Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ERA-NET on National and Regional Programmes to Promote Innovation Networking and Cooperation between SMEs and Research Organisations – Phase 2 (ERASME²)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Belgium,France,Iceland,Ireland,Netherlands,Norway,Portugal,Spain,Sweden,Denmark,Czechia,Slovenia,Greece,Italy
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100328.75
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed new EraSME ERA-NET, dubbed EraSME² will build on the successful work of the original EraSME project. The experimental phase of EraSME is now closed. The coming two years will be the consolidation phase, devoted to ensuring the long-term sustainability of EraSME by setting up an integrated transnational programme to support SMEs. During this phase the project will implement a formal management and organisation structure for EraSME; further develop and improve joint procedures for: the programming of calls and related activities including common evaluation criteria (“scientific integration”); the management of call handling and evaluation procedures (“managerial integration”); the funding of selected projects (“financial integration”); widen selectively the partnership to additional programmes, regions and countries; launch further joint calls for proposals every six months, raising the number of participating countries, regions and programmes, of proposals submitted, and of proposals funded.

Keywords: networking national and regional programmes sme/rto cooperation organisational and management structures for a sustainable erasme programme
Heterogeneous InP on Silicon Technology for Optical Routing and LogIC (HISTORIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Switzerland,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3253835.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

HISTORIC proposes to design, develop and test digital photonic integrated circuits containing a relatively large number of active photonic elements combined with passive elements, for use in e.g. all-optical packet switching for both datacom and telecom. The building blocks for the digital photonic circuits are ultra-compact gates based on micro-ring or micro-disk lasers, photonic crystal lasers or metallic nanocavity (or plasmonic) lasers. These lasers are fabricated making use of the heterogeneous integration of InP membranes on top of silicon on insulator passive optical circuits. Different approaches for the ultra compact lasers will be investigated, allowing to make use of the high precision growth and processing techniques available to the InP platform, as well as to take advantage of the extreme accuracy of state-of-the-art CMOS processing. Several all-optical flip-flops and gates will be integrated on a single chip, and will be interconnected by short wire waveguides in the SOI structure. The extremely small dimensions of both the flip-flops, gates and their interconnections will result in a competitive footprint of optical packet switches as compared with electronic switches. The targetted ultra small dimensions of the laser-based all-optical flip-flops are expected to result in record low switching times and switching energies. Together with the low propagation losses in the SOI waveguides, this is expected to result in a competitive speed and power consumption of optical packet switches. The possibility of integrating a large number of photonic digital units together, as well as integrating them with compact passive optical routers such as AWGs, opens new perspectives for the design of integrated optical processors or optical buffers. The project will therefore also focus on designing new architectures for such optical processing or buffer chips. Extensive characterisation and system tests will demonstrate the advantage of the new optical approach.

Keywords: digital photonics
Semantic Sensor Grids for Rapid Application Development for Environmental Management (SEMSORGRID4ENV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Greece,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4269695.0
EU funding (EUR): 3192501.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Sensor networks promise to bridge the gap that, for too long, has separated computing applications from the physical world that they model and in which they are ultimately embedded. Sensor networks are and will continue to be important in environmental management. However, many scientific and technological challenges need to be tackled before sensor networks are exploited in their full capacity for aiding decision support for environmental applications. This project addresses two of these challenges: (a) the development of an integrated information space where new sensor networks can be easily discovered and integrated with existing ones and possibly other data sources (e.g., historical databases), and (b) the rapid development of flexible and user-centric environmental decision support systems that use data from multiple, autonomous, independently deployed sensor networks and other applications. To address this challenge, the SemsorGrid4Env project will investigate and develop technological infrastructure for the rapid prototyping and development of open, large-scale Semantic Sensor Grids for environmental management. In particular, SemsorGrid4Env will enable: 1. A semantically-consistent view of several heterogeneous sensor networks as a global Grid data resource; 2. Rapid development of Grid services that combine real-world real-time data, coming from autonomous, heterogeneous sensor networks, with legacy historical data; 3. Rapid development of open, flexible, contextual knowledge-based thin applications (e.g., mashups) for environmental management. As more and more sensor networks are independently developed and deployed, the SemsorGrid4Env outcomes will leverage their use of sensor networks in environmental management scenarios that were not foreseen or that transcend their original purpose. To test and demonstrate SemsorGrid4Env results, we propose two environmental monitoring and management use cases.

Keywords: sensor network,fire,flood,mashup,grid,semantics
Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NOE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Belgium,France,United Kingdom,Spain,New Zealand,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9595662.0
EU funding (EUR): 7999367.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) proposal has been designed with 'service to the community' of VPH researchers as its primary purpose. Its aims range from the development of a VPH ToolKit and associated infrastructural resources, through integration of models and data across the various relevant levels of physiological structure and functional organisation, to VPH community building and support. The VPH NoE aims to foster the development of new and sustainable educational, training and career structures for those involved in VPH related science, technology and medicine, and will lay the foundations for a future Virtual Physiological Human Institute. The VPH NoE constitutes a leading group of universities, institutes and organisations who will, by integrating their experience and ongoing activities in VPH research, promote the creation of an environment that actively supports and nurtures interdisciplinary research, education, training and strategic development. The VPH NoE will lead the coordination of diverse activities within the VPH initiative to deliver: new environments for predictive, patient-specific, evidence-based, more effective and safer healthcare; improved semantic interoperability of biomedical information and contribution to a common health information infrastructure; facile, on-demand access to distributed European computational infrastructure to support clinical decision making; and increased European multidisciplinary research excellence in biomedical informatics and molecular medicine by fostering closer cooperation between ICT, medical device, medical imaging, pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The VPH NoE will connect the diverse VPH projects, including not only those funded as part of the VPH initiative but also those of previous EC frameworks and national funding schemes, together with industry, healthcare providers, and international organisations, thereby ensuring that these impacts will be realised.

Keywords: interdisciplinary multilevel integration modelling simulation training ict infrastructure physiome
Social software for inclusion of (marginalized) young people (INCLUSO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1271851.0
EU funding (EUR): 969977.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

INCLUSO aims to deliver verifiable proof that ICT, and more precisely, social software tools, can facilitate social inclusion of marginalized young people. INCLUSO will make suggestions for future research and development, based on desk research, expert input, pilot projects in 4 countries, the development of a measurement tool to screen evolution in social inclusion/exclusion and a business and sustainability model for organizations working with ICT in the area of social inclusion. The pilot projects will be initiated in strong, existing organizations with or no experience in the use of social software, but already working with marginalized youngsters and with a high potential to succeed in successful ICT implementation. 4 pilots will focus on complementary groups of youngsters (1) young people that are all subject of the Flemish ‘Special Youth Assistance’-act or the Belgian ‘Child Protection, located in Brussels (BE); (2) socially excluded youngsters in city area of Aberdeen (UK); (3) young people from day-care of full-time-care institutions described in the Social Service Act (PL) (4) young people recruited by social workers and street-workers who are in contact wit marginalised and disadvantaged youngsters in the city of Schwechat (AT) Social software tools will be introduced as an empowering tool for inclusion in general and, more specific, to meet the participating organizations’ goals. Feedback from the pilots will enhance the white-book that presents implementation scenarios for ICT as a tool for social inclusion. Pilot feedback will also strengthen the business and sustainability models and the measurement tool tat screens social inclusion/exclusion. The partnership is a strong combination of organizations working with marginalized youngsters supported by academic partners that guarantee quality of research and that are strongly connected to these organizations. The business partner is a leading Internatioal SME in online social software.

Keywords: social software,impact measurement,internet,idtv,sms,marginalized youngsters,inclusion,e-inclusion
Cooperating Objects NETwork of excellence (CONET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Portugal,Sweden,Switzerland,Ireland,Germany,Cyprus,Italy,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10406826.0
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

A number of different system concepts have gained a lot of relevance in the area of embedded systems over the past couple of years: Embedded systems, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks. These three types of quite diverse systems share a lot of commonalities but also have some complementary aspects in common that make a combination into a coherent system vision promising. The term “Cooperating Objects” was coined explicitly for the purpose of describing such systems by the Embedded WiSeNts Consortium, a Coordination Action funded by the EC in FP6. One of the main results was the publishing of the Embedded WiSeNts Research Roadmap that defines the concept of Cooperating Objects. The vision of Cooperating Objects is, therefore, quite new and needs to be understood in more detail and probably extended with inputs from the relevant individual communities that compose it. This will enable us to better understand the impact on the research landscape and to steer the available resources in a meaningful way. The main goal of CONET is to build a strong community in the area of Cooperating Objects capable of conducting the needed research to achieve, in the long run, the vision of Mark Weiser. Therefore, the objectives of CONET are the following: 1. Create a visible and integrated community of researchers on the topics related to Cooperating Objects capable of driving the domain in the coming years. 2. Identify, arise awareness and steer academic research efforts towards industry-relevant issues without forgetting fundamental scientific issues; make the community more reactive to novel issues and approaches, and to coordinate its efforts; establish tight relationships with the European industry, leveraging interactions with leading US institutions in the field. 3. Stimulate cooperation between researchers from the three domains in order to achieve a lasting and sustainable architecture that is able to cope with the vision of Cooperating Objects.

Keywords: cooperating object,embedded system,pervasive computing,wireless sensor network
Photonic Skins For Optical Sensing (PHOSFOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Poland,Poland,United Kingdom,Cyprus,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2489235.0
EU funding (EUR): 1899965.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

PHOSFOS (Photonic Skins For Optical Sensing) develops and builds on a new paradigm for optical sensors integrated in an unprecedented manner with opto-electronic and electronic circuitry in flexible and stretchable skins for applications in diverse fields including structural health monitoring, automotive industry, aeronautics and aerospace, robotics, healthcare etc. PHOSFOS intends to develop a technology that provides an answer to essential issues that have so far prevented fibre sensors from penetrating the market, which include packaging, fully-fledged system integration, optical coupling and interfacing, dependable strain transfer and reliability. The project positions itself at the pre-competitive intersection of optical fibre sensing and integrated optics. It aims at developing a flexible and stretchable foil in which all necessary optical sensing elements can be integrated; that if relevant to the application can include optical and electrical powering as well as onboard signal processing and wireless communications; that can be wrapped around irregularly shaped objects; that will allow quasi-distributed sensing. To do so the sensing elements in PHOSFOS will rely on special highly birefringent micro-structured optical fibres (MSF) and polymer optical fibres (POF) with fibre Bragg gratings. The silica fibres will be designed to exhibit almost zero temperature sensitivity whereas POF fibres will be used for their very specific property that their length can be stretched up to 300 % before breaking. The optimal Bragg grating writing technology in these fibres, both silica and POF, will be developed. PHOSFOS will focus on embedding these into the sensing skin and on the optical coupling/interfacing to the peripheral opto-electronics and electronics. PHOSFOS will end with 2 proof-of-concept demonstrators, a first targeting structural health monitoring of civil engineering structures, the second aiming at the automotive industry.

Keywords: photonic crystal fibre,polymer optical fibre,bragg grating,sensor,flexible skin,integration
MEMS ATOMIC CLOCKS FOR TIMING, FREQUENCY CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS (MAC-TFC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Poland,Germany,Finland,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4854295.0
EU funding (EUR): 3350000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Atomic clocks provide enhanced accuracy, stability, and timing precision compared to quartz-based technologies. However, the size and power consumption of existing atomic clocks far exceeds that those of quartz-based clocks, not preventing their deployment in portable applications. The goal of the MAC-TFC proposal is to develop and demonstrate all the necessary technology to achieve an ultra-miniaturised, low-power an ultra-miniaturised caesium atomic clock, presenting a short-term stability of 5x10-11 over 1 hour while operating on the power of an AA battery, with less than 200 mW power consumption. Phased technology development approaches are planned. The first phase focuses on establishing theoretical limits of MEMS atomic clocks and demonstrating practical design and fabrication feasibilities, optimizing the performances of atomic resonator. Then, the second phase of proposal aims at demonstrating and developing the technologies of the building blocks for the miniaturized clock including a fully customised semiconductor laser, an innovative approach of filing the clock cell with alkali vapour and a low-power ASIC for the analog Radio Frequency (RF) electronics. The third phase is concentrated on the final chip-level integration and package of two alternative prototypes of MEMS atomic clock using LTCC technology. The physics package includes a micromachined cell with well controlled alkali vapour, a semiconductor laser , collimatting/polarizing microoptical elements and a photodetector. Finally, a fourth phase is devoted to the testing the final assembly of the physics package together with the developed electronics, as well as setting the basis for technology transfer and pre-industrialisation for potential applications. To this aim, MAC-TFC brings together a consortium made of 4 major academic institutions (UFC, UniNE, WUT, UUlm), 2 research institutes ( VTT, CEA) and 3 industrial partners, SAES, ASU, OSA.

Keywords: mems,atomic clock,time-frequency metrology
Platform for an inter-working of embedded localisation and communication systems (LOCON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal,France,Ireland,Belgium,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3814425.0
EU funding (EUR): 2700000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims a seamless connectivity and inter-working of embedded localisation and communication systems through a new platform – the LocON Platform. To maintain large infrastructures like airports more efficient, flexible, secure and easier is the main impact – thus LocON is targeting the following objectives: • to integrate a hardware/software platform including the middleware for heterogeneous short range embedded localisation and communication technologies focusing on seamless connectivity, scalability, coexistence and inter-working • to implement the satellite based localisation and wireless communication based on Sensor Networks and on standards like WLAN, WIMAX, GSM, UMTS, TETRA. • to implement a control system with new engineering approaches that ensure efficient, robust, predictable, safe and secure behaviour for the large scale infrastructure airport (e.g.: Controlling the luggage in an airport, controlling the staff, control of heating and ventilation depending on sensor data and amount (energy saving!)) • to increase the predictable connectivity and QoS awareness of position information for the end user • to demonstrate the results and benefits in the large scale infrastructure of an airport with strong security requirements, but also to exploit the results into other application domains like private/home/building, nomadic and manufacturing with the goal of a more efficient, flexible, secure, easier to maintain and more productive large infrastructures • and finally to bring together all the main key players in the European short range localisation market and to begin a standardisation on European level. The main objective of LocON is to create and to develop a platform as well as the middleware for short range embedded localisation technologies enabling a broader access to the market, from the European point of view. LocON is a completely new approach and new system design.

Keywords: platform/middleware for embedded localisation systems,inter-working,control systems,large scale infrastructure airport,wireless sensor networks
Electronics Enabling Efficient Energy Usage (E4U)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Austria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2009-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 607332.0
EU funding (EUR): 449997.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

E4U aims at fostering world-leadership in ICT enabled energy efficiency in the EU through accelerating research and development for energy-efficient ICT systems. It will achieve this through the creation of a strategic research roadmap for power electronics in alignment with the national, EU, and international policy framework. E4U will create impact through targeted interaction with the research community, leading European industry, and RTD policy makers at the national and European level. E4U will also advertise the benefits of power electronics and ICT for energy efficiency to the broad public.

Keywords: roadmap,power electronics,ict enabled energy efficiency,rtd policy