Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of critical and emerging technologies for the elaboration of a security research agenda (ETCETERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security Research coordination and structuring
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Spain,Spain,Germany,Austria,France,Netherlands,Germany,France,Italy,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1996726.4
EU funding (EUR): 1512742.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The ETCETERA project is a contribution to effective and efficient security research planning on a European level. Its aim is three-fold: 1. to develop novel methodologies for future strategic research planning, 2. to identify risks and potential benefits associated with Critical Dependencies and Emerging Technologies with security implications, and 3. to recommend research plans to deal with these risks and potential benefits. The two issues raised in the topic are treated in two separate but interrelated project strands: Strand 1 deals with Critical Technologies and Dependencies. In a process that involves technical experts, end-users, and other stakeholders, technologies that are indispensable for security today and in the near future are identified. In a next step, an analysis is performed to evaluate in which of these critical technologies member states of the EU are dependent on non-EU contributions. A research agenda to alleviate these critical dependencies through alternative technological solutions will be developed. Methods for the detection and elimination of Critical Dependencies are developed and described. Strand 2 looks further into the future. Technologies that are now "emerging" will be scrutinised to evaluate future security implications. A research agenda to keep up, and in some cases take the lead, in these technological areas will be developed to avoid future critical dependencies of the EU. Several well established and some novel methods will be combined to perform these tasks. The methods are compared and/or assessed to improve future strategic research planning. ETCETERA will thus both provide solutions for current problems in strategic security research planning, and develop methodologies for future research planning efforts.

Keywords: strategic research planning
Service Delivery & Service Level Management in Grid Infrastructures (GSLM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 606598.0
EU funding (EUR): 474999.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Service Level Management (SLM) is considered a vital discipline in the management of today's information technology infrastructures. The widespread and commonly approved international standard for IT Service Management, ISO/IEC 20000, describes the objective of Service Level Management as follows: To define, agree, record and manage levels of service. All of these aspects are crucial when bringing the new e-Infrastructure technologies, processes and services to new user communities. Only by having a framework for establishing a common understanding of these four aspects of the services provided and used, can the e-Infrastructure maintain a sufficient “customer satisfaction” on sustainable level. However, SLM has not been successfully implemented and deployed in any of the next generation IT infrastructures (e-infrastuctures). To remedy this situation, grid environments are seen as a very promising starting point. By establishing grid-wide service catalogs and service agreements between customers and a virtual grid provider, grid services can be delivered in a more deterministic fashion. As the cross-organisational collaboration models are evolving rapidly in the Grid domain through the EGI initiative, gSLM project can act as a crucial enabler for the application of grid technology and the grid concept in general also in environments where predictable service utility and warranty are seen as significant requirements. The goal of the proposed gSLM project is to bring together European experts from the grid and service management community and promote the development of SLM solutions that are well tailored to the requirements of and operational conditions in the e-infrastructure service provision today and in the future.

Keywords: service level management,service level agreements,service catalogs,e-infrastructures,grids,clouds
Enhancing Grid Infrastructures with Virtualization and Cloud Technologies (STRATUSLAB)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Spain,Greece,Ireland,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3137221.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project is aimed at service provisioning, networking and research of cloud and virtualization technologies to simplify and optimize the use and operation of existing distributed computing infrastructures (e.g. EGEE/EGI). The project will incorporate cloud and virtualization innovation into existing Grid infrastructures by integrating cloud technologies and services within Grid sites; and by enriching existing computing infrastructures with “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) cloud-like delivery paradigms. StratusLab will integrate, distribute and maintain a sustainable open-source cloud distribution to bring cloud to existing and new grid sites. The StratusLab toolkit will be composed of existing cutting-edge open source software, and the innovative service and cloud management technologies developed in the project. It will also include the required additions to turn the software elements into a production grade distribution to support production quality and operational systems, as will be demonstrated with the operation of production level grid sites in the project. StratusLab will bring to the e-Infrastructure ecosystem several benefits, in terms of simplification, added flexibility, increased maintainability, quality, energy efficiency and resilience of the sites. The new distribution will complement existing middleware services, being fully transparent to upper layers in the infrastructure. Existing Grid middleware would continue to provide the glue to federate the distributed resources and the services for high-level job and data management. StratusLab will help to improve usability of distributed computing infrastructures, attracting the science user communities and industrial users that have embraced the cloud computing provisioning model; to keep European research infrastructures at the technology forefront; and to strengthen the technological know-how in virtualization and cloud computing of the European industry.

Keywords: grid computing,cloud computing,virtualization
European eInfrastructures Observatory (ENVENTORY)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 478630.0
EU funding (EUR): 430000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Within the EARNEST foresight study, a prelude but systematic benchmarking undertaking was conducted, with the spotlight on the Research and Education Networking Infrastructures that resulted to a framework called Research and Education Development Index – REDI, as a first step of measuring the progress of eInfrastructures. This activity stimulated substantial interest within the eInfrastructures community as well as an extended group of stakeholders, including the European Parliament. Alongside, the issue of benchmarking has been raised high in the EC policy agenda in several recent occasions as vital for assessing the impact of eInfrastructures at EU level and beyond, with the INFRA-2010-3.3 topic materializing policy into specific call-for-action. Responding to this, the eNVENTORY project suggests the formation of a European eInfrastructures Observatory, a single-entry-point and one-stop-shop of a standardised database, accessible via an advanced web platform and capable of representing multiple primary and convoluted indicators and benchmarks through intuitive, interactive and user-friendly mappings, plots and graphics, and open to the eInfrastructures stakeholders and to the public-at-large to generate personalized lists, rankings, and cross-comparisons, over time and across regions, in a fully modular and customizable way. The eNVENTORY project will extend prior benchmarking by including all core components of eInfrastructures (i.e., computing, communication and services) and will build the indicator databases from various international repositories. It will carry out extensive consultation with eInfrastructures stakeholders and research and innovation indicator experts, and will eventually deploy a prototype web platform dealing with a critically-selected subset of indicators and relevant repositories for further feedback on the intuitiveness, flexibility and ease of use.

Keywords: einfrastructures benchmarking indicators impact assessment
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 3 (E-IRGSP3)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Germany,Greece,Poland,Türkiye,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1079971.0
EU funding (EUR): 860000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 3 (e-IRGSP3) supports the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). The e-IRG reflects on results and developments in the area of e-infrastructures. It consists of government appointed national representatives and was created in 2003. The e-IRG has reached a high ranking position as an independent advisory body in Europe in its field. It cooperates increasingly closer with the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), whose work it largely complements through its lateral domain. The e-IRG produces White and Green Papers, Roadmaps and other policy-related documents, covering the whole domain of e-infrastructures: networks, supercomputers, data repositories and grids. The e-IRG formulates its conclusions and advice in various ways. The e-IRG Recommendations endorsed by the e-IRG delegates are well received by the communities concerned as well as by policy makers and funding agencies and can thus have very serious impact. The e-IRGSP3 project builds on the experiences of previous e-IRG support programmes. It is lightweight designed focusing on the core requirements of the e-IRG. It provides the secretariat of the e-IRG community, supports the e-IRG Chair and Executive Board, organises e-IRG workshops and delegate meetings, and facilitates the engagement with stakeholders. The policy creating process of the e-IRG is supported by monitoring and analysing the state-of-the-art developments in the fields of interest of the e-IRG (at policy, technology, research, and socioeconomic level), thus conceiving ideas and input for the e-IRG policy documents. Finally, the support programme fully implements the dissemination work of the e-IRG and maintains the extensive and growing amount of knowledge, including the data in the e-IRG Knowledge Base. The e-IRGSP3 project helps establishing continuity in the-IRG work together with the Chair, across the semi-annual personal changes of the e-IRG Executive Board

Keywords: policy support,e-infrastructure,recommendations
Multiscale Materials Modelling on High Performance Computer Architectures (MMM@HPC)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,France,Italy,Finland,Korea, Republic of,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Greece
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4261167.0
EU funding (EUR): 2980000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

With the accelerating materials development cycles, the development of simulation approaches for predictive, de-novo characterization and optimization of materials and device properties emerges as a grand challenge to European R&D. A unified multi-disciplinary approach towards the deployment of models, tools, algorithms and simulation and visualization techniques is required to transform isolated solutions for specific problems into comprehensive, industry-ready platforms, which are capable of predicting the properties of complex materials on the basis of their constitutive elements. While many techniques exist to address the specific questions, a lack of integration of the existing methods into readily available multi-scale modelling platforms has to date limited the impact of materials-modelling techniques in materials design. In this project we will develop an integrated e-infrastructure for multi-scale materials modelling (MMM@HPC), where expert groups unite with computational resource providers to deliver an integrated infrastructure for multi-scale materials modelling. MMM@HPC will be an open platform to integrate of existing software modules into customizable, high performance protocols and workflows. We will provide the European research community with a leading edge software infrastructure to exploit the highest quality software and computational resources; enabling Europe to address the emerging grand challenges in materials science and engineering. MMM@HPC will strengthen Europe's international role as software provider and nucleate a unified community of computational scientists to address emerging computing needs of the research community with a very efficient, evolving research tool. The project will demonstrate a direct impact towards solving visible European R&D challenges in the areas of energy storage (Li ion batteries), energy conversion (organic light emitting diodes), carbon based devices for electronics and polymer based electronics.

Keywords: multiscale materials modelling,hpc architectures,deisa,workflows,community
Linking Scientific Computing in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean - Phase 2 (LINKSCEEM-2)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Cyprus,Egypt,Germany,United States,France,Germany,Jordan,Israel
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3725068.0
EU funding (EUR): 2357488.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

This project proposes the development of a high performance computing eco-system in the Eastern Mediterranean region by interlinking and coordinating regional compute, data and visualisation resources to form an integrated e-platform. It will provide training activities and user support, and engage the regional communities through networking activities such as workshops, exchange of visitors and organization of joint events. Its focus will be on virtual research communities in three fields that are clearly relevant to the region and of global importance, namely Climate Modelling, Digital Cultural Heritage and Synchrotron applications. Regional HPC centres will be contributing resources to support user communities in the region with the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre of the Cyprus Institute, the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (Egypt) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) being initially the major contributors. SESAME, (Jordan/UNESCO), a major experimental facility with a broad user community, will be promoting networking in the region. An upgraded connection between Cyprus and Jordan will provide the needed bandwidth for the transfer of SESAME data. The Julich Supercomputing Center and the National Center of Supercomputing Applications of the University of Illinois will provide know-how at the highest level for running and integrating such facilities, whereas international leaders in the three thematic areas will ensure transfer of state-of-the-art techniques to the regional user communities, thereby linking the Eastern Mediterranean with the European and international computational science activities.

Keywords: eastern mediterranean,hpc,data repositories,visualization,e-infrastructure,computational science,user support,network connectivity,climate change,cultural heritage,synchrotron
Coordination Action for the integration of Solar System Infrastructures and Science (CASSIS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,Switzerland,Belgium,Italy,France,France,United States
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 434448.0
EU funding (EUR): 395000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Solar System Science has traditionally been undertaken within a number of separate disciplines. However, like any system its aspects are inter-related and it has been difficult to address these aspects because of the lack of the integrating technology required to span the inter-disciplinary boundaries. While advances in technology means that the intrinsic differences between disciplines (manifest in differing data formats and dependencies) are beginning to be addressed, it is necessary to coordinate our efforts in order to help break down the barriers. Under the Seventh Framework Programme, the European Commission is funding three projects that are directly relevant to this issue - HELIO, EuroPlanet RI and SOTERIA. Within their own areas, each is making significant improvements to the infrastructure that supports their communities and enabling increased ability to do science. Within this Coordination Action we propose to take steps to move to the next level by cooperating in a number of areas. The cooperation will be in three main areas: 1. We will investigate ways to improve the interoperability between data and metadata from the domains. We will also investigate the possibility of sharing some metadata resources. 2. We will coordinate the use of standard within the projects and reflect any changes that are required to organizations like the IVOA, IPDA, etc. 3. We will coordinate our dissemination activities in order to create a more coherent and comprehensive approach. As part of this activity, we will hold meetings of key players in order to lobby the case for solar system science with the decision makers and funding agencies.

Keywords: helio,europlanet ri,soteria,virtual observatory,solar system,interoperability
Comprehensive European Approach to the Protection of Civil Aviation (COPRA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,France,France,Slovenia,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1303301.8
EU funding (EUR): 986382.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Security has become a major factor in civil/commercial aviation. In recent decades, the number of threats to aviation security has grown significantly, especially after 9/11. This has led to ever more security regulations as the threats evolve. Security procedures have become exceedingly complex and invasive to passenger privacy; the number of security measures as well as personnel and therefore costs are growing steadily. At the same time passenger and cargo traffic are expected to double in the next 15 years. Already today, security is one of the main reasons for delayed take-off. It is clear that the current complex security system cannot be adapted to such a growth without a large rise in costs. It has already and will increasingly become a major market restraint. Therefore, the proposed project COPRA aims to answer two questions: • How does the threat situation in civil aviation evolve in the future, taking into account both existing and new technologies and their continuing development and proliferation? • Which opportunities arise from the development and proliferation of new technologies and security procedures to overcome the current complex and expensive security situation and to enable sustainable growth for the future? COPRA’s main objective is to answer both questions in a way that will constitute the optimal balance between security, privacy, public acceptability, mobility and costs, while providing ideas on how to increase flexibility and resilience of the whole aviation system against threats. To that aim COPRA brings together a well balanced consortium of research organisations, industry and major air transport providers with a wide range of European stakeholders. End-users, technology providers, policy makers and think tanks will be involved in COPRA through the formation of expert groups. The involvement of these expert groups is essential to the success of COPRA’s objectives.

Keywords: aviation security,threat/opportunity roadmap,new technologies,new concepts,privacy,public acceptance