Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,China,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2010-3, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3362438.41
EU funding (EUR): 2697060.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

"Sustainable Urbanisation in China : Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050 (URBACHINA) combines the knowledge and expertise from a number of different disciplines to provide new and innovative insights and scenarios that can be used guide urbanization in China over the next 40 years. A key strength of the proposal is the use of 'thematic pairs' of European and Chinese researchers who will lead and deliver the research and dissemination associated with work packages organized around the key themes identified in the Call. Each work package team comprises leading experts who will utilize state-of-the-art knowledge, methods and techniques from economic geography, to anthropology and history to test a suite of hypotheses founded on historical and comparative perspectives on urbanisation trends and process in the EU and China. While each of the four core research teams will deliver significant added value through the work packages, there is also provision in the proposal for extensive cross-project collaboration based on the four defined topics identified in the Call: 1.The institutional foundations and policies for urbanisation; 2.The issue of land property in urbanisation and the development of real estate markets in cities; 3.The need for environmental infrastructures delivering connectivity and services for the urban population; 4.The relationships between urban development, traditions, and modern lifestyles in cities. These four topics will be treated as different layers within a comprehensive analysis of a single process -urbanisation in China- that links historical experiences, comparative dimensions and possible future scenarios. This framework will provide a firm foundation for multi-faceted interactions between scholars, officials and business in Europe and China. It will also provide the basis for extensive dissemination of URBACHINA outputs using a variety of media designed to engage policy makers and ordinary citizens.

Keywords: china,shanghai,chongqing,kunming,huangshan,urbanisation,sustainable development,cities,megalopolises,urban rural divide
Policy Incentives for the Creation of Knowledge: Methods and Evidence (PICK-ME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Poland,Germany,Israel
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2372031.0
EU funding (EUR): 1838819.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The ongoing global economic crisis is seriously challenging advanced capitalistic economies. In the last year the GDP has fallen at dramatic rates, creating the conditions for the upsurge of unemployment, above all in areas characterized by specialization in mature industries. According to recent growth models and empirical evidence, innovation and knowledge creation represent the main factors able to improve the competitiveness and the long run perspectives of growth of countries. Yet, innovation and technology policies have mainly been designed by relying on a supply side perspective so as to affect the creation of knowledge by providing funds to carry out R&D activities and by enhancing education and training for researchers. However, a debate has recently emerged, about the need for grafting innovation and technology policies in a demand-oriented framework. The aim of this project is to provide an original contribution to the ongoing debate, advancing the understanding of the mechanisms through which demand-based innovation policies may stimulate effective knowledge creation process, and eventually trigger competitiveness and productivity growth. To this purpose, the research activity will consist of both theoretical models and empirical analyses, the results of which should be able to inform the policy design process. We shall distinguish between public and private demand for both final and intermediate goods and services and will analyze their effects on the generation, diffusion and exploitation of technological knowledge by articulating the research activity on different dimensions (regional, sectoral and institutional). The research activity will be conducted by pursuing a great deal of multidisciplinarity and combining a number of diverse methodologies. The results of the analyses will in turn provide the basis upon which a taxonomy of demand-oriented technology policies may be elaborated.

Keywords: demand-driven innovation policy,knowledge structure,agglomeration,networks,education,university-industry links,technology lifecycle
Topological Dynamics of Rings and C*-algebras (TODYRIC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1179880.0
EU funding (EUR): 1179880.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is concerned with problems in several areas. A starting point is the new concept of a ring C*-algebra associated with a countable ring without zero divisors. For special rings this C*-algebra has a very rich and surprising structure. A particularly interesting case is the ring of algebraic integers in a global field. In this context the algebra contains well known topological dynamical systems. We plan to use the analysis of ring algebras as an organizing principle for the study of many questions in C*-algebra theory, K-theory, ergodic theory and number theory. Some of these questions are well known and very difficult.

Keywords: c*-algebras,ergodic theory,k-theory,global fields
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of Amorphous Solids (STANPAS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1792858.0
EU funding (EUR): 1792858.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I propose an extensive and ambitious program to greatly increase our understanding of the properties of amorphous solids, focusing mainly on the mechanical and magnetic properties of these fascinating materials, including their modes of failure via plastic flow, shear banding and fracture. Amorphous solids are important in many modern engineering applications, including as important examples structural glasses, metallic glasses and polymeric glasses. Our work combines a careful analysis of computer simulations of model-glasses with analytic theory in which we introduce to material science methods from statistical and nonlinear physics, both of which are subjects of expertise in our group. We challenge some present approaches that try to connect linear elasticity with some objects that carry plasticity; we claim that nonlinear elasticity is crucial, as its signature appears much before plastic failure. Similarly, we break away from current theories that assume that plastic events are spatially localized. We show that in athermal conditions the opposite is true, and we discover very interesting sub-extensive scaling phenomena characterized by a host of scaling exponents that need to be understood. The peculiarities of amorphous solids, in particular their memory of past deformation, call for the identification of new 'order parameters' that are sorely missing in present theories. Understanding the dependence on system size, temperature, external loading rates etc. calls for introducing new approaches and methods from statistical and nonlinear physics. In the body of the proposal we present a number of preliminary results that point towards a radically new way of thinking that we propose to develop to a new theory over the next five years.

Keywords: plasticity,yield-stress,metallic glasses,shear-transformation-zones,scaling functions,scaling laws
Academie universitaire Louvain Incoming Post-Doc Fellowshpis (IPOD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2400000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

From 2006 on, the French-speaking Community of Belgium has organized its nine universities in three Academies. In this new legal context, UCL is part of the ‘Academie Universitaire Louvain’ (AUL) which also comprises the Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons (FUCAM), the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur (FUNDP), and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL). With respect to the present application, UCL acts as the operator on behalf of the four partner universities of the AUL. Building upon the existing Mobility Fellowships programme of the UCL called « Bourses post-doctorales à l'accueil de post-doctorants étrangers » as well as similar schemes existing in partners Universities, the four institutions decided to apply for co-funding by the European Commission in order to improve the scheme. This joint initiative should be conducive to a stronger visibility of our research programmes to the research community at large and to a higher level of attractiveness of our four institutions for talented researchers from outside Belgium. Last but not least, this should allow the four universities to be able to offer a higher number of post-doctoral positions and thus a higher success rate for these positions. Specifically, the budget will be increased from 600.000 to 900.000 eur/year. With a co-funding of the European Commission, we would reach an annual budget of 1.5 million euro. The newly called “AUL IPoD fellowships” scheme will be managed by the Research Administration of the UCL which will also provide logistical and administrative support for research missions and activities of benefit to the university community. Concretely, the scheme is open to experienced researchers from all nationalities and is based on a bottom-up approach. The duration may vary from 12 to 24 month and the potential applicant has the choice between 154 Research entities spread over 5 locations and 4 Universities.

Keywords: trans-national mobility fellowship schemes for post-doctoral (experienced) researchers uclouvain
Dark Matters (DARK)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Universe sciences
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499990.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499990.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This interdisciplinary proposal spans theoretical astrophysics and particle physics by addressing the need to provide astrophysical expertise to the particle astrophysics community in the area of dark matter and dark energy research. A new dialogue will be developed via collaborations involving expertise in astronomy, statistics and particle physics that centre on fundamental aspects of the nature of the contents of the universe. Theoretical predictions will be refined to pursue the quest for dark matter using novel experiments designed to detect the direct signatures of dark matter in our galactic halo via scattering and indirect via annihilations into high energy particles and photons. Dark matter and dark energy will be studied by cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations and structure formation constraints. The former probe is contaminated by inadequately understood foregrounds that will be examined to extract clues to new physics in the very early universe, an especially timely research frontier in view of the anticipated data from the Planck satellite. The latter is rendered difficult by the highly complex interface of star and galaxy formation. This will be studied by emphasizing development of feedback prescriptions, an ingredient that plays a central role in the current paradigm for galaxy formation and complements ultradeep searches with the new generation of telescopes. The overall goal, namely to leverage via theory on the unprecedented experimental efforts that are underway to address dark sector issues in the emerging field of particle astrophysics, is achievable at relatively modest cost.

Keywords: astroparticle physics
From metal nanocrystal to supracrystal: crystallinity at nanometer and micrometer scales (SUPRANANO)

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: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2133990.0
EU funding (EUR): 2133990.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Applicant has an outstanding record of achievement and an international reputation for independent research in many areas of physical chemistry and more specifically over the last 25 years in nanosciences. This large expertise makes it possible, through this project, to come to a decisive turning point in her career. This high-impact and challenging proposal brings together innovative ideas in nanomaterials within a single inter- and multi-disciplinary project to open up new horizons across materials science. The challenging and innovating issue of this project consists in authenticating and detailing the emergence of new chemical and physical properties directly related to the ordering of atoms in nanocrystals (nanocrystallinity) and the ordering of nanocrystals in supracrystals (supracrystallinity). Au, Ag, and Co nanocrystals with different nanocrystallinities (single domain, multiply-twinned and polycrystalline particles) will be synthesized by new methods. Nanocrystals will be used to produce supracrystals of these metals with different supracrystallinities (fcc, hcp, or bcc). The influence of nanocrystallinity on the diffusivity of different atoms within Ag and Co nanocrystals will be investigated. Physical properties of both nanocrystals and supracrystals such as the vibrational, electronic and mechanical properties and their dependence on crystallinity will be explored. From the data thus obtained it should be possible to point out analogies between the properties of atoms in nanocrystals or in the bulk phase and those of nanocrystals ordered in supracrystals. Moreover, correlations between the studied properties could emerge. This research will result in important scientific knowledge and may ultimately open new technological applications.

Keywords: nanocrystallinity control by new syntheses,superclusters,supracrystals,hollow nanocrystals,confined acoustic modes,charge transport,electron-phonon relaxation rates,elastic superrystal property
DISCRETE AND CONVEX GEOMETRY: CHALLENGES, METHODS, APPLICATIONS (DISCONV)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Hungary
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1298012.28
EU funding (EUR): 1298012.28
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Title: Discrete and convex geometry: challenges, methods, applications Abstract: Research in discrete and convex geometry, using tools from combinatorics, algebraic topology, probability theory, number theory, and algebra, with applications in theoretical computer science, integer programming, and operations research. Algorithmic aspects are emphasized and often serve as motivation or simply dictate the questions. The proposed problems can be grouped into three main areas: (1) Geometric transversal, selection, and incidence problems, including algorithmic complexity of Tverberg's theorem, weak epsilon-nets, the k-set problem, and algebraic approaches to the Erdos unit distance problem. (2) Topological methods and questions, in particular topological Tverberg-type theorems, algorithmic complexity of the existence of equivariant maps, mass partition problems, and the generalized HeX lemma for the k-coloured d-dimensional grid. (3) Lattice polytopes and random polytopes, including Arnold's question on the number of convex lattice polytopes, limit shapes of lattice polytopes in dimension 3 and higher, comparison of random polytopes and lattice polytopes, the integer convex hull and its randomized version.

Keywords: discrete geometry,convex hull
DAL: Defying Amdahl's Law (DAL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2398542.0
EU funding (EUR): 2398542.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Multicore processors have now become mainstream for both general-purpose and embedded computing. Instead of working on improving the architecture of the next generation multicore, with the DAL project, we deliberately anticipate the next few generations of multicores. While multicores featuring 1000's of cores might become feasible around 2020, there are strong indications that sequential programming style will continue to be dominant. Even future mainstream parallel applications will exhibit large sequential sections. Amdahl's law indicates that high performance on these sequential sections is needed to enable overall high performance on the whole application. On many (most) applications, the effective performance of future computer systems using a 1000-core processor chip will significantly depend on their performance on both sequential code sections and single thread. We envision that, around 2020, the processor chips will feature a few complex cores and many (may be 1000's) simpler, more silicon and power effective cores. In the DAL research project, we will explore the microarchitecture techniques that will be needed to enable high performance on such heterogeneous processor chips. Very high performance will be required on both sequential sections -legacy sequential codes, sequential sections of parallel applications- and critical threads on parallel applications -e.g. the main thread controlling the application. Our research will focus on enhancing single process performance. On the microarchitecture side, we will explore both a radically new approach, the sequential accelerator, and more conventional processor architectures. We will also study how to exploit heterogeneous multicore architectures to enhance sequential thread performance.
Electrical Power Control – More Electric Aircraft (ELPOC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2011-06-06
End date: 2015-09-05
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 991020.0
EU funding (EUR): 495510.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Systems for Green Operation (SGO) WP1 will deliver a V&V Plan on how European industry can support and de-risk Airbus in their work in SGO WP4 on a comprehensive ground demonstration ahead of a flight demo. This de-risk and support will also include inputs from SGO WP2.3 on Technology Adaptation. ELPOC will directly support Airbus in SGO WP4.2 Ground Demonstration.SPUK will make extensive use of technology development hardware, engineering capabilities and facilities from previous R&T projects, principally EU MOET, UK AMES. SPUK will work with Airbus throughout ELPOC’s planned 51 months duration. In its initial stages the project will have a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) addressing the Architecture Options available (power system 230VAC VF, +/-270VDC – generation, conversion, useage; emulation of major electrical loads including a programmable inertia rig for engine start and icing protection technologies). SPUK will set up a basic emulation of an aircraft essential power buss, and use this as an environment to conduct a series of specific trade off studies in key power electronic control technologies – to progress the Airbus activity on top level power system optimisation for a complete aircraft. The PDR will determine a definitive list of these key electronic technologies. SPUK is proposing: Power Density (kW/kg); Efficiency; Switching Strategy; Control Strategies; Topology of Transistor/Diode Options; Forced Air Cooling (deletion of liquid circuit).

Keywords: electrical aircraft power systems architecture electronic controls optimisation moet proven
Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3141996.0
EU funding (EUR): 1256798.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) Programme provides an opportunity for excellent early-career-stage investigators to carry out independent research in the fields of science and engineering that underpin biotechnology, information and communications technology, and sustainable energy and energy-efficient technologies. The award also provides funding for a postgraduate student, who will be primarily supervised by the Starting Investigator (SI). The SI will work with an associated mentor, who will provide the necessary support and infrastructure for the project to take place.

Keywords: biotechnology,information and communications technology,sustainable energy and energy-efficient technologies