Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Probing Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB)

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: Iceland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-ERG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is aimed at better understanding the re-ionisation of the Universe and the star-formation history over cosmic time. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the brightest explosions in the Universe, offer a direct means of answering these questions via observations of their afterglows and host galaxies. The Swift satellite and its ability to rapidly and accurately locate 100 GRBs/year now makes this feasible. This will be complemented with wide-ranging follow-up programmes on numerous telescopes, e.g. the Very Large Telescope (including a new groundbreaking instrument, X-shooter) and the Hubble Space Telescope. The main objectives are: (1) Determine the ionisation history of the Universe and characterise the sources that drive it. The luminosity of GRB afterglows offers a unique opportunity to measure the evolution of the intergalactic medium out to very high redshift. High-redshift GRBs (z > 6) will be discovered via rapid optical/NIR observations, thus enabling subsequent prompt spectroscopy to obtain both the redshift and neutral hydrogen fraction. Deep, late-time observations will allow the identification of star-forming proto-galaxies in the early Universe, the very sources leading to re-ionisation. (2) Compile a comprehensive, uniformly selected sample of GRBs with measured redshifts. This is crucial in order to investigate their energetics and their possible application as "standard candles". It is also prerequisite to using the GRB redshift distribution to characterise the star-formation history of the Universe. (3) Understand the nature and evolution of galaxies at high redshift via observations of GRB hosts and their place within the zoo of high-redshift galaxies. Selection by GRBs rather than via galaxy properties allows us to probe the very faint end of the star-forming galaxy luminosity function.

Keywords: physical sciences,astronomy,cosmology,gamma-ray bursts,galaxy evolution,star formation,high-redshift,dust
Fast Rechargeable Zinc-Polymer Battery based on Ionic Liquids (POLYZION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Portugal,Netherlands,Canada,France,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-NMP-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3474872.6
EU funding (EUR): 2400000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Current battery technologies for hybrid (HEVs) and small electric vehicles (EVs) have technological, cost or environmental limitations. Despite this, the global market for HEVs and EVs is growing rapidly and is expected to top $2billion by 2015. The PolyZion project will create a new class of fast rechargeable zinc-polymer battery for hybrid and small electric vehicle applications. The research programme combines fundamental material and process advances in ionic liquids, rechargeable zinc electrodes, ultra-fast pulse charge injection techniques and conducting polymers, as well as constructing prototypes battery units for industry standard testing. The resulting battery device will be low cost, have low environmental impact and have the energy and power density necessary to compete will alternative battery technologies inthe HEV and EV markets. PolyZion is a European-led consortium combining world-class research organisations in ionic liquids, conducting polymers, zinc deposition, pulse charging and batteries, as well as SME partners with expertise in technology development and specialised materials, and large industrial partners with industrial experience of battery manufacture and state-of-the-art testing facilities. The consortium also includes 2 organisations with world-class research expertise from an Emerging Economy (Russia) and a High Income (Canada) countries outside the EU.

Keywords: ionic liquid,conducting polymer,battery,rechargeable,zinc,pulse charging,hev
The development, validation and implementation of human systemic Toxic Equivalencies (TEQs) as biomarkers for dioxin-like compounds (SYSTEQ)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,Sweden,Germany,Czechia,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 58.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3532263.35
EU funding (EUR): 2703596.26
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Chlorinated dioxins and biphenyls (PCBs) commonly occur in the human food chain and can still be detected at levels that might cause long term health effects. Exposure to dioxin-like compounds involves a complex mixture with a common mechanism of action involving endocrine, developmental, carcinogenic, immuno and neurological effects. Risk assessment is done with an additive model for mixture toxicity. Based on this the Toxic Equivalency (TEQ) concept was developed as a biomarker for exposure and risk. TEQs are the sum of congener-specific toxic equivalency factors (TEFs) multiplied by the concentration in a matrix, e.g. blood. TEF values are a composite quantitative value from a range of biomarkers that are congener and endpoint specific. Present human TEQs have been derived from oral administration experiments providing ‘intake’ TEFs. Regulatory authorities frequently use ‘intake’ TEQs for blood and tissues considering it a biomarker for exposure or effect. Experimental evidence shows that using ‘uptake’ TEQs as ‘systemic’ biomarkers may lead to misinterpretation of risks. Therefore, development and validation of ‘systemic’ TEFs and TEQs as biomarkers is necessary. Major objectives of SYSTEQ are: i) establish ‘systemic’ TEFs and TEQs, ii) identify novel quantifiable biomarkers with newest molecular methods, e.g. genetic fingerprinting profiles, iii) extra focus on effects in peripheral lymphocytes as biomarkers, iv) identify differences between humans and experimental species. The ‘systemic’ TEFs and TEQs from SYSTEQ will be used in conjunction with results of the completed EU PCBRISK project, in which two populations from Slovakia with very different exposure were studied. Individual blood levels and different biomarkers are already available. Results of SYSTEQ are also going to be used to establish international consensus values of ‘systemic’ TEFs at WHO level, facilitating the global use of ‘systemic’ TEQs as biomarkers of effect and exposure.

Keywords: dioxin,pcb,mixtures,toxic equivalencies,biomarker,exposure,effect,gene profiling,species differences
Brokering Environmentally Sustainable Sanitation for Europe (BESSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Netherlands,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1155318.66
EU funding (EUR): 927918.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

This collaborative research project will last 40 months and involve 10 partners. Its general aim is to contribute to the EU Renewed Sustainable Development Strategy through the enhancement of the links between policy and research on sustainable development in the field of sanitation (a crucial area with regard to environmental sustainability and quality of life in general). The project has two specific aims. 1. Generating new knowledge on the factors hindering the dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge that can be immediately applied in support to sustainable development, and of identifying knowledge brokerage methods enabling to overcome these hindering factors and to maximise the exploitation of relevant knowledge. 2. Starting up a learning process on knowledge brokerage in general as a tool for the socialisation of Scientific and Technological Research. The project components, to be implemented in the partner countries, are: - Research. Activities will carried out for mapping the knowledge and technological options for environmentally sustainable sanitation (ESS), and the actors that possess this knowledge. This, together with a consultation of experts aimed at listing the obstacles to knowledge brokerage dissemination, will provide the basis for experimentations. - Experimentation. Knowledge brokerage experiments on ESS will be carried out in the Netherlands, Italy and Bulgaria via 3 pilot projects. - Learning. The results achieved will serve to start up a process aimed at drafting policy guidelines (including a position paper) on knowledge brokerage on ESS. - Dissemination. Dissemination and awareness-raising initiatives will be carried out on the project issues and results. 9 WPs are foreseen. WP1 and 2 for the first part of the research; WP3-6 will be devoted to the design and implementation of 3 pilot projects, WP7 will be devoted to learning process; WP8 will deal with dissemination and WP9 with project management.

Keywords: knowledge brokerage,science and technology studies,sanitation,sustainable development,boundary work
Fluorine substituted High Capacity Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage at low working temperatures (FLYHY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Norway,Denmark,Italy,Argentina,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-NMP-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2749818.2
EU funding (EUR): 2099200.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

At present there is no solid state hydrogen storage material available fulfilling all requirements for practical use in mobile applications. These are 1. high storage density, 2. temperatures and heats of operation compatible with PEM fuel cells, 3. high hydrogen loading and unloading speeds in the range of a few minutes and 4. low production costs. FlyHy focuses especially on the first three points while using commercially upscalable materials preparation processes. High hydrogen capacity materials like alane or borohydrides as well as so called Reactive Hydride Composites (mixtures of borohydrides with selected other hydrides), nowadays suffering from too high or too low reaction temperatures and heats, shall be modified by substituting halogens for part of the hydrogen or hydrogen containing complexes. The project partners IFE, GKSS and AU have shown that by this approach novel mixed hydrido-halogenide compounds can be prepared. Fluorine substituted Sodium Alanate exhibited drastically increased desorption pressures at the same reaction temperature or lowered reaction temperatures at the same pressure resp. Targets of the FlyHy project are (i) to exploit these findings on materials destabilisation and stabilisation resp. by halogen substitution for alane, borohydrides and Reactive Hydride Composites , in order to achieve a breakthrough in the thermodynamic properties of these materials exhibiting the highest hydrogen capacities known at present, (ii) to obtain an in depth scientific understanding of the sorption properties of the substituted materials by extended structural and thermodynamical characterisation and modelling, for materials optimisation, (iii) determine tank relevant materials properties like e.g. densification behaviour and heat conductivity, and, if applicable, do first tests in a prototype tank.

Keywords: hydrogen,solid state storage,light metal hydride,reactive hydride composites,borohydrides,alanes,halogen substitution,thermodynamics,kinetics,prototype storage tank,fuel cells
Improve tools and strategies for the prevention and control of classical swine fever (CSFV_GODIVA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,France,Hungary,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,France,China,Sweden,Germany,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2008-2B, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4430395.8
EU funding (EUR): 2999983.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Although classical swine fever (CSF) has been eradicated in wide areas within the EU the disease is endemic in some new member states particularly in back yard pigs. In order to improve the eradication strategies the project aims are a) the final development and testing of a live marker vaccine candidate for the prevention and improved control of CSF, both orally and intramuscularly applicable; b) the development and optimisation of accompanying discriminatory diagnostic tests; c) the production of an effective, oral delivery system for the marker vaccine for use in wild boar and back yard pigs; d) the easy selection of diseased animals. The improved knowledge on immunological reactions and pathogenesis will support a more efficient vaccine application and provide data for the epidemiological models. Epidemiological studies of CSF in domestic and back yard pigs and in wild boar including molecular epidemiology intend to increase the insight of CSF transmission and persistence. Epidemiological models will be developed to support risk assessment as well for conventional eradication strategies as for new strategies using the new vaccines and diagnostic tools including the role of CSF reservoirs. The results concerning anti-viral treatment will be evaluated and compared with the traditional eradication strategies.

Keywords: classical swine fever,live marker vaccine,antivirals,back yard pigs,wild boar,diva diagnostics,epdimiology,thermography,moleculair diagnosis,rrt-pcr
Smart Structured Rotating Reactors (SSRR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999833.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999833.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This ERC Grant proposal aims at internationally highly recognized scientific and technological breakthroughs in the understanding, design and operation of Smart Structured Rotating Reactors for the production of high-grade chemicals. Novel reactor types as the multiple spinning disks reactor and the rotating foam reactor will be developed. The use of smart designs of rotating structured (catalytic) packings in multiphase reactors will be an extremely innovative and exciting new research area in the chemical engineering sciences. It is my firm believe that technologically advanced, compact and highly efficient new reactor types will origin from the approach as outlined in this proposal. The research will also result in original, fundamental knowledge about the interaction of multiphase flows and physical transport processes in these rotating reaction and separation systems. The quiescent fluid flow in conventional reactors and separators does not permit full control of the transport processes involved. Consequently, product yield, separation efficiency, and energy consumption are not optimal. Conventional equipment is also mostly gravitation force driven, which further limits the operation window. New apparatus incorporate rotating motion which induces high shear in the flow and mimics high gravitation conditions through the centrifugal force. Heat and mass transport are optimally integrated with catalytic activity by using innovative structured (catalyst) packings and smart materials and designs. One example is the proposed rotating chemical plant in which functionalities as compression, mixing, heating, reaction, extraction, and distillation are integrated on interconnected sets of rotating disks. These new technologies provide highly promising perspectives for future green production plants. Chemicals processing will be more flexible using small-sized units and takes place just-in-time and close to the raw materials source or at the location of use.

Keywords: process intensification multiple spinning disks reactor rotating chemical plant rotating foam reactor structured catalyst support
Mathematical Modelling and Simulation of the Cardiovascular System (MATHCARD)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1810992.0
EU funding (EUR): 1810992.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This research project aims at the development, analysis and computer implementation of mathematical models of the cardiovascular system. Our goal is to describe and simulate the anatomic structure and the physiological response of the human cardiovascular system in healthy or diseased states. This demands to address many fundamental issues. Blood flow interacts both mechanically and chemically with the vessel walls and tissue, giving rise to complex fluid-structure interaction problems. The mathematical analysis of these problems is complicated and the related numerical analysis difficult. We propose to extend the recently achieved results on blood flow simulations by directing our analysis in several new directions. Our goal is to encompass aspects of metabolic regulation, micro-circulation, the electrical and mechanical activity of the heart, and their interactions. Modelling and optimisation of drugs delivery in clinical diseases will be addressed as well. This requires the understanding of transport, diffusion and reaction processes within the blood and organs of the body. The emphasis of this project will be put on mathematical modelling, numerical analysis, algorithm implementation, computational efficiency, validation and verification. Our purpose is to set up a mathematical simulation platform eventually leading to the improvement of vascular diseases diagnosis, setting up of surgical planning, and cure of inflammatory processes in the circulatory system. This platform might also help physicians to construct and evaluate combined anatomic/physiological models to predict the outcome of alternative treatment plans for individual patients.
Indicators for biodiversity in organic and low-input farming systems (BIOBIO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Hungary,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Spain,Italy,France,France,Ukraine,Tunisia,Uganda,Netherlands,Norway,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2008-2B, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3920679.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999614.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Organic and low-input farming systems have been shown to benefit farmland biodiversity although a generic indicator system to assess these benefits at the European level is lacking. The BIOBIO project will therefore pursue the following objectives: 1. Conceptualization of criteria for a scientifically-based selection of biodiversity indicators for organic/low-input farming systems; 2. Assessment and validation of a set of candidate biodiversity indicators in representative case studies across Europe (and in ICPC countries); 3. Preparation of guidelines for the implementation of biodiversity indicators for organic/low-input farming systems for Europe and beyond. Existing indirect farm management indicators as well as direct indicators for genetic, species and habitat diversity will be assessed for their scientific soundness, practicality, geographic scope and usefulness for stakeholders. Candidate indicators will be tested in a standardised design in twelve case studies across Europe and later in three ICPC countries. Case study regions will include pannonian, alpine, boreal, Atlantic and Mediterranean grassland systems (both organic and/or low-input), rain fed organic farms under temperate and Mediterranean conditions, mixed organic farming, organic special crops and low-input tree/agroforestry systems. Plot, farm and regional scales (where applicable) will be addressed. The investigation will include new agricultural practices, e.g. soil conservation, crop rotation management, seed and crop mixtures and economic issues relating to the costs of indicator measurement and to benefits of biodiversity as perceived by different groups of the population. Stakeholders (farming communities, conservation NGOs, administrators) will be integrated at critical stages of the indicator selection process. A handbook with factsheets will be produced for validated indicators and a sampling design for biodiversity monitoring in organic and low-input farming systems across Europe.

Keywords: agro-biodiversity,genetic diversity,species diversity,habitat diversity,farmland diversity,agri-environmental policy,policy evaluation,high-nature value farming systems,biological farming