Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Responsive Flexible Collaborating Ambient (REFLECT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,Serbia,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999961.0
EU funding (EUR): 2600000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

We are currently standing on the brink of a new era of computing systems: Moving on from desktop computers, computing intelligence will be woven into the “fabric of everyday life”, seamlessly and near-invisibly pervading our environment, sensing our presence, mood, and intentions, thus delivering services adapted to ourselves and our context of use. The REFLECT project aims at developing new concepts and means for such “pervasive-adaptive systems”. To begin with, REFLECT researches ways of sensing users and their mood and intentions. Different aspects are taken into account: emotional state (e.g. annoyance), cognitive engagement (e.g. high mental workload) and physical conditions and actions (e.g. temperature and movement). All these together with human behavioural patterns form the personal awareness of the system. Additionally, information about the surroundings is gathered and used to establish environmental awareness. Augmenting these results, REFLECT investigates ways of realizing pervasive-adaptive environments. A software framework with a set of practical tools is developed which can be used for building pervasive, adaptable, self-organized systems that seamlessly collaborate with users and control their environments. The resulting REFLECT system will be able to derive, suggest and perform actions to optimize user comfort and performance, assisting people in their specific activities (for example, in driving a vehicle). To illustrate the pragmatic orientation and results, the REFLECT project includes a number of case studies and a prototype from the automotive domain that shows how such systems can be deployed in practice.

Keywords: pervasive-adaptive software service architecture,pervasive-adaptive man-machine interface,networked societies of artefacts,emotive,cognitive and physical experience
Coeliac Disease – Management, Monitoring and Diagnosis using Biosensors and an Integrated Chip System (CD-MEDICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,Italy,United Kingdom,Sweden,Finland,Italy,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12702594.0
EU funding (EUR): 9500000.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

The overall concept of the CD-MEDICS IP is to develop a technology platform for point-of-care diagnostics, capable of simultaneous genomic and proteomic detection, with embedded communication abilities for direct interfacing with hospital information systems. This will be achieved by exploiting breakthroughs at the confluences of bio-, micro- and nano- technologies to create a low-cost non-invasive intelligent diagnosis system. This platform will be developed in a modular format, which will allow each module to be developed and exploited individually. The modules will subsequently be integrated to facilitate the desired application. Advances in data communications, molecular biology and biosensor technology, with the integration of nanostructured functional components in macro and microsystems, will facilitate the realisation of a minimally invasive generic platform, which is capable of multi-parametric monitoring and will be interoperable with electronic medical records. The advantages of integrated biosensor systems include their ease of use, their sensitivity, their inherent selectivity (preventing problems due to interfering substances), their versatility (allowing ‘in-field’ use) and their cost effectiveness. Addressing the future health care requirement of an individualised theranostic approach, the specific application that will be demonstrated in this IP will be for the management, monitoring and diagnosis of coeliac disease, with the proposed technology contributing to significant advances in sensitivity and specificity of diagnosis. The technology platform developed, however, could be applied to a variety of clinical screening applications, such as cancer. The radical innovation proposed in this IP will result in a concrete prime deliverable of a technology platform of wide application and unquestionable socio-economic benefit, increasing European competitiveness whilst contributing considerably to the quality of life well-being of the population.

Keywords: point-of-care,lab-on-a-chip,laboratory information systems,coeliac disease,genetic pre-disposition
Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe: an interdisciplinary perspective. (GE.M.IC.)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Cyprus,Italy,Romania,Türkiye,Bulgaria,Spain,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1309360.0
EU funding (EUR): 1019250.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Ge.M.IC will study “Cultural Interactions in a European Perspective” through a tripartite conceptual and methodological approach, whose aim will be to identify links between migration, gender and intercultural interaction, as it is in the meeting place of these three dimensions that some of the most important cultural developments in Europe take place. Ge.M.IC will approach these questions from a critical perspective emphasizing in particular the impact of migrant mobility and cultural diversity on gender relation in host, transit and sending societies. Research will be of an interdisciplinary nature in accordance with the broad range of expertise of the researchers collaborating in the project. The organization of work will reflect the inter-ethnic and interdisciplinary character of the consortium focusing both fieldwork and analysis on six thematic areas of study, rather than on national case studies: representations of national identity and the media, education, urban social spaces and movements, religion, violence, and the family. Ge.M.IC will generate new and important insights in these thematic areas, taking advantage of the diverse areas of expertise of different researchers and their mutual commitment to studying gender and addressing issues of gender equality as a central aspect of research.

Keywords: gender,migration,intercultural relations,family,education,religion,urban space,violence,media
Europe-South Asia Exchange on Supranational (Regional) Policies and Instruments for the Promotion of Human Rights and Management of Minority Issues (EURASIA-NET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Horizontal actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,India,Bangladesh,Hong Kong,Pakistan
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 723692.0
EU funding (EUR): 643686.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Human rights, and especially minority rights, have a clear supranational dimension both in Europe and in South Asia. Europe has made wide use of the mechanisms and soft law approaches developed and implemented at regional level by the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European Union. In South Asia there is a long tradition of study and robust experience in the field of cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic management, including the gender dimension, within national boundaries. However, it is only recently that some albeit limited attempts have been made to enhance regional cooperation on these very sensitive issues. Studies carried out by South Asian scholars have created the knowledge base underlying the first rudimentary attempts by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the foresight initiatives of human rights NGOs and activists. Furthermore, the geopolitical context is now particularly favourable to a supra-national discourse on human and minority rights as a consequence of recently improved relations between India and Pakistan. The overall objective of EURASIA-Net is therefore to enhance the requisite knowledge-base for new policies and instruments to reduce ethnic-religious conflicts and to foster stability and security in South Asia. The specific objectives are: 1. To develop a better understanding of regional South Asian attempts to define (by the research community) and implement (by decision-makers and activists) new supranational instruments for the protection and promotion of human rights, with a particular focus on cross-border minority issues. 2. To sustain Euro-Asiatic research cooperation and exchange on those issues and to enlarge the discussion forum to encompass politicians and human rights activists. 3. To create a framework for future research cooperation between Europe and South Asia that is twofold: (a) a Joint Research Agenda and (b) a modus operandi based on mutual knowledge and understanding.

Keywords: international cooperation,south asia,regional integration,human rights,minority rights,eu external relations,saarc
PATIENT SAFETY THROUGH INTELLIGENT PROCEDURES IN MEDICATION (PSIP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Denmark,France,Denmark,France,Italy,Greece,Denmark,Austria,Bulgaria,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10175011.0
EU funding (EUR): 7496328.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Adverse Drug Events (ADE) due to product safety problems, and medication errors due to human factors (HF) are a major Public Health issue. They endanger the patients’ safety and originate considerable extra hospital costs. Healthcare ICT applications should help reducing the prevalence of preventable ADE, by providing healthcare professionals and patients with relevant knowledge (guidelines, recommendations, etc.). But their efficiency is impeded by two major drawbacks: - lack of reliable knowledge about ADE - poor ability of ICT solutions to deliver contextualised knowledge focused on the problem at hand, aggravated by a poor consideration of causative HF. The objective of the project Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in Medication (PSIP) is (1) to facilitate the systematic production of epidemiological knowledge on ADE and (2) to ameliorate the entire medication cycle in a hospital environment. The first sub-objective, SO, is to innovatively produce knowledge on ADE: to know, as exactly as possible, per hospital, their number, type, consequences and causes, including HF. Data Mining of the structured hospital data bases, and Semantic Mining of Data Collections of free-texts (letters, reports), will give a list of observed ADEs, with frequencies and probabilities, thus giving a better understanding of potential risks. The second SO is to develop a set of innovative knowledge based on the mining results and to deliver a contextualised knowledge fitting the local risk parameters, in the form of alerts and decision support functions. This knowledge will be implemented in a PSIP-platform independently of existing ICT applications. These applications will connect to the platform to access and integrate the knowledge in their local system. The design and development cycle of the PSIP solution will be HF oriented. Dissemination plans will be developed taking into account other uses (medical devices, primary and tertiary Healthcare).

Keywords: patient safety,medication cycle,adverse drug events,semantic & data mining,contextualised alert
Publish-subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm (PSIRP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Greece,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3963724.0
EU funding (EUR): 2512222.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Despite its success, the Internet suffers from several shortcomings, forcing a fundamental reform of its paradigms and core technologies. A major flaw in the design of the Internet is its imbalance of powers in the favour of the sender of information. The network accepts anything that the sender wants to send and will make a best effort to deliver it to the receiver. This has led into increasing problems with spam mail and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, forcing companies and users to conceal their E-mail addresses and place their systems behind firewalls. The most severe consequence of this is that the possibilities offered by the Internet are not being utilized. The publish/subscribe paradigm (pub/sub) has been proposed as a remedy to these problems. Senders publish what they want to send and the receivers subscribe to the publications that they want to receive. In the pub/sub world only publishers need to have names. Already a large share of the use of the Internet is essentially pub/sub. We need a new Internet architecture, derived from the pub/sub paradigm. This will lead into a redesign of all the layers. In the new Internet, multicast will be the norm and security and mobility are designed into the architecture, rather than added on as after-thoughts. PSIRP (Publish/Subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm) will redesign the Internet architecture from the pub/sub point of view, taking nothing (not even IP) for given. The new architecture is implemented and feedback from the implementation work is used to refine the architecture. We will make two different implementations: one where pub/sub is run as an overlay over IP (the evolutionary approach) and another, where also the lower layers are redesigned (the revolutionary approach). The architecture and its implementation will be validated by a “red team” working to break it. Also the economic drivers for the new architecture will be studied.

Keywords: publish/subscribe,internet architecture,implementation
SPATIAL TEMPORAL PATTERNS FOR ACTION-ORIENTED PERCEPTION IN ROVING ROBOTS II: AN INSECT BRAIN COMPUTATIONAL MODEL (SPARK II)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1308041.0
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of SPARK II is to develop, evaluate, optimise and generalise a new, insect brain inspired, computational model. The architecture will be hierarchical, based on parallel sensory-motor pathways, implementing reflex-driven basic behaviours. These will be enriched with higher and complex insect brain structural models (Mushroom Bodies, Central Complex) and more physically-inspired nonlinear lattices. The latters will be able to generate “self-organizing” complex dynamics, while the formers will reproduce relevant cognitive functions in insects such as attention-like processes, short-term memory and rewarding mechanisms. Both of them will work concurrently to generate cognitive behaviours at the output motor layer. The architecture will exploit a number of different sensors, processing signals distributed in space and time and also showing nonlinear dynamics. Perceptual processes are conceived as emerging pattern flows (result of a nonlinear spatial-temporal dynamics). Pattern meaning (concept generation) will be incrementally built upon information derived from sensors as well as from some basic “inherited” behaviours mediated through the environment. Emerged patterns, with the concurrent dynamics generated by models of the relevant perception centres in insects, will influence the particular associated motor behaviour. To show the generality of the approach, the model will be applied to different robotics architectures, asked to work in real life, unstructured, cluttered and dynamically changing environment. This will demonstrate that perception for action, formulated by suitably merging complex systems with dynamics derived by insect brain models, can lead to the emergence of general archetypes of wide applicability. Finally another challenging task will consist in using the same model, applied to different robots, to lead to the emergence of cooperation capabilities to perform tasks unable to be fulfilled by one robot alone: further proof of generality.

Keywords: spatial-temporal dynamics,bio-inspired systems and architectures,perception systems,artificial intelligence,insect brain architecture
Robotic Evolutionary Self-Programming and Self-Assembling Organisms (REPLICATOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Germany,Czechia,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7056633.0
EU funding (EUR): 5414052.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

TThe REPLICATOR project focuses on the development of an advanced robotic system, consisting of a super-large-scale swarm of small autonomous mobile micro-robots that are capable of self-assembling into large artificial organisms. These robotic organisms possess common energy and information buses as well as reliable legged, wheeled or climbing locomotion, based on modular sub-systems which can be autonomously reconfigured. Thanks to the heterogeneity of the elementary robots and their capability to share resources and communicate, the robotic organisms are able to achieve a large computational power, and rich close- and far-range sensing. The energy is autonomously harvested from external power sources. The main goal of the project is to develop novel principles underlying these robotic organisms, such as self-configuration, self-adjustment and self-learning. The bio-inspired evolutionary approach and evolvable hardware structure adopted in this project enable the robotic organisms to emerge new functionalities, to develop their own cognitive and control structures and, finally, to work autonomously in uncertain situations without any human supervision. Ultimately, these robotic organisms, which are extremely adaptive, robust, scalable and rich in sensing and actuating capabilities, will be used to build autonomous sensor networks, capable of self-spreading and self-maintaining in open-ended, even hazardous, environments.

Keywords: robotics,autonomous sensor networks,robot embodiment
End-to-End Efficiency (E3) (E3)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,France,China,Germany,Sweden,Germany,France,France,Finland,United Kingdom,France,Spain,Italy,Greece,Spain,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18266624.0
EU funding (EUR): 11159587.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The End-to-End Efficiency (E3) project is an ambitious FP7 EC Integrated Project (IP) aiming at integrating cognitive wireless systems in the Beyond 3G (B3G) world, evolving current heterogeneous wireless system infrastructures into an integrated, scalable and efficiently managed B3G cognitive system framework. The key objective of the E3 project is to design, develop, prototype and showcase solutions to guarantee interoperability, flexibility and scalability between existing legacy and future wireless systems, manage the overall system complexity, and ensure convergence across access technologies, business domains, regulatory domains and geographical regions. Cognitive radio systems are seen by many actors of the wireless industry as a core technical evolution towards exploitation of the full potential of B3G systems. It is under way to revolutionize wireless communications just as the PC revolution. E3 will ensure seamless access to applications and services and exploitation of the full diversity of corresponding heterogeneous systems, in order to offer an extensive set of operational choices to the users, application and service providers, operators, manufacturers and regulators. E3 will optimise the use of the radio resources and spectrum, following cognitive network paradigms. The management functions will be distributed over different network elements at various levels of the system topology. The E3 consortium will bring together major key European players in the domain of cognitive radios and networks, self-management and end-to-end reconfigurability. E3 will build on several key achievements from the successful FP6 E2R Programme, pursuing research into the most promising directions, in order to facilitate the vision of true end-to-end connectivity. The E3 project addresses the core of the Strategic Objective ICT-2007.1.1 “The Network of the Future” from Challenge 1 “Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures”.

Keywords: cognitive radio systems,cognitve radio,cognitive networks