Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Direct photoelectrochemical generation of solar fuels using dilute nitride III-V compound semiconductor heterostructures on silicon: epitaxy, electrochemistry, and interface characterization (SOLAR FUEL BY III-VS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 255453.0
EU funding (EUR): 255453.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed IOF research programme addresses crucial issues of fundamental and technological importance in the field of solar fuel generation. The key success factor is a strong multidisciplinary approach combining top-level electrochemistry, high-end epitaxial III-V device preparation and cutting-edge surface science analytics. At the core of the project are the objectives of: ► obtaining record solar to hydrogen efficiencies and lifetimes with III-V/Si tandem devices ► enhancing III-V device stability in contact with electrolyte using dilute nitride materials ► advancing the scientific understanding of the decomposition of III-Vs by advanced analytics The applicant, Dr. Henning Döscher, is an expert both in III-V heteroepitaxy on silicon and in semiconductor surface science and has accomplished significant contributions to the in situ analysis and advanced control of anti-phase disorder at polar on non-polar interfaces. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 papers including 4 Applied Physics Letters, 2 Surface Science, 2 Journal of Applied Physics, and 2 Physical Review B over the last 4 years. The outgoing phase will be hosted by the pioneer of III-V-based water-splitting, Dr. John Turner at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where the fellow will also collaborate with the world’s reference group in multijunction photovoltaics around Dr. Jerry Olson. Advanced interface analysis will be done with one of the leading soft X-ray spectroscopy groups in the USA, headed by Prof. Clemens Heske at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The return host, Prof. Thomas Hannappel, currently builds a new, integrated epitaxy and surface science group at the Ilmenau University of Technology (TUI), strengthening his unique strategy for in-depth in situ analysis and benchmarking.

Keywords: electrochemistry,photochemistry,surface chemistry,surface physics,solid state physics,optoelectronics,physics of semiconductors,heterogeneous catalysis,spectrochemistry,environmental physics
Intra-European Irish Commuter Households' Mobility/Immobility Strategies (IEICHMIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191938.2
EU funding (EUR): 191938.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The IEICHMIS project examines the mobility strategies of a rarely-studied subgroup of mobile people: intra-European commuter households. Given current migration trends in the Republic of Ireland, it focuses specifically on commuter corridors between the Republic and other EU-27 member states, with special attention given to London and Brussels as commuting destinations. Fostering a “mobility culture” between EU states is one of the priority strategies of the European Commission and the European Research Area for furthering European competiveness and integration in an enlarged Europe. European citizens, however, display much more ambivalence towards mobility, with only one in ever fifty living in a member state outside their own. Commuter households, however, occupy a unique position to explore such mobility/immobility dynamics evident across the EU, caught as they are somewhere between staying and moving. Drawing on labour migration, mobilities, transnationalism and family sociology research, this project offers a novel contribution to debates on contemporary mobile lives. With the focus on a neglected form of mobility – commuting – the project will ground empirically and enrich theoretically research on present-day mobilities. Methodologically, it offers an innovative approach, focusing on the household biography rather than the lone migrant. To this end, the project incorporates the views of both family members left behind (children and stay-behind parent) as well as the breadwinner commuter. The EC predicts that EU cross-border commuting will grow to be a “mega trend” in future years. The IEICHMIS project provides the first major qualitative assessment of the mobility strategies of European commuter households. The project’s findings will deepen understanding of key barriers to cross-border EU mobility, which is crucial to furthering knowledge on a core policy of the revised Lisbon strategy, namely deepening the process of integration in an enlarged Europe.

Keywords: social sciences,intra-european commuter households,transnational families,mobilities,labour migration
Self-aligned high-resolution organic ferroelectric transistor based complementary memory (SOFT-COM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 278807.4
EU funding (EUR): 278807.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Soft-COM project proposes to realize a self-aligned fabrication of non-volatile, reprogrammable organic complementary memory cell (CMC) compressing both p- and n- channel organic ferroelectric thin film transistor (FTFT). Non-volatile memory applications based on organic materials have recently been of great interest due to their potential integration into products ranging from low-cost identification tags to switching devices for active matrix display. Among all demonstrated memory devices organic ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FTFT) has drawn great attention for its non-destructive read-out, non-volatile, and compatibility of integrating with other organic circuits etc. Although such device is very attractive for many merits but its real application is hindered by several problems, such as high fabrication cost, high power consumption occurs during the read operation when the channel of the transistor is in the on state. Thus, a new design of organic FTFT based device that can be fabricated by low cost method with reasonably high resolution is highly desired. Herein, a complementary design of memory device fabricated with “all self-alignment process” and compatible organic complementary circuit will be demonstrated. The complementary devices comprise both p- and n-channel organic FTFT to ensure a minimized current flow for reading. All components of the organic FTFT including transistor channels, both p- and n-type of semiconductors, and gate are patterned by all self-aligned process without mask alignment. Whole process, like device design, fabrication, and characterization, will be achieved in a feasible and credible way with in the knowledge and experiences that the candidate has obtained before and will acquire in the proposed project through the synergies offered by the experienced host institution.

Keywords: organic thin film transistor,self-alignment,ferroelectric transistor,miro/nano imprinting,organic complementary circuits,inkjet printing
Continuous-Variable Quantum Detector And Process Tomography (CV-QDAPT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-14
End date: 2015-01-13
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209033.4
EU funding (EUR): 209033.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

At the heart of all quantum technologies and fundamental tests of quantum theory lies the concept of a quantum experiment, which consists of three stages: state preparation, state evolution, and measurement. To ensure that a quantum application, such as quantum computer, is actually performing the desired task with satisfactory fidelity requires the capability to monitor each step. Quantum state and process tomography respectively prescribe procedures to completely characterize the first two stages. Tomography of quantum detectors was proposed just three years ago for discrete-variable photon-counting detection, and has yet to be developed for continuous-variable (CV) detectors such as a balanced homodyne detector (BHD). The study of CV quadrature states, processes and detection is motivated by the significantly increased complexity of such systems and the expanded capabilities that accompany this intricacy. A key advance that we propose is the complete characterization of a CV-BHD. This will be accomplished by probing the detector with known coherent states. The measurement outcomes will be analyzed using the newly developed methods of compressive sensing and operational tomography. Careful determination of BHD operation will subsequently enable us to achieve a greatly improved rendering of more involved CV quantum processes such as Fock-state filtration. By measuring the action of a process on a set of calibrated coherent states we will perform CV-quantum process tomography (QPT) of single mode processes, which are of major relevance to non-classical quantum state preparation: single photon substraction and Fock-state filtration.

Keywords: quantum mechanics,experimental physics,continuous variable quantum optics,quantum detector tomography,quantum process tomography
Role of the protein kinase Mastl in Cell Division and Cancer (MASTL CDC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226548.4
EU funding (EUR): 226548.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The cell division cycle is an essential step in living organisms. Different studies have led to a model where cell cycle kinases act as major engines to promote cell cycle progression throughout the different phases of the cell cycle. In addition to Cyclin- dependent kinases (Cdks), Polo-like and Aurora kinases, other kinases have recently emerged as important regulators of cell cycle progression. Among them, a new kinase known as Mastl in mammals, and Greatwall in Xenopus and Drosophila, has been shown to be important for mitosis. The decision to enter mitosis and the maintenance of the mitotic state depends on phosphorylations by Cyclin B/Cdk1 complexes, which can be counteracted by the phosphatase PP2A. Recent studies have pointed to Mastl/Greatwall as a critical regulator of PP2A in this context. The aim of this project is to characterize the function of Mastl in the cell cycle in mammalian cells, and to evaluate its potential as target for cancer therapy. Three complementary lines of investigation will be used to address this issue: 1. Analysis of Mastl function in vivo in a Mastl knock-out mouse, and in different cellular systems derived from that model, such as embryonic fibroblasts and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSs). 2. Identification of Mastl interactors and substrates through the combination of chemical genetics and proteomic methods. 3. Validation of Mastl as a target for antitumoral therapy by inhibition of Mastl, alone or in combination with other therapies, in human tumor cell lines and in cancer mouse models.

Keywords: health sciences,anticancer therapy,cell cycle,mitosis,mastl,cell division,kinase,mouse models,cancer
Rebuilding European Lives. The reconstitution of urban communities in inter-war Europe (1914-1939) (URBAN RECOVERY 14-39)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IOF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-04-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 371166.7
EU funding (EUR): 371166.7
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will investigate the reconstitution of urban communities in Europe in the aftermath of the First World War. It will thus produce an urban history of the transition from war to peace. Based on a longitudinal study of communities affected by military operations on the battlefields of France and Belgium, it will reveal some of the critical implications of the prosecution of “total war” in Europe. The research will investigate the resettlement of war veterans and refugees in the localities and regions laid to waste by the conflict. It will explore previously neglected aspects of the reconstruction to supplement conventional approaches to the post-war stabilization of Western Europe. A genuinely comparative and transnational project, it will build on recent studies of cultural and political demobilization after WWI to combine the history of “sorties de guerre” with a renewed approach to the reconstruction of formerly belligerent societies. This project will depart from traditionally state-centred accounts to combine local and transnational perspectives on the reconstruction and demobilization of belligerent societies. The project will also adopt an interdisciplinary approach and engage with a range of other social sciences including sociology and urban planning, archaeology, anthropology, as well as with specialists of conflict resolution and peace building. Looking forward to the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014, the Fellow, with the support of the host institutions, will lay the foundation of a larger collaborative project which will cut across frontlines to investigate the recovery of urban communities along the Western and Eastern fronts. This project, as well as the outreach initiatives devised to disseminate its results, will therefore challenge national myths and historiographical exceptionalisms to integrate differentiated experiences through the systematic use of comparative and transnational frameworks of analysis.

Keywords: european history,modern history,social history,political history,cultural history,urban history,comparative/transnational history,first world war,inter-war period,reconstruction,refugees
Nutrition and reproductive strategies: the influence of dietary antioxidants on telomere dynamics and life history plasticity in birds (EVOTELOX)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200371.8
EU funding (EUR): 200371.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

EVOTELOX seeks to examine the extent to which environmentally driven variations in early life nutrition influences oxidative status and telomere loss in vivo, and thereby the costs and benefits of different life history trajectories. Despite the promising role of telomere biology in understanding the biology of life spam, currently little is known about factor that affect telomere dynamics in natural systems and whether telomere dynamics during early life may constraint life history traits. The main objectives of this project are to (1) examine the effect of dietary antioxidants on oxidative status and telomere loss of Zebra finches during their early development and (2) investigate the effect of early life nutrition and telomere dynamics on sexual maturation and reproduction during adulthood. We will use a multidisciplinary approach, combining ‘state of the art’ techniques in evolutionary biology, gerontology and ecophysiology to quantify telomere length and the level of oxidative stress in addition to manipulative experiments. The ultimate aim of this study is establishing sustainable collaboration between the host institute and fellow for the future researches in the fellow’s country of origin. We will continue cooperation to obtain advanced expertise on model systems and physiology of life history trade-offs.

Keywords: telomeres,oxidative stress,antioxidants,nutrition,senescence,life history strategies
Low-toxicity copper chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals (LOTOCON)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-07-22
End date: 2014-07-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185763.6
EU funding (EUR): 185763.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the present project is a development of approaches for facile colloidal synthesis of Cu-containing semiconductor nanocrystals, characterized by low production cost, high stability, high photoluminescence efficiency and low toxicity. The materials that will be synthesized will undergo comprehensive physico-chemical characterization including a deep assessment of their toxicity and will be evaluated as light absorbing components for fabrication of excitonic solar cells. Copper chalcogenides represented by binary, ternary and quaternary compounds, like CuS(Se,Te), CuIn(Ga)S(Se,Te), CuZnSnS(Se,Te) are one of the most attractive series of low-toxic semiconductor materials, which are truly alternative to the widely studied cadmium, mercury and lead chalcogenides. This new generation of semiconductor nanocrystals is now being in the focus of a great scientific interest. These nanocrystals are characterized by tunable visible and near infrared emission and absorption properties and high extinction coefficients and therefore hold great promise in bio applications, in light emitting diodes fabrication, photovoltaics and optoelectronics. This project will provide new knowledge into the mechanisms governing the reactions involving the various precursors during the stages of nanoparticle nucleation. This new knowledge will then allow for a proper control of nanoparticles crystal structure, composition, size, shape, and consequently of their optoelectronic and photovoltaic properties. The synthesized and fully characterized copper chalcogenide nanoparticles will be used for fabrication of solar cells. Combination and adaptation of state-of-the-art approaches as well as creation of novel synthetic methods will result in innovative investigation covering wide range of tasks from the synthesis of novel materials through their comprehensive characterization and ending with their application in photovoltaics.

Keywords: copper chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals,low-toxicity,colloidal syntheis,characterization,photovoltaics,solar cells,application
“No Risk, No Innovation?” - The Effects of the Fluency of Brand Names on Consumers’ Responses to Innovations (FLUENTBRAND)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 228082.2
EU funding (EUR): 228082.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The creation of brand names has been identified as the “centerpiece of introductory marketing programs” for innovations as they “can enhance brand awareness and/or help create a favorable brand image” (Keller et al. 1998, p. 48). Yet, only a few studies have empirically investigated properties of good brand names and most of them have focussed primarily on the factual meaningfulness of names. Fluency theory suggests that meaningfulness goes beyond the actual content of words. More specifically, Song and Schwarz (2009) found that the linguistic fluency of product names, that is, the ease or difficulty with which product names are pronounced, can affect perceptions of risk. Given that innovations are particularly associated with risk, companies should manage brand names for innovations not only based on the actual meaning of a name. The purpose of this research project is to examine how the fluency of brand names affects consumers’ responses to innovations and a novel brand’s positioning. Experiments will investigate the relationship between fluency experiences and their effects on consumers’ responses to innovative consumer products. This project will contribute to the literature on the branding-innovation interface. It further extends our knowledge of fluency theory which is topical in marketing research and will allow the researcher to disseminate her research internationally and build up a career as an independent researcher. From a managerial perspective, it clarifies the properties of effective brand names. It therefore generates important knowledge for brand managers and European innovation initiatives that want to equip inventors with the necessary entrepreneurial understanding to be prepared against global competitors.

Keywords: marketing,cognitive science,consumer behaviour,innovation diffusion,brand management,fluency theory