Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Next Generation Teaching, Education and Learning for Life (NEXT-TELL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Norway,Germany,Italy,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8034809.0
EU funding (EUR): 6450000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

NEXT-TELL will provide, through research and development, computational and methodological support to teachers and students so that they have available nuanced information about learning when it is needed and in a format that is supportive of pedagogical decision making, thus optimizing the level of stimulation, challenge, and feedback density. Methods and software will be developed that cover the modelling of all stages of ICT-embedded classroom assessment design, thus empowering teachers to contribute to the development of formative e-assessment for 21st Century learning skills. Integration of e-assessment methods into classroom ICT will be partially automatized by modelling lesson design and access to innovative computer-based learning and assessment services. NEXT-TELL will provide methods to capture process and product aspects of students` learning as it takes place in the classroom and at home and will make this information available various formats for reflection, appraisal, and negotiation, based on methods for data-mining, process visualisation, e-portfolio appraisal, and (open) student modelling. In order to foster participation in particular of parents, a managed communication and negotiation framework will be implemented that connects all stakeholders. Further, NEXT-TELL will support teachers` research into student learning with a team-oriented inquiry methodology and with access to computational data analysis services. To connect this form of knowledge creation and professional development to school leadership and strategic planning, a strategic planning method and corresponding software support will be provided for principals. The NEXT-TELL set of integrated methods and tools will be developed in an incremental, participatory manner in a large-scale pilot studies program involving 60-80 classrooms across Europe. Both researcher-led and teacher-led design-based research will be employed to allow for intensive, yet scalable classroom research.

Keywords: technology-enhanced learning,e-assessment,student modelling,cognitive density
Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation (PROMISE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,France,Austria,United Kingdom,Ireland,Sweden,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4391421.0
EU funding (EUR): 3529357.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Measuring is a key to scientific progress. This is particularly true for research concerning complex systems, whether natural or human-built. Multilingual and multimedia information systems are increasingly complex: they need to satisfy diverse user needs and support challenging tasks. Their development calls for proper evaluation methodologies to ensure that they meet the expected user requirements and provide the desired effectiveness. Large-scale worldwide experimental evaluations provide fundamental contributions to the advancement of state-of-the-art techniques through common evaluation procedures, regular and systematic evaluation cycles, comparison and benchmarking of the adopted approaches, and spreading of knowledge. In the process, vast amounts of experimental data are generated that beg for analysis tools to enable interpretation and thereby facilitate scientific and technological progress. PROMISE will provide a virtual laboratory for conducting participative research and experimentation to carry out, advance and bring automation into the evaluation and benchmarking of such complex information systems, by facilitating management and offering access, curation, preservation, re-use, analysis, visualization, and mining of the collected experimental data. PROMISE will: foster the adoption of regular experimental evaluation activities; bring automation into the experimental evaluation process; promote collaboration and re-use over the acquired knowledge-base; stimulate knowledge transfer and uptake. Europe is unique: a powerful economic community that politically and culturally strives for equality in its languages and an appreciation of diversity in its citizens. New Internet paradigms are continually extending the media and the task where multiple language based interaction must be supported. PROMISE will direct a world-wide research community to track these changes and deliver solutions so that Europe can achieve one of its most cherished goals.

Keywords: multilingual and multimedia information systems,experimental evaluation,benchmarking,open evaluation infrastructure,virtual laboratory,collaboration
Communication middleware for monitoring financial CI - International Cooperation aspects (COMIFIN-ICA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Ireland,Israel,Germany,Norway,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 10.0
Total project cost (EUR): 152565.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

COMIFIN-ICA is a proposal for a collaboration research project among ongoing EU (CoMiFin project, contract ID 225407) and US R&amp;D projects focused on the protection of financialcritical infrastructures. The financial bodies as well as businesses and customers worldwide are increasingly relying on financial infrastructures for their financial activities. At the same time, recent financial market stabilization actions have highlighted the opportunity and convenience of collaboration among the different actors of the global financial system. In order to address some threats and vulnerabilities that may affect financial infrastructures, the European Commission has funded in 2008 a research project named CoMiFin that aims to develop a comprehensive approach to enable the protection of the financial infrastructure through the collaboration of different financial actors and providers of critical services. , In the United States, the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC/Sandia) has an on-going project, namely “Global Finance as a Complex Adaptive System”, that aims to develop models of interactions among banks, foreign exchange markets and other financial institutions. Both projects represent the leading edges in the research about financial infrastructures modelling, management and protection in European Union and United States. The cooperation between those two projects aims at establishing a collaboration in order to reinforce convergent results and leverage on complementary activities. CoMiFin project will disseminate its knowledge on cooperative financial systems in US, and will benefit of NISAC/Sandia knowledge about critical infrastructure modeling. NISAC/Sandia project will obtain advantages from the cooperation with CoMiFin because they can validate the models formalizing the complex behaviour of financial critical infrastructures and related businesses activities through the cooperation architectures proposed in CoMiFin.

Keywords: critical infrastructure protection financial comifin middleware
Advanced Fluid Research On Drag reduction In Turbulence Experiments (AFRODITE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1418399.0
EU funding (EUR): 1418399.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A hot topic in today's debate on global warming is drag reduction in aeronautics. The most beneficial concept for drag reduction is to maintain the major portion of the airfoil laminar. Estimations show that the potential drag reduction can be as much as 15%, which would give a significant reduction of NOx and CO emissions in the atmosphere considering that the number of aircraft take offs, only in the EU, is over 19 million per year. An important element for successful flow control, which can lead to a reduced aerodynamic drag, is enhanced physical understanding of the transition to turbulence process. In previous wind tunnel measurements we have shown that roughness elements can be used to sensibly delay transition to turbulence. The result is revolutionary, since the common belief has been that surface roughness causes earlier transition and in turn increases the drag, and is a proof of concept of the passive control method per se. The beauty with a passive control technique is that no external energy has to be added to the flow system in order to perform the control, instead one uses the existing energy in the flow. In this project proposal, AFRODITE, we will take this passive control method to the next level by making it twofold, more persistent and more robust. Transition prevention is the goal rather than transition delay and the method will be extended to simultaneously control separation, which is another unwanted flow phenomenon especially during airplane take offs. AFRODITE will be a catalyst for innovative research, which will lead to a cleaner sky.

Keywords: stability,transition,turbulence,separation,flow control,drag reduction
Service platform for social Aware Mobile and Pervasive computIng (SCAMPI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Switzerland,France,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3640289.0
EU funding (EUR): 2759549.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The future Internet will be characterised by a pervasive diffusion of devices with heterogeneous capabilities and resources. Users will carry personal mobile devices (smartphones, PDAs, cameras) bundling several wireless interfaces, supporting computationally intensive tasks, and powerful tools to produce multimedia content. Other types of devices with networking capabilities will be also available in the environment (sensors, fixed cameras, etc) featuring more specialised resources. The resulting networking environment, seen as a whole, will thus be characterised by a multitude of heterogeneous resources. The goal of SCAMPI is to enable each user to avail not only of the resources available on its own device, but also to opportunistically exploit the other resources of the environment, including those on the other users’ devices, in a trustable and secure way. SCAMPI will thus enable users to compose the functionality of the different resources available in the network, enjoying much richer functionality than what available on their own device. To realise this vision, SCAMPI develops the technical solutions for a service platform in mobile and pervasive opportunistic networks. Service is used as the main abstraction for using resources. We focus on opportunistic networking environments, where the network is formed by the devices spread in the environment, events such as long disconnections and partitions are the rule, and no simultaneous multi-hop paths can be guaranteed. Thus, SCAMPI generalises the pure opportunistic networking concept, and investigates the novel concept of opportunistic resource usage in challenged networks. The “human factor” (information about the social relationships among users) is a key dimension of the project. On one hand, because SCAMPI leverages social awareness to optimise its technical solutions. On the other hand, because SCAMPI will enable novel services enhancing current mobile online social networking applications.

Keywords: future internet,pervasive,opportunistic,service-driven,social-aware,human-centric
Cooperative Situational Awareness for Wireless Networks (COOPNET)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Devices in wireless networks are no longer used only for communicating binary information, but also for navigation and to sense their surroundings. We are currently approaching fundamental limitations in terms of communication throughput, position information availability and accuracy, and decision making based on sensory data. The goal of this proposal is to understand how the cooperative nature of future wireless networks can be leveraged to perform timekeeping, positioning, communication, and decision making, so as to obtain orders of magnitude performance improvements compared to current architectures. Our research will have implications in many fields and will comprise fundamental theoretical contributions as well as a cooperative wireless testbed. The fundamental contributions will lead to a deep understanding of cooperative wireless networks and will enable new pervasive applications which currently cannot be supported. The testbed will be used to validate the research, and will serve as a kernel for other researchers worldwide to advance knowledge on cooperative networks. Our work will build on and consolidate knowledge currently dispersed in different scientific disciplines and communities (such as communication theory, sensor networks, distributed estimation and detection, environmental monitoring, control theory, positioning and timekeeping, distributed optimization). It will give a new thrust to research within those communities and forge relations between them.

Keywords: cooperative networks,peer-to-peer networks
Split architecture carrier class future networks (SPARC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Hungary,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3070488.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000964.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project SPARC “Split architecture carrier grade networks” is aimed at the investigation and implementation of a new split in the architecture of the Future Internet and its building blocks. The design of the new architecture will focus on the split of control, forwarding and data processing elements. The objective of the Split Architecture is a modularisation of logical and physical functionality in order to manage complexity. Split Architecture will have a particular impact on the following areas: (1) Separate optimisation of network and functional building blocks, e.g. application modules, controller software, forwarding engine (2) Reduce dependencies on legacy protocols and design principles (3) Lower market entry barriers (4) Increase market volumes of modules. Carrier network requirements, architecture and related business scenarios will be investigated and evaluated. Based on the result, the key functionalities of controller and network application software will be specified. Unique for the SPARC project is the implementation of scalable carrier class functionalities based on extended OpenFlow concept and practical assessment of them. The proposed concept will accelerate the adoption by supporting interoperability of Future Internet domains with the existing infrastructure. Beyond the typical means of dissemination of EU projects, the prototype will be demonstrated at selected international events with high industry awareness.

Keywords: future internet architecture,split of forwarding and control,carrier class network requirements,software development,scalability assessment
Novel mesenchymal stem cell based therapies for articular cartilage repair (STEMREPAIR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499770.4
EU funding (EUR): 1499770.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Once damaged articular cartilage has a limited reparative capacity and thus lesions often progress to arthritis. This has motivated the development of cell based therapies for the repair of cartilage defects such as autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI). Such therapies are limited in two ways. Firstly, they do not result in the regeneration of hyaline cartilage and hence the repair is temporary. Secondly, widespread adaptation into the clinical setting is impeded by practical issues such as the high fiscal cost and time required for culture expansion of chondrocytes. The applicant is of the belief that both issues cannot currently be addressed by a single new therapy. Therefore the proposed project will put forward separate solutions to both issues. The first theme of the project will determine whether freshly isolated (not culture expanded) infrapatellar fat pad derived cells, embedded in a hydrogel containing microbead-encapsulated growth factors, can used to engineer functional cartilage tissue. A component of this theme will involve magnetic microbead enrichment for cells with surface markers associated with highly chondrogenic cells. Theme 2 of the proposed project will explore an alternative therapy for cartilage defect repair. Specifically, the objective is to tissue engineer in vitro a functional tissue with a zonal structure mimicking that of normal articular cartilage using mesenchymal stem cells. It is hypothesised that such a zonal structure can be generated by controlling the oxygen tension and mechanical environment within the developing tissue. The final theme of the project will be to determine if repairing high-load bearing cartilage defects using either tissue engineering therapies will result in significantly improved repair compared to ACI in a cartilage defect model.

Keywords: mesenchymal stem cells,tissue engineering,cartilage.
Attoelectronics: Steering electrons in atoms and molecules with synthesized waveforms of light (ATTOELECTRONICS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1262000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1262000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In order for electronics to meet the ever raising demands for higher speeds of operation, the dimensions of its basic elements drop continuously. This miniaturization, that will soon meet the dimensions of a single molecule or an atom, calls for new approaches in electronics that take advantage, rather than confront the dominant at these scales quantum laws. Electronics on the scale of atoms and molecules require fields that are able to trigger and to steer electrons at speeds comparable to their intrinsic dynamics, determined by the quantum mechanical laws. For the valence electrons of atoms and molecules, this motion is clocked in tens to thousands of attoseconds, (1 as =10-18 sec) implying the potential for executing basic electronic operations in the PHz regime and beyond. This is approximately ~1000000 times faster as compared to any contemporary technology. To meet this challenging goal, this project will utilize conceptual and technological advances of attosecond science as its primary tools. First, pulses of light, the fields of which can be sculpted and characterized with attosecond accuracy, for triggering as well as for terminating the ultrafast electron motion in an atom or a molecule. Second, attosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet, which can probe and frame-freeze the created electron motion, with unprecedented resolution, and determine the direction and the magnitude of the created currents. This project will interrogate the limits of the fastest electronic motion that light fields can trigger as well as terminate, a few hundreds of attoseconds later, in an atom or a molecule. In this way it aims to explore new routes of atomic and molecular scale electronic switching at PHz frequencies.

Keywords: attosecond science,physics of atoms and molecules,electronics
Many-body physics in gauge fields with ultracold Ytterbium atoms in optical lattices (MANYBO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1099913.0
EU funding (EUR): 1099913.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project, we will investigate the many-body physics of interacting ultracold atoms in presence of strong gauge fields. The practical implementation will use Ytterbium atoms in optical lattices. We will use two atoms in two internal states- the ground state and a long-lived excited state- trapped in suitably designed state-dependent lattice potentials. Coherent coupling between the two states will be used to ``write'' a spatially-dependent phase on the atomic wavefunction, which under suitable conditions will mimic the Aharonov-Bohm phase accumulated by charged particles moving in a gauge field. Using this technique, we will study the behavior of interacting bosonic and fermionic quantum gases in such artificial gauge potentials for different lattice geometries. We will look for strongly correlated states analogous to those observed for 2D electrons experiencing the fractional quantum Hall effect, and study the unusual behavior of their elementary excitations (``anyons''). These novel quantum phases will be primarily characterized using high-sensitivity imaging with single-site resolution, enabling spatially-resolved measurements of the spatial distribution and of its correlation functions. The project will first investigate the simpler case of an Abelian gauge potentials for bosons and fermions, then move to the more complex case of a non-Abelian $SU(2)$ gauge field using two-component fermions. The resulting system can be seen as a laboratory playground to study interacting quantum matter (bosonic or fermionic) coupled to well-defined gauge fields, a situation encountered in many domains of Physics, from high-energies to condensed matter.

Keywords: ultracold quantum gases,gauge fields,optical lattices,quantum hall