Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
WindScanner.eu - The European WindScanner Facility (WINDSCANNER)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Denmark,Spain,Netherlands,Greece,Germany,Norway,Portugal,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-RTD, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6197572.67
EU funding (EUR): 4350000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The future high rate of deployment of renewable energy will require a substantial increase in the installed wind power capacity towards 2020 and beyond, in fact this demand corresponds approximately to the installation of one large turbine every hour for the next decade. This is a substantial “grand challenge” as outlined in the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) from 2009, which is the technology pillar of the EU’s energy and climate policy. The new WINDSCANNER research infrastructure facility has been conceived in the logic of the SET Plan and the vision of the European Innovation Union (Europe 2020 Strategy). The WINDSCANNER aims to enhance the European competitiveness in the wind energy sector and maintain European technological leadership in detailed high-resolution remote sensing measurement methodologies of wind and turbulence for wind energy. This ESFRI WindScanner Preparatory Phase (PP) project develops the governance scheme, legal model, and the final technological design and associated budget and financing models for its construction by 2016. The WINDSCANNER PP project will address coordinated European development of the facility in a joint technological and economically substantial European approach. The operational WINDSCANNER facility will be designed around: A central facility with the functions of handling the data management, hosting servers, hosting of website, administrative office, training of technicians and researchers who will operate the WindScanners, training of users, etc. Anticipated 6 new partner nodes equipped with mobile WindScanners used at existing or planned test facilities all over Europe (in different climate conditions and terrains) This WINDSCANNER facility will underpin the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) Joint Program on Wind Energy and its research activities on remote sensing based mapping of regional wind resources and wind conditions on and offshore.

Keywords: windscanner,wind energy,remote sensing
Planetary Robotics Vision Data Exploitation (PROVIDE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,Czechia,United Kingdom,Germany,Russian Federation,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2497936.78
EU funding (EUR): 1999953.86
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The international community of planetary science and exploration has launched, landed and operated dozens of human and robotic missions to the planets and the Moon. They have collected various surface imagery that has only been partially utilized for further scientific application purposes. Few attempts have been made so far to bring these data into a unified spatial context, or to exploit spatial relationships implicit in these images, including orbiter data. PRoViDE will assemble a major portion of the imaging data gathered so far from vehicles and probes on planetary surfaces into a unique database, bringing them into a spatial context and providing access to a complete set of 3D vision products. Processing is complemented by a multi-resolution visualization engine that combines various levels of detail for a seamless and immersive real-time access to dynamically rendered 3D scene representations. PRoViDE aims to (1) complete relevant 3D vision processing of planetary surface missions, such as Surveyor, Viking, Pathfinder, MER, MSL, Phoenix, Huygens, and Lunar ground-level panoramas & stereoscopic & multiscopic images from Apollo and Russian Lunokhod and selected Luna missions (2) provide highest resolution & accuracy remote sensing (orbital) vision data processing results for these sites to embed the robotic imagery and its products into spatial planetary context, (3) collect 3D Vision processing and remote sensing products within a single coherent spatial data base, (4) realize seamless fusion between orbital and ground vision data, (5) demonstrate the potential of planetary surface vision data by maximising image quality visualisation in 3D publishing platform , (6) collect and formulate use cases for novel scientific application scenarios exploiting the newly introduced spatial relationships and presentation, (7) demonstrate the concepts for MSL, (9) realize on-line dissemination of key data & its presentation by means of a web-based GIS and rendering tool

Keywords: planetary robotics,data exploitation,visualization,rendering
LAndslide Modelling and tools for vulnerability assessment Preparedness and REcovery management (LAMPRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Switzerland,Netherlands,Lithuania,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2478041.85
EU funding (EUR): 1964196.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

LAMPRE proposes to execute innovative research and technological developments to increase GMES limited operational capacity to cope with triggered landslide events and their consequences, in Europe and elsewhere. LAMPRE will enhance landslide risk mitigation/preparedness efforts and post-event-landslide recovery and reconstruction activities, in highly vulnerable geographic and geologic regions. The project improves the ability to detect/map landslides, assess/forecast the impact of triggered landslide events on vulnerable elements, and model landscape changes caused by slope failures. These goals are achieved by (i) researching and developing new techniques and products to dynamically integrate satellite/airborne imagery, (ii) designing and using intelligent image processing techniques, (iii) modelling landslide-infrastructure interactions using advanced numerical modelling and ground based thematic information, and (iv) proposing standards for landslide mapping, susceptibility zonation and image processing. Products of LAMPRE, including geo-processing tools, landslide inventory/susceptibility maps, vulnerability/impact assessments, and standards and best practices, will be beneficial to Civil Protection authorities, environmental, agricultural and forestry agencies, organizations managing transportation networks, and Emergency Response and Land Monitoring GMES services. Results of LAMPRE will be relevant to the EU strategy for the prevention, preparedness and response to natural hazards, and the protection of people, property, infrastructures and the environment, to implement the EU Soil Thematic Strategy, and to the design of novel GMES landslide services based on images taken by the ESA Sentinel-2 satellites. To facilitate up take by users and cross boundary cooperation, LAMPRE will test products and services in a range of physiographical and geographical regions, and will use the advice of a specific international stakeholder user group.

Keywords: landslide,event inventory,vulnerability,risk,image processing,gmes service,civil protection,soil thematic strategy,esa sentinels
Sensory devices network for food supply chain security (SNIFFER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Portugal,Sweden,Spain,Austria,Switzerland,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3632513.0
EU funding (EUR): 2720029.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Project SNIFFER envisions the design and development of a network of distributed detection devices, capable of rapid, on-site detection of multiple kinds of agents and CBR agents with high sensitivity and specificity throughout the most vulnerable stages of the food supply chain (such as farms, large collection centers, wholesalers, etc…). The project will address both available sensor technology and new, complementary sensor devices that shall be used for the detection of hazardous CBR agents within the food supply chain. The sensor devices to be developed are characterized by their portability, easiness to use and reusability. Another important feature of the new device will be its modular design, i.e. the device is formed by several independent modules (sensors, communication device, on-board computing, etc), combined through generalized and standardized connections. The network of sensor devices will be designed as a centralized architecture, in which all the data from the devices will be sent to a command center. An operator of the SNIFFER system will also have the ability to remotely control and command the sensor devices using a specific interface from the command center. Project SNIFFER will also envision the creation of a set of guidelines, which presents the countermeasures and procedures that shall be used within the European Union whenever a food or feed borne incident is detected within the food supply chain. The guidebook will provide help to the appropriate entities in employing the corrective counter-measures in order to mitigate, restrain or ultimately eradicate the hazardous agent. The aforementioned objectives of the project will be directed to achieve the final goal of providing means of countermeasure to mitigate a possible incident of CBR health hazardous agents in the food supply chain and to increase the security within all the steps that constitute the food supply chain.

Keywords: biosensors,chemical sensors,radiological sensors,mips,sensor network,food supply chain,security,cbr contaminants
Redefining tie strength – how social media (can) help us to get non-redundant useful information and emotional support (REDEFTIE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1079457.0
EU funding (EUR): 1079457.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Social media offer us effortless ways to stay in touch with large numbers of individuals. These individuals can be friends (strong ties), acquaintances (weak ties), or people we barely know (absent ties). Decades of social capital research have shown that strong ties are useful because they provide us with emotional support and weak ties are useful because they provide us with non-redundant useful information, but absent ties do not provide us with any benefits at all. Now, social media challenge these conclusions. Through social media, people connect to absent ties daily, so apparently there are benefits involved. My central question therefore is: To what extent do social media change how, and from whom, we seek and receive informational and emotional support? Social media technologies have changed the frequency and nature of our social connections. Smart phones allow a constant connection with our social network, sometimes even preventing us from socializing face-to-face. Twitter facilitates asymmetric relationships, such that even marginalized individuals can connect to important information sources. Facebook has set a norm where individuals who in the past we would merely have nodded to, are now embedded in our network of “friends“. It seems natural to assume that, if the way we maintain our social network changes, the way we extract social capital from that network also changes. To deepen our understanding of the effects of social media use on receiving informational and emotional support, I will employ several methods. By means of a large longitudinal study (subproject 1) in a representative sample, I aim to detect causal relationships between social media use at time t and informational and emotional benefits at time t+x. In addition, two subprojects will study in detail the cognitive and affective processes underlying informational (subproject 2) and emotional (subproject 3) benefits of social media use.

Keywords: social media,social capital,social networks,information,emotional support,weak and strong ties
Optical Infrared Co-ordination Network for Astronomy (OPTICON)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,France,Netherlands,Spain,Australia,Sweden,Greece,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,Poland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10979747.51
EU funding (EUR): 8500000.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

Optical-infrared astronomy in Europe is in a state of transition and opportunity, with the goal of a viable structured European scale community in sight. A strong astronomical community requires access to state of the art infrastructures (telescopes), equipped with the best possible instrumentation, and with that access being open to all on a basis of competitive excellence. Further, the community needs training in optimal use of those facilities to be available to all, Critically, it needs a viable operational model, with long-term support from the national agencies, to operate those infrastructures. The most important need for most astronomers is to have open access to a viable set of medium aperture telescopes, with excellent facilities, complemented by superb instrumentation on the extant large telescopes, while working towards next generation instrumentation on the future flagship, the European Extremely Large Telescope. OPTICON has made a substantial contribution to preparing the realisation of that ambition. OPTICON supported R&D has, and is developing critical next-generation technology, to enhance future instrumentation on all telescopes. The big immediate challenge is to retain a viable set of well-equipped medium aperture telescopes. The present project is to make the proof of principle that such a situation is possible - a situation developed by OPTICON under its previous contracts, in collaboration with the EC supported strategy network ASTRONET - and set the stage for the step to full implementation.

Keywords: european extremely large telescope,coordination,innovation,tna access,community structuring
Enhanced European Coordination for Accelerator Research & Development (EUCARD-2)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Switzerland,Austria,Austria,Denmark,Finland,France,France,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Malta,Netherlands,Poland,Poland,Russian Federation,Spain,Sweden,Sweden,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-RTD, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 23400922.32
EU funding (EUR): 8000000.0
Participants: 41
Project status: CLOSED

Research accelerators are facing important challenges that must be addressed in the years to come: existing infrastructures are stretched to all performance frontiers, new world-class facilities on the ESFRI roadmap are starting or nearing completion, and strategic decisions are needed for future accelerators and major upgrades in Europe. While current projects concentrate on their specific objectives, EuCARD-2 brings a global view to accelerator research, coordinating a consortium of 40 accelerator laboratories, technology institutes, universities and industry to jointly address common challenges. By promoting complementary expertise, cross-disciplinary fertilisation and a wider sharing of knowledge and technologies throughout academia and with industry, EuCARD-2 significantly enhances multidisciplinary R&D for European accelerators. This new project will actively contribute to the development of a European Research Area in accelerator science by effectively implementing a distributed accelerator laboratory in Europe. Transnational access will be granted to state-of-the-art test facilities, and joint R&D effort will build upon and exceed that of the ongoing EuCARD project. Researchers will concentrate on a few well-focused themes with very ambitious deliverables: 20 T accelerator magnets, innovative materials for collimation of extreme beams, new high-gradient high-efficiency accelerating systems, and emerging acceleration technologies based on lasers and plasmas. EuCARD-2 will include six networks on strategic topics to reinforce synergies between communities active at all frontiers, extending the scope towards innovation and societal applications. The networks concentrate on extreme beam performance, novel accelerator concepts with outstanding potential, energy efficiency and accelerator applications in the fields of medicine, industry, environment and energy. One network will oversee the whole project to proactively catalyze links to industry and the innovation potential.

Keywords: accelerator infrastructures,accelerator sciences and technologies
Cracking the code and flow of empathy (VICARIOUSBRAIN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1761239.0
EU funding (EUR): 1761239.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Humans are exquisitely able to sense the motor intentions and emotions of others. In the last decade, using single cell recordings in monkeys and fMRI in humans, I have contributed to show that (1) mirror neurons and brain regions involved in the execution of a goal directed action also respond to the sound and sight of other people performing a corresponding action and (2) brain regions involved in feeling an emotion also respond when witnessing that emotion in others. Here, I propose to explore two critical questions raised by these findings. 1) How does the distributed network of brain regions involved in action observation integrate information across regions? We will use effective connectivity analyses of electrophysiological signals in monkeys (ECoG) and humans (EEG, MEG, ECoG) to explore the direction of information flow between these regions to challenge traditional models of action observation. Results might turn traditional models of (social) perception up-side-down by demonstrating that internal models are the driving force of perception. 2) I will leverage an animal model of empathy we recently developed, to finally explore how neurons in brain regions associated with empathy respond during the experience and witnessing of emotions. Through a combination of PET, multi-tetrode recordings and deactivation studies, I will shift the focus of the neuroscience of empathy from fMRI blobs to neurons and their interactions across brain regions. Given the tremendous interest in emotional empathy across many fields, understanding its neural causes will open exciting new horizons for our mechanistic understanding of this fundamental human capacity and the therapy of psychiatric disorders of empathy costing our society hundreds of billions every year.

Keywords: social neuroscience,mind reading,empathy,mirror neuron system,single cell recording,emotion,action,perception,effective connectivity,information flow
Biological origins of linguistic constraints (BIOCON)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1305973.0
EU funding (EUR): 1305973.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The linguistic capacity to express and comprehend an unlimited number of ideas when combining a limited number of elements has only been observed in humans. Nevertheless, research has not fully identified the components of language that make it uniquely human and that allow infants to grasp the complexity of linguistic structure in an apparently effortless manner. Research on comparative cognition suggests humans and other species share powerful learning mechanisms and basic perceptual abilities we use for language processing. But humans display remarkable linguistic abilities that other animals do not possess. Understanding the interplay between general mechanisms shared across species and more specialized ones dedicated to the speech signal is at the heart of current debates in human language acquisition. This is a highly relevant issue for researchers in the fields of Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. By conducting experiments across several populations (human adults and infants) and species (human and nonhuman animals), and using a wide array of experimental techniques, the present proposal hopes to shed some light on the origins of shared biological constraints that guide more specialized mechanisms in the search for linguistic structure. More specifically, we hope to understand how general perceptual and cognitive mechanisms likely present in other animals constrain the way humans tackle the task of language acquisition. Our hypothesis is that differences between humans and other species are not the result of humans being able to process increasingly complex structures that are the hallmark of language. Rather, differences might be due to humans and other animals focusing on different cues present in the signal to extract relevant information. This research will hint at what is uniquely human and what is shared across different animals species.

Keywords: comparative cognition rule learning speech perception linguistic constraints rhythm processing consonants and vowels