Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,France,Germany,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3367701.0
EU funding (EUR): 2190134.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Europe is in the midst of a communications revolution facilitated, in part, by advances in wireless communications, such as wireless internet and leading to the next generation of systems. Both power and spectrally efficient techniques are major design objectives for next generation wireless networks. Recent studies have indicated that many licensed frequency bands remain unused 90% of the time. In order to address this inefficiency, spectrum regulatory authorities have introduced a secondary market initiative to better utilize the licensed spectrum by removing the regulatory barriers. This introduces the concept of dynamic spectrum licensing rendered possible by a set of techniques branded in short as “Cognitive Radio” (CR). While appealing as a theoretical concept, CR still faces a number of serious challenges that prevent it from wide commercial adoption. The main core challenges that we plan to tackle are 1) the problem of distributed interference awareness and 2) the problem of communicating over as many as possible concurrent channels in the same communication spectrum with minimal mutual interference, enabled by smart antenna systems. These have been major showstoppers for CR, resulting in a low confidence that such unlicensed systems can indeed operate in a transparent way avoiding interference with each other as well as licensed systems. We plan to address these problems by a combination of distributed intelligence (via a powerful MAC protocol) and advanced signal processing, including intelligent interference detection and smart antenna processing, tailored to the network architecture at hand. In order to validate the developed techniques, we will 1) derive (information theoretic) benchmarks for the maximum spectrum efficiency bounds and 2) develop an experimental platform where the developed techniques will be put at test. The platform will consist of configurable hardware components with various signal processing and distributed MAC capabilities.

Keywords: cognitive radio,mobile internet
TAILoring photon-phonon interaction in silicon PHOXonic crystals (TAILPHOX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Greece,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2704490.0
EU funding (EUR): 2111088.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

TAILPHOX project addresses the design and implementation of Silicon phoXonic crystal structures that allow a simultaneous control of both photonic and phononic waves. The final goal is to push the performance of optical devices well beyond the state of the art by this radically new approach. By merging both fields (nanophotonics and nanophononics) within a same platform, novel unprecedented control of light and sound in very small regions will be achieved. The project will cover from the development of theoretical and numerical tools to deal simultaneously with light and sound to the application to three high-impact scenarios in the field of ICT: i) phonon-assisted light emission in Silicon, ii) control of photon speed (delay and storage) by SBS in Silicon photonic chips, and iii) realization of highly-sensitive dual phoXonic sensors.

Keywords: photonic crystals,phononic crystals,silicon-on-insulator,silicon laser,optical delay lines and storage,sensor
SAFETY OF WINTER NAVIGATION IN DYNAMIC ICE (SAFEWIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Russian Federation,Sweden,Sweden,Estonia,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3826310.67
EU funding (EUR): 2923734.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The present projectaims to develope – an efficient ice compression and ice dynamics forecasting system – which is precisely aimed in increasing the safety of winter navigation in dynamic ice conditions. This system is particularly efficient in case of large, AFRAMAX size or larger, oil tankers navigating in the Baltic, Okhotsk Sea and also in the western Russian Arctic. These tankers include a large parallel midbody and a hull form that is not especially suitable for ice breaking. A hull rupture of these tankers in compressive ice would lead to catastrophic consequences in the Baltic. Further, the Baltic icebreaking system including the ice services are now responding to the increased tanker traffic to and from the Russian terminals in the eastern Baltic. Similar change is likely to occur in the Okhotsk Sea, Russian western Arctic and possibly also in the White Sea. In developing ice service products applicable in these new sea areas, the present project contributes towards topics safety of ice navigation. Finally, it has been the observation of the Finnish and Swedish icebreaker services that the crews of the ice strengthened vessels do not have the necessary experience for winter navigation. The Baltic Icebreaker Management (BIM, see www.baltice.org) is making every effort to increase the awareness for winter operations and ice conditions – also awareness about the ice service products. A timely, easily comprehended, standardized and homogenized operational advice and ice navigation in a form of ice charts and ice forecasts will reduce the risk of human error in interpreting ice conditions and selecting a route through ice. Project also aims to understand the effect of ship structures onto risk of compressive ice damages. This knowledge will used then to redesign some part of the structure so to achieve the best possible damage resistance with reduction in structural weight.

Keywords: ships,safety,winter navigation,icebreaker assistance
Maintenance on Demand (MODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,Germany,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5727940.0
EU funding (EUR): 3751351.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In the commercial vehicle industry, service contract are of prime importance both for dealers and customers. Selling service contract impose to the dealers to guarantee the best level of services when it comes to maintain customer vehicles. Dealers must avoid, as far as possible, unplanned stop to happen and consequently guarantee to the customer an optimal availability of his vehicles. On a customer perspective, the service contract is a guarantee he will keep a constant level of performance when using his vehicle in his day-by-day business. Moreover, it also represents an important source of expenses. For the vehicle manufactures to ensure a cer-tain level of vehicle uptime, it is necessary to have precise knowledge of the vehicle health state and to minimize the immobilization time in case of a breakdown. New researches results in the field of condition monitoring and prediction of remaining life time of vehicle components will give an accurate image of the vehicle health status. This information can result in a dynamic maintenance planning, maintenance on the fly and repair on the fly. Research activities in the field of capturing work loads and operational constraints will be used to analyze vehicle configuration, operating conditions and vehicle usage. That will be beneficial to develop new sales offers. Progressively “mobility” offers should replace “service contract” based on the combination of hard products (vehicle configuration) and relevant soft products (services). The system will be able to balance adequate between the current offer and the vehicle data feedback and analysis. The vehicle aftermarket sales are one of the major sources of revenue for the vehicle manu-factures today. In contrary to this, for the transport sector (the users of the vehicle) the vehicle downtime (when the vehicle can’t operate) is a huge cost. The projects vision is to provide the enablers to maximize the vehicle uptime during the complete life-cycle.

Keywords: maintenace on demand,structure health monitoring,maintenance on the fly,repair on the fly,predictive maintenance
Greening of surface transport through an innovative and competitive CARGO-VESSEL Concept connecting marine and fluvial intermodal ports. (EU-CARGOXPRESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,Spain,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,Greece,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3811257.86
EU funding (EUR): 2600788.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

EU CargoXpress is going to develop a groundbreaking innovative cargo vessel to meet the expectations of green transport and contributing to decongesting of Europe’s roads. It gives particular attention to the role of SMEs not only in the composition of the consortium (2 out of 6 industry partners are SMEs plus 6 research institutions and a public body) but also when delivering the design of the cargo vessel of the future which is particularly suited for the small and medium sized European Shipyards and equipment suppliers. The vessel Concept EU-CargoXpress goes far beyond existing approaches from aspects of • ship equipment (combined superstructure with bridge, crane and sail) • new propulsion Concept (superconducting energy conversion, PODs) • ship structure (lightweight fit for serial production) • maintenance (modularised/ standardised and “boxed” equipment for immediate exchange rather than repair on board) • ship operation (sailor in home base, through fixed routes) and promotes a logistic philosophy which has the potential to revolutionize the Short Sea Shipping (SSS) business in the Motorways-of-the-Sea. It follows the Ryanair approach which has developed service to hundreds of small airports.EU-CARGOEXPRESS will do a similar thing it provides a high tech vessel for medium and small marine or fluvial ports to shorten considerably the remaining road-transport. This will clearly impact on CO2 and other pollutants emission. First calculations show a potential of total fuel savings of 10,3 Mt/year which accounts for 0,63 % of total EU25 energy consumption per year, when applying the concept to the next 3000 newbuildings for SSS.

Keywords: short sea shipping,cargo vessel,greening of transport,logistic concept,new propulsion concept,light weight structure fit for serial production
Unipolar Nitride Photonic Devices (UNITRIDE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Switzerland,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1840679.0
EU funding (EUR): 1408076.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at investigating the building blocks of an emerging semiconductor technology for high-performance photonic devices operating in the near infrared (NIR). We will make use of nitride semiconductors [Ga(In)N/Al(Ga,In)N] and engineer the electronic quantum confinement at the nanometer scale to realize unipolar devices relying on intersubband (ISB) transitions. While the existing NIR optoelectronic technology is dominated by InGaAsP/InP or GaInAs/GaAsSb-based interband devices, nitride ISB devices will provide superior performance and novel functionalities like wavelength tunability, speed, high power and temperature handling capabilities, temperature insensitivity and material hardness. It is important to outline the novelty of the research in nitride ISB devices, a technology whose performance capabilities and intrinsic limits remain unknown. Our approach consists in applying novel design concepts and recently-acquired know-how on nitride molecular beam epitaxy to the realization of nitride ISB devices with unprecedented performance. The project includes the development of innovative devices which have not been investigated so far, such as electro-optical ISB phase modulators or nitride-based unipolar lasers. The ultimate deliverables are ultra-high-speed electro-optical modulators, photodetectors and lasers. Establishing a new state-of-the-art for design, growth and processing of nitride heterostructures, and developing an advanced know-how on nitride devices are major challenges. The consortium regroups four world-class academic experts on nitride technologies, ISB devices and NIR optoelectronics. The strategy has been designed based on a careful assessment of the risk associated to all tasks. This project is expected to generate strong impacts in terms of photonic applications and IPR issues.

Keywords: nitride semiconductors,intersubband transitions,near-infrared photonic devices,quantum cascade lasers.
Integrated system for safe transportation of children to school (SAFEWAY2SCHOOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Greece,Austria,Italy,Germany,Italy,Poland,Sweden,Sweden,France,Sweden,Sweden,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3674421.0
EU funding (EUR): 2764638.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Between 1994 and 2001, 361 children were injured or killed during transportation to/from their school in Sweden, whereas 455 were killed or injured in Austria only in 2007 and 97 were killed in Italy in 2005. In a single school bus accident in Greece in 2003, 20 children lost their lives. Different as the above numbers may be, they all tell us one thing: Crashes involving school buses and crashes involving children traveling from/to school, are far from negligible and require further efforts to be drastically reduced. SAFEWAY2SCHOOL aims to design, develop, integrate and evaluate technologies for providing a holistic and safe transportation service for children, from their home door to the school door and vice versa, encompassing tools, services and training for all key actors in the relevant transportation chain. These include optimal route planning and rerouting for school buses to maximize safety, on-board safety applications (i.e. for speed control and seat belts), “intelligent” bus stops, effective warning and information systems for bus drivers, children, parents and the surrounding traffic; as well as training schemes for all actors. The project innovative systems, services and training schemes will be tested in 4 sites Europewide, including North (Sweden), Central (Austria), South (Italy) and Eastern (Poland) Europe; to evaluate their usability, efficiency, user acceptance and market viability; taking into account the very different children’s transportation to/from school systems across the different European regions as well as key cultural and socio-economic aspects.

Keywords: school bus,holistic approach,door to door perspective,safety for children,route planning,rerout,v2i
Satellite Application For Emergency handling, Traffic alerts, Road safety and Incident Prevention (SAFETRIP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,Spain,Hungary,Germany,Italy,France,France,Spain,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11580567.13
EU funding (EUR): 7890199.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

SafeTRIP project’s general objective is to improve the use of road transport infrastructures and to improve the alert chain (information / prevention / intervention) in case of incidents by offering an integrated system from data collection to transport safety service provision. SafeTRIP directly contributes to the achievement of the EC objectives regarding road transport safety, road mortality reduction and environment protection. SafeTRIP benefits from a new satellite technology: the S-band supported by the W2A satellite that was launched in April 2009. Opening new perspectives for European telecommunications, the S-band transmitter is optimized for content delivery and two-way communications for on-board vehicles units interoperable with Galileo and UMTS systems. This new satellite technology gives the opportunity to progress beyond the state of art allowing communicating in both directions with mobile units (down link and up link). It presents determinant advantages, including global and full coverage on the European scale, multicast data transmission, quick and easy deployment, ecologic energy as the satellite operates through solar panels. Low price on-board-units (GREENBOX receiver) will be installed in vehicles to provide personalised services: emergency calls and messages, traffic alerts, incident / accident warning, speed alert, floating car data, vehicle monitoring, vehicle tracking and tracing, eco driving monitoring, driver behaviour monitoring, etc. These customer-oriented applications dedicated to cars drivers & passengers, buses / coaches drivers & passengers and road operators will be tested in the field, by French and Spanish road operators and road users. SafeTRIP is probably one of the most innovative projects of the last decades due to its holistic approach integrating: infrastructure / vehicle / drivers. Within the SafeTRIP consortium, transportation actors and services providers will work together to predict road conditions and to reinforce the safety chain, both at local and global levels.

Keywords: integral system solutions for safety
Future Seaplane Traffic - Transport Technologies for the Future (FUSETRA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,Germany,Malta
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 397772.0
EU funding (EUR): 397772.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

IATA forecasts an annual air traffic growth of at least 5% for the coming years. As a consequence the capacity overload of current airports has considerably grown. The huge shore lines and number of islands in Europe which were increased by the new EC member states offer a great potential for an international air traffic system uisng seaplanes and amphibians. With these vehicles new traffic routes can be developed with the advantage of using natural landing strips. By using amphibians direct connections from shorelines to airports can be realised. The mobility of a large population will be improved. Operators and entrepreneurs interested in starting new seaplane businesses report about missing modern airplanes, international standards and rules and missing expertise of various stakeholders. Based on this preliminary analysis the proposal aims to investigate the today´s seaplane situation and to evaluate the weaknesses and strenghts and to elaborate a set of concepts and requirements for a future seaplane air transportation system for &quot;Improving passenger choice in air transportation&quot; including technical requirements for &quot; new vehicles&quot;. The elaboration of new concepts shall be based on existing experiences and its evaluation and on research work focussing on future oriented traffic system concepts including the integration into a sea/air/land traffic chain. In order to collect all available experiences and ideas as a basis for effective future traffic concepts workshops shall be organized by bringing together all relevant stakeholders. One workshop shall be arranged in the Mediterreanean (Greece, Italy or Spain) one in Poland and one in GB or France. The workshops will support the dissemination of the SA results and of FP7 and ACARE policies, too. Beside the reqirements for the new transport system a road map for needed regulatory issues will be compiled supported by EASA. The partners coming from seaplane operation, amphibian industy and from aeronautical research guarantee a successful SA.

Keywords: amphibian,seaplane,seaplane traffic,seapark,future transport system,sea/air/land integration,workshops
Railway Vehicle Dynamics and Track Interactions Total Regulatory Acceptance for the Interoperable Network (DYNOTRAIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Italy,France,Spain,Sweden,France,Spain,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5545222.0
EU funding (EUR): 3258795.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The certification of a rail vehicle according to European regulations, Technical Specifications for Interoperability, European Standards and national safety rules represents a significant element of both vehicle cost and time to market. Indeed, a large part of vehicle certification mandates testing for safety, performance and infrastructure compatibility. The new EN standards together with the CR/HS RST and INS TSI define test conditions and limit values for tests for acceptance of running safety parameters. DYNOTRAIN will contribute to the practical implementation of interoperability of railways systems across Europe by checking for inconsistencies and “open points” in the existing acceptance criteria and by proposing revisions of acceptance criteria in European standards and resolutions to close relevant “open points” in the TSI. The project aims at decreasing the costs associated with certification without reducing the safety level to enhance the competitiveness of rail traffic. The project is part of the TRIO-TRAIN cluster (Total Regulatory Acceptance for the Interoperable Network) which comprises 3 related projects dealing with key railway interoperability issues: Aerodynamics (AEROTRAIN), Railway Dynamics and Track Interaction (DYNOTRAIN) and Pantograph/Catenary Interaction (PANTOTRAIN) all submitted under the 2nd Call of the FP7. The objective of these projects is to propose an innovative methodology via a computer simulation/virtual homologation that will allow multi-system network and route approval in Europe to become a faster, cheaper and better process for all involved stakeholders. Therefore the success of the TRIOTRAIN cluster will lead to a time reduction for relevant parts of the certification process from 24 to 6 months; an 80% saving in effort for the acceptance of a new vehicle already accepted in an other country and an estimated financial saving of €20-50 Million/year.

Keywords: technical specification for interoperability,cross-acceptance,certification process