Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
PHase sensitive Amplifier Systems and Optical RegeneratorS and their applications (PHASORS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Ireland,Switzerland,Denmark,Greece,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4017261.0
EU funding (EUR): 2698947.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The PHASORS project targets the development and applications of fibre based Phase Sensitive Amplifier (PSA) technology in 40Gbit/s broadband core networks, and seeks to provide Europe with a lead in this important yet relatively unexplored area. PSAs have the potential to be a disruptive technology within future optical communications, enabling ultra-low noise amplifiers and a host of important ultrafast optical processing functions for networks employing high spectral efficiency phase encoded signals. Specifically PHASORS will: (1) Develop a reliable technology base for the realisation of practical, cost effective, PSAs and will advance the state-of-the-art in phase-locked pump systems, narrow linewidth lasers, high power amplifiers and lasers, and high performance nonlinear fibres. (2) Investigate both interferometric and non-interferometric fibre based approaches to PSA. (3) Demonstrate a PSA with a record noise figure of less than 1dB. (4) Demonstrate the benefits of the low noise properties of PSA for transmission applications. (5)Demonstrate the use of PSAs within two different application spaces: Phase sensitive optical sampling at data rates of > 40 Gb/s; Optical regeneration of phase modulated data signals at data rates >40 Gb/s. PHASORS is therefore fully aligned with the objectives of ICT-2007.3.5: Photonic components and subsystems and directly addresses several of its target outcomes by developing “high performance lasers” and using them together with “optical fibres for high performance” within specific applications in phase-sensitive parametric amplification. If successful, the PHASORS technology will have a significant impact in enabling “scalable, future-proof” and “cost effective broadband core networks at 40Gb/s or beyond per channel”. The high performance components developed will also have applications in a range of other non telecom applications including sensing, aerospace, metrology and medicine amonst others.

Keywords: phase sensitive optical amplifiers,high performance lasers,high nonlinearity fibres,optical regeneration,optical sampling
Digital Environment Home Energy Management System (DEHEMS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Romania,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Romania,Slovakia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3728473.0
EU funding (EUR): 2878434.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

DEHEMS will extend the current state of the art in intelligent meters, moving beyond energy ‘input’ models that monitor the levels of energy being used to an ‘energy performance model’ that also looks at the way in which the energy is used. It will bring together sensor data in areas such as household heat loss and appliance performance as well as energy usage monitoring to give real time information on emissions and the energy performance of appliances and services. It will enable changes to be made to those appliances/services remotely from the mobile phone or PC and provide specific energy efficiency recommendations, for the household. The impact will be to personalize action on climate change, and so help enable new policies such as Personal Carbon Allowances as well as supporting the move towards increased localized generation and distribution of energy.

Keywords: energy efficiency household 20% reduction 2020
Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location-Based Services (HAPTIMAP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Finland,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9257251.0
EU funding (EUR): 6670000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The HAPTIMAP project will deeply embed accessibility into digital mainstream maps and mobile location-based services. Our strategy is twofold: firstly to develop tools that make it easier for developers to add adaptable multimodal components (designed to improve accessibility) to their applications; and secondly, to raise the awareness of these issues via new guidelines and to suggest extensions to existing design practices so that accessibility issues are considered throughout the design process. The concrete outcomes of the project will be an open, interoperable and standardized adaptable toolkit together with a set of design guidelines that help developers of mainstream applications make maps in general more accessible and easier to use (not only for disabled users but for everyone). We will raise the industrial awareness of accessibility issues by arranging workshops and also by providing an educational module targeted at engineering and design students. Furthermore we will develop design methods and tools that support existing development practices so that it becomes easier to embed ‘accessibility’ into the design process, making it an integral part of the work instead of being added afterwards as is currently often the case (if the issue is addressed at all). Finally, example applications that illustrate the use of the toolkit and guidelines will be developed and will be evaluated and demonstrated in multiple real life scenarios In this project we have chosen to focus on digital maps and location based services, since these are strongly emerging information services used for a wide range of PC and mobile applications. Our results will be generally applicable, but we have selected this application area as a way of providing our project with a concrete core which ties the different parts of the project together.

Keywords: haptics,embedded accessibility,digital maps,adaptable multimodal components,design practices,toolkit,guidelines,accessibility standards
Task Specific Description of Visual Color Information (TS-VICI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-12
End date: 2011-06-11
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Color is believed to be an essential clue in describing the world around us. The Marie Curie fellowship research focused on incorporating color information into object recognition, which traditionally only used luminance information. The success of the fellowship is illustrated by the publication of the research in the major conferences of computer vision and its excellent results on several benchmarks. The current project is a follow-up project on the Marie Curie results, and its aim is twofold. Firstly, a disadvantage of current approaches is that the applied color description is independent of the task and class of objects. Although color description will most probably improve recognition of color invariable categories, such as flamingos, it is doubtful if color helps to recognize color variable categories, such as cars. In this project we propose to combine the theory of discriminative power and photometric invariance into a singly theory. An analysis of the discriminative power of color for a particular task, should allow for a task specific approach to color description. We believe this to improve the performance gain of color description substantially. The second aim of the project is to improving the exposure of the developed techniques during the Marie Curie by extending the theory to related computer vision fields such as robotics, video retrieval and image annotation. In conclusion, the project foresees in both deepening the theory developed during the Marie Curie and improving the exposure of its techniques. This, together with the financial support for improved mobility, will much improve the candidate’s chances of a successful integration in the integration institute.

Keywords: image processing,computer vision,object recognition
Neurorehabilitation using Brain-Computer Interface (REHABCI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cerebrovascular accident (stroke) is one of the most common causes of movement disability, and is likely to become an even greater problem as EU citizens become elderly. Most patients never regain effective control of upper limbs damaged by stroke. Brain computer interface (BCI) systems allow severely disabled users to convey information via brain activity alone. Despite major developments in BCI work, little attention has been paid to movement rehabilitation since BCI research focuses almost exclusively on restoring communication. Recent work has shown that some BCI approaches may produce significant and otherwise impossible reorganisation of cortical movement areas. Training with BCI methodologies that have been shown to affect motor areas, combined with emerging tools for rehabilitation such as functional electrical stimulation, rehabilitation robots, and movement therapy, may provide a new opportunity for retraining stroke victims to regain some control over damaged limbs. This proposal aims to analyse the possibilities of using different non-invasive BCI approaches that have been extensively validated for movement rehabilitation at patients with severe motor disabilities. This will be done through existing collaborations of Institute of Automation (IAT) with academic and industry partners across several disciplines which allow a supra-disciplinary research. These efforts may also foster progress in related disciplines, including neurophysiology, BCIs for communication, robotics, and recovery from other disorders such as aphasia or motor disability produced by injury or disease.

Keywords: health sciences
I-cores – Hypervisor-Based Synthesis of Custom Execution Environments on Multi-Core Systems (I-CORES)

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: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project conducts research on the design and implementation of scalable hypervisors for emerging and future multi-core systems. The scientific objective is to develop a new hypervisor that enables synthesis of customized application execution environments, while leveraging new hardware capabilities, such as computation accelerators and software-controlled, configurable layout of processor cores. The proposed hypervisor, I-cores, is designed to empower system software with novel performance and energy optimizations that permeate the entire software stack. The project plan includes knowledge transfer activities that will assist the migration of the research environment of the applicant from the United States, where he is currently employed as a tenured faculty member, to the European space. The project will also carry out educational activities that advance the concept of virtualization in computer and information science, and broader impact activities that will apply innovative virtual computing infrastructures to address the computing needs of sensitive sectors, including education and healthcare.

Keywords: technological sciences
Joining ecophysiological Understanding and global ecosystem modelling for improved simulation of Land surface Interactions with the Atmosphere (JULIA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A thorough understanding of feedbacks between the terrestrial biosphere and the climate system is pivotal for any climate change mitigation strategy. Such feedbacks could significantly affect and potentially accelerate climate change. Terrestrial biosphere models are increasingly coupled interactively to ocean and atmosphere models with the goal to quantify these feedbacks. However, state-of-the-art terrestrial biosphere models fall short of the current understanding of important ecophysiological controls of land surface processes, as evidenced by the increasing amount of ecosystem observations that have become available recently. This project aims at bridging the gap between observational science and large scale biosphere modelling by developing representations of relevant ecophysiological processes at a level of detail suitable for an Earth system model. Two of the most important fields that urgently need to be better represented will be addressed, namely the biological control of canopy conductance and plant-soil interactions. Both substantially influence land surface fluxes, ecosystem productivity and long-term carbon sequestration. The project will use innovative techniques to develop novel process representations of canopy conductance by combining different types of ecosystem observations such as eddy-covariance based flux observations and plant trait data collected by the IGBP fast track initiative on plant functional types. Novel representations of soil organic matter dynamics, including a substrate control, and plant nutrient uptake pathways will be developed and evaluated based on recent laboratory and ecosystem manipulation experiments. The improved model will be used to revise predictions of state-of-the-art terrestrial biosphere models for present-day and future conditions. The project will thus provide a tool to better quantify potential future interactions of the terrestrial biosphere and the climate system for the use in coupled Earth system models.

Keywords: terrestrial biosphere modelling,ecophysiology,carbon,nitrogen and water cycle interactions
Coherent transport of a single electron spin in semiconducting nanostructures (SPINTRANSFER)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Control and manipulation of spins is undoubtly one of the major challenges in nanoelectronics for the next decades. The goal of this ambitious project is to realize coherent transport of a single electron spin in a scalable condensed matter system. Presently, one can achieve extremely high control of an electron spin using semiconductor quantum dots, the elementary brick for spin based quantum computer. In order to manipulate and control spins individually on a large scale one has to be able to transport coherently a single electron spin from one place to another in quantum nanoprocessors. The coherent spin transport is the missing piece to the teleportation protocol and to the non-local interaction between distant qubits. Such an approach will open new possibilities to the field of spin-based quantum information processing and is an essential step towards coherent control of a large number of Q-Bits.

Keywords: solid state physics,physics of semiconductors,nanotechnology,quantum mechanics,electron spins,quantum transport,spintronics,quantum information
Developing Tandem Reaction Sequences for the Rapid Synthesis of Selected Bioactive Natural Products Followed by Parallel synthesis of analogue libraries and Biological Evaluation. (TANDEM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-2-ERG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-30
End date: 2011-04-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A proposal for the concise synthesis of a family of cytotoxic natural products obtained from Polythia Crassa is contained herein. The short and highly effcient synthesis accesses all the structurally diverse family members from two simple common precursors. The synthesis makes use of novel tandem reaction sequences to access these molecules. The molecules and their syntheses are amenable to the inclusion of structural modifications and libraries of structurally diverse analogues will therefore be made using parallel synthesis techniques. Natural and synthetic compounds will then be tested against a panel of human tumour cell lines allowing iterative redesign of analogues to be undertaken in order to hone the activity and pharmacokinetic profile of promising lead compounds.

Keywords: organic chemistry,synthesis,cytotoxicity,natural products,tandem reaction sequence,compound library,parallel synthesis,diversity orientated synthesis,biological evaluation
Fabrication of capacitive biosensors using the Laser Induced Forward Transfer process (BIOLIFT)

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: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 81250.0
EU funding (EUR): 81250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Biosensor research has blossomed into a mature and highly active field over the past 20 years, both in the laboratory and in the commercial sector. This area attracts enormous attention due to the promise it holds for vital aspects of the human life. The proposed work aims to fabricate a capacitive biosensor, which will be able to perform label-free and fast biodetection based on very small biological samples. We will use the Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) process for the deposition of biomolecules on the sensor surface. The use of the LIFT technique allows for excellent size control of the deposited samples, as well as repeatability and miniaturization. The use of a capacitive transducer, with an ultra thin silicon membrane acting as one of the capacitor plates, will allow for high sensitivity and low-power operation. The biosensor will be tested with simple binding reactions as well as DNA hybridization. Eventually this sensor can be used with thousands of analytes, such as proteins, different DNA strands, and pathogens. Each step of the fabrication process allows for miniaturization, therefore this biosensor will be a prime candidate for microarray integration in the future. The host group has extensive expertise both in the implementation of the LIFT method and in the fabrication of capacitive sensors and is well-equipped for the proposed work. The researcher has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics, while she did her Ph.D. on laser-matter interactions, and is a very good match for this project. This grant will allow the researcher to transfer knowledge from the USA, where she completed her graduate studies, to the European community and reintegrate as a permanent researcher in Europe. A number of students and scientists from various fields will be involved in the proposed experiments. All the results will be published in peer-reviewed journals and will be presented at conferences, while patents will be filed where applicable.

Keywords: biosensors,dna,lasers,capacitive sensors,experimental physics,physical sciences,applied optics
Multiscale Micro-to-Macro Material and Structural Models for Aortic Heart Valves: Native, Porcine and Prosthetic Valves (MULTISCALE BIOMECH)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aortic valve (AV) disease expressed by tissue inflammation and calcification is one of the major causes for cardiac related illness and deaths in the world. Calcific stenosis leads to leaflet stiffening and abnormal AV mechanical-structural performance: larger deformation gradients and stresses. Current AV computational models are somewhat qualitative and do not capture the local complex nonlinear tissue and structural behaviors. Nonlinear multiscale (heterogeneous) material and structural (MMS) models have been developed and used in the analysis of many traditional and advanced engineering materials. These MMS modeling approaches can also be used for the analysis of biomaterials and bio-systems. New refined MMS models for the AV tissue will be developed at the microscale that can be integrated for the mechanical analysis of the AV structure at the macroscale. The overall goal is to introduce refined MMS for predictive simulations of native, porcine and a class of prosthetic AVs under in vitro pulsatile flow conditions. The proposed predictive modeling framework will be verified using sophisticated imagery measurements to examine the kinematics and deformations of both normal and stiffened (diseased) porcine AV systems. A major aspect of this proposal is to introduce new heterogeneous material models for the prosthetic and native leaflet tissue to be used in the AV-MMS simulations. The new modeling approach employs collagen fiber network (CFN) discrete multiscale model depicting the actual bundles of collagen fibers embedded in the leaflet. The in-situ elastin and collagen mechanical properties are explicitly recognized and a unit-cell (UC) micromechanical modeling approach is used to back-calculate (inverse problem) their properties from traditional tissue tensile tests. The proposed MMS is an important research tool towards imagery-based diagnostics of diseased native AV. This paradigm will also allow better design of new prosthetic AV systems.

Keywords: multiscale modeling and simulations,micro-structural modeling,local-global material behavior,biomechanics,composite materials