Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
BioVeL - Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BIOVEL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Hungary,Netherlands,Italy,Sweden,Brazil,Netherlands,United Kingdom,France,Finland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6005635.0
EU funding (EUR): 5000000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL) meets the needs of Europe’s Biodiversity Science research community with tools for pipelining data and analysis into efficient workflows, urgently needed to understand biodiversity in a rapidly changing environment. BioVeL customises, deploys and supports the Taverna / myExperiment / BioCatalogue family of software to achieve this. Close user involvement is crucial to successful design and implementation of virtual laboratories. Close support and guidance makes all the difference in uptake of tools and their continued success. BioVeL places particular emphasis on targeted networking activities with specific sub-communities and tailored service activities that deliver training, helpdesk and consultancy assistance to solve specific problems. Using agile processes, BioVeL defines and deploys (web) service sets and workflow packs catering for sub-communities within the domain. The project focuses on pilot topic areas: i) DNA sequence-based phylogeny and metagenomics services that help link knowledge of model organisms to a broad range of species, that provide a measure of genetic diversity used in conservation planning and that help to understand adaptation in relation to climate change; ii) Taxonomy services to provide the underpinning checklist of diversity in Europe, identification aids to native, invasive and economic species; iii) Niche and population modelling for species, to better understand the processes of conservation and invasive species management; and, iv) Ecosystem functionality and valuation services, to improve modelling capabilities to ecosystem services and CO2 sequestration. Through use of gateways, workflows composed in the BioVeL environment can be executed on a wide range of computing resources, including European e-Infrastructures (EGI, PRACE, etc.). Joint research activities will investigate improvements to ease of use of workflows by exploring new middleware approaches to easier user interfaces.

Keywords: biodiversity,informatics,e-science,workflows,catalogue,services
Solving dynamic models: Theory and Applications (DYNAMIC MODELS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1114800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1114800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The computation of equilibria in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents has become increasingly important in macroeconomics and public finance. For a given example-economy, i.e. a given specification of preferences, technologies and market-arrangements these methods compute an (approximate) equilibrium and allow for quantitative statements about one equilibrium of the example-economy. Through these so-called 'computational experiments' many economic insights can be obtained by analyzing quantitative features of realistically calibrated models. Unfortunately, economists often use ad hoc computational methods with poorly understood properties that produce approximate solutions of unknown quality. The research-project outlined in this proposal has three goals: Building theoretical foundations for analyzing dynamic equilibrium models, developing efficient and stable algorithms for the computation of equilibria in large scale models and applying these algorithms to macroeconomic policy analysis.

Keywords: dynamic general equilibrium,computational methods
Financial Study for Sustainable Computing e-Infrastructures (E-FISCAL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 392523.0
EU funding (EUR): 349999.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last ten years the European countries and the EC have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures for scientific computing, notably High Throughput Computing (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) services. Their contribution in pushing the European research towards a leading position in addressing global challenges has been validated by a growing number of research initiatives, most notably the ESFRI projects. Sustainability of such services is crucial, as the research supported by them is more and more crucial for European competitiveness – and sustainability can be planned better if the costs are known. The emerging commercial offerings (Cloud-based HTC and HPC solutions) pose additional challenges and opportunities for sustainability. They represent new ways of explicit monetisation of computing and open the way to new business models (e.g. service fees or of lease industrial resources). The upcoming next framework programme and broader EU policies depend on more careful impact assessment, which requires accurate cost estimates. Similarly energy saving and green computing will be increasingly relevant, and project results will also allow estimating potential benefits in these areas. It is thus vital to understand the cost of the dedicated computing related e-Infrastructures, as expressed by EGI and PRACE initiatives. The calculation of such costs is not trivial; keeping detailed accounting data for the evolving mix of capital (hardware) and operational (personnel, energy) expenditures is only one of the challenges. The scope of the e-FISCAL proposal is to analyse such costs, facilitated by national entities (NGIs and HPC centres), compare them with equivalent commercial leased or on-demand offerings and provide an evaluation report. The execution of the survey builds on a small-scale survey conducted by the e-IRGSP2 project that proved the complexity of the issue and provided tacit knowledge valuable for the e-FISCAL project.

Keywords: financial study,capex,opex,computing e-infrastructures costs,cloud computing,business models,sustainability,egi,prace,ngi,cost model,financial workshop
Common Operations of Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Netherlands,Finland,Netherlands,Austria,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,France,France,France
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5081514.0
EU funding (EUR): 3700000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Frontier environmental research increasingly depends on a wide range of data and advanced capabilities to process and analyse them. The ENVRI project, “Common Operations of Environmental Research infrastructures” is a collaboration in the ESFRI Environment Cluster, with support from ICT experts, to develop common e-science components and services for their facilities. The results will speed up the construction of these infrastructures and will allow scientists to use the data and software from each facility to enable multi-disciplinary science. The target is on developing common capabilities including software and services of the environmental and e-infrastructure communities. While the ENVRI infrastructures are very diverse, they face common challenges including data capture from distributed sensors, metadata standardisation, management of high volume data, workflow execution and data visualisation. The common standards, deployable services and tools developed will be adopted by each infrastructure as it progresses through its construction phase. Two use cases, led by the most mature infrastructures, will focus the development work on separate requirements and solutions for data pre-processing of primary data and post-processing toward publishing. The project will be based on a common reference model created by capturing the semantic resources of each ESFRI-ENV infrastructure. This model and the development driven by the testbed deployments result in ready-to-use systems which can be integrated into the environmental research infrastructures. The project puts emphasis on synergy between advanced developments, not only among the infrastructure facilities, but also with ICT providers and related e-science initiatives. These links will facilitate system deployment and the training of future researchers, and ensure that the inter-disciplinary capabilities established here remain sustainable beyond the lifetime of the project.

Keywords: environmental research infrastructures dataprocessing interoperability geoss esfri
Knowing each other: everyday religious encounters, social identities and tolerance in southwest Nigeria (KNOWING_EACH_OTHER)

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: United Kingdom,Nigeria
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497520.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497520.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This research investigates the role of religious difference and encounter by focusing on the multi-religious and notably tolerant Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria. Drawing on a large-scale ethnographic survey on the everyday lives of Muslims, Christians and traditionalists as well as field and archival work produced and collected by a Nigerian/UK-based research team under my leadership, the proposed research will explore the importance of religious difference for the constitution of important social identities as well as the establishment of practices of tolerance in one of Africa’s largest ethnic groups (more than 30 million Yoruba speakers). Through its Yoruba case study, the planned programme maps out the new field of ‘everyday religious encounter’. It will do so by (1) determining the incidence of bi- and multi-religious constellations including Muslims, Christians and traditionalists in contemporary marriages, families/ lineages, and in other contexts, (2) exploring the way in which religious differences and encounters structure the experiences, perceptions and behaviours of Yoruba individuals in their everyday social identities as men and women as well as members of different generations, and through life and family histories, (3) reflecting on the way in which the attitudes and practices of everyday life contribute to the high level of religious tolerance among adherents of different religions in Yorubaland, (4) developing, and refining in comparative debates, an understanding of the broader issues and theoretical relationships between the constitution of social identities and religious tolerance, and (5) initiating a paradigm shift in the theoretical and practical understanding of religious tolerance, both in Nigeria and in other countries in which religious difference is politicised, including Europe.

Keywords: religious encounter,religious tolerance,youth,death,life histories.
NeuGRID for you: expansion of NeuGRID services and outreach to new user communities (N4U)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Italy,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Sweden,France,Switzerland,United States,Canada
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4315584.0
EU funding (EUR): 3600000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Unprecedented growth in the accessibility of imaging data of persons with brain diseases has led to the development of computational infrastructures offering scientists access to image databases and e-Science services. FP7 neuGRID is the leading e-Infrastructure where neuroscientists can find core services and resources for brain image analysis. “neuGRID for Users” (N4U) will provide an e-Science environment by further developing and deploying the neuGRID infrastructure to deliver a Virtual Laboratory offering neuroscientists access to a wide range of datasets and algorithm pipelines, access to computational resources, services, and support. The laboratory will be developed for imaging neuroscientists but designed to be adaptable to other user communities. While neuGRID has mainly developed the lower layers of the infrastructure, N4U will concentrate on the upper “user-facing” levels. N4U will (i) integrate and augment the neuGRID service provision with intuitive and customizable image analysis services and more robust computational resources making use of Grid, Cloud and HPC; (ii) expand the scientific coverage of neuGRID to meet the requirements of new research communities; (iii) design, develop, and deploy user-centred, friendly, and customizable interfaces for the daily use of N4U by end-users (Science Gateway and portal); and (iv) develop a Specific Support Center including active learning, training, support, and education. Captivating applications and dissemination tools to attract students and lay persons will be developed making use of augmented reality technology; syntactic and semantic interoperability with the major related international initiatives will build on Internet2, CAnet and GEANT connectivity; open standard technology will include an API to access Open Cloud Computing Interface; licensing schemes for the future sustainability of N4U will leverage on Open Source Software.
Perception and Action in Accelerating Environments (PACE)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Navigating through the environment evokes complex changes of visual, auditory, vestibular, tactile and motor inputs to the brain. Yet, despite this motion, we perceive the world as a stable reality, maintain an integrated sense of where we are, and are able to act rather effortlessly upon surrounding objects. To date, little is known about how the processes for perception and action are maintained dynamically. This project is concerned with the learning and control strategies for perception and action in real-world accelerating environments. Its basic premise, based on statistical optimality principles, is that perception and action problems are related in many ways, not only at the computational level but also at the neural implementation level. The project aims to understand the computational algorithm and its neural embodiment for estimating the state of the world and selecting the right action in accelerating environments, distinguishing contributions of sensory, motor, and cognitive signals. A multidisciplinary approach will be used to understand the neural solutions at different scales and at different levels of abstraction (i.e. brain, behavior, simulations). In three projects, an experimental paradigm will be exploited in which healthy subjects and patients make perceptual judgments and generate motor actions in an accelerating environment. Guided by a comprehensive optimal control framework, behavioral measures will be combined with imaging (EEG) and neural perturbation (TMS) techniques in healthy subjects as well as sensory deprived subjects and cerebellar patients, to identify (adaptive) mechanisms and internal models for perception and action control under whole-body acceleration. This multi-pronged project will be directed at establishing causal links between spatiotemporal neural activation patterns and dynamic sensorimotor integration, and investigate the extent to which such links depend on the integrity of particular brain areas and sensory systems.

Keywords: spatial perception,multisensory integration,motor learning,electroencephalography,transcranial magnetic stimulation,cerebellar patients,vestibular system,optimal control
Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology (DRIHM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Italy,Spain,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Serbia,United States
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4777076.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Predicting weather and climate and its impacts on the environment, including hazards such as floods and landslides, is still one of the main challenges of the 21st century, with significant societal and economic implications. At the heart of this challenge, as also suggested by the DRIHMS (Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology Study) project, lies the ability to have easy access to hydro-meteorological data and models, and to facilitate the collaboration between meteorologists, hydrologists, and Earth science experts for accelerated scientific advances in hydrometeorological research (HMR). The proposed DRIHM (Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology) project intends to develop a prototype e-Science environment to facilitate this collaboration, and provide end-to-end HMR services (models, datasets and post-processing tools) at the European level, with the ability to expand to the global scale. The objectives of DRIHM are to lead the definition of a common long-term strategy, to foster the development of new HMR models and observational archives for the study of severe hydrometeorological events, to promote the execution and analysis of high-end simulations, and to support the dissemination of predictive models as decision analysis tools. DRIHM combines the European expertise in HMR, and in Grid and High Performance Computing (HPC). Joint research activities will improve the efficient use of European e-Infrastructures, notably Grid and HPC, for HMR modeling and observational databases, model evaluation tool sets and access to HMR model results. Networking activities will disseminate DRIHM results at the European and global levels in order to increase the cohesion of European and possibly worldwide HMR communities, and to increase the awareness of the potential of ICT for HMR. Service activities will deploy the end-to-end DRIHM services and tools in support of HMR networks and virtual organizations on top of the existing European e-Infrastructures.

Keywords: hydro-meteorology,e-science environment,grid,e-science,collaborative research,cross-fertilization,e-infrastructure,virtual research community
Transnational access and enhancement of integrated Biological Structure determination at synchrotron X-ray radiation facilities (BIOSTRUCT-X)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,France,Spain,France,Finland,Portugal,Israel,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10566699.91
EU funding (EUR): 8999634.05
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The BioStruct-X consortium has 19 partners from 11 EU member and associated states, who lead in facility provision and research in structural biology using high brilliance X-rays, provided by state-of-the art synchrotrons and a free electron laser. BioStruct-X will provide integrated transnational access via 42 installations in four key areas: macromolecular X-ray crystallography, small angle X-ray scattering, X-ray imaging, protein production and high-throughput crystallisation. All installations provide on-line data analysis tools and remote experiment control. Transnational access will be critically enhanced by four targeted joint research activities: a) new data processing tools, to the benefit of access to applications in macromolecular X-ray crystallography; b) an integrated on-line sample characterisation system, to the benefit of the access to small angle X-ray scattering, c) correlated fluorescence light microscopy components that will enhance X-ray imaging applications offered for access; d) a toolbox for mammalian cell line expression, to the direct benefit of the access to protein production facilities. The BioStruct-X project will offer a central Batch Allocation Group proposal mechanism to promote project excellence by combining different methods and encouraging multi-site applications. The networking activity integrates all activities and combines them with those of other I3 actions under the ESFRI project INSTRUCT for future coordinated infrastructure activities in structural biology. The efficient management structure has four transparent layers: the coordinator, a six-member executive board, three work package coordinators and the general assembly comprising three user representatives and all partners. Thus, BioStruct-X will establish a state-of-the-art coordinated and multi-site infrastructure for current and emerging key methods in 21st century structural biology, thus advancing the European Research Area in biomedical sciences.

Keywords: structural biology,protein production,crystallisation,free electron laser,synchrotron,x-ray crystallography,small angle x-ray scattering,x-ray imaging,block allocation group,training,access