Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enabling Cost-effective Process Simulation for the Composites Industry: Efficient Characterisation of Complex Fibre Preforms (ECCFP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174475.2
EU funding (EUR): 174475.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Composite materials offer significant benefits over traditional engineering materials, combining low mass with increased stiffness and strength, making composite materials a very attractive option for engineers and manufacturers. However, commonly applied manufacturing techniques have been labour and skill intensive. This has significantly increased the usage of a range of processes known as liquid composite moulding (LCM), involving injection of resin into a compressed fibre reinforcement, capable of high-volume, high-quality production. Simulation of LCM processes offers significant advantages in process design, cycle time and setup cost reduction, however the practicality of existing simulation software is limited by the considerable time and resources required to obtain the necessary material data input. The overall aim of the proposed project is to develop efficient techniques to characterise the permeability and compaction response of fibre reinforcements. These are the dominant material properties governing LCM processes, representing a material’s resistance to fluid flow and resistance to being compressed. Efficient characterisation techniques will benefit Europe through enabling cost-effective process simulation for the composites industry. A number of work packages will be required to meet the project aim. Firstly: development of permeability and compaction measurement facilities at the Institute for Carbon Composites at TUM. These facilities will be used to conduct studies on fabric reinforcements to determine the dominant material parameters affecting permeability and compaction response. Significant consultation will take place to determine the requirements of a range of sectors within the European composites industry, assessing industrial requirements in regards accuracy and characterisation time and cost. The results from this study will be combined with the experimental studies to develop fast, efficient characterisation techniques.

Keywords: mechanical engineering,materials engineering,composite materials,process simulation,liquid composite moulding
Transnational networking, knowledge circulation and technological change in early modern East Central Europe. The case of Hutterite artisans (c.1560-1720) (TRANSTEC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-07-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 257874.8
EU funding (EUR): 257874.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

My research is focusing on knowledge circulation and technological change in early modern Europe. Drawing on the sociology of ‘sociotechnical’ change, it investigates how various patterns of transnational networking facilitated technological innovation. Using the case of dissemination of faience in East Central Europe in the context of the Anabaptist migration (c.1560-1720), I will explore such questions as how a network becomes productive and how transnational non-economic ties become sources of technological change? The project operates with two basic concepts in the history of technology: circulation and contact zones. My research is supported by a database on artifacts and people based on archival, printed, and archeological evidence. Two contributions are expected. 1. Illustrating how interactions gained shape and substance from specific local contexts; and 2. The project will bring in a dialogue between Eastern and Western Europe in the field of history of technology. By refuting linear transfer, the project will introduce East Central Europe as a site of technological change.

Keywords: humanities,history,history of technology,history of religions,social history
IMProved multivariate frequency Analysis of flood extremes by copuLAs in a non-stationary environment (IMPALA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187888.2
EU funding (EUR): 187888.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the biggest challenges of the flood frequency analysis that water resources managers have to face recently is modelling two or more inter-dependent flood variables (floods at river confluences; flood and the respective volumes and durations), and accounting for the non-stationarity of the environment. The IMPALA project offers multidisciplinary solution to this problem by copula-based multivariate frequency modelling of flood extremes with the inclusion of information on historical and regional ungauged extremes and respecting the effects of the changing environment, including further development of methods for spatial data extension and their verification on a Europe-wide scale. Copulas are novel and flexible statistical tool suitable for frequency modelling of multivariate flood extremes. Nevertheless, their application is not trivial, and additionally, the general lack of the available data in the extreme spectrum of the joint distribution makes the flood risk assessment unreliable. The project IMPALA is aimed at improving the multivariate frequency modelling of flood characteristics by increasing the density of the observations in the extreme tails of the marginal distributions. This will be reached by direct inclusion of extraordinary flood data into a univariate flood frequency analysis of marginals, by means of the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. Depending on the type of the extraordinary data, different strategies will be adopted: (a) flood extremes from ungauged catchments will be included using a regional approach and the stationary concept, while (b) historical flood extremes will be included using the local approach and the non-stationarity assumption. The project IMPALA will take advantage of existing pan-European databases of streamflow records and catchment descriptors such as those held by the FRIEND or HYDRATE projects, and data from the relevant gauging authorities in Slovakia and Austria.

Keywords: hydrology,natural hazards,flood frequency analysis,copula,multivariate extremes,risk assessment,ungauged catchments,bayesian inference,markov chain monte carlo,non-stationarity
Collective disease defence and pathogen detection abilities in ant societies: a chemo-neuro-immunological approach (PATHOGEN DETECTORS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180191.4
EU funding (EUR): 180191.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Transmission of pathogens is facilitated in societies whose members are related and closely interact with each other. Rapid detection of, and response to, incoming pathogens is thus crucial to prevent infectious disease outbreaks. My previous work has shown that ant societies indeed react immediately to incoming pathogens by performance of collective disease defences, including antiseptic behaviours such as grooming of pathogen-exposed colony members and removal of diseased brood. This suggests that ants detect pathogens even before but also after infection, which has enormous evolutionary advantages at the colony level. My work on ants revealed that tactile pathogen cues are insufficient to trigger these responses, making chemical cues likely candidates. Moreover, pathogens seem to emit volatiles detectable by termites and honeybees, and ants possess a similarly sensitive olfactory system used in e.g. nestmate recognition and even have over-proportionally many olfactory receptor genes. I here aim to identify and characterize the nature and origin of cues that elicit collective antiseptic behaviours in ants, by combining behavioural observations, detailed chemical analyses and electrophysiological measures. I will further test how cue expression and perception depends on differences in caste, developmental stage and infection state, as well as genetic diversity. Using recent knowledge on the insect olfactory receptor system I seek to 1) understand the neurological processing of disease cues in ants and 2) develop a manipulative toolkit (e.g. RNAi) to suppress pathogen detection and thus performance of collective disease defences. This approach will enable direct assessment of the importance of a well-functioning olfactory sensory system in controlling disease outbreak at the colony level. The proposed project allows me to expand my research profile by using cutting-edge techniques in new disciplines to answer mechanistic questions of the evolution of social immunity

Keywords: evolutionary biology,ecological immunology,ant societies,collective antiseptic behaviours,social (insect) immunity,chemical ecology,neuroethology,innate immunity,zoology
Isotopes of Zooplankton to measure climate and human impacts on pelagic food webs (ISOZOO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-15
End date: 2014-06-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269096.4
EU funding (EUR): 269096.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In all pelagic marine food-webs, zooplankton are the critical link between the phytoplankton primary producers and higher trophic levels, including fish. On-going changes observed for zooplankton communities in the Mediterranean and other oceans around the world therefore have serious implications for food-web productivity, and their continued provision of ecosystem services (e.g., food security). Current gaps in our knowledge of how the zooplankton component of the food-web functions, limit our ability to sustainably manage our marine resources. The ISOZOO program is designed to make a significant contribution to our understanding of zooplankton food-web processes, and how climate change and anthropogenic impacts affect these. Facilitated by IIF mobility, this overarching goal will be achieved by a multi and interdisciplinary approach, combining stable isotope ecology, ocean biochemistry, physical and biological oceanography, and ecosystem modelling. Working with a set of collaborators at the LOPB in Marseille, we will define Phyto-Zooplankton relationships across a range of nutrient conditions, and estimate the impact of these relationships on zooplankton food-chain length and transfer efficiencies. Established relationships between zooplankton and phytoplankton-nutrients will be used to: 1. develop an Index of zooplankton food-web status that can be applied to monitor food-web response to changing ocean conditions (physics & nutrients) and, 2. parameterise the Eco3M bio-physical model for the Gulf of Lion, to simulate/predict the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic forcing on ecosystem function. Together objectives 1 and 2 should allow for better informed management of marine resources given future variability. Through collaboration beyond the time frame of this project we aim to develop world-wide application of the Food-Web Index (1) and model parameters (2) through networks of international collaborators for climate change monitoring and research.

Keywords: natural sciences,physical sciences,food-webs,zooplankton,stable isotopes,size structure,ecosystems,mediterranean,ecological models,climate change,transfer efficiency
Thinking of the Body as both Rootedness and Breakhrough (MOVING BODY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169800.0
EU funding (EUR): 169800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The general aim of the project is to significantly contribute to the development of a more unitary view of the human body that can shed light on both its rootedness in the world and its capacities to transcend itself, such that it establishes, on the level of a higher subjective life, a specifically human cultural world of works and creations in which different cultures can recognize each other and dynamically interact within the same history. The research therefore addresses the issue of corporality, but it is mainly aimed at the following question: how do we define the various modalities by which bodily selfhood comes about and gives rise to creativity in a continuous intertwining with the world, that constantly nurtures its formative activity? To answer this I will set up a dialogue between Jan Patočka and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By so doing I intend to show that the interlacing between these two European thinkers leads us towards a more integrated view of the living body, which would better recognize the value of our full engagement in the body and its movement in all the activities that determine our inner formation and also participate in the creation of a community of exchanges and culture, that accommodates and lets co-exist different cultures and ways of being (life-worlds).This view of the body can be relevant not only to embrace a living idea of culture as “milieu of recognition”, but also to conceptualize the becoming cultural horizon against which the process of European unification can progress. As such, the project could create a new research dynamics within the ERA in the field of studies dedicated to European integration strategies.

Keywords: phenomenology,motor intentionality,bodily self,conscious agency,creativity,living body,gesture,common world,life-worlds,multiculturalism european unification process merleau-ponty jan patocka
Corporate Open Disclosure: A Defensive Perspective (OPEN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169800.0
EU funding (EUR): 169800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The research I intend to carry out will shed some systematic light on the strategic motives that lead companies to disclose openly technical knowledge. Put poorely, open disclosure means that companies do not attach any form of property rights to it, like in the case of patents or formal contractual agreements. This behaviour is against the traditional justification of intellectual property rights – especially the patent system – where inventors are granted temporary monopoly over their inventions in exchange for the disclosure of the technical details of the latter. Yet, in a strategic setting, companies might be willing to disclose knowledge openly in order to block rivals’ future patent applications and hence secure their own competitive position. Recent examples of companies promoting open disclosure abound, from the field of software and electronics to genomics. The investigation of this phenomenon is rather scarce and has mostly remained theoretical and anecdotic. This project will draw from the existing contributions in theoretical Industrial Organization, IPR Law, Innovation Management and recent advancements in bibliometric (publication data) studies to derive theory-informed predictions and provide the first systematic empirical evidence of the extent and effectiveness of open disclosure strategies. Its first aim is to build a comprehensive database which meaningfully links measures of open disclosure to firm-level innovation strategies, financial and innovation performance. The subjects that will be investigated are the effectiveness of different measures of open disclosure to prevent competitors obtaining IPRs, the relation of open disclosure with other appropriation strategies such as patents and secrecy, and the competitive settings in which this strategy are more effective. The results of this study can spur theoretical research and will have insightful implications for the design of corporate strategies as well as innovation and competition policies

Keywords: industrial economics,intellectual property,technology exploitation
Testing the portability of techniques to handle dissimilar source and target languages in MT (ENEUS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168896.4
EU funding (EUR): 168896.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the ENEUS project is to develop an English-Basque machine translation system which responds to two main objectives: (1) it contributes to the MT research field by testing the portability of techniques to handle dissimilar source and target languages; and (2) it meets the social demand for a good quality English-Basque translation system. Both rule-based and statistical approaches will be explored based on the systems and results obtained in the OpenMT (2006-2009) and EUSMT (Labaka, 2009) projects developed by the Ixa Group to translate from Spanish to Basque. Matxin, an open rule-based machine translation system, will be extended to the English/Basque language pair. A hybrid constituent and dependency-based scheme for the analysis of Spanish will be transferred to English, integrating the successful Freeling Suite of Language Analyzers; the language pair structural differences will be thoroughly explored to fine-tune the existing limited transfer rules; and the maximation of reuse regarding the existing language pair will be exploited. Based on EUSMT, a customised Moses baseline to improve segmentation and reordering for dissimilar languages and Basque in particular, the ENEUS project will investigate the statistical independence for the morphemes measured as χ2 on a large monoligual corpus to adapt the optimal segmentation option to the English-Basque language pair. Simultaneously the set of reordering rules will be adapted to the new language pair. During the project, an effort to extend the bilingual and monolingual corpora is also planned given its importance to exploit the latest corpus-based approaches. The ENEUS project brings together expertise from three different fields, that of linguistics, computer science and translation, allowing the fellow to re-start her research career within a reknown NLP research group receiving specialised computational training while contributing with a specialised linguistic and translation background.

Keywords: computational linguistics,translation,basque language,english language
Cadherin control of invasive growth in morphogenesis and cancer (CCING)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 255069.4
EU funding (EUR): 255069.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cadherin-based cell-cell junctions regulate tissue architecture by coordinating multicellular growth and polarity. In addition to the ubiquitously expressed and widely studied E-cadherin, epithelia express other, more tissue-specific classical cadherins, often particularly during developmental epithelial rearrangements. These additional cadherins recently also have been implicated in tumor progression, but their expression and function is poorly understood. I recently demonstrated that different classical cadherin subtypes have distinct roles in branching morphogenesis. I hypothesize that cell-cell junction control in invasive growth of developmental branching morphogenesis is recapitulated in collective cancer invasion, where tumor cells invade as strands that maintain cadherin-based cell-cell contacts. The aim is therefore to determine how stage-dependent regulation of distinct cadherins control these processes, using the following objectives: 1. To test that co-expression of E-cadherin and other cadherins control cell migration and rearrangement of the extracellular matrix and, thus, invasive physiological growth. 2. To define the role of co-expressed cadherins in collective invasive growth and resistance in cancer. To demonstrate how cadherins accessory to E-cadherin control physiological collective invasion and growth, and how this is recapitulated in an aberrant fashion during invasive growth of epithelial cancers, I will contrast models for branching morphogenesis of kidney and mammary epithelium to neoplastic invasion of kidney and breast cancer cells.

Keywords: cell-cell adhesion,cell-matrix adhesion,epithelia,3d models,cancer invasion,branching morphogenesis,contact inhibition,tumor models
Photonic optimisation of multiple quantum well structures for single and dual- junction solar cells (PHOTOQWELL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-15
End date: 2015-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200371.8
EU funding (EUR): 200371.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Concentrator photovoltaic solar systems achieve some of the highest module power conversion efficiencies and have the potential for clean electricity generation in the world's deserts and arid regions. Sunlight is collected by inexpensive optical collectors and focused upon small but highly efficient solar cells. Still, the costs of the overall system is high and further improvements must be done to enable the general implantation of this technology. This project will raise the efficiency of those highly efficient multi-junction solar cells by using nanotechnology to tailor the optical and electronic properties of the photovoltaic material. Key to the project is the design of internal optical modes in the solar cell, exploiting quantum effects, maximising absorption, reducing radiative loss and enabling the cells to become more tolerant to the changes in the solar spectrum that occur naturally during the day and season of the year.These designs will then be demonstrated in single and monolithic dual-junction prototype solar cells with the potential to break the present world record for a dual-junction solar cell of 31.7% and aiming to a 35% efficient devices.

Keywords: physics of semiconductors,pv materials,pv cells,optoelectronics,quantum technology