Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Beyond Next Generation Mobile Broadband (BUNGEE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,France,Belgium,Israel,Belgium,United Kingdom,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4721029.0
EU funding (EUR): 2975953.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

An IMT-Advanced key requirement for next generation systems is the support for unprecedentedly high throughputs per user.This implies an infrastructure –composed of access and backhaul network–capable of supporting the resulting high capacity densities.The current next-generation technologies LTE and WiMAX support a mere 100Mbps/Km2 in ordinary cellular deployment.This is insufficient, in particular in dense urban areas where the market demand for wireless broadband access is the highest,thereby seriously jeopardising the wide scale uptake of IMT-Advanced technologies. BuNGee’s goal is to dramatically improve the overall infrastructure capacity density of the mobile network by an order of magnitude (10x) to an ambitious goal of 1Gbps/Km2 anywhere in the cell –thereby removing the barrier to beyond next-generation networks deployment.To achieve this objective,the project will target the following breakthroughs: -unprecedented joint design of access and backhaul over licensed and license exempt spectrum; -unconventional below-rooftop backbone solutions exploiting natural radio isolations; -beyond next-generation networked and distributed MIMO & interference techniques; -protocol suite facilitating autonomous ultra-high capacity deployment. To evaluate the effectiveness of these approaches,a high capacity radio cell prototype will be built targeting over 1Gbps/Km2.It shall serve as proof-of-concept in real life scenarios and demonstrate the superiority of BuNGee’s architecture for mobile networks. The developed technologies will be proposed as new standards for high capacity radio access networks,mainly to ETSI BRAN and IEEE 802.16 and/or LTE-Advanced,to maximise the exploitation benefits in Europe and globally. This strong consortium,composed of a network operator, equipment,antenna and chip vendors,research institutes,universities and a consulting firm is committed to achieve these goals and serve as a baseline for beyond next generation ultra-high capacity systems.

Keywords: backhaul network,capacity density,wimax,mimo,wireless,antenna
Spectrum Aggregation and Multi-User MIMO: Real-world Impact (SAMURAI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,France,France,Denmark,Denmark,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4596082.0
EU funding (EUR): 3094389.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Next generation cellular wireless systems will require data rates which are one order of magnitude higher than the ones provided by current systems. One way to improve the rates is to increase the bandwidth. Unfortunately, spectrum is a fragmented resource and large bands of frequencies are unavailable to one single operator. Therefore, Spectrum Aggregation (SA) represents an opportunity to overcome this limitation, putting together several non-contiguous frequency channels to benefit from a larger bandwidth in a single communication link. Conceptually simple, this idea brings significant technical challenges in developing system and user equipments. Data rates can also be increased by improving the spectral efficiency. It can be achieved using MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) systems. Single-User MIMO (SU-MIMO) systems have proved their potential and are already included in several standards, such as WiFi, WiMAX and 3GPP LTE. Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) has been introduced in order to exploit the same benefits also at system level in multiple access systems. Although much research has been done, practical implementations are still unavailable. The goal of the SAMURAI project is to demonstrate the benefits of MU-MIMO and SA in real-world scenarios and at the system level. To achieve these targets, real-time testbeds will be set up for both schemes. In addition, the benefits of combining the two techniques will be investigated. Practical challenges like user scheduling, imperfect channel state information, and hardware/software implementation issues will be addressed. SAMURAI will push the state-of-the-art in wireless cellular communications. Proof-of-concepts and system simulations will provide recommendations for technical choices in standardization bodies and serve as a stimulus for the wireless industry. Finally, the project will work towards establishing Europe as a major player for next generation wireless systems.

Keywords: mu-mimo,spectrum aggregation,samurai,real-world,scenario,system level analysis,wireless communication system of the future,lte advance,wimax evolutions
Healthcare Interoperability Testing and Conformance Harmonization (HITCH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Germany,France,France,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 613889.0
EU funding (EUR): 500000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

“eHealth, the beneficial application of ICT-based systems and solutions, has been identified as potentially the key enabler to fundamentally improve patient safety in clinical contexts” . However, with ICT becoming a mission critical component of healthcare processes, the interoperability of the multitude of systems that together form the eHealth infrastructure of a hospital, region or nation, is becoming a critical factor for a safe and efficient delivery of care. Vendors, users, patients and authorities need to agree on practical solutions to validate and assert the interoperability of eHealth systems by means of appropriate testing and labelling/certification schemes The aim of the HITCH (Healthcare Interoperability Testing and Conformance Harmonisation) project is to involve major stakeholders being already at the heart of Interoperability issues for defining and agreeing on a roadmap to establish a foundation for the Interoperability Conformance Testing of information systems in the field of Healthcare. The project will evaluate existing approaches and propose an achievable Interoperability Conformance Testing foundation deployable starting in 2011. Potential gaps in existing initiatives will be identified, as well as evolutions that should be undertaken over the next five years. The roadmap will thereby identify specific needs in terms of process improvements and tools development along with supporting research. The initial elements of this roadmap will be evaluated in a real-world setting with actual healthcare IT applications, with the goal to verify the immediate next steps of the proposed Interoperability Conformance Testing Roadmap and establish a good level of credibility from to the major stakeholders: vendors, users, patients and authorities.

Keywords: interoperability,e-health,semantic,test,conformance,standard,patient safety
Cognitive Workflow Capturing and Rendering with On-Body Sensor Networks (COGNITO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4232648.0
EU funding (EUR): 3232177.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The automatic capture, recognition and rendering of human sensory-motor activities represent essential technologies in many diverse applications, ranging from 3D virtual manuals through to training simulators and novel computer games. Although capture systems already exist on the market, they focus primarily on capturing raw motion data, matched to a coarse model of the human body. Moreover, the recorded data is organised as a single cinematic sequence, with little or no reference to the underlying task activity or workflow patterns exhibited by the human subject. The result is data that is difficult to use in all but the most straightforward of applications, requiring extensive editing and user manipulation, especially when cognitive understanding of human action is a key concern, such as in virtual manuals or training simulators.The aim of the COGNITO project is to address these issues by advancing both the scope and the capability of human activity capture, recognition and rendering. Specifically, we propose to develop novel techniques that will allow cognitive workflow patterns to be analysed, learnt, recorded and subsequently rendered in a user-adaptive manner. Our concern will be to map and closely couple both the afferent and efferent channels of the human subject, enabling activity data to be linked directly to workflow patterns and task completion. We will focus particularly on tasks involving the hand manipulation of objects and tools due to their importance in many industrial applications.

Keywords: body sensor network,workflow recovery,activity monitoring
A unIfied framework for multimodal content SEARCH (I-SEARCH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,France,Italy,Ireland,Italy,France,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4549796.0
EU funding (EUR): 3073328.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

I-SEARCH aims to create a novel unified framework for multimedia and multimodal content indexing, sharing, search and retrieval. I-SEARCH will be the first search engine able to handle specific types of multimedia (text, 2D image, sketch, video, 3D objects, audio and combination of the above) and multimodal content (gestures, face expressions, eye movements) along with real world information (GPS, temperature, time, weather sensors, RFID objects,), which can be used as queries and retrieve any available relevant content of any of the aforementioned types and from any end-user access device. Towards this aim, I-SEARCH proposes the research and development of an innovative Rich Unified Content Description (RUCoD). RUCoD will consist of a multi-layered structure, which will integrate descriptors of all of the above types of content, real-world information, even non-verbal yet implicit, emotional cues and social descriptors, in order to better express what the user wants to retrieve. Another objective of I-SEARCH is the development of intelligent content interaction mechanisms, including personal, social-based and recommendation-based relevance feedback and novel interoperable multimodal interfaces. This will result in a highly user-centric search engine, able to deliver to the end-users only the content of interest, satisfying their information needs and preferences, which is expected to dramatically improve end-user experience and offer new market opportunities. Furthermore, I-SEARCH introduces the use of advanced visual analytic technologies for search results presentation in order to facilitate their fast and easy interpretation and also to support optimal results presentation under various contexts (i.e. user profile, end-user terminal, available network bandwidth, interaction modality preference, etc.). Finally, the search engine will be dynamically adapted to end-user’s device, which will vary from a simple mobile phone to a high-performance PC.

Keywords: networked search and retrieval,visualisation,interaction,mobile
MUltimodal Neuroprostesis for Daily Upper limb Support (MUNDUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Austria,Switzerland,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4327421.0
EU funding (EUR): 3350000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering direct interaction capability of severely motor impaired people based on arm reaching and hand function. Most of the solutions provided by Assistive Technology for supporting independent life of severely impaired people completely substitute the natural interaction with the world, reducing their acceptance. Human dignity and self-esteem are more preserved when restoring missing functions with devices safeguarding self perception and first hand interaction while guaranteeing independent living. MUNDUS uses any residual control of the end-user, thus it is suitable for long term utilization in daily activities. Sensors, actuators and control solutions adapt to the level of severity or progression of the disease allowing the disabled person to interact voluntarily with naturality and at maximum information rate. MUNDUS targets are the neurodegenerative and genetic neuromuscular diseases and high level Spinal Cord Injury. MUNDUS is an adaptable and modular facilitator, which follows its user along the progression of the disease, sparing training time and allowing fast adjustment to new situations. MUNDUS controller integrates multimodal information collected by electromyography, bioimpedance, head/eye tracking and eventually brain computer interface commands. MUNDUS actuators modularly combine a lightweight and non-cumbersome exoskeleton, compensating for arm weight, a biomimetic wearable neuroprosthesis for arm motion and small and lightweight mechanisms to assist the grasp of collaborative functional objects identified by radio frequency identification. The lightness and non cumbersomeness will be crucial to applicability in the home/work environment. Specific scenarios in the home and work environment will be used to assess, subjectively and quantitatively, the usability of the system by real end-users in the living laboratory facility.

Keywords: nmes,residual emg,neuroprosthesis,passive arm exoskeleton,self adaptive control,bnci,severe disability,user-acceptability
Logistics Industry Coalition for Long-term, ICT-based Freight Transport Efficiency (LOGISTICS FOR LIFE)

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: Finland,Germany,Sweden,Greece,Austria,Germany,Norway,China,Italy,Austria,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1949919.0
EU funding (EUR): 1420000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

Logistics for LIFE brings together leading logistic companies, technology providers and research organizations working on innovative ICT solutions to ensure long-term sustainability of the logistic industry by increasing its operational efficiency. The project is motivated by freight transport heavy reliance on fossil fuel, its contribution to CO2 emissions and by its impact on the environment and quality of life. These issues are counterbalanced by considerations specific to the logistics industry, where attempts to direct cargo towards environment friendly transport modes are failing to meet expectations and firms face problems of volatile fuel prices, infrastructures saturation and low margins typical of a commoditized sector. Logistics for LIFE will drive European ICT for Transport research in the direction of making logistic operations more efficient, and thus more environmentally friendly, financially and socially sustainable on the long term. The following results will be achieved: 1) a multi-disciplinary network pursuing efficiency-related initiatives within EU, international or industrial programs, and attracting key stakeholders through a dedicated Forum; 2) a reference framework linking the stakeholders’ efficiency requirements to sustainability strategic objectives and to relevant ICT solutions; 3) a strategic roadmap including concrete actions and strategies for ICT solutions implementation; 4) coordinated dissemination activities and 5) a common working platform aimed at the community of users and researchers pursuing ICT-based logistics sustainability. The Logistics for LIFE Consortium is formed by 19 partners including global leaders in logistics, vehicle and technology manufacturing, ICT companies and research organizations representing some of the major initiatives and research projects in the field. International Cooperation partners from China, US and Eastern Europe are part of the Consortium or expressed their interest in Forum participation.

Keywords: energy efficiency,intelligent transport systems,green logistics
Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (ACCURAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Latvia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Greece,Croatia,Germany,Romania,Germany,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3552032.0
EU funding (EUR): 2825000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Lack of sufficient linguistic resources for many languages and domains currently is one of the major obstacle in further advancement of automated translation. The main goal of the ACCURAT research is to find, analyze and evaluate novel methods how comparable corpora can compensate for this shortage of linguistic resources to improve MT quality significantly for under-resourced languages and narrow domains. The ACCURAT project will provide researchers and developers with novel methodology and fully functional model for exploiting comparable corpora to increase translation quality of existing and emerging MT systems. We will determine criteria to measure the comparability of texts in comparable corpora. Methods for automatic acquisition of a comparable corpus from the Web will be analyzed and evaluated. Advanced techniques will be elaborated to extract lexical, terminological and other linguistic data from comparable corpora to provide training and customization data for MT. Improvements from applying acquired data will be measured against baseline results from MT systems and validated in practical applications. ACCURAT will provide novel approaches to achieve high quality MT translation for a number of under-resourced EU languages (e.g. Estonian, Croatian) and to adapt existing MT technologies to narrow domains (e.g. automotive engineering), significantly increasing the language and domain coverage of MT. ACCURAT methods will be universal and adaptable to new languages and domains. The project consortium has an optimum balance of world-class researchers in all key research areas and industry SME participants ensuring maximum orientation to exploitation needs. The ACCURAT will provide contribution for expected impacts of the Call by providing methods for automatic acquisition and annotation of language resources, removing gaps in language coverage and increasing quality of translation and providing methods for automated translation to make it more adaptive.

Keywords: machine translation,linguistic resources,under-resourced languages,comparable texts,machine translation systems,statistical machine translation,automatic acquisition of comparable corpus
Flexible and spectrum-Aware Radio Access through Measurements and modelling In cognitive Radio systems (FARAMIR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Spain,Sweden,United Kingdom,Greece,France,North Macedonia,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5529324.0
EU funding (EUR): 3457377.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the FARAMIR project is to research and develop techniques for increasing the radio environmental and spectral awareness of future wireless systems. The proposed holistic approach starts from the development of spectrum sensing hardware investigating how such functionality could be efficiently integrated to handheld devices. In the next step, we will combine measurements performed at multiple nodes in a cooperative fashion on a network level, not only to identify spectrum opportunities but also to localize any sources of primary transmissions or interference. This information will be fused to a radio environmental map, which provides the basis for system optimisation. Channel allocation, interference avoidance, and protocol parameter configuration are only selected examples for potential optimisation problems. The consortium will take a practical approach and prototype most of the project innovations showing their real-world value in radio resource optimisation. Additionally, extensive spectrum measurements will be conducted at several locations in Europe to provide a valuable basis for spectrum modelling and increase the understanding how spectrum use changes in time, frequency, and space. This task will be implemented in an open access fashion not only enabling the community to access the measurement results but also allowing third-parties to benefit from the FARAMIR measurement setups. The results will naturally improve the design of the radio environmental map and the pursued optimisation solutions. The high quality consortium possesses a unique combination of expertise from across the whole value chain of the wireless business starting from a semiconductor research institute, via an infrastructure and two complementary device manufacturers, to a network operator and a regulator, some of whom already participate in pertinent standardisation work. Additionally, four well-acclaimed university partners join their efforts in FARAMIR.

Keywords: wireless communication,dynamic spectrum access,spectrum sensing,radio environmental awareness,optimisation,protoyping