Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
INtegral BIOmathics Support Action (INBIOSA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165334.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Research roadmaps in computational systems biology, autonomic computing and communications target the enrichment of knowledge and technology transfer between (analytic) life sciences and (synthetic) engineering sciences. However, we claim that it is impossible to make significant progress in this transdisciplinary field without a breakthrough paradigm change towards biologically driven mathematics and computation. Turing Machines used in biology and elsewhere in science today are Newtonian in a broad sense because they deal exclusively with syntax and inference rules based on discrete logic in absolute space and time to deliver predictable behaviour. Despite this approach being extraordinarily useful in engineering human processes, the interactions within the real world has proven to be vague and relational in many ways. A profoundly new understanding of the role of biology in natural and engineering sciences needs to be set out. Our driving argument is that living systems have fundamentally different notions of self-organization from those in engineering sciences. We therefore propose a research programme to investigate the imperatives of computation in a cardinal new way by comprehending the fundamental principles of emergence, development and evolution in biology. The goal will be a set of novel mathematical formalisms capable of addressing the multiple facets of an integral model and a general theory of biocomputation within an adequate frame of relevance. Its base will be a long-term fundamental research programme in mathematics, systems biology and computation that we call Integral Biomathics. The proposed support action has the goal of identifying, consolidating and organizing transdisciplinary research in Europe around this focus with the objectives: i) to devise a set of challenges for future FET research at proactive initiative level; ii) to produce a position paper motivating the need for action and reflecting the impact on science, technology & society.

Keywords: computational system biology,biological mathematics,internalism,autopoiesis,non-turing machines,naturalistic computation,relational biology
Preparing Secure Vehicle-to-X Communication Systems (PRESERVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,France,Germany,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5383431.0
EU funding (EUR): 3850000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Cooperative ITS and V2X communication promise a new age of safer, more efficient, and more comfortable road traffic. However, this promise can only be fulfilled if those systems are designed and implemented in secure way where they cannot be abused by malicious attackers and where the personal data processed by them is not subject to abuse and privacy violations. The goal of PRESERVE (Preparing Secure Vehicle-to-X Communication Systems) is to bring secure and privacy-protected V2X communication closer to reality by providing and field testing a security and privacy subsystem for V2X systems. PRESERVE will combine and extend results from earlier research projects, integrating and developing them to a pre-deployment stage by enhancing scalability, reducing the cost-level, and addressing open deployment issues. It aims at providing a comprehensive protection ranging from the vehicle sensors, through the on-board network and V2V/V2I communication, to the receiving application. As a result, PRESERVE will present a complete, scalable, and cost-efficient V2X security subsystem that is close-to-market and will be provided to other FOT projects and interested parties for ongoing testing. Field testing will investigate a number of important scalability and feasibility issues. Further, the V2X security subsystem will also be provided to other projects to jointly investigate integration and performance in larger fleets of vehicles. Another strategic objective of PRESERVE is to contribute to on-going harmonization and standardization efforts on the European level.

Keywords: cooperative its,v2x,security,privacy,data protection,field-operational-testing
Enabling kNowledge Sustainability Usability and Recovery for Economic value (ENSURE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Portugal,Sweden,Germany,Spain,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11765808.0
EU funding (EUR): 7850000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Ensuring long term usability for the spiraling amounts of data produced or controlled by organizations with commercial interests is quickly becoming a major problem. Drawing on motivation from uses cases in aerospace, health care, finance and clinical trials, ENSURE will significantly extend the state of the art in digital preservation which to-date has focused on relatively homogeneous cultural heritage data. Our use cases bring up a large number of issues which have yet to be fully addressed: 1) safely leveraging scalable pay-as-you-go infrastructure such as clouds 2) having businesses understand the economic implications of preservation, 3) conforming to regulatory, contractual and legal requirements as part of a whole workflow 4) managing long term integrity and authenticity significant intellectual property or highly personal data and 5) using off-the-shelf IT technologies for preservation to support different types of digital resources. Building on prior work, ENSURE will address these issue with innovative approaches and tools: • Cost and Value Evaluate the cost and benefit of different quality solutions. • Preservation Lifecycle Management Build on industry standard lifecycle management approaches to manage the preservation lifecycle, ensuring regulatory compliance, allowing changes in the preservation approach to reflect environmental changes, addressing evolution of ontologies and managing the quality of the digital objects over time. • Content-Aware Long Term Data Protection Ensure long-term, content-aware data protection, addressing changes in personally identifiable information, new and evolving regulations, managing user identities over decades, etc. • Leveraging Wider ITC Evaluate the costs/risks/benefits and demonstrate how to use emerging, commonly available information technology, to enable scalable solutions for digital preservation, considering in particular cloud storage and virtual application image capture.

Keywords: long term digital preservation,content-aware data protection,lifecycle management,storage services,cloud,quality validation,cost modelling,economic performance assessment,virtual image capture
Co-ordinating Research Efforts Towards Zero-Power ICT (ZEROPOWER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 625755.0
EU funding (EUR): 550000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this project is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in “Toward Zero-Power ICT” research projects (FET proactive call FP7-ICT-2009-5, Objective 8.6) and communities of scientists interested in energy harvesting and low power, energy efficient ICT. This activity is aimed at assessing the impact of our research efforts and proposing measures to increase the visibility of ICT-Energy related initiatives to the scientific community, targeted industries and to the public at large through exchange of information, dedicated networking events and media campaigns. The ZEROPOWER activities will inspire more research projects in this emerging area by generating broader acceptance for the developed technology and the benefits of its applications. ZEROPOWER will facilitate broader interaction and feedback among the “Toward Zero-Power ICT” consortia members and stakeholders, thereby, consolidating progress in the field. Positive benefits to the European Community are foreseen in all great challenges of energy, security, environment and health by developing a strategic research agenda in low power, energy efficient ICT and making it happen.

Keywords: coordination energy efficiency harvesting nanoscale power non-equilibrium microscale generator
Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces (PATHS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Greece,Norway,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3071963.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Significant amounts of cultural heritage material are now available through online digital library portals. However, this vast amount of cultural heritage material can also be overwhelming for many users who are provided with little or no guidance on how to find and interpret this information. The situation is very different in museums and galleries where items are organised thematically and users guided through the collection. The PATHS project will create a system that acts as an interactive personalised tour guide through existing digital library collections. The system will offer suggestions about items to look at and assist in their interpretation. Navigation will be based around the metaphor of a path through the collection. A path can be based around any theme, for example artist and media (“paintings by Picasso”), historic periods (“the Cold War”), places (“Venice”) and famous people (“Muhammad Ali”). Users will be able to construct their own paths or follow pre-defined ones. The PATHS project will provide users with innovative ways to access and utilise the contents of digital libraries that enrich their experiences of these resources. This will be achieved by extending the state-of-the-art in user-driven information access and by applying language technologies to analyse and enrich online content. The project will take a user-centred approach to development to accommodate the needs, interests and preferences of different types of users. The PATHS consortium contains six partners. Two academic institutions, Sheffield University and Universidad del Pais Vasco, and two SMEs, i-sieve technologies Ltd. and Asplan Viak Internet Ltd., bring experience in several technical areas (the presentation and processing digital content; understanding user profiles and requirements; search and language processing technologies) which is complemented with expertise in the cultural heritage domain provided by MDR Partners and Alinari 24 Ore Spa. The PATHS project will make use of content from the European Digital Library, Europeana, and contribute to the i2010: Digital Libraries Initiative.

Keywords: personalization,pathways,information retrieval,cultural heritage
From data sharing and integration via VPH models to personalised medicine (P-MEDICINE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Greece,Spain,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Japan,Israel,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17892031.0
EU funding (EUR): 13329898.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Medicine is undergoing a revolution that is transforming the nature of healthcare from reactive to preventive. The changes are catalyzed by a new systems approach to disease which focuses on integrated diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in individuals. This will replace our current mode of medicine over the coming years with a personalized predictive treatment . While the goal is clear, the path is fraught with challenges. P-medicine brings together international leaders in their fields to create an infrastructure that will facilitate this translation from current practice to personalized medicine. In achieving this objective p-medicine has formulated a coherent, integrated workplan for the design, development, integration and validation of technologically challenging areas of today. Our emphasis is on formulating an open, modular framework of tools and services, so that p-medicine can be adopted gradually, including efficient secure sharing and handling of large personalized data sets, enabling demanding Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) multiscale simulations (in silico oncology), building standards-compliant tools and models for VPH research, drawing on the VPH Toolkit and providing tools for large-scale, privacy-preserving data and literature mining, a key component of VPH research. We will ensure that privacy, non-discrimination, and access policies are aligned to maximize protection of and benefit to patients. The p-medicine tools and technologies will be validated within the concrete setting of advanced clinical research. Pilot cancer trials have been selected based on clear research objectives, emphasising the need to integrate multilevel datasets, in the domains of Wilms tumour, breast cancer and leukaemia. To sustain a self-supporting infrastructure realistic use cases will be built that will demonstrate tangible results for clinicians. The project is clinically driven and promotes the principle of open source and open standards.

Keywords: personalized medicine,vph,in silico oncology,supercomputing,ontologies,data security,privacy
Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition (ESMCS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,Spain,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4791659.0
EU funding (EUR): 3645135.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The majority of current robot architectures is based on a perception-then-action control strategy. In this project, we will adopt a theoretical perspective that turns this classical view upside-down and emphasizes the constitutive role of action for perception. The key concept our project is based on that of sensorimotor contingencies, that is, law-like relations between actions and associated changes in sensory input. We will advance this concept further and suggest that actions not only play a key role for perception, but also in developing more complex cognitive capabilities. We suggest that extended sensorimotor contingencies (eSMCs) may be exploited for the definition of object concepts and action plans and that their mastery can lead to goal-oriented behavior. The project pursues the following objectives: We will employ this approach to establish computational models that are suitable as controllers for autonomous robots; we will implement these eSMCs-based models on robotic platforms with different sensor-actuator equipment; we will investigate learning and adaptivity of eSMCs in artificial systems, focussing on sensorimotor interactions, object recognition and action planning; we will investigate and validate the concept of eSMCs in natural cognitive systems, by carrying out behavioural and neurophysiological studies on healthy human subjects; finally, we will test predictions derived from this concept in patients with movement dysfunctions, where ensueing changes in perceptual and cognitive processing will be tested. A set of benchmarks and task scenarios will be developed serving as demonstrators for the enhanced performance of artificial systems based on the eSMCs approach. Moreover, the usefulness of the approach for the development of applications in augmenting human behaviour will be demonstrated.

Keywords: robotics,neuroscience,grounding of cognition in action,embodiment,agency,autonomy,affordances
Cognitive Control Framework for Robotic Systems (CORBYS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Belgium,Norway,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8755265.0
EU funding (EUR): 6099252.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

CORBYS focus is on robotic systems that have symbiotic relationship with humans. Such robotic systems have to cope with highly dynamic environments as humans are demanding, curious and often act unpredictably. CORBYS will design and implement a cognitive robot control architecture that allows the integration of 1) high-level cognitive control modules, 2) a semantically-driven self-awareness module, and 3) a cognitive framework for anticipation of, and synergy with, human behaviour based on biologically-inspired information-theoretic principles. These modules, supported with an advanced multi-sensor system to facilitate dynamic environment perception, will endow the robotic systems with high-level cognitive capabilities such as situation-awareness, and attention control. This will enable the adaptation of robot behaviour, to the user’s variable requirements, to be directed by cognitively adapted control parameters. CORBYS will provide a flexible and extensible architecture to benefit a wide range of applications; ranging from robotised vehicles and autonomous systems such as robots performing object manipulation tasks in an unstructured environment to systems where robots work in synergy with humans. The latter class of systems will be a special focus of CORBYS innovation as there exist important classes of critical applications where support for humans and robots sharing their cognitive capabilities is a particularly crucial requirement to be met. CORBYS control architecture will be validated within two challenging demonstrators: i) a novel mobile robot-assisted gait rehabilitation system CORBYS; ii) an existing autonomous robotic system. The CORBYS demonstrator to be developed during the project, will be a self-aware system capable of learning and reasoning that enables it to optimally match the requirements of the user at different stages of rehabilitation in a wide range of gait disorders.

Keywords: cognitive control,senosr network,human robotic interaction,robotic application
Augumented RealiTy Supported adaptive and personalized Experience in a museum based oN processing real-time Sensor Events (ARTSENSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,France,Spain,Serbia,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2012-11-18
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4289088.0
EU funding (EUR): 3099980.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

ARtSENSE tackles a very important problem in the modern usage of ICT in cultural heritage domain: bridging the gap between the digital world with the physical in a highly flexible way in order to enable a novel, adaptive cultural experience. ARtSENSE aims to develop an active assistants which looks over the user’s shoulder (physical world) and react on any change in a visitor’s state of interests (user’s world) by adapting the “guide” (digital world) accordingly. Besides introducing novel wearable technologies for sensing continuously and non-intrusively the user’s context (visual – eye-tracking, audio, physiological – biosensing) in order to determine the user’s current interest (“mental engagement”), ARtSENSE will revolutionize the way how adaptive assistance will be realized: using cutting-edge technology (low weight bidirectional see-through displays) that enables overlaying reality with digital information transparently, including gaze-and gesture-controlled interaction, so that visitors have the feeling that physical objects are directly responding to them. In that way artworks become active artefacts that react on users’ attention and emotions and provide more information about them! This leads to the new generation of mobile museum guides based on the novel concept we call Adaptive Augmented Reality (A2R). The realization of such an ambitious result will be based on the prior work of partners in the domain of Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage, Affective Computing and Complex Event Processing, which ensures the quality and reliability of generated outcomes and it will be driven by the three complementary use cases from Cultural Heritage domain, which ensures the usefulness and reusability of results. Very rigorous and comprehensive evaluation and exploitation plans ensures that this work will produce exploitable research results and influence the selected research areas, as well as the usage of advance ICT in the CH domain in general.

Keywords: augmented reality in cultural heritage,psychology computing,event processing,adaptive pervasive systems