Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Prescriptive Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals and Healthy Subjectivities (PPPHS)

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: Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1121760.0
EU funding (EUR): 1121760.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This research asks how pharmaceuticals prescribe the healthy subject. It examines the cultural meanings and expectations attached to four prescription drugs, and compares the policies and practices around their use in two countries, Sweden and the UK. Empirically, it studies prescription medicines on the outer edges of adulthood: the HPV vaccine; hormone treatments for early puberty; alpha-blockers against Benign Prostrate Hyperplasia; and pharmaceutical developments against Alzheimer s disease. This view from the edges of the mature subject will bring into focus the practices and pleasures, responsibilities and rewards the adult subject position contains (or at least promises), the gendered positionalities it entails and culturally specific expectations articulated by medical prescriptions. The project conceptualizes of pharmaceuticals as flexible technologies, as actors which influence our identities but which also work within and are constrained by institutional policies, social values, medical practices and the material world. The study will open new research horizons on two levels: The groundbreaking methodological approach, with hands-on, collaborative analytical work in PhD courses and analysis workshops between the participants and sites, will ensure an interdisciplinary approach by truly in actual research practice combining approaches from Science Technology and Society, Gender Studies and Posthumanist Studies. In addition, while firmly grounded in concepts of performative subjecthood, identity, the Self and materialities, this project will force a re-reading of the empirical material through ideas from early medical sociology texts, work which viewed health, illness and treatments as embedded in and performed by communities rather than as possessions and responsibilities of the individual patient. This collaborative re-reading will challenge theoretical ideas about the medicalization of the healthy subject and critical pharmaceutical studie

Keywords: patient subjectivities,pharmaceuticals,medicalization,feminist science studies,interdisciplinary,social responses to health
Crossroads of empires: archaeology, material culture and socio-political relationships in West Africa (CROSSROADS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,Niger,Benin
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 893161.0
EU funding (EUR): 893161.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Knowledge of the last 1000 years in the West African Sahel comes largely from historical sources, which say that many regions were ruled by vast polities. The aim of my archaeological project is to seize how, in fact, lhe 'empires' of this region structured the landscape, and the movemenl of peoples, ideas, and things, with a focus on the period AD 1200-1850. Is 'empire' really a useful term? I will confront historical evidence with archaeological data from one area at the intersection of several polities: the dallols in Niger. This area is rich in remains, said to result from population movements and processes of religious and political change, but these remains have been only briefly described so far. As this region is a key area of migrations and cross-influences, it is the ideal 'laboratory' for exploring the materialisation of contacts and boundaries, through a mapping of material culture distributions. My project will approach these sites holistically, carrying out archaeological regional survey and prospection. Excavation will indicate chronology and cultural affiliation. At lhe same time, I will take an interdisciplinary approach, using anthropological and oral-historical enquiries to obtain background information to test hypotheses generated by the archaeological data. Enquiries will assess how material culture can show group belonging and population shifts, and examine the role of individuals called 'technical specialists'. This will help solve the current impasse in our understanding of vast empires which, though they are historically known, remain poorly understood. My project will not just improve our knowledge of an almost-unknown part of the world, but thanks to its geographical location, interdisciplinary nature and strong thematic framework, open up avenues of thinking about the relalion between archaeological and historical data, the mediation of relations through artefacts, and the archaeology of empires, all widely-relevant research issues

Keywords: history,archaeology,empires,anthropology,oral traditions,technical specialists
Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic (DIGIPAL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 995531.0
EU funding (EUR): 995531.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project involves developing and applying new methods in palaeography, bringing digital resources to bear in innovative ways. It comprises three components: a web resource, a database, and a monograph. The web resource will allow the study of medieval script in the context of the manuscripts and charters that preserve it. It will focus on discovery and citation, allowing users to retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the larger context including the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of exploring the material such as images, maps and timelines as well as text-based browse and search. It will provide a flexible, extensible framework to integrate external data-sources and so applies to any period or area of palaeography. It will therefore enable new developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but not yet achieved in practice. To demonstrate these methods, content will be provided for handwriting from England in the vernacular, particularly that of AD 990-1100. This period saw rapid change in vernacular script despite relative stability in that of Latin, something that has never been fully explained. This problem will be addressed by integrating existing datasets but also by producing and incorporating an entirely new database of scripts. The result will provide access to the complete corpus of surviving examples of the script for the first time, bringing an unprecedented rigour to palaeographical analysis. A monograph will then draw on this research, demonstrating the new methods in practice and providing the first comprehensive account of English vernacular script from the period. The work will address issues in Digital Humanities (integration, interface design, visualisation and standards), in palaeographical method (quantitative methods, terminology and evidential rigour), and in the history of vernacular script

Keywords: palaeography,manuscripts,databases,digital humanities,integration
'Crimmigration': Crime Control in the Borderlands of Europe (CRIMMIGRATION)

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: Norway
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1309800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1309800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Control of migration is becoming an increasingly important task of contemporary policing and criminal justice agencies. The purpose of this project is to map the progressive intertwining and merging of crime control and migration control practices in Europe and to examine their implications. The project is guided by three sets of research questions: 1) How do contemporary police and criminal justice institutions deal with unwanted mobility and the influx of „aliens‟ (i.e. non-citizens) to their territories? 2) What is the relevance of citizenship for European penal systems? and 3) How do contemporary crime control practices support and perform the task of (cultural and territorial) border control? The project aims to analyse the impact of the growing emphasis on migration control on criminal justice agencies such as the police, prisons and detention facilities. The basic hypothesis of the project is that migration control objectives are contributing to the development of novel forms of punishment and new rationalities of social control termed „crimmigration‟. The project aims to describe these novel hybrid forms of control since they constitute important conceptual challenges for criminal justice scholarship and require new theoretical perspectives. A question will be asked: what kind of break from traditional criminal justice practices and principles do they represent? Is the focus on punishment and reintegration of offenders gradually being replaced by a focus on diversion, immobilisation and deportation? Moreover what kind of legal, organisational and normative responses do they require?

Keywords: criminology,criminal justice,migration,border control,police,prisons,social exclusion,citizenship
Information Heterogeneity and Frictions in the Macroeconomy (INFOMACRO)

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: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal seeks to analyze the effects of incomplete dispersed information for macroeconomic dynamics, broadly defined. First, the proposal seeks to develop methods for the analysis of dynamic equilibrium models, in which different participants hold different views of the aggregate conditions. Theoretical and quantitative solution methods will be proposed that can be applied to almost arbitrary equilibrium models of financial markets or the macro-economy, integrating information with other sources of micro-level heterogeneity (such as income risk), and other sources of micro-level adjustment frictions. Second, the proposal will apply these methods to gain a better understanding of the channels through which information heterogeneity affects aggregate dynamics. The project will develop macroeconomic models with heterogeneity in beliefs, and different important macroeconomic adjustment channels (including pricing and investment decisions by firms, consumption-savings decisions of households, port-folio choice, idiosyncratic risk) to assess the effect of information heterogeneity from a theoretical as well as a quantitative angle. Third, our methods of analysis will be extended to study asset pricing dynamics with heterogeneous expectations. This part also aims to integrate asset pricing dynamics with corporate decision making, in order to gain a better understanding of the intraction between asset valuations (or mis-valuation) and real economic variables. Fourth, this project will use these methods and models to gain insight into normative questions such as the welfare implications of information disclosures, optimal design of managerial incentive structures, regulation of firm behavior and firm dynamics, or macroeconomic policy.

Keywords: information heterogeneity,aggregate fluctuations,frictions,microfoundations of macroeconomics
International Capital Flows and Emerging Markets (KF&EM)

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: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 900000.0
EU funding (EUR): 900000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Financial liberalization in emerging markets has not produced the benefits predicted by conventional, neoclassical models. There is consensus that in reality financial frictions must play a larger role than these models anticipated. The objective of this research project is to enhance our understanding of how this happens, emphasizing the interactions between financial integration and the workings of domestic financial markets. The project is structured around a set of related questions. (i) Can these interactions account for the macroeconomic effects of financial liberalization? (ii) How should emerging markets manage financial integration? Should they rely on financial systems that facilitate segmentation between domestic and international markets, as in the 70s and 80s? (iii) What are the implications for the global imbalances that contributed to the recent crisis? Can emerging markets export their vulnerabilities to advanced countries? (iv) Can these interactions explain the appearance of bubbles? What are their effects on the workings of international and domestic financial markets? Gross capital flows reflect risk in domestic financial markets and also raise this risk by increasing the incentives to default. This complementarity is highly destabilizing. (v) Does the recent global financial crisis and associated collapse in gross capital flows reflect such forces? Have they been present in previous crises, particularly in emerging markets? Emerging markets are more financially integrated than during the cold war. But the current situation has an antecedent in the late 19th century. Traditionally, integration is taken as exogenous. I will explore the forces that shape the process of integration. (vi) Is there any relationship between the existence of a hegemonic power, Britain in the late 19th century and the US since the 1980s, and financial integration? (vii) What will be the effect of the ongoing weakening of the hegemonic power of the US?

Keywords: international finance,emerging markets
DYNAMICS OF THE ORGANIC MATTER AND THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY RELATED TO ITS CYCLING IN ARID AREAS. INVOLVEMENT OF AMENDMENTS BASED ON ORGANIC WASTES (DYNOMIWAS)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Microorganisms are responsible for organic carbon mineralization and sequestration in soil, and these processes play a key role in ecosystem sustainability. However, despite the fact that several studies have shown how organic amendments can be used to recover desertified soils, the information regarding the microbial key players and carbon sequestration processes is limited for these areas. The general objective of this proposal is to study the dynamics of organic matter and the function of the microbial community associated with its turnover in desert areas. This proposal includes interdisciplinary aspects that will enrich the knowledge of the fellow and host institution with novel results. We will combine cut-off technologies based on chemical (C analysis), microbiological (microbial activity and biomass), biochemical (enzyme activity and catabolic potential), proteomic (native and non-native based proteomics from organic wastes and soils) and molecular methods (clone libraries, DGGE) to open the “black box” of the soil microbial community related to C transformation in arid and semiarid soils. Several activities are organized: i) Selection of soils with different levels of degradation, ii) evaluation of the addition of new organic materials (sludges, composts, charcoals) in soil microbiological quality; ii) identification of the main physical and chemical carbon sinks; iv) changes in the microbial community structure of soil organic amendment; v) transformations of organic molecules by the microbial community (mineralization of isotopic compounds); and vi) identification of enzymatic processes related to generation of stable organic matter. The experience of the candidate and the host institution (CEBAS-CSIC) is sufficient for the development of these activities.

Keywords: soil degradation,desertification,microbial activity,microbial diversity,organic matter,carbon sequestration
New high-quality mined nanomaterials mass produced for plastic and wood-plastic nanocomposites (MINANO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Denmark,Mexico,Italy,Brazil
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-EU-Mexico, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3750709.4
EU funding (EUR): 1494447.6
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Successful adaptation of nanotechnology in the end-products requires an access to the nanofiller technology and to the raw materials. The MINANO-project brings together partners representing end-user’s product know-how, formulation and processing technology and most importantly secure and reliable source of nano raw materials. Although there has been tremendous development in the area of nanocompounds with improved functionality, there exists a need to develop an efficient, continuous method of large-scale, low-cost synthesis of such materials. To answer to this need the following steps are suggested: 1) Integrate the functionalization of the high-quality nanoparticles directly on the continuous mass-production process already in the mining industry, 2) ensure controlled dispersion to the matrix material in large scale by cooperation between nanoparticle producer and end-product manufacturer, 3) assure sustainable and safe production and use by state-of-the-art life-cycle analysis. Based on the mass production process and cooperative value chain we concentrate on three major functionalities: Flame retardancy, UV resistance and antimicrobial properties. These properties are achieved by functionalized Mg(OH)2, ZnO and Ag nanoparticles. Societal and industrial impacts of these properties are extensive and there is a strong request of these functionalities for both plastic and wood-plastic based matrix materials. The use of nano-sized functional filler materials enables to use smaller amount of additives thus giving better recyclability, lower weight, higher mechanical strength and potential multifunctional features to the end-product. The combination of new nanofunctionalities gives far reaching possibilities for new types of functional plastics, and completely new possibilities to wood-plastic composites as well. This moves both mining industry and end-product companies towards high-tech on the long run.

Keywords: mining,nanoparticle,life cycle analysis,plastic,wood-plastic,nanocompound,fire retardancy,uv resistance,antimicrobial
Supporting the research potential on emerging infectious diseases in La Réunion Island, an EU outermost region in the South-Western Indian Ocean (RUN-EMERGE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Research Potential
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-15
End date: 2015-01-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2017067.86
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

La Réunion Island is an outermost European region located in the South Western Indian Ocean. It was severely hit in 2005 and 2006 by a Chikungunya epidemic that affected a third of the population and led to dramatic socio-economical consequences. As a result, the CRVOI (Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les maladies émergentes dans l’Ocean Indien), was launched in 2007 to be dedicated to the investigation of human and animal infectious diseases emerging in tropical regions. This Center complements, in a holistic approach of EIDs research, the existing laboratories of the Université de La Réunion working on plant emerging pathogens, phytochemistry, ecology, immunology and social sciences. RUN-Emerge aims at tackling the weaknesses resulting from the remoteness of this island, i.e. essentially scientific isolation and insufficient human resources. The main objectives are (i) to foster an inter disciplinary approach towards EIDs investigation, (ii) to tighten links of the Université de La Réunion with research partners from South Western Indian Ocean ICPCs working in this field and (iii) to open up the partnership to European leading groups, thereby extending the European Research Area and laying the ground for future participation to FP7 calls.