Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Support to Mobile Game requirements and architecture (GAMEARCH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Sweden,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 419243.0
EU funding (EUR): 369000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The current penetration of mobile telephony has reached 95% by the end of 2010 in Europe and approximately 80% in the world. Consequently mobile content is taking the role of the lead medium of communication, but for European mobile content industry the lack of mobile standards (e.g. for mobile Application Programming Interfaces (API’s)) is becoming one of the main factors hindering their growth. At the same time, Europe is losing ground to non-European mobile technology manufacturers, which is giving a clear competitive advantage to non-European mobile content developers. The GameArch project support European actors from both the content side and technology side of mobile industry to join forces to tackle this barrier of growth. By making significant contributions to global standards the project intends to create the base for the new generation of mobile technology that will allow the European content the flourish globally and narrow the digital gap in Europe in addition to reinforcing the positioning of SME’s working in the European ICT and digital media industry and increasing the accessibility of digital media/service platforms aggregators. The main objectives of the GameArch project are to: • Identify the current growth barriers in the mobile games industry • Identify a roadmap for growth of the mobile gaming industry and identify specific European barriers • Support actions to provide recommendations on standards, specifications, actions, practices in the area of mobile technology. As the result, the GameArch project will produce a roadmap and set of technological, commercial and political recommendations. It may be assumed that GameArch solutions to mobile technology standards, commercial recommendations and political initiatives will be applicable to other mobile applications as well.

Keywords: mobile,game,standardisation,augmented reality,architecture
Nano-Electro-Mechanical Integration And Computation (NEMIAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3890325.0
EU funding (EUR): 2440000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The first fully electronic vacuum tube based computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) consumed 200 kW of power. Since then power consumption has become the major bottleneck in state-of-the-art microelectronic technology as leakage power is approaching dynamic power in nanometer technologies. This is particularly an issue for emerging applications for smart components such as autonomous sensor nodes, wireless communications devices, and novel mobile computers which all require logic circuits with dramatically improved energy efficiency. NEMIAC (Nano-Electro-Mechanical Integration And Computation) proposes a solution based on nano-electromechanical (NEM) switches with practically zero leakage, abrupt switching and high on-current suitable for stand-alone embedded systems as well as 3-D integration with CMOS. The potential benefits of a mature technology are an order of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency with no performance penalty in a variety of processing applications, and radiation-resistant and higher temperature operation than CMOS. Within NEMIAC, NEM switches suitable for digital logic design will be explored and developed, along with innovative circuit architectures for low power smart components and smart systems applications. The new switches will have a footprint below 3μm×3μm and targeted switching times of the order of 10 ns. Functional logic blocks based on NEM relays will then be implemented. Design and simulation methodologies will be developed for the new mechanical logic elements and used to explore the design-space for the target applications and demonstrate a small microprocessor.

Keywords: nano electromechanical switch,low power logic,wireless devices,sensor networks,space industry,smart components,smart systems
Active collaboration in data centre ecosystem to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions (ALL4GREEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4424064.0
EU funding (EUR): 2988000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Instead of focusing on the energy optimization of single ICT elements, or subsets of the ICT elements making up a data centre, All4Green broadens the scope of energy savings to the full ecosystem in which data centres operate. The novel approach proposed by All4Green specifically fosters collaboration between all entities in this ecosystem with the common goal of saving energy and emissions (hence the name of the project): ICT users deploying services in the data centre, electrical power providers, and data centres cooperating in a federated way. With the proposed technology, energy savings generated in the data centre through the new relation with ICT users are magnified at the very source of the electricity transformation process through the coordinated collaboration of all the actors inside the ecosystem. The project will demonstrate that this collaboration is not only beneficial for the environment, but also economically sustainable, and therefore not limited to customers with a strong green/ecological conscience. The main benefits of the envisioned ecosystems results from the interplay between data centres and energy providers. On the one hand, data centres, as important customers of energy providers, can have a great impact on the emergence and avoidance of energy usage peaks, and on the other hand, energy providers can reduce the impact of such peaks by using the optimal balance of energy sources based on their flexibility and CO2 emissions, including renewable energy sources like solar or wind, which have traditionally been difficult to be fully integrated into the electricity grid due to their long-term unpredictability. The All4Green project addresses this problem by coordinating energy supply and demand by encouraging extensive collaboration between energy providers and data centres as major energy consumers. This, in turn, is enabled by Green-SLAs in the contracts between users and data centres.

Keywords: green data centre,energy and emission saving,energy plans sharing with power provider,power provider collaboration,data centre ecospace,peak load reduction,green energy sources
Supervised Care & Rehabilitation Involving Personal Tele-robotics (SCRIPT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4643983.0
EU funding (EUR): 3311961.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Recent development in robot-mediated rehabilitation has shown the potential of robotic devices for delivering repetitive training thus allowing for a large number of repetitions to be delivered during acute and chronic phases of stroke rehabilitation. While there is growing evidence that such technologies are beneficial to patient’s recovery of functional and motor outcome, our goals are: 1: To use such technologies at patient’s home, enabling better management of chronic stroke as it allows to administer larger repetitions and frequent exercise which can in turn increase the recovery gains. Moreover, it allows objective database of performance for tailoring treatment and follow-up. 2: To focus on hand and wrist exercise that present the least researched area with the most functional relevance, and potential for contribution to personal independence. 3: To look at differences between passive and active actuated devices. Inherent safe nature of these devices make them an ideal choice for home use. 4: To provide an educational, motivational and engaging interaction, which makes a therapy session more enjoyable while having the capabilities to provide feedback to patients and health professional. The provided feedback will be based on heterogeneous data collected during interaction as well as comparisons with models such as minimum jerk model as a performance indicator. 5: To focus on remote management and support of the patient. It creates a communication platform that will support the remote management allowing to adjust the therapy program remotely thus reducing hospital or home visits frequency. This is facilitated by incorporating the clinical workflows into user interfaces used by patients and clinicians while maintaining a customisable and easy to operate front-end for users. The two-fold objective here enables us to look at aspects of acceptability and compliance as well as data security and confidentiality. 6: To infer from summative evaluation in this project, impact on health and recovery and its potential cost implications.

Keywords: passively actuated robotic therapy devices,remote-haptic coaching,home stroke rehabilitation tools,tele-supervision,therapeutic human-robot interaction,formative design cycle in development
Marine robotic system of self-organizing, logically linked physical nodes (MORPH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,France,Portugal,Germany,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8521744.0
EU funding (EUR): 6284371.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The MORPH project advances the novel concept of an underwater robotic system composed of a number of spatially separated mobile robot-modules, carrying distinct and yet complementary resources. Instead of being physically coupled, the modules are connected via virtual links that rely on the flow of information among them, i. e. inter-module interactions are allowed by underwater communication networks at distant and close ranges and supported by visual perception at very close range. The MORPH supra-vehicle (MSV) is thus in sharp contrast to classical monolithic vehicles or even cooperative groups of marine vehicles that operate safely away from each other. These lack the capability of mutual support and multi-sensor interaction.Without rigid links, the MSV can reconfigure itself and adapt in response to the shape of the terrain. This capability provides the foundation for efficient methods to map the underwater environment with great accuracy especially in situations that defy existing technology: namely, underwater surveys over rugged terrain and structures with full 3D complexity. This includes walls with a negative slope, where precise localization of a single vehicle is not possible.The possible applications of the MSV cover a wide range of scientific and commercial areas such as monitoring of cold water coral reefs, oil and gas pipeline inspection, or harbor and dam protection. The common characteristic of these areas is the need for operating multiple, complementary instruments at very close range to unstructured underwater terrain while accomplishing proper geo-referencing at the same time.The MORPH concept requires qualitatively new behaviors such as adaptive sensor placement for perception and navigation, as well as environmental modeling in complex environments. On site view planning will lead to a solution well beyond the operational state of the art for underwater cliff surveys and other similar missions. A final demonstration on a vertical cliff, unfeasible automatically with today's technology, will validate the efficacy of the methods developed.

Keywords: under water robotics,environmental sensing,cognitive abilities,logically coupled nodes,cooperative control and navigation,underwater communication
Innovative Multi-purpose off-shore platforms: planning, Design and operation (MERMAID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Italy,Spain,Netherlands,Denmark,Greece,Belgium,Netherlands,Norway,Germany,Cyprus,Poland,Türkiye,Sweden,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-OCEAN-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7376567.6
EU funding (EUR): 5483411.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

European oceans will be subject to massive development of marine infrastructure in the near future. The most obvious is the energy facilities e.g. offshore wind farms, exploitation of wave energy, expansion of electricity connections, and also further development and implementation of marine aquaculture. This will also lead to an increased need for marine infrastructure to support installation and the on-going operation of the facilities. However both economical costs and environmental impact have to be reduced in order to increase the feasibility of the use of ocean space. Marine structures for offshore wind farms and aquaculture have to be installed at various sites and on much larger scale than earlier implementation of offshore structures in order to fulfil EU strategies (1) for reduction of fossil-based energy and (2) to become a major player in sustainable aquaculture. However the feasibility is much more sensitive to the costs of structures and the installation of the structures than for instance Oil & Gas facilities. Novel innovative design concepts should address different physical conditions in order to make the best use of the ocean space. Going from deep water (north of Spain) to shallow water with high morphological activity (the Wadden sea) and further to inner waters like the inner Danish/Baltic areas and the Adriatic sea changes the focus from a strong physical aspect to environmental impact. This will make it possible to develop, test and integrate different technologies but also to address site specific challenges. Both for offshore renewables and for aquaculture a substantial part of the costs is variable cost related to operations and maintenance of the plants. It is obvious that optimization of the use of ocean space for different purposes might benefit from shared resources such staff allocation, transportation of staff and material from and to the platforms, use of forecasting systems, ships etc.

Keywords: hydraulics,aquaculture,ocean energy,optimisation of operations and maintenance.
EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity (EUBRAZILOPENBIO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: International Cooperation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-EU-Brazil, 2011)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1253555.0
EU funding (EUR): 1049737.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of EUBrazilOpenBio is to deploy an e-Infrastructure of open access resources (data, tools, services), to make significant strides towards supporting the needs and requirements of the biodiversity scientific community. This data e-Infrastructure will result from the federation and integration of substantial individual existing data, cloud, and grid EU and Brazilian infrastructures and resources across the biodiversity & taxonomy domain namely Catalogue of Life, OpenModeller, D4Science-II and Venus-C. The breadth & depth of the resulting data infrastructure & the openness of its resources will enable a large variety of new cost-effective, cross-disciplinary virtual research environment applications thus opening the way to its widespread adoption and exploitation by the worldwide biodiversity scientific community. Accelerating the creation of a data e-Infrastructure of open access resources pursues interoperability with end-user technologies, & contributes to social, environmental agendas. Europe through international cooperation can facilitate the exploitation of European excellence & results in data infrastructure & cloud computing to enhance European competitiveness & job opportunities. Project goals are two Use Cases: 1. Integration between Regional & Global Taxonomies; 2. Data usability & use of ecological niche modelling. The interoperation runs through all infrastructures: hardware & computing facilities, portals & platforms, scientific data knowledge infrastructures Principal Outputs: 2 user scenarios, a software platform with a specific Software Development Cooperation Environment, computational e-Infrastructure, at least 50 seed resources (dataset, services, platforms, computational & storage resources) offered to the biodiversity community, a consolidated community of biodiversity scientists, socio-economic impact report, an EUBrazil joint action plan on recommendations & future co-operation.

Keywords: open data infrastructure,cloud computing,biodiversity,taxonomy,species envelope modelling
Nano Scale Disruptive Silicon-Plasmonic Platform for Chip-to-Chip Interconnection (NAVOLCHI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Greece,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3395396.0
EU funding (EUR): 2400000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The NAVOLCHI project explores, develops and demonstrates a novel nano-scale plasmonic chip-to-chip and system-in-package interconnection platform to overcome the bandwidth, foot-print and power consumption limitations of todays electrical and optical interconnect solutions. The technology exploits the ultra-compact dimensions and fast electronic interaction times offered by surface plasmon polaritons to build plasmonic transceivers with a few square-micron footprints and speeds only limited by the RC constants. Key elements developed in this project are monolithically integrated plasmonic lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors on a CMOS platform. The transceivers will be interconnected by free space and fiber connect schemes. The plasmonic transceiver concept aims at overcoming the challenges posed by the need for massive parallel interchip communications. Yet, it is more fundamental as the availability of cheap miniturized transmitters and detectors on a single chip will enable new applications in sensing, biomedical testing and many other fields where masses of lasers and detectors are need to e.g. analyze samples. Economically, the suggested technology is a viable approach for a massive monolithic integration of optoelectronic functions on Si substrates as it relies to the most part on the standardized processes offered by the silicon industry. In addition, the design and production cost of plasmonic devices are extremely low and with the dimension 100 times smaller over conventional devices they will require much lower energy to transfer data over short ranges of multi-processor cluster systems. The project is disruptive and challenging but it is clearly within the area of expertise of the consortium. It actually builds on the partners prior art such as demonstration of the first nano-scale plasmonic pillar laser. This project has the potential to create novel high-impact technologies by taking advantage of the manifold possibilities offered by plasmonic effects.

Keywords: silicon-on-insulator,optical interconnect,plasmonic devices
Research and Civil Society Dialogue towards a low-carbon society (R&DIALOGUE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Czechia,France,Germany,Greece,Italy,Norway,Portugal,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4482095.68
EU funding (EUR): 4131441.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the R&Dialogue project is to create mechanisms for effectively tackling the scientific and technology related challenges faced by society by proactively bringing together different actors with complementary knowledge and experiences. The Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Action Plan (MMLAP) therefore forges partnerships between research organisations and different societal actors. It develops forms of dialogue and cooperation between science and society at different stages of the research process. The partners pool experiences and knowledge and better focus their respective efforts to develop a common approach to the issues at stake. In doing so the MMLAP contributes to sharing innovation more widely and efficiently and to optimizing the role of research and technology in tackling societal challenges. The objective of this project is to organise a dialogue between R&D organisations (RDOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) that results in a joint vision of CSOs and RDOs on the development of renewable energies and CCS for a low carbon society and identification of actions to improve the dialogue and associated mutual learning. Our task will thus be to create a mechanism for dialogue between research and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs ) to develop a common approach on issues regarding the low-carbon society. This common approach can be used by international, national and local policy makers, CSOs, industry and research. It will result in an Action Plan signed by all participating organisations.

Keywords: low carbon society,cso,civil society organisations,research,dialogue,science in society,mutual learning,mobilisation