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Improvement of technologies and tools, e.g. biosystems and biocatalysts, for waste conversion to develop an assortment of high added value eco-friendly and cost-effective bio-products (BIOASSORT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-30
End date: 2016-07-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 296100.0
EU funding (EUR): 296100.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of this program is to improve technologies and biological tools for conversion of wastes that are abundantly discharged in EU, by eco-friendly and eco-efficient production of high added values bioproducts such as ligno-cellulolytic enzymes, fuel ethanol (EtOH), polylactic acid (PLA) and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). One of the main objectives is enlarging the patrimony of microbes for waste valorisation by i) screening the assortment of thousand microbes belonging to the collections of Brazilian and Indian partners to select the microbes most efficient in producing enzymes, EtOH, LA, PHAs ii) discovering novel strains with high potential of production of these products exploring the biodiversity of micro flora from India and Brazil and iii) exchanging technologies and tools developed by different EU and ICPC partners for genetic engineering of different microbes. Optimization of processes for production of different products and assessment of their economic and environmental feasibility will be performed with the above microbes taking advantage from the complementary consolidated expertises of the partners. Partners will have open access to complex databases developed during program implementation on the microbial patrimony of the network and the main systems, tools and technologies developed. Besides training through research performed during secondments of researchers to implement the above scientific activities, transfer of knowledge will be also achieved by summer schools, workshops and intensive virtual networking activities, covering not only scientific but also parallel sectors. Staff exchanges and networking activities between European and Indian and Brazilian research organisations will strengthen research partnerships. Dissemination of program results and best practices to external target groups to improve social acceptance and public perception of the new processes and materials and their exploitation in the market will be carried out.

Keywords: l817 biotechnology (non-medical) - bioreactors - applied microbiology
EU taxation and third countries (EUTC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 31500.0
EU funding (EUR): 31500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The increasing interdependence of national economies and the globalization lead to new possibilities and risks related to cross-border taxation for investors and governments. To minimize the risks and to support the possibilities for European and third countries, alternatives to national fiscal sovereignty, i.e. various forms of treaties on a bilateral or supra-national level, may be required. Within the joint exchange programme we want to provide answers to specific issues raised in the scientific and political debate on EU taxation and third countries within an area where countries are striving for economic integration and also in the light of recent changes in the well established Model Conventions and their Commentaries. The overall topic of “EU taxation and third countries” will be explored in four work packages: (1) Income tax treaties - the importance and effect of treaty commentaries, (2) Corporate Tax Consolidation Regimes for multijurisdictional companies in relation to non-resident companies, (3) Recent developments in tax treaties in the light of recent changes in OECD and UN Model Conventions and Commentaries, and (4) Improving VAT and GST systems. The transfer of knowledge between the EU (Austria, The Netherlands) and third countries (South Africa, Brazil) will be achieved by several instruments. Before, during and after the research exchange, the seconded staff will be optimally supported: there will be activities organized by the home institution (e.g. round tables, presentations...) and the researchers will also be integrated to the activities at the host institution during their research stay (e.g. discussions, preparation of joint publications...). The project will therefore intensively contribute to coordination and cooperation of high quality research in the area of international tax law.

Keywords: fiscal law
China-EU FDI (CHEUFDI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-07
End date: 2017-01-06
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163800.0
EU funding (EUR): 163800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The CHEUFDI (China-EU FDI) project aims at providing a comprehensive outlook of Chinese companies’ investment behaviour in the EU, together with an assessment of their positive and negative impacts on the European economy and growth strategies. The objectives are to map and analyse outward Chinese investments in the EU, highlighting their areas of concentration and countries/sectors of choice, and to evaluate their impact on the EU recovery. This analysis will be carried out at macro and micro-economic level by the three cooperating institutions, Coventry University Business School (CU), Grenada University of Economics (UGR) and Jiangxi University of Economics and Finance (JUFE). The project will also establish a standing working group for investigation on the Chinese presence in Europe, with the three partners as founding institutions. The group will build on the project's outcomes and will provide an opportunity for training and research in international business studies to graduate and post-graduate students.

Keywords: china,outwards fdis,europe,risk assessment,work practices
Fluvial processes and sediment dynamics of slope channel systems: Impacts of socio economic-and climate change on river system characteristics and related services (FLUMEN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Germany,Poland,Sweden,Romania,Moldova, Republic of
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214700.0
EU funding (EUR): 214700.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The project is focused on the ecological and morphological characteristics of river channels and related processes of erosion, sediment transport and deposition under changing boundary conditions described by socio economic and climate change scenarios. We will study effects of these changes on river systems at different spatial and temporal scales. The specific focus of the project is addressing the interface between the river channel and related slope systems. We will study historic evolution of river systems and will simulate future developments using scenarios. The main projects scopes are: 1) Exchange of experience, methods and knowledge in fluvio-morphologic processes research. 2) Developing and harmonization of tools and models for monitoring and management of hillslope-river channel-systems. 3) Assessment of hydromorphological processes, and pressures across multiple temporal and spatial scales in different European river systems; We will examine the links between erosive processes and hydromorphology in the context of integrated river basin management, considering the interactions with other elements of the whole system such as anthropogenic pressures and environmental changes. The new tools will help to assess the processes dynamics at the interface between hydrogeomorphological river processes and slope systems in a qualitative way. Moreover, new innovative techniques will be developed and applied that allow a quantification of the processes. The special focus is on remote sensing, aerial photography, field measurements with total stations, GPS, statistical analysis, all integrated in a GIS. We will reach these targets as a multidisciplinary team across Europe, sharing knowledge, developing new approaches and applying them in different environments. We will explicitly aim to identify and integrate the different and overlapping conceptual understandings of scientists from the different disciplines carrying out joined research in this project.

Keywords: fluvial processes,erosion,hydromorphology,river basin management
Social movements and mobilisation typologies in the arab spring (SPRINGARAB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Italy,Poland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-28
End date: 2016-06-27
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 879700.0
EU funding (EUR): 879700.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The present proposal aims to revitalize and to reinforce the Europe-Arab World exchange in the field of research and training in Social Sciences, during a peculiar historical moment, characterized by the socio-political changes that have taken place in the last year in the Southern Mediterranean Arabic societies. Paying attention to the new context, the proposal will especially focus research on social and political movements in the frame of change dynamics and applying a comparative approach, taking particularly into account the experience of Eastern European countries. The proposal objectives are to contribute to the enrichment of the analytical interpretation and to the monitoring of the social, political ans cultural processes that have taken and are taking place in the arabic World, through the collection of new empirical materials and the development of innovative analytical tools from different disciplines (political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, religious studies, media) in an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. These tools will be developped through the active participation of early researchers in the implementation of the proposal, articulating fields surveys and conceptual appoach: structuring exchanges through interdisciplinary training sessions to be followed by mixed groups of junior researchers from the Arab and European universities; implementing a joint doctoral program; organizing conferences, workshops and managerial meetings in different universities of Europe and Maghreb. Consequently, the outcomes of the proposal will contribute to the ongoing international academic and political debate on social and political change to reach a best governance. It will also contribute to bring fresh knowledge in the study of concepts and theories concerning political mobilisation, social movements, youth movements; democracy, citizenship, identity policy. Finaly the proposal will support critical and autonomous social sciences

Keywords: social movements,social networks,youth movements,gender and social class positions,representations,cultural engagement,democratic transition
Towards Pervasive Indoor Wireless Networks (WINDOW)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 611100.0
EU funding (EUR): 611100.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In cellular networks, it is estimated that 2/3 of the calls and 90% of data services take place indoors. Smart meters are being and will be deployed across the world. Smart meters are connected with other meters and appliances wirelessly at homes. Smart buildings, e-health, assisted living applications also rely on quality in-building wireless communications. Thus pervasive wireless communications are very important. There still remain many challenges to achieve high quality pervasive indoor wireless communications, for example, it is not well understood how various indoor wireless networks will interfere each other, how traffic models look like in smart homes/buildings, which new frequency bands can be used to meet exponential traffic growth indoors and how to make use of various wireless technologies with consideration of energy consumption, and so on. The main objectives of the project are as follows: • To characterise material properties (permittivity, permeability, transmission, reflection loss, etc) for new and existing building/insulation materials that are used in Europe and China for frequencies up to 65GHz • To investigate indoor and indoor-outdoor wireless propagation channels • To investigate how different indoor wireless networks will interfere each other and the interference to and from wireless networks in the neighbourhood • To identify new frequency bands that can be used to meet the exponential traffic growth indoors • To investigate traffic models for indoor networks, e.g., in smart homes/buildings • To investigate how to reduce energy consumption of indoor wireless networks • To explore the synergy of complementary competences at the project partners and establish and/or strengthen the long-term collaborations between them. The methodology of this project will adopt a combination of theoretical research that will be verified by experiment and simulation. The interactions between academia and industry will also be promoted. It is expected that the project will benefit more than 15 early stage researchers. The project partners will disseminate the project results in journals, conferences and workshops organised by the project partners.

Keywords: g206 communication technology - high-frequency technology,wireless communications,radio propagation,channel measurement,green communications
NEUREN - Neuroscience Research Exchange Network (NEUREN) (NEUREN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Italy,France,Spain,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 304200.0
EU funding (EUR): 304200.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The NEUREN project is based on an interdisciplinary consortium of 14 laboratories from 4 EU countries (France, Italy, Spain, Poland), 3 industrialized countries (Australia, Canada, USA) and 3 Mediterranean countries (Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon). It covers a large scope of Neuroscience research topics from molecules to integrated physiology, associate basic, translational, and clinical research, from bench to bedside. EU institutions all share similar basic competences but they show significant complementarities to cover all aspects of Neuroscience. Third countries partners bring their own technical and conceptual expertise to build a consortium of excellence, taking advantage of previous collaborations to exploit existing complementary expertise and synergy between the partners. Given the complexity of neurobiological processes, and the broad range of methodological approaches, it is absolutely necessary to develop multi-sites integrated research projects. Therefore, 6 multi-sites projects have been elaborated, using staff exchange as a tool to develop research collaborations. • Pain sensitization in the spinal cord (Bordeaux, Alexandria, Melbourne, Laval, Turin) • Experimental models for neurological disorders (Turin, Marrakech, Alexandria, NY) • Systems neurobiology of neurological disorders (Valence, Tetuan, Krakow, Melbourne) • Cognitive impairment and neuronal dynamics (Marseille, Alexandria, Marrakech) • Dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex and trait anxiety (Nice, Marrakech) • Medical imaging of neurological disorders (Bordeaux, Laval, Beirut) Such consortium will highly support the current efforts to reach outstanding international research standards. It will contribute to develop poles of technical and scientific excellence that will become the reference for the South Mediterranean area. Northern institutions will fully benefit from this integration to further diversify their technical expertise and to aggregate powerful teams of well-trained researchers.

Keywords: neuroanatomy,molecular and cellular neuroscience,neuropharmacology,developmental neurobiology,cognition neuroscience,system neuroscience,neuroimaging,neurological and psychiatric disorders
Sustainable Human Development for MED Countries (SHUMED)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224200.0
EU funding (EUR): 224200.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The SHuMED project proposal is aimed to support and strengthen the different existing collaboration actions between Europe and Mediterranean Partner Countries (MCP) for research and research training in the field of the sustainable development and the relating monitoring initiatives, thanks to the staff exchange opportunities offered by IRSES. This multidisciplinary exchange programme aims at propose a corporate-view approach for measuring the level of human development in sustainability terms by considering the contribution of corporates and their networks. The programme has 5 Work Packages. WP1 (‘management’) will define the management structure of the project. WP 2 (‘methodologies’), through the expected 4 Training Activities in the 4 target MCP Countries, will develop the Sustainable Human Development Index (SHDI). In this work package, starting from the SHDI macroeconomic model and thanks to the research and to the knowledge transfer coming from the training sessions in MCP, processes of joint learning and coevolution will be analysed. WP 3 (‘case studies on human development’), strictly connected with WP2, will analyse some case studies in Europe, thanks to the numerous visits foreseen in Italy and Spain. These case studies will support the analysis of processes that could affect research practices in the area of sustainable human development and corporate social responsibility. Associated partners that will support the project in EU Countries will be the target users of this SHDI (not only using but also contributing in enhancing the index). The WP4, with its reporting activities, will contribute to analyse the dynamic capabilities of SMEs within networks and clusters in order to develop a tool for enhancing and monitoring them. The final WP 5 (‘communication and dissemination’) will define the communication and dissemination strategy of the project. The project duration is 36 months.

Keywords: s109 political systems - legitimacy of governance,e105 competitiveness - innovation - research and development
Critical Raw Materials Innovation Network – Towards an integrated community driving innovation in the field of critical raw material substitution for the benefit of EU industry (CRM_INNONET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Belgium,France,Norway,Sweden,Spain,Netherlands,Finland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2012-CSA-6, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3878134.78
EU funding (EUR): 2935703.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of the project is to create an integrated community that will drive innovation in the field of critical raw material substitution for the benefit of EU industry. The project will: •Deliver a mapping of on-going initiatives in the field of substitution of CRM at the EU level and Member States that will allow for the identification of key champions and synergies. The mapping will also consider other initiatives of international character. •Develop a methodology to establish clear criteria for the prioritisation of applications which are at ‘threat’ and the technological and non-technological needs regarding the substitution of CRM. •Propose a roadmap for the substitution of CRM in coordination and cooperation with all stakeholders across the CRM substitution value chain while paying close attention to the specificities of critical industrial sectors as well as possible synergies. •Create one or more Pole(s) of Excellence in the field of substitution of CRM that will ensure the relevance and usefulness of the project results and constitute a dynamic, open and proactive platform for the entire stakeholder community aiming to support and enhance the competitiveness of the EU industry and economy. CRM-Innonet will carry out a feasibility study considering the potential models and routes for this Pole(s) to endure after the project termination and decide upon concrete future actions in this respect. •Prepare a document containing recommendations, future initiative ideas and suggested actions for policy makers with the widest possible endorsement and consensus of all stakeholders involved. The CRM-InnoNet consortium is comprised of recognised and experienced key actors across the value chain of substitution of CRM representing academia, research establishments and industry bodies of relevant sectors that will ensure a wide European coverage and high potential to reach and engage other necessary players across the European Research Area.

Keywords: critical raw material substitution,landscape,raodmapping,pole of excellence,policy recommendations