Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Magnetic Scaffolds for in vivo Tissue Engineering (MAGISTER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Croatia,Belarus,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Czechia,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11085124.0
EU funding (EUR): 8278091.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The main driving idea of the project is the creation of conceptually new type of scaffolds able to be manipulated in situ by means of magnetic forces. This approach is expected to generate scaffolds with such characteristics as multiple use and possibly multipurpose delivery in order to repair large bone defects and ostheocondral lesions in the articular surface of the skeletal system. The major limitations of the scaffolds for bone and cartilage regeneration nowadays available in the market are related to the difficulties in controlling cell differentiation and angiogenesis processes and to obtain stable scaffold implantation in the pathological site. . . Several attempts have been performed over the last years in order to provide scaffolds for tissue engineering, but nowadays there is no way to grant that tissue regeneration take place in the pathological site. The provision in vivo of the scaffold with staminal cells or /and growth factors in order to drive the tissue differentiation process and parallel angiogenesis represents nowadays one of most challenging requests [Ref. Nanomedicine roadmap]. The Consortium aims to elaborate, investigate and fabricate new kind of scaffolds – magnetic scaffolds (MagS) - characterized by strongly enhanced control and efficiency of the tissue regeneration and angiogenic processes. The magnetic moment of the scaffolds enables them with a fascinating possibility of being continuously controlled and reloaded from external supervising center with all needed scaffold materials and various active factors (AF). Such a magnetic scaffold can be imagined as a fixed “station” that offers a long-living assistance to the tissue engineering, providing thus a unique possibility to adjust the scaffold activity to the personal needs of the patient.

Keywords: tissue engineering,magnetic scaffolds,angiogenesis
Digital Signal Processing in Audiology (AUDIS)

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,Belgium,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom
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): 2953467.0
EU funding (EUR): 2953467.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The rapid advance in embedded digital signal processing technology has recently led to significantly enhanced hearing devices. Besides the very basic task of restoring loudness, modern hearing aids and cochlear implants feature a range of advanced processing capabilities such as beamforming microphone arrays, noise reduction and automatic controls. While some of these features have already resulted in improved performance, advanced approaches to signal enhancement, to auditory scene analysis and to signal reproduction strategies promise much improved user benefits. The application of advanced signal processing schemes in hearing instruments for the improved rehabilitation of hearing impaired users, however, requires close collaboration of researchers in digital signal processing, audiology and psychoacoustics. The ITN AUDIS will perform research and training in digital signal processing for applications in hearing instruments. The unique approach lies in the research and development of advanced statistical signal processing algorithms in the interdisciplinary area of audiology. This network thus reacts to the strong demand of hearing aid and cochlear implant companies for highly qualified researchers who are proficient in both the advanced signal processing methodologies and their application in the context of hearing instruments, and who are thoroughly familiar with user requirements in this domain. This network consists of 4 university and 2 industrial partners and associated partners. A key characteristic of this network is that all partners have substantial experience in interdisciplinary work and can thus provide exciting research opportunities to network fellows.

Keywords: digital signal processing,communication engineering,audiology,biomedical engineering,medical technology,technological sciences
Exploring Cellular Dynamics at Nanoscale (EXCELL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Sweden,Israel,Spain,Hungary,Italy,Ireland,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4946406.67
EU funding (EUR): 3780750.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

EXCELL is a novel innovative approach to explore interaction mechanisms between biological materials and systems/nanostructures. It involves a forward-looking cross-disciplinary and design-based research to generate an integrated, biologically inspired technological platform of high complexity, able to monitor cell dynamics at nano-scale. Expertise in cellular and molecular biology, nanosciences, material engineering, biophysics, biotechnology, modelling, and analytical chemistry, are combined to address the targeted goals, which go beyond the state of the art methods used in traditional biotechnology and systems biology. EXCELL will provide a complete Lab-in-a-Cell (LIC) sensor and actuator platform, which is capable of: (1) studying single cells in their natural environment surrounded by other cells or a complex mixture of different cells/tissue, (2) following the dynamics and interdependence of single cell processes from gene, protein, metabolite to compound secretion, exocytosis and cell-to-cell communication, (3) testing how and where various stimuli affect the different levels of the molecular machinery and finally (4) programming cells to be able to differentiate into a particular phenotype. A major task is the design of suitable biocompatible nano/bio interfaces that ensures a sustainable cellular environment. EXCELL provides a unique opportunity for developing advanced, novel experimental tools to address fundamental problems of stem cell research and poses a potential for possible diversification and modulation of developmental programs of stem cells to differentiate them into specific phenotypes. EXCELL has the capacity to drive new discoveries having a significant impact not only in the field of stem cell research and clinical use, but also on molecular engineering, nanosciences, sensor development, diagnostics, therapeutics, biotechnology and industry (smart materials, medical diagnostics, pharmaceutical companies, start-ups)

Keywords: microfludic cell culture nanosensor array,biocompatibility,intra-cellular detection,stem cells
Quantitative System Properties in Model-Driven Design of Embedded Systems (QUASIMODO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Netherlands,France,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Denmark,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2696159.0
EU funding (EUR): 1949999.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Characteristic for embedded systems is that they have to meet a multitude of quantitative constraints. These constraints involve the resources that a system may use (computation resources, power consumption, memory usage, communication bandwidth, costs, etc.), assumptions about the environment in which it operates (arrival rates, hybrid behaviour), and requirements on the services that the system has to provide (timing constraints, QoS, availability, fault tolerance, etc.). Model-Driven Development (MDD) is a new software development technique in which the primary software artifacts are models providing a collection of views. Existing MDD tools for real-time embedded systems are rather sophisticated in handling functional requirements but their treatment of quantitative constraints is still very limited. Hence MDD will not realise its full potential in the embedded systems area unless the ability to handle quantitative properties is drastically improved. The objective of Quasimodo is to develop theory and techniques for handling quantitative (e.g.real-time, hybrid and stochastic) constraints in model-driven development of real-time embedded systems. More specifically, the project aims at: 1. Improving the modeling of diverse quantitative aspects of embedded systems. 2. Providing a wide range of powerful techniques for analysing models with quantitative information and for establishing abstraction relations between them. 3. Generating predictable code from quantitative models. 4. Improving the overall quality of testing by using suitable quantitative models as the basis for automatically generating sound and correct test cases. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of our techniques, we will apply them to several complex industrial case studies, and provide tool components that support quantitative modeling, analysis, implementation and testing of embedded systems.

Keywords: development efficiency,mdd,quantities,modeling,verification,implementation,testing,tools
Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures (IRMOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Greece,Norway,United Kingdom,Italy,Spain,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12759911.0
EU funding (EUR): 7902430.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

IRMOS will design, develop, integrate and validate a Service Oriented Infrastructure that enables a broad range of interactive real-time applications. It will support the development and deployment of real time applications in a distributed, managed, secure and cost effective way. The infrastructure will be demonstrated in sectors with major economic and social importance by focusing on film production, virtual and augmented reality, and interactive collaborative learning. The infrastructure will be accompanied by specification languages, toolkits and standards compliant interfaces to ensure the widest possible take-up in applications involving complex value chains and real time needs, for example in security, safety and emergency response scenarios. Today’s Service Oriented Infrastructures (consisting of networks, computer systems, applications and their combination) there is no provision for Quality of Service assurances and so they are insufficient for the rapid construction and provision of many interactive real-time applications, they also lack dependability and resilience. This prevents business at all levels, especially SMEs, from capitilising on the business models and services that have so much potential to emerge in this area. Whilst European business and individuals are becoming increasingly agile, today’s Service Oriented Infrastructures are simply failing to keep pace. The IRMOS vision is motivated by combining the benefits of SOAs with the ability to support real-time applications with stringent performance, reliability and temporal constraints. We will allow real time applications to be exploited far more effectively and with dramatically lower costs. Instead of costly investment in dedicated infrastructure, it will be possible for European businesses to make full use of commodity resources by using a flexible service oriented approach that achieves guaranteed Quality of Service.

Keywords: service oriented infrastructure to enable interactive real-time applications in a distributed,transparent,seamless,cost effective,and secure manner.
INTERoperable Embedded Systems Toolchain for Enhanced rapid Design, prototyping and code generation (INTERESTED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Austria,Italy,Germany,Czechia,Germany,France,France,France,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7377076.0
EU funding (EUR): 5386792.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The INTERESTED project has been built to exactly match the goals defined within the Objective ICT-2007-3.3b "Suites of Interoperable design tools for rapid design and prototyping", namely creating a reference open interoperable embedded systems tool-chain, fulfilling the needs of the industry for designing and prototyping embedded systems This project regroups a consortium of leading edge European Embedded Systems Tools Vendors, all being high tech innovatives SMEs, as well as European Major Tool Users representing several industries that are both integrating massively embedded systems and contributing to the overall competitiveness of Europe: Aerospace, Automotive, Railway and Transportation and Energy. The method followed in the project is the following: - Major Tool Users will bring their requirements for the Tool-Chain content, structuring, features, interoperability architecture and characteristics; - Cover the full scope of Embedded Systems and SW engineering disciplines, spanning: . System and Application Software Design Modelling, Verification and Code Generation . Networking and RTOS execution platforms, Hardware-Dependent Software verification and Code Generation . Timing Analysis and code execution verification - Validate the use and openness of the INTERESTED tool-chain on "Industrial Validators" representing key application domains for European leading industries; - Demonstrate openness and interoperability within the INTERESTED Tool-Chain of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Open Source tools to the benefit of the users and tool suppliers communities. In summary, INTERESTED aims at realize the first European-Wide tool reference development environment ever, validated by Major Tool Users through real-life Industrial Validators, ensuring an integrated, lower cost, highly dependable, safe and efficient development process to the benefit of critical EU industries.

Keywords: interoperable,tool-chain,prototyping,embedded systems,aerospace,automotive,railway automation,energy,system design,application software,modelling,code generation,rtos,timing analysis.
Managing the complexity of the open source infrastructure (MANCOOSI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Portugal,France,Israel,France,Belgium,Argentina
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4427855.0
EU funding (EUR): 3323373.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Mancoosi aims to develop the scientific knowledge and build the tools necessary to manage the complexity of the open source infrastructure, which is one of the essential building blocks of tomorrow's software architectures: the success of LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Php) inside and outside the data centers is clear evidence of this. Yet, this infrastructure undergoes a fast-paced and distributed evolution that is too often maintained in ad-hoc ways using tools and processes that have clearly attained their limits today: we need new and innovative technology. We explicitly target the difficult problems that arise when one wants to efficiently and safely upgrade a set of software components in complex software infrastructures, like those found in open source software distributions, among the most complex software systems known, made of tens of thousands of components that evolve over time without centralized design. Mancoosi will provide: a model of the infrastructure, and the transformations it undergoes when adding or removing components; advanced algorithm to choose efficient evolution paths when updating a platform; a forum to attract leading experts by organizing an international competition; tools that incorporate these findings and advance the state of the art in the field. Mancoosi is precisely focused on Objective ICT-2007.1.2 (c) of the present call, by enabling mastery of complexity, dependability and behavioral stability in the complex system of software infrastructures evolving over time without central design. We bring together innovative industries from the Open Source world with deep first-hand experience in the practical issues of the problem, members of the Open Source community that are able to provide high-quality access to the community, and leading researchers that have the knowledge necessary to elaborate the sophisticated models and algorithms needed to solve the underlying problems.

Keywords: complexity,dependability,open source,large software systems,constraint solving,optimization,software management
PRediction and interpretatiOn of huMan behaviour based on probabilistic sTructures and HEterogeneoUs Sensors (PROMETHEUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Greece,Germany,Portugal,France,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2908561.0
EU funding (EUR): 2150000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The project intends to establish a link between fundamental sensing tasks and automated cognition processes that concern the understanding a short-term prediction of human behaviour as well as complex human interaction. The analysis of human behaviour is unrestricted environments, including localization and tracking of multiple people and recognition of their activities, currently constitutes a topic of intensive research in the signal processing and computer vision communities. This research is driven by diferent important applications, including unattended surveillance and intelligent space monitoring. The overall goal of the project is the development of principled methods to link fundamental sensing tasks using multiple modalities, and automated cognition regarding the understanding of human behaviour in complex indoor environments, at both individual and collective levels. Given the two above principles, the consortium will conduct research on three core scientific and technological objectives: 1) sersor modelling and information fusion from multiple, heterogeneous perceptual modalities 2) modelling, localization, and tracking of multiple people 3) modelling, recognition, and short-term prediction of continuous complex human behaviour

Keywords: robotics,behaviour analysis,sensor fusion,tracking,human appearance,motion,bayesian estimation,probabilistic inference algorithms.
Limit cycles of thermo-acoustic oscillations in gas turbine combustors (LIMOUSINE)

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,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Czechia,Spain,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,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): 4148412.62
EU funding (EUR): 4148412.62
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

In LIMOUSINE multi-disciplinary research and training is provided to address the problem and provide tools to design and operate gas turbine engines in a robust way with a diversity of fuels and operation conditions. Their robustness is dependent on their design and operation however. The major risk of failure is due to mechanical failure of combustor components. This failure is most often caused by fatigue of liner or burner parts, that have been exposed to an anomalous oscillating pressure load. This load is caused by thermo-acoustic instabilities. LIMOUSINE is a multi-disciplinary project providing training in mathematics, structural mechanics, acoustics, fluid mechanics, combustion experimental techniques, and control systems theory. The project objective in research is to predict the mechanical vibration in a gas turbine engine and the resulting fatigue and time to failure. Active and passive control processes will be developed to allow safe operation of the gas turbine on a variety of fuels and operating conditions.

Keywords: vibration engineering,gaseous biofuels,gas turbines,liquid biofuels,materials engineering
CARrier grade MEsh Networks (CARMEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6222269.0
EU funding (EUR): 3987440.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

CARMEN, CARrier grade MEsh Networks, will study and specify a wireless mesh network supporting carrier grade triple-play services for mobile/fixed network operators. Future operator networks will be comprised of a common core network and several access networks, and the CARMEN access network will complement other access technologies by providing a low cost and fast deployment mesh network access technology. The project proposes the integration of heterogeneous wireless technologies in a multi-hop fashion to provide scalable and efficient ubiquitous quad-play carrier services. To address the integration complexity of heterogeneous radio technologies, CARMEN introduces a layer 2.5 located between the subnet layer and the routing layer, in order to abstract technology specific issues into a common set of events and commands. Upper layers will use the abstract interface of layer 2.5 to dynamically adapt functions such as routing, mobility and monitoring. One relevant issue is that CARMEN will provide capacity handling algorithms to exploit specific features of the mesh networks such as the availability of multiple links between two peers (i.e. multipath) or the use of radio broadcast instead of unicast to alleviate the load of broadcast services (e.g. video) in the mesh network. CARMEN will focus on three planes: technology, message transfer, and self-configuration and management, to provide a complete solution for setting up and maintaining a cost-effective carrier grade wireless mesh access network. Soundness of the obtained results is guaranteed by the strong operator involvement, and by performing a use-case implementation. The experience of the consortium guarantees that the developed solutions will produce significant advance with respect to the current state of the art, which will be reflected in IPR creation, proposals of standards (with focus on IETF and IEEE), and dissemination of the results in high impact conferences and journals.

Keywords: wireless mesh networks,multipath routing,triple-play,carrier grade,access networks,all-ip.