Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management and Carbohydrate Counting: A Computer Vision based Approach (GOCARB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,United States
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 942638.0
EU funding (EUR): 942638.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Patients with diabetes must be taught how to achieve glycaemic control by monitoring their glucose levels properly. They are medicated with either exogenous insulin or other drugs and encouraged to improve their diet and physical activity. Although studies have shown that planning meals and counting carbohydrates is of great importance for diabetic patients, even well trained diabetic patients find it difficult to estimate carbohydrates precisely. The aim of the project is the design, development and evaluation of a system which will permit the automatic, near real-time recognition of the different types of foods on a plate and the estimation of their content of carbohydrates. The system will be based on the advanced analysis of colour images and will be composed of i) an Advanced Image Processing (AIP) module, including a camera for image capture, ii) a Carbohydrate Estimator (CE) and iii) a Data Base (DB). The AIP module will incorporate the entire image processing tools for acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, feature detection, feature representation and selection, and classification. The CE will estimate the volume and the weight of the food, while the DB will contain a list of nutrients, along with the corresponding grams of carbohydrates. In a typical use scenario, the diabetic will take a picture of the incoming meal with the mobile phone camera. This image will be processed in order to estimate a set of characteristic features describing the type of nutrition and the corresponding grams of carbohydrate. In addition to dietary assessment, this information will be used to optimise the calculation of the bolus insulin dose. The ultimate objective is to have an application running on a portable device which can be used in everyday life to support the diabetic patient during carbohydrate counting and insulin dose estimation in a precise, easy and flexible manner.

Keywords: diabetology,artificial intelligence,modelling tools,image processing,3 d modelling,biomedical engineering,medical informatics
Geometric Manufacturing Solutions for Freeform Shapes (GEMS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria,Israel,Romania,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1533154.0
EU funding (EUR): 1533154.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Freeform shapes represent one of today's important manufacturing challenges. This applies to numerically controlled (NC) machining of parts to be produced in large amounts as well as to outer surfaces and subconstructions for unique designs in modern architecture. However, currently no systematic method exists which could reconcile the competing aims of faithfully reproducing smooth surfaces with their efficient segmentation into easily manufacturable parts. GEMS aims to overcome this challenge by a geometric approach: We consider surfaces generated by the motion of either a milling tool or a profile curve, and investigate their properties and approximation power. Our ultimate goal is to algorithmically determine a segmentation of freeform surfaces into parts exactly manufacturable by a single sweep. This amounts to highly nonlinear optimization with side conditions originating in both geometry and manufacturing and requires a detailed shape analysis. Subsequently these mathematical results have to be expressed in terms of manufacturing processes, such as NC milling, styrofoam cutting, or the building of molds from a sequence of simple curves. Successful completion of this research would mean a very significant contribution to the manufacturing of freeform shapes, and indeed some complex tasks will be made feasible for the first time. We strongly believe that the proposed consortium of five partners has the capacity and knowledge to achieve success: (1) ModuleWorks, a leading provider of CAD/CAM software components (2) TU Wien, a university with deep knowledge in geometry processing and differential geometry (3) Technion, an internationally renowned technical school very successful in computer aided geometric design (4) Evolute, a high tech start up company specializing in geometric computing for architecture and manufacturing (5) ModuleWorks Romania, a ModuleWorks daughter and highly experienced in computational solutions for 5-axis machining.

Keywords: manufacturing,freeform surface,nc milling,architecture,single sweep surface,geometric computing,approximation,segmentation,optimization
INTEGRATED PLATFORM FOR INTELLIGENT INDOOR AIR QUALITY AUDIT MANAGEMENT (AIRLOG)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Portugal,Portugal,Spain,Hungary,United Kingdom,Austria,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490097.78
EU funding (EUR): 1161930.35
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

While ambient air pollution is being successfully monitored throughout the EU, the situation for indoor air pollution is not nearly as positive. This is of particular concern, as a much wider range of air pollutants are found at high levels indoors than outdoors. Indoor air quality is a major concern to businesses, building managers, tenants, and employees because it can impact the health, comfort, well being, and productivity of building occupants, as most Europeans spend up to 90% of their time indoors and many spend most of their working hours in an office environment. Studies conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others show that indoor environments sometimes can have levels of pollutants that are actually higher than levels found outside. In spite of the obvious need to better control and manage the quality of indoor air, no European legislation or norm currently defines indoor air quality auditng and management systems, leaving it to the member states' responsibility to define air quality targets and risk levels, certification procedures and audit management processes. AIRLOG proposes a web-based Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Audit Management platform that will save specialized SMEs up to 40% of the cost of performing audits, helping auditors improve their audits and clients better understand the IAQ process. AIRLOG’s Decision Support System will learn from past experiences and propose the most effective Best Practice mitigation actions to ultimately improve IAQ control and healthier conditions in EU buildings. The link between sustainable building design, energy-efficient management and green procurement will be actively fostered by AIRLOG, through the development of a unique knowlegde base at EU level on successful indoor air management practices for various building types in various EU areas.

Keywords: indoor air quality testing,risk simulation,sick building syndrome
Design of Novel Portable-Sensors Based on Suspension Arrays Composed of Monoclonal Antibody and Bacteriophage Carrying Magnetically Loaded Nanoparticles and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (NANOBACTERPHAGESERS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye,United Kingdom,Germany,Georgia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1625723.0
EU funding (EUR): 1625723.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In this project, we aim to develop nanotechnology-based systems for detection of pathogenic bacteria in several aqueous media mainly in environmental water based on suspension arrays together with a portable custom-designed detection system. The six objectives (six work packages) are as follows: (i) Nanostructured sensors surfaces, in which electron-beam, photo-, soft and dip-pen lithographies will be applied in the fabrication of functionalized low-cost (disposable) SERS substrates, specially designed for simultaneus Raman and Fluorescence enhancement; (ii) nanosorbents and their mixtures as suspension arrays against the target bacteria for capturing units in which firstly magnetically loaded nanoparticles will be produced and labelled/barcoaded with fluorosence dies and/or quantum dots and then bacteriophages, monoclonal antibodies, and/or aptamers will be immobilized onto these nanoparticles as bioligands to recognize and capture the target bacteria specifically; their mixtures will form the suspension arrays; (iii) target bacteria and bacteriophages; the target bacteria (as water pollutants), are Escherichia coli, Enterococcus species and Bacteroides ovatus; bacteriophages which will recognize these bacteria will be selected/produced as bioligands; (iv) aptamers; they will be selected/modified/produced; (v) sensors/array systems; a portable “Raman Spectrometer/Fluorescence Detector System” will be designed/produced that will be used together with the nanostructured sensors platforms, and finally (vi) validation; the materials and systems developed will be validated. This is a multidisciplinary and technological project and therefore brings together experts from different disciplines both from academia and industry. Basicly, the knowledge that will be developed/ accumulated at lab scale during the project will be transfered to the industrial partners for prototype productions, and then these will bring back to the academical institutions for validation tests.

Keywords: detection,payhogenic bacteria,nanotechnology,environment safety,water safety,food safety
Sustainable Moulding of Articles from Recycled Tyres (SMART)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,Italy,Norway,Slovenia,Italy,Croatia,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2553474.72
EU funding (EUR): 1972100.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

End of Life Tyres represent both a waste problem and a resource opportunity, for both the society and the large recycling trade community. Even though tyres are 100 % recyclable and their chemical and physical properties make them an outstandingly valuable resource, still energy recovery and land filling constitute the greatest share of destination. The tyre recycling sector is constituted by large communities of SMEs which is in a compelling need of exploiting ELT resource and seeking for an innovative and decisive solution to increase the competitiveness of tyres recycling when compared to energy recovery. SMART participant SME-AGs strongly believe that the starting point, upon which it is necessary to build the future of tyre recycling is unquestionably to focus on totally eliminating the pricy resins usually integrated in the moulding process and serving as rubber fragmented parts binders, and to achieve recyclable products with mechanical properties comparable to primary rubber products, at least for what concerns the performance to compression. Strategic value statement of SMART project is to increase the competitiveness of tyres rubber recycling and enlarge the target application products in new industrial sectors, making it more economically, energetically and environmentally convenient with respect to energy recovery, while providing a viable and clean solution to completely substitute and recovery land filling. Hence, SMART technological objectives are to realise innovative recycled rubber products in high added value sectors (sport, transport and industry) with specifically produced machine, by means of exhausted tyres’ grinding without the addition of any linking agent or virgin rubber. The product will be fully further recyclable, being no additive in it. A prudential estimate of the savings coming from the cost reduction itself, without any increase of the output, can be estimated in 20 Million € per year.

Keywords: compression moulding tyre recycling polyurethane binder linking agent
Real-time, in-situ, N, P, K, pH and electrical conductivity soil-analysis system to facilitate accurate nutrient management (NUTRI-STAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Malta,Cyprus,Spain,Germany,Latvia,United Kingdom,Hungary,Switzerland,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1467896.4
EU funding (EUR): 992900.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Nutri-Stat addresses the need of SMEPs with a cost-effective and real-time soil nutrient sensing system using ISEs integrated in an LTCC based micro Total Analysis System. The technological device will be composed of a complex soil probe combined with a data-logger for the measurement and recording of the concentration of the macronutrients Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K) present in the soil. Nutri-Stat will also read electrical conductivity and pH levels in soil. The Nutri-Stat system shall also feature user-friendly software to assist in soil nutrient management. The positive impacts of this tool will contribute to environmental and financial sustainability, whilst significantly improving the quality standards of agricultural produce across the EU. Nutri-Stat will provide farmers with constant monitoring of fields, tailored crop analysis and disease management, making information on the nutrient status of arable land for the first time ever, easily accessible and available to the farmer anytime anywhere.

Keywords: farming,fertilizers,nutrient management,agriculture
manaGEmEnt and leisure middleWare for tHemE parks and Zoo (GEEWHEZ)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Germany,Cyprus,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1594156.19
EU funding (EUR): 1246285.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of GEEWHEZ proposal is to develop a customised Resource Planning solution for Animal and Theme Parks (ATPs). Currently, off the shelf solutions, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Customised Platforms (CP), are being employed to meet this end, but such solutions do not meet ATPs' needs due to lack of flexibility or, on the other hand, extensive programming and DB design skills required to customize them. GEEWHEZ aims to deliver a platform as flexible as a CP but with the usability of an ERP. Working on a distributed middleware, in charge of collecting and managing information coming from the different software modules and clients, GEEWHEZ will orchestrate all the operations among all its modules to provide a complete and personalized service and will offer different level of access (administrator, user, visitor, developer, etc.), depending on the user profile, based on an authentication procedure. GEEWHEZ is organised into 7 work-packages (WPs). 4 WPs contain software development, whilst a fifth WP covers pilot testing activities. A further WP deals with dissemination and exploitation of results, whereas the last WP concerns project management of the project. The consortium setup has 6 SMEs and 5 RTD performers. However, ATP operations must address a variety of issues, such as: monitoring animal welfare parameters, inventory management of extensive range of raw materials, customer requirements management, environmental parameters monitoring, etc.. To meet these requirements, the background of RTD performers is diverse but on the same time complementary, ranging from ICT, wireless data transmission, Operations Management and Marine biology. This wealth of knowledge ensures the successful completion of the project. In addition, 3 SMEs from the ATP industry ensure robust requirements definition, whereas a fourth SME in the field of software development ensures successful exploitation of the final product.

Keywords: middleware,erp,crm,ide,business custumisation,integration
A General Toolkit for “GPUtilisation” in SME Applications (GPSME)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Czechia,Türkiye,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493690.24
EU funding (EUR): 1139520.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The recent explosion of GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) power has not been fully utilised by many SMEs, possibly because GPU programming requires specialist skills different from those of conventional programming. GPSME will provide the SME participants with a simple route to accessing GPU power. Each of the SME participants is facing increasing competition in the market and GPSME will allow them to greatly improve their products in terms of speed and quality without major overheads. By involving close cooperation between the SMEs and RTD performers, GPSME will develop a toolkit to automate the conversion of existing sequential CPU code to an optimal GPU implementation. With such a toolkit, the SMEs will be able to convert their existing CPU code without committing significant effort and time. It will also support the execution of advanced techniques within acceptable runtimes and hence allow the SMEs to use more complex computing models in their new products. This will bring them major commercial benefits and significantly improve their market positions. Technically, GPSME features techniques to adapt automatic parallelization to the latest GPU compute architecture to deliver optimal performance. This is expected to greatly improve on traditional CPU-based automatic parallelization. The literature review has suggested that the techniques in this area are still very much in their infancy and that there is no existing toolkit that can benefit the SMEs immediately. The application areas of the SME participants are widely differing, so GPSME will produce a breakthrough that will open the door for great performance gains across many areas of application. This development will be particularly suitable for SMEs that focus applications on moderate platforms. In the long term, the outcomes of GPSME will benefit many companies and improve industrial competitiveness across the whole European Union.

Keywords: parallel computing,automatic parallelization,medical imaging,image forgery detection,augmented reality,biomedical enginerring
Demonstration of Low-Energy Water Hydraulic Actuator System for Valves in the Sanitary Industry (HYDRACTDEM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Denmark,Portugal,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2029614.0
EU funding (EUR): 1108300.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The HYDRACTDEM project will demonstrate the energy savings and cost effectiveness of switching from pneumatic actuators to water-based hydraulic actuator systems in the sanitary industry. The project represents a major technological breakthrough in the development and use of actuators in the sanitary industry in particular, but could even revolutionize the use of actuators in the entire processing industry. A water hydraulic actuator and remote control system represents a game-changing product in the sanitary industry and the hydraulic actuator system clearly goes beyond current state of the art in the area. The HYDRACTDEM project will demonstrate immense positive end-users impact in the sanitary Industry through capital expenditure savings and reduced energy costs. In addition the demonstration will show that the hydraulic actuator system can be fitted to standard valves in the sanitary industry and perform to end-user specifications and in accordance with existing regulations and safety norms (including sterility). In a wider perspective, the EU at large will benefit through the pursuit of large energy savings and reductions in CO2. In addition the hydraulic actuator system to be demonstrated in the HYDRACTDEM project will increase work safety and processing facility by eliminating the hazards associated with pneumatic valves. Finally, the project contributes to the innovation and product developments in four European SMEs who utilizes each other strength and know how to push the boundary within the manufacturing industry - an industry which is otherwise under extreme pressure from globalization and China in particular. The HYDRACTDEM project is a continuation of the HYDRACT project (project no. 222313 co-funded by the EU through the 2007 Research for SME Call).

Keywords: actuator,processing industry,energy savings,food and beverage industry,hydraulics,fluid systems,valves,manufacturing industry