Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Demonstration Network Of ground-based Remote Sensing Observations in support of the GMES Atmospheric Service (NORS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Switzerland,Spain,Germany,France,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2833512.4
EU funding (EUR): 1999999.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The principal objective of the NORS project is to improve the quality and validation of the products delivered by the GMES Atmospheric Service (GAS), using independent groundbased remote sensing data from the international Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC). NDACC is a cross-border research network with a strong European contribution, providing high-quality reference observational data for understanding the physical / chemical state of the stratosphere and troposphere, and for assessing the impact of atmospheric composition changes on climate. NORS focuses on a selection of NDACC data that have high priority in the different domains of GAS, namely ’ozone and UV’, ‘air quality’ and ‘climate’. The research planned in NORS aims at tailoring these NDACC products to the needs of GAS. It includes a full characterisation of the products and an evaluation of the consistency between the ground-based data and the satellite data assimilated in the GAS production chain. As ground-based remote sensing data form the ideal link between in situ surface concentration and satellite column data, NORS will investigate how integrated tropospheric products and integrated ozone products can be developed. The project will demonstrate operational rapid delivery of NDACC data to GAS, including a comprehensive set of metadata and a user guide. It will also develop and implement a web-based server for providing consistent validation reports of the GAS products using the NORS data products, on an operational basis. In support of the re-analyses planned in GAS, NORS will deliver time-series of ground-based data back to 2003. The achievements of NORS will be made available to NDACC as a whole and especially to candidate NDACC stations filling gaps outside Western Europe. The project will be performed in close collaboration with relevant projects in the context of GAS, and it will liaise with NDACC, the European Environmental Agency, and major GMES/GEOSS actors.

Keywords: ground-based remote sensing,validation,atmospheric composition,climate,ozone,air quality,ndacc
MyWave: A pan-European concerted and integrated approach to operational wave modelling and forecasting – a complement to GMES MyOcean services (MYWAVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,France,Greece,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2973896.0
EU funding (EUR): 1997499.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of MyWave is to lay the foundation for a future Marine Core Service that includes ocean waves. The proposal has identified four target areas where concerted research is needed to establish a high quality GMES Marine Core Service for ocean waves: 1. increase the use of earth observations by improving data processing algorithms and data assimilation systems, 2. improve the physics in current wave models and provide a framework for coupled model systems (atmosphere/waves/ocean), 3. establish a new standard for probabilistic wave forecasts based on ensemble methods, 4. derive standard protocols for validation products.

Keywords: gmes,wave modelling,data assimilation,forecast verification,ensemble forecasting
Development of an automated spot weld inspection device for safe vehicle repair (SPOTTRACK)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,Italy,Spain,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1448784.28
EU funding (EUR): 1130500.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

There are over three thousand spot welds in a typical car. When a car is repaired the spot welding parameters can be different as the mass production machinery used in manufacture can no longer be used. The repairer often is not an expert at inspecting spot welds. Assured reliability of the spot weld is paramount, since the integrity of the spot welds is vital to the crash performance of a car and the safety of its passengers. Therefore, there is a need for a rapid non-destructive inspection device that can be operated by somebody without specialist skills. SpotTrack proposal is for creating the first automatic spot weld tracking device that can be applied non-destructively in the automotive repair industry. The only inspection option available to body repair shops today is to create a spot weld on an off-cut and carry out a ‘peel test’ on it, which is destructive. However, the assumption that the test spot weld is identical to the one on the car can be unsatisfactory. In some cases the spot weld may not be tested at all. The new SpotTrack device will allow the user to quickly and reliably tell whether a spot weld is acceptable by giving a simple pass or fail indication. The proposed SpotTrack system will have the advantage of testing the actual weld made within a matter of seconds and without the need for interpretation. Most importantly it will ensure that the actual spot welds going into service are safe.

Keywords: spot welding,reliability,non-destructive inspection,automatic spot weld tracking device,peel test,quickly and reliably,pass or fail indication
Future media Internet for large scale CONTent experimENTation (FI-CONTENT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Belgium,Switzerland,France,Germany,Germany,Italy,Spain,Germany,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-2011-ICT-FI, 2011)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8191735.0
EU funding (EUR): 4995991.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

This project will transform the perception of, and possibilities for, the next generation Internet. It addresses the FI Content Usage Call in a number of innovative, practical and useful ways. With inputs from 5 important content areas, spanning future uses of AV, games, Web, metadata and user created content, demonstrating usage beyond current state of the art, we have assembled a consortium including major content providers, games companies, hardware vendors, network operators, broadcasters, research institutes and academia to propose a number of novel and inventive scenarios for new forms of content. We are providing a framework to allow transformations of our scenarios into technical outputs, as well as project management to ensure this ambitious project succeeds in creating services and experiments. As individual members, we have extensive expertise in collaborative projects, and as a consortium we can demonstrate actual business and research needs for improvements to today’s Internet which will drive and shape our groundbreaking work. The project as a whole addresses 5 key areas where today’s Internet can be improved: better QoS and experience, direct Internet connectivity (a serverless world), usage beyond a purely static text/plugin/browser based approach, better tracking of content, and the ability to provide support, failover and resilience across different providers (eg mobile devices, crossing between countries, or moving between different access points (eg home to library) Our approach will focus on early proof of concepts to facilitate just enough technical specification to deliver requirements to the Core Platform. This will allow us to rapidly propose new scenarios and use cases, and reject them at an early stage if they prove unsuitable. Within our overall content areas, we expect a number of our scenarios to progress through to Phase 2 of the FI project, where we will demonstrate concrete prototypes, SME engagement and running code.

Keywords: future internet,use case,content
Supporting the Transport Research Arena 2012 conference (TRA2012)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Greece,France,Belgium,Germany,Ireland,France
Call:  (FP7-SST-2011-RTD-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1130120.2
EU funding (EUR): 872113.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

This project will give support for organising and promoting the Transport Research Arena 2012 in Athens. It will reinforce the scientific excellence of the conference and cement its position as the main transport research event in Europe. The fourth Transport Research Arena (TRA) will be organised in Athens, Greece, in April 2012 and is expected to be supported by five stakeholder organisations; : • the Conference of European Directors for Roads (CEDR), • the European Commission (EC), • the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC), • the European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC) and • the European Technology Platform Waterborne (Waterborne TP). The project is a coordinated commitment of partners from all of the relevant stakeholder organisations plus the 2012 and 2014 TRA organisers.

Keywords: conference,scientific journal,publication,advertising and media,young researcher competition
VIBRO-IMPACT MACHINES BASED ON PARAMETRIC RESONANCE: Concepts, mathematical modelling, experimental verification and implementation (PARM-2)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Poland,Israel,Poland,Ukraine
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1775354.0
EU funding (EUR): 1775354.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to enhance the potential and output of vibrating machines and decrease their ecological footprint by implementation of parametric resonance (PR). Compared with the regular resonance, the PR is characterized by a much higher intensity within a wide range of frequencies. The advantage of a PR-based machine was demonstrated with a prototype PR screener (PRS) developed and produced by the project partners. The PRS demonstrated large amplitudes of high-frequency lateral oscillations and self-vibro-insulation and could process a naturally wet fine granular material. However, the PR is instable, and its use as an effective operating mode assumes, among others, creation of a ‘stabilized instability’ regime. This is an inspiring and challenging high-tech task for combined efforts of applied mathematicians and engineers. The extraordinary PR features together with open nontrivial theoretical and engineering problems provide a motivation to undertake this interdisciplinary research. The main objectives are: to develop a technically sound control of PR amplitude; to develop mathematical models for the process of material separation with a PRS; to design PRS-related screens with given stiffness and minimal bending stresses, and to design other types of PR-based separators and crushers. The enhancement of vibro-cutting/drilling tools via the development of the underpinning theory and application of the PR principle will also be an objective. An exchange of fundamentals and technical concepts between the large-scale research and the micro/nano PR studies is assumed. The project activities will be based on close cooperation and targeted secondments between academia and industry. As a result, a large number of ESRs will have a unique opportunity to be trained through research, working on all interdisciplinary aspects, starting from the conceptual design and modelling and finishing with prototypes/demonstrators of new PR-based machines and tools.

Keywords: vibration engineering,engineering mathematics,mechanical design
High Performance Computing Service Centre (HOST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Romania
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496268.0
EU funding (EUR): 2226272.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The High Performance Computing as a Service is a new technological paradigm that emerged recently in the context of the hype of Cloud Computing. The Research Centre in Computer Science from West University of Timisoara, specialized in distributed and parallel computing as well as artificial intelligence, will adopt this paradigm to fulfil its aim to enter in the category of competitive European HPC providerss. The Centre had in the last five years an constantly grow in what concerns the participation in European collaborative projects as well as in what concerns the infrastructure capabilities, proving its capacity for improvements. The goal of this project is the transformation of the centre in the following new directions: to widen the research and development knowledge and experience of the team in HPC services and their applications; to raise the number of users of the services of the data centre; to achieve the status of EU-regional supercomputing centre and stakeholder in national and international e-Infrastructure initiatives; to become a centre for supporting innovation and regional development. The action plan to reach this goal includes strong collaborations with European stakeholders in HPC, upgrades of the e-infrastructure, employment of experienced researchers, as well as the organization of scientific events.

Keywords: high performance computing,cloud computing
Emergence by Design (MD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Poland,Spain,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3195817.0
EU funding (EUR): 2457330.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

MD research aspires to satisfy two kinds of objective. The first is to develop the foundations of a theory of innovation dynamics that concatenates design and emergence. The second is to design a set of processes, enabled in part by new ICT, that can help to mobilize civil society to construct a socially sustainable future. These processes will assist the managers of online communities of networks of innovators to enhance the generative potential of relationships among members of these communities; monitor innovation cascades to detect signals pointing to the onset of endogenously generated social crises, as part of a system innovation policy that goes beyond the current strategy of priming the pump of invention; and implement a new kind of dynamic evaluation for socially-oriented innovation projects, which can provide stakeholders with a multivalent representation of the social consequences induced by the projects to help them steer the resulting cascades of change in socially positive directions. The process designs will be informed by the theory, and the theory will be informed by the experience of consortium partners immersed in the world of relevant practice.

Keywords: design,emergence,innovation dynamics,innovation policy,networks of innovators,model pragmatics
Sounds for Energy Control of Buildings (S4ECOB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Austria,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-2011-NMP-ENV-ENERGY-ICT-EeB, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3941872.0
EU funding (EUR): 2669731.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

S4ECoB will develop and deliver a prototype to optimize the existent Building Management Systems (BMS) by means of acquiring, identifying, monitoring, and adding the parameter of “occupancy level” in buildings and surroundings to enhance operations and eliminate unnecessary consumptions of energy for Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Lighting (HVACL), and other existent production and consumption systems, maintaining users’ comfort. This will be achieved through the integration of a low-cost novel network of audio sensors with other building sensing and controls and the improvement of the strategies and algorithms of automation and conditioning deployed, calibrated and validated in two shopping malls and one international airport in real operational situation in order to demonstrate that energy savings and benefits justify the investment, providing new market solutions and supporting reduction of climate change.

Keywords: acoustic computing,audio systems,acaia,eeb,bem,buildings,sensing,samrt buildings,aed,acoustic event detection,occupancy degree,levels of occupancy
Heavy Payload Helicoper for Last Mile Rescue (HELI4RESCUE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security Research coordination and structuring
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,Italy,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 23.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1188906.34
EU funding (EUR): 1047524.8
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal addresses the possibility for Civil Security operators to use large air transport systems for deploying heavy loads on crisis sites (last mile). It investigates in particular the deployment in civil missions of systems which are now targeted only for military use. A broad range of European Civil Security users will be involved in developing appropriate requirements for offering transport solutions to the management of large emergencies as often encountered in Europe. Air transport solutions potentially able to meet the requirements will be examined, together with operational issues related to vehicle certification, operation regulation and dual-use, with the aim to develop functional specifications that will be fed into identified vehicle development and/of product investment programmes. The European Future Transport Helicopter (FTH) programme will be specifically considered. Potential solutions with large airships and transport UAS will also be examined. Business models taking into account pooling and sharing options will be proposed; feasibility, economic aspects and potential benefits will be assessed. Support to the Civil Security policies will be prepared with dissemination activities and the development of roadmaps towards effective implementation of the analysed solutions and towards a common European approach for the definition of large air transport systems.

Keywords: civil security requirements for air transport,future transport helicopter,airship,transport uas,aircraft deployment models
Inductive Constraint Programming (ICON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Ireland,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2376831.0
EU funding (EUR): 1818012.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

In industry, society and science advanced software is used for solving planning, scheduling and resource allocation problems, collectively known as constraint satisfaction or optimization problems. At the same time, one continuously gathers vast amounts of data about these problems. This project starts from the observation that current software typically does not exploit such data to update schedules, resources and plans. It aims at developing a new approach in which gathered data is analysed systematically in order to dynamically revise and adapt constraints and optimization criteria. Ultimately, this could create a new ICT paradigm, called Inductive Constraint Programming, that bridges the gap between the areas of data mining and machine learning on the one hand, and constraint programming on the other hand. If successful, this would change the face of data mining as well as constraint programming technology. It would not only allow one to use data mining techniques in constraint programming to improve the formulation and solution of constraint satisfaction problems, but also to employ declarative constraint programming principles in data mining and machine learning.

Keywords: constraint programming,data mining,constraint satisfaction,scheduling,machine learning
Exploring the neural coding in behaving animals by novel optogenetic, high-density microrecordings and computational approaches: Towards cognitive Brain-Computer Interfaces (ENLIGHTENMENT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Belgium,France,Canada,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3231760.0
EU funding (EUR): 2235100.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

In this project we aim to investigate the mechanisms involved in memory storage in the brain by a combination of advanced multisite, single unit neural activity monitoring, closed-loop patterned and cell specific activations, and computational techniques, that would allow developing ways to stimulate brain networks in an activity-driven fashion. Combining neuroscience, neuroengineering and computational methods, we intend to create a technological platform for directly interacting with cell assemblies in a two-way dialogue. Using this, we will investigate whether manipulations of cell assembly activities can actually delete or create memories in behavioral experiments. In particular we will concentrate on the hippocampal/cortical interactions in a memory consolidation context as well as on the interactions between two cortical areas, the prefrontal and perirhinal cortex that form a hierarchical representation of memories. The results will provide solid evidence for the role of assemblies in memory processes, and the proof of concept of how these could be manipulated. Eventually these findings should enable radically new research directions for neuro-inspired technologies such as neuromorphic design and cognitive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) with consequences that we can only begin to imagine.

Keywords: neurocomputation,brain connectivity,optogenetics,high-density recordings,bci