Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Adaptive Data and Power Aware Transceivers for Optical Communications (ADDAPT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,Cyprus,Netherlands,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4742760.0
EU funding (EUR): 3138508.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Existing optical networks are driven by dynamic user demands but operate statically at their maximum performance and do not offer much adaptability. Thus the links are not energy-efficient. ADDAPT aims at the development and technology take-up of dynamic transceiver subsystems. By implementing performance and power adaptivity from system down to optical device, electrical circuit and transistor level, flexible energy-efficient optical transmission links are enabled which pave the way for massive reductions of CO2 emission and costs.Depending on the actual data load, the number of activated link paths and individual device parameters like bandwidth, clock rate, modulation format and gain are adapted to enable lowering the supply power. Several control types are investigated: cognitive adaption based on predetermined or time averaged loads and real-time adaption. Driven by control units including smart algorithms, the devices can be tuned from 8 to 56 Gb/s. Novel adaptive directly modulated lasers and photodetectors designed for near-field light coupling are developed to allow self-aligned low-cost waveguide assemblies with minimum optical power losses. Laser bandwidths beyond 30 GHz and power consumption can be traded off and controlled by driver circuits. Circuits such as amplifiers, drivers and clock data recoveries are designed in energy-efficient 14 nm CMOS and can be adjusted via current sources, dc/dc converters and switches. High-speed, low-loss packaging solutions using glass or ceramics are developed. An optical communication platform tailored for data centers is designed with 4 link paths and 10 m link distance for verification of speed adaption from 0.224 Tb/s to 8 Gb/s with power saving factors of up to 6. ADDAPT is market and standard driven and combines the complementary competences of 2 large companies, 3 SMEs and 2 universities including device manufacturers, suppliers of communication equipment and network operators from 6 EU/associated countries.

Keywords: energy-efficiency,adaptitivity,low-cost optical interconncets,elctro-optical transceiver,high-speed transceiver module
Modelling Reliability under Variability (MORV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Belgium,France,Austria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4159110.0
EU funding (EUR): 3058000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

While feature sizes are continuously scaled towards atomic dimensions, industry is increasingly confronted with unexpected physical artefacts to be considered at each new technology node. Among these, process variation and parameter degradation lead to reliability concerns impacting integrated circuit design at all abstraction levels. As variation and degradation may become a limiting factor for future scaled technologies, there has been a tremendous research effort in understanding these artefacts. Versatile tools, allowing consideration of these artefacts and their combined impact during the design of ICs are still in their infancy. Rather than developing yet another design support methodology, we aim to combine and refine existing reliability and variability prediction methodologies at the abstraction layers with highest industrial importance: Register transfer (RT) level - usual design entry, gate level – where most design for reliability (DfR) techniques are applied, and transistor level - where final sign-off is made.MoRV will cover the strong relationship between variability and ageing, which are usually treated separately, fostering the idea of treating ageing as a form of time-dependent variability. Combined models from transistor, over gate, to RT level will be characterized directly from silicon measurement and all models will be able to interpret the same characterization data base from the silicon measurement.The results will be introduced into a reference design flow combined with a multi-level multi-physics engine. Final goal of MoRV is to enable automated synthesis from specification to circuit. Each model layer will offer reliability and variation prediction for typical and worst case scenarios in order to assess the effectiveness of available design techniques.

Keywords: reliability,process variation,variability,design for reliability,multi-physics simulation,solid state physics,compact model,circuit model,macro model
Avionic X-band Weather signal modeling and processing vALidation through real Data acquisition and analysis (X-WALD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999512.0
EU funding (EUR): 656011.8
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The MAIN OBJECTIVE of the project is to plan and run ad hoc measurements finalized to test, validate and optimize: 1) The radar signal simulator CleoSIm developed in the CLEOPATRA project; 2) The radar signal processing and weather classification algorithms implemented on an EFB in the KLEAN project. 3) The EFB GUI interfaces for the advanced display of weather classifications and decision-making advices (KLEAN project) To achieve this goal, the following SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES are aimed at: 1) X-BAND polarimetric radar overview, selection and acquisition. The radar must be suitable to be mounted on airborne platform for gathering data in presence of weather events in compliance with the JU-SGO goals 2) Planning the ad hoc measurement campaign in well-monitored selected scenarios 3) Experiments conduction and data acquisition 4) Validation, optimization and SW refinement of the avionic polarimetric radar signal simulator (CleoSIM) 5) Validation, optimization of the EFB weather radar signal processing and trajectory optimization algorithms (KLEAN project) 6) Refine the EFB GUI in accordance with the new needs resulting from the experimental data analysis 7) EFB SW refinement and implementation to a level TRL5 (Technology Readiness Level 5)

Keywords: weather,polarimetry,radar,efb,green trajectories,validation,experiments
FET Flagship ERA-NET (FLAG-ERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Germany,Spain,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Latvia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Sweden,Türkiye,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2232766.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The FET Flagship ERA-NET, called FLAG-ERA, gathers national and regional funding organisation with the goal of supporting the FET Flagship initiatives and more generally the FET Flagship concept. Most funding organisations in Europe participate, either directly or as associated members. The project also fosters international cooperation with funding organisations outside Europe. FLAG-ERA thus offers a platform to coordinate a wide range of sources of funding towards the realization of very ambitious research goals. FLAG-ERA contributes to the construction of the two Flagship initiatives on Graphene and Human Brain research, and also offers support to the four non-selected pilots to progress towards their goals with adapted means. It does so through a range of activities. In order to enable researchers funded through various sources to work in tight cooperation with each other in the context of the two Flagships, the funding organisations in FLAG-ERA coordinate their funding framework conditions. In order to enhance complementarities and synergies of regional, national and European research programmes and initiatives, the funding organisations share information on these programmes and initiatives, identify gaps and overlaps, and can thus adapt their thematic program and launch new initiatives according to the identified needs. In particular, they can launch transnational calls enabling researchers from different countries to propose joint contributions to the Flagships. Additionally, in order to encourage the actual construction of the Flagships and take-up of their results, the funding organisations organise networking sessions for the research communities and other stakeholders, including industry. The activities in FLAG-ERA are organised around periodic events gathering all stakeholders and structured in sessions dedicated to the various objectives and related tasks of the project. All activities are done with the long-term vision of the Flagship programme in mind, and the project extends slightly beyond the ramp-up phase in order to accompany the transition to the fully operational phase of the Flagships.

Keywords: flagships - graphene - human brain research - enhance complementarities and synergies - joint transnational calls - workshops
Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Creativity and Learning
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Norway,Sweden,Netherlands,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1447280.0
EU funding (EUR): 1296517.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

LACE partners are passionate about the opportunities afforded by current and future views of learning analytics (LA) and EDM but we are concerned about missed opportunities, undesirable consequences of mis-application, investment funding failing to realise value, market failure, etc. LACE is our response, a project proposal to reduce risk and to increase benefit through an approach that accounts for the necessary unity of research, policy and practice.LACE comprises a range of activities designed to actively and passively integrate communities that are conducting LA/EDM research, early practitioner adopters, and those who are building first-generation commercial or open-source software. This integration would be used to stimulate creativity and accelerate the identification of viable and effective solutions to real problems, and hence to drive both current research and technology transfer.LACE will create and curate a knowledge base of evidence. This will capture evidence for the effectiveness and the relative desirability of the outcomes resulting from use of various tools and techniques.LACE will actively participate in the exploration of plausible futures for learning analytics and EDM by combining the creation of imaginative scenarios with participatory workshops and structured methods including a Policy Delphi to assess differences of opinion about the feasibility and desirability of possible future states, thus informing future research and policy agendas.

Keywords: learning analytics,edm,data mining,community,methods
Energy Efficient Tunnel FET Switches and Circuits (E2SWITCH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Sweden,Belgium,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6216649.0
EU funding (EUR): 4374000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

E2SWITCH focuses on Tunnel FET (TFETs) as most promising energy efficient device candidates able to reduce the voltage supply of integrated circuits (ICs) below 0.25V and make them significantly more energy efficient by exploiting strained SiGe/Ge and III-V platforms, with CMOS technological compatibility. A full optimization and DC/AC benchmarking for complementary n- and p-type TFETs, integrated on the same fabrication platform, is proposed. Compact models are developed and implemented in Verilog A, for portability, to support the design of low power ICs with CMOS architectural compatibility for: (i) digital and (ii) analog/RF. The device scalability, operational reliability and the operation from room to high temperature, as required by ITRS metrics, are priorities of our investigations. In order to push even more the III-V and SiGe/Ge TFET performance we propose to study, optimize and experimentally validate new device concepts such as a Density-Of-State (DOS) switch exploiting the effect of dimensionality. The DOS switch will deliver deep subthermal switching (subthreshold swing less than 10mV/decade, for at least four decades of current).An advanced TCAD simulation platform is developed for the selected material systems, able to capture quantum effects and to accurately predict the influence of dimensionality. TCAD will also support the optimization of TFETs on the two proposed material platforms, with emphasis on the role of strain and on the alignment between the tunneling path and the electric field.A full set of characterization techniques including DC, AC, low frequency noise, RF measurements (S-parameters) and large range of temperature is foreseen to support the device optimization, parameter extraction and the calibration of the compact models.We will deliver very first full digital and analog circuit demonstrators and will benchmark their operational performance, reliability and robustness compared to equivalent CMOS technology nodes.

Keywords: energy efficient switch,tunnel fet,nanotechnology iii-v,sige and ge,low power integrated circuits,digital and analog/rf circuits,cmos,simulation and modeling of nanolectronic devices & circuits
Event Prediction and Decision Support based on Huge Data from Physical-Social Systems (EPPICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8480714.0
EU funding (EUR): 6562000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Miniaturisation, progress with energy issues and cost reductions have resulted in rapid growth in deployment of networked devices and sensors, very strongly connecting the internet with the physical world. With wide adoption of smartphones and social media, also people have become key sources of information about the physical world, corresponding events and the intents and plans of many individuals. With more than a billion of people organizing their lives electronically and sharing information via social platforms on the Internet and with the number of devices connected to the Internet already exceeding the number of people on earth and still growing to an estimated 50 billion devices by 2020, handling these massive amounts of data becomes a huge challenge. Surmounting this challenge, however, may give us previously unattainable understanding of events and changes in our surrounding environments. EPPICS will develop large scale adaptive methods to enable pervasive modelling, monitoring and predicting of events in the real world by extracting and combining data and information from physical and social sensors. Such methods will be integrated into a platform that will support citizens, authorities and organizations in taking informed and timely decisions when tackling real world events. Application domains will cover the intelligent management in urban settings with a particular focus on city-wide events management as well as water management, specifically monitoring and reacting to widespread floods. EPPICS will provide the technological and methodological framework for the capturing, integrating, modeling and forecasting of the large-scale hybrid information deriving from hundreds of sensors, thousands of cars and large-scale social media. The technology will enable the authorities a huge leap in terms of the ability to manage large events where hundreds of thousands of people are involved at the same time.

Keywords: event modeling and prediction,physical and social sensors,large scale stream data analysis,traffic management,water management
An integrated development environment for portable network applications (NETIDE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Germany,Italy,Ireland,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4494967.0
EU funding (EUR): 2844000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

While most of programmable network gear vendors support OpenFlow nowadays, a number of fragmented control plane solutions exist for proprietary software-defined networks. Thus, network applications developers need to re-code their solutions every time they target a network infrastructure based on a different controller. Moreover, different network developers adopt different solutions as abstract control plane programming language (e.g. Frenetic, Procera), leading to network programs that are neither reusable nor shareable. So, despite OpenFlow being the candidate for a standard interface between the controller and the network infrastructure, interworking between different controllers and network devices is hindered and walled gardens are emerging. NetIDE will deliver a single integrated development environment to support the whole development lifecycle of network controller programs in a vendor-independent fashion. NetIDE will approach the problem by proposing an architecture that will allow the different representations to be used to program the network and different controllers to execute the network programs. In particular, NetIDE will define an abstraction mechanism that allows implementing Network Applications for a controller of choice and deploying and running them on top of other controllers supporting different programming languages and APIs.. Around it, we will explore fundamental research topics, such as: development and composition of controller agnostic Network Apps (applications that control network behavior) and Network Services (services that support the task of network controllers); cross-controller debugging and profiling of network programs; heterogeneous network programming; network programming with simulators in the loop. The NetIDE architecture will include a developer toolkit to allow creation of Network Apps, and a Network App Engine supporting the execution and testing of these Network Apps. NetIDE will result in one-stop solution for the development of SDN applications that covers the whole development lifecycle.

Keywords: software-defined networking,integrated development environment,openflow,vendor agnostic,network programming languages,network model checking,network debugging,network resource management
VIMSEN: Virtual Microgrids for Smart Energy Networks (VIMSEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Ireland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3406649.0
EU funding (EUR): 2247000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The subsidy feed in tariff policy, which has recently been adopted for accelerating renewable energy investments, cannot be retained as a sustainable business model for the future smart energy grid. This is mainly because this policy increases the energy cost, especially when the amount of the energy generated by renewable sources is not negligible compared to that generated by traditional ones, as is expected to be the case in the near future. Additionally, the current centralized electricity market prevents small or very small energy producers, who usually generate energy by renewable means (e.g., photovoltaic units or wind turbines), to participate. VIMSEN addresses the aforementioned difficulties by transforming the current centralized electricity market framework into a distributed one, introducing the concept of virtual micro-grid networks. Virtual micro-grids (VMGs) are associations of distributed energy generators and/or micro-grid networks that have agreed to operate on a common basis. VMGs provides flexibility to small or very small energy generators, since, i) they can re-distribute energy resources with each other to compensate energy production-distribution, and ii) they can directly participate in the electricity market through the respective association, which acts similarly as a big power generator unit. VIMSEN researches i) on an intelligent data metering techniques suitable for the VMG distributed network, ii) on information and decision making technologies for the dynamic VMG creation in a way to optimize the participants’ benefits and macro-grid perspectives, iii) on a reliable communication infrastructure that permits Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning for data exchange in the VMG network and iv) on an active energy management and control tool for the operation of the virtual micro-grid as a common virtual power unit. Business models to investigate the trade-off between the benefits of the association and the cost of the technologies needed to establish the VMGs will also be developed.

Keywords: active energy management,decision making,communication technologies,intelligent data acquisition