Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Initial Training Network: Lateralized Attention Networks (ITN-LAN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Italy,Israel,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1877407.0
EU funding (EUR): 1877407.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed Initial Training Network for Lateralized Attention Networks (ITN-LAN) brings together 6 research teams with established international reputations and, more importantly, is founded on well established collaborations. The long-term scientific objectives of the proposed ITN-LAN are: (1) To validate and standardize a behavioural battery for assessing the attentional networks of the two cerebral hemispheres and their interaction, (2) To study its neurophysiological correlates using EEG/ERP, fMRI, NIRS and TMS, (3) To assess methods for modulating the attention networks in each hemisphere and their interaction using: (i) biofeedback of the participants own ongoing EEG or fMRI, (ii) TMS to generate selective 'virtual lesions' of hemispheric attentional networks. The focus of the current proposal is to assess critically and rigorously the effectiveness of biofeedback in modulating attention, a goal which has both basic and applied aspects. Common to both aspects is our ability to harness cortical plasticity in the service of ameliorating not only acquired, but also congenital attention deficits. The clinical application has commercial potential and this will be pursued by the industry associated partner (Bio-Keshev). The proposed ITN-LAN offers a comprehensive range of research methods and theories in attention research. First, we cover ALL the non-invasive research methods applied in this field, and second, we look at attention processes at all levels, from sensory to frontal cortex regions, from childhood to old age, and from normal performance to acquired and developmental disorders. We ask to fund 312 person-months, mostly (92%) ESR. One of the centres is located in a less-favoured region. We are privileged to have Prof. Michael Posner as our consultant, being an eminent researcher in the field of attention.

Keywords: cognitive science,experimental psychology,neuropsychology,erp,neurofeedback,tms
Mapping Optimisation for Scalable multi-core ARchiTecture (MOSART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Greece,Sweden,Belgium,Finland,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4462899.0
EU funding (EUR): 3100000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The mission of MOSART project is to define and develop an efficient SW/HW design environment encompassing a flexible, modular, multi-core, on-chip platform, and associated exploration methods and tools, to allow the scaling and optimisation of various applications in multimedia and wireless communication. The project will address two main challenges of prevailing architectures: 1) The global interconnect and memory bottleneck due to a single, globally shared memory with high access times and power consumption; 2) The difficulties in programming heterogeneous, multi-core platforms, in particular in dynamically managing data structures in distributed memory. MOSART aims to overcome these through a multi-core architecture with distributed memory organisation, a Network-on-Chip (NoC) communication backbone and configurable processing cores that are scaled, optimised and customised together to achieve diverse energy, performance, cost and size requirements of different classes of applications. MOSART achieves this by: A) Providing platform support for management of abstract data structures including middleware services and a run-time data manager for NoC based communication infrastructure; B) Developing tool support for parallelizing and mapping applications on the multi-core target platform and customizing the processing cores for the application. The aim is to maintain Europe as a worldwide player in the field of efficient implementation of MPSoC architectures. These ambitious goals are achievable because we bring advanced tools and platforms, i.e. a NoC platform and design space exploration tools from KTH, data management tools from DUT, middleware for NoC services from ART, parallelizing and mapping tools from IMEC, processor configuration tools from VTT. SMEs ART and COW contribute to tools, and two systems companies TCF and ICOM bring applications from future high data rate wireless access.

Keywords: novel architectures for multi-core computing systems. mpsoc
High Efficiency Laser-Based Multi-User Multi-Modal 3D Display (HELIUM3D)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Türkiye,China
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4247727.0
EU funding (EUR): 2799929.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

HELIUM3D will create a 3D display that will extend the state of the art in autostereoscopic (glasses free) displays, and will address the efficiency and colour limitations of the current and next generation of displays by developing a new display technology based on direct-view RGB laser projection via a low loss transparent display screen to push the technology beyond the next generation of 3D displays. The HELIUM3D display will accommodate multiple mobile viewers with no restriction on movement. A high accuracy, low latency pupil position tracker will be developed to direct the appropriate images to the viewers’ eyes in a similar manner to current head tracked displays and will facilitate various modes of operation. These include: motion parallax (the ‘look around’ capability) to each viewer, privacy of viewing from other viewers, a different camera viewpoint to each viewer and also conventional 2D to all viewers providing backward compatibility when necessary. This gives a display with a very wide range of applications and modes of operation. In producing such an advanced display HELIUM3D will also address new viewer interaction techniques in the near-field (distances within arm’s reach of the display such as computing or medical imaging) and far-field (applications beyond arm’s reach, such as domestic television or video gaming) that will be made possible by the new technology. The project will manage 32 person-years of effort over 36 months at a cost to the EU of 3.034 MEuro. The first 3 months will validate the research agenda and conduct a design review. In the subsequent 18 months a prototype will be developed to provide a platform for demonstration and formative assessment. The final 15-month phase iterates the development and consolidates know-how to provide a fully evaluated demonstrator, together with dissemination of specific and generalisable knowledge.

Keywords: autostereoscopic,3d display,3d interaction,laser projection,high efficiency,high colour gamut
Intervention strategies against malaria (INTERMALTRAINING)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,Greece,Italy,Germany,France,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2982250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2982250.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Malaria exacts a devastating social and economic cost across the globe. Europe is at the forefront of the battle against this disease. It contains many of the leading malaria research groups, most of which are members of at least one of two consortia; BioMalPar, a Network of Excellence focused on basic research into the biology and pathology of malaria; and AntiMal, an integrated project aiming to develop a portfolio of new antimalarial drugs, urgently needed to meet the problems of drug-resistant malaria. To sustain the competitiveness of European malaria research into the future, there is a need to integrate these initiatives by the establishment of a broad-based training programme that emphasises the path from fundamental research to translation into disease control strategies. To address this need, it is proposed to establish an international training programme called InterMalTraining which will train a cohort of early stage researchers (ESR) to PhD level by means of collaborative malaria research projects. Each project will be jointly supervised by two principal investigators from separate partner institutions and usually different countries, affording a multicultural and multidisciplinary element to the training. Through this and additional broad-based, intensive training provided by experts from both the malaria research community and the industrial sector, it is intended to create a new generation of mobile, highly skilled young scientists who will be well acquainted with each other and with the leading malaria groups in Europe and beyond, enhancing their prospects for a career in their chosen area and suiting them to be future leaders in research institutions and industry. The cross-disciplinary nature of the training will have the breadth to ensure that it is applicable across and beyond the field of infectious diseases, allowing mobility of the young scientists into these areas and forging future links across the life sciences and into industry.

Keywords: natural sciences,medical sciences,cell biology,malaria
Shrink-Path of Ultra-Low Power Superconducting Electronics (S-PULSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Italy,South Africa,France,France,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 584316.0
EU funding (EUR): 550000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed Support Action S-PULSE aims to prepare Superconducting Electronics (SE) for the technology generation beyond the CMOS scaling limits ("beyond CMOS"). Scaling laws in CMOS technology indicate that some concepts cannot be simply extrapolated, and new physical effects that have been negligible up to now, have to be taken into account in the future. Due to the total different physical base in SE, it never had a scaling law, and quantum limits define the ultimate speed. This provides already demonstrated logic operation speed above 100 GHz with typically power dissipation of 1 aJ per logic operation with a 1 µm feature size metal based process. The European activities in SE are currently coordinated by the non-profit Society FLUXONICS e.V., a SCENET initiative under FP6 for a dynamic technology platform in SE. As a major outcome of this network, a circuit foundry for SE was established, a cell library was made available and a first roadmap was drawn up in the field. S-PULSE supports joint efforts of European academic and industrial groups in the superconducting technologies field. The action is to strengthen the vital link between research and development on the one hand and the industrial view on the other hand, bring together industrial expectations and visionary extrapolation and current status of technology, intensify the exchange of knowledge and ideas, take charge of education, and win public interest. The overall strategy of S-PULSE is to broaden the FLUXONICS network and to promote the formation of a European Technology Platform (ETP) to develop and implement a Strategic Research Agenda in the field of ultra-low power superconducting electronics down to the nano-scale domain. With the view on the formation of an industrial guided ETP in the field of SE, the SA is expected to strengthen the competitiveness of the European nanoelectronics industry and to make SE technologies ready to compete with other technologies in the world markets.

Keywords: superconducting electronics,scaling law,quantum limits,fluxonics e.v.,industrial guided european technology platform,roadmap,strategic research agenda,nanoelectronics
Privacy-aware Secure Monitoring (PRISM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Germany,Austria,Greece,France,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-05-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3152987.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Passive network monitoring is required for the operation and maintenance of communication networks as well as to detect frauds and attacks. Typically, raw packet-level traffic traces are collected using suitable traffic probe devices and fed to monitoring applications (IDSs, antivirus, etc..) for analysis, with potential risks for the legitimate privacy rights of the customers. This projects aims to show that it is technically possible to devise a privacy-preserving network monitoring system where carefully designed data protection mechanisms can coexist with suitably adapted monitoring applications. The proposed approach is based on a two-tier system. A first front-end tier of data protection mechanisms will be directly enforced at the traffic probe devices. The front-end cryptographic mechanisms will be controlled by a separate entity (privacy-preserving controller). The collected (and already protected) data will be delivered to a second back-end tier, which is implemented as a privacy-enforcing middleware and provides an additional level of data protection to enable privacy-preserving access and/or sharing of the acquired data to external parties. By interacting with the privacy-preserving controller, the back-end provides the capability of selectively removing data protection in specific cases (namely in the presence of attacks, abuses and in general when reaction is needed) and on the minimal amount of collected data necessary to enable such reactions. The system will exploit standard-based protocols for data exporting, in order to achieve interoperability. It will be designed from the beginning to comply with the privacy regulation set forth at EU and regional levels: the back-end will express privacy regulations into concrete rules in an ontology language. Ultimately, the goal of the project is to set a new de-facto standard for privacy-preserving traffic monitoring and deliver a tool that is guaranteed (and possibly certified) for legal compliance.

Keywords: privacy,network monitoring,anonymisation,data protection,trust,regulation,legislation,policy
Vital Mind (VM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Czechia,Italy,United Kingdom,Czechia,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3894416.0
EU funding (EUR): 2749338.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Cognitive decline in aging people can often be accompanied by mental, physical and social hardship. Cognitive training and, in particular computerized training in executive functioning, memory and speed of processing is associated with prolonging personal autonomy in these three life domains. However, many among the elderly are computer illiterate, and cannot benefit from the growing number of computer programs designed to train cognition. Instead, the elderly resort to television viewing, known to have adverse cognitive effects on aging . Today the elderly represent the largest proportion of the television viewing public. This project will use cognitive psychology, the television medium and advanced interactive Information Computer Technology (ICT) to enable older adults to actively and autonomously participate in mind fitness activities while sitting in front of their TV set. The research question of whether cognitive training will prove more beneficial if trained in de-contextualized, contextualized settings or in both settings will be verified using randomized, double-blind methodology. This home-based tool would be inexpensive and easy to use for healthy or handicapped individuals. The project fits in propitiously with recent developments: DTV is planned for deployment in Europe and the Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting (DVB-T), which will use MHP STB technology including the DVB-C, DVB-S and the IPTV, is planned to replace the Analog Broadcasting by 2010. New advancement in USB Memory Flash Cards (“Disk on Key”) and the MHP STB having a USB port will provide new alternatives for delivery of content to the TV. Vital Mind also proposes innovative developments in the detection of hand movements, non-speech (vocal) as well as in the use of the iDTV remote control so as to enable and facilitate the user's autonomous participation in the cognitive training program

Keywords: cognitive,ufd,idtv,vocal,gesture
Dynamic Variability in Complex, Adaptive Systems (DIVA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4966794.0
EU funding (EUR): 3510409.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Context aware software systems that can automatically adapt to changes in their environments play increasingly vital roles in society’s infrastructures. Such systems are called adaptive systems. The demand for adaptive systems appears in many application domains ranging from crisis management applications such as disaster management, first-response, transportation control, and power management to entertainment and business applications such as mobile interactive gaming, tourist guiding and business collaborations (e.g., through virtual organizations and dynamic service compositions). This demand is accentuated by the mobile and nomadic nature of many of these domains. The IDC analysts forecast a global increase in number of mobile workers to the level higher than 850 million by 2009 . The goal of this project is to provide a tool-supported methodology and frameworks for managing dynamic variability of co-existing, co-dependent configurations in adaptive systems. This will be addressed through a combination of aspect-oriented and model-driven techniques. To accomplish this work we have assembled a consortium of leading players within the domains of MDE, aspect-oriented analysis and modelling and variability modelling and partners that provide advanced end user systems and applications where the demand for adaptation is a major concern. Our consortium includes major leaders within the software intensive industry, a tool vendor and leading research partners based in four countries. DiVA is organised into two phases of 18 months, each phase delivering innovative open solutions. The first phase will build and deliver an initial version of an integrated DiVA framework allowing the case studies to be started. The second phase will be used to improve and disseminate the DiVA framework using the feedback from case studies and experience of the framework use.

Keywords: adaptive systems,model driven engineering,aspect-oriented modeling
Initial Training Network for Wave Energy Research Professionals (WAVETRAIN 2)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,Netherlands,France,Ireland,Norway,Spain,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3579635.0
EU funding (EUR): 3579635.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed action builds strongly up on the logics of its predecessor with the same name. The overall objective is to create a pool of specialised wave energy research professionals to support an emerging industry in a field with a very strong anticipated growth and no dedicated existing training curriculum. Although most jobs can be done being a trained engineer in one of the adjacent fields, the existance of interdisciplinary skilled researchers trained in direct connection to the technology development is vital for successful development. In the predecessor, almost all fellows where immediatley absorbed by industrial players in the field or continued research in the host institution. The work plan for WAVETRAIN 2 fellows is specifically directed towards a wide range of challenges that industrial-scale wave energy implementation faces in the present situation, with some bias towards technical issues, from hydrodynamic and PTO (Power-Take-Off) design, to instrumentation issues and energy storage and cost reduction show to be critical for successful deployment. On the other hand, also non-technical “barriers”, typically less tangible difficulties related to legal issues (licensing, conflicts of use, EIA procedures, grid connection, regional differences) and the non-sufficient representation of socio-economic benefits of the sector, will be dealt with, as they are seen as a major obstacel for fast implementation on a European scale. The methodology to achieve the desired results is to provide (i) in-depth training in one applied research topic (host institution), (ii) good interdisciplinary background and understanding of industry environment (short courses and secondments), and (iii) active participation in wave power plant testing in the sea (some of the profiles; others: site visits). The in-depth training at the host institution will be incorporated in relevant research topics, where typically an advance the state-of-the-art is expected.

Keywords: ocean wave energy,hydraulic engineering,mechanical engineering,electrical engineering,marine renewables,ocean technologies