Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Harmonised Assessment of Reliability of MOdern Nuclear I&C Software (HARMONICS)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Cooperation with Third Countries
Destination: Cooperation with Third Countries
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-12
End date: 2015-01-11
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1577237.0
EU funding (EUR): 999458.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The ongoing nuclear renaissance means the construction of new nuclear power units, and the upgrade for lifetime extension of existing units. The reliability and safety of the computer-based systems that implement safety functions is a critical issue, in particular due to the fact that software can usually not be proven to be completely defect-free. The differences in current safety justification principles and methods in the EU and China hinder the emergence of widely accepted best practices. They also prevent cost sharing and unnecessarily increase licensing uncertainties. The objective of the HARMONICS project is to ensure that the nuclear industry has well founded and up-to-date methods and data for assessing software of safety systems of Gen-II and Gen-III nuclear power plants. HARMONICS will propose a more systematic and consistent, yet realistic and practical, approach for the software assessment. The approach will address the complete software and system lifecycle, from requirements specification to architectural and detailed design, development, testing, use and maintenance. HARMONICS will be the result of a close co-operation between the EU and China. In addition to the core project team, a larger advisory and end user group will be constituted with other interested stakeholders to review and give feedback on the project work. The project should foster an international consensus based on a sound scientific and technical approach, and provide a good basis for harmonisation. The main steps of the project are - Clarification of needs, practices and experiences in the EU and China. - Development of common approaches to the assessment and justification of the reliability of safety-critical software taking advantage from experience from the recent licensing processes and research projects. - Test of the approaches in case studies. - Assessment of results from the case studies. - Dissemination of results via end users workshops.

Keywords: software reliability,nuclear power plant safety,verification & validation
The (re)construction and formatting of religions in the West through courts, social practices, public discourse and transnational institutions. (RELIGIOWEST)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1895232.0
EU funding (EUR): 1895232.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

RELIGIOWEST is an interdisciplinary endeavour to bring together legal, sociological and political insights in the study of religion in the West. It aims at studying : 1) how different western states (in Europe and North America) are redefining their relationship to religions, under the challenge of increasing religious activism in the public sphere, associated with the spread of new religious movements (evangelicalism, cults) and Islam, 2) how this process mobilizes a complex array of often unrelated actors: courts, administrations, business milieus, but also practicing believers who want to be recognized both as citizens and members of a faith community, public opinion eager to curb what is perceived as “foreign” or “extremist” expressions of religion, politicians navigating between political correctness and populism, and “external” actors, like the US government, the European Court of Human Rights and transnational organizations (the Catholic church, the Muslim Brotherhood), 3) how this process is gradually producing a new and common paradigm of the relationship between states, the public sphere and religion, contributing paradoxically to European integration. We intend to make field-works in 12 countries, both in North-America and Europe, adding Turkey. After studying the specific national legal frameworks dealing with religion in public sphere, we intend to analyse the potential convergences in framing a new common paradigm of the place of religion in the public sphere. The project aims at providing tools for a common European policy implementation on religion.

Keywords: islam,religious freedom,judicial dialogue,church and state,clash of civilisations,religious policies
Spatial spikes: bridging geography and economics to study distance, agglomeration, and policy (SPIKES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1918104.41
EU funding (EUR): 1918104.41
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Economic geographers and geographical economists have been using different methods in order to analyse the location of economic activity. These different approaches to the same topic have, paradoxically, resulted in very similar geographical configurations: a ‘spiky’ world dominated by large metropoli, where intermediate and peripheral locations tend to matter less and less. This apparent similarity in outcomes hides, however, different explanations and policy recommendations. On the explanation side, economists have focused on understanding how the interaction of economic agents in reduced geographical spaces gives rise to large urban agglomerations. Geographers, in contrast, have increasingly concentrated on relative conceptions of space which highlight the importance of the interaction among often far-away places. On the policy side, economists have favoured spatially-blind policies, while geographers are strong advocates of place-based policies. This interdisciplinary proposal will aim at bridging the gap between these two contrasting approaches, by combining concepts and methods developed by economic geographers and geographical economists in order to better understand how economic agglomeration emerges and how the interaction among distant agglomerations contributes to reinforce, rather than weaken, their importance. It will also elaborate on the adequate policy-mix which could be applied in order to optimize policy intervention in diverse geographical context and time settings. In addition to bridging approaches, the proposal will advance knowledge at the frontier of both disciplines with a combination of theoretical and empirical papers revolving around three key sets of questions where new research is particularly needed: 1. Origins and microeconomic dynamics of spatial spikes 2. Territorial dynamics and interactions among and beyond spatial spikes 3. Spatial policy design

Keywords: agglomeration,distance,spillovers,cities,regions
ECOSTAND - Coordination Action for creating a common assessment methodology and joint research agenda with Japan and the USA on ITS applications focusing on energy efficiency and CO2 reduction (ECOSTAND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Italy,Belgium,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 864378.0
EU funding (EUR): 720000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objectives of ECOSTAND are to provide the necessary support to permit the agreement on a common methodology for assessing the effects of ITS on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. This will enable future ITS investment and policy decisions to be taken on the basis of sound and detailed knowledge of their environmental impacts. ECOSTAND favours a continuous dialogue between the EU, Japan and USA on the assessment of ITS, permitting a high quality EU contribution to the definition of a joint research agenda and an agreed assessment methodology, and actively stimulating cooperation between the three regions. Furthermore, ECOSTAND will stimulate the exchange of information on state-of-the-art modelling techniques and simulation tools, and will promote the definition of a common agenda for future research in this area. The project will involve a three-step-process, beginning with a short preparation phase, followed by two rounds of symposia, and ending with a joint technical report. In the preparation phase a review of best practice will be carried out, together with a relationship-building exercise in order to ensure the attendance and cooperation of key experts at the symposia. In each round of symposia three events will be organised, with one in each of the main regions covered by this project (the EU, Japan, and the USA). Each round of symposia will culminate in the production of a separate ‘Policy Advice Report’. The theme of the first Report will be ‘Preliminary Findings and Research Agenda’, and the theme of the second Report will be ‘Road Map and Recommendations’. The final output of the project will be the EU contribution to a Joint Technical Report with Japan and the USA.

Keywords: intelligent transportation systems energy efficiency co2 reduction eco assessment
Cognitive Robot for Automation of Logistic Processes (ROBLOG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Germany,Italy,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7610905.0
EU funding (EUR): 5588784.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Globalization causes an increasing transport of goods. Nowadays, most goods are shipped in containers and are transferred onto trucks for further transport. The containers are unloaded manually since they are nearly always packed chaotically, the variety of transported goods is high, and time requirements are strict. Unloading of containers is a strenuous task as goods have a weight up to 70 kg that poses health risks, which include the effects of pesticides and poisonous gases as well as injuries through unexpectedly falling objects. Human labor is hence a high cost factor combined with unhealthy working conditions, making automated solutions highly desirable. Existing systems for automated unloading are restricted to specific scenarios and still have drawbacks in their flexibility, adaptability and robustness. A robotic system suited for any unloading task of containers requires a high amount of cognitive capabilities. RobLog aims at developing appropriate methods and technologies meeting the requirements to automate logistics processes.The RobLog system has to be capable of 3D perception in a challenging scenario (high variability of objects, dynamic scene, deformable objects). The perceived environment has to be integrated into a 3D model in real-time. Grasping hypotheses, decisions and path-plans have to be generated and executed in an adaptive manner including obstacle avoidance and re-planning, if necessary. The actions must be grounded in a physical set-up capable of handling a large variety of potentially deformable items. Finally, there is the need to provide an interface suited for a human operator to provide high-level instructions to a multitude of systems operating at several unloading docks in parallel. All these advances are demonstrated within the project in close cooperation with an industrial end-user in a realistic application scenario; thus opening the potential to reach a completely new level of automation in the logistics chain.

Keywords: robotics,logistics,cognitive system
ELectric Field control Over Spin molecules (ELFOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Denmark,Sweden,Spain,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3478655.0
EU funding (EUR): 2700000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Information technology is partly based on magnetism (memory) and partly on electricity (processors). Increasing control over individual electron charges and spins provides new device functionality. For both charges and spins, molecular devices provide ideal test beds, which have witnessed increased interest over the last decade but the understanding and control of which is still in an infant state. The aim of ELFOS is to take single-molecule electronics to the next level in which single molecule device functionality will be exploited. We will combine different experimental test beds to gain knowledge about molecular functionality with an emphasis on the spin degrees of freedom and how to exploit these in device configurations using electric fields. In information processing, spins have the general advantage over charges in that they are less sensitive to the coupling between the molecule and its environment and hence to the molecular orientation which is difficult to control at the atomic level. Furthermore, the control of molecular spins by electric fields is preferable over magnetic-field or light-driven control since it allows for the application of strong fields at a local scale and for the fast manipulation of spin states. Guided by theoretical studies of radically new concepts, we will manipulate the molecular spin either by controlling the charge states of the molecule by the gate or by the gate directly. The molecules of interest are single-molecule magnets, spin triangles, spin chains and spin-crossover compounds. The experiments should provide an answer to key questions such as: “Can individual magnetic molecules be addressed electrically as bits or qubits?” and “How can they be used as switches?” Applied aspects are long term with high risk and high potential for applications.

Keywords: molecular electronics,molecular magnetism,spintronics,spin transistors
Coordination of Biological & Chemical IT Research Activities (COBRA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Denmark,Germany,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 542393.0
EU funding (EUR): 484635.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

COBRA is a coordination action to help organize the international CHEM-IT community towards the next major science and technology revolution, involving the integration of information processing with production during deployment. The industrial revolution mechanized production with factories, and the information revolution mechanized information processing with computers. The next large-scale technological revolution most likely involves their integration and its decentralization, as found so far only in living systems and it is now clear that significant scientific and technical progress towards this integration is imminent. The EC-sponsored CHEM-IT projects are spearheading the development and exploration of the first simple systems integrating production and information processing. This is done at the nano-bio-info interface, involving cellular engineering, protocells, artificial neurons and programmable information chemistry. At the centre of this work is a desire to create ICT-based systems with living and intelligent desirable properties that current technologies lack (such as robustness, autonomy, self-repair, adaptation, learning and local intelligence, as well as self-replication and evolution). The potential long-term impact of this emerging enabling technology will be considerable, as even minor progress on making technology more life-like and intelligent can improve processes in all sectors of society. CHEM-IT addresses issues of sustainability in production and deployment, and the information explosion of ubiquitous nanoscale systems. The proposed project on the coordination of biological and chemical IT research activities (COBRA) seeks to engage the European research community to construct the first roadmap for how best to develop ICT-based integrated information processing and production technology.

Keywords: information chemistry,synthetic biology,bio-computing,protocells,coordination
DRIVE C2X DRIVing implementation and Evaluation of C2X communication technology in Europe (DRIVE C2X)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Italy,Germany,France,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Finland,Austria,Romania,Belgium,Germany,Belgium,Spain,France,France,Germany,Italy,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18241332.0
EU funding (EUR): 12400000.0
Participants: 39
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the DRIVE C2X Integrated Project is to carry out comprehensive assessment of cooperative systems through Field Operational Tests in various places in Europe in order to verify their benefits and to pave the way for market implementation. This general objective is split into four major technical objectives: •Create a harmonised Europe-wide testing environment for cooperative systems •Coordinate the tests carried out in parallel throughout the DRIVE C2X community •Evaluate cooperative systems •Promote cooperative driving. The proposal fully responds to EC requirements and the Call 6 contents on Field Operational Tests. During the past decade, researchers have been working on cooperative systems worldwide in numerous research projects. Tentative results suggest that communication between vehicles and vehicles and infrastructure can substantially improve sustainable transportation. There is today a general understanding of the benefits of cooperative systems in terms of traffic safety and efficiency, but so far these systems have been tried out in small scale experiments only. There is no proof of their benefits yet with many communicating vehicles used in variable conditions on roads. The work proposed builds strongly on previous and on-going work on cooperative systems, which are now considered to be mature enough for large-scale field operational tests. The Europe-wide testing community envisaged for DRIVE C2X comprises of six test sites in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Finland. Essential activities in this project are the testing methodology and evaluation of the impact of cooperative driving functions on users, environment and society. In addition to impacts, other important areas of testing are technical functionality and robustness of the systems – also in adverse conditions. The user feedback and the results from technical tests enable the creation of realistic business models for the following market introduction.

Keywords: cooperative driving,c2x communicatiion,field operational test,ict for transport,traffic safety,traffic efficiency,standardization,impact assessment of c2x,fot methodology,user acceptance
Experimental Functional Android Assistant (EFAA) (EFAA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3723657.0
EU funding (EUR): 2850000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

As the introduction of robots into our daily life becomes a reality, the social compatibility of such robots gains importance. In order to meaningfully interact with humans, robots must develop an advanced real-world social intelligence that includes novel perceptual, behavioural, emotional, motivational and cognitive capabilities. The Experimental Functional Android Assistant (EFAA) project will contribute to the development of socially intelligent humanoids by advancing the state of the art in both single human-like social capabilities and in their integration in a consistent architecture. The EFAA project proposes a biomimetic, brain-inspired approach. The central assumption of EFAA is that social robots must develop a sense of self as to overcome the fundamental problem of social inference. It is only in possessing the core aspects of a human-like self, that inferences about others can be made through analogy. The EFAA Biomimetic Architecture for Situated Social Intelligence Systems, called BASSIS, is based on our growing understanding of the neuronal mechanisms and psychological processes underlying social perception, cognition and action and will exploit the availability, amongst the members of the consortium, of a number of complementary prototype robot-based perceptual, cognitive and motor architectures. By integrating across these existing architectures, by directing focused effort on specific core problems, and by exploiting the availability of unique advanced real-time neuronal simulation and hardware, the impact of the EFAA project is assured. The EFAA project will apply and benchmark BASSIS on a mobile humanoid assistant based on the iCub platform. The resultant system, EFAA, will actively engage in social interactions and interactive cognitive tasks. To facilitate the realization of these game like interactions and the performance analysis will be facilitated through a mixed-reality interaction paradigm using a table-top tangible interface system.

Keywords: social learning,neuronal architecture,multimodal,haptic