Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Pan-European training in computational cosmology: modelling cosmic structures (COSMOCOMP)

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,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,France,China,Argentina
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4646615.49
EU funding (EUR): 4646615.49
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

European scientists lead the world in the modelling of the formation of cosmic structures using computer simulations. The objective of the CosmoComp proposal is to reinforce Europe&apos;s world standing in this field by training the next generation of computational cosmologists. CosmoComp builds on and extends existing research collaborations between major European centres, and has a global element with links to Latin America and the Far East. New training capacity will be developed through the network activities, which will benefit early stage researchers from across Europe, beyond the network members. We propose a series of ground breaking ``grand-challenge&apos;&apos; simulations which use the state of the art numerical techniques in the subject on some of the largest supercomputers available in Europe. Sun Microsystems and Microsoft will actively participate in our training programme, ensuring that CosmoComp will prepare young people for a research career in academia or industry.

Keywords: physical sciences,cosmology,astronomy,database management
MIcrowave and TErahertz PHOtonics (MITEPHO)

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,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,France,France,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3098756.25
EU funding (EUR): 3098756.25
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

MITEPHO (MIcrowave and TErahertz PHOtonics) is an Initial Training Network that seeks to investigate and optimize photonic sources for CW signal generation at Microwave and Terahertz frequencies. The main objective is to integrate these two disciplines, usually addressed separately, through the development of techniques based on the photonic oscillator concept, a rather new technique for generating low-phase noise signals at the targeted frequency ranges. This approach uses two optical frequencies from a dual-mode laser source which are down-converted in a photomixer generating a beat tone with a frequency given by the difference between the two optical signals. These research objectives belong to an innovative multidisciplinary field that combines different technologies. MITEPHO takes advantage of the different core expertise of partners in W and THz fields from device design to signal generation to integrate those techniques in a common environment to exploit intrinsic synergies. The researchers trained within MITEPHO will be involved in this multidisciplinary environment, where radiofrequency techniques meet photonics, and where research activities combine device design, fabrication and characterization, to the development of applications - all within a consortium formed by academia, research labs, a leading company in the field (Thales, FR), and the participation of several companies as Associated Partners. MITEPHO has set-up a sophisticated and well coordinated training programme in Microwave and Terahertz Photonics at the European level. The programme training activities include on-site courses, joint laboratory training platforms, common training courses at summer schools as well as short courses. As the cooperation between academia and industry is a MITEPHO priority, Thales and associated partners (Companies &amp; Technological Center) will actively participate in the training activities to give the students a complete view of industry environment and needs.

Keywords: engineering,communication engineering,high frequency technology,laser technology,broadband technology,microwave and terahertz technology
European Research Training Network of “New Materials: Innovative Concepts for their Fabrication, Integration and Characterization” (ENHANCE)

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: Germany,Germany,Finland,Netherlands,Denmark,Italy,Austria,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): 3697708.73
EU funding (EUR): 3697708.73
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The multi-site European initial training network – “ENHANCE” – “New Materials: Innovative Concepts for their Fabrication, Integration and Characterization” will be established to deal with the mid and long term issues of concern to the European industry encompassing the whole spectrum of functional materials for microelectronics, nano-electronics, data storage, photovoltaic, with emphasis on emerging nano-technologies. This network consisting of 3 academic groups from chemistry 1 from physics, 3 from Material Science and Engineering and 1 industrial partners from 6 different countries of Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Italy, Denmark and Austria. Despite the exceptional importance of thin film processing of many new materials and their integration in emerging nanotechnologies, there is no systematic interdisciplinary training of students in the traditional courses of chemistry, materials science and engineering. ENHANCE aims to close this gap by combining the classical knowledge of chemistry, materials science, physics and engineering i.e. the knowledge of precursor molecules, materials properties, study of physical phenomena, to electronic devices and circuit integration. The training of ENHANCE fellows will be based on a structured 3 year academic curriculum, including, generic skills workshops and on-site research training at the state of the art laboratories, facilities under clean room conditions and a training at the industrial laboratories. This will provide the young scientists with necessary in-depth knowledge in materials synthesis and thin film processing as well as experimental skills in operating the instruments and analytical skills in different materials characterization techniques. The training concludes with European doctoral examination and will be reviewed by external experts in the field and their remarks will be addressed during the final disputation.

Keywords: thin films,nano-layers,precursor chemistry,mocvd,ald,peald,mvd,eibd,material characterization,nanodevices
Bio-Orthogonal Chemo-Specific Ligation (BIOCHEMLIG)

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: France,Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland,France,Slovenia,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): 3322086.93
EU funding (EUR): 3322086.93
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The Post-genomic era calls for a deep understanding of protein structure and function. The elucidation of protein structures, localization, post-translation modifications, and protein-macromolecule interactions are important to establish their role in the biology of the cell. To establish their role and investigate the protein functions requires the integration of various complementary disciplines. Among all disciplines, chemistry is central in establishing new effective ways to manipulate a biological entity to understand cellular processes with molecular precision. For studying, analyzing and manipulating a macromolecule, the site-specific incorporation of reporter molecules, by virtue of ligation reactions, is a key factor. The BioChemLig research project presented herein describes novel approaches for the discovery of new bio-compatible and chemo-specific ligation reactions. The aim of this project is to develop new ligation processes with high efficiency, large scope of application, high chemoselectivity and high rates. Through a well established network, with demonstrated success (IBAAC Project: FP6-505020), we propose to focus our efforts in a highly combined and integrated training research action conducting research and using: unusual organic chemical functionalities for ligation, environmentally benign “on water” ligation reactions, specific 18F radiolabelled reagents, dendrimers conjugation methodologies, high-throughput screening for bond forming reactions, bio-chemo informatics platform for theoretical investigations, artificial metalo-enzymes for template-directed ligation, templated ligation reactions and HTS. This high quality integrated research should ultimately allow scientists to dissect cellular processes with molecular precision, speed up preparation of library of bioconjugates and deliver innovatives approaches to chemical biology.

Keywords: chemical biology,ligation reaction,green chemistry,rational design,chemospecific,biocompatible,bioconjugate,radiolabeled reporters,dendrimers,artificial matalloenzymes,ligation of dna tags
Gas Sensors on Flexible Substrates for Wireless Applications (FLEXSMELL)

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: Italy,Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Finland,Netherlands,Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3829388.88
EU funding (EUR): 3829388.88
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The FlexSMELL concept is to realize a hybrid (organic-inorganic) very low-cost, ultra low-power olfaction system based on bio-receptor and implemented on a flexible substrate. Such a system is to be compatible with wireless read-out, setting the ground for the future development of smart sensing RFID tags. The FlexSMELL technology platform will be in principle suitable for different applications with the main ones envisaged for the in the field of logistics for the monitoring of perishable goods along their transport and storing, though smart packaging solutions. Teaching and training strategies will be implemented to prepare the next generation of scientists in this fast developing strategic research area. Eventually this effort will leverage the strength of the EU in organic electronics and micro-technologies for sensing applications as well as their integration into systems providing services to the individuals and to the community in the areas of food control though smart packaging, but also health, environment, communication and security.

Keywords: food chemistry,molecular electronics,microelectronics
INTeractive RObotics Research Network (INTRO)

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: Sweden,Israel,Germany,Belgium,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2083328.0
EU funding (EUR): 2083328.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The INTRO project – elaborated in close cooperation between universities and industry – will offer 10 young researchers (8 ESRs and 2 ERs) a unique training program to assist their career development in the interdisciplinary areas of Interactive Robotics: Cooperative Robot Learning; Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Intelligent Interface Design. INTRO&apos;s overall objective is to contribute to create a new generation of researchers with a broad understanding of the research and technologies needed to build intelligent robots that function in close interaction with humans in unstructured, changing “real word” conditions. The research will develop the necessary foundations to expand robots into new markets by creating novel systems with cognitive and multi-modal interaction abilities. A strong multidisciplinary approach will complement specialized domain knowledge to enhance career prospects for the ESRs/ERs The industrial participation will endow the trainees with good insight into product life-cycle and provide unique training and valuable hands-on experience in top-level robotics development. There are four major components to the training program: in the Research program, each researcher will engage in an individual research project in close cooperation with well established researchers from the partner institutes. In addition, the research will be transferred to an operational platform in industry. A Joint training program will facilitate strong theoretical training. This includes a series of seminars and network-wide workshops. Each ESR will also undergo a Secondment and have short visits to other partners.. Other Network training activities will further strengthen the training program together with courses and activities providing complementary skills such as participation in project management, organization of workshops, presentation of research results, and courses in communication techniques, proposal writing , IPR etc.

Keywords: robotics,human-robot-interaction,robot learning,robot safety
Scientific Training in Antimicrobial Research Strategies (STARS)

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,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Latvia,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2081294.0
EU funding (EUR): 2081294.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Researchers who aspire to work in drug discovery need to adapt to constantly changing technology and be able to harness new tools both to ask and to answer pertinent scientific questions. Structural biology was going to rationalize drug design. Next, combinatorial chemistry was to be the industrial panacea, only to be superseded by high-throughput screening of chemical libraries. Technologies such as molecular cell biology, in silico modelling, genetic engineering and NMR, are now also part of an ever-evolving set of tools and approach that researchers need to keep pace. This changing technological landscape is also affecting employment. Technological advances are also making some skills less marketable, while creating demands for other skills that have not traditionally been associated with drug development. Scientists that can communicate across disciplines are increasingly in demand and those with multidisciplinary skills are at a premium. This aim of this initial training network is to improve the career perspectives of early stage researchers by providing multidisciplinary training in a network of industrial and academic partners involved in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel antibacterial and anti-infective drugs.

Keywords: antibmicrobials,drug discovery,antiinfectives,structural biology,computational modelling,target identification,two-component signaling,in silico drug design
A EUROPEAN BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING NETWORK FOR THE SUPPORT OF CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING (BIOTRAINS)

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,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Netherlands,Spain,Germany,Sweden,Denmark,Austria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4369872.0
EU funding (EUR): 4369872.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of BIOTRAINS is to deliver a trans-European network of industrially oriented white biotechnologists fully trained in the application of biocatalysis to sustainable chemical manufacturing. Their skills will be developed through a joint research programme at leading national CoE’s (Centre of Excellence) with research projects identified by internationally leading Principal Investigators in this field. There is an urgent need for these scientists to support the KBBE (Knowledge Based BioEconomy) identified by the SUSCHEM (The European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry) technology platform and they will provide the key to the European future that has defined the work programme for FP7 in this field. We present a doctoral training program where the scientific research is integrated with industrial training, supervised by key academic and industrial scientists from all the disciplines needed to deliver industrial relevant science. The UK Centre of Excellence in Biocatalysis (CoEBio3) will manage the project to ensure that the collaboration is integrated seamlessly across both academic and industrial centres, and across geographical boundaries. Most importantly, CoEBio3 will manage efficient technology transfer between the academic scientists and industry. This will ensure a state-of-the-art programme meeting current industry needs in both people and technology. A structured exchange programme with both industrial placements and CoE exchanges will ensure that national leading-edge skills together with specialist equipment training are transferred across Europe, and will define best practice for both academia and industry.

Keywords: organic chemistry,biochemistry,microbiology,downstream processing,biotechnology
Synapses: from molecules to higher brain function and diseases (SYMBAD)

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: France,Spain,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,France,France,Denmark,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5057750.0
EU funding (EUR): 5057750.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

SyMBaD aims to move forward our knowledge on synapse structure and function in the normal and pathological brain. Brain diseases represent a considerable social and economic burden in Europe. Emerging evidence indicates that synaptic dysfunction is associated with a majority of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Novel therapeutical approaches relie on a better knowledge of the synapse and its pathologies. The network comprises 23 teams from 6 academic centres (Bordeaux, Alicante, Milan, Geneva, Göttingen, Bristol) representing an important fraction of the leading European researchers in the field. Synergies and complementarities between the research teams exist and should develop with the activities of the SyMBaD network. The participants are already well integrated in European scientific collaborative networks, and have an outstanding track-record of training young researchers. Industrial partners (6) will take part as full partners in training by an obligatory placement from 6 to 12 months of 16 ESR among the 26 recruited. The other ESR will be fully integrated into collaborative projects between academic teams. The private sector comprises companies involved in the development of new therapeutical strategies to combat brain diseases (GSK, Neurosearch, Xygen, and Noscira) and companies involved in technical development to be used in synaptic research and beyond (Bioxtal, Amplitude Systems, Explora Nova). The SYMBAD network aims to: • Teach a number of increasingly sophisticated techniques required in neuroscience and to advance towards novel therapies. • Focus on technological innovation and on interweaving of multilevel approaches. • Facilitate future constructive dialogue between academia and industry in the field by involving SMEs in the training of PhD students through collaborative research projects. SyMBaD will make European Neuroscience more attractive to young scientists, it will catalyze multi-level collaborations and foster intersectorial exchanges to advance in the study of some of the foremost Health issues of the European Community.

Keywords: health sciences,neurosciences,neurobiology,neurophysiology
Education as Welfare - Enhancing opportunities for socially vulnerable youth in Europe (EDUWEL)

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: Germany,Poland,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Italy,Sweden,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3041210.0
EU funding (EUR): 3041210.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The ITN 'Education as Welfare - Enhancing opportunities for socially vulnerable youth in Europe' aims to consolidate research on education and welfare and evaluate its capacity to tackle the multiple challenges and pressures a large proportion of young people in Europe faces. In examining the welfare dimensions of educational settings and the educational dimensions of welfare services, it integrates welfare and educational perspectives into a coherent approach for theoretical analysis and public policy. By focusing on universal conditions of human development, this approach warrants international applicability. It produces knowledge that facilitates the enablement and social integration of young people facing economic, social and personal barriers after leaving compulsory schooling. The scientific objective of the research and training programme is to identify factors with which to extend young people’s opportunities and capabilities in work, autonomy and participation -- the central dimensions of welfare. The ITN will combine and synergise the interdisciplinary research experience and professional capacities of leading European university departments and social, economic and political actors. Alongside their own research projects, the Early-Stage Researchers will design and conduct a comparative Education-as-Welfare survey that will serve as one fundament of their methodological training. The five non-university partners will especially ensure the dissemination of the findings to education and welfare policymakers. The added value of the ITN consists in promoting a new type of governance of education and welfare that transcends traditional national borders. It will develop a theoretically advanced, empirically measurable and internationally comparable conception of education as welfare that the excellent experts in human service provision it has trained will be able to apply from an innovative, analytically sound and practically applicable perspective.

Keywords: capability,welfare,youth,social vulnerability,informal education,non-formal education,post-compulsory education,work,human services,well-being,participation,autonomy