Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Graphene-based Nanoelectronic Devices (GRAND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,France,Ireland,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3155804.0
EU funding (EUR): 2389704.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The semiconductor industry is a cornerstone of today’s high-tech economy, supporting over 100,000 direct and even more indirect jobs in Europe. This position has been achieved through continued miniaturization in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, which will only last for a maximum 10-15 more years. In line with its Lisbon Strategy, the EC has identified an urgent need to assess possible technology solutions for the “Beyond CMOS” era to meet the challenges of global competition. The major ICT challenge is to find alternatives for information processing and storage beyond the limits of existing CMOS. Graphene, ultrathin layers of carbon, is particularly promising due its novel electronic properties. Initial data indicates that graphene is a prime candidate for “Beyond CMOS” switches and interconnects, and is, despite its revolutionary nature, complementary to conventional CMOS. The key objective of the GRAND proposal is to verify and assess whether graphene can bring conventional semiconductor technology to the “Beyond CMOS” era. GRAND is thus positioned to act as a pathfinder for key ICT challenges. The GRAND consortium will develop industry-compatible strategies for fabrication of 2D graphene nanostructures (widths down to the 5 nm scale) for switches and interconnects. Edge states, critical for transport at this scale, will be manipulated by functionalization methods. Device transport properties will be experimentally evaluated, complemented by a range of modelling techniques including simplified Monte Carlo models to describe scattering and hot phonon effects, as well as atomistic and ab-initio methods for band structure calculations. The consortium includes internationally renowned experimental and theoretical groups from academia and industry, forming a comprehensive unit with capabilities far beyond those of the individual partners, and ensuring a tight focus on the exploitation of the project results for European industry.

Keywords: graphene,transistor,interconnect,carrier transport
Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation (OASIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,Bulgaria,Italy,Romania,Spain,Mexico,China,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12232272.0
EU funding (EUR): 8481540.0
Participants: 35
Project status: CLOSED

OASIS introduces an innovative, Ontology-driven, Open Reference Architecture and Platform, which will enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between different services and ontologies in all application domains relevant to applications for the elderly and beyond. The OASIS platform is open, modular, holistic, easy to use and standards abiding. It includes a set of novel tools for content/services connection and management, for user interfaces creation and adaptation and for service personalization and integration. Through this new Architecture, over 12 different types of services are connected with the OASIS Platform for the benefit of the elderly, covering user needs and wants in terms of Independent Living Applications (nutritional advisor, activity coach, brain and skills trainers, social communities platform, health monitoring and environmental control), Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications (elderly-friendly transport information services, elderly-friendly route guidance, personal mobility services, mobile devices, biometric authentication interface and multimodal dialogue mitigation and other smart workplace applications). Applications are all integrated as a unified, dynamic service batch, managed by the OASIS Service Centre and supporting all types of mobile devices (tablet PC, PDA, smartphone, automotive device, ITV, infokiosk, …) and all types of environments (living labs, sheltered homes, private homes, two car demonstrators, public transport, DSRT, etc.) in 4 Pilot sites Europewide. As user friendliness and acceptability is a top priority for the project, a user-centred-design approach is followed along the service and application development. Tested iteratively and thoroughly by hundreds of end users, their caregivers and other stakeholders, the OASIS platform and applications will be optimized and submitted for standardization by the purpose-established OASIS world-wide Industrial Forum.

Keywords: open architecture,hyper-ontology,context-awareness,interoperability,adaptivity
NOTCH SIGNALING IN DEVELOPMENT AND PATHOLOGY (NOTCHIT)

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: Italy,United Kingdom,Sweden,Switzerland,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3460000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3460000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Eight partners from six different EU countries will converge in NotchIT, a multi-site ITN aimed to increase the knowledge of cellular and molecular mechanisms by which Notch signaling regulates the development and pathology of different tissues. Notch signaling plays a key role in cell-fate determination and differentiation of various cell types and aberrant Notch signaling is associated with pathogenesis of different human diseases, including cancer. NotchIT integrates the research and training activities of the eight different partners, who are all leaders in Notch signaling and related fields, to specifically address three strategic initiatives, which are central to European science and health economy: - the core Notch signaling mechanism with the purpose of constructing a state-of-the-art molecular tool box for Notch signaling and to disseminate this knowledge and reagents at a pan-European level. - the role of Notch signaling in the differentiation and pathology of various cell types with the purpose of using Notch signaling to improve our means to steer stem cell differentiation and to correct aberrant Notch signaling in pathologies. - how Notch signaling can be exogenously controlled through pharmacological approaches, in order to break new ground and to ultimately design new diagnostic and therapeutic protocols. The training component in NotchIT is deeply integrated with the research programme. The partners in NotchIT possess a wide range of expertise and work in operationally diverse environments: Hospitals, Universities, Research Institutes and Industry. This broad knowledge-base, combined with an integrated set of courses, workshops, meetings and cross-laboratory visits, provides an excellent training opportunity for early stage and experienced scientists in the center, and will prepare them for high level positions in academia and industry.

Keywords: health sciences,notch signaling,stem cells,cardiovascular disease,hereditary disease,cancer,drugs,translational research,individualized training,career plan,theoretical and practical courses
Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems (CHRIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5017721.0
EU funding (EUR): 3650000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

CHRIS will address the fundamental issues which would enable safe Human Robot Interaction (HRI). Specifically this project addresses the problem of a human and a robot performing co-operative tasks in a co-located space, such as in the kitchen where your service robot stirs the soup as you add the cream. These issues include communication of a shared goal (verbally and through gesture), perception and understanding of intention (from dextrous and gross movements), cognition necessary for interaction, and active and passive compliance. These are the prerequisites for many applications in service robotics and through research will provide the scientific foundations for engineering cognitive systems. The project is based on the essential premise that it will be ultimately beneficial to our socio-economic welfare to generate service robots capable of safe co-operative physical interaction with humans. The key hypothesis is that safe interaction between human and robot can be engineered physically and cognitively for joint physical tasks requiring co-operative manipulation of real world objects. A diverse set of disciplines have been brought together to realise an inter-disciplinary solution. The starting point for understanding cooperative cognition will be from the basic building blocks of initial interactions, those of young children. Engineering principles of safe movement and dexterity will be explored on the 3 available robot platforms, and developed with principles of language, communication and decisional action planning where the robot reasons explicitly with its human partner. Integration of cognition for safe co-operation in the same physical space will provide significant advancement in the area, and a step towards service robots in society.

Keywords: robotics,engineering,neuroscience,developmental psychology,anthropology,safety,compliance
Smart Eyes: Attending and Recognizing Instances of Salient Events (SEARISE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2846301.0
EU funding (EUR): 2150000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The SEARISE project will develop a trinocular active cognitive vision system, the Smart-Eyes, for detection, tracking and categorization of salient events and behaviours. Unlike other approaches in video surveillance, the system will have human-like capability to learn continuously from the visual input, self-adjust to ever changing visual environment, fixate salient events and follow their motion, categorize salient events dependent on the context. Inspired by the human visual system, a cyclopean camera will perform wide range monitoring of the visual field while active binocular stereo cameras will fixate and track salient objects, mimicking a focus of attention that switches between different interesting locations. The core of this artificial cognitive visual system will be a dynamic hierarchical neural architecture – a computational model of visual processing in the brain. Information processing in Smart-Eyes will be highly efficient due to a multi-scale design: Controlled by the cortically plausible neural model, the active cameras will provide a multi-scale video record of salient events. The processing will self-organize to adapt to scale variations and to assign the majority of computational resources to the informative parts of the scene. Smart-Eyes will be tested in real-life scenarios for observation of large crowded public spaces and of individual activities within restricted areas.

Keywords: active cognitive vision system dynamic hierarchical neural architecture visual learning & attention
Property-based Testing (PROTEST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Sweden,Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3639030.0
EU funding (EUR): 2709821.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

This project will develop software engineering approaches to improve reliability in Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures (ICT-2007.1.2). This is achieved today by extensive testing, combined with monitoring and logging in the field. Volumes of automated tests and logging code are written, failures must be analysed and diagnosed—and this accounts typically for half the cost of software. Even so, residual errors impose high costs on users. We aim to automate much fault-finding and diagnosis, reducing its cost and improving effectiveness, based on properties of the system (specified by developers) which should always hold. Automated tools will generate and run tests, monitor execution at run-time, and log events for post-mortem analysis. When properties fail, the tools will search for simplest failing cases, and analyse trace and coverage information, to assist speedy diagnosis. Concurrency is a major challenge, which will be addressed in part by integrating model-checking into our tools. Today's developers are not used to formulating general properties, so we will investigate ways of deriving them from two sources: UML (or UML-like) models, and by refactoring existing test suites. We combine academic expertise in refactoring, model-checking and testing; a tool vendor; and industrial expertise in telecoms. Three partners are SMEs, Ericsson is a leading telecoms supplier. All use Erlang, an open-source concurrent functional language aimed at telecoms and internet servers, which will be a common vehicle for our research—easing the transfer of theory into industrial practice. Erlang’s good interoperability will enable our tools to find faults in all kinds of systems. Our results will improve our tool vendor’s products, be adopted by our partners within Ericsson and Lambda-stream, and be disseminated by ETC to their customers throughout Europe's telecoms sector. This three-pronged strategy will guarantee real impact.

Keywords: network and service infrastructures,testing,erlang/otp,functional programming,refactoring,model checking
Cutting edge Reconfigurable ICs for Stream Processing (CRISP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Finland,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4398407.0
EU funding (EUR): 2800000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The CRISP (Cutting edge Reconfigurable ICs for Stream Processing) project researches optimal utilization, efficient programming and dependability of reconfigurable many-cores for streaming applications. The project has four central themes: Streaming Applications, General Stream Processor (GSP), Run-time Mapping and Dependability. 1) Streaming applications range from low-end consumer electronics and automotive applications to demanding high-end medical and defence applications. In CRISP, beamforming and satellite navigation are used for proof of concept. 2) Tomorrow’s GSP is to be prototyped in CRISP. The GSP is a dynamically reconfigurable many-core for streaming applications. It offers flexibility, high performance, low power, a small footprint and design tools support. 3) Computational resource utilization in a many-core can be dramatically improved by dynamic hardware/software partitioning at run-time. This also enables: upgrading, bug fixing and hardware fault diagnosis and repair. 4) Dependability and yield of deep-submicron chips are improved using new techniques for static and dynamic detection and localization of faults and (dynamically) circumventing faulty hardware. The partners (Recore, Uni. Twente, Atmel, Thales, Tampere Uni. and NXP) in the small and decisive CRISP consortium complement each other and collaborated successfully in the past. Due to a clear common vision, a full description of work is already agreed. Dissemination and exploitation are principal in the CRISP project. Europe can benefit quickly from CRISP, as the major project innovations will be applied directly in commercially available reconfigurable technology. Streaming applications have very high market potentials and will drive demand for reconfigurable platform chips. CRISP contributes to European excellence in streaming applications and presumably increases European market shares of inexpensive stream processing platforms and allows Europe to achieve a world leading position.

Keywords: stream processing,multi-core,dynamic reconfiguration,run-time mapping,dependability,reliability
Handovers for Ubiquitous and optimal bRoadband connectIvity among CooperAtive Networking Environments (HURRICANE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Greece,Portugal,Germany,Italy,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3929330.0
EU funding (EUR): 2606409.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

For any IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) or pre-IMS combined network, the key enabling function for seamless mobility and service continuity among a variety of mobile/wireless access technologies supporting IP connectivity is the handover. HURRICANE focuses on the key RTD challenge to investigate, design, implement, validate and propose for standardisation, inter-system handover operations among various radio cooperative networking environments (3G, WLAN, WIMAX and DVB) that are going to formulate future/near future business cases for both broadcasters and telecom operators in the context of a Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) communications environment. HURRICANE is going to assist ETSI TISPAN, 3GPP, IEEE 802.21, and DVB efforts to formulate an optimized handover operational framework towards the formulation of next generation networks where Europe has to obtain a key leadership role. Emphasis is going to be given at the enhancements that are needed to the handover mobility management functions proposed by different standardization bodies in order to support technologies with uni-directional physical links in an optimized way and at the key building blocks that separate between media independent and media dependent handover functionalities. The software modules that will implement HURRICANE handover enhancements and building blocks are going to be deployed both at terminal and network sides and subsequently will be validated at actual testing sites. Concerning the terminal side, commercial multimodal terminals that offer open operating systems will be employed. For the network side, the appropriate servers that support the proposed HURRICANE handover operations are going to be deployed at the edges of the corresponding radio base stations for all the involved technologies. Appropriate business modelling tools will also be developed to demonstrate how HURRICANE handover advances could be exploited by telecom operators and broadcasters in the FMC market.

Keywords: business modelling tools,fixed-mobile convergence,handover,media independent and media dependent handover functionalities,radio cooperative networking environments (3g,wlan,wimax and dvb).
Mechanisms of interactions in nano-scale of novel ionic lubricants with functional surfaces (MINILUBES)

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: Austria,Slovenia,Spain,Poland,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Romania,Spain,Italy
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): 2719525.0
EU funding (EUR): 2719525.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Recently, ionic liquids (IL) are employed as substitute for traditional solvents in catalysis, synthesis and electrochemistry. But little research work or actual applications have been published until now concerning the utilization of IL as lubricants. Generally, IL show no or very low vapour pressures, satisfying viscosity-temperature behaviour, no inflammability and high thermal stabilities up to 250°C. The choice of cation and anion as well as the design of side chains determine fundamental IL properties. These properties desirable for lubricants and the possibility to create tailor-made compounds give rise to the demand of in-depth investigations of IL in tribology. To our best knowledge, the project will be the first extensive and integral approach of IL towards potential future applications as lubricants for metals, ceramics and polymers as well as base for wear and friction reducing nanoparticles. The investigations will involve molecular design and synthesis of new IL as well as preparation of advanced materials containing or based on IL. Evaluation of lubricant and material performance will range from determination of physico-chemical properties including artificial aging of IL and mechanical testing (e.g. tensile and impact strength) to tribometrical experiments. Wear and friction properties will be completed by thorough surface characterization, in particular towards tribochemical reaction layers. Parameters gained from these experiments will be used for modelling of triboprocesses in nanoscale and for molecular design of new ionic lubricants. Studies on biodegradability, toxicology and economical aspects will be studied in detail, too, to verify legal requirements and opportunities for highly potential applications. The overall objective of this interdisciplinary and intersectorial approach is the generation of unique and comprehensive knowledge about IL on a sustainable basis for future implementations as high performance lubricants.

Keywords: materials engineering,surface chemistry,polymer chemistry,nanoparticle,tribology,carbon chemistry,numerical analysis