Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Unobtrusive Authentication Using Activity Related and Soft Biometrics (ACTIBIO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,France,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4359418.0
EU funding (EUR): 3200000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

ACTIBIO will research and develop a completely new concept in biometric authentication: the extraction of multimodal biometric signatures based on the response of the user to specific stimuli, while performing specific but natural work-related activities. The novelty of the approach lies in the fact that the biometric measurements will correspond to the response of the person to specific events being however, fully unobtrusive and fully integrated in an Ambient Intelligence infrastructure. ACTIBIO will target a multimodal approach fusing information from various sensors capturing either the dynamic behavioural profile of the user (face, gesture, gait, body dynamics) or the physiological response of the user to events (analysis of EEG and ECG). ACTIBIO will also research the use of unobtrusive sensors, either wearable (in garments of uniforms to capture body dynamics) or integrated in the infrastructure (sensing seat sensors capturing the anthropometric profile of the user, sound-based activity recognition sensors, etc.). In this way ACTIBIO will develop novel activity related and soft biometrics technologies for substantially improving security, trust and dependability of “always on” networks and service infrastructures. The goal is to integrate biometric technologies in Ambient Intelligence security infrastructures in order to support continuous authentication and monitoring. Emphasis will be on the unobtrusiveness of the approach and the universal usage of such a system. The developments will be evaluated with the active involvement of users through several alternative realistic usage scenarios in three pilot sites: o Security operator pilot in the company indoor premises. o Vehicle driver unobtrusive continuous authentication to prevent hijacking. o Authentication via activity recognition and control in transactions through “always on” machines.

Keywords: biometrics,underpinning technologies in security and privacy,activity-related biometrics,physiological and behavioral modalities,identity management
Cavity-confined Luminophores for Advanced Photonic Materials: A Training Action for Young Researchers (FINELUMEN)

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: Italy,Belgium,France,Poland,Belgium,Hungary,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3616956.0
EU funding (EUR): 3616956.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

"FINELUMEN" is a 4-year project aiming at the preparation and extensive characterization of luminescent materials in which suitably designed organic and inorganic luminophores are encapsulated within nano-containers (carbon nanotubes and coordination cages) in which they can preserve and even improve their emission output. The ultimate goal is to create a library of luminescent modules emitting throughout the VIS-NIR region for producing superior functional hybrid materials. The emission colour tunability is defined by the emitting guest, while the versatility in the final application is controlled via tailored chemical functionalisation of the host. The versatile properties of these materials will make them attractive in at least 3 applicative areas, i.e. bioimaging, optoelectronic devices and sensors. The participation of a giant company and a high-tech SME in the consortium ensures a quick patenting and industrial scale up of the most promising luminescent materials, strengthening Europe’s competitiveness in a field of huge growth potential in the next decade. The research endeavour inside “FINELUMEN” calls for a multidisciplinary team in which key groups, experts in many different fields of chemistry, physics and engineering tightly interact. For this reason training and exchange of young researchers represents the core of the“FINELUMEN” activity To both early-stage and experienced researchers, a multidisciplinary training in the realm of synthetic/supramolecular/physical chemistry, photosciences, and engineering as well as management, communication, and IPR is offered, preparing them for positions in academia, industry, and government labs. The local and network-wide training and transfer of knowledge activities are strengthened by 2 authoritative visiting scientists, enriched by 3 FINELUMEN international summer schools and conferences, and complemented via PhD programmes in co-tutoring among partners based in different countries.

Keywords: organic chemistry,inorganic chemistry,supramolecular chemistry,photochemistry,physical chemistry,microscopy,luminescence,carbon nanostructures,coordination cages,rare earth emitters
Towards the next generation of the Geological Time Scale for the last 100 million years – the European contribution to EARTHTIME (GTSNEXT)

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: Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Switzerland,United Kingdom,France,Denmark,Germany,Italy,France
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): 2597791.0
EU funding (EUR): 2597791.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Geological time is inextricably linked with Earth Sciences and the Geological Time Scale (GTS) is the yardstick to measure it. As such the GTS is the key to reconstruct Earth history. Recent developments in numerical dating now permit to build a much improved next generation GTS for the last 100 million years by integrating independent state-of-the-art techniques; this time scale will have an unprecedented accuracy, precision, resolution and stability. Within GTSnext a consortium of world leading European experts will be brought together for the first time to integrate their expertise and provide young scientists with a top training in all these methods. This training is the prime objective of GTSnext, and crucial to its success. Together this team of newly trained scientists is well equipped to construct the new GTS. GTSnext is part of a broader international initiative - EARTHTIME - a community-based scientific effort aimed at sequencing Earth history through an integrated geochronologic and stratigraphic approach. It is our ambition to broaden the Earthtime platform in Europe with GTSnext, which combined with an ESF funded Research Network run in parallel, will also serve as the basis for wider outreach towards the Earth Science community. The expected scientific contributions and breakthroughs are 1) a full integration and intercalibration of different numerical dating techniques, leading to 2) a significant improvement in the consistency of these same techniques; 3) progress towards a fully integrated and astronomical-tuned GTS over the last 100 million years; 4) an essentially stable time scale that is highly beneficial for both academia and industry, and 5) new insights in key geological processes including climate change, catastrophic impacts, and volcanic hazards. Finally, a more fundamental comprehension of geological time and the time scales at which key processes occur in Earth history is highly relevant in view of the impact we have on System Earth.

Keywords: natural sciences,earth science,astrophysics,geochemistry,geology,stratigraphy,climate change
Enhanced Wireless Communication Systems Employing COoperative DIVersity (CODIV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Spain,Netherlands,Israel,France,Switzerland,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4833024.0
EU funding (EUR): 3352132.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The CODIV project is targeting the evolutions of cellular networks and WMAN’s. and aims to research develop and validate radio technologies exploiting channels diversity and cooperation between users, targeting three major goals: enable the high bit rates targeted in the broadband component of future wireless system; improve the power and spectrum efficiencies of existing wireless systems; improve and extend coverage and fairness. The project will go significantly beyond the current SoA by considering cooperative and relaying functionalities at the user equipment level and bringing the concepts up to the prototyping phase. The activities are organized to cover the three phases needed for demonstration: concept definition, development of enabling technologies and proof of concept. The final outputs of the project will include a physical testbed consisting of several transceivers to show the feasibility of the technology and also a system level simulator to assess at a system level the benefits in terms of the technologies developed.

Keywords: cooperative diversity wireles mobile relay network cellular wman wlan
LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions (LIREC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Poland,Hungary,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10992017.0
EU funding (EUR): 8200000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

LIREC aims to establish a multi-faceted (memory, emotions, cognition, communication, learning, etc.) theory of artificial long-term companions, embody it in robust and innovative technology, verify the theory and technology experimentally in real social environments, and provide resulting guidelines for designing such companions. Whether as robots, social toys or graphical and mobile synthetic characters, interactive and sociable technology is advancing rapidly. However, the social, psychological and cognitive foundations and consequences of such technological artefacts entering our daily lives - at work, or in the home - are less well understood. The technology is commonly based on evaluation of short-term interactions or even first encounters, and limited to one specific embodiment. Research shows that the novelty effect, which may attract interest in the first encounter, quickly runs out and that people’s preferences and attitudes towards the system change. Successful technology can only be delivered on the basis of strong scientific foundations, and with partners in psychology, ethology, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, robotics and graphical characters, LIREC will advance understanding of the concepts of embodiment, autobiographic memory and social interactions in the context of companions where the ‘mind’ might migrate to differently embodied ‘bodies’. Experimental human-human and human-animal studies and longitudinal evaluation of the developed technology in social settings will support the development and delivery of mechanisms for verbal and non-verbal social interaction and communication; an autobiographic emotionally-tagged memory; mechanisms for detecting and responding sensitively to the user’s affective state, motives and intentions; an autonomous cognitive-affective architecture and support for migrating companions. These will be combined in case-study long-life companions that will take social technology to a new state-of-the-art.

Keywords: long term evauation,companions,robotics,cognitve architectures,interaction
Services for Context Sensitive Enhancing of Knowledge in Networked Enterprises (K-NET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Germany,Ireland,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999369.0
EU funding (EUR): 1485177.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of K-NET is to explore the fundamental problem: how different services to manage social interactions in a networked enterprise can be used to enhance knowledge and knowledge management (KM) services. The key hypothesis of K-NET is that the context under which knowledge is collectively generated and managed can be used to enhance this knowledge for its further use within intra-enterprise collaboration. By extracting the context under which the knowledge is generated in a network (e.g. goals, teams, temporal and spatial aspects), it is possible to enrich it to be more effectively used within future work. In order to explore such hypothesis, the project intends to answer several problems: how to efficiently monitor/trace a process of generation/usage of knowledge in the network so that this knowledge can be re-used for future work; how to extract context from this process; and how to enrich the knowledge generated with extracted context to support knowledge sharing in future network activities. By solving these problems, K-NET will allow the development of new services to manage social interactions allowing to effectively monitor the (collaborative) knowledge generation/usage processes (specifically addressing knowledge provided/contained in ‘smart’ devices), services to automatically extract context from such processes and enrich the knowledge, and KM services applying extracted context to support use of this knowledge in the network, with special emphasis on knowledge representation services (considering e.g. IPR and privacy issues). These services will open new business opportunities for networked enterprises to provide new products/services. K-NET will develop generic services, applicable across different domains, and specifically explore new business opportunities in manufacturing and engineering SMEs. Three demonstrators of the application of new services in real industrial environment and their usage for new business models will be provided.

Keywords: intra-enterprise collaboration,knowledge management,context,networked enterprises,ontology,manufacturing smes
Micromirror enhanced micro-imaging (MEMI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4971661.0
EU funding (EUR): 3499480.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

An essential part of high-end optical microscopes is the ability to control various apertures and stops in both the illumination and imaging paths of these microscopes, in order to maximize the visualization of the objects under observation. Traditionally, these controls are implemented by mechanical apertures, irises and pinholes in such applications as coherence control, darkfield microscopy and confocal microscopy. Modern applications of optical microscopy in such diverse areas as semiconductor metrology and imaging of living organisms will require more flexible and dynamic controls for these apertures: • Semiconductor metrology requires structured illumination and spatial frequency filtering for enhancing the visual qualities of metrology targets. • Live cell fluorescence microscopy is looking for a better definition of the illumination conditions to reduce photobleaching and light induced toxicity, in order to lengthen observation times. MEMS-based Micromirror Arrays (MMA) are today widely used in large-scale display devices. Their configurability and dynamic control characteristics are also eminently suitable for visualization enhancement and new applications in optical microscopy. We are proposing a development project for adapting and integrating the MMA-technology into modern optical microscopes. The project will start at the device level, customizing the MMAs for visualization enhancement of optical microscopes, and then dealing with the issues of optical and opto-mechanical compatibility between the MMAs and microscopes, enhancement of current capabilities, and definition of new applications. Our team consists of an institute developing high-end MMAs, an optical system design and integration company, and end-users from the areas of semiconductor metrology and life-sciences.

Keywords: microscopy,micromirror arrays,controlled light exposure microscopy (clem),semiconductor metrology
Initial Training Network on therapeutic approaches and predictive models for neurodegenerative diseases (NEUROMODEL)

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: Germany,Switzerland,Sweden,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-15
End date: 2012-10-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2544492.0
EU funding (EUR): 2544492.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinsonâ€™s disease (PD) and Huntingtonâ€™s disease (HD) still lack treatments that are disease modifying. The proposed network is going to address the three most important bottlenecks for finding more effective medicine in brain disorders. Those are: (i) identification and validation of pre-symptomatic and surrogate marker for disease progression, (ii) Development of model systems that translate to human pathology and are predictive of clinical efficacy, and (iii) better understanding of disease mechanisms leading to better target selection. We believe that a joint effort putting together industry and academia offers a great opportunity to cope with those bottlenecks. Therefore, we have assembled a unique consortium to which industry (5 partners) and academia (5 partners) contribute equally. Through putting together these partners into one network Neuromodel is going to achieve both organization of an excellent training program and performance of excellent research projects with a pronounced focus on intersectional transfer of knowledge. The gain for individual early stage researchers as well as for the participating research teams is obvious. On the one hand, the career chances of young researchers will improve enormously by receiving high quality training (for and by research) in areas of high demand on the employment market. On the other hand, the intersectional, interconnected and integrated research effort pursued by Neuromodel will definitively contribute towards finding more effective treatments in PD and HD. Expertise available within the consortium has lead to the definition of four structural elements â€“ (i) understanding disease mechanisms leading to target identification, (ii) approaches towards treatment, (iii) development of models predictive for efficacy and translating to human pathology, (iv) behavioural markers of animal models - that determines the training as well as the research program.

Keywords: health sciences,neurosciences,brain research
Surface Physics for Advanced Manufacturing (SPAM)

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: Netherlands,France,Germany,Belgium,Greece,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4300696.82
EU funding (EUR): 4300696.82
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Today, markets demand smaller, cheaper, energy friendly and more different consumer products. Last decades micro technology has opened possibilities for mobile communication, safety and health science products. To meet these demands, the industry is encountering technological barriers that prevent the industry from evolving from the micro to a nanotechnology era. To resolve these barriers, the industry and research institutes need to initiate research programmes, and need to structure and integrate its research programmes and transfer the knowledge that as been acquired in these programmes. “New” researchers have to be trained with excellent research skills, knowledge on the specific technology, and understanding of market demands, application development, and so on. For this purpose 4 industrial, 5 academic and 3 research institutes have defined the 4 year SPAM research and training program; “a Supra-disciplinary approach to research and training in surface Physics for Advanced Manufacturing - SPAM”. Research objectives are: • identify and develop crucial knowledge in the field of surface physics, • enable the manufacturing of smaller semi-conductors and hence technology to print under 32 nm; extreme positional accuracy (< 4 nm); at competitive cost, • use this knowledge to further develop lithography technologies/tools needed for cost efficient development of nano-electronic devices, including manufacturing processes. Training objectives are: • provide personalised individual training, in particular for 16 ESR but also for 6 ER, to prepare and optimise their research in SRTs, with the help of 9 VS. • provide a network-wide training, fully exploiting the network potential and complementarities, leading to 12 network events. • transfer existing knowledge between partners through the SRTs and to transfer newly gained knowledge. Meeting the objectives are the responsibility of 4 Supra-disciplinary Research Teams (SRT) and 5 interlinking Training Exchange Pools.

Keywords: metrology,surface physics,plasma physics,surface chemistry