Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
User Centred Computer Animation Techniques for Next Generation Digital Creation and Modelling (ANINEX)

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: United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 432600.0
EU funding (EUR): 432600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The “AniNex” Consortium consisting of five partners (two EU Beneficiaries and three Partners in China), who are world leading influential centres of excellence in both the academic world and industry. The “AniNex” is designed to anticipate and lead the development of next generation techniques related to computer animation and its applications, via integrating knowledge and talents of people from top institutions across the world who have been at the forefront of the relevant fields for many years. This will be achieved by research collaboration at various levels and scheduled staff exchange among five partners of the consortium through the well aligned work packages. To answer the current challenge in digital creation and modelling, the emphasis is on two main cores: “dynamics and interaction of virtual objects - DynO” and “virtual character modelling, and animation - XMAn”, but other elements like rendering and geometric modelling are naturally incorporated as well. The focus on “User Centred Experience” will distinguish the proposed practice from pure theoretical research, providing practical guidance and standard for techniques to best suit the users’ need and developing easy-to-use tools/software.

Keywords: computer animation,digital creation,modelling,simulation,character modelling,human motion
Correctness by Construction (CORCON)

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: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 285600.0
EU funding (EUR): 285600.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

As software becomes ever more ubiquitous in our lives, the need to ensure it runs without error becomes ever more important. Restarting a phone is a simple, if inconvenient task; restarting an aeroplane in mid-flight is not an option! Correct by construction programming offers a revolutionary approach to program verification where programs can contain not just computations as is normal, but also logical proofs of the correctness of these computations. The simple fact that such programs compile provides formal, i.e. mathematical, guarantees of the correctness of the program. In particular, there is no need for post-hoc testing of software etc. Fundamental to the implicit marriage of computation and logic inherent within correct by construction programming is the choice of the right logical systems and concepts upon which programming languages ought to be built. This reflects the symbiotic relationship between logic, programming, and the design of programming languages—any attempt to sever this connection will diminish each component. This proposal brings together internationally leading researchers from both inside Europe and outside Europe to work on exactly what logical structures are needed for correct by construction programming and how those logical structures can then by turned into concrete programming artefacts. In order to produce fundamental work which stands the test of time, we work not with specific programming languages but with mathematical abstractions of them. The recent development of dependently typed programming languages capable of supporting correct by construction programming makes this a very timely proposal, while the billions spent on software every year makes the potential impact of this proposal very significant.

Keywords: mathematical logic,constructive analysis,dependently typed programming,category theory,realizability semantics,constructive set theory,proof theory,type theory,program extraction
Towards a comprehensive understanding of transport of energy and greenhouse gases in lacustrine ecosystems. (GHG-LAKE)

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: Finland,Sweden,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175600.0
EU funding (EUR): 175600.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of GHG-LAKE joint research programme is to increase mobility and exchange of researchers between EU countries, Russia and US to obtain better understanding of energy and greenhouse gases (methane and carbon dioxide) budgets in lake ecosystems at high-latitude, which are potentially most prone to on-going and future climate changes. Factors controlling the carbon cycles are investigated by means of intensive field measurements and process based modelling. This program focuses on four research aspects: 1) gas exchange processes; 2) carbon cycle, including greenhouse gases (GHG) flux database development for lacustrine ecosystems; 3) energy and greenhouse gas flux measurements, including research and knowledge transfer of key methodological aspects for comprehensive measurement sites; 4) process based biogeochemical modelling for GHGs production and transport in water bodies, as well as state of art large eddy simulation modelling for resolving non-homogeneous and non-stationary atmospheric boundary layer flow over heterogeneous surfaces (e.g. small lake surrounded by forest). GHG-LAKE programme builds a basis for long-term collaboration between the leading EU, Russian and US research organizations in the area of limnology, GHGs monitoring and modelling and climate change research in order to achieve new scientific results and breakthroughs. The proposed programme is interdisciplinary and the expected results will touch in particular the environmental sciences, limnology, biogeochemistry and micrometeorology research communities. GHG-LAKE will exploit complementary expertise of the participant organizations in order to create synergies among participants and to establish long-lasting partnership. As multi- and cross-disciplinary studies essential in climate change research are lacking in Russia, this programme will essentially also work towards an integrated approach for future joint international projects.

Keywords: lake ecosystem,greenhouse gas budget,energy balance,carbon dioxide and methane fluxes,lake-atmosphere exchange processes,eddy covariance,lake modelling
Social PracticE Cultural Trauma and REestablishing Solid Sovereignties (SPECTRESS)

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: Ireland,Germany,Poland,Croatia,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 535500.0
EU funding (EUR): 535500.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to build upon, solidify, formalise and condense the recently initiated, but as yet informal, relationships between leading research institutions representing different regions and historical traditions in order to conduct joint research and participate in knowledge exchange to identify new paradigms for understanding how national identities are disrupted and formed by the traumas of history. By moving this consortium from an informal, ad hoc set of alliances to a structured programme of exchanges, the SPeCTReSS programme, we will generate new research results and new methodologies across the disciplinary spectrum we represent, a rich transfer of knowledge between institutions, research groups and culturally inscribed traditionas of scholarship, generating the basis for long term, sstainable cooperation between the partners. The basis of the research question we share is as follows: In contemporary scholarship, much discussion of national identity is framed in a context of something specific that has come before: post-colonial, post-war, post-apartheid, post-communism, etc.. More useful, however, than such contested terms as nationalism or patriotism, is that of cultural trauma. "culturally defined and interpreted shock to the cultural tissue of a society." SPeCTReSS will pursue this revised notion not just in theoretical and historical terms, but focussing on the cultural production of affected communities.

Keywords: nationalism,patriotism,cultural trauma,arts and humanities,literature,discourse studies,performance,modern history,irish studies,german studies,indian studies
Sharing Best Agroecological Practice for Resilient Production Systems in Dryland and Drought Conditions (ECODRY)

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: United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 567300.0
EU funding (EUR): 567300.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This joint exchange project aims to enhance understanding and share knowledge on strategies to build the resilience of farming systems to natural and man made impacts in dryland and drought situations, including climate change, through collaboration of joint research and capacity building activities between participating universities: the Centre for Agroecology and Food Security at Coventry University, UK (CU-UK), University of Extremadura, Spain (UEX-SP), University of Yucatan, Mexico (UY-MEX), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (US-SA), and National Centre for Research and Development-Badia Research Programme, Jordan (BRP-JO). The objectives are: 1) To identify and build a body of knowledge on innovative agroecological strategies to mitigate threats of natural and man-made nature for drylands and drought; 2) To build a network of expertise on on agroecological innovations through workshops, conferences and other activities; 3) To provide opportunities for research on cutting-edge agroecological approaches in the natural and social sciences for postgraduate students. Over three years, thirty early stage researchers and ten experienced researchers will move between partner countries. A wider audience of host country researchers as well as industry experts will be involved in project seminars, lectures and conferences. Cooperation and exchanges between the different research centres across three continents will enable the testing of different agroecological practices and research and extension techniques in different contexts. These will enable the construction of common methodologies and approaches to address the challenges of face dry lands and drought which is especially necessary in the current scenario of global climate change.

Keywords: agroecology,drought,drylands,innovation,climate change,mexico,south africa,spain,jordan
‘Freedom, dignity and justice’: A comprehensive approach to the understanding of youth exclusion and the prospects for youth inclusion and overall change in the South and East Mediterranean (POWER2YOUTH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Palestine, State of,Norway,Switzerland,Türkiye,Egypt,Lebanon,Morocco,United Kingdom,Tunisia
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3426112.61
EU funding (EUR): 2499975.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The 2010-2011 youth-led wave of protests in the South and East Mediterranean, could be described as the coming on the scene of a new generation united by a shared experience of marginalisation and by new ways to protest and act. Important as this phenomenon could be for the future of the SEM, it still escapes the main frames of analysis utilised by academic research. Youth studies in the SEM, while producing important findings and insights, have failed so far to give a multi-dimensional and comprehensive understanding of the economic, political and social disadvantages faced by youth in the region and of the possible evolution of young people’s role in national or regional developments. This project aims at filling this important gap in our knowledge of the SEM by offering a comprehensive multi-level, interdisciplinary and gender-sensitive approach to the understanding of youth in the region. By combining the economic, political and socio-cultural spheres and a macro (policy/institutional), meso (organisational) and micro (individual) level analysis, POWER2YOUTH will explore the root causes and complex dynamics of youth exclusion, while investigating the factors fostering youth inclusion. Building on a conceptualisation of youth that gives prominence to youth as potential agents of change, the project starts out from the assumption that youth exclusion is the result of unequal power relations in society, in as much as effective youth inclusion can only be fostered by a bottom-up process of transformation of the systemic inequalities that lead to exclusion in the first place. From this premise comes the project’s emphasis on the study of the potentially transformative impact of individual and collective youth agency searching for instances of empowerment leading to active youth participation in society and overall change. POWER2YOUTH will finally produce innovative and concrete policy recommendations.

Keywords: gender,egypt,empowerment,lebanon,morocco,occupied palestinian territories,political participation,social media,social movements,tunisia,turkey,unemployment,youth,exclusion,inclusion
Integrated Macro-Financial Modelling for Robust Policy Design (MACFINROBODS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,European organisations area,Italy,United Kingdom,Belgium,Czechia,Germany,Italy,Spain,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3337592.4
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

During the global financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession, economists at policy-making institutions had little choice but to augment macroeconomic models with ad-hoc assumptions and adjustments in order to provide analysis and advice for policy makers. Our consortium’s proposal aims to move policy-focused macroeconomic modelling beyond this approach to the endogenous modelling of the dynamics resulting from financial risks and related decision making in banks, households, firms and public institutions. We bring together four broad lines of research to systematically develop new behavioural and institutional building blocks, integrating them in policy-focused macroeconomic models and using these models in a new framework for policy evaluation. In terms of building blocks, one line of research moves beyond the assumption of representative and homo-oeconomicus-type agents to incorporate micro-behavioural realism in decision making, while a second line of research advances the modelling of financial institutions, their fragility and the dynamics of systemic risk. The third line of research integrates these new building blocks (including a selection of those developed by researchers outside the consortium) in a new generation of policy-focused macroeconomic models. In parallel, in the fourth line of research new policy evaluation tools are developed, with a focus on robust tools aimed at containing financial contagion and boom-bust cycles, maintaining fiscal sustainability and coordinating monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies in normal and crisis regimes. The consortium comprises researchers with a strong track record in advancing the frontier on behavioural and institutional modelling, highly influential macroeconomic modellers as well as seasoned veterans of model-based monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policy evaluation and design. Consortium members have strong academic backgrounds as well as substantive practical experience at policy-making institutions.

Keywords: macroeconomic modelling,behavioural foundations,financial institutions,sovereign risk premia,bubbles,temporarily binding constraints,normal and crisis regimes,regulation,robust policy design
Addressing demand in anti-trafficking efforts and policies (DemandAT) (DEMANDAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: The Citizen in the European Union
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,United Kingdom,Italy,Switzerland,Netherlands,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3165764.15
EU funding (EUR): 2498553.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project investigates the notion of ‘demand’ for trafficking in human beings (THB) from a range of scientific perspectives and develops an integrated framework that comprehensively addresses and relates demand with alternative framings where appropriate. The findings provide empirical evidence to concrete policy questions on the EU agenda and lay-out the full range of promising policy options. The project consortium engages in continuous, intensive communication efforts with the objective of ensuring a good take-up of research results by policy-makers, other stakeholders and the wider society. Work will proceed in three phases: • Phase 1 involves a comprehensive analysis of theoretical and empirical literature as well as an overview over debates with regard to trafficking for different purposes (commercial sex, labor exploitation, child begging, forced marriages, organ removal and criminal activities), and a mapping of demand related policy measures in different countries. On this basis, a joint conceptual approach will be developed. • Phase 2 involves five in-depth empirical case studies. Three of them address specific fields with systematic differences with regard to the type of demand linked to trafficking: Domestic work, prostitution and imported goods which are provided through global supply chains. Two case studies investigate specifically relevant policy approaches (law enforcement and raising awareness through campaigns). • Phase 3 integrates insights from both phases into a coherent framework and intensifies dissemination which is informed by continuous, systematic stakeholder communication throughout the project.

Keywords: trafficking in human beings,demand,domestic work,supply chains,prostitution,law enforcement,campaigns,exploitation,vulnerability,empowerment,impact,gender,policies,stakeholder involvement
From Inherent Concurrency to Massive Parallelism through Type-based Optimizations (UPSCALE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Norway,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-X, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2299305.0
EU funding (EUR): 1757005.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

In a radical paradigm shift, manufacturers are now moving from multicore chips to so-called manycore chips with up to a million independent processors on the same silicon real estate. However, software cannot benefit from the revolutionary potential power increase, unless the design and code is polluted by an unprecedented amount of low-level, fine-grained concurrency detail.Concurrency in mainstream object-oriented languages is based on multithreading. Due to the complexity of balancing work evenly across cores, the thread model is of little benefit for efficient processor use or horizontal scalability. Problems are exacerbated in languages with shared mutable state and a stable notion of identity -- the very foundations of object-orientation. The advent of manycore chips threatens to make not only the object-oriented model obsolete, but also the accumulated know-how of a generation of programmers.Our vision is to provide the means for industry to efficiently develop applications that seamlessly scale to the available parallelism of manycore chips without abandoning the object-oriented paradigm and the associated software engineering methodologies.We will realise this vision by a breakthrough in how parallelism and concurrency are integrated into programming languages, substantiated by a complete inversion of the current canonical language design: constructs facilitating concurrent computation will be default while constructs facilitating synchronised and sequential computation will be explicitly expressed. UpScale will exploit this inversion for a novel agile development methodology based on incremental type-based program annotations specifying ever-richer deployment-related information, and for innovative type-based deployment optimisations both at compile time and at runtime in the runtime system devised in UpScale for massively parallel execution.The targeted breakthrough will profoundly impact software development for the manycore chips of the future.

Keywords: multicore programming,concurrent objects,type systems,deployment,optimisation