Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
IMProving ACcess to Text (IMPACT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Austria,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Israel,Netherlands,Greece,United Kingdom,France,Bulgaria,Slovenia,Czechia,Spain,Poland,Poland,Spain,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16563683.0
EU funding (EUR): 12163911.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

Text that is not digital is virtually invisible. Today’s readers search the internet for electronically accessible texts rather than visit the reading room of a library. Born-digital and digitised contemporary materials contain the richness that allows tools such as text mining and the semantic web to offer superior accessibility but the story is very different for historic documents. A vital part of the European heritage, encompassing more than four centuries of historic books and bound periodicals is becoming less and less visible to the public at large. With the i2010 vision of a European Digital Library, the EU has launched an ambitious plan for large scale digitisation projects transforming Europe’s printed heritage into digitally available resources. However, lack of institutional knowledge and expertise slows down the pace with which this vision can be realised. The state-of-the-art in OCR performance and machine understanding of the original document is inadequate, especially for historically important material with archaic fonts and spellings, newspapers with complex layouts, bound volumes, microfilm or typescript. The IMPACT project will remove many of these barriers. It brings together fifteen national and regional libraries, research institutions and commercial suppliers - all centres of competence with unequalled experience of large-scale text digitisation processes and technologies. The project will let them share their know-how and best practices, develop innovative tools to enhance the capabilities of OCR engines and the accessibility of digitised text and lay down the foundations for the mass-digitisation programmes that will take place over the next decade. This project will facilitate a more collaborative approach to mass-digitisation. It will build capacity and lower the barriers to entry for organisations in the early stages of their own digitisation activity.

Keywords: i2010,language,digitisation,text,ocr,enrichment,image processing,lexicon,competence center
Content generation and delivery for 3D television (3D4YOU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,France,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6517563.0
EU funding (EUR): 3998516.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The 3D4YOU project will develop the key elements of a practical 3D television system, particularly, the definition of a 3D delivery format and guidelines for a 3D content creation process. The project will develop 3D capture techniques, convert captured content for broadcasting and develop 3D coding for delivery via broadcast, i.e. suitable to transmit and make public. 3D broadcasting is seen as the next major step in home entertainment. The cinema and computer games industries have already shown that there is considerable public demand for 3D content, but special glasses are needed which limits their appeal. 3D4YOU will address the consumer market which coexists with digital cinema and computer games. The 3D4YOU project aims to pave the way for the introduction a 3D TV system. The project will build on previous European research on 3D, such as the FP5 project ATTEST, which has enabled European organisations to become world leaders in this field. 3D4YOU will maintain the momentum built up and to capitalise on the wealth of experience of the participants in this project. Combining strenghts from different European countries, the 3D4YOU consortium covers all important aspects of the 3D broadcast chain. Bringing these expertises together, its objective is to deliver an end-to-end system for 3D high quality media. The generated knowledge will have sustainable effects on the European community. On one hand it will strengthen the existing expertise in programme making and will make sure that the media industry gains technical advances to compete with the world-wide competition. On the other hand it will give the European industry advanced knowledge to develop new products for the emerging market of 3D TV systems that will help to create and secure jobs.

Keywords: 3d television,content generation,format conversion,perception
novel DIagnostic Techniques for future particle Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training NETwork (DITANET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Romania,Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4163329.38
EU funding (EUR): 4163329.38
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The Council of the European Union expressively welcomed the development of a first European roadmap for research infrastructures. The aim of this recently published roadmap was to identify vital new infrastructures that are crucial for the future European research area, in particular for capacity building. These multi-disciplinary projects require substantial investments, forty percent of which are directly linked to new infrastructures using particle accelerators. This drastically underlines the importance of this field to ensure long-term European competitiveness in the sciences. The future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), the X-ray Free Electron Laser (FEL) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will provide a new set of beams to a truly interdisciplinary community. In addition, smaller scale projects are emerging that aim for novel studies with merged molecular beams or experiments with cooled antiprotons at lowest energies to pave the way for fundamental studies in a number of different fields. The development of new particle accelerators with unprecedented beam characteristics drives the need for an intense R&D program in diagnostic techniques. The successful operation of these machines will only be possible with adequate beam instrumentation. The aim of the here-proposed Marie Curie Initial Training Network is to develop beyond-state-of-the-art diagnostic techniques for future accelerator facilities and to train students and young researchers within a European network between several major research centres, leading Universities, and partners from industry.

Keywords: physical and medical instrumentation,accelerator technology,applied physics,detectors,radiation,cryogenics,electron and ion beams
PERsonal Self-Improving SmarT spaces (PERSIST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Greece,Italy,Portugal,Ireland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5562523.0
EU funding (EUR): 3628006.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Current trends in the design of pervasive systems have concentrated on the provision of isolated smart spaces via a fixed infrastructure. This is likely to lead to the evolution of islands of pervasiveness separated by voids in which there is no support for pervasiveness. The user experience will be all or nothing, with no graceful degradation from the former to the latter. The vision of PERSIST is of a Personal Smart Space which is able to provide pervasiveness and context awareness to a user everywhere and all the time. Personal Smart Spaces will be adaptable and capable of self-improvement. The objective of PERSIST is to develop Personal Smart Spaces that provide a minimum set of functionalities which can be extended and enhanced as users encounter other smart spaces during their everyday activities. They will be capable of learning and reasoning about users, their intentions, preferences and context. They will be endowed with pro-active behaviours, which enable them to share context information with neighbouring Personal Smart Spaces, resolve conflicts between the preferences of multiple users, make recommendations and act upon them, prioritise, share and balance limited resources between users, services and devices, reason about trustworthiness to protect privacy and be sufficiently fault-tolerant to guarantee their own robustness and dependability.

Keywords: pervasive personal smart spaces
BRAssinosteroid Venture Increasing StudentS' International MObility (BRAVISSIMO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,Switzerland,Germany,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1950000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1950000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

A future challenge for the European agriculture is to satisfy the growing demands for food in a sustainable manner. Understanding the basic mechanics of plant growth will ultimately lead to our ability to increase yield, while decreasing the need for fertilizer and pesticides. Plant growth is regulated by developmental programmes that can be modified by environmental cues acting through endogenous signalling molecules such as plant hormones. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are the growth-promoting polyhydroxylated steroid hormones of plants. BRs are implicated in multiple developmental processes and as such they determine important agronomic traits including biomass, crop yield, and stress and pathogen adaptation. In addition to the well-elucidated BR biosynthetic pathway, during the past decade a significant progress led to the identification of multiple BR signalling components. Despite this key issues remained unsolved. It is still unclear how BRs control growth, how the levels of BRs change throughout development and in response to environment and how different hormonal pathways interact within cells. It is still unknown if different signaling pathways mediated other non BRs effects and how the redundancy in BR signaling components fine tunes the pleiotropic action of those hormones. The BRAVISSIMO network will created a training programme which will guarantee the comprehensive education needed in future to establish a competitive and leading European science in the interdisciplinary field of plant signaling. BRAVISSIMO will strengthen the BR field of research in Europe and will increase its ability to compete effectively with non-EU researchers via coordination, integration and introduction of more interdisciplinary approaches.

Keywords: plant genetics,plant development,plant growth,phytopathology
Printable memory solutions for sensor, ID, and media applications (PRIMEBITS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,Germany,Slovakia,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3986937.0
EU funding (EUR): 2899999.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In the PriMeBits project, a printable electric low-voltage non-volatile memory is developed for printed sensor, media and wireless ID applications. The main strategy is to utilize printed technology where it has a competitive advantage compared to silicon technology. The project builds on basic research of new materials and components and takes the results into prototyping of new applications. To reduce the research risk, two different technologies for the memory functionality are considered with partially overlapping application areas. Current printable polymer-based memory technologies typically suffer from i) the needed operating voltage being high, ii) too short lifetime in room atmosphere, iii) poor temperature stability, iv) chemically reactive materials needing encapsulation and/or v) time-consuming temperature-annealing steps in fabrication. Consequently, for many commercially attractive passive and battery-powered applications, the properties of current printable memories are unsuited. To overcome the shortcomings of prior-art approaches, printable inorganic metal-oxide-nanoparticle-based ferroelectric FRAM memory and a resistive metallic-based write-once-read-many (WORM) memory will be developed. To print the ferroelectric memory, new printing inks based on, for example, barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanoparticles will be developed. For the WORM memory, the project will aim at utilizing commercial metal-nanoparticle inks with possibly some customization. Depending on the application, a printed circuitry or an external device is used for the reading and writing of the memory.

Keywords: memory,sensors,rfid,ferroelectric,printable,printed,sintering
Calcification by Marine Organisms (CALMARO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2715923.0
EU funding (EUR): 2715923.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

CalMarO aims at the comprehensive training of twelve young researchers in the field of calcification by marine organisms based on a Network of thirteen research institutions and four SMEs. The Network participants are acknowledged experts with complementary research or commercial approaches in this field. Calcification is a fundamental physiological process of marine organisms that is largely determined by the characteristics of seawater. Calcifying marine organisms differ in their adaptability to variations in environmental conditions, in particular temperature and seawater pH. If global CO2 emissions continue to rise at current trends seawater pH may decrease to levels that are probably lower than have been experienced for tens of millions of years and, critically, at a rate of change 100 times greater than at any time over this period, with dramatic effects on productivity and marine ecosystems. CalMarO comprises investigation of calcification processes and the sensitivities to changes in environmental conditions at all scales ranging from cellular, organism, population to ecosystem, and regional to global levels. Covering this important topic in a training Network will offer young researchers an integrated perspective on an emerging problem and position their own work within the framework of a concerted effort to better understand the risks and consequences associated with ocean change. Three pillars support the training programme: personalised programmes, Network activities and dissemination. The principle of co-supervision by at least two senior scientists and SME placement on the basis of an individual mentoring plan represents the core piece of the training programme, with links to joint activities across the Network. These include annual meetings and theme oriented workshops. CalMarO participants will disseminate the Network achievements in a special session at a major conference and a major joint publication.

Keywords: marine ecosystems (climate change),marine biogeochemistry,calcification,marine genomics,coccolithophores,forminifers,corals,molluscs,marine fish,cephalopods
Implementation of widespread IC design skills in advanced deep submicron technologies at European Academia (IDESA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Switzerland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Slovakia,Poland,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1954351.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The sole purpose of the proposed IDESA Support Action is to develop and make available didactic training material on the design flow for integrated circuits for advanced deep sub-micron technologies, free of intellectual property rights, for the benefit of European academia. The goal is to make sure that academia can close the widening gap between the current state-of-the-art at the modal European academy and the state-of-the-art in leading industry. This proposal does not have a scientific research component and, except for perhaps academic recognition, it does not bring benefit to any of the project partners. Training will be organised in class-based hands-on sessions and advanced seminars using state-of-the-art multimedia technology over the web or on DVD. There will be a road show of 4 different advanced implementation courses that will tour different sites in Europe. Each of these courses will be repeated 7 times, to reach a significant proportion of the more than 600 European academia. This will bring the universities to a more advanced level of implementation skills to start engaging in 65-nm and 45-nm issues. The consortium will build a portfolio of 32 public domain didactic seminars, addressing issues that are not addressed in the design flow courses but that will start to be of dominant importance for the 65-nm and 45-nm generation design flows. This seminar portfolio will be supplemented with fully documented didactic lab exercise-material that can be reused free of intellectual property rights in the curricula of European engineering students. This proposed European-scale Support Action will help to disseminate quickly the necessary knowledge and skills, reducing by many orders of magnitude the total effort that would be needed if the European universities had to cope with new design problems and had to master new design techniques and tools individually and independently.

Keywords: deep submicron technologies training design skills
Network Coding for Robust Architectures in Volatile Environments (N-CRAVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Switzerland,Portugal,Spain,France,Germany,China
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3318235.0
EU funding (EUR): 2196498.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

N-CRAVE will deliver a proof-of-concept for network coding as the major enabler in dynamic wireless network environments with multiple communicating peers, where robustness is a key challenge. The simple, yet disruptive idea of network coding is that nodes are allowed to not only forward but also process and mix the incoming independent information flows. The objective is to develop solutions for architecting and controlling wireless networks in performance-challenged and resource-constrained environments. N-CRAVE will advance knowledge of fundamentals of network coding for improving attainable performance limits of networked systems for capacity, throughput, latency, complexity and energy with a view towards practically encountered scenarios. Key protocol components of the access, transport and network layers that operate hand-in-hand with network coding will be developed. In doing so, novel lightweight techniques will be designed based on convex optimization, linear algebra and backpressure control principles for transporting maximal amount of data over the network. Emphasis will be placed on advanced modes of information transport such as multi-cast and group-to-group communication with multiple simultaneous sessions in highly volatile environments. Innovative content distribution and storage methods will be developed for various wireless architectures and application-driven performance metrics, such as throughput, delay and fairness. A major goal will be to make the techniques viable in dynamically changing, volatile environments by preserving low computational complexity and signaling load. Besides inherent benefits of network coding in capacity provisioning and robustness, positive ramifications in security will be used to fortify confidentiality, secrecy and resilience to data corruption and other threats. Finally N-CRAVE will deliver an experimental wireless test-bed on which various network coding techniques will be implemented and validated.

Keywords: network coding,dynamic wireless network environments,architecture