Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Support to the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the ERC Scientific Council 2010 (ERCSC-CHAIRS-SUP2010)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: ERC other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 248080.0
EU funding (EUR): 229925.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims to support the ScC Chair and Vice-Chairs in the efficient and timely achievement of the ScC objectives in 2010. It will support and assist Professor H. Nowotny, (Chair of the ERC ScC), Professor D. Esteve (Vice-Chair of the ERC ScC) and another member of the Scientific Council (to be elected as Vice-Chair of the ERC ScC) in their diverse responsibilities which include the achievement of efficient and effective functioning of the ScC as a policy making body, its integrated operation together with the ERC Executive Agency (ERCEA), and effective interfacing with the scientific community, other funding agencies and the political institutions of the European Union and beyond. The project will provide administrative, operational and research support ranging from secretarial tasks to assistance in developing policy papers, related to the work of the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the ERC Scientific Council for a period of ten months. The potential impact of the project will be to ensure an efficient and well-managed operation of the ERC ScC. By providing high-level local support for the EcC Chairman who is based at Wiener Wissenschafts Forschungs und Technologiefonds (WWTF) Vienna (Austria), and the two Vice-Chairs who are based at Commissariat Energie Atomique (CEA) - Saclay (France) and another institution, the project will complement the activities of and allow efficient interfacing with the ERCEA. Overall, the project is expected to contribute significantly to the implementation of the Ideas specific programme. The proposed project will be a continuation and expansion of the ongoing project "ERCSC-CHAIRS-SUP2009—Support to the Chair and Vice-Chairs of the ERC Scientific Council 2009" Project No. 243387.

Keywords: european research council,scientific council,chair,vice-chairs,support
Computational Fluid Dynamics Aided Design of the Propulsion and Locomotion Systems of a Bioinspired Robot Octopus (CFD-OCTOPROP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The CFD-OctoProp project aims to investigate the fluid mechanics involved with the propulsion and locomotion systems of cephalopods by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools. The development of an accurate kinematic and fluid dynamics model of the propelling apparatus of these soft-bodied organisms is intended to aid in the design of an actuator which will eventually be implemented in an octopus-inspired robot. The primary focus of the research project will be the development of a series of numerical models capable of dealing with the fluid-structure interactions (FSI) which arise during the displacement of the robot in water. The CFD analysis will try and derive the most suitable shape and elastic characteristic of the siphon which is best suited for generating thrust in order to propel the robot octopus. Secondly, the incorporation of a kinematic model of the crawling octopus in a CFD code will be perfomed in order to provide the essential background on the techniques adopted by the octopus for optimizing its own motion through water. The final goal of this project is to support in the development of an underwater robot capable of unprecedented motion skills for application in environmental monitoring.

Keywords: computational fluid dynamics,bio-inspired robotics,modelling tools,carriers (rov,aov,other autonomous vessels) and power supply,propulsion systems engineering
Regime and Society in Eastern Europe (1956 - 1989). From Extended Reproduction to Social and Political Change (RESOCEA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Bulgaria,Hungary,Czechia,Austria,Poland,Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1026120.0
EU funding (EUR): 1026120.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The ambition of this project rests on the long-established tradition of the comparative politico-historical and interdisciplinary studies of the totalitarian regimes and on the theoretical efforts to elucidate the social dynamics and social change in Eastern Europe during the so called "real socialism". It will deal with the relations between regime and society in an attempt to highlight the growing tensions between them. Without neglecting the important role of the geopolitical confrontation and the dissident movements, this work will search the key factors for the disintegration of communist societies in the common peoples’ modes of conduct. While the regime followed the same guiding principles till its end, individual and community ways kept changing and these shifts affected the whole society. Therefore we should study and critically analyse the evolving motives behind individual and group everyday behavior, their new moral orientations, as well as the changes in the regime practices and the characteristics of the dominant type among party functionaries. The communist regime loses support among social groups, which it favours and considers its social basis. The project involves one PI who will organise and supervise the work of four senior researchers from the ex-socialist countries while each of them deals with the local aspects of the issue. The PI will study these phenomena in Bulgarian context and at the same time will provide a comparative narrative linking all five case studies. The comparative analyses of different social practices and dynamics in similar political environments will help us understand the various courses Eastern-European countries took in overcoming their communist past and can serve as a basis for a follow-up research of the Transition process.

Keywords: social history,totalitarianism,real socialism,interplay of observational scales,incident,social agency,symbolic interactionism,structural contradiction,micropowers,social change
Fast Reactor Experiments for hYbrid Applications (FREYA)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,France,Italy,Portugal,Spain,Italy,Sweden,Netherlands,Germany,Sweden,Poland,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5060978.8
EU funding (EUR): 2799992.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Building up on the former activities accomplished in the previous FPs, namely MUSE in FP5 and EUROTRANS in FP6, it is proposed in the FREYA project to extend the investigations of the subcritical configurations for validation of the methodology for on-line reactivity monitoring of ADS systems. The investigations will be related to the different subcriticality levels for the nominal operation mode of ADS. In order to investigate the robustness of several proposed measurement techniques with regard to the reflector effect, it is foreseen to perform experiments with different reflector materials. To complete the validation of the methodology for subcriticality monitoring, the robustness of the reactivity indicators with regard to a change in vertical position of the neutron source will be investigated in view of possible variations of the height of the spallation source in a real ADS. On the other hand given the objectives for MYRRHA/FASTEF as studied within FP7 CDT to be operated as a subcritical facility and a critical facility, an experimental programme in support of the design and licensing of both operation modes is needed. Although the experimental programme with regard to the critical mode operation of MYRRHA/FASTEF can generate useful information for the validation of reactor codes for LFR development, a dedicated effort for the validation of reactor codes for LFR developments is envisaged by the LFR community.

Keywords: fast-reactor,ads,lfr,partitioning and transmutation,integral experiments,code validation
Philosophy in Context : Arabic and Syriac manuscripts transmission in the Mediterranean World (PHIC)

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: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2495315.81
EU funding (EUR): 2495315.81
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Philosophy in Context : Arabic and Syriac manuscript transmissions in the Mediterranean (PhiC) This project aims to solve two major difficulties in research in the history of philosophy: 1) understanding the conditions of the reception and the transmission in the Mediterranean World of philosophy of Greek tradition in the Arabic and Syriac languages; 2) discovering the numerous works buried in libraries in a systematic way, instead of by chance. Thanks to a methodical pooling of the information given in the catalogs of manuscripts and, much more, to the systematic examination of the collections, we will be able not only to identify new texts but also get all kinds of information about the places and the institutions where the texts circulated, their copyists, sponsors, readers, etc. It will thus be finally possible to get a clear idea of how the products of pure reason were welcomed in Islam, and of the motivations of the collectors of manuscripts in Europe since the Renaissance (was it to satisfy the needs of scholarship, to translate the texts or to provide direct inspiration for creative thinking?). This work will be based on the cross-information allowed by the ABJAD database, that will be operational within the project itself. This project thus requires a strongly interdisciplinary approach, combining a thourough knowledge in the history of philosophy, philology, codicology and computer science.

Keywords: greco-arabic philosophy
Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World (SAW)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1899999.5
EU funding (EUR): 1899999.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The SAW project is devoted to mathematical sources that have come down to us from the ancient world and, more specifically, though not exclusively, to the sources produced in Mesopotamia, China, and the Indian subcontinent. The scope of SAW is inspired by an analysis of the state of the art in the history of mathematics of the ancient world. The project also derives from an analysis of the present-day political and social uses of the history of ancient mathematical sciences worldwide. The ambition of SAW is to develop new theoretical approaches in the field of the history of ancient mathematics in order to highlight a motley of practices within what at the present day are too often presented as homogeneous wholes, that is, “Mesopotamian mathematics”, “Chinese mathematics”, and “Indian mathematics.” To this end, SAW intends to concentrate systematically on the mathematical sources produced in two sectors of activity in the ancient world: the practice of the astral sciences and the state administrations in charge of financial matters. The goal SAW has set itself is therefore to shape resources so as to promote new representations of mathematics and its history. The wider societal impact at which the project aims is to define an alternative to widespread visions of mathematics that have made it possible for this field and its history to become tools playing a part in the shaping of communities worldwide. SAW will work to make the outcome of the research available to secondary school teachers, in order to contribute to bridge the widening gap between young people and mathematical sciences.

Keywords: sh6_9: history of ideas,sh6_4 epistemology,sinology,indology,assyriology
Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences (ALICE)

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: Portugal
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2423140.0
EU funding (EUR): 2423140.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Europe sits uncomfortably on the idea that there are no political and cultural alternatives credible enough to respond to the current uneasiness or malaise caused by both a world that is more and more non-European and a Europe that increasingly questions what is European about itself. This project will develop a new grounded theoretical paradigm for contemporary Europe based on two key ideas: the understanding of the world by far exceeds the European understanding of the world; social, political and institutional transformation in Europe may benefit from innovations taking place in regions and countries with which Europe is increasingly interdependent. I will pursue this objective focusing on four main interconnected topics: democratizing democracy, intercultural constitutionalism, the other economy, human rights (right to health in particular). In a sense that the European challenges are unique but, in one way or another, are being experienced in different corners of the world. The novelty resides in bringing new ideas and experiences into the European conversation, show their relevance to our current uncertainties and aspirations and thereby contribute to face them with new intellectual and political resources. The usefulness and relevance of non-European conceptions and experiences un-thinking the conventional knowledge through two epistemological devices I have developed: the ecology of knowledges and intercultural translation. By resorting to them I will show that there are alternatives but they cannot be made credible and powerful if we go on relying on the modes of theoretical and political thinking that have dominated so far. In other words, the claim put forward by and worked through this project is that in Europe we don’t need alternatives but rather an alternative thinking of alternatives.

Keywords: democratizing democracy,intercultural constitutionalism,sustainable development,other economy,human rights,right to health,ecology of knowledges and intercultural translation
Cracking the columnar-level code in the visual hierarchy: Ultra high-field functional MRI, neuro-cognitive modelling and high-resolution brain-computer interfaces (COLUMNARCODECRACKING)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2473381.0
EU funding (EUR): 2473381.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent developments of high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have advanced the level of functional detail to sub-millimetre spatial resolution. This is of critical importance because in the mammalian cortex, small functional cortical patches appear to constitute fundamental units of brain function. These functional units are often organized as "cortical columns" that contain clusters of neurons with similar functional preferences. The present project will investigate what "features" are coded by functional “columnar-level” units in the visual cortex, how represented entities can be decoded from distributed activity patterns, and how modelled intra- and inter-areal connections between feature representations enable neuro-cognitive computations. The research of this project strives towards a new level of insight in the functional organization of the human brain: Instead of describing observed fMRI activity at the level of specialized brain areas, the focus will be shifted towards the content coded within brain regions. The project investigates columnar-level coding in three cross-fertilising sub-projects. In the first sub-project, sophisticated experimental designs, ultra high-field fMRI and advanced data analyses will be combined to unravel columnar-level feature representations and the entities represented by distributed patterns at different levels of the visual hierarchy. In the second sub-project, a large-scale neural network model will be developed with the major goal to integrate measured columnar-level representations in a new theory of invariant object recognition and visual attention. In the third sub-project, high-resolution Brain Computer Interfaces (hr-BCIs) will be created that are based on information extracted from columnar-level representations. The hr-BCIs will implement highly content-specific neurofeedback tools for therapeutic treatment, and advanced communication devices for patients with severe motor impairments.

Keywords: functional magnetic resonance imaging,neural network modelling,brain-computer interfaces,object recognition,spatial attention,invariance transformations
Reducing Uncertainty in Performance Prediction (REDUPP)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radioactive waste management
Destination: Management of Ultimate Radioactive Waste
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Finland,Finland,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1596802.4
EU funding (EUR): 929303.8
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

At the core of the safety case for long-term geologic disposal for spent nuclear fuel lie the issues regarding spent fuel dissolution. We have today significant knowledge regarding dissolution of uranium oxide in the laboratory. However, uncertainties remain regarding spent fuel dissolution under realistic conditions. Two main questions stand out as necessary to address: First, the synthetic groundwater used in the experiments to date does not contain all of the chemical elements that occur in natural groundwaters. Some of the trace elements may produce radiolysis products that are more aggressive than those produced in the synthetic groundwaters. Second, the fragments used in laboratory experiments contain sharp edges and defects generated by the crushing process. These sites contain atoms that have fewer bonds than the bulk material and constitute high-energy sites. As dissolution occurs, these sites dissolve faster than lower energy sites, such as plane surface sites. As the high-energy sites disappear through dissolution, the dissolution rate decreases. We can approach the long-term dissolution rate in the laboratory, but we cannot at this time estimate how far away we are from it. The two items mentioned above lead to uncertainty concerning the dissolution rate. The objectives of the work proposed here are to reduce the uncertainty in the dissolution rate to be used in the safety case and thereby increase the confidence that can be placed in our ability to demonstrate that the geologic repository will function as designed. A second objective of this work is to provide for the training of young research workers who can continue to support the research needed in the future concerning radioactive waste disposal.

Keywords: spent fuel,dissolution rate,groundwater,high-energy sites
(International) Socio-Technical Challenges for implementing geological disposal (INSOTEC)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radioactive waste management
Destination: Management of Ultimate Radioactive Waste
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,France,Hungary,Finland,Finland,Slovenia,Czechia,Norway,Spain,Spain,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3255065.09
EU funding (EUR): 1998853.96
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

InSOTEC aims at identifying the main socio-political challenges for implementing geological disposal and their interplay with technical challenges. It will furthermore provide the IGD-TP with concrete suggestions on how to address these entangled socio-technical challenges. The biggest challenge today lies in adapting the generic concept of geological disposal to the real world environment (both natural and social) in which it needs to be implemented and with which the whole of the waste management system will need to build and maintain a long-term sustainable relationship. Addressing this challenge will imply searching for a strong and lasting connection between the technical and social aspects of managing radioactive waste. InSOTEC wants to contribute to addressing this challenge by: - Identify and clarify socio-technical challenges for implementing geological disposal (and radioactive waste management in general). - Develop further analytical insights into these challenges by means of a number of case studies on specific topics, addressing the interplay between technical and socio-political challenges. - Advance and facilitate mutual learning, and advise and assist scientists and technological experts to develop the tools and the ability to communicate in a two way process about their work and to engage with stakeholders on technical and safety issues. - Advise the IGD-TP on how to strengthen its position and message to the world of decision-makers, through the integration of a social component within its scope of work by: o Exploring with the IGD-TP how to fulfil its ambition to link a broader range of stakeholders (of which some non-institutional) on a structured basis to the platform’s Exchange Forum. o Making concrete suggestions to the IGD-TP on how to set priorities for a social sciences and multidisciplinary research agenda that will help to address the socio-technical as one single problem

Keywords: implementation,geological disposal,socio-technical challenges,science and technology studies,public and stakeholder engagement,knowledge management and information exchange