Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Ocean Acoustic Exploration (OAEX)

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: Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187200.0
EU funding (EUR): 187200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The OAEx joint research programme aims at developing synergies and reinforcing collaboration between the EU, Brazil and Canada in the field of ocean acoustic monitoring and marine technologies. In this context the OAEx programme will be a contribute towards a global ocean. In particular, in the exchange of experience on the usage of ocean acoustics for geophysical exploration, ocean circulation monitoring and underwater acoustic communications. The OAEx programme allows the transfer of knowledge and information between partners in order to improve and complement their individual expertises to be applied in ongoing and perspective projects. More specifically, European and Canadian groups have developed techniques on ocean environmental monitoring by acoustic sensing and/or using underwater acoustic communications, that could be integrated and applied to monitor the challenging and strategic site of Cabo Frio in Brazil, long time studied by the Brazilian partners using conventional oceanographic tools. In turn the Brazilian partners will profit from the programme by acquiring expertises in a prospective field that they are just starting. Moreover, the Canadian partner has privileged access to the NEPTUNE observatory, at the moment an unique cabled long term multidisciplinary ocean observation laboratory operating in the global ocean. Since there are plans for creating such a complex and expensive infrastructures by other major world players, and in particular EU (ESONET network), the OAEx partners will profit from exchanging experiences in order to optimize the exploration and implementation of current and future laboratories. In order to achieve the proposed goals, the main events to be overseen in the OAEx are workshops, a sea trial and data analysis. The exchange will encompass both scientific and technical personnel with experience at sea as well as advanced methodologies for data analysis.

Keywords: global ocean,ocean cabled observatories,ocean acoustic environmental sensing,underwater communications
Development of Flexible single and tandem II-VI-Based High Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells (FLEXSOLCELL)

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: Estonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 259200.0
EU funding (EUR): 259200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The primary aim of this research project is to develop low cost photovoltaic systems. Routes to decrease “cost per Watt” are either to reduce the cost of the technology or to increase its efficiency. The first of these is addressed by the use of thin film technology for low cost deposition at low temperatures and with low material usage. The second is addressed by using multiple threshold devices to push efficiencies beyond the Schockley-Queisser limit for single band-gap PV cells. Our research activities will focus on the study and development of new electronic devices for both PV and optoelectronic applications. Materials of interest for PV system include compound II-VI thin film semiconductors, especially CdTe, transparent conducting oxides required for the fabrication of solar cells. The main goal of this project is the development of polycrystalline growth techniques of high efficiency CdS/CdTe and ZnSe/CdTe solar cells on the polyimide substrates in different substrate configurations. Continuation of joint research towards the development of commercially viable CdTe-based solar cells will be build on the research collaboration, which will successfully combine the glass and flexible solar-cell fabrication by close space sublimation (CSS) and hot wall technique (HWT) at Moldova State University, chemical bath deposition (CBD) and electrodeposition at University of Trieste, Italy with the characterization and analysis expertise in mechanism of CdCl2 treatment process, annealing ambient and formation of electronic properties of the layers and junction at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Specific goals of the project are (1) increased cell efficiency to near 15% by improvements in electrical contact and reductions in window-layer absorption, (2) demonstration that cell stability can be reasonably extrapolated to several years, and (3) enhanced measurement and analysis capability in Moldova.

Keywords: technological sciences,physical sciences,natural sciences
Somatic control of primordial germ cell proliferation (PGC PROLIFERATION)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Control of cell proliferation is important during normal growth and, when impaired, might cause malignant transformation. While cell-autonomous control of proliferation has been studied extensively, cell proliferation in the context of a growing organ, when different populations of cells have to coordinate their growth is less well understood. We are using the ovary of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system for understanding how cell proliferation is controlled at the level of the developing organ. The ovary of Drosophila forms during embryogenesis. At the larval stages the somatic cells of the ovary proliferate and differentiate. The somatic niches for germ line stem cells (GSCs) form at that stage. Primordial germ cells (PGCs) also proliferate, and once the somatic niches form, a subset of PGCs become the adult GSCs. Control of PGC proliferation is therefore one of the factors that determine the number of GSCs that the organ will contain. We have performed a screen aimed at finding how PGC proliferation is controlled. Such a screen has not been attempted previously and was therefore likely to reveal novel regulators of cell proliferation. The screen uncovered both cell-autonomous and non-cell autonomous regulators of PGC proliferation. Some of the genes are known cell cycle regulators. Others are homologues of known human tumor-suppressors or oncogenes, which were never studied in the fly. Some of the genes were never shown to control cell proliferation. We propose to study the developmental role of the genes uncovered by the screen. To do so, we will first form a priority list of genes to study according to pre-determined criteria. Our highest priority genes will be those that act from somatic cells to control PGC proliferation. Our studies will provide a better appreciation of how PGC proliferation is controlled by neighboring cells, and how an organ might control the number of adult stem cells it contains.

Keywords: drosophila,stem cells,germ cells,proliferation,ovary
The Dynamics of Colour Revolutions in the Post-Communist World (COLOUR)

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: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research project will probe the significance of the ‘colour revolution’ regime-change process. The term ‘colour revolutions’ is popular shorthand to describe as a single phenomenon a number of non-violent protests that succeeded in overthrowing post-communist authoritarian regimes (e.g. Georgia, 2003; Ukraine, 2004; Kyrgyzstan, 2005). By exploring carefully crafted research questions, the applicant intends to generate a theory of ‘colour revolutions’ that can provide some common points for the changes that have occurred. A large part of the research will be based on in-depth qualitative research employing process tracing techniques. Data will be drawn from a wide range of one-on-one interviews with key actors involved in the colour revolution movements as well as a comprehensive review of relevant literature and analysis of available documentation. During the 36-month re-integration period, over 70% of the time will be spent at Dublin City University (DCU) while three 3-month research trips to the former USSR are envisaged. Research trips would occur as much as possible during vacation time at DCU so as to maximise presence at DCU and utilise essential resources. The primary purpose of these trips will be to collect data and conduct in-depth interviews and the execution of the work will be assisted by a variety of academics, research organisations and universities in the former Soviet Union. Up to 18 seminars are anticipated during this period, in DCU and during the three research trips. Research assistants will be employed throughout, their main tasks being to arrange, translate and transcribe interviews, and to identify and translate relevant native-language data. The project is crafted specifically with a view to fostering ties between DCU and several institutions in the former USSR. The proposal clearly foresees collaboration with research institutes, universities, resource centres and think tanks in several post-soviet countries.

Keywords: social sciences,post-communism,revolution,regime-change
Routes, roots, and rumours: Tracing migration and tourism imaginaries (MIGRATOURIMA)

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: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this anthropological research is to study empirically how imaginaries of tourism to and immigration from “the South” (Africa, Latin America, and Asia) are interlinked and what this tells us about multiculturalism and representations of otherness. The main hypothesis is that prevailing images and discourse represent travel to and from the South in ways that seem disconnected from the lived present but connected with an imagined past. This proposition will be analyzed through an in-depth study of how people in Brussels, Belgium, imagine and represent tourism to and migration from Indonesia, Tanzania, and Chile. The research will employ a mixed-methods approach, involving observation, interviews, archival research, and the collection of images and discourse from secondary sources (TV, advertising, printed press, digital media, cinema, photography and exhibitions). The ethnographic perspective will provide a close-grained analysis of the cultural practices and social relations that (re)produce globally circulating imaginaries of mobility and the implications this has for people’s lives. The project adds to existing research in two ways. In the study, imaginaries (representational systems that mediate reality and form identities) are operationalized as real practices: through the ethnographic method we can assess how imaginary activities, subjects, and social relations are materialized, enacted, and inculcated. Thematically, the research analyzes how widespread imaginaries and personal imaginations about mobility are interconnected and contradicting each other. The study links strongly between the social sciences and the humanities, drawing on the need to bring together aspects of anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, and geography. This timely project will enable a promising researcher affiliated with a top university in the USA to reintegrate himself in the EU, helping him to expand his academic career and facilitate the transfer of knowledge.

Keywords: anthropology,cultural anthropology,social anthropology,ethnography,migration,tourism,imaginaries
Super-span soil-steel bridge (animal crossing) – backfill and long-term monitoring (ARCH-CULV)

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: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Metal soil-steel bridges are getting more and more popular in Europe in recent years.Four identical large-span flexible structures SuperCor will be constructed on A4 motorway in Poland.The structures will be low-profile arch metal culverts with a span of 19.5m and a rise of 6.0m.The culverts will be served as animal crossings.The primary objectives of the proposal are connected with realization of fullscale field tests of one of mentioned structures during backfilling operation and long-term monitoring of behaviour after the end of construction. The main research objectives are the following:1)Investigation of strains and deformations in metal plates of culvert during backfilling operations,2)Long-term monitoring of behaviour of a large-span metal structure after the end of construction,3)The analysis of the results, and the calibration computer codes used to the Finite Element Method(FEM) to model the behaviour of large-span culverts. The important objective of the proposal is detailed analyses of test results.Numerical culverts models will be created using the FEM and these FEM systems will be adjusted for geotechnical purposes.The experimental data obtained under field and fullscale tests are urgently needed to verify geotechnical software and development design methods.The other objective is to run a new course by applicant entitled:"Flexible buried structures"at the host institution.The course will concern testing,designing and constructing buried structures and it will be run together with one of the experts from Norway. One of the aims of Human Resources and Mobility Activity is to increase mobility of researchers in Europe as an instrument of researchers’ exchange between universities and industry.The proposal certainly meets this aim enabling the applicant to continue his researches in Norway as a part of the initial fellowship and it will give him a possibility of managing research project at the home university in cooperation with an industrial partner.

Keywords: super-span culvert,soil-steel bridges,arch-culvert,animal crossing,backfilling operations,long-term monitoring,multi-plate flexible corrugated steel structures,supercor structure.
Cellulose: a key component essential for development and attachment of Streptomyces coelicolor? (STREP-CELL)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in nature being a structural component of the cell wall of most plants. This highly insoluble polymer is degraded by filamentous fungi and actinomycetes, which secrete numerous enzymes tailored to fulfill this task. Streptomyces coelicolor is the best-studied representative of the actinomycetes, and a model organism for understanding prokaryotic development. It forms reproductive aerial hyphae after a period of assimilative growth. Unexpectedly, we identified a classical cellulose synthase gene whose inactivation critically impaired development on a wide range of media. Also, expression of this gene is strongly induced upon initiation of development indicating a key role for this enzyme during morphogenesis. Taken together, I propose that the cellulose synthase has a structural role in development by producing cellulose, which is incorporated in the cell walls of growing aerial hyphae. This could therefore represent the first example of bacterial cell walls that contain cellulose. Besides having an important role during formation of aerial hyphae, cellulose might have a second distinct function during attachment of Streptomyces hyphae to solid surfaces. Strong attachment involves the formation of an uncharacterized extracellular matrix of thin fibrillar structures associated with the adhering hyphae. This matrix strongly resembles that formed by various pathogenic bacteria, in which it was shown to consist of amyloid-like fibrils in association with cellulose. This proposal is aimed at elucidating the role of the cellulose synthase enzyme in morphogenesis and attachment of S. coelicolor. This research provides important new insights how structural modifications to bacterial cell walls affect microbial development. The host institute’s broad knowledge of actinomycetes and carbohydrate biology, and the experience of the researcher with prokaryotic development make this collaboration potentially highly fruitful

Keywords: microbiology,developmental biology,cell biology,molecular biology
Effects of temperature, dynamics, and media on magnetic resonance parameters in endohedral fullerenes and confined Xe atom systems. (MRTDM)

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: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Proposal concentrates on applying and testing computational methodology for accurate calculations of magnetic resonance parameters with inclusion of the relevant physical effects, such as electron correlation, relativity, dynamics, temperature, and media effects, in the calculation. This will be done by combination of the electronic structure theory methods with the simulation approaches, such as molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo methods in a multiscale fashion. We will try to overcome drawbacks of current density functional approaches using and testing the new family of local hybrid functionals. We will apply and test novel, recently developed approaches for treating the relativistic effects. The methods will be applied to and tested on endohedral fullerenes and confined Xe atom guest systems. These two classes of very dynamical systems represent very multidisciplinary fields crossing the chemistry, physics, medicine, materials science, biology, and other disciplines. We will concentrate on current experimental questions and problems. Our aim is to provide answers to current hot questions in the field of endohedral fullerenes and confined Xe systems via reliable computational modelling to gain new understanding and stimulate new experiment, while pushing the state-of-the-art computational methodology forward.

Keywords: nuclear magnetic resonance,electron spin resonance,accurate calculations,molecular properties,molecular dynamics,solvent effects,endohedral fullerenes,129 xe nmr
Role of microglial cells during neurodegeneration in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (MICROGLIA IN ALS)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-05-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons and leading to paralysis and death of the patients. Missense mutations in the gene for the ubiquitously expressed Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) are the best known cause for familial ALS leading to motor neuron death through an acquired toxic function still unidentified. Mice expressing ubiquitously mutant SOD1 develop ALS and although paralysis arises from death of motor neurons it is now clear that different, especially glial, cell types expressing mutant SOD1 contribute to the disease mechanism. Indeed, we have shown that microglial cells, the macrophage of the central nervous system, are implicated in the progression of the disease. Microglial cells originate from hematopoietic cells that colonize the CNS during development, have both neurotrophic and neurotoxic capabilities and are the first cell type to react to any kind of lesion in the CNS including familial and sporadic ALS. With this project I would like to go a step forward in understanding how microglial cells are implicated in motor neuron degeneration. Therefore, the objectives of this project are to study the interactions between macrophages/ microglial cells and motor neurons in ALS mouse models with the aim of increasing motor neuron survival and improving symptoms of the disease. In particular, we want to address (1) the mechanisms of microglial neurotoxicity, especially excitotoxicity, (2) the signals coming from motor neurons that could attract microglial cells and (3) the participation of the peripheral macrophages (macrophages in peripheral tissues and the ones infiltrating the CNS) to motor neuron degeneration in ALS models. As microglial cells are activated both in familial and sporadic ALS, these findings could provide a foundation for discovery of general pathways of motor neuron disease and open a way to identify new targets for development of therapies.

Keywords: neurobiology,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,als,motor neuron,neurodegeneration,microglia,glia,neurotoxicity,excitotoxicity,superoxide dismutase,sod1,non cell autonomous,macrophage