Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Factors controlling carbonate production and destruction of cold-water coral reefs of the NE Atlantic (CORALCHANGE)

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: Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cold-water coral reefs are important but poorly studied ecosystems. Given global climate change, two important questions are (1) what are the environmental controls of reef framework growth? and (2) how might cold-water corals be affected by environmental change? This project addresses these questions by studying the geographic patterns of carbonate production (bioaccretion) and destruction (bioerosion) of the two major cold-water reef–building species in the NE Atlantic, Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata, and by determining its relationship to environmental factors. It will also involve laboratory experiments on the effects of predicted increases in carbon dioxide partial pressure (pCO2) and temperature, and their interactions, on the calcification of these scleractinian coral species. These experiments will also investigate how increased pCO2 and temperature will affect the relationship between endolithic fungi (a potential pathogen) and their coral host. Results of these studies will improve predictions of how these cold-water corals will respond to future environmental changes and whether reefs will be able to maintain a positive balance between carbonate construction and destruction processes. This proposal describes a project on a cutting-edge research topic to be undertaken at IMAR-DOP(Portugal). The applicant has developed expertise in tropical coral reef ecology during her PhD studies in the USA. The applicant was recently awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to work at IMAR-DOP. However this fellowship does not cover research expenses. As a result, this grant becomes essential for the development of the applicant’s research career and re-integration in the European research area. This grant would give the applicant’s the opportunity to expand the knowledge acquired outside Europe. It would also reinforce the existing ties and generate future collaborative work. The proposal involves collaborative with the University of Boston, and NOAA.

Keywords: acidification,bioerosion,calcification,carbonate balance,climate change,cold-water corals,disease,temperature
Genetic DIversity of AVIdins for Novel Biotech Applications (DIVA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Avidins are amongst the most widely used proteins in biotechnology, with applications encompassing molecular labelling, purification & detection, as well as uses in diagnostics, targeted drug delivery and nanotechnology, such as enantioselective catalysis by artificial catalysts. Avidins also serve as outstanding model systems for our understanding of biomolecular interactions, through their extremely high affinity for biotin (dissociation constant, Kd≈10−14–10−16 M).and biotinylated molecules. However, despite their importance in biotechnology, only two avidins have found widespread and routine use amongst the scientific community: chicken avidin and bacterial streptavidin. DIVA aims to exploit the recent identification of novel avidins in DNA sequence databases to generate novel variants of these proteins. DIVA will also use protein engineering to provide further genetic diversity, such as defined asymmetric tetramers of avidins consisting of different subunits. The overall aim is to expand the range of avidins available to biotechnologists and to increase their use and potential applications.

Keywords: natural sciences
Baryonic Acoustic Oscilations as a Robust Probe for Dark Energy (BAO AND DARK ENERGY)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research proposal focuses on the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation signature in the low-redshift clustering of galaxies as a test for Dark Energy. Two vigorous lines of research are outlined. These are aimed at the challenge of readying this test and the other Large-Scale Structure tests of cosmology, for the era of percent-precision. This proposal also seeks funding to support the PI during their period of reintegration into the European scientific community. These funds will help the PI to maintain their recognised leadership in this area and to widely interact with their new European colleagues at the highest levels. It will further enable them to maintain strong ties with their trans-Atlantic partners in the US. This funding therefore offers the potential for encouraging closer long-term interaction between some of the best researchers in Europe and the US.

Keywords: cosmology
LivingKnowledge – Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time (LIVINGKNOWLEDGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,India,Germany,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6204717.0
EU funding (EUR): 4809461.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Knowledge and its articulations are strongly influenced by diversity in, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of thought, geographical contexts. Judgements, assessments and opinions, which play a crucial role in many areas of democratic societies, including politics and economics, reflect this diversity in perspective and goals. For the information on the Web (including, e.g., news and blogs) diversity - implied by the ever increasing multitude of information providers - is the reason for diverging viewpoints and conflicts. Time and evolution add a further dimension making diversity an intrinsic and unavoidable property of knowledge. The vision inspiring LivingKnowledge is to consider diversity an asset and to make it traceable, understandable and exploitable, with the goal to improve navigation and search in very large multimodal datasets (e.g., the Web itself). LivingKnowledge will study the effect of diversity and time on opinions and bias, a topic with high potential for social and economic exploitation. We envisage a future where search and navigation tools (e.g., search engines) will automatically classify and organize opinions and bias (about, e.g., global warming or the Olympic games in China) and, therefore, will produce more insightful, better organized, easier-to-understand output. LivingKnowledge employs interdisciplinary competences from, e.g., philosophy of science, cognitive science, library science and semiotics. The proposed solution is based on the foundational notions of context and its ability to localize meaning, and the notion of facet, as from library science, and its ability to organize knowledge as a set of interoperable components (i.e., facets). The project will construct a very large testbed, integrating many years of Web history and value-added knowledge, state-of-the-art search technology and the results of the project. The testbed will be made available for experimentation, dissemination, and exploitation.

Keywords: diversity,bias,time and evolution,opinions,context,facets,pattern recognition,knowledge management,search.
Extending ICT research co-operation between the European Union, Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus (EXTEND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Moldova, Republic of,Georgia,Romania,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Ukraine
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1028331.0
EU funding (EUR): 819717.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The European Union promotes the scientific and technological co-operation with the Eastern European and Southern Caucasus (EESC) countries, aiming firstly to restore and reinforce their research capacity and secondly to integrate them in the European Research Area. The Seventh Framework Programme comprises one of the main instruments that is exploited towards this direction, as international co-operation represents an important dimension of it. The EXTEND project addresses the need for enhanced scientific and research co-operation between the EESC countries and the EU, focusing specifically on the Information and Communication Technologies theme of the FP7’s Co-operation Programme. EXTEND aims to support the ICT research communities in the region by: (a) identifying suitable ICT research actors per country, training them on the procedural aspects of FP7 and providing assistance in developing networks across Europe and (b) defining future ICT research priorities that will enhance co-operation between the EU and EESC countries. The specific objectives of the EXTEND project are to: (1) Identify key ICT research actors (including academic, private IT sector and not-for-profit research actors) in the EESC countries that are suitable for participation in future ICT research activities. (2) Develop recommendations on ICT research priorities that are suitable for co-operation between the EU and EESC countries, for the period 2010-2015 following consultation with key ICT research stakeholders. (3) Provide training on FP7 ICT programme opportunities, procedures and thematic priorities to the identified ICT research actors as well as familiarise them with the European R&amp;D culture. (4) Facilitate the development of networks between ICT research actors in EESC and the EU in order to exchange ideas and pursue joint research collaboration.

Keywords: ict work programme,international cooperation,eastern europe,southern caucasus,consultation,ict research priorities,training,awareness
Incentives for Semantics (INSEMTIVES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Germany,Spain,Bulgaria,Romania,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5431023.0
EU funding (EUR): 3777342.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Creating a critical mass of semantic content is a fundamental challenge that has received considerable attention in the past decade. The result is a maturing inventory of techniques and tools which primarily aim at the automation of the semantic content creation task as a means to lower costs and improve productivity. Whilst the quality of such automated approaches has consistently improved, it is still far from outweighing the required invested manual effort. This holds in particular for the creation of multimedia annotations, or the development of shared ontologies, tasks which are human-driven through their very nature. The aim of INSEMTIVES is to bridge the gap between human and computational intelligence in the current semantic content authoring R&amp;D landscape. We will develop methodologies for the creation of semantic metadata for different types of Web resources, jointly exploiting human intelligence, community effects and machine processing. We will investigate applicable social and economic incentives, notably in the areas of ontology engineering, and the semantic annotation of media and Web services, to motivate user participation in these inherently human-driven tasks. A generic open source platform, including models for representing user-generated semantic content, and methods for supporting their lifecycles, as well as incentive-driven end-user tools, will resultantly bring semantic content to a level where it can be meaningfully used in various application scenarios. Three case studies will apply the developed technology in the sectors of telecommunications, online marketplaces, and virtual worlds. INSEMTIVES will impact the semantic technologies community by demonstrating how user participation can solve the main bottleneck in the uptake of the Semantic Web: i.e., the lack of a critical mass of semantic content required for applications to provide an immediate added value to end-users and businesses to encourage them to adopt semantic technologies.

Keywords: incentives,motivation,massive user participation,semantic annotation,ontology engineering,games
The Virtual City (V-CITY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Italy,Belgium,France,France,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3765009.0
EU funding (EUR): 2700000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

3D geoinformatics has entered the digital age, hesitantly in some areas, and rampantly in others. Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are household names. Although limited to landscapes and few buildings envelopes, their massive digital geographic libraries are today the playground of millions of people and the generator of new forms of content and applications with tremendous impact perspectives. However, these pale in comparison to those that will be made possible as soon as urban digital libraries will be fully available and exploitable. The focus of the project on urban environments is not only made possible by the latest technological advances of the consortium, but also highly justified. Urban environments represent one of the most important and valuable cultural heritage as acknowledged by the UNESCO. Therefore, the V-City project aims to research, develop and validate an innovative system integrating the latest advances in Computer Vision, 3D Modelling and Virtual Reality for the rapid and cost-effective reconstruction, visualisation and exploitation of complete, large-scale and interactive urban environments. This system will enable historians, architects or archaeologists to reconstruct from existing data, study, understand, preserve or document urban environments using an innovative interactive 3D user interface. This project will represent an amazing progress beyond the current state-of-the-art in the field of large scale geospatial libraries built from multi-source and multi-format architectural and cultural information. It will also be an answer to concrete needs for a wide range of users as demonstrated by the commitment and the diversity of the end-user organisations involved in the V-City User Group. These will contribute to both the definition of the system and its validation on real-scale scenarios.

Keywords: large scale digital library,computer vision,3d reconstruction,virtual reality,geospatial information,urban environments
Communication and Social Participation: collaborative Technologies for interaction And Learning (COSPATIAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Israel,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2158632.0
EU funding (EUR): 1649591.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Social competence is a multidimensional concept that reflects a child’s capacity to integrate behavioural, cognitive and affective skills in order to adapt flexibly to diverse social contexts and demands. Social competences affect a child's ability to learn in formal and informal educational settings, and to interact appropriately with other children. COSPATIAL aims at providing a thorough investigation and further development of technologies aimed at learning these social skills by children who are typically developing and those with autism. We adopt the Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy (CBT) model to describe the complexity of social competence constructs as a multidimensional framework which assumes reciprocity between the ways individuals behave in social situations. Two categories of technologies for collaborative interaction that have demonstrated the potential to be both feasible and effective for training social skills are targeted: Collaborative Virtual Environments and Shared Active Surfaces. Specific objectives are (1) to develop a framework based on the CBT model that explicitly formulates and illustrates how the attributes of collaborative technologies can be used to support the acquisition of social skills, (2) to validate and refine the CBT framework via extensive user studies that entail specific tasks to test software and hardware systems capable of implementing its salient features, and (3) to investigate the ability of collaborative technologies to support the transfer and generalization of skills acquired during the specific tested tasks to ability to perform other tasks in the real world. COSPATIAL takes inspiration from the Agile approach which posits the need for quick prototyping by small teams of programmers and designers. We exploit this approach to foster rapid evaluation through several short cycles of Participatory Design, implementation, and evaluation of prototypes by involving psychologists and educators.

Keywords: social skills learning,collaborative technologies.
e-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research in Data Mining and Data-Intensive Sciences (E-LICO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,Greece,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Croatia,Poland,Finland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4468853.0
EU funding (EUR): 3417403.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the e-LICO project is to build a virtual laboratory for interdisciplinary collaborative research in data mining and data-intensive sciences. The proposed e-lab will comprise three layers: the e-science and data mining layers will form a generic research environment that can be adapted to different scientific domains by customizing the application layer. The e-science layer, built on an open-source e-science infrastructure developed by one of the partners, will support content creation through collaboration at multiple scales and degrees of commitment---ranging from small, contract-bound teams to voluntary, constraint-free participation in dynamic virtual communities. The data mining layer will be the distinctive core of e-LICO; it will provide comprehensive multimedia (structured records, text, images, signals) data mining tools. Standard tools will be augmented with preprocessing or learning algorithms developed specifically to meet challenges of data-intensive, knowledge rich sciences, such as ultra-high dimensionality or undersampled data. Methodologically sound use of these tools will be ensured by a knowledge-driven data mining assistant, which will rely on a data mining ontology and knowledge base to plan the mining process and propose ranked workflows for a given application problem. Extensive e-lab monitoring facilities will automate the accumulation of experimental meta-data to support replication and comparison of data mining experiments. These meta-data will be used by a meta-miner, which will combine probabilistic reasoning with kernel-based learning from complex structures to incrementally improve the assistant's workflow recommendations. e-LICO will be showcased in a systems biology task: biomarker discovery and molecular pathway modelling for diseases affecting the kidney and urinary pathways.

Keywords: e-science,data mining,meta-mining,collaborative content creation,meta-learning
DynaLearn - Engaging and informed tools for learning conceptual system knowledge (DYNALEARN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,Germany,Brazil,Israel,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3290599.0
EU funding (EUR): 2450000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Despite this importance, there is an alarming decline in the number of students choosing science subjects. Reasons for this include the perceived complexity, the idea that these subjects are uninteresting and tedious, and the lack of effective cognitive tools that enable learners to acquire the expertise in a way that fits its qualitative nature. The DynaLearn project seeks to address these problems by integrating well established, but currently independent technological developments, and utilize the added value that emerges. Specifically, diagrammatic representations will be used for learners to articulate, analyse and communicate ideas, and thereby construct their conceptual knowledge. Ontology mapping will be used to find and match co-learners working on similar ideas to provide individualised and mutually benefiting learning opportunities. Virtual characters will be used to make the interaction engaging and motivating. The development of the workbench will be tuned to fit key topics from environmental science curricula, and evaluated and further improved in the context of existing curricula using case studies. Through this approach, the DynaLearn project will deliver an individualised and engaging cognitive tool for acquiring conceptual knowledge that fits the true nature of this expertise. Conceptual knowledge of system's behaviour is crucial for society to understand and successfully interact with its environment. Acquiring this expertise is therefore a valuable aspect of science education.

Keywords: conceptual knowledge,science education,diagrammatic representations,ontology mapping,virtual characters.