Pôle d'attraction interuniversitaire, PAI

Les Pôles d'attraction interuniversitaire (PAI) sont des réseaux d'excellence en recherche fondamentale financés par le gouvernement fédéral, qui regroupent au minimum quatre équipes issues de trois universités ou instituts scientifiques fédéraux, dans les deux Communautés. Ils sont financés pour un budget de 156 millions sur 5 ans. Pour la période 2012-2017, l'ULB coordonne 9 PAI et est partenaire dans 18 autres.

Liste des PAI dont l'ULB est coordinateur:

• Mechanisms of conscious and unconscious learning, Axel Cleeremans, descriptif

• Physical chemistry of Plasma-Surface Interaction, Marie-Paule Delplancke, descriptif

• Photonics@be: towards smart photonics in 2020, Philippe Emplit, descriptif

• Combinatorial Optimization: Metaheuristics and Exact methods, Bernard Fortz, descriptif

• Fundamental interactions: at the boundary of theory, phenomenology and experiment,Jean-Marie Frère, descriptif

• Microfluidics and micromanipulation: multi-scale applications of surface tension (micro-MAST), Pierre Lambert, descriptif

• T lymphocytes: from basic biology to immunotherapy, Oberdan Leo, descriptif

• G protein-coupled receptors: from structure to functionally validated targets, Marc Parmentier, , descriptif

• Tolerance and resistance to parasite infection: trypanosomatidae as paradigm, Benoit Vanhollebeke, , descriptif

Liste des PAI dont l'ULB est partenaire:

• Cancer cells and their microenvironment: from gene regulatory networks to therapy, , descriptif

• Developing crucial Statistical methods for Understanding major complex Dynamic Systems in natural, biomedical and social sciences (StUDyS), descriptif

• Contemporary physical challenges for Heliospheric and AstRophysical Models (CHARM), descriptif

• Molecular and cellular mechanisms of electrical excitability, descriptif

• The Belgian Research Initiative on eXotic nuclei for atomic, nuclear and astrophysics studies (BriX), descriptif

• Planets: Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation and Evolution of their ReservoirS (PLANET TOPERS), descriptif

• Dynamics, Geometry and Statistical Physics (DYGEST), descriptif

• Mechanisms of brain wiring in normal and pathological conditions, descriptif

• Justice and populations, the Belgian experience in international perspective, 1795-2015, descriptif

• City and Society in the Low Countries (ca. 1200 - ca. 1850). The "condition urbaine": between resilience and vulnerability, descriptif

• The global challenge of human rights integration: toward a users'perspective, descriptif

• Role of developmental processes in the virulence oh human pathogens: from molecular mechanisms to novel therapeutic targets, descriptif

• If not for profit, for what? And how? Building interdisciplinary and integrated knowledge on social entrepreneurship and social enterprise, descriptif

• Belgian medical genomics initiative, descriptif

• Participation and representation. A comparative study of linkage mechanisms between citizens and the political system in contemporary democracies, descriptif