Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Chinese Perceptions of Democracy (CHINESEDEMOCRACY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF, 2009)
Start date: 2014-01-20
End date: 2015-01-19
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Whether or not China can evolve peacefully from a one-party state into a modern democracy is a critical question for China and for the rest of the world. As its economy is predicted to catch up with the US in size in another decade or two, this issue becomes even more important globally. Chinese leaders often speak of democracy as a long-term goal, but exactly what they mean by the term is usually left unclear, and censorship of the media in China means that open public debate on the issue is not yet possible. Differences between the EU and China over human rights in recent years have exposed a huge gulf between Chinese and Europeans in terms of political values. This can often result in serious disruption, as happened last December with the cancellation of a China-EU summit. To many Chinese the legitimacy of the one-party state is justified by its outstanding sustained performance in terms of fast economic growth over 30 years. A recent survey has shown that a high percentage of support for democratic values in China is paralleled by a high percentage of satisfaction with the current authoritarian regime. This project, carried out by one of China's top think tanks, CASS, in partnership with one of Europe's leading centres for research on China, will examine this apparent contradiction by exploring Chinese perceptions of democracy through document analysis and in-depth interviews. The aim is to predict the direction of Chinese political reforms by investigating the perceptions of democracy held by different segments of Chinese society and exploring the differences between their perceptions and those of Europeans. This project will help the EU and its member states to develop more effective engagement strategies towards China and other authoritarian regimes. It is also part of a comprehensive plan to expand the China Policy Institute at Nottingham into Europe's main centre for the study of political reform and democratization in China.
The Biodiversity, Systematics and Guide to the Identification of Marine Benthic Ciliates (BENTHIC CILIATES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2012-08-15
End date: 2013-08-14
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ciliated protozoa (ciliates) are important in terms of their diversity, ecology, pathogenesis and as indicators of environmental quality. Marine benthic ciliates, however, are rather poorly known due to a lack of modern treatments and taxonomic expertise. The objectives of this project are: (1) to increase knowledge of local and global species diversity. A faunistic study of benthic ciliates from UK coastal waters will be carried out using classical microscopy and modern molecular methods. The data for selected UK and Chinese species will be compared in order to assess their geographical distributions. (2) To increase understanding of phylogenetic relationships among ciliates and thus help stabilise the Tree of Life. For this, morphogenetic and molecular data for selected taxa will be used in phylogenetic analyses. (3) To develop a web-based guide to the identification of marine benthic ciliates. This will be constructed within a Scratchpad (http:// scratchpads.eu/) which is a tool developed at the NHM that allows for species descriptions to be made available on the web. The present project will extend this functionality by adding an interactive key based around structured descriptive data. New taxa in the correct format will automatically add them to the key without further intervention. Dr Hu is a top-class researcher from China who specialises in marine benthic ciliates. Expertise in this field is increasingly rare in Europe and has led to a lack of understanding of the importance of benthic ciliates in marine microbial ecology and their contribution to species diversity. This project will help to: enhance Dr Hu&amp;apos;s reputation as a leading authority on marine benthic ciliates; increase his network of European contacts; by developing the open-access web-based guide, increase opportunities for European researchers to collaborate with Dr Hu and colleagues; improve his standard of English thus facilitating better communication with potential collaborators in Europe.
Non adiabatic vibrational spectra from first principles (NON ADIABATIC PHONON)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Mexico
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We submit to consideration of the 7th framing EU program, Marie Curie Incoming Fellowship program, a research project in the field of computational material science to explore material thermal properties of homogeneous systems. We propose this project with the idea of setting up long term collaborations between the groups in Mexico and Germany. The proposed research program is aimed to understand, to develop and to characterize systems with novel properties originating from electronic correlations and in particular of systems where the electron-phonon coupling plays an important role in its thermal response. In that respect, we expect to use and implement two different recent proposed methodologies, which allow us to explore the non adiabatic contribution and anharmonic effects to the phonon spectra. This physical phenomena has been reported to have relevance in layered materials, such as graphene, MgB2, CaC6 and in most superconductor systems. Basically we will be implementing, within the ELK code(elk.sourceforge.net), two different methodologies to characterize thermal behavior away from the adiabatic approximation (a) a self consistent phonon calculation, where the atoms within the unit cell are displaced by a Bose-Einstein factor, such that they are able to reach a new stable minima as function of temperature (b) a fist order perburbation on the changes on the stationary forces after a time dependent perburbation on the ionic displacements is imposed into the system.
Development of Advanced Magnetic Filtration System for Industrial Lubricants (MAGFIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF, 2013)
Start date: 2018-06-18
End date: 2018-12-17
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7500.0
EU funding (EUR): 7500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Scope of proposed research include the sustainable design and development of advanced magnetic filtration systems and modelling of their behaviour that will assist to achieve a step change in fluid management technology used in industrial lubricant filtration systems, for example metalworking and washing process. The emphasis of the research lies in the development and validation of industrial prototype of media-free magnetic system that can capture and recycle fine particulates and contaminations from fluids. The designed system will provide a range of benefits including a) improved cost and efficiency of filtration process, b) savings of expensive lubricants and processed materials and c) reducing environmental impact from industrial fluids and materials. Fundamental study and modelling of turbulent flows within a filtration process will be closely combined with an experimental work conducted at TU Delft laboratories and in collaboration with industrial partners. The main contributions and novelty of the proposed research include (1) development of commercial prototype and an integrated design of advanced magnetic filter for industrial application, (2) development of computational methods and tools to predict performance of filtration system in various operational regimes subjected to intense heat-mass transfer and magnetic fields (up to 12,500 Gauss), (3) computational modelling of multi-phase flows and supporting measurements using invasive and non-invasive 2D/3D fluid mechanics techniques. Integration and product trial of a system prototype with commercial metalworking machines is expected to be completed during this project. Results of this research can stimulate the application of advanced environmentally friendly technology in broad industries and will provide a platform for Industry-Academic Knowledge Transfer Partnership and integration of the fellow into local community.
Pollutants accumulation and effects in relation to trophic niches of the high-arctic ivory gull (IVORYGULL)

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: Norway
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 241066.8
EU funding (EUR): 241066.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Arctic is a coastal system that acts as a sink for chemicals produced and released in industrialized parts of the world that are transported northwards by sea, air and water masses, making it a truly global problem. Seabirds living in this ecosystem, such as the ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea), are particularly vulnerable to contaminants because they bioaccumulate toxic compounds throughout their life and are top predators displaying high levels of contamination (through biomagnification). This project aims at (1) comparing temporal variations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and trace element levels (TEs) in the ivory gull population of Svalbard to evaluate the effect of climate change on contaminant loads in this species, (2) assess spatial variations of POPs and TEs along gulls circumpolar distribution (Svalbard, Canada, Greenland and Russia), (3) investigating the relation between contaminant concentrations and trophic habits of gulls, and (4) evaluating the effect of contaminants on wild gull metabolism at the cellular and organism levels. Indeed, little is known about the consequences of contaminants, especially POPs, on the cell responses in seabirds. This project gathered knowledge and analytical skills on genetics, seabird ecology, climate change in the Arctic, physiology and ecotoxicology. Consequently, it involves the Norwegian Polar Institute which is active within the fields of scientific research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and Antarctica. The applicant is an experienced researcher in ecotoxicology of waterbirds. She obtained her PhD working on waterbird contamination and had postdoctoral positions working on shorebirds using genetic biomarkers. Through this project, the applicant will complete the team with her experience on genetic biomarkers and stable isotope analysis and acquire new techniques in contaminant analyses. Results obtained will be used in the Marine Strategy Directive.

Keywords: seabirds,contaminants,arctic,climate change,stable isotopes,trophic niches,gene expression,biomarkers,marine strategy directive.
Persistent Homology - Images, Data and Maps (PHIDM)

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-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 248379.6
EU funding (EUR): 248379.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main theme of the project is persistent homology in three contexts: digital images, data mining, and dynamical systems. Persistent homology is the most important innovation that has yet emerged from the young field of computational topology. It finds various applications, and in each of them provides new qualities and novel methods. Effective and reliable methods for the analysis of digital images are highly demanded, especially with the increasing technological capabilities of capturing multiple high-resolution images e.g. in medicine. Data mining techniques for acquiring knowledge from huge collections of data, including text documents, are bound to be a new scientific methodology of the future. Dynamical systems appear ubiquitously in modeling of population models, chemical reactions and other processes, and automatic analysis of qualitative properties of the dynamics is of great importance for the understanding of the model. The main objectives of the project are: to use persistent homology for automatic determination of an optimal thresholding level and denoising method for the analysis of digital images; to optimize the existing methods and to develop new algorithms for the persistent homology approach to the analysis of large collections of data, with emphasis on text documents; and to develop new methods and algorithms for applying the persistent homology approach to the analysis of discrete-time dynamical systems induced by continuous maps. In addition to the theoretical basis and algorithms for each of the domains, effective software aimed at specific applications will also be developed. The project involves various branches of mathematics and computer science, from algebraic topology to graph theory, and has trans-disciplinary nature with a wide potential of applications, particularly in natural sciences, and thus is expected to contribute to strengthening national and international scientific collaboration.

Keywords: algebraic topology,persistent homology,digital image analysis,data mining,map,homomorphism in homology,endomorphism,algorithm,combinatorics,discrete-time dynamical system,reconstruction
Kon-Tiki gene network for CNS regeneration (KON-TIKIGENET)

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-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2016-07-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Regeneration after injury occurs in many animals, revealing that cellular and molecular mechanisms regulate normal organ structure, size and shape. The human central nervous system (CNS) does not regenerate upon damage and as a consequence stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases result in permanent disability. NG2 cells are repair cells in mammals that respond to CNS injury by proliferating to produce ensheathing glia and trophic factors that favor axonal growth. A promising approach to CNS repair is to transplant NG2+ glial progenitors or stem cells to the site of damage. However, it is unknown how to control the proliferation and differentiation of transplanted cells, to ensure repair and prevent unwanted outcomes (e.g. cancer). The glial regenerative response is found across the animals, from cockroaches and flies, to fish and mice, implying that there is an underlying genetic mechanism that has been evolutionarily conserved. Drosophila is a powerful model organism to discover gene networks and test gene function in vivo, and has recurrently led to discoveries relevant to human health. The Host laboratory recently discovered a gene network in Drosophila that can be manipulated in glia to promote CNS repair and the Researcher extended the injury method to enable the assessment of locomotion recovery. There is a Drosophila homologue of NG2 called kon-tiki (kon), but whether it has functions in repair and whether it is functionally linked to the regnerative gene network is unknown. The aim is to investigate the functions of kon in the glial regenerative response in Drosophila. The objectives are: (1) To characterise the cells expressing kon, test whether Kon is linked to Pros and/or Notch, and investigate its functions in the normal CNS. (2) To investigate whether Kon influences the glial and axonal regenerative responses to CNS injury. (3) To test if candidate genes expressed in neurons interact with glial kon.

Keywords: drosophila,cns,glia,injury,repair,regeneration,kon-tiki,kon,ng2
Invertebrate Adaptations to Salinity changes in the Intertidal environment: a Life-imaging approach (IAS-LIFE)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202405.8
EU funding (EUR): 202405.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In this project I will study the impact of salinity changes on the physiology of three model intertidal organisms. Organisms inhabiting the intertidal ecosystem exist in the margins of marine and terrestrial realms, and thus, must cope with dramatic physical and chemical daily changes in their environment. Understanding the physiological and evolutionary adaptations that allow these organisms to withstand such conditions will allow us to predict how further changes, in the context of climate change, will affect them. I will address this subject based on reactive oxygen (ROS) and reactive nitrogen (RNS) species production, distribution and compartmentalization, and infer on how these may play a role in the signaling and triggering of physiological defense upon environmental changes. The available information regarding this subject comes from plant physiology, and the lack of knowledge in aquatic invertebrates is significant. My experience in assessing oxidative stress and quantifying ROS/RNS production using accurate non-invasive bio-imaging techniques, and counting with the leading expertise of the host organization (ECOSYM, U. Montpellier 2) in the field of osmoregulation and salinity adaptations in invertebrates, makes the perfect team to approach this research project. The significance and relevance of this project relays on the subject being a top research priority as specified in the agenda of the ERA’s Joint Programming Initiative on Agricultural, Food security and Climate Change. Through this project I will also contribute to the technological development of tools promoted by the Competitiveness Council of the EU while consolidating my career as an independent marine ecophysiologist. I will provide novel and high impact information on the poorly known field of ROS/RNS signaling in marine invertebrates upon salinity changes which will be of key importance in understanding how intertidal invertebrates will face new changes in an already challenging environment.

Keywords: adaptations,bio-imaging,climate change,intertidal,free radicals,platyhelminths,salinity,signaling
Beating Heart (BEATING HEART)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 182996.4
EU funding (EUR): 182996.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Intravital microscopy (IVM) methods are enjoying an ever broader acceptance as they can be used to gain insight into cell biology in vivo. Unfortunately, most set-ups use window chambers (e.g. cancer) or isolated organs, all highly artificial model systems which are often not compatible with survival imaging. Because of these caveats, imaging in orthotopic locations is always preferable and can theoretically be achieved via motion compensation and tissue stabilization techniques. Recently, different approaches have been proposed including the use of suctioning devices for lung imaging. Unfortunately these approaches are not very effective in achieving stabilization. Moreover many of them induce severe damage to the myocardium. In this proposal we intend to develop a in-vivo real-time intravital microscopy imaging system for imaging moving organs (specifically the beating heart) at the sub-cellular resolution level, capable of compensating all motion artifacts inevitably present in in-vivo models. Our approach will use a combination of rigid motion stabilization through the design of novel stabilizers and sophisticated algorithms for acquisition during advanced cardiopulmonary gating. This system will allow for the first time to study in vivo the biology and physiology in the beating heart. This is at present a totally unexplored field due to the current lack of availability of any imaging technique. Results will be potentially exciting and innovative and will open a new paradigm in the understanding of the physiological properties of the heart and immune system responses.

Keywords: microscopy,heart,myocite,stabilization,confocal,multyphoton,cardiovascular diseases
String compactifications, their low energy effective field theories and applications to physics (STRINGLEEFT)

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-2013-IEF, 2013)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 309235.2
EU funding (EUR): 309235.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent advances in string phenomenology have produced hundreds of explicit string compactifications whose low energy particle spectra correspond to the supersymmetric standard model and no chiral exotics. This project concerns the low energy effective field theory (LEEFT) of such string compactifications, which is essential in order to go beyond the particle spectra towards fully realistic string models. In particular, with the LEEFT it will be possible to address fundamental dynamical problems - like the stabilization of moduli and supersymmetric breaking, the decoupling of vector-like exotics, realistic Yukawa couplings and cosmology - in explicit models. The project's main focus will be heterotic orbifold compactifications, which enjoy both potentially realistic properties and high computability. New techniques will be developed to compute terms in the LEEFT, and these tools will be used to derive phenomenologically important contributions to both the superpotential and Kaehler potential. The project will also quantify some of the relations between different classes of promising string compactifications, including heterotic orbifolds, heterotic Calabi-Yaus, heterotic free-fermionic formulation, and F-theory. Finally, it will use the knowledge developed to attack the long-standing fundamental problems of moduli stabilization, decoupling of exotics and dark energy in explicit string constructions.

Keywords: string phenomenology,string cosmology,heterotic orbifold compactifications,supergravity,branes.