Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Nano Optics for Molecules on Chips (CHIMONO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3342202.0
EU funding (EUR): 2519902.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at the demonstration of detailed control of molecules realized by means of integrated electric, magnetic, radio frequency, micro wave and optical fields. The possibility of integrating all these components on a microchip and scaling down to the micro-meter scale and beyond will be combined with the ability of preparing and storing molecules in the electronic ground state in close proximity of the microchip surface or adsorbed on dielectric waveguides. Such a combination will offer unrivalled possibilities for the transfer of information between molecular (and/or atomic) states and optical or microwave fields or charged currents. The devices we will realise in this project will be a paradigm for future integrated machines able to control the external and internal degrees of freedom of individual molecules.

Keywords: quantum degnerate gases,ultracold molecules,stark deceleration,atom chips
Rehabilitation of a discrete sensory motor learning function by a prosthetic chip (RENACHIP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Sweden,Israel,Austria,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3393119.0
EU funding (EUR): 2599917.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to develop a full biohybrid rehabilitation and substitution methodology; replacing the aged cerebellar brain circuit with a biomimetic chip bidirectionally interfaced to the inputs and outputs of the system. Information processing will interface with the cerebellum to actuate a normal, real-time functional behavioural recovery, providing a proof-of-concept test for the functional rehabilitation of more complex neuronal systems. The model neuronal system we have chosen is the cerebellar microcircuit involved in conditioning of the motor eyeblink response. Localized experimental or clinical damage to this microcircuit disrupts irreversibly the eyeblink conditioning while aging invariably compromises the acquisition and retention of the eyeblink response. Using the aged rat as an experimental model we plan to integrate a biomimetic chip to rehabilitate a discrete sensory-motor learning function lost in the senescent cerebellar microcircuit, through the development of multiple enabling technologies. We will develop novel electrodes to both detect the stimulus and trigger the eyeblink response. The stimulus signals will be extracted from background neuronal activity and undergo conditioning, processing and interpretation in a silicon chip which mimics the function of the deficient cerebellar circuit. The output from this biomimetic chip will then trigger the eyeblink response by way of implanted stimulation electrodes. Complete success would be achieved through real-time demonstration of functional recovery of the lost motor learning response in aged rats. Advances in any or all of the component technologies, their integration and clinical implementation, and improved understanding of the neuronal circuit would represent incomplete but valuable progress in the treatment of deficient neuronal systems.

Keywords: brain rehabilitation,brain ict interface,biohybrid,biomimetic cerebellar chip
Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform (SMARTMUSEUM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Finland,Sweden,Malta,Italy,Estonia,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-02-28
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1934403.0
EU funding (EUR): 1485000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of the SMARTMUSEUM project is to develop a platform for innovative IT services enhancing on-site personalised access to digital content of cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using on-site distributed knowledge databases, global digital libraries, and visitors’ experiential knowledge the platform makes possible creation of innovative multilingual IT services for increasing interaction between visitors and cultural heritage objects in future smart museum environment, and taking full benefit of the digitalized cultural information. SMARTMUSEUM project supports achievement of following general goals: * Lowering costs of on-site access to digital cultural heritage content * Improving structured, user behaviour and preference dependent on-site access to cultural heritage * Improving the meaning, individual and shared experiences people receive from cultural and scientific resources * Bringing personalized cultural experience closer to non-expert community * Making real reuse of personal experiences related with cultural heritage access for variety of interest groups In order for developing SMARTMUSEUM platform following sub-goals are set: * Developing cultural heritage (CH) related metadata extensions to represent user preferences * Creating internal standard for representing user cultural interest preferences in a form of formal profile. * Creating privacy preserving adaptive user profile management for PDAs and web services * Creating of services (dedicated search engine) capable of digital content mining and indexing for variety of user profiles. *Creating easy search solutions for local and global reuse of cultural heritage related knowledge (such as information and experiences) * Creating of ontology based global web services (dedicated search engine) capable of digital content data mining and indexing for variety of user profiles. Test-bed for the platform are two museums.

Keywords: adaptive secure user profiling,cultural heritage virtual content access,distributed knowledge base,semantical and ontological web services
Intelligent distribution of demanding services and applications to mobile thin client devices (MOBITHIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,France,France,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5053646.0
EU funding (EUR): 3253150.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Thin client solutions (i.e. processing delegated primarily to a remote server) have been extremely successful in wired LAN settings, because of cost reductions, inherent data security and privacy, more efficient use of resources, and ubiquitous data and service access. Despite the successes in the wired scenario, solutions able to also perform well in a wireless wide area network, still do not exist because of the differences of characteristics in the network and devices. The ambition of MobiThin STREP project is to focus on extending existing wired thin client solutions to wireless mobile devices. Intelligent distribution of demanding services and all existing legacy applications to mobile devices over state-of-the-art telecommunications network, is a important rationale behind several research initiatives. Major blockers for this efficient high quality service delivery are concerned with the inherent characteristics of the wireless medium, as well with the resource constraints typical for wireless terminals (energy consumption and input-output mechanisms). MobiThin takes this challenge, pursuing thin client based solutions, optimized for wireless wide area networks. MobiThin – driven by a strong consortium focused on thin client computing - will develop an end-to-end solution, and address all important blockers for the wide adoption of wireless thin client computing paradigm. These include architecture and technology issues (wireless medium optimization, dedicated video codec and user pattern research, software/middleware, performance and energy saving oriented solutions), as well as economic ones (business roles and models). In addition to making scientific and technological progress, the project will demonstrate an integrated prototype for the wireless thin client. Combined with the existing wired technologies the MobiThin impact is to: o run your applications EVERYWHERE o CONNECT mobile and wireless workers o use every DEVICE on every network

Keywords: service distribution,converged network,wireless thin client computing
Further developing strategic cooperation with Japan and South Korea on ICT (COJAK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-06-30
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 325005.0
EU funding (EUR): 289797.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The FP7 ICT work programme for 2007-2008 underlines the strategic interest of SandT cooperation with Japan and South Korea: several challenges and objectives specifically call for cooperation projects with these two countries. In the last months, new developments have occurred: - the ASIACOOP initiative, supported by DG Infso and coordinated by the COJAK coordinator, has allowed to check the readiness of the Japanese and South Korean authorities to enter a strengthened RandD partnership with the EU, - in April 2007, during ministerial meetings held in Tokyo and Seoul, Commissioner Viviane Reding reassessed European determination to enter it as well. The COJAK project aims to support this momentum, and, building upon ASIACOOP achievements, will develop activities contributing to the development of policy dialogues and of cooperation projects between the EU and Japan / South Korea. Among the set of activities that will be developed over the 18-month project period: - Organisation in Europe of a “EU-Japan cooperation Summit on ICT” and of a “EU-South Korea cooperation Summit on ICT” (200 delegates expected at each event), follow-up events to the ones organised by ASIACOOP in Japan and South Korea end of 2007 - beginning of 2008, - Support to DG Infso in the operations of two “Steering Committees”, one involving DG Infso and Japanese authorities, the other one DG Infso and Korean authorities (6 meetings planned over the project period, alternatively in Asia and in Europe), - Activities aiming at ensuring the widest project impact and the largest involvement of the ICT communities of both regions: web site, preparation and dissemination of project documentation, direct promotion of the project in the EU and Japanese / South Korean ICT communities, etc. The COJAK project is supported by ETSI, by the EU Chambers of Commerce in Japan / South Korea, and by leading institutions devoted to the development of EU-Japan / EU-South Korea cooperation

Keywords: strategic cooperation opportunities,policy dialogues,ict,japan,sout korea
High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HIPEAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Spain,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Greece,France,United Kingdom,Israel,Netherlands,Italy,France,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5575839.0
EU funding (EUR): 4800000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Due to technology limitations, the domain of high-performance processors is experiencing a radical shift towards parallelism through on-chip multi-cores and chip customization leading to heterogeneous multi-core systems. Furthermore, the commodity market, the supercomputing market and the embedded market are increasingly sharing the same challenges, leading to convergence of the three markets. The main challenges for the future high-performance embedded systems have been documented in the HiPEAC roadmap (http://www.HiPEAC.net/roadmap), which forms the basis of the HiPEAC strategic research agenda. The goal of the HiPEAC Network of Excellence is (i) to join forces in Europe to collectively work on the HiPEAC strategic research agenda, (ii) to realize European excellence in computing architectures, system software and platforms to enable the development of new applications, and (iii) to allow European companies to achieve world-leading positions in computing solutions and products. In order to reach that goal, HiPEAC (a) will stimulate mobility between partners (internships, sabbaticals, research visits, cluster meeting), (b) will coordinate and steer research in 9 research clusters: (i) Multi-core architecture, (ii) Programming models and operating systems, (iii) Adaptive compilation, (iv) Interconnects, (v) Reconfigurable computing, (vi) Design methodology and tools, (vii) Binary translation and virtualization, (viii) Simulation platform, (ix) Compilation platform, and (c) will spread excellence by running the HiPEAC conference, the ACACES summer school, the HiPEAC journal, a newsletter, a website, seminars, technical reports, workshops, and awards. This program of activities will lead to the permanent creation of a solid and integrated virtual centre of excellence consisting of several highly visible departments, and this virtual centre of excellence will have the necessary critical mass to really make a difference for the future of computing systems i

Keywords: multi-core,program models,operating systems,compilation,interconnects,simulation,virtualization,design methodology
A Correct-by-Construction Workbench for Design and Verification of Embedded Systems (COCONUT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,France,France,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3346784.0
EU funding (EUR): 2550000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Design and verification of modern embedded platforms are two highly related problems which are still mainly addressed by using unrelated methodologies. This effectively reduces development productivity and complicates achieving predictable system properties. The COCONUT project thus focuses on the definition of a formal framework based on a tight integration of design and verification through all refinement steps of an embedded platform design flow, from specifications to logic synthesis and software compilation. In particular, it is intended to propose a modelling and verification flow to enhance and speed-up embedded platform design and configuration with particular regard to application fields related to mixed continuous/discrete models, like for example networked multimedia and sensor network managing. In this context, the main activities of COCONUT will be related to the definition of innovative methodologies and tools to: - define and validate properties that represent the design specification; - automatically synthesize properties into code; - map models between hybrid and discrete domains; - provide correct-by-construction abstraction/refinement processes; - perform post-refinement verification. Such activities will be implemented in a set of tools working on more that one abstraction level whose correctness will be formally proved.

Keywords: embedded platform,formal framework,specification validation,predictable system properties,correct-by-construction modelling,static verification,dynamic verification
Social Networking for Pervasive Adaptation (SOCIALNETS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom,Greece,United Kingdom,Portugal,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2821230.0
EU funding (EUR): 2149999.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The emerging information society is widely expected to experience massive embedding of both fixed and portable devices into our local physical spaces, with more and more devices having the capacity to initiate, store and communicate information and content in all aspects of life. This results in significant challenges for communication and information provision, based on required scalability, heterogeneity, re-configurability and dynamicity. The "Social Networking for Pervasive Adaptation" project (SOCIALNETS) proposes a radical re-think for this ICT challenge by significantly departing from the traditional engineering notion of communication network. Instead, SOCIALNETS seeks to embed in devices the key characteristics that enable humans to adapt and exhibit agility beyond any other species. A human-centric approach to communication is developed by establishing social network of relations between fixed and mobile devices, as defined by the human user and their particular actions and behaviour with respect to each other and technology in the environment. Social networks are intimately connected with the human and are the basis for the SOCIALNETS paradigm. The project seeks to understand, model and exploit these structures using an interdisciplinary approach involving social anthropology, complex systems, network engineering and computer science. Relations between devices can be inherently flexible, based on casual interactions, using social models of trust and security, and without the need for "always-on" connectivity. Furthermore, such relations build into social networks with desirable and inclusive properties that can be exploited for communication and knowledge acquisition for large numbers of devices.

Keywords: mobile peer-to-peer computing,pervasive computing,ubiquitous computing
Synthetic Forager (SF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Israel,Netherlands,Germany,Austria,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-15
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3643762.0
EU funding (EUR): 2750000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The single overarching goal of the SF consortium is to identify the neuronal, cognitive and behavioral principles underlying optimal foraging in rodents and to implement these principles in a real-world foraging artefact or the Synthetic Forager (SF.01). SF.01 constitutes a novel biologically based cognitive technology for autonomous exploration and foraging in real-world man-made indoor and outdoor environments. SF exploits our growing understanding of exploration and foraging behavior in rodents, advances current theories of the neuronal and behavioral organization of foraging and transfers this understanding towards the construction of novel real-world synthetic cognitive technologies. The behavior and neurophysiology of foraging will be studied in rodents behaving in automatically controlled multi-modal environments, fully controlled using an advanced experimental technology developed by the consortium. The overall integration of the perceptual, cognitive and behavioral control systems will be accomplished using a Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC). The perceptual, cognitive and behavioral control systems of SF will be based on statistical analysis and detailed game theoretic models. The SF control systems are validated against the behavioral and physiological data. The SF phenotype comprises a high-mobility robotic platform equipped with visual, auditory, olfactory and tactile sensors. The SF will be evaluated in a number of stringent benchmarks ranging from robot equivalents of rodent foraging tasks to simulated de-mining. The approach and technologies developed in SF will have long-term implications to areas including: cleaning robots, search and rescue systems, terrestrial and planetary exploration, delivery systems, autonomous transportation systems, military intelligence and battle field information control systems, environmental monitoring, internet information analysis and retrieval, information and communication networks and humanitarian de-mining.

Keywords: intelligent response,autonomous robots,robust and flexible robots,foraging utonomous robots,intelligent autonomous robots
Connecting Socio-Economic Research on the Dynamics of the Knowledge Society in the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries (EULAKS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Horizontal actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,France,Argentina,United Kingdom,Mexico,Uruguay
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 777518.4
EU funding (EUR): 694094.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The EULAKS project is premised on the assumption that by providing in-depth insights into socio-economic and policy development processes of other regions the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can make a valuable contribution to meeting the EU’s ambitious challenges as set out by the Lisbon and Gothenburg Summits, particularly in the context of the opening of the European Research Area (ERA) to third countries and regions. The project is aimed at raising the profile of SSH research activities and networks in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries in order to make sure that the ERA can fully benefit from key contributions that substantially improve the understanding of the changing socio-economic dynamics of the Information and Knowledge Society in both regions. A principal goal of the project is the creation of a space for horizontal learning between communities of SSH scholars and communities of relevant stakeholders and policy-makers. To attain this goal, the project will connect European and Latin American and Caribbean communities of scholars, research organisations and key agencies from a broad rage of SSH disciplines that vary in their research focus and methodological preference yet have made significant contributions to the building of a shared understanding of the Knowledge Society. EULAKS attaches priority to the promotion of the shared EU-LAC Knowledge Area through the support for the forging of close bi-regional ties between SSH research communities with a focus on the design, implementation and monitoring of science, technology and innovation (STI) policies.

Keywords: knowledge society latin america caribbean