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A NEW DEFINITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS (DEFCON1)

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-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2344800.0
EU funding (EUR): 2344800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The study of consciousness is considered one of the final frontiers in science. After centuries of introspection, philosophy, and psychology it is thought that neuroscience will now answer the age-old questions like who is conscious, when, and what of. This will take more, however, than the current approach of finding the neural correlate of consciousness (NCC). We need a new science of consciousness. What is the problem? Behaviour is considered the gold standard of consciousness: when someone says he is conscious, he is, and when he says not, he isn t. But it is impossible to reliably gauge the presence or absence of conscious sensations from behaviour. We will always conflate consciousness with cognitive functions enabling the report, such as attention, working memory or language. Finding the NCC is doomed to fail. Instead, arguments from neuroscience should be allowed to reshape the definition of consciousness. Behavioural or introspective ideas may be a starting point, but ultimately, neural arguments should be allowed to overrule behavioural evidence. I will show how a new neuro-behavioural definition of consciousness can dissociate consciousness from cognition, explains key features of conscious experience, and allows us to understand consciousness at a much more fundamental level. Experiments in man and monkey will test essential predictions of the new definition of consciousness, using techniques such as intracortical recording, EEG, fMRI and pharmacological intervention, combined with psychophysics, learning paradigms or manipulations of consciousness. If these confirm the idea, the new definition of consciousness should be adopted. This means we are in for a change. The new definition of consciousness will move our notion of mind towards that of brain. The sacred first person perspective on consciousness has to be given up. What we may gain, however, is a much better science of consciousness.

Keywords: consciousness visual system visual perception
Higher Education Leading to ENgineering And scientific careers (HELENA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Lithuania,Spain,France,Austria,United Kingdom,Serbia,France
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1212390.0
EU funding (EUR): 930433.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Women participation in engineering occupations appears as a key-issue for European economical and technical development, as well as a central achievement towards gender equality and social justice. Many studies have identified gender-mainstreaming measures in engineering education; for example, the WOMENG project (HPSE-CT-2002-00109) has recently highlighted key-moments for action and recommendations. Yet, other studies have confirmed that successfully implementing such measures requires in each case a tailor-made overall approach to take into account the specific cultural and economical context in which they must be implemented. The aim of this project is to provide indications about how to launch such measures and monitor the obtained results. The study will be grounded on empirical research about the implementation of selected gender mainstreaming measures in various pilot institutions of engineering education and research all over Europe, including institutions for continuing education and distance learning. After analysing the existing situation, each institution will choose the measures that seem the most realistic and appropriate to its particular case, while implemented measures will have to privilege a global approach from engineering education institutions. They will be intended at the same time for students, faculty and staff and consider transitions from secondary education to higher education and from higher education to academic and industrial professional spheres.

Keywords: engineering education,gender,higher education,studies
ComScience Network: providing added value to EU research dissemination efforts at regional level (COMSCIENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1032150.0
EU funding (EUR): 794720.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The ComScience Network brings recent EU research results into local communities through science communicators from five different EU cities. Local scientific experts and representatives of local or regional administrations will participate and promote local scientific culture. Five chosen science topics address the concerns and interests of European citizens: stem cell research, the use of genetically modified organisms, obesity and type 2 diabetes, allergies and asthma as well as contaminants in our food. The project structure stimulates the exchange of know-how and best practices and enables Science City driven partnerships between local actors from different places in Europe. In three years ComScience will: i) consult key players to discuss content and format of the proposed activities ; ii) adapt disseminated materials from FP6 and FP7 research consortia ; iii) organise 25 public dissemination events ; and iv) produce extensive evaluation reports for policy input. The deliverables of the ComScience project goes beyond its immediate activities, namely to evaluate and document to what extent it is possible to: • compile and re-work (edit, format) the information - that is produced by the many different EU funded research consortia as the output of their dissemination activities - in an international collective(s) of local dissemination actors • create a generic methodology (best practice) that allows widespread dissemination of the the structured data on a significantly larger scale, in local settings while respecting regional differences. • provide the means to keep the accumulated knowledge up to date and for a long term use by different communication organisations. To achieve these goals, ComScience has brought together a powerful team that represents not only different types of science communicators, but also represents different European regions and cities.

Keywords: public dissemination research information results communication network mediator science shop museum library culture university twinning
Privacy Awareness Through Security Branding (PATS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,United Kingdom,United States,Poland,Israel,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1080607.67
EU funding (EUR): 964594.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

While it can be assumed that the security industry and organisations will increase their efforts to keep and to strengthen trust relations with citizens, the question however remains: how can one raise more awareness of social conflicts and privacy concerns among those public and private agencies that undermine privacy necessarily on a daily basis in their mission to provide security? PATS follows an approach known as Constructive Technology Assessment (CTA). One central attempt of it is to broaden the design process of new technologies through dialogue between innovators and the public so that developments meet social needs and mismatches, wrong investments, and possible social conflicts can be minimized. The aim of PATS is to increase privacy awareness across various sectors, from firms to government agencies focussing especially on the development and use of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) and biometrics. On the basis of a socio-technical mapping the idea is to create security brand indicators that refer to the value of privacy. It is well known that neither laws nor other organizational practices can exclusively provide a reasonable level of protection for privacy today. There is some evidence that its protection may well be linked to higher levels of trust and that is a powerful motive for serious self-regulation. What is necessary is to build into the security agencies and actors itself a reflexive capacity that encourages more critical communication and awareness among the stakeholders. The overall objective of PATS is to demonstrate how certain standards of privacy can become a brand label for security organisations on a voluntary but binding basis. Using more reflexive measures such as open expert interviews, dialogue work shops, expert evaluations/focus groups and two major conferences PATS seeks to initiate not only an informed but a constructive debate between stakeholders in order to enable rather proactive than reactive for future policies.
(Euphoria): Emerging Urban Futures and Opportune Repertoires of Individual Adaptation (U4IA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2461681.0
EU funding (EUR): 2461681.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Activity-based analysis and modelling has rapidly gained momentum in transportation, urban planning, and geography. It examines which activities are conducted where, when, for how long, with whom, and the transport mode and route involved at a very fine scale of spatial and temporal resolution. All currently operational models are concerned with daily activity-travel patterns and do not consider any dynamics, illustrating the limitations of current approaches. This proposal reflects the ambition to achieve breakthroughs in the analysis and modelling of DYNAMIC activity-travel patterns, integrating long-term, mid-term and short-term time horizons: the research agenda in this field of research for the next decade. Several PhD projects will analyze and model the impact of innovative policies concerned with urban futures (focusing on new urban forms, creative pricing policies, restricted energy, community-based social networks and personalized guidance systems) on behavioural change in activity-travel patterns. Results will be integrated into a new generation multi-agent activity-based system to simulate primary and secondary effects of various types of policies on dynamic activity-travel patterns and therefore on accessibility, mobility, time use, energy consumption, social exclusion, and economic welfare. A large scale panel survey of dynamic activity-travel patterns (supposed to be the first of its kind in the world), and (virtual reality) adaptation experiments will be used for the analyses and estimating and validating the models. The project will lead to (i) a better understanding and an integrative framework and simulation model to assess the primary and secondary effects of various types of policies on sustainable urban environments in terms of a series of indicators (mobility, accessibility, energy use, etc.), derived from dynamics activity-travel patterns and (ii) guidelines how the effectiveness of such policies can be improved.

Keywords: dynamic spatial behavior,multi-agent modeling
Origins and spread of agriculture in the south-western Mediterranean region. (AGRIWESTMED)

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: Spain,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1545169.0
EU funding (EUR): 1545169.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project focuses on one of the most fascinating events of the long history of the human species: the origins and spread of agriculture. Research over the past 40 years has provided an invaluable dataset on crop domestication and the spread of agriculture into Europe. However, despite the enormous advances in research there are important areas that remain almost unexplored, some of immense interest. This is the case of the western Mediterranean region from where our knowledge is still limited (Iberian Peninsula) or almost inexistent (northern Morocco). The last few years have witnessed a considerable increase in archaeobotany and the effort of a group of Spanish researchers working together in different aspects of agriculture has started to produce the first results. My proposal will approach the study of the arrival of agriculture to the western Mediterranean by exploring different interrelated research areas. The project involves the application of different techniques (analysis of charred plant remains, pollen and non-pollen microfossils, phytoliths, micro-wear analyses, isotopes, soil micromorphology, genetics, and ethnoarchaeology) which will help to define the emergence and spread of agriculture in the area, its likely place of origin, its main technological attributes as well as the range crop husbandry practices carried out. The interaction between the different approaches and the methodologies involved will allow achieving a greater understanding of the type of agriculture that characterized the first farming communities in the most south-western part of Europe.

Keywords: archaeobotany,spread agriculture,neolithic,molecular biology,ethnoarchaeology,soil chemistry,geoarchaeology,tool functionality,micro-wear analysis,isotopes,environment
PORE SPACE INVESTIGATION IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS (POSINAM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Finland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-15
End date: 2013-10-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 562281.0
EU funding (EUR): 562281.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This program aims to associate competences on: • petrographic knowledge of rocks, cements, soils… (HYDRASA, Poitiers, France) ; this is supported by the control of appropriate techniques like X-ray diffractometry, Scanning electron microscopy equipped with EDS system, X-ray microtomography among other techniques allowing petrographic investigations from micrometric to centimetric scale. • characterization of heterogeneous spatial porosities of these materials using impregnation technique with a 14C- or 3H PolyMethylMethAcrylate (PMMA) resin (HYRL, Helsinki, Finlande) ; The method includes impregnation of matrices with unviscous methylmethacrylate MMA (liquid), irradiation polymerisation and autoradiographic detection of the sawn surfaces. The porosity can be analysed quantitatively using subsequent image analyses techniques • providing service for industry needing 3D models of their materials (SME ERM, Poitiers, France). The fulfilment of the POSINAM project requires the transfer of knowledge from public centres (HYDRASA and HYRL) to private one (SME ERM) in order to build a technical plate-form devoted to the integration of the methodology leading to the production of 3D models.

Keywords: natural sciences,petrochemistry,geological engineering,environmental risk assessment,environmental physics
Understanding the evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei (XMMSDSS)

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: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is well established that the population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), which are powered by accretion on supermassive black holes (SBH) at the centres of galaxies, has declined dramatically in the last 7 Gyrs of cosmic time (from z=1 to z=0). Elucidating the physical mechanism responsible for this rapid evolution remains a challenge for astronomy, despite over 35 years of investigations. It is the ambitious but realistic goal of this proposal to address this long-standing problem. A recent development that promises a breakthrough in the field has been the realisation that in order to understand active SBHs we need to study them in relation to their host galaxies. At high redshift (z~1) for example, there is currently a wealth of information on the nature of AGN hosts that provide important clues on the physical conditions under which accretion on SBHs occurs. Such studies have to be performed over a wide redshift baseline however, if we hope to get a handle on the physics behind AGN evolution. Unfortunately, although a huge amount of resources has been devoted to observations of the deep Universe, there is currently no systematic effort to complement them at low redshift. This proposal will bridge this gap by compiling the largest sample of X-ray selected AGN at z~0.1 to study the properties of their hosts, including their (i) star-formation history, (ii) stellar mass and (iii) large scale environment. A unique feature of the proposed program is that the AGN selection is almost identical to high redshift surveys, thereby allowing direct comparison of the samples. The proposed survey at z~0.1 will be combined with similar programs at z~1 to perform, for the first time, redshift dependent studies of the conditions under which AGN occur, thereby placing tight constraints on the physics that govern the accretion history of the Universe.

Keywords: physical sciences,astrophysics,cosmology
Development of Efficient and Robust Controllers for Advanced Energy Systems (DECADE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 759025.0
EU funding (EUR): 759025.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the DECADE proposal is to promote a significant increase in the range of energy control problems to which advanced optimisation-based control can be reliably applied. This will be achieved through the development of an electronic look-up function tailor-made for the specific energy systems. It can retrofit onto existing control hardware, or on new hardware. The above objectives will be achieved by promoting and implementing a well structured ToK programme between (i) academic partners (University of Western Macedonia (UOWM, Greece), and University of Pannonia (UNIPAN, Hungary)), with distinguished research activities in the areas of process and energy modelling, simulation and optimisation techniques including pilot plant demonstrations, (ii) one high-tech SME (Parametric Optimization Solutions, ParOS, UK) providing advanced control solutions to the energy, process and automation industries and (iii) one engineering SME (ESTIA, Greece) providing energy saving solutions (Combined Heat and Power, Fuel Cells, etc) and related instrumentation facilities in the process, energy and power industries.

Keywords: advanced control,fuel cells,combined heat and power systems,industrial energy systems
Proteomics & Epi-Genetics of Anion-transport-Network (PEG-ANION-NET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 381600.0
EU funding (EUR): 381600.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the proposal is to fortify and intensify the scientific exchange and connectivity between four groups - two in Europe (European consortium) and two in the USA - that have a proven record in collaboration over the past years. The common theme, on which the scientific collaborations are based, is “Proteomics & Epi-Genetics of Anion transport” (PEG-Anion). Epi-Genetics refers to how inherited genetic information, and genetic information not encoded in the DNA sequence translates into variations in overall function of the gene products. Extending the existing collaboration between the PEG-Anion partner-laboratories into a PEG-ANION-NETWORK (PEG-ANION-NET) would add significant momentum to the knowledge-transfer between the four groups. The groups have individual funding for the respective PEG-Anion projects, and the exchange scheme (IRSES) will help to sustain the research activity between the four groups by covering the mobility expenses induced by the planned PEG-ANION-NET activity. The project: The sequencing of the human genome was a milestone in science and marked the beginning of the post-genomic era. The knowledge of the genomic make up, however, does not by itself give much insight into the function of single genes, nor does it give conclusive answers on the effect of single genes or gene products in regulatory circuits established in living cells. The challenge now and in the immediate future is to combine the genomic- and epigenetic-information with functional-information of the gene products in their native environment. The research in the PEG-Anion partner-laboratories is focused on the proteomics, genomics and epigenetics of two anion ‘transporters’ and how these factors translates into the respective gene product function. Genetic make-up, proteomic interaction and epigenetic regulation of gene expression are important for normal cellular physiology and play key roles in both disease progression and responses to therapeutic intervention.

Keywords: medicine,cell biology,genetics,epigenetics,proteomics,physiology,pendred,oncology,rare diseases