Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Broadband Integrated and Green Photonic Interconnects for High-Performance Computing and Enterprise Systems (BIG PIPES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,France,Germany,Ireland,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4747428.0
EU funding (EUR): 3240000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Big Data requires Big Pipes. Driven by mobile devices, cloud computing and machine-to-machine Internet, the amount of data processed by data centres continues to grow with a steep progression. Ongoing trends in server virtualisation and green computing morph the data centre architecture and place increasing constraints on the interconnect technology. To meet the need for increased bandwidth, transceiver compactness, reduced power consumption and cost effectiveness for the next generation of data centre and campus-wide communications systems, we are going to develop Broadband Integrated and Green Photonic Interconnects for High-Performance Computing and Enterprise Systems (BIG PIPES). BIG PIPES will reach the industry target of 400 Gbps transceiver modules with a highly integrated technology aiming at aggressively extending the limits of compactness, power consumption (below 30mW/Gbps) and cost-effectiveness, with the objective of providing an optical engine for future 12x25 Gbps CXP and 16x25 Gbps CFP4 modules. To deconstrain the switch board architecture, we will package these optical engines in mid-board optical modules. High campus-wide data throughput is expected to be pivotal in supporting growing data-centre dimensions, as well as modularity in data centre architectures. To enable ultra-broadband transceivers optimally utilising a single integrated light source, we will develop spectrally efficient links reaching 1 Tbps and above. The developed communication system technologies will leverage integrated, mode-locked comb sources to allow both compactness and novel system architectures. The research project will comprise the development of tailored comb sources, the exploration of novel system architectures, as well as the development of photonic devices and assembly technologies enabling system integration. A research intensive SME and the market leader in the high performance InfiniBand segment will keep the project focused on an industrial roadmap.

Keywords: broadband optical interconnects,green photonics,optical transceivers,comb lasers,silicon photonics,datacom
Scalable cost-effective facilitation of professional identity transformation in public employment services (EMPLOYID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Creativity and Learning
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Spain,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6758338.0
EU funding (EUR): 5550000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

EmployID aims to support and facilitate the learning process of Public Employment Services (PES) practitioners in their professional identity transformation process. To perform successfully in their job they need to acquire a set of new and transversal skills, develop additional competencies, as well as embed a professional culture of continuous improvement. EmployID will offer efficient use of technologies to provide advanced coaching, reflection and networking services. Based on adult learning theories, the project focuses on technology developments that make facilitation services for professional identity transformation cost-effective and sustainable by empowering the individual to engage in peer learning and facilitation. This will include (1) e-coaching tools that make coaching processes more efficient and enables peers to develop coaching skills, (2) reflection tools that integrate into coaching processes and support on-going conversation across contexts, (3) novel networking and facilitation tools that support individuals in becoming effective facilitators for the learning of others, and (4) flexible scorecard visualizations as a form of workplace learning analytics, partially fed by data collected from the user activities and feedback. These new tools will integrate into existing learning and training infrastructures, such as existing LMS. Privacy aspects will be addressed carefully by appropriate technical and organizational means. The EmployID framework will help PES practitioners to become self-directed learners and competent in their job counselling and PES organisations in effectively managing the up-skilling of their staff. A comprehensive and empirically validated indicator framework for PES organizations adaptable to their needs will support the development of a performance improvement culture. Our holistic approach is targeting professional identity transformation on an individual, network and organisational level.

Keywords: workplace learning,professional identity transformation,e-coaching,reflection,networking,facilitation,workplace learning analytics,scorecard,transversal skills,privacy
SwIFT - Non-volatile optical Switch combining Integrated Photonics and Fluidics Technologies (SWIFT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Denmark,Netherlands,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2511938.0
EU funding (EUR): 1850000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Being constantly inquired by its customers, CommScope decided to find a non-volatile and low-cost solution for automatic and remote fiber-management. CommScope partners with European experts to investigate and develop for the very first time the concept of a non-volatile Optical Switch Fabric. With the integration of two innovative technologies - silicon photonics and electrowetting (EWOD) - the consortium will realise the solution that is needed by telecom operators to enable future, flexible and manageable networks, from datacenters to core and access networks.We will investigate the integration of the innovative, non-volatile, electrowetting technology developed by Bartels for e-paper displays with the CMOS-compatible integrated silicon photonics technology to realise the compact, non-volatile, multi-port optical switch. Integration of both technologies, combines the best of both worlds: silicon photonics is known to be low cost, has a small footprint and is made by a proven, reliable CMOS technology, while Bartels' EWOD technology as developed for outdoor e-paper consumer applications has a zero operational power consumption, is low cost and meets demanding outdoor specs. The main challenge for the silicon photonics technology is to realise the required low losses, the main challenge for the EWOD technology is to find the right liquids and downscale pixel dimensions. A field trial by an end-user (TDC) will validate the concept.The consortium partners together cover the supply chain. With CommScope, Tyndall-UCC, Bartels and imec, SwIFT partners European leaders in respectively optical telecommunication interconnect products, non-volatile EWOD displays and silicon photonics. SwIFT will help to secure their leadership by developing a new application that re-uses and progresses beyond their existing backgrounds. The partners in the consortium all have manufacturing in Europe. The process developed will fit in these production lines, setting the scene for a European manufacturing chain.

Keywords: optical switch fabric,integrated photonics,silicon photonics,electrowetting,non-volatile,manageable and flexible networks
Advanced Avionic Applications Simulation Platform (AAASP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-28
End date: 2015-08-27
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 496000.0
EU funding (EUR): 333850.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to develop a set of models, libraries, scripts and test circuits to enable the complete analysis of the Aircraft Power System at equipment and electrical network level. To achieve this objective the concept of an “Advanced Avionic Application Simulation Platform” (AAASP) will be introduced which is based on the SaberRD simulator. Key features of AAASP are: - Generic and tunable electrical models for Aircraft Power Systems to allow quick electrical network benchmark integration making validation activity easier, and creating a high quality basis for specific model development. - Accurate and robust SaberRD models according to equipment designs covering the typical architecture of electric networks like AC and DC generators, a power center, AC/DC DC/DC, AC/AC converters and machine loads - Two types of models will be provided to allow analysis on different levels: - Functional models for large time frame analysis, such as power flow and network stability analysis - Behavioral models for accurate power quality analyses. - Post processing scripts/tools to assess electrical network performances from simulation results and rig measurements related to aircraft standards performances verification like network stability and power quality studies. - A test environment will be developed to run single model stand-alone simulation to characterize simulated equipment performances and to perform network level analysis. Models will be delivered at different degrees of maturity, from preliminary models at the beginning of the project, through consolidated models and finally validated models regarding accuracy and convergence aspects. Documentations will be provided related to models, test environment and scripts.

Keywords: aaasp,simulation,saber,aircraft power system
Multi-Agent Systems and Secured coupling of Telecom and EnErgy gRIds for Next Generation smartgrid services (MAS2TERING)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,France,France,Italy,United Kingdom,Ireland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4523730.0
EU funding (EUR): 2957491.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The success of the European vision of a low carbon electricity grid that minimises greenhouse gas emissions; and enhances security, quality and reliability of supply depends on how smart infrastructures, combining energy and telecom, are developed and implemented for the wider integration of security-aware distributed energy resources into the increasingly decentralised grid. MAS2TERING, a 3-year technology-driven and business-focussed project, is aimed at developing innovative information and communication technology (ICT) platform for the monitoring and optimal management of low-voltage distribution grids by integrating last mile connectivity solutions with distributed optimisation technologies, while enhancing the security of increased bi-directional communications. The project also aims at enabling new collaboration opportunities between grid operators and telecom and energy companies, both from technology and business perspectives. The project consortium includes prominent industrial organisations and research institutes from the European energy, telecom and security fields, to leverage the critical dimensions of energy, ICT, security and business. Nine project partners are CEA, Utility Partnership Limited, R2M Solutions , ENGIE, Cassidian CyberSecurity, Telecom Italia, Cardiff University, Waterford Institute of Technology and Laborelec, from five European countries: France, United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, Belgium.

Keywords: smart grids,telecom,network security,network reliability,multi-agent systems,distributed optimization,business models,smart metering,interoperability,communication,standards
Spectrum OverLay through aggregation of heterogeneous DispERsed Bands (SOLDER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,France,United Kingdom,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3275296.0
EU funding (EUR): 2336000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Wireless access is becoming the dominant way of connecting to the Internet due to the high data rates that several radio access technologies (RATs) provide. Such success is a result of several advances in wireless communications over the last two decades. A key enabling technique which promises further improvement in data rates is carrier aggregation (CA). Intra-band and inter-band carrier aggregation, in a continuous or a non-continuous fashion, have been proposed within the 3GPP standardization body for LTE-Advanced (LTE-A). Cross-carrier scheduling is also specified through dynamic scheduling on different component carriers. LTE-A has been specified to support all types of CA using several transmission bandwidths for all band combinations. A future enhancement would be the assumption of CA operating over heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and heterogeneous radio access technologies (h-RATs), considering the fact that both HetNets and h-RATs are key aspects of beyond 4G communications. However, CA has not been designed for HetNets and h-RATs so far. Aiming to serve beyond 4G communications, we envisage a spectrum overlay technology that will be able to manage aggregated heterogeneous bands (HetBands) efficiently, which are licensed to HetNets and h-RATs or even based on unlicensed or opportunistic spectrum access, in order to deliver higher data rates to future multi-standard handset devices in a flexible way based on cognitive radio technology. To be specific, we will investigate and design advanced physical and upper layer techniques, such as diversity, link adaptation and radio resource management, which will be able to handle the aggregation of non-continuous and dispersed bands (i.e., HetBands) extending thereby the 3GPP functionality. More specifically, frequency and subcarrier diversity, multi-channel link adaptation and multidimensional radio resource and inter-carrier interference management will be developed and demonstrated over such a new heterogeneous and wideband fading environment. We will also investigate and design radio impairments mitigation techniques, such as reduction of power fluctuation and linearization. To this end, proof of concept prototypes will be developed to demonstrate and validate the soundness of the innovative concepts proposed by SOLDER.

Keywords: spectrum overlay,carrier aggregation,non-continuous spectrum bands,dispersed cognitive radio,heterogeneous spectrum bands,wideband fading channels.
Practice-based Experiential Learning Analytics Research And Support (PELARS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Creativity and Learning
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Romania,Denmark,Italy,Sweden,United Kingdom,Belgium,Switzerland,Ireland,Ireland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3727617.0
EU funding (EUR): 2984917.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The PELARS project generates, analyzes, uses and provides feedback for analytics derived from hands-on, project-based and experiential learning scenarios. The project produces and evaluates technology designs for analytic data generation for constructivist learning scenarios in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) topics, including: technology solutions, infrastructure, activities, assessment, curricula, and classroom furniture and environment designs. The project addresses three different learning contexts (post-secondary design studios, post-secondary engineering sciences classrooms, and secondary-level high school STEM learning environments) across four national settings in the EU. This is done through teacher and learner engagement, user studies and evaluated trials in all three of these contexts. The PELARS project provides technological tools and ICT-based methods for collecting activity data (moving image-based and embedded sensing) for learning analytics (data-mining and reasoning) of practice-based and experiential STEM. This data is used to create analytics support tools for teachers, learners and administrators, providing frameworks for evidence-based curriculum design and learning ecosystems. The PELARS project creates behavioral recording inputs, proving a new learning analytic that is scalable in application, and bridge qualitative and quantitative methods through reasoning and feedback from input data. The project serves to help better understand learners' knowledge in physical activities in laboratory and workshop environments, as well as informal learning scenarios. PELARS traces and helps assess learner progress through technology enhancement, in ways that have been un-attempted and un-scalable until now. The project results in learning analytics tools for practice-based STEM learning that are appropriate for real-world learning environments.

Keywords: learning analytics,social learning,hardware,kits,skills,21st century skills,evaluation,tracing,assessment,practice-based learning,experiential learning,smart classrooms
Revolutionary Advances in Photonics Integration Being Applied for Optical Communication (RAPIDO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Finland,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4383157.0
EU funding (EUR): 3170000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Our goal is to develop technology for fast optical communication using revolutionary concepts that challenge the mainstream approaches for photonics integration and packaging. The primary application is optical communication inside high performance computing systems, such as supercomputers and datacenters, but the technologies will also find use in many other applications.Power-efficient InP VCSEL arrays will be directly modulated to provide up to 50 Gb/s signals at 1.3 µm wavelength where optical fibers have no chromatic dispersion. Fast InP photodiode arrays will receive the signals. Our semiconductor optical amplifiers and electroabsorption modulators will be based on novel dilute nitride materials that enable low-cost fabrication on large GaAs wafers and uncooled operation. Passive components will be realised with 3 µm SOI waveguides that are integrated with polymer waveguides for athermal operation and highly efficient, polarisation independent and ultra-broadband I/O coupling. Innovative concepts will radically shrink the footprint of the SOI and GaAs chips, and avoid chip-level processing steps. The hybrid integration of active chips on SOI and the wafer-level packaging of the optoelectronic modules will be based on novel concepts that significantly improve the alignment accuracy, yield, throughput and passive cooling, and also lead to dramatic reduction in the cost and size of the modules. To increase the datarate and to enable flexible communication between processors we apply advanced modulation formats, wavelength multiplexing and optical packet switching. We demonstrate up to 80 Gb/s per wavelength without offline signal processing, and up to 8 wavelength channels. The concept is directly scalable to Pb/s systems by combining spatial and wavelength multiplexing. For intra-rack communication we also integrate single-mode polymer waveguides into line cards and backplanes and develop optical connectors between those and the optoelectronic modules.

Keywords: optical interconnect,silicon photonics,optoelectronics,polymer optics,hybrid integration
Human-centric Intelligent LED engines for the take up of SSL in Europe (HI-LED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Hungary,Spain,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4675044.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The HILED project will advance the state of the art of Solid State Lighting (SSL) through research on innovative light engines that take advantage of full control of light. The incorporated intelligence enables responsive fine tuning of spectral properties in real time, as well as precise dimming capabilities. These smart engines with added intelligence offer natural illumination patterns that respect our biological circadian rhythms. This can be done very accurately by spectral selection or even through Correlated Colour Temperature (CCT) adaptation by using the most efficient combination of white LEDs, coloured LEDs, and OLEDs as building blocks of the light source, while satisfying different constraints on energy efficiency. Markets such as horticulture and greenhouses would also benefit from fully controllable light engines, whose spectral content can be dynamically adapted to the plant needs in real time, through the establishment of algorithmic strategies and feed-back systems that control the growth process. Besides the spectral effects on leaf photosynthesis there are more important spectral effects on morphology and development of plants. Morphological effects directly influence the ornamental value of cut flowers and pot plants and therefore their economic value. Furthermore, these morphological effects may strongly influence the growth rate of the plants. Last but not least the choice for light spectrum may affect the production of secondary metabolites. These metabolites can have human health promoting effects (e.g. anti-oxidants, vitamins, etc).Additionally, these light engines are particularly well suited for museum lighting, where careful selection of spectral content may achieve an optimal balance between energy efficiency, quality of light and art conservation. The project aims overall to foster lighting systems, which can communicate through intelligent protocols and interact with humans in real time, while proving cost-effective solutions

Keywords: solid state lighting (ssl),oleds,correlated colour temperature (cct),spectrally tuneable light engine,advanced thermal management strategies,circadian rhythm,multi-channel led source