Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Spectroscopic insight with nanoscale resolution on model photovoltaic systems (NANOPV)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-02
End date: 2014-05-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230027.2
EU funding (EUR): 230027.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Engineering of cheap nanoscale elements based on self-assembled organic molecular materials with spatially distributed p-n interfaces is envisaged as a promising alternative to the expensive inorganic photovoltaic cells. In this frame, we plan to explore nanophotovoltaic interfaces to advance our understanding of the processes of sunlight conversion into usable electrical energy in molecular-scale structures. Of particular relevance for the working principle of solar cells are the interfaces between n- and p-type semiconductors, as well as those between the semiconductors and metallic contacts. We will address 3 main types of model systems: (i) bicomponent molecular layers comprising both donor and acceptor semiconducting molecules, (ii) single molecules featuring covalently coupled but yet differentiated donor and acceptor moieties, and (iii) donor-acceptor networks resulting from surface supported polymerization of previously assembled appropriate precursors. As substrates we will use the bare surface of atomically clean single crystal metals, as well as an isolating buffer layer grown on top to decouple the molecules from the metal. The functionality of such interfaces strongly depends on their electronic properties, and also on their crystalline structure and morphology. A combination of STM and STS measurements will provide not only a thorough structural analysis of the systems under study, but also detailed and spatially resolved spectroscopic insight of the relevant interfaces. Furthermore, complementary spatially averaging photoelectron and NEXAFS spectroscopies, as well as DFT calculations, will complete our study. Such study of the electronic structure of all these systems, put in relation with their simultaneously measured spatial arrangement, is expected to give valuable insight into the underlying physics of nano-photovoltaic interfaces, and thereby allow for the design and synthesis of functional interfaces with optimized optoelectronic response.

Keywords: physical sciences,surface physics,physical chemistry,self-assembly,organic semiconductors,nanoscience,condensed matter properties,supramolecular chemistry
Smart Video Encoders for Wireless Surveillance Networks (SMARTENC)

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: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Video surveillance systems became one of the most essential tools people rely on for keeping buildings, businesses, urban areas, and borders secure. As the number of deployed cameras increase rapidly, the ability of human observers to analyze the video in real-time is becoming almost impossible. Video analytics engines embedded in networked cameras and video analytics servers provide tools for automatically analyzing the scenes. However, the video compression hardware used in cameras is decoupled from and not aware of the embedded analytics engines, servers and other cameras possibly capturing the same scene. The objective of the proposed project is to design smart embedded video encoders that maximize the content and reliability of information extracted by the video analytics while minimizing the cost of deployment. Video compression algorithms that utilize the video analysis metadata to improve the prediction efficiency, computational resource and rate budget allocation will be designed. Objective video quality metrics specifically tailored for surveillance applications will be implemented to improve and judge the proposed techniques. Application specific quality measurement will be a new concept since previous studies in the literature focused on determining the perceptual distortion in images and videos. We also propose collaborative design of the video encoders located at cameras capturing overlapping scenes. Video analytics metadata will be utilized for joint multi-camera rate control and prediction algorithms. Finally, the project will tackle the robust data transmission challenges of the wireless surveillance systems. Wireless ad-hoc network state measurement and adaptive video streaming rate control techniques will be developed. A novel and scalable surveillance system will be devised upon the successful completion of the project.

Keywords: video surveillance,video coding,video analytics,wireless ad-hoc networks,objective video quality metrics,video streaming,network measurement,rate control,embedded systems
Numerical Modelling of Artificial Ground Freezing (NUMAGF)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158865.6
EU funding (EUR): 158865.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project focuses on the theoretical and applied study of freezing soils in the context of the use of Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF) in excavations and underground construction. The ever-increasing density of urban environments poses new challenges to tunnelling for transit projects. This implies the necessity to carry out open excavations and bored tunnels in the urban environment, often in difficult ground and almost always in the close vicinity of existing buildings and structures. As a test case, the project examines the geotechnical aspects of excavation of Line 1 of Napoli Underground. The work was performed in the urban environment of one of the most densely populated cities in Europe. Monitoring included an extensive set of in-situ data (e.g. buildings displacements, temperature in the ground). The main objectives of the project are: a deeper understanding of the AGF process and of the effects of thawing frozen ground; development of a novel constitutive model and coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) formulation to provide an accurate description of the engineering behaviour of frozen/unfrozen soils; comparison between laboratory and field tests to calibrate the thermal properties of the ground, collection and back analysis of an extensive set of in-situ monitored data from a real urban tunnelling project. The most innovative aspect of the project is the way in which theoretical developments, constitutive modelling, laboratory tests, in situ monitoring and coupled analysis will be integrated in a single consistent framework firmly grounded on basic physical principles. The generality of the formulation and of the developed analysis tool allows the enhancement of the field of applications from AGF to the wider range of engineering and environmental problems involving frozen soils such as the analysis of frost heave, the study of the effect of freezing-thawing cycles in cold regions or the prediction of the permafrost fate in a climate change scenario.

Keywords: engineering,geotechnics,modelling tools,numerical analysis
High throughput sequencing to reveal the causes and consequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic variation (MTB VARIATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166565.6
EU funding (EUR): 166565.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis in humans, is estimated to infect one third of the human population leading to circa two million deaths a year. While many work has been done onto the socio-economic and host factors affecting the different outcomes of the disease, little is still known about the possible influence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain variation. Compare to other bacteria, Mtb has very low polymorphism which have prevented until now a detailed study of the evolutionary forces behind this pathogen. With the advent of next-generation sequencing this gap in our knowledge on the population genetics of Mtb with respect other bacteria is starting to close. This project will be aimed to analyze 100 Mtb strains currently being sequenced by the Sanger institute using Illumina technology which added to our previous panel of 30 strains already generated will allow detail population genetics and evolutionary studies with an special focus on the evolution of known Mtb antigens. Collaborations with laboratories with expertise in immunology, transcriptomics and molecular epidemiology will allow us to put in context the consequences of the Mtb genomic variation found in this study.

Keywords: tuberculosis,mycobacterium tuberculosis evolution,nex-generation sequencing,strain variation,mycobacteria genomics
DESIGN OF EXTREMELY ENERGY-EFFICIENT MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR IN NANOSCALE CMOS FOR MEDIA PROCESSING IN PORTABLE DEVICES (RAVEN10)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230027.2
EU funding (EUR): 230027.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many of the future applications that will drive the need for greater performance are naturally highly parallel and process massive data sets, where individual point results are of less interest than aggregate statistics or behavior. Examples include statistical machine learning, rich human-machine interfaces, and physical modeling for games and virtual worlds. In this project, the goal is to develop new highly parallel many-core architectures that exploit the attributes of these parallel, error-tolerant applications to tolerate variability in a projected future 11nm process at very low supply voltages and hence attain large gains in energy efficiency. An integrated cross-disciplinary research program is proposed cutting across software, architecture, and circuits. The architecture is named Raven (Resilient Architecture with Vector-thread ExecutioN). Each Raven core is a single vector-thread lane, with an independent control processor and a vector-thread execution engine, and hundreds of such lanes will be designed to fit in the area budget. Cores with similar characteristics will be identified through the pre-characterization phase and will be grouped to form clusters. Their delay and performance will be notified to control processor, so that it can perform dynamic scheduling of tasks to cores with a goal of achieving extreme energy efficiency. Additionally, hardware delay and performance monitors will be embedded in logic so that the process variability can be controlled through immediate dynamic reconfiguration. The greatest benefits will accrue from recognizing the optimization opportunities that the individual research ideas enable across the software/architecture/circuits stack. The applicant will not only acquire multidisciplinary training through the execution of the proposed project, but will also be guided by the experts who have gained worldwide recognition in their field and will have the opportunity to collaborate with leading electronic companies.

Keywords: electronic engineering,digital circuits,low power,parallel processing,circuit level design,computer engineering
Circular migration and home care? The case of Romanian and Ukrainian home care workers in Northern Italy. (CIRCULAR CARE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173384.0
EU funding (EUR): 173384.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In its recent documentation on migration issues, the European Commission has been promoting “circularity” as an effective and efficient way to manage labour migration from both within and outside the EU. But how does the employment of circular migrants exactly work and what are its implications for Europe's societal challenges such as ageing and immigration? To answer to these questions, the present study focuses on Eastern European circular migrants and the elderly care sector. In particular, it draws attention to Romanian and Ukrainian care workers within the two Italian provinces of Verona and Reggio Emilia with the aim to assess the actual convenience of “circularity” for the overall improvement of home care provision. On this ground, it pursues three interrelated research objectives: 1) the impact of “circularity” on the employment relationship between care workers and their employers; 2) the way circular migration affects the organisation of home care from the welfare state’s point of view; and finally 3) the conditions which allow “circularity” to take place in an efficient and profitable way. These issues are investigated in a comparative and diachronic way, looking at the differences between Ukrainian and Romanian migratory patterns during the period of 2006-2011. A further layer of comparison is added by the differences between Verona and Reggio Emilia, two towns with relevant dissimilarities concerning political traditions and public administrations. Finally, this project contributes to the scholarly debate on gender, care and migration by introducing “care units” (i.e. the ensemble of subjects involved in the provision of care to an individual care receiver) as an innovative object of analysis. In order to assess the impact of “circularity” on these “care units”, a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods is foreseen for extended fieldwork in the two Italian provinces.

Keywords: ukraine,romania,italy,social sciences,gender studies,sociology of migration,elderly care,migrant domestic work,welfare state
EU Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective (Council of Europe, European Union, United States) (EUROCRIMJUS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 251275.0
EU funding (EUR): 251275.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Once part of the realm of the sovereign state, criminal policy has now become a competence of the European Union. The Lisbon Treaty will facilitate the design of arrangements that guarantee mutual recognition between member states’ criminal justice systems. Potentially affecting most aspects of domestic penal procedures, these new developments in European law take place in a domain where culturally distinct legal characteristics are deeply entrenched. In that respect, the promotion of enhanced police and judicial cooperation throughout the Union may be considered as a daunting task, but the existence of comparable institutional structures by which distinct and very different national penal systems are coordinated shows that it is possible. The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice built within the Union can hardly be analyzed without regard to these extra-EU legal settings. For this reason, the aim of the research is to compare the new EU framework for police and judicial cooperation with the long established and highly integrated American criminal justice system on one hand, and with the Council of Europe instruments devised to establish minimum standards in relation to human rights throughout the European continent on the other hand. The comparison will bear upon the institutional arrangements which promote the definition of common standards in criminal and penal procedure, and the substance of these standards themselves, taking into account the historical background and the political values underlying each of these particular settings. Such a contextual approach should enable the specificity of the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice to be understood and its sustainability assessed in the light of the experiences of Council of Europe and the US. This contextual comparison will enable the identification of potential sticking points or, alternatively, effective tools for overcoming the seemingly intractable conflicts between opposing penal cultures.

Keywords: juridical sciences,comparative law,european law,criminal law,judicial law,human rights
Molecular analysis of the mechanisms linking co-transcriptional splicing with chromatin (PRP8CHROMATIN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-03
End date: 2013-05-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 281680.0
EU funding (EUR): 281680.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project will exploit recent work in Arabidopsis (in the Dean laboratory) linking RNA metabolism and chromatin silencing (Liu et al 2009). The Dean group is focused on RNA-mediated chromatin regulation of an important repressor of flowering called FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). The concepts that have emerged from this study have wide relevance in many organisms. Conserved RNA 3’ processing factors function with an RNA-binding protein to target polyadenylation to a specific site in the FLC antisense transcript. This 3’ processing event triggers histone demethylation and transcriptional silencing of the locus. Their unpublished work shows that a conserved splicing factor, specifically PRP8, a core component of the spliceosome, also functions in this mechanism. The overall aim of the proposal is to reveal the molecular mechanism of involvement of splicing factor PRP8 on anti-sense RNA dependent regulation of transcription of FLC in Arabidopsis and to test generality of that mechanism on other anti-sense regulated genes. The specific objectives of the proposal include: 1.Fully characterizing the FLC antisense transcript changes in the splicing factor mutant (prp8) mutant. 2.Analysing the contributions of RNA degradation pathways in the accumulation of FLC antisense transcripts in wild type and in prp8 mutant backgrounds. 3.Analysing the interactions between splicing and 3’ processing of the antisense transcripts. 4.Generating and analysing directed mutations in PRP8 to explore whether the prp8 allele generated in the forward mutant screen is hypomorphic or has lost a specific function but is still wild-type for generic splicing functions. 5.Analysing the components of the RNP complex that are assembled on the antisense transcript. A better understanding of the flowering control of the agricultural crops is fully in line with goals of research in the FP7 first priority thematic areas, such as Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology and Environment including climate changes.

Keywords: plant genetics,proteomics
Defining the functions of Elongator in adult brain neurogenesis (FAN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170500.0
EU funding (EUR): 170500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The olfactory bulb (OB) is one of the few structures in the adult forebrain in which there is a continuous supply of newborn neurons. Neuronal precursors are generated in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and follow an intricate migration path before reaching their final position in the OB. Familial dysautonomia is a neurodegenerative disorder that result from the impairment of Elongator activity. Elongator is a six unit complex assembled by its scaffold protein Elp1. The host laboratory has recently shown that the catalytic activity of this complex underlies radial migration and branching of cortical projection neurons by promoting the acetylation of α-tubulin. In the adult brain, the stem/neural progenitor express Elongator subunits and Elp1 level expression increases dramatically after treatment that promotes neurogenesis. The overall goal of the current project is to understand the functions of Elongator in adult brain neurogenesis. I propose: - To analyze the expression pattern of Elongator in adult SVZ. - To dissect the role of Elongator on neuroblasts migration within the rostral migratory stream (rostral migration) and the OB (radial migration). - To define the role of Elongator on interneuron differentiation in the OB. - To characterize new cytoplasmic targets of Elongator that promote adult neurogenesis.

Keywords: neurobiology,adult neurogenesis,elongator,acetylation,migration