Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Early identification and prevention of reading problems in alphabetic and semanto-phonetic writing environments (LITERATE)

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: Finland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 96600.0
EU funding (EUR): 96600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this collaboration is to compare and try to affect the development of reading skill among compromised readers in alphabetic and semanto-phonetic writing environments represented by European and Chinese orthographies, respectively. Our emphasis is on research of the identification of children who need help in learning to read and then next our special emphasis: research of preventive technologies helping the compromised readers to acquire basic reading skill. In all the collaborating countries – China, Finland and Holland – the participants represent research communities which have been executing ambitious longitudinal research associated with reading acquisition who are now - when necessary means to identify at risk children early enough seem to become available for learning to know children in need of help in all of the tree participating countries - highly interested in finding ways how to help them efficiently. The proposed studies of the participating research groups provide important information about the most important bottlenecks hindering learning among the at risk children. The information of interest here describes the bottlenecks associated with the alphabetic writing systems including the fully transparent orthography of the Finnish language, the slightly less transparent Dutch writing and the non-alphabetic Chinese where the requirements of the initial learning (of Pinyin) is close to that needed for that of the other two orthographies but those of the later stages of learning (i.e. of the Chinese symbols) differ dramatically. The proposed staff exchange scheme is important for exchange of complimentary know-how, data sharing, networking and conducting new innovative and groundbreaking basic and applied research by well established research centers. The results of staff research effort here can have far reaching influence globally well beyond the proposed scheme ends.

Keywords: reading skill,dyslexia,prevention,intervention,technology-enhanced learning,orthographies
Geotechnical and geological Responses to climate change: Exchanging Approaches and Technologies on a world-wide scale (GREAT)

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,Switzerland,Italy,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 898800.0
EU funding (EUR): 898800.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

GREAT will focus on the geotechnical and geological response to the global challenge of climate change. It aims to promote sharing of mitigation and adaptation strategies on a world-wide scale by involving 5 major European institutions and 6 ICPC institutions from three BRICS countries (China, India, and Brazil). The goal is to facilitate access of Europe to research and innovation carried out in emerging economies and, at the same time, to promote Europe as a pole of attraction for research and innovation on a global scale. GREAT will address four major research areas: i) climate resilient geo-infrastructure; ii) carbon-efficient geo-infrastructure; iii) carbon capture and energy extraction using conventional geo-infrastructure; and iv) geological carbon storage and deep geothermal extraction. GREAT will stimulate long-term collaboration between European and BRICS institutions via the secondment of ~50 PhD/Post-doc researchers and ~50 senior members of staff. The seconded PhD/Post-doc researchers will develop mini-projects jointly supervised by senior staff at home and host institution to ensure an effective scientific exchange. These mini-projects are integrated into the overall PhD/Post-doc activities and are anticipated to lead to a substantial number of joint publications. On the other hand, secondment of senior staff members will allow preparing joint proposals to be submitted during the 4-year period of the project. The project will fully exploit the opportunities for collaborative research jointly funded by European and ICPC councils to foster long-term cooperation between European and ICPC institutions. The project will also put in place mechanisms for sustainable networking (i.e. beyond the duration of the project) based on six-monthly virtual workshops, a Facebook portal to facilitate day-to-day interaction in particular between ESRs, and a dedicated Youtube channel for making lectures delivered by senior staff available across the continents.

Keywords: carbon,climate change,engineers,environment,geologists,infrastructure,soil
Structure and Evolution of Complex Systems with Applications in Physics and Life Sciences (STREVCOMS)

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,Norway,Germany,Finland,Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 351100.0
EU funding (EUR): 351100.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to make a major step-change in developing novel effective tools for studying complex systems based on stochastic geometry and stochastic evolution methods, on appropriate methods of analysis and combinatorics, as well as on numerical methods and computer simulations. The network we are going to create will unite efforts of leading specialists in this area towards scientific excellence, will establish new and strengthen existing long-term collaboration links between them, and will train a new generation of young researchers in this multidisciplinary area. The proposed research is assumed to employ existing and to elaborate new models of real-world object, and hence to have direct applications. The systems we are going to study consist of large number of interacting entities and may evolve in continuous space and time. Both their structure and evolution are of our interest. Such systems appear in broadly understood statistical physics, including its industrial applications, in spatial ecology, evolutionary and population biology, epidemiology, etc. In view of this, along with mathematicians the network includes physicists and biologists working with the corresponding experimental data and experienced in modeling real world objects of the mentioned areas. In this direction, we plan to study structure and properties of complex networks, such as polymers, irregular and random graphs, random fields on graphs, and their applications in the mentioned areas. The microscopic evolution of complex systems of this type will be studied in Markovian and time-delayed frameworks. Their meso- and macroscopic dynamics will be deduced from the microscopic theory by various types of scaling procedures. Along with systems of interacting entities we will study objects which can be characterized as evolving complex shapes, where methods of stochastic geometry ought to be especially effective. Such models have various applications, e.g., in neurogeometry and visua

Keywords: collective behavior,complex network,complex shape,kinetic equation,loewner evolution,mesoscopic dynamics,neurogeometry,percolation,polymer,stochastic evolution,stochastic geometry
Dynamics of and in Complex Systems (DIONICOS)

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,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria,France,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 545800.0
EU funding (EUR): 545800.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

With the statics of a wealth of model systems in statistical and condensed-matter systems being relatively well understood, an increased effort in research in these fields is channelled towards the understanding of dynamical phenomena. This agenda is even more pressing as dynamic effects are of crucial importance for many experimentally observed and technologically important phenomena. In the first work package, we will use the concerted effort and abundant synergies of the globe-spanning team of research groups to study a wide range of dynamical phenomena in statistical and condensed-matter physics, ranging from magnetic systems, to model systems on complex networks, to complex electronic systems such as graphene, to applications in soft matter and bio-physics. The results and techniques are expected to boost the understanding of dynamical effects in the human model systems in work package 2 which, in turn, is expected to offer new perspectives on the description of the systems investigated here. Socio-economic systems are increasingly studied with tools borrowed from statistical and condensed-matter physics. The theory of complex networks, in particular, has undergone an exciting development and has now found applications in a wide range of fields, including transport problems in modeling traffic systems, disease spreading or models for modeling agents acting in online communities. In the second work package, researchers in the consortium will apply techniques harvested from the wide array of tools used in statistical and condensed-matter physics as exemplified in the work items collected in work package 1 to a range of socio-economic systems with a focus on traffic and public transport models as well as the modeling of human behavior via the proxy of massivley multiplayer online games.

Keywords: critical phenomena,complex systems,socio-physics,econophyics,transport,complex networks,dynamical phenomena
Preparatory steps towards a GMO research ERA-Net (PRESTO GMO ERA-NET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Austria,Sweden,Türkiye,United Kingdom,France,France,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Austria,United Kingdom,Poland,Czechia,Spain,Bulgaria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1214142.4
EU funding (EUR): 996739.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the PreSto GMO ERA-Net project is to clearly map out the steps needed to create and successfully implement an ERA-Net that will coordinate transnational research on the effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the areas of human and animal health, the environment, and techno- economics and societies. The focus of the ERA-Net will be on GMOs intentionally released into the environment and/or used immediately in feed and food applications. PreSto GMO ERA-Net brings together ministries, agencies, and funding bodies from different Members States and the scientific community to jointly prepare a strategic plan and roadmap for the implementation of the ERA-Net. In addition, the ERA-Net will explicitly take into account the wider views of a diversity of stakeholders and end-users (e.g. non-governmental organisations, industry, farmers). This is intended to strengthen ownership of the ERA-Net among stakeholders in order to encourage participation of different scientific communities in the future joint transnational calls, to enhance collaboration between actors and to increase the accountability of research trajectories and outcomes. The results of the project will form the basis for a robust ERA-Net proposal. In achieving this the project work will (1) promote the accessibility of existing scientific information to interested stakeholders and end-users, (2) lead to the harmonisation of research requirements and capacity building within Europe, (3) complement international developments, (4) contribute to a more efficient use of research funds internationally and (5) identify how strategic collaboration can be used to respond to these future research and training needs through enhancement of durable partnerships.

Keywords: genetically modified organisms,gmos,era-net,stakeholder involvement
Interdisciplinary Strategic Intelligence wareHouse and Think-tank for Energy (INSIGHT_E)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Knowledge for energy policy making
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,France,Croatia,Netherlands,France,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Ireland,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2217964.53
EU funding (EUR): 1999508.32
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

As today’s energy policy decisions are not only very complex, but also fundamentally political decisions, the necessity to build them on sound, unbiased and up-to-date information/knowledge makes energy policy analysis and advice from a broad array of non-commercial actors key to effective policy formulation. Taking this into account, it is the aim of this project to establish a multidisciplinary and independent energy think tank consisting of experts from the energy sector, top researchers, engineers, leading trade, economic, environmental, and legal experts who are experienced in delivering high quality policy advice and impact assessments. The think tank will provide policy makers at the European level with objective and unbiased policy advice as well as insights on policy options, including an assessment of their potential impact. Moreover, the think tank will bring to the attention of political decision-makers new trends in technology as well as the objectives and activities of important stakeholders that shape energy policy-making in Europe. In order to assess policy options concerning the four dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic, social, institutional), the project will use an integrated assessment framework, backed by high-quality data resources available to the project consortium. To complement this, the project will establish innovative methods of stakeholder engagement and trend identification through the establishment of an ‘Energy Observatory’. Moreover, with transparency being of significant value, INSIGHT_E will make its models, assumptions, and scenarios available through a ‘Scenario Information System’. Implementing a flexible and at the same time profound information tool will bring about significant improvements to the policy making process and hence secure a climate-friendly energy policy.

Keywords: think tank,energy,policy,policy making,multidisciplinary,impact assessment,sustainability
BEYOND STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGIES FOR POWER AC CORRIDORS AND MULTI-TERMINAL HVDC SYSTEMS (BEST PATHS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,France,Spain,Norway,Denmark,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Germany,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Denmark,France,Hungary,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 57494764.26
EU funding (EUR): 33334804.43
Participants: 40
Project status: CLOSED

A group of eight Transmission System Operators with a generator company, manufacturers and research organisations, propose 5 demonstration projects to remove, in 4 years, several barriers which prevent large-scale penetration of renewable electricity production in the European transmission network. The full scale demonstrations led by industry aim at proving the benefits of novel technologies coupled with innovative system integration approaches: - A scaled down model of generators connected to a HVDC link is used within a new testing facility to validate novel control strategies to improve the interaction between HVDC links and wind turbine generators - The implementation of a full scale, hardware-in-the-loop test setup in collaboration with worldwide market leaders of HVDC-VSC technology explores the interactions of HVDC VSC multiterminal control systems to validate their interoperable operations - Strategies to upgrade existing HVDC interconnectors are validated with the help of innovative components, architecture and system integration performances, to ensure higher RES penetration and more efficient cross border exchanges. - Full scale experiments and pilot projects at real life scale of both installation and operation of AC overhead line repowering technologies are carried out to show how existing corridors can see their existing capacity increase within affordable investments. - The technical feasibility of integrating DC superconducting links within an AC meshed network (using MgB2 as the critical material) will be tested at prototype scale, thus proving that significant performance improvements have been reached to enable commercialization before 2030 The experimental results will be integrated into European impact analyses to show the scalability of the solutions: routes for replication will be provided with benefits for the pan European transmission network and the European electricity market as soon as 2018, in line with the SET plan objectives

Keywords: hvdc technologies,offshore wind power,res penetration,cross-border corridors,re-powering
SELF-ASSEMBLY POLYMERIC NANO-BIOMATERIALS FOR DRUG DELIVERY AND TARGETING (NANOTAR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present plan aims to build up and consolidate a research program in Pharmaceutical Nanomaterials Science based on the design, synthesis and chemical characterization of novel self-assembly polymeric nano-biomaterials and the investigation of the relationship between the nano/microstructure and the properties and new processing methods for the improvement of the biopharmaceutic performance of drugs. While the long-term goal of my research plan at the Technion is to develop versatile platforms for various therapeutic applications, the present proposal is oriented to make a substantial contribution to improve the treatment of two infectious diseases, the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and tuberculosis (TB), by developing innovative products that overcome important limitations of the products currently on the market such as poor oral bioavailability and frequent administration. The emphasis of the proposal is on the design, synthesis, processing and comprehensive characterization of the nano-biomaterials and the preliminary assessment of their biological performance in vitro and in vivo. It is a mid-to-long term of this proposal to facilitate the integration of my new research group to a multidisciplinary European network that will address challenges in HIV and TB. The specific aims of the proposal are the development of three types of novel self-assembly nano-biomaterials and the preliminary characterization of the in vivo performance of the systems with optimal properties: Aim 1-Development of alkoxysilane-grafted polymeric amphiphiles. Aim 2-Development of polymeric amphiphiles conjugated with mono- and oligosaccharide residues. Aim 3-Development of muco-adhesive polymeric micelles. The different drug delivery systems are planned in a modular approach to enable the production of multifunctional drug nanocarriers with various features (e.g., drug encapsulation ability, muco-adhesivness, etc.).

Keywords: polymeric micelles,microwave-assisted synthesis,drug nanocarriers,drug delivery,pasive and active targeting,muco-adhesion,hiv,tuberculosis
Smart Public Intangibles (SPINTAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,United States,France,Germany,Germany,Austria,Sweden,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2013-2, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3260536.4
EU funding (EUR): 2497762.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The SPINTAN project aims at discovering the theoretical and empirical underpins of public intangible policies. It widens previous work carried out by Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2009) including the public sector in their analytical framework in different complementary directions that can be summarized in the following three objectives: (1) to build a public intangible database for a wide set of EU countries, complemented with some big non-EU countries; (2) to analyze the impact of public sector intangibles on innovation, well-being and “smart” growth (including education, R&D and innovation, and the construction of a digital society); and (3) to pay special attention to the medium/long term consequences of austerity policies in view of the expected recovery. In order to achieve these goals the overall strategy of the project will rely upon the following pillars organized around six work packages. WP 1 concentrates on the methodological discussion on the concept of intangibles in the public sector and the definition of its boundaries. WP 2 will be devoted to the construction of a database for a large set of EU countries and the US, plus three developing countries (China, India, and possibly Brazil), complementary to the one already developed by the INTAN-Invest project. WP 3 will make a detailed analysis of the implications for smart growth and social inclusion of three key aspects of public sector policies: health, education and R&D with special reference to higher education institutions; WP 4 will investigate the effect of spillovers of public sector intangibles on the business sector, within a country or across countries. WP 5 will address the study of the present and future consequences of the austerity measures taken since 2008. And, finally, WP 6 will bring together the different pieces offering a synthesis of the main results emphasizing the main policy implications.

Keywords: public intangibles,smart growth,database,health education r&d,spillovers,austerity,policy design