Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Federated IT for a sustainable environmental impact (FIT4GREEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Germany,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4607863.0
EU funding (EUR): 3185000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

FIT4green aims at contributing to ICT energy reducing efforts by creating a energy-aware layer of plug-ins for data centre automation frameworks. The plug-ins enhance existing IT solutions deployment strategies by moving computation and services around a federation of IT data centres sites, with the final goal to minimize the overall power consumption figure. Without giving up on compliance to Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Quality of Service (QoS) metrics, FIT4green optimization layer will be placed on top of the current data centres management tools to orchestrate the allocation of ICT resources and turning off unused equipments. The project will consider the deployment options of whole IT solutions, from the client devices to the data centres where the applications and services are dynamically allocated, including the impacts of the different networks providing the needed connectivity. The project rationale builds on shortcomings of current systems: - Virtualization, consolidation and data centre automation techniques provide a mean to achieve flexibility of IT solutions, but reduced energy consumption (achieved as side effect of server number reduction) is generally not considered among the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of any deployment options; - Service Level Agreements don’t include any metrics related to environmental footprint. FIT4green will explore both optimal deployment solutions satisfying existing SLAs with minimal energy consumption and next-generation energy-aware SLA statements - with minimal tradeoffs with respect to current metrics - providing high global improvements on environmental sustainability KPIs. FIT4green approach is potentially applicable to any data centre type; the project will run pilots using three representative data centres typologies: Service/Enterprise Portal, Grid and Clouds - provided by project partners with real test beds- to validate models, policies supporting the plug-in developed inside the project.

Keywords: data centres energy-aware plug-ins,federation of data centres,energy consumption models,global energy optimization policies,data centres application relocation,cloud and grid infrastructures
eSafety Challenge and Awareness Raising (ESAFETY CHALLENGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1823822.0
EU funding (EUR): 1629807.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

eSafety Challenge aims to promote the deployment and use of Intelligent Vehicle Systems to enhance road safety in Europe. This will be achieved through eSafety awareness campaigning directed towards end users and policy makers. The project’s specific objectives are to: • Promote the deployment and use of Intelligent Vehicle Systems • Support the implementation process for priority systems • Promote public outreach activities • Report on and support international eSafety activities • Organise eSafety awareness raising events The project will support the aim of the Intelligent Car Initiative to accelerate the deployment of eSafety systems as well as the activities of the eSafety Forum. eSafety Challenge will achieve these goals through a three pillar structure: • Organisation of yearly eSafety Challenge events • National eSafety demonstration events • Awareness campaigns targeting end users and policy makers. eSafety Challenge will strengthen the activities of the eSafety deployment initiatives through a close cooperation with the eSafety Forum stakeholders. As the road transport needs are currently developing at a fast pace, during the two years of the project, the stakeholders of the eSafety Forum will be consulted regarding the posibility of including other focus areas in the three pillars of eSafety Challenge. Such additional areas could include on-board eco-driving systems as well as other ICT related systems targeted at clean and efficient mobility. These deployment steps will be carefully planned with the experts of the eSafety Forum to ensure a correct response to the realities of road transport needs.

Keywords: esafety awareness campaigns,onboard eco-driving systems deployment support,pan-european ecall system campaign targetted at policy makers and consumers
Optical Access Seamless Evolution (OASE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Belgium,Hungary,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7664241.0
EU funding (EUR): 4980257.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Consumer bandwidth is showing no signs of slowing down and operators are now forced to explore access network migration strategies that will satisfy the anticipated bandwidth demands for the next decade. However, evolving today’s access networks towards NG-OA architectures will require a multi-billion euro investment. Consequently, an important strategic aspect is the need for a thorough techno-economic analysis underpinning the development of NG-OA architectures that feature a minimised total cost of ownership (TCO). New approaches and methodologies to analyse TCO will therefore be required to provide the necessary business case data underlying the multiple commercial opportunities arising from such a regulated, yet competitive market environment. Network energy efficiency issues are also becoming an increasingly crucial aspect due to economic and environmental pressures. The evolution towards an“open access network” environment in which multiple market players will have to cooperate at various levels will require reliable, “zero-touch”, automated management and open interfacing, clear service definitions and low operational complexity. The use of optical technologies as well as network consolidation (reduction of sites and active nodes) to reduce network costs will have to be consistent with the open access network model. Focused on European requirements, OASE (Optical Access Seamless Evolution) will addres these challenges to develop an optimised multi-terabit NG-OA architecture that will span at least 100km and serve Gbit/s services to a minimum of 1000 customers. In contrast to other approaches, OASE will be unique in developing the future NG-OA architecture from a multi-faceted perspective. This shall not only include the technology point of view, but also encompass the economic, regulatory, environmental and complex business models associated with such open access network architectures.

Keywords: network of the future,optical communication,pon,optical fiber access,next generation networks
Price-based Control of Electrical Power Systems (E-PRICE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Italy,Switzerland,Netherlands,Croatia,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3391011.0
EU funding (EUR): 2448000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The EU electric power system experiences a fundamental change in the quasi-monopolistic, top-down oriented, stable, and reasonable predictable arrangements of the past. It now spans continents, has hundreds of millions consumers and hundreds of thousands of producers, from nuclear power plants to privately-owned and operated badly predictable renewables such as solar cells, wind and microturbines and operates in an increasingly liberalized market. These developments pose huge challenges for its reliable and economic operation. This proposal focuses on the real-time power imbalance in the power net, which arises as a consequence of errors in the prediction of both production and demand. As this power imbalance will increase both in size and in frequency, presents arrangements to cope with this imbalance are no longer valid. They are neither reliable nor economic anymore. This project proposes an advanced ICT and control framework for ancillary services (reserve capacity) which allows a more intelligent solution by giving consumers and producers clear, real-time financial incentives to adapt their consumption/production according to the actual needs of the power system. This design is based on a distributed control structure, enabled by a fast ICT infrastructure and advanced control theory to reliably and economically deal with the necessary ancillary services. Decisions by consumers, producers, power exchanges and TSOs can be taken locally, based on local or national preferences and regulation. Still, the embedded incentives of the proposed framework can guarantee that all these local decisions together contribute to the global objectives of the EE power net: a reliable electric energy supply at the lowest costs. Instead of investing in additional expensive and environment-unfriendly reserve production or storage facilities with a low utilization rate, the reliability and economy are enforced by intelligent ICT and control.

Keywords: energy efficiency,energy markets,ict infrastructure,distributed control
Probabilistically Analysable Real-Time Systems (PROARTIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,France,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2603890.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

There is an ever-increasing demand both for new functionality and for reduced development and production costs for all kinds of Critical Real-Time Embedded (CRTE) systems (safety, mission or business critical). Moreover, new functionality demands can only be delivered by more complex software and aggressive hardware acceleration features like memory hierarchies and multicore processors. However, these greatly increase system complexity, making it much more difficult to analyse applications for their temporal behaviour. Another key problem of CRTE systems is the need to prove that they operate correctly, satisfying all temporal constraints. The current generation of platforms, despite being based on comparatively simple and old processor technologies, are already extremely difficult to analyse for their temporal behaviour, and resulting errors in operation, cost EU industries billions of Euros annually in warranty and post-production costs. The PROARTIS thesis is that the timing behaviour of systems that use advanced hardware features like multicore CPUs and complex memory hierarchies can be analysed effectively by probabilistic timing analysis techniques that reduce the risk of temporal pathological cases to quantifiably negligible levels. Preliminary research results in cache replacement policies by members of the PROARTIS consortium strongly support this claim. PROARTIS defines new hardware and software architecture paradigms based on the concept of randomisation that, with minimal changes to current processes and methods, guarantee timing behaviours that can be analysed with probabilistic techniques. PROARTIS uses a holistic approach in which probabilistic analysis extends from hardware design, compiler and real time operating system to applications. On top of this platform, we will build probabilistic timing analysis methods based on current commercial tools. We will validate our approach via an industrial case study.

Keywords: critical real time systems,probabilistic analysis,multicore,hard real time systems
ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with ONtologies (ENVISION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,France,Germany,Slovenia,Greece,Austria,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5483504.0
EU funding (EUR): 4165084.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The ENVISION project provides an ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with Ontologies that aims to support non ICT-skilled users in the process of semantic discovery and adaptive chaining and composition of environmental services. Innovations in ENVISION are: on-the-Web enabling and packaging of technologies for their use by non ICT-skilled users, support for migrating environmental models to be provided as models as a service (Maas), and the use of data streaming information for harvesting information for dynamic building of ontologies and adapting service execution. The ENVISION Environmental Decision Portal supports the creation of web-based applications enabled for dynamic discovery and visual service chaining. The ENVISION Ontology Infrastructure provides support for visual semantic annotation tools and multilingual ontology management. The ENVISION Execution Infrastructure comprises a semantic discovery catalogue and a semantic service mediator based on a generic semantic framework and adaptive service chaining with data-driven adaptability. Scenario requirements and pilots from the ENVISION user partners focus on landslide hazard assessment and environmental pollution (oil spills) decision support systems. The benefit of ENVISION for the wider community will be better accessibility to modelling tools using the Web and it will provide greater flexibility through improved connections to distributed sources of information. The technology partners contribute their technologies for semantic service discovery and chaining based on semantic annotations as a foundation for the infrastructure of ENVISION. The impact of the project is ensured through strong partner participation and leadership in relevant standardisation communities (e.g. INSPIRE, OGC, ISO/TC211, OMG and OASIS), in user communities like SEISnet and EuroGeoSurveys and through the development of open-source software and reference implementations supporting open standards.

Keywords: environmental services discovery chaining composition semantics annotation
Enhancing The Outreach and Effectiveness of the Partners in the EURAXESS Services Network (EURAXESS T.O.P.)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Bulgaria,France,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Norway,Spain,Sweden,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-EURAXESS, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3242272.6
EU funding (EUR): 2900000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this proposal is to reinforce the quality, effectiveness and coherence of the services provided by the EURAXESS Services Network for mobile researchers. It will achieve this objective by promoting trans-national co-operation along with identification, refinement and exchange of best practice. The actions will focus on enhancing the local and overall performance of the network and stimulate operational and strategic cooperation within the network. The project will be implemented through exchange of best practice between the members of the Network. This will be done through collecting information and experiences from all of the members. The results will be analysed and a strategy for implementation and raising awareness will be developed. Joint workshops will be used to share best practice / information and provide training, tailored to the needs of Network members. A handbook of best practice will be published. Presentation and promotion of main findings will take place at a dedicated European level conference as well as in training sessions at national and institutional level. Follow-up activities will be coordinated with the Commission and the &quot;Charter and Code Promoters&apos; Network&quot; and the “Charter/Code Pioneer Institutions.&quot; The project will stimulate a better and more systematic use of the European EURAXESS Jobs Portal and the national EURAXESS portals - to enhance effectively open recruitment practices for researchers across Europe. Combined, this is expected to facilitate recruitment and mobility of researchers throughout Europe in line with the new European Partnership for Researchers for developing the European Research Area (ERA).

Keywords: collecting experiences,strategies for awareness and implementation,workshops,promotion
Levant rocky-shore biodiversity: testing ecological impacts of climate change and bioinvasions on a unique ecosystem (LRSB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Two major processes are threatening the integrity of marine ecosystems: climate change and bioinvasions. Both are of extreme importance to the Levant shores because the region (1) has extreme biophysical conditions, being the hottest, saltiest and most nutrient-poor area in the Mediterranean—and warming may cause regional extinctions; and (2) is a hotspot of marine biological invasions, mostly IndoPacific species that flooded through the Suez Canal. Another local threat is the diminishing of its rocky intertidal ecosystem engineers, vermetid snails, that protect the biogeographically-distinctive intertidal reefs from erosion. Vermetid decrease many mean the deterioration of the ecosystem they form. The threats of climate change, bioinvasions and loss of ecosystem engineers all point to the need of a research program that will monitor the ecological community and biodiversity patterns along the coast at multiple scales and follow their changes over time, together with field and laboratory experiments that will enhance the predictive power of models that forecast future changes in the ecology of the system. This proposal aims to study several ecological aspects of the rocky intertidal along one of the most unique and ecologically-dynamic coasts, and investigate the effects of climate change and bioinvasions in the context of community ecology. Objectives: (1) to launch a long-term monitoring program of community biodiversity along the Israeli coast to enable the detection of long-term changes related to global warming, bioinvasions and other potential influences, (2) to use natural heat-stress events as proxies for the potential effects of extreme climate change events, (3) to test the response of important species to elevated temperatures and CO2, and (4) to study recruitment patterns of influential invasive species and experimentally test their biological interactions with indigenous species and other invaders and their general impacts on biodiversity.

Keywords: biodiversity,marine,coastal zone,rocky intertidal,climate change,bioinvasions,predation,meta-ecosystems,meta-communities,recruitment,mussels,co2,extreme weather
The role of host cell actin cytoskeleton in invasion by Apicomplexa parasites (API-INVASION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Members of the Apicomplexa phylum are obligatory intracellular parasites many of which being important human pathogens. Plasmodium sp., the etiological agent of malaria is the most devastating but Toxoplasma gondii can be severe in both immune-compromised individuals where it causes encephalitis or pneumonia and infect fetuses. These parasites invade host cells by transforming into specialized stages called zoites and most of our current knowledge on the few second-lasting entry process comes from studies using Toxoplasma tachyzoites and Plasmodium sporozoites. Upon contact between the two cells, the close apposition between membranes forms a unique type of cell-cell junction which accompanies parasite active propelling into the host cell. The current dogma stipulates that the zoite driving force critically depends on its actomyosin motor while the host cell remains essentially passive. However, new evidence from Tardieux’ laboratory recently contradicts this view. Live video and confocal microscopy indicate that de novo actin polymerization is important for entry of P. berghei sporozoites and T. gondii tachyzoites to promote anchoring of the zoite-cell junction on which the parasite pulls to penetrate the host cell. In this proposal, using both Plasmodium and Toxoplasma zoites, we aim at dissecting the molecular mechanisms that control actin assembly/disassembly in the host cell during entry. To this end, we plan to identify (i) the up-stream host cell signalling factors leading to the host response (ii) the parasite proteins released into the host cell which potentially contribute to this response (iii) assess the function of these parasite factors during invasion. To address these points, live confocal imaging of invasion will be combined with in vitro biochemical actin assays and proteomic analysis. Our results will address a brand new issue on how parasites trigger signalling at the host cell membrane during invasion.

Keywords: infections,cell biology,parasitology