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Prototype Operational Continuity for the GMES Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Service (MYOCEAN2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Italy,Denmark,Ukraine,France,France,Netherlands,Norway,France,Greece,Sweden,Portugal,Morocco,Bulgaria,Cyprus,Germany,Germany,Denmark,Spain,Spain,Estonia,France,Finland,Israel,Malta,Romania,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,United Kingdom,Belgium,Slovenia,Denmark,United Kingdom,Latvia,Lithuania,Türkiye,Russian Federation,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 41180971.14
EU funding (EUR): 27999446.42
Participants: 59
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the MyOcean2 project will be to operate a rigorous, robust and sustainable Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting component of the GMES Marine Service (OMF/GMS) delivering ocean physical state and ecosystem information to intermediate and downstream users in the areas of marine safety, marine resources, marine and coastal environment and climate, seasonal and weather forecasting. This is highly consistent with the objective of the FP7 Space Work Programme to support a European Space Policy focusing on applications such as GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), with benefits for citizens, but also other space foundation areas for the competitiveness of the European space industry. In the period from April 2012 to September 2014, MyOcean2 will ensure a controlled continuation and extension of the services and systems already implemented in MyOcean, a previous funded FP7 project that has advanced the pre-operational marine service capabilities by conducting the necessary research and development. To enable the move to full operations as of 2014, MyOcean2 is targeting the prototype operations, and developing the necessary management and coordination environment, to provide GMES users with continuous access to the GMES service products, as well as the interfaces necessary to benefit from independent R&D activities. MyOcean2 will produce and deliver services based upon the common-denominator ocean state variables that are required to help meet the needs for information of those responsible for environmental and civil security policy making, assessment and implementation. MyOcean2 is also expected to have a significant impact on the emergence of a technically robust and sustainable GMES service infrastructure in Europe and significantly contribute to the environmental information base allowing Europe to independently evaluate its policy responses in a reliable and timely manner

Keywords: ocean monitoring forecasting service gmes marine operational oceanography
Feasibility Study for a direct Europe Link with Latin America (ELLA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Uruguay,Brazil,Portugal,Spain
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 454615.0
EU funding (EUR): 400000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Worldwide activity on the development of the Information Society is being heavily hampered by the difficulty of integrating e-Infrastructures in different continents with the exception of North America. We are proposing to run a Feasibility Study to build a state-of-the-art communication infrastructure connecting Europe and Latin America, with the further objective of facilitate and trigger the creation of a private consortium – with possible minor contributions from public sources – to put the infrastructure into reality. We propose to perform a whole range of activities to this extent: • Technical feasibility study. • Assessment of the market and of its perspectives from the commercial and the points of view • Clarification of the financial framework. Other activities will be directed to maintain the interest in the project high and to try and create a kernel for the consortium that will have to build and operate the cable.

Keywords: feasibility study,infrastructure,submarine cable,europe to latin america link
Advancing Behavioral and Cognitive Understanding of Speech (ABACUS)

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: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1276620.0
EU funding (EUR): 1276620.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I intend to investigate what cognitive mechanisms give us combinatorial speech. Combinatorial speech is the ability to make new words using pre-existing speech sounds. Humans are the only apes that can do this, yet we do not know how our brains do it, nor how exactly we differ from other apes. Using new experimental techniques to study human behavior and new computational techniques to model human cognition, I will find out how we deal with combinatorial speech. The experimental part will study individual and cultural learning. Experimental cultural learning is a new technique that simulates cultural evolution in the laboratory. Two types of cultural learning will be used: iterated learning, which simulates language transfer across generations, and social coordination, which simulates emergence of norms in a language community. Using the two types of cultural learning together with individual learning experiments will help to zero in, from three angles, on how humans deal with combinatorial speech. In addition it will make a methodological contribution by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of the three methods. The computer modeling part will formalize hypotheses about how our brains deal with combinatorial speech. Two models will be built: a high-level model that will establish the basic algorithms with which combinatorial speech is learned and reproduced, and a neural model that will establish in more detail how the algorithms are implemented in the brain. In addition, the models, through increasing understanding of how humans deal with speech, will help bridge the performance gap between human and computer speech recognition. The project will advance science in four ways: it will provide insight into how our unique ability for using combinatorial speech works, it will tell us how this is implemented in the brain, it will extend the novel methodology of experimental cultural learning and it will create new computer models for dealing with human speech.

Keywords: evolution of speech combinatorial structure iterated learning
SCIentific gateway Based User Support (SCI-BUS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Hungary,Netherlands,Switzerland,Türkiye,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Finland,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4340585.0
EU funding (EUR): 3750000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

SCI-BUS will create a generic-purpose gateway technology as a toolset to provide seamless access to major computing, data and networking infrastructures and services in Europe including clusters, supercomputers, grids, desktop grids, academic and commercial clouds. SCI-BUS will elaborate an application-specific gateway building technology and customisation methodology based on which user communities can easily develop their own customised gateways. SCI-BUS will use the gateway technology and customization methodology to create 11 application-specific gateways customized for various types of user communities (represented in the project) and to provide gateway services for these communities including astrophysics, seismology, helio-physics, bio-science, computational chemistry, biomedical communities, PireGrid SMEs. community, Blender community, citizens. web-2 community, DCI application developer community, business process modeling community. SCI-BUS will establish production gateway services for the represented user communities and will attract further user communities by training and by other forms of disseminations activities. SCI-BUS will use the established production customized gateways as best-practice case studies based on which other communities can build their own customized gateway. SCI-BUS will provide gateway development, operation and maintenance support for the new communities to build and operate their own customized gateways. SCI-BUS will provide user support for application developers and end-users to develop and run new DCI applications based on the developed gateways. SCI-BUS will develop business models to enable the commercial exploitation of the developed technologies and to guarantee the sustainability of the gateway services developed in the project.

Keywords: gateway,workflow,repository,user support,computational chemistry,astrophysics,helio-physics,blender rendering,bio-informatics,system biology,web-2 community
Economic Allocations in Social Networks: Evidence and Theory (NETWORKS)

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: Hungary
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1165350.0
EU funding (EUR): 1165350.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Social networks affect many economic interactions, and the social capital embedded in them may help explain broad, macro level outcomes. A recent theory literature develops models of economic allocations in networks. But at this point, we have little evidence on which network mechanisms are most important in practice, how networks interact with markets, and how these micro forces translate into aggregate outcomes. In this proposal I combine micro level measurement with theory to evaluate various mechanisms through which networks affect economic allocations. I explore this theme in four domains. (1) Borrowing and informal insurance in development. I measure the value of connections for borrowing, and study how transfers propagate through the network using field experiments in Peru. (2) Peer effects and the social multiplier. In field experiments I measure financial and peer-based incentives, and how they reinforce each other. I also measure knowledge diffusion about exporting in corporate networks, and the resulting multiplier effect of reducing trade barriers. (3) Information aggregation. I measure how different pieces of information are filtered and aggregated in the social network. (4) Favouritism. I study the economic causes and consequences of favouring friends in a field experiment. I also measure economic misallocation resulting from politicians favouring connected firms in Hungarian data, and the cost to aggregate productivity. In all projects, my measurement emphasizes causality through field experiments and a unique firm level dataset with many sources of variation. Estimating models allows me to contrast theories and generalize the empirical findings. The results will help evaluate the importance of social networks for microeconomic and aggregate allocations, yield lessons on how organizations and policies leverage social mechanisms, and may open a new research area on mechanism design with network effects.

Keywords: social networks,microfinance,informal insurance,peer effects,firm exports,knowledge spillovers,social multiplier,social learning,favoritism,misallocation and productivity
Building Relationships and Interactions to Develop GMES for European Security (BRIDGES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,France,Italy,Poland,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1246386.21
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Based on the assumption of (i) the involvement of the EUSC in the Security Dimension of GMES and (ii) the need to support the definition of the cooperation between GMES & EUSC (supported by the EUSC Board) and a structured dialogue among stakeholders, the BRIDGES project intends to: • Perform an in-depth analysis and further define the EUSC’s possible role(s) in GMES • Identify the financial and legal consequences of the potential implementation of these roles on the basis of several options • Analyse existing governance models in the Space domain in order to provide inputs and recommendations for the definition of the governance scenario that will be identified in the course of the project • Identify scenarios and implementation options, taking into account the current state of GMES and the EUSC’s role, for: - A coordinated approach to space data access in the Security field. - GMES’s potential contribution to CFSP/ESDP, in an operational capacity. • Propose governance options and a roadmap for the implementation of the scenarios identified • Evaluate the benefits for GMES and provide an impact assessment Alternative scenarios will also be explored in order to ensure a wider approach such as operational coordination for data access by ESA or EUMETSAT or cooperative approach between several entities with complementary roles. The strategy of BRIDGES is based on a constant dialogue with relevant institutional decision-making stakeholders (e.g. EEAS, CMPD, EDA, ESA, EC, EU Parliament, Member States, etc.) and user organisations, supported by the industry’s insight on service delivery schemes and associated costs. This dialogue is expected to significantly raise stakeholders’ awareness of the synergies between GMES and CFSP/ESDP areas and to provide food for thought for the project deliverables, mainly in the form of reflection papers. The final output of BRIDGES will take into account the proposed role(s) for the EUSC and provide set of reports aiming to support the institutional dialogue and decision-making on operational Governance options for the GMES programme including support to CFSP/CSDP and a coordinated access to space data in the field of Security.

Keywords: gmes,security,space,governance,eusc,stakeholders,consultation,awareness,dialogue,operational,options,role,eeas,csdp,esdp,scenario,axes,institutional,impact,roadmap,financial,legal
Wedding bells or bedding wells? Lexical and semantic influences on phoneme binding (SEMBIND)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 691284.0
EU funding (EUR): 691284.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This multidisciplinary project examines the mechanisms in the mind and brain that underpin phoneme binding. We explore how knowledge of the sounds and meanings of words prevents their phonemes from recombining (so that errors such as ‘bedding wells’ for ‘wedding bells’ are avoided). Phoneme binding plays a fundamental role in understanding and producing running speech, but the underlying processes are not widely studied. We take advantage of recent methodological and theoretical advances, many of which arise from our own studies, in a programme of research designed to uncover the interactive semantic and phonological processes that underpin this process. We use three complementary techniques – neuropsychology, experimental studies of healthy participants and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) – which yield complementary information. (i) Patients with semantic dementia reveal the way in which selective impairment of conceptual knowledge affects the ability to maintain sequences of speech sounds that make up words. For the first time, we compare patients on several different tasks, tapping verbal short-term memory, rapid reading and verbal memory in the absence of overt speech, to establish whether the same underlying processes are at work. (ii) We undertake a similar comparison of different tasks in healthy participants, using mixed lists containing both words and nonwords, as these stimuli have been found to elicit more phoneme recombinations for words in our past research. (iii) We adopt the highly novel approach of teaching people either the meanings or just the sounds of new words in order to examine the separate effects on phoneme binding. (iv) TMS studies of healthy volunteers allow us to examine the impact of temporarily disrupting processing within brain areas that underpin semantic and phonological aspects of language. This allows us to draw strong conclusions about the cognitive and neural processes that are essential for phoneme binding.

Keywords: short-term memory,language,phoneme,semantic dementia,transcranial magnetic stimulation
Virtual Earthquake and seismology Research Community in Europe e-science environment (VERCE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5955220.0
EU funding (EUR): 4650000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The earthquake and seismology research, an intrinsically Global undertaking, addresses both fundamental problems in understanding Earth's internal wave sources and structures, and augment applications to societal concerns about natural hazards, energy resources, environmental change, and national security. This community is central in the European Plate Observing System (EPOS), the ESFRI initiative in solid Earth Sciences. . Global and regional seismology monitoring systems are continuously operated and transmitting a growing wealth of data from around the world. The multi-use nature of these data puts a great premium on open-access data infrastructures integrated globally. Most of the effort is in Europe, USA and Japan. The European Integrated Data Archives infrastructure provides strong horizontal data services. Enabling advanced analysis of these data by utilising a data-aware distributed computing environment is instrumental to exploit fully the cornucopia of data, and to guarantee optimal operation and design of the high-cost monitoring facilities. The strategy of VERCE, driven by the needs of data-intensive applications in data mining and modelling, aims to provide a comprehensive architecture and framework adapted to the scale and the diversity of these applications, and integrating the community Data infrastructure with Grid and HPC infrastructures. A first novel aspect of VERCE consists of integrating a service-oriented architecture with an efficient communication layer between the Data and the Grid infrastructures, and HPC. A second novel aspect is the coupling between HTC data analysis and HPC data modelling applications through workflow and data sharing mechanisms. VERCE will strengthen the European earthquake and seismology research competitiveness, and enhance the data exploitation and the modelling capabilities of this community. In turn, it will contribute to the European and National e-infrastructures.

Keywords: data intensive e-science environment,service-oriented architecture,grid and hpc computing,data infrastructure,earthquake seismology
Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Brazil and Argentina since 1945 (ECONPUBLIC)

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,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1458041.34
EU funding (EUR): 1458041.34
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Media reporting on the economy is never far from controversy. Academic economists and the public regularly find journalists at fault in their interpretation of events and prescription of solutions. Past scholarship has sought to locate the biases of journalists in political and institutional contexts. This project takes a novel approach by studying “economic journalism” as a site for the production of public economic knowledge. The practices of journalists are examined to reveal how they parse competing claims of expertise by academic economists, other social scientists and by laymen. The second half of the twentieth century was witness to increased homogeneity in academic economics and interdependence of national economies, yet the content and style of “economic journalism” has remained distinctive across nations. This project sets out to understand how and why media representation of economic knowledge has remained distinctively different even while the content and style of economics converged internationally. The project aims to understand this differentiation by focusing on three international economic controversies: the reconstruction debate post 1945, the monetary and oil crisis of the 1970s, and the current economic crisis; across five nations: USA, UK, France, Argentina, and Brazil. It combines archival research, oral history, ethnographic observation, content and textual analysis of media, to identify media representations of economic expertise and reveal how they are shaped by historical and cultural contexts. Cultural standards of trust, the history and economics of the media, and the history of economics and social movements explain the emergence of distinct national genres of “economic journalism.” The project offers a original perspective on how public knowledge of the economy is a iterative process engaging journalists, academics and laymen and explores its implications for the possibilities of public support for economic actions and policies.

Keywords: history of economics,expertise,economic journalism,sociology of knowledge,history of the media,popularization,social movements,public sphere,economic crisis