end of the project. These objectives fit very well in the topic ENERGY.2009.2.1.1 - Efficiency and material issues for thin-film photovoltaics. The expected impact of the proposed project is to enhance the efficiency of polysilicon modules, thereby increasing their cost-effectiveness. Since all the main European institutes working on thin-film polysilicon solar cells are joining forces within this project, a substantial acceleration in the improvement of the cost-effectiveness of polysilicon modules is expected.

Keywords: polycrystalline-silicon,thin-film photovoltaics,improved efficiency,improved cost effectiveness
Emoting the Embodied Mind (EMOTER)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 685301.0
EU funding (EUR): 685301.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to develop a theoretical account of the mind that acknowledges its embodied as well as emotional character, thus cutting across traditional dichotomies such as head/body, reason/passion, intellect/instinct, and nurture/nature. This goal involves bringing together two research fields that have paid relatively little attention to each other the embodied approach in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and the emerging field of affective science . Both fields have undergone considerable developments in the last years, and both represent thriving interdisciplinary research areas. The proposed framework will detail the various ways in which the embodied and emotional features of the mind relate to one another, including the implications that an embodied-emotional view of the mind will have for our concepts of consciousness, value, and rationality. The project is divided into four interrelated yet distinct self-contained subprojects that will be completed over a period of five years. Subproject 1 will address the question of the nature of emotion experience and its relation to the body through an analysis of accounts of lived experience found in philosophical phenomenology, psychology and neuroscience. Subproject 2 will discuss the possibility to extend emotions beyond the boundary of the organism. Subproject 3 will develop an embodied account of value, from simple to more complex organisms. Subproject 4 will elaborate the implications of an embodied-emotional view of the mind for philosophical conceptions of control, rationality, and normativity. Overall, these themes outline a project which is philosophical in its aims (the development of a theoretical framework, and the philosophical implications of such a framework), and interdisciplinary in its methodology. Part of it will in fact examine and discuss various psychological and neuroscientific studies in detail, and recommend new avenues for empirical research in these disciplines.

Keywords: philosophy of cognitive science,emotion,affective science,embodied mind
The dynamics and consequences of institutions for collective action in pre-industrial Europe (UNITEDWESTAND)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1199720.72
EU funding (EUR): 1199720.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Europe s economic development in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, continues to fascinate scholars. In recent debates, institutionalised forms of collective action have been put forward as a key feature of Europe s precocious development. This project examines that connection between institutions and economic development in detail. It also harks back to the origins of such institutions, teasing out the impact of changing family patterns that emerged in Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages, which are often described as the European Marriage Pattern . Together with such factors as the absence of a strong state, and a helpful legal framework, the weakening of family relations may have created opportunities for other, non-kin social organisations to emerge, explaining the strength of institutions for collective action in this part of the world. Interactions between economic growth, marriage patterns and collective action institutions will be examined on several levels. A European wide-analysis, using specific indicators for institutional development and demographic patterns, should help clarify our understanding of their temporal and geographical co-evolution. Regulations for several types of collective action institutions will be analysed for Western Europe and Southern Europe to study the impact of household constitution and marriage patterns on institutional arrangements. A third level of the project, to be subdivided in an urban and a rural study, will look into the application of such regulations in everyday practices, through the analysis of several case-studies of guilds, commons and beguinages in the Low Countries. Finally, a sub-project is will promote dissemination and exchange of the project s data among the wider academic community. Several events will be organised to stimulate debates about the topics raised by the project.

Keywords: institutions,family patterns,economic development,collective action
From the Child's Genes to Parental Environment and Back to the Child: Gene-environment Correlations in Early Social Development (FROMCHILDTOPARENT)

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: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1443687.0
EU funding (EUR): 1443687.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The role of children&apos;s behavior and temperament is increasingly acknowledged in family research. Gene-environment Correlation (rGE) processes may account for some child effects, as parents react to children s behavior which is in part genetically influenced (evocative rGE). In addition, passive rGE, in which parenting and children s behavior are correlated through overlapping genetic influences on family members behavior may account in part for the parenting-child behavior relationships. The proposed project will be the first one to directly address these issues with DNA information on family members and quality observational data on parent and child behaviors, following children through early development. Two separate longitudinal studies will investigate the paths from children s genes to their behavior, to the way parents react and modify their parenting towards the child, affecting child development: Study 1 will follow first-time parents from pregnancy through children s early childhood, decoupling parent effect and child effects. Study 2 will follow dizygotic twins and their parents through middle childhood, capitalizing on genetic differences between twins reared by the same parents. We will test the hypothesis that parents&apos; characteristics, such as parenting style and parental attitudes, are associated with children&apos;s genetic tendencies. Both parenting and child behaviors will be monitored consecutively, to investigate the co-development of parents and children in an evocative rGE process. Child and parent candidate genes relevant to social behavior, notably those from the dompaminergic and serotonergic systems, will be linked to parents behaviors. Pilot results show children s genes predict parenting, and an important task for the study will be to identify mediators of this effect, such as children s temperament. We will lay the ground for further research into the complexity of gene-environment correlations as children and parents co-develop.

Keywords: developmental psychology,gene-environment correlation,parenting,temperament
An integrative study on the distribution, morphology and composition of biofilms under the influence of secondary flows around flow obstructions (BIOFILMS AND FLOW)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 241237.6
EU funding (EUR): 241237.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Biofilms are bacteria consortia, embedded in a self-secreted 'gel' matrix which provides bacteria with significant advantages for their survival and proliferation. Owing to this successful strategy, biofilms may be found virtually anywhere, provided some nutrients are available. Beneficial examples include biofilm-based wastewater treatment systems. On the 'negative' side, biofilms may cause disease transmission or trigger infections from medical implants; biofilms are a cause for increased resistance of heat-exchange equipment and clogging of filtration columns, water distribution pipes, drip-irrigation emitters and, the focus of this study - membrane separation modules. The latter are of particularly great importance as state-of-the-art technology for water treatment and desalination. Owing to this wide range of applications, biofilms have been extensively studied. In spite of these efforts, the interplay between the characteristics of a velocity field and biofilm distribution and composition remain largely illusive, particularly in complex velocity fields, such as those arising in the presence of flow obstructions. The overreaching goal of this project is to develop a mechanistic, quantitative approach to understanding the effect of hydrodynamics on bacterial deposition and biofilm development in the presence of a flow obstruction; a micro-fluidic approach will be developed for characterizing biofilm development under various hydrodynamic and physico-chemical conditions. Concurrently, two- and three-dimensional simulations of the flow field will be performed, so as to connect hydrodynamic characteristics, such as secondary flows, to the deposition patterns as well as biofilm morphology and composition. The model system to be considered will have direct implication for the design and operation of membrane-based desalting. However, in a wider context, the methodology developed may be applied to study biofilms in any other flowing systems.

Keywords: hydrodynamics,biofilm,desalination,reverse osmosis,membrane biofouling,water resources engineering,water technology,biomedical engineering
Probabilistic Inverse Models for Assessing the Predictive Accuracy of Inelastic Seismic Numerical Analyses (NOUS)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-11-06
End date: 2015-11-05
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 228234.4
EU funding (EUR): 228234.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research proposal deals with developing probabilistic inverse models for assessing the predictive accuracy of inelastic seismic numerical analyses. Numerical models for predicting the inelastic response of structures in seismic loading are biased by so-called epistemic uncertainties that arise from our lack of knowledge: modelling errors, poor comprehension of material constitutive behaviours and of the energy dissipation mechanisms, and so on. Bringing together experts in probabilistic computational mechanics, earthquake engineering, nonlinear material science and mathematical statistics, the research project aims at providing innovative useful numerical tools to researchers, designers and analysts for decision making regarding the seismic risk and structural safety of designing and existing structures. More specifically, research will be oriented toward developing deterministic-probabilistic inverse models to quantify the epistemic uncertainties in inelastic seismic numerical analyses. Such models will allow for computing confidence regions for the quantities of interest. Confidence regions reflect the predictive accuracy of the simulations and provide useful information for defining new research orientations as well as for structural safety and risk assessment.

Keywords: nonlinear computational mechanics,earthquake engineering,probabilistic models,material science,damping,finite element method,monte carlo simulation,confidence regions