Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A Flexible Interactive Reading Support Tool (FIRST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Bulgaria,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2507218.0
EU funding (EUR): 2008754.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The FIRST project uses innovative language technology to simplify documents for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). These people can have problems when reading such as difficulty understanding complex instructions, misinterpreting literal meanings, or being confused by uncommon words, figures of speech and lack of precision. Using the language technology created in the FIRST project, users with ASD can convert a standard document into a personalised version which is easier for them to understand. The conversion software will automatically detect problematic language and replace it to make the text clearer. It will also simplify complex structure in the text and clarify ambiguity. Not relying purely on textual changes, the conversion software will add illustrative pictures to documents and will also offer navigation tools such as hyperlinked tables of contents and concise document summaries. Users with ASD will thus be empowered to read any documents with confidence and at their own convenience, without relying on support workers as can currently be the case. This will enable users with ASD to gain better access to educational, vocational, cultural and social opportunities in Europe. Clinicians in three different EU countries will work closely with a test group of people with ASD, who will review the software and provide feedback to ensure that it is developed to meet their requirements. Tests of reading comprehension with and without the software will provide an explicit indication of the software’s advantages. The involvement of a European support group for people with ASD will allow news of the software to be easily distributed to those who could benefit from it. An exciting aspect of FIRST’s research is that the simplifying language technology to be developed will have wide-ranging applications beyond that of users with ASD. Modified versions of the software could be of benefit to additional user groups within the healthcare system, as well as in other sectors (e.g. language learners, migrants, readers of legal documentation). The initial software prototype will be produced in English, Spanish and Bulgarian, and transfer of the software to other European languages post-project is foreseen.

Keywords: accessibility to electronic documents,ict facilitating reading comprehension,generation of personalised documents,text simplification,inclusion,user empowerment
Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services (GAMBAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Ireland,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3080049.0
EU funding (EUR): 2194000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the GAMBAS project is the development of an innovative and adaptive middleware to enable the privacy-preserving and automated utilization of behavior-driven services that adapt autonomously to the context of users. With the advent of powerful Internet-connected objects an increasing number of Europeans have constant access to information on the Internet. Nowadays, these connected objects are causing a drastic paradigm shift in the way people deal with information. Yet, the technical means to access information have only changed marginally. In most cases, information is accessed via the web which requires persons to memorize long URLs, click through web pages or browse through search results. In contrast, ubiquitous computing envisions services providing distraction-free support. To realize this vision, services themselves must adapt to the user’s situation, behavior and intents at runtime. This requires services to gather and process the user's context. Internet-connected objects provide a promising basis for determining user context in an automated manner on a large scale. The vision of ubiquitous computing, however, extends beyond the boundaries of a single service as it envisions seamless support for everyday tasks. To close the resulting gaps, the GAMBAS project has the following scientific and technical objectives: 1. Development of a generic adaptive middleware for behavior-driven autonomous services that encompasses: a. Models and infrastructures to support the interoperable representation and scalable processing of context. b. Frameworks and methods to support the generic yet resource-efficient multi-modal recognition of context. c. Protocols and tools to derive, generalize, and enforce user-specific privacy-policies. d. Techniques and concepts to optimize the interaction with behavior-driven services. 2. Validation of the middleware and its components using lab tests and a prototype application in the public transportation domain.

Keywords: personal mobile devices,data acquisition,scalable context processing,context recognition,intent-awareness,interoperability,autonomous adaptation
Novel Scene representations for richer networked media (SCENE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,France,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6459122.0
EU funding (EUR): 4492000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

SCENE will develop novel scene representations for digital media that go beyond the ability of either sample based (video) or model-based (CGI) methods to create and deliver richer media experiences. The SCENE representation and its associated tools will make it possible to capture 3D video, combine video seamlessly with CGI, manipulate and deliver it to either 2D or 3D platforms in either linear or interactive form. The outcomes will be: • Improved ways of capturing and fusing scene data from multiple cameras and other kinds of sensors, so that structural, depth and surface appearance can be contained in a single representation • A novel scene camera, which can capture appearance and depth to create the necessary input for a scene representation from a single viewpoint • Improved methods for video scene analysis of stereo or multi-view sequences from which to extract spatio-temporally consistent structural information • A video scene representation that goes beyond current image based and computer graphic approaches to obtain an inherently 3D, spatio-temporally consistent worldview • Algorithms and data structures for transforming scene representations into forms that are adapted for efficient storage, distribution and rendering in the context of various application scenarios • Methods of rendering the scene representation at optimal quality for different purposes and receiving platforms, such as postproduction, virtual studios and network delivery to set-top boxes and mobile devices • Methods for merging, editing and manipulating 3D scene information in a re-usable and adaptable manner, supporting interaction, scene modification and object replacement • Media samples that show the use of the technology and representation for digital cinema, virtual studio and network delivery to the home and mobile platforms • An industry-based non-profit SCENE Foundation, to promote the representation and co-ordinate standardisation activities after the end of the project.

Keywords: 3d video,scene representation,sensor fusion,interaction,navigation
Video Communications for Networked Communities (VCONECT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Portugal,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Austria,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5363206.0
EU funding (EUR): 3727999.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The inability to discover the conversations that matter, to understand how others are feeling, to recognise a friend in need, to share the joy of someone happy, or to see how certain things should be done, are common limitations of social networks. All these require people to be able to see and hear each other. Vconect targets this space by aiming to develop capabilities that will allow ad-hoc groups of people to enjoy real-time high-quality audio-video communication. Such capabilities will be able to deliver the best possible communication experience to all the participants involved, no matter their number, the types of devices or the characteristics of the bandwidth they are connecting through. The Vconect platform will be able to support complex and dynamic structures of group communication by intelligently mediating the conversation and framing it in narrative structures through methods akin to those used in cinematography. Active cameras, shot types, screen compositions will be decided dynamically, to ensure meaningful, engaging and immersive communication experiences. In turn, these decisions will be optimised in real-time for the network and devices that are being used. The platform thus becomes service-aware, displaying intelligent behaviour both in communication mediation as well as in adapting the way the audio and video is processed within the network to best support the communication needs. This new development builds upon two of the most significant achievements of the current Internet: video conferencing and social networks. It will make social networks as flexible and as engaging as chatting face to face to a group of friends: it will allow us to see what’s really happening, to know who’s hurting and who’s laughing. It will allow us to see the real drama, let us be part of the most rowdy crowds or talk quietly to a lonely friend. It will strengthen communities and change the way we live.

Keywords: communication,community,networked,network,platform,conversation,video,chat,talk,synchronous
Development of Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry (FLPCHEM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry is an exciting new field of very high current interest. Usually, Lewis acids and Lewis bases quench each other by strong adduct formation when brought together in solution. This is avoided or hindered by the attachment of sufficiently bulky substituents at these components. Non-quenched pairs of bulky Lewis acids and Lewis bases feature an unprecedented potential for cooperative small molecule activation and they induce an amazing manifold of new reactions and reactivities. This project will significantly advance this fascinating new field by the specific design and synthesis of novel advanced frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) and by using them for finding and developing new chemical reactions of fundamental chemical building blocks according to the following scheme: A. Design and Preparation of New Frustrated Lewis Pairs B. New FLP Reactions a. New Areas of Metal-free Catalytic Hydrogenation b. Opening the New Field of FLP-Based Free Radical Chemistry c. New Oxidation reactions d. FLP-Based Carbon Dioxide Chemistry e. FLP Reactions of High Energy Intermediates With this project and its subdivisions we propose to tackle very timely questions in an innovative and original way by using the enormous potential that the emerging field of frustrated Lewis pairs has to offer.

Keywords: small molecule activation frustrated lewis pairs (pentafluorophenyl)boranes metal-free hydrogen activation
Augmented BNCI Communication (ABC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Austria,Germany,Italy,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3251942.0
EU funding (EUR): 2449869.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

ABC aims at increasing human capabilities by means of Brain/Neural Computer Interfaces (BNCI). The project will develop applications addressed primarily to persons with Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy (DCP). Due to DCP particular conditions, BNCI-based systems present a huge potential for improving the quality life and promotiing independent living of this target group. In particular, the project outcomes will specifically focus on the augmentation of the capabilities related to communication, learning, social participation and control of devices. The ABC system will be composed of four independent modules based on the latest advancements in BNCI signal processing, Affective Computing, Augmented Communication and Biosignal Monitoring. The reference European research institutions in each field will lead the R&D work. DCP end-users and care professionals will be involved in R&D tasks from design to validation. To involve effectively persons with DCP into the design process, new user-centred design methods will be developed. The project will deliver a functional prototype of the ABC system validated and working in out-of-lab contexts. Two industrial SMEs will also be involved all along the project in order to facilitate the transition from prototypes to commercial products and shorten the time-to-market of the ABC system. The modular structure of the ABC system and the independence of its components will extend its exploitation potential beyond the initial DCP niche. Different combinations of the modules could be integrated into other assistive product niches such as for people with multiple sclerosis or quadriplegia. Moreover, the ABC modules (both combined or stand-alone) have the potential to become part of mainstream applications benefitting from the augmentation of human capabilities, such as gaming, e-learning, work safety or driving assistance among others.

Keywords: bnci,affective computing,augmented communication,user centred design,sensor framework,cerebral palsy,speech-motor impairment,smart processing,health,enabled applications,out-of-lab prototype
The European Robotics Initiative for Strengthening the Competitiveness of SMEs in Manufacturing by integrating aspects of cognitive systems (SMEROBOTICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Denmark,Germany,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Türkiye,Portugal,Germany,Italy,Spain,Denmark,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Portugal,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18024842.0
EU funding (EUR): 12149967.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

Over two-thirds of European workers in manufacturing are employed in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Their primary means of competition is to respond rapidly to changing production needs and to keep product quality at a very high level. While robots are able to carry out repetitive tasks to a high standard, they do not meet the demands of SMEs for high flexibility. Today’s robots know only their nominal task, which limits their ability to deal with sudden changes in the manufacturing process.For the operation of robots in an SME environment, which is typically less structured and involves more uncertainties, the currently available solutions result in overly complex system integration. Instead, cognitive abilities should be included in the equipment and cognition should take place in both the robot and the human, such that the worker’s knowledge can be fully utilised and productivity demands can be met. Additionally, the concepts and symbols used in dialogues need to have a common grounding in order to guarantee ease of use.Therefore, we propose the SMErobotics work system, which covers all phases of the robot life-cycle and in which humans and robots can together deal with SME manufacturing uncertainties and are symbiotically able to learn from each other and to learn from the past handling of uncertainties. The SMErobotics vision is to deploy such robots on SME shop floors, with the benefit of long-term improvements in productivity. The SMErobotics initiative pays careful attention to SME-related issues and scientific challenges, as is reflected by its strong industrial involvement supported by leading researchers and building on successful collaboration between industry and academia as well as on demonstration-driven research from the SMErobot project. Additional partners will be included in order to widen the initiative’s impact by transferring project results to European pilot applications of SME-compatible cognitive robot systems.

Keywords: industrial robotics,smes,human-robot-interaction,task learning,knowledge representation,semantics,planning,decision support
Scalable, Standard based Interoperability Framework for Sustainable Pro-active Post Market Safety Studies (SALUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Türkiye,France,Sweden,Germany,Belgium,Italy,France,Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5223752.0
EU funding (EUR): 3325965.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Pre-approval clinical trials cannot possibly ensure that a drug will not have disastrous side effects once it arrives on the market. Post-approval safety data gathering was put in place to address this problem, but as implemented, it has not proven to be as effective as hoped. This is due to the fact that, current post market safety studies largely depend on the submission of spontaneous case reports where underreporting is a major problem. The need for a proactive approach is apparent, where safety data from multiple sources are actively monitored, linked and analyzed. Effective integration and utilization of electronic health records (EHR) can help to improve post-market safety activities on a proactive basis. There are prototype studies to monitor EHRs for simplifying ADE reporting, and also for signal detection by screening multiple EHRs, however these tools are directly built on top of EHR/EMR systems through proprietary interfaces. It is apparent that the promise of proactive, continuous monitoring of multiple sources cannot be achieved through such proprietary integrations. To facilitate wide scale proactive post market safety studies, there is a need for a new capacity enabling accessing the data locked in multiple different heterogonous EHR systems. In SALUS project, we aim to provide a standard-based interoperability framework that will enable execution of safety studies for mining and analyzing real-time patient data in communication with disparate heterogeneous EHR systems. SALUS will provide: • Functional interoperability profiles enabling exchange of EHRs • Semantic interoperability solutions enabling meaningful interpretation of the exchanged EHRs • Security and Privacy mechanisms ensuring EHRs are shared in an ethical and safe way • A novel framework for open-ended temporal pattern discovery for safety studies on top of EHR Systems • Implementation of high potential use cases enabling secondary use of EHRs for post market safety studies

Keywords: secondary use of ehrs for post market safety studies,functional and semantic interoperability framework,signal detection over ehrs,ade monitoring,ade reporting
Support Action for a Transport ICT European large scale action (SATIE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Sweden,Netherlands,Finland,Germany,France,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1870994.0
EU funding (EUR): 1380996.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The SATIE support action will prepare the way for the successful launch of a programme of European large scale actions (“elsas”) to accelerate the deployment of ICT for sustainable mobility and transport. It will provide assistance to programme managers and potential participants before the programme begins, and will explore the key elements of an elsa before issuing guidelines for the design, construction and operation of an elsa in the form of an “Elsa Handbook”. SATIE will: 1. elaborate the concept, procedures and added value of a large scale action 2. disseminate and raise the awareness with regard to the possibilities of a Transport-ICT elsa with all stakeholders throughout Europe 3. map existing initiatives and possible future initiatives which would fit into an elsa approach. The essential commitment of the stakeholders and service champions is achieved by an iterative process of consultation aiming towards the efficient intergration of European, national, regional and local policies, innovative procurement practices, European funding instruments, European and national innovation platforms, exploitation of R&D and the objectives of the public and private stakeholders within the value networks of ICT for mobility and transport. The iterative process aims to specify the optimum elsa with regard to the added value to European innovation and economy as well as the European transport system in view of its sustainability in terms of environment, safety, and efficiency. Building on this the Support Action will be able to provide the Commission with input for evaluating the concept of a large scale action and launching a European programme.

Keywords: elsa,innovation,deployment,transport ict