Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Monetary, Fiscal and Structural Policies with Heterogeneous Agents (POLHIA)

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,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1829480.0
EU funding (EUR): 1331530.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

It is almost a commonplace that macroeconomic policies, if well conducted, are a stability-enhancing device. By providing a non-inflationary environment, they “keep in order” the backstage of a movie in which the actors -- firms and households – determine long run growth by means of saving/investment decisions. In this view aggregate outcomes can be improved upon by means of microeconomic or structural policies such as labour and product market deregulation, investment in human capital etc. The scope of macroeconomic policies, however, is much wider. For instance, monetary policy affects business fluctuations and growth through financial factors which are certainly no less important than inflation, as the current sub-prime crisis has emphasized. POLHIA aims at exploring the role of macroeconomic policies in this wider sense and the nexus of macroeconomic and microeconomic/structural policies in an heterogeneous agents setting. Modern macroeconomic thinking must in fact go beyond the Representative Agent assumption because agents are indeed different -- in terms of real and financial conditions, labour market status, technical capabilities, expectations, market power etc. -- and this heterogeneity is crucial for macroeconomic outcomes. Monetary and fiscal policies affect in different ways different people just as structural policies do. Structural policies, in turn, can have macroeconomic consequences through externalities. Hence macro and micro policies are strictly intertwined: they can reinforce (or interfere with) each other. The research group will exploit a wide range of tools. At the level of model building the development of macroeconomic frameworks in the New Keynesian tradition will be paralleled and complemented by the extensive use of Agent based models, which are particularly appropriate for the exploration of heterogeneous agents environments. Empirical research will be carried out by means of econometric models and experiments to study, for instance, the formation of expectations. POLHIA aims at providing new insights and useful suggestions for the implementation of both macroeconomic policies and structural policies and for rethinking policy coordination or coherence, which emerges first between monetary and fiscal policies and second between micro and macro policies. The natural candidates to be beneficiaries of this type of analysis, therefore, are policy makers: first and foremost central bankers and Government officials in charge of fiscal and structural policies.

Keywords: economic policies,heterogeneous agents
Research Infrastructures and their structural dimension within the European Research Area (INFRASTRUCTURE-ERA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Resilient Infrastructure
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2008-06-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 122148.0
EU funding (EUR): 91611.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Continuing the reflexion work started in May 2007, based on the CREST recommendations on "how to make better coordinated use of Structural Funds and Framework Programme to support R&D?", and the recent launch of the EC communication on "competitive European regions through research and innovation", the main objectives of the conference are to clarify the challenges and opportunities at the regional, national, or inter-regional levels which could be related with the development of research infrastructures of pan-European character (including the e-infrastructure), to highlight the contribution to the Lisbon objectives offered by such facilities (e.g. impacts on industry, sustainable development, employment) and to review these recommendations to improve the financial engineering of research infrastructures for their construction and sustainable operation.

Keywords: coordination,infrastructures,development
The Future Impact of Security and Defence Policies on the European Research Area (SANDERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Foresight activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Spain,Germany,Italy,France,Denmark,Hungary,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 777888.0
EU funding (EUR): 599758.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

SANDERA will focus on the future relationship between two critical European policy domains: namely, the EU strategy since Lisbon to move towards the European Research Area and those EU policies focused on the security of the European citizen in the world. SANDERA will use exploratory scenarios to 2020 to examine how future developments in European security and defence policies combined with technological change and the evolution of European science and technology policy could interact in intended and unintended ways to affect the pace and character of the move towards the ERA as well as priorities for FP8. Bringing together a multidisciplinary team that crosses the boundaries between security policy and science and technology policy, SANDERA addresses an issue of potentially great importance that has, until now, been at the margins of academic and policy agendas. Amongst the expected impacts of SANDERA will be: (1) an improved understanding amongst policy makers and other stakeholders of the potential implications for the ERA and FP8 of future developments at the interface between security policy and science and technology policy; (2) the stimulation of dialogue between stakeholders and the facilitation of new policy networks; (3) the strengthening of the strategic policy intelligence capacity in Europe through the development of an Indicator Monitoring Framework and a Policy Analysis Toolkit; (4) useful inputs for the preparation of the 8th Framework Programme through the identification of new research areas and research capacity requirements; (5) the attraction of more researchers into the foresight field not least researchers from the security policy field.

Keywords: security and defence policies,european science and technology policy,future of the era,exploratory scenarios
Changing Multilateralism: The EU as a Global-regional Actor in Security and Peace (EU-GRASP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,Canada,South Africa,China,Israel,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1944200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1459150.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

GRASP aims to contribute to the analysis and articulation of the current and future role of the EU as a global and regional actor in multilateral security governance, in a context of challenged multilateralism, where the EU aims for “effective multilateralism”. This project will examine the notion and practice of multilateralism in order to provide the required theoretical background for assessing the linkages between the EU’s current security activities with multi-polarism, international law, regional integration processes and the United Nations system. The project’s work plan will consist of the following components: (i) conceptual integrated analyses of the evolving concepts of multilateralism and security and the EU’s role as a security actor; (ii) case-studies of the EU’s approach to a number of specific security issues (regional conflict; terrorism; WMD proliferation; migration; energy and climate change; and severe violations to human rights); (iii) a transversal comparative analysis applying and integrating the case study findings; and lastly, (iv) a foresight study, building off the project’s findings that will detail scenarios for future EU policy towards external security relations and multilateral approaches to threats and challenges. The research will be policy-oriented and include a strong interactive dimension, in order to assure ongoing feedback from the target-public. The work will be undertaken by a consortium of European research centers that have already collaborated on these issues (FP6). This group is enlarged by the inclusion of a number of institutes from outside the EU (Israel, Canada, South Africa and China) that will bring in further expertise on specific security issues in addition to important regional perceptions, necessary to avoiding a narrow Euro-centric approach and enabling a more comprehensive understanding of the role of the EU on the global stage.

Keywords: mulilateralism,security,governance,global,regional,multilpolar,multilateral security governance
Security management in multi-radio networks (SECURINET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 37500.0
EU funding (EUR): 37500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Spurred by the emergence of new networking technologies (Wifi, 3G,bluetooth, Wimax enabled technologies) and the advance of generalized eCommerce frameworks, interest has move towards the development of a global solution that interconnect in a secure manner changing set of mobile clients, services and networks. This construction of Internet-scale applications introduces a new set of challenges consisting in designing and implementing usable private/public secure systems deployed over planetary networks, including large-scale multi-radio networks. In order to ensure fundamental security properties (i.e., confidentiality, integrity and availability) of such a system, we propose a novel Multi-Radio enabled Distributed Security Operation Center (MR-DSOC) that targets applications deployed in multiple networks environment. The proposed system aims to improve the detection of misuses and minimizes the amount of damages caused by attacks. Special care will be put on providing a solution adapted to multi-radio networks; this topic remaining neglected by research community despite the certain socio-economic potential of multi-radio based applications and services. In order to deal with the limitations of multi-radio networks (heterogeneity, topology dynamicity, high churn rate), we propose a novel MR-DSOC which is optimally based on an event-based monitoring and communication component. This innovative approach renders our SOC more adaptable to network failure, less vulnerable to attacks due to its distributed nature, and capable of detecting any attack/intrusion which is coordinated and originated from dispersed sites.

Keywords: security,network management,distributed system,multi-radio network,manet,security operation center,intrusion detection,network monitoring,event notification
Gestures in Tangible User Interfaces (GETUI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Luxembourg
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2018-12-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172800.0
EU funding (EUR): 172800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

GETUI investigates through user studies the use of gestures in interaction with Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) in the context of technology-based assessment (TBA) of collaborative and complex problem solving skills. Collaborative problem solving is defined as the capacity to recognise the perspective of other people in a group, participate, contribute knowledge, recognise the need for contributions and build knowledge and understanding as member on a collaborative setting (Ras et al. 2013). Most of the research in TBA of collaborative problem solving skills dealt with the improvement of assessment of traditional skills. However, the focus should be on the so-called 21st Century skills: CPS, creativity, critical thinking, learning to learn, decision-making. Ras et al. (2013) state that for many challenges in TBA, ICT are the solution to assess 21st Century skills, but also the problem, as scientific knowledge about how assessment models need to be adapted as well as practical knowledge about how to create more authentic problem situations with future assessment tools are lacking. Until now there is no TUI that has been systematically used and evaluated in the context of TBA. Moreover, in TBA, gestures on TUIs have not been yet explored. Thus not only is the research of TUI as an assessment construct a new research field, but also the dimension of gestures makes GETUI an innovative and timely project. This interdisciplenary research will not only fill the gap of scientific knowledge, but will also have an impact at a European level creating new instruments for assessing 21st Century skills based on capturing behavioural indices of human-computer and human-human interactions in collaborative TBA situations. Ras E, Maquil V, Foulonneau M, Latour T (2013) Empirical studies on a Tangible user interface for technology-based assessment: Insights and emerging challenges. Pedagogy and Technology: Harmony and Tensions International Journal of e-Assessment, 3(1).

Keywords: cognitive tasks,gestures,gesture taxonomy,interaction design guidelines,tangible user interfaces,speech gesture alignment,technology based assessment,user studies
Zoom-in on the dust-oscured phase of galaxy formation with gravitational lenses (ZoomInTheDust)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project exploits gravitational lensing to investigate the early, dust-obscured, phase in the formation of elliptical galaxies in order to better understand the mechanisms driving their intense star formation and their subsequent evolution. Elliptical galaxies are in fact the oldest and most massive galaxies observed in the Universe today and, as such, they represent a challenge for the standard bottom-up scenario for dark matter structure formation, according to which massive galaxies formed late. The early stages of the formation of elliptical galaxies are best probed at far-infrared/sub-millimeter wavelengths, where the UV/optical radiation of the newly formed is reprocessed by dust. The project exploits observations at those wavelengths performed with the Herschel Space Observatory as part of the Cardiff-led Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) to identify proto-elliptical galaxies that have been gravitationally lensed. The identification of lensing events is done using a new methodology proposed by the applicant that was validated on the first data collected with H-ATLAS. Thanks to the increase in spatial resolution and in apparent luminosity provided by lensing the derived sample of lensed proto-ellipticals will be used to map the structure and dynamics of these objects down to sub-kpc scale where different scenario of galaxy formation can be tested.

Keywords: galaxy formation and evolution,gravitational lensing,far infrared,sub millimeter astronomy
SEPA in your pocket – development of a mobile payment solution based on a disruptive SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Credit Transfer approach for banks and the payment industry. (DGC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Luxembourg
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

By empowering European banks and other payment specialists, Digicash Payments is providing the technology to truly revolutionise payment and shopping experiences: a direct link with the bank is now available directly on the consumer’s smartphone or virtually in their pocket. By triggering SEPA Credit Transfers, the Digicash solution serves as a technological channel between the end user (buyer/seller) and its primary source of financing providing an easy means to handle payments via a mobile device. Being a bank-centric product in a highly competitive market, Digicash aims to impose the most efficient m-payment model on the European market together with banks. Digicash provides leading-edge technology by commercialising a white-label solution based on SEPA Credit Transfers that is entirely customisable, for both design and functionality. The solution allows banks to offer additional banking services and enhance their relationship with their clients offering bank-grade security and compliance levels. Thus, Digicash enables them to offer 1/ consumers a convenient, secure and trustworthy payment solution with enhanced value-adding services and incentives, and 2/ merchants a true added value, speeding up their point of sale processes, enhancing the sales experience by integrating features, and reducing merchant commissions based on a less costly infrastructure. For banks, this is a real opportunity to drive innovation in a changing consumer-driven environment. Digicash Payments aims at becoming a leading European premium payment technology provider for the financial industry based on the launch of a product suiting the specific needs of European banks. The main mission of the feasibility study intended to be undertaken under Phase 1 will be to create an exhaustive business plan within the next 6 months to prepare this internationalisation.

Keywords: mobile payment,fintech,banking,sepa,payments
HERC Chip for More Efficient Natural Gas Based Industrial Heating Systems (HERC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Natural gas is growingly the main energy source for most industrial processes. As the amount of annual GHG emissions is expected to rise 50% by 2040, even the most sophisticated emission control or combustion technologies will struggle to tame this increase. Thus, most European industries face major challenges regardless of future mitigation commitments, including increased competition with other regions that have competitive advantages through lower cost fuels or carbon taxes. Reducing GHG emissions comes down to combustion efficiency. It is very difficult to achieve combustion efficiencies above 90% with current industrial boiler systems. Efenco has developed a proprietary plasma assisted technology that makes combustion more efficient and environmentally friendly. The technology uses small and robust multilayer devices to harvest waste heat from the combustion chamber to create plasma without additional energy, resulting in lower fuel usage and reduced emissions as less fuel is burned to achieve the same energy output. Our cost-effective technology is mainly meant for retrofitting existing combustion boilers in industrial heating systems. Our primary target group (end-users) include industrial operators with natural gas based heating systems that have a heat power capacity greater than 1 megawatt (MW). Currently, there are an estimated 50 000 systems in Europe meeting this criterion. We address the global combustion controls, equipment and systems market, estimated to reach over €132 billion by 2025. By scaling up rapidly, our objective is to reach €40 million in sales by 2024. During the Phase-1 project, Efenco will conduct a comprehensive feasibility study that includes both commercialisation and technical aspects of the innovation. In a more long-term view we are working with Safran, a high-tech industrial group, to potentially offer our technology in the global turbofan engines market.

Keywords: plasma assisted combustion ghg
Energy Conscious Consumers (ECO2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Finland,Bulgaria,Lithuania,Belgium,Greece,Portugal,Denmark
Call: Engaging private consumers towards sustainable energy (H2020-EE-2017-CSA-PPI, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999986.25
EU funding (EUR): 1999986.25
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Energy Conscious Consumers ECO2 will facilitate a large amount of consumers to become conscious about and improve their energy efficiency. It will offer them two forms of learning. Either they choose to go alone through an online e-learning, or they choose to be brought through transformative group learning, in which the e-learning system supports the group processes. Together the two – single or group processes - provide attractive approaches for a wide array of consumer segments. The ECO2 processes are based on “blended” engagement methods, making use of both online and dialogue elements. Consumers will be recruited by contacts through social media, consumer media, energy suppliers and other gatekeepers. Segmentation will be used to increase the effectiveness of recruitment and to adapt the e-learning processes. The processes will be thematic, facilitated by an online ECO2 Platform, based on the online/blended engagement platform EngageSuite. Each consumer will be stepping up a ‘ladder of change’ from Motivation to Exploration and finally to Action. In the process the user receives information, reflects/deliberates and seeks knowledge and knowledge sharing. The user creates her/his own action plan on the next personal steps to take. ECO2 will deliver “Actions” on five important themes – the house, smart equipment, energy use/bills, rebound and prosuming. Further, an Action on co-creation of policies, innovations and designs will be executed and the results communicated to policy-makers and innovators through policy seminars. ECO2 has three phases – Ramp-up, Pilot and Upscaling. Ramp-up makes infrastructures, segmentation analysis, story-boards and production of themes. Pilots test the Actions with voluntary consumers. Upscaling involves viral recruitment of consumers, expansion to new countries, and collaboration with consumer gate-keepers. ECO2 will continue after end of project by: 1) an ECO2 Community, 2) stakeholder responsibility for the ECO2 Platform.

Keywords: transformative learning,engagement methods,online engagement infrastructure,community building