Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Opening European Chinese Cooperation on ICT Research (OPENCHINAICT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: International Cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,China
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 724722.0
EU funding (EUR): 538998.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

A fundamental ideal and cornerstone of the European system is the pursuit of the single market. This pursuit is not limited to the free flow of goods and services; it also includes the free flow of ideas. ICT research is uniquely positioned in this dynamic, as both representative of and facilitative to the promotion of a single market for ideas through international research cooperation. The China-EU S&T Cooperation Agreement signed in 1998 legally assures the free access of researchers from both sides to Research and Technological Development (RTD) programmes of both EU and China, EU and China experience different realizations of this agreement. On the Chinese side, a variety of exchange programmes and funds are provided to boost joint projects in the RTD. These programmes are dedicated to European scientists, but the full potential of common scientific activities is far from being fully exploited yet. The main objective of this OpenChinaICT project is to develop a concrete EU-China ICT Cooperation Strategy to provide the necessary framework for strengthening European ICT research cooperation with China. Building on previous initiatives and experience, the consortium will carry out an extensive information gathering effort, which will consist of an in-depth survey of European and Chinese ICT research environments, as well as 4 events in Europe and China covering research and cooperation priorities. These activities will provide the knowledge base for drafting the ICT Cooperation Strategy, which will directly address the EC and Chinese government authorities. The Strategy will contain guidelines and actionable recommendations with respect to the design of effective funding programmes to promote cooperation in ICT research between Europe and China, with an emphasis on mutual access to national research programmes and joint calls.

Keywords: china,partnership building,chinese research programms,policy dialogue,cooperation with most (chinese ministry of science and technology)
Terahertz Photonic Imager on Chip (TERATOP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Israel,France,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3154060.0
EU funding (EUR): 2049830.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The impressive developments in the field of electronic imaging based on CMOS Imagers have generated worldwide enormous business opportunities, with revenues of more than $4B in 2009 at the component level alone. Today such Imagers almost solely address the visible and near-infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many applications would profit from affordable and reliable Imagers for the terahertz band, notably in surveillance and security. The goal of TeraTOP is to develop a new high performance, low cost, THz Imager for passive imaging systems (0.5-1.5THz) based on CMOS batch manufacturing processes: A unique combination of several leading technologies will enable a real quantum leap in THz Imaging in terms of performance, size and costs. THz photonics components (THz lens, optical window and filters), THz antennas, CMOS-SOI (Silicon on Insulator) and NEMS are the key enabling building blocks that will be developed and combined to achieve such a breakthrough in functionality (passive, room temperature operation), performance (NETD of 0.5K), component size (THz imager on a chip) and significant cost reduction (< 7000 €). The objective is to bring the disruptive technology from the research lab closer to applications, by developing a passive THz Imager for Concealed Weapons Detection. The cost efficient approach will enable a massive deployment of the TeraTOP Imagers, including crowded places, providing therefore a highly efficient response to terrorists' threats. The consortium includes a mix of scientific and technological excellence (University of Wuppertal, the IIT, CEA-Léti), as well as leading industrial research groups (IBM, CSEM) and companies (EADS, QMC). The exploitation activities will be led by the key European industrial partner EADS. This will ensure that the project will target the current security needs and the results will lead to product development and promptly implemented on a wide scale across Europe for the benefit of its citizens.

Keywords: terahertz,photonic,imager on chip,imager,focal plane array
Persuasive Advisor for CO2-reducing cross-modal Trip Planning (Peacox) (PEACOX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Czechia,Switzerland,Ireland,Greece,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3131156.0
EU funding (EUR): 2350000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Ecological issues in traffic become more and more pressing as personal transportation is one of the greatest contributors of CO2 emissions. Means to help people reducing their ecological impact are urgently needed. To answer this need Peacox provides travellers with personalized multi-modal navigation tools that allow, help and persuade them to travel and drive ecological friendlier. To convince users in making more sustainable travel choices Peacox will enrich navigation systems with innovative approaches and features: • Peacox integrates automated travel mode detection based on real-time GPS data into the trip planning thereby minimizing the need for explicit user input. • Peacox has the capability to automatically detect users’ trip purpose through the analysis of behavioural patterns allowing tailoring trip suggestions to these purposes. • Peacox builds dynamic user models allowing personalizing recommendations based on prior trip choices and individual preferences. • Peacox develops advanced door-to-door emissions models that provide accurate feedback on the ecological/carbon footprint and exposure levels in planning as well as during travelling and car driving activities. • Peacox develops and utilizes persuasive interface strategies to give feedback about the ecological impact of individuals’ behavior as well as make the ecological friendliest behavioral pattern visible and attractive. The system will be developed in two iterations following user-centred and agile design approaches, and extensive field trials in Vienna and Dublin will ensure high quality and impact of the developed Peacox system. The Peacox consortium unites expertise from navigation systems, transportation sciences, environmental modelling, artificial intelligence, persuasive technology, human-computer interaction to software development.

Keywords: persuasive technology,travel mode detection,purpose detection,multi-modal travel advice,emission modelling
Smart Silicon on Insulator Sensing Systems Operating at High Temperature (SOI-HITS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Romania,Belgium,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4290810.0
EU funding (EUR): 3025382.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

SOI-HITS is an ambitious, innovative and timely STREP project that will enable significant energy consumption savings and reduce waste in processes such as: combustion in domestic boilers; oil & gas storage and transportation; CO2 capture and sequestration. It aims to deliver at least 15% saving of energy consumption in domestic boiler industry (~40 million domestic boilers in the EU with a growth rate of 15% per year); equating to 3.6 billion Euros saved per year. For this ambitious goal, SOI-HITS will develop innovative CMOS-compatible, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) integrated smart microsensor systems, capable of multi-measurand (water vapour, temperature, gas, flow, UV/IR) detection under harsh environment conditions (to 225oC, high water vapour level). SOI technology has several advantages over bulk silicon: enhanced electro-thermal isolation giving lower power consumption, ease of forming arrays of MEMS membranes, option of tungsten as a high temperature CMOS metal, direct integration of high-performance temperature and UV optical solid-state sensors. The smart multisensor chip will comprise multiple micro-hotplates with tungsten micro-heaters onto which selective nanostructured and thin film metal oxide sensing layers have been deposited. For the gas sensors (CO2 (concentration 6-10%, CO (0-1000ppm), and H2S (0-100ppm)), we will achieve fast thermal response time of a few ms and loss per micro-hotplate below 0.2mW/oC. Water vapour sensors, flow sensors (for liquid & gas) and precision on-chip temperature controllers will be also integrated. On-chip processing electronics, including drive circuitry, filters, amplifiers, processing circuits and analogue to digital interfaces, operating at 225oC, will be developed. The extension of the SOI platform to optical detectors, such as UV photodiode flame detectors and IR combined sources/detectors, will be explored. Finally development of a High Temperature SIP (system in a package) will enable real-world demonstrators.

Keywords: smart sensors,soi,silicon on insulator,high temperature,system in package,energy,multisensing,nanostructures,harsh enviroment,high temperature packaging
Moses Open Source Evaluation and Support Co-ordination for OutReach and Exploitation (MOSESCORE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1250960.0
EU funding (EUR): 1200000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Machine translation (MT) has increasingly become an indispensable tool for coping with Europe's linguistic diversity. However machine translation systems are complex software applications requiring significant levels of cooperation and coordination to enable research to continue to flourish, and to improve the usage rate amongst commercial translators, and public bodies. This project will provide a variety of forums for users, developers and researchers in machine translation to exchange ideas and experiences with the technology. These will consist of research meetings, machine translation marathons (where academic and commercial developers gather to implement open-source MT tools) and industrial outreach events aimed at sharing practical experience amongst MT users. We will also coordinate the development of shared open-source translation tools, and shared data sets as a means of lowering the barrier to entry into MT research, and enabling organisations of all sizes to deploy their own customised translation systems.

Keywords: machine translation,open source,industrial outreach,workshops,shared task,moses
Web-enabled and Experience-based Cognitive Robots that Learn Complex Everyday Manipulation Tasks (ROBOHOW.COG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Switzerland,Sweden,Belgium,Greece,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9454834.0
EU funding (EUR): 7190000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Enabling robots to competently perform everyday manipulation activities such as household chores exceeds, in terms of task, activity, behavior and context complexity, anything that we have so far investigated in motion planning, cognitive robotics, autonomous robot control and artificial intelligence at large. For achieving robust, adaptive, effective and natural performance of everyday manipulation tasks, it is not feasible to expect that programmers can equip the robots with plan libraries that cover such open-ended task spectrum competently. RoboHow.Cog targets at enabling autonomous robots to perform expanding sets of human-scale everyday manipulation tasks - both in human working and living environments. To this end, RoboHow.Cog will investigate a knowledge-enabled and plan-based approach to robot programming and control where knowledge for accomplishing everyday manipulation tasks is semi-automatically acquired from instructions in the World Wide Web, from human instruction and demonstration (videos), and from haptic demonstration.The knowledge-enabled control will be made possible through extensions of constraint- and optimization-based movement specification and execution methods that allow for the force adaptive control of movements to achieve the desired effects and avoid the unwanted ones. In addition, novel perception mechanisms satisfying the knowledge preconditions of plans and monitoring the effects of actions will make the RoboHow.Cog approach feasible.The software components that will come out of RoboHow.Cog will be integrated into complete generic robot control systems such as ROS, and, in particular, into Aldebaran's humanoid platform Romeo. RoboHow.Cog will strive to make the code of many of its components - and even of large parts of the Milestone demonstrations -- publicly available under free/open source software licenses.

Keywords: plan-based control,everyday manipulation activities,knowledge-enabled robots,web-enabled knowledge- and plan acquisition
Wearable interfaces for hAnd function recoverY (WAY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Germany,Switzerland,Spain,Iceland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2932152.0
EU funding (EUR): 2249843.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This project addresses the scientific problem of recovery of hand function after amputation, or neurological disabilities like spinal cord injury, brachial plexus injury, and stroke. It introduces several conceptual novelties which explicitly take into account and overcome the limited band-width in actual Brain-Neural Communication Interfaces (BNCI). WAY demonstrators are able to restore a physiological bidirectional link between artificial aids and patients, and will be shown in clinical studies to improve the ability of users to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and thus to attain enhanced autonomy and quality of life. In other words, the project investigates new WAYs to link the brain with upper limb aids. This result is obtainable by employing already available sensorized hand assistive devices within the consortium—a dexterous prosthesis and an exoskeleton—and by developing non-invasive wearable interfaces designed for bidirectional data flow of sensory information and motor commands. The BNCI of WAY range in location, directionality, and working principles: efferent ones will implement biosignal processing exploiting machine learning for predicting user intentions (EEG, EOG, or EMG), while afferent ones will generate multi-modal stimulation patterns (vibro and electrotactile). The core of the system is the controller that dynamically processes sensor signals generated by the users and the device and drives efferent channels. The main novel feature is that the controller communicates with the user by means of temporally discrete signals that represent either commands or functional goal accomplishments and thereby mimics the high-level control in normal humans. The demonstrators will thus minimize the cognitive load of the users while providing necessary feedback for adequate control. WAY bridges several currently disjointed scientific fields and is therefore critically dependent on the collaboration of engineers, neuroscientists and clinicians.

Keywords: bci control,emg control,sensorimotor coordination,machine learning,biosignals decoding,multimodal sensory feedback,hand prosthesis,hand exoskeleton,spinal cord injury,brachial plexus injury.
The first 2500°C industrial furnace, for higher efficiency and up to 5 times higher strength materials (CARBIDE2500)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1331000.0
EU funding (EUR): 931700.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With nearly 50 years of experience and holding international field offices in China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Brazil, Russia, Turkey and Italy, CREMER Thermoprozessanlagen GmbH is one of the world leading companies in industrial furnaces. Always working at the edge of technology, our company is specialized in pusher furnace systems with graphite coating, operating at extremely high-temperatures, above 2000°C. These systems are used in Carburizing processes of powder Carbides, such as Tungsten Carbide (WC). The European economic downturn, that has particularly affected large industrial sectors, impelled the necessary economic recovery. As one of the consequences, the demand for higher strength materials has significantly increased. These materials are required for their longer use-life and higher overall performance, allowing for lower operational costs. One of the most common Carbide powders is the Tungsten Carbide (WC). WC powder is used in many different applications and across multiple large industrial sectors, including utomotive and Aerospace Manufacturing, Construction, Surface and Underground Mining, Oil & Gas Exploration, as well as in many Manufacturing Industries (e.g. Paper, Textiles; Electronics). The global Tungsten Carbide powder market is expected to grow from 13.60 billion € in 2016 to 22.91 billion € in 2026, at a CAGR of 5.4%. Demand for other Carbides, such as Tantalum Carbide or Niobium Carbide, is also increasing. Tests have proven that Tungsten Carbide (WC) powder produced at 2500°C is 3 to 5 times higher strength than the same material produced at 2200°C. The problem is that, at industrial scale, there are no such furnaces able to operate at 2500°C. CARBIDE 2500 is the first industrial furnace capable of operating at 2500°C, making it possible to produce the highly demanded higher strength Carbides. With a potential market estimated at 1.08 billion € in 2020, a yearly urnover of 45.73 million €, in 2024, is expected with CARBIDE2500.
DNA Breaks Shape Neural Genome Heterogeneity (BrainBreaks)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative Biology: from Genes and Genomes to Systems
Panel description: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics and other ‘omics studies, bioinformatics, systems biology, genetic diseases, gene editing, innovative methods and modelling, ‘omics for personalised medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Neural progenitor cells undergo tens of thousands of cell divisions to generate the 80 billion neurons in a human brain. In neural progenitor cells, replication stress can lead to recurrent DNA break clusters (RDCs). Joining of two RDC breaks may introduce somatic genomic diversity. On the other hand, unbalanced genomic mosaicism in neural progenitor cells may lead to brain cancer and neuropsychiatric disorders. This proposal will test whether cell-autonomous DNA lesions that accumulate during rapid progenitor division contribute to the genetic heterogeneity found across neuronal cell populations. Aim 1 will elucidate how replication stress drives recurrent break clusters in the neural progenitor cell genome. We will evaluate whether chromatin loop extrusion mechanistically contributes to breakage repairs, and thus helps shape genomic structure variations. Aim 2 will quantify the extent and impact of tissue-specific recurrent break clusters in the embryonic brain. I will create a mouse model to identify DNA breaks in temporal and cell-type-specific manner across the entire population of neuronal progenitor cells. Aim 3 will evaluate whether replicative stress drives the recurrent genomic alteration in the RDC-containing gene during embryonic neurogenesis. We will investigate one of the RDC-containing gene Neurexin 1, where deletion or truncation results in neurological disorders. By combining a powerful in vitro cell line-based tool, versatile in vivo mouse models, and cutting-edge multi-omics approaches, we will uncover the mechanisms that are critical to the fields of genomics and developmental neuroscience and may also provide valuable new insights into neuropsychiatric disorders and tumor biology.

Keywords: genome heterogeneity,neural stem cell,common fragile site,copy number variation,recurrent dna breaks,replication stress,brain cancer,neuropsychiatric disorder
“Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SME's in the Enterprise Europe Network” (CIPOUEST H2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 67787.5
EU funding (EUR): 54230.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Topic = Establishing services “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs” in the Enterprise Europe Network : 2 distinct types of activities are envisaged, which shall be provided as comprehensive seven day service packages following very specific processes. These high added value services will be delivered by suitably qualified senior innovation experts. WP1 : « Key Account Management » for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument » = the role of the EEN Key Account Manager will be to facilitate the implementation of the SME Instrument in Bretagne and Pays de la Loire, in Phase I and II. WP2 : « Enhancing SME Innovation management capacity” for SMEs independly from a specific project" = the aim of this WP is to improve the innovation management capacity of SMEs with high development potential.

Keywords: sme instrument,enhancing innovation