Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Language Technology for Lifelong Learning (LTFLL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Austria,France,Romania,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3743741.0
EU funding (EUR): 2849604.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the LTfLL project is to create next-generation support services to enhance competence building and knowledge creation in educational and organizational settings. The services run (semi)automatically to avoid aggravating the workload of tutors. Involving expertise in language technology (LT), cognition, and technology- enhanced learning (TEL) LTfLL will design, develop and validate services that: 1. establish a starting position and recommendations for the learner on what to learn 2. give support and feedback during learning 3. support social and informal learning The services operate in a common knowledge infrastructure to support knowledge co-construction and extraction and to create the foundation for purposeful and meaningful advice. The services will result in improved 1. appreciation of learner requirements leading to better advice on study plans and selection of study resources 2. progress monitoring based on learning activities rather than on formal assessments to advice appropriate activities for further competence building 3. co-construction of knowledge in social and informal learning Research activities are enveloped by activities that ensure common ground in: 1 use cases and pedagogically sound scenarios that steer the design and development of the services and guide the validation 2. a technical infrastructure for the creation and integration of the services 3. a validation structure that ensures rigorous evaluation in realistic settings, with several languages supported. The consortium is balanced in geographical and institutional background, leading in LT, TEL and Medical Education, and brings a language distribution that ensures services supporting several EU languages. The partners have excellent track records in European programs and projects (e.g. LT4EL, TenCompetence, Cooper, iCamp, Prolearn). Extensive use can be made of the experience and results of LT4EL (IST-027391) and TenCompetence (IST-027087).

Keywords: technology-enhanced learning,language technology,intelligent services
Thermohaline Overturning - at Risk? (THOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Denmark,Faroe Islands,Finland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Iceland
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12948295.4
EU funding (EUR): 9274425.9
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

THOR will establish an operational system that will monitor and forecast the development of the North Atlantic THC on decadal time scales and access its stability and the risk of a breakdown in a changing climate. Together with pre-existing data sets, ongoing observations within the project will allow precise quantitative monitoring of the Atlantic THC and its sources. This will, for the first time, allow an assessment of the strength of the Atlantic THC and its sources in a consistent manner and will provide early identification of any systematic changes in the THC that might occur. Analysis of palaeo observations covering the last millennium and millennium time scale experiments with coupled climate models will be carried out to identify the relevant key processes and feedback mechanisms between ocean, atmosphere, and cryosphere. In THOR, the combined effect of various global warming scenarios and melting of the Greenland ice sheet will also be thoroughly assessed in a coupled climate model. Through these studies and through the assimilation of systematic oceanic observations at key locations into ocean circulation models, THOR will forecast the development of the Atlantic THC and its variability until 2025, using global coupled ocean-atmosphere models. THOR will also assess induced climate implications of changes in the THC and the probability of extreme climate events with special emphasis on the European/North Atlantic region. THOR builds upon techniques, methods and models developed during several projects funded within FP5 and FP6 as well as many nationally funded projects. The project will contribute to Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), to Global Observing Systems such as to the Global Ocean Observing system (GOOS), and to the International Polar Year (IPY).

Keywords: thermohaline circulation,decadal forecasting of thc,thc observations,hindcast of thc
“Effect of diet on the mental performance of children” (NUTRIMENTHE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,United Kingdom,Hungary,Italy,Poland,United Kingdom,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,United States
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7991918.6
EU funding (EUR): 5902570.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Current evidence on the effect of diet on mental performance (MP) is largely based on animal, retrospective studies, and short-term nutritional intervention studies in humans. NUTRIMENTHE will significantly improve this knowledge through studying the role, mechanisms, risks &amp; benefits of specific nutrients &amp; food components to respond to specific needs and improve the MP of children. The research will include quantification of the nutrient effects of early programming on later cognitive and mental disorders, effects of food on mental state and MP such as mood, activation, attention, motivation, effort, perception, memory &amp; intelligence and the effects of food on mental illness. NUTRIMENTHE will establish: •A team of leading international scientists (paediatricians, neurospsychologists, psychiatrics) from top academic centres and a leading Food Multinational, providing a critical mass of experts in the effect of diet on children’s MP •Epidemiologic studies to analyse the long-term effects of pre- &amp; early postnatal diet on children’s mental performance &amp; illness •Follow-up of randomised clinical intervention trials with specific nutrients initiated during pregnancy, infancy &amp; childhood •Quantitative requirements of n-3 LCPUFAs in children with restricted diet •Quantitative assessment of the interaction between nutrition &amp; genetic variation with respect to MP •Development of a neuropsychological battery for an EU common assessment of MP •Consistent &amp; clear pan-European recommendations on dietary requirement for children •An increase the EU public knowledge, specifically parents, teachers &amp; industry, laying the basis for appropriate health claims about how diet influences MP in children •Establish the economic opportunity for further product development within EU •Development of a professional &amp; public engaging dissemination programme, to increase excellence &amp; innovation potentials &amp; training in nutrition research linked to cognitive- &amp; neuroscience

Keywords: children,mental performance,early nutrition,behaviour disorders
Raising citizens awareness and appreciation of EU research on sustainable transport in the urban environment (MOVE TOGETHER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Germany,Belgium,Hungary,Austria
Call:  (FP7-TPT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1014941.0
EU funding (EUR): 815384.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the supporting action titled &quot;Raising citizens awareness and appreciation of EU research on sustainable transport in the urban environment&quot;, MOVE TOGETHER project, is to build an awareness raising exercise to let people become fully: 1conscious of the sustainability implications of transport in the urban context, 2 aware of what EU transport research is doing and how research results can help making urban transport more sustainable. The awareness raising and appreciation exercise will follow a participatory process, which includes activities at transnational as well as local level, involving stakeholders, researchers and politicians together with the general public. MOVE TOGETHER presents 3 main components: 1 Critical review and appreciation of EU research on sustainable urban transport with the help of a transnational panel of citizens. The establishment of a participatory process will make citizens and stakeholders produce together a Digest on EU research presenting the scientific facts in a language and format accessible to non-experts lay citizens. 2 The overall process will be tested with a local event in the city of Rome. A randomly selected panel of local citizens will be involved in a citizens and stakeholders conference process. They will assess the Digest produced at European level and relate it to the experiences, the EU research undertaken and the research needs of Rome This will complement the Digest with concrete commitments for the possible implementation of EU research achievements and best practices, elaborated by citizens and local stakeholders.3 Europe wide dissemination and replication of this systematic awareness raising concept and of the outcomes/lessons learned from the local event in Rome, by means of pilot exhibitions at major European conferences on sustainable transport issues, town hall exhibitions in cities selected through a tendering process, all complemented by other standard dissemination activities

Keywords: sustainable transport,awreness raising,urban environment,collective transport
Generations and Gender Programme: A European Research Infrastructure on the Causes and Consequences of Demographic Developments (GGP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Italy,Hungary,Norway,Slovenia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2489617.6
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims at improving the ability of the social sciences to explain the causes and consequences of demographic developments, and in particular of the changing relationships between genders and generations, in a manner that would allow working out sustainable responses to policy challenges. The project develops an infrastructure that provides for a breakthrough towards better understanding of the forces that lie behind demographic developments by integrated analyses of the micro-level demographic choices of individuals and households and the various contexts in which they act. It develops and refines a multi-disciplinary population survey and a macro-level contextual database that cover the wide range of topics relevant for explaining demographic trends and behaviour, as well as their consequences. The project integrates the approaches from different disciplinary perspectives, such as demography, sociology, economics, political science, statistics, survey methodology, psychology and social psychology, and epidemiology. The work mainly builds on the platform of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), including the Generations and Gender Survey and the GGP contextual database. The resulting European research infrastructure will provide a standardized and comparative approach to interdisciplinary analyses of demographic phenomena, which covers the wide range of different European societies, is oriented towards the needs of policy-making and relies on up-to-date data sources designed to meet these analytic needs.

Keywords: population,demography,panel,fertility,family dynamics,generations,gender,population ageing,survey research
Floating Sensorised Networked Robots for Water Monitoring (HYDRONET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,Slovenia,Norway,Israel,Russian Federation,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3528046.0
EU funding (EUR): 2591475.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Water is one of our most precious and valuable resources. It is important to determine how to fairly use, protect and preserve water. New strategies and new technologies are needed to assess the chemical and ecological status of water bodies and to improve the water quality and quantity. The relatively recent progress in micro-electronics and micro-fabrication technologies has allowed a miniaturization of sensors and devices, opening a series of new exciting possibilities for water monitoring. Moreover, robotics and advanced ICTbased technology can dramatically improve detection and prediction of risk/crisis situations, providing new tools for the global management of the water resources. The HydroNet proposal is aimed at designing, developing and testing a new technological platform for improving the monitoring of water bodies based on a network of autonomous, floating and sensorised mini-robots, embedded in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure. Chemo- and bio-sensors, embedded in the mobile robots will be developed and used for monitoring in real time physical parameters and pollutants in water bodies. Enhanced mathematical models will be developed for simulating the pollutants transport and processes in rivers, lakes and sea. The unmanaged, self-assembling and self-powered wireless infrastructure, with an ever-decreasing cost per unit, will really support decisional bodies and system integrators in managing water bodies resources. The robots and sensors will be part of an Ambient Intelligence platform, which will integrate not only sensors for water monitoring and robot tasks execution, but also communications backhaul systems, databases technologies, knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) processes for extracting and increasing knowledge on water management. Following the computation on stored data, feedback will be sent back to human actors (supervisors, decision makers, industrial people, etc.) and/or artificial actuators, in order to perform actions.

Keywords: water,monitoring,robot,network,chemo- and bio-sensors,ambient intelligence
Design of an Interoperable European federated Simulation network for critical InfraStructures (DIESIS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-01-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1533187.0
EU funding (EUR): 1173000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

DIESIS proposes to establish the basis for a European modelling and simulation e-Infrastructure based upon open standards to foster and support research on all aspects of critical infrastructures with a specific focus on their protection. DIESIS will perform a thorough conceptual design study in order to prepare the establishment of such a research e-Infrastructure. In particular, DIESIS will: a) analyse in detail the requirements for the research e-Infrastructure coming from researchers, industrial stakeholders, decision makers and governmental organisations; b) develop an extensible ontology and communication protocols in order to define a standard for interoperable simulations in the field of critical infrastructure protection; c) provide concepts enabling interoperability among heterogeneous and distributed modelling and simulation technologies; d) design an ICT architecture for a distributed European e-Infrastructure on top of existing GRID approaches in order to support federated, interoperable simulations and research on critical infrastructure protection; e) implement a prototype of such an infrastructure as a proof of concept; f) assess the feasibility (scientific, technical, and financial) and the potential impact (scientific and technical) of such an e-Infrastructure. While the main focus of the project is on research in the critical infrastructure domain the developed concepts, protocols and technologies will be applicable much more broadly. In principle, these should be applicable to all kinds of research where federated simulation is useful. By providing the design and the evaluation of the feasibility DIESIS is the first step towards a European e-Infrastructure for research in the important and emerging field of critical infrastructure protection that will lead to more dependable, resilient and secure infrastructures to the benefit of all European citizens and European society and economy at large.

Keywords: agent-based modelling and simulation,critical infrastructure protection,dependability,e-infrastructures,federated simulation,grid computing,interoperability,networked infrastructures
Development of technology building blocks For structural health monitoring sensing devices in aeronautics (TRIADE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,Greece,United Kingdom,France,Poland,Belgium,Germany,Poland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6130571.6
EU funding (EUR): 4170769.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

NEEDS and CONCEPTS: Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) will be very important for Aeronautics. A study from Goodrich stated: &quot;Structural Health Monitoring shows a great potential in terms of cost savings coming from the benefits it would have on inspections which are currently about 25% of the Life Cycle Cost of an airline&quot;. Some applications are intended to explore the “out-of-flight domain” conditions However, achieving such goals today is not possible for aeronautics, with the non-intrusiveness, autonomy, size and cost requirements. Eventually, sensing devices need to be built with low power consumption components and to use low power consumption architectures and management, while necessary components or building blocks need to be adapted for aeronautics. OBJECTIVES: TRIADE will contribute to solving this issue by providing technology building blocks and fully integrated prototypes to achieve power generation, power conservation, embedded powerful intelligence–data processing/storage and energy management for structural health monitoring sensing devices in aeronautical applications. TRIADE addresses the AAT-2007 work programme in so far as it integrates new concepts (neural networks), knowledge (energy management) and technologies (SOI) into one application and prototype. Energy management objectives and milestones of TRIADE will be assessed when compared to the following measurable goals: implementing an architecture, where energy management will bridge the gap that exists today between a need of 250 mAh in most modern, comparable products to less than 30 mAh available power in most modern harvesting and storage solutions

Keywords: power management,sensing devices,low power electronics,energy harvesting,structural health monitoring
United Europeans for the Development of Pharmacogenomics in Multiple Sclerosis (UEPHA-MS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Germany,France,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-15
End date: 2012-09-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2359000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2359000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory, disabling disease of the central nervous system. Recent studies suggest that over the last 50 years a disproportional increase in incidence of MS in women has taken place. The lifetime costs of MS exceed 1.5 million € per case in the UK, and are likely to be similar in other European countries. There is no definitive cure for MS. Immunomodulatory therapies, such as interferon-β (IFN-β) and glatiramer acetate (GA), are only partially effective. Hence, there is a pressing need both for novel therapeutic targets and for approaches toward increasing the effectiveness of these existing treatments. The focus of the proposed “United Europeans for the development of PHArmacogenomics in MS” (‘UEPHA-MS’) network will be to promote and improve training opportunities in the novel areas of pharmacogenomics, biomarker research and systems biology applied to MS. The main scientific goals of this network are both to improve our knowledge of the mechanisms determining response outcome of existing immunomodulatory therapies and to identify novel therapeutic opportunities. UEPHA-MS is composed of ten internationally recognised research teams from 6 countries with an assortment of expertise in complementary disciplines. UEPHA-MS partners are among Europe’s most pro-active groups in pioneering the novel, supra-disciplinary area of integrated genomics / bioinformatics / systems biology research. The UEPHA-MS network will provide a coherent and internationally competitive platform for training of young scientists based on a series of state-of-the-art lab-based and network-wide activities. UEPHA-MS will boost employment perspectives of young researchers in Europe’s knowledge-based economy by shaping a new generation of scientists with greatly enhanced multidisciplinary aptitudes. This network will be crucial in priming young scientists for Europe’s collective effort toward improved provision of health care based on “personalized medicine”.

Keywords: multiple sclerosis,pharmacogenomics,biomarker,proteomics,transcriptomics