Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Carbohydrate utilization by the working muscle of rainbow trout (GLUCOSE USE IN FISH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Argentina
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Carbohydrate-rich diets are frequently used in the commercial farming of fish. However, fish do not appear to have an elevated capacity to clear a high load of glucose from their circulation. Special attention has been directed towards the study of the physiological responses to such carbohydrate-rich feeding. Skeletal muscles play a key role in glucose homeostasis in mammals, and exercise has a noticeable effect in lowering plasma glucose. This effect is caused by an up-regulation of glucose transport mediated by GLUT4 in skeletal muscles in response to exercise. However, the exact mediating mechanism in the modulation of glucose transport in skeletal muscle has not been entirely characterized in vertebrates. Moreover, fish are an excellent model for the research of mechanisms involved in changes of the GLUT glucose transporters produced by exercise because they have anatomically separated red and white muscle masses, which allow the measurement of fibre-type-specific responses. I hypothesize that sustained exercise can be used to enhance carbohydrate expenditure in fish, increasing their natural capacity to clear and utilize plasma glucose by the contracting muscle. I will investigate this possibility, placing a special emphasis on the study of the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating the GLUT-1 and -4 glucose transporters in white and red muscles. Changes in patterns for gene expression using a microarray platform and key biochemical parameters will also be measured in red and white muscles of rainbow trout after four weeks of sustained swimming. I expect that the results obtained from this research will help us to understand how glucose is regulated in fish. This knowledge could be transferred to European companies, leading to more efficient and environmentally conscious feeding practices in the rapidly growing and economic important aquaculture sector.
Elaboration of an evaporative cooling technique with shear-driven liquid films (COOLING TECHNIQUE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2011-11-24
End date: 2012-11-23
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the proposal is to elaborate a new technology for active cooling of high heat flux equipment, using thin, intensively evaporating liquid films driven by the action of a forced gas flow in a narrow channel. The main practical motivation of the project is to develop a design capability and design tools that would enable effective cooling of powerful microelectronics for terrestrial and space applications. This capability must be based upon the development of a fundamental understanding of the parameters enabling high heat transfer rates in such thin film systems. It is proposed to develop such fundamental understanding through conducting systematical experimental studies, including studies in microgravity during aircraft parabolic flights. The experiments will be performed on test sections with flat and microstructured local heaters, which will be brought to the host institution (ULB) by the applicant. ULB possesses all necessary experimental facilities to organize and study shear-driven liquid film flows. In the experiments several state-of-the-art techniques will be used (Schlieren methods, Infrared thermography, Fiber optical thickness probe, High speed CCD camera). The proposed research is supposed to make significant advances in basic knowledge of liquid film heat transfer and rupture, and eventually may lead to a new practical cooling technology with broad area of applications in the marketplace. The proposed research, as well as applicant’s scientific experience, is relevant to the research interest and activities of MRC group of ULB. MRC-ULB has close collaboration with Euro Heat Pipes S.A., aiming at elaboration and creation of an advanced film cooling system for powerful microelectronics. Part of the proposed research is in the framework of ESA-sponsored MAP BOILING project of MRC-ULB. The proposed activity will reinforce mutually beneficial cooperation between ULB and IT, which has been lasting for more than 10 years.
Development of sol-gel inkjet inks for printing on glass substrates for architectural applications (TIGJET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ukraine
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Industrial sol-gel inkjet inks for printing on glass substrates for architectural applications should be developed. There is a strong worldwide market demand for individual custom made decorative glass surfaces for exterior architectural applications. One of the main challenges today in the glass industry is the adhesion and exterior durability of coatings and printings on glass. The only fully commercial route today available is screen printing inorganic inks resulting in a very limited colour range and high application cost. Inkjet printing would be an ideal technology achieving economic and flexible custom made designs. However, today inkjet printing is mainly used in graphic arts applications with limited durability. First inkjet applications using ceramic inks made out of fine grinded frits and inorganic pigments appeared on the market but seem to be inferior, difficult to use, limited in color space, print quality and very limited in ink stability. Two different routes of inkjet printing on glass should be evaluated. Specialized stable sol-gel inkjet inks with superior adhesion to glass and excellent exterior durability should be developed in close cooperation with a major inkjet printer manufacturer and an applicator. Route 1: Stable inorganic-organic hybrid inks compositions based on low-temperature UV curable silanes allowing incorporation of organic and inorganic pigments should be developed. Superior adhesion to glass and exterior durability are the main features of printings on the basis of these inks. Route 2. Purely inorganic water based stable sol-gel inkjet inks compositions based on silica, titania, alumina or mixtures of above, as matrix forming agents with inorganic pigments as colour agents shall be developed. Special attention will be paid to the development of sol-gel inks that produce colour on thermal treatment of prints, avoiding issues arising during pigments stabilization in the compositions as well as printheads blocking.
Evaluation of fruit quality and disease resistance in sea buckthorn germplasm, based on molecular markers and metabolomics (HIPPOHEALTH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2013-06-10
End date: 2014-06-09
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae L.) is a woody, dioecious plant that can be grown in areas characterized by severe drought, high salinity and poor soil conditions. It has recently received considerable attention in Europe and China as a new berry crop with a very high nutritional value and unique medicinal properties, as well as a means of combating soil erosion. Methods must, however, be developed that enable fast and efficient identification of genotypes carrying genes for desirable plant architecture and fruit quality as well as resistance to the very detrimental dried-shrink disease (DSD) in order to achieve a sustainable commercial production of this crop. The objectives of this proposal are to investigate fruit quality parameters and DSD-resistance in already collected germplasm presently conserved in China and in Sweden, respectively, and then develop molecular techniques that will allow fast and accurate development of elite cultivars destined both for direct usage and as a parental material in plant breeding programs. Fruit quality traits and disease resistance will be screened in European and Chinese plant materials. SCAR and SSR markers associated with these traits will be identified using the germplasm-regression-combined marker-trait association analysis. Relationships between genotypic and environmental effects on desirable traits will be investigated using metabolomic techniques based on GC/LC-MS and 1H-NMR. Carefully selected genetic resource collections (gene banks) will be established both at Balsgard in Sweden and at Fuxin in China. A germplasm evaluation system, based on markers associated with desirable traits and results from the metabolomics analysis, will be constructed that provides fast and efficient identification and selection of elite genotypes with high fruit quality in combination with DSD-resistance. These tools will provide a platform for marker- and metabolomics-assisted breeding to develop further improved cultivars.
Bringing Human Neuromotor Intelligence to Robots (H2R)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The H2R project will bring a solid theoretical understanding of human neuromotor control, and develop novel control methods for robots interacting with environments and with humans, based on human control strategies for interactions. The biomimetic motor behaviour for robots will perform better than the existing robotic controllers, and closer to human performance in terms of compliant interaction with the environment and adaptation to its dynamic characteristics, intrinsic safety and reliability, and energy efficiency. This novel controller will be implemented and demonstrated on rehabilitation and cooperative robots, in collaboration with European partners. This project may deeply impact applications where successful task completion requires people and robots to collaborate directly in a shared workspace.
High density energy storage materials (HIDSOM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2013-11-28
End date: 2014-11-27
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is an urgent need to develop high density energy storage materials for application in electric vehicles and power conditioning systems. These will enable us to extend the usage of renewable energies. None of the existing storage media completely meets the current requirements. In this project new capacitive storage materials will be designed and fabricated, composed of high permittivity ceramic powders with small amounts of polymers, with structure and properties integrated to ensure high energy density, plus with high power density and long lifetime. These features will lead to energy storage systems that are small size, light weight, cost effective and environmentally friendly. The proposed research may not only lead to the development of new storage materials for industrial applications but also an improved scientific understanding of high density energy storage.
Screening and Functional Analyses of Photoreceptors in Extremophilic Microbial Communities (EXTREMOPHIL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Argentina
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2013-06-02
End date: 2014-06-01
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The High-Altitude Andean Lakes (HAAL) in the South American Puna-High Andes” are an almost unexplored ecosystem of shallow lakes at altitudes from 3,000 to 6,000 m above sea level. Although exposed to a broad range of extreme conditions they harbour an abundant microbial biodiversity that thrive in environmental conditions of high resemblance to those present in Earth`s early atmosphere. As part of our team in Argentina I have investigated this wide-ranging diversity by culturable and non-culturable methods: so far we have assembled a collection of 200 extremophilic strains from shallow waters, sediments, flamingo faeces and even stromatolites (the only modern stromatolite-ecosystem on Earth recorded at such hostile environments!). The HAAL are clearly conditioned by the high intensity of UV irradiation - in addition to further extreme conditions (e.g. hypersalinity, drastic temperature changes, desiccation, high pH). The rich microbial diversity found in these lakes points to the presence of outstandingly active DNA repair systems - topics of high interest for colleagues worldwide investigating biomass for energy research. Unfortunately our scientific methods are limited - and thus I would like to use the expertise and excellent equipment at the host institute to investigate extensively the strain resistance mechanisms towards UV. These studies on indigenous extremophiles will provide important information about early life – but clearly are of biotechnological and astrobiology interest too. The research will focus on screening and molecular analyses of blue-light driven enzymatic activities such as photolyases involved in DNA-repairing systems - and in particular from the HAAL stromatolite-ecosystems. Their further overexpression and functional study will lead to their photochemical characterization and will highlight the potential of these microbial communities as valuable sources of novel bacteria and bio-molecules of biotechnology interest.
Sustainable Infrastructure for Resilient Urban Environments (SIRUE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This fellowship aim is to identify how the use of underground space and its physical infrastructure (PI) influence, interact with and impact on sustainability, vulnerability and resilience of urban areas, both now and in the future. Three case study cities (Berlin, London, Saint Petersburg) will serve as a basis for analysis of present and future interaction of Urban Underground Infrastructure (UUI) with the urban environment. Analysis of the present UUI role in the city is based on previous research results of Dr. Bobylev, including environmental assessment of underground structures and comparative analysis of UUI using urban sustainability indicators. The team at the University of Birmingham provides background for analysis of development scenarios (partly as a result of the current involvement in the Urban Futures project). Research methodology will employ Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis and Geographical Information Systems tools. Main work packages include collection of data on UUI (and other PI where needed), presenting this data in the form of quantitative indicators (e.g. volume, energy loss in network); analysis of UUI against sustainability and land use indicators; modeling indicator performance in future scenarios, developing policy recommendations for UUI planning and adaptation. It is important that feedback (in the form of expert interviews) of the case study cities relevant authorities will be integrated into policy recommendations developed during the fellowship. Dr. Bobylev is a pioneering researcher in the area of PI sustainability quantitative analysis and this fellowship will allow him to develop this idea further in a team of world leading experts on UUI.
ChemCatSusDe: Chemical Catalysis towards a Sustainable Development: Transformation of Bio-Resources and Atom-Efficient Reactions Catalyzed by Bio-Metals (CHEMCATSUSDE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11250.0
EU funding (EUR): 11250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ChemCatSusDe addresses some of the industrial and economical issues of our society: fossil fuel depletion, use of renewable resources derived from the biomass, environmentally friendly chemistry for a sustainable future. At its core lies the versatility of complexes of zinc, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium (the so-called bio-metals): green catalysts able to perform both the polymerisation of cyclic esters and highly atom-efficient hydroelementation reactions will be designed. The objectives defined by the researcher and the host institution in Rennes are: - Synthesis of well-defined complexes of the large alkaline-earth (Ca, Sr, Ba). The coordination chemistry of these metals in the presence of chelating, mono-anionic ligands will be studied. Owing to the extreme oxophilic nature of these elements, these catalytic precursors are expected to display excellent activities. The same synthetic strategies will also be extended to the preparation of complexes of the smaller zinc and magnesium, which display an excellent compromise between stability and catalytic activity - Use of these complexes for the catalytic immortal ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic monomers derived from renewable bioresources for the production of biocompatible and/or biodegradable polymers. All catalysts will be used for the polymerisation of lactide and monomers such as morpholinediones and b- or g-valerolactones - Hydroelementation of terminal alkenes catalyzed by heteroleptic amido-alkaline-earth complexes. Catalysts for the 100% atom-efficient hydrosilylation, -phophination and -amination of unsaturated substrates will be prepared - Study of the stability and reactivity of the targeted heteroleptic complexes by theoretical calculations: the design of catalytic systems will be elaborated and/or optimized according to preliminary calculations or those based on experimental structural data. - Development of long-term collaborations between the host and return institutions
Electron orbital resolution in scanning tunneling microscopy (ORBITAL IMAGING)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) has become one of the basic techniques for the analysis of surface reconstructions, overlayer growth mechanisms, surface dynamics and chemistry at the atomic scale. STM is used in physics, chemistry and biology for investigation of organic and inorganic nanoobjects. However, the mechanisms of STM image formation are still not completely understood. The proposed project will be focused mainly on two unresolved issues. The first research focus is related to fabrication of functionalized STM probes with well defined electronic (orbital) structure. To control the electronic structure of the STM tip apex, oriented single crystal probes will be used. The second research focus is related to experimental and theoretical studies of the STM tip and surface atoms interaction and the role of different electron orbitals of the both tip and surface atoms in the STM image formation process. The atom-atom interaction at extremely small tunneling gaps as well as distance and bias voltage dependent contribution of separate electron orbitals will be studied experimentally using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at room and low temperatures. The experimental data will be analyzed in a conjunction with results of theoretical (density functional theory and tight binding) calculations. The project activity can provide new fundamental understanding of the atomic scale objects and give some keys for controllable probing separate electron orbitals of individual atoms with STM. This can advance the surface analysis methods necessary for development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The selective orbital imaging capability can allow to reach ultimate spatial resolution, spin sensitivity at the atomic scale and controllable chemical discrimination of atomic species on surfaces using STM that are essential for physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and materials science.