Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced Composite Integrated Skin Panel structural testing (ACID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2012-02, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 95658.0
EU funding (EUR): 71743.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Traditional aircraft structures use Aluminium stiffened panels for fuselage, wing and tail plane skins. In recent years stiffened skin panels are manufactured from composite materials instead of Aluminium. The use of composite materials has the potential to reduce aircraft weight, and therefore fuel consumption, and also to reduce maintenance and operational costs. Stiffened panels can be made by attaching stiffeners to a thin panel or by producing integrally stiffened panels, reducing costly assembly operations as well as composite machining operations which are costly and polluting. In this way, a composite stiffened panel has been developed as part of the JTI "Eco Design" technology demonstrator A2 with many ecological, technical and economical benefits. This proposal has two objectives. The first one is to perform a large scale test to validate the structural performance of the developed eco panel. The second one is to develop and validate an advanced measurement procedure based on distributed strain measurement systems. One of the main issues of the large scale tests is the strain measurement. Classic methods can only measure the strain in local positions. To obtain a quasi – continuous strain distribution a very dense grid of strain gauges or rosettes is necessary. Strain measurement with a large number of strain gauges and rosettes is a time consuming and expensive task that could be minimized with the use of distributed strain measurement systems. To fulfil the firs objective two eco panels will be tensile and compression tested in a MTS 2.5MN system. Text fixtures will be designed and produced according the interface areas previously defined together with the Topic Manager. For the second objective, two distributed strain measurement systems will be used: Photogrametry (ARAMIS) and Fiber Optic Sensors (FBG). The developed measurement procedure will be validated with the readings of the classic strain measurement sensors: Strain gauges and rosettes.

Keywords: large scale testing,distributed strain measurement,photogrammetry,fiber optic strain sensor
Acoustic Liners for air conditioning system (ALIAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,France
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2012-02, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 299976.0
EU funding (EUR): 179405.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ALIAS project consists in designing optimized locally reacting treatments for mid-frequency acoustic attenuation in air conditioning system. The French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) and the SME ATECA, specialized in Aeronautics, Advanced Materials & Manufacturing, will combine their research and technological capabilities to propose a solution of TRL5 that meets the industrial requirements. First, technical specifications will be defined with the CFP partner. Then, a fast modal analysis code as well as a more complex solver of the linearized Euler equations will be used to assess the impedance that maximizes the acoustic damping of the set of cut-on modes in the target range of frequency. A sheared flow profile in a cylindrical duct will be considered. Next, an optimisation procedure will be carried out to find the locally reacting liners whose impedance law fits at best the target impedance in the whole range of frequency. An attenuation of at least 10dB will be aimed at. For this, appropriate semi-empiricals models from the literature linking the geometrical features of the liners to their impedance will be used. This will allow the selection of five concepts of acoustic treatments, which will then be manufactured and tested in laboratory, with a grazing flow up to M=0.3. The impedance will be obtained by direct in-situ methods or by applying an eduction procedure from pressure measurements. This experimental impedance will then be used as an input for the numerical propagation code, to predict the expected attenuation in the industrial configuration. This will allow the selection of the best two concepts. Finally, large-scale prototypes of the two chosen liners will be manufactured and provided to the CFP partner for tests in the industrial configuration. An analysis for integration of proposals solutions in an industrial context will also be performed. Especially, issues about costs and weight and operating constraints will be dealt with.

Keywords: duct acoustics,locally reacting liner,acoustic attenuation,impedance optimization,impedance measurement,prototypes
Using mycorrhizal-induced resistance as a sustainable alternative to chemical pesticides in cereal agriculture (MYCOCROP)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 309235.2
EU funding (EUR): 309235.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this proposal we will apply a novel high throughput methodology to study interactions between fungal mycorrhiza, host plants and soil bacteria, in order to develop wheat lines with induced resistance to fungal diseases. Implementation of the revision of 9/414/EEC means most of the effective fungicides against diseases in cereals will be withdrawn, increasing the risk of major crop failure. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase host plant nutrient uptake and often induce systemic resistance against other pathogens. Selecting crops more suitable to act as host of mycorrhizal fungi will provide varieties with broad and durable spectrum resistance or tolerance to diseases, and increase competitiveness of the crop for uptaking soil nutrients (useful against weeds). These will reduce dependence on chemical treatments (both, fertilizers and pesticides), and as a consequence, the input cost for the farmers will be reduced, the environmental impact minimised, and the food security increased.

Keywords: v403 agriculture related to crop production,mycorrhiza,resistance,disease
Size Matters: investigating the link between affective and perceptual body representations using multisensory illusions and brain imaging (SIZE MATTERS)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206350.8
EU funding (EUR): 206350.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The perceptual flexibility of the human body representation has been well documented, demonstrating that changes to our body can be quickly adapted to by the brain. However, how this affects our emotional feeling towards our body is yet to be explored. Negative feelings towards our body can have catastrophic consequences for our mental and physical health being associated with disordered eating behaviour such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa. The proposed research aims to investigate affective consequences of perceptual bodily illusions, creating illusions of thinner and fatter body shapes, whilst measuring changes in body satisfaction. Such changes will also be examined in relation to visual perspective of the body. Recent evidence has suggested that viewing the body from a first person perspective (how we normally view ourselves) and a third person perspective (how we normally view other people) involve independent neural networks. In a series of behavioural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments, we aim to reveal a direct causal link between the perceptual body image, expected to be constructed by active multisensory areas in the posterior parietal and premotor cortices, and the affective body image, hypothesised to be supported by activation in insular cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex. Crucially, this interplay between the perceived body and the emotionally felt body is predicted to depend on the visual perspective, so that changes in perceived body size cause much greater modulation of body satisfaction when the body is viewed from the first person compared to the third person perspective. Understanding how perception of the body relates to the emotional experience of the body, and how this is modulated by visual perspective, can have far reaching implications for clinical populations that involve disrupted body representations, most notably for disorders of eating behaviour.

Keywords: l510 neuroimaging and computational neuroscience,s203 neuropsychology and cognitive psychology,s204 clinical and experimental psychology
Global immunopeptidome landscape of normal and Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected human cells (IMMUNOPEPTIDOMICS)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 192622.2
EU funding (EUR): 192622.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MHC class I-associated peptides are presented at the cell surface for scrutiny by CD8+ T lymphocytes and are collectively referred to as the immunopeptidome. The immunopeptidome plays crucial roles in many processes including autoimmunity, cancer immunosurveillance and elimination of pathogen-infected cells. Nevertheless, very little is known about the molecular composition and biogenesis of the immunopeptidome in health and disease. Through a multidisciplinary effort, I will conduct both fundamental and applied immunopeptidomic studies by using cutting-edge technologies in mass spectrometry(MS)-based proteomics. First, I will apply systems-level approaches to investigate the global relationship between the immunopeptidome, the proteome and the degradome in human cells under normal physiological conditions, i.e. in the absence of infection. This will allow us to gain new fundamental insights into the biogenesis of the immunopeptidome and will provide general concepts of how to manipulate MHC I peptide processing and presentation in immunity. Second, applied research will be conducted by mining the immunopeptidome of human cells infected by the life-threatening pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Each year, almost two million people die of tuberculosis (TB) raising the urgent need of a new and more efficient vaccine against TB. In this project, we aim to discover numerous MHC I peptides encoded by Mtb proteins that could be further evaluated as vaccine candidates against TB. Altogether, the impact of this project on EU competitiveness will be enormous by accelerating the rational design of immunotherapeutic interventions against autoimmunity, cancers and infectious diseases, TB in particular.

Keywords: l203 proteomics,l213 systems biology,l602 adaptive immunity
Sustainable hydrogen production from waste via two-stage bioconversion process: an eco-biotechnological approach (WASTE2BIOHY)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194046.6
EU funding (EUR): 194046.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Among renewable H2-producing biotechnologies, dark fermentation (DF) of ”negative value” Organic Waste Streams (OWS) has received significant attention in recent years, since it combines sustainable waste management with pollution control and with the generation of a valuable clean energy product. Fermentative H2 production provides only a partial oxidation of the organic substrate, therefore, it is likely to be industrially viable only if integrated within a process that can utilize its end-products. Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC) is an emerging technology that could utilize the metabolic byproducts generated by DF to produce further H2. Combining DF with MEC in a cascade two-steps process can result in a complete exploitation of OWS, which maximizes at the same time energy recovery and effluent depollution. Although there is an intensive activity in optimizing process conditions through the variation of physicochemical factors, little research investigates the fundamentals of microbial interactions in such microbial ecosystems, that are at the basis of the conversion of organic matter to energy. Bridging the knowledge gap regarding the metabolic interactions within microbial fermentative/electrogenic communities could allow us to manipulate the microbial communities to maximize the efficiency of substrate conversion. This project adopts an interdisciplinary approach to deal with mixed cultures, from microbial engineering to microbial ecology and microbial physiology: this will establish new knowledge derived from microbial ecology, to the modern industrial and environmental biotechnologies. Besides the acquisition of fundamental knowledge on microbial metabolic interactions occurring in mixed cultures, the technical aim of the project is the development of a sustainable, cascade two-step BioH2 production process from OWS, combining DF and MEC. Such coupling of DF and MEC constitutes a technological cornerstone within the concept of an environmental biorefinery.
Naturally durable: Developing and testing the resilience of innovative natural admixtures for lime-based conservation mortars (NATURALIME)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Lime mortar is one of the most ancient and common building materials used by man for centuries, all over the world. Unfortunately, over the last two hundred years, lime has been progressively replaced by Portland cement, which has been used indiscriminately in the majority of deteriorated historic buildings. Because of the highly regrettable, irreparable damage caused by these wrong repair interventions, nowadays restorers and manufacturers have understood the importance of recovering lime to design traditional, sustainable, compatible and durable repair mortars. Notwithstanding, the industrial production of mortars has led to differences in the manufacturing techniques involved and the characteristics of the components used, with the consequence that ready-to-use (industrial) mortars do not show the same quality as traditionally prepared mortar. The overall aim of this research project is to design a suitable and durable ready-to-use lime mortar that can be used as repair material in historic buildings. To improve the quality of the mortar designed, we will use natural admixtures (i.e. derivatives of the vegetable and animal world) to modify some characteristics of mortar. The interest of studying and using these admixtures is clearly linked with the need of adopting sustainable industrial processes, which entail reduced pollution and energy consumption. This research will focus especially on the study of the durability of mortars prepared with such admixtures, towards different climatic conditions, pollution and microbiological activity. This study will be carried out by using chemical, mineralogical, petrographical techniques, as well as physical-mechanical and durability assays (accelerated and natural weathering tests). This research is innovative in the field of both restoration and industry, because it aims to investigate the long-term effects that natural and sustainable admixtures have in mortars, essential aspect of a correct repair intervention.

Keywords: v201 mineralogy - petrology - igneous petrology - metamorphic petrology,g311 materials engineering,c124 porous materials,design and characterization of building materials,repair intervention.
Meredith Hanmer (MEREDITH HANMER)

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-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-11-17
End date: 2016-11-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project studies the life and works of Meredith Hanmer (1543-1604), a historian of Welsh descent whose fascinating track record as a clergyman, controversialist, scholar and converter of Turks still awaits investigation. Through (a) archival research and the assessment of documentary evidence, (b) historical and biographical enquiry and (c) the textual analysis and critical appraisal of his written production, I intend to fill a research vacuum by producing an accurate and historically timely biography of this interesting figure thus contributing to the reconstruction of the intellectual panorama of early modern Britain. The complexity of Hanmer's figure makes the research inherently interdisciplinary and the heterogeneity of primary sources – manuscript and print, historical and literary, comprising translations, history writing, pamphlets and sermons – will require the combination of differing research methodologies, thus making the project an ideal gateway for the exploration of new interdisciplinary linkages between research fields. Further, Meredith Hanmer’s colourful career is particularly well-suited to engage an audience beyond academia with scholarly research and with the study of the cultural, social and political implications of the activity of a learned figure of the past. Finally, the focus on the work and life of an early modern English intellectual will provide an avenue for collaboration between European scholarly communities devoted to the study of the early modern English language, literature and culture, and undertaking such a project within the mobility experience of a IEF fellowship will foster international networks of excellence towards the development of collaborative linkages for research dissemination.

Keywords: s304 textual philology and palaeography,s409 history of ideas - intellectual history,s405 modern and contemporary history
How mechanical forces regulate tissue growth in defined 3D geometries (3D MULTICELL GROWTH)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 192622.2
EU funding (EUR): 192622.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Growth and regeneration of complex tissues are emergent phenomena resulting from the cooperative action of many cells. Besides biological signaling, the geometry of the environment plays an important role in coordinating cell behavior, and determines the shape and structure of newly formed tissue. How precisely environmental geometries are able to control cell proliferation, differentiation and extracellular matrix deposition remains a challenge. In this project, a novel in vitro model platform will be developed to determine the interplay of external geometry and cell generated mechanical forces to direct multicellular tissue formation in 3D scaffold geometries. This approach integrates a quantitative growth assay using osteoblasts as cell model with leading-edge techniques for 3D substrate fabrication and molecular strain sensors. Matrix strains and stress fluctuations will be measured under systematically varying geometrical conditions while simultaneously monitoring proliferation and extracellular matrix production in order to test how mechanical parameters and cell behavior are correlated. The contribution of different mechanobiological mechanisms by which cells react to mechanical signals will be identified by selectively inhibiting cellular adhesion, contractility, and mechanotransduction pathways. The results of this project will not only shed light on the mechanisms behind osteoblast tissue deposition and bone remodeling, but also on the role of geometry and mechanics for tissue growth and regeneration in general. The Vogel lab at ETH Zurich has developed world leading techniques for molecular imaging of extracellular matrix strains, and for the fabrication of controlled cell environments. The combination of these techniques with the skills and expertise of the candidate will improve his potential to achieve professional maturity and provide a unique opportunity to increase the competitiveness of European science in the field of multicellular bioengineering.

Keywords: bioengineering,biomaterials,mechanobiology,biophysics,bioassays
Language policies and attitudes in Quebec (LPAQ)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 156249.3
EU funding (EUR): 156249.3
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This application is for a year's worth of fieldwork in Montreal, Canada. The project is part of the applicant’s larger post-doctoral research, which investigates the interaction between official language policies and their impact on language use at the grassroots in three political entities: Singapore, Wales, and Quebec. The three locations feature different types of top-down language policies and planning, with various different languages involved in the process, English being the common player. Thus, officially quadrilingual Singapore has extensively promoted English, whereas Wales has a much more laissez-faire attitude to the language, and Quebec has taken far-reaching steps to limit its use. The research on Singapore and Wales is well underway, but the Quebec component requires detailed on-site fieldwork. The proposed project will see data collection in the realms of public displays of linguistic practice (so-called 'linguistic landscaping'), of language attitudes, and, using standard sociolinguistic methodology, of actual language use in practice. A physical presence in the province is required to obtain an in-depth picture of these elements; the city of Montreal being particularly well-suited due to its high proportion of Anglophone residents, who are the primary source of informants. The results from this project will not only inform current trends in policy perception, but also contribute to a comparative approach to the issue of language policy and language attitudes, an approach that has so far been lacking.

Keywords: s213 education,s208 use of language,s207 acquisition and knowledge of language