Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
When to reproduce? Genetic, phenotypic and environmental factors explaining the variation in timing of avian reproduction (POPBYTIME)

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-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Adequate timing of reproduction within the season is crucial for maximising fitness. Although the literature strongly suggest that birds breeding early in the season gain a fitness advantage and that timing of breeding is a flexible decision there are emerging studies showing that breeding early is not always the best solution and that the regulation of timing of breeding is genetically programmed. Thus, early and late nestlings may actually reflect two different adaptive strategies, of which the fitness returns may be context dependent. The research proposal aims 1. To know to which extent the variation in laying date among a kestrel population depends on flexible decisions versus genetic programming, investigating also the degree of genetic differentiation within a Mediterranean population and between different EU populations; 2. To assess the role of assortative mating by time of reproduction in affecting the gene flow among birds living in sympatry; 3. To evaluate the fitness advantage in relation to timing of breeding; 4. To evaluate differential maternal non-genetic resource allocation with laying date variation and 5. To estimate the effects of between years variation of weather conditions on the reproductive success of early and late breeders. I will apply a wide array of techniques, studying mechanisms in an evolutionary framework. The results may challenge the prevalent view of the cause and consequences of timing of breeding, will provide new insight in the evolution of reproductive strategies, and in the genetic structure of raptor populations in different parts of Europe, and may contribute to predict to what extent birds are flexible to react to global warming and how the climate changes could modify the genetic structure of a raptor population.

Keywords: timing of reproduction,population genetics,raptor,climate change impact,animal immune system,oxidative stress,assortative mating,bird monitoring,animal physiology,animal endocrinology
Physical Properties, Organization and Evolution of Eukaryotic Chromosomes (PPOEEC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The remarkable structure and the key role hold by the DNA molecule in the living world raise numbers of fascinating questions with regard to its apparition and its evolution. However, little is known so far about the potential interplay between the physical status of chromosomes and their diverse biological functions. I aim at addressing these questions. As a postdoc I work at the interface of several disciplines, investigating physical properties of eukaryotic chromosomes as well as aspects of nuclear dynamic. In this regard, we recently proposed that variations in the chromatin compaction status could account for different types of chromosomal dynamics observed during meiotic prophase. In parallel to these studies, one of the primary goals of my research has been to achieve virtual trapping and manipulation of chromatin or individual chromosomes in a controlled environment. My objective is now to pursue the development of functional, user-friendly, devices in the host organization and develop long-term collaborations across EU member states with scientists from various disciplines. In addition to this in vitro approach, I propose to investigate further the organization of chromosomes/chromatin during replication, and their impact onto genome structure. Using the 3C/5C technology partially developed in my current laboratory, I will perform a genome – wide mapping of yeast replication factories to determine whether large intra or inter-chromosomal regions are coordinately replicated in the same replication factories or not. Furthermore, I propose to investigate whether some DNA regions involved in specific chromosomal rearrangements interact preferentially because of transient co-localization during replication within a same factory. This will provide a new understanding of the “contact-first” model for chromosome rearrangement and deepen our insight onto chromosome evolution, and cancer.

Keywords: chromatin,nuclear organization,replication,3c / 5c,chromosome evolution,genomics,molecular biophysics
FALSE RECOGNITION JUDGEMENTS: COGNITIVE MECHANISMS AND NEURAL CORRELATES (FALSEREC)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 33750.0
EU funding (EUR): 33750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the present Research Project is to make progress in the task of discerning the basic memory processes and the dynamics involved in the phenomenon of false memory. Specifically, the proposal considers conducting a series of systematic empirical studies aimed at defining, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the contribution of activation mechanisms to the particular phenomenon of false recognition of unstudied words. There is a proposal to complete normative studies directed to obtaining subjective and objective indexes for a large sample of Spanish words, including free-association norms, with the goal of making appropriate verbal materials available. There is a plan to conduct a number of memory experiments in controlled laboratory conditions in which variables related to associative strength, spread of activation, and structural organization of the lexical-semantic network will be manipulated, with the goal of studying their effects on false recognition. Finally, neural correlates will be studied, using ERP measures, as a way of gathering converging evidence about the nature of the activation mechanisms involved in false recognition.

Keywords: cognitive science,experimental psychology,memory,false memories,recognition,recall,event related potentials,automatic vs controlled memory processes
European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Portugal,Italy,France,Germany,Italy,Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Sweden,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Denmark,Austria,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Austria,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Denmark,Belgium,France,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Germany,France,Spain,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Spain,Germany,Denmark,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25841074.0
EU funding (EUR): 18969760.0
Participants: 100
Project status: CLOSED

The European robotics industry plays a key role in maintaining our continent’s industrial base. The robotics industry is strong, but fragmented and dispersed. In the future, cutting-edge technology resulting from top-level research will be the decisive factor for success. Europe not only has a powerful robotics industry, but can also boast superb research. By drawing on these resources, ECHORD aims at producing new knowledge through advancing the state of the art in selected research foci and developing novel technology from which new products can be derived. Within ECHORD, opportunities for knowledge advancement and technology transfer between academia and industry will be created across the whole continent. This will be achieved through the solicitation of focused, small-size RTD projects, so-called experiments, which can be rapidly negotiated, funded and executed. Via these experiments, ECHORD will bring about a large-scale introduction of robotic equipment into research institutions. This is expected to result in both tangible and measurable out-comes in terms of the accelerated development of technologies, as well as the deployment of robotics technology into new scenarios for the direct application of research results. For ECHORD, three such scenarios have been defined: human-robot co-working, hyper flexible cells, and cognitive factories. The foremost purpose of the scenarios is to define an environment that is both scientifically challenging to research institutions and commercially relevant to robot manufacturers.

Keywords: cognitive systems,interaction,robotics
acoustic SCene ANalysis for Detecting Living Entities (SCANDLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Hungary,Switzerland,Cyprus,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-02
End date: 2012-03-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3478915.0
EU funding (EUR): 2649938.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Analysing fine motor activity in articulatory structures of humans or animals in combination with the sounds they emit yields information about their intentions and likely future actions. In this project we propose to develop a cognitive acoustic scene analysis system that is able to synthesize composite representations of animate entities and their behaviour by integrating information from active and passive sound signatures; i.e. from actively self-generated (sonar) sounds and from passively received sounds emitted by those entities. The system is an acoustic analogy to a camera-based visual scene analysis system, particularly suited to detecting the presence and characterising the behaviour of living entities in the environment. This highly innovative proposal builds upon fundamental research on perceptual organisation in natural systems, recent advances in models of auditory processing, and technological developments in ultra-low power, distributed neuromorphic systems and state-of-the-art micro-sonar technology. The biologically inspired architecture and processing mechanisms of the proposed system support autonomous real-time context-dependent operation, allowing it to parse complex mixtures of sounds into meaningful units and categorise them. We propose novel methodologies for evaluating the emergence of representations in autonomous systems, and for communicating the ongoing internal state of the system to human observers. Work on the project will significantly advance scientific understanding of auditory perceptual organisation, technological developments in neuromorphic systems, and the potential impact of artificial cognitive systems. Successful achievement of our objectives will result in the development of a ground breaking proof-of-concept cognitive acoustic scene analysis system capable of robust operation in real-world environments and suitable for deployment in situations where visual information may be unavailable, unobtainable or even undesirable.

Keywords: acoustic scene analysis,distributed active sensory processing,micro-doppler sonar,perceptual organisation,neuromorphic systems
Quality Collectives: Socially Intelligent Systems for Quality (QLECTIVES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Switzerland,Hungary,Poland,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6934554.0
EU funding (EUR): 5350000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Using a complexity perspective, QLectives will understand, experiment with, design and build cooperative socially intelligent ICT systems composed of self-organising peers, that will enable and support emergent &apos;quality collectives&apos; to enhance, for instance, scientific innovation and decentralized media distribution. We shall bring together complex system scientists, social scientists and distributed systems engineers to produce new theories and algorithms. Our method will be that of empirical experimentation using &quot;living labs&quot; involving thousands of people connected over the internet into collectives. The project will generate better theoretical understanding of complex techno-social systems, and how trust and reputation may emerge among a community and used to enhance quality. The work is organised into 4 synergistic streams: 1. Theoretical and algorithmic foundations, 2. Algorithm design, simulation and evaluation, 3. Empirical data-sets collection, processing and validation, 4. Platform and living lab implementation. As a basis we shall extend an already deployed, mature P2P technology platform and make use of two existing user communities: the econophysics forum and tribler.org. Our results will be applied to create two examples of how ICT moulds and becomes part of the systems to which it is applied: QScience - a peer-to-peer application for facilitating scientific innovation by supporting scientific communities, rating activities for quality to identify potential collaborators, hot spots and breakthroughs, and disseminating the right information to the right peers promptly; and QMedia - a peer-to-peer application for transforming media distribution by dynamically identifying shared interest communities and recommending quality contents to them using streaming media technology. We anticipate an impact on all fields in which collective quality-ratings of contents and raters can counter an otherwise unsustainable growth in the digital information age.

Keywords: techno-social complex systems,quality,reputation,peer-to-peer,media distribution,living lab
Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (CO3 AUVS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3332029.0
EU funding (EUR): 2549646.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) represent one of the most challenging frontiers for robotics research. AUVs work in an unstructured environment and face unique perception, decision, control and communications difficulties. Currently, the state of the art is dominated by single AUVs limited to open-sea preplanned trajectories with offline postprocessing of the data gathered during the mission. The use of multiple AUVs as propagated in this project is still in a very early research phase. Some of the research issues addressed in this project are even completely uncharted territory, especially the development of functionalities to seamlessly monitor critical underwater infrastructures and to detect anomalous situations (e.g., missions related to harbour safety and security) and the study of advanced AUVs capable of interacting with humans to perform such functions as companion/support platforms during scientific and commercial dives. The aim of the Co3-AUVs project is to develop, implement and test advanced cognitive systems for coordination and cooperative control of multiple AUVs. Several aspects will be investigated including 3D perception and mapping, cooperative situation awareness, deliberation and navigation as well as behavioral control strictly linked with the underwater communication challenges. As a result, the team of AUVs will cooperate in challenging scenarios in the execution of missions where all data is online processed. In doing so, the team will be robust with respect to failures and environmental changes. These key features will be tested in a harbor scenario where additional difficulties with respect to open sea applications arise and in a human diver assistance scenario that also illustrates human robot interaction issues.

Keywords: autonomous underwater vehicle (auv),cooperative robotics
Business and IT Alignment using a Model-Based Plug-in Framework (PLUGIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Greece,Switzerland,Germany,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3657935.0
EU funding (EUR): 2559786.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Today we’re witnessing the necessity to align Business and Information Technology (IT) and a respective change in the role that IT plays for businesses. Specifically, IT is massively changing from its role as an enabler - businesses request the IT support to an industrial sector in its own right. This sector provides IT infrastructure and services to any business in a way similar to the way electricity is provided via sockets to any device that can be plugged in. Based on the assumption that businesses in different sectors of the economy will require IT for different reasons and in different ways, this proposal aspires to develop an IT socket that will realize the vision of businesses plugging-in to IT.The reasons for the aforementioned transformation are manifold: legal aspects, regulations, business requirements, economic factors etc. Technological trends such as SOA, Software as a Service, and Virtualisation are influencing the way in which IT services are rendered. Model-based approaches and IT-Governance are prominent candidates to bridge evolving business contexts and IT, in order to adapt the provisioning of IT for business needs. This challenge can be met by capitalizing on semantic technologies for IT-Governance.The proposed project will develop concepts, tools and methods that will: (1) simplify modelling efforts by providing the Next Generation Modelling Framework, (2) provide IT-Socket compliance checks and reporting mechanisms for computer centres, and (3) provide orchestration and governance tools (semantic workflows, agents) by integrating semantics into legacy applications. These outcomes rely on research advances in (a) graphical models and tools for their transformation into machine interpretable ontologies, (b) integration of different modelling languages, (c) reference ontologies and ontologies supporting model transformation, (d) rule systems for automatic generation, transformation, mapping, evolution of models and ontologies.

Keywords: knowledge management,semantic,it-governance and management,next generation modelling
An Open Source Environment to construct Information Services for Children (PUPPYIR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4182665.0
EU funding (EUR): 3024899.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

As adults we are keen to help children maximize their full potential. Developing children’s abilities to find and understand information is key their development as young adults. The Internet offers children exciting new ways to meet people, learn about different cultures and develop their creative potential. However, children’s ability to use the Internet is severely hampered by the lack of appropriate search tools. Most Information Retrieval (IR) systems are designed for adults: they return information that is unsuitable for children, present information in lists that children find difficult to manage and make it difficult for children to ask for information. Worse, almost all Internet search engines confront children with pornography and other inappropriate material. PuppyIR will help children search the Internet safely and successfully by the design of an Open-Source platform of child-friendly information services. PuppyIR will provide a suite of components that can be used by system designers to tailor IR systems for their specific needs. PuppyIR will develop new interaction paradigms that allow children to express their information needs simply and have results presented in an intuitive way. It will develop Information Services that can summarise content for children, moderate information for children, help children safely build social networks and intelligently aggregate for presentation to children. PuppyIR will also contribute to the evaluation of children’s IR systems by the development of child-centered evaluation methods. PuppyIR will be a multi-layered architecture: system designers can choose from several interaction paradigms and information services to construct their own system. As PuppyIR is Open-Source it will be extensible for new information sources, new information services and new languages.

Keywords: multimodal interaction,information services for children,search technology