Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Global Governance and Gender Disparities. Explaining Developments in Key Labor related Human Rights Indicators (GLOGENDER)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1090409.0
EU funding (EUR): 1090409.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

How successful are current initiatives at furthering a fairer globalization? Employing women’s equitable integration into the labor market as a paradigmatic case, this proposal suggests ways to examine the impact of global governance structures on key labor market and other indicators. Research in this project so far has shown that for an adequate assessment of women’s equity it is not sufficient to merely look at their labor market position but an examination of indicators such as political participation, physical integrity and reproductive rights is now integrated. Triangulating quantitative and qualitative methodologies on the macro-, meso- and micro- levels of aggregation, this research addresses three current world society lacunas: (1) Implementation: On the country level, quantitative data assess the impact of international norms from 1958 to 2005 on key labor market indicators of women relative to those of men: differences in unemployment rates by professions and gender wage differentials in the manufacturing sector descriptively. The data also tracks the trade-off that women make between fertility and labor market participation in the non-agricultural sectors analytically. (2) Mechanisms: On the organizational level, qualitative interviews in four countries illuminate how world norms stipulated by the United Nations and world regional norms put forth by the Organizations of American States are adapted and utilized by social movement actors in Latin America: Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. In addition, to interviewing governmental representatives and social movement actors in non-governmental organizations as originally foreseen, I interviewed the heads of the Inter-American Court and key personnel in the Inter-American Commission. Relevant legal documents are currently being coded as these legal decisions and recommendations proved to be a key mechanism for the evolution of discriminated groups, particularly women. (3) Diversity: On the individual level, large quantitative household data analyze differences within nations regarding gender equity attitudes and their (un)intended labor market and fertility effects in Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. This analysis is now supplemented by analyzing the other key socio-structural and attitudinal dimensions of gender equity such as political participation, physical integrity and reproductive rights.

Keywords: gender,labor market indicators,world society theory,social movements,latin america
Towards a comparative sociology of beauty The transnational modelling industry and the social shaping of beauty standards in six European countries (BEAUTY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 64.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1202611.0
EU funding (EUR): 1202611.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project studies how beauty standards - perceptions of physical beauty in women and men - are socially shaped. It will focus on the transnational modelling industry, an institution centrally concerned with the production and dissemination of beauty standards. The project aims to develop a comparative sociology of beauty. By comparing beauty standards both within and across nations, it will identify central mechanisms and institutions through which such standards are developed and disseminated. In 4 subprojects this study investigates 1. How standards of female and male beauty are perceived, shaped, and disseminated by professionals in the transnational modelling field; 2. How female and male models perceive, represent and embody beauty standards in their work; 3. How female and male beauty has been portrayed by models in mainstream and high fashion magazines from 1980 till 2010; 4. How people of different backgrounds perceive female and male beauty, and how their beauty standards are related to the images disseminated in modelling. Each project will be done in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and the UK. This project is innovative in several ways. It is the first comprehensive study of the social shaping of beauty standards. The 4 subprojects will result in an extensive account of production, products, and reception of a contested cultural industry. Moreover, this project draws together in novel ways theories about media, cultural production and taste formation; gender and the body; and globalization. The project will make a major contribution to the study of globalization: it studies a transnational cultural industry, and its comparative and longitudinal design allows us to gauge the impact of globalization in different contexts. Finally, the project is innovative in its comparative, multi-method research design, in which the subprojects will follow the entire process of production and consumption in a transnational field.

Keywords: beauty standards,taste,transnational media,cultural production,cultural industry,globalization,comparative,multi-method,europe,gender,body
Pro- and Re-active cognitive control (PRORECONT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997020.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997020.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Keeping our behavior adapted to an ever changing environment requires that we constantly adjust information processing. Such adaptation is often considered to require control processes. Adaptive mechanisms can react to an encountered challenge in the environment (reactive control), or can anticipate such potential problems in order to avoid them (proactive control ). The goals of the present project are to better 1) characterize the interplay between pro and reactive control, 2) understand how such control mechanisms are recruited and 3) describe how they alter information processing to optimize behavior. Experimental psychology experiments inducing cognitive conflict (for example the Stroop task), will be used, augmented with several psychophysiological measures, such as High Resolution EEG and Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and fMRI. One current critical question is to sort out behavioral adaptation effect due to control, from the ones independent of control. One original aspect of this project will be to compare spontaneous behavioral adaptation to situations in which control is explicitly recruited. Second, subliminal incorrect response activation will be tracked thanks to electromyographic recording. EEG/MEG recordings, coupled with appropriate topographic and source localization techniques, will reveal the precise spatio-temporal flow of cognitive control. With TMS, thanks to a NeuroNavigation device, it will be possible to test this spatio-temporal flow, by transiently interrupting the normal information processing of delimited brain areas. One technical challenge of this project will be to record and detect subliminal incorrect muscular activations during fMRI acquisition. The possibility to detect such incorrect activations in fMRI will allow to remove several confounding factors in fMRI experiments, and to better understand how such incorrect activations are detected, stopped and corrected in a split second.

Keywords: executive control,error processing,cognitive conflict,single trial analysis,neuroimagery
Plurals, Predicates, and Paradox: Towards a Type-Free Account (PPP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Starting Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 940655.0
EU funding (EUR): 940655.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to transform our understanding of the logical paradoxes, their solution and significance for mathematics, philosophy and semantics. It seeks to show that some of the key inferences in the paradoxes should not uncritically be blocked, as is customary, but rather be tamed and put to valuable mathematical, philosophical and semantic use. By adopting a richer logical framework than usual, the paradoxes can be transformed from threats to valuable sources of insight. When discovered at the turn of the previous century, the paradoxes caused a foundational crisis in mathematics. Many logicians and philosophers now believe the crisis has been resolved. This project denies that an acceptable resolution has been found and aims to do better. A strong push remains towards paradox. This push arises from the widespread use of (and need for) higher-order logics (HOL), which allow quantification into the positions of predicates or plural noun phrases. Phase I seeks to reveal greater similarities between HOL and set theory than generally appreciated. Phase II explores four arguments that HOL collapses to first-order logic, i.e. that every higher-order entity defines a corresponding first-order entity. These arguments are generally ignored as they threaten to reintroduce the paradoxes. But we show that a properly circumscribed form of collapse is a valuable source of mathematical and semantic insight. Phase III examines controlled forms of collapse using notions of modality and groundedness. This enables us to motivate ZF set theory and valuable semantic theories, explain the nature of cognition about sets and properties, and show that mathematics cannot be fully extensionalized. Phase IV applies these insights to solve the paradoxes and criticize influential uses of HOL.

Keywords: paradox,set theory,semantics,higher-order logic,type theory,nominalization,extensionality,modality,predicativity,groundedness
Interactive edition and interpretation of various works by Stoic and Epicurean philosophers surviving at Herculaneum (PHERC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 900000.0
EU funding (EUR): 900000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to provide through an innovative critical edition the first comprehensive interpretation of some physical, epistemological, ethical and rhetorical works by key figures of Hellenistic philosophy like Epicurus, Chrysippus and Philodemus. These works, totally lost in the manuscript tradition, are preserved exclusively in the carbonised papyrus rolls found since 1752 at Herculaneum and are either totally unpublished or were published only partially between the XIX and the XX century. Even when they were edited, this was done with very precarious methods. In particular, the previuos editors did not usually read the original papyri themselves and even when this was the case, they could not dispose of any modern technology for doing this successfully. In order to overcome these problems the candidate plans for each work: a) to reconstruct with pioneering mathematical techniques the relative and absolute sequence of the papyrus fragments in the original bookroll; b) to read and transcribe the original text by means of last-generation fiber-optic microscopes and with the help of digital multispectral images (MSI); c) to make a thorough textual constitution with a new editorial system and a complete translation; d) to provide an extensive philosophical introduction and commentary containing a wide-ranging interpretation which highlights the specific contribution given by each work in the mainstream of the philosophical discussion of the Hellenistic age; e) to supply a DVD including an interactive edition of the critical text with direct links to all the relevant papyrological documentation (MSI, old apographs, archive documents) and a virtual reconstruction of the original papyrus roll.

Keywords: greek papyrology,history of ideas,processing of multi-spectral images
European Biofuels Technology Platform Secretariat (BIOFUELSTP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 974800.4
EU funding (EUR): 463065.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Biofuels TP was officially launched in June 2006. Since October 2006, a secretariat, partly funded by the EC, has supported all TP activities. A key achievement of the TP was the publication of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) and the Strategy Deployment Document (SDD) in January 2008. Currently the Biofuels TP focuses on implementing the SRA/SDD and on contributing to the European Industrial Initiative on Bioenergy in the frame of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan). The contract of the current secretariat will end in March 2009. The overall objective of this proposal for a continuation of the Secretariat is to proactively support the Biofuels TP with a view to its changing needs. The Secretariat will be responsible for all organisational, administrative and communication tasks. Organisation, preparation and follow-up of Steering Committee Meetings and Working Group Meetings (WP2) as well as the organisation of events such as Stakeholder Plenary Meetings and workshops (WP3) form an important part of the day-to-day work. Additional priority work areas will include the Secretariat actively supporting the TP via increased networking activities. These aim at identifying and creating synergies with other ongoing biofuels related R&amp;D activities and will involve TPs, ERA-Nets and national as well as EU policy makers (WP-3). Furthermore, the Secretariat will develop “Research Priority Documents” to facilitate the implementation of the SRA (WP4). The new Secretariat will monitor biofuels related R&amp;D developments, maintain databases and draft documents such as position and strategy papers for the Biofuels TP (WP5). Compared to the ongoing activities which mainly focus on organisational, administrative and communicative support, this proactive approach represents an innovative feature of the new Secretariat and will secure greater flexibility and increase action and communication capacities of the TP.

Keywords: biofuels,industry,research and development
Enhanced Energy Production of Heat and Electricity by a combined Solar Thermionic-Thermoelectric Unit System. (E2PHEST2US)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Israel,Türkiye,San Marino
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2697100.0
EU funding (EUR): 1977724.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Concentrating solar systems are matter of relevant and constantly increasing interest of the energy market owing to the compact size, reduced request for components, capability to be multi-generative, potential high-efficiency and low-cost. This project aims to design and realize innovative and scalable components for solar concentrating systems that generate both electricity and heat and work efficiently at high temperatures (800-1000°C). The proposed concept includes the design, realization and testing of several new component technologies. A high-temperature receiver will be developed to provide the heat input to the converter unit. A new-concept conversion module will be developed for electrical and thermal energy production based on thermionic and thermoelectric direct converters, thermally combined in series to increase the efficiency (thermal-to-electrical efficiency estimated to 35%). A heat recovery system will be designed to collect waste heat (standard efficiency of 65%) and provide it as an additional energy product (co-generation). Innovative wirings for fluid and electricity transport will be designed, realized and tested. The benefit associated to a single hybrid cable, able to carry both relatively high-temperature fluids and electricity, will be characterized and demonstrated. A small-scale prototype solar system will be realized to test and evaluate the real impact of the new components.

Keywords: thermionic - hybrid- innovative components
Thin Si film based hybrid solar cells on low-cost substrates (THINSI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Belgium,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Greece,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6358888.2
EU funding (EUR): 4416582.1
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The ThinSi project will develop a solar cell processing chain for high throughput, cost-effective manufacturing of thin film silicon based solar cells on low-cost silicon substrates. The substrates will be made on the basis of an innovative powder-to-substrate concept. In line with the Workprogramme topic addressed, it will reduce the cost of solar cell modules compared to those made by the conventional wafer based approach. A set of innovative processes will be developed to realise the new low-cost concept and transfer the results into production. The new silicon based substrates will be made from low-cost material using state-of-the-art ceramics technologies. Cost effective processes for the formation of the thin film silicon base and the complete solar cell structure will be developed. New methods for optical confinement will be investigated. The electronic properties of individual solar cell materials and their interfaces as well as the relationship between the deposition parameters and the device properties will be analyzed using advanced characterisation and modelling. It will also develop a better understanding of relevant materials issues. Manufacturing procedures suitable for pilot scale production will be developed based on an innovative process chain. The produced solar cells will be assembled into complete modules. The project will develop innovative technologies and equipment prototypes that can easily be scaled up and transferred to production lines by the end of the project. New market opportunities for the SME and industrial partners will be created, both as production tool suppliers and as end-users of the technology.

Keywords: silicon solar cells,photovoltaics,thin film,silicon powder,substrate,low cost
Connecting Energy NCPs Plus A Pro-Active Network of National Contact Points in the Seventh Framework Programme under the Energy Theme (C-ENERGY +)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Poland,Germany,Greece,Netherlands,Türkiye,Luxembourg,Croatia,Austria,Malta,Cyprus,Switzerland,Spain,Iceland,Serbia,Portugal,Faroe Islands,Latvia,Estonia,Estonia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1159210.53
EU funding (EUR): 999996.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

C-ENERGY+ has the overall objective to reinforce the National Contact Points - NCPs network, broadening NCPs expertises and improving the quality of their services. C-ENERGY+ will involve 21 Energy NCPs as partner from 21 countries plus 29 Energy NCPs as associated partners from 23 countries. Associated partners will be invited and receive financial support to attend all initiatives. C-ENERGY+ is a 44 months coordination action centred around 3 main common problems: (i) lack of uniform high-level Energy NCPs services across Europe, (ii) low quality level of proposals by and minor involvement of industrial stakeholders (iii) lack of visibility of NCP services notably at the International level. To reach the overall objective, C-ENERGY+ aims at sharing good practices and promoting trans-national cooperation among the Energy NCPs. The following results of C-ENERGY+ are expected: preparation of a Good Practices Handbook and a Global report on identified common Energy R&amp;D priorities, and organisation of 4 Networking Workshops for NCPs, 6 Joint Workshops for researchers and SMEs and 3 International Brokerage Events. Particular attention will be dedicated to the training of less and more experienced NCPs, through the implementation of 6 Training Sessions, 45 on-the-job training visits and a virtual mentoring helpdesk. C-ENERGY+ will take special care of the communication inside and outside the network and the dissemination of results through the implementation of a website, coordination activities with other networks, production of materials and E-Newsletters. All the documents will be accessible via an ad hoc website. The main impacts will thus be a uniform high level Energy NCPs service across Europe.

Keywords: national contact points,networking,transnational cooperation,training