Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A Programme to Attract Postdoctoral Researchers to the Basque Country in any Research Field (WOLFRAM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-COFUND, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16730754.61
EU funding (EUR): 6692301.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to reinforce the research potential of the European Research Area, and to consolidate the Basque Region as a Reference Point for excellence in research.Ikerbasque is a Foundation fostered by the Basque Government to strengthen the Basque Science System by means of attracting senior postdoctoral researchers. Ikerbasque currently manages two successful funding programmes running under the COFUND scheme, SmartBrain, offering full time positions for highly qualified and experienced researchers, and SmartFellows, providing short term sabbaticals for visiting researchers. In order to complement these two calls, Ikerbasque is implementing a novel complementary funding programme in the Basque Country for more junior postdoctoral positions to be supported for the next 5 years (from 2013 to 2018) through the current call of the Marie Curie COFUND programme. The new call to be launched on a yearly basis by Ikerbasque will host mainly incoming (non-national and non-resident researchers) postdoctoral researchers, and some reintegrating (national and non-resident) researchers will also be accepted if they comply with the eligibility criteria. The researchers can submit their applications in any research area. The selected researchers will have a temporary 5 year contract with all the freedom to choose their own research programme, as well as the host institution amongst the universities, research centres and different laboratories that have an agreement with Ikerbasque. They will be hosted in a research centre or university of their choice, where they will develop the research programme that best fits their individual needs, providing the best conditions for their personal objectives and for the development of a valid research project. Thus, WOLFRAM contributes to increase the research excellence in the private and/or the public sectors of the Scientific System of the Basque Country and, as a spin off effect, of the rest of the European Research Area.

Keywords: health sciences,humanities,natural sciences,physical sciences,social sciences,technological sciences,research vacancies,post doctoral fellows,basque country
CNIC International Postdoctoral Programme (CNIC IPP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-COFUND, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-03
End date: 2018-06-02
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4003785.36
EU funding (EUR): 1601514.14
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed CNIC International Postdoctoral Programme (CNIC IPP) is aimed at supporting trans-national mobility of postdoctoral researchers and to broaden and deepen their individual competence, particularly in terms of acquisition of complementary skills needed to become an independent group leader in the future. The programme offers fellowships for researchers who hold a PhD Degree at the time of the application deadline. Applicants will be free to propose a research topic within any of the research Departments at the CNIC. The only limitation will be that the proposed research fits within the CNIC’s overall focus on cardiovascular research.

Keywords: postdoctoral,transnational mobility,cardiovascular research
Be International Post-Doc - Euregio and Greater Region (BEIPD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-COFUND, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16848237.12
EU funding (EUR): 6739294.85
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The University of Liege has run an international Incoming postdoctoral fellowship programme for years (2006-2012) with excellent results: 120 fellows, hundreds of joint publications, lots of professional and transferable skills attendees. Fellowships are based on a bottom-up approach of the fellows. Applicants define their own research project in cooperation with their host unit, so that they can develop a win-win cooperation in terms of science, excellence and career development. All research disciplines are accepted. In addition to the fellowships, a travel-mobility-research allowance of 15.000,00 EUR/year as well as a professional and transversal training programme was offered. Due to the high salary cost, ULg couldn’t support such positions for Outgoing post-docs. Only 6 months abroad salary and mobility allowances were given in 2011 to those who had a job. Incoming post docs ask for lengthening the fellowships to 2 years and ULg post doc ask for a one-year fellowship that enables them to obtain the required level for application and which allows them to develop their research and career and to apply for ambitious projects (research projects or ERC). COFUND will allow the ULg to meet the fellows’ expectations as well as ULg's willingness to support young researchers in attaining an independent position at the top of their research field. 100 Incoming fellowships of 2 years and 28 Outgoing fellowships of one year are planned in 4 calls. The evaluation and selection procedures are developed in a fair and transparent process. It relies on detailed reviews of internal and external experts, reporting of each application, ranking by the research councils and motivated feedback given to candidates. The experienced R&D Office of ULg will manage the project with one person dedicated to the project. A self assessment will be led yearly by the ULg Quality Assessment Office in order to improve practices and guarantee the success of the programme.

Keywords: postdoctoral fellowship,international mobility,salary,research allowance,2-years fellowships,belgium,career development,academic skills,transferable skills.
TAPIR-2012 (TAPIR-2012)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-COFUND, 2012)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1144900.0
EU funding (EUR): 457960.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR) is a two-year programme for young academics with a background in international relations and international security. The fellows spend a total of 24 months in three different research institutions or think tanks in the United States and Europe in order to build skills in policy-oriented research and create their own networks. Fellows are working with a supervising researcher at the host institute and are integrated into relevant research units or projects there. Host institutes provide office space and overhead costs arising during the fellow’s period of research. The fellows’ research is published by their respective host institutions and/or in adequate academic journals. At the end of each year of the programme, a seminar brings together all fellows so they can exchange information about their experiences and present their research. The circle of participating institutes is composed of thirteen high profile research institutes and think tanks on both sides of the Atlantic as for example the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), RAND Corporation, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), United States Institute of Peace (USIP), and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). The programme makes a substantial contribution to the creation of international networks and fosters mutual understanding. As highly accomplished academics looking for a career in policy-oriented research and consulting, TAPIR fellows will be able to experience different policy consulting approaches on the job and to forge contacts within the transatlantic policy community. In addition to the exchange of information and resources across boundaries and across the Atlantic, the fellowship programme provides a pool of qualified professionals for future employment in top-end policy consulting and research.

Keywords: transatlantic - post-doc - fellowship - international relations - security - policy - research - think tanks - consultancy
PREdictive digitization, reStoration and degradatIOn assessment of cultUral heritage objectS (PRESIOUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Greece,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3600008.0
EU funding (EUR): 2728430.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Europe must proactively exploit markets in which it has strategic advantages in order to develop products that will make it a leading player. One such area is Cultural Heritage (CH). Having studied the needs of CH for a number of years, the project team is now in a position to propose breakthrough ICT solutions to the identified challenges: a) the difficulty and inefficiency of the 3D digitisation process, b) the quantification of stone monument degradation, and c) the reconstruction of objects from large numbers of constituent fragments that may be worn, immovable, dispersed or incomplete. Using a common core of geometric processing, analysis and retrieval methods, PRESIOUS aims at predictive geometric augmentation technology with the following scientific objectives: a) On-the-fly auto-completion for 3D digitization that exploits similar template models to allow gradual shape prediction from partially digitized objects. Such a breakthrough system opens a whole new range of possibilities for decreased acquisition times and simplified procedures, leading to an order of magnitude reduction in effort and cost. This technology is a prime candidate for exploitation by our industrial partner. b) Estimation and prediction of monument degradation. The project will investigate models for forward and inverse erosion prediction based on targeted high-accuracy surface scans, allowing one to essentially move the artefact's surface condition "back and forth in time" and visualize and measure the dynamic state of the deteriorating object. This tool is also likely to be applicable in areas outside CH, such as civil engineering. c) 3D CH object repair. Automated, predictive reconstruction from fragmented CH objects that goes beyond reassembly by proposing the synthesis of missing parts using geometry auto-completion. This will aid the physical and virtual restoration process.

Keywords: 3d object reconstruction,cultural heritage object reconstruction,reconstruction from fragments,3d object completion,3d digitisation,3d scanning,degradation measurement,erosion measurement.
SUpport action Centre of CompEtEnce in Digitisation (SUCCEED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1912133.0
EU funding (EUR): 1793809.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The Support Action Centre of Competence in Digitisation (Succeed) will promote the take up and validation of research results in mass digitisation, with a focus on textual content. Advances and tools generated by research groups often remain as working prototypes. Their implementation in the production environment is hindered by the limited awareness of results and the lack of resources for their adaptation and development. Succeed will improve the availability of tools and resources, foster the transfer of knowledge, the creation of research consortia and explore the role of emerging business models, funding opportunities and public--private partnerships to improve large-scale text digitisation techniques. As a result, the following impacts will be achieved: - Optimisation of digitisation resources through fostering pooling the efforts by cultural institutions, partnership (public/private sectors) and cross-border collaboration. - Promotion of the use of common standards for digitisation tools and data. - Sharing of best practices to set up Centres of Competence for European innovation & research and their business models, legal forms, implementation risks, funding opportunities, standardised governance models, contracts/license agreements. - Definition of a roadmap towards a common infrastructure of Centres of Competence in the digital libraries research area. - Raising awareness of results in the field by organising awards, contests and events, alongside a comprehensive dissemination strategy. The action will be implemented through the Impact Centre of Competence in Digitisation, an output of the IMPACT FP7-project which gathers and exposes digitisation tools and resources. The Centre will sustain the actions beyond Succeed since a legal entity will be substantiated and a roadmap for its long-term sustainability will be defined during the action. The consortium is integrated by content-holding institutions and researchers, with complementary backgrounds and experience in the implementation of digitisation programmes, the execution of research activities in the field of digitisation, and in the creation of successful public--private partnerships.

Keywords: cultural heritage,technologies for the digitalisation,raising awareness of research results,digitalisation tools and resources
Enhancing Social Interaction with an AlterEgo Artificial Agent (ALTEREGO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3834912.0
EU funding (EUR): 2920000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of AlterEgo is the creation of an interactive cognitive architecture, implementable in various artificial agents, allowing a continuous interaction with patients suffering from social disorders, by virtue of changes in behavioural (robot-based) as well as morphological (avatar-based) properties of that agent. The AlterEgo architecture is rooted in complex systems, machine learning, and computer vision. The project includes research in fundamental and clinical neurosciences, interaction modeling, development of new computer-vision techniques and human-robot interfaces, as well as evaluation of the scenarios with patients before, during, and after training sessions. At the end of the project, we will produce a new robotic-based clinical method able to enhance social interaction of patients. This new method will change existing therapies, will be applied to a variety of pathologies, and will be individualized to each patient. The first challenge of this project is to create an avatar and a robot alter ego of a patient. Based on recent work in social robotics and neurosciences, we hypothesize that if patients face artificial agents morphologically and behaviourally similar to them, they will increase their social interaction. The second challenge is to transform the morphology and the behaviour of the similar artificial agent into that of a healthy and different agent. We assume that the smooth and continuous behavioural shift from similar/unhealthy to complementary/healthy social behaviour will lead to a better social rehabilitation. AlterEgo opens the door to a new generation of social artificial agents in service robotics. AlterEgo is an interdisciplinary project composed of 7 workpackages, at the interaction of Social Motor Neurosciences (UM1), Robotics (EPFL), Complex Systems Dynamics (UOB and UNEXE), Computer Vision (DFKI), and Psychiatry (CHU).

Keywords: embodiment,social robotics,human-robot interactions,computer vision,complex systems,motor neurosciences
Preserving Linked Data (PRELIDA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Austria,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 844189.0
EU funding (EUR): 769987.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

PRELIDA will target the particular stakeholders of the Linked Data community, including data providers, service providers, technology providers and end user communities. These stakeholders have not been traditionally targeted by the Digital Preservation community, and are typically not aware of the digital preservation solutions already available. So an important task of PRELIDA is to raise awareness of existing preservation solutions and to facilitate their uptake. At the same time, the Linked Data cloud has specific characteristics in terms of structuring, interlinkage, dynamicity and distribution, that pose new challenges to the preservation community. PRELIDA will organise in-depth discussions among the two communities to identify which of these characteristics require novel solutions, and to develop road maps for addressing the new challenges.

Keywords: linked data,digital preservation,digital archives,semantic web
Integrative approach for the emergence of human-like robot locomotion (H2R)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4009400.0
EU funding (EUR): 3050000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The development of a robotic humanoid is one of the recurrent human dreams of all ages. Environments in which humans operate or live are specially made for and structured to their locomotion and manipulation capabilities. In healthy humans, walking emerges naturally from a hierarchical organization and combination of motor control mechanisms. Artificial bipeds have not reached performance comparable to human behaviour. Major drawbacks of these bipeds and control concepts are related to their stability and energy consumption. The goal of H2R project is to demonstrate human-like gait and posture in a controlled compliant biped robot as a result of a hierarchical organization and combination of the most relevant motor control mechanisms found in humans. This will be done integrating the human-like mechanical principles and control strategies currently applied in the three actual prototypes ESBiRRo, Veronica and Posturob, into a behavior-based hierarchical architecture proposed by the iB2C approach. This process will result in a novel reflex-based controlled passive walker, built around the ESBiRRo platform. H2R biped, will allow, to some extent, capturing human functional morphology and passive dynamics features. The behaviour-based control structure will allow for hierarchical strategies and combination of feed-forward and feedback control, thus supporting spinal motor patterns for bilateral synchronization of gait phases and stabilization by means of spinal reflexes. The system will include human-like vestibular and visual sensory systems, to allow for supraspinal postural reflexes. The behaviour-based control architecture will be combined with novel learning schemes and prediction strategies in which biomechanical, neuromotor and cognitive key features of human walking are transferred to the machine.

Keywords: neuromotor control,bipedal robots,robot gait,cognitive control,behaviour-based control
Multiscale Immune System Simulator for the ONset of Type 2 Diabetes integrating genetic, metabolic and nutritional data (MISSION-T2D)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-9, 2011)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2949665.0
EU funding (EUR): 2310000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The MISSION-T2D aims at developing and validating an integrated, multilevel patient-specific model for the simulation and prediction of metabolic and inflammatory processes in the onset and progress of the type 2 diabetes (T2D). The ultimate goal is to provide a diagnostic tool to estimate the risk of developing T2D and to predict its progression in response to possible therapies. In Europe, T2D is one of the most common age-related diseases and a major public health concern. Recent data show that T2D and its complications (heart, kidney, retina, diabetic foot) should be considered a systemic disease sustained by a pervasive, metabolically driven state of inflammation. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to (a) understand the complex mechanisms underpinning the onset of T2D and (b) to identify early diagnostic parameters and related inflammatory indicators, by following a personalized medicine approach. This mission will be accomplished by setting up a multi-scale model to study the systemic interactions of the involved biological mechanisms (immunological/inflammatory processes, energy intake/expenditure ratio and cell cycle rate) in response to a variety of nutritional and metabolic stimuli/stressors. The overall architecture will exploit an already established immune system simulator as well as several discrete and continuous mathematical methods for the modeling of the processes critically involved in the onset and progression of T2D. The crucial validation work will compare simulation predictions with actual biological and clinical data. MISSION-T2D aims at paving the way for translating validated multilevel immune-metabolic models into the clinical setting of T2D. Indeed, this approach will eventually generate predictive biomarkers from the integration of metabolic, nutritional, immune/inflammatory, genetic and gut microbiota profiles, as well as of clinical data, suitable to be translated into cost-effective mobile-based diagnostic tools.

Keywords: type 2 diabetes,immune system,inflammation,aging,simulation,mathematical model,metabolims,diagnosis,metaflammation,metabolic felxibility,insulin resistance,multi-scale,patient-specific