Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
S&T International Cooperation Network for Eastern European and Central Asian Countries (INCONET EECA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bi-regional coordination of S&T cooperation including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Russian Federation,Austria,Türkiye,Kazakhstan,Sweden,Greece,Azerbaijan,Moldova, Republic of,Norway,Romania,Poland,Finland,Georgia,Bulgaria,Estonia,Ukraine,Belgium,Uzbekistan,Armenia,Belarus,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4013833.19
EU funding (EUR): 3549734.75
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

The project’s aim is to strengthen the Scientific and Technological cooperation between the EU Member States (and Associated Countries) and the Eastern European and Central Asian countries. To achieve its goals, the IncoNet EECA project will implement activities at both the policy and operational level. At the policy level the project will support the establishment and operation of a Regional S&amp;T Policy Dialogue Platform bringing together national representatives/policy makers from the EU MS (and AC) and the EECA countries, as well as representatives of the European Commission. Similar Platforms will also be created at bilateral level addressing in particular the cooperation with Russia and Ukraine. The role of the Platforms will be to develop a strategy for the cooperation, to identify priority fields for actions, to discuss joint approaches on global issues, etc. In addition, within the project, a particular attention will be paid to other EU policies and instruments (e.g. ENP, CIP) focusing in particular on the opportunities and synergies that may arise for the S&amp;T sector. At the operational level the project includes a variety of activities aiming at: an enhanced participation of researchers from the EECA countries in FP7; the support of NCP/NIP structures in EECA with particular emphasis on the ININ network set up by INTAS; dissemination activities including key conferences, etc. In addition, the project includes a series of analyses, reviews and monitoring activities that will feed the policy dialogue at the level of the aforementioned Platforms. Finally, a particular attention will be given to the issue of sustainability beyond the limits of the project, for all the activities and structures that will be supported.

Keywords: international s&t cooperation,s&t policy dialogue,ncp/nip structures,third countries participation in fp7,s&t cooperation patterns
Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Hungary,United Kingdom,Romania,Portugal,Spain,Bulgaria,France,Croatia,Denmark,Norway,Germany,Malta,Czechia,Netherlands,Sweden,Finland,Romania,Greece,Italy,Poland,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom,Poland,United Kingdom,Austria,Estonia,Belgium,Latvia,Türkiye,Iceland,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5632085.0
EU funding (EUR): 4100000.0
Participants: 36
Project status: CLOSED

The ultimate goal of CLARIN is the construction and operation of a shared distributed infrastructure that aims at making language resources and technology available to the humanities and social sciences research communities at large. The preparatory phase will pave the way for implementation along 4 dimensions: Funding and governance: The aim is to bring together the funding agencies and to work out a ready-to-sign draft agreement between the funding agencies in the participating countries about governance, financing, construction and operation of the infrastructure. Technical: The technical objective is to provide a detailed specification of the infrastructure, agreement on data and interoperability standards to be adopted, and a running, validated prototype based on these specifications. The validation should cover technical, linguistic and user aspects. Language: For the validation the prototype will be populated with a selection of language resources and technologies for all participating languages. The objective is to deliver a sufficiently populated, and thoroughly tested prototype that demonstrates the adequacy of the approach for all participating languages. User: In order to fully exploit the potential of what language resources and technology have to offer to the humanities and social sciences communities we will: (i) make an analysis of current practice in the use of language technology in the humanities in order to establish the needs; (ii) launch and monitor typical humanities projects in order to validate the prototype and its specifications; (iii) create awareness in the humanities and social sciences communities of the potential of the use of language resources and technology to improve or innovate their research; (iv) bring together the humanities and language technology communities in order to ensure lasting synergies.

Keywords: language resources,language technology,web services,infrastructure,humanities,social sciences
Safety and Efficacy of a New and Emerging Dental X-ray Modality (SEDENTEXCT)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radiation protection
Destination: Radiation Protection
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Romania,Belgium,Sweden,Lithuania,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2007, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3070361.0
EU funding (EUR): 2449461.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is the acquisition of the key information necessary for sound and scientifically based clinical use of dental Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT). In order that safety and efficacy are assured and enhanced in the ‘real world’, the parallel aim is to use the information to develop evidence-based guidelines dealing with justification, optimisation and referral criteria and to provide a means of dissemination and training for users of CBCT. The objectives and methodology of the proposed collaborative project are: 1. To develop evidence-based guidelines on use of CBCT in dentistry, including referral criteria, quality assurance guidelines and optimisation strategies. Guideline development will use systematic review and established methodology, involving stakeholder input. 2. To determine the level of patient dose in dental CBCT, paying special attention to paediatric dosimetry, and personnel dose. 3. To perform diagnostic accuracy studies for CBCT for key clinical applications in dentistry by use of in vitro and clinical studies. 4. To develop a quality assurance programme, including a tool/tools for quality assurance work (including a marketable quality assurance phantom) and to define exposure protocols for specific clinical applications. 5. To measure cost-effectiveness of important clinical uses of CBCT compared with traditional methods. 6. To conduct valorisation, including dissemination and training, activities via an ‘open access’ website. At all points, stakeholder involvement will be intrinsic to study design.

Keywords: tomography,x-ray computed,diagnostic imaging,radiation dosimetry,guidelines,radiation protection
European Animal Welfare Platform:adding welfare quality to food (EAWP)

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: Sweden,Norway,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Belgium,United Kingdom,Italy,Denmark,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1164530.6
EU funding (EUR): 992105.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Animal production has become increasingly industrialised over the last five decades. Recent crises such as BSE, swine fever, foot and mouth disease and avian influenza, and the activities of consumer and animal welfare organisations have raised public awareness that animal production is more than just an industry and that many other issues have to be considered. In this project, we focus on the fact that farm animal welfare has become an issue of increasing public significance and concern. Recent surveys indicated that European citizens show a strong commitment to animal welfare and many consumers express a willingness to pay a premium price for a product emanating from a welfare-friendly production system (Eurobarometer, 2007). But their expressed willingness often fails to result in purchase. Consumers’ apparent reluctance to actually buy these products in the shop may at least partly reflect a lack of transparency in the market for animal products, (consumers are unable to recognise animal friendly products), as well as the limited assortment of such products. Clearly, it is extremely important for the industry, both from a corporate social responsibility and a market point of view, to re-build and maintain consumer trust related to how food-producing animals are housed and handled across Europe. This requirement demands the development of credible, reliable and transparent welfare assessment systems as well as product information and certification schemes to support communication to the consumer about the ways in which the animal food products are produced. The present project addresses the above needs by developing a Stakeholder Platform (European Animal Welfare Platform; EAWP) that will facilitate the exchange of knowledge, experience and expertise in order to effectively support the implementation of scientifically based welfare assessment and information systems, improvement strategies, market initiatives, research and development and policy formulation in the area of farm animal welfare. The partners in this project represent animal welfare organisations, major companies in the animal production sector and leading research institutions. This venture will benefit the public, the industry and the animals, and thereby significantly strengthen the sustainability of European agriculture.

Keywords: animal welfare,quality assurance,consumers,platform
Facilitating the Bi-Regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Dialog (SEA-EU-NET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bi-regional coordination of S&T cooperation including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Türkiye,Thailand,Austria,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Poland,Malaysia,Philippines,Singapore,Switzerland,Hungary,Indonesia,Viet Nam,Lao People's Democratic Republic
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4721545.61
EU funding (EUR): 4099999.99
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

SEA-EU-NET will increase the quality, quantity, profile and impact of the bi-regional S&amp;T cooperation between SEA countries of ASEAN and MS and AS of EU. S&amp;T, essential for a strong knowledge-based economy, underpins policies necessary for governance, and contributes to cohesive social visions and models. S&amp;T excellence also requires global connectivity and an ongoing dialogue. This proposal supports the internationalisation policy of EU and objectives of FP7 of EU. It contributes to S&amp;T foundation essential to the EU’s political, economic and social objectives. There is great potential in strengthening the participation of SEA in FP7 and for a conjoint European involvement in SEA S&amp;T. Constraining factors include insufficient awareness of opportunities, inadequate connections amongst researchers, establishing partnerships, complexity of S&amp;T programs, and the asynchronous funding systems. Thus increased SEA-EU cooperation requires targeted measures integrating and strengthening the S&amp;T dialogue in a coherent way. The SEA-EU-NET will deliver measures to increase SEA-EU cooperation amongst academic, industrial and government stakeholders. Measures include implementation of joint for a strengthening the bi-regional and bilateral dialogue, analysing S&amp;T structures, reporting to EU-presidencies thus incorporating recent political developments, and generally highlighting EU-ASEAN initiatives. In addition the project builds a network of stakeholders in the SEA region while at the same time linking it to other existing and upcoming ERA-, INCO-NET, and thematic EU-FP projects thus facilitating the development of a coherent EU-level approach on international S&amp;T cooperation. Based on these structures SEA-EU-NET will also address global issues of mutual interest in regards to the challenges of the globalisation of research and reaching the global Millennium Goals by recommending joint S&amp;T related activities and developing joint scenarios.

Keywords: south east asia,bi-regional,dialogue,pt-dlr,decision making,networking,coherence,science,technology,stakeholders,presidency,core topics,millenium goals,global issues,international-buero
Novel technology for HIgh-PERformance piezoelectric Actuators (HIPER-ACT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Slovenia,Switzerland,Germany,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7912597.0
EU funding (EUR): 6000000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Piezoelectric multilayer actuators performance and reliability needs to be improved to meet the growing demand from end-users with many different types of applications. The high production costs and problems related to obtaining reliable components explain that the utilization of piezo actuators up to now is far from having reached its full potential. Noliac and its partners for the IP are proposing a radical innovation in the piezoelectricity field, based on an enhanced understanding of materials degradation. This will greatly improve the properties of long actuators, and thereby allow end-users to use them for new industrial applications. The actuators shall be able to sustain extreme conditions, including high temperature, humid environment, and high pressure and will provide extreme long-term reliability. The activities are divided in 4 work areas: • Research in materials degradation and the development of ceramics, which offer better resistance to crack initiation and propagation and are less sensitive to extreme conditions (WP2-WP4). • Two parallel approaches are followed to improve the interdigitated electrode technology for deposition ultra-narrow electrode paths in the laminated piezo materials (WP5-WP6). • The development of optimized final components will be insured by the combination of the new piezoelectric materials with the new electrode technology (WP7). • Industrial applications for the automotive-, production- and wind power industries. These applications require large size piezoceramic actuators, which can be produced efficiently at low cost with high manufacturing yield (WP8-WP11). The identification of the new piezoelectric actuators is expected to provide a radical innovation in terms of new possible applications in major industrial markets worldwide.

Keywords: piezoelectric actuators,ceramics,materials degradation,electrode technology,high temperatures,high humidity levels,high vibration levels,automotive-,production- & wind power industries.
DIstributed colLaboratories Infrastructure on Grid ENabled Technology 4 Science (D4SCIENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Italy,Greece,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Switzerland,France,Italy,Hungary,Malaysia
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3828766.0
EU funding (EUR): 3150000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of this project is to deploy the e-Infrastructures built so far by the EGEE and DILIGENT projects so that they address the needs of several new scientific communities affiliated with the broad disciplines of Environmental Monitoring and Fishery Resource Management. These e-Infrastructures, which offer mechanisms that concurrently exploit networks, grids, and data in a seamless fashion, will enable scientific communities to operate within a coherent pan-European model, regardless of the location of their research facilities. The project will progressively consolidate and expand these open e-Infrastructures to better address the needs of the two major target disciplines (which have challenging differences but also interesting commonalities). Thousands of scientists will obtain increasingly more facilities for creating Virtual Research Environments based on shared computation, storage, and generic service resources offered by EGEE and DILIGENT at a European level, as well as on data and domain-specific service resources offered by large international organizations, such as ESA, FAO, and CGIAR. The envisioned D4Science e-Infrastructure will have a multiplicative benefit to many scientific fields and will also act as a catalyst for the kind of cooperation and cross-fertilization among multiple communities that is necessary for addressing many grand challenges of science and society.

Keywords: e-infrastructure,grid,data infrastructure,service infrastructure,virtual laboratory,environmental monitoring,fishery resources management
Contaminant mixtures and human reproductive health - novel strategies for health impact and risk assessment of endocrine disrupters (CONTAMED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4584536.0
EU funding (EUR): 3494352.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Disruption of hormonal signalling in fetal life can irreversibly affect human development and reproductive health at a later age. Of considerable concern in Europe is a decline in male semen quality and a high prevalence of congenital malformations and hormone-dependent cancers. Although it appears plausible that environmental chemicals with endocrine activity may be involved in the causation of these disorders, there is no evidence for adverse effects of individual substances at relevant human exposure levels. However, there are indications that combinations of chemicals play a cumulative role. CONTAMED aims to explore the hypothesis that combined exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in fetal life may lead to adverse delayed impacts on human reproductive health. To achieve this goal, CONTAMED will combine epidemiological approaches with laboratory science. The work plan for CONTAMED is organised in three major strands focusing on human studies, animal models and in vitro assays including metabolomics. The project will deliver new epidemiological insights into associations between cumulative exposure and reproductive health, improved toxicological risk assessment for the anticipation of reproductive effects of chemicals, validated biomarkers for cumulative exposures and new mechanistic information about the ways in which chemicals may disrupt sexual differentiation during development. CONTAMED will provide the knowledge necessary to set the scene for Europe-wide human health impact studies of cumulative exposures to endocrine active chemicals and their possible role in the deterioration of reproductive health in Europe. Finally, the project will analyze the implications of new scientific findings for the European Environment and Health Action Plan and the Community Strategy for Endocrine Disrupters.

Keywords: human reproductive health,cumulative exposure,endocrine disrupters,health impact assessment,toxicological risk assessment
Climate Change - Terrestrial Adaption and Mitigation in Europe (CCTAME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Germany,France,Austria,Spain,Slovakia,Slovakia,European organisations area,Denmark,United Kingdom,Finland,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4637608.0
EU funding (EUR): 3499516.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The project will assess the impacts of agricultural, climate, energy, forestry and other associated land-use policies, considering the resulting feed-backs on the climate system. Geographically explicit biophysical models together with an integrated cluster of economic land-use models will be coupled with regional climate models to assess and identify mitigation and adaptation strategies in European agriculture and forestry. The role of distribution and pressures from socio-economic drivers will be assessed in a geographically nested fashion. Crop/trees growth models operating on the plot level as well as on continental scales will quantify a rich set of mitigation and adaptation strategies focusing on climatic extreme events. The robustness of response strategies to extreme events will further be assessed with risk and uncertainty augmented farm/forest enterprise models. Bioenergy sources and pathways will be assessed with grid level models in combination with economic energy-land-use models. The results from the integrated CC-TAME model cluster will be used to provide: quantitative assessments in terms of cost-efficiency and environmental effectiveness of individual land-use practices; competitive LULUCF mitigation potentials taking into account ancillary benefits, trade-offs and welfare impacts, and policy implications in terms of instrument design and international negotiations. The proposed structure of the integrated CC-TAME model cluster allows us, to provide an evaluation of policy options at a great level of detail for EU25(27) in a post-Kyoto regime, as well as to offer perspectives on global longer-term policy strategies in accordance with the principles and objectives of the UNFCCCC. Close interactions with policymakers and stakeholders will ensure the policy relevance of CC-TAME results.

Keywords: land use efficiency,adaptation,mitigation,climate change,carbon sink,biomass/-fuel production,cross-benefit-analysis,policy impact,biophysical and economic land-use modeling