Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Molecular Catalysts Made of Earth-Abundant Elements for Energy and Sustainability (CAT4ENSUS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1475712.0
EU funding (EUR): 1475712.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Energy and sustainability are among the biggest challenges humanity faces this century. Catalysis is an indispensable component for many potential solutions, and fundamental research in catalysis is as urgent as ever. Here, we propose to build up an interdisciplinary research program in molecular catalysis to address the challenges of energy and sustainability. There are two specific aims: (I) bio-inspired sulfur-rich metal complexes as efficient and practical electrocatalysts for hydrogen production and CO2 reduction; (II) well-defined Fe complexes of chelating pincer ligands for chemo- and stereoselective organic synthesis. An important feature of the proposed catalysts is that they are made of earth-abundant and readily available elements such as Fe, Co, Ni, S, N, etc. Design and synthesis of catalysts are the starting point and a key aspect of this project. A major inspiration comes from nature, where metallo-enzymes use readily available metals for fuel production and challenging reactions. Our accumulated knowledge and experience in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, reaction chemistry, mechanism, and catalysis will enable us to thoroughly study the synthetic catalysts and their applications towards the research targets. Furthermore, we will explore research territories such as electrode modification and fabrication, catalyst immobilization and attachment, and asymmetric catalysis. The proposed research should not only result in new insights and knowledge in catalysis that are relevant to energy and sustainability, but also produce functional, scalable, and economically feasible catalysts for fuel production and organic synthesis. The program can contribute to excellence in European research.

Keywords: energy,electrocatalysis,hydrogen production,iron catalysis,synthetic methods,c-h functionalization,asymmetric catalysis
Secure Web OS Application Delivery Environment (WEBINOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Italy,Netherlands,Sweden,United Kingdom,Greece,Italy,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13629356.0
EU funding (EUR): 9775000.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The webinos project will define and deliver an Open Source Platform and specific components for the Future Internet, which will enable web applications and services to be used and shared consistently and securely over a broad spectrum of converged and connected devices, including mobile, PC, home media (TV) and in-car units. Promoting a "single service for every device" vision, webinos will move the existing baseline from installed applications to services, running consistently across a wide range of connected devices, ensuring that the technologies for describing, negotiating, securing, utilizing device functionalities and adapting to context are fit for purpose. Innovations in contextual description will be broad covering but not limited to device capabilities, network access, user identity and preferences, location, behaviourally induced properties and finally the more complex issue of the users’ social network context. webinos will directly address security and privacy issues as part of Quality of Service that users of web services expect. The addressed challenges comprise: how to provision and adapt security across a range of devices, services, networks as well as how individuals can gain control over the privacy aspects of their web presence regardless of the service that is being used. Context and privacy are intimately intertwined: rich context is valuable but without user controlled privacy it becomes a liability. webinos will boost the industry migration towards web-based services. webinos can back this by providing inter-operable, standardised, open source technology utilizable across domains with direct commercially exploitable value. webinos will also act as an industry catalyst to encourage collaboration and discourage fragmentation in this space. There are strong industry moves towards Internet friendly and Internet integrated offerings, and there exists a window of opportunity to place this Web OS technology on a robust open foundation that will remove economic barriers to engagement, embody policy on data privacy in concrete technology (protecting consumers and enterprise) and creating a centre of web centric expertise (benefiting technical competitiveness).

Keywords: mobile web,cross-platform,cross-domain services,open source,convergence of mobile,home media and automotive services,qos/sla in web 2.0,future internet,operating systems,software development
Policy and Security Configuration Management (POSECCO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Netherlands,Italy,France,Spain,Austria,France,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11272386.0
EU funding (EUR): 6999987.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Future Internet (FI) applications will see dynamic compositions of services providing a broad diversity of functions, starting with business functionality down to infrastructure services. Their progress crucially depends on the service providers&apos; ability to deal with two interdependent challenges: (1) to achieve, maintain and prove compliance with security requirements stemming from internal needs, 3rd party demands and international regulations and (2) to cost-efficiently manage policies and security configuration in operating conditions. The deficiencies of current processes and tools force service providers to trade off profitability against security and compliance. Major causes are (1) ignorance or manual resolution of policy and configuration dependencies, caused by distinct terminologies and languages of security domains, and the complexity of large-scale distributed systems, (2) constant evolution of requirements and regulations as well as service compositions and configurations, and (3) the number of stakeholders involved in security management and requirement definition. PoSecCo overcomes this by establishing a traceable and sustainable link between high-level requirements and low-level configuration settings. Operations will be supported by self-managed features and decision support systems. Substantial improvements are expected in the areas of policy modeling and conflict detection across architectural layers, decision support for policy refinement processes, policy and configuration change management including validation, remediation and audit support, and security management processes in FI application scenarios. PoSecCo addresses the economic viability of the chosen approach by assessing cost and organizational benefits of an improved policy and configuration management. PoSecCo continues other EC projects, especially DESEREC, POSITIF, and MASTER, and adopts existing industry-standards for change management and audit to ensure its impact.

Keywords: security change management,compliance,collaborative security management,policy and configuration interdependencies,security cost/benefit analysis
SL(2,R)-action on flat surfaces and geometry of extremal subvarieties of moduli spaces (FLAT SURFACES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1005600.0
EU funding (EUR): 1005600.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Dynamics on polygonal billiard tables is best understood by unfolding the table and studying the resulting flat surface. The moduli space of flat surfaces carries a natural action of SL(2,R) and all the questions about Lie group actions on homogeneous spaces reappear in this non-homogeneous setting in an even more interesting way. Closed SL(2,R)-orbits give rise to totally geodesic subvarieties of the moduli space of curves, called Teichmueller curves. Their classifcation is a major goal over the coming years. The applicant's algebraic characterization of Teichmueller curves plus the comprehension of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of Hilbert modular varities make this goal feasible. on polygonal billiard tables is best understood unfolding the table and studying the resulting surface. The moduli space of flat surfaces carries action of SL(2,R) and all the questions about group actions on homogeneous spaces reappear in this homogeneous setting in an even more interesting way. SL(2,R)-orbits give rise to totally geodesic of the moduli space of curves, called curves. Their classifcation is a major goal the coming years. The applicant's algebraic characterization Teichmueller curves plus the comprehension of the Mumford compactification of Hilbert modular varities this goal feasible.

Keywords: billiards,teichmueller geodesics,moduli space of curves and abelian varieties,hilbert modular varieties
Large Scale Choreographies for the Future Internet (CHOREOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,France,France,Greece,United Kingdom,Italy,Latvia,Brazil,Lithuania,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8679857.0
EU funding (EUR): 6384089.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The CHOReOS project positions itself in the context of the Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Future Internet of software services. To address the challenges inherent of ULS as well as other key requirements of the Future Internet, such as fusion of the user/developer/system roles, adaptability and QoS-awareness, to name a few, CHOReOS revisits the concept of choreography-based service composition in service-oriented systems. CHOReOS introduces a dynamic development process, and associated methods, tools and middleware sustaining the ever-adaptable composition of services by domain experts – being the users of business choreographies – in the Future Internet. CHOReOS concepts then encompass formally grounded abstractions and models, dynamic choreography-centric development process, governance and service-oriented middleware, thus providing an Integrated Development &amp; Runtime Environment (IDRE) aimed at overcoming the ULS impact on software system development. Formally grounded abstractions and models enable reasoning about the properties, both functional and non-functional, of ULS choreographies. Dynamic choreography-centric development process allows the fusion of the user/developer/system roles, while managing the ULS service base, and supports the synthesis of scalable and adaptable choreographies. Governance includes service integration policies and rules, as well as tools for dynamic verification &amp; validation of choreographies. Finally, service-oriented middleware enables adaptable choreographies over ESB-based middleware, Grids, Clouds, and technologies for the Internet of Things, thus overcoming scalability and heterogeneity issues of the Future Internet. Last but not least, CHOReOS assesses the industrial exploitation of this choreography-centric vision by experimenting on three demanding use cases in different domains (passenger-friendly airport, mobile-enabled coordination of people, vehicular network) and by carrying out a study of social-technical factors.

Keywords: choreography,future internet,internet of services,internet of things,v&v,adaptation,qos,formal model,synthesis,middleware,socio-technical simulation
Targeting potential of carbon nanotubes at the blood brain barrier (CNTBBB)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1229998.0
EU funding (EUR): 1229998.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Targeted drug delivery across the blood brain barrier (BBB) to the central nervous system is a large challenge for the treatment of neurological disorders. This 4 year ERC program is aimed towards the evaluating the BBB penetration capacity and toxicological potential of novel carbon nanotube (CNT) carriers using an integrated multidisciplinary approach. State-of-art characterisation techniques developed by the PI will be applied and further developed to detect the interaction of carbon nanotubes with in vitro BBB model and neuronal cells. Specific aims: 1. Identify the mechanisms of translocation of CNT across the endothelial cells which comprise the BBB, as well as uptake by neuronal cells in vitro. 2. To investigate the effect of length, diameter and surface charge of CNTs on the BBB and neuronal cells penetration capacity in vitro. 3. To investigate the toxicological profile of CNT on the BBB and the various neuronal cell types (immortalised and primary neuronal cultures). 4. Develop protocols to assess whether the CNTs degrade inside the cell. The ERC Grant will consolidate the new Research Group in nanomaterials-cell interfaces, and allow them to perform stimulating investigator-initiated frontier research in nanotoxicology and nanomedicine. To this end, a multi-disciplinary laboratory will be realized within the framework of this 4-year the ERC Programme. This will permit the group around the PI, to expand activities, push limits, create new boundaries, and develop new protocols for studying nanoparticle-cell interactions in close collaboration with ICL s Department of medicine and chemistry. Within the proposed program there is an underlying ambition both to gain a fundamental understanding for which parameters of CNTs determine their penetration capacity through the BBB and also to assess their toxicological potential at the BBB two highlighted themes by the ERC.
Publish Subscribe Internet Technology (PURSUIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,United Kingdom,Germany,Greece,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5199432.0
EU funding (EUR): 3771991.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The current Internet architecture focuses on communicating entities, leaving aside the exchanged information. However, trends show that WHAT is exchanged is becoming more important than WHO are exchanging it. As a result, the Internet is effectively moving from interconnecting machines to interconnecting information, questioning the necessity of endpoint identifiers as a foundation of internetworking. There have been efforts to introduce identifiers for information rather than endpoints on internetworking level, e.g., the FP7 PSIRP and the PARC CCN project, the former based on an information-centric publish/subscribe model and the latter based on a content-centric overlay. These efforts promise, among other things, more flexibility in adapting to new services, efficiency improvements on lower layers, and native multicast support. However, crucial questions remain, like (1) the role of caching, potentially leading to new concepts for congestion and error control, (2) the role of transport functions, (3) service-specific delivery solutions, and (4) support for disconnected operations. There are also open questions regarding the influence on lower layer operations, including resource allocation and reservation, resulting from the increased visibility of the exchanged information. Also, efficient re-allocation of optical resources and bundling of wireless resources need to be studied to gain insight into how such novel architecture can efficiently work with lower layers. Last, but not least, the socio-economic environment needs to be understood. The markets being created as well as the impact of socio-economics on design choices are as important as outlining the opportunities and threats for existing and new players to come. Demonstrating and validating practical solutions in experimental testbeds is needed for complementing such understanding. PURSUIT will pursue these endeavours in a collaborative project setting, building on recognized expertise in relevant areas.

Keywords: content-centric architecture,future internet,publish-subscribe,redezvous,forwarding,caching,content delivery,multicast
Neuromorphic processors: event-based VLSI models of cortical circuits for brain-inspired computation (NEUROP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494023.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494023.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Brains are remarkable computing devices which clearly outperform conventional architectures in real-world tasks. Computational neuroscience has made tremendous progress in uncovering the key principles by which neural systems carry out computation, and ICTs have advanced to a point where it is possible to integrate almost as many transistors in a VLSI system as neurons in a brain. Yet, we are still unable to develop artificial neural systems with basic computing abilities able to parallel even simple insect brains. We have recently demonstrated how it is possible to implement large-scale artificial neural networks and real-time sensory motor systems in VLSI technology, exploiting the physics of silicon to reproduce the biophysics of neural systems. But the main bottleneck is in the understanding of how to use these systems to perform general purpose computation. Progress in this domain can be achieved only by pursuing a fully integrated multi-disciplinary approach. We propose to combine neuroscience, mathematics, computer-science, and engineering to develop a theoretical formalism and its supporting technology for designing spike-based general purpose "neuromorphic processors", as distributed multi-chip neuromorphic VLSI systems, and for programming them to learn to produce desired computations autonomously. We will study the properties of neural circuits in the neocortex, model their coding strategies and spike-driven learning mechanisms using biophysically realistic spiking neural networks, and implement them using hybrid analog digital VLSI circuits. By interfacing these systems to silicon retinas, cochleas and autonomous robotic platforms we will build embodied neuromorphic processors able to carry out event-based computations in real-world behavioral tasks.

Keywords: neuromorphic circuits,neural computation,silicon neuron,spike-based learning,event-driven sensory systems,asynchronous vlsi,synaptic dynamics,embedded cognition
Expanding the European Future Internet Community (EX-FI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 434080.0
EU funding (EUR): 328157.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In order to used the funding for R&amp;D activities on Future Internet in an efficient way and to ensure that reasonable results will correspond to the investments, it is necessary to establish tight and coordinated partnership among all relevant European stakeholder in the sector. To realise it, the European Future Internet Initiative is ready to involve the stakeholders into discussions on definition of the R&amp;D objectives related to the Future Internet, to ensure coverage of all for the investigations relevant topics, and to encourage their participation in related projects. The first step forward establishment of this coordinated partnership is enlargement of the European Future Internet Initiative into a broad European community, which is the main goal of EX-FI project. The enlargement of the European Future Internet Initiative community will be carried in accordance with the scope and objectives as well as initial planning of a European PPP (Public Private Partnership) on Future Internet. Thus, work done and contributions made by the enlarged Future Internet community can be efficiently integrated within overall PPP activities, in particular in its strategic documents presenting the major R&amp;D areas to be addressed by specific Future Internet calls. The EX-FI project will establish a required partnership scheme and facilitate necessary discussions among the stakeholders, in order to specify a number of usage areas and to indentify major R&amp;D challenges. The initial usage areas in discussion are: Content delivery and production, eHealth, Smart energy grid, Utilities, environment, and enhanced collaboration, as well as Transport, mobility, and logistics. The main project objectives are: - Identification of Future Internet usage areas - Definition of related R&amp;D challenges - Strategy for implementation of testbeds related to the usage areas - Roadmap for creation of innovative Future Internet services - Enlarged European Future Internet Initiative community

Keywords: future internet,future internet initiative community,future internet usage areas,usage areas testbeds,innovative future internet services and applications