Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Community-based Interoperability Utility for SMEs (COMMIUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Slovakia,Austria,Spain,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3833224.0
EU funding (EUR): 2600788.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

More than 99% of European enterprises are SMEs. While collaboration with other enterprises provides potential for improving business performance, enterprise interoperability research is yet to produce results which can be used by SMEs without the need for high start-up costs (learning costs as well as system purchasing and installation costs). For a solution to be taken up by SMEs it must offer both “zero costs of entry” and “zero time for set-up” to the SMEs; its initial interaction with the system should follow familiar interaction patterns based on existing tools such as email or a web browser. Commius aims to deliver an adaptable and customisable software prototype, providing SMEs with “zero-cost of entry” into interoperability using the ideas behind the Interoperability Service Utility. This will be made possible by a number of innovative scientific, technical and business advances over the existing state-of-art. We will build such an interoperability solution for SMEs, allowing them to reuse existing and familiar applications for electronic communication. The solution will be downloaded with an SME’s consent using automated self-installation routines. The solution will hook into their email infrastructure and collaboration systems such as Microsoft Exchange. It will then proceed to establish interoperability agreements with the peers of the SME at the levels of system, semantics and even process. Semantic analysis of actual enterprise data and documents¾used within and exchanged between pairs of SMEs¾will form a core part of this process. The consortium will validate results using 3 business cases: one business case comes from an technological district of SMEs; one from cross border interoperability and collaboration for European export; and one from inter-enterprise resource planning.

Keywords: interoperability,sme,semantic,business process,e-mail
Advanced MIMO Systems for Maximum Reliability and Performance (MIMAX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,Italy,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3721797.0
EU funding (EUR): 2860428.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

MIMAX aims at developing of a pervasive, low-power consuming and low-cost MIMO network platform with reliable data-rate of up to 100 Mb/s in environments with strong multipath and coverage ranges up to several hundred meters. The current state-of-the-art performs the combining and processing of the complex antenna signal in the baseband. Since complete transmitter and receiver paths are required for each path, the resulting power consumption and costs of the conventional MIMO approach limit applications for ubiquitous networks. MIMAX significantly decreases the hardware complexity by applying a novel MIMO topology, which performs the complex weighting and combining of the antenna signals in the RF/LO front-end. The required front-end including phase and amplitude control elements will be implemented in low-cost BiCMOS technology. Novel topologies are applied to solve the challenges concerning phase and amplitude control accuracy, reliability and power consumption. Moreover, novel opportunistic MIMO approaches with single antenna path in the receiver and time-multiplexed signal combining will be studied. The platform will be implemented on basis of existing WLAN standards. Further goals of the project comprise the development of baseband signal processing and MIMO control units including MAC aspects, antenna arrays and smart MIMO algorithms. To verify the developments, reconfigurable demonstrator platforms will be designed and tested. MIMAX combines the complementary competences of 1 large research institution, 3 small and medium sized enterprises and 2 universities from 4 EU countries, and is managed by a team with profound experiences regarding EU projects. Supported by marketing studies, the involved industry partners will exploit the results for multimedia streaming, television via internet, health applications and sensor networks. MIMAX will contribute to the enhancement, standardisation and benchmarking for integrated MIMO WLAN systems in Europe.

Keywords: wireless communication networks,mimo systems,reliable and ubiquitous systems
Integrated European Industrial Risk Reduction System (IRIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,France,Greece,Poland,Germany,Germany,Germany,European organisations area,France,Italy,Germany,Bulgaria,Romania,Bulgaria,Czechia,Germany,Austria,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,Sweden,Germany,China,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Austria,Hungary,Germany,Germany,Russian Federation,India
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12496996.19
EU funding (EUR): 8499950.0
Participants: 37
Project status: CLOSED

Current practices in risk assessment and management for industrial systems are characterized by its methodical diversity and fragmented approaches. In retrospect these risk and safety paradigms resulted from diverse industries driven and limited by available knowledge and technologies. A change based on industry driven R&amp;D work is needed. At present the European Industry recognised their obligation to reconsider their risk and safety policies, having a more competitive industry and more risk informed and innovation accepting society in vision. Therefore the large collaborative project IRIS is proposed to identify, quantify and mitigate existing and emerging risks to create societal cost-benefits, to increase industrial safety and to reduce impact on human health and environment. The project is led and driven by the industry to consolidate and generate knowledge and technologies which enable the integration of new safety concepts related to technical, human, organizational and cultural aspects. The partnership represents over 1 million workers. The proposed project relates to strategic research topics defined by ETPIS and ECTP and is underpinning relevant EU policies on industrial safety.

Keywords: industrial safety,online risk assessment,safety concept,monitoring systems,decision support system
Customer-Oriented Product Engineering of Micro and Nano Devices (CORONA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Poland,Greece
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4355139.8
EU funding (EUR): 2999663.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The competitiveness of EC companies in micro and nano technologies (MNT) very much relies on short time-to-market. That is true in particular for collaborative, distributed design and fabrication scenarios typical for an area where SMEs are strongly involved. Reduced time-to-market can only be achieved by faster product engineering. MNT product design and fabrication process development is an experimental task making use of key experiments or past experience to iteratively improve the engineering flow until a satisfying result has been reached. It is the objective of this project to contribute to ICT-based product engineering for MNT by: a) supporting integrated, distributed, multi-site product development with the customer in lead and control of the process, b) providing comprehensive and secure access to knowledge-bases for design and fabrication knowledge, c) offering ICT infra structure and tools needed to support customer services, design assistance and fab integration. The project work will provide contributions to: a) Developing a product engineering methodology and implementing it as a knowledge based, networked cooperation framework for customers, designers and manufacturers, b) Developing tools for an integrated design flow from the idea to the final product introducing tools to combine behaviour-oriented top-down and fabrication-oriented bottom-up design flows, c) Demonstrating the effectiveness of methodology and tools by realising example products. This work will contribute innovations in integrated design and production methodologies, ICT to assist and partially automate concurrent layout and process flow design, and knowledge-bases for customer services and fab data exploration. The consortium includes companies, in part SMEs, and institutes that contribute experience in design methodology and tools for MNT, MNT production in various technological areas, and networking and dissemination activities for the European MNT-industries.

Keywords: product engineering,collaborative design an production,ict-based manufacturing,knowledge-based product services
Plug-in ADAptronic MODules for real-time errors (Thermal & Vibration) compensation and superfine positioning in reconfigurable high precision machine tools (ADAMOD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5299736.16
EU funding (EUR): 3699931.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Ever increasing competition in international markets drives manufacturers to shorten design cycles and reduce manufacturing times and costs for their products. This trend generates a demand for smart, flexible and faster machining systems, which are easy to set up and configure and able to drastically increase productivity, while improving final accuracy. Therefore the primary goal is to achieve cost-effective structural solutions consisting of a new class of “Modular Adaptronic devices” based on smart and multifunctional actuators/sensors capable of performing a wide array of multiple functions, ranging from high and adaptable damping and stiffness characteristics to more demanding new requirements such as structural and measuring/ active-control function in order to achieve extremely high dynamic/thermal stability required in fast and precision machining. This project aims at designing, developing and validating the following novel adaptronic modules for machine tools applications: - Adaptronic interface for Active Vibration Control (AVC) and superfine positioning - Adaptronic framework for thermal compensation based on FBG fibre optics

Keywords: adaptronics,mechatronics,machine tool,reconfigurability
NoE PolyNET - Network of Excellence for the exploitation of organic and large area electronics (POLYNET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,Poland,Sweden,Greece,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Belgium,Austria,Finland,Netherlands,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3756595.0
EU funding (EUR): 3298286.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The Network of Excellence (NoE) PolyNet aims to establish Europe in the area of organic and large area electronics as the world leader in science, technology development and subsequent commercial exploitation of printing and large area technologies for heterointegration of flexible electronics. Future industrial Exploitation needs a research cooperation base and a service base to foster transfer from science to industry within EU. Therefore fragmentation of European research landscape has to be overcome. The NoE PolyNet will support these aims with three core platforms: - a research cooperation platform - a service platform - a knowledge platform For a long-term integration of European research landscape concepts for the continuation of research cooperation and service offers will be developed, validate and put into operation. Impact is expected not only on the research landscape of Organic and Large Area Electronics but also indirectly on European industry by long-term stimulation of innovative technologies and new companies.

Keywords: organic electronics,polytronics,large area electronics
COmputationally Driven design of Innovative CEment-based materials (CODICE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3757240.0
EU funding (EUR): 2700000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Albeit the C-S-H gel constitutes the main ingredient of cementitious skeletons and their life-service depends crucially on it, the possibility of tuning the intrinsic nature and properties of the C-S-H gel has been simply out of reach. Fortunately this long-standing impossibility can be currently overcome by the complementary action of new experimental capacities and stronger simulations schemes which explicitly pay attention to the nanoscale. Recent nanoindentation experiments have revealed that the C-S-H gel can present itself either in a low stiffness and low density variety (called LD C-S-H gel) or in a variety with a high stiffness and high density (called HD C-S-H gel). This dissimilar bearing capacity is indeed much more pronounced in their resistance to osteoporosis-like degradation processes (aging!). The question that arises is straightforward: Could the formation of the stronger and more durable HD C-S-H varieties be promoted against the LD- ones? CODICE aims to answer to this question by means of on-top-of-the-art simulations. In fact CODICE project aims to develop a serial parameter-passing multi-scale modelling scheme to predict the structural evolution and the mechanical performance of non-degraded and degraded cementitious matrices as a function of macroscopical processing variables to guide the design of cementitious materials in which the HD-C-S-H forms are promoted against the LD- C-S-H ones. Improvements of the mechanical properties about the 50 % and 600 % are envisaged for non-degraded and degraded cementitious scaffolds respectively, when compared to conventional designs. Thus, CODICE largely impacts on the competitiveness of the Construction sector, since the simulations 1) will offer an unbeatable and cheap solution to the cement sector to assess and improve the efficiency of cheaper cement formulations and 2) will computationally drive the design of cementitious materials with drastically lower maintenance costs.

Keywords: multi-scale modelling packages cement-based materials
SEAmless Content Delivery (SEA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,France,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Spain,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3262153.0
EU funding (EUR): 2110739.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In the forthcoming age, where everyone may be content producer, mediator and consumer, SEA aims to offer a new experience of personalised, seamless content delivery, maintaining the integrity and wherever applicable, enriching the perceived QoS (PQoS) of the media across the whole distribution chain. SEA is a project focused on seamless, personalised, trusted and PQoS-optimised multimedia content delivery, across broadband networks, varying from broadcasting to P2P topologies. SEA motivation is to implement a context-aware networking delivery platform, by focusing on four key principles: - Multi-layered/-viewed content coding, considering the evolving H.264 SVC/MVC and their emerging successors, as the major foreseen delivery technologies over heterogeneous networks/terminals and large audiences. - Multi-source/-network content streaming offering on-the fly content adaptation, increased scalability and enriched PQoS by dynamically combining content layers or representations of the same resource, transmitted from multiple sources and/or received over multiple networks. - Cross-network/-layer optimisation. The network/terminal heterogeneity, also engaging P2P overlays and serving different quality and views will require cross-layer optimization, traffic adaptation and optimal use of the available network/terminal resources. - Content Protection. A hybrid solution for personalised content protection by means of a combination of streaming encryption, content protection and rights management for new media, covering not only the legacy content creation chain, but also the private multimedia content. SEA will test/validate the developed technologies over three interconnected tedbeds: a) a real-time emulated lab, b) a world-wide extended P2P testbed (PlanetLab) and c) a real 2G+/3G/4G/WLAN mobile trial. SEA will eventually provide citizens with the means to offer personalized A/V user-centric services, improving their quality of life, entertainment and safety.

Keywords: multi-layered/multi-viewed content coding,multi-source/multi-network content streaming,cross-network/cross-layer optimisation,content protection
Integrated synthesis and purification of single enantiomers (INTENANT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Italy,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5089812.0
EU funding (EUR): 3693400.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Several industries have an increasing interest in improving their access to pure single enantiomers of biologically active substances. The latter often form the basis for valued added products relevant for, among others, the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries. Up to now there exist two generally rivalling concepts for producing pure enantiomers. One approach is based on developing and applying enantioselective synthesis techniques, which often consist of a large number of reaction steps. Alternatively, simple non-selective synthesis can be applied in combination with advanced downstream separation techniques and recycling strategies. These two competing approaches have been up to now hardly combined and considered in a holistic way. It is the goal of the proposed project to combine the available chemical and physical methods to effectively and efficiently produce single enantiomers at high purity. For this a strong consortium of academic and industrial experts in various fields of synthesis and separation technologies will work together on several well selected model systems as well as industrially relevant components. Based on case studies performed, main outcome of the project will be innovative, shorter, cheaper and widely applicable pathways for the production of pure enantiomers, which will be brought into industrial practice and enhance the competitiveness of European industry.

Keywords: enantiomers,synthesis,chromatography,crystallization,racemization,process integration
EarLy unIverse eXploration with nIRspec (ELIXIR)

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: France,Spain,Italy,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2566809.0
EU funding (EUR): 2566809.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This network proposes to develop European expertise in searches for primeval galaxies and in the extraction of key physical information from deep sky observations, to ensure the maximum scientific return of the European instrument NIRSpec on board the future James Webb Space Telescope that will be launched in 2013. The accomplishment of this goal requires the combined expertise of four different communities: 1. Observational astronomers with expertise in deep sky surveys and in spatially resolved studies of distant galaxies. 2. Experts in spectral models of galaxies, to interpret the light emitted by distant galaxies in terms of physical parameters such as star formation rate, metallicity and dust content. 3. Theoreticians with expertise in modelling galaxy formation in its proper cosmological context. 4. Industrial engineers who are responsible for the performance and calibration of NIRSpec. This network will bring together these communities to work on the interpretation of the physical properties of distant galaxies deduced from their spectra and images and to develop practical analysis tools of interest to the exploitation of NIRSpec. It will serve as a training ground for a new generation of young researchers, who will gain broad insights into the problem of galaxy formation --- both in the area of theoretical models and in the preparation and analysis of state-of-the-art observations --- and into the development and implementation of an astronomical space project.

Keywords: astronomy,astrophysics,cosmology
Nanopatterning, Production and Applications based on Nanoimprinting Lithography (NAPANIL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Denmark,Spain,Switzerland,Italy,Italy,France,Germany,France,France,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15870165.12
EU funding (EUR): 11800000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The NaPANIL project aims to develop processes, materials and tools, both for manufacturing and for control, for truly 3-dimensional nanosurfaces with feature dimensions ranging from 50 nm to several m. The nanosurfaces will be realised using various variants of nanoimprinting lithography. The dedicated application is to control light at nanostructured surfaces and a few potential high impact products have been identified by the end-user partners in the consortium. Design, demonstration and prototyping these applications will act as test-bench for the new manufacturing paradigm. The manufacturing processes possess generic aspects for production of any kind of topographically 3-dimensional nanostructured surfaces. In the R&D of nanoimprinting Europe has a leading position. The NaPANIL consortium combines the best expertise and know how in field to reach the goals in the project.

Keywords: nanofabrication,nanoimprinting lithography,nanomanufacturing,3-dimensionality,nanosurfaces,light control