Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
EU Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation Project (EUCLIPSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Greece,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,Sweden,Switzerland,Poland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4985600.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Cloud feedbacks remain the largest source of uncertainty in projections of future climate. They are also a major contributor to uncertainty in other feedbacks (e.g., surface albedo, carbon cycle) in the Earth System. Through interactions with the large-scale circulation, cloud processes also contribute to synoptic circulations and regional climate. They are therefore critical to the prediction of future changes in precipitation patterns, climate variability and extreme events. The central objective of EUCLIPSE is to reduce the uncertainty in the representation of cloud processes and feedbacks in the new generation of Earth System Models (ESMs), in support of the IPCC&apos;s fifth assessment report. Novel, process-oriented evaluations of clouds in present-day and future climate simulations made by the leading European ESMs will identify the cloud types and processes responsible for the spread in climate sensitivity and future precipitation changes across the models, and for deficiencies in the simulation of the present-day climate. The new diagnostics and metrics developed in EUCLIPSE will inform targeted sensitivity experiments to isolate the processes responsible for cloud feedback uncertainty. In EUCLIPSE, four distinct communities will work together across a set of integrated work packages over a four-year period: the observational community will provide state-of-the-art measurements from ground- and space-based active and passive remote sensing; the numerical weather prediction community will provide analyses of short timescale model biases induced by cloud processes; the cloud modeling community will provide fine-scale models as an additional tool for understanding cloud behavior in a changing climate; finally, the climate modeling community will synthesize the physical understanding and observational constraints identified by the other communities to improve the representation and assessment of cloud processes in ESMs and so improve the predictive skill of ESMs.

Keywords: cloud climate feedback,satellite observations,earth system models,evaluation techniques,cloud resolving models,metrics
Fire Detection and Management through a Multi-Sensor Network for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Areas from the Risk of Fire and Extreme Weather Conditions (FIRESENSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Türkiye,Belgium,Netherlands,Italy,Tunisia
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3628702.58
EU funding (EUR): 2697092.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims to develop an automatic early warning system to remotely monitor areas of archaeological and cultural interest from the risk of fire and extreme weather conditions. Since these areas have been treasured and tended for very long periods of time, they are usually surrounded by old and valuable vegetation or situated close to forest regions, which exposes them to an increased risk of fire. Additionally, extreme weather conditions (such as storms and floods) pose great risks for these sites. The proposed system will take advantage of recent advances in multi-sensor surveillance technologies, using a wireless sensor network capable of monitoring different modalities (e.g. temperature) andoptical and infrared cameras, as well as local weather stations on the deployment site. The signals collected from these sensors will be transmitted to a monitoring center, which will employ intelligent computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms as well as data fusion techniques to automatically analyze sensor information. The proposed system will be capable of generating automatic warning signals for local authorities whenever a dangerous situation arises. Detecting the starting position of a fire is only the first step in fire fighting. After detecting a wildfire, the main focus should be the estimation of the propagation direction and speed in order to help forest fire management. FIRESENSE will provide real-time information about the evolution of fire using wireless sensor network data. Furthermore, it will estimate the propagation of the fire based on the fuel model of the area and other important parameters such as wind speed, slope, and aspect of the ground surface. Finally, a 3-D Geographic Information System (GIS) environment will provide visualisation of the predicted fire propagation.Demonstrator deployments will be operated in selected sites in Greece, Turkey, Tunisia and Italy.

Keywords: fire and smoke detection,early warning,cultural heritage protection
Mountain Sustainability: Transforming Research into Practice, regional development, new communication tools (MOUNTAIN.TRIP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Horizontal activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Switzerland,Poland,Germany,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 896042.24
EU funding (EUR): 846997.98
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of mountain.TRIP is to provide stakeholders, end-users and practitioners with readily accessible and understandable forms of research-based information relevant to sustainable development in mountain regions. Mountain.TRIP will start where other EU projects have finished, translating research findings into useful information and developing relationships between users and researchers. EU research projects generally focus on elucidating truths, not on communicating these truths to practitioners or the interested public. Research projects often produce valuable results, methods, tools and instruments, but at the end of the project neither time nor money remains to disseminate these results among practitioners and to the interested public. Furthermore, research results usually exist in forms recognized by the research community but not easily or quickly assimilated by communities of practice. Mountain.TRIP will close the gap that currently exists between EU project findings and the needs of policy- and decision-makers, stakeholders in economy and environment, planners and administrators, non governmental organisations, end-users, and other members of groups representing the interests of citizens and industry of the most important mountain regions of Europe, hereafter referred to in this proposal as "practitioners". Mountain.TRIP will not just disseminate research results but will rather synthesize results from multiple EU projects while adapting the format of that synthesis through continuous interaction with practitioners to meet their needs. The project uses multiple innovative mechanisms to ensure effective interaction with practitioners.

Keywords: european montains,sustainable development,translating research
Forest ecosystem genomics research: supporting Transatlantic Cooperation (FORESTTRAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Austria,Italy,Spain,United States,Finland,Canada
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1189479.78
EU funding (EUR): 991206.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of FoResTTraC is to prepare future coordinated research plans, via a strategic research roadmap, between Europe and North America regarding adaptation of forest trees to climate changes, linking different disciplines: ecology, genetics, genomics and evolution. FoResTTraC brings together a critical mass of research expertise in these disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic with 6 leading European partners, 3 American and 2 Canadian partners. For the time being, large scale genomics projects have been conducted in “parallel” between North America and Europe, lacking in cooperative exchanges and interactions. The leading institutions coordinating these projects are partners of FoResTTraC to ensure that the current state–of–art research is represented in the project. FoResTTraC will deliver a mapping of current research capacity and state of the art research in forest ecosystem genomics, a validated research roadmap regarding adaptation to climate change, a set of joint science plans, a collection of genomic resources preparing future whole genome sequencing of ecologically and economically important tree species. All project outcomes will be validated during the project by a wide group of stakeholders from Europe and North America and will be disseminated widely via the project website and key dissemination.

Keywords: genomics,ecology,genetics,evolution,climate change,adaptation,salicaceae,pinaceae,fagaceae,roadmap,priorities,north america
Soil Transformations in European Catchments (SOILTREC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Netherlands,European organisations area,Iceland,Netherlands,Austria,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Czechia,United States,Sweden,France,Germany,Bulgaria,China
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9160384.27
EU funding (EUR): 6974572.8
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

SoilTrEC proposes to develop an integrated model of soil processes that describes key soil functions. These functions are defined in the EC Soil Thematic Strategy as essential ecosystem services for the well-being and economic success of the EU. The key science advances are to develop, from first-principles, computational models that integrate soil erosion, solute transport, carbon dynamics and food web dynamics within an open-source modelling framework. This framework will provide the platform, together with existing GIS capacity, for a prototype simulator at EU-scale to assess soil threats and evaluate approaches to mitigation. This physical-based modelling will be integrated with new advances in decision support developed from life cycle and economic assessment methodologies for natural resources. A key conceptual advance of this project is to quantify soil stocks, their formation, loss and functions within the context of the earth’s Critical Zone. This encompasses the terrestrial environment from the top of the biosphere’s tree canopy to the bedrock delineating the lower bounds of freshwater aquifers. SoilTrEC will link 4 EU field sites that describe key stages within the life cycle of soil formation, its productive use and degradation. Existing data sets will be augmented with targeted process studies in order to provide the data sets to validate the integrated model of soil processes. These process studies will be integrated with results from additional EU, USA and Chinese field sites to compare soil processes and rates as they vary with lithology, climate and land use. These sites and their teams will be integrated through shared results and an international research training programme into a global network of Critical Zone Observatories. This programme of research will engage very actively with stakeholders involved in the practical management of land, and will draw strongly on the advice and guidance of international leaders in soil sustainability.

Keywords: soil critical zone,mathematical model,soil life-cycle,sustainability,soil-functions,soil-processes,ecosystem services,policy
Performance-based approach to the earthquake protection of cultural heritage in European and Mediterranean countries (PERPETUATE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,France,Greece,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Algeria
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2863620.0
EU funding (EUR): 2237475.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

PERPETUATE intends to develop European Guidelines for evaluation and mitigation of seismic risk to cultural heritage assets, with innovative techniques for the seismic strengthening of historical buildings and the preservation of artworks (frescos, stucco-works, statues, battlements, banisters, …). The main deliverable of the project will be made by a main document, which outlines the safety and conservation conceptual approach and the overall methodology, and other specific documents, describing the different components of the risk analysis. Two different problems are considered: a) assessment of a single cultural heritage asset (hazard analysis; soil foundation problems; investigations for the building knowledge; seismic analysis; SHM and strengthening interventions); b) policy initiatives for seismic risk mitigation (simplified vulnerability and risk analysis at territorial scale). Other important deliverables will come out from the application and validation of the methodology in several case studies (the Citadel of Algiers and the historical centre of Rhodes, both in the UNESCO list of the World Cultural Heritage, the St.Maria Paganica Cathedral and the Branconio Palace in L’Aquila – Abruzzo Region, the St. Pardo Cathedral in Larino –Molise Region, the Cathedral St. Nicholas in Ljubljana –Slovenia). The call asks for the development of “integrated methodologies and innovative tools” for “protection .. of the main cultural heritage assets as regards the impact of earthquakes” and makes expressly reference to the contribution for improved regulation and standards. The recommendations recently issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture represent the framework for the development of European Guidelines, applicable in the European and the other Mediterranean countries. The methodology proposed in PERPETUATE will use a displacement-based approach for the vulnerability evaluation and the design of interventions; the use of safety verification in terms of displacement, rather than strength, orients to new strengthening techniques and helps in the comprehension of the interaction between structural elements and unmovable artistic assets.

Keywords: cultural heritage,preservation,seismic,risk,performance,vulnerability,retrofitting,modelling
Northern STARs: Science – Talents – Attraction – Research (NORTHERN STARS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-NIGHT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 66800.0
EU funding (EUR): 34000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Science and technology affect our life everyday in all sorts of different ways. Science and the public are not yet divorced, but there are a number of signs that indicate an increased alienation between the two. Often a negative impression is based on a misunderstanding of science. The objective of the Researchers Night is to make science a more public endeavour so as to create a pro-innovation environment, and to communicate the growing importance of knowledge for society. To ensure long-term support from society and to secure a steady supply of prospective science students, science and research institutions, like universities, must promote both, the intellecutal understanding of and the social support of science. Bringing the researchers of the University of Oldenburg closer to the public, presenting fascinating research and inspire the youth for science in a festive atmosphare are the main aims of the night related to our motto “Northern STARs”- Science, Talents, Attractions and Research. In particular we want: • to show that with science, we can lead to technological advances • visitors to learn more about science • to show that anyone can become a scientist • that science can be fun.

Keywords: researchers night
Stimulating and facilitating the participation of European researchers in Korean R&D programmes (KORRIDOR)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Supporting the EU access to third country programmes
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Korea, Republic of,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 766292.0
EU funding (EUR): 499422.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Korea is one of the global leaders in Science and Technology, one of the most important RTD partners of Europe with well established legal frameworks for cooperation. At the same time, the level of public awareness of cooperative opportunities for European researchers in Korean RTD and Innovation Programmes (directly foreseen by the EU-Korea Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement) is still very low. Thus, the overall project goal is to widen and strengthen the RTD cooperation between Korea and the EU in the area of common research interests by opening up access opportunities for European research groups in Korean national research and/or innovation programmes. The project objectives will be attained by carrying out the following set of activities: - opportunities mapping study, which will provide information on existing access opportunities and policy recommendations to improve them - targeted dissemination to raise public awareness in Europe of Korean science system and its opportunities for doing joint research (incl. visibility at major European events, large-scale dedicated Conference, etc.) - facilitation and capacity building measures aiming at creating sustainable structures for bilateral cooperation fostering, monitoring and evaluation. The project consortium composed of major Korean RTD implementation agencies, largest European RTD umbrella organizations (DLR and CNRS), and headed by Korean Institute of Science and Technology in Europe has all capabilities to bring about the expected impacts.

Keywords: rtd international cooperation,korean rtd programmes,cooperation policy,mapping opportunities,best practice,helpdesk,training of trainers
Climate Change, Hydro-conflicts and Human Security (CLICO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Norway,Israel,Egypt,Switzerland,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Japan,Palestine, State of,Ethiopia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2009-B, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3821004.89
EU funding (EUR): 2991352.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Media headlines are dominated by the prospect of regional water wars. Clearly, climate change poses several threats to human security; in particular, hydro-climatic hazards such as droughts and floods have a considerable capacity to exacerbate social tensions, intra- and inter-state conflict. Still, cooperation often trumps conflict. There are surprisingly few peer-reviewed studies rigorously addressing links between climate change, hydrological systems, conflict and security. CLICO will fill this gap in knowledge over the social dimensions of climate change, by looking whether hydro-climatic hazards intensify social tensions and conflicts in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel, or if they provide a catalyst for cooperation and peace. It will examine why some countries and communities are more vulnerable to droughts, floods and related conflict, and what types of policies and institutions are necessary to ensure adaptation, security and peace in the face of global and regional hydro-climatic change. The project will mobilize 13 research teams from Europe, North Africa, Sahel and the Middle East and will bring together for the first time some of the world’s leading researchers in water resource, vulnerability, and peace and security studies. Ten cases of hydro-conflicts will be studied ranging from Niger, Sudan, the Jordan and Nile basins to Cyprus, Italy and the Sinai desert. A large dataset – the first of its kind – of hydro-conflicts in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel will be regressed against climatic, hydrological and socio-economic variables. Policies and institutions at the national, international and transboundary levels will be investigated and their ability to face climate change and ensure human security will be assessed. Project results will be synthesised in a report that will identify potential security hotspots in the region and provide fresh policy ideas for promoting peace and security under changing hydro-climatic conditions.

Keywords: water,droughts,floods,climate change,conflict,security,vulnerability,adaptation,transboundary management,institutions,mediterranean,middle east,sahel
A Nit in the Lab-2 (NITLAB-2)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-NIGHT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 54860.0
EU funding (EUR): 29000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of the present proposal is to bring researchers involved in different researcher’s branches closer to the large public, without any distinction of age, gender, level of scientific training or social category. In general, the proposed action intends to oppose the stereotypes about researchers and their profession, giving the opportunity to perceive them as “ordinary people”. In Italy humanistic studies are still preferred to scientific ones. This is a hindering point for the development of research and technology and for the competitiveness of the country and of Europe as well. Therefore, showing researchers “from inside”, stressing his/her “ordinary” features could help in attracting people to scientific careers and rise the perception of the role of researchers in our society. Last year NITLAB was the EU researcher’s night event of Milan and it was successful. This year NITLAB-2 event is proposed. The University of Milan is the coordinator of the project, like as Researcher’s night 2008, with the partnership of the Planetarium of Milan and the Museum of Natural History of Milan. Multiple laboratories activities on paleontology, biology and astrophysics will be organised. Munari’s association, which has developed an international method to combine art and science suggesting activities to the children that can reproduce easily at home, will participate to NITLAB-2 event. Since 2009 is the International Year of Astrophysics special activities, proposed for the first time in Italy, will be organise on the last frontiers of Astrophysics. Drama, buffet, music will give an informal atmosphere. The event will be organised in the beautiful park located in the centre of the city accessible by the subway and close to the Planetarium of Milan, one of the oldest in Europe, and to the Natural History Museum of Milan. The organisers do believe that this is a wonderful place to attract people. Poster competition will be launched and the winners will receive an award

Keywords: microscopy,astrophysics,paleontology,biology,laboratory,science,art