Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Impact of Networks, Globalisation, and their Interaction with EU Strategies (INGINEUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,China,Denmark,Estonia,Germany,India,Italy,Norway,South Africa,Sweden,United Kingdom,Brazil
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3333313.34
EU funding (EUR): 2600000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

INGINEUS addresses the evolution of global production networks (GPNs) into global innovation networks (GINs), and the impact this new process of global capitalism has on knowledge intensive activities in the EU. Global sourcing and assembly arrangements have been around for some three decades. They were principally based on efficiency considerations. Thus, multinational firms (MNCs) outsourced parts of production processes to manufacturers in Asia and other low-cost locations around the globe, while retaining the most knowledge intensive assets in the home country. This is no longer the case. MNCs increasingly scout the globe for locations where the right mix of local competences allows them to tap into sophisticated parts of value chains. This is not limited to advanced economies but more and more involves firms and regions in selected developing countries that position themselves as attractive knowledge-intensive locations in their own right. INGINEUS studies the determinants of this process and analyses its implications both for the EU and its emerging partner countries in the developing world. First, it looks at the changing strategies of MNCs and the conditions under which it is favourable for them to offshore R&D and other knowledge-intensive parts of their production process. Second, it focuses on the evolving local capabilities in selected developing countries that allow them to claim increasingly complex parts of global value chains at much higher levels of technological sophistication than hitherto. Third, it analyses the consequences of the formation of GINs in the global economy and differentiates among their static and dynamic effects on growth, employment, and competitiveness in the EU. Finally, based on these insights, it derives policy recommendations that would allow the EU to benefit from the positive features of this process while mitigating its adverse consequences.

Keywords: globalisation,innovation networks,offshoring,absorptive capacity,eu policy
The EU and sub-regional multilateralism in Europe's sea basins: neighbourhood, enlargement and multilateral cooperation. (EU4SEAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Türkiye,Italy,Iceland,France,Estonia,Ukraine,Azerbaijan
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1509217.5
EU funding (EUR): 1173475.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Closed seas play very diverse roles in relations between their bordering states: they unite and separate, they are a place of transit, a shared space, an element of joint identity, a common heritage. This project focuses on four closed sea basins: those of the Mediterranean, Caspian, Baltic and Black seas. Those basins were theatres for strategic competition between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War and acquired since 1989 a new centrality in co-operation amongst neighbouring states, with a wealth of sub-regional multilateral agreements and institutions flourishing in a few years. All four basins are crucial to the European Union, and the EU is at the same time a crucial actor in them. Its policies have an impact not only in each country, but also on collective efforts at sub-regional level. This is a seldom analysed phenomenon: that of the relationship between a uniquely successful international organisation with a nature of its own, the European Union, and the smaller sub-regional multilateral structures and agreements. Compared to the huge attraction that the EU exerts, which has been a catalyser for stability, change and reconciliation in a number of European countries, sub-regional multilateral institutions have proved their relative weakness. However, their role in a number of areas (from stability and conflict resolution, to environmental issues) has been and still is important. This project aims to evaluate their main achievements and failures, and the areas in which they have been most successful. At the same time, it aims to analyse how EU membership and EU policies impact on multilateral co-operation around the sea basins, and how the EU and other multilateral organisations and initiatives can co-operate in achieving their shared objectives. In the end, the project will explore what would be the benefits of a specific approach of the EU for each of the four basins, in co-operation with the existing sub-regional multilateralism.

Keywords: multilateralism,mediterranean,caspian,baltic,black sea,eu impact,perception,actorness
Communication Middleware for Monitoring Financial CI (COMIFIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Israel,Ireland,Hungary,Norway
Call:  (FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571387.0
EU funding (EUR): 2350000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

As remarked in very recent studies of the Federal Reserve (http://www.federalreserve.gov/), a financial infrastructure is anunmanaged large scale networked system of interconnected financialmarkets and banking systems by which domestic and internationalfinancial institutions allocate capital and manage their riskexposures. The 9/11 attack and European and North American blackoutsover the past decade have emphasized vulnerability of thisinfrastructure to wide-scale disruptions and highlightedinterdependencies between the financial infrastructure and othercritical ones (notably the power grid, telecommunicationinfrastructure and the Internet). The main purpose of the CoMiFin STREP is strategically targeting improvements of the EU technological and institutional pace in addressing financial infrastructure protection (FIP). Specifically, CoMIFin aims to provide "an infrastructure level monitoring, notification andmitigation" middleware as an essential element of FIP. CoMiFin aimsat supporting business continuity of a financial actor on top of anunmanaged network of managed financial infrastructures under allforeseeable failure scenarios including the operational failures anddeliberate breaches. To ensure that the technology developed byCoMiFin fits well into the overall holistic approach behind FIP, wewill leverage the expertise of both: prominent user partners presentin the consortium and Financial User Advisory Board membersalongside the technological partners.

Keywords: secure and dependable middleware,flexible information exchange policies,security and dependability metrics,financial infrastructure protection.
NET INFORMATION INTEGRATION SERVICES FOR SECURITY SYSTEMS (NI2S3)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security systems integration, interconnectivity and Interoperability
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Denmark,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4325739.94
EU funding (EUR): 2711640.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The key idea of proposed project is to research and implement a reference methodology for developing security systems based on NEC Information and Integration Services, able to integrate information from many and heterogeneous sources, in order to build up or improve the situation awareness of critical infrastructures. In particular, the main objectives include:  Definition of a operational scenarios, analysis and extraction of the system specifications.  Definition and design of a NI2S3 for the decision making support regarding the security, resiliency and availability of the subject infrastructures.  Definition a set of metrics or tools and setting up validation capabilities to develop the ongoing architecture and system.  Develop a NI2S3 application demo.  Develop a technology for measuring the performance, robustness and reliability of such system.  Dissemination and exploitation of the results

Keywords: nec istar soa methodologies
INcreasing Security and Protection through Infrastructure REsilience (INSPIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Germany,Poland,France,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3697402.0
EU funding (EUR): 2400000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The INSPIRE proposal aims at enhancing the European potential in the field of security by assuring the protection of critical information infrastructures through the identification of their vulnerabilities and the development of innovative techniques for securing networked process control systems. To increase the resilience of such systems INSPIRE will develop traffic engineering algorithms, self-reconfigurable architectures and diagnosis and recovery techniques. Therefore, the core idea of the INSPIRE proposal is to protect critical information infrastructures by appropriately configuring, managing, and securing the communication network which interconnect the distributed control systems. A working prototype will be implemented to be used as final demonstrator of specific scenarios. Involved experts will support project partners in the validation and demonstration activities, thus enhancing the effectiveness of such multidisciplinary consortium. INSPIRE will also contribute to standardisation process in order to foster multi-operator interoperability and coordinated strategies for securing lifeline systems. In order to achieve its objectives, INSPIRE has identified the following areas of work: 1. Analysis and modelling of vulnerabilities of networked process control systems. 2. Design and implementation of techniques and architectures for increasing security and resilience of networked controls systems. 3. Verification, validation and integration of the developed tools. 4. Exploitation, dissemination and standardization. As previously mentioned, a prototype of the INSPIRE security toolbox will be released during the project. It will be used to build a final demonstrator showing specific scenarios and will be validated by both the INSPIRE partners and the members of Group of Experts supporting the proposal.

Keywords: networked process control systems,infrastructure resilience,dependable systems
EUropean Risk Assessment and COntingency planning Methodologies for interconnected energy networks (EURACOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security systems integration, interconnectivity and Interoperability
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,European organisations area,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1038290.0
EU funding (EUR): 833860.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

EURACOM addresses the issue of protection and resilience of energy supply for European interconnected energy networks. Establish link and coherent risk management procedures across energy sectors and EU countries will increase the resilience of energy supply services across the whole infrastructure chain. EURACOM objective is to identify, together with EU Energy Infrastructures operators, an holistic approach (end-to-end energy supply chain: from fuel transport, power generation and transmission) for risk assessment and contingency planning solutions. Use of an agreed taxonomy, network architecture elements /interfaces, and risk management methodology will allow sharing of good practices and experience between operators and dialogue with security technology suppliers in dedicated workshops. By examining characteristic case studies, the project will prompt a joint reflection with industry and authorities. This will allow reliable application to different sectors of the energy supply chain and coherent identification of risk mitigation /management emergency plans for the different level and kind of threats. EURACOM will take into account European guidelines and standards and will cover the full incident response cycle spanning multiple operators in single nations and across national borders especially in case of malicious attacks and systemic failures. Involvement of energy operators / users in the project is ensured by previous cooperation. EURACOM will also be a useful to support EU energy policies for CIP as well as for the work of ESRIF, with a specific support to the Energy Operator Community and a dedicated Energy Forum open to all stakeholders, to identify needed technology evolutions vs threats, in close cooperation between supply and demand side. The holistic infrastructure risk management methodology for energy infrastructures, once validated by the operators, will be the major results of EURACOM and will be promoted in sectoral conferences and publications.

Keywords: energy security risk assessment management contingency planning interconnected network methodology operator user forum
IP-Based Emergency Applications and Services for Next Generation Networks (PEACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany,Greece,France,Spain,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3777900.0
EU funding (EUR): 2648800.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The transition to next generation networks is often coupled with the vision of innovative services providing personalized and customisable services over an all-IP infrastructure. To enable a smooth transition, next generation all-IP networks need not only support more services but also support current vital services, namely emergency services. In the PEACE project we will provide a general emergency management framework addressing extreme emergency situations such as terrorist attacks and natural catastrophes as well as day-to-day emergency cases based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). To achieve this goal the PEACE project will be addressing two major technological challenges. First a general solution for secure multimedia communication in extreme emergency situations will be provided. Such emergency services in cases of natural disasters or catastrophes will often involve the establishment of an ad-hoc networking environment. In this context, the PEACE project will be devising mechanisms for fast and lightweight establishment of trust relations between ad-hoc members of an emergency team and ensuring the security of their communication. Further, to enable multimedia communication in such environments an architecture will be provided for supporting the distribution of currently centralized services such as VoIP and name translation and supporting those services in a reliable manner withstanding any failures and changes of the network. Additionally, the PEACE project will investigate the provisioning of day-to-day emergency communication. Due to the different structure of IP and PSTN networks it is not possible to simply reuse current standards and solutions for realizing such communication in IP networks. This involves location management and identification solutions as well as providing reliable VoIP service infrastructure. To be able to support emergency services over an all-IP infrastructure further work is required in the area of highly reliable IP.

Keywords: high reliability ip services,emergency services,next generation networks,ad-hoc networking environment,location based services
DISAGGREGATING CHINESE PERCEPTIONS OF THE EU AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EU’S CHINA POLICY (CHINESEVIEWSOFEU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Europe in the world
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,China,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1863395.0
EU funding (EUR): 1429343.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

In 2007, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter. Its trade surplus with the EU is rising at $20 million an hour. China makes up one-third of the annual increase in world oil demand, and emits the most greenhouse gases. Engaging a rapidly rising China is a great challenge for the EU. To do this more effectively, the EU needs a comprehensive understanding of China, especially of how the EU and its China initiatives and strategies are perceived in China itself. Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups, this study looks into how the EU is perceived by the Chinese general public, government officials, intellectuals, business and civil society. It will produce a comprehensive picture of how Chinese people see the EU: how China views its opportunities and challenges in dealing with the EU, how different government agencies view the EU, how government views differ from those of business and civil society, and how opinion in Beijing differs from that in the provinces. The recommendations from this study will lead to much more effective policies for the EU to deal with China, helping to reduce market restrictions, resolve the conflict over China’s exchange rate policy, lift barriers to EU investment in China, increase EU `green technology’ exports etc. A mere 5% increase in EU exports to China will make a difference of €3.2 billion per year to the EU economy. Our policy recommendations will facilitate greater cooperation on issues such as the Iran nuclear crisis, significantly improving the EU’s security. Our findings will contribute to a better projection of the EU’s image, enhancing the EU’s “soft power” in China. The project brings together a uniquely strong team from the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute, Leiden University, Jacobs University Bremen and Chatham House, as well as two strong Chinese partners. New knowledge from this research will help advance a number of social science disciplines.

Keywords: external images of eu,chinese views of eu,eu-china relationship,eu's china policy,trade relations,public opinions in china toward eu,policy making in china toward eu
Underwater Acoustic Network (UAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Italy,Sweden,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4263233.0
EU funding (EUR): 2950000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The UAN project aims at conceiving, developing and testing at sea an innovative and operational concept for integrating in a unique system submerged, surface and aerial sensors with the objective of protecting critical infrastructures, such as off-shore platforms and energy plants. The security of such economically vital infrastructures requires an integrated approach involving underwater and land/air sensors and actuators for surveillance, monitoring and deterrence. In particular UAN focuses on a security oriented underwater wireless network infrastructure, realized by hydroacoustic communication. The UAN concept is to gather environmental information during the acoustic transmission and use it to predict the acoustic propagation conditions and the optimal obtainable performance at any given time. This information is used in the communication system for precise tuning. This tuning will take place at two different levels: i) by improving the basic point-to-point connection, by introducing physical and geometric constraints in the channel equalization and optimization process of the communication settings and ii) at the macro network configuration level by adapting node geometric configuration to the acoustic propagation conditions predicted from the environmental observations. This can be done in depth or in range by moving nodes placed on AUVs either to increase the point-to-point communication capacity or by serving as relay nodes to more distant, and at that time, inaccessible fixed nodes. This is a rather new approach that requires a better understanding of the acoustic propagation physics as well as a capacity to include that knowledge into technologically advanced communications modules and algorithms for underwater communications. The UAN project builds on a multidisciplinary consortium of technologically advanced industries, field experienced university labs and governmental agencies, thus grouping the required knowledge and experience.

Keywords: underwater acoustic communications,networking,secure systems