Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts Vernacular Literature and Learning in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550) (MITT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2372803.85
EU funding (EUR): 2372803.85
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts is a joint PhD programme (2009-2013) that studies the medieval transmission of learning from the ecclesiastical and academic elites of the professional intellectuals to the wider readership that could be reached through the vernacular. The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low Countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultural region in the later Middle Ages. Here, the great fourteenth-century mystics Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Jan van Ruusbroec and their contemporaries produced a sophisticated vernacular literature on contemplative theology and religious practice, introducing new lay audiences to a personal relation with the Supreme Being. The project seeks to develop a new perspective on this literary culture by looking at the readership, appropriation and circulation of texts in the contemporary religious and intellectual contexts. The programme unites expertise in the fields of medieval philosophy, religious studies, manuscript studies and Dutch and German literature, to provide structural training for interdisciplinary and international research in one of the medieval aspects of European culture of lasting merit. The training programme is built on a number of current research projects in which all full partners (Antwerp, Freiburg, Lecce, Leiden and Oxford) participate simultaneously, thus offering an adequate international infrastructure for a series of coherent PhD projects on medieval literature and learning that require a broader academic framework than the national literatures and other concepts of the modern tradition of academic disciplines. The programme prepares a new generation of medievalists for international careers in academic research, education and the presentation of the medieval cultural heritage.

Keywords: medieval german and dutch literature,medieval religious studies and philosophy,medieval history,manuscript studies
Sustainable Approaches to Reduce Oomycete (Saprolegnia) Infections in Aquaculture (SAPRO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Norway,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 59.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2773475.0
EU funding (EUR): 2773475.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The oomycete family contains some of the world’s most destructive fish pathogens. In Europe alone, these microorganisms collectively account for multimillion-Euro losses annually in the fish farming industry. Saprolegnia parasitica in particular is a major problem in the aquaculture industry where it has been estimated that 10% of all hatched salmon and eggs succumb to Saprolegniosis. Until 2002, Saprolegnia infections in aquaculture were kept under control with malachite green. However, the use of this chemical has been banned worldwide due to its toxicological effects and this has resulted in a dramatic re-emergence of Saprolegniosis in aquaculture. In order to develop new control practices, we first need to understand the biology of fish-pathogen interactions. Therefore, we need to train scientists in this area of research. We propose to follow an integrated systems biology based approach to study the disease in all aspects: from the molecular level right through to disease management. The overall objective of “SAPRO” is to develop sustainable measures to control and eradicate expanding oomycete diseases that represent a serious threat to aquaculture as well as to natural populations of fish. This goal will be achieved through the creation of an Initial Training Network with 10 early stage researchers and 3 experienced researchers who will be trained in all aspects of state-of-the-art techniques and methods that will be used to study the disease. The program will significantly impact basic understanding of fish-microbe interactions by providing insights into key processes with respect to Saprolegniosis. This research will lead to the development of novel strategies for oomycete disease control that will increase profitability and reduce chemical use in our environment. Lastly, SAPRO has the potential to result in farming healthier fish, which is important for the fish farming industry, the general public, and our environment.

Keywords: natural sciences,aquatic biology,animal parasitology,genomics,ecological genetics,proteomics,molecular biology
Blue Femtosecond Laser Implemented with Group-III Nitrides (FEMTOBLUE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom,Russian Federation,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2607508.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998751.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the project is to create a new technology base for ultrafast semiconductor laser diode devices producing femtosecond optical pulses in the blue and violet spectral range. Based on advanced group-III nitride epitaxial growth and device fabrication techniques, we will develop novel InGaN/GaN laser diode structures producing femtosecond pulses in the Dicke superradiance and modelocking regimes. To achieve this goal we will investigate several group III-nitride heterostructures and optical cavity designs operating in three different dynamic regimes. This new technology will lay the foundation for miniature portable femtosecond lasers in the blue-violet that will replace traditional sources like mode-locked frequency doubled Ti: Sapphire lasers, Xenon and dye lasers. It will enable numerous new techniques and developments in the fields of ultrafast optical spectroscopy, high-resolution lithography, quantum optics, optical comb frequency standards, fluorescence decay analysis and biomedical diagnostic to be used without bulky laboratory installations.

Keywords: group-iii nitrides,wide bandgap semiconductors,femtosecond laser,mode locking,dicke superradiance,laser diode
Wind Resource Assessment Audit and Standardization (WAUDIT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Denmark,Belgium,France,France,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3984000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3984000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of WAUDIT is the generation of a pool of researchers, in the field of wind resource assessment, in order to support the technological development of wind energy as one of the fastest growing industries worldwide (annual increase rate of 20%). The scientific motivation of the project is grounded on current state-of-the-art at industrial level. A technical audit to industry provides the point of departure for the development of new levels of standardization on added value wind assessment techniques. The development of new measurement and numerical and physical modelling techniques provides a benchmark of alternatives whose potential will be assessed by the network. At training level, WAUDIT aims at providing the best working environment for early stage researchers based on the main actors on wind energy research: universities, research centres and industrial partners. A total of 30 organizations from 8 different EU member states will contribute to the development of 18 PhD theses. The training activities are carried out under the umbrella of the European Wind Energy Academy (EAWE) which will bring together most of the PhD students working on the wind energy field in Europe (around 100), to form a new generation of researchers with a common collaborative working philosophy. A hierarchy of courses, from a general context to specialized modules, on all the multidisciplinary aspects of wind energy will provide the best training for the development of a successful research career in this very dynamic field. The association of the fellows to industrial partners will allow a direct exchange of knowledge which will culminate, in most of the cases, with secondments for demonstration exercises, where each fellow will test the feasibility and potential of the tools developed during each project.

Keywords: renewable energies,wind energy technology
TransForm: Theoretical Foundations of Transactional Memory (TRANSFORM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece,France,Switzerland,Germany,Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2030302.0
EU funding (EUR): 2030302.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Major chip manufacturers have shifted their focus from trying to speed up individual processors into putting several processors on the same chip. They are now talking about potentially doubling efficiency on a 2x core, quadrupling on a 4x core and so forth. Yet multicore is useless without concurrent programming. The constructors are now calling for a new software revolution: the concurrency revolution. This might look at first glance surprising for concurrency is almost as old as computing and tons of concurrent programming models and languages were invented. In fact, what the revolution is about is way more than concurrency alone: it is about concurrency for the masses. The current parallel programming approach of employing locks is widely considered to be too difficult for any but a few experts. Therefore, a new paradigm of concurrent programming is needed to take advantage of the new regime of multicore computers. Transactional Memory (TM) is a new programming paradigm which is considered by most researchers as the future of parallel programming. Not surprisingly, a lot of work is being devoted to the implementation of TM systems, in hardware or solely in software. What might be surprising is the little effort devoted so far to devising a sound theoretical framework to reason about the TM abstraction. To understand properly TM systems, as well as be able to assess them and improve them, a rigorous theoretical study of the approach, its challenges and its benefits is badly needed. This is the challenging research goal undertaken by this MC-ITN. Our goal through this project is to gather leading researchers in the field of concurrent computing over Europe, and combine our efforts in order to define what might become the modern theory of concurrent computing. We aim at training a set of graduate students in this direction and hope that, in turn, these students will help Europe become a leader in concurrent computing.

Keywords: technological sciences
PLANT developmental biology: discovering the ORIGINS of form (PLANTORIGINS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Portugal,Czechia,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1656098.0
EU funding (EUR): 1656098.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of PLANTORIGINS-ITN is to improve career prospects of young researchers in the growing field of plant evolutionary developmental biology through a programme of research, training and transfer of knowledge that integrates new discoveries and approaches in the fields of plant morphology, systematics, and developmental genetics with the overall goal of understanding the origins of form in plants. Much research in plant evolutionary developmental biology focuses on comparatively modern groups within the flowering plants, especially on economically important crops. But, as the field develops, it is becoming increasingly important and feasible to extend the scope of research to address questions of a fundamental nature in plants. The overarching and long term scientific question of PLANTORIGINS-ITN is: how did the major tissues and organ systems of plants evolve and what is their genetic regulatory basis? PLANTORIGINS-ITN brings together into a cohesive network a group of eight leading academic and industrial partners to provide unique state of the art training in these key areas. Because of the highly multidisciplinary nature of this network, transfer of knowledge within and between sectors is given high priority in our training programme. We regard this as fundamental to fostering the development and exploitation of research in this field. Our two industrial partners contribute state of the art analytical skills in the area of gene expression (microarray technology) and complementary business skills in the area of intellectual property rights and will provide valuable direction and feedback. The skills and competencies developed by the eight young researchers that we will train are directly transferable to the plant biotechnology sector, which is recognised as a strategically important industry that makes a key contribution to Europe&apos;s agricultural competitiveness, sustainable development and economic growth.

Keywords: physcomitrella patens,charophyte,rhynie chert,devonian,fossil,developmental genetics,morphology,phylogenetics,lifecycle,evolution,early land plant,rhizoid,microarray gametophyte sporophyte
The Last Song of the Troubadours: Linguistic Codification and Construction of a Literary Canon in the Crown of Aragon (14th and 15th centuries) (THE LAST SONG)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 436200.0
EU funding (EUR): 436200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at the edition, study and interpretation of the troubadour poetry written in the Crown of Aragon between the 14th and 15th centuries, with special attention to its reception by a learned public of connoisseurs haunted by the myth of courtly love and its associated culture in the late medieval period. While Italy, France and the rest of the Iberian Peninsula were already moving towards Humanism, in the Crown of Aragon the prestige of the poetic universe created by the troubadours managed to make its way into the 15th century, and was adapted to new cultural fashions through a particular process of appropriation and re-codification that is unique in Europe. The purpose of this project is to enlarge and deepen our knowledge of a linguistic and literary heritage that functioned as a vertebrate agent in medieval aesthetics and poetics and well into the Modern Age. By exploring the paths of this re-codification process, working simultaneously at a linguistic, literary and historical level, we will be able to grasp new aspects of a canon that has been determinant in subsequent artistic movements, namely Spanish Renaissance poetry and the highly innovative discourse undertaken by the Catalan poet Ausiàs March, through which the long autumn of the Middle Ages is finally concluded, giving entrance to Modern poetry in the Iberian peninsula. The project will thus inquire into the question of how the aesthetic and linguistic code of the troubadours shaped the mentality of courtly society, establishing an intellectual and stylistic background in which the literary culture of Europe is deeply rooted. Part of the results of the research will be displayed in a critical digital edition, including codicological, linguistic, literary and historical data that will make the texts express themselves in order to permit a full comprehension of the corpus considered.

Keywords: textual criticism,musicology,courtly poetry and patronage,evolution of literary genres,manuscript production,history of literature,new information technologies
Institutions and Globalization (INST&GLOB)

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: Italy,Spain
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1002000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1002000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Economists have recently shown that developed economies rely on proper institutions for securing property rights, resolving disputes, etc. Scholars have studied the consequences of alternative legal and political institutions, but much remains to be done. One important and unexplored territory concerns the analysis of how national institutions interact in the international arena. This proposal seeks to study this problem from two perspectives. First, how does the quality of a country s national institutions affect its gains from international integration? Second, how does international integration affect a country s institutional reform path? We address the first question by studying, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of national institutions on sovereign risk, where the latter is defined as the risk that a government unilaterally decides ex-post not to honor its financial obligations with foreigners. While the impact of national institutions on private capital flows has been studied, the role of these same institutions on supporting government debt has so far received scant attention. As for the second question, we study the impact of political and financial integration on countries institutional reform. We model two different motivations towards institutional change in an integrated world: a) direct confrontation in wars and b) competition through world financial markets. The general thrust of these analyses is that institutional reform becomes a strategic variable in international competition, creating cross-country externalities that can shed light on observed episodes of institutional converge or divergence. We also consider the role of institutional harmonization in supporting economic integration.

Keywords: institutions,globalization,sovereign risk,financial markets,institutional reform
The medicine of the mind and natural philosophy in early modern England: A new interpretation of Francis Bacon (MOM)

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,Romania
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 899886.0
EU funding (EUR): 899886.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to provide a groundbreaking new interpretation of Francis Bacon's natural philosophy. The original aspect of this project will consist in a new contextualisation of Bacon's philosophy. We argue that his work can be seen as one of the most characteristic products of what we have decided to call, for reasons of heuristic and exegetical convenience, the medicine of the mind. This project is interdisciplinary in both the method we are going to apply and the object we are going to study, for this investigation represents a study on early-modern interdisciplinarity. The movement known as Renaissance Neostoicism, especially in its French version, will be a key element in our argument. The objectives of the project are, first, to provide an unconventional interpretative angle to the study of the transmission of Stoic ideas; second, to show their intertwinement with religious models of self-analysis and, most of all, to highlight the combined influence of Stoic and Reformed models of introspection on Bacon's natural philosophy. We argue that Stoic materialism, from its inception, entailed the view that human appetites could not be explained and tamed without connecting them to the very appetites of nature. Our reconstruction of varieties of British medicine of the mind, permeated by Stoic ideas, will throw much needed light on the way in which Bacon looked for a new method that could allow man to master both the appetites of matter and the appetites of society. In more general terms, our reconstruction of the British contexts of the medicine of the mind will provide a crucial missing link in the contemporary narratives of the scientific revolution.

Keywords: history of philosophy,history of medicine,history of science