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Benthic ecosystem fisheries Impact Study (BENTHIS)

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: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Ireland,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Sweden,Norway,Italy,Greece,Türkiye,Faroe Islands,Sweden,Denmark,Denmark,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7784925.51
EU funding (EUR): 5994250.0
Participants: 34
Project status: CLOSED

Benthic ecosystems provide important goods and services, such as fisheries products and supporting, regulation and cultural services. There is serious concern about the adverse impact of fisheries on benthic ecosystem which may negatively affect the fisheries yield and integrity of the sea bed. To develop an integrated approach to the management of human activities in the marine environment, in particular fishing, there is a need to develop quantitative tools to assess the impact of fisheries on the benthic ecosystem and at the same time collaborate with the fishing industry to develop innovative technologies and new management approaches to reduce the impact on benthic ecosystems. BENTHIS will provide the knowledge to further develop the ecosystem approach to fisheries management as required in the Common Fisheries Policy and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. It will study the diversity of benthic ecosystem in European waters and the role of benthic species in the ecosystem functioning. Fisheries impacts will be studied on benthic organisms and on the geo-chemistry. The newly acquired knowledge will be synthesized in a number of generic tools that will be combined into a fishing/seabed habitat risk assessment method that will be applied to fisheries in the Baltic, North Sea, Western waters, Mediterranean and Black Sea. Fisheries will be selected with the fishing industry based on the impact on the benthic ecosystem. BENTHIS will integrate fishing industry partners to collaborate in testing the performance of innovative technologies to reduce fishing impact. Finally, in collaboration with the fishing industry and other stakeholders, new management approaches will be developed and tested on their effects on the ecosystem and the socio-economic consequences. As such BENTHIS will the urgently needed scientific basis to integrate the role of marine benthic ecosystems in fisheries management.

Keywords: fisheries management,ecosystem approach,trawling impact,ges,msfd,cfp
Resource Preservation by Application of BIOefFECTORs in European Crop Production (BIOFECTOR)

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: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Czechia,Romania,Hungary,Netherlands,Italy,Denmark,United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Israel,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7692856.3
EU funding (EUR): 5999821.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

BIOFECTOR is an integrated project that develops alternative fertilisation strategies by the use of various bio-effectors (BEs, plant growth promoting microorganisms and natural extraction products). BEs stimulate root growth, solubilise and mineralise sparingly available nutrients, or protect plants from abiotic and biotic stresses. Novel BEs will be isolated, characterized and applied in strategic combination with alternative fertilisation strategies that include organic and low-input farming, use of waste recycling fertilizers, and fertiliser-placement technologies. Bio-effectors addressed comprise fungal strains of Trichoderma, Penicillium and Sebacinales, as well as bacterial strains of Bacillus and Pseudomonades with well-characterized root growth promoting and nutrient solubilising potential. Natural extraction products of seaweed, compost and plant extracts, as well as their purified active compounds are also tested in various combinations. Maize, wheat and tomato are chosen as representative crops. Laboratory and European-wide field experiments assure product adaptation to divers geo-climatic conditions. Viable alternatives to the conventional practice of mineral fertilisation are developed, towards environmental friendly agricultural practice with reduced agrochemical input.

Keywords: bio-effectors,biofertilisers,fertigation,fertiliser placement,organic farming recycling fertilisers,rhizosphere,mineral mobilisation
Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management (IFAAM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,United States,Austria,Denmark,Spain,Netherlands,Ireland,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,Greece,Switzerland,Poland,Iceland,Denmark,Croatia,Denmark,France,Germany,European organisations area,France,Germany,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Italy,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12473566.05
EU funding (EUR): 8999969.0
Participants: 43
Project status: CLOSED

Up to 20 million European citizens suffer from food allergy. However management of both food allergy (by patients and health practitioners) and allergens (by industry) is thwarted by lack of evidence to either prevent food allergy developing or protect adequately those who are already allergic. iFAAM will develop evidence-based approaches and tools for MANAGEMENT of ALLERGENS in FOOD and integrate knowledge derived from their application and new knowledge from intervention studies into FOOD ALLERGY MANAGEMENT plans and dietary advice. The resulting holistic strategies will reduce the burden of food allergies in Europe and beyond, whilst enabling the European food industry to compete in the global market place. Our approach will build on e-Health concepts to allow full exploitation of complex data obtained from the work in this proposal and previous and ongoing studies, maximising sharing and linkage of data, by developing an informatics platform “Allerg-e-lab”. This will enable us to (1) Extend and integrate existing cohorts from observation and intervention studies to provide evidence as to how maternal diet and infant feeding practices (including weaning) modulate the patterns and prevalence of allergies across Europe (2) Establish risk factors for the development of severe reactions to food and identify associated biomarkers (3) Develop a clinically-validated tiered risk assessment and evidence-based risk management approach for food allergens for allergens in the food chain (4) Develop clinically-relevant multi-analyte methods of analysis suited to allergen management across the food chain Stakeholders will be integrated into iFAAM to deliver harmonised integrated approaches, including RISK ASSESSORS AND MANAGERS managing population risk, the FOOD INDUSTRY who manage allergens to ensure consumer safety, HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS to provide food allergy management plans and dietary advice and ALLERGIC CONSUMERS to manage individual risk.

Keywords: food,allergen,allergy,diet,prevention,infancy,maternal,food chain,consumers,food industry,regulators,healthcare,analysis,modelling,food processing,severity,mast cells,labelling
Spike-based predictive coding: Closing the loop between neural dynamics and computation (PREDISPIKE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Neurosciences and neural disorders
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111109, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1276800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1276800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Progress in understanding brain functions rely in great part on filling the conceptual and experimental gaps between different levels of analysis, from single neurons to behaviour. Thus, “rate models”, units of representations are the mean activity of large neural populations, while function and behaviour emerge from the responses of very large networks. While experimental investigations have focused on predicting (describing) spiking neural responses from their (sensory or synaptic) inputs, functional models instead concentrate on understanding how neural populations represent properties of (i.e. predict) the world. This proposal aims at developing an alternative approach, spike-based predictive coding. It combines two basic hypotheses: Neural networks reliably estimate the state of the environment based on their inputs and prior experience. And their dynamics insures that these estimates can be decoded from their spike trains by postsynaptic integration . By monitoring and decoding its own outputs, the neural structure itself closes the loop between computation and dynamics. Membrane potentials of model neurons compute a difference between the state estimates constructed from their inputs and the estimate encoded in their outputs. Interestingly, this purely functional approach converges towards powerful descriptive models of spiking neurons, e.g. adaptive integrate and fire neurons, chaotic attractors in balanced spiking networks and generalized linear models (GLMs). We will use this approach to explore the dynamics of single spiking neurons, suggest new ways of interpreting and exploring sensory and motor spiking neural representations, re-explore the role of top-down attention in sensory processing, and show that previous rate-based interpretations severely under-estimated the precision of the neural code.

Keywords: sensory receptive fields. population coding. balanced excitation inhibition. spiking networks. acetylcholine. attention. generative models. sensorimotor integration. tuning curves. chaos. perception
developmental social Cognition and ACTion UnderStanding (CACTUS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498920.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Humans are social creatures throughout life. This proposal aims to advance our knowledge of the mechanisms that mediate understanding of others’ actions from a developmental perspective. A special emphasis will be devoted to mirror neuron and teleological frameworks. The former framework focuses on reciprocal motor activation during action execution and observation whereas the later framework emphasizes the application of abstract principles to observed events. The mechanisms that guide both processes will be investigated in isolation, but special attention will also be devoted to understanding how these diverse forms of action understanding jointly contribute to action understanding. The project encompasses three essential research objectives, illustrated by three research questions. How do mirror neuron and teleological processes influence action understanding? How does action understanding enable social action evaluation (empathy and pro-social preferences)? How is action understanding expressed during real-life social interactions? These questions will be addressed by presenting infants and toddlers with social events of varying complexity (from simple actions and animated sequences to complex everyday social events), relating empirical findings to predictions derived from the teleological and motor cognitive frameworks. The overarching aim is to provide a computational model of early emerging social cognitive capabilities, with a focus on action understanding and action evaluation, while passively observing others and while partaking in social interactions with others.

Keywords: action understanding infancy social cognition eye tracking
Mobile high-resolution 3D-Scanner and 3D data analysis for forensic evidence (3D-FORENSICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security Research coordination and structuring
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1770435.0
EU funding (EUR): 1420262.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Crime is a major factor in reducing the level of civil security. The percentage of solved crime is less than 70% in more than half of the EU countries in some it is less than 50%. A very important part of crime investigation is the capturing and analysis of forensic evidence. A promising forensic approach is 3D-reconstruction of evidence and its analysis but existing systems suffer from low accuracy, flexibility and resolution. A mobile high resolution 3D-scanning system and automatic 3D-data analysis software will be developed for use at crime scenes. The system will enhance state-of-the-art 3D-laser-scanning devices with much more detailed forensic evidence data acquisition (e.g. of foot prints or traces on bodies) and the software will relieve forensic experts of time-consuming data-processing by hand. A further objective is the realisation of methods to guarantee the integrity of 3D-analysis within the chain of custody from the crime scene to court. The data derived from the system will be accurate, safe from manipulation, convincing and meaningful in order to achieve judicial acceptance. The application of the new mobile 3D-scanner and analysis methods will lead to more effective and successful work by forensic experts with the potential to considerably increase crime detection rates. The project includes the development, realisation and test of two prototypes as well as the dissemination and exploitation of the results. Five of the partners are SMEs so the project will demonstrate a more active role for SMEs in the development of new innovative technology in the area of security. One of the SMEs is also an end user. A further public end user is included in the project and an applied research institute supports the SMEs’ development. The users of the developed technology are potentially every crime scene investigation unit and/or forensic crime expert in the world so there is a clear potential and intention by the SMEs to exploit the results commercially.

Keywords: security research,forensic equipment,evidence recovery,crime scene reconstruction,3d-scanner,hand-held sensor,fringe projection,fpga,forensic analysis,fast data processing,data integrity
IAGOS for the GMES Atmospheric Service (IGAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,France,Germany,Switzerland,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2649681.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999175.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System), one of the European Research Infrastructures (ERI) on the ESFRI roadmap and currently in its preparatory phase, is establishing a distributed infrastructure for long-term observations of atmospheric composition on a global scale from a fleet of initially 10-20 long-range in-service aircraft of internationally operating airlines. IAGOS will provide accurate, spatially highly resolved in-situ observations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and reactive gases, as well as aerosol and cloud particles, in fact covering the essential climate variables (ECVs) for atmospheric composition as designated by the GCOS programme (Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC, 2010). With the CARIBIC container, operated aboard an in-service aircraft on a four flights per month basis as part of IAGOS, a much larger number of parameters are routinely available. This project aims to make these valuable in-situ measurements available to the GMES Atmospheric Service in both near-real-time (for the IAGOS measurements) and delayed mode (for CARIBIC measurements). The interface between GMES and the IAGOS and CARIBIC communities is established in work package two, which also includes work on the development of database and graphical tools to make the data availalbe for the broader scientific community as well. The near-real-time provision of data requires the installation of Real Time Transmissin Units (RTTUs) on the in-service aircraft, which is carried out in work package three. Work package four focuses on the harmonization and systematic evaluation of the data quality collected on board the aircraft, and work package five supports the development of four new instruments designed to measure atmospheric quantities on board in-service aircraft, as well as a study to investigate the possible modular redesign of the IAGOS system to improve its flexibility in the future.

Keywords: iagos caribic in-situ atmospheric measurement aircraft operational near-real-time gmes mozaic satellite assimilation validation
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Narrative (ANCNAR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1383840.0
EU funding (EUR): 1383840.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The last two decades have seen fascinating attempts to establish new narratologies, basing narratology on cognitive science or coupling it with other approaches such as postcolonial studies. While appreciating that these attempts have raised questions beyond the limits of structuralist narratology, critics have noted that by doing so they tend to abandon narratology’s strength, that is its analytical tools. In many cases, narratology has become a label that is as empty as it is fashionable. The project as outlined here, on the other hand, develops a new approach that combines the analytical arsenal of structuralist narratology with a phenomenological take on time in order to provide new answers as to the question of narrative’s function. By exploring the tension between experience and teleology in ancient literature, it sets out to demonstrate how narrative serves as a mode of coming to grips with time. Besides offering a new narratology that cross-fertilizes the strengths of different disciplines and pioneering a new approach to ancient literature, the project will steer the current debate on experience and presence into a new direction across disciplines in the humanities.

Keywords: greek and roman narrative narratology
Institutional Transformation in European Political Economy - A Socio-Legal Approach (ITEPE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1175210.0
EU funding (EUR): 1175210.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective is to develop a socio-legal theory explaining the institutional transformations from corporatism over neo-corporatism to governance and the role of law and legal instruments within the 3 types of institutions. The period of investigation covers the period between 1850 and today and is limited to the European setting. The core hypothesis is that corporatism, neo-corporatism and governance fulfil identical societal functions under altered structural conditions insofar as they simultaneously are oriented towards the internal stabilisation of economic processes and the establishment of compatibility with non-economic segments of society. The successful fulfilment of this dual function is furthermore conditioned upon a reliance on formalised legal frameworks. In concrete the project wishes to provide an alternative to the a-historical nature of contemporary governance research; counter the lack of a dynamic perspective within the ‘varieties of capitalism’ approach; offset the reductionist stance of political economy studies as reflected in the narrowing of economy and society relations to the binary relationship between economy and politics; develop a theoretical framework capable of connecting a wide range of so far disperse academic discourses such as governance research, political economy and socio-legal studies; provide a central contribution to a new inter-systemic theory of society. The project contains detailed case studies in relation to the development of institutional stabilisation within the European steel and pharmaceutical sectors.

Keywords: governance,corporatism,european public policy,sociology of law,constitutions,law and society,policy networks,systems theory,state theory,eu law and governance,law and society.