Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Transcription, summarisation and documentation of meetings using advanced speech technologies, indexing and browsing capabilities (DOCUMEET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500343.51
EU funding (EUR): 1147925.14
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Meetings are vital to all organisations, yet they are often not as effective as they could be. In SMEs, meeting outcomes and the ability to act upon them, are of particular importance and may have crucial impact on the future of the company. It is vital that SMEs have the adequate tools to exploit the knowledge and decisions generated in meetings. However, recording meeting minutes is expensive in terms of human resources, and, minutes are rarely distributed properly or integrated into the company’s knowledge base. This means key ideas are lost, decisions fail to be followed up and meetings have to be repeated. DocuMeet aims to develop an affordable automatic tool to overcome these hurdles. DocuMeet is a user-friendly SW/HW platform that will allow organisations to better manage their meetings, and to easily document, disseminate, search and implement the conclusions of each meeting. DocuMeet will automatically record, transcribe, summarise and document meetings, using a dedicated recording unit, advanced Automatic Speech Recognition technologies, speaker adaptation and a new summarisation paradigm. DocuMeet will support the complete life cycle of a meeting (preparation, invitation, execution, documentation and follow-up) as well as its integration in the organisation’s knowledge base. Although various products in the market support transcription or meeting management, there is no comprehensive, reliable and affordable solution providing automatic meeting documentation. While the potential market for DocuMeet includes any organisation that holds meetings, the product will initially target meeting room providers and business centres. These markets are represented by the SMEs within the consortium. Each SME will not only be able to integrate DocuMeet in their meeting rooms and into their service offering, but also to generate profits worth over €5M to the consortium after 5 years.

Keywords: knowledge management,speech-to-text,automatic transcription,automatic summarisation,meeting minutes,meeting summary,meeting browser,business centres,documentation
Advertising monitoring system development for outdoor media analytics (ADMOS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Hungary,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1258303.2
EU funding (EUR): 942000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of ADMOS aim is to develop a compact monitoring device that can be installed additionally on public media interfaces, which is able to provide information about the displayed advertisement, and to give feedback about the obtained contact number and the pattern attributes. The ADMOS system will consist of two cameras (one facing the board and the other facing the public) integrated together with a mobile communication unit so the collected information can be monitored through the internet. The objective is to gain detailed information about the composition of the sample, what means to define the age, gender of the people walking by and whether the person has noticed the advertisement. The system will be controlled through a software that will be able to analyse the collected data and present the results for the system owner (according to a day/week/month/year campaign). The system will enable the user to check the media device 0-24 h and send automatic alerts in case of a failure. As a result ADMOS will offer the user (both advertiser and outdoor media owner) a tool that can give an objective and accurate analysis of the audience for any advertising board (digital or paper based). In addition the system will be able to monitor the board as well assuring the owner and the advertiser that the right images are displayed. The benefits of this technology will mean that more effective and directed advertising can be achieved (reducing unnecessary and ineffective marketing).

Keywords: advertising,media monitoring,pattern classification,outdoor monitoring,out-of-home,eyes on measurement,pattern recognition,audience measurement,billboard,medium tracking
Development of an environmentally friendly and cost-effective modular hydraulic rock-splitter system for efficiently breaking large rocks for an improved use in stone quarry extraction (HYDRASPLIT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Italy,Sweden,Sweden,Greece,Poland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1491135.44
EU funding (EUR): 1104000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

In 2007 EU countries represented about 40% of global natural stone production, bringing Europe as one of world’s largest produces and exporters of natural stone. European countries like Italy, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, and Spain, are important players while other European countries are in positively growing. The European sector consisted of 60,000 companies and employing a total of more than 500,000 workers is strongly dominated by SMEs, being more than 90% and having less than 50 employees each. In spite of its leading role on the global market, Europe has been loosing power due to non-European aggressive trading competition bringing a decrease in employment of more than 15% in the last 6 years. At extraction only 20-25% of extracted rocks are accepted, meeting the requirements for being further processed into a cost-efficient product. This quantity constitutes a major environmental impact because the discarded rocks (75-80%) are considered unprofitable to process into valuable products. Within this framework, the need for a reliable and cost-efficient extractive tool is of great importance for the competitiveness of the European quarrying industry. This project is based on two patents and will involve the development of a novel cost-efficient and environmentally friendly system which exploits pressurized water to efficiently split large rocks during quarry extraction activities. The system will be designed to bring several advantages with respect to explosives and other extraction technologies, to potentially replace them thanks to its higher productivity and extracted rock quality. The system will be suitable for different rock types and could be used in different environmental and vibration sensitive areas without damaging the surrounding rock or causing excessive disturbance to the environment during the splitting operations. A prototype of the system will be assembled and tested to evaluate and optimise its performance in real working conditions.

Keywords: materials engineering,rock behaviour,stone/tool interaction
Adaptive laser cladding system with variable spot sizes. (ALAS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Belgium,Slovenia,Germany,Czechia,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1471870.93
EU funding (EUR): 1076000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The ALAS project aims to shorten the gap between research and economy with latest research activities in the fields of optics and laser processing, by providing an innovative, adaptive laser cladding system with variable spot size to end users. Thus, Europe’s SMEs will be empowered to strengthen their global market position as the productivity will increase due to shortened setup times, flexibility gain and controlled quality. The main features of the ALAS system are: - Simple interfacing with the operator Adapted to complex geometries, thanks to track width variation Real-Time laser power control to avoid heat accumulation in the part to be processed Compact design that minimize the safety laser requirements of the traditional laser cells Provision to interface with the rest of elements of the laser cell The working plan has been designed to attain the goal of the present project. To develop an adaptive tool for laser cladding, this project has been divided in 8 WP including the RTD task as well a dissemination and management WPs. The work will comprise: - The design of an adaptive optical path : to be able to vary the track width - The development of a laser cladding monitoring and control system: it will be based on a vision system that will check the real melt pool dimension and act on laser power - The development of the control interface of the ALAS system: which will be user friendly and easy to use. The coordinator will have the responsibility to carry on in good way this project. Regarding the impact of ALAS, it will yield: Higher processing flexibility and productivity An increase of the market share for the end users Improved repairing sector competitiveness. Improved the working conditions of operators. New opportunities for high-technology products, for which European industry has competitive advantages, like optical design, system solutions for laser cladding or other laser processes

Keywords: laser processing,hardware-based control,adaptive cladding system,monitoring and control,flexible optical path.
Bridge Safety Monitoring (BRIDGEMON)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Slovenia,Netherlands,Poland,Ireland,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1070967.28
EU funding (EUR): 804993.18
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Much of the world’s bridges are old and need to be periodically repaired or replaced. However, premature replacement wastes money and non-renewable resources. BridgeMon is led by three SMEs who are working to extend the lives of existing bridges. They will develop bridge monitoring technologies to prove they are safe and can be kept in service for longer, thus ensuring more sustainable road asset management. A bridge is safe when the stresses due to traffic load are less than its resistance to that load. Bridge monitoring is gathering information about both sides of this inequality, traffic load and bridge resistance and the BridgeMon SEMs cover both. It is led by Cestel, a world leader in Bridge Weigh-in-Motion (WIM). Cestel have partnered with two SMEs that specialise in monitoring the resistance of bridges to load, one for the road sector and one for the railway sector. The novel theory of Moving Force Identification (MFI) will be applied in bridge WIM system to increase accuracy considerably and extend it to other types of bridge. An advance on MFI will be used to extend WIM to railway bridges and to gain additional information on the resistance of bridges to load. MFI and other improvements will increase the accuracy of the truck weight data to Class A, i.e., to the point where 95% of results have errors of less than 5%, a level not available today with any WIM technology. In the area of structural health monitoring BridgMon will develop and implement tools for improved bridges assessment, including modules to evaluate fatigue life of steel bridges and structural health of railway bridges, both combined with Bridge WIM (traffic loading). The new technologies, coupled with partnership arrangements with Cestel, will give the other SMEs Unique Selling Points in the bridge resistance monitoring markets. The result gives a potential for massive growth in these SMEs in the coming 5 years, in both turnover and employment.

Keywords: structural helath monitoring,weigh-in-motion,traffic loading,bridge safety
Exploiting User-Generated Geospatial Content Streams (GEOSTREAM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Germany,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1251580.0
EU funding (EUR): 911000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

With the proliferation of the Internet as the primary medium for data publishing and information exchange, we have seen an explosion in the amount of online content available on the Web. In addition to professionally-produced material being offered free on the Internet, the public has also been allowed and encouraged to make its content available online to everyone. The increasing popularity of open online communities and social-networking sites, image and video sharing portals, discussion boards, and community wikis has meant a dramatic drop in the barrier-to-entry for casual computer users to generate and upload their content on the Web. The volumes of such User-Generated Content (UGC) are already staggering and constantly growing. In the geospatial context, GeoWeb 2.0 is the geographic embodiment of the Web 2.0 moniker for the next generation Web, i.e., the next generation of geographic information publishing, discovery and use. The objective of CROWDIES is nothing less than to provide means for the channeling of the GeoWeb phenomenon towards the specific needs of the SMEs involved in this project. Specifically, the focus of the project will be on (i) smart data mining and fusion mechanism for User-Generated Geocontent, i.e., to tap into the vast amounts of such content existing on the Web and derive meaningful datasets from it, (ii) tools that support the user in the authoring of such data, i.e., based on a specific SME needs, create Web-based geospatial content authoring tools that allow the inclusion of as many users as possible to create content, and (iii) a means to publish such content and provide related services on the Web as well as on mobile devices. The latter case will lead to the creation of live mobile guides, in which users will create the live content shared with a larger community. Overall, GEOSTREAM will provide the participating SMEs with the tools to be able to turn the oncoming geospatial data tsunami into a compelling business advantage.

Keywords: geospatial data,user-generated content,mobile guides,creative commons
Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology (CCQCN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5383242.99
EU funding (EUR): 4811000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology focuses on theoretical, experimental and computational research in Condensed Matter Physics and applications. The majority of its members are professors of the Department of Physics of the University of Crete, a leading, research oriented Department in Greece. The Center aims at advancing individual and collective research, perform collaborative work in broad areas such as magnetics and magnetic devices, correlated electronic systems, metamaterials, graphene, complex systems, field theory, nanoscience, nanotechnology, etc and transform the unit into a world class establishment for condensed matter physics, the physics of complex systems and materials applications. The Center will upgrade significantly its already good experimental low temperature and micro-nanoelectronics facilities while, additionally, it will establish a state of the art computational facility where competitive computational research work may be performed. The large number of young experienced researchers to be hired will facilitate as well as advance collaborative research work in the focus areas. The interaction and twinning with top European institutions and the strong visitors and conference organization program will enable major advancements in research and turn the facility into a Center of Excellence with long term viability.

Keywords: complex electronic materials,quantum metamaterials,magnetics,graphene,nanotechnology
Building Capacity for a Centre of Excellence for EO-based monitoring of Natural Disasters (BEYOND)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2886732.0
EU funding (EUR): 2305650.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

BEYOND relies on existing state-of-the-art and interdisciplinary collaboration with twining organizations highly esteemed in the European Research Area, for Building Capacity for a Centre of Excellence dedicated to Natural Disaster Management in southeastern Europe, including European Balkan countries, with a potential to expand to an even wider geographic area through harmonizing the observational capabilities available in the partners. BEYOND a) sets up integrated observational solutions allowing different monitoring networks (space borne and in-situ) to cooperate in a complementary, unified and coordinated manner, b) create archives and data bases of long series of observations and higher level products, and c) make the observations and products available for exploitation with state-of-the-art science and models, hence providing the involved stakeholders, scientists and/or institutional users, with substantial information for down streaming to local needs for handling natural and human induced disasters. To accomplish this goals BEYOND is structured around 6 Work Packages namely, WP1 “Project Management”, WP2 “Personnel Recruitment”, WP3 “Infrastructure and capacity building”, WP4 “Dissemination”, WP5 “Exchange of know-how and experience”, and WP6 “Exploitation and Intellectual Property development”. It is a 36 month project building upon, a) the collaboration with high-level scientific organizations from Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Norway, Serbia, Swiss, and Turkey, and b) the support and participation of ESA, and WMO international organisations. BEYOND envisages for the recruitment of new researchers, and establishes a detailed exploitation and targeted dissemination plan through workshops, publications, web portal, etc. BEYOND covers all the priorities defined by the work program, substantially contributing to human, institutional and infrastructure capacity building.

Keywords: centre of excellence for disaster management - se europe and balkans - harmonizing space and in-situ observational networks - knowledge exchange - infrastructure and capacity building - ipr
Researchers’ Night 2012 in the Faroe Islands (RN 2012)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Faroe Islands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-NIGHT, 2012)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 51228.0
EU funding (EUR): 25000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project will bring together researchers and the general public in an informal and festive manner under the banner of the Researchers' Night 2012. The objective is to broaden the public's understanding of the effect and importance that research has in our lives and to address possible stereotypical thought about researchers and their work. This will be done by arranging a range of activities on September 28 2012, which facilitate interaction between researchers and the public. A number of activities are planned to accomplish this end in conjunction with what can be considered as the main attraction of the Night where the musical group Orka (Energy) will perform their special geological-inspired music. Among the other activities we find of special importance the European Corner centrally placed in the venue, where the European aspect of the event will be highlighted and promotional material on European Research will be presented. Science Café, Science Show, two guided tours, Scientists in the Square and announcements of winners of a science video and research dissemination competition are also among the activities that will lead to the accomplishment of the objective of the event. To ensure that a maximum number of people will be aware of the festivities on the Researchers Night a comprehensive awareness campaign will be planned. A Researchers’ Night Newspaper will be distributed to all households in the Faroe Islands. Other awareness activates such as posters, banners, press coverage, social media and internet facilitation will also work towards the aim of ensuring as many as possible of the Researchers’ Night. After the event an impact assessment will be conducted for the participants. A public assessment will be made of the impact of the awareness campaign. To manage the project the sole applicant has set up a management team that will ensure a smooth and effective implementation.

Keywords: public understanding of researchers and research,promotion of research careers,role of science in society,celebration of science