Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Adaptive Software Defined Terabit Transceiver for Flexible Optical Networks (ASTRON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Israel,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Japan,Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4558124.0
EU funding (EUR): 3199970.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

ASTRON aims at the development of high-capacity, energy-efficient and bit-rate flexible optical transceivers capable of supporting rates from 10Gb/s to beyond 1Tb/s. The ASTRON concept is based on developing multi-functional and agile devices so as to achieve Terabit capacities on a single photonic integrated chip. ASTRON's transceiver can realize different techniques of flexible super-channel generation (OFDM/Nyquist WDM) and does so without requiring any IDFT/DFT processing in the electronic domain, thus achieving ultra-high capacity with significant improvements on the energy efficiency per transmitted bit. To implement optically the IDFT/DFT functions, a special design arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) based planar lightwave device will be developed. ASTRON relies on the combination of InP monolithic elements and Silica planar lightwave circuits for achieving cost-effectiveness, high yield, low power consumption and device scaling far in advance of the level commercially available today. The transmitter module that implements the optical super-channels employs a planar optical multi-channel Silica motherboard carrying four hybridly integrated InP-based twin-IQ Mach-Zehnder Modulators in combination with a novel 8x8 AWG-based waveguide structures on board. The receiver is a fully integrated, multi-channel optical coherent receiver module consisting of a similar 8x8 AWG-based waveguide structure with DFT functionality, eight 90° hybrids and high speed balanced photo-detector arrays of 32 active elements per polarisation, hybridly integrated onto a Silica motherboard. Additionally, ASTRON will develop advanced digital signal processing algorithms for impairment mitigation and a novel software-defined signal processing module that renders the transceiver flexible in terms of format, bit rate and spectrum utilization. Each component within this project is not just aimed for a one time demonstration but is fabricated keeping one eye on commercialisation.

Keywords: optical transceivers,monolithic integration,hybrid integration,iq-mach zehnder modulators arrays,coherent receiver,terabit transmission,software defined transceivers,photonic integrated circuit
Interdisciplinary Modelling of Climate Change in Coastal Western Antarctica - Network for Staff Exchange and Training (IMCONET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,Spain,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 858900.0
EU funding (EUR): 858900.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed European-US and South American network IMCONet will advance climate and (eco-) system change research at the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), a region of recent rapid aerial warming. WAP glaciers contribute to global sea level rise, and functioning and services of coastal ecosystems are massively threatened by the fast regional warming. Data sets from recent interdisciplinary European-South American field work within ESF-IMCOAST (PolarCLIMATE April 2010-March 2013) and from the Jubany scientific core programme at King George Island (KGI) will be connected and cross-validated with southern stations on WAP: the US Palmer and the British Rothera station. Links with both stations and program leaders (Ducklow, CU, New York, US (formerly at MBL Woods Hole,US); and Meredith, NERC-BAS, Cambridge, UK) have been established in IMCOAST. IMCONet objectives are A) to develop predictive climate change and ecosystem models for the whole WAP coastal environment based on existing data sets and data exchange policies, B) transfer of knowledge between partner countries to enhance collaboration with high quality long-term measuring programs at all 3 stations, to fill present measuring gaps. This will solidify the basis for the prediction of climate change effects in the South. The proposed consortium consists of 16 institutional partners across 10 countries with 85 travelling scientists. Ten partners already collaborate successfully as EU and associated teams in ESF-IMCOAST, and IMCONet will be coordinated by the same PI (Abele, AWI). Whereas ESRs are seconded mostly for longer training and collaboration periods, exchange of ERs will also foster joint teaching in the partner countries and collaboration in future science projects. The concept of IMCONet is to strengthen European engagement in Antarctic climate change research, as complementing approach to the major EU focus in the Arctic. It will sustain ongoing European Antarctic research in a future network with competent South American partners.

Keywords: v201 climatology and climate change,v201 paleoclimatology - paleoecology,v201 biogeochemistry - environmental chemistry,v306 environmental and marine biology,v309 systems evolution - biological adapta
Automated Measurement and Analysis of Open Source Software (OSSMETER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,France,Portugal,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3589297.0
EU funding (EUR): 2603000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

OSSMETER aims to extend the state-of-the-art in the field of automated analysis and measurement of open-source software (OSS), and develop a platform that will support decision makers in the process of discovering, comparing, assessing and monitoring the health, quality, impact and activity of open-source software. To achieve this OSSMETER will compute trustworthy quality indicators by performing advanced analysis and integration of information from diverse sources including the project metadata, source code repositories, communication channels, bug tracking systems of OSS projects. OSSMETER does not aim at building another OSS forge but instead at providing a metaplatform for analysing existing OSS projects that are developed in existing OSS forges and foundations such as SourceForge, Google Code, GitHub, Eclipse, Mozilla and Apache.

Keywords: open source software,software metrics,software quality analysis
Facilitate Industry and Research in Europe (FIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Estonia,Spain,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1466606.0
EU funding (EUR): 1343582.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The FIRE project will provide a strategic approach, organizational support and network capability for researchers, technology developers, consultants, system integrators and governments to improve their European co-operation by addressing challenges in the current fragmented landscape. The project will facilitate information security companies to improve take-up of European Trustworthy ICT research, and also enable researchers to connect and exploit their technology solutions with the information security technology companies, systems integrators and end users. The project will also contribute to aligning European Trustworthy ICT research with specific market sector requirements for exploitation. The project will be able to support coordination by developing pan-EU cluster strategy and research agendas/roadmaps in key research areas (identified from existing activities such as the RISEPTIS/Think-Trust report). Industry research challenges/needs will be identified for key market sectors including energy, finance, healthcare, mobile communications and addressed by Cluster Research Working Groups. FIRE will impact and improve most importantly the European industrial competitiveness in markets of trustworthy ICT. Effort will be undertaken to find alignment and collaborative or export opportunities of the European technology solutions with other targeted markets such as the US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Japan.FIRE will be carried out by a balanced consortium formed by European cluster networks including as members SMEs, large companies, end-users, research organizations and experts of security companies led by an ICT association active in several relevant sectors and domains. This configuration guarantees a consistent dialogue with stakeholders through Cluster networks taking account of the goals of research institutions and the industry of privacy, trust and acceptability.

Keywords: ca european trustworthy ict clusters,improving competitiveness,coordination between industry and research,improve research,international collaboration
STandard Analysis supporting smart eneRgy GRID development (STARGRID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1279406.0
EU funding (EUR): 928236.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The STARGRID project aims to obtain a comprehensive picture of Smart Grid standardisation procedures and to critically assess the large and complex standardisation landscape on Smart Grids at international level, including the industry new developments and initiatives in this field. The standards analysis to be accomplished during the project will consider the available results of the Smart Grid Coordination Group (SGCG) and other groups. Despite this, the STARGRID Consortium will provide a view independent from interest of those stakeholders (utilities, large manufacturers,…) participating in the standardisation committees or coordination groups. STARGRID will incorporate the view and opinion of the industry about the smart grid standards, extending the scope beyond the EU “Smart Grid Mandate” M490. Many experts are convinced that the main obstacle for turning the Smart Grid into reality will not be the lack of applicable and mature standards but the adoption and implementation across the broad range of technologies concerned. With many projects already underway and a wide range of technical and business scenarios discussed, there seems to be a lack of standards awareness. STARGRID interaction with industry aims to mitigate this barrier for smart grids effective deployment. The described concept of the STARGRID proposal is implemented through the following specific objectives of the project: • Compile, organise and distil both existing standardisation documents and industry initiatives information on smart grids at international level, to establish the State of the Art in this field. • Analysis of the gathered material according to a defined methodology and criteria. • Incorporation to the assessment process of the view of the industry of both power and ICT sectors by means of interviews, workshops, fair visits, etc.. Dissemination of the analysis results, conclusions and recommendations to the industry, standardisation organisation and to the European Commission.

Keywords: standards,standardisation bodies,smart grid,gap identification,recommendations,industry initiatives,analysis
A High-volume Fusion and Analysis Platform for Geospatial Point Clouds, Coverages and Volumetric Data Sets (IQMULUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,France,France,Germany,Hungary,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10922399.0
EU funding (EUR): 8100000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

For geospatial applications, huge amounts of heterogeneous data sets of different topology are collected nowadays with different data acquisition techniques. Especially airborne and mobile platform LIDAR data are becoming ubiquitous, but SAR and stereophotogrammetry also contribute to the rapid growth of geotopographical data sets to sizes of tens to hundreds of TBs. Due to the problems of handling such large data volumes and the difficulty of fusing point clouds of heterogeneous provenance, rasters, volumetric data and 2D vector data, many of those new data sets are not used appropriately or not at all. Therefore, IQmulus is targeting to enable optimized use of large, heterogeneous geo-spatial data sets for better decision making through a high-volume fusion and analysis information management platform. This platform will transpose approaches and IT standards from distributed computing to enable distributed, service-oriented geospatial processing. We will determine optimal execution and distribution parameters for different geospatial processing tasks and to ensure that the IQmulus system can transparently execute processing on different architectures like GPGPU clusters or clouds. Methods will be developed to connect processing and visualization into a tight loop, ensuring high interactivity in the process to enable users to better understand correlations between heterogeneous data sets. Two testbeds will be implemented in IQmulus (Maritime Spatial Planning & Land Applications for Rapid Response and Territorial Management) to show the benefits of the approach for decision makers such as European industries interested in exploiting sea-borne resources such as renewable energy from wind parks, and citizens affected by emergency cases that require quick response. Result dissemination and evaluation of the IQmulus approach will be handled via a managed user group of relevant stakeholders such as political decision makers, geospatial processing developers and industry

Keywords: geographical information systems,data fusion,geospatial point clouds,test scenario for marine spatial planning,test scenario for rapid response and territorial management
Energy-Aware Sustainable Computing on Future Technology – Paving the Road to Exascale Computing (EXA2GREEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2958899.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The EXA2GREEN project aims at developing a radically new energy aware computing paradigm and programming methodology for exascale computing. The key aspect of the proposed approach is that the issue of energy consumption and the resulting trade-off with the performance and the accuracy of the overall simulation process will be taken into account in all simulation levels: from the kernel, numerical/combinatorial building blocks to the application level by means of the considered mathematical models. The proposed approach of Energy-Aware Numerics goes beyond the standard hardware level or operating software stack usually considered for energy issues and puts the application in the centre of the scene for all aspects related to energy efficiency. The EXA2GREEN project takes up this multidisciplinary challenge by bringing together HPC experts, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and engineers. The project team is part of an emerging, multidisciplinary European research community and covers all essential fields of expertise, which allow opening absolutely new perspectives in the area of energy-aware numerics in the exascale era. The overall goal of this project is to develop unconventional ideas in order to cope with the issue of power consumption. Reducing the power requirement by a factor of at least 100 is the challenge which needs to be addressed in order to be able to use this technology in a meaningful way. This is one of the reason why making the transition to exascale computing requests radical transformation in the current perception of numerical simulation in high performance computing. The viability of the proposed approach will be investigated considering a proof of concept where the energy footprint of a large and operational meteorological model for atmospheric and aerosol simulation (COSMO-ART) will be analysed.

Keywords: green computing,high performance computing,power wall,exascale computing,cosmo-art
Monolithic Widely Tunable Interband Cascade Lasers for Safety and Security (WIDELASE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Germany,Norway,Netherlands,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3159626.0
EU funding (EUR): 2200000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The WideLase proposal focuses on compact, rugged and cost effective laser sources with wide tuning range for safety and security applications in the 3.3 to 7.0 µm wavelength range. Three particular challenging applications with significant market potential are investigated within the project. There are no suitable application grade semiconductor lasers for these sensor applications yet available on the market. The aim of the WideLase proposal is to overcome these limitations and to achieve the following goals: Novel Interband Cascade based laser structures with wide gain bandwidth will be realized enabling room temperature continuous wave operation. The developed structures will exceed existing Quantum Cascade Laser performance figures in the targeted mid infrared range. Novel monolithic concepts for electrical tuning based on multi-section DFB as well as acousto-opto-electronic lasers will be developed for the first time in the wavelength range of interest. This will result in monolithic devices with an unprecedented tuning range of up to 200nm formerly in reach only by external cavity lasers, which are not suitable for the targeted applications mainly because of their high cost and their lack of ruggedness. These novel high performance photonic sources will allow the development of the following highly sensitive detection systems: - Laser based sensor for remote detection of alcohol against drunk driving - Laser based sensor for formaldehyde monitoring - Laser based sensor for hydrocarbon leak detection. In order to reach these goals, significant challenges have to be overcome in various fields, ranging from epitaxial semiconductor growth via laser design and processing to mid infrared sensor development. The consortium comprises renowned research groups, academic and industrial SME partners from across Europe with a range of complementary competencies covering all aspects from semiconductor material development to photonic components and sensor systems.

Keywords: widely tunable,mid-infrared,tunable laser spectroscopy,quantum cascade laser,interband cascade laser,hazardous substances,formaldehyde monitoring,hydrocarbon leak detection,alcohol detection
Innovative nondestructive testing and advanced composite repair of pipelines with volumetric surfaces defects (INNOPIPES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Latvia,Poland,Bulgaria,Romania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 830300.0
EU funding (EUR): 830300.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Pipeline systems have supreme significance for an effective functioning of industry providing Eastern and Western European markets with energy resources: crude oil, natural gas and liquid petroleum products. Taking into account long life of pipeline networks and situation, when over 20% of large-diameter pipelines are with an exhausted lifetime, an important task at the present time becomes an ensuring of reliability for these transport systems. An intensive study shows that among the main reasons of pipeline accidents are the volumetric surface defects (VSD) arising as a result of corrosion or erosion-corrosion processes and by this way considerably decreasing the pipeline strength. In order to ensure efficient and safe operation of existing pipelines, operating companies routinely inspect the pipes. The methods that are used for this purpose, like “smart pig”, are sufficiently expensive, require, in some cases, significant reconstruction and have an insufficient sensitivity. An application of new composite materials for the repair of damaged pipelines considerably improved situation in the last time. However numerous standards associated with this type of repair are based on simplified approaches and do not take into account the stress-strain state in the damaged areas. Strategic objective of the project is addressed to the improvement of infrastructure in EU and Third counties by the rising of reliability of existing pipeline systems. Work over this project will serve IRSES main goal achievement – strengthening research partnerships through short period staff exchanges and networking activities between organisations from EU and Third countries. The scientific and technical objectives are improvement of existing and developing of new methods for detection and repair of VSD based on low-frequency ultrasonic testing with directional waves and advanced composite repair systems to bring efficiency of damaged section up to the level of undamaged pipeline.

Keywords: long pipeline,damage,volumetric surface defect,nondestructive technique,low-frequency ultrasonic testing,composite repair,repair technology