Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Media Ecosystem Deployment Through Ubiquitous Content-Aware Network Environments (ALICANTE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,France,Austria,Romania,Portugal,Italy,Greece,Greece,France,Switzerland,Poland,Poland,Israel,China,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11266872.0
EU funding (EUR): 7668363.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The ALICANTE project proposes a novel concept towards the deployment of a networked ‘Media Ecosystem’. The proposed solution is based on a flexible cooperation between providers, operators, and end-users, finally enabling every user to access the offered multimedia services in various contexts, and to share and deliver his own audiovisual content dynamically, seamlessly, and transparently. Towards this goal, ALICANTE’s advanced concept provides Content-awareness to the Network Environment, Network- and User Context-awareness to the Service Environment, and adapted services/content to the End-User for his best service experience, taking the role of a consumer and/or producer. The ALICANTE architecture introduces two novel virtual layers on top of the traditional Network layer, i.e. a Content-Aware Network layer (CAN) for network packet processing and a Home-Box layer for the actual content delivery. The innovative components, proposed to instantiate the CAN are Media-Aware Network Elements (MANE), i.e. CAN-enabled “routers” and associated managers offering together content- and context aware Quality of Service/Experience, security, and monitoring features, in cooperation with the other elements of the ecosystem. The upper layer, i.e., the Service Environment, uses information delivered by the CAN layer and enforces Network-Aware Applications procedures, in addition to user Context-Aware ones. The novel proposed Home-Box is a physical and logical entity located at end-user&apos;s premises and gathering Context-Aware, Content-Aware and Network-Aware information essential for realising the big picture. ALICANTE will develop an interoperable middleware for the adaptation of advanced, distributed media resources to the user&apos;s preferences and heterogeneous contexts. The adaptation will be deployed at both Home-Box and CAN layers making use of scalable media resources. Finally, the validation of the project architecture and results will be done in a large-scale pilot.

Keywords: content aware networks,network aware applications,multimedia services,adaptation,context aware
Pre-commercial Public Procurement for ITS innovation and deployment (P3ITS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands,Denmark,Austria,France,Czechia,Italy,France,Netherlands,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 418102.0
EU funding (EUR): 398000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The mid-term review of the 2001 White Paper stresses the key role of innovation in ensuring sustainable, efficient and competitive mobility in Europe. The EC ITS Action Plan Communication highlights the need for innovation and market introduction of cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). With cooperative ITS, drivers’ vehicles will “talk” directly to other vehicles and with the traffic management system. The complexity in the technologies and operational framework for these services can only be overcome by creating the appropriate incentives for stakeholders to invest in further innovation. The timely availability and deployment of these services depend furthermore greatly on the Public Authorities in the establishment of national cooperative infrastructure (road side systems). P3ITS will establish a European network of 13 procurement experts, professionals from the ITS sector and industry and public procurement agencies for a period of 18 months to: - Investigate Public Procurement mechanisms and PCP in particular with respect to innovation and deployment requirements for cooperative ITS services; - Liaise with and build upon state-of-the-art expertise; - Consolidate national, regional and urban best practices into a European model approach for PCP of new cooperative ITS; - Investigate how PCP can help to answer the challenges of national, regional and urban transport policies and possibly derive recommendations if additional approaches would be required; - Disseminate and increase awareness, understanding and exploitation. The quality of the contents of the P3ITS project and the value of its results will benefit significantly from the RTD field trial programmes that its partners plan in 2010-2012, among others in the Netherlands (over 4000 innovative vehicle platforms and cooperative infrastructure) and France (25 local authorities plan procurement of innovative cooperative ITS services).

Keywords: deployment,its services,its action plan
Innovative aerial service robots for remote inspections by contact (AIROBOTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,Italy,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3614142.0
EU funding (EUR): 2616000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the AIRobots project is to develop a new generation of aerial service robots capable to support human beings in all those activities which require the ability to interact actively and safely with environments not constrained on ground but, indeed, freely in air. The step forward with respect to the classical field of aerial robotics is to realize aerial vehicles able to accomplish a large variety of applications, such as inspection of buildings and large infrastructures, sample picking, aerial remote manipulation, etc.The starting point is an aerial platform whose aeromechanical configuration allows the vehicle to interact with the environment in a non-destructive way and to hover close to operating points. Rotary-wing aerial vehicles with shrouded propellers represent the basic airframes which will be then equipped with appropriate robotic end-effectors and sensors in order to transform the aerial platform into an aerial service robot, a system able to fly and to achieve robotic tasks. Advanced automatic control algorithms will be conceived to govern the aerial platform which will be remotely supervised by the operator with the use of haptic devices. Particular emphasis will be given to develop advanced human-in-the-loop and autonomous navigation control strategies relying upon a cooperative and adaptive interaction between the on-board automatic control and the remote operator. Force and visual feedback strategies will be investigated in order to transform the aerial platform in a flying hand suitable for aerial manipulation.The consortium is composed of four academic groups and an SME with the role of end-user and evaluator of the project outcomes. Prototypes of aerial service robots will be developed and tested on experimental setups which will be constructed in order to reproduce typical industrial scenarios for which aerial inspection robotics can be beneficial (docking, cleaning, inspection and repairing of infrastructures, payload lifting, etc.).

Keywords: aerial service robotics,human-robot interaction,autonomous navigation,teleoperation
Open Media Web (OMWEB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 685230.0
EU funding (EUR): 447559.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The popularity of Internet-based access to networked media such as television content, user-generated videos or music is growing very rapidly. However, the most popular solutions today are based on proprietary, closed systems. Web technology is currently undergoing a sea-change which makes it a strong contender for becoming an open, royalty-free standards-based platform for networked media that levels the playing field and enables new market participants, including European players. However, realizing this promise requires bridging a “convergence gap” between the innovative and rapidly expanding Web community and the traditional actors in the networked media and 3D community. This gap is particularly apparent in Europe, which is strong in traditional media fields, but has yet to realize its full potential in the area of Web-based networked media. OMWeb aims to build on Europe’s strength in multimedia technology and content to enable European research and industry to strengthen its position in Web technology. The aim of the Open Media Web project is to overcome the “convergence gap” in Europe. This will be achieved by outreach on Web standards that are of particular relevance to the networked media community. Moreover, a series of workshops will provide the opportunity for members of all relevant communities involved to collaborate on ideas and concepts around web-based networked media. The Open Media Web project also includes training events that will enable the European networked media community to become familiar with standards relevant to web-based networked media. The project will also support working groups that enable collaboration between the Web-based and the more traditional networked media communities. The project is lead by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an industry consortium of currently more than 400 members from research and industry. The Director of the consortium is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.

Keywords: networked media,html5,widgets,w3c,web standards,media annotation
PARallel PAradigms and Run-time MAnagement techniques for Many-core Architectures (2PARMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Belgium,Greece,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3883704.0
EU funding (EUR): 2741000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The current trend in computing architectures is to replace complex superscalar architectures with small homogeneous processing units connected by an on-chip network. This trend is mostly dictated by inherent silicon technology frontiers, which are getting as closer as the process densities levels increase. The number of cores to be integrated in a single chip is expected to rapidly increase in the coming years, moving from multi-core to many-core architectures. This trend will require a global rethinking of software and hardware design approaches. This class of computing systems (Many-core Computing Fabric) promises to increase performance, scalability and flexibility if appropriate design and programming methodologies will be defined to exploit the high degree of parallelism exposed by the architecture. Other potential benefits of Many-core Computing Fabric include energy efficiency, improved silicon yield, and accounting for local process variations. To exploit these potential benefits, effective run-time power and resource management techniques are needed. With respect to conventional computing architectures, Many-core Computing Fabric offers some customisation capabilities to extend and/or configure at run-time the architectural template to address a variable workload. The 2PARMA project aims at overcoming the lack of parallel programming models and run-time resource management techniques to exploit the features of many-core processor architectures. To this purpose, a proper Consortium has been set up to gather the required expertise in the areas of system/application software and computing architectures.The 2PARMA project focuses on the definition of a parallel programming model combining component-based and single-instruction multiple-thread approaches, instruction set virtualisation based on portable bytecode, run-time resource management policies and mechanisms as well as design space exploration methodologies for Many-core Computing Fabrics.

Keywords: parallelisation & programmability,continuous adaptation,virtualization,customisation,methodologies & tools
Exploring and Monitoring Any Organisation’s Environmental Performance Indicators (OEPI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Finland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4961659.0
EU funding (EUR): 3037500.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The project “Solution engineering and Services for Measuring, Monitoring, and Management of Organizations’ Environmental Performance Indicators” (OEPI) is about the design and development of a software solution resulting in a Single Space of accessible Environmental Performance Indicators (EPIs) that are grounded in a semantic standardization concept. The standard for EPIs and the suite of tools could provide any organization with information regarding the current impact on the environment by its processes/operations. OEPI aims to provide any organization access to services and tools for integrated, cross-organizational Environmental Performance Management. Oepi in Swiss German stands for the “grandfather”. In that sense the project aims to result in an oepi (“grandfather” in Swiss German) of EPIs services and tools that give access via multiple consumption channels: mobile devices, internet access, ERP integration, and web services serve the need to be aware of the environmental impact of business or regulatory decision. The project provides a proof-of-concept and proof-of-implementation in real-world settings throughout European organizations and assesses the impact on corporate social responsibility related topics and further strategic decisions.

Keywords: ontology,semantic web,soa,web services,environmental performance management
INcreasing Security and Protection through Infrastructure REsilience-International cooperation aspects (INSPIRE-INTERNATIONAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 132400.0
EU funding (EUR): 99300.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Critical Infrastructures (CI) are increasingly interconnected and consequently opposed to multiple new threats such as cyber and terroristic attacks. Therefore, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) is getting more and more important. Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are widely deployed in CIs and should be therefore well protected. The INSPIRE project aims at systematically understanding SCADA threats and accordingly developing mitigation and prevention techniques. Power grid is a SCADA-based wide area highly interconnected CI. The high level of interconnectivity can be easily concluded from the low number of power grids in Europe. To the best of our knowledge there is no real data from the European power grids that can be used for evaluating power grid protection techniques such as those developed in INSPIRE. Prof. Dave Bakken from the Washington State University (WSU) has years long experience in collecting real data from the north American power grid. Most recent efforts are within the GridStat project under the umbrella of the NSF TCIP center. An international liaison between INSPIRE and TCIP will provide a full access to detailed real data from a large power grid. This will allow for calibrating the INSPIRE models for real power grids. These models will allow for providing more realistic simulation and evaluation models than the common hypothetical/academic models and synthetic data. Furthermore, researchers at WSU have developed a publish/subscribe middleware to enhance the resilience of power grid. INSPIRE is developing a P2P-based middleware that aims at increasing the protection level of SCADA systems, which can be easily adopted for power grid infrastructures. A cooperation between INSPIRE and GridStat will allow to compare both approaches and derive best practices as well as directions towards an integrative/adaptive approach.

Keywords: power grid data,communication middleware,p2p,quality of service
Real Time Simulation for Safer vascular Stenting (RT3S)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Greece,Italy,Spain,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4879562.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Vascular stenting is an invasive procedure for the treatment of occlusive vascular diseases; a small wire mesh tube called a stent is permanently placed in the artery or vein to help it remain open. The procedure is called angioplasty. Originally developed to treat sever occlusions of coronary arteries, thanks to its good results, stenting found an expanding indication also for the treatment of occlusions in peripheral arteries. Around 20% of the population over 60 years old have peripheral arterial disease, and in a fifth of them symptoms can become severe and progressive, causing major lifestyle limitation; in many of these cases a stent can solve the problem effectively and with moderate risk for the patient. As common for many other implantable devices, the expansion of the indication is also producing new complications. In particular, the risk of stent rupture, which in coronaries is near to zero, is becoming an increasing source of concerns for devices placed in peripheral arteries. The variability of the incidence of this complication, that in some recent clinical studies affect 30% of the patients, suggest that problem is not only due to the design of the device, but also to factors related to the patient functional anatomy and lifestyle, and to the surgical procedure. The RT3S project aim to develop and validate a sophisticated patient-specific, probabilistic model of the fatigue-fracture of a stent, integrated in a computer-aided surgery planning application, implemented to run in real-time during the surgical planning, so as to provide advice of the risk of stent rupture while the surgeon is planning the operation. The real time software library, easy embeddable in any existing application, will make possible to include the assessment of risk for stent fracture in all software solutions for computer-aided planning, training and intervention of peripheral vascular angioplasty procedures.

Keywords: pre-operative planning,tools for training,computer-aided medicine,computational modelling
Low-cost highly conductive high resolution structures for flexible large area electronics by high throughput low temperature processing (LOTUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Israel,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5421490.0
EU funding (EUR): 3700000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The LOTUS proposal addresses the urgent need for a technology to produce the highly conductive patterns required for high throughput large volume manufacturing of flexible large area electronics. While all printed electronics need “electric wiring” LOTUS specifically targets the applications the most advanced towards commercialization: flexible thin-film photovoltaics, RFIDs, and OLEDs for lighting. The general objective is to provide a simple, low cost, energy efficient, environmentally friendly and R2R compatible platform to produce highly conductive structures with high resolution. The interplay between materials researchers, technology developers and end users allows to generate solutions quickly and effectively with minimum investment and time and to achieve maximum output with minimum risk. This will also accelerate the transfer to mass production. The strategy is based on an integrated approach to address both the common needs and the specific requirements of the most representative applications. The platform developed will reinforce the leading position of the European Industry in flexible OLEDs, PVs, and RFIDs. Moreover, it will be beneficial to any flexible electronics including thin-film transistors, power converters, flexible batteries, printed sensors for biomedical use (point-of-care) and food protection/freshness applications. These devices presently at various stages of development also need an “electric wiring”. Thus LOTUS will contribute to wealth creation and making new technology available to address societal needs. The technologies and materials generated will enable the European Community to be competitive with Asian and North American products (there are presently no conductive inks and sintering tools manufacturers in Europe). LOTUS project will create synergies and cooperation between research groups, equipment manufacturers and end users bringing them to the position of global frontrunners in their respective technology areas.

Keywords: low cost,r2r high throuput manufacturing,flexible oleds,rfids,thin-film photovoltaics,high conductivity,metallization,patterning,inkjet sintering,large area,printed electronics