Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
TRAINING FOR MODELLING THE GROUNDWATER ECOSYSTEM (WATERBUGMODEL)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163702.68
EU funding (EUR): 163702.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

All members of the groundwater biotic community, comprising microorganisms, protozoans, and metazoans, potentially contribute to the natural attenuation of organic matter inputs deriving e.g. from contaminations. Since an increasing proportion of drinking water is won from groundwater, bioremediation is important for public health. Sampling groundwater however is limited compared to other habitats. Therefore modelling takes an important part in increasing conceptual knowledge on the conditions under which microbial colonies, or the protozoans and metazoans grazing on the microbes, function most effectively. Groundwater contaminant biodegradation by microbes has so far only been modelled on the population level. These models have to make average assumptions which do not represent groundwater heterogeneity adequately. Biotic features, such as the adaptive behaviour that individual microbial cells exhibit by e.g. due to changing environmental conditions, have also not been taken into account. For other communities and other environments, such behavioural adaptations have successfully been modelled using the bottom up approach of individual-based models. The research project will therefore bring together an individual-based modeller, a groundwater ecologist and hydrogeological modellers to perform simulations based on exemplary conditions in order to evaluate the biodegradation potential based on the complete ecosystem functioning. The three main aims of this project are: 1) to adapt an existing platform for individual based modelling (IbM) of biofilm, iDynoMiCs, to groundwater conditions; 2) to add further levels of the food web and functional types to this platform, e.g. grazers (belonging both to the protozoans and metazoans), and 3) to couple this platform to a groundwater reactive transport model, in order to conduct evaluations of degradation potential and management options based on groundwater ecosystem functions.

Keywords: natural sciences,groundwater food web,individual-based modelling,fresh water ecosystems,water system modelling,computational biology,environmental biology,anthropogenic impact
Sustainable ecosystem services and livelihoods through aquaculture development (ECOLIVA)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 238818.39
EU funding (EUR): 238818.39
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The inter-disciplinary project “Sustainable ECOsystem services and LIVelihoods through Aquaculture development” (ECOLIVA) aims to examine the links between ecosystem services, sustainable livelihoods and production of aquatic commodities, using the case of shrimp farming in Thai mangrove ecosystems. This project, implemented as an Intra-European Fellowship hosted by York University, UK, will enable the applicant to broaden her existing experience of agricultural economics and aquaculture development with ecological and environmental economic approaches. Her training in the application of material flow analyses and environmental valuation techniques will be complemented by the development of novel methods of investigation applied to the evaluation of environmental degradation from aquatic production and socio-economic impacts resulting from variations in ecosystem services provision. Expertise and formal academic training from the host will widen her research remit and provide her with the necessary skills to resume an academic career. The project will increase European research capacity in applied ecological/environmental economics and modelling, and facilitate joint environmental conservation and livelihood improvements through sustainable aquaculture development. In the short-term, the applicant will strengthen her research potential enabling her to reach her immediate career objective: an academic research position. Project outputs will also indirectly contribute to the Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology Theme of the FP7 Cooperation Work Programme and the creation of a European “Knowledge-based bio-economy”. In the medium to long terms, addressing knowledge gaps related to the implementation of payments for ecosystem services for aquatic and global sustainable development will strengthen European research in this upcoming field and boost its visibility and competitive advantage amongst other research and development institutions worldwide.

Keywords: ecological/environmental economics,aquaculture,ecosystems,livelihoods,shrimp,modelling,policies
PRODUCTION, TRADE AND CONSUMPTION OF FOOD IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY MIDDLE AGES (PROFOLANT)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 152968.04
EU funding (EUR): 152968.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FOOD IS RELATED TO THE ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE AND HISTORY OF SOCIETIES AND IT IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF CULTURAL IDENTITY. KNOWING THE HISTORY OF FOOD CAN HELP TO UNDERSTAND THE CONTEMPORARY FOOD PRACTICES AND PRESERVE THEM. THE PROJECT IS AIMED AT FILLING THE GAP OF KNOWLEDGE ON THE FOOD PRODUCED, TRADED AND CONSUMED IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY MIDDLE AGES. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IS PROPOSED TO STUDY THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENT TRACES OF FOOD, SUCH AS ANIMAL BONES, BOTANIC REMAINS, AND CERAMIC VESSELS USED IN THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE FOOD LIFE CYCLE (PRODUCTION, PREPARATION, STORAGE, TRANSPORT, CONSUMPTION AND DISCARD). IN PARTICULAR, DIFFERENT ARCHAEOMETRIC TECHNIQUES WILL BE USED TO STUDY CERAMICS, THAT ARE CONSIDERED GOOD MARKERS OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND TRADE. ANALYSES WILL BE APPLIED TO UNDERSTAND THE FOOD STORED, PREPARED AND CONSUMED, AND THE WAY OF PREPARING IT. THIS WILL BE COMPLEMENTED WITH THE STUDY OF CERAMIC PROVENANCE, TO UNDERSTAND THE TRADE OF FOOD BETWEEN DIFFERENT SITES AND GROUPS OF PEOPLE. AMPHORAE AND COMMON CERAMICS (I.E. COOKING VESSELS) WILL BE ANALYSED. ALSO THE STRUCTURES WHERE FOOD WAS PRODUCED, PREPARED AND CONSUMED WILL BE STUDIED. THE SITES CHOSEN FOR THIS STUDY ARE SITUATED IN THE BALEARIC ISLANDS, THAT HAD A CENTRAL POSITION IN THE LATE ANTIQUE MEDITERRANEAN TRADE NETWORK AND SHARED A COMMON HISTORY IN THE PERIOD. EXPERIMENTS AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF FOOD PRODUCTION STRUCTURES (I.E. FOR THE TRADITIONAL PRODUCTION OF OILS) WILL BE DONE. THIS WILL GIVE DATA TO BE USED FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS. THE PROJECT WILL GIVE THE FELLOW THE POSSIBILITY OF GOING DEEP IN ALL THE ASPECTS OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, AND LEARNING NEW TECHNIQUES. IT WILL PROVIDE HER WITH THE POSSIBILITY TO BE FORMED IN COMMUNICATION SKILLS, MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS; AND ALL WILL REINFORCE HER LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELD, LETTING HER GROWING IN HER CAREER.

Keywords: humanities,archaology,archaeometry,food production,food consumption,commerce,late antiquity,archaeological ceramics,interdiscliplinary approach,ethnoarchaeology
A plasma neutron source based on the gas dynamic trap for incineration of radioactive wastes (GDT-BURNER)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-16
End date: 2011-04-15
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173567.25
EU funding (EUR): 173567.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recently, the idea of coupling a sub-critical fission reactor and a DT-fusion plasma device generating 14 MeV neutrons for the incineration and transmutation of long-lived isotopes of nuclear waste has attracted increasing interest. For a number of years the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Novosibirsk, Russia in collaboration with the domestic and foreign organizations develops the project of 14 MeV neutron source. This neutron source is based on the plasma Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT), which is a special magnetic mirror system for plasma confinement. This new type of neutron source could have sufficiently high neutron production intensity for driving such a transmuter, which is a sub-critical fission reactor loaded with nuclear waste that has to be transmuted into stable or short-lived radioactive isotopes. In particular, after optimization of the plasma parameters it could be comparable and even exceed the efficiency of the accelerator based spallation neutron source, which is presently the favoured variant. The major objectives of the proposed work in the frame of Marie Curie Action are the optimization of the GDT based neutron source as a driver of sub-critical fission reactors for the transmutation of long-lived radioactive waste. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to make use of knowledge and calculation tools in both areas in the field of plasma physics for fusion from the side of the applicant Dr. A. Anikeev (BINP) and in nuclear fission reactor physics and technology from the side of the Research Centre Karlsruhe, which is one of the biggest science and engineering research institutions in Germany. The main phase of the project is 18 months. During the 9 months of return phase we plan to continue the project in Novosibirsk and upgrade the existing Gas Dynamic Trap device to a so called “hydrogen prototype” of the projected neutron source and to carry out high-parameter experiments proofing its physical feasibility.

Keywords: nuclear physics,nuclear fission,plasma physics,nuclear fusion,processing of nuclear wastes,neutron physics
Development and investigation of intraocular lenses on the basis of the diffraction optical elements. (INTRAOCULARMICROLENS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-15
End date: 2012-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 228587.94
EU funding (EUR): 228587.94
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Within the scope of this project the experimental and theoretical basis for new generation of intraocular lenses (IOL), based on diffractive optical elements, will be investigated. Two aspects of the project will attract most attention: the optimization of the diffractive IOLs can be achieved by adaptation of the modern computational methods, developed for application in micro-optics, and also the application of the newest laser technologies of formation of the given microrelief of a solid-state surface. By the nature of the light diffraction, characteristic light intensity distribution after passage through the microstructured optical surface is determined in great extent by the concrete micro-relief of the given surface. Usually the quality of diffractive IOL is limited by the minimal characteristic size of surface structures. In the frame of this project, a novel laser technologies, as UV-laser writing and two-photon laser polymerization, will be applied for the reduction of characteristic sizes of the structured optical surface. The process will be investigated theoretically and experimentally in order to optimize the quality of the fabricated samples of intraocular lenses. Specially designed diffractive micro-relief will be applied for the formation of three-focal IOLs with improved distribution of light intensity, resulting in clear and sharp vision at near, intermediate and far distances. The designed lenses will be optimized for reducing of undesirable glares and haloes, typical for standard IOLs.

Keywords: development and investigation of intraocular lenses on the basis of the diffraction optical elements
Reducing supply chain impacts: The role institutions such as country, region, industry and ISO standards in the efficacy of environmental investments. (SSCM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 14.0
Total project cost (EUR): 146033.91
EU funding (EUR): 146033.91
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research addresses a vital issue facing all organizations; how to remain economically viable while becoming environmentally sustainable. In addition, the research leverages a data base of investments and practices from for-profit entities located all over the globe. Data from multiple countries and regions is vital because the manner in which organizations from different parts of the globe address environmental issues tends to vary, with organizations located in the EU adopting different strategies and practices than those located elsewhere. What is not known is if this variance also relates to the efficacy of investment and practices. Without a global sample it is then impossible to determine if an investment and or practice is universally linked to reduced environmental impacts, or if the efficacy of an investment and or practice is linked to the setting in which it is adopted. This project will help to make this delineation clear. A Fellowship for Dr. Pagell will make it possible to do this research. Dr. Pagell is an expert on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), in a North American context. The fellowship would bring Dr. Pagell and his knowledge to University College Dublin (UCD). There his skills and knowledge would be combined with the skills and knowledge of the UCD community as well as EU organizations engaged in SSCM. The project team will then combine global expertise and a unique data set to address this pressing issue. The project will use a data-base with detailed information on the actual environmental investments and supply chain management practices of 1125 firms located in 17 countries to explore the role of institutions such as country, industry, and the adoption of voluntary standards such as ISO 14,000 in the efficacy of investments made to reduce the environmental impact of a supply chain. The project then leverages a unique data set and rare skills to address a question of immediate importance.

Keywords: supply chain management,environmental sustainability,empirical research
Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories at Finite Density (FD HOLOG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 135876.08
EU funding (EUR): 135876.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to study strongly coupled gauge theories at finite density by utilizing holography. This is important and interesting because the holographic techniques are powerful and efficient tools to investigate into the areas of gauge theories which have previously been not possible. Non-abelian gauge theories, such as QCD, at low energy is notoriously difficult to examine analytically because the interaction becomes strong and the best hope of the present is the numerical lattice studies. However, the theories at finite density is currently not accessible even by lattice simulations due to technical problems. Therefore, the properties of QCD at observationally relevant density are largely unknown. The holographic techniques allow us to investigate into such regimes of the gauge theories and the consequences have extensive impact from nuclear physics to condensed matter physics. The members of the host institute and the researcher have just right complementary expertise and skills to undertake this project. Especially, one of the frame works proposed is initiated by the host scientist in charge and thus successful execution of the proposal would certainly result in the mutual benefit and contribute to the European scientific excellence and competitiveness.

Keywords: particle theory,nuclear physics,ads/cft,holography,strongly coupled gauge theories,finite density,phase diagram,chemical potential
Experimental measurement of the direct partitioning of peptides into lipid bilayers (PEPTIDE PARTITIONING)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 237311.96
EU funding (EUR): 237311.96
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The transfer of peptide segments into the lipid bilayer to form stable transmembrane helices is the crucial first step in membrane protein folding and assembly. However, the mechanisms that drive this process are not fully understood. A recent experimental assay has measured the insertion of designed peptide sequences into the endoplasmic reticulum membrane via the cellular translocon machinery. This has provided the first quantitative estimate of the translocon-to-membrane transfer free energy of polypeptide segments. However, no suitable experimental setup currently exists that allows the direct measurement of the free energy change involved in transferring peptides from water into lipid bilayers. This is because peptides that are hydrophobic enough to insert into membranes generally aggregate in solution. I propose an experimental peptide setup that directly measures the water to bilayer partitioning of a series of designed peptides that do not have this problem. These will be derived by minor re-engineering of pHLIP, a peptide based on helix C of bacteriorhodopsin. This peptide has a set of unique properties that make it ideal for the proposed study. It is soluble at neutral pH and spontaneously inserts into lipid bilayers when the pH is lowered. Remarkably, the peptide partitions as a monomer, without disrupting the bilayer, and has been shown not to aggregate either in solution or inside the bilayer. For theoreticians the proposed direct measurements are highly desirable, since they allow the calibration of current computer simulation models under identical conditions. Recent advances in algorithms and computer hardware have enabled fully converged simulations of the adsorption, folding and insertion of peptides into lipid bilayers. These studies have exposed striking differences between the various different methods used as well as currently established theory, which cannot be resolved without a suitable experimental dataset like the one proposed here.

Keywords: membrane protein,peptide parititioning,experiment
Advancing percutaneous heart valve repair in children through the development of new cardiac imaging strategies (HEART DEVICE IMAGING)

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-IEF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171300.62
EU funding (EUR): 171300.62
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The development of non-surgical methods for the treatment of heart valve disease in children as well as in adults has recently become a reality. The increased use of these methods would improve patient comfort, avoid prolonged hospital care and stay, and enable patients to return to normal daily activities in a shorter time, ultimately reducing healthcare costs. We currently have the largest worldwide experience of implanting percutaneous valves into the pulmonary position, and have safely performed over 200 cases. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has played a crucial role in the success of this programme by accurately defining the anatomy of the implantation site for improved patient selection and by demonstrating the technical and physiological success of the treatment. However, at present only a limited number of patients can benefit from this procedure due to variations in individual patient anatomy and loading conditions. The aim of this application is to use the past experience gained with MR imaging in the pulmonary position, along with similar and new methodologies, to enable device implantation in all patients&apos; right and left ventricular outflow tracts. This will be achieved by using patient imaging data to systematically categorise implantation site morphology and dynamics and to develop models that will accurately predict modes of device failure. The imaging modality that can be best used to carry out these assessments and is most suited to aid device design will be established. Furthermore, imaging methods that will assist in the deployment of devices into complex cardiac morphologies will be developed. Overall these approaches will help us fully understand the implantation site, improve patient selection for safe device deployment, and create new methodologies to aid future device design, which may ultimately result in less animal testing and faster and cheaper development times.

Keywords: health sciences,medicine,cardiology,pediatrics,diagnostics,heart valve disese,children,percutaneous replacement,imaging