Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Surface Electrochemical Reactivity in Electrocatalysis: A combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach (ELCAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Sweden,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,Czechia,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3135208.0
EU funding (EUR): 3135208.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of ELCAT is to train a new generation of young researchers in experimental and theoretical research methods in electrocatalysis. The scientific objectives are to address the problem of achieving specific reactivity in electrochemical transformations and to establish predictive tools based on quantum chemical calculations and computational modelling. The electrocatalytic properties of nanostructured metal and metal-oxide interfaces will be investigated using state of the art instrumental and experimental techniques. Four important electrochemical reactions have been chosen for their general importance in energy production, environmental control and clean chemicals production. Industrial participation in the Network will provide an understanding of the technological applications of electrocatalysis. The training objectives are to provide the young researchers with scientific skills as well as leadership qualifications to enable them to become established as independent researcherers in new areas thus providing an attractive vision for their research careers For this to be achieved, ELCAT will provide training by interdisciplinary research involving several laboratories, exchanges between laboratories having complementary expertise and instrumentation, participation in workshops and conferences and training by courses arranged by the Network in both scientific issues and complementary skills. This project is timely due to the present confluence of theoretical and instrumental research techniques of unprecedented power, such as new computational methods, a new understanding of electron transfer reactions at the nanoscale and advanced in-situ spectroscopies and Scanning Probe Microscopies. There are new industrial requirements derived from important societal issues resulting in an urgent need for a new generation of trained young researchers with a modern background in experimental and theoretical techniques for applications in electrocatalysis.

Keywords: electrochemistry,electrocatalysis,quantum chemistry,modelling,single crystals,metals and oxides,oxygen reduction,nitrate reduction,carbon dioxide reduction,oxygen evolution,nanoparticles
Ultrafast control of quantum systems by strong laser fields (FASTQUAST)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Denmark,Spain,Israel,Greece,France,Bulgaria,Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5039860.0
EU funding (EUR): 5039860.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to set up an Initial Training Network on advanced techniques for ultrafast manipulation of atoms and molecules by strong femtosecond laser pulses. The project comprises a diverse range of applications of strong-field coherent control to ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy; nuclear and electron wavepacket dynamics; alignment of molecules with applications to collisions, high harmonic generation and adsorption; characterization and control of dissipation; stabilization of cold atoms and molecules; quantum state and process tomography; and ultrafast information processing. The use of strong shaped femtosecond laser pulses opens a novel avenue to control of quantum dynamics via hitherto inaccessible physical mechanisms. The new control scenarios require the development of novel versatile femtosecond sources in the UV and VUV range of high shaping capabilities, to which a part of the research will be dedicated, with anticipated spin-offs of great multidisciplinary interest, e.g. in chemistry and biology. The combined expertise of the network - a joint effort of 10 universities and 3 industrial companies - represents the cutting edge of research and training in femtosecond light-matter interactions in Europe. The network will train 18 doctoral students and about 11 young postdoctoral researchers. The training activities will combine several dedicated instruments of network-wide training, capitalizing on their synergy with a backbone of specialized training inside the groups. The training program will be adapted to the ESRs, with elementary, advanced and expert phases initiated at the network schools and workshops. Prominent scientists from Europe and overseas, and industry leaders from the companies in the network and from outside, will contribute to the schools and workshops. Special attention will be focused on developing important complementary skills, such as communication, presentation, project planning and management.

Keywords: femtosecond physics,control of quantum processes,laser technology,atomic and molecular physics,pulse shaping,wavepacket dynamics,uv and vuv ultrashort sources,microscopy cars
Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe (ADMIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Austria,Spain,Slovakia,United Kingdom,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4241573.0
EU funding (EUR): 3001662.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Today’s growing wealth of digital data in Europe is poorly exploited. Advances in storage, pervasive computing, digital sensors and instrumentation have led to massive growth in the volume of data collected and the number and complexity of data repositories. This growing wealth of data has an increasing potential to yield great benefits to citizens, science and business as it contains vital hidden knowledge. Typically, to extract that knowledge requires data mining over combinations of data from multiple data resources. Today, designers, diagnosticians, decision makers or researchers who need such knowledge, face difficult hurdles. To extract information from heterogeneous and distributed sites, they have to specify in much detail the sources of data, the mechanisms for integrating them and the data mining strategies for exposing the hidden gems of information. Consequently, with the current state of the art, most of that hidden knowledge remains undiscovered. ADMIRE will accelerate access to and increase the benefits that can be gained from data exploitation for the European citizen and economy. It will achieve this by delivering consistent and easy to use technology for extracting information and knowledge. To cope with complexity, change and heterogeneity of services, data, and processes, an abstract view of data mining and integration will be provided. This will provide power to users and developers of data mining and integration processes. The ADMIRE infrastructure will enable a set of gateways connected together over the Internet and Grid. The gateways communicate with one another using ADMIRE-developed standard representations over the Infrastructure Service Bus. Each gateway provides a core set of data mining and integration services, which can be driven using a high-level language.

Keywords: "data mining" "data integration" "soa" "grid"
Enabling the Web of Entities. A scalable and sustainable solution for systematic and global identifier reuse in decentralized information environments (OKKAM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,Ireland,Switzerland,Ireland,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7359931.0
EU funding (EUR): 5125000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The overall goal of the OKKAM project is to enable the Web of Entities, a global digital space for publishing and managing information about entities , where every entity is uniquely identified, and links between entities can be explicitly specified and exploited in a variety of scenarios. Compared to the WWW, the main differences are that the domain of entities is extended beyond the realm of digital resources to include objects in other realms like products, organizations, associations, countries, events, publications, hotels or people; and that links between entities are extended beyond hyperlinks to include virtually any type of relation. The WWW has clearly demonstrated the socio-economical potential of enabling a global decentralized network of documents, connected by hyperlinks, and services built on top of this infrastructure. In a short period of time, we have witnessed how the WWW has had a remarkable impact on our personal, social and professional lives. We believe that the Web of Entities has the potential to increase this impact, and to foster a whole new family of applications and services. However, to make this happen, the Web of Entities must trigger (as the WWW did) what economists call network externality effect , and this requires at least three pillars to be in place: (1) a suitable infrastructure which can support the open and sustainable growth of the Web of Entities; (2) a critical mass of new entity-aware content and data accessible to a very large number of users in a relatively short time; and (3) a collection of exemplary and high impact applications, which can prove to the key players in ICT that investing on the Web of Entities is worthwhile. The OKKAM project presents a strategy and an effective work plan to build the three pillars of this Web of Entities, not only from a technical point of view, but also from a social, organizational and business-oriented perspective.

Keywords: web of entities,identity and identifier management,entity-centric content and knowledge management,multimedia authoring environments,semantic search
ACTIVE: Enabling the Knowledge Powered Enterprise (ACTIVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Slovenia,Austria,Germany,France,Spain,Germany,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11798011.0
EU funding (EUR): 8249680.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Europe is in transition to a knowledge economy and effective knowledge management is fundamental to successful economic activity. Still, enterprises find it hard to transform most of their essential tacit (implicit) knowledge into transferable, easily accessible, and actionable knowledge assets. ACTIVE aims to increase the productivity of knowledge workers in a pro-active, contextualised, yet easy and unobtrusive way. The aim is to convert tacit knowledge – the “hidden intelligence” of enterprises – into actionable knowledge to support collaboration and automated problem solving. A key aspect will be the support for informal procedural knowledge – the informal collaboration and problem-solving tasks that drive much knowledge work in the enterprise. ACTIVE will integrate concepts, methods, and tools from the fields of (i) Social Software and Web 2.0, (ii) Semantic Technologies, (iii) Context Mining and Modelling, and Context Sensitive Task Management, and (iv) Knowledge Process Mining and Modelling and Pro-Active Knowledge Process Support into innovative application systems. The development will be accompanied by an analysis of key economic and organizational factors and incentive mechanisms, and strongly user-centric system development and evaluation. The key result of ACTIVE will be a breakthrough which empowers enterprises to make knowledge technology effective for a larger share of their essential knowledge, in particular both tacit knowledge and knowledge not held in formal enterprise repositories. ACTIVE will generate sustainable impact by deploying the tools and applications in three industry sectors: consulting, telecommunication and engineering. The added value of ACTIVE technology will be evaluated in economic, organizational, and user studies, and conclude with rigorous field tests. A major focus of ACTIVE will be uptake by industry beyond the immediate consortium.

Keywords: knowledge management,intelligent content,semantic technology,collaborative working,knowledge processes
Privacy and Identity Management for Community Services (PICOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,France,Spain,Austria,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Germany,Czechia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5957801.0
EU funding (EUR): 3999995.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

With the emergence of services for professional and private on-line collaboration via the Internet, many European citizens spend work and leisure time in on-line communities. Users consciously leave private information; they may also leave personalized traces they are unaware of. PICOS will develop and build a state-of-the-art platform for providing the trust, privacy and identity management aspects of community services and applications on the Internet and in mobile communication networks. The PICOS approach to trustworthy on-line community collaboration addresses these four questions: What are the Trust, Privacy and Identity issues in new context-rich mobile communication services, especially community-supporting services? How can information flows and privacy requirements be balanced in complex distributed service architectures (e.g., mash-ups)? How can these issues be solved in an acceptable, trustworthy, open, scalable, manner? Which supporting services and infrastructures do the stakeholders need? The PICOS consortium includes European industry and research communities. The project will first review contemporary research in relevant disciplines. Its platform design and prototype development work will then create interoperable, open, privacy-respecting identity and trust management tools that can be demonstrated to the public. These will be used to construct community application prototypes by leading industry partners; those will be trialled with selected on-line communities. PICOS will self-evaluate usability, ergonomics, legal issues, trust and privacy. Expected PICOS results are: •A set of interdisciplinary requirements for trustworthy, privacy-friendly community transactions, •A platform prototype that demonstrates the provision of state-of-the-art privacy and trust technology to community applications, •User-centric trials that validate its applicability, Publications and a final report will disseminate the PICOS results to the public.

Keywords: trust,identity management,privacy,online communities,mobile networks,personal rights,content management,personal data lifecycle
High Resolution Microscopy in the DNA Damage Response (IMAGE DDR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,Italy,Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2160000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2160000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Background: The DNA damage response (DDR) is a specialised stress response fundamental to maintaining genome integrity and suppressing tumour formation. Traditional molecular and cellular biology, combined with genetics and biochemistry, have led to an understanding of the architecture of the DDR in a variety of model organisms and in human cells. These studies have employed populations of cells/molecules and their results are of necessity an average of the response. High sensitivity imaging technologies make it feasible to study events in single cells and to do experiments with small numbers of molecules in vitro. These can now be applied to the DDR. Project Objectives: To provide an interdisciplinary training in single cell and single molecule studies to graduate students in Physics, Chemistry, LS, Maths and Computer sciences. The focus of the research will be the study of the DDR and genome stability. The main technologies to be developed concern high resolution molecular imaging methodologies. Specific aims: To train eight early stage researchers to doctoral level to utilize an interdisciplinary approach to address specific scientific questions and to communicate between disciplines. Study Design: We will achieve our objective by building a network comprising four “local” groups, each a collaboration between an imaging specialist and a cell biologist / molecular geneticists engaged in research on genome stability. The collaborating scientists will serve as co-advisors and will develop a personalised interdisciplinary research training programme for each recruit. Local training will be augmented by specially designed network-wide summer schools, workshops and meetings encompassing all network participants and invited experts. An industrial partner is integral to the network in order to share methods and provide secondments and input into workshops to train researchers in technology exploitation.

Keywords: health sciences
Organic/Plastic Electronics Research Alliance (OPERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1067254.0
EU funding (EUR): 1049990.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to coordinate the work of academia and industry active in plastic electronics. The overall objective is to strengthen the position of Europe as the leading force in PE in the world. Our specific objective in Opera is to create the conditions for the establishment of a number of competitiveness clusters in the EU, because competitiveness clusters have shown to provide a fertile substrate for the development of such leadership. There are a few areas that meet most requirements for a cluster: * The Aachen - Louvain - Eindhoven triangle * UK, Cambridge area * Germany, Dresden area * Finland, Oulu area * Switzerland, Basel area However, a number of key elements are missing from these embryonic clusters: PE has grown organically without a coherent overall strategy. This leads to duplication of efforts, inefficiency and poor synergy. These are major obstacles to the development of truly global force PE is still at too early a stage of development to justify massive investment from the end-user industry. This would allow the sector to grow beyond critical mass To address these issues, Opera has the following components: * The development of an overall pan-European strategic framework maximising synergy and cooperation within the sector, accelerating technological progress and the development of commercial PE applications * The creation of channels of exchange of ideas and people * The development of tools for stimulating entrepreneurship by the private sector and public administration * The acceleration of the development of industry standards for PE * Enhancing the visibility of the field to the ‘outside world’, stimulating the formation of ‘crosslinks’ with related fields The consortium consists of Europe’s leading authorities in PE and receives broad support from the entire field. Opera will last two years, but we expect many of the processes we shall initiate to extend beyond the duration of the project itself.

Keywords: competitiveness clusters,plastic electronics,strategy
ROBot and SENSors INtegration as Guidance FOR Enhanced Computer Assisted Surgery and Therapy (ROBOCAST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Israel,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4545547.0
EU funding (EUR): 3450000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The ROBOCAST project aims to develop ICT scientific methods and technologies which focus on robot assisted keyhole neurosurgery. A modular system, allowing a reduction of the footprint, will be developed with two robots and one active bio-mimetic probe, able to cooperate among themselves in a biomimetic sensory-motor integrated framework. A gross positioning 3-axes robot will support a miniature parallel robot holding the probe to be introduced through a “keyhole” opening into the skull of the patient. Optical trackers (tracking the end effector and the patient), an imaging endoscope camera, and electromagnetic position and force sensors (on the probe) will extend robot perception by providing the control system with position and force feedback from the operating tools, and with visual information of the surgical field. Path planning outside and inside the body will be autonomously proposed by the control system by processing of preoperative diagnostic information. The path inside the brain will be planned on the basis of a “risk atlas” reproducing a fuzzy representation of a brain atlas, relating structures to a “level of danger”. Construction of the atlas will rely on cognitive learning, where the system will be able to provide the surgeon with explanations for any suggested action. Semi-autonomous plan updating, following unforeseen changes occurring during surgery and based on processing of information gathered intra-operatively (e.g. ultrasonic images), will be negotiated between the system and the surgeon, where the latter will be allowed to specify any additional constraints to the planner. Ex- ante- and final path plan inside and outside the body will thus stem from the interaction between the surgeon and the intelligent core of the system. The interface between the system and the user will require minimal interaction while providing maximum information i.e. an intuitive interface which relies on context-based interpretation of surgeon commands.

Keywords: surgical robots,mini-invasive neurosurgery,effective man-machine interaction,autonomy,path planning