Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Biobased geological CO2 storage (CO2SOLSTOCK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Switzerland,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2963463.53
EU funding (EUR): 2283345.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project fulfills the requirements of the topic Energy “Future emerging technologies” which covers all areas of the Theme Energy. In particular, this project aims at developing an emerging technology which consists in a new alternative sustainable solution to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion. This objective fits the EU strategy to reducing greenhouse gases emissions by developing an environmentally safe carbon capture and geological storage policy. Indeed, most of the subterranean technologies consist in injecting CO2 as a gas at high pressures, leading inevitably to the possible problem of the leakage. In response to this issue, the transformation of CO2 into carbonate is now considered as an interesting solution for CO2 sequestration. 2 major options are under scrutiny. One is a physico-chemical approach in certain types of rocks. The other one is based on the abilities of a number of bacteria to precipitate carbonates, which in turn extends the geological sequestration opportunities beyond the strict deep underground ones. This project targets bacterial metabolic pathways enabling significant carbonate precipitation. In particular, “CO2SolStock” specific objectives are:1.To explore emerging alternative sustainable solutions related to microbiological pathways of carbonatation for CO2 sequestration; 2.To map out a scientific evaluation of the various routes and promises, from the surface to the deepest habitats; 3.To establish a tool-kit enabling scientific evaluation; 4.To validate the technology with at least 2 validated proof of concept tests for bacterial metabolism supported CO2 sequestration. The work programme consists in 7 WPs from literature scrutiny to demonstration, with transversal dissemination and management tasks. Outputs comprises tool-kit for bio-based stock tailored for various habitats and at least 2 systems ready for development towards industrial applications.The project involves 5 partners: 4 European universities & 1 SME.

Keywords: biological storage of co2 emitted from fossil fuel combustion,potential of carbonates precipitations by bacteria for subterranean sequestration of carbon,bacteria & habitat synergies,co2 absorption
eLab4Life: Electr(ochem)ical Labs-on-a-Chip for Life Sciences (ELAB4LIFE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 59.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2382442.0
EU funding (EUR): 2382442.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose the development of new electrochemical techniques for health and life sciences applications in Lab-on-a-Chip devices. A Scanning ElectroChemical Microscope (SECM) will be used to study surface properties, such as local consumption and/or release of electroactive chemical compounds by (single) cells by electrochemical sensing, new detection methods for proteins using redox cycling, and new separation methods for DNA exploiting nanoscale electrical field gradients. The ability to generate and control electrical fields (and gradients) at the scale of the size of biomolecules using nanostructures, and the simple translation of novel electrical methods into practical Lab-on-a-Chip devices will create a breakthrough in bioanalytical methods. The knowledge and expertise obtained from SECM experimentation will be used to design and realize Labs-on-a-Chip that can be used for efficient production of drugs by electrofused cells, for early biomarker detection using nanowires and nano-spaced electrodes (Point-of-Care application), and rapid DNA analysis using nanofluidic structures. Besides this, the results can have great benefits for study of embryonic cell growth and for advanced tissue engineering. The results will be translated into devices and systems that can be used in Point-of-Care (POC) applications and will bring this area a big step closer to successful commercialization.

Keywords: lab-on-chip electrical measurements electrochemical measurements microfluidics health applications
New Horizons for Mass Spectrometry (HORIZOMS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 764998.83
EU funding (EUR): 764998.83
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project of basic research in chemistry tackles the challenge to close the wide gap between chemical and physical processes occurring in liquid solution and sophisticated studies of model systems in the idealized gas phase. By such the project aims to reach a convergence between the microscopic and macroscopic world. To this end, the planned research will span the range from isolated atoms in the high vacuum to the real species present in solution. Specifically, the proposal is focused on: - Ion solvation in dipolar media (e.g. aqueous salt solutions) - Influence of sequential solvation on redox processes (relevant in corrosion, for example) - Mechanisms by which metal catalysts facilitate chemical reactions (e.g. polymerizations) In order to address these tasks, the PI will combine his profound expertise in gas-phase methods with well-established techniques from solution chemistry for the development of new and innovative coupling techniques which will allow to derive direct correlations between micro- and macroscopic properties. A particular highlight is the planned online-coupling of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) with electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry, which is unique worldwide and offers the exploration of new dimensions for both, EPR methods and ESI mass spectrometry. While the project is located in chemical sciences, physical-organic chemistry in particular, the prospects of the proposal range not only far beyond the PI's specific field of specialization into other areas of chemistry, but due to the enormous relevance of ion solvation, redox processes, and catalysis also into biological, physical and geological sciences with implications up to our daily life. The PI has excellent publication records with >330 scientific papers, >7800 citations, and a Hirsch-Index of 44. Despite several risks along the way, the expertise of the PI thus warrants a successful realization of this challenging project.

Keywords: hyphenated techniques mass spectrometry electron paramagnetic resonance
Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures (RAMIRI)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,France,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 523248.0
EU funding (EUR): 469900.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project builds on recent developments in the management of Research Infrastructures, specifically the publication of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap and four European conferences which discussed how to develop regional, national and international policy in this area, particularly the legal, financial, operational and governance aspects of managing large and complex research infrastructures. The principal aims of this proposal are to train senior policy makers and scientific decision makers, particularly in New EU Member States and Associated States, in the practical governance and management requirements of pan-European and transnational Research Infrastructures; and to develop a policy framework directed at managing future large Research Infrastructures across national boundaries. Key deliverables of the project will be a symposium entitled ‘Realising and Managing International Research Infrastructures’ which it is proposed to hold in three leading centres of European research – London/Oxfordshire, Grenoble and Hamburg. The project Coordinator will be Imperial College London, which will work closely with its partners, ESRF, ILL, Elettra, DESY and UKAEA-Culham ensuring that the outcomes have the authority and support of leading organisations in this field. Additionally, the symposium will result in a network of experts, delegates and other organisations active or interested in managing RIs. Discussions during the conferences, and afterwards through the network and published preliminary policy paper and Symposium Report, will identify the essential requirements for taking forward the ESFRI Roadmap. The resulting sharing of experience and knowledge will be an essential component of a European strategy for developing and safeguarding Europe’s high quality research community and will contribute to the effectiveness and impact of research across Europe.

Keywords: research infrastructures managing international global regional funding governance operations
SUPERSYMMETRY, QUANTUM GRAVITY AND GAUGE FIELDS (SUPERFIELDS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 67.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1700000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1700000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at investigating some crucial issues in globally supersymmetric and Supergravity theories. Firstly, it focuses on perturbative and non-perturbative sources of Supersymmetry Breaking in the low-energy effective Supergravity description of Superstrings and M-theory. These include Gaugings and Fluxes in compactifications from higher dimensions, Gaugino Condensation and other non-perturbative effects generated by (unoriented) D-brane instantons. Secondly, it explores the physics of extremal Black Holes by means of the Attractor Mechanism, that relates their Entropy to the extrema of an Effective Potential. The tantalizing analogy with moduli stabilization in flux compactifications is considered in detail. Moreover, the deep connection between the Entropy-Formula and certain topological string partition functions is exploited to improve the connection between macroscopic and microscopic interpretations. The holographic (AdS/CFT) correspondence conjectured by Maldacena between (super)conformal Yang-Mills theories and certain (super)gravity theories in Anti De Sitter spaces is analyzed in view of the attractive nature of universal horizon geometries and in relation to Higher-Spin Symmetries, that may be associated with bulk duals of certain gauge-invariant composite operators on the boundary. The project also addresses the possible link between higher-spin theories and an unbroken phase of Superstring or M-theory. The project will be carried out through the abilities and the skills of the PI and of the team members, with their complementary expertise on different but interrelated topics in the holographic approach to modern theories of quantum gravity. Supersymmetry and gauge principles will serve as basic tools for their research.

Keywords: supergravity,branes,black hole attractors,high spin fields,extra dimensions
Modelling, Optimization and Control of Biomedical Systems (MOBILE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Advanced Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1782925.0
EU funding (EUR): 1782925.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of the proposed project is to develop models and model based control and optimization methods and tools for drug delivery systems, which would ensure: (i) Reliable and fast calculation of the optimal drug dosage without the need for an on-line computer while taking into account the specifics and constraints of the patient model (personalised health care) (ii) Flexibility to adapt to changing patient characteristics, (iii) Incorporation of the physician s performance criteria (iv) Safety of the patients (v) Reduced size effects by optimising the drug infusion rates The overall control and optimisation approach will rely on the novel multi-parametric model-based control technology developed by the PI over the past 15 years, which will be further extended and implemented in the context of the following biomedical systems (a) insulin delivery (b) control of anaesthesia and hemodynamic variables, (c) optimal chemotherapy design for anti-cancer (d) optimal control of the chemotherapy for HIV.

Keywords: model-based control,optimisation,drug delivery systems
Aquired Environmental Epigenetics Advances: from Arabidopsis to maize (AENEAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2008-2B, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4124573.4
EU funding (EUR): 2992863.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal, entitled “Acquired Environmental Epigenetics Advances: from Arabidopsis to maize” (acronym: AENEAS), aims to assess the impact of environmental conditions on epigenetic states in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and then transfer knowledge to maize (Zea mays): an important European crop. Advances in understanding the detailed mechanisms of epialleles formation in response to environmental cues and their heritable maintenance in a model plant such as Arabidopsis will be the starting objective of the AENEAS proposal. To this end, we will focus on three epigenetic regulatory pathways, which have been well characterized for their interaction with environmental signals in mediating changes into the epigenome. They are: the autonomous, the small RNA and the CpG methylation pathways. The outcome of this research activity will be a road map for plant environmental epigenetics, necessary for further progress of the basic research in this area and for the transfer of the knowledge to crop plants. Concomitantly, the constitution of an “Environmental Epigenetics platform” for maize, will start with the development of tools indispensable for the shift of epigenetic research from Arabidopsis to maize. This will be achieved by the functional characterization of maize mutants for epi-regulators belonging to the three pathways studied in Arabidopsis. The tools will comprise: maize epi-regulator mutants, their targets, and information about their interaction with environmental cues for epialleles formation and inheritance throughout generations. It is our opinion that the deliverables from AENEAS will be the “progenitors” for the next-generation of breeding programs, based on the exploitation of the environmental-induced epigenetics variability. In addition, we will conduct a comparative genomics analysis of data arising from the project to generate comparative models for environmental epigenomics in two evolutionary distinct species such as Arabidopsis and maize.

Keywords: epigenetics,environment,epialleles,arabidopsis,maize,dna methylation,histone modifications,srna,autonomous pathway
Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth system for better climate prediction and projection (COMBINE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,France,Italy,France,Netherlands,Norway,Denmark,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Finland,Sweden,Netherlands,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Greece,Cyprus,Brazil,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11429160.34
EU funding (EUR): 7922679.9
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

The European integrating project COMBINE brings together research groups to advance Earth system models (ESMs) for more accurate climate projections and for reduced uncertainty in the prediction of climate and climate change in the next decades. COMBINE will contribute to better assessments of changes in the physical climate system and of their impacts in the societal and economic system. The proposed work will strengthen the scientific base for environmental policies of the EU for the climate negotiations, and will provide input to the IPCC/AR5 process. COMBINE proposes to improve ESMs by including key physical and biogeochemical processes to model more accurately the forcing mechanisms and the feedbacks determining the magnitude of climate change in the 21st century. For this purpose the project will incorporate carbon and nitrogen cycle, aerosols coupled to cloud microphysics and chemistry, proper stratospheric dynamics and increased resolution, ice sheets and permafrost in current Earth system models. COMBINE also proposes to improve initialization techniques to make the best possible use of observation based analyses of ocean and ice to benefit from the predictability of the climate system in predictions of the climate of the next few decades. Combining more realistic models and skilful initialization is expected to reduce the uncertainty in climate projections. Resulting effects will be investigated in the physical climate system and in impacts on water availability and agriculture, globally and in 3 regions under the influence of different climate feedback mechanisms. Results from the comprehensive ESMs will be used in an integrated assessment model to test the underlying assumptions in the scenarios, and hence to contribute to improved scenarios. COMBINE will make use of the experimental design and of the scenarios proposed for IPCC AR5. Therefore the project will be able to contribute to the AR5, by its relevant research and by the contribution of experiments to the IPCC data archives.

Keywords: earth system model,processes,initialization,climate projection,impacts,scenarios,climate policies
PlantPower - Living plants in microbial fuel cells for clean, renewable, sustainable, efficient, in-situ bioenergy production (PLANTPOWER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5209687.6
EU funding (EUR): 3989080.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Living plants in microbial fuel cells might be used as future large-scale Europe wide green energy providers. Such a system can produce in-situ 24 hours per day green electricity or biohydrogen without harvesting the plants. That this might become true was indicated by our first small scale proof of principle experiments describing the so called Plant Microbial Fuel Cell (Plant-MFC) (Strik, 2008, De Schamphelaire, 2008). The Plant-MFC aims to transform solar radiation into green electricity or biohydrogen in a clean and efficient manner. In the Plant-MFC concept, living plants and living microbes form an electrochemical system that is capable of sustainable production of green electricity or biohydrogen from solar energy. By its nature, the Plant-MFC is in potential 5 times more efficient than conventional bio-energy systems. The technology might be implemented in several ways, ranging from local small scale electricity providers to large scale energy wetlands & islands, high-tech energy & food supplying greenhouses and novel biorefineries. This way, affordable bioenergy maybe produced in Europe as well as in developing countries. Plant-MFCs can be integrated in landscapes invisibly which makes this technology socially highly acceptable. However, exploration of new areas of science & technology is necessary to overcome Plant-MFCs bottlenecks and to make this principally clean, renewable and sustainable technology come true. It is now time to show that significant independent European biofuel & bioelectricity production is possible; we propose that Plant-MFCs can be an excellent choice for our future. We expect that Plant-MFC technology can at least cover 20% of Europe’s primary energy need in a real clean & sustainable way. The Plant-MFC concept has several attractive qualities which can provide the significant break through for sustainable energy production in Europe. It will reinforcing competitiveness of Europe since Plant-MFC is world-wide implementable.

Keywords: bioenergy,fuel cell,photosynthesis,plants,microbial fuel cell,rhizosphere,geosphere,ecology,rhizodeposits,exudation,microbiology,electrochemistry,biotechnology,clean sustainable energy