Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Researcher's Night Copenhagen (RNC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2008-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 74147.47
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Researcher's Night will be celebrated on Sep. 26th in Copenhagen, Denmark as the conclusion of the Week-long Danish Science Week. The event is based on a similar event in 2007 and will once more take place at the Town Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen) The event involves: • app. 30 hands-on stands (from Sept 24th to Sept. 26th) • a special Friday Night Event with extra focus on science in art, music • the Finals of the national photo competition competition The objective is to make science accessible to a general audience, who will be in town on a Friday night. The researchers presenting the activities will be a mix of master and PhD students as well as older researchers. They represent the four big universities in the Copenhagen region. All stands will be interactive and hands-on, thus stimulating a dialogue between the presenters and the audience. In addition to the stands, a “European corner” will be set up to focus on European research. By using popular music performers and offering interesting activities involving food and drink, a large audience is expected to participate.

Keywords: science communication street science
European Network on Noise And Health (ENNAH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Belgium,Italy,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,European organisations area,Norway,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Serbia,Greece,Switzerland,Austria,Italy,Poland,Germany,Germany,Poland,Slovakia,Slovenia,Germany,United States,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1140450.8
EU funding (EUR): 993852.0
Participants: 34
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal puts forward plans to establish a research network of experts on noise and health in Europe. This network will establish future research directions and policy needs in Europe. The network will review the existing literature on environmental noise exposure and health focussing on the consolidation of existing state of the art knowledge and the identification of gaps in the evidence and future research needs and hypotheses to be tested. In the network we will train junior researchers in noise and health through setting up an exchange network across Europe. The network will focus on noise exposure assessment in health studies in order to build more complex analytical models of noise and health effects that take into account moderating factors including the joint effects of air pollution and noise. A specific function of the network will be to establish communication between researchers on noise and researchers on air pollution. We will improve the measurement of health outcomes relevant to noise research and strengthen the available methodologies for future research, by extending analyses on existing research taking advantage of the large EU-funded RANCH and HYENA studies and relevant national studies. We will develop novel designs for research on noise and health to provide to the EU a new strategy for the development of noise and health research in the future. We will disseminate the results to the EU, to national governments, to fellow researchers, and other stakeholders.

Keywords: noise,health,environment,network,noise exposure
How to achieve sustainable water ecosystems management connecting research, people and policy makers in Europe (AWARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Germany,Sweden,France,European organisations area,Belgium,Latvia,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1807709.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497356.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The issue of concern of the AWARE project is the anthropogenic deterioration of water ecosystems, in particular in coastal areas. The new approach proposed by the AWARE project to enhance connectivity between research and policy-making exploit the concept of integrated adaptive ecosystem management, engaging scientists, policy makers and the public (the latter including both stakeholders and lay citizens/water users) into comparable case studies of participatory scenario-building. The emphasis given to the role of the public enlarges the concept of organisational learning to the wider concept of social learning. The specific objectives and WPs of the AWARE project will include therefore: WP1: to design and prepare the pilot experiments of participatory scenario-building; WP2: to perform three case studies of participatory-scenario building in different coastal regions of Europe; WP3: to make an evaluation and assessment of the pilot case studies and of the proposed approach; WP4: to foster networking between science institutions, policy authorities and stakeholders in the case study areas and at EU level, and disseminate the approach elsewhere in Europe. The AWARE consortium includes 14 partners of complementary expertise in the field of aquatic ecosystems studies (UU, UPMC, ULB, UNIPR), social sciences (ADELPHI, ICCR, Missions Publiques), system analysis (ISIS, JRC-IES, UNISI) and integrated water management (BIOFORSK, POLIEDRA), plus the Environmental Service from the Provincial Administration of Ferrara and the Baltic Environmental Forum (BEF). The consortium will be complemented by an advisory group of 10 policy makers and stakeholders.

Keywords: policy makers,sustainable development,water ecosystem
Silicon integrated lasers and optical amplifiers (SILAMPS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1928020.8
EU funding (EUR): 1928020.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is a six year programme of work to develop fully integrated optical emitters, lasers and optical amplifiers in silicon. Recent years have seen tremendous advances in the development of silicon photonic devices. However, the last hurdle to full silicon photonic systems and optical data transfer on and between integrated circuits are electrically pumped optical amplifiers and lasers in silicon using a CMOS compatible technology. Consequently, there have been massive efforts worldwide to search for efficient light emission from silicon. Our team made a major initial breakthrough producing the first LED in bulk silicon - published in NATURE (1997). Although a world first, this device only operated efficiently at low temperatures. This problem was solved using a new nanotechnology - dislocation engineering - reported in NATURE (2001) - and crucially uses only conventional CMOS technology. The development of this into a silicon injection laser and optical amplifiers is the essential next step for high technology high value applications. We have recently made a further breakthrough by obtaining extraordinary optical gain in erbium doped silicon that now offers a realistic route to this goal. Currently the incorporation of lasers and amplifiers on silicon platforms can only be achieved hybridizations of active devices based on III-V materials "pasted" on to silicon waveguides and cavities. Gain has been reported using four-wave-mixing and Intel has recently demonstrated a Raman laser in silicon but both rely on purely optical-to-optical transitions and are fundamentally unable to be electrically pumped. We believe we have the only route that has the potential to produce electrically pumped amplifiers and lasers with room and higher temperature operation and that is capable of genuinely being fully integrated into silicon using standard silicon process technology.

Keywords: silicon,laser,optical amplifier,dislocation engineering,cmos technology,erbium,photonics,light emitting diodes,luminescence,room temperature
Development of a new diagnostic tool using DNA barcoding to identify quarantine organisms in support of plant health (QBOL)

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,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,Switzerland,France,Denmark,Italy,Netherlands,Peru,Netherlands,Slovenia,China,New Zealand,Brazil,Spain,South Africa,France,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2008-2B, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-21
End date: 2012-09-20
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4142713.73
EU funding (EUR): 2991433.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Development of accurate identification tools for plant pathogens and pests is vital to support European Plant Health Policies. For this project Council Directive 2000/29/EC is important, listing some 275 organisms for which protective measures against introduction into and their spread within the Community needs to be taken. Those threats are now greater than ever because of the increases in the volumes, commodity types and origins of trade, the introduction of new crops, the continued expansion of the EU and the impact of climate change. Currently identifying pathogens (in particular new emerging diseases) requires a staff with specialised skills in all disciplines (mycology, bacteriology, etc.); which is only possible within big centralised laboratory facilities. Taxonomy, phytopathology and other fields which are vital for sustaining sound public policy on phytosanitary issues are threatened with extinction. Modern molecular identification/detection techniques may tackle the decline in skills since they often require much less specialist skills to perform, are more amenable for routine purposes and can be used for a whole range of different target organisms. Recently DNA barcoding has arisen as a robust and standardised approach to species identification. QBOL wants now to make DNA barcoding available for plant health diagnostics and to focus on strengthening the link between traditional and molecular taxonomy as a sustainable diagnostic resource. Within QBOL collections harbouring plantpathogenic Q-organisms will be made available. Informative genes from selected species on the EU Directive and EPPO lists will be DNA barcoded from vouchered specimens. The sequences, together with taxonomic features, will be included in a new internet-based database system. A validation procedure on developed protocols and the database will be undertaken across worldwide partners to ensure robustness of procedures for use in a distributed network of laboratories across Europe

Keywords: barcodes,quarantine,plant pathogens,database,validation,collections,diagnostics
GEOTRACEBILITY FAIR TRADE (GEO FAIR TRADE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,France,Belgium,France,France,France,Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1817362.4
EU funding (EUR): 1460710.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Fair Trade is an activity area where CSOs play a key role. Fair Trade is also an activity area promoting the best social, economic and environmental practices of sustainable development. Unfortunately CSOs do not have the means to develop concerted strategies in Research and Technology Development. Their short term concerns often prevent them to have the necessary hindsight. The main objective of the Geo Fair Trade project is to bring together Fair Trade CSOs and RTD performers. Discussions with the principle Fair Trade stakeholders and actors have shown that their basic needs to win new markets and new consumers are Transparency and Traceability. Taking advantage of the results obtained in two FP5 and FP6 research projects, the CCI Gers and its partners CRA-W and CIRAD, together with 5 Fair Trade CSOs, have defined the main objectives of the project whose: 1. To select sustainable development indicators with a spatial component and related to the three dimensions of Fair Trade (social, economic and environmental). 2. To adapt the Geo-traceability Integrated System, set-up in the previous research projects, enabling finding and browsing of all relevant information corresponding to the needs of Fair Trade actors. 3. To validate this approach with six case studies chosen by the CSOs. 4. To develop training and educative tools to disseminate this approach. The Geo Fair Trade project is based on a permanent communication between the RTD performers and the CSOs, who will participate in all scheduled progress meetings, to validate the results or to reorientate the Research and Technology Development activities. The final expected result is a reference framework built on the sustainable development geo-indicators that can be used in all the traceability systems already implemented in Fair Trade. This reference framework will improve the certification of the best practices implemented by the Fair Trade actors.

Keywords: sustainable development indicators - geotraceability - cso - traceability - fair trade - social,economic,environmental indicators
Winner-Take-All readout mechanisms in the Central Nervous System (WTAINCNS)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How is information about external stimuli or planned motor commands coded and communicated between different brain regions? This question is one of the most fundamental open questions in neuroscience, and addressing it is likely to revolutionize the field of neural-prosthetic devices. In particular, it will significantly improve the quality of life of the many thousands in need of cochlear implants. Furthermore, the creation of effective motor brain-machine interfaces relies heavily on advances in this field. One hypothesis for the neural code is the Winner-Take-All (WTA) readout, in which activity of single cells, rather than large populations of neurons, shapes behavior. It has been suggested that WTA is used in several brain regions, in particular the middle-temporal (MT) cortex, in which the activity of single cells can account for the observed behavior. However, the computational capabilities of WTA have received little theoretical attention. Therefore, it remains unclear to what extent WTA can account for the observed activity in the brain, particularly in the MT region. I propose to conduct extensive theoretical study of WTA. I will quantify the accuracy of WTA and study the effects of the network architecture, empirically observed noise-correlations, inherent neuronal heterogeneity and different coding strategies, all of which have been shown to considerably affect the accuracy of other readout hypotheses. In addition to studying the conventional WTA, I will construct a novel temporal-code generalization of WTA that can take into account the fine temporal structure of neural responses. My preliminary results show that this readout is superior to the conventional WTA in both accuracy and speed of computation. The primary goal of this research is to obtain quantitative estimates of the accuracy of WTA that will enable us to test its feasibility as readout utilized by the central nervous system by comparing it to the psychophysical accuracy.

Keywords: natural sciences,computational neuroscience
Synthesis of Systematic Resources (SYNTHESYS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Denmark,Spain,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Hungary,Germany,Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9650792.49
EU funding (EUR): 7200000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

SYNTHESYS IA will aid in the evolution of a European resource through the creation an accessible, integrated infrastructure for researchers in the natural sciences in Europe and globally. By focusing the JRA on DNA extraction, SYNTHESYS IA will increase the opportunities for Users to exploit a largely untapped facet of the 337 million strong collections. Users will be able to play an active role in generating new knowledge based on molecular and morphological studies. A range of new services and improved access – both physical and digital – will be provided to a broad range of scientific Users (from biological and geological related disciplines) in a consistent and more easily accessible way. The new tools to be developed and disseminated will give Users the chance to pursue new avenues for independent studies at the leading edge of biodiversity and environmental research.

Keywords: taxonomy systematics biodiversity geodiversity museum collections
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy (NMI3)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,France,Germany,Hungary,Netherlands,Czechia,Italy,Austria,Romania,Denmark,Portugal,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12341735.92
EU funding (EUR): 9987357.13
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy (NMI3) aims at the pan-European coordination of neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy, maintaining these research infrastructures as an integral part of the European Research Area. NMI3 comprehensively includes all major facilities in the field, opening the way for a more concerted, and thus more efficient, use of the existing infrastructure. Co-ordination and networking within NMI3 will lead to a more strategic approach to future developments and thus reinforce European competitiveness in this area. NMI3 is a consortium of 22 partners from 13 countries, including 10 research infrastructures. The objective of integration will be achieved by using several tools: * Transnational ACCESS will be provided by 10 partners offering more than 4000 days of beam time. This will give European users access to all of the relevant European research infrastructures and hence the possibility to use the best adapted infrastructure for their research. * Joint Research Activities focusing on six specific R&D areas will develop techniques and methods for next generation instrumentation. They involve basically all those European facilities and academic institutions with major parts of the relevant know-how. * Dissemination and training actions will help to enhance and to structure future generations of users. * Networking and common management will help strategic decision-making from a truly European perspective.

Keywords: structuring the neutron and muon infrastructure,access,strategic planning,co-operative research,networking
Events promoting Science in Society during the French Presidency (CONFRESP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science in Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2009-06-30
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 294482.8
EU funding (EUR): 180000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

3 événements complémentaires « Science et société » sont programmés dans le cadre des manifestations de la présidence française de l’Union européenne et sous le haut patronage de Mme la Ministre de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche : - « la ville européenne des sciences », destinée au grand public. Cette manifestation a pour objectif de montrer la vitalité et le caractère particulièrement innovant des projets de recherche menés dans le cadre de partenariats européens. - « Jeunes Européens et sciences » S’appuyant sur l’expérience des Rencontres Jeunes organisées par le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) au Futuroscope de Poitiers, cette manifestation a pour objectif de décrypter la nature des relations que les jeunes Européens entretiennent avec les sciences et les technologies et le monde de la recherche. - la conférence européenne « Sciences et société ; la responsabilité scientifique » qui rassemblera entre 250 et 300 scientifiques et décideurs européens de haut niveau. L’objectif de la Conférence est de traiter de la place de la science et du système scientifique dans notre société. En septembre 2006, se tenait au Collège de France à Paris le colloque « A la recherche de la confiance perdue » qui cherchait à saisir pourquoi la confiance du public envers les apports de la science à la société s’effrite lentement, et pourquoi la jeunesse choisit moins les voies scientifiques. Le problème a été abordé de façon récurrente lors des dernières présidences de l’Union européenne et mérite d’être approfondi. Cette Conférence permettra de débattre de la question : « Le monde de la connaissance est-il plat ? ».