Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SYnergies through Merging BIOlogical and biogeochemical expertise in COral REsearch (SYMBIOCORE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 308700.0
EU funding (EUR): 281400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet and provide livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people around the globe. At the basis of these ecosystems stands the symbiosis between cnidarians and dinoflagellates. How the coral holobiont with its cnidarian host, the dinoflagellate symbiont and the associated microbial community interact with each other and their environment and how this symbiosis reacts to perturbation is the focus of dynamic research worldwide. This project aims at establishing a multidisciplinary initiative to strengthen existing and establishing new collaborative connections between scientists in the field of coral research and to promote the exchange of knowledge and expertise. The proposed partners are at the forefront of coral research in their respective areas, from coral photobiology, photosynthesis regulation, the metabolism of the coral symbiosis and genomics approaches over photoacclimation patterns and coral bleaching to coral ecophysiology and biogeochemical processes. Some of the questions this team wants to address are: What are the effects of climate change on coral reef primary production, respiration and coral photo-physiology? How do photoacclimation patterns of corals influence bleaching potential? Is there more to coral bleaching than the physiological breakdown of the symbiosis? What are the ecological and biogeochemical consequences of phase shifts in coral reefs? Through the collaborative efforts within the SymbioCoRe project namely, workshops, seminars and staff exchanges to promote knowledge transfer, we will be able to contribute to a holistic understanding of these complex processes. This action will increase the skills and knowledge of all partners involved and will improve the position of the European Research Area in the global effort to develop better models of the host/symbiont relationship and to build effective approaches to better protect coral reefs and the associated ecosystems.

Keywords: coral,symbiodinium,physiology,molecular biology,biogeochemistry,population dynamics,climate change
Training and collaboration on material developments and process improvements in oil and sugar production (OIL&SUGAR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Greece,Türkiye,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 292600.0
EU funding (EUR): 292600.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The problems encountered in the industrial processing of oil and sugar are connected with corrosion, biochemical and/or biological reactions, friction, wear, and combined corrosion-wear of materials used in mechanical parts. The main concerns are on one hand a material degradation that generates risks of contamination during food production, and on the other hand the actual machinery that needs to be improved from a technological and an economical point of view. This project aims to intensify research and training activities in the fields of science and technology of main importance in oil and sugar production, and to contribute by a multidisciplinary approach to overcome the limits of existing production technologies. Partners intend to contribute to find solutions to these complex problems by carrying out research projects through networking activities, by organizing the training of young researchers, and by transferring among them advanced technology- and material-related knowledge. The activities proposed are aimed at investigating: - the mechanisms of material degradation with a peculiar attention on the specific biological surroundings encountered in oil and sugar processing, - the recent developments in metallic materials and coating technologies as to optimize the characteristics of materials and to increase process efficiency in oil and sugar production, - new processing technologies and research methodologies made available by partners. The complementary of the partners’ backgrounds is a guarantee to generate new scientific and technological insights as an attraction pole of young researchers for material and process developments in oil and sugar production. Modern methods of surface modification of materials, new extraction technology, novel biocompatible materials, and advanced ex- and/or in-situ characterization methods of material surfaces are the core of this project.

Keywords: technological sciences,material engineering,biomaterials,surface engineering,material degradation,food production,extraction technology,training,electrochemistry,corrosion,biotribology
Carbon-based Nanomaterials and Nanostructures for Advanced Sensing Applications (CARBONNASA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-15
End date: 2016-03-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 306600.0
EU funding (EUR): 233100.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

We are proposing a 4-year program of knowledge transfer and networking between Aston University, UK (Aston), the University of Aveiro, Portugal (UAvr), University of Rochester, USA (URoc), Old Dominion University, USA (ODU), National Institute for Materials Science, Japan (NIMS), Chinese Academy of Science, China (CAS), and Changshu Institute of Technology, China (CIT). The objective of the proposed joint exchange programme is to establish long-term stable research cooperation between the partners with complimentary expertise and knowledge. The project objectives and challenges present a balanced mix between industrial application focused knowledge transfer and development and more far-looking studies for potentially ground-breaking applications of using carbon-based nanomaterials and nanostructures for advanced sensing applications (CarbonNASA).

Keywords: physical sciences,technological sciences,architecture,engineering
High Performance Computing for Geophysics Applications (HPC-GA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243600.0
EU funding (EUR): 243600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Simulating large-scale geophysics phenomenon represents, more than ever, a major concern for our society. Recent seismic activity worldwide has shown how crucial it is to enhance our understanding of the impact of earthquakes. Numerical modelling of seismic 3D waves obviously requires highly specific research efforts in geophysics and applied mathematics, leveraging a mix of various schemes such as spectral elements, high-order finite differences or finite elements. But designing and porting geophysics applications on top of nowadays supercomputers also requires a strong expertise in parallel programming and the use of appropriate runtime systems able to efficiently deal with heterogeneous architectures featuring many-core nodes typically equipped with GPU accelerators. The HPC-GA project aims at evaluating the functionalities provided by current runtime systems in order to point out their limitations. It also aims at designing new methods and mechanisms for an efficient scheduling of processes/threads and a clever data distribution on such platforms. The HPC-GA project is unique in gathering an international, pluridisciplinary consortium of leading European and South American researchers featuring complementary expertise to face the challenge of designing high performance geophysics simulations for parallel architectures: UFRGS, INRIA, BCAM and UNAM. Results of this project will be validated using data collected from real sensor networks. Results will be widely disseminated through high-quality publications, workshops and summer-schools.

Keywords: seismic simulations,geosciences,hpc,many-core,gpu accelerator,geophysics,applications,3d wave modelling
Targeted delivery for liver cancer treatment (HEPTAG EXCHANGE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 105001.0
EU funding (EUR): 105000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Liver cancer drugs market is expected to become an active ground for competition in the future. According to recent market analysis, the liver cancer market in 2009 was valued at approximately US$0.4bn, indicating a growth rate of 27.1% between 2001 and 2009. It is estimated that the liver cancer market in 2017 will be $1.2bn, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.5% between 2009 and 2017. The growth of the liver cancer market is driven by the growth of the aging population, the greater access to medical care in the emerging new economic regions like China, and the innovative therapies such as targeted therapy In this project target delivery for liver cancer treatment using biomarker functionalized vehicles is planned. Due to the lack of the needed expertise in one centre or region a consortium is formed. The consortium focuses on the development of nano-vehicle materials for targeted delivery and the relevant practices towards in vitro level of understanding of the effect of the delivery systems on cancer cell treatment. In this consortium, four work packages (WPs) are formed, namely, WP-1: Pharmaceutical materials; WP-2: Formulations; WP-3: Cancer cell imaging; and WP-4: Cancer cell treatment. To support this consortium, biomarkers will be selected from the available products in terms of the functionality of the biomarkers. The consortium comprises 4 partners (2 from EU, 1 from China, and 1 from USA), who are centers of excellence in their unique areas of expertise: Sichuan for preparation of functional polymersomes, Navarra for drug formulations, FIU for cancer cell imaging, and UoW for cancer cell treatment. Most importantly is the development of novel liver cancer therapy, fostering strategic collaborations between EU and China and knowledge transfer and dissemination through staff mobility.

Keywords: health sciences,cancer treatment,liver cancer,heptocellular carcinoma (hcc),chronic
Microcystin Exposure Associated Toxicity (MEAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Norway
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-22
End date: 2016-06-21
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 693000.0
EU funding (EUR): 541800.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Microcystins (MC) are potent cyclic heptapeptide toxins that are produced by many cyanobacterial genera e.g. Planktothrix, Microcystis. Human exposure occurs primarily during bloom events, via drinking or contact with contaminated water, food or aerosols. While food exposure and corresponding health effects are rare, exposure to high MC concentrations via drinking water has resulted in morbidity and mortality. However, little is known about the level of MC exposure in humans when sub-chronically or chronically exposed via aerosols or drinking water as is the case in populations living within close proximity to water bodies experiencing toxic blooms, e.g. the population of San Roque dam, Argentina. To accurately determine human exposure, an in-depth understanding of the physical and physiological events governing toxic bloom formation and regulating MC production is critical. In this study we will (1) undertake a series of in-lake mesocosm studies to explore thresholds and triggers of up-regulation of MC. Samples will be analyzed using a suite of sensitive molecular (QPCR, RT-QPCR, metagenome analysis), immunological and chemical techniques in concert with physical and geochemical measurements , (2) undertake a series of field-experiments, incl. the San Roque location, in which we will monitor a range of physiochemical parameters, and in-lake and aerosolized MC levels, and (3) use a hydrodynamic model to define water movement coupled to an ecological model enabling predictions of toxins in aerosols and water. Laboratory techniques and questionnaires specifically developed to allow monitoring of human toxin exposure, will be used to assess health impacts of toxins and aerosols. The consortium represents aquatic ecologists, microbiologist, molecular biologist, modelers, toxicologists and medical staff. Exchanging staff will ensure increased understanding and implementation of technologies and lead to improved human risk assessment.

Keywords: water quality monitoring,cyanobacterial toxins,toxic blooms,modelling (environmental risks),ecotoxicology,human exposure,clinical analysis,health effects assessment
Transition versus Transformation: comparing paths to democratic change in the former USSR using case study based evidence from civil society, international aid and domestic politics (TRANSFOR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Estonia,Ireland,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188800.0
EU funding (EUR): 188800.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This project wants to fill this gap in the literature and study the interaction between civil society and the political forces operating at different levels of the state. In this respect this research aims at re-charting the relationships between civil society, international donors and the state in order to explore three questions: 1) What are the limits of international forces in democracy promotion strategies that target civil society as the main actor in the socio-political transition of a country? 2) What are the factors that allow civil society to play a role in effective pluralisation and democratization of a country? 3) Is there any mechanism diffusing those factors across regions and continents and what are the reasons for a successful exportation of factors and strategies? Conversely what factors have revealed been revealed to be most important in limiting this diffusion? The project, in addition to creating experts in this field, will also contribute a significant body of knowledge in its own right. The research will explore the way post-Soviet consolidation has been conceived, implemented and applied to different political, economic and geopolitical realities across the region. To this end the interactions between researchers from different research centres will be constructed around two main axes. First, the researchers will coordinate on a joint research project. Second, different organizations will form collaborations between themselves that will lead to a constant and systematic transfer of knowledge between partners.

Keywords: social sciences,former ussr,democratisation,civil society
Fundamentals and Applications of Nano-Carbon Electron Emitters (FANCEE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Finland,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 127300.0
EU funding (EUR): 127300.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Development of efficient electron sources is crucial for a wide range of applications including integrated vacuum microelectronics, MEMS, bright flat panel displays, energy conversion devices, and compact microwave amplifiers. In the search for new cathodes capable to produce a strong electron flux at low energy consumption, carbon materials possessing extraordinary field emission properties have been attracted a lot of attention. Control of the morphology and electron properties of nanocarbon species opens tremendous opportunities in the development of advanced electron sources.. In the framework of the FANCEE Programme we will combine advanced materials synthesis, state of the art electron microscopy, and a range of characterization techniques to develop fundamentals and applications of the nanocarbon materials for electron emission. The research objectives of the FANCEE are (i) to reveal fundamental mechanisms of the field, thermionic and laser assisted electron emission from the nanostructured carbon materials, (ii) to establish relationship between structural and emission properties and create nanocarbon materials that enable enhanced emission, and (iii) to optimize the material properties and create advanced carbon cathodes for specific applications including cathodoluminescent light sources, X-ray tubes, electron guns for vacuum electronic devices. We anticipate that theoretical and experimental results of FANCEE will provide new insights in the fundamental properties and application potential of nanocarbon materials in electronics. New functionalities arising from the nanostructuring of carbon cathodes will enable development of compact sources of ultra dense electron bunches of ultrashort duration. FANCEE will reinforce the existing and create new cooperation links between the Partners through a coordinated joint programme in fabrication, investigation and applications of nanocarbon materials.

Keywords: electron-based nano-devices,nanotechnology,opto-electronic components
The genus Digitalis: Molecular taxonomy, preservation, active constituents and therapeutic applications (DIGITALIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172200.0
EU funding (EUR): 172200.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The topics of this joint exchange programme are all related to a specific plant genus of commercial interest and its taxonomy, the propagation and investigation of endangered species of this plant genus, the natural products used in medicine occurring in Digitalis plants, and the isolation, structure elucidation and biological testing of some of the rare but pharmacological relevant cardenolides. Objectives are (1) Taxonomically critical Digitalis species and subspecies will be (re)-examined by molecular taxonomy, using the progesterone 5β-reductase gene as a molecular marker, and chemotaxonomy by cardenolide profiling, using HPLC, (2) plant tissue cultures of endangered Digitalis species will be established and used in plant propagation. Hairy root cultures of selected species will be established for fundamental studies on cardenolide formation, (3) the structures of important cardenolides will be elucidated by NMR and bulk quantities of selected cardenolides will be produced, (4) antiviral and antiproliferative effects of individual cardenolides will be studied. Cardenolides will be screened for their pharmacological profiles (potential and selectivity). The objectives aim at intensifying circumstantial ongoing co-operations and exchange of materials and people in a more reliable and coordinated way. The profiles of expertise of the various partners are complementary and researchers from Turkey, Brazil, Germany and Portugal are involved.

Keywords: natural sciences,digitalis,taxonomy,endangered plant species,plant tissue culture,cardenolides,antiviral activity,antiproliferative activity,structure elucidation
Ecological application of nanosorbents on the base of natural and synthetic ionites and carbons (ECONANOSORB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 378100.0
EU funding (EUR): 378100.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research project brings together European universities and research centres from Spain, Italy and Germany and three participant institutions from Russian Federation and Ukraine. It builds on existing international projects under the Seventh Framework programme and will enhance the already active collaboration in the field of environmental protection. The main aim of the proposal is to create conditions for mutual research among similarly orientated European research institutions and overcome existing gap between research institution and wood processing industry. The main objectives are: supporting and improving human and research potential, expanding research cooperation in European research area, spreading the output of the research on the both European and international level. Some of the project outputs are exchanging know-how with experienced research entities in Europe, Russia and Ukraine organizing conferences, creating strategic research plan for forest products based sector, improving tools for research results dissemination and online service for forest based industry sector. Increasing production of wood processing industry within Europe, with limited resources of renewable wood raw material, creates needs for more efficient, effective and knowledge based utilization of this raw material. The project consists of the following workpackage Preparation, characterization of nanomaterials from natural and synthetic ionits for adsorption of industrial toxicants; Preparation, characterization and application of combined adsorbents on the base of carbon nanomaterials; Application of nanosorbents for wastewaters and air purification and utilization in nanocomposite materials; Development of a sensor of industrial toxicants and biomedical devices on the base of nanomaterials; Risk and impact assessment related to production and application of nanomaterials in the wood industry as well as Project coordination.

Keywords: nanoclays,sorbents,wood industry,adhesives,wastewater,sensors,gas