Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Next-Generation Hybrid Broadcast Broadband (HBB-NEXT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Slovakia,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3971740.0
EU funding (EUR): 2975979.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

So far, Hybrid Broadcast Internet applications have mostly linked Internet and broadcast by offering on-demand content in addition to current linear broadcast services and by replacing old-fashioned Teletext. However, many more services are on the horizon, and the market of hybrid and connected TV attracts attention from all stakeholders in the media value chain. The challenge is to take hybrid service to a new level where the wide range of expectations of user groups is met. HBB-NEXT will lay the foundations for advanced hybrid multi-user services by building upon existing standards and by enhancing them. The project seeks to facilitate the convergence of the broadcast and Internet world by researching user- centric technologies for enriching the TV-viewing experience with social networking, multiple device access, group-tailored content recommendations, as well as the seamless mixing of broadcast content, of complementary Internet content and of user-generated content. The project will deliver a set of enablers to allow device-independent applications that can syndicate content from multiple sources, supporting real-time content composition and content distribution for users in geographically distinct areas. Sophisticated technology will be developed for the easy use of content, e.g. advanced synchronisation methods for service components delivered across the Internet and broadcast networks. Data security and protection of user privacy will be an integral part of HBB-NEXT - but in a way that is transparent to the end-user. In liaison with the HbbTV Consortium, HBB-NEXT will define requirements and specifications for a secure multi-user and multi-device TV-viewing experience, thus fostering the implementation of new service concepts and business models.

Keywords: hybrid broadcast internet,multiple device access,group-tailored recommendations,web-based framework for device-independent applications,syndication,advanced synchronisation methods,data security
Remote Collaborative Real-Time Multimedia Experience over the Future Internet (ROMEO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Greece,Türkiye,Portugal,France,France,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9956015.0
EU funding (EUR): 6587971.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The delivery of 3D media to individual users remains a highly challenging problem due to the large amount of data involved, diverse network characteristics and user terminal requirements, as well as user’s context such as their preferences and location. As the number of visual views increases, current systems will struggle to meet the demanding requirements in terms of delivery of consistent video quality to fixed and mobile users. ROMEO will focus on the delivery of live 3D media to a group of users all at the same time to enable them to collaborate, and jointly enjoy it. This will facilitate application scenarios such as social TV and high quality real-time collaboration. In order to support these application scenarios, ROMEO will focus on new methods for the compression and delivery of 3D multi-view video and spatial audio, as well as optimising the networking and compression jointly across the Future Internet. The solution proposed by ROMEO is to combine the DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH broadcast access network technologies together with a Quality of Experience (QoE) aware Peer-to-Peer (P2P) distribution system that operates over wired and wireless links. The fixed users will receive the P2P content as well as DVB-T2, whereas mobile users will be served by DVB-NGH, their own cellular network, and hot-spot Wi-Fi connections. The default settings for fixed users will be P2P and use the DVB-T2 when the IP network suffers from congestion. Mobile users will have the hot-spot service as the priority and switch to DVB-NGH or their own cellular service if hot-spots are not available. An audio-visual communication overlay will also be provided to connect the remote users (collaborators) together to jointly enjoy the streamed 3D media. Therefore the live streaming 3D media needs to be received by the collaborating users all at the same time or with only an un-noticeable delay so as to enable them to watch it together while exchanging comments as if they are all in the same location.

Keywords: digital media deivery,3d content delivery,real-time multimedia experience,3d multi-viev,joint dvb-t and p2p
Television Linked To The Web (LINKEDTV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,Czechia,Belgium,Netherlands,France,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,Austria,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8448180.0
EU funding (EUR): 6489633.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

TV and the Internet are going through an exciting phase of convergence, with TV being delivered on-demand via the Web while access to Web content is ever more a part of the TV experience. The European project “Television Linked To The Web (LinkedTV)” will bring this convergence to its fulfillment, neatly interweaving TV and Web content into a single, integrated experience. The “Networked Media Web” is a vision of a future media landscape in which online devices are ubiquituous and media is stored in and accessed from the ‘cloud’. In this future world, television becomes just one more media source next to Web based media and other sources (e.g. home networks, shared private networks, Intranets). Citizens will choose and interact with any media at any time with any device, also switching between content easily and seamlessly. The Social TV revolution happening now shows how people want to enrich their media experience through sharing with friends and interacting during the programme. Linked TV is the next step, bringing the rich browsing experience people know already from the Web to television, enriching the access to audio-visual programming with associated content and allowing people to seamlessly delve into and browse content within the programme itself at the level of individual objects on screen or things which are mentioned or referred to. To achieve this ambitious goal of uniting the television experience with the Web experience, the LinkedTV project will develop several technologies and tools to analyse and annotate audio-visual content, interlink parts of the content with other content, deliver this enriched audio-visual content via different networks to the end user and provide intuitive user interfaces on the end device to allow easy access to and browsing of related content within the programme. These technologies and tools will be prototyped and tested by a public broadcaster, national media archive and a media arts centre to enrich the TV experience in the contexts of business, environment, cultural heritage and entertainment. As a result, Television Linked To The Web (LinkedTV) will provide every citizen a new, integrated, media experience which is both unlike the Web as we know it today and television as we know it today, yet combining the best of both: quality on-demand audio-visual material enriched with links to other content which is easily accessed and enhancing our networked media experience.

Keywords: television,iptv,web,linked data,webtv,interactive tv,smarttv,future media,networked media,hypervideo
EXploring Customer Interactions through Textual EntailMENT (EXCITEMENT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5044000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Identifying semantic inference relations between texts is a major underlying language processing task, needed in practically all text understanding applications. For example, Question Answering and Information Extraction systems should verify that extracted answers and relations are indeed inferred from the text passages; multi-document text summarization needs to infer that one sentence entails another in order to avoid redundantly including both in a summary; and so on. While such apparently similar inferences are broadly needed, there are currently no generic semantic “engines” or platforms for broad textual inference. Rather, tools exist for narrow semantic tasks, but systems have to independently assemble and augment them to obtain a complete inference process. Changing this ineffective setting is our primary scientific motivation. Our second, industrial-oriented, motivation is within the text analytics market. We focus on the customer interaction domain, which today spans multiple channels such as speech, email and social media. This growing market shows increasing demand for automatically analyzing customer inputs to harness their value. A major stumbling block, however, is the current inability to perform effective inferences over complete customer statements, rather than just keyword-based or topical analysis. Accordingly, we set dual goals for our project. The first is to develop a generic multi-lingual platform for textual inference, based on the successful textual entailment paradigm, and make it available to the scientific and technological communities. This will enable diverse applications to leverage the open platform for their inference needs, while sharing around it the development of core semantic technology. Our second goal is to leverage the inference platform to develop a new generation of unsupervised text exploration technology for customer interactions, enabling business users to better grasp their diverse and often unpredicted content.

Keywords: textual inferences,textual entailment,cross channel customer interactions,open source textual entailment platform,text exploration,applied semantic inference,text/speech/interaction analytics
International automotive 79 GHz frequency harmonization initative and worldwide operating vehicular radar frequency standardization platform (79GHZ)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Belgium,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1234742.0
EU funding (EUR): 898999.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The basic intention and objective of this FP7 ICT-2011 proposal under the CA (Coordination Action) funding instrument is to establish and speed up the world wide harmonized frequency allocation for automotive radar systems in the frequency range 77 GHz to 81 GHz (79 GHz). European car manufacturer and their supplier are acting on a worldwide level. Segmentation of the overall market by country specific frequency variants increases the cost of production and reduces the competitiveness of the European manufacturers. In parallel this market diversion handicaps the introduction of products which are conform to the already existing European 79 GHz frequency regulation. This 79 GHz international frequency harmonization and standardization platform will bring all the interested parties together and promotes and accelerates the rulemaking process for the 79 GHz on an international level. The main focus of this project proposal is, according to the funding instrument chosen, the international coordination of the activities of all the stakeholders concerned. The installation of a networking and communication platform that synchronizes and coordinates the worldwide 79 GHz frequency activities and the provisioning of the meetings with administrations or frequency regulation bodies by appropriate experts and relevant, well-harmonized material and statements are the basic tasks to realize. This 79 GHz project can be taken as a pilot-project to gather all the necessary information, challenges and needs that are required for setting up the appropriate automotive organisation form to manage, represent and advocate vehicular frequency allocation issues globally. Without the backing of a well-established automotive organisation that can operate and synchronize on a worldwide level the frequency needs and requirements of the automotive industry are insufficiently considered and granted. This 79 GHz project proposal is the first step in this direction.

Keywords: automotive frequency regulation,79ghz band,frequency harmonization,international cooperation platform,spectrum management,frequency allocation,world radio conference,itu study group
A Modular Smart System for Infants’ Rehabilitation At Home based on Mechatronic Toys (CARETOY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Slovenia,Germany,Denmark,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3170753.0
EU funding (EUR): 2292972.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Stroke and other neurological conditions affect the population of infants in percentages that cannot be considered marginal. Preterm infants are the highest infants at risk for neurological damage. Currently, infants have rehabilitation sessions few times a week in rehabilitation centres but according to basic neuroscience it would be necessary to provide them with an early, intensive and multiaxial intervention. One option to reduce the cost of the entire European Healthcare System while increasing the practice of rehabilitation is to devise therapies and technologies that can be administered at home by caregivers and telemonitored by rehabilitation staff. The aim of this proposal is to promote early intervention in the first year of life and to reinforce therapy by “CareToy”: a portable low cost smart system telemonitored thus augmenting the clinical effectiveness of the therapy while reducing the cost. The smart system is based on a common baby gym, composed of different modules: a) an instrumented baby gym with mechatronic hanging toys, so that the infants’ actions on the gym can be measured and stimulated, b) a vision module, for measuring and promoting infants’ attention and gaze movements and c) a sensorized mat for measuring and promoting postural control. Each module will also incorporate built-in signal processor, memory and wireless communication. A fourth telerehabilitation module completes the system that allows the system to remotely communicate with the rehabilitation staff for monitoring and assessing the rehabilitation techniques. CareToy and the effectiveness of home rehabilitation based on this system will be validated by clinical trials on 100 preterm infants with different brain lesions. The result of this project could have a large impact. CareToy may become a commercial product, manufactured on a large scale and distributed not only in rehabilitation centres but also at homes, sold or rented by the Health Care System to families as a therapeutic tool for care intensity.
EXPERiments in live social and networked MEDIA experiences (EXPERIMEDIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Spain,Austria,Belgium,France,Sweden,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Spain,Poland,Spain,Netherlands,Austria,Spain,Austria,Spain,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6887663.0
EU funding (EUR): 4984997.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

Offering collective and participative experiences to real-world and online communities is at the heart of the Future Media Internet (FMI) and will form an essential part of entertainment, education, collaborative working, product and service innovation and advertising. Communities involved potentially include hundreds of professionals, tens of thousands at live public events and millions online. Current FIRE testbeds fail to meet needs of FMI researchers in terms of testbed resources, let alone support such experimentation in the real-world where insights into the behaviour of Future Internet systems are closer to reality. Extensive research into testbeds is needed to support the R&D of large-scale social and networked media systems as well as to understand and manage complex communities and ecosystems. EXPERIMEDIA will develop and operate a unique facility that offers researchers what they need for large-scale FMI experiments. Testbed technologies will include user-generated high quality content management and delivery, a 3D Internet platform and tools for 3D reconstruction from live events, augmented reality platform, tools for integration of social networks, access technologies and a range of network connectivity options. Testbed management services will provision, control and monitor resources according to SLAs thus offering QoS guarantees. Experiments will be conducted in the real-world at live events and to diverse communities to accelerate the adoption of FMI. Testbeds include the Schladming Ski Resort, the Multi-Sport High Performance Centre of Catalonia, historical sites provided by the Foundation for the Hellenic World and the 3D Innovation Living Lab. Experiments will explore new forms of social interaction and rich media experiences considering the demands of online and real-world communities. The variety of testbeds will ensure the generality of our approach. A Future Media Internet Competence Centre will promote sustainable access to venues for FMI experiments and engagement with the wider community.

Keywords: fire testbed facilities,social and networked media experiments,large scale user trials,smart venues,live events,social networks,conent product and delivery,3d internet,augmented reality
NiCE - Networking intelligent Cities for Energy Efficiency (NICE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1147438.0
EU funding (EUR): 998000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

NiCE will promote and advance implementation of the commitments of the Green Digital Charter (GDC). Promoted by EUROCITIES, the network of major European cities, and signed by 23 cities until September 2011, the GDC commits signatories to exploit ICT as enabling technology for reducing CO2 emissions, to demonstrate leadership in adopting innovative technical solutions for delivering on climate change commitments; and to build partnership between the public and private sectors to use ICT as an enabler to significantly reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. It is structured into three building blocks: 1. Develop GDC Framework and Tools The project will develop a common framework and tools for classifying, assessing, reporting on, and supporting city actions in the context of the Green Digital Charter, also with a view of allowing integration with the cities’ Covenant of Mayors reporting activities. 2. City Support and Action These framework and tools will be transferred to cities and their implementation partners through a series of targeted exchange and learning activities with experts and other signatory cities with a view to triggering implementation. A strategy for continued exploitation and support activities beyond the project's lifetime will be put in place. 3. Outreach and Engagement Networking and visibility events will be held to increase the number of signatories and showcase cooperation opportunities with key policy and practices communities, including a special focus on engaging with Chinese cities currently developing similar initiatives.

Keywords: cities - green digital charter - ict and energy efficiency
Boosting EU-Western Balkan Countries research collaboration in the Monitoring and Control area (BALCON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,France,France,Serbia,Montenegro,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Croatia,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 551870.0
EU funding (EUR): 467000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The EU and the Western Balkan Countries face common challenges in the very important area of Monitoring and Control (M&C) that create a favourable environment for strategic collaboration in both research and industrial level. BALCON will act as a major driver for the reinforcement of EU–WBC cooperation in M&C research, and as such, boost concrete EU-WBC R&D activities among the M&C key research and industrial leaders of the two regions. The project will achieve its objectives via a wide range of activities that include the: - Assessment of the EU-WBC research collaboration potential in the broader field of M&C to conclude on the “EU-WBC research areas of common interest in the field of M&C”, including a set of indicative courses of action to enhance EU-WBC RTD cooperation in the M&C area. - Setting up of a consultation and validation mechanism (“EU-WBC High-level Working Group in M&C area”) that will engage key recognised stakeholders of both regions in project activities to increase the project outcomes visibility and credibility, facilitate consensus building and finally their acceptance by the wider EU-WBC community in the area of Monitoring and Control. - Organisation of a variety of networking, training and awareness raising activities to bring closer the research & industrial actors of the two regions, thus, preparing the ground for advanced support services towards the realisation of concrete EU-WBC RTD activities in the M&C area. - Deployment of a variety of dissemination actions, as well as preparing post-project exploitation activities for project outcomes and reassure their sustainability beyond project life-time. BALCON project mobilises a multi-disciplinary consortium of 8 partners: 3 from EU countries (Greece and France) and 5 from Western Balkan Countries (Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, FYROM and Bosnia and Herzegovina). Albania and Kosovo (under UNSC Resolution 1244/99) will also be addressed under project activities through the extensive network and contacts that BALCON WBC partners posses in the broader region.

Keywords: fp7-ict,monitoring and control,western balkan countries,joint rtd initiatives,international cooperation,internagional research agendas