Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Research and advanced training in wheat breeding (WHEATBREED)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 223002.2
EU funding (EUR): 223002.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This career development grant will give advanced training in classical plant breeding and association analysis to a very experienced researcher (>10 years) with a strong background in genomics and bioinformatics. The experienced researcher will implement genomic tools in the breeding and research activities conducted by the Field Crops group at Lleida, Spain. Particularly, transfer of knowledge will be relevant for design of marker assays for existing and future projects and for grant proposals with a genomics component. The proposal is outlined in a training part where the applicant will manage a small breeding program in durum wheat over two seasons. The number of lines will be adjusted in order to ensure that the grant holder obtains broad hands on experience in phenotyping for diverse traits and the use of different experimental designs. Integration to the breeding program will include involvement in negotiations for transfer of varieties to the private sector, during the grant it is expected that no less than two varieties will be transferred to seed companies. The research part of this proposal is focused on association analysis using molecular and field data from past projects. A collection of 172 durum wheat landraces together with 20 modern varieties were grown in field trials over three years at two locations and genotyped with 1150 DArT- and 46 SSR-markers. Two studies will be done to dissect the genetic basis of (i) carbohydrate remobilization and (ii) phenology (duration of developmental phases). Advanced training in association analysis will be obtained through a one month stay at Wagening University. The main supervisor has; 33 years of small grains breeding experience; released 17 varieties; and has been leading the breeding group for 15 years, experiences that ensure success of this career development grant

Keywords: durum wheat,landraces,plant breeding,association analysis,carbohydrate re-mobilization,phenology
Meso and Sub-mesoscale Physico-biogeochemical Dynamics in a Coastal NW Mediterranean Sea: Quantifying and Understanding Ecosystem Structure and Transport (SEAQUEST)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269743.8
EU funding (EUR): 269743.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Shelf and coastal regions are at the interface between continents (impacted by human activities) and the open ocean (the main regulator of our planet’s climate and its biogeochemical cycles). The shelf-sea carbon pump largely relies on lateral transport to remove atmospheric CO2 from the ventilated surface waters and sequester it at depth. A good understanding of the physical transport processes in coastal regions and their impact on the ecosystem dynamics is therefore not only important for future climate predictions but also has a more immediate relevance (e.g., knowledge of local transport is necessary for the creation of marine protected areas, the management of spills, or the mitigation of harmful blooms events, etc.). SeaQUEST will study the horizontal transport and cross-shelf exchange processes including their effect on the biogeochemistry in the coastal zone around the Gulf of Lion (GoL) off the French Mediterranea coast, a highly productive area and important feeding ground for fish, birds, and mammals, both resident and migratory. The main goal of SeaQUEST is to examine the role of the Northern Current as a physical barrier to cross-shelf transport and the effect of its seasonal variability on the local biogeochemistry and plankton dynamics at meso- and sub-mesoscales. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach employing a range of methods and data (numerical simulations, in situ and satellite observations). SeaQUEST will provide new insights into the ecosystem functioning and biological-physical interactions in a highly productive and economically important coastal area which is also one of the main tourist destinations worldwide. The results will therefore be of broad relevance to a variety of stakeholders including decision makers and local managers.

Keywords: coastal oceanography,biogeochemical modelling,regional 3d modelling,continental margins,slope currents,transport processes
ADAPTIve player-centric serious video gaMES (ADAPTIMES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230036.6
EU funding (EUR): 230036.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ADAPTIMES (ADAPTIve player-centric serious video gaMES) project aims at investigating how cognitive abilities, psycho-emotional processes and playing style can be used as a basis for efficient and effective player-centric adaptivity in serious games. For understanding how these three mental characteristics of the player are related to game adaptivity, the project will use a novel combination of methods and techniques. Cognitive abilities and processes will be tracked while player performs creative and challenging tasks requiring both divergent thinking (for finding various possible solutions) and convergent thinking (for choosing the best solution), and also measured by psychometric tests. On other side, psycho-emotional status and processes and playing style are going to be accessed by means of non-intrusive behavioral measuring techniques like 3D eye tracking, gestures and interaction patterns, and navigation control. Research findings are expected to address behavioral patterns and correlation between these mental characteristics and will be used for creation of an adaptation control framework using the video engine of Brainstorm S.A. (host institution). The framework will be integrated in serious video games targeted to one of the most promising educational areas - that of entrepreneurial education. Video games are chosen due to their immersiveness, attractiveness and visual effects useful for presenting tasks requiring entrepreneurial creativity. Via a field trial of playing the game by students in entrepreneurship, the project will validate the expected efficiency of adaptation control based on the mental characteristics of the player. Thus, the project plans to produce multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral results which will contribute to European competitiveness and will give the fellow the ideal opportunity to grow professionally and to fulfill a real knowledge transfer and to establish solid ground for a long-term bilateral connection academia-industry.

Keywords: serios games,adaptivity,player-centric,video games,cognitive abilities,psychic,emotion,playing style,behavioral measuring techniques,entrepreneurship
Sourcing methane and carbon dioxide in karst systems (SMACKS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-02-03
End date: 2017-02-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299558.4
EU funding (EUR): 299558.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Climate change is inextricably linked with the carbon cycle and the natural and/or induced variations of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Recent research on the microclimate dynamics and the geochemistry of subterranean karst environments suggest that these systems, for short cycles, can operate as sinks/reservoirs of carbon dioxide (CO2) during cold periods and as emitters/sources of CO2 during warmer periods. The contribution of these systems to the global fluxes of greenhouses gases could be very important but the controls on karst inputs remain poorly understood. The research proposal is aimed at identifying the environmental factors controlling the CO2 and methane (CH4) exchanges between atmosphere and subterranean environments, using innovative real-time isotope tracing to characterize the cause-effect relationships at carefully selected and well characterized cave-karst locations. Isotopic tracing of CO2 and CH4 fluxes between atmosphere, soil and caves over short period cycles (diurnal to synoptic scales, at different seasonal times) will help identify the relationships between the local environment (temperature, rainfall, atmospheric pressure etc) with the abiotic and biotic processes in the atmosphere-soil-karst system. The multidisciplinary research will characterise the major karstic process including cave microclimate, infiltration water as a transport vehicle of gases, cave ventilation using the variations of carbon isotopic signal of air, water and mineral in each phase (soil, epikarst and cave atmosphere) involved in the carbon fluxes. The results will enable a predictive model of the on longer term controls on karst associated greenhouse gases concentration into subterranean karst environments combining different micro-environmental factors interacting in short cycles and that, in turn, assuming seasonal weather fluctuations or models of climatic scenarios in the future.

Keywords: carbon dioxide,methane,karst,cave,greenhouses gases,climate change,carbon sink,gas monitoring,carbon isotopic signal
Impact of poplar bioenergy cultivation on ozone and volatile organic compound emissions (SRF-OZO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 227800.0
EU funding (EUR): 227800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The need for renewable energy sources to meet EU Directive 2009/28/EC is expected to lead to a considerable expansion in the planting of dedicated fast-growing biomass crops managed as Short Rotation Forestry (SRF). Among them Poplar (Populus spp) is currently the most widely planted SRF species and thus an increase in large-scale SRF poplar plantations might be expected. Poplars are characterized by a considerably high isoprene emission coefficient, and are susceptible to ozone pollution. In this project we will – for the first time – simultaneously measure the fluxes of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs), ozone (O3), and NOx emission in combination with the greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O). All these flux measurements will be made in an SRF poplar plantation located in Lochristi (Belgium) using the eddy covariance technique. The primary objectives of the project are: (i) to quantify the NOx, BVOC and O3 emissions at leaf and ecosystem levels, and (ii) to identify the environmental variables that drive these fluxes. The data obtained will be used to parameterize the CTM LOTOS-EUROS and the CTMs Chemical Transport models. Model simulations will reveal the potential impact of large-scale biomass plantations on isoprene emissions, and consequently on ozone air pollution at the European level. The study will also quantify the Global Warming Potential of poplar SRF and the carbon offset that could be achieved with the bioenergy produced. This project will establish a scientific collaboration with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) of the US Department of Energy to share data and write joint publications.

Keywords: ozone,bvocs emission,bioenergy crops,air pollution,short rotation forestry,greenhouse gas balance
European emigration governance - emigration and diaspora policies and discourses in the post-crisis era. (EMIGRE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-12-01
End date: 2017-10-10
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300754.25
EU funding (EUR): 300754.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project breaks new ground in the study of migration governance by looking at the so-called immigration countries from the perspective of emigration governance. The main underlying theme of this research is that emigration and immigration are two sides of the same coin and thus European migration governance should be approached from two angles to understand its full dimension. European Union is in fact still a region of emigration, with majority of flows staying within its boundaries, but important numbers leaving EU every year. Following the current global trends emigrants should be perceived as a potential asset. ÉMIGRÉ analyses emigration and diaspora policies of four EU Member States (UK, France, Spain and Poland) as well as EU-level responses to emigration to understand what are the drivers of the emigration governance in Europe and how the policies actually work. Key objectives are: 1) To close the knowledge gap on migration from the EU. 2) To enrich international migration governance studies by providing comparative analysis of actions of EU States in regards to emigration management, over time. 3) To ask what is the relation between State identity formation/shifts and success of policy learning/policy transfer processes between levels of governance. 4) To contribute to evidence-based policy making at the EU level. The project focuses especially on EU emigration to other OECD countries and in particular Canada. It employs a wide range of interdisciplinary methods to collect and analyse data. It also offers an intensive training programme.

Keywords: european migration governance,emigration policy,diaspora policy,state identity,european citizenship.
Constructing a robust drug delivery system by thermo-responsive gelation and pH-responsive gel-dissolution from triblock terpolymer-drug conjugates (POLYMER-DRUG-GEL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 231283.2
EU funding (EUR): 231283.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this research program is to achieve secure delivery, targeted release and high loading of anti-cancer drugs conjugated with polymers utilizing the following two components. First, the proposed plan involves developing a new polymer-drug conjugate composed of poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide) (PHPMA) and anti-cancer drugs containing no amine groups in their chemical structures including docetaxel (DTX). PHPMA is widely conjugated with drugs, and DTX has been reported as an efficient drug for curing solid tumor. However, secure conjugates between PHPMA and such a drug have rarely been reported. Here a new PHPMA-DTX conjugate is proposed where a new PHPMA-peptidyl linker is bonded with chemically modified DTX. The second component involves constructing a triblock terpolymer composed of a thermo-responsive block, pH-responsive block and the new PHPMA-DTX conjugate block to achieve the key target goals in drug delivery. This terpolymer is designed such that it is an injectable solution in water at room temperature. It may form thermo-responsive gels at body temperature during blood circulation (pH = 7.4) due to 3D networking among the terpolymer components above the lower critical solution temperature of the thermo-responsive block. The drugs will be securely delivered to tumor cells with limited exposure to normal cells as one of the gel components. Then when the gels reach acidic tumor cells (pH < 6), the gels will be disrupted and dissolved as the pH-responsive block becomes hydrophobic. As a result, the drugs will be exposed to tumor cells and released by the cleavage of hydrazone bonds and peptide bonds between DTX and PHPMA. Therefore, efficient and precise delivery of anti-cancer drugs will be achieved through this research program. This will only be achieved through the utilization of polymer science as a key scaffold for delivery alongside biomaterials science and pharmacology to enable the development of a novel drug delivery platform.

Keywords: polymer-drug conjugates,stimuli-responsive polymers,thermo-responsive gelation,ph-responsive gel-dissolution,secure delivery,targeted release and high loading of anti-cancer drugs
New Challenges in Set-Valued Numerical Analysis (NCSVNA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 231283.2
EU funding (EUR): 231283.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project aims at the development of a radically new systematic approach to the field of set-valued numerical analysis. It is based on recent breakthrough results on the representation of sets as functions in a Banach space, and will allow the design of high performance numerical schemes for problems in dynamical systems and control theory, which cannot be solved efficiently within the traditional framework. The last two decades have witnessed the successful development of grid-cell discretisations for the computation of characteristic sets of dynamical and control systems (attractors, reachable sets of control systems, etc.). The most popular software package based on this discretization is the computer program GAIO, which is used throughout the academic community and by institutions such as NASA. Though grid-cell methods have reached a high degree of maturity, their computational complexity is very high, and they suffer massively from the curse of dimensionality. Since grid-cell discretisation possesses little structure, these schemes can at best be first-order convergent. Therefore, this proposal aims at developing an alternative technique for the representation, analysis and numerical treatment of subsets of the Euclidean space. Instead of interpreting sets as collections of points without any further structure, sets will be grouped into set spaces that can be embedded into appropriate Banach spaces by means of a generalised support function. In this setting, sets can be handled by higher-order numerical methods such as Newton's scheme instead of first-order grid-cell methods. The exploration of further properties of these set spaces, the development of efficient tools for the approximation of sets and the application to problems in dynamical systems and control theory will be an exciting, completely open field, and any additional insight will immediately open up new opportunities in set-valued numerical analysis and dynamics.

Keywords: set-valued numerical analysis,set spaces,invariant sets,newton's method in set spaces,dynamical systems
The Repeatability of Genetic Architecture (HYBRID-GENES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-03-06
End date: 2017-03-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 197811.6
EU funding (EUR): 197811.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how genetic variation is created and maintained. Recent studies confirm the old idea introduced by Anderson in the 1940’s in his monograph “introgressive hybridisation”, namely that hybridisation can provide a bridge for the genetic exchange of adaptations (genes that increase fitness). In general, it is thought that adaptive genes have a greater chance to cross species boundaries than key “speciation genes” or “genomics islands of divergence” which are should be more resistant to introgression. An exciting opportunity to tackle this question is to study novel genetic combinations in recently originated hybrid zones, because they allow to study the creation and maintenance of unique genetic combinations within ecological time frames. In the last five years, the rapid development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and the computational advancements of new techniques to analyse big data (such as large sub-sections of the genome) allows testing these ideas for the first time in unprecedented detail. Temperature induced range expansion can cause novel range overlap between formerly allopatric species and can lead to extensive hybridisation in these new sympatric areas. In the proposed Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship, I will work with two closely related damselfly species Ischnura elegans and I. graellsii which show extensive and recent population overlap in southern Europe with strong and on-going hybridisation. The main hypothesis of this proposal is that adaptive genes have a greater chance to cross species boundaries than key speciation genes. To test this hypothesis, this proposal has three main objectives that address key challenges in the field: i) detailed quantification of introgression levels across the genome; ii) repeatability of the genetic architecture of speciation; and iii) repeatability of the genetic architecture of adaptation via introgressive hybridisation.

Keywords: next generation sequencing,hybrid zones,introgressive hybridisation,speciation,adaptation,damseflies