Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Crowded ENvironments moniToring for Activity Understanding and Recognition (CENTAUR)

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: Czechia,France,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1041940.22
EU funding (EUR): 1041940.22
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

We aim to develop a network of scientific excellence addressing research topics in computer vision and advancing the state of the art in video surveillance. The cross fertilization of ideas and technology between academia, research institutions and industry will lay the foundations to new methodologies and commercial solutions for monitoring crowded scenes. Research activities will be driven by specific sets of scenarios, requirements and datasets that reflect security operators’ needs for guaranteeing the safety of EU citizens. CENTAUR gives a unique opportunity to academia to be exposed to real life dataset, while enabling the validation of state-of-the-art video surveillance methodology developed at academia on data that illustrate real operational scenarios. The research agenda is motivated by ongoing advanced research activities in the participating entities. With Honeywell as a multi-industry partner, with security technologies developed and deployed in both its Automation and Control Solutions and Aerospace businesses, we have multiple global channels to exploit the developed technologies. With Neovison as a SME, we address small fast paced local markets, where the quick assimilation of new technologies is crucial. Three thrusts identified will enable the monitoring of crowded scenes, each led by an academic partner in collaboration with scientists from Honeywell: a) multi camera, multicoverage tracking of objects of interest, b) Anomaly detection and fusion of multimodal sensors, c) activity recognition and behavior analysis in crowded environments. We expect a long term impact on the field of video surveillance by: contributions to the state-of-the-art in the field, dissemination of results within the scientific and practitioners community, and establishing long term scientific exchanges between academia and industry, for a forum of scientific and industrial partners to collaborate on addressing technical challenges faced by scientists and the industry.

Keywords: technological sciences,software technology,image processing,security systems
Risk Management Software System for SMEs in the Construction Industry (RIMACON)

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,Czechia,Denmark,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 921317.23
EU funding (EUR): 921317.23
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The construction sector is one of Europe's biggest industries accounting for 10% of Gross Domestic Product with approximately 92% of manufacturers being SMEs. This sector directly employs 12 million EU citizens and 26 million workers are dependent on the sector. However, due to the global economic crisis, the last few years have been full of uncertainty for many companies in the construction and engineering industry. These companies are facing fierce competition and winning new contracts as well as delivering on schedule and on budget is fundamental to their survival. Core to these problems are, enterprises and more especially SMEs are operating in a dynamic business environment with constant exposure to risk leading to underperformance, low productivity and sometimes businesses could stop trading overnight. This project therefore, aims at developing a cost effective, user friendly risk management system, which evaluates, monitors, and reviews both imminent and impending risks with a view to completely eliminate or minimise their impact. RiMaCon consortium wishes to challenge and overcome the current non trivial, interdisciplinary and intersectoral barriers currently preventing the development and implementation of efficient risk management systems in SMEs. It will therefore design and develop a robust, reliable, and sustainable risk management prototype system suitable and affordable for the construction SMEs, possibly in a software format or a portal. This risk management prototype will be dynamic, flexible to adapt to different construction contexts. RiMaCon has already carried out preliminary survey / investigation and confirmed this need especially for SMEs who are under resourced, vulnerable and also lack the technology to develop a robust risk management system. RiMaCon (two Universities and two SMEs) is balanced in terms of expertise and knowledge to tackle this problemn and will work with a large database of construction SMEs who would provide the data.

Keywords: risk management,construction,smes,software,performance,measurement,balanced scorecard,simulation,modelling,key risk indicators,key performance indicators,conceptual framework,affordable
Automatic building of Machine Translation (ABU-MATRAN)

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: Ireland,Spain,Croatia,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1045965.71
EU funding (EUR): 1045965.71
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Abu-MaTran seeks to enhance industry-academia cooperation as a key aspect to tackle one of Europe's biggest challenges: multilinguality. We aim to increase the hitherto low industrial adoption of machine translation by identifying crucial cutting-edge research techniques (automatic acquisition of corpora and linguistic resources, pivot techniques, linguistically augmented statistical translation and diagnostic evaluation), preparing them to be suitable for commercial exploitation and finally transferring this knowledge to industry. On the other hand, we will transfer back to academia the know-how of industry regarding management, processes, etc. to make research products more robust. The project exploits the open-source business model, all the resources produced will be released as free/open-source software, resulting in effective knowledge transfer beyond the consortium. The consortium is made up of first-line partners in their fields of research, they have complementary areas of expertise which will be exploited in order to create and develop lasting synergies. The core activity regards transfer of knowledge. This is carried out mainly by means of secondments, which put in contact academic and industrial partners. Secondments are complemented by recruited staff, which will be in charge of gathering the knowledge transfer and implementing it at the hosts in the longer term. We work on a case study of strategic interest for Europe; we provide machine translation for the language of a new member state (Croatian) and then extend to related languages of candidate member states. The project has a strong emphasis on dissemination, through the organisation of workshops that focus on intersectoral knowledge transfer. Finally, we have a comprehensive outreach plan, including the establishment of a national Linguistic Olympiad, open-day activities for students and the participation in Google Summer of Code.

Keywords: machine translation,language resources,automatic acquisition,new eu languages,less-resourced languages,open-source business model,community creation of resources
Assembling Langmuir-Blodgett Architectures Through the use of Roll-to-roll Systems (ALBATROSS)

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: Ireland,Slovakia,Belarus
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 844602.45
EU funding (EUR): 844602.45
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal addresses each of the three elements of the so-called 'knowledge triangle', i.e. research, innovation and education. The proposed programme is based partly on nationally funded multidisciplinary (Photonics, Nanoelectronics, Chemistry, Materials Science) projects that have been recently awarded to the partners from Academia and is designed to provide added value from the obvious synergies between these projects. The complementarity will enable the consortium to develop novel products using SiO2/TiO2 nanoparticles for improving the properties of solar cells and OLEDs/ OFETs that the first SME partner aims to bring into production. The equipment innovation comes from the planned systematic modifications and improvements to both hardware and software and improvement to both hardware and software of a roll-to-roll Langmuir-Blodgett dipper mechanism that has been developed by the second SME partner. We aim at making the final device attractive for potential customers by modifying the existing prototype so that it is compatible with other equipment (LB troughs) aleady available on the market. The educational and training value of the project is also high in that a number of secondments of research personnel are envisaged, including PhD students. The enhanced commercial opportunities of the device will give the research community direct means of preparing complex photonic and nanoelectronic structures on flexible substrates using a wide range of materials. The innovative roll-to-roll (R2R) mechanism will therefore facilitate the possibility of using the LB technique in a range of new commercially scalable production processes, enabling us to take this technology out of the laboratory and into the factory environment - which will be a truly revolutionary accomplishment and one which is directly aligned with EU requirements.

Keywords: organic electronics,flexible substrates,photonic crystals,langmuir-blodgett method,roll-to-roll,oled,opv
Intersectoral Collaborations to Boost Research and Development Dynamics in Biological Control of Agricultural pests (COLBICS)

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: France,Spain,Chile,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2669145.53
EU funding (EUR): 2669145.53
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Seen the societal and political demand for reduction of insecticide use in agriculture, the growth of biological control activities (crop protection methods relying on natural enemies) should be faster. In particular, the private sector of Biological Control Agent (BCA) production could access larger parts of the phytosanitary market. This slow private sector expansion can be explained by its limited R&D capacities and by the insufficient use of synergies with public research on the one side, and extension services or farm-advisors on the other. Based on the needs expressed by stake-holders, COLBICS proposes to stimulate and accompany the growth of 3 firms, via the creation of mixed private/public R&D teams, boosting the R&D capacities of the firms. The team work will allow technological innovation applied to BCA production and optimisation. Innovation will concern the research of new natural enemies, diagnostic tools and production methods reducing production costs and enhancing BCA performances, methods and tools supporting marketing strategies. COLBICS involves 6 participants (from Belgium, France, Spain and Chile) that will exchange staff to create 3 mixed R&D teams. Intense intersectoral transfer of knowledge is guaranteed by the execution of fully collaborative R&D work using the firms’ BCAs, and by specific staff training. Transferred knowledge is about macro-organism identification, engineering in live organism massive production (based on simple genetic and phenotypic analyses), evaluation of BCA efficiency and integration of these BCAs in agrosystems. Particular efforts are planned on the dissemination of generic innovation, together with abundant outreach activities promoting biological control. In addition to its generic innovation impact, COLBICS will impact the 3 firms involved: objectives of turnover increase over a 5 years period have been defined and range from 25% to 400%, depending on the size and socio-economic environment of the firm.

Keywords: pesticides,insecticide,sustainable agriculture,crop protection,phytosanitary products,organic production,biological control,biocontrol,manufacturers,quality control
Development of sustainable, lower carbon, pre-cast concrete infrastructure (EIROCRETE)

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,Italy,Ireland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1085443.91
EU funding (EUR): 1085443.91
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

It is estimated that concrete products represent at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint from CO2 emissions. Additionally, concrete infrastructure such as bridges, marine structures for coastal defence and off-shore renewables suffer from premature ageing, rapid deterioration, structural deficiency and the safe management of risk. Most of this deterioration is a result of the corrosion of the steel reinforcing bars (rebars) embedded in the concrete. For a single bridge collapse in Minneapolis it cost as much as $400 million for the clear-up of contamination, rebuild and the economic impact due to traffic disruption. In the UK alone £600m pa is spent on the repair and maintenance of ageing steel reinforced concrete infrastructure. The major aim of this project is to develop significantly lower energy, durable concrete products for use in civil infrastructure by maximising the inclusion of waste products and to combine with corrosion resistant basalt fibre reinforced polymer (BFRP) fibres and reinforcing bars which are stronger, lighter and have a lower carbon footprint than equivalent steel rebar. This innovative research accrues from the technological approach used to develop sustainable concrete products with a significantly lower carbon footprint and the demonstration of this improved sustainability by the Academics Partners from UK and Italy collaborating with a leading pre-cast concrete manufacturer, Banagher Precast Concrete in Ireland and specialists in leading-edge technologies and products for the construction industry, Azichem in Italy. This project will take place over four years and will involve the secondment of researchers from academia to industry and vice versa. The recruitment of an experienced researcher will enable the specialised research for developing low energy concretes which maximises the use of waste materials whilst meeting the material, structural and durability requirements.

Keywords: self-compacting concrete,low energy concrete,pre-cast concrete,sustainable infrastructure,basalt fibre reinforced polymer (bfrp)
Ultra-fast Laser Surfacing of Teeth for Resistance to Erosion (LUSTRE)

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,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2446037.23
EU funding (EUR): 2446037.23
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The “LUSTRE-IAPP” has emerged from a background of successful bilateral academic and industrial collaborations within the UK and Italian partners, in which the knowledge transfer and training of ERs and ESRs are centred on four key aspects of academic research leading to KT and commercialisation activities. These are in the areas of: a) in the engineering and fabrication of laser glass hosts for surgical dentistry, b) mode-locked laser cavity engineering for laboratory prototype, c) laser system development for dental surface tissue engineering and d) application of laser system in ex-vivo and in vitro scenarios for future in vivo clinical trials. The main goal for the project is to demonstrate applications of mode-locked laser systems in ex vivo and in vitro scenarios, which provides engineering acid erosion resistant enamel on extracted human and bovine tissues. Relevant training activity will provide the necessary safety regulations for implementation of laser systems for ultimate clinical use in the future. For enabling such KT activities, the UK partners have strong evidence for previous KT activities through collaborative training at PhD research, which led to the “proofs-of-concept” and formed the basis for LUSTRE-IAPP. The flow of knowledge transfer is also geared towards manufacturing within the SME sector via value addition for commercialisation, by accruing benefits for the knowledge generating partners, long term collaboration, impact on sustainable training, and commercial exploitation opportunities in future for public health impact in the area of oral and dental health. Immediate impact is expected in reducing the spread of acid erosion and tooth loss in the general population. Beyond 10 years the impact of such knowledge transfer should also be seen in other areas of hard and musculoskeletal tissues and regenerative therapies.

Keywords: laser physics,dentistry,materials processing,rare-earths,ultra-fast lasers,laser glass science,systems engineering,clinical laser trials.
Sustainable Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks (SUSMOF)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-PoC, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 155484.0
EU funding (EUR): 142559.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Research undertaken on ERC Advanced Grant 226593 (COORDSPACE) has delivered a new exciting range of the multi-functional materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). These substances have ultra-high porosity and this makes them ideal for many high value applications including gas storage, carbon capture, gas and substrate separation, sensing, drug delivery, photo-optics, magnetic devices and catalysis. However, the major barrier to their commercialisation is their lack of availability in high scale via economically and environmentally viable production routes. Our research has established for the first time (patent application in progress) the use of high temperature water using flow technologies for the sustainable synthesis of porous MOF materials. This represents an important advance in the preparation of MOFs by removing the need for toxic and expensive organic solvents, and removing the need for purification and removal of organic solvents from the prepared materials. Furthermore, flow technologies offer exciting and potentially economic routes to scale-up of these materials for potential commercialisation and we estimate our process reduces the cost of MOF manufacture by at least a factor of five. We believe that our process has great commercial potential and significance, and we now need to optimise routes against the many different market potentials. The commercialisation of this research was not part of the original grant proposal and, therefore, we seek Proof of Concept funding to prepare a market ready package of information to be presented to venture capitalists or companies that might invest in this technology and take it through the early commercialisation phase.

Keywords: 226593
Demography-Based Market Forecasting Tools (FUTURE MARKETS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2012-PoC, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168224.3
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As a side product of the ERC project “Future Societies” an innovative combination of the genuinely demographic approach of Age-Period-Cohort (APC) analysis with a new expert-argument-based method of anticipating future period changes evolved that could have great commercial potential as a new quantitative science-based tool for forecasting future consumer preferences and demands for all kinds of goods and services at national and international scales. In marketing terminology, it has a potential for forecasting market potentials. APC analysis has been used in demography to decompose the forces that drive changes in population composition with respect to critical characteristics of people: Age effects are patterns that change with age and affect all individuals (e.g. grey hair); cohort effects are patterns that change from one birth cohort to another or are acquired at young age and then persist (e.g. educational attainment). The extent of such age and cohort effects can be statistically estimated for the past and also projected into the future. In the ERC project a new way of soliciting expert knowledge based on the evaluation of alternative arguments has been developed that now can be used to produce science-based assumptions on future period effects. This new combination of empirically estimated age and cohort effects with expert-assessed future period trends can potentially provide a powerful tool for social and economic forecasting in general and forecasting the market potential of certain goods and services in particular. Market research clearly shows that many consumer preferences follow succinct age and cohort effects. They also tend to follow certain “fashions” which can be dealt with as period effects. Since in marketing being “ahead of the trend” and detecting future shifts in customer preferences is a key element of commercial success, this approach has great potential as a new market forecasting tool that needs to enter its next stage of proof.

Keywords: 230195