Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sounding Stars with Kepler (ASK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland,Denmark,Hungary,Italy,Portugal,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 485100.0
EU funding (EUR): 369600.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The NASA space mission Kepler is providing continuous high-precision photometry of thousands of stars. The aim of Kepler is the discovery of Earth-size planets around stars similar to the Sun, and a thorough study of the continuum of planetary systems in the Universe. Because of their unprecedented precision, the Kepler data act as a precious source of information for various astrophysical studies, particularly asteroseismology, which is a rapidly growing field allowing to study the interiors of stars by measuring their oscillations in a way analogous to that used by geologists who study the interior of the Earth by means of seismic methods. The scope of this proposal which, involves 13 partner institutions - 7 from the EU and 6 from third countries, is to ensure a complete and exhaustive exploitation of the Kepler data. We plan to accelerate and facilitate the process of deriving information about the Kepler targets, and hence of the planetary systems discovered in this mission. To achieve this, we will work on dedicated pipelines for the data analysis, optimize tools for computing models of stars and the physical processes inside them, and enable multi-site observational campaigns dedicated to Kepler targets which will yield crucial information complementary to that delivered by the Kepler mission. Our cooperation will allow to develop various methods of the data analysis and model computations which will be beneficial for the general astrophysical community. Our aims can be achieved only by an intense, organized cooperation and exchange of the scientists from Institutes involved in the research focused on Kepler science. This approach can be considered as a role model for organizing coordinated effort focused on maximizing the scientific outcome of the analysis of the data produced by space missions. These procedures are particularly relevant for the potential upcoming PLATO mission under selection by the European Space Agency.

Keywords: physical sciences,astronomy,astrophysics,space missions:kepler,asteroseismology,stellar interiors,extraterrestial planetary systems,observations:photometry,spectroscopy,data analysis
Joint European and South African Research Network in Anxiety Disorders (EUSARNAD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Estonia,Sweden,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Israel,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 289800.0
EU funding (EUR): 289800.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of our proposal is to build on the strengths of an existing European network for research into causes and maintaining factors in anxiety disorders and to extend these by establishing firmer research collaboration with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Through establishing this research exchange, we aim to share knowledge and expertise among participating centres, and ensure a comprehensive translational research approach in anxiety disorders, relevant to the needs of developed and developing societies. The exchange scheme has three broad objectives. First, to develop a collaborative international database for the detailed characterisation of large samples of patients, across the range of anxiety disorders. Second, to provide exchange researchers with a range of complementary training opportunities, gaining experience in innovative investigations in anxiety disorders. These opportunities include characterisation of differing endophenotypes across diagnoses; using neuroimaging, genetic polymorphism and other techniques to bridge the gap between preclinical and clinical studies; and identifying predictors of clinical outcome and treatment response using dimensional and other approaches. Third, to establish a firm platform to support subsequent pragmatic randomised effectiveness trials in patients who have not responded to previous treatment interventions. The value of the scheme is in its capacity to facilitate access to additional and larger clinical populations, to include centres of research excellence across many countries, and to share the knowledge and expertise of leading researchers with long-standing and wide-ranging interests in anxiety disorders. Furthermore, the training opportunities within the scheme would increase the knowledge and skills of the ‘next generation’ of anxiety disorder researchers and thereby contribute to efforts to meet the challenges imposed by these common, burdensome and costly medical conditions.

Keywords: psychiatry,neurobiology,neuropsychology,pharmacological sciences,anxiety disorders,research network
Unification of Fundamental Forces and Applications (UNIFY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 672000.0
EU funding (EUR): 403200.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The UNIFY exchange programme has two main scientific objectives. One objective is to gain new insights on the quantum mechanical description of the gravitational interaction, an outstanding fundamental problem in theoretical physics, of crucial importance to our understanding of the Universe and of the forces between its basic constituents. The other main objective is to explore recent developments in String Theory and Quantum Gravity in the fields of Cosmology, Black Hole Physics and Gauge Theory. The forthcoming years will bring unprecedented experimental discoveries in these fields of research and are sure to call for new explanations and to shape our attempts to construct an unifying theory of all interactions. These huge costly experiments (LHC, gravitational wave detection, PLANCK) are driven by theory, and theory is essential to analyse and interpret the vast data sets they produce. By creating an effective training platform, well connected to these efforts, UNIFY will play a major role in advancing EU research agendas in 'big science' projects that may lead to unprecedented insights into the fundamental workings of nature. UNIFY will achieve its goals by setting a challenging exchange programme that involves world leading CNRS laboratories in Paris, Humboldt Univ. and the Albert Einstein Institute in Berlin, and the Univ. of Santigago de Compostela and of Porto. The international partners that joined this collaboration are the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and Caltech in the USA, and the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan. UNIFY institutions will organize a number of thematic work programmes to push our present knowledge of the law's of nature to its very limit. UNIFY also includes in its exchange programme a strong dimension on the training of the next generation of theoretical physicists, as to establish long lasting collaborations between its partners.

Keywords: quantum gravity,gauge theory,cosmology,black holes
Random fibre lasers for telecommunications and distributed sensing (RANDFIELDS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Finland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 368600.0
EU funding (EUR): 368600.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed 4-year program of knowledge transfer and networking between 3 EU and 3 Russian partners with the world leading expertise targets an emerging area of ultra-long fibre lasers and random fibre lasers and their telecommunication and sensing applications. The goal of the proposed research is to establish an efficient and stable knowledge transfer mechanisms to improve project partners possibilities in designing, development and applications of new laser sources for advanced emerging applications in high-speed optical communication and distributed fibre-optic sensing. Training, knowledge transfer and exchange of skills in laser science, communications, sensing, laser systems and nonlinear science are important to provide EU teams with a cutting edge expertise that will allow project partners to ensure world leading positions. The proposed 3+3 consortium brings together world known groups with very complimentary expertise, techniques and skills directly relevant to the project goals. The objective of the proposed joint exchange programme is to establish long-term stable research cooperation between the partners with broad combined expertise and knowledge. The project objectives and challenges present a balanced mix between industrial application focused knowledge transfer and development and more far-looking studies for potentially ground-breaking applications of random fibre lasers for sensing and telecommunication applications.

Keywords: applied optics
Dynamics of Weakly Bound Quantum Systems (DWBQS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Norway,France,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 283500.0
EU funding (EUR): 283500.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal entitled “Dynamics of Weakly Bound Quantum Systems” (DWBQS) describes a joint collaborative academic project and exchange scheme between researchers from Norway, Sweden and France as beneficiaries and Argentina and India as participants. The first focus of the proposed program is on the theoretical challenges regarding transfer and breakup mechanisms in excited atomic and molecular systems. We will study breakup and imaging of Rydberg atoms and molecules in laser fields and Rydberg like systems in collisions between ions. The ability to solve the time dependent Schrödinger equation in this regime results in new insights regarding novel quantum processes involving entangled particles. For interpretation of present and future experiments the need for parallel theory development cannot be overestimated. A second focus will be to develop new understanding for the atomic structure problem in Super Heavy Elements (SHE) based on experience of many body physics in systems like large clusters and quantum dots. The DWBQS group with its new collaborative constellation of theorists and experimentalists, atomic and nuclear physicists, has a background which is well suited to secure the achievement of the proposed goals.

Keywords: physical sciences,atomic physics,molecular physics
Evolving Nanocarbon Strategies in (bio-) Organic Remits (ENSOR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-29
End date: 2015-03-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 330000.0
EU funding (EUR): 264900.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ENSOR project involves the exchange of key staff between the EU (United Kingdom and Hungary), Russia and Japan with a principal aim to focus on the controlled production and chemical modification of a variety of novel nanocarbons for specific end applications reaching into the bio-organic field. Specifically, we will tailor the geometry and physicochemical properties of nanocarbons for the development of biosenors, rapid bacteria screening in liquid media, DNA therapeutics, regeneration of damaged cells (peripheral nerve cells) and hemoperfusion adsorption. It is also recognised that the development of novel nanocarbons will have unique properties that will be beneficial in other research and development fields, e.g. next generation of ultracapacitors, advanced organic decomposition catalysts, superior mechanical reinforcement additives. Furthermore, the project provides training and education through collating the best techniques available within each country to provide international excellence, facilitating transfer of knowledge and know how between the participating parties, being of mutual interest, fostering long term collaborative format well beyond the scope of the project. To ensure success of the project, it is necessary to organize joint investigations of four teams from the University of Brighton (UoB, UK), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME, Hungary), Omsk University (Omsk, Russia), Kazan State University (KSU, Russia) and Toyo University (Toyo, Japan). The complementarily aspects existing between EU partners and those from Russia and Japan, as well as the multidisciplinary character of proposed research will create sufficient synergy to succeed the targeted goals and will result cross-fertilization of the consortium as a whole.

Keywords: health sciences,medicine,carbon chemistry
Biodiversity and Valorisation of blue Diatoms (BIOVADIA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,France,France,France,United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-13
End date: 2015-09-12
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 201100.0
EU funding (EUR): 186500.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This program aims to increase our knowledge about the biology and biodiversity of ‘blue diatoms’, unique among microalgae by their ability to produce specific water-soluble bluish pigments. Up to now the terms ‘blue diatoms’ have referred exclusively to the pennate marine diatom Haslea ostrearia, and to its blue pigment, the so-called marennine, a polyphenolic molecule with biological activities, which is produced during algal growth and ageing. In oyster ponds of western France, H. ostrearia may year on year become dominant, and marennine released in the seawater is responsible for the ’greening’ of oysters, a phenomenon which has a noticeable local economical impact. The diatom H. ostrearia has long been considered the only microalga ever known, worldwide in distribution, to produce marennine. Indeed in the literature, diatoms with blue tips described as H. ostrearia were reported in almost all seas and oceans in northern and southern hemispheres. Their presence was deduced either directly from the observation of living cells, or indirectly from a greening effect of bivalves. In most cases, a careful identification of the ‘blue diatoms’ at the species level did not rely on detailed studies of morphology and morphometrics. This paradigm has been recently questioned following the discovery, in phytoplanktonic samples taken on rocky shores of Crimea (Ukraine), of diatoms presenting similarities with H. ostrearia, with bluish apices, but in which the pigment seemed different from marennine. Preliminary results indicate that these diatoms could be two different species, which raises a concern about occurrences of ‘blue diatoms’ and their identification as H. ostrearia in all other marine environments. Hence the present project is aiming to deepen our knowledge of the biology, physiology and pigments of ‘blue diatoms’, to study their biodiversity, and to unravel their taxonomy, especially regarding the genus Haslea.

Keywords: auxosporulation,biodiversity,biological activity,diatoms,haslea,marennine,pigments,taxonomy
Design of photocontrollable polyelectrolyte-based nanoengineered container systems (PHOTOCONTROL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 76000.0
EU funding (EUR): 76000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to provide a joint comprehensive research on the development of light-sensitive active coatings and light-addressable microdispensors based on the incorporated mesoporous photocatalytic particles loaded with active agent (lubricant, biocide, corrosion inhibitor). The coating will include container either with the inorganic scaffold made of photoactive material (TiO2) coated with polyelectrolyte shell or inert scaffold (SiO2) coated with polyelectrolyte/nanoparticles shell where the introduced nanoparticles are sensitive to the external light. The encapsulation employing Layer-by-Layer (LbL) electrostatic adsorption of polyelectrolyte molecules or charged nanoparticles represents novel and very efficient approach to creation of micro-and non-sized container structures with controlled composition and permeability of the shell for protection, delivery and storage. Of principle importance is a fact that the permeability of the polyelectrolyte containers’ walls can be effectively modulated by introduced nanoparticles making it sensitive to the heat, UV or visible light as well as alternating magnetic field.

Keywords: photochemistry,nanosystems,nanocontainers,controlled release,self-healing
Optimised ITS-based Tools for Intelligent Urban Mobility (OPTIMUM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 144200.0
EU funding (EUR): 77700.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In this project three leading research teams collaborate with the aims at developing innovative solutions for intelligent urban mobility to address the urban mobility challenges. The collaborating partners have complementary expertise and common vision and interest for ITS research. The partners evolved are two European institutions (EPFL and IFSTTAR) and one Australian university (QUT). The project addresses its research goals by dividing the research into three research oriented working groups (WG) as follows : Integrated real time traffic information WG focuses on development of methodologies for: a) short-term travel time prediction for different modes and networks; b) travel time variability; and c) real time multimodal travel traveller information and routing. Network efficiency and vulnerability modelling WG focuses on the a) optimising the observability of urban traffic system; b) understand and assess the effect of adverse weather conditions on road networks; and d) develop response strategy to mitigate the impacts of weather on road networks. Cooperative traffic management WG focuses on a) Active traffic management algorithms such as coordinated ramp metering, VSL etc; b) Traffic signal optimization; and d) Traffic simulation modeling for testing and evaluating emerging cooperative systems. To achieve aforementioned objectives, the project is designed to harmonise the research program by exchange of information, ideas, resources etc. This effective way of learning will enhance the research capabilities of each partner by exchange of researchers with specialised knowledge. The collaboration will provide high visibility of the research activities and will also reduce the cost of research by avoiding duplication of work. This cross-borer and cross-disciplinary cooperation will strength the collaboration and mutual understanding and open new possibilities to promote new direction for application of ITS systems.

Keywords: traffic management,traffic information,sustainable mobility,its,multimodality
End-to-end Virtual Resource Management across Heterogeneous Networks and Services (EVANS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Norway
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 306600.0
EU funding (EUR): 306600.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the EVANS project is to increase researchers’ mobility between EU countries and China to obtain better understanding of network virtualisation for future Internet infrastructure. In particular, the knowledge transfer, as a result of researcher’s mobility, will focus on the management aspects of the virtualised network resources rather than the virtualisation techniques themselves. As far as the types of network platforms are concerned, there are not only optical networks and IP networks for the core networks that constitute the Internet backbone but also various broadband wireless network technologies for mobile access. In order to provide an end-to-end service solution to end users, wireless mobile access network technologies have to be considered as an increasing number of users use mobile devices to get access to the Internet. The EVANS project aims to investigation into the creation of a network virtualisation environment over a fully heterogeneous network infrastructure and to provide an integrated network management system across different types of network platforms. The project will investigate into two complementary aspects of such an integrated network resource management system: (1) vertical management of virtualised resource for service heterogeneity, which is performed by infrastructure providers, and (2) horizontal management of virtualised resource for network heterogeneity, which is for the interest of service providers. This staff exchange programme will also help develop new research links and deepen and strengthen the current research links amongst the partners and help build up long-term, world-class research in future Internet technology.

Keywords: future internet,network management,network virtualisation,virtual network resources. staff exchange,knowledge transfer