Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-american Southern Observatories (EVALSO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Uruguay,Chile
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4804236.0
EU funding (EUR): 1700000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The increasing cost of experimental facilities in many research fields is powering a concentration of such facilities in a few selected places, sometimes driven also by environmental conditions. The clear, steady skies without light pollution necessary to Astronomical Observatories are generally not easily found. In the Southern hemisphere the best observing facility for optical and infrared astronomy is widely acknowledged to be ESO. At the same time the ever increasing data volumes as detectors get bigger and more complex, raises a number of problems for the builders, the operators and the users as well. The remoteness of the facilities makes the travelling from European home institutions difficult and expensive. Information Technologies can offer a solution to these problems, provided the necessary infrastructure and tools are put in place. The strategic objective of this proposal is to make possible a strict integration in the ever-growing instrumental grid emerging worldwide of the world-class facilities created in Chile by the European Astronomical Community. These represent an investment of many hundred million Euros that will be exploited in the next decades. The present project proposes to create a physical infrastructure (and the tools to exploit it) to efficiently connect these facilities to Europe. The infrastructure will be complementary to the international infrastructures created in the last years with the EC support (RedCLARA, ALICE, GEANT) and will be another step in the creation in Latin America of an advanced instrumentation GRID. This will allow the European Research a competitive edge having faster access to the collected data and use the facilities in an ever more efficient way.

Keywords: data communication infrastructure,remote presence,data access,instrument grid
Assessing the Impact of Rural Development Policies (RUDI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Netherlands,Greece,Slovenia,Sweden,Czechia,Austria,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3257692.0
EU funding (EUR): 2517863.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The RuDI study will provide a thorough analysis of the design, delivery and impact of EU Rural Development Policy (incl. LEADER). The study combines quantitative and qualitative approaches starting with a critical review of the state-of-the-art in RD theory and the conceptual frameworks and approaches used in RD policy evaluation. In the study the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) and the underlying intervention and impact logics will be critically examined. The positive and negative effects of rural development policies on institutional, social, economic and environmental level will be identified and described in a set of carefully selected and framed case studies. The impact assessment will also include those impacts that have not been anticipated. The case studies will be representative of the structural differences that can be found in the characteristics of rural areas across the EU. Focus will be on different types and characteristics of territory, interrelations with RD programme priorities and measures, and an assessment of their &amp;apos;hard&amp;apos; and &amp;apos;soft&amp;apos; impacts. The comparative cross-national analysis of the case studies will provide a better understanding of driving forces in policy design, the strengths and weaknesses of different delivery and governance models, the positive and negative impacts of RD policies and, most importantly, a more convincing conceptual and methodological framework for evaluating RD policy. Consultations with RD policy actors and evaluators will ensure that the analyses are closely coordinated with the demands and possibilities of practitioners. The RuDI study will be concluded with recommendations for a more appropriate RD policy design, delivery, impact monitoring and assessment.

Keywords: rural development,policy,cap,impact,assessment,case studies,europe
Mobilising the enzymatic potential of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria and the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to create a powerful cellular production platform for lipid-derived industrial materials (LIPOYEASTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Kenya,United States,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1201481.0
EU funding (EUR): 911111.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims at developing a versatile fermentation platform for the conversion of lipid feed stocks into diverse added-value products. It is proposed to develop the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica into a microbial factory by directing its versatile lipid metabolism towards the production of industrially valuable compounds like wax esters (WE), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA’s), free hydroxyl fatty acids (HFA’s) and isoprenoid-derived compounds (carotenoids, polyenic carotenoid ester). Conversion of lipid intermediates into these products will be achieved by introducing heterologous enzyme functions isolated from marine hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria into Yarrowia. To achieve these goals we have assembled a team with a broad set of complementary expertise in microbial physiology, metabolic engineering, yeast lipid metabolism, metagenomics, biochemical and protein engineering. Already available for this project are a number of genetically engineered Yarrowia strains as well as a collection of genes encoding enzymes for the production of WE’s, 3-HFA’s, PHA’s and carotenoids. The following complementary research focus areas are proposed: (1) Engineering of metabolic precursor pools in Yarrowia lipolytica for the production of added-value products from lipids (INRA, UGe). (2) Conversion of metabolic precursor pools in Yarrowia to added-value products by overexpressing heterologous biosynthetic enzymes (UGe, INRA, UoM). (3) Discovery and characterization of novel aliphatic enzyme activities by metagenomic screening of marine hydrocarbonoclastic and other oil- and fat-metabolizing microbial communities (TUBS, UoN). The project is further complemented by: (i) the activity of a professional valorization company (Ascenion) providing IP protection and commercialization services; (ii) by proactive efforts to expand the project’s target products’ application potential (Avecom).

Keywords: lipids,yeast,yarrowia lipolytica,hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria,polyhydroxyalkanoates,wax esters,hydroxyl fatty acids,isoprenoids,carotenoids.
Good animal welfare in a socio-economic context: Project to promote insight on the impact for the animal, the production chain and society of upgrading animal welfare standards. (ECONWELFARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland,Poland,Sweden,United Kingdom,Spain,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1308765.8
EU funding (EUR): 998554.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The project proposal has been prepared in response to the call KBBE-2007-1-4-15 “Assessing the socio-economic consequences and costs benefits of measures promoting good animal welfare”. Central in this call is support to develop European policies implementing the Action Plan on Animal Welfare. Overall objective of the project is related to the policy instruments needed to achieve the aims of the Action Plan on Animal Welfare. At the end of the project we want to say what policy instruments are effective in the route towards higher animal welfare representing the concerns of civil society and in which competitiveness of the livestock industry is guaranteed. Basic questions in relation to objective 1. What are the current welfare initiatives and standards within the EU and its trade partners? 2. What are strength and weaknesses of these initiatives and standards to the animal, society and the production chain? 3. What policy instruments can be designed to promote high(er) animal welfare standards as aimed at in the Action Plan on Animal Welfare, and how can progress be monitored? 4. What are the benefits, costs and trade impacts of upgraded welfare standards? Activities in relation to objective - Communicate and debate to realize interaction across scientists, relevant stakeholders and citizens - Review and analyse current state of animal welfare in selected EU states and third countries - Examine strength and weaknesses in the current animal welfare standards to opinion of animal scientists, the supply chain, and consumers and citizens - Perform a SWOT-analysis on approaches for upgraded animal welfare - Brainstorm on strategic options for the EU to implement the Action Plan on Animal Welfare - Assesses costs and benefits when approaches and policies are introduced within the production chain - Perform macro-economic analysis of the competitiveness of European agricultural sectors and the impact on world trade - Organise a concluding workshop

Keywords: animal welfare,perceptions civil society,on-farm economics,international trade
Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure (DORII)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Poland,Spain,Italy,Italy,Austria,Germany,Greece,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3601688.0
EU funding (EUR): 2850000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The DORII project aims to deploy e-Infrastructure for new scientific communities, where on the one hand the ICT technology is still not present at the appropriate level, but on the other hand it is demanded to empower its daily work. We deal with a group of scientific users, and this is a reference for DORII, with experimental equipment and instrumentation that are not integrated or integrated only partially with the European infrastructure. The DORII is focusing on the following selected scientific areas: - earthquake community, with various sensor networks - environmental science community - experimental science community, with synchrotron and free electron lasers. The scientific communities represented by the project are well recognised and organised even in the industry area represented by SME. This means the organisations are members of bigger consortia which deal with similar topics mentioned above but also focus on research aiming to have a better experimental environment. The IT technology is provided by partners who have recognised the initial requirements of the scientific communities and will deliver the functionality (adopted to new users requirements) developed in projects which had a focus on accessing remote instrumentation (GRIDCC, RINGrid), on interactivity (int.eu.grid), on software frameworks for application developers (g-Eclipse) and advanced networking technologies (GN2) with EGEE based middleware. The experience gained in these projects, in co-operation with end users allows us to expect a positive result of integrating applications with the existing and future e-Infrastructure. The standardisation and knowledge transfer is planned to be done via e-IRG and OGF research group established by us giving added value of interoperability and sustainability of DORII. The DORII consortium capitalised its previous experience and knowledge and is going to use it in the current project, making significantly lower any possible risks occurrence.

Keywords: e-infrastructure,scientific community,deployment,earthquake,environment solutions,synchrotron,research instrumentations,grid,interactivity,visualisation,mpi,interoperability,sustainability
Transport Research Arena 2008 (TRA2008)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Slovenia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-TPT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-09-01
End date: 2008-08-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150002.23
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

In order to promote recommendations of a number of strategic documents on road transport prepared by EC and a number of professional organisations, a series of TRA (Transport Re-search Arena) conferences was established. The second event will take place in Ljubljana, in April 2008, during the Slovenian presidency of the EU. The TRA mission is to enhance the alignment of road transport research at European and national levels, involving not only researchers, but also industry, policy-makers and end-users. The slogan of the conference remains Greener, safer and smarter road transport for Europe, with the main theme selected for the TRA2008: Creating an Innovative Road Transport for Europe. This proposal is addressing 2 objectives related to dissemination of results of road transport research and support for TRA2008. The first one is to enhance integration of the New Member States, Candidate and European Neighbourhood Policy Countries into the European road transport Research Area. These countries have not contributed much to the pre-sent European activity in the field. This CSA is providing tools to support the participation of delegates from these countries to actively contribute to TRA2008 and become more involved in European research projects and the application of their results. The second objective is to directly support TRA through activities that raise awareness of the event and to reinforce its profile as a major European and internationally important conference. This will be in accordance with the TRA mission, which is not to be another conference but rather to become the major joining event for all road transport stake-holders. Thus, the CSA will support ‘ambassadors’ to undertake awareness raising missions, to explain the opportunities and benefits for different stakeholders including public authorities, industry and researchers. The partners in the CSA are the three local organisers and the FEHRL, a European association in the area of road research.

Keywords: road transport,conference,awarenss raising,nms,tra 2008
High efficiency consolidated bioprocess technology for lignocellulose ethanol (HYPE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Denmark,Greece,Estonia,Denmark,Estonia,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5434814.0
EU funding (EUR): 3662944.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Lignocellulosic bioethanol has the potential of contributing to a sustainable and secure European energy supply for the transport sector. European research and industry is presently among the forerunners in developing lignocellulosic bioethanol. Although a number of technical breakthroughs have been achieved during the last decade, some key technical issues especially concerning the hydrolysis and fermentation still remain to be solved. In the HYPE project, a combined approach is used to develop a novel integrated concept for hydrolysis and fermentation of lignocellulosic feedstocks. Improved enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation of all carbohydrates, process development as well as high flexibility to feedstocks and technical robustness are among the goals of HYPE. The technologies included in HYPE will be combined into a one unit continuous consolidated bioprocessing reactor including hydrolysis, fermentation and ethanol recovery. The consolidated bioprocessing developed in the HYPE project is expected to significantly improve the overall process economy through a reduced process time, improved enzyme efficiency and high yield of all carbohydrates. Among the tasks are development of new thermophilic and efficient enzymes, C6 and C5 fermentation using F. oxysporium and modified S. cerevisiae, high dry matter hydrolysis, adaptation to various feedstocks, consolidated process development, pilot-scale testing and overall evaluation of the technical and economical potential. The feedstocks to be included in the project are lignocellulosic agricultural and forest residues. The technical development within HYPE is closely integrated with pilot-scale testing at an advanced level, thus securing commercially feasible technologies. The HYPE project will be a major contribution to European technology development for accelerating the commercialization of 2nd generation bioethanol.

Keywords: lignocellulose,ethanol,enzymes,thermostable,cellulases,hemicellulases,hydrolysis,fermentation,fungi,yeast,consolidated bioprocess,energy,distillation
Dedicated CT of the Female Breast: Feasibility, optimization and comparison to standard x-ray procedures (digital mammography and tomosynthesis) (BREAST CT)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radiation protection
Destination: Radiation Protection
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2007, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2705060.4
EU funding (EUR): 2049997.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Early and accurate diagnosis of breast cancer in women is a pending challenge. Digital x-ray mammography is considered today’s state of the art in diagnosis although severe insufficiencies are acknowledged. Conventional film-screen mammography, digital tomosynthesis, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging are also in use or under investigation. There is a general consensus that 3D imaging could offer significant advantages. Dedicated x-ray computed tomography (CT) of the female breast without exposure of the body trunk appears to be a further candidate with improved diagnostic capabilities, but radiation protection issues have to be solved. In consequence, this project focuses on the development of a dedicated scanner using novel technology and optimisation strategies. We intend to prove the feasibility of CT of the breast with very high spatial resolution of 100 µm or better and high soft-tissue differentiation at dose levels equal to or below those of two-view digital mammography. First simulation studies support the concept. To allow for balanced conclusions on justification of practice and risk assessment, the performance of breast CT will be validated and compared against digital mammography and tomosynthesis primarily, but also against any other novel approach. To achieve the proposed goals three European scientific institutes of international reputation and two manufactures with the respective know-how have formed a consortium. The necessary equipment, tools, test and measurement approaches are available; new multi-modality tests have to be developed for a meaningful comparison of 2D and 3D imaging. It is our intention to provide proofs of concept and results on breast CT in the relatively short time span of 30 months. Pending on the results of the project outlined here, a multimodality clinical study with an extended European consortium is planned as a follow-up.

Keywords: computer tomography (ct),breast,dose efficiency,image quality
Novel approaches for the development of customized skin treatments and services (Test case: Dead Sea Minerals and Conventional drugs) (SKIN TREAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Belgium,Spain,Italy,Norway,Spain,France,Germany,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SME-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5446376.8
EU funding (EUR): 3950035.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Economical and health interests of skin problems are fast growing issues in Europe, following the remarkable extension in life expectancy in western countries, together with the increased awareness of UV radiation risks. Personalized health care approach has been discussed over the past few years and had been accompanied by developing innovative technologies capable of identifying specific biomarkers, supporting a personalized diagnosis and treatments, especially concerning bio-compatibility of drugs. Skin Treat intends to develop and validate nano-chemical and bio- technologies to achieve an accurate matching of drugs, and drug delivery vehicles, to skin diseases and sub pathogenic skin conditions in their individual context. The project will design novel generation of pharmaceutical products, as well as consumer personalized service, in order to fit customers’ tailored needs with a support of strategic consortium based on partnership among SMEs and research organizations. The development of personalized skin therapy protocols requires achieving an accurate diagnostics of skin condition and an extensive analysis of biological markers. Non invasive methods as well as minimal invasive skin sampling, will support the establishment of a range of biological profiles corresponding to skin diseases and skin sub pathologic conditions. Statistical processing of these data will allow defining biomarkers patterns specifically associated with given clinical conditions. A bio-informatics data mining protocol will be elaborated, together with multifunctional biomarker analysis software, to build a refined, personalized diagnosis method. Finally, the computer data analysis will yield a decision support system (DSS) to assist dermatologists, chemist and clients for prescription of personalized treatment. Skin Treat concept will be evaluated by a wet pilot study of the whole ervice chain on a few, selected skin disorders like psoriasis, contact dermatitis, and UV skin photo-aging damages.

Keywords: nano-chemical,pharmaceutical,dermatologists