Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sharing Physical Resources – Mechanisms and Implementations for Wireless Networks (SAPHYRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Czechia,France,Germany,Sweden,Netherlands,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5276200.0
EU funding (EUR): 3850000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

In current wireless communications, radio spectrum and infrastructure are typically used such that interference is avoided by exclusive allocation of frequency bands and employment of base stations. SAPHYRE will demonstrate how equal-priority resource sharing in wireless networks improves spectral efficiency, enhances coverage, increases user satisfaction, leads to increased revenue for operators, and decreases capital and operating expenditures. SAPHYRE represents a consortium that spans the entire chain from spectrum regulatory aspects, networking, physical layer to hardware implementation. The vision of SAPHYRE is to: (i) show how voluntary sharing of physical and infrastructure resources enables a fundamental, order-of-magnitude-gain in the efficiency of spectrum utilisation; (ii) develop the enabling technology that facilitates such voluntary sharing; (iii) and determine the key features of a regulatory framework that underpins and promotes such voluntary sharing. SAPHYRE’s main objectives are conceptually described as: 1. SAPHYRE will analyse and develop new self-organising physical layer resource (spectrum, spatial coexistence) sharing models by a generalised cross-layer and cross-disciplinary approach. 2. SAPHYRE will propose and analyse efficient co-ordination mechanisms which require only small intervention (to counteract selfish, malicious users). In particular in sharing scenarios, incentive based design is applied in order to reduce regulatory complexity. 3. SAPHYRE will develop a framework for infrastructure sharing to support quality of service with sufficiently wide carrier bandwidths and competition between different operators. Therefore, modern and novel physical layer techniques, including network and interference aware modulation/ coding, multi-antenna, spatial scheduling, multi-hop, relay co-operative transmission which lead to high spectral efficiency are developed.

Keywords: spectrum sharing,resource sharing,radio resource and interference management,imt-advanced,game theory,b4g wireless communications.
Ubiquitous Participation Platform for Policy Making (UBIPOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Türkiye,Hungary,Portugal,Germany,Romania,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2867402.0
EU funding (EUR): 1949987.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

UbiPOL aims to develop a ubiquitous platform that allows citizens be involved in policy making processes (PMPs) regardless their current locations and time. It is suggested that the more citizens find connections between their as-usual life activities and relevant policies, the more they become pro-active or motivated to be involved in the PMPs. For this reason, UbiPOL aims to provide context aware knowledge provision with regard to policy making. That is citizens using UbiPOL will be able to identify any relevant policies and other citizen’s opinion whenever they want wherever they are according to their as-usual life pattern. With the platform, citizens are expected to be more widely aware of any relevant policies and PMPs for involvement during their as-usual life therefore improved engagement and empowerment. Also, the platform will provide policy tracking functionality via a workflow engine and opinion tag concept to improve the transparency of the policy making processes. Finally, the platform enable policy makers to collect citizen opinions more efficiently as the opinions are collected as soon as they are created in the middle of citizen’s usual life. UbiPOL is provides security and identity management facility to ensure only authorised citizens can have access to relevant policies according to their roles in policy making processes. The delivery of the opinion and policy data over the wireless network is secure as the platform use leading edge encryption algorithm in its communication kernels. UbiPOL is a scalable platform ensuring at least 100,000 citizens can use the system at the same time (for example, for e-Voting applications) via its well proven automatic load balancing mechanisms. The privacy ensuring opinion mining engine prevents unwanted revealing of citizen identities and the mining engine prevents any unrelated commercial advertisements are included in the opinion base to minimise misuse of the system.

Keywords: eparticipation,governance model,location based policy service,ubiquitous participation platform,opinion mining,opinion tracking,policy map service
Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience (FINE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4405158.0
EU funding (EUR): 2879399.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience (FINE) project will be focused on researching and developing a novel end-to-end architecture for the creation and delivery of a new form of live media content. FINE will introduce the concept of live free-viewpoint content which will provide rich and compelling immersive experiences by allowing remote viewers to place a virtual camera in a real live-action scene and move it freely in space and time, heightening their sense of presence and reality. Advances in the acquisition, processing, transmission and exhibition of live free-viewpoint content will be accomplished by focusing the research on four main areas: 1. Fast (real-time) and highly accurate algorithms for smooth view interpolation and photorealistic 3D reconstruction of live events from multiple, high quality live video streams. 2. Real-time tracking and marker-less motion capture of multiple characters. 3. New coding and transmission technologies to allow the synchronized delivery of geometry, imagery and metadata to a wide variety of end-users through New Generation Networks. 4. Integration of the developed free-viewpoint technologies in a networked end-to-end architecture, and their validation in experimental productions. Several user centred scenarios will be defined for both professional and home users. These scenarios will serve as a framework to demonstrate and validate the developed technologies and their usefulness. FINE will have a large impact on several platforms: Internet, broadcast TV, interactive TV, mobile, online video games and digital cinema. Even though the results will be directly applicable to the media industry, they will also have clear benefits for other markets such as teleconferencing, medical imaging, surveillance and security. As part of the outcomes, a multi-view video dataset and a collection of open source tools to manage it will be built and released to the scientific community.

Keywords: free-viewpoint,next generation network,3d media,multi-view coding,geometry coding,3d reconstruction,virtual camera,immersive experience,smooth view interpolation,live events,multi-camera
COntent Aware Searching, retrieval and sTreaming (COAST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,United States,Korea, Republic of
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4997504.0
EU funding (EUR): 3021766.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Towards the Future Internet age, COAST aims to build a Future Content-Centric Network (FCN) architecture, able to offer network-wide Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in service discovery and content consumption. In COAST FCN, the users will specify solely which content or web service they need and the COAST framework will find and deliver the desired or the most relevant data in an efficient, timely, user-/network-friendly way. To achieve this goal, COAST will focus on three key innovation pillars: • “On the fly” identification and distributed “on-line” discovery. COAST will create a content-aware network of intelligent nodes, which will a) “on the fly” (at wire speed) identify/classify content and identify Web services via inspection of the traffic that flows through the nodes and b) discover “on line” (in a distributed manner), where services are located and content is located/cached, in order to optimally match users’ requests with availability. • Content-Aware Delivery Architecture. COAST will discover the underlying network infrastructure (including mobile networks), and construct content-aware overlays to offer distributed and robust content delivery with optimal utilisation of the networking topology and resources, leading to improved PQoS. • Future media content adaptation and enrichment. COAST will provide for scalable, HD 3D/free-viewpoint video, which is on-the-fly adapted, enriched and optimized to the user preferences, network and terminal characteristics. COAST will be validated over: a) large scale testbeds: the Pan-European OneLab/PanLab-II and the PlanetLab/GENI and b) the TID’s “User Experience Lab” and the “Digital Home Labs” (FTTH services). COAST will eventually provide the architectural and technological innovations for incremental deployment of intelligent services into the network with the aim of optimizing the EU citizens’ experience for A/V networked applications and meeting network-wide SLAs in the Future Content Internet.

Keywords: future content-aware networks,3d & freeview point coding,distributed searching,optimized streaming,content/service location awareness
Platform for Large Area Conformable Electronics by InTegration (PLACE-IT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Germany,Spain,Germany,Denmark,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16185418.0
EU funding (EUR): 10881000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

In the PLACE-it project flexible large area electronics technologies such as foil-based electronics and light sources, stretchable and fabric electronics are combined to generate conformable systems with unique properties and technical performance. This is done by analysing, developing and implementing technology for the proper combination of functionalities in foil, stretchable and fabric substrates, resulting in conformable opto-electronic systems. Therefore PLACE-it shall develop: -Integration platform of foil, stretch and fabric technologies with opto-electronic functionality -Foil, stretchable and fabric-based devices for light emission, electronics, sensing and with interfaces to other technology building blocks -Design guidelines to implement the technology platform in a broad range of applications -Demonstrators, i.e. opto-electronic systems, showing the possibilities of the technology platform The PLACE-it technology enables the realization of systems with unique properties and technical performance through leveraging of the advantages in the combinations of stretchability, drapeability and comfort in combination with dense electronics and large area light sources. Through standardization of interfaces between the substrates, the design space is enlarged, offering the designer more freedom to “fit in” his application. The systems will be completely integrated, offering potentially low cost solutions through cost-efficient manufacturing and installation. All will lead to a gamut of market opportunities, which are demonstrated and validated in the project for two application areas: A high-end application, wearable smart bandages for healthcare purposes offering more comfort and thus better acceptance by customers; and a low cost but high end product demonstrator, conformable interior lighting in cars, airplanes or trains, in any design required by the application.

Keywords: large area electronics,substrates,foil,stretch,fabric,wearable conformable opto-electronic systems
Integrated Photonic Field-Effect Technology for bio-sensing functional components (PHOTO-FET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4052694.0
EU funding (EUR): 2750000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to develop a miniaturized cheap and disposable photonic device for bio sensing that is capable of performing quantitative diagnostic tests that are currently limited to a hospital laboratory setting. Our target product is a disposable device for monitoring cardiovascular health - an EU-wide healthcare priority. To date Microfluidic (or Lab-on-a-Chip) devices have not been well suited to point-of-care applications. Although the chips themselves are cheap and small, they must generally be used in conjunction with bulky optical light-sources and detectors. The lack of an integrated, versatile detection scheme is a major obstacle to the deployment of portable diagnostic devices. Consortium partners have demonstrated that integration of organic diodes and photodetectors is a viable route to meet this need. The purpose of this proposal is to develop a radically new generation of devices, in which organic photonic field-effect transistors are used for both light generation and detection. The use of transistors in place of diodes has four principle benefits. Firstly they can be pre-fabricated on the substrate (the microfluidic chip), ensuring optimal registration between the organic photonic components and the underlying fluidic architecture. Secondly the devices can be completed by depositing a single layer of organic semiconductor followed by the gate electrode, thus avoiding the need for complex multilayered structures. Thirdly in-plane light generation by the transistors provides improved optical coupling into wave-guiding structures, leading to significant performance gains. And fourthly current-multiplying auxiliary transistors can also be included thereby enabling immediate amplification of the signal at the point-of-generation. In combination these factors offer a compelling solution to the challenge of point-of-care detection that will offer unprecedented sensitivity and superior reliability at a markedly reduced cost

Keywords: photonic fet technology microfluidic technology photonic bio-sensing components
Quantum chemical and combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) modelling of oestrogen biosynthesis and metabolism (OESTROMETAB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 30000.0
EU funding (EUR): 30000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the research proposal is to study the biosynthesis and metabolism of oestrogen derivatives with state-of-the-art quantum mechanical (QM) and combined quantum mechanics molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations. Oestrogens play a manifold role in the correct functioning of the human body, which is especially pronounced in the case of women. Prolonged exposure to oestrogen has been shown to increase the risk of developing breast cancer due to the cumulative effect of toxic metabolites formed from oestrogens. State-of-the-art treatment of breast cancer involves inhibition of aromatase, the enzyme responsible for the last step of oestrogen biosynthesis. We intend to perform QM calculations to elucidate the factors that play a role in the cytochrome P450-dependant metabolism of oestrogens, and to rationalize the possible toxicity of oestrogen metabolites by assessing their proneness to autoxidation. Our second objective is to investigate the mechanism of the aromatization step of oestrogen biosynthesis. In order to do this we plan to carry out QM/MM calculations on the recently crystallized structure of aromatase and to investigate the feasibility of various reaction mechanisms. We expect that our results could significantly contribute to our present understanding to the functioning of this enzyme and could help in the development of the new generation of aromatase inhibitors to treat breast cancer. The research work is planned to be carried out at the HAS-BME Materials Structure and Modelling Research Group of the host institute (HAS-ORG). The European Reintegration Grant would aid the professional reintegration of Dr. Oláh to Hungary by allowing her to work independently. The grant would ensure (1) the transfer of knowledge that Dr. Oláh gained as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bristol (UK) to Hungarian researchers (2) to develop a collaboration between the host institute and the University of Bristol.

Keywords: computational chemistry,qm/mm calculations,oestrogen,aromatase,metabolism,quinones,reaction mechanism
Quantum Interfaces, Sensors and Communication based on Entanglement (Q-ESSENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Poland,Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Denmark,Slovakia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Poland,Spain,Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Australia,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6508274.0
EU funding (EUR): 4700000.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum entanglement has the capacity to enable disruptive technologies that solve outstanding issues in: - Trust, privacy protection, and security in two- and multi-party transactions; - Novel or enhanced modes of operation of ICT devices; - Reference standards, sensing, and metrology. The development of entanglement-based strategies addresses these challenges and provides the foundations for quantum technologies of the 21st century. The practical exploitation of entanglement requires groundbreaking levels of robustness and flexibility for deployment in real-world environments. This ambitious goal can be reached only through radically new designs of protocols, architectures, interfaces, and components. Q-ESSENCE will achieve this by a concerted application-driven effort covering relevant experimental, phenomenological, and fundamental aspects. Our consortium will target three main outcomes: 1) Development of entanglement-enabled and entanglement-enhanced ICT devices: atomic clocks, quantum sensors, and quantum random-number generators; 2) Novel physical-layer architectures for long-distance quantum communication that surpass current distance limitations through the deployment of next-generation components; 3) Distributed quantum information protocols that provide disruptive solutions to multiuser trust, privacy-protection, and security scenarios based on multipartite entanglement. These outcomes will be reached through the underpinning science and enabling technologies of: light-matter interfaces providing faithful interconversion between different physical realizations of qubits; entanglement engineering at new scales and distances; robust architectures protecting quantum information from decoherence; quantum information concepts that solve problems of limited trust and privacy intrusion. The project builds on the outstanding expertise of the consortium demonstrated by pioneering works over the past decades, enhanced by a strong industrial perspective.

Keywords: quantum information,qubits,entanglement,entanglement-enabled technologies,quantum metrology,quantum communication,quantum interfaces
Search for high energy neutrino emission from the galactic center (GC4ICE3)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Main purpose of the IceCube neutrino telescope is to detect high energy neutrinos of astro- physical origin. Within this project we aim to extend the field of view of the instrument to observe the galactic center, which is not in the generic field of view of a neutrino telescope at the South Pole. This can be accomplished by a new data selection, which detects events of particularily high energy or events of low energy starting inside the detector and by the development of new, more sophisticated reconstruction methods. We propose to reintegrate Dr. David J. Boersma, who has previously been employed by the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA),into the European astro-particle physics community. The IRG funds will be used for the foundation of a junior research group focused on this topic. Dr. Boersma is a key researcher of the IceCube neutrino telescope and expert on the reconstruction software. He has already succesfully conducted a similar analysis focused on the detection of the shadow of the Moon in underground cosmic rays muons.

Keywords: astrophysics,neutrino astronomy,galactic center