Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SciCafe 2.0 (SCICAFE 2.0)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 945883.0
EU funding (EUR): 874999.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Science cafés are an informal and innovative way of communicating science and providing for grassroot social innovation and citizens empowerment. SciCafe2.0 will support i) A portable Virtual Platform and Observatory for Crowd Sourcing, extending wiki-based and other media and a knowledge base with an invitational and customisable interface, to engage both offline/online communities and support them in a joint deliberation to resolve the real problems/ dilemmas faced by society; ii) Local and global scale knowledge sharing and co-evolution of ideas, not just one-way information transer, by more deeply informed “Scientific Citizens”; iii) Particpative managemnt to enable inclusive, e-democratic and co-creative consensus solution-seeking responsive to societal challenges such as global warming, energy, biomedicine, privacy, security; iv) Methodologically-guided experiments to evaluate various approaches for engaging the citizens in the democratic consultative process and the sharing of resulting insights re the relative merits of different situated models for participative engagement and leadership so as to best mobilise, harness and harvest collective intelligence; v) A framework of normative forms and associated models, metrics and KPIs for social engagement, including Efficacy and Quality-of-Experience, arising from the self-expression of the participants and dissemination of insights; vi) Collectively informed reflective practice at various levels, not just involving the scientists, but also a variety of stakeholders through bottom-up contributions from citizens and social networks to inform policy makers at local community, national and international levels e.g. the involvement of other CAPS projects, ICT EIT Labs and other KICS, Network of Regions, various local authorities, NGOs and their stakeholders, universities and other public entities will contribute to a real prospect of pan-European scale exploitation of the SciCafe2.0 tools, and Observatory Services.

Keywords: networking,science cafes,platform for sharing of science cafe expertise
COnnected Media and Presence from European Institute of Technology (COMPEIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Sweden,Netherlands,Finland,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3553536.0
EU funding (EUR): 2608000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

COMPEIT creates a web-based system for highly interactive, personalised, shared media experiences. Research and development will link content-delivery networks with tools for enhancing mediated presence. COMPEIT takes the view that Internet-based distribution will transform traditional broadcasting towards higher levels of interactivity and integration with virtual, mixed and augmented reality, enabled by advanced web technologies and the proliferation of audio/video/tangible devices. The project addresses Quality of Experience in flexible, interactive media production and consumption systems designed for professional collaboration and shared leisure activities. It introduces the next step in interactive broadcasting systems by focusing technologies that enrich social connections, improve the feeling of being together in one shared space and enhance collaboration. Modular software will be developed based on low-cost, easily accessible web technologies (e.g HTML5, WebRTC, WebGL), leveraging on cloud based software access and distribution. Three key domains are identified for improving quality of experience: 1) Spatial Connectedness 2) Social Connectedness 3) Information Connectedness COMPEIT develops and validates three key web services: a) Shared Experience with Tangible Interaction enables audiences to experience enhanced live media together, complemented by tangible and interactive games b) A Broadcast Presence Studio to mix live media with various types of web-based content c) Mixed-Reality Interaction, an advanced WebRTC-based service where content generated by the Broadcast Presence Studio service can be mixed into the viewer's physical environment using ambient devices. Prototypes will be validated in an Experience Lab and via an online media distribution platform, complemented by a new national hospital which integrates real-time mediated communication to distributed care centres, private homes and classrooms.

Keywords: mediated space,presence design,presence,html5,webrtc,webgl,mixed-reality space,tangible devices,tangible interaction,broadcasting,shared media experiences
industry-Academia Research on Three-dimensional Image Sensing for Transportation (IARTIST)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Portugal,Germany,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 786743.69
EU funding (EUR): 786743.69
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

An industry academic partnership project to enhance research and knowledge transfer in the field of three dimensional image processing for transportation industry.
Spoken Dialogue Analytics (SPEDIAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Sweden,Portugal,Greece,Canada
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1958400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1495000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The speech services industry has been growing both for telephony applications and, recently, also for smartphones (e.g., Siri). Despite recent progress in spoken dialogue system (SDS) technologies the development cycle of speech services still requires significant effort and expertise. A significant portion of this effort is geared towards the development of the domain semantics and associated grammars, system prompts and spoken dialogue call-flow. We propose a semi-automated process for spoken dialogue service development and speech service enhancement of deployed services, where incoming speech service data are semi-automatically transcribed and analyzed (human-in-the-loop). A list of mature technologies will be used to 1) identify hot-spots in the dialogue and propose alternative call-flow structures, 2) mine for relevant data to enhance grammars and 3) mine for relevant data to update service prompts. Specifically the technologies used will be: grammar induction, text-mining for language modeling, affective modeling of speech and text data, machine translation, crowd-sourcing, speech recognition/transcription, ontology induction. The technologies will be integrated in a service doctoring platform that will enhance deployed services using the human-in-the-loop paradigm. Our business model is quick deployment of a prototype service, followed by service enhancement using our semi-automated service doctoring platform. The reduced development time and time-to-market will provide significant differentiation for SME in the speech services areas, as well as end-users. The business opportunity is significant especially given the consolidation of the speech services industry and the lack of major competition. Our offering is attractive for SME in the services area with little expertise in speech service development (B2B) and also end-user that are developing their own in house speech service often with limited success (B2C).

Keywords: speech analytics,spoken dialogue systems,speech processing,natural language processing,speech recognition,emotion detection,speech services,interactive voice platform,call-flow analysis.
Application of an unmanned surface vessel with ultrasonic, environmentally friendly system to (map and) control blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria) (DRONIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Belgium,Belgium,Slovenia,Cyprus,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3273879.0
EU funding (EUR): 2199820.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Through the DRONIC project, the consortium will showcase a new, innovative blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) monitoring and treatment robotic system, that can localize hotpots of blue-green algae blooms and only treats the part of the lake which is experiencing blue-green algae bloom. Because of the direct and localized treatment, the system is environmentally friendly, with a minimal impact on the ecology of the lake.The new water robot concerns the retrieval, prevention and abatement of harmful algae blooms in lakes and in inland water reservoirs used for drinking water production. In lakes and reservoirs, species of blue-green algae and their concentrations can vary locally due to wind or water flow direction and local variations in temperature, nutrients and depths. In lakes and reservoirs, hotspots of blue-green algal blooms can be often detected only in one area of the water body whereas other area’s experience no problems due to blue-green algae. Therefore, it is important to map the algal concentration over extended at flexible, different area’s in order to localize algal hotspots. The mobility of the robot will allow targeted intensive algae reduction at hotspot locations, thereby increasing the efficiency of the abatement measure. Measurements directly related to algae concentration will be combined with measures of water quality and dimension related parameters to locate the algae, make an estimation of the local water quality and hydrographic parameters. This new robotic approach offers the first cost-effective method to control algal blooms in larger lakes, reservoirs, canals and rivers with low water velocity (< 1 m/s). With DRONIC technology blooms of blue-green algae will be treated locally at the place where the blooms are present and there is no need to treat the complete surface of the lake or reservoir anymore. Besides that, with the local use of higher power ultrasound, also the cyanobacterial by-products like toxins can be neutralized.

Keywords: unmanned surface vessel,water treatment,algae control,cyanobacteria,toxins,water monitoring,water robotics,lakes,drinking water.
Audio Bracelet for Blind Interaction: a new technology based on sensory-motor rehabilitation for visually impaired children (ABBI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2406006.0
EU funding (EUR): 1849995.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The problem The development of technologies to support the inclusion of adults and children with visual disabilities is a big societal challenges for ICT Research. Vision is essential to build up important cognitive representations and early onset of blindness affects adversely psychomotor, spatial and social development. Moreover, early intervention is fundamental. Objectives The ABBI project aims at: • Developing a new set of devices to rehabilitate spatial cognition, mobility and social interaction of children and adults with visual deficits through natural audio-motor and tactile-motor associations, • demonstrating and validating the technology through user, experimental and clinical studies. The core idea of the project, based on a new understanding of the role of vision in the development of blind and normal children, is that audio feedback about body movements might help the blind child to build a sense of space. The main device to achieve this objective is the Audio Bracelet for Blind Interactions (ABBI) which will be positioned on the wrist of the child and/or of the people around. The generated sound (for which the position will be perceived aurally) will be triggered by the body movement and will give spatial information on where and how the movement is occurring. The use of ABBI will provide important information for posture control, motor coordination and spatial orientation reducing the risk of exclusion for disabled individuals. Why it is innovative Unlike most existing sensory substitution devices that are introduced in late childhood or adulthood, the approach proposed in ABBI does not require to learn new “languages” and it can be applied in the first years of life. Further development of the ABBI in this project will endow the device with the capacity to interact with other ABBIs and react in a smart manner to the context as well as additional assistive functions.

Keywords: rehabilitation,sensory substitution devices,audio feedback,blind,visually impaired,children,development,spatial cognition,mobility,social interaction,portable,education,training,devices
Metallacrowns-based innovative materials and supramolecular devices (METALLACROWNS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Poland,France,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194300.0
EU funding (EUR): 194300.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This IRSES proposal has the objective to design innovative functional magnetic or fluorescent materials and probes based on metallacrown complexes. The project involves six research groups (4 EU and 2 from Other Third Countries) with complementary expertise and the common aim to develop new metallacrown complexes with novel magnetic, photophysical and structural properties be used as tools in bio- or nanotechnological devices. The partners involved in this project have already collaborated in the past and served as co-authors in several joint papers. Here, the partners aim to set up a common platform to promote and strengthen their joint activities through the support of the secondments of their researchers. Through this network, they will take advantage of the expertise and techniques available at their institutions on the synthesis, characterization and organization on surfaces of metal complexes to obtain materials, devices and probes for bio-nanotechnological applications. Training aspects will be considered in the project activities: graduate students and early career scientists will significantly improve their skills and expertise through their secondments to other laboratories, while the hosting institutions will benefit from visits of senior scientists and collaborators. Regular workshops and seminars delivered at the hosting institutions by the seconded researchers will also increase the visibility of the project. This IRSES eventually aims to establish and support multilateral transfer of knowledge and expertise among the involved EU and Extra-EU research teams. On one hand this will stimulate the aggregation of scientists into an EU to worldwide network on the research on functional materials and molecular devices, increasing in turn the competitiveness of ERA and its attractiveness to foreign researchers. On the other hand, this network will promote the set-up of new future research projects and new long-term collaborations between the partners.

Keywords: metallacrowns,metallamacrocycles,single molecule magnets,luminescence,stability constants,self-assembly
Biotechnologies to Valorise the regional food Biodiversity in Latin America (BIVALBI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 455700.0
EU funding (EUR): 455700.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This project has as main objective to complement the views of students at post-graduate level with different skills in order to allow them to have an adequate overview on the characterization, purification, bio-transformation, encapsulation and utilization of bio-molecules from food regional biodiversity. The exchange and internationalisation of culture as a key issue for the globalisation of the academic and scientific community is also an objective of the project.

Keywords: biotechnology,food,biodiversity,characterization,purification,bio-transformation,encapsulation and utilization of bio-molecules
Coordination and Integration of Future Internet Research Experimentation Activities in Europe (CI-FIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 604985.0
EU funding (EUR): 497000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

CI-FIRE will support a broader and deeper coordination and integration of Future Internet Research Experimentation (FIRE) activities on EU and Member State level in order to enable the sustainable use of FIRE facilities. To this purpose, CI-FIRE will analyse the sustainability potential of European FIRE facilities, develop an innovation business framework template, and perform an analysis of the use and applicability of the innovation business framework by FIRE facilities. In addition, CI-FIRE will analyse different collaboration models for making FIRE facilities sustainable. Based on this analysis and the selection of a suitable collaboration model, CI-FIRE will facilitate the implementation of a collaboration between FIRE and EIT ICT Labs as an exemplary case for achieving FIRE sustainability. Based on the insights from this concrete collaboration model implementation, CI-FIRE will develop a 'blueprint', i.e. a process standard, for similar collaborations of FIRE facility providers with other initiatives and organisations in order to open further paths to sustainability. In addition to disseminating this process standard and other project results to relevant target audiences, CI-FIRE aims to increase the engagement of industry in the development and use of FIRE facilities. This will be done via a number of targeted activities, including two industry engagement workshops and a dedicated portal for stakeholder engagement and sustainability that will complement the existing FIRE web portal. Through these activities, CI-FIRE will foster new multidisciplinary experimental research and the implementation of sustainable business models for FIRE facilities. The CI-FIRE support action will be performed by an experienced consortium of five partners, who are very well connected with ongoing activities in the FIRE domain and in other initiatives like FI-PPP and the EIT ICT Labs. This project is supported by the EIT ICT Labs, which has expressed a strong interest to collaborate with CI-FIRE, as explicitly stated in a support letter signed by the CEO of EIT ICT Labs, Prof. Willem Jonker.

Keywords: fire,future internet,experimentation,eit ict labs,fi-ppp,smart cities
eco-friendly and energy efficient sewage SLUDGE dewaTeRing through novEl nanomAterials and elecTro-osmotic process (SLUDGETREAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1322042.55
EU funding (EUR): 1322042.55
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The progressive implementation of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 91/271/EEC in all Member States is increasing the quantities of sewage sludge requiring disposal: as reported in [1], in the EU-27, the current practices for sewage sludge disposal are landfill (18%), thermal treatment\incineration (23%), composting (7%), agricultural use (45%) and others re-uses (7%). Urban waste water and by-products can be reduced, indeed - this is one of the major challenges of sustainable development - but not fully eliminated. This means that we have to deal with those waste materials, and try to find for them a suitable, effective application, wherever possible, according to their prevalent features and potential beneficial effects. On the other side, this has to deal with potential environmental and health risks and has to be kept under control both at the treatment stage and/or at the application stage, if the outlet of the treatment is not a “safe” product, yet. Proposers intend to move away from sewage sludge disposal as land filling, as this gradually has to be phased out by EU (Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC on waste), and agricultural use as fertilizers, as the latter presents strong limitations coming from organic and inorganic pollutants that sewage sludge may contain. On the other hand, sludge thermal drying for further re-use instead disposal, still needs considerable amounts of fossil fuel to provide the heat necessary to the process and thus remain an unexplored (but added-value potential) research and market area. The main scope of the SLUDGEtreat project is to prolong the life cycle of sewage sludge, by i) improving sludge quality and ii) increasing the percentage of sludge dry matter up to 50% of solid content for high added-value re-uses (i.e. as energy, biomass), other than fertilizers.