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Face to Face (F2F)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-5-1-1-NIGHT, 2007)
Start date: 2007-06-01
End date: 2007-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71880.0
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

To meet the objectives of the Researchers’ Night 2007, the following types of activities will be organized: 1. Ask a researcher! a nationwide collection of questions to scientists, answered by scientists during a national public radio debate (WP 2). 2. Nationwide drawing competition with the exhibition of best works, winners announced at the Researchers’ Night (WP 3). 3. Basic studies and researchers, small groups meetings, discussions and workshops in various fields (WP 4). 4. From science to applications, small groups meetings and workshops in applied science (WP 5). 5. Science and education, various forms of education in museums, the molecular biology laboratory for teenagers, and didactic university experiments.(WP6). Special programs for kids, (WP3, WP5, WP7, WP9). 6. Young researchers informal meetings, happenings, workshops when young researchers will establish close intellectual contact with young public looking for their life carrier (WP 7). 7. Researchers for a civic society meetings and workshops in small groups with sociologists and psychologists concerning processes when civic society is formed. A sociological game will be played, targeted to general public and to trendsetters (WP 8). 8. Science could be fun, presentations of various sides of science in an attractive form of games, contests, demonstrations, directed to kids but also to adult audience, “family activities” (WP 9). 9. Science and art. Mutual interactions of science and art will be exemplified by theater play, films, and in National Museum, proving that arts and science are two faces of human civilization. (WP 10) 10. Informal discourses in form of science cafés about philosophy, physics, art museum (WP 11). Researchers will show personal interests and hobbies. Information about Night distributed through Internet Festival Newsletter, Polish Press Agency, Journalists’ Association, Polish Public Radio and the newspaper “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Entry: free of charge.

Keywords: researcher,science based society,science festival,civic society
ARTS, CRAFTS AND PROFESSIONS OF THE PAST THROUGH THE RESEARCHERS EYES (ACPRE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-5-1-1-NIGHT, 2007)
Start date: 2007-06-01
End date: 2007-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107766.0
EU funding (EUR): 69900.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective which is in absolute accordance with the EU HRM policy, is to render Research and Culture accessible to the public through exhibitions and events, which will be organised on the night of 28th September 2007 with audiovisual and multimedia effects, at venues where research is conducted or play an integral part in the cultural life of the city. The public, adults and students will have the unprecedented opportunity to visit venues normally inaccessible, will interact with researchers in person and will be inspired by the excitement of research and the enchanting quest for discoveries in every field. At the NHRF in Athens, a unique exhibition on arts, crafts and professions of the Middle Ages will enable the public to see them through the eyes of the researcher. In the Byzantine Museum, situated nearby an exhibition of medieval manuscripts along with an educational programme will maximize the effects of the event by offering a view and feel of actual tools of the time and the artefacts created by them. The National Observatory of Athens, will hold an unprecedented night event on the History of Astronomy. The Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, awarded the Best European Museum in 2005 by the EC, will offer the public the opportunity to access its laboratories. The 8th Bureau of Byzantine Antiquities in Ioannina, will organise a guided tour of the impressive Castle and the Museum in it. The programme will last 6 months. The exhibitions and events will be designed and organised in the first 3 months, the implementation in the 4th, the evaluation in the 5th and dissemination of the experience gained from the project in the 6th month. Through the project we will achieve to draw the public to research and cultural venues, provide detailed information on Arts, Crafts and Professions of the Middle Ages, introduce the wider public to the significant work done in Museums, raise public awareness of research on our historical past.

Keywords: arts,byzantine,history,culture,science,researcher,crafts,professions,modern applications,education,multimedia,astronomy,painting,manuscripts,pottery
Researchers Night 2007 - Cracow and Gliwice together (2NIGHT-2GETHER)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-5-1-1-NIGHT, 2007)
Start date: 2007-06-01
End date: 2007-10-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 79044.0
EU funding (EUR): 70049.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

What about the researchers hand in hand with the rest of the society, discussing about themselves, letting the public take part actively in their research and opening their labs even at night? Is this the truth or the fiction? To verify that, it is necessary to join the open Friday feast. Moreover the event takes place in the two cities famous for their multisecular tradition, qualified cadre of scientists, universities leading the rankings, rich student life and wonderful market squares of Old Towns and student towns, which would be the perfect places for face-to-face encounters with the researchers. Cracow and Gliwice will change almost into different planet, where the term “boredom’ would surely come from Mars! The Researchers’ Night, little by little, becomes a tradition in Gliwice. The society craving for such craze looks forward to it, and even suggests ideas for the next edition. In this year we would like to have it exceptionally ceremonial! The special moment and two wonderful anniversaries require that. These are the 50th anniversary of European Union and the 750th anniversary of wonderful Cracow beloved not only by the Polish people, but also by the foreigners! Slightly older Gliwice, together with its partner, will celebrate very intensively. We will surely surprise the public be the number of events going with a swing. There will be humoristic lectures, surprising experiments, interesting workshops, stimulation games, trips, competitions for everyone (from the age of 5 to 105). Together with the public we will look into professors’ wardrobes, read the cards, devour chocolate bars in time competition, learn how to dance. Moreover we will visit museums, mines, plants, watch and create exhibitions and at midnight we will evoke ghosts or observe stars. Each event will be held with the assistance and active cooperation of our wonderful researchers showing the human face of science. Everyone will believe that, even the biggest sceptic!

Keywords: researchers' night 2007 in cracow and gliwice. the researchers hand in hand with the rest of the society.
2007 Researchers Night in Iceland (VAKA2007)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Iceland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-5-1-1-NIGHT, 2007)
Start date: 2007-07-01
End date: 2007-11-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 107850.0
EU funding (EUR): 70000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In order to reach its goal of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy in the world, devoting an average of 3% of the member states’ annual GDP to R&D, the EU requires large numbers of new researchers entering the labour market in coming years. The European Commission has concluded that there is a need to raise public awareness about the role of researchers in society and attract more young people into scientific careers in order to ensure the availability of adequate human resources for the future. This proposal incorporates Iceland into the 2007 Researchers’ Night - a European wide awareness raising activity to be held on 28 September 2007. It brings together various organizations in the field of R&D and the mass media to achieve three main objectives: 1. Enhance the recognition of researchers’ role and contribution to society by the public at large 2. Highlight the European dimension of R&D activities and the international dimension of researchers’ careers 3. Encourage more young people to embark on careers in R&D and thereby contribute to the number of researchers active in the European Research Area The project is divided into three work packages (WP): WP 0 addresses its management and impact assessment and WP 1 animation activities leading up to the Researchers' Night. WP 2 consists of various tasks performed in planning and implementing a large central event on 28 September in the Reykjavík city centre. RANNIS, the project coordinator, is a public research support agency under the Ministry of Education and Research. It allocates public research grants and promotes international research cooperation. It is also responsible for science communication and has great relations with the whole of the research community, public organizations and the media. RANNIS successfully coordinated Iceland’s participation in the 2005 and 2006 Researchers’ Nights and has participated in a number of other European funded projects.

Keywords: researchers night
Art Thou Researching? (R4A)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Malta
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-5-1-1-NIGHT, 2007)
Start date: 2007-06-01
End date: 2007-10-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 68377.0
EU funding (EUR): 68377.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to confront two apparently opposing scenarios - that the researcher is a lab-coat donning reclusive nerd living in an ivory tower, and that the artist lives a life of bohemian rules and laissez-faire attitude - with each other and against reality. Researcher's Night offers a unique opportunity to get this message across, not only to young people, but also to their parents, leaders, educators and prospective employers. This will be done through a series of activities which will be designed to be fun, targeted at as wide an audience as possible and highly visible. The theme ART Though RESEARCHING? has been chosen to also help increase the attractiveness of investment in R&D by improving the perception of the general public of Researchers though, amongst other things, the use of Art.

Keywords: researchers as normal people,and research professions as rewarding and fulfilling.
A contribution to the fundamental understanding of Shear-Refinement of polymer melts by entanglement manipulation (SISAPEM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

It has been demonstrated by J-P Ibar that thermal-mechanical history of a polymer melt, in particular the use of mechanical oscillation superposed to shear flow (for instance in the gap of an extruder) appears to boost the magnitude of viscosity and elasticity reduction due to Shear-Refinement. These parameters play a crucial role during processing of plastics, determining the high temperature required to produce flow, thermal degradation, the long cycle times and thus the present productivity limitation in our industries. In the case of loaded polymers, which addresses more than 80% of the polymer resin used today, their high viscosity, aggravated by the presence of the concentrate, limits the maximum amount of dispersants allowed, such as for carbon nanotubes (CNT), as well as the quality of the mix. At the same time, several universities of world wide reputation, including the LPMI of UPPA, the university of Pau et Pays de l’Adour (now called IPREM-EPCP), the Ecole des Mines de Paris (CEMEF Sofia Antipolis) showed that viscosity and elasticity of polymer melts can be reduced by disentanglement of the macromolecules induced by strong deformation. Rheological variables such as strain amplitude, strain rate, elongational ratio, in other words melt thermal-mechanical history, as well as molecular characteristics such as chain molecular weight Mw, degree of branching, branch length, play a critical role to induce chain disentanglement, insure its stability in time, or favor re-entanglement. The objective of this project is to combine the competence of J-P Ibar and that of UPPA-IPREM-EPCP through a collaboration to understand fundamentally the mechanisms of disentanglement and re-entanglement, by Shear Induced Strain Amplified Polymer Entanglement Manipulation (SISAPEM) in order to produce stable disentangled polymers, for instance under pellet form, capable of recovering, after processing, their initial entanglement characteristics and thus their physical performance.

Keywords: materials engineering,polymer technology,simulation engineering,technological sciences
Structural and functional studies on the SUMO modification Pathway (SUMO PATHWAY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Small Ubiquitin-related MOdifier (SUMO) belongs to a family of proteins that become covalently attached to other proteins as post-translational modifications. Proteins that are modified by SUMO participate in diverse cellular processes, including transcriptional regulation, nuclear transport, maintenance of genome integrity, and signal transduction. Conjugation (or modification) by SUMO is controlled by an enzyme pathway analogous to the ubiquitin pathway. The functional consequences of SUMO attachment vary greatly from substrate to substrate. Frequently, SUMO alters interactions of substrates with other proteins or with DNA, but SUMO can also act by blocking ubiquitin attachment sites. An unusual feature of SUMO modification is that only a small fraction of the substrate is sumoylated at any given time, so the consequences of conjugation are not proportionate to such small fraction of modified substrates. Control of SUMO conjugation seems to be a dynamic process of conjugation by SUMO E3 ligase and deconjugation by SUMO isopeptidases. There are many aspects of the SUMO pathway that are still not very well understood. For instance, a few number of SUMO E3 ligases have been reported despite the high number of substrates modified by SUMO, and it is not clear how those known SUMO E3s ligases work. Additionally, even though the emerging role of non-covalent protein-protein interaction by the SUMO binding motifs (SBM) in the regulation of several SUMO modification outcomes, only few bona fide examples have been reported so far. Finally, biochemical and bioinformatic approaches have identified in mammals several members of the SUMO Ulp/Senp protease family.The precise physiological role for SUMO proteases is still relatively unclear, although recent reports support the hypothesis that Senp family members participate in non-redundant cellular functions and that these proteases are regulated by cellular localization dictated by their non-homologous N-terminal domain.

Keywords: natural sciences,structural biology,molecular biology,cell biology
Support for European Aeronautical SMEs (AEROPORTAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Spain,Czechia,Hungary,Belgium,Belgium,Israel,Germany,Greece,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2010-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.02
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The AeroPortal project is created by the merger of the two support actions AeroSME and SCRATCH. It is the prime objective of AeroPortal to support aeronautical SMEs in advancing their technology base and their competitiveness through participation in European RTD projects. This is done by creating a single point of reference for information and project opportunities and by providing a wide ranging direct support encompassing: - The support to help SMEs integrate both Level 1 and 2 proposals put forward by large companies; - The support to SMEs to set up their own project proposals. AeroPortal will set up, and maintain, an internet portal, which will be an exchange place where project ideas, offers and requests of technical capabilities, partner searches, etc. can be posted and supported by an interactive database containing profiles of European SMEs and offering effective search features. In addition to the “virtual” networking provided by the internet portal, AeroPortal will establish a permanent cooperation with all interested groups involved in support activities to aeronautical SMEs, such as SME clusters, National and Regional Associations, and also other funded Aeronautics Support Actions. These groups will be invited to become members of the AeroPortal Multiplier Group. AeroPortal will cover all 30+ countries associated to FP7. Particular effort will be paid in continuing to stimulate the participation of Member States with aeronautical R&D potential. The following measures will be implemented in AeroPortal: - Establishment of the Multiplier Group open to all Aeronautics SME associations and groups; - Set up and maintenance of an internet portal for SMEs including an interactive and dynamic SME database; - Organisation of and participation in 20 national/regional information days, of which 4 in Member States with aeronautical R&D potential; - 2 Technology Workshops to support the integration of SMEs in large industry-led Level 1 proposals; - Organisation of a Level 2 proposal matchmaking workshop prior the 3rd call; - Training of SMEs and Multipliers; - To audit and help SMEs to structure their corporate research (300 audits or re-audits are targeted); - To set up a list of product oriented expressed research needs from Aeronautical SMEs; - To service and submit in the 2nd and 3rd calls at least 40 collaborative RTD proposals initiated by SMEs. The duration of the project is 30 months, starting in December 2007.

Keywords: sme - aeronautics - support - research and development - awareness - proposals servicing - training
Novel Biomimetic Organocatalysts (NBO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (ERC-2007-StG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1249772.0
EU funding (EUR): 1249772.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The primary aim of this project is to substantially expand the frontiers of current benchmark organocatalytic technology by the design, preparation and evaluation of the first class of thiol-based nucleophilic catalyst capable of emulating the action of NAD+-dependant enzymes such as aldehyde dehydrogenases, which promote the chemoselective oxidation/reduction of aldehyde substrates under mild conditions in aqueous media. The proposed artificial enzymes are designed biomimetically (in the true sense of the word) – only careful examination of the core enzyme competencies, modes-of-action and active sites has guided the design process. One of the key issues which this proposal addresses is the inherent difficulty associated with the design of artificial cofactor-dependent enzymes due to the requirement for a) efficient recognition by the catalyst of both the substrate and the cofactor, and b) the exertion of control over their encounter in the active site. We intend to tackle this challenge by covalently attaching groups functionally equivalent to the catalytically active residues of aldehyde dehydrogenases to a rigid NAD+ analogue in a manner which allows for their synergistic and biomimetic cooperation. Structure determination/mechanistic studies and the application of these new catalysts in a range of oxidations/reductions (we envisage that this project will result in the first organocatalyst able to demonstrably promote either - depending on the reaction conditions), (dynamic) kinetic resolutions, desymmetrisations, and ligations) will be undertaken and the development of catalytic processes for reactions currently outside the scope of any catalytic methodology is a clear long-term goal. We also wish to pursue the application of this potentially groundbreaking nucleophilic catalytic technology (for which no efficient organocatalysts have been thus far reported) toward the selective synthesis of enantiopure building blocks and pharmaceutically relevant molecules.

Keywords: organocatalysis,biomimetic synthesis
Markers for emphysema versus airway disease in COPD (EVA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,Poland,France,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Hungary,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2007-A, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3952828.8
EU funding (EUR): 2984025.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

COPD is characterized by emphysema (destruction of the lung alveoli) and airway disease (inflammation and thickening of the bronchial wall) both of which lead to airway obstruction. These two features co-exist in most patients but some patients present with only emphysema (E) or only airway disease (A). The aim of the project is to identify markers specific to E and A of COPD. Our hypothesis is that the mechanisms leading to these pathologies are distinct with respect to the type of inflammatory response and in terms of genetic predisposition. The differential pathogenesis for emphysema (E) and inflammatory airway disease (A) entails that in the two forms of COPD are linked to different markers at the DNA, RNA and protein level. Using computer tomography (CT) scans for selection of patients with emphysema only and airway disease only, we will obtain material from lung (leukocytes, bronchial cells) and blood (leukocytes), and will analyse elements of gene expression (SNP array, transcriptome). Data analysis will be done for E versus A (EvA) and versus a control cohort leading to identification of markers linked specifically to either E or A. These markers will be elements involved in a differential pathogenesis for the different disease processes in COPD. They can be used for diagnostic approaches and as therapeutic targets.

Keywords: copd,emphysema,airway disease,copd subphenotypes