Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Research and Innovation in the service of Economy and Society EU Neighbourhood and the Black Sea region (RINES CONFERENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Activities of International Cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170220.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In a multi-polar and rapidly changing world the European Union is a world-class player and its policies have an impact at global level. In this respect, policies for International Cooperation/INCO in S & T & I between EU countries (and associated countries) and /or third countries, highlight and enhance the EU role in response to the societal challenges worldwide. In this regard, the proposal suggests the organization of a Conference, namely RInES, under the auspices of the Greek Presidency of the European Council. Its overall objective is to highlight the crucial INCO’s role for the EU by reinforcing its collaboration with the European Neighbourhood and Black Sea region within the framework of the HORIZON2020. Within the framework of the Conference, the EU INCO’s policy will also be demonstrated addressing the new trends and emerging societal challenges, such as Environment/Marine Research and Sustainable Energy, Clean and Decarbonized Economy. Furthermore, the event will promote the role of the industrial sector by bringing together RTD&I participants from the public and private sector, thus mobilizing the service to economy and society. The Conference will take place in Thessaloniki in May 29th-30th 2013. It is also envisaged to result in a Joint Declaration, the “Thessaloniki declaration”, accompanied by a Roadmap presenting the future steps for the EU INCO Policy and external R&I relations in the above-mentioned target countries.

Keywords: international cooperation,eu neighbourhood,black sea region,presidency event,research and innovation,societal challenges
Enumeration of discrete structures: algebraic, analytic, probabilistic and algorithmic methods for enriched planar graphs and planar maps (COUNTGRAPH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our aim in this project is to built on recent combinatorial and algorithmic progress to attack a series of problems that have independently surfaced in the graph enumeration setting, as well as to develop a more systematic approach that works on a wide class of random graph families. The central objects under study are planar graphs and planar embedded graphs (also called maps). The enumeration theory of these objects was initiated by Tutte in the 1960s when studying rooted planar maps; later, in the 1970s, there has been more emphasis on asymptotics and the interplay between graph enumeration and the theory of random graphs. The field has grown enormously since then and many classes of maps have been studied, including maps in arbitrary surfaces. Moreover, deep connections with algebra, low-dimensional topology, probability and statistical physics have been uncovered. Recently the interest in planar maps and graphs has considerably increased, due to fundamental constructions by Schaeffer (bijections for planar maps in terms of enriched tree structures), and Giménez and Noy (generating function techniques joint with analytic tools). Our objective is to continue the lines of these achievements and explore their interactions with other domains, specially with computer science. More precisely, the main goals of this project are to develop new tools to deal with open questions in the field, including the study of bipartite families of graphs, unlabelled families of graphs, and planar graphs with restricted vertex degrees, among other questions. In most of the cases, the interaction between the map enumeration domain and the algorithmic setting will be strongly explored. The main techniques exploited in this project arise from the Analytic Combinatorics setting: that is, the combinatorial structure is translated into equations of generating functions, that can be studied by means of complex analytic methods, joint with probabilistic techniques.

Keywords: analytic combinatorics,symbolic combinatorics,generating functions,asymptotic enumeration,graph parameters,planar graphs,planar maps,graph minors,random graphs.
Exploring Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons and Related Quantum Phases (XBEC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research proposal aims at harnessing collective quantum phenomena in semiconductors in order to deterministically engineer quantum states of matter. For this purpose, the techniques successfully pioneered in atomic physics will be transposed to the solid-state. As envisioned by R. Feynman, this approach offers the formidable opportunity to emulate emblematic collective quantum phenomena and to radically deepen our understanding of quantum physics. At the same time, it opens a route to develop a novel generation of devices that have direct applications in the context of quantum information science. The ambitious goal of the project will be pursued by employing the unique physical properties of spatially indirect excitons confined in bilayer semiconductor heterostructures. Indirect excitons are boson-like quasi-particles which exhibit a very long lifetime and a well defined electric dipole. These will allow us to engineer a complete toolbox for the quantum control of the exciton wave-function. To this aim, we conceived an innovative approach where an advanced technology for trapping indirect excitons is enriched by quantum optical techniques. Thus, a scheme is elaborated to unambiguously demonstrate Bose-Einstein condensation of semiconductor excitons. Precisely, this research proposal introduces two main objectives: i) the realization of microscopic trapping potentials where the effective temperature of exciton gases is dynamically controlled. ii) the development of artificial lattices to engineer exciton crystals and develop a solid-state quantum simulator. Reaching these objectives would lead to an unprecedented level of control over ultra-cold exciton gases. This would open new horizons in order to study the foundations of quantum many-body physics and to develop novel quantum technologies.

Keywords: bose-einstein condensation,semiconductor excitons,quantum wells,exciton traps,collective quantum phenomena,quantum information science,quantum simulations
Proteomic investigations of ubiquitin signals in DNA repair and chromatin organization (PROTEUS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Genome integrity is constantly challenged by endogenous and environmental factors that can induce different types of DNA lesions. Failure to repair DNA lesions can lead to genomic instability and contribute to human diseases such as cancer and premature ageing. To counteract these potentially devastating effects caused by DNA damage, eukaryotic cells have evolved complex DNA repair pathways. Protein ubiquitylation has emerged as an important regulatory mechanism of the cellular response to DNA damage: Ubiquitin-modifying enzymes are recruited to sites of DNA damage and are essential for the repair of DNA lesions. However, for most of these enzymes the protein substrates that are modified in response to DNA damage and the molecular functions in DNA damage signalling remain obscure. Recent advances in mass spectrometry as well as novel methods for the enrichment of ubiquitylated peptides permit to systematically study protein ubiquitylation after cellular perturbations. In the proposed research project we plan to perform a quantitative analysis of protein ubiquitylation in ubiquitin ligase knockdown cells to identify the physiological substrates of ubiquitin ligases that function in DNA repair and chromatin organization. To this end, the cellular expression of selected ubiquitin ligases, including RAD18, BRCA1/BARD1, RNF20/40 and RING1A/RING1B/BMI1, will be downregulated by transient transfection of siRNA. Wildtype and knockdown cells will be treated with DNA damage-inducing agents and the ubiquitylation patterns in these cells will be comparatively analyzed using quantitative mass spectrometry. Biochemical and cell biological methods will be employed to characterize the physiological relevance of the site-specific protein ubiquitylation for the target proteins. These investigations are expected to uncover ubiquitin ligase – substrate relations and to deepen the understanding of the regulatory roles of ubiquitin ligases in processes that maintain chromatin integrity.

Keywords: dna repair,genome integrity,chromatin,posttranslational modifications,ubiquitin,proteomics,quantitative mass spectrometry
Security Enhancement of Optical Network Logical Design (SHIELD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Optical networks providing services to users such as companies, governmental institutions, and private citizens, have been expanding at a dramatic rate in recent years in order to support the corresponding explosive growth of bandwidth-rich applications and are considered as one of the critical infrastructures of a country. As in next-generation optical networks the signal will remain in the optical domain for portion of the path or even for the entire path, making them more vulnerable to physical layer attacks, security issues in these networks are of paramount importance. The proposed project “Security-enHancement of optIcal nEtwork Logical Design” (SHIELD) is a research effort focusing on the logical design of secure next-generation optical networks. The logical design problem of optical networks is referred to the process of finding paths and wavelengths (lightpaths) to requested connections. This problem, known as the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) is considered as one of the most important problems in optical network design. Specifically, the main objective of this project is to design and evaluate novel algorithms that range from Integer Linear Programming (ILP) to several heuristic algorithms for the planning and operational phases of future optical networks, able to support different data rates and node architectures that will focus on providing flexibility in the utilization of resources to minimize the CAPital EXpenditures (CAPEX) and Operational EXpenditures (OPEX) costs, such as monetary cost and power consumption, while offering security capabilities against physical layer attacks. Attack models with random nature will also be investigated and techniques to incorporate these models in optimization algorithms will be proposed. Finally, this set of algorithms will be integrated in a software tool that can be utilized by network engineers and researchers to more efficiently and securely design their optical networks.

Keywords: optical networks,optimization algorithms,network security,routing and wavelength assignment,network attacks
Formation And Excitation of Astronomical Fullerenes (FEASTFUL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The precise composition of the material that is injected into the Interstellar Medium (ISM) determines the physical properties of the local Universe, as well as the chemical pathways that lead to the formation of complex, organic molecules that can be incorporated into new stars and planetary systems. One of the most important families of organic molecules is fullerenes, large molecules of carbon atoms organized into hollow spheres or ellipsoids. Given their remarkable stability, fullerenes are ideally suited to survive the harsh conditions in the ISM, and as a result may be abundant and widespread in the Universe. Accordingly their detection is considered one of the priorities in the field of interstellar organic chemistry. I played a key role in the first unambiguous detection of fullerenes (C60 and C70) in space. Following our discovery of fullerenes in a young Planetary Nebula, they have now been detected in many other astronomical environments (e.g. post-AGBs, proto-PNe, PNe, reflection nebulae, HII regions, stars, YSOs), indicating that fullerenes form efficiently in many diverse regions. The major scientific challenge is now to understand their formation mechanisms, excitation, and role in the ISM, since this will provide clues to the key chemical pathways leading to larger organics and set their diagnostic value in the ISM. I will address this challenge through three key questions: 1. Are fullerenes thermally or stochastically (fluorescence) excited? 2. How do fullerenes form and what is their relationship with PAHs? 3. What are the local conditions required for fullerenes to form and flourish? My original program builds on and is tailored to exploit my expertise in infrared spectroscopy of circumstellar and interstellar dust. It will make use of cutting-edge facilities like Spitzer, Herschel, Gemini, and VLT, and will involve a multidisciplinary approach that integrates observations, novel models for the dust formation, and experiments.

Keywords: astrophysics fullerenes interstellar medium astrochemistry asymptotic branch stars dust
Atmospheric Carbon Capture (ACCA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion and change in land use are forcing a rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 levels leading to climate change. The initial implementation of plans to reduce the levels of CO2 is based on a combination of increased use of renewable energy and the implementation of carbon capture and storage from industrial sources and power plants on a wide scale. Such actions are not sufficient for preventing the cross with the maximum limit CO2 concentration in atmosphere (550ppm), which is foreseen for 2060. CO2 capture directly from the atmosphere (air capture) would provide an option to accelerate the correction and possibly reverse the trend in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Air capture may be a very affordable solution for mitigating climate change, solving the problem with distributed emissions and giving the possibility of locating the air capture unit close to geological storage facilities. Due to the recent high level of CO2 concentration in atmosphere, CO2 capture from the atmosphere represents the most recent strategy among the solutions for capturing carbon and for this reason the feasibility of air capture is still to be demonstrated. Using adsorbent materials can be considered as the most convenient way in terms of costs and energy consumption to develop a prototype of air capture system. Therefore the present project proposes an investigation oriented to develop a prototype for air capture adopting adsorbent materials and integrated with renewable energy sources to reduce energy consumption. The aim of the project is to demonstrate the ability of the novel adsorption device to capture CO2 from air at 400ppm (present atmospheric concentration), concentrate it and pressurise it with low temperature thermal energy.

Keywords: air capture,adsorption,carbon capture,climate change
Oncogene-induced DNA damage as driver of B cell lymphoma genesis (ONCINDLYMPH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recurrent oncogenic chromosomal rearrangements are a hallmark of lymphoid malignancies and are considered to be the driving force in tumor survival and progression. While oncogenes typically induce uncontrolled proliferation, they also induce metabolic stress and constitutive DNA damage. Hence, at the time of diagnosis tumor genomes are typically highly mutated. Not surprisingly, forced expression of an oncogene in healthy cells results in oncogenic stress leading to apoptosis or cell cycle arrest. This phenomenon is considered as an initial cellular barrier to prevent malignancy. However, tumor cells did pass this barrier, and it is assumed that they did so by acquisition of additional defects that allow them to tolerate oncogene expression. Oncogene-induced DNA damage is likely to initiate these transforming genomic defects and may further contribute to tumor progression. The proposed study is designed to address this subject. The goals of the proposed study are a) to identify and functionally characterize oncogene-induced DNA damage in a genome-wide manner and b) to uncover resulting genomic lesions that mediate tolerance to oncogenic stress and are required for initiation of malignancy. The proposed work will lead to a better understanding of tumor development and opens the opportunity for the development of new treatment strategies for human leukemia and lymphoma based on reactivation of oncogene-induced lethality in cancer cells.

Keywords: dna damage,oncogene,oncogenic stress,transformation,leukemia,lymphoma,genomic defects,chip-seq,exome seq,bcr-abl1,nras,myc,resistance
Zooplankton Generated Mixing in Stratified Lakes (ZOOMIX)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aims of this work are to directly measure turbulence from vertical migrations of zooplankton, quantify how much mixing the migrations cause, and determine the importance of this mechanism in lakes. Answering these questions will help us better understand the physical drivers of water quality in lakes, environments upon which society depends for many key ecosystem services. Summer time stratification in lakes suppresses vertical mixing of dissolved substances such as oxygen, nutrients, or pollutants. This can lead to adverse water quality affects such as anoxic bottom waters that result in fish kills, trapping of nutrient-laden waters in the photic zone creating ideal conditions for nuisance algal blooms, and reduced dilution of wastewaters and nonpoint source pollution. Processes that generate turbulence below the water surface increase the mixing of the stratified waters. Recent work in the ocean has suggested that daily vertical migrations of zooplankton might be a significant source of mixing comparable with winds and tides. Zooplankton, which are significant elements of lake ecosystems as well, swim between deeper darker regions of the water column, where they stay during daylight to avoid predation, and the phytoplankton-rich surface layer, where they go to feed during the nighttime. Because the background mixing in lakes is less than in the ocean and migrations happen twice daily, vertical migrations of zooplankton may be a significant source of turbulence and mixing in the lake environment. The work proposed here would be the first in situ measurements of zooplankton-generated turbulence in lakes. In addition to tackling recent issues of debate in the science community, this work will enhance understanding of mixing in lakes, a key issue in managing our water resources for public health and recreation.

Keywords: lakes,stratification,mixing,turbulence,zooplankton,field measurements,tracer,temperature microstructure
Studying the physics of exceptional points using metamaterials (NHERMPHOTON)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Metamaterials is a new class of materials constructed from artificial atoms with their optical properties often come from the underlying structures instead of the composing materials. They can therefore be flexibly designed to achieve particular optical functions. As a result, extreme functions like invisibility cloaking and subwavelength imaging become possible. Because of this extreme flexibility, metamaterials can also be used as a platform to study the physics of waves in general and this is the main theme of this proposal. In particular, we are interested to use metamaterials to study the physics of exceptional points, which is tightly linked to various extraordinary wave phenomena including unidirectional reflection, phase transition, anti-lasing and non-reciprocal propagation. Moreover, exceptional points can also give us high sensitivity, which can be important for future applications of metamaterials in order to give reconfigurable or tunable metamaterials.

Keywords: metamaterials,exceptional points,tunability