Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
DIAmond Devices Enabled Metrology and Sensing (DIADEMS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Hungary,Israel,Belgium,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8261977.0
EU funding (EUR): 5867000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The DIADEMS project aims at exploiting the unique physical properties of NV color centres in ultrapure single-crystal CVD-grown diamond to develop innovative devices with unprecedented performances for ICT applications. By exploiting the atom-like structure of the NV that exhibits spin dependent optical transitions, DIADEMS will make optics-based magnetometry possible. The objectives of DIADEMS are to develop - Wide field magnetic imagers with 1 nT sensivities, - Scanning probe magnetometer with sensitivity 10 nT and spatial resolution 10 nm, - Sensor heads with resolution 1 pT. To reach such performances, DIADEMS will: - Use new theoretical protocols for sensing, - Develop ultrahigh purity diamond material with controlled single nitrogen implantation with a precision better than 5 nm, - Process scanning probe tips with diametre in the 20 nm range, - Transfer them to AFM cantilever, improve the emission properties of NV by coupling them with photonic cavities and photonic waveguides. DIADEMS outputs will demonstrate new ICT functionalities that will boost applications with high impact on society: - Calibration and optimization of write/read magnetic heads for future high capacity (3 Tbit per square inch) storage disk required for intense computing, - Imaging of electron-spin in graphene and carbon nanotubes for next generation of electronic components based on spintronics, - Non-invasive investigation of living neuronal networks to understand brain function, - Demonstration of magnetic resonance imaging of single spins allowing single protein imaging for medical research. DIADEMS aims at integrating the efforts of the European Community on NV centres to push further the limits of this promising technology and to keep Europe’s prominent position.

Keywords: diamond,nv centers,metrology,sensing,spintronics
Design of embedded mixed-criticality CONTRol systems under consideration of EXtra-functional properties (CONTREX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,France,Italy,Spain,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9341564.0
EU funding (EUR): 6050000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Up to now mission & safety critical services of SoS (Systems of Systems) have been running on dedicated and often custom designed HW/SW platforms. In the near future such systems will be accessible, connected with or executed on devices comprising off-the-shelf HW/SW components. Significant improvements have been achieved supporting the design of mixed-critical systems by developing predictable computing platforms and mechanisms for segregation between applications of different criticalities sharing computing resources. Such platforms enable techniques for the compositional certification of applications’ correctness, run-time properties and reliability. CONTREX will complement these important activities with an analysis and segregation along the extra-functional properties real-time, power, temperature and reliability. These properties will be a major cost roadblocks when 1) scaling up the number of applications per platform and the number of cores per chip, 2) in battery powered devices or 3) switching to smaller technology nodes. CONTREX will enable energy efficient and cost aware design through analysis and optimisation of real-time, power, temperature and reliability with regard to application demands at different criticality levels. To reinforce European leadership and industrial competiveness the CONTREX approach will be integrated into existing model-based design methods that can be customized for different application domains and target platforms. CONTREX will focus on the requirements derived from the automotive, aeronautics and telecommunications domain and evaluate its effectiveness and drive integration into existing standards for the design and certification based on three industrial demonstrators. Valuable feed-back to the industrial design practice, standards, and certification procedures is pursued. Our economic goal is to improve energy efficiency by 20 % and to reduce cost per system by 30 % due to a more efficient use of the computing platform.

Keywords: mixed-critical control systems,extra-functional properties,time,power,temperature,reliability,multi-core,model-based design
Enabling SDN ExperiMentAtion in WiReless Testbeds exploiting Future Internet Infrastructure in South KoRea and Europe (SMARTFIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,Spain,France,Australia,Korea, Republic of,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1305267.0
EU funding (EUR): 499000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The main target at which SMARTFIRE aims is the design and implementation of a shared experimental facility spanning different islands located in Europe (EU) and South Korea (KR). This large scaled facility will promote joint experimentation among EU and KR experimenters, encouraging them to conceive and implement innovative protocols, able to take advantage of the current leading network technologies. Existing testbed infrastructures in EU and KR, already featuring WiFi enabled nodes, wireless sensors and supporting WiMax, LTE and OpenFlow technologies, are going to be extended and federated in the experimental, as well as the control plane. These two directions are going to be supported by the leading experimental frameworks adapted by most EU testbeds, the cOntrol and Management Framework (OMF) and the Slice Federation Architecture (SFA). The OMF framework, currently supporting control and experimentation in wireless islands, is going to be expanded, in order to support experimentation with OpenFlow switches, thus integrating wireless with OpenFlow testbeds. Moreover, unique features, only existing in the KR testbeds will be integrated into OMF, in order to unleash the hidden potential of experimenting with heterogeneous resources. The federation in the control plane that allows assignment of multiple heterogeneous resources under a single slice is going to be developed through the extensions of SFA. Interconnection of the aforementioned islands will take advantage of the GEANT network, in the case of the EU research sites, while the respective KOREN/KREONET will be utilized by the KR sites. The two currently disjoint networks are going to be interconnected via the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN3/TEIN4) and the Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development (GLORIAD). Finally, SMARTFIRE aims at the implementation of various pilot use cases, designed to demonstrate the power of the EU-KR shared Future Internet experimental facility.

Keywords: wireless,openflow,ccn,future internet experimental facility,testbed,federation,omf,sfa,c-flow,ocf,europe-south korea,ofelia,openlab,geant,tein,experimental research
Execution Models for Energy-Efficient Computing Systems (EXCESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Sweden,Norway,Germany,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3313184.0
EU funding (EUR): 2527000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The EXCESS project aims at providing radically new energy execution models forming foundations for energy-efficient computing paradigms that will enable two orders of magnitude improvements in energy efficiency for computing systems. A holistic approach that involves both hardware and software aspects together has the best chances to successfully address the energy efficiency problem and discover innovative solutions. EXCESS proposed models will try to describe and bridge embedded processors models with general purpose ones. EXCESS will take a holistic approach and will introduce novel programming methodologies to drastically simplify the development of energy-aware applications that will be energy-portable in a wide range of computing systems while preserving relevant aspects of performance. The EXCESS project is going to be driven by the following technical components that are going to be developed during EXCESS: • Complete software stacks (including programming models, libraries/algorithms and runtimes) for energy- efficient computing. • Uniform, generic development methodology and prototype software tools that enable leveraging additional optimisation opportunities for energy-efficient computing by coordinating optimisation knobs at the different levels of the system stack, enabled by appropriate modelling abstractions at each level. • Configurable energy-aware simulation systems for future energy-efficient architectures. The EXCES consortium unites Europe’s leading experts in both high-performance computing and embedded computing. The consortium consists of world-class research centres and universities (Chalmers, LIU, UiT), a high performance computing centre (HLRS at USTUTT), and a European embedded multi-core SME (Movidius), and has the required expertise to accomplish the ambitious but realistic goals of EXCESS.

Keywords: low-power and energy efficiency portability,energy preserving composability,power- and energy-efficient algorithmic designs,heterogeneous multi-core systems
ACTive Implant for Optoacoustic Natural sound enhancement (ACTION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Finland,Germany,Italy,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4224451.0
EU funding (EUR): 2992000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The ACTION project builds on the recent discovery that relatively low levels of pulsed infrared laser light are capable of triggering activity in hair cells of the partially hearing (hearing impaired) cochlea and vestibule. So far the excessively large volume of optical fibre systems and external light sources used for animal studies prevented the practical use of this discovery for long term animal research devices or for human grade implants. ACTION aims to develop a self-contained, smart, highly miniaturised system to provide optoacoustic stimuli directly from the electrode array of a cochlear implant system. The resultant neural cell response will be electrically recorded and direct feedback to the light source will be provided to enable automated, objective hearing threshold assessment and optimization of sound feature coding enhancements for improved quality of the acoustic sound. The new implant is aimed to lead to more effective non-contact treatment, as a device with intra-cochlear sound sources offers many potential advantages over a traditional in the ear hearing aid/speech processor combination. This approach will at the same time avoid damage of neural tissue by high electrical current, and introduction of high-frequency artifacts to the recording signal. Biocompatible, long-term implantable materials for micropackage and integration principles for the light sources (specific pulsed vertical cavity surface emitting lasers optimized for optical neurostimulation) will be selected. The project includes neural response measurements and communication between discrete elements to achieve robust and reliable miniature standalone devices with high acceptance within the medical sector. Pre-clinical tests for optoacoustic cochlear implants will be an integral part of the project.

Keywords: optoacoustic stimuli,evoked response,vcsel,hybrid cochlear implant
Robotics Coordination Action for Europe (ROCKEU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,France,Spain,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-01-17
End date: 2016-07-16
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3220376.0
EU funding (EUR): 2989999.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The European robotics community has grown significantly over the last few years. At the same time public funding enabled the community to become more organised on both the research (EURON) and the industrial (EUROP) side and to develop the currently valid Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).Very recently EURON and EUROP decided to combine their portfolio of activities and member base within a new non-profit organisation, euRobotics AISBL, which intends to engage in a contractual Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the European Commission (EC). The main players behind this success story have joined in this project to address the most important challenges for the coming three to five years: - Professional coordination of technology roadmapping and implementation of innovation activities - Fostering collaboration among all stakeholders of European robotics - Promoting European robotics This project’s ambition is to create sustainable solutions for these challenges, building on the successful instruments the robotics community has already experimented with. These instruments have not yet fully achieved the required goals, partly because of a lack of dedicated, professional support and partly because the challenges have changed as a consequence of the higher ambitions and the larger set of stakeholders to be involved. This will change with the recent founding of euRobotics AISBL and the commitment of both industrial and academic stakeholders to more closely and formally cooperate, but especially through the PPP with the EC. The following activities are planned engaging the whole community: - Robotics roadmap coordination - Robotics PPP preparation and ramp-up - Facilitating robotics innovation - Robotics networking - Dissemination and outreach These core activities will defragment the community and construct a European robotics industry with sufficient identity and presence to create world leadership in terms of both strategic capability and economic impact.

Keywords: strategic roadmapping for european robotics,academia-industry collaboration,robotics ppp,eurobotics aisbl,euron,europ,robotics innovation,entrepreneurship,els,international cooperation,pcp
Out of the shadows: developing capacities and capabilities for tackling undeclared work in Bulgaria, Croatia and FYR Macedonia (GREY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Croatia,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1263163.11
EU funding (EUR): 1263163.11
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal is to provide concrete policy recommendations about what policies may work better based on rigorous empirical evidence for those seeking to tackle the undeclared economy in the Balkans. In particular, the objectives of our project are to: 1. Conduct a comprehensive review of the policy approaches and measures being used to tackle undeclared work. 2. Empirically evaluate the measures for facilitating the shift of undeclared work into the declared economy in the selected target region. 3. Based on the results of the first two objectives, the final objective is to recommend possible new policy approaches and measures (or endorse old ones) that will facilitate the shift of undeclared work into the declared economy.

Keywords: undeclared activities,balkans,informal economy,policies
Innovative Policy Modelling and Governance Tools for Sustainable Post-Crisis Urban Development (INSIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2954925.0
EU funding (EUR): 2361971.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Cities embody the twofold challenge currently facing the European Union: how to improve competitiveness while achieving social cohesion and environmental sustainability. They are fertile ground for science and technology, innovation and cultural activity, but also places where problems such as environmental pollution, unemployment, segregation and poverty are concentrated. INSIGHT aims to investigate how ICT, with particular focus on data science and complexity theory, can help European cities formulate and evaluate policies to stimulate a balanced economic recovery and a sustainable urban development. The objectives of the project are the following: 1. to investigate how data from multiple distributed sources available in the context of the open data, the big data and the smart city movements, can be managed, analysed and visualised to understand urban development patterns; 2. to apply these data mining functionalities to characterise the drivers of the spatial distribution of activities in European cities, focusing on the retail, housing, and public services sectors, and paying special attention to the impact of the current economic crisis; 3. to develop enhanced spatial interaction and location models for retail, housing, and public services; 4. to integrate the new theoretical models into state-of-the-art simulation tools, in order to develop enhanced decision support systems able to provide scientific evidence in support of policy options for post-crisis urban development; 5. to develop innovative visualisation tools to enable stakeholder interaction with the new urban simulation and decision support tools and facilitate the analysis and interpretation of the simulation outcomes; 6. to develop methodological procedures for the use of the tools in policy design processes, and evaluate and demonstrate the capabilities of the tools through four case studies carried out in cooperation with the cities of Barcelona, Madrid, London, and Rotterdam.

Keywords: sustainable urban development,economic growth,policy assessment,public services,smart cities,data mining,spatial analysis,urban simulation models,visual analytics,participatory governance
HTML5 for Apps: Closing the Gaps (HTML5APPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 647487.0
EU funding (EUR): 420000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The demand for “apps” is growing quickly – they are becoming one of the primary ways to deliver internet and cloud-based services to consumers. However, the technologies currently used for developing apps have a number of drawbacks. First, today’s apps are “native apps”: they require development using programming languages that are specific to a particular platform (Apple iOS, Google Android,). For developers, this means that every platform requires a separate development effort, increasing development cost. For consumers, this means that not all apps are available on all platforms, because developers may choose to only target one platform due to cost issues. A final drawback: none of the dominant app stores used to distribute and sell apps are provided by European companies. HTML5-based “apps” developed using a combination of HTML, CSS and Javascript can solve many of the issues of native apps. This is because HTML5 is platform and device agnostic, making it easy to move apps from one platform to another and also from one device to another (e.g. mobile to tablet to connected TV to connected car). As a result, developers are increasingly moving from “native apps” to HMTL5 apps, and are completely dropping out of the popular proprietary popular app stores in some cases. However, today, HTML5 cannot be used to fully replace native apps. This is because it is lacking a certain number of functionalities such as rich APIs to interact with devices (e.g. to launch a phone call from within an app) or support for handling of payments. The goal of the HTML5Apps project is to close the gap between native and HTML5 apps through the standardisation of missing HTML5 functionality. The project is lead by GEIE ERCIM, the European Host of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an industry consortium of currently more than 370 members from research and industry which is directed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.

Keywords: web technology,standards,webos,cloud,web applications