Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Incumbents' Innovation Strategy Choice Under Market Uncertainty (INNOV-MARKET)

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-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project investigates an incumbent’s decision to pursue radical or incremental innovation when facing a rival entrant. Radical innovations hold the promise of superior rewards and obsoleting the existing product technology, but beyond development risks market acceptance of these innovations are very difficult to predict. Radical innovation is also particularly attractive to the rival entrant: if the market for it pans out, such an innovation obsoletes the existing technology and any incremental improvements to it. Part of firms’ challenge is to assess the market potential for these opportunities; another part is to factor in competitive pressures. Each firm has its own assessment of the market potential for the radical innovation, and the reliability of these market forecasts can differ. By using a game-theoretical model, the proposed project will show that the two aspects of radical innovations mentioned above are in many ways intertwined. A decision by a rival to pursue or forgo a given radical opportunity not only has implications for whether future product market competition to sell the innovation will be intense, but also has signaling implications as to whether the rival believes a market for the innovation will exist. More specifically, the entrant can draw inferences about the incumbent’s beliefs from its innovation strategy choice, which in turn affects the entrant’s R&D investment level in developing radical innovation. The analyses will also be conducted for when the incumbent’s innovation strategy decision is unobservable, but the incumbent is allowed to communicate its innovation plans. The results will show how the signaling implications of the incumbent’s innovation strategy choice affect its incentives to untruthfully communicate its innovation plans. Due to its anti-competitive implications, these results would be especially useful for policy makers.

Keywords: innovation,new product development,game-theory,entry deterrence,competitive signaling
Analyzing and Recognizing Time, Factuality, and Opinion in Text (ARTIFACTO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at exploring methodologies on porting natural language processing (NLP) technology from one language to another (Objective 1), while contributing specific technological infrastructure to the target language (Objective 2). Research on cross-linguistic porting of technology is increasingly popular due to the advantages of reusing NLP tools of costly production. Moreover, it is a key issue in the EU, given its multilinguality and the challenges this poses regarding resource sharing across linguistic borders. The project focuses on technology for processing time, factuality, and opinion expressed in text. Time information concerns “what happened when” and involves ordering events along the temporal axis, factuality has to do with the degree of certainty of events, and opinion deals with attitudes and their sources. These are basic levels for NLP tasks concerning text understanding, but started to receive some attention only recently. They are expressed through well-delimited grammar and lexicon fragments and share conceptual structures across languages, which makes them ideal test-beds for exploring the cross-language porting of NLP tools. The project will result in a suite of tools for analyzing the 3 levels of information in Catalan and Spanish, to be integrated as part of the information extraction system in the host. Objective 1 will be achieved through experiments exploring the feasibility of different procedures for porting lexical and parsing resources. Objective2 involves research at theoretical (setting description models for the phenomena) and applied levels (developing specific resources, to be done based on the experiments for Objective1). Most previous work on the area has been carried out in the USA -in the group of the researcher and other collaborating centers. By reintegrating her, the EU strengthens its scientific role in the area, guarantees future international collaborations, and allows her to consolidate her scientific profile.

Keywords: natural language processing,computational linguistics,temporal analysis,event factuality,certainty,modality,opinion analysis,subjectivity analysis,nlp tools for less-resourced languages
Carnivorous zooplankton – their role in Swedish marine food webs (CARNIVOROUS ZOO)

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: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will focus on how carnivorous zooplankton function in the pelagic food web and their role in structuring the pelagic community. The major objective is to determine whether there is a consistent indication of predatory control of copepods in Swedish waters. Copepods are the main food source for numerous species of fish in most marine environments. The understanding of their mortality is therefore crucial and essential to manage the economical important fisheries resources in a sustainable manner. Predicting the dynamics of ecosystems requires an understanding of how trophic interactions respond to environmental change. Invertebrate predation is an important regulating factor for populations of copepods and carnivorous zooplankton can have significant impact on the composition and biomass of zooplankton communities. However, a comprehensive picture is not yet present, and in the past this impact has been underestimated in planktonic energy budgets. Carnivorous zooplankton have been found to have a substantial impact on prey communities and selective predation by zooplankton may influence the trophic structure of the pelagic ecosystem. The diets and feeding of carnivorous zooplankton will therefore be investigated in the marine waters around Sweden (the Baltic Sea, the Kattegat and the Skagerrak). Simultaneously, prey composition and vertical distribution will be determined and used to estimate predation pressure. The proposed ERG does not only provide new knowledge about Swedish marine food webs, it is also a long-term investment in the researcher’s future scientific career. The specific ERG will give her the expertise, self-confidence and maturity to carry out high level research as well as give her valuable experience in networking, fund-raising and project management at EU level. The ERG research will significantly reinforce her prospects of reaching, and further maintaining, a leading position within an international scientific community.

Keywords: natural sciences,aquatic biology,marine ecosystems,invertebrate predation,copepods
MIEDT: Modeling and Implementation of Expert Driving Techniques towards the Development of New Active Safety Systems for Passenger Vehicles (MIEDT)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-16
End date: 2011-03-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In response to the public mandate and governments directives the automotive industry strives to develop and implement new technologies to increase safety of passenger vehicles. Supported by the advances in sensor technologies, which have resulted in increased situational awareness capabilities of modern vehicles, as well as the incorporation of drive-by-wire control systems to perform driver assist and safety functions, the automotive community has embarked towards the increase of the level of autonomy in the operation of passenger vehicles with the aim of reducing road accidents and/or their implications. With this research we propose the study of driving techniques used by expert (race) drivers to maintain control of their vehicle in extreme situations, explore their benefit in accident avoidance and encapsulate them within a rigorous mathematical framework. It is envisioned that the expert driver knowledge and techniques studied and reproduced by mathematical models will be implemented in novel active safety systems, which will take advantage of the situational awareness capabilities of modern vehicles to detect an impeding accident and correct or even override the driver’s commands in order to (semi-) autonomously perform evasive accident avoidance maneuvers. The applicant has recently joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Design at Brunel University after spending nearly nine years in post-graduate and post-doctorate research in the United States. The International Reintegration Grant will play a key roll in his pursuit of a permanent (tenured) position with an established higher education and research institution within the European Union. The IRG will allow the researcher to initiate his research program and enhance his research output through a project of high scientific and social impact. In addition, the proposed work has the potential to lead to long lasting alliances between universities in the European Union and the United States.

Keywords: passenger vehicles,active safety,expert driving techniques,accident avoidance,vehicle dynamics,data acquisition,modeling,control,optimization,real time implementation,autonomous vehicles
Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessor Design (HTCMP)

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-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Increasing complexity of applications and their large dataset sizes make it imperative to consider novel architectures that are efficient from both performance and power angles. Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) are one such example where multiple processor cores are placed into the same die. As technology scales, the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) projects that the number of cores in a chip multiprocessor (CMP) will drastically increase to satisfy performance requirements of future applications. A critical question that needs to be answered in CMPs is the size and strength of the cores. Homogeneous chip multiprocessors provide only one type of core to match these various application requirements, consequently not fully utilizing the available chip area and power budget. The ability to dynamically switch between different cores, and power down unused cores gives a key advantage to heterogeneous chip multiprocessing. One of the challenging problems in the context of heterogeneous chip multiprocessor systems is the placement of processor cores and storage blocks within the available chip area. Focusing on such a heterogeneous chip multiprocessor, we address different design decision problems. First, decide on the memory hierarchy design and its distribution within the available chip area. Second, distribute effectively the available area among the processor cores and the memory blocks (cache). Third, select the optimum number of processors and their types among the available processor types. Fourth, perform thread and data distribution within the given processor and memory design. Fifth, evaluate improvements brought by advanced techniques, such as 3D designs. Our past experience and preliminary results indicate that the proposed approach will be able to generate promising results.

Keywords: chip multiprocessor,cmp,network-on-chip,noc,compiler,processor,cpu,memory,management,heterogeneous
Development and Demonstration of a Novel Integrated Condition Monitoring System for Wind Turbines (NIMO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,Spain,Greece,United Kingdom,Portugal,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Cyprus,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5891567.25
EU funding (EUR): 3401900.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Wind energy is the most developed of a number of renewable energy technologies, with several thousands of wind turbines already operating or being planned for construction across Europe. Wind turbines can be deployed individually to power a single site or installation, but are most commonly grouped together as wind farms to provide power to the electricity grid. The energy output from wind turbines has increased dramatically over the past thirty years from 50kW to 6MW, while 8-12MW turbines are in the design stage. The greater energy yield achieved means that the number of turbines needed to produce a given amount of energy has been reduced by a significant factor. Over the same period the tower height and rotor diameter of turbines have doubled leading to much more complex construction, maintenance and inspection procedures, particularly when off-shore turbines are concerned. Under normal operation schedules wind turbines have an average annual maintenance expenditure of ~2% of the original turbine investment. However, unpredictable failure of certain wind turbine components (i.e. blades, tower, gearbox, generator, brakes, yaw system, etc.) can lead to substantially higher maintenance costs and reduced availability of turbines. To increase the competitiveness of wind energy in comparison to other power generation technologies, significant and measurable improvements in the availability, reliability and lifetime of wind turbines need to be achieved in the foreseeable future. NIMO seeks to practically eliminate catastrophic failures and minimise the need for corrective maintenance by developing and successfully implementing an integrated condition monitoring system for the continuous evaluation of wind turbines. NIMO will advance existing state-of-the-art condition monitoring technology used in wind turbines by delivering an advanced system which will be able to reliably evaluate the condition of critical structural components, rotating parts and braking mechanis

Keywords: wind turbines,inspection,condition monitoring,fatigue,failure,energy
Banking System Stability and Bank Regulation (BANSYSREG)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project aims to better understand the relationship between bank regulation and financial stability. Motivated by theoretical and historical debates about the role of government in the financial sector and the optimal design of bank regulation, this project aims to answer the following questions: What drives financial stability, both on the country and on the bank-level? What are adequate regulatory strategies to minimize the risk of bank fragility without stifling sound and informed risk-taking by banks? What are optimal strategies to resolve weak banks? This project combines theoretical and empirical analysis and different methodologies and aggregation levels. Specifically, using unique cross-country data on bank regulation and bank failures, it will assess the relationship between regulatory approaches and bank stability and efficient bank failure resolution. Motivated by the recent crisis, it will use theoretical modeling to compare different institutional arrangements for a European financial safety net and assess the responses of different countries to failing banks in the 2007 crisis. Finally, using a unique bank-level data set for Germany, it will assess the stability of banks of different ownership types and the factors behind these differences. The research project will combine the use of existing datasets with the construction of new datasets, such as on bank failures around the world. This research will be undertaken with a number of co-authors at different universities (Europe and the U.S.), central banks and international institutions. It will have critical policy implications for the ongoing debate on the redefinition of regulatory frameworks and crisis management tools following the 2007 crisis.

Keywords: banking
DEMONSTRATION OF A 16MW HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENT CORN STOVER BIOMASS POWER PLANT (ENERCORN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Denmark,Spain,Finland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10820598.2
EU funding (EUR): 5945408.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the project is to design, develop, construct and operate a grid connected 16 MW high energy efficient power plant in the southwest of Spain to be 100% fuelled with a significantly abundant biomass agricultural residue: corn stover. As a result, the further project objective is to demonstrate the plant high operation availability (over 8000 hours/year), its overall economic and technical feasibility, and to encourage the development of further similar biomass power plants in Europe in accordance with the EU energy strategies recently laid down in the Biomass Action Plan, SET plan and other related European policies. In order to reach the objectives, the project is led by a globally known industrial promoter of renewable energy installations, Acciona Energía from Spain, gathering a partnership with the most experienced European developer of industrial feeding systems from Finland, an SME with demonstrated experience in high technology boiler manufacturing, a technological centre experienced with power plants life-cycle analyses, and two Finnish and Danish centres acquainted with the current state-of-the-art knowledge on combustion of herbaceous biomasses. Around 28 million tonnes of corn stover are produced annually in Europe, of which considering that only 30% of it would be feasibly collected, about 75 plants in the range of 15-20 MW could be set in Europe in 2009-2015, which would supply about 10.4 TWh (Terawatt-hour) annually to the electricity grids for the use of the citizens

Keywords: biomass,corn stover,power generation
Simple Underwater Generation of Renewable Energy (SURGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal,Portugal,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-05
End date: 2013-10-04
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5373000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2997000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

AW Energy Oy´s WaveRoller is the original concept to tame the surge in the nearshore areas. Although the major wave energy potential is clearly offshore in larger depths, apparently there still exist major drawbacks for the commercial-scale deployment of offshore devices, due to the necessity to rely on offshore maritime technologies, which on one hand are rather expensive and on the other hand are yet to prove their suitability for wave energy applications. For this reason, it shall be worth while to assess the value of on- and near-shore devices in particular in the present development phase: it is possible to use lower-cost modular technology and the devices are also much easier to maintain due to the proximity to the shoreline. WaveRoller is a unique, proven and patented product design for near-shore bottom wave (surge) energy conversion, and it was the first solution of its type (invented 1993 by Finnish professional diver). The detailed engineering, construction, deployment and monitoring of the simple and robust near-shore wave energy concept WaveRoller north of the Portuguese coastal town Peniche is an important step towards the large-scale reality of submerged near-shore wave energy utilisation. In addition to of the robust component and structural design, easy manufacturability and assembly, extensive technical and environmental monitoring activities will assure the appropriate assessment of the demonstaration plant .

Keywords: submerged wave energy,surge effect,prototype proof
Experience-dependent modifications of developing neural circuits and animal behaviours (ZEBRAFISH PLASTICITY)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-15
End date: 2013-06-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

During development, neuronal connectivity is initially established by genetically determined intrinsic factors, e.g. molecular cues and spontaneous activity, generating networks according to a "best guess" strategy. However, with the appearance of sensory organs, external inputs will refine these connections, allowing adaptation to the environment. In the Xenopus developing visual system, repetitive moving visual stimuli induce long lasting changes in the direction-sensitivity of some tectal neurons, apparently via modification of synaptic strength. However, it is still unknown how this synaptic plasticity contributes to the refinement of neural circuits for precise information processing and adjustment of animal’s behaviours. Using a multidisciplinary approach combining cutting-edge genetic engineering methods to monitor and manipulate activity of specific neurons or entire circuits, development of novel mathematical and computational methods and kinematic analyses of motor behaviours, I will investigate how sensory visual experience may affect the activity and interaction of the optic tectum neuronal circuit and motor behaviour. These experiments will contribute to our understanding of the role of sensory experience in shaping the development of neural circuits and animal behaviour. They will also shed light into the mechanisms by which the nervous system self wires, adapts, and learns. The study of these mechanisms might contribute to the design of new therapeutic treatments for developmental disorders associated with impaired nerve connections.

Keywords: development of neural circuits,zebrafish,neurobiology,calcium imaging,motor behaviour,2-photon microscopy,plasticity