Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cooperative Intersection Safety (INTERSAFE-2)

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,France,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Romania,Sweden,Finland,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6502283.0
EU funding (EUR): 3857986.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Today, most so called ‘black spots’ have been eliminated from the road networks. However, intersections can still be regarded as black spots. Depending on the region and country, from 30 to 60% of all injury accidents and up to one third of the fatalities are intersection related. This is due mainly to the fact that accident scenarios at intersections are among the most complex ones, since different categories of road user interact in these limited areas with crossing trajectories. The INTERSAFE-2 project aims to develop and demonstrate a Cooperative Intersection Safety System (CISS) that is able to significantly reduce injury and fatal accidents at intersections. The novel CISS combines warning and intervention functions demonstrated on three vehicles: two passenger cars and one heavy goods vehicle. Furthermore, a simulator is used for additional RandD. These functions are based on novel cooperative scenario interpretation and risk assessment algorithms. The cooperative sensor data fusion is based on: • state-of-the-art and advanced on-board sensors for object recognition and relative localisation (intersection reconstruction), • a standard navigation map and information supplied over a communication link from • other road users via V2V if the other vehicle is so equipped • infrastructure sensors and traffic lights via V2I if the infrastructure is so equipped to observe the complex intersection environment. As a result, the deployment of the INTERSAFE-2 system could provide a positive safety impact of 80% with respect to intersection related accidents with injuries and fatalities. Thus a total safety benefit of up to 40% of all injury accidents and up to 20% of all fatalities in Europe is possible. The utilization of V2X communication for CISS at a small number of equipped intersections would boost the overall market penetration of communication in vehicles, since the benefit for those who buy first could be experienced at every equipped intersection.

Keywords: intersection safety,active safety functions,v2x communication,intersection monitoring,intersection perception,relative localisation
Monolithically Integrated Interferometric Biochips for label-free Early Detection of Human Diseases (PYTHIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Finland,Netherlands,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3519782.0
EU funding (EUR): 2650000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims at the development of a novel biochip based on monolithic, fully integrated biosensor array fabricated by standard Si-technology and its application to the early diagnosis of human diseases through label-free and multi-analyte detection. The basic sensor scheme consists of a VIS-NIR light source and a waveguide monolithically fabricated on a silicon wafer, while its principle of operation is the spectroscopic interference due to the optical path difference originating by biochemical events. The signal recording will be realized either via an also monolithically fabricated photodetector or via an external spectrophotometer. This dual approach will provide the user with higher flexibility in terms of the recording, since it will exploit both the intensity and spectral characteristics of the output signal. The integrated nature of the basic biosensor scheme allows for the development of arrays tailored to specific diagnostic applications. Each biosensor array will be comprised of individually functionalized light source/optical fiber series coupled to a single detector for multiplexing operation. Encapsulation with an appropriately designed microfluidic system will allow for the easy delivery of the samples to be analyzed and ensure the facile contact with the external low-noise electronic components. The encapsulated array will be fixed on a cartridge with all the necessary electronics, ready to be manually inserted to its final position in the housing, where it will be directly connected to the optical and electrical interconnects. The biochip, controlled by accompanying user-friendly software, will be capable of simultaneous multi-analyte detection (e.g. mutations of specific genes), and real-time monitoring and processing, with a detection duration that will not exceed a few minutes with minimal blood sample volumes or specimens.

Keywords: optoelectronic biochips,mach-zehnder interferometry,label-free,wafer level packaging early diagnosis,personalized health-care,gene mutations
Mid-Infrared Solid-State Laser Systems for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIRSURG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain,France,Sweden,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3917572.0
EU funding (EUR): 2799990.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this proposal is to develop advanced table-top solid-state photonic sources for a specific wavelength in the mid-IR spectral range, as a practical, reliable and cost-effective alternative to large-scale free-electron lasers (FELs), for an important application in biomedicine (health): minimally invasive surgery. Recent experiments have verified that the use of mid-IR FEL at wavelengths near 6.45 µm, with a focused beam penetration depth comparable to the cell size and coupled both into the spectral wing of the water bending mode and the amide-II vibrational mode, results in tissue ablation with minimal collateral damage and very effective ablation rate. This finding is extremely important as a useful tool for minimally invasive human surgery. However, the clinical use of FEL is ultimately not viable due to large size, high cost, operational complexity and restricted access at a few million-dollar accelerator-based facilities worldwide. Several attempts to develop non-FEL alternatives have largely failed to meet the necessary requirements in terms of pulse energy and repetition rate. The main strategy in this project will be to exploit nonlinear optical techniques (OPO) in combination with novel near-IR laser pump sources (near 1 and 2 µm) and new materials (e.g. orientation patterned GaAs) to obtain an unprecedented energy level (10 mJ) near 6.45 µm at a repetition rate of 100 Hz (an average power of 1 W). Two basic approaches, differing in the time structure, will provide less than few µs (macro) pulse duration. The project encompasses four distinct elements: (1) Material research; (2) Pump laser development; (3) OPO development; and (4) Validation in tissue ablation experiments. The partners, 4 companies and 5 institutes from 7 member states, with proven track record, extensive expertise, and complementary skills provide the critical mass and strong cohesion to achieve the goals of the project in the most successful, effective and timely manner.

Keywords: solid state lasers,optical parametric oscillators,mid-infrared,tissue ablation,human surgery
GAMING TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF MARGINALISED YOUTH (REPLAY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Romania,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1241510.0
EU funding (EUR): 914999.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of project REPLAY is to develop a gaming technology platform to provide young people who have become marginalised in society as a result of anti social behaviour with a learning environment to facilitate their reintegration into society. Although scalable to a range of marginalised groups such as immigrants, children with learning disabilities, retirees etc, REPLAY will focus on the rehabilitation of young people whose behaviour has become a problem for the communities in which they live. Interactive gaming technology is very popular amongst young people today and so the vision of REPLAY is to use this technology as a means of motivating young offenders into a better awareness of how and why they behave the way they do and encourage them to take greater responsibility for the consequences of their decisions and behaviour. The REPLAY solution will allow users to interact in a distributed gaming environment, share and exchange ideas, and cooperate in pursuit of common objectives. In this way, communication skills, the facility for mutual accountability and the ability to work in teams will be improved. Project REPLAY will prove that the concept of interactive gaming can be used to improve learning capabilities and provide users with an opportunity to “replay” their role in society following a dysfunctional start. The technology developed will provide users with a simulation in which they can learn by doing. Users will be able to implement decisions, observe and monitor the impact of their decisions in a given situation and learn from the experience. As such, the gaming environment will prepare young people for the challenges they will face as active and constructive contributors in society. Moreover, the technology will provide the social worker professional charged with monitoring their rehabilitation with a useful tool through which the rehabilitation process can be assessed and managed more effectively.

Keywords: gaming technology,social reintegration,ict based games,marginalised youth,active play,natural interfaces,immersive games
Field Operational Tests of Aftermarket and Nomadic Devices in Vehicles (TELEFOT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Italy,Greece,Sweden,Spain,Finland,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,France,Sweden,Spain,France,Hungary,Spain,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14141286.0
EU funding (EUR): 9703001.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

The objectives of the TeleFOT project are to assess the impacts of functions provided by aftermarket and nomadic devices in vehicles and raise wide awareness of their traffic safety potential. These devices can provide different types of driver support functions and almost nothing is known about their safety and other impacts yet. The market penetration of portable navigators and smart phones is exploding today. The timing for the project is ideal. The functions to be tested cover two broad areas: Functions promoting (i) safe driving and (ii) economic and fuel efficient driving. These are Speed information, Traffic information, Road weather information and “Green driving” support. The impacts are assessed on levels ranging from usability; behaviour and incidents; safety; Green Driving and efficiency; to the impacts on the transport system. Attention will be also paid to possible negative impacts, since especially smart phones are not originally designed for vehicle use and navigators may have problems in fixing and positioning in the cockpit. The project also aims at speeding up the penetration of systems able to "see" beyond drivers’ field of vision in conditions where good situation awareness is needed. TeleFOT provides opportunities to test the impacts of similar functions future cooperative systems will provide after their development challenges have been solved in the coming years. In fact, aftermarket and nomadic devices provide an alternative to some important cooperative driving and ADAS functions for many years ahead. The concept comprises of creating three European test communities: Northern, Central and Southern. About 3 000 drivers participate in the tests. The project has strong national support and no resources are needed for setting up the testing infrastructures. Business models are also studied. Owing to very different traffic behaviour and reactions to safety measures in Europe, it is necessary to have test communities spanning from south to north.

Keywords: field operational test,traffic,aftermarket,nomadic device,smart phone,navigator,market uptake
Field Operational Tests Networking and Interaction (FOT-NET)

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: Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,France,Belgium,France,Sweden,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1258144.0
EU funding (EUR): 1230000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

During the lifetime period of the different FOTs carried out both at the National and European levels, there is a crucial need for a platform of knowledge exchange in order to let these individual FOT’s benefit from each others’ learning experiences as well as giving the European Commission an overview of the activities involved. This networking platform open to all stakeholders from public and private sectors will give a benchmarking overview of the range of successes in reaching societal benefits with ICT based functions and systems for road transport all over Europe. FOT-Net’s prime goal is to establish a support action for strategic networking of existing and future National, European and Global FOTs (e.g. US and Japan). The action should include all stakeholder groups that play or will play an active and needed role in existing and future National, European and Global FOTs. The major objectives of FOT-Net are twofold. First FOT-Net will establish a European networking body for National, European and Global FOTs where all stakeholders from public and private sectors are represented. Then FOT-Net will contribute to improve significance, visibility, comparability and transferability of available FOT results at National and European level by promoting the implementation of a common FOT methodology (FESTA results).

Keywords: fot (field operational test),its (intelligent transport systems),networking,festa methodology
Enabling MEMS-MMIC technology for cost-effective multifunctional RF-system integration (MEMS-4-MMIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Finland,France,Sweden,Romania,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3801295.0
EU funding (EUR): 2897951.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The MEMS-4-MMIC proposal aims at the integration of RF-MEMS switches onto Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC) creating highly integrated multifunctional building blocks for high-value applications. RF-MEMS will be an essential building block of next-generation smart systems that are characterised by cost-effective and compact designs, high performance, flexibility and configurability. MEMS-4-MMIC will consider the whole value chain of RF-MEMS MMIC components starting at the materials and suitable foundry processes, the RF-design, packaging of RF-MEMS MMIC, and last but not least, the testing and reliability which plays a very important role in the whole manufacturing/commercialisation process. For this purpose one of Europe’s leading GaAs MMIC foundries is part of the consortium. The definition of first RF-MEMS MMIC components starts with the selection of the correct requirements that are dictated by next-generation wireless smart applications, automotive radar, satellite terminals, 60 GHz WLAN and cognitive radio frontends. As a proof-of-concept an RF-MEMS MMIC based antenna module will be realised at the end of project showing the innovative character and possibilities for commercial exploitation. The MEMS-4-MMIC project will significantly contribute to the knowledge and competence to include RF-MEMS switches on existing GaAs MMIC foundry processes. The project aims to provide the enabling technology platform needed for the future establishment of an RF-MEMS MMIC manufacturing base within Europe. If successful, MEMS-4-MMIC will speed-up the commercialisation of RF-MEMS MMIC components for small scale as well as large scale production (shorten time-to-market), and be accessible for all types of customers, thus turning RF-MEMS MMIC technology into pure profit for Europe wireless highway of tomorrow.

Keywords: rf-mems,mmic,phased array antennas,steerable antennas,rf-components,rf-packaging,wafer packaging
Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Germany,Germany,Germany,France,France,France,Greece,Ireland,Sweden,Spain,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8282470.0
EU funding (EUR): 5700000.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

PII addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds. The central objective of PII is to create a testbed federation among regional innovation clusters in Europe. This will enable companies participating in these clusters to test new communication services and applications across Europe. The testbed federation includes four core innovation clusters and three satellite clusters. PII will develop and deploy effective mechanisms and technologies to enable a functioning federation of existing testbeds. This will provide added value to users of existing local testbeds, and it will prove that federation is a model for the establishment of a long-term sustainable, large-scale and diverse testing infrastructure for (tele-)communications technologies, services and applications in Europe. In particular PII will: • Develop mechanisms and tools to describe, store, locate and orchestrate testing services as well as means to automatically provide composite testbeds across multiple administrative domains. • Develop and elaborate mechanisms to combine and accommodate future clean-slate approaches and provide testing services in a network-agnostic manner. • Define a common abstract control framework, which enables the interconnection of diverse testbeds. • Establish trust across the federation by means of quality assurance processes and tools. • Integrate the concept of User Driven Innovation. • Execute a techno-socio-economic study to assess the long-term sustainability of the federation model. PII’s testbed federation infrastructure will build on the legal, operational, and technical framework developed by the Panlab SSA in FP6. 20 partners constitute a highly competent, well-balanced consortium of SMEs, associations, academic institutions as well as large manufacturers and network operators, to mobilise the critical mass at European level to achieve the project objectives.

Keywords: pan-european laboratory,test-bed federation,large scale,end-to-end testing of next generation networks and services
Decentralized and Wireless Control of Large-Scale Systems (WIDE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Czechia,Sweden,Netherlands,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2698671.0
EU funding (EUR): 1799989.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Increased global competition and an urgent need to address sustainability and resource-efficiency of operations force European industries and large-scale infrastructure operators to look for efficient real-time decision-making systems that allow them to react rapidly, consistently and effectively to a continually changing economical and environmental landscape. Advances in optimization tools and the emergence of new highly pervasive, cheap, and reconfigurable wireless sensing technologies now motivate the research for novel distributed layers of plant management that are highly coordinated through the plant-wide circulation of information. The WIDE project aims at developing a rigorous framework for advanced control and real-time optimization of truly large-scale and spatially distributed processes, based on the integrated use of distributed model predictive control and wireless sensor feedback. While the technologies and methodologies investigated in WIDE are general enough for many contexts, the project employs its unique access to an operational European city water distribution network to prove the effectiveness of the new concept in real practice. The objectives of WIDE are aligned with Objective ICT-2007.3.7 “Networked Embedded and Control Systems”, target outcome (c) “Control of large-scale complex distributed systems” as (i) it envisions a generic modelling and control design method for large-scale distributed systems such as manufacturing and process plants and large scale infrastructures; (ii) it proposes a new engineering approach to the design of scalable distributed model predictive controllers that optimize operational efficiency under resource and safety constraints while ensuring robustness to component and communication failures; (iii) it enables the use of wide-area wireless sensor networks for closing the control loop.

Keywords: distributed model predictive control,wide-area wireless sensor networks,networked control systems,large-scale systems