Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of Research Activities and Strategic Planning of Research at the University of Montenegro (EVOLUNIMONT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: International Co-operation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Montenegro
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2010-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158912.04
EU funding (EUR): 129544.9
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The efforts of enlarged European Union to rely intensively on its knowledge sector in order to raise its competitiveness and achieve sustainable development are spreading throughout the ‘Old Continent’ via intensified international cooperation in research and support actions. In the process of European integrations that the Montenegrin Government is strategically oriented to, the research is pushing its way up the political agenda. From the other side, an increased demand for advanced processes and technological solutions, especially for better management of resources and increased competitiveness of SMEs within the country, are calling onto the research to respond. This situation stimulates the University of Montenegro – the central institution of Montenegrin Research System, to change. In order to respond to the developmental needs of the country in a new social and economic reality, to realise the opportunities opened to it nationally and internationally, especially with the association of Montenegro to FP7, the University of Montenegro needs to strengthen its research function. The University management realises that this process has best chances for success if it is done in cooperation with European partners, through establishment of quality standards, exchange of knowledge and best practices and collaboration in research itself. These are the main reasons why University of Montenegro is proposing the EVOLUNIMONT project. It will give this massive institution a framework for stimulating its research by: • Identifying obstacles (institutional, policy, material and human) for research that need to be removed, • Learning about good practices in research management of Universities that have achieved intensive development in research • Defining the University Research Strategy that will facilitate research and research management within the University • Providing a standard for following its progress and comparing its research quality with European

Keywords: research,evaluation,strategic planning,upgrade research capability..
Improvement of the Tropical Sea Sciences Research Potential in Western Indian Ocean, and of the Technology Capacities in La Reunion Island (RUN SEA SCIENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1032597.2
EU funding (EUR): 922953.33
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Growing of human pressure on habitats and marine resources in a context of global change are leading to a decrease of biodiversity and fish stock in oceans and coastal areas. Maintaining the integrity of the marine environment including reefs is of major interest in Western Indian Ocean (WIO) states among which Reunion Island is the only and the furthest outermost region from the continental Europe. The objectives of the project are to enhance the local critic mass and skill of researchers in sea sciences, to increase the visibility of the teams at regional and international levels, including EU, and to unlock technologic gaps. In a very active international context for the ICPC countries in this region, the impact of the European action in the WIO will be clearly identifiable thanks to this project. Europe will thus support the setting up of the pole of excellence in marine sciences at Reunion Island. Moreover, and beyond the scientific and technologic interests, the measures implemented during the project will have several positives impacts on the economic area of fisheries and aquaculture as well as on the social management of human practices on coastal area notably in Marine Protected Area.

Keywords: sea sciences,outermost region,western indian ocean,reunion island,biodiversity,environmental monitoring,marine resources,coral reef,marine protected areas,aquaculture,bio-logging,fisheries
Strengthening Regional Bioresearch Potential in Greece: Advanced scientific performance at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in Thrace (BIOSTRENGTH)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1131300.0
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG) in Thrace is the only University Faculty in Greece dedicated to providing a curriculum on molecular biology and genetics. MBG was created with the vision of becoming a centre of research excellence, nationally and in Europe, fostering research on the molecular and genetic basis of Human diseases and the understanding of basic biological questions. BioStrength targets the research capacity increase of MBG by improving the quality of research and enhancing dynamic collaborative links with knowledgeable institutions, aiming at a sustained participation in FP7 and ERA and the improvement of visibility in the regional and national socio-economic context. These goals will require: improvement of knowledge base and skills via short term visits of our staff and incoming scientists, improving MBG's infrastructure by developing a unit/facility that can act as a training-pole, recruitment of researchers, transfer of knowledge via training workshops and conferences and increased public visibility within the economic and social environment. This endeavour will elevate research potential and boost MBG into a regional centre of excellence with a sustained presence in the European research community.

Keywords: thrace,molecular biology,genetics,research potential,core facilities,northern greece,balkans
Inter-cluster initiative to target the future challenges for the European polymer converting industry (CLUSTERPLAST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,Portugal,Austria,Italy,Spain,Spain,France,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 887098.58
EU funding (EUR): 749599.82
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

In order to set-up and implement coherent economical development strategies, it is essential for the European Polymer Converting Industry to structure and support its economical development on the basis of its local/regional clusters. CLUSTERPLAST will aim to achieve such a goal through the setting-up of a Joint Action Plan dedicated to support actions common to 6 European regions. The project will make profit from the experience of 4 existing research-driven clusters. These clusters all comprise the triangle research – business – local/regional authority acting as motor of the cluster activities. CLUSTERPLAST will make profit from the experience of these 4 existing clusters by promoting the creation of 3 new clusters.A review on the main actors in the Business, Research and Regional/Local authorities, on R&D financial instruments, Technology Roadmaps, Projects and Initiatives will support an increased awareness, the furthering of networking of dissemination activities, the technology transfer between regional entities and clusters, and the launch of joint initiatives and projects. This review will further enable the benchmarking and the identification of best practices and its dissemination between clusters. The increased awareness will also support the identification of further opportunities, cross actions and a further interaction between the entities of the Innovation system, providing for: (1) a proficient use of the available capacities, competencies and knowledge at European scale; (2) an efficient selection and resort to funding instruments; (3) the further valorization of R&D results. In this framework, the development of a Joint Action Plan will constitute the major deliverable towards this end. In last analysis, these initiatives will address to the furthering integration of R&D and Scientific Activities at European Scale, avoiding overlapping and exploiting complementarities, in compliancy with the ERA Objective.

Keywords: european plastic convertors industry-local authorities,business,research entity-clusters,cohesion policy,competitivenessnand innovation programme
European consolidation and promotion of research capacity in the area of structure-based drug discovery (EUROSTRUCT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1008989.0
EU funding (EUR): 970300.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

EUROSTRUCT seeks to unravel the research potential of Structural Biology and Chemistry Group and Chemistry Group (SBCG) and the Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (IOPC) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation by creating a centre of excellence in structural biology, in Greece, with emphasis on structure-based drug design and discovery. This can be achieved through setting up a state-of-the-art X-ray and computational facility, recruitment of experienced researchers, exchange of know-how and experience through trans-national two-way secondments of research staff, organization of workshops and conferences to facilitate knowledge transfer at regional, national and international level, and through dissemination and promotional activities. The EUROSTRUCT aims to build a critical mass of sustainable research capacity. In so doing, it will support researchers to tackle pressing health problems and deliver health benefits for people. The focus is on people and providing them with the research environment that they need in order to answer compelling questions about health and disease. The scientists participating in this application provide the appropriate scientific environment for high quality research engaged in the project. The EUROSTRUCT is intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of discovery and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for advancing significantly determination of three-dimensional structure of target proteins and structure-based drug discovery.

Keywords: structural biology,x-ray crystallography,structure based drug discovery
Action on Climate Change through Engagement, Networks and Tools (ACCENT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science and society communicate
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Italy,Italy,Finland,United Kingdom,Sweden,Sweden,France,Estonia,Israel,Belgium,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1348965.0
EU funding (EUR): 1017880.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Fifteen relevant organisations among science centres, science museums and aquariums will be engaged by this proposal ACCENT in a coordination action aimed at rationalising their two-way communication practices and at strengthening their collaborations with the scientific community on climate change issues. Climate change issues are clearly a growing concern for the public today. In recent years, people have received a great deal of information from media on the causes and consequences of climate changes, but – depending on countries and regions – the understanding of citizens and their engagement in these topics is still varied. ACCENT proposes to contribute to a global effort to move the campaign on climate change from “informative” to the “active” phase, through the exchange and dissemination of practices, with specific actions that encourage the involvement of citizens in actions and dialogue. The rising demand for public participation is evident when addressing global challenges; in this sense, involvement of the public would be central to the ACCENT strategy to improve the capacity of European democracies to represent and include citizens' perspectives. Through ACCENT, the science centre community is committing itself to strengthening the efforts its institutions made at the local level in a one year European Communication Action on Climate change issues for the dissemination of European research results, and to establishing the dialogue among scientists, stakeholders and the public through participative practices. They will capitalise on their competences in a European sustainable Web platform that will act as “collector” as well as “disseminator” for any organisations dealing with public engagement in science. ACCENT will assess the outcomes from the engagement and participation of the public in order to deliver reliable data on the opinion and perception of European citizens about climate change issues.

Keywords: coordination,networking,two ways science communication,climate change,european research,dialogue,best practices,citizens engagement
Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 960945.0
EU funding (EUR): 809919.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The shift from print-based to digital documents demands innovation from scientific publishers. Several radical new Open Access Publishing (OAP) business models have already emerged. The SOAP consortium represents key stakeholders such as publishers, funding agencies and a broad spectrum of research disciplines. It was formed to fuel the debate about the future of scientific publishing elaborated in COMMUNICATION (2007) 56, on scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation. We believe that a variety of forms of OAP will ultimately co-exist, balancing attributes such as the cultural identities of the various stakeholders, career development paths, the perceived value of refereed publications and wider societal demand for access to information. The interests of researchers in the European Research Area (ERA) and worldwide will only be addressed by genuinely sustainable forms of publishing and commitment to change will only come about as a result of rational business decisions based on concrete evidence which does not exist today. The wider open access debate often relies on extrapolations and assumptions. We plan to begin to deliver evidence by: (1) Defining attributes that differentiate various business models for open access and identifying the drivers that motivate researchers in their desire for publication. OAP is unsustainable unless it makes sense for both publisher and researcher. (2) Providing the European Commission, publishers and funding agencies with the results of a comprehensive survey of the attitudes of researchers in the ERA. These will give real insight into the demand and importance of OAP for its ultimate users. (3) Applying the survey results to a range of specific publishing scenarios. We will describe and analyse new OAP solutions so that these may be emulated by other publishers, institutions and communities in an orderly transition to OAP wherever possible.

Keywords: scientific publishing,open access publishing,sustainable business models,scholarly communication
A Comparative History of the State Building process in Latin America (1820-1870) (STATEBGLATAMERICA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1580000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1580000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The challenge that we propose to undertake in this project is to research about the comparative history of the state building process in Latin America by taking its fiscal history as the starting point. Even if the construction of the state in Latin America is initially founded on the sectors of the bureaucracy and the army that were inherited from the colonial period, it undergoes great transformations starting from the Revolution of 1810 and especially during the wars of Independence (1810-1825). In most of the new nations that are being forged, the wars of Independence and the ensuing long years of civil war demand that stable military and police forces be formed in order to construct the indispensable monopoly of legitimate violence that characterizes state domination. This process required the localization of the enough resources to cover the enormous expenses that these military forces incurred. At the same time, a body of bureaucrats had to be created and paid, so that it would take on the task of creating a system to generate resources. This project thus aims to create a comparative study of the forms and rhythms of state construction in the diverse national and/or provincial cases that we have selected. Guided by the Principal Investigator, a team of young researchers will be responsible for collecting detailed data from the budgets of this group of nations or provincial entities. We will thereby work on the Memorias of the different departments, especially those from the departments of War, Treasury and Government; we will also, however, consult the original sources of the Memorias in the national and provincial archives of the selected cases.

Keywords: nation state building,latin america,military forces,bureaucracy,financial history
Islamic Law materialized: Arabic legal documents (8th to 15th century) (ILM) (ILM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: France,Germany
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1023021.0
EU funding (EUR): 1023021.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project examines edited and unedited Arabic legal documents from a new comparative perspective. Documents, immediate manifestations of legal practice, were instruments to assure subjective rights of persons for whom the copy had been issued. Most studies on early Islamic legal practice however focus on literary sources (notarial manuals, responsae, juridical treaties) and neglect documents mainly for two reasons: 1) cursive handwriting and technical language render their deciphering difficult; 2) the existing collections come from various provenances which hindered until now a synthetic analysis. This project inverses the focus with a new historical perspective: Thanks to its innovative full text database (CALD) that analyses documents by functional components and sequence-patterns, the project reveals relevant variations in structure and juridical clauses among many documents, in great detail and from multiple aspects. Even if existing studies on specimens from various regions establish a general conformity of these documents with Islamic law, the PI s analysis of the 14th-century Jerusalem corpus illustrated, for the first time, how private notarisation (of legal transactions) and court documents (with judicial elements) were used complementary to apply the complex rules of Islamic procedural law. The CALD-database facilitates comparing and deciphering legal documents. The research group will use this methodology with three under-examined corpuses from al-Andalus, Egypt and Palestine from the 13th to the 15th century, and compare these to other edited documents from Central Asia, Iran, Syria, Egypt and Muslim Spain (8th-15th centuries). This approach aims to a) develop a sophisticated typology of legal documents and their components, b) compare various notarial practices as expression of applied Islamic law, guaranteed by judicial institutions, which leads to c) pre-modern Islamic law as a uniform reference system within multi-faceted legal systems.

Keywords: medieval arabic documents,islamic law,legal system,sharia
Morphological Complexity: Typology as a Tool for Delineating Cognitive Organization (MORPHOLOGY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1712538.0
EU funding (EUR): 1712538.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Charting the limits of linguistic complexity will open up new perspectives for researching both language and the human mind. We focus on inflectional morphology, which is the systematic manipulation of word forms to express grammatical meaning. As a uniquely linguistic and uniquely human component of communication, morphology stands to reveal otherwise inaccessible aspects of cognition. Morphological systems introduce an extra layer of structure in between meaning and its expression. This layer may operate at cross purposes to functional distinctions, attaining in some languages an astonishing degree of complexity. Such apparently arbitrary distinctions in form (inflection classes, irregularity and similar phenomena) are the particular focus of this project. They are a key resource for understanding mental processes as they represent an unconscious and yet highly structured autonomous system. The project core is a comprehensive typological and historical investigation of morphological complexity (surveying 200 languages), with input from psycholinguistic and computational methodology. Such an interdisciplinary approach has not been attempted before. A deeper understanding of morphological complexity, a component of language which is free of the functional, physiological and sociological constraints that normally shape other linguistic structures, promises to advance both linguistic theory in particular, and the cognitive sciences as a whole.

Keywords: morphology,inflection,features