Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Social games for conflIct REsolution based on natural iNteraction (SIREN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Denmark,Portugal,United Kingdom,United States,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2927279.0
EU funding (EUR): 2249798.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Improving conflict resolution skills among the population at large is of paramount importance for a healthier, more peaceful and productive European society. These skills are best taught in early years, using teaching tools that are appropriate and engaging for today's children, for whom computer games and social networks are natural parts of life. The Siren project aims to create a new type of educational game, the conflict resolution game, which takes advantage of recent advances in serious games, social networks, computational intelligence and emotional modelling to create uniquely motivating and educating games that can help shape how children think about and handle conflict. The software developed by the project will be able to automatically generate conflict scenarios that fit the teaching needs of particular groups of children with varying cultural background, maturity, and technical expertise, and the desired learning outcomes as specified by a teacher. This will enable the system to be used by school teachers all over Europe, without specific technical training. To realize this vision, a number of advances to the state of the art will be made throughout the various disciplines that members of our thoroughly multi-disciplinary consortium specialize in.

Keywords: conflict resolution,collaborative learning,adaptive virtual environments,natural interaction
COmplex Deep-sea Environments: Mapping habitat heterogeneity As Proxy for biodiversity (CODEMAP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1401012.45
EU funding (EUR): 1401012.45
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human impact on the deep ocean is rapidly increasing, with largely unknown consequences. Effective management and conservation, based on an ecosystem approach, is hampered by our poor understanding of the deep-sea environment. Measuring biodiversity, the main indicator of ecosystem status and functioning, is a major challenge in deep water: traditional sampling schemes are expensive and time-consuming, and their limited coverage makes it difficult to relate the results to regional patterns. Complex deep-sea environments are especially problematic. Ecosystem hotspots such as canyons or coral reefs contain true 3D morphology that cannot be surveyed with conventional techniques. CODEMAP will quantify habitat heterogeneity in complex deep-sea terrains, and will evaluate its potential as a proxy for benthic biodiversity at a variety of scales. Habitat heterogeneity has been suggested as a major driver for deep-sea biodiversity, but is rarely quantified in a spatial context in the marine realm. To achieve its goal, CODEMAP will combine the fields of marine geology, ecology, remote sensing and underwater vehicle technology to establish an integrated, statistically robust and fully 3D methodology to map complex deep-sea habitats. Statistical techniques will be developed to extrapolate quantitative habitat information from fine-scale surveys to broad-scale maps. The optimal parameters to measure habitat heterogeneity will be defined, and their potential as biodiversity indicators tested through correlation with traditional approaches. The project focuses on submarine canyons, but the techniques will also be transferred to other environments. CODEMAP is expected to have a strong impact on the fundamental understanding of the deep sea and on ecosystem-based deep-sea management.

Keywords: marine habitat mapping,deep-sea biodiversity,habitat heterogeneity,underwater vehicle technology,spatial statistics,submarine canyons,cold-water corals
Coordination of the European Future Internet forum of Member States (CEFIMS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Hungary,Portugal,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 454321.0
EU funding (EUR): 409977.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The limitations of the present Internet require global investment to develop a Future Internet (FI) capable of meeting the unprecedented demands of the Knowledge Society. It is strategically important for Europe to engage fully in the conception, research, development and innovation of the FI. Other regions recognise the potential of the FI and have launched major initiatives, such as NetSE (US), AKARI (Japan) and AsiaFI (East Asia), targeting novel Internet architectures and the Network of the Future. Europe is already one of the leaders in Internet research and adoption and wishes to lead the definition, standardisation and implementation of the FI. However Europe will achieve its FI potential only if there is good coordination of FI research activity across Member State (MS), regional and transnational levels. Otherwise, duplication of effort reduces net output and value for money across all FI programmes, and the full benefits of networking between EU-funded and national researchers are not realised, fragmenting the original research objectives and achievements. The EC already informally hosts the Future Internet Forum (FIF) at FI Assembly meetings. ceFIMS (Coordination of the Future Internet Forum of Member States) will provide functional ongoing support to the FIF to create synergies between research programmes funded by the Member States and promote outreach to similar EC-funded research. In the short term, ceFIMS will facilitate FIF activity by providing a Secretariat and support structures and by establishing the ceFIMS FI portal. In the medium term, it will foster knowledge sharing via the FI Forum, the establishment of expert working groups and the development of a Research Roadmap on behalf of the Forum. In the longer term ceFIMS will create a sound basis and implementation framework for a project such as FI ERA-NET and greater awareness of Public Private Partnership (PPP) among Member States. The ceFIMS website will become the major portal for FI research in Europe.

Keywords: coordination,member state-funded research,future internet,era-net,ppp
Nuclear Atomic Clock (NAC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1245884.0
EU funding (EUR): 1245884.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Atoms, as building blocks of nature, consist of an atomic nucleus and the electron shell. Both systems are governed by similar laws and forces. However, the required energies to create changes in the nucleus or the electron shell differ by many orders of magnitudes. This reflects in largely different tools and methods used for their investigation: atomic physics probes the electron shell mainly by means of lasers. Nuclear physicists create excitations at high energies using particle accelerators such as CERN. The radio isotope 229Thorium is the only atom with the potential to bridge the gap between atomic and nuclear physics. It provides an unnaturally low-energy nuclear excited state, accessible to atomic physics tools, most notably laser excitation. It is the aim of the proposed research project to identify the optical nuclear transition and make it usable for fundamental investigations and applications. Currently, our second is defined as 9.192.631.770 oscillations of a light wave that leads to a specific excitation in the electron shell of the Cesium atom. Using the nuclear excited state of 229Thorium instead would increase the time standard accuracy by many orders of magnitudes, at the same time reducing the experimental complexity considerably. Building such a nuclear clock is the main goal of the research proposal. This will directly lead to improved accuracy in satellite based navigation (GPS) and enhanced bandwidth in communication networks. Furthermore, vomparing a nuclear atomic clock to standard time standards will hence allow addressing one of the most fundamental questions in physics: "are nature s constants really constant?".

Keywords: atomic clock,isomer transition,fine structure constant
A Novel Detection Scheme to Enable Point of Care Flow Cytometry (POCYTON)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1427825.0
EU funding (EUR): 1427825.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In PoCyton, a revolutionary concept for the detection zone of a flow cytometer is proposed. Flow cytometers are fluorescence-based cell counters and as such are indispensable instruments in clinical and biomedical research. Over the last four decades, despite gradual technical improvements in the constituent components, the detection principle has virtually remained unchanged. Fluorescently tagged cells in suspension are made to flow through a narrow focal excitation area and then detected via the fluorescent pulse emitted by them. The narrow focus imposes restrictions on the flow rate and, as a consequence, on feasible sample volumes. Moreover, the alignment of cell-flow, excitation, and detection requires extreme precision. To this end, expensive, bulky components have to be used, preventing substantial miniaturization of flow cytometry. In PoCyton, the detection zone will be enlarged and superimposed with a pseudo-random pattern leading to a temporally extended, distinctly coded signal recorded for each fluorescing cell. In analogy to spread-signal methods, each cell will be reconstructed from the coded signal by correlation techniques. While the precision in spatial cell discrimination outperforms that of conventional flow cytometry only slightly, the signal-to-noise ratio is enhanced significantly, resulting in a notable improvement in sensitivity. In addition, the enlargement of the detection zone dramatically mitigates alignment issues. In PoCyton, various implementations and extensions towards multi-colour flow cytometry will be studied experimentally to demonstrate their high sample-throughput and miniaturization (lab-on-a-chip) potential. Ultimately, a wider range of flow cytometry methods will thus be made available for routine use in clinical laboratories and medical point-of-care diagnosis, e.g., for cancer treatment. PoCyton is a multi-disciplinary project primarily involving expertise in optics, microfluidics, micro-systems, and signal processing.

Keywords: flow cytometry,microfluidics,lab-on-a-chip
Building International Cooperation for Trustworthy ICT: Security, Privacy and Trust in Global Networks & Services (BIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 837940.0
EU funding (EUR): 750000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The BIC project responds to FP7 Call 5 Objective ICT-2009.1.4 Trustworthy ICT, specifically d) Networking, Coordination and Support of networking, road-mapping, coordination and awareness raising of research and its results in trustworthy ICT with priority towards (vii) International co-operation in fields where global action will create added value. With this Coordination Action, successful models developed by the project partners will be used to engender co-operation of EU researchers and program management in Trustworthy ICT with their peers in countries who have already signed Science and Technology (ST) agreements, namely Brazil, India and South Africa. The project will facilitate (including funding for networking activities and workshops) a technical- and programme-level platform for engagement, collaboration and networking activities internationally in a step-wise systematic fashion. These new countries represent significant emergent world-impacting information economies through the scale and sophistication of their growing ICT sectors. In addition, the project will provide continuity and bring together a truly global collaboration with the participation of the already established connections from the INCO-TRUST project with the United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea and Canada. This will be accomplished with the establishment of an international Advisory Group (IAG) and an Annual Forum on Trustworthy ICT based in Europe. The IAG will provide a dedicated forum to address trust & security issues of global relevance. BIC will support the implementation of this forum. The objectives of the work performed by the proposed BIC project will be: Objective 1. Chart landscape and Initial EU alignment; Objective 2. Prioritisation of the EU influenced vision and research directions amongst the new countries (Brazil, India and South Africa), including alignment of work programmes; Objective 3.Global alignment, consensus and outreach of the visions and challenges of all countries; Objective 4. Definition of Tangible International Activities including success metrics and setting up global projects.

Keywords: international cooperation,trustworthy ict,security,privacy,trust.
Early Earth Dynamics: Pt-Re-Os isotopic constraints on Hadean-Early Archean mantle evolution (EARLY EARTH)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1306742.8
EU funding (EUR): 1306742.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to directly constrain the melting history and composition of the mantle of the Earth for the first 750 Ma of its history. So far, our limited knowledge hinges on isolated detrital zircons from Archean crustal rocks. They indicate crustal extraction as early as 4.4 Ga with peaks at 4.0 and 4.3 Ga but reveal conflicting models for the composition of the Hadean mantle. Both the timing and extent of these early crust formation events and the composition of the Hadean mantle have crucial implications for our understanding of the Early Earth’s chemical evolution and dynamics as well as crustal growth and thermal cooling models. Sulfides (BMS) and platinum group minerals (PGM) may hold the key to these fundamental issues, as they are robust time capsules able to preserve the melting record of their mantle source over several billion years. I propose to perform state-of-the-art in-situ Pt-Re-Os isotopic measurements on an extensive collection of micrometric BMS and PGM from Archean cratonic peridotites and chromite deposits, and paleoplacers in Archean sedimentary basins. For the first time, < 20 μm minerals will be investigated for Pt- Re-Os. The challenging but high-resolution micro-drilling technique will be developed for in-situ sampling of the PGM and BMS with subsequent high-precision 187Os-186Os isotopic measurements by NTIMS. This highly innovative project will be the first to constrain Hadean Earth history from the perspective of the Earth’s mantle. By opening a new window towards high-precision geochemical exploration for micrometric minerals, this project will have long-term implications for the understanding of the micro to nano-scale heterogeneity of isotopic signatures in the Earth’s mantle and in extra-terrestrial materials.

Keywords: early earth,hadean,mantle melting,os isotopes,sulfides,platinum group minerals
Quantifying Aerobic Methane Oxidation in the Ocean: Calibration and palaeo application of a novel proxy (AMOPROX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496392.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496392.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Methane, a key greenhouse gas, is cycled by microorganisms via two pathways, aerobically and anaerobically. Research on the marine methane cycle has mainly concentrated on anaerobic processes. Recent biomarker work has provided compelling evidence that aerobic methane oxidation (AMO) can play a more significant role in cycling methane emitted from sediments than previously considered. AMO, however, is not well studied requiring novel proxies that can be applied to the sedimentary record. A group of complex lipids biosynthesised by aerobic methanotrophs known as aminobacteriohopanepolyols represent an ideal target for developing such poxies. Recently BHPs have been identified in a wide range of modern and recent environments including a continuous record from the Congo deep sea fan spanning the last 1.2 million years. In this integrated study, the regulation and expression of BHP will be investigated and calibrated against environmental variables including temperature, pH, salinity and, most importantly, methane concentrations. The work program has three complementary strands. (1) Pure culture and sedimentary microcosm experiments providing an approximation to natural conditions. (2) Calibration of BHP signatures in natural marine settings (e.g. cold seeps, mud volcanoes, pockmarks) against measured methane gradients. (3) Application of this novel approach to the marine sedimentary record to approximate methane fluxes in the past, explore the age and bathymetric limits of this novel molecular proxy, and identify and potentially 14C date palaeo-pockmarks structures. Crucial to the success is also the refinement of the analytical protocols to improve both accuracy and sensitivity, using a more sensitive analytical instrument (triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer).

Keywords: methane climate aerobic methane oxidation ocean sediments mud volcano pockmarks congo-fan
Plug-and-produce COmponents and METhods for adaptive control of industrial robots enabling cost effective, high precision manufacturing in factories of the future (COMET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Germany,France,Italy,Greece,Sweden,United Kingdom,Czechia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-2010-NMP-ICT-FoF, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7725814.37
EU funding (EUR): 5300000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s challenging and dynamic economic environment forces European high-end manufacturing industry to focus on high flexibility, high quality, reliability and low life-cycle costs and to respond quickly to changes in this environment. The high-end manufacturing industry requests production systems that can quickly switch between diverse machining operations with short changeover, programming and set-up times without compromising quality, reliability or life-cycle costs. From a conceptual point of view, industrial robot technology could provide an excellent base for machining being both flexible (due to their lay-out) and cost efficient (robots cost 2-5 times less then machine tools). However, industrial robots lack absolute positioning accuracy (1), are unable to react in real time to changing process conditions (2) and lack reliable programming and simulation tools to ensure first time right machining once production commences (3). These three critical limitations prevent industrial robots from being integrated in high-end machining processes. The COMET consortium will provide a revolutionary Plug-and-Produce solution enabling the use of industrial robots for high end machining processes, appreciating the needs from the manufacturing industry for cost effective, flexible and reliable manufacturing solutions. The proposed solution will be on the average 30% more cost effective than dedicated machine tools whilst delivering absolute positional accuracy of at least 50 µm. Due to the sense of urgency in Europe’s manufacturing industry the COMET consortium defined an ambitious work plan of only 30 months to develop and demonstrate the innovations planned and meet the objectives set. These ambitious goals and the planned dissemination and training activities encourage a quick uptake by the manufacturing industry. Over a 5 years period, the estimated impact is 45M€ to 50M€ justifying the investment from the EC and the COMET partnership.

Keywords: plug-and-produce component and methods,adaptive control,industrial robots,high precision manufacturing,factories of the future