Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Commercial Local Urban District Programme (CLUDS)

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: Italy,United Kingdom,Finland,Sweden,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 722400.0
EU funding (EUR): 638400.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal is based on a research project integrated with a higher education agenda finalized to explore a new approach in delivering and implementing integrated urban policies and programmes. The proposal intends to explore the potential of a new tool for renovating degraded public spaces and improving the attractiveness and accessibility of deprived urban areas by focusing on the high potential of local commercial activities. The exploration is oriented to the implementation of an innovative tools: CLUDs, Commercial Local Urban Districts, aimed at emphasizing the strategic role of small retails -handcraft and typical food- in reinforcing the sense of community, reducing transportation costs and contributing to the creation of attractive urban environment, thus producing increase of private investments. The CLUDs are designated areas, reflecting the rationale of Economic Opportunity Zones. In particular, the thematic specification of the CLUDs is related to local small retail associations that can be occurred on typical local production. The implementation of the programme is based on a networking of four EU universities (Reggio Calabria, Salford, Aalto, Rome) and two USA universities (Boston and San Diego), which all hold the leading positions in planning education, training and research in their countries. Partners will exchange staff members, early stage and Experienced researchers, around yearly seminars/meetings, workshops, and a final international symposium. The core of this network activity regards: Joint research and training activities on two main topics - public/private partnership (PPP) and urban regeneration; an international symposium on PPP in urban regeneration process. The expected result is to bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of research team for the purpose of forming an excellent centre of synergy in research and innovation transfer in the field of PPP applied to urban regeneration actions and policies.

Keywords: urban economics,urban sustainable cities and rational resource management,business support services
Redefining Boundaries: Artistic training by the guilds in Central Europe up to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (ARTIFEX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1665117.0
EU funding (EUR): 1665117.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Based on wide-ranging sources, the project studies artistic training in pre-modern Central Europe. Up to the end of the Holy Roman Empire, the study area experienced various sizes with changing borders and different linguistic areas and jurisdictions. The project explores these aspects, referring to current research on culture-historical geography. Moreover, it will examine and, in some cases, revise the one-sided negative image of the guilds, using the example of research into historical networks and components of the dynamism of personal associations developed by neighbouring disciplines: Guild structure is viewed at times as an all-embracing, tightly knit network that permitted artists to exchange ideas and move freely and establish art markets. The cross-border research approach thus complements for the first time the historical idea of the artist as a model in social history. Up to about 1800, the artist was part of the hierarchical European society; except for the court artist, he was an artisan bound to the guilds. Numerous attempts to institutionalise artistic training and transfer it to academies succeeded only when the guilds were dissolved under Napoleon. An edition of all German-language guild and artisan regulations in Central Europe will make a hitherto little noted source type of major relevance accessible to research. One aim is to assemble a critical corpus of historical sources structured according to cities, a second, to analyse the social historical contexts, among them, synergy effects of “artistic knowledge” and training practices, the artist’s social and territorial mobility and the gender-specific inclusions and exclusions in pre-modern workshop operations. In terms of globalisation, the project can overcome topographical, methodological and content-related borders in all directions and lay the foundation for a comprehensive analysis of all of European artistic training.

Keywords: social history,culture-historical geography,networking,aspects of gender,history of pedagogics,migration patterns,personal associations,everyday culture,rituals aspects,performance aspects
Advanced Aircraft Network for Theoretical & Experimental Aeroservoelastic Modeling (A2-NET-TEAM)

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: Italy,Hungary,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 139100.0
EU funding (EUR): 130700.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Next generation of aerodynamically efficient slender and flexible aircraft wings used in composite civil aircrafts and unconventional configurations, such as High Altitude Long Endurance HALE-UAV, require extremely lightweight structural components capable of carrying considerable amount of non-structural weight. With the increased slenderness and flexibility, possible with the advent of advanced composites, these wings can exhibit aeroelastic instabilities quite different from their rigid counterparts. Consequently, one has to deal with phenomena not usually considered in classical aircraft design. Alternative design criteria are needed in order to maintain the safety levels imposed by the regulations and required for certification. The study of the nonlinear aeroservoelastic behaviour of these aircrafts is extremely complex and requires the integration of a variety of disciplines including solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, and controls. Only by integrating these disciplines is possible to develop a comprehensive model truly representative of the aircraft dynamics and its aeroservoelastic behaviour. The A2-Net-Team project aims to build a multi-disciplinary network of researchers with complementary expertise to develop analytical methods used for a better understanding and assessment of the factors contributing to the occurrence of critical aeroservoelastic instabilities. The test article will also provide the opportunity to modify and calibrate theoretical models, with the goal of showing the effect of theoretical approximation and their limits, and the necessity of model modifications and future investigations. A theoretical and experimental database will be created to describe the aeroelastic impacts and results from the programme. Future plans for aeroservoelastic testing will be also proposed and lesson learned during this projects will be instrumental for these studies.

Keywords: lightweight structures,aerospace engineering,aircraft design,aero-elastics,flight mechanics
Value Metrics and Policies for Sustainable University Campus (UNI-METRICS)

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: Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 69300.0
EU funding (EUR): 37800.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

There are promising signs that universities around the world are responding to the challenges posed by sustainable development (SD) and are beginning to engage in activities related to SD, whether through “greening” of the campus, development of special courses on sustainability or offering collaborative research opportunities. However, a critical evaluation of the radical innovation and strategic rethinking of the transition toward sustainable universities, both in terms of their internal organization and the interaction with external stakeholders has not yet been realised (Ferrer-Balas et al., 2008). Furthermore, the use of indicators to measure or assess sustainability of cities, buildings and companies is often criticised. One main concern is the way indicators are developed: often through “ad hoc” processes without a structured framework or the consensus on what urban sustainability really is, while the consensus is still more political than scientific. This project is based on a working hypothesis that value-based metrics can be found and ‘interoperate’ in the intersection between companies, buildings and cities. The primary goal of this project is to strengthen research partnerships among the partner organizations and to elevate their scientific competence and research quality in the field of sustainable university campuses, assessment and policies. In particular, the project aims to reinforce cooperation not only between the European partners (Italy, NL and the UK) and the third country partners (Japan) but also between the European partners in order to develop long-term research partnerships. In order to pursue such an ambitious goal, the project is divided into three working packages (WP). Each WP deals with a key scientific theme based on the expertise of the project partners, assessment, participative decision-making and policy. The project is linked to a number of on-going projects and on previous research on sustainability evaluations and policies.

Keywords: environmental economics,public policy,science and society,urban design
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE PROGRAMME FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC KESTERITE BASED TECHNOLOGIES (PVICOKEST)

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: Spain,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180500.0
EU funding (EUR): 180500.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The key objective of this multidisciplinary project is to intensify and consolidate cooperation between research groups from member states and Third countries on topics of synergy in research, innovation, sharing common expertise and technology transfer in the area of photovoltaic, more specifically in Kesterite materials. This project will provide the possibility to the involved research organizations, to reinforce their research cooperation on the long term. They will establish through this joint program, new opportunities for a further exploration of solar cell materials science, which plays nowadays a critical role in the implementation of technologies into area of photovoltaic devices. In this sense, the project aims to investigate absorber materials for thin film solar cells that only contain abundant and non-toxic elements as a contribution to a sustainable energy economy. Currently, earth-abundant copper-zinc-tin-chalcogenide kesterites Cu2ZnSn(Se,S)4, are potential alternatives for the two leading technologies Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se) (CIGS) and CdTe, reaching promising efficiencies over 9.6% . The obtained knowledge of these materials will help to understand their physics and give routes to engineer technologies of growing of structural perfect crystals, films and devices on their base. There is still a large need for an ample scientific study in order to support a future implementation of kesterites in the European industry. This multidisciplinary project comprises research activities in materials science and physics and includes the structural, optical and transport characterization of kesterite films and crystals. Throughout the exchange program the individual expertise available at the partners will be combined to study kesterites that are especially appropriate for use as materials for high-efficient, ecologically lovely and low-cost photovoltaic devices. Finally all ideas/developments will be turned into one device that will find applications in photovoltaics

Keywords: crystal growth,kesterite,photovoltaic thin film,optical and dielectric properties,x-ray and neutron diffraction,spectroscopy ellipsometry,photoluminescence,raman scattering vibrational analysis
Network for the development of phage therapy in aquaculture (AQUAPHAGE)

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: Greece,Denmark,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-10
End date: 2015-03-09
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 358700.0
EU funding (EUR): 358700.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

AQUAPHAGE aims to the formation of a strong network for the development of phage therapy in aquaculture through a well balanced research staff exchange program. The platform for the implementation of this initiative is a common project focused on the identification and exploitation of phages specific for bacterial pathogens that constitute serious threats for both freshwater and marine aquaculture. The target bacteria are Listonella anguillarum and V. harveyi, pathogens of Mediterranean aquaculture species (European sea bass and gilthead sea bream), Flavobacterium psychrophilum, serious pathogen of trout and Aeromonas salmonicida, obligate bacterial pathogen of Atlantic salmon. The capacities and synergies of the partners will be exploited towards these goals. Aquaculture facilities owned by the partners can provide the necessary materials for the isolation of a wide variety of phages. Enzyme Biotechnology, Molecular Biology and Genomics will provide strong background information for the most efficient selection of lytic phages. Enhancement of lytic activity using bacterial strains from the collections of the participating institutes will lead to the development of a final product with increased efficacy against these pathogens. Modern bioindicator system will be used for the assessment of disease treatment impact on the environemnt. The formation of this research partnership with partners owing expertise and excellence in their field will provide possibilities for inter-disciplinary exchanges and will constitute a technological and scientific platform for further cooperation in the field of Phage Therapy in Aquaculture.

Keywords: aquaculture,fish disease,bacteria,bacteriophages,phage therapy
Web Information Quality Evaluation Initiative (WIQ-EI)

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: Austria,Germany,Spain,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 287700.0
EU funding (EUR): 287700.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Today’s information and data pools on the Web focus on the quantity of information rather than its quality; a fact observable through the increasing size of the blogosphere, the number of growing artificially created data, the well established copy & paste syndrome and the lack of semantically enriched data. The research underlying WIQ-EI’s knowledge transfer addresses information quality in terms of determining web quality measures and the development of multi-lingual, automatic methods for estimating those measures. Through a set of joint research stays on different topics in web information quality, the consortium consisting of 4 European and 5 non-European partners from Mexico, India and Argentina will transfer knowledge on defining and determining web information quality. Moreover, through joint organization of workshops and competitions, the consortium will provide tools, test data and evaluation measure for comparing different quality estimation approaches.

Keywords: knowledge engineering,internet technology,information retrieval,web science
Complex Liquids At Structured Surfaces (CLASS)

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,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219800.0
EU funding (EUR): 163800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The topography and surface chemistry of substrates is now recognised to significantly impact on the feasibility and quality of many industrial processes where wetting and self-assembly phenomena play a major role. In the emerging lab-on-a-chip technologies based on integrated microfluidic devices, surface forces dominate, and inertial plays only a secondary role. Therefore, tailoring the solid-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces may provide efficient control of both the flow of liquids and the processes taking place inside the chip. Our project is motivated by significant practical problems such as how to design smart coatings or ionic-liquid-based supercapacitors, and draws inspiration from solutions found in the natural world. We synergistically combine the analytical, computational, and experimental strengths of three research groups (Stuttgart, Lisbon and Brookhaven, New York) in an effort aimed at understanding and predicting the wetting of topographically and/or chemically patterned solid substrates by complex fluids, such as room temperature ionic liquids or liquid crystals. The exchange program comprises individual staff exchanges, ensuring continuous active interactions between experiment, computation and theory and contributing to the strengthening of the research partnership; and a networking component of workshops, mini-courses and seminars, ensuring an effective exchange of knowledge, cross-training of ESRs and ERs and dissemination of results. The proposed exchange scheme will establish a solid close collaboration between the theoretical and computational European groups and the U.S. partner, who are focused on experimental science. Synergistic integration of the complementary skills of the groups will produce cutting-edge science, strengthen the European-American scientific relations, and substantially contribute to the training of very mobile young researchers with access to world-class research facilities within an international network.

Keywords: wetting,ionic liquids,nematics,colloids,microfluidics
Materials Enhancement for Technological Applications (META)

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: Italy,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 548100.0
EU funding (EUR): 403200.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

META (Materials Enhancement for Tecnological Applications) aims to address the fundamental new challenges related to the development of new functionally structured materials and to gain a deep understanding of the structure and dynamics of nanostructured matter on multiple length and time scales. Basic science investigation will be driven by the accomplishment of technology development for nanodevices through experimental and theoretical interdisciplinary studies, aimed at endowing materials with specific local properties. Two types of devices will be investigated: DNA planar architectures exploitable as “mother boards” for self-assemblage of functional components to build functional nanodevices at negligible production cost and devices based on interface-enhanced charge conductivity where the understanding of the interplay on a nanometric scale between ionic conductivity and local physico-chemical properties will be exploited for the development of micro Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (μSOFCs). META goal is to establish a strong collaborative network between research centres in the EU (Italy, Slovakia) and in the USA. Such collaboration is addressed to tackle the variety of scientific and technological issues raised by enhancement and engineering of materials functional properties both at the nano and meso scale. Several bilateral visits, training workshops and meetings are planned with the framework of the project. Education will also be an important issue in this project, since exchange of graduate students and the opportunity of creating a joint PhD initiative is programmed. META will thus amplify the collaborative links between the EU and the USA giving European Scientists the opportunity of achieving rapid access to world top laboratories. The project meetings and conferences will attract scientists from other universities and industrial companies which would be highly beneficial for the present partner institutions and ERA in whole.

Keywords: physics,electrochemistry,computational physics,biomaterial engineering,molecular biophysics