Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Innovative solutions for enabling efficient interactions between SMEs in ICT projects and innovation investors (ICT VENTUREGATE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Malta,Italy,Hungary,France,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 482360.0
EU funding (EUR): 396680.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In line with the FP7 call for proposals the objective of the project is to create, operate and maintain a permanent Platform to facilitate the access to financing for innovative SMEs participating in ICT projects under European Framework Programmes and enable efficient interactions between SMEs and innovation investors. SMEs participating in ICT projects of the Framework Programme need financing for completing their activities under the project and also for bringing further the project results after the project period, transforming research results into real market values. Innovation investors - business angels, venture capital firms are those financial players who can provide risk capital for high-tech ICT SMEs. It is necessary to fill in the information gap between these two target groups, and enable efficient interactions between them trough innovative intermediary services. ICT VentureGate is offering solution by creating an Information Gateway for investors with a Virtual Agency for Innovation Investments and e-training to enhance the capacity building of SMEs on investment financing. A Brokerage Event will enhance the impact of the online services further by offering traditional face-to-face business meetings.

Keywords: ict smes in fp project,financing,business angels,venture capital firms,innovation investors,information gateway,virtual agency,brokerage events
Asynchronous and Dynamic Virtualisation through performance ANalysis to support Concurrency Engineering (ADVANCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Israel,Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4528988.0
EU funding (EUR): 3106998.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Multi-core/many-core systems offer potential both for cheap, scalable high-performance computing and also for significant reductions in power consumption compared with conventional processor technologies. At the same time, cores are becoming increasingly complex and heterogeneous. While current programming technologies are (just) coping with the small-scale homogeneous dual-core and quad-core processors available today, new programming paradigms are needed to deal with the massive numbers of heterogeneous cores that will become available in future. The ADVANCE project will tackle this important problem by developing a new and advanced cost-directed \emph{hardware virtualisation} technology to map programs onto emerging hardware architectures in a way that is both flexible and transparent to the programmer, but which, nevertheless, respects the programmers' expectations and requirements on extra-functional properties, such as resource utilisation or power consumption. This interdisciplinary project will exploit leading work on computer architecture, probabilistic resource usage analysis, heuristic placement and mapping, programming languages and compilation methods to develop new cost-directed stream-processing models for parallel execution, and to apply these to commercial problems taken from a range of sectors: enterprise business software, image/voice/video processing, computational healthcare, etc.

Keywords: parallel computing,multi-threading,hardware virtualisation,stream processing,resource management
Surface Plasmon early Detection and Treatment Follow -up of Circulating Heat Shock Proteins and Tumor Cells (SPEDOC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,France,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1900000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer causes an increased expression of Heat Shock Protein HSP70 in the peripheral blood, at the surface of, and in cancer cells as a result of different sources of stress, including anti-cancer treatments. It was recently demonstrated that tumorigenicity, metastatic potential and resistance to chemotherapy correlated with an increased of expressed HSP70 in cancer cells. On the contrary, HSP70 depletion using combinatorial small peptides called peptide aptamers sensitizes cancer cells to die and could help in cancer therapy. The core goal of this project is to combine the latest advances of nano-optics, optical manipulation and microfluidics with the ultimate understanding of HSP70 to develop a novel integrated and ultra sensitive sensing platform for early cancer detection. An early detection would benefit to traditional but also new cancer therapies based on peptide aptamers which could be delivered sooner and at lower doses. The planned sensing device, based on surface plasmon resonances supported by micro and nano-structures, will operate in a microfluidic circuit to minimize the volumes of analytes and increase reproducibility. Enhanced and confined plasmonic fields will be engineered at the nanoscale to implement two main sensing schemes: (i) ultra sensitive tracking of HSP70 proteins circulating in the peripheral blood based on resonance shift induced by specific protein/receptor binding, (ii) individual cell optical trapping (exploiting latest generation of plasmonics tweezers) combined with scattering imaging and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering to monitor the concentration of HSP70 proteins at the membrane surface and achieve systematic cancer cell screening. These transduction mechanisms and plasmonic tweezers will be integrated into a compact platform to operate in a biological laboratory environment. Such a portable device should be seen as a precursor of a future device enabling point of care diagnostics in a medical environment and leading to individualized therapy.

Keywords: plasmon optics,optical tweezers and optical manipulation,biochemical sensing,lab-on-a-chip
Gentle User Interfaces for Disabled and Elderly Citizens (GUIDE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Portugal,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4779203.0
EU funding (EUR): 3340944.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

GUIDE develops a toolbox of adaptive, multi-modal user interfaces (UIs) that target the accessibility requirements of elderly users in their home environment, making use of TV set-top boxes as processing and connectivity platform beside the common PC platform. With its software, hardware and documented knowledge, this toolbox will put developers of ICT applications in the position to easier implement truly accessible applications using the most recent user interface technologies with reduced development effort. For this purpose, the toolbox provides the technology of advanced multi-modal UI components as well as the adaptation mechanisms necessary to make UI components interoperable with legacy and novel applications, including the capability to self-adapt to user needs. Following a user-centred approach, user studies investigate optimum combinations of UIs and their adaptation in selected ICT applications for all relevant individual accessibility requirements. The scope of disabilities covers a majority of the ageing population that suffer mild visual, auditory, speech and motor impairments. Because the project targets support tools for application development rather than a specific application, a user model is developed that represents the results of the user studies in a generalized way by “virtual user” profiles. This user model forms the core of a “smart adaptation layer” (SAL). The SAL can adapt an ensemble of UI interfaces to a given ICT application and specific user needs at runtime, using the virtual user representation compiled from the user studies. By integrating an ICT application with the SAL, GUIDE UI components become reusable not only on a software level, but also regarding accessibility requirements. Moreover, a simulation engine included in the toolbox predicts both the perception and the interaction of virtual impaired users, raising ICT application developers’ awareness to the accessibility problems of their target users.

Keywords: accessible ict applications,user interfaces,multimodal adaptation,software framework
Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 (WHERE2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Spain,France,France,France,Portugal,Netherlands,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Spain,Canada,China,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7446518.0
EU funding (EUR): 5257776.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The availability of position information plays an increasing role in wireless communications networks already today and will be an integral part of future systems. They inherently can offer the ability for stand-alone positioning especially in situations where conventional satellite based positioning systems such as GPS fail (e.g., indoor). In this framework, positioning information is an important enabler either for location and context-aware services or even to improve the communications system itself. The WHERE2 project is a successor of the WHERE project and addresses the combination of positioning and communications in order to exploit synergies and to enhance the efficiency of future wireless communications systems. The key objective of WHERE2 is to assess the fundamental synergies between the two worlds of heterogeneous cooperative positioning and communications in the real world under realistic constraints. The estimation of the position of mobile terminals (MTs) is the main goal in WHERE2. The positioning algorithms combine measurements from heterogeneous infrastructure and complement them by cooperative measurements between MTs, additional information from inertial sensors, and context information. Based on the performance of the geo-aided positioning strategies (in the sense of accuracy, complexity, overhead of signalling, reliability of the provided information, etc.) the impact on coordinated, cooperative, and cognitive networks is assessed. This is done under realistic scenarios and system parameters following on-going standardization processes. A joint and integrated demonstration using multiple hardware platforms provides a verification of the performance of dedicated cooperative algorithms. All the tasks in WHERE2 are covered by different work packages, which are in close interaction to ensure an integral research of cooperative positioning and communications.

Keywords: istributed and cooperative algorithms for positioning and communication dynamic heterogeneous context cooperative communications coordinated communications femtocells lte advanced cognitive radio
Optimal Portfolios with Random Environments, Frictions and Incentives (PORTFOLIO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project focuses on a class of portfolio choice problems arising in Mathematical Finance. These problems share a common relevance for financial applications, and lead to novel mathematical questions, mainly in the area of Stochastic Processes. Research is proposed on dynamic portfolio choice with: (i) Random Environments; (ii) Trading Frictions; and (iii) Incentive Fees. Random environments encompass those asset pricing models in which interest rates, risk premia, and covariances may depend on state variables. These model are important because recent empirical investigations show that variables such as the dividend yield, or earnings/price ratios drive expected returns, paving the way to multifactor models. Transaction costs lead to similar technical questions, although for conceptually different reasons. State variables arise in these models implicitly, through the notion of shadow prices. This partial isomorphism between market frictions and random environments suggests that transaction costs have an hidden potential as tools for explaining pricing anomalies. Incentive fees, traditionally neglected as minor imperfections, are now actively studied for their role in shaping the behavior of intermediaries. For example, high-water mark contracts, now prevalent in the hedge-fund industry, have ambiguous effects on fund managers. Understanding these effects is crucial for evaluating the potential consequences of regulation. In summary, the proposed problems share a common relevance, and similar technical features, which require novel mathematical tools. This project aims at developing these tools, and at bringing to life their implications.

Keywords: business mathematics,probability theory
Embedded Optimization for Resource Constrained Platforms (EMBOCON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Switzerland,Romania,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-15
End date: 2013-07-14
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4507040.0
EU funding (EUR): 3249992.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

There is enormous economic potential for the application of embedded optimization technologies in embedded systems design. Recent advances in the performance of embedded hardware platforms, in combination with fundamental improvements in optimization theory and algorithms, have opened the door to widespread applications over the next decade. Embedded optimization will enable huge energy and resource savings, increased safety, and improved fault detection across a wide a range of industrial applications in the mechatronic, automotive, process control and aerospace sectors. In order to realize the full potential of optimization in embedded systems, their design must also be supported by a focussed set of tools enabling the rapid transfer of novel high-performance algorithms to practical applications. The EMBOCON consortium will enable widespread application of real-time optimization in embedded systems through: : Tailoring of customized numerical algorithms to increase their robustness and efficiency on embedded systems : Enabling real-time optimization on cheap industry-standard hardware platforms : Defining a common user interface for optimization technologies to facilitate technology transfer to industry, and : Performing challenging case studies in cooperation with industrial partners to demonstrate technological maturity. The EMBOCON consortium will strengthen a network of world-leading academic and industrial partners with complementary expertise in control, optimization and embedded systems in a range of industrial applications. Particular emphasis is placed on close collaboration between mathematical algorithm developers, control theorists, hardware specialists and industrial application engineers. The network will consolidate and extend Europe's position as the world research leader in these areas and foster strong collaborative links between European academia and industry.

Keywords: embedded systems,embedded optimization,control theory
The Convergent Science Network for biohybrid and biomimetic systems (CSN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 583179.0
EU funding (EUR): 520000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The Convergent Science Network (CSN) will coordinate and facilitate the development and deployment of multidisciplinary methods, concepts and technologies to advance the understanding and engineering of biomimetic and hybrid biological and artificial systems. The concrete outcome will be the establishment of an independent ’European Association for Biomimetic and Biohybrid Research’. This association will further advance and coordinate the field of biohybrid and biomimetic convergent sciences within the Future and Emerging Technology programmes. This goal will be achieved through a number of concrete actions during the 3 years. These actions include roadmapping events with accompanying policy documents, high-impact workshops and schools to achieve intense exchange among the leading groups in the field and provide training opportunities for junior researchers, the deployment of a web 2.0 CSN portal that will be a main point of access and dissemination, the production of a handbook of biomimetic and biohybrid systems, a number of brokerage and outreach events to address additional stakeholders. The driving motivation behind CSN is that the development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our fundamental understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems. However, to achieve this goal some obstacles have to be addressed including: the development of a truly convergent perspective on biomimetic and biohybrid systems that translates into effective paradigms for research and development, the advancement of European curricula of postgraduate teaching, the creation of platforms of exchange among the active members of the research community and further stakeholders and the dissemination of concrete policy suggestions to pertinent policy makers. CSN will directly address these obstacles and facilitate and accelerate the development of this new field of research and development.

Keywords: convergent science network biomimetics biohybrids
Compact Otdm/wdm oPtical rEceiveRs based on photoNic crystal Integrated CircUitS (COPERNICUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,France,Denmark,Italy,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4179959.0
EU funding (EUR): 2865000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

COPERNICUS aims to develop compact demultiplexing receivers for 100 Gb/s optical time division multiplexed (OTDM) and wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals, based on photonic crystal technology. There is a pressing need for these devices for ultra-high bandwidth data links in server farms, optical storage networks and on-board internet/entertainment systems, where demand is driving the data bandwidth and technology integration level rapidly upwards. Next generation telecom systems will also benefit from these devices for OTDM and optical packet switching. Their high-speed and bandwidth, together with their ultra-low power consumption and extreme compactness, also make them a very promising technology for seamless cross-chip and off-chip data links for CMOS electronics. This approach has all the hallmarks of a highly disruptive technology with the potential to place Europe at the forefront of photonics. COPERNICUS targets advances in the physics, technology, modelling, and integration of photonic crystal devices. Key devices include high-speed all-optical gates, low-crosstalk wavelength drop filters, and high-speed integrated photodetectors. These devices rely on very strong light-matter interactions arising from the large, ultrafast nonlinear optical response of III-V semiconductors and the strong resonant field enhancement in photonic crystals. This is ideal for filters and all-optical gates, enabling a dramatic reduction in size and switching energy. Their switching energy*delay product is two orders of magnitude smaller than that of competing technologies. Modelling will consider carrier plasma (spectral and spatial) contributions to the nonlinear optical response and develop a robust optical, thermal and electronic design tool for photonic crystal devices. New levels of photonic crystal integration will be pursued to combine these devices and achieve complex all-optical functions attractive to both medium- and long-term markets.

Keywords: all-optical processing,photonic crystal,integration,complex optical functions,compact optical transceiver
Control of cell morphogenesis: Bacterial cell wall and actin-cytoskeleton (SHAPE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A fundamental question in cell biology is how cells determine their shape. Each life form is surrounded by boundary layers that protect, communicate with the environment, and may confer shape and rigidity. However, little is known about the mechanisms determining cell shape, and the broader questions concerning morphogenesis are the same in prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems. How is cell shape regulated temporally and spatially? How is structural information acquired and maintained? In bacteria, the tough external peptidoglycan cell wall is known to be a primary determinant of cell shape. But despite decades of studies, both its ultra-structure and the molecular mechanisms that control wall morphogenesis are poorly understood. A radical change recently occurs with the discovery of a bacterial actin-like cytoskeleton as a primary determinant of cell wall biogenesis. Moreover, actin homologues (MreB family) are not only involved in cell morphogenesis but also in DNA segregation and cell polarity, suggesting a key function in cell development. However, the mechanistic details and the effectors used by MreB proteins to fulfil these roles remain to be elucidated. The general aims of this project are to elucidate the factors controlling bacterial cell wall morphogenesis and to determine the different functions of the bacterial cytoskeleton and the mechanisms underlying them. For this, an interdisciplinary approach combining the methods of genetic, microscopy, biochemistry, physico-chemistry and mathematical modelling will be used.

Keywords: natural sciences,health sciences,cell shape morphogenesis,cytoskeleton,multidisciplinary approach