Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
submarine landSLIDEs and TSUnami MOdeling on the margins of the Mediterranean Sea (TSUMOSLIDE)

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-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-12
End date: 2011-01-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150235.05
EU funding (EUR): 150235.05
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In open seas geohazards are usually caused by short-term geological events that affect littoral infrastructures and indirectly threaten coastal human communities. Submarine landslides are considered as an important source for marine geohazards due, amongst others, to their capacity to generate devastating tsunami waves and cause catastrophic human life and infrastructure loss. Several European Community funded projects have been set up, or they are currently being implemented, that attempt to understand their triggering mechanisms, post failure evolution and possible tsunami generation. The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26th, 2004 stressed the need for assessing geohazards in vulnerable coastal areas. The most common mechanisms of tsunami generation involves earthquakes, but local tsunamis from submarine landslides are also possible with little chances for establishing early warning systems against these type of tsunamis. TSUMOSLIDE (submarine landSLIDEs and TSUnami MOdeling on the margins of the Mediterranean Sea) aims to understand the triggering sources of submarine landslides, their geological setting, and mathematically model their behavior along the slope, their possible tsunamigenesis, propagation and behavior while approaching coastal areas. Numerical modeling is useful in predicting future tsunami impact and flooding limits in specific coastal locations and communities and therefore reduction in life loss due to such devastating phenomenon. TSUMOSLIDE will provide fundamental data and an accurate model for tsunami propagation in the coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea. It will help, inline with the European scientific community, to develop tools that can be used by disaster management authorities for effective tsunami prevention plans in Europe, in particular, near densely populated coastal cities.

Keywords: submarine landslides,tsunami,modeling
Identification and characterization of targets for the treatment of severe infections caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (STREPSEP)

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: Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 176753.9
EU funding (EUR): 176753.9
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Life-threatening complications from bacterial infections, such as sepsis and septic shock, are the second leading cause of death among patients in non-coronary intensive care units killing up to 146 000 patients each year in Europe. These alarming findings prompted many research groups, to search for novel strategies to treat severe infectious diseases. Many of these approaches are focused on so-called “host effector systems”, since evidence has accumulated that complications from an infection are caused by an over-stimulation of host defense systems that are modulated by bacteria or bacterial products. In severe infections, such as sepsis and septic shock, vascular leakage, increased cytokine levels, and coagulation/fibrinolysis dysfunction are often observed. Thus, the research projects presented in this application focus on the identification and characterization of molecular mechanisms that lead to these complications with a focus on severe infections caused by the human pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes. The results obtained from such investigations could be used for the discovery of novel treatments in infectious diseases.

Keywords: infections,host/parasite interactions,inflammation,severe infectious diseases,sepsis
Analysis of biodiversity changes on structural and functional properties of marine ecosystems under cumulative human stressors (ECOFUN)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212125.36
EU funding (EUR): 212125.36
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of my research is to quantify how the structure of marine food-webs has changed due to biodiversity changes and develop an understanding of how these changes have impacted ecosystem functioning. To accomplish this objective I will use an interdisciplinary approach applying meta-analysis of historical and recent data on species loss and ecosystem changes, food-web modelling and laboratory experiments. This first trial run approach will provide complementary information on how biodiversity loss resulting from different anthropogenic disturbances such as fisheries exploitation, eutrophication and climate change has affected the network structure and functioning of marine food-webs at different temporal and spatial scales. The study will be divided into four parts: (A) In the first part I will make a synthesis of available data of long term changes on marine biodiversity (species decrease, loss, increase or recovery) under gradients of different human impacts (e.g. exploitation, increase of nutrient loading, habitat loss, temperature rise). I will also record observed/measured consequences of these changes from individual to ecosystem level (e.g. cascading effects, transfer efficiency changes, increase on detritus, oxygen depletion). (B) This data will be then analysed using ecological modelling techniques to explore the consequences of biodiversity changes in food web dynamics in time and space. (C) In parallel, I will develop aquatic microcosm experiments to reproduce observed patterns of human impacts on food webs and quantify ecosystem change. (D) Synthesis data, modelling results and microcosm analysis will be use to quantify general patterns of food web structural and functional changes due to biodiversity change by applying a meta-analysis approach. If I can successfully re-predict present-day food webs, I aim at forecasting past and current trends and develop ecosystem recovery scenarios into the future using modelling and laboratory experiments.

Keywords: natural sciences,marine ecosystems,food webs,ecosystem functioning,biodiversity change,exploitation,eutrophication,climate change,historical ecology,modelling,microcosms,meta-analysis
Interface of Intelligent Control Philosophy and Mechatronics Technology for Tyre-Surface Interaction (INTYRE)

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-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 225134.85
EU funding (EUR): 225134.85
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project covers the methodological and technological investigations on the controllability problems of the tyre friction, slip and rolling resistance with the aim to enhance the road safety and to reduce energy losses by vehicle driving. The research tooling will be created using the intelligent control methods, primarily on a basis of fuzzy logic, and promising mechatronics technique. The key objectives of the project are: - Development of the engineering applications of artificial intelligence, intelligent control and terrain mechanics for the problems of the wheel rolling and vehicle safety control; - Knowledge acquisition regarding the analytical tooling for the mechatronical control on tyre/surface parameters. - New technique for the vehicle/in-traffic control enhancing road safety with the monitoring and forecasting functions for the tyre/road interaction parameters; - Development of the mechatronics tyre technology reducing the rolling resistance and friction losses. Main points of research methodology are: - Integrated methods of applied dynamics, tribology and thermodynamics to develop a global tyre model. - Fuzzy sets and fuzzy control theory to develop the new methods of identification, monitoring and forecasting for the tyre properties. - Methods of building and analysis of integrated mechatronical modules and systems. - Experimental methods using the modern test-rig equipment with visualization technique. - Procedures of software fusion to test the new tyre technologies. It is intended to obtain the following results: - Complex of intelligent control methods with reference to the tyre/surface interaction - Fundamentally new control strategy for vehicle safety systems including the application of on-board and off-board information area for tyre/surface interaction - Implementation of mechatronics technologies into the tyre construction to meet the purposes for the creation of the promising wheel movers with intelligent functions.

Keywords: active safety of vehicles,road transport technology,automation
A cross-context study of early language skills of immigrant children in Canada and the Netherlands (ELSIC)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211487.13
EU funding (EUR): 211487.13
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Observed correlations between linguistic proficiency and school success, on the one hand, and existing differences in the academic success of immigrant students across countries, on the other hand, lead to the expectation that there are differences across countries in the early language development of immigrant children. The aim of the present study is therefore to pinpoint factors of success and failure with regard to the language development of bilingual immigrant children by looking across contexts. The contexts in this study are chosen on the basis of academic success: in Canada, immigrant students are rather successful, whereas in the Netherlands they perform below native levels. Immigrants in Canada and the Netherlands differ in socio-economic status, level of education, levels of integration in society, quality of schools immigrant children attend and clustering. These factors influence the quality and quantity of the language immigrant children are exposed to, which, in turn, will have an immediate effect on their linguistic proficiency. The method proposed in this study is innovative. Comparisons in terms of academic performance are routinely carried out between countries, but cross-context studies of early spoken language of immigrant children in contrastive environments, like Canada and the Netherlands, are non-existent. The outcome of this study is relevant for scientific purposes because it enables testing of input-driven approaches to language acquisition. From a societal perspective, the topic of this project is urgent. In the Netherlands, as in various other European countries, the proportion of immigrant children is increasing. Relatively high proportions of these children show delays in primary education. Insight in their language skills may be essential for understanding these delays.

Keywords: humanities,psycholinguistics,grammar,applied linguistics
Symmetries and the constitution of objectivity in quantum physics: A study on the non-representationalist theories of knowledge (SYMOB)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-07-12
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226670.31
EU funding (EUR): 226670.31
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent years have seen a surge of research in the philosophy of physics. In particular, the conceptual and epistemological problems related to the interpretation of quantum mechanics have been reformulated within the framework of the current debate on structural realism. The proposed project presents an original approach, bordering between epistemology and theoretical physics, to address those philosophical issues. Such an approach adopts both an instrumentalist conception of theories and a constructivist conception of knowledge, in which experimental facts and theoretical models are co-constituted through scientific practice. The overall goal is to point out the shortcomings of the representationalist paradigm of knowledge, and to establish the objectivity of science without relying on the alleged correspondence between the theoretical symbolism and a pre-constituted reality. This program involves two steps: (1) an analysis of the notion of objectivity inspired by both transcendental (i.e. neo-Kantian) philosophy and the pragmatist trends in the philosophy of language, and (2) the formal derivation of the mathematical (predictive) structure of quantum models from the conditions of possibility of an objective know-how (to be achieved by exploiting the link between invariance conditions, symmetry groups and conservation principles). The proposed constructivist account of objectivity provides a very original contribution to a topical debate in the philosophy of physics, and outlines an innovative framework to deal with the interpretational issues of quantum mechanics. It also has wide-ranging implications for epistemology and strong connections with the constructivist trends in cognitive sciences. The project comprises an initial training phase at Princeton University under the supervision of Bas van Fraassen, and a return phase at the CREA (École Polytechnique) of Paris with Michel Bitbol.

Keywords: philosophy of physics,epistemology,pragmatism,transcendental philosophy,constructivism,interpretation of quantum theory
SmartGrids ERA-NET (SMARTGRIDS ERA-NET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: SMARTGRIDS ERA-NET (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Switzerland,Austria,Norway,Denmark,France,France,Spain,Greece,Belgium,Croatia,Spain,Spain,Estonia,Latvia,Poland,Türkiye,Slovenia,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2007-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2725844.76
EU funding (EUR): 2479990.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

SmartGrids ERA-NET develops transnational research activities to speed up the development of a Smart European Electrical Infrastructure. A necessity for a successful realisation of the European Action Plan “Energy Policy for Europe”. This will change the European electricity supply with strong consumer response, large scale supplies of renewable electricity and high levels of distributed generation. SmartGrids ERA-NET provides co-ordination of the related research activities within the national and regional public (co)funded RTD. To make a kick start, the consortium already defined three logical issues for joint calls Electrical Transport Systems; Electrical Distribution Systems and Regulatory Issues. SmartGrids ERA-NET creates a network of programme managers, closely connected to policy makers and industry that undertakes joint activities. The objective of SmartGrids ERA-NET is the mutual opening up of the research programmes, research infrastructures and joint activities (calls). The ambition is to establish cooperation beyond the ERA-NET and between RTD managers EU-wide. The work plan foresees 4-step approach: • Step 1: Exchange of information • Step 2: Strategic activities and best practices • Step 3: Implementation of joint activities • Step 4: Transnational research activities The Consortium represents National and Regional programmes of 12 European countries, which gives the SmartGrids ERA-NET the critical mass required for successful operations. All members have assigned senior staff to this ERA-NET, who are experienced with home front programmes and international cooperation.

Keywords: smartgrids era-net electricity infrastructure renewables distributed generation consumer response supergrid
Phototransformation and photonitration processes of aromatic compounds in surface waters: environmental significance and impacts on living organisms (PHOTONIT)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-09
End date: 2011-02-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162985.98
EU funding (EUR): 162985.98
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Rhône river delta region and its lagoon system are located in the southern part of France, and it is a zone of great environmental importance as one of the main wintering sites for water birds in the Mediterranean area. It is also subject to a good level of environmental stress because of agricultural activities. The region is polluted by high usage of pesticides and herbicides, resulting in high concentration of aromatic and nitro-aromatic compounds (NACs). The latter are formed by photochemical reactions, are chemically stable, phytotoxic and genotoxic. Due to the significance of the Rhône delta region, it is very important to study the various photochemical pathways that are leading to the occurrence of the different pollutants in surface waters. The present study will be based, as starting point, upon the field monitoring carried out at the University of Marseille (with which the host institution is presently collaborating) on the surface water of the Rhône delta. From the time evolution data of the source compounds and their derivatives, combined with laboratory simulations of the processes involved, it will be possible to gain information concerning the relevant transformation pathways. Additionally, mutagenicity tests concerning the compounds under study will be carried out on inland water crustaceans such as the Artemia shrimps, which reproduce by parthenogenesis and, being monoclonal as a consequence, are particularly suitable for gene mapping and mutagenicity assessment. With the knowledge and experience gained during the fellowship, a similar study will be carried out within the framework of the Kolleru Lake of Andhrapradesh, India, contaminated by pesticides from the surrounding agricultural activities. The applicant will carry out this research work with Dr. M Subrahmanyam, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology at Hyderabad (India), as reintegration host.
Intellectual relations between Western Europe and Latin America, 1918-1939 (TMG)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 154254.02
EU funding (EUR): 154254.02
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

My research analyses how intellectual relations between Latin America and Europe in the interwar years played into the crisis of liberal models of nation-building and the rise of introspective forms of nationalism in Latin America. Although scholars have commonly stressed European ‘influences’ in Latin American thought, the ways in which Latin Americans strategically appropriated ideas from the Old World and the networks that facilitated this appropriation have been scarcely studied for the interwar period, despite the intensification and institutionalisation of intellectual contacts in these years. The (often extended) sojourns that virtually all Latin American intellectuals had in Europe before they returned to prominence in their home countries has remained a blank spot in their collective biography. Conceptualising intellectuals as both cosmopolitan mediators and constructors of national identity imaginaries, my study seeks to fill this gap. I will examine, firstly, the institutional bases of intellectual relations with Latin America in Western Europe (focusing on France and Spain) and, secondly, the collective experience of Latin American intellectuals in Western Europe and their writings about this. With this my research will make a contribution to scholarly debates about the nature of Latin America’s crisis of liberalism and rise of inward-looking nationalism in the interwar years and, secondarily, to theories about the nature of intellectual appropriations from the centre in peripheral post-colonial societies and the transnational dynamics of national identity constructions. An Intra-European Fellowship at the European University Institute, by providing excellent training and networking facilities, would help me to develop my career, offering me new research competences in European history, and to thus strengthen my already existing profile as a historian with learning and professional experiences across various European countries.

Keywords: humanities