Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Nanoparticle Fate Assessment and Toxicity in the Environment (NANOFATE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal,Germany,Italy,Poland,United Kingdom,Sweden,France,Czechia,Poland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-ENV-2009, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3251134.8
EU funding (EUR): 2497100.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Concept: NanoFATE has been conceived to fill knowledge and methodological gaps currently impeding sound assessment of environmental risks posed by engineered nanoparticles (ENPs). Our vision is to assess environmental fate and risk of ENPs from high-volume products for which recycling is not an option; namely; fuel additive, personal care and antibacterial products. Two market ENPs from each product (CeO2, ZnO, Ag of varying size, surface and core chemistries) will be followed through their post-production life cycles i.e. from environmental entry as “spent product”, through waste treatment to their final fates and potential toxic effects. This will test the applicability of current fate and risk assessment methods and identify improvements required for a scientific assessment of ENPs at an early stage. Objectives: Such systematic study of the environmental fate and toxicity of selected ENPs will entail addressing 9 S&amp;T objectives: 1: Design, tagging and manufacture of ENPs 2: Analysis of ENP interactions with abiotic and biotic entities 3: Generating predictive models for ENP exposure in waters and sludge-amended soils 4: Studying the fate and behaviour of ENPs through wastewater treatment 5: Determining acute and chronic ecotoxicity 6: Assessing effects of physico-chemical properties on ENP bioavailability 7: Defining mechanisms of uptake, internal trafficking, and toxicity 8: Developing spatial RA model(s) 9: Improving understanding of ENP risks Methodology: The work plan is designed to progress beyond the state-of-the-art through focused workpackages. While some objectives are delivered in single WPs, good cross WP integration will secure the key objectives of delivering new methods for quantifying ENP risks. Impact: NanoFATE will provide robust tools, techniques and knowledge needed by stakeholders to understand and communicate risks associated with different ENPs, including their environmental interactions and toxicity.

Keywords: nano,fate,exposure,bioavailability,uptake,toxicity,risk,environmental
Trustworthy Eternal Systems via Evolving Software, Data and Knowledge (ETERNALS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 651942.0
EU funding (EUR): 549980.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Latest research work within ICT has allowed to pinpoint the most important and urgently required features that future systems should have to meet users' needs. Accordingly, methods making systems capable of adapting to changes in user requirements and application domains are key research areas. Adaptation and evolution depend on several dimensions like time, location, and security conditions, expressing the diversity of the context in which systems operate. A design based on an effective management of these dimensions constitutes a remarkable step towards the realization of Trustworthy Eternal Systems. The EternalS Coordination Action (CA) specifically aims at coordinating research in that area based on research task forces together with community building activities, where the organization of workshops and conferences is just one of the tools used to conduct the CA. EternalS creates the conditions for mutual awareness and cross-fertilization among the four "ICT Forever Yours" projects LivingKnowledge, HATS, Connect and SecureChange. These projects conduct research in key ICT areas: (i) automatic learning within systems capable of analysing knowledge and diversity with respect to their complex semantic interactions and evolution over time and (ii) exploitation of formal methods for the design and networking of adaptive and evolving software systems, where security policies and a fully connected environment represent fundamental properties of effective present and future systems. Thanks to the indirect participation of the above mentioned projects, EternalS will involve many researchers from both academic and industrial world. This will allow for (a) thoroughly studying the dimensions of eternal systems such as diversity & time awareness and self-adaptation & evolution by automatic learning, in fields of relevance, i.e., knowledge, software, and networked and secure systems and (b) writing the roadmap for interesting and successful future emerging techn

Keywords: knowledge,software systems,networked and secure systems
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL BREAKTHROUGH LEADING TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED COMPETITIVE SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY (NMP-MANUFUTURE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-CSA-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-15
End date: 2011-03-14
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1057266.8
EU funding (EUR): 800000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The project focuses essentially on integration, aiming at bringing together stakeholders and visions in different dimensions among the NMP communities and the NMP and Manufuture research communities and industrial communities. It will materialise through the organisation of an NMP-Manufuture Conference in Belgium. It will address three major objectives: the interaction, complementarities and synergies between the ‘sub-themes’ of the NMP theme in FP7, between the NMP and Manufuture communities and the ‘research for integrated industrial implementation’ through the Manufuture Technology Platform and the related FoF under the EU Recovery Plan. The conference will feature a common policy: oriented plenary session for both objectives, information day sessions integrating the NMP and FoF initiatives. It will also organize brokerage events for project participants and invite potential applicants, and more particularly SMEs. An ‘integrated Research and Industries’ exhibition is also planned. The conference would gather an international forum to evaluate to what extent integration among the NMP components has been effectively realized and how this could further be materialised and amplified. It would present the preliminary results of the FP6 and FP7 projects, involve the related European Technology Platforms, and the three PPPs or the Recovery Plan, as well as the perspectives of the NMP programme to the scientific public and decision makers. It will promote integration through the Manufuture Technology Platform acting as the integrator of the enabling technologies in the FoF and acting as enabler of the production of the micro and nanotechnology-based products and products composed of new materials. The event would be most timely since it will coincide with the mid-term of the 7th FP, the closure dates of the NMP 2011 Calls for proposals, the recent appointment of the EU Commissioner for Science and Research and the Belgian Presidency.

Keywords: conference nmp manufuture integration evaluation prospective fof sme belgian-presidency
Low Energy Gamma and X-ray therapy (LOGX)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2014-01-03
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer is a serious disease with high mortality and morbidity. Treatment is often performed with radiation therapy. To assure a good control of the tumour with limited side effect, a very high conformity of the radiation field is needed in the treatments. This led to the development of very complex treatments using external photon beam. There is however another, more cost-effective, way to achieve that very high conformity. For localized tumours, this can be done by inserting radioactive photon sources emitting x-rays or gamma rays, directly inside the tumour. This technique is called brachytherapy and is the focus of this proposal. Because of advantages for dosimetry and radioprotection, all the latest developments in brachytherapy source design are pointing in the direction of the reduction of the photon energy. This presents dosimetric difficulties caused for example by the increase of the importance of tissue composition. The present standard for brachytherapy considers the patient as a 30cm diameter water sphere. Another question concerns the radiobiological effectiveness (RBE) of low energy photons. Although low energy photons have been suspected to have a RBE different than the higher energy photons there are not many studies about the subject and it is not taken into account clinically. This project proposes to study the physics of low energy photons used in brachytherapy and to assess the influence of the patient geometry and composition on the dosimetry and to determine the radiation quality taking into account the non-water equivalence of tissue for low energy sources by performing physical measurements and Monte Carlo calculations. We will develop a fast and accurate way to individualize and optimize the treatment including the RBE effect. Drastically improving the dosimetry for those low energy sources is of utmost importance to bring brachytherapy at the same level of accuracy than what is currently achievable for external beam radiotherapy.

Keywords: physical sciences,biophysics,medical physics
Synergistic effect of DNA damage and oxidative stress in aging (DNA-DAMAGE REDOX AGE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Population aging will become one of the most dramatic challenges in public health faced by the western world in the near future. Aging affects the organism systemically even though its consequences on the brain are of particular importance because of the progressive decline of cognitive functions. Aging impacts not only individuals; it will exert profound effects on the entire society because it causes decrease in labor productivity as well as increase in health-care costs. In this regard, it is critical to develop effective treatments to ameliorate the quality of life of the elders. Ideally, successful treatments will target those early mechanisms that are responsible for initiating the molecular cascade leading to the aging phenotype. Oxidative stress – and its consequences on DNA damage - has been indicated as a major player in the process and antioxidant treatments received ample consideration. However, such treatments have been rather unsuccessful and it is still unclear whether oxidative stress really represents an initiating factor in aging. In fact, generic induction oxidative stress is not necessarily associated to an aging phenotype. On the contrary, genetic disruption of some DNA repair mechanisms accurately mimics this physiological process. The goal of this grant is to provide insights about the causative mechanisms of aging in the brain and to generate information useful to develop effective antioxidant therapies. For this purpose, we will use genetic mice models of aging – where the DNA repair machinery is impaired – to understand if oxidative stress is causative of DNA damage or vice versa. To discover new biomarkers, studies on mitochondrial physiology will be paralleled by analyses of protein oxidation to understand which proteins specifically undergo oxidation while the physiological functions are declining. In conclusion, our final goal is to generate information that will improve quality of life in a growing portion of the European society.

Keywords: aging,neurodegeneration,oxidative stress,dna damage,mitochondria,thiol oxidation,transgenic mice,nucleotide excision repair,biomarkers,proteomics
Neighbourhood Oriented Brokerage ELectricity and monitoring system (NOBEL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Sweden,Greece,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2938425.0
EU funding (EUR): 1893960.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Europe and the rest of the world share common goals towards energy efficiency and sustainability. European leaders committed themselves to reduce primary energy consumption by 20% compared to projections for 2020. Energy efficiency is the most cost-effective way of achieving such goal. Furthermore, improving energy efficiency also addresses the key energy challenges of climate change, energy security and competitiveness. Distributed generation of energy coming from various vendors, even private homes, is a big challenge for tomorrow’s power management systems that, unlike today, will not dispatch energy centrally or under central control. On the contrary, the production, distribution and management of energy will be treated and optimized using local data. The NOBEL project will build an energy brokerage system with which individual energy consumers can communicate their energy needs directly with both large-scale and small-scale energy producers, thereby making energy use more efficient. The brokerage system will use a middleware system to communicate energy consumption data and will use IPv6 technology to interconnect the middleware with sensors and energy meters on individual devices. Even today, parts of the power system are highly nonlinear with fast changing dynamics. It is hard to predict disturbances and undertake counter measures on time. In existing approaches electricity is distributed to the final users according to its expected estimated demand. Such non-dynamic approaches, are difficult to evolve and can not accommodate changes in the system. By having a cross-layer and open information flow among the different actors involved we can make better and more timely predictions, and inject new dynamics in the system that will lead to better energy management and achieve better energy savings.

Keywords: neighbourhood,brokerage,electricity,local,agent,cooperative,ligthing,monitoring
Gardening with a Cognitive System (GARNICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3721066.0
EU funding (EUR): 2871000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The GARNICS project aims at 3D sensing of plant growth and building perceptual representations for learning the links to actions of a robot gardener. Plants are complex, self-changing systems with increasing complexity over time. Actions performed at plants (like watering), will have strongly delayed effects. Thus, monitoring and controlling plants is a difficult perception-action problem requiring advanced predictive cognitive properties, which so far can only be provided by experienced human gardeners. Sensing and control of a plants actual properties, i.e. its phenotype, is relevant to e.g. seed production and plant breeders. We address plant sensing and control by combining active vision with appropriate perceptual representations, which are essential for cognitive interactions. Core ingredients for these representations are channel representations, dynamic graphs and cause-effect couples (CECs). Channel representations are a wavelet-like, biologically motivated information representation, which can be generalized coherently using group theory. Using these representations, plant models -- represented by dynamic graphs -- will be acquired and by interacting with a human gardener the system will be taught the different cause-effect relations resulting from possible treatments. Employing decision making and planning processes via CECs, our robot gardener will then be able to choose from its learned repertoire the appropriate actions for optimal plant growth. This way we will arrive at an adaptive, interactive cognitive system, which will be implemented and tested in an industrially-relevant plant-phenotyping application.

Keywords: visual monitoring,plant status control,robot gardener
MIND CONTROLLED ORTHOSIS AND VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING ENVIRONMENT FOR WALK EMPOWERING (MINDWALKER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands,Iceland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3662278.0
EU funding (EUR): 2750000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

A lack of mobility often leads to limited participation in social life. The purpose of this STREP is to conceive a system empowering lower limbs disabled people with walking abilities that let them perform their usual daily activities in the most autonomous and natural manner. New smart dry EEG bio-sensors will be applied to enable lightweight wearable EEG caps for everyday use. Novel approaches to non-invasive BCI will be experimented in order to control a purpose-designed lower limbs orthosis enabling different types of gaits. Complementary research on EMG processing will strengthen the approach. A Virtual Reality (VR) training environment will assist the patients in generating the correct brain control signals and in properly using the orthosis. The main BCI approach relies on Dynamic Recurrent Neural Network (DRNN) technology applied in a two stages process. After learning, the system will be able to match EMG signals to legs movements (Stage 2), and EEG to such EMG signals (Stage 1). The Stage 2 has already been successfully demonstrated by a project partner. The orthosis will be designed to support the weight of an adult, to address the dynamic stability of a body-exoskeleton combined system, and to enable different walking modalities. The VR training environment will comprise both a set of components for the progressive patient training under a safe and controlled medical environment, and a lightweight portable set using immersive VR solutions for self-training at home. The developed technologies will be assessed and validated with the support of a formal clinical validation procedure. This will allow to measure the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen approaches and to identify improvements required to build a future commercial system. In addition the resulting system will be progressively tested in everyday life environments and situations, ranging from simple activities at home to eventually shopping and interacting with people in the street.

Keywords: disabled,sci,stroke,gait,ideation,bci,eeg,emg,bio-sensor,lower limbs,orthosis,exoskeleton,training,immersion,hmd
Lowering Barriers for Nanotechnology Commercialisation via Open Innovation (NANOCOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Italy,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Germany,Czechia,United States,Belgium,Finland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-CSA-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1959053.52
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The NanoCom coordinated action will contribute to bridging the gap between lab based and industrial applications in nanotechnology by creating a European wide approach and mechanisms for lowering the barriers and spreading best open innovation practices for rapid commercialisation and investment in innovative nanotechnology driven products. The vision will be supported by the following key objectives: • To carry out a critical analysis of barriers for rapid commercialisation of emerging Micro and Nano Technologies (MNT) that result from many complementary EC, national and industrially funded Research and Development (R&amp;D) projects • To analyse and promote best practices via new nanotechnology and nano-manufacturing specific open innovation methodology and tools and provide roadmapping, policy and investment advise at EU, national and regional levels • To create a commercialisation oriented forum and mechanisms for coordinating the efforts of many complementary R&amp;D projects in ERA • To provide support for training and dissemination of best practices for open innovation and commercialisation of nanotechnology. The NanoCom outcomes will target the creation of new Open Innovation approach and support environment for overcoming the barriers to commercialisation of nanotechnology results in Europe and promoting and spreading best practices. The results of the project will dramatically increase the uptake of nanotechnologies and facilitate the development of a strong and thriving European nano-manufacturing sector providing global innovation leadership in the field.

Keywords: barriers identification and analysis,open innovation,creation of commercialisation oriented forum,nanotechnology