Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Trustworthy Wireless Industrial Sensor neTworks (TWISNET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Romania,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3369355.0
EU funding (EUR): 2186249.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Over the past years, the deployment of sensor networks into industrial environments attracted a lot of several business domains. Therefore, an increasing number of applications are developed in several business domains, ranging from defence, public security, energy management and traffic control to health care. Sensor networks are particularly interesting due to their ability to control and monitor physical environments. Nevertheless, several technical (e.g. remote management, deployment) and security (e.g. user’s privacy, data confidentiality and reliability) challenges deter that integration. The present proposal aims at supporting and securing the integration of sensor networks into large scale industrial environments. In the scope of TWIST, we will identify number of use cases, from nuclear plant facility to supply and demand energy management, which illustrate the integration of sensor networks into industrial environments. From those use cases, user’s privacy, node authentication or data reliability appear as the most important security requirements. The TWIST project will provide a platform enabling business application to command and control sensor network in a secure and trusted way. Integrating commercial off-the-shelf or pre-standard devices, that platform will serve as a mediation layer between the sensor network and industrial applications. Empowered with security architecture addressing the major business application security requirements (e.g. user’s privacy, data confidentiality, reliability), that platform will be validated based on the identified use cases. Finally, the scientific and technical outcome of TWIST will be its contribution to standards, such as IETF 6lowpan. These standards will be enhanced to make them capable of addressing the use cases proposed by the project.

Keywords: security,sensors,monitoring,trust,privacy,industrial information systems,wireless sensor networks
All-solid-state quantum electrodynamics in photonic crystals (ALLQUANTUM)

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: Denmark,Denmark
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1199648.4
EU funding (EUR): 1199648.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In quantum electrodynamics a range of fundamental processes are driven by omnipresent vacuum fluctuations. Photonic crystals can control vacuum fluctuations and thereby the fundamental interaction between light and matter. We will conduct experiments on quantum dots in photonic crystals and observe novel quantum electrodynamics effects including fractional decay and the modified Lamb shift. Furthermore, photonic crystals will be explored for shielding sensitive quantum-superposition states against decoherence. Defects in photonic crystals allow novel functionalities enabling nanocavities and waveguides. We will use the tight confinement of light in a nanocavity to entangle a quantum dot and a photon, and explore the scalability. Controlled ways of generating scalable and robust quantum entanglement is the essential missing link limiting quantum communication and quantum computing. A single quantum dot coupled to a slowly propagating mode in a photonic crystal waveguide will be used to induce large nonlinearities at the few-photon level. Finally we will explore a novel route to enhanced light-matter interaction employing controlled disorder in photonic crystals. In disordered media multiple scattering of light takes place and can lead to the formation of Anderson-localized modes. We will explore cavity quantum electrodynamics in Anderson-localized random cavities considering disorder a resource and not a nuisance, which is the traditional view. The main focus of the project will be on optical experiments, but fabrication of photonic crystals and detailed theory will be carried out as well. Several of the proposed experiments will constitute milestones in quantum optics and may pave the way for all-solid-state quantum communication with quantum dots in photonic crystals.

Keywords: quantum electrodynamics,quantum dots,photonic crystals,multiple scattering of light
Ion Spectroscopy of Reaction Intermediates (ISORI)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1294800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1294800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Modern chemistry experiences a fast development of new reactions with dominance in organometallics and recently also organocatalysis. The massive synthetic progress however greatly foreruns mechanistic studies and the deeper insight is often rather limited. This large unexplored area accordingly challenges pioneering research and formulation of new concepts in chemistry. The present research project uses the most powerful tools of several research disciplines and aims towards the investigation of the elementary steps in organic reactions by means of mass spectrometry (MS) in combination with electrospray ionization (ESI) and quantum chemistry with a particular focus on ion spectroscopy. The research will concentrate on elementary reactions in catalysis, e.g. the interaction of catalysts with substrates or bimolecular reactions of reactant/catalyst complexes. A major innovative contribution consists in applying ion spectroscopy for the structural characterization of reaction intermediates using a newly proposed tandem mass spectrometer with a cooled linear ion trap, which will allow two-photon experiments with IR and UV tunable lasers. The experiments will provide specific information about various intermediates and will help to disentangle even complicated mixtures or isomeric ions. In addition, an innovative experiment is designed, in which bimolecular reactivity of isobaric ions will be studied individually. Kinetics of selected reactions in solution will also be followed by ESI/MS. The combined efforts of these different approaches will provide a comprehensive understanding of the reaction mechanisms and will lead to the formulation of new general concepts in organic and organometallic reactivity.

Keywords: ion spectroscopy,mass spectrometry,organocatalysis,organometallics
Quasirandomness in Graphs and Hypergraphs (QRGRAPH)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 742749.06
EU funding (EUR): 742749.06
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A structure is called quasirandom if it has a number of properties that one would expect from a random structure with similar parameters. For instance, a graph is quasirandom if its edges are spread evenly over the vertices. This concept has been remarkably useful in many areas, including Number theory, Graph theory and the design of algorithms. Quasirandomness is a field that is developing very rapidly, but there are many connections and properties that are still unexplored. In my proposal, I will concentrate on 4 important topics where I believe that quasirandomness is crucial to further progress: hypergraph matchings, decompositions of graphs, topological subgraphs as well as sparse graphs and hypergraphs. As an illustration of a matching problem, consider a group of people and construct a graph by drawing an edge if they like each other - a perfect matching splits the people into teams of 2 which can work together. How and when this can be achieved for teams of 2 is well understood, but not for teams of 3 or more people. This can be formulated as a hypergraph matching problem. I believe that quasirandom decompositions can be used to give quite general sufficient conditions which guarantee a perfect hypergraph matching. A better understanding of quasirandomness of sparse hypergraphs would have applications e.g. to checking whether a Boolean formula is satisfiable. This is one of the fundamental problems in Theoretical Computer Science.

Keywords: graph theory,extremal combinatorics,probabilistic methods
Multidisciplinary networking of research communities in FIRE (MYFIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,United Kingdom,Germany,India,Russian Federation,Brazil,China
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 883387.0
EU funding (EUR): 700558.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the MyFIRE project is - the multidisciplinary networking of research communities addressing both technological, socio-economical and environmental aspects of the Future Internet - the coordination of research experience and user-driven open innovation activities establishing common concepts, roadmaps, methodologies and tools, based on standardised approaches. MyFIRE project develops the efficient mechanisms of test beds process to make it more effective and used. MyFIRE identifies the user communities and their needs for improving research value of the huge investments in FIRE testbeds. MyFIRE develops a unique and new approach addressing the optimisation, the design, the set up and the use of the experimental test facilities by increasing awareness on economic data and technical related best practices The MyFIRE project will apply a methodology known and successfully used by its partners in previous support projects. The approach is to create a supportive environment, which enables key stakeholders to focus on the central question, develop consensus and collectively develop and agree on best practices for testing facilities across the scientific community. MyFIRE project will create an environment providing the awareness for the efficient development of experimental facilities in Europe in collaboration with international partners, especially in the BRIC countries. This will reflect the balance between the requirements for strong collaboration and the stakeholders expectations thus achieving the good experimental activities to develop the sustainable testing methodologies able to contribute to European standards development. The framework will be developing through the creation of open dialogue between the ICT networking research communities and experts from key areas of sociology, policy making, economic models and standardisation.

Keywords: fire,test beds,research,technology,innovation process,standardization,multidisciplinary networking,collaboration,bric,socio-economic,environmental,impacts,roadmaps,best practices
Verification of Concurrent Data Structures (VERCORS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1306500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1306500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Increasing performance demands, application complexity and explicit multi-core parallelism makes concurrency omnipresent in software applications. However, due to the complex interferences between threads in an application, concurrent software is also notoriously hard to get correct. Instead of spending large amounts of money to fix incorrect software, formal techniques are needed to reason about the behaviour of concurrent programs. In earlier work, we developed a variant of permission-based separation logic that is particularly suited to reason about multithreaded Java programs with dynamic thread creation and termination, and reentrant locks. The VerCors project will extend expressiveness of the logic, to specify and verify concurrent data structures. The verification logic will be parameterised over the locking policy, so that a high-level specification of the behaviour of a data structure can be reused for different implementations. Thus the implementation of a concurrent data structure can be changed, without affecting correctness of the applications using it. The logic will also be parameterised with concurrency and synchronisation primitives, so that a logic for a different programming language can be defined as an instance of the general logic. It will also be adapted to reason about programs with benign data races, i.e., data races where the same value is written simultaneously by different threads. Also techniques to generate part of the specifications automatically will be developed. Finally, the logic will be adapted to a distributed setting, where data consistency between the different sites has to be maintained. All results will be integrated in a tool set that generates and proves proof obligations automatically. It will be validated on realistic case studies.

Keywords: program verification,logic,concurrency
Biomass to chemicals: Catalysis design from first principles for a sustainable chemical industry (BIO2CHEM-D)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496199.6
EU funding (EUR): 1496199.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The use of renewable feedstocks by the chemical industry is fundamental due to both the depletion of fossil resources and the increasing pressure of environmental concerns. Biomass can act as a sustainable source of organic industrial chemicals; however, the establishment of a renewable chemical industry that is economically competitive with the present oil-based one requires the development of new processes to convert biomass-derived compounds into useful industrial materials following the principles of green chemistry. To achieve these goals, developments in several fields including heterogeneous catalysis are needed. One of the ways to accelerate the discovery of new potentially active, selective and stable catalysts is the massive use of computational chemistry. Recent advances have demonstrated that Density Functional Theory coupled to ab initio thermodynamics, transition state theory and microkinetic analysis can provide a full view of the catalytic phenomena. The aim of the present project is thus to employ these well-tested computational techniques to the development of a theoretical framework that can accelerate the identification of new catalysts for the conversion of biomass derived target compounds into useful chemicals. Since compared to petroleum-based materials-biomass derived ones are multifuncionalized, the search for new catalytic materials and processes has a strong requirement in the selectivity of the chemical transformations. The main challenges in the project are related to the high functionalization of the molecules, their liquid nature and the large number of potentially competitive reaction paths. The requirements of specificity and selectivity in the chemical transformations while keeping a reasonably flexible framework constitute a major objective. The work will be divided in three main work packages, one devoted to the properties of small molecules or fragments containing a single functional group; the second addresses competition in multiple functionalized molecules; and third is dedicated to the specific transformations of two molecules that have already been identified as potential platform generators. The goal is to identify suitable candidates that could be synthetized and tested in the Institute facilities.

Keywords: density functional theory,microkinetics,biomass,catalyst design,selectivity,activity,stability
Coordination and Support Action for Global RFID-related Activities and Standardisation - 2 (CASAGRAS2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Brazil,Korea, Republic of,France,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,China,Russian Federation,Malaysia,United States,India,Japan
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1037632.0
EU funding (EUR): 954247.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The need for authoritative, on-going international cooperation in respect of the European agenda for taking the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) to reality is pivotal in putting it into the global context it demands. CASAGRAS2 provides the necessary conduit for taking the next steps in international collaboration. CASAGRAS2 identifies a much broader base for international cooperation, with partners from Brazil, mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and USA. The European partners are from Belgium, France, Germany, Russia and the UK. CASAGRAS2 also identifies a group of experts to participate in the project that will target stakeholders based in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, USA and Russia. The coordination and support action plan for CASAGRAS2 draws upon the outcomes of CASAGRAS1 and the recommendations that specifically align with the targets identified in Objective ICT-2009-1.3: ICT Internet of Things and Enterprise environment. Moreover, it seeks to contribute to the European research cluster for IoT development represented by CERP-IoT, offering an important holistic input characterised by the generic nature of the work packages in respect of architecture, identification and data capture protocols, applications and services framework, R&amp;D roadmap, education and training and the important multi-dimensional features of governance; all with respect to international deliberation. Each component of these work package activities will be developed in cooperation with international partners through the international platform work package. Outcomes will be delivered through a dissemination infrastructure, exploiting a range of delivery platforms and serving a wide range of project, stakeholder and end-user delivery needs, with substantial foundations for innovation and enterprise in respect of applications, services and products, and socio-economic benefit.

Keywords: rfid,international co-operation,architecture,governance,aidc,standards
Computational Methods for Fusion Technology (COMFUS)

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: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1320000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1320000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The simulation of multidisciplinary applications use very often a combination of heterogeneous and disjoint numerical techniques that are hard to put together by the user, and whose mathematical foundation is obscure. An example of this situation is the numerical modeling of the physical processes taking place in nuclear fusion reactors. This problem, which can be modeled by a set of partial differential equations, is extremely challenging. It involves (essentially) fluid mechanics, electromagnetics, thermal radiation and neutronics. The most common numerical approaches to each of these problems separately are very different and their coupling is a hard and inefficient task. Our main objective in this proposal is to develop and analyze a unified numerical framework based on stabilized finite element methods based on multi-scale decompositions capable to simulate all the physical processes taking place in nuclear fusion technology. The project aims at giving a substantial contribution to the numerical approximation of every physical process as well as efficient coupling techniques for the multiphysics problems. The development of the numerical formulations we propose and their application require mastering different physics, designing numerical approximations for these different physical problems, analyzing mathematically the resulting methods, implementing them in an efficient way in parallel platforms and understanding the results and drawing conclusions, both from a physical and from an engineering perspective. Advanced research in physical modeling, numerical approximations, mathematical analysis and computer implementation are the keys to meeting these objectives. The successful implementation of the project will provide advanced numerical techniques for the simulation of the processes taking place in a fusion reactor. A deliverable product of the project will be a unified finite element software package that will be an extremely valuable tool.

Keywords: computational mechanics,finite element methods,fusion technology,scientific computing