Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
European Asia-Pacific Cooperation on ICT Research (EURASIAPAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain,Korea, Republic of,Australia,New Zealand
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 739630.0
EU funding (EUR): 650000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

One of Europe’s most important ideals and foundation is the single market. The single market is not limited to the free flow of goods and services. It also includes the free flow of ideas. ICT research is uniquely positioned to play an important role in globally promoting the single market for ideas through international research cooperation. International research cooperation, however, has to be strategically coordinated to fully exploit its inherent benefits. EURASIAPAC aims at developing a concrete EU-ASIA-PACIFIC ICT Cooperation Strategy to provide this necessary strategic thrust for the European ICT research cooperation with the target countries Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Building on previous initiatives, e.g. COJAK or ASIACOOP, the consortium will carry out an extensive information gathering effort. This will consist of an in-depth survey of Europe’s and the target countries’ ICT research environment regarding research and cooperation priorities as well as on six thematic workshops. These activities will provide the knowledge-base for drafting the ICT Cooperation Strategy, which will directly address the EC and national governments. It will provide guidelines and recommendations for actions with respect to the design of effective funding programs to promote international cooperation in ICT research. Additionally the consortium will address scientists by establishing a Cooperation Portal acting as a tool for researchers to initiate international ICT collaborative research ventures. The Cooperation Portal will use the information gathered for developing the Cooperation Strategy. The information will be processed and presented in an interactive Wiki format, which can be easily accessed by researchers and easily updated. EURASIAPAC, therefore, promotes international ICT research cooperation from the macro- and the micro-level, policy and research respectively, increasing the exploitation potential and realization of cooperation potentials.

Keywords: international cooperation,strategy development,japan,korea,new zealand,australia
Multi-Lingual Content Synchronization for Wikis (COSYNE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,Ireland,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3124053.0
EU funding (EUR): 2350000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The combination of dynamic user-generated content and multi-lingual aspects is particularly prominent in Wiki sites. Wikis have gained increased popularity over the last few years as a means of collaborative content creation as they allow users to set up and edit web pages directly. A growing number of organizations use Wikis as an efficient means to provide and maintain information across several sites. Currently, multi-lingual Wikis rely on users to manually translate different Wiki pages on the same subject. This is not only a time-consuming procedure but also the source of many inconsistencies, as users update the different language versions separately, and every update would require translators to compare the different language versions and synchronize the updates. The overall aim of the CoSyne project is to automate the dynamic multi-lingual synchronization process of Wikis. CoSyne will: - achieve robust translation of noisier user-generated content between 6 core languages (consisting of 4 core languages and 2 languages with limited resources to demonstrate adaptability of the system), - improve machine translation quality by segment-specific adaptive modeling, - identify textual content overlap between segments of Wiki pages across languages to avoid redundant machine translation, - identify the optimal insertion points for translated content to preserve coherence, - analyze user edits to distinguish between factual content changes and corrections of machine translation output, and exploit the latter to improve machine translation performance in a self-learning manner. The components of CoSyne will be integrated through web services with the open-source MediaWiki platform, which is the most commonly used Wiki platform. The three end-user partners of the consortium will deploy, integrate into their daily workflow, and evaluate the CoSyne system, which will give a clear direction towards the exploitability of the project's outcomes.

Keywords: machine translation,textual entailment,cross-lingual content management,wiki infrastructure
COgnitive radio systems for efficient sharing of TV white spaces in EUropean context (COGEU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Ireland,France,Germany,Cyprus,Poland,Greece,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5572816.0
EU funding (EUR): 3648365.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The complete transition from analogue to the digital TV is planned in Europe for 2012. This will release significant amount of valuable spectrum in VHF/UHF bands. In fact, the Digital TV Switchover provides a “once in a lifetime” opportunity for the development of innovative services and the introduction sophisticated new technologies into the VHF/UHF bands. However, despite the grand words about opening up a new band to support low cost, low power, ubiquitous access and innovative new providers, there are many obstacles to TV white spaces systems. The creation of workable devices that clearly demonstrate and prove that no harmful interference is caused to broadcasters or other licensed systems is one of those challenges as is the completion of standards. The CogEU proposal aims to take advantage of the transition to digital TV by developing cognitive radio systems that leverage the favourable propagation characteristics of the TVWS through the introduction and promotion of real-time secondary spectrum trading and the creation of new spectrum commons in the upper band of the cleared spectrum. CogEU will also define new methodologies for TVWS equipment certification and compliance addressing coexistence with the DVB-T/H European standard. Three main application scenarios with good market potential will be investigated: • Cellular, WiFi and WiMax network extension over TV white spaces • Mobile TV over TV white spaces • Public safety applications over TVWS As a consequence the project should help the European decision makers and standards to move the TV spectrum management paradigm towards a more liberal and efficient method, by providing sufficient evidence on the technology and economic viability of its deployment. In fact the project timeframe perfectly matches the TV Digital switchover roadmap planned for most of the European countries.

Keywords: cognitive radio,digital dividend,tv white spaces,spectrum efficiency,real-time spectrum trading,dynamic spectrum management,software defined radio
Periods of modular forms (PERIODS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Romania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal belongs to the area of modular forms and L-functions, and it consists of both algebraic and analytic problems related to the structure of the space of modular forms, of integral and half integral weight. The methods I use involve the theory of periods of modular forms, developed in the 1970s by Eichler-Shimura-Manin, and in the 1980s by Kohnen and Zagier. Part of the proposal is concerned with decompositions of modular forms of both integral and half integral weight, in terms of explicit generators with rational periods, or with rational Fourier coefficients. The coefficients of these decompositions can be explicitly expressed in terms of periods. Our results would contribute to the theory of periods of modular forms, an area of intense research due to connections with arithmetic algebraic geometry. Among the results we plan to obtain in this direction is a formula--in terms of periods--of the Petersson inner product between a Hecke eigenform for a congruence subgroup of SL(2,Z), and a Rankin-Cohen bracket of two Eisenstein series attached to arbitrary cusps of the congruence subgroup. This result would generalize to Rankin-Cohen brackets the classical Rankin-Selberg identity, in which the Rankin-Cohen bracket is simply a product of Eisenstein series. We plan to use adelic automorphic forms to prove the most general statement. This is a joint project with Ramin Takloo-Bighash In addition to these algebraic questions, I plan to study the rate of growth of certain arithmetic functions closely related to Fourier coefficients of Rankin-Cohen brackets of half integral weight. This has applications to proving bounds towards the Ramanujan conjecture for the coefficients of half integral weight forms, by a method different from the usual method of estimating Kloosterman sums appearing as coefficients of Poincare series.

Keywords: periods,critical values of l-functions,rankin-cohen brackets
Coordination Action in R&D in Accessible and Assistive ICT (CARDIAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,Ireland,Spain,Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Norway,Israel,Greece,Spain,Portugal,Cyprus,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 562449.0
EU funding (EUR): 499991.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The major aim of the Coordination Action would be to improve the overall success of Challenge 7 ICT 2009 7.2 ‘Accessible and Assistive ICT’. It would assist those involved in the research aspects of Challenge 7 by identifying the research and development that is needed in this field, both immediately and in the near future, by raising the level of knowledge and understanding of Accessible and Assistive ICT and by stimulating companies, research institutions and individual experts to become involved in this important area. The Coordination Action would support the corresponding STREP and IP in this research area, creating a knowledge network between them.

Keywords: accessibility,user interaction,road-mapping
Friendly Intelligent Energy Management System for Existing Residential Buildings (FIEMSER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,Germany,Ireland,Spain,France,Netherlands,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3619521.0
EU funding (EUR): 2299487.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

FIEMSER (Friendly Intelligent Energy Management System for Residential Building) addresses the need of achieving energy positive buildings through solutions based on a rational consumption of energy, local generation and an increase in the consciousness of the building owners towards their energy consumption habits. The main goal of FIEMSER matches with the challenges of the Call by aiming to build a monitoring and control system to optimise in near-real time the local generation-consumption matching, considering all possible elements, including active components (curtains, etc.) and, also to build an intuitive user interface that will allow the end-user to save energy while maintaining the desired comfort level. FIEMSER aims to achieve those goals in a short time span by aiming to the application of those automation measures to buildings in general (existent and new) and not only to new buildings, whose degree of automation can be quite advanced and its application less demanding. Then within the project a special relevance is given to existent buildings by investigating in solutions, like wireless connectivity based on IPv6, that reduce the expenses needed for the adaptation of the building to benefit from the use of energy efficiency measures. This approach takes into account that the life span of a building is around 50 years and that afterwards a minimum amount of money is, usually, devoted to its refurbishment.

Keywords: smart building,energy positive building,active demand,wireless control network,multimodal interface,digital tv
A converged copper-optical-radio OFDMA-based access network with high capacity and flexibility (ACCORDANCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Greece,Germany,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5501768.0
EU funding (EUR): 3499148.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

ACCORDANCE introduces a novel ultra high capacity (even reaching the 100Gbps regime) extended reach optical access network architecture based on OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) technology/protocols, implemented through the proper mix of state-of-the-art photonics and electronics. Such architecture is not only intended to offer improved performance compared to evolving TDMA-PON solutions but also inherently provide the opportunity for convergence between optical, radio and copper-based access. Although OFDM has been used in radio and copper-based communications, it is only recently that is making its way into optics and is expected to increase the system reach and transmission rates without increasing the required cost/complexity of optoelectronic components. ACCORDANCE hence aims to realize the concept of introducing OFDMA-based technology and protocols (Physical and Medium Access Control layer) to provide a variety of desirable characteristics, such as increased aggregate bandwidth and scalability, enhanced resource allocation flexibility, longer reach, lower equipment cost/complexity and lower power consumption, while also supporting multi-wavelength operation. In addition, it enables the convergence of the optical infrastructure with standard wireless solutions, thus offering a way to integrate dominant wired and wireless technologies in a hybrid access network supporting seamless ubiquitous broadband services. ACCORDANCE, despite being a focused STREP, is supported by 4 major EU industry partners who will contribute to EU leadership in the particular topics and will support the adoption of ACCORDANCE concepts as global standards. The partners strongly believe that the proposed architecture will provide fertile ground for the creation of wider market opportunities from new classes of applications and accelerated uptake of next generation services, by changing the way low-cost ultra-broadband connectivity is provided to end users.

Keywords: optical access networks,hybrid wireline/wireless,ultra-high capacity,extended reach,ofdma
Generalised architEcture for dYnamic infraStructure sERvices (GEYSERS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Spain,Poland,Poland,Italy,France,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,India,France,Poland,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10311742.0
EU funding (EUR): 7035000.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

GEYSERS vision is to qualify optical infrastructure providers and network operators with a new architecture, to enhance their traditional business operations. Optical network infrastructure providers will compose logical infrastructures and rent them out to network operators; network operators will run cost-efficient, dynamic and mission-specific networks by means of integrated control and management techniques. In the GEYSERS concept, high-end IT resources at users&apos; premises are fully integrated with the network services procedures, both at the infrastructure planning and connection provisioning phases. Following this vision, GEYSERS will specify and implement a novel optical network architecture able to support "Optical Network + Any-IT" resource provisioning seamlessly and efficiently. Energy consumption metrics for the end-to-end service routing are part of this efficiency. GEYSERS is proposing to: - Specify and develop mechanisms that allow infrastructure providers to partition their resources (optical network and/or IT), compose specific logical infrastructures and offer them as a service to network operators. This will be done overcoming the current limitations of networks/domain segmentation, and will support dynamic and on-demand changes in the logical infrastructures. - Specify and develop a Network Control Plane for the optical infrastructure, by extending standard solutions (ASON/GMPLS and PCE), able to couple optical network connectivity and IT services automatically and efficiently, and provide them in 1 step, dynamically and on-demand, including infrastructure replanning mechanisms. These achievements will enable infrastructure providers, network operators and application providers to participate in new business scenarios where complex services with complex attributes and strict bandwidth requirements can be offered economically and efficiently to users and applications. The GEYSERS outcomes will be validated in an EU-wide optical network test-bed.

Keywords: network architecture
Fostering the Research Dimension of Science and Technology Agreements (FORESTA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Brazil,Mexico,Argentina,Chile,Spain,Belgium,Colombia,Costa Rica
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 582489.0
EU funding (EUR): 524000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

FORESTA project wants to boost the research dimension of ICT cooperation and policy dialogue between the EU and the Latin American region. In particular, the project targets the four countries having signed S&T Agreements with the EU, and Colombia, which adopted in 2008 the DVB-T standard for digital broadcasting and has recently intensified contacts with the EU to start discussions on an S&T Agreement. The project is structured in two main blocks of activities: one looking at immediate opportunities for cooperation between researchers of the two communities (Europe and Latin America) via the organisation and follow up of conferences in the five target countries, the other one looking at long-term perspectives. This latter evolves around two sets of activities: a) analysis of current ICT policies in the region and identification of key research issues to address in the future; b) recommendations on how to make a better use of support instruments to ICT research cooperation (European or national funding programmes and other initiatives). The expected results are: immediate increase in the number and intensity of Euro-LA cooperation as an effect of the conferences; set of recommendations related to future joint research areas and ways of supporting them. More in general, the project aims at coordinating efforts being done in encouraging ICT research cooperation between the two regions. The whole project will be backed by a solid dissemination and communication action. A regional organisation, ALETI, present in most of Central and South American countries will be key to the visibility of FORESTA also in countries that are not directly involved. The expected impact of FORESTA is to pave the way to a more structured and intense Euro-Latin American ICT research cooperation and to encourage other Latin American countries to set up a regular ICT policy dialogue with the European Union.

Keywords: latin america,policy dialogue,ict research cooperation,joint research,brokerage
A Computational Distributed System to Support the Treatment of Patients with Major Depression (HELP4MOOD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Romania,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3599074.0
EU funding (EUR): 2819993.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Depression is one of the most common causes of short and long term disability in Europe. It accounts for substantial costs both directly to health services and indirectly through lost productivity and the burden of caring. Most patients with Major Depression (MD) recover with treatment, which may be with antidepressant drugs, psychological therapy or, in severe cases, hospitalisation. However for many, that recovery is either slow or incomplete. Research shows that psychological therapies can be delivered effectively without face to face contact: computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) is suitable for self-guided treatment in the individual's own home. However, its value for patients is limited by the difficulty of staying engaged, and there are professional concerns that important changes in mood may be missed. Help4Mood proposes to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in computerized support for people with MD by monitoring mood, thoughts, physical activity and voice characteristics, prompting adherence to CCBT, and promoting behaviours in response to monitored inputs. These advances will be delivered through a Virtual Agent (VA) which can interact with the patient through a combination of enriched prompts, dialogue, body movements and facial expressions. Monitoring will combine existing (movement sensor, psychological ratings) and novel (voice analysis) technologies, as inputs to a pattern recognition based decision support system for treatment management. The advances in Help4Mood will provide a closed loop approach to treatment support for MD patients. Outputs include: a validated personal monitoring system; a personal interaction system embodied in a VA and a clinical decision support module. By identifying and supporting patients with delayed recovery, Help4Mood has the potential to target added support for patients most in need and lead to their earlier return to normal health and social and economic activity.

Keywords: personal health systems,intelligent human computer interaction,dialogue systems,health monitoring