Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
PHOtoCathalytic Systems for CLean Energy and Environment Applications (PHOCSCLEEN)

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: Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163800.0
EU funding (EUR): 163800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The research purpose of PHOCSCLEEN is to investigate a number of photo-catalytic oxide nanomaterials, classify them and produce new composite materials with tailored properties. Selected materials will be investigated in the light of application aimed to environmental clean-up and water splitting for hydrogen production. By exploiting the complementarities of partners, the following goals will be reached: 1. Improvement of the technical knowledge in the area, achieved thanks to a systematic characterization of the properties and processing of photo-catalytic oxide nanomaterials, and by investigating and optimizing the integration schemes of optical energy sources within the photocatalytic reactor, 2. Increase of the cooperation among the participating institutions and, more in general, between Europe, Canada and Mexico in this area; besides the support to the joint research among senior researchers (ERs), this will be achieved by training young researchers (ESRs) not only from a scientific point of view, but also enhancing their ability to work within an international team combining expertise coming from different research centers; 3. Support to and ease of the transfer of the existing expertise from one partner to another, both in terms of knowledge, and in terms of expertise on tools and processes. Eventually this will lead to the creation of a structured network of institutions cooperating in this area. This will also include the transfer of know-how in project setup and management to allow for the construction of a stronger management base to better define and guide future EU projects on the mentioned research area.

Keywords: photoelectrochemistry,photocatalysis,physical chemistry,nanomaterials,material growth,optical properties and band structure
New Zealand Estonian French Research Exchange Scheme (NEFREX)

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: France,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 121800.0
EU funding (EUR): 121800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The New Zealand Estonian-French Research Excellence scheme is based on promoting strong inter-disciplinary research into human genetic and cultural evolution, harnessing the complementary resources of the ERA based institutions and their partner in New Zealand. Its main goal is to couple the existing strengths in the Paris and Tartu groups (large population level samples, frequentist population genetics, phylogeography, and Approximate Bayesian Computational Methods) with those of the Computational Evolution group in New Zealand (Computational approaches to evolution using likelihood-based methods). The collaboration will be two-fold, using existing statistical approaches to cultural and genetic evolution applied to extant ERA-based data sets, whilst developing new analytical approaches for future research projects that anticipate the forthcoming large-scale increases in both genetic data production and computational tractability. These goals will be achieved by balanced staff exchange and training programs throughout the four year period of the proposal, operating at the levels of Experienced and Early-Stage researchers. This will involve (a) theory-driven strategic planning, (b) tightly focused periods of data processing and implementation, (c) joint development of new methodologies, (d) training workshops, and (e) seminars. This exchange program will create a new generation of researchers capable of the inter-disciplinary dialogue required to develop long term research collaborations between the three host institutions and be in a prime position to work with the genome-wide data sets currently in production.

Keywords: l210 bioinformatics,l211 computational biology,molecular anthropology,linguistics,bayesian,demographic modelling,population genetics,human evolution
TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES IN A CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT: MULTILATERALISM THROUGH REGIONALISM (EU-GLOBAL)

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: Türkiye,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 105000.0
EU funding (EUR): 105000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of this proposal is to establish and strengthen long-term new research partnerships between European Research Area (ERA) institutions and respected research institutions in USA that are specifically working on European studies. The proposal aims to create a network platform that involves partners awarded as Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in EU Studies, foster transfer and exchange of knowledge with a special focus on Euro-Transatlantic comparative perspective. Thus, the project aims not only to create research partnerships but also equip participating researchers with an unprecedented comparative perspective on EU affairs since it will combine outlooks from a founding EU-member state, Germany, a candidate country, Turkey and beyond the Atlantic, the USA. The project partners are: Middle East Technical University Center for European Studies (Turkey), University of Cologne Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science and European Affairs (Germany), Yasar University EU Research Center (Turkey)University of California Berkeley EU Center (USA), University of Pittsburgh European Union Center of Excellence (USA). The proposal offers mobility of 14 researchers from ERA to USA and 12 researchers from USA to ERA in 3 years time specifically studying comprehensive security and governance with a comparative and transatlantic perspective. The proposal offers mobility of 26 researchers and the total period of secondments is 88 months designed in groups of 1, 3 and 6 months.

Keywords: s112 global and transnational governance - international law - human rights
Risk Analysis, Ruin and Extremes (RARE)

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: United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 783000.0
EU funding (EUR): 783000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This project, named Risk Analysis, Ruin and Extremes (RARE), aims at developing the theoretical side of the analysis of ruin probabilities in case of disasters or extreme shocks for insurance-like risk pools, by the introduction and analysis of new risk measures, and by (asymptotic) quantification of aggregated risk, central topics of interest for the prediction of financial disasters and more generally for risk management. Since specialists working on the areas of extremes and rare events are scarce and sparse, such an exchange program helps creating a needed network of knowledge, ideas and experience. We propose 12 international leading research centers from European, emergent and developed countries, to establish an initial network basis of 20 experienced researchers and 20 early stage researchers.

Keywords: m114 probability and statistics
Smart Sensor Networks with energy harvesting for real time monitoring in urban Water infrastructure (SMARTWATER)

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: United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157500.0
EU funding (EUR): 157500.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The SmartWater Programme will improve sensors in the water system by investigating smart sensor networks with Energy Harvesting for real time monitoring of the water infrastructure. The project will look at the problem of limited power resources to carryout monitoring of the water distribution system. Benefits of the research to end users will be: reduced dependency on battery power, reduced installation and maintenance costs, real time monitoring, water consumption reduction, detection of abnormalities in the water supply system and energy saving. These areas are all important to the European Commission’s policy ‘Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union’ (2007). The consortium is made up of institutions experienced in hosting international exchanges from the UK, the Netherlands and China. The partners have track records in smart sensor networks and communication, power harvesting technology, real time modelling and control in water distribution system. The six organisations are at the forefront of their fields. The consortium will support established and new partnerships. The exchanges will include delivering work packages and dissemination of results through international conferences and seminars. By combining partner skills, the project will be able to look at the sensor network and identify intelligent power management systems to improve energy consumption. A new long-term research group will emerge from the work, with early stage researchers who have been exposed to a culture of international collaborative research. The consortium will share findings with a large network of contacts outside the collaboration. This will include businesses and research institutions around the globe. The research could then be commercialised into a self powered data logger for water utility companies.
Molecular Scale Electrochemistry and Nontraditional Electrochemical Materials Science (ELETRONANOMAT)

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: Denmark,United Kingdom,Spain,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 287700.0
EU funding (EUR): 287700.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

ELECTRONANOMAT offers major efforts towards establishing and developing a new joint European/Chinese network in comprehensive frontline electrochemical and biological surface science. The network will be a platform for future collaboration based on extensive staff exchange and knowledge transfer among the partner institutions. “Molecular and biomolecular electrochemistry at non-traditional electrode surfaces” is a core notion, rooted in designed electrocatalytic materials with new and interesting properties. The materials are metallic and semiconductor nanoparticle, graphene, and photo-active composite materials, as well as ionic liquid media, prepared by tailored chemical synthesis and characterised to nanoscale and single-atom/molecule resolution by sophisticated physical techniques. The new materials are the basis for multifarious, coordinated efforts in precisely defined joint projects in molecular and biomolecular electrochemistry, single-molecule scanning probe studies, photo-electrocatalysis, and nanomaterial/(bio)molecular hybrids, accompanied by strong theoretical support. Core achievements will include detailed understanding of electronic and transport properties of single “smart” molecules (transition metal complexes, redox metalloproteins) in novel environments, and electrochemical mapping of electronic properties of the new materials alone and in combination with “smart” (bio)molecules. Development of next generation ultra-sensitive chemical and bioelectrochemical sensor devices based on the novel interdisplinary surface science is also offered by the European/Chinese collaboration. The eight strong Chinese and European groups offer all complementary expertise in chemical synthesis, surface characterization, electrochemistry, scanning probe technology, and theoretical expertise needed for the proposed coordinated effort. In return the project will lift molecular and biomolecular electrochemistry and surface science to a new European/Chinese-based level.

Keywords: c102 nanochemistry,c107 chemical physics,c109 electrochemistry,c115 theoretical and computational chemistry,c112 catalysis,c128 nanomaterials,c105 surface science,c125 ionic liquids
International Research Exchange on Cooperatives (INT.RE.COOP)

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: Italy,Belgium,Serbia,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-15
End date: 2016-09-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191100.0
EU funding (EUR): 191100.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Cooperative initiatives are flourishing in a variety of fields, both traditional and non traditional ones. The resilience of cooperatives has been widely acknowledged by policy and opinion makers, as well as international organizations -Year 2012 has been declared the International Year of Cooperatives by the UN- which are increasingly eager to understand if and how cooperatives can have a role in tackling the dramatic consequences of the global crisis and reforming the system that has contributed to generating it. However, in spite of their societal relevance, scarce attention has been paid so far to cooperatives by the social sciences. While isolated "pieces" of theory have been developed, a comprehensive theoretical framework explaining the upsurge of cooperatives; their competitive advantages in given sectors; and their limitations, has not been elaborated so far. The lack of understanding of the potential of cooperatives has severe policy implications in terms of insufficient political recognition and inadequate management modalities. This circumstance is all the more relevant in Third Countries, including post-transition and Latin American countries, where crucial socio-economic problems that could be successfully tackled by cooperatives remain unsolved. Against the background of contributing to developing a comprehensive theoretical framework explaining the rationale of cooperatives, INT.RE.COOP will enlarge the Research Network established by RECOSET. Partners’ diverse research expertises (in economics; development studies; applied economics; sociology; law; management and business administration) and geographic specialization (EU/AC, CIS; North America; Latin America), will ensure that a multidisciplinary and international approach is adopted and comparative analyses across sectors and countries are carried out, given the goal of developing policy recommendations on how to support the growth of cooperatives where they show competitive advantages.

Keywords: e112 social economics,e105 competitiveness - innovation - research and development,e109 organization studies - strategy,s101 social structure - inequalities - social mobility,s102 ageing - work
Towards an understanding of cooperation in an African passerine bird (COOPERATION)

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,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-15
End date: 2016-10-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 142800.0
EU funding (EUR): 142800.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to understand the fitness bases of cooperation in an endemic southern African passerine and the consequences of cooperation for population dynamics through its effects on reproductive output, survival and dispersal. We will continue a unique long-term study of an African bird. We will focus on the evolution of different cooperative behaviours – cooperative breeding, nest building and predator mobbing and on the relationship between cooperation, fitness, dispersal and long-term population dynamics. This is a central theme in biology which of wide interest since cooperation is widespread in nature (including among humans). We will use the exchange of researchers with complementary skills from three European countries and South Africa to accomplish a synergistic collaboration that will overcome the constraints, in terms of skills and funding, of the group members involved. This exchange is expected to have a substantial positive impact on the training of the researchers and students involved and will increase the quality and productivity of the research produced. It is also expected to lead to important networking and long-lasting partnerships between the researchers and participant organisations.

Keywords: l802 population biology - population dynamics - population genetics,l806 animal behaviour,l801 ecology,l805 conservation biology - ecology - genetics
Porous Silicon Carbide as a support for Co metal nanoparticles in Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (SICCATALYSIS)

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: Belgium,Spain,France,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165300.0
EU funding (EUR): 165300.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Searching for the alternative energy sources and particularly for liquid fuel is strategic task for the nearest future. Renewable biomass, large deposits of natural gas and coal can be such sources. A major challenge for this direction is to develop efficient the gas-to-liquid process. The heart of such process is Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis (CO hydrogenation by hydrogen) that takes place on Co or Fe catalysts supported on Al2O3 or SiO2. The FT reaction is usually carried out at 200 - 350 °C and at elevated pressures (up to 40 bars). At these stress conditions the chemical nature of the support material plays an important role. Significant support interaction is observed for Al2O3 and TiO2 leading to the formation of inactive compounds (so-called SMSI effect). SiO2 support exhibits a weaker interaction. However, its low thermal conductivity provokes overheating of the metals due to a high exothermic nature of the FT reaction. It leads to sintering of the active compounds. Consequently, these effects cause irreversible deactivation of the catalyst. The main objective of the proposed project is the development of new catalysts which demonstrate high activity/selectivity with improved stability towards extreme hydrothermal conditions in FT reaction. To do so, we propose to apply porous silicon carbide (pSiC) as a support in the catalyst. The use of pSiC prevents sintering and chemical reaction of cobalt metal with a support thanks to its high thermal conductivity, outstanding chemical inertness and mechanical strength. Moreover, silicon carbide demonstrates mesoporous framework enabling its impregnation with cobalt particles. This will lead to higher activity/selectivity in comparison to nonporous supports in terms of mass unit of the catalyst. For more benefit concepts of nanotechnology in catalyst preparation will be introduced to control the size and shape of cobalt nanoparticles, known as hot injection method.

Keywords: c121 surface modification,c124 porous materials,c112 catalysis,c128 nanomaterials
Supporting Standardisation for Smart Textiles (SUSTA-SMART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Italy,Canada
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2012-CSA-6, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 676327.0
EU funding (EUR): 498000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Several European FP6/FP7 smart textiles projects resulted in a variety of high market potential developments. Representative NMP projects are SAFE@SEA–advanced personal protective clothing; POLYTECT–smart textile materials for reinforcing and monitoring infrastructure and DEPHOTEX–flexible photovoltaic textiles. SUSTA-SMART will start from the standardisation needs encountered in these projects, which had each at least one SUSTA-SMART partner involved, as well as those from a carefully selected group of other FP6/FP7 projects. Given the wide range of potential applications, the efforts will be restricted to three focus domains: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), construction and infrastructure and consumer goods. Although first steps have been taken, the interaction between research and standardisation can still be improved tremendously. SUSTA-SMART opts for a systematic three step approach to forward standardisation: •Mapping both the relevant standardisation actors and the standardisation issues of the FP6/FP7 projects. For the latter, a standardisation strategy audit procedure will be worked out. •Synthesising and prioritising of the needs, based on a broad consensus, leading to a standardisation roadmap. •Compilation of dedicated standardisation input documents (including New Work Item Proposals) and presenting them to relevant standardisation committees. Of special interest will be CEN TC 248 WG31 – Smart textiles, the convenor of which will also serve as the coordinator of SUSTA-SMART. Also liaising with other relevant actors (including in North-American ones) is foreseen. Standardisation is a key issue for further exploitation and commercialisation of smart textiles, especially for PPE and construction as it supports legal provision in those areas. By teaming up with a group of external partners (14 companies and 4 standardisation actors supplied a support letter) SUSTA-SMART is convinced it collected sufficient critical mass to reach its ambitious goals.

Keywords: smart textiles,standardisation,roadmap,personal protective equipment,construction sector,consumer goods