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Efficient Smart sysTems with enhAnced eneRgy Storage (E-STARS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,France,Netherlands,France,Germany,Italy,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4034022.0
EU funding (EUR): 2599933.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

E-STARS project aims at developing enhanced sensing and communication capability on an autonomous smart micro system powered by a new 3D high capacity integrated micro battery. According to the experts, the market of wireless smart sensors should generate revenues more than 5 billion euro in 2011 (source: http://www.rfidjournal.com). Faced with such future strong technical and economical impact, it is of strategic importance to maintain the Europe¿s leadership in these domains. Considered as an RandD topic of high relevance in such domain (EpoSS Strategic Research Agenda), the energy-management, scavenging and storing techniques aspects will be particularly investigated by the E-STARS project. The objective is to reach higher energy-management and autonomy performance packed in a smaller volume. The innovative 3D architectures micro batteries will increase by 5 to 10 the battery capacity (from 100 µAh/cm² to 1 000 µAh/cm²) and power (from 5 mW/cm² to 50 mW/cm²) compared to traditional solutions. To do so, the consortium will investigate completely new deposition processes for micro battery layers such as Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), electrospraying and electrodeposition in order to obtain 3D higher aspect ratio aspects. The consortium involves well known complementary research partners (CEA, TUDELFT and UNIVERSITY of PARIS XI), industrial partners (MOTOROLA, STMICROELECTRONICS), as well ad SME¿s (BIOAGE and CORA TINE TEORANTA) from 5 EU countries. As a STREP project, E-STARS addresses clearly the objective 6 of challenge 3 of the ICT call 2 : Micro/nanosystems. The targeted applications within the project are : wearable intelligent micro sensors, wireless networked sensors associated to an intelligent data to internet platform and innovative nanogravimetric sensors and biosensors. More globally, thanks to an optimized dissemination of the result, the project will provide the EU industry with new highly autonomous wireless sensors to face the strong competition in this field.

Keywords: micro devices,miniaturization,integration,3d micro battery architecture,substrate,pvd,cvd,electrodeposition,elecrtospraying
Smart inspection system for high speed and multifunctional testing of MEMS and MOEMS (SMARTIEHS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Switzerland,France,Poland,Germany,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3783986.0
EU funding (EUR): 2850000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

SMARTIEHS develops a smart, high-speed, cost effective and flexible inspection system for production of Micro(Opto)ElectroMechanicalSystems (M(O)EMS). SMARTIEHS decreases the inspection time of a wafer by a factor of 100. It cuts production costs and shorten the time to market. To achieve this, SMARTIEHS develops an innovative measurement concept: a probing wafer consisting of an array of micro optical sensors is adapted to and aligned with the wafer under test. The design and production of the micro-optical interferometer array inspects 100 M(O)EMS structures within only one measurement cycle. A multifunctional approach of the measurement concept allows the inspection of passive and active parameters within one inspection system. A novel smart pixel detector array is developed. SMARTIEHS provides a multifunctional design with two interferometer configurations; a low coherent interferometer and a laser interferometer. The project focuses on the measurement of shape and deformation, resonance frequency and vibration amplitude distribution. The SMARTIEHS technology will be validated and demonstrated with industrial end users. The work in SMARTIEHS will be organised in eight work packages: Project management, Inspection system design, Micro-optical interferometer system design, Micro-optical wafer production, Smart pixel camera development, inspection system integration, Inspection system test and validation, Exploitation and dissemination. The SMARTIEHS consortium has RTD partners and industrial users: SINTEF (low-coherence interferometry, micro optics), WUT (laser interferometry, micro optics), Fraunhofer (production of Diffractive Optical Elements), CNRS (production of refractive optics, micro lenses), CSEM (design and production of smart pixel detector arrays), Heliotis (exploitation), IMMS (macro design of the inspection system), and Techfab (end user and validation). SMARTIEHS lasts 38 months and has a budget of 3,77M�. Requested EC contribution is 2,85 M�

Keywords: manufacturing,mems characterisation,interferometry,microoptics
euroFOT (European Field Operational Test on Active Safety Functions in vehicles) (EUROFOT)

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,Italy,Germany,France,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Greece,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,France,Belgium,Germany,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21164034.0
EU funding (EUR): 13905000.0
Participants: 32
Project status: CLOSED

The Intelligent Car Initiative has identified road safety, energy efficiency, and traffic congestion as the main challenges currently being faced by European transportation. Despite their severity, these issues may be improved with the use of new in-vehicle technologies currently not available in the market. However, implementing new technologies implies a risk to manufacturers. Factors such as different markets, user acceptance, and real-world driving conditions are difficult to assess before in-the-field testing. This restricts our capabilities for making the correct business and political decisions for deployment, and for understanding which aspects would benefit from further development the most. The goal of EuroFOT is to identify and coordinate an in-the-field testing of new Intelligent Vehicle Systems with the potential for improving the quality of European road traffic. This permits assessing their effectiveness on actual roads, while determining how they perform towards the intended objectives. In addition, this offers an early publicity of the technologies, and enables the analysis of the user acceptance and its subsequent potential for market penetration. This will be accomplished through a series of discrete steps. First, EuroFOT will specify a test plan identifying proper driving scenarios, factors with maximum safety potential, and expected results. Subsequent steps will involve the recruitment and training of customers, with the necessary installation of data loggers into their vehicles. In this way, customers will drive and collect data under normal driving conditions. During the final section, EuroFOT will analyse both objective and subjective data describing the driver behaviour and adaptation, vehicle dynamics, and system acceptance. This will permit EuroFOT to be considered representative of ordinary driving conditions in European roads, and ultimately evaluate the overall effectiveness and feasibility of Intelligent Vehicle Systems.

Keywords: customer fleet,active safety systems,large scale test,hypotthesis testing on active safety efffects,user acceptance,awarenes of active safety functions
Road mapping technology for Enhancing Security to Protect Medical and Genetic Data (RADICAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Cyprus,Italy,Belgium,United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1163991.0
EU funding (EUR): 842038.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

RADICAL coordination action aims at approaching coherently, studying in depth and revealing scientifically, the beyond the state-of the art research and policy roadmap for security and privacy enhancement in Virtual Physiological Human, tak-ing into consideration technology advancements, business and societal needs, eth-ics and challenges that should be addressed and answered. RADICAL objectives are: Benchmarking existing security and privacy technologies. There will be a special focus on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, which assist in designing information and communication systems and services in a way that minimizes the collection and use of personal data and facilitate compliance with data protection rules. Identify the required technology developments and implementation challenges in order to define the gap between the present (as is situation) and the future desired status. Identify the societal needs and challenges that should be addressed in order to protect health patient records and regulate their usage. Analyze the implications of health data usage, with special focus to the genetic data usage. Capitalize on existing knowledge acquired by EC funded projects under 6th Framework, using their Provide a Policy Paper Roadmap for the Future Agenda in Medical and Genetic Data. Develop a Good Practice Guide, presenting the best practices that should be adopted by different stakeholders. Creating a network of stakeholders

Keywords: security,privacy,medical data,genetic data,medical informatics,health
MOBile watEr quality SENsor System (MOBESENS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,France,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5036540.0
EU funding (EUR): 3799787.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Management of the environment for predictable and sustainable use of natural resources is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Although water covers most of the planet, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure adequate supplies of fresh, clean water for drinking, as well as, for sports and wellness activities. The demand for water resources is increasing as the population grows. At the same time, water resources are increasingly exposed to pollutants and spills as parts of the world become ever more crowded and industrialised. Potential climate changes due to global warming may also impact water resources. Management of water quality requires regular measurements and monitoring. Today, measurements of water quality are performed manually. The process can be slow and painstaking. Multiple point measurements are needed to cover an area. The process needs to be automated and extended to provide rapid and effective monitoring. Autonomous, mobile and self-healing solutions are needed to identify trends and to help localize and track potential problems. MOBESENS provides a modular and scalable ICT based solution for water quality monitoring. It enables data to be gathered quickly and reported across wide areas. The low power wireless sensor network gathers data samples, which are time and location stamped and automatically entered into the grid based information system to facilitate analysis and issue alarms if needed. Mobility is a unique feature of MOBESENS, which are capable of navigation and both surface and subsurface measurements. This extends range, enables 3D area measurements and facilitates operation, even in bad weather. MOBESENS may form ad-hoc networks enabling rapid and reliable reporting as well as relative localization and tracking (e.g. of contaminants). Opportunistic communication between MOBESENS and both fixed and mobile buoys is envisioned. Renewable energy sources are studied for self-sustained MOBESENS operation.

Keywords: water quality monitoring,environment,wireless sensor network,mobility,sensing,energy scavenging,power management,distributed processing,data fusion
Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling (CONTRA CANCRUM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Greece,Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Czechia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5167660.0
EU funding (EUR): 3786557.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The ContraCancrum i.e. the Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling project aims at developing a composite multilevel platform for simulating malignant tumour development and tumour and normal tissue response to therapeutic modalities and treatment schedules. The project aims at having an impact primarily in (a) the better understanding of the natural phenomenon of cancer at different levels of biocomplexity and most importantly (b) the disease treatment optimization procedure in the patient's individualized context by simulating the response to various therapeutic regimens. The predictions of the simulators to be developed will rely on the imaging, histopathological, molecular and clinical data of the patient. Fundamental biological mechanisms involved in tumour development and tumour and normal tissue treatment response such as metabolism, cell cycle, tissue mechanics, cell survival following treatment etc. will be modelled. Stem cells will be addressed in the context of both tumour and normal tissue behaviour. From the mathematical point of view the simulators will exploit several discrete and continuous mathematics methods such as cellular automata, the generic Monte Carlo technique, finite elements, differential equations, novel dedicated algorithms etc. A study of the analogies of tumour growth with embryological development is expected to provide insights into both mechanisms. ContraCancrum will deploy two important clinical studies for validating the models, one on lung cancer and one on gliomas. The crucial validation work will be based on comparing the multi-level therapy simulation predictions with the actual medical data (including medical images), acquired before and after therapy. ContraCancrum aims to pave the way for translating clinically validated multilevel cancer models into clinical practice.

Keywords: multi-level modelling of cancer,clinical translation of vph research
Networking for Communications Challenged Communities: Architecture, Test Beds and Innovative Alliances (N4C)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Spain,Ireland,Poland,Slovenia,Norway,Portugal,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5011687.0
EU funding (EUR): 3650000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Leveraging diverse technologies in a coherent future Internet test bed is difficult. Extending the reach of such a test bed to people living in remote areas, that have special complex requirements, adds to the challenge. The target of the N4C project is the deployment and testing of ubiquitous and pervasive networking for communications challenged areas in a manner consistent with an overall vision for a future Internet that can encompass not just users and applications in well connected regions, but that can also reach out to rural areas. To achieve this goal N4C will make opportunistic use a range of communications access methods, but with a special focus on the presently evolving Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) architecture and related technologies that have mainly been developed by the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) DTN community. DTN technology will be used to meet some specific goals for future Internet scenarios like methods of delivering information on global warming in almost inaccessible areas and providing means for including remote populations in future Internet society thus contributing to EC objectives eInclusion and Broadband for all. A set of initial applications with specialized software and hardware will be tested in Sámi/Lapland in northern Sweden where a nomadic way of life is common and in Kocevje region in Slovenia. This will evolve into an on-going test bed for applications providing communications in challenged areas. The intent is that N4C will become an extension of a more general federated future Internet test bed for use in more traditionally connected regions. N4C will demonstrate sustainable business models for deployment of its outcomes. The impetus of working together in the FP7 framework will significantly improve the utility of the results by ensuring that they are applicable to several differing scenarios and assist with the goal of giving European leadership in the standardization of DTN technology.

Keywords: internet for all,rural broadband,nomadic,test beds,delay tolerant networking,opportunistic,air inteface technologies,pervasive applications,climate,cattle and animal tracking,web caching
TERABIT MAGNETIC STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES (TERAMAGSTOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,France,Austria,Germany,Liechtenstein,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4716937.0
EU funding (EUR): 3450000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The TERAMAGSTOR project aims through a systems approach at designing, fabricating and testing future perpendicular magnetic storage media with areal density larger than 1 Tbit/in2. To overcome the technological barriers limiting the areal density, the proposed approaches address both key media feasibility issues (thermal stability, writability, signal to noise ratio) and low cost, high throughput media fabrication methods. The approaches are based on the development of advanced film media (exchange spring and percolated media), nanolithographically patterned and nanoparticles patterned by templates through an integration of professional skills (chemists, physicists, engineers, materials scientists).The activity will cover media preparation and characterisation, magnetization reversal processes, numerical micromagnetic simulations, measurements of write/read recording characteristics and signal modelling and processing. The innovation and the ultimate goal is to produce the first EU 1.8 /2.5 HD with density in excess of 1 Tbit/in2 , through synergistic approach using EU groups and the exploitation by the two IND .It is based on previous work by most of the consortium members, which led to a record of 220 Gbits/in2 (Descartes prize 2005). The expected impact of TERAMAGSTOR is to open the way to a new generation of ultrahigh density magnetic recording media, through a basic investigation of magnetic phenomena in the nanoregime and the development of new fabrication processes, favouring the EU technological progress and competitiveness in the key technological area of magnetic storage and in general to the ICT business.

Keywords: terabit magnetic storage,nanostructures,nanolithography,ecxhange coupled media,perpendicular recording,self assembly
Transverse, Intrafascicular Multichannel Electrode system for induction of sensation and treatment of phantom limb pain in amputees (TIME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Italy,Spain,Germany,France,France,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4763777.0
EU funding (EUR): 3650000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Amputation of a limb is a surgical intervention used as a last resort to remove irreparably damaged, diseased, or congenitally malformed limbs where retention of the limb is a threat to the well-being of the individual. The procedure traumatically alters the body image, but often leaves sensations that refer to the missing body part, the phantom limb. In 50-80% of cases, these sensations are painful and currently, there are no effective treatment modalities. Given sufficient control over a large number of nerve fibers, a neural interface may be able to artificially evoke sensations of touch, or counteract the phantom limb pain. The application of Micro/nano technologies with functional electrical micro stimulation can not only pave the road towards a treatment, but also also provide amputees a means to sense virtual environments directly. The ultimate aim of this project is to develop this novel Human Machine Interface (HMI). A novel microfabricated neural interface, the Thin-film Intrafascicular Multichannel Electrode array, and implantable multichannel stimulator system will form the key core technological developments in the project. The work is structured in 10 work packages in three phases. The technological development phase will model, design, manufacture and characterize the multi-channel electrode (TIME) and design, manufacture and test an implantable, multi-channel stimulator. In vivo characterization phase will evaluate the TIME electrodes for biocompatibility, stability and chronic safety in animals and develop a psychophysical test platform for system integration. Finally, pre-clinical evaluation will test the system in short-term implants in amputee subjects. The work will provide direct contribution to the next-generation smart systems in the ICT-2007.3.6 Nano/Micro priority, strengthen Europe’s leading position in advanced electronic systems/biomedical applications, and improve the quality of life for amputees with phantom limb pain

Keywords: amputee,phantom limb pain,phantom limb sensation,multi-channel neural interface,microfabrication,multi-channel stimulator,microstimulation,biocompatibility,mechanical /electrical modelling