Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bodies express emotions and actions in sociocultural context (EMOBODIES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499541.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499541.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Emotions are adaptive actions that take place in the real world and involve the whole body. In contrast with an overwhelming number of studies on facial expressions, very little research has been devoted to how emotions are expressed by the whole body and its actions in the real world. This proposal combines neuropsychology and emotion research with normal and unique patient populations. It will apply innovative combinations of physiological and multimodal imaging methods (EEG/MEG and fMRI, EMG and TMS) and novel technologies like IVR and contribute to adapting immersive virtual reality tools for research and application. The proposal is highly interdisciplinary linking different methodological approaches and combining basic with application-oriented research. Novel findings on how the whole body expresses and communicates emotion and action are of major scientific interest and have direct societal, clinical, information technological and practical payoffs. The results will contribute a novel and far reaching understanding of nonverbal communication, of gender –related and cultural differences, and of affective communication deficits. Applications also include a novel body communication test and we will provide to the community at large a set of stimuli for measuring bodily expressions in action.

Keywords: emotion,action,bodies
Finance and Labor (FINLAB)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1873800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1873800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How does financial market development affect employment, wages and unemployment risk? And how do labor market institutions and workers’ behavior in turn affect corporate policies? These issues are much under-researched, in spite of their prominence in public debate, often ideologically polarized between those who consider finance as socially harmful and those who view it as an efficient allocation machine. Most economic research indicates that financial development raises output growth, but is silent about its effects on the labor market: does it also raise employment and wages? If so, is it at the expense of greater employment risk and inequality? And how does the potential for systemic financial instability affect the answers to these questions? The study of these issues naturally opens also another – equally under-researched – line of inquiry: that concerning the effects of labor relations on financial arrangements. Do corporate investment policies and leverage decisions take into account their own effects on firms’ bargaining position in wage negotiations? And if so, how are these corporate decisions affected by job protection regulation, union density or workers’ protection in bankruptcy? To what extent do companies insure workers against employment risk, and do family and non-family firms differ in this respect? Finally, can labor market competition damage the performance of employees with decision-making responsibilities? For instance, can it induce managers or traders to take excessively risky decisions, by providing them with an escape route once they make mistakes, especially when outcomes are observed long after decisions? This research project purports to break new ground on both sets of issues, using a combination of analytical modelling and empirical analysis, which in some cases will require the collection of entirely new data.

Keywords: financial development,employment risk,bankruptcy,corporate control,family firms
Safe ExploitAtion Related CHemistry for HLM reactors (SEARCH)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Romania,European organisations area,Switzerland,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5719903.34
EU funding (EUR): 2977524.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

In accordance with the ESNII roadmap MYRRHA will be the first HLM cooled nuclear system to be deployed in Europe. The SEARCH project aims to support the licensing process of MYRRHA by investigating the safe chemical behaviour of the fuel and coolant in the reactor. The control of the oxygen content and the management of impurities in the melt will be studied. A second critical issue in the safety assessment of a nuclear system is the compatibility of the fuel with the coolant after fuel pin leakage or a core melt. The full analyses of these scenarios using validated codes require more experimental data on "basic" properties of the interactions between the materials involved. For that the heat transfer coefficients of a wire-spaced fuel bundle and the basic chemical behaviour of a mixture of fuel, coolant and clad materials range will be studied at relevant temperatures. The compatibility experiments will be done with UO2, PuO2 and unirradiated MOX fuel, addressing the energy release, solubility in the coolant and fuel-coolant-clad compound formation. Fuel dispersion in the coolant will be simulated by a suitable numerical approach, aiming to address the migration of the fuel and the possibility to have criticality problems due to fuel accumulation. The prevention of risks to the general public will be studied by looking into the escape of radioactive materials including fission products and heavy volatile elements as Po and Hg into the environment. The kinetics and efficiency of methods to capture these elements in the covergas system will be examined. The evaporation of Po and Hg from LBE will be measured to obtain a full data set for licensing. Issues related to Po management will be also addressed by an ab initio theoretical approach, predicting its solubility in LBE, the interaction with noble metals to select possible getters and studying formation of Po-compounds.

Keywords: myrrha,esnii,licensing,chemical behaviour of fuel and coolant,oxygen control,fuel-coolant compatibility,risk mitigation
Globalization, Sports and the Precarity of Masculinity (GLOBALSPORT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2015960.0
EU funding (EUR): 2015960.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last few decades, the erosion of the social and economic structures that previously provided a straightforward raison d’être to men have transformed, in all societies of the world, masculinity into a problematic category. In the Global South, deepening economic, political and social insecurities have further compounded the fragility of masculinity. Younger men in particular find it increasingly difficult to secure a productive role in local economies, and many in the world’s more destitute countries are investing their hopes in the possibility of becoming a successful professional athlete. But athletic talent can only translate into economic productivity in the industrial North, and athletic migrations have become, for large number of boys, young men, families, villages, nations and states in the Global South, the solution for a masculinity under threat, the way out of economic precarity, and the embodiment of millenarian hope. At the same time, athletic bodies are inherently fragile, the sports industry fickle, and the paths of migrant athletes strewn with obstacles, rendering deeply problematic yet unavoidable the dependence of so many individuals on the success of a few. This multi-sited comparative ethnographic project seeks to investigate the migratory dynamics at play between selected developing countries and selected countries in the industrial world in three different sports, soccer-football, rugby union, and cricket. It explores ways in which these three sports represent for young talented hopeful in the Global South various embodiments of hope for the redemption of masculinity and of its productive potentials. The research will open new theoretical avenues for an understanding of the constitution of masculinity in the context of globalisation, changes in the structure of nation-states and the meaning of citizenship, and the constitution of everyday lives in more destitute regions of the world.

Keywords: masculinity,migration,sports,globalization,precarity
Joint Advanced Severe accidents Modelling and Integration for Na-cooled fast neutron reactors (JASMIN)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Germany,Italy,Spain,Germany,European organisations area,France
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5650533.4
EU funding (EUR): 2991182.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

This project will support the ESNII (European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative) roadmap and the Strategic Research Agenda and the Deployment Strategy of SNETP (Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform) on the enhancement of Sodium-cooled Fast neutron Reactors (SFR) safety, especially towards a higher resistance to severe accidents. In the initiation phase of SFR core disruptive accidents, it is essential to investigate the impact of new core designs that may disperse core debris and minimize risks of core compaction. The available codes today have been developed in the 80’s. The objective is to develop a new European simulation code, ASTEC-Na, with improved physical models, accounting for results of recent LWR research, with modern software architecture and high flexibility to account for innovative reactor designs. It will be based on the ASTEC European code system, developed by IRSN and GRS for severe accidents in water-cooled reactors. This will allow to capitalize the state-of-the-art knowledge on SFR severe accidents. The code will evaluate the consequences of fuel pin failure conditions on materials relocation and primary system loads, and the source term produced by the migration inside the reactor of activated fission products and aerosols that may be released to the environment. The project will gather partners with strong experience on SFR safety and/or on ASTEC code. Specific SFR physical models will be developed, on the basis of outputs of the CP-ESFR FP7 project. After the elaboration of general specifications and of a validation matrix, the models will be developed, implemented into the code, validated vs. experiments (like past CABRI ones) and benchmarked with other codes. The further extension of ASTEC-Na to cover other parts of the SFR severe accidents (transition phase, fires) and to LFR will be investigated. An Education programme will include workshops as well as the secondment of young researchers in other organizations.

Keywords: safety,severe accidents,core disrupting accidents,primary phase,sas,computer codes,astec
From Silicosis to Chronic Respiratory diseases: an approach via epidemiological history (in France, Europe, Southern Africa, from the 1900s until today) (SILICOSIS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1628803.0
EU funding (EUR): 1628803.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Silicosis, a pathology caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust, is the deadly occupational disease in history. Contrary to what some may think, it does not belong to a remote past as it struck massively in the 20th century and is still present in industrial societies, and is growing in emerging countries. SILICOSIS seeks to re-evaluate the epidemiological importance of silicosis by combining history, social science and public health. Indeed, its medical definition was literally, and minimally, bargained in the 1930s by employers and unions and States under the aegis of International Labour Organization. This truncated basis has continued to have its effects and led to a massive underreporting of the cases of silicosis, many of which were declared as tuberculosis. In this view, SILICOSIS will aim, first, at a rereading of the 20th century epidemiology of silicosis and tuberculosis from a transnational perspective by comparing European and Southern African mining fields, two regions particularly hit. It will also aim at analysing the real magnitude of silicosis today, mainly in the non mining sector, by questioning contemporary medical classifications. By combining history and social science with scientific knowledge drawn from pneumology, SILICOSIS will show to what extent a series of other chronic inflammatory diseases (sarcoidosis, rheumatoid arthritis and some others) is likely to be caused by the inhalation of silica dust. Last but not least, SILICOSIS hopes to contribute to a better prevention and awareness of dangers of inhalation of silica dust outside the mining sector. In order to fulfil these objectives, SILICOSIS will propose an innovative approach through the combined methods of history, medicine and quantitative social science on the basis of the most advanced techniques of lung tissues analysis, an approach that will be repeatable on other occupational and environmental diseases.

Keywords: silicosis,occupational diseases,mineralpathology,pneumology,history of coal mines,social history,history of occupational health,sociology of medicine,epidemiology,health statistics
Cardiovascular Risk from Exposure to Low-dose and Low-dose-rate Ionizing Radiation (PROCARDIO)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radiation protection
Destination: Radiation Protection
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Russian Federation,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5489075.4
EU funding (EUR): 2998386.6
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Epidemiological evidence has established a link between cardiovascular disease and exposure of the heart and major vessels to doses above 500mGy. At lower doses the evidence for a detrimental effect is inconclusive. In part, this is due to the lack of appropriate epidemiological studies, coupled with lack of knowledge of the processes involved that is needed for construction of mathematical models. The ProCardio consortium will study cardiovascular outcomes in childhood cancer survivors where the radiation doses given to the heart are available. These data will be interrogated using new mathematical models developed from the data from our molecular and biological studies. These will use state-of-the-art technologies to map cardiovascular changes after photon irradiation at both low doses and low dose rates. This will be complemented by comparative studies using high LET irradiation. We will apply an integrative approach to combine transcriptional (mRNA and miRNA) and translational (proteomics) studies to understand the disease processes. High throughput proteomics (ICPL, SILAC and label-free analysis) will be used to identify new biomarkers of radiation-induced cardiovascular disease for future molecular epidemiological studies. These will be validated using the archives of cardiovascular tissue samples from the Mayak facility.

Keywords: cardiovascular disease,low-dose radiation. melodi,hleg. cardiorisk,heart,molecular epidemiology,ddref,radiation quality,heart disease,endothelium,myocardium,proteomics,inflammation
Structural performance of multi-metal component (MULTIMETAL)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,France,France,European organisations area,United Kingdom,Hungary,Spain,Slovenia,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3061631.08
EU funding (EUR): 1683480.98
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

In a nuclear power plant, a single metallic component may be fabricated from different materials. For example, RPV components are made from ferritic steel, whereas some of the connecting pipelines are fabricated from austenitic stainless steel. As a consequence different components often need to be connected by so-called dissimilar metal welds (DMW). Despite extensive research in Euratom Framework projects such as BIMET and ADIMEW, further work is needed to quantify the structural performance of ageing DMWs. The first purpose of this project shall be to gather relevant information from field experience: typical locations of DMWs in Western as well as Eastern LWRs will be identified and their characteristics considered, as well as applicable assessment methods. Micro-mechanical modelling of ductile failure processes will be used as an innovative technique to augment current numerical methods for structural integrity assessment of DMWs. The modelling will take account of ageing related phenomena and realistic stress distributions in the weld area and be supported by a comprehensive material test program. A procedure for measuring fracture toughness in DMWs will be developed. The work will also include an assessment of Leak Before Break (LBB) behaviour. Overall the project will serve to promote common understanding of structural integrity assessment of DMWs in existing and future NPPs of EU member states. This will be the technical basis towards the development of harmonised European codes and standards for multi-metal components, which is currently not available.

Keywords: dissimilar metal welds,fracture mechanics testing,astm 1820,harmonization
High performance Monte Carlo reactor core analysis (HPMC)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Sweden,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 880610.8
EU funding (EUR): 550906.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Design and safety analysis of nuclear reactors is based on extensive use of computer codes for the coupled calculation of time-dependend neutron transport, thermal-hydraulics and burnup. State-of-the-art methods use deterministic techniques to solve the neutronics equations, which require various approximations for a full core: a limited number of energy groups, application of diffusion theory instead of transport theory, homogenization of fuel cells and fuel assemblies, pin power reconstruction, etc. These approximations can be overcome by the stochastic Monte Carlo method for neutron transport. However, coupling with thermal-hydraulics codes, long-time time dependence and application to full reactor cores for detailed (pin-by-pin) power density distribution is only at its infancy. The project aims at developing and demonstrating the application of full core Monte Carlo calculation for time-dependent safety analysis with thermal-hydraulic feedback and burnup using high performance computing. Although Monte Carlo calculations are very suitable for parallel execution, full core integrated problems require ultimate efficiency in parallel execution of the Monte Carlo calculation itself and complete optimisation of all coupling mechanisms when run on a supercomputer with large numbers of processors. The project will provide the general tools for reference calculations, applicable to different reactor types, to test the accuracy of current and future deterministic analysis methods.

Keywords: monte carlo,hpc,reactor core analysis,thermal-hydraulic feedback,burnup,time dependence
DEMONSTRATION AND BENCHMARKING OF A FLOATING WIND TURBINE SYSTEM FOR POWER GENERATION IN ATLANTIC DEEP WATERS (FLOATGEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Norway,Germany,Belgium,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18210366.55
EU funding (EUR): 10153053.1
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the FLOATGEN project is to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of a multi-megawatt integrated floating-wind turbine system in deep waters, in order to extend deep offshore wind resources and demonstrate decrease of costs for electricity generation down to competitive level. The project will also assess, compare and obtain conclusions about performance of such combination of wind turbine and floating structure technology to get the knowledge to improve performance of the future replication projects of this technology. To reach such objectives, the project will join a 7 partnership European consortium, industry led by the floating system developer IDEOL, the contribution of BOUYGUES Travaux Publics for the floating foundation construction, STUTTGART UNIVERSITY for coupled simulations, Ecole Centrale de Nantes for the test site and the mooring procurement, and supported for monitoring, environmental and dissemination activities by FRAUNHOFER-IWES, RSK GROUP, and ZABALA. It also includes: - in the first period a group of companies, including ACCIONA ENERGIA, NAVANTIA and OLAV OLSEN, for the design of a floating wind turbine using a steel semi-submersible floater concept that has not been developed further; - in periods 1 to 3, the wind turbine manufacturer GAMESA for the coordination of the project and the supply of DEMO1 turbine that has withdrawn from the project as a consequence of the merger of its offshore activities with Areva.

Keywords: deep off-shore,floating technology,wind turbines,wind energy,integration