Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Future Service Oriented Networks (FUSION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,Poland,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4230932.0
EU funding (EUR): 2846000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The Future Service Oriented Networks (FUSION) project will develop a new networking architecture designed to natively support efficient provisioning, discovery and execution of service components distributed over the network. Today’s cloud computing architectures are centralised and network-agnostic. This makes them unfit for geographically distributed services with tight QoS-constraints and high bandwidth and computation demands. FUSION will develop an architecture allowing combined service instantiation and network routing at a fine granularity. Dynamic instantiation of services close to the consumers will naturally adapt to variations in demand. The project tackles the problem by integrating service provisioning and service-centric networking. An important dimension will be to define lightweight interactions between the two layers for efficient cooperation without overburdening the network layer with service-specific logic. The service instance placement problem can be formalised as provisioning service component instantiation points, given the location and capabilities of infrastructure, varying demand patterns and the QoS requirements of the service. Moreover, when service components are replicated, native network support will facilitate the creation of new instances associated with a given user or session. The key challenge of service-aware networking is the routing and load-balancing of service requests to the best instances with minimal impact on the routing information tables, given the existence of many different potential service instantiation points in the network. To support dynamic service instantiation, the project will also design lightweight component-based virtualisation technology with reliable isolation properties, as well as service description and orchestration languages that can be used to describe an application in terms of service components and interactions.

Keywords: service-centric,routing,load-balancing,anycast,localisation,instantiation,replication,provisioning,deployment,cross-layer.
Promoting Open Source in European Projects (PROSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Ireland,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 602389.0
EU funding (EUR): 488000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is creating new R&D opportunities across Europe, particularly in an ICT context where projects require an adequate cooperation environment. Despite the numerous advantages of FLOSS as a cooperation model, however, most developed software faces a limited life cycle and applicability. The absence of a common platform where projects can publish their software - with reliable and trustworthy usage terms/conditions - creates adoption difficulties. As a result, software is re-invented within the ICT community, leading to duplication of effort and failed R&D opportunities. Adopting FLOSS paradigms will extend the lifetime and sustainability of ICT software, increasing contributions to and from the community. To achieve this vision it is necessary to: promote FLOSS for ICT projects, by removing existing obstacles, especially legal and business barriers; create a feedback loop for FLOSS usage in ICT projects that encompasses the EC and enables them to assess the true benefits of a FLOSS-driven model; enable long term exploitation of FLOSS through a sustainable model for ICT contributions. The PROSE proposal is a Coordination Action (CA) that targets these goals through a three-fold, complementary approach: (a) Create and manage a shared platform for FLOSS, capable of generating the required feedback loop; (b) Develop a training program that provides knowledge and learning about this shared platform, as well as legal and business aspects regarding the adoption of FLOSS; (c) Execute a dissemination program to increase awareness of the advantages of adopting a FLOSS-driven model in ICT projects. With these three coordination elements, the PROSE CA will increase the sustainability of FLOSS in ICT; thereby extending the reach of ongoing FLOSS efforts beyond their current boundaries, and thus increasing the R&D opportunities in the European space.

Keywords: open source,promotion,floss,free software,project management,dissemination,training,business aspects,legal aspects,coordination platform,software forge.
Managing Risk and Costs in Open Source Software Adoption (RISCOSS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Netherlands,France,France,Spain,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4568650.0
EU funding (EUR): 3226960.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

MOTIVATION: By 2013 an estimated 85% of all commercial software packages will include OSS PROBLEM: Failure rates in OSS projects are reported to be higher than 50%. In 2011, inadequate risk management was identified among the top 5 mistakes to avoid when implementing OSS-based solutions. Understanding, managing and mitigating OSS adoption risks is therefore crucial to avoid potentially significant adverse impact on the business, in terms of time to market, customer satisfaction, revenue and brand image APPROACH: The RISCOSS project will offer novel risk identification, management and mitigation tools and methods for community-based and industry-supported OSS development, composition and life cycle management to individually, collectively and/or collaboratively manage OSS adoption risks. Using advanced software engineering techniques, RISCOSS will deliver a risk-aware technical decision-making management platform integrated in a business-oriented decision-making framework, which together support placing technical OSS adoption decisions into organizational, business strategy as well as the broader OSS community context OBJECTIVES: To offer: - OSS risk management techniques and practices. Scalable, flexible and efficient quantitative and qualitative decision-making techniques - Business models for OSS solutions. Flexible, customizable business models for OSS adoption considering involved stakeholders, their strategies and decision-making - Strategic modelling and analysis of OSS ecosystems. Modelling approach to map out relevant organizational and OSS community context - Tool Support. Rich, usable, collaborative and customisable web-based software platform offering integrated risk-management techniques developed in this, and reused from other, projects KEY RESULTS: 1) The RISCOSS sustainable platform. 2) Know-how about the stated objectives. 3) Improved competitiveness of IT European Industry. 4) Exploitation in the project through several case studies

Keywords: open-source software decision-making techniques risk management
European Schools enhancing creativity, exploration and science (WE.LEARN.IT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,France,United Kingdom,Austria,Ireland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1876610.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499582.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

we.learn.it will launch the European Living Learning Network by schools and for schools. we.learn.it is a facilitated grassroots initiative initially formed from school networks in 6 European countries and partnerships abroad including schools in developing countries. Linked to a facilitators network of higher education institutions, thematic organizations, experts, learning content and technology providers, we.learn.it schools will be enabled to co-develop and embark into Learning Expeditions jointly with leading players in European science, creativity and innovation. First confirmations of support have been ensured e.g. from Oscar Award winning filmmaker Luc Jacque. we.learn.it will intensify the collaboration of schools with Europe’s higher education institutions that are at the forefront of European innovation in learning organizational models and pedagogical concepts. In particular we.learn.it will benefit from the experiences of Aalto University in Finland - today considered a leading European case with new models like Design Factory and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society. we.learn.it fosters creativity and exploration. we.learn.it applies crowdsourcing principles to let schools develop own ideas for Learning Expeditions while building collaboration with other schools and facilitators. we.learn.it will support the community building of Learning Expeditions and initial funding. we.learn.it will establish mechanisms for crowd- and facilitator network based funding of Learning Expeditions. we.learn.it will initiate a collaborative sharing platform of European TEL research with schools – in a facilitated context addressing organizational innovation, collaboration opportunities, cross-cultural networking as well as open base technologies, data and resources. we.learn.it will simplify the transfer of technologies out of research projects to schools – by applying user oriented principles such as an app store approach.

Keywords: living schools,facilitator networks,school networks
FOOD Safety at the point-of-Need via monolithic spectroscopic chip identiFying harmFul substances in frEsh pRoduce (FOODSNIFFER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Finland,Germany,Netherlands,France,Spain,Poland,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4000645.0
EU funding (EUR): 2980000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Concern for our food is growing in Europe, driven by industrialised food production and repeated crises. Current analytical technology is too expensive and bound to the laboratory to test more than a small fraction of 1% of the EU's food. This problem requires more massive screening of food and water extending from the source to the point of consumption. A low-cost and portable system delivering analytical data to a central location would help to prevent or identify early any food safety threat outbreaks and thereby massively reduce human suffering and its associated financial cost on both sides of the global divide. FOODSNIFFER is field-deployable and simple-to-use as a result of the integration of three major innovations: (i) the transducer itself, an all-silicon fully integrated optoelectronic platform based on Broad-Band Mach-Zehnder Interferometry capable of synchronous highly-sensitive label-free multi-analyte detection. This ultimately-integrated transducer due to the incorporation of the light-sources, sensing elements, spectral analyzer and photodetectors, in a single chip, can be used in single-shot cartridges. (ii) the innovative design of the wafer-scale microfluidics and filtration systems that unburden the reader of external pumps/valves, and intensive sample preparation. (iii) the development of a low-power reader controlled by a smartphone through a custom-produced application. The software controls the sensor and also processes its signal and then sends the results securely via the internet during the on-the-spot food safety analysis. FOODSNIFFER is a complete business solution which will be demonstrated in three areas of great importance to European society and regulators, viz. the detection of pesticide residues, mycotoxins and allergens in selected food categories in order to demonstrate field-based detection of harmful species at low concentrations, which is a feat unattained so far by any point-of-need system.

Keywords: monolithic spectroscopic interferometric transducer,label-free,multianalyte,portable reader,food safety,point-of-need testing,pesticides,mycotoxins,allergens
Whole-Systems Energy Transparency (ENTRA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2715456.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This project proposes an energy-aware system development approach covering hardware, software and the run-time environment. The central goal is to make energy usage transparent through the system layers, thus enabling optimizations both during code development and at run-time. The project work packages will develop novel program analysis and energy modelling techniques. Tools incorporating these techniques will enable energy optimizations both during code development and at run-time, helping to promote energy efficiency to a first-class software design objective. The project will also develop a concept of optimality and a set of benchmarks allowing measurement of energy efficiency with respect to the minimal energy achievable by optimal utilization of existing hardware. Lack of energy transparency in today's system development tools means that much of the potential energy saving available from power-efficient hardware is wasted. The project departs from the approach of today's systems and development tools because energy transparency is at odds with a basic principle in modern software engineering - the desire to abstract away machine-level details in high-level code in the interests of portability, understandability and software reuse. By contrast, energy transparency requires making visible the effects of energy-saving features of modern processors. The project targets outcome (c) of Objective ICT-2011.9.8, namely to address software models and programming methodologies supporting the strive for the energetic limit (e.g. energy cost awareness or exploiting the trade-off between energy and performance/precision).

Keywords: energy-aware software engineering,program analysis,energy transparency,energy modelling,energy optimization
NANOphotonic DEvice for Multiple therapeutic drug monitoring (NANODEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Portugal,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5285964.0
EU funding (EUR): 3983000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Project aim is the development of a novel therapeutic drug monitoring point-of-care-testing (POCT) device for the measurement of immunosuppressants and related metabolites in transplanted patients. The new device will allow the automatic measurements of therapeutic drugs and metabolites characterized by a narrow therapeutic range and serious potential side effects. Clinical benefit will be an optimized dosage of the respective therapeutical drug. The patient will be connected to the device by an intravenous microdialysis catheter to allow 48-h online measurements. Based on this minimally-invasive approach, the therapeutic drugs and related metabolites will be monitored at short time intervals. The need of mixing the dialysate with the chemical reagents and the necessity of incubation times for the bioassay implementation, unavoidable procedure for bioanalyte detection, implies that a continuous measurement of such analytes is impossible, but the miniaturisation down to micro- and nano-scales will lead to very short time intervals, of the order of a few minutes. Heart of the device will be a multi-parametric optical chip, which will make use of the recent developments in nanotechnology to convert the concentration changes of the analytes in detectable luminescent signals. Essential sections of the device will be also: i) the microfluidic circuit before the chip, where the dialysate is mixed with the reagents necessary for the implementation of the biological assay; ii) the optical detection system which must be characterised by high efficiency and strong compactness; iii) the compact hardware control unit and user interface that allow instrument control and data handling. The integration of all these sections within the POCT stand-alone device requires the convergence of competences ranging from chemistry and biochemistry to optics and medicine as well as the convergence of micro and nanotechnologies, such as micro/nanofluidics,microdialysis and micro/nanosensing.

Keywords: poct,therapeutic drug monitoring,bioassay,fluorescence,microdialysis,nanoparticles,microfluidics
Shaping the future of electronic identity (FUTUREID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Germany,Spain,Poland,Estonia,Germany,Austria,Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Norway,Germany,Denmark,Switzerland,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14517219.0
EU funding (EUR): 9992825.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The FutureID project builds a comprehensive, flexible, privacy-aware and ubiquitously usable identity management infrastructure for Europe, which integrates existing eID technology and trust infrastructures, emerging federated identity management services and modern credential technologies to provide a user-centric system for the trustworthy and accountable management of identity claims. The FutureID infrastructure will provide great benefits to all stakeholders involved in the eID value chain. Users will benefit from the availability of a ubiquitously usable open source eID client that is capable of running on arbitrary desktop PCs, tablets and modern smart phones. FutureID will allow application and service providers to easily integrate their existing services with the FutureID infrastructure, providing them with the benefits from the strong security offered by eIDs without requiring them to make substantial investments. This will enable service providers to offer this technology to users as an alternative to username/password based systems, providing them with a choice for a more trustworthy, usable and innovative technology. For existing and emerging trust service providers and card issuers FutureID will provide an integrative framework, which eases using their authentication and signature related products across Europe and beyond. To demonstrate the applicability of the developed technologies and the feasibility of the overall approach FutureID will develop two pilot applications and is open for additional application services who want to use the innovative FutureID technology.

Keywords: electronic identity,open source eid client,identity broker,backend integration
Circuit Stability Under Process Variability and Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Coupling (SUPERTHEME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,Austria,Netherlands,France,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4832106.0
EU funding (EUR): 3300000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Among the physical limitations which challenge progress in nanoelectronics for aggressively scaled More Moore, Beyond CMOS and advanced More-than-Moore applications, process variability and the interactions between and with electrical, thermal and mechanical effects are getting more and more critical. Effects from various sources of process variations, both systematic and stochastic, influence each other and lead to variations of the electrical, thermal and mechanical behavior of devices, interconnects and circuits. Correlations are of key importance because they drastically affect the percentage of products which meet the specifications. Whereas the comprehensive experimental investigation of these effects is largely impossible, modelling and simulation (TCAD) offers the unique possibility to predefine process variations and trace their effects on subsequent process steps and on devices and circuits fab-ricated, just by changing the corresponding input data. This important requirement for and capability of simulation is among others highlighted in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors ITRS. A project partner has also demonstrated how correlations can be simulated. Within SUPERTHEME, the most important weaknesses which limit the use of current TCAD software to study the influence of both systematic and stochastic process variability and its interaction with electro-thermal-mechanical effects will be removed, and the study of correlations will be enabled. The project will efficiently combine the use of commercially available software and leading-edge background results of the consortium with the implementation of the key missing elements and links. It will bridge the current critical gap between variability simulation on process and device/interconnect level, and include the treatment of correlations. The capabilities of the software system will be demonstrated both on advanced analog circuits and on aggressively scaled transistors.

Keywords: variability,equipment,process,device,circuit,simulation,correlations,characterization,optimization,high-voltage,analog,more-than-moore,electro-thermo-mechanical coupling