Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Online Predictive Tools for Intervention in Mental Illness (OPTIMI) (OPTIMI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,China,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5149074.0
EU funding (EUR): 3760598.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Mental health care represents over a third of the cost of health care to all EU nations. However little is being done to develop effective systems for Prevention of the onset of the illnesses or to provide easier Diagnosis with a view to better determine the effects of treatment. OPTIMI will change this by developing tools to perform Prediction through early identification of the onset of an illness by monitoring poor coping behaviour. It is based on the hypothesis that the central issue and starting point of longer term mental illness depends on the individual’s capacity and ability to cope with stress. OPTIMI will first identify the occurrence of high stress in the individual on a daily basis. Then it will determine the ongoing effect of stress on the individual by studying the behaviour pattern over a longer period. Finally it will also make estimates of the base line changes in the person’s state of mind using symptomatic measurements that closely link depression with cognitive, motor and verbal behaviour. We will use wearable and domestic appliances and identification will be based on noting when stress occurs, at a fine time resolution using ECG and Cortisol, and daily using the Electronic Diary. The effects on behaviour will be identified using EEG, Voice analysis, Physical Activity analysis and the Electronic Diary. Finally specific markers of depression will be checked using EEG, Voice analysis and Physical Activity.The smart sensors will be enhanced with a knowledge based rule system to interpret the data and provide a diagnostic tool for both pharmacological and CBT based preventative and intervening treatments. We will then augment two existing CCBT systems to use these tools in real time to optimise the treatment cycle. We will conduct two phases of trials with volunteers who come from high risk situations (such as mothers caring for a disabled child, recession unemployed and critical final examinations) both phases being held in total in 5 countries

Keywords: mental health,wearable sensors,prevention,diagnosis,trials
Enriched Network-aware Video Services over Internet Overlay Networks (ENVISION)

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,France,France,Spain,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5712608.0
EU funding (EUR): 3585831.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Future networked media applications will be multi-sourced, highly interactive distributed meshes of HD and 3D multi-sensory channels. While high-quality user-centric applications such as these offer tremendous advantages to their participants and to society at large, they present a major headache to ISPs as they demand unprecedented quantities of network resources in unpredictable locations. The traditional solution of pre-provisioning sufficient network resources everywhere is no longer economically viable given the huge capacities required. If these services are ever to become a reality then a fundamentally different approach is required. ENVISION proposes a three-pronged, cross-layer solution where: i) intelligent overlay applications are optimised for true end-to-end performance at a global scale according to the actual capabilities of multiple underlying ISPs; ii) network resources are dynamically mobilised to where they are most needed; and iii) the content, the way it is accessed and distributed is adapted on-the-fly to what the network is able to deliver. The ENVISION cross-layer approach, where the problem of supporting demanding services is solved cooperatively by service providers, ISPs, users and the applications themselves, delivers both content-aware networks and network-aware applications and is therefore at the heart of Objective ICT-2009.1.5. ENVISION will research and develop novel algorithms, mechanisms and protocols for its three pillars of investigation. It will build upon and extend the current SoA, validating its proposals experimentally through simulations and testbed prototypes. The consortium has the experience, skills and resources to achieve such ambitious results and also the proven means for disseminating its outcome to the scientific and wider communities. The consortium plans to promote the ENVISION interface as a standardised means for cooperation between applications and ISPs for realising demanding multimedia services.

Keywords: future media,qoe,optimised,end-to-end,cross-layer,overlay,internet,content-aware,network-aware,adaptation.
Euro-India Synchronisation of Policy Initiatives & Research and Innovation Trajectory (EURO-INDIA SPIRIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,United Kingdom,India
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 696451.0
EU funding (EUR): 575000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Euro-India SPIRIT aims to engage the EU and Indian ICT stakeholders at a level where policy formulation pertaining to research can be aligned and supported to identify the priorities of key research stakeholders and constituencies. The expected outcome is a mutually-beneficial research and innovation agenda that can be taken up through specific bilateral initiatives. The project will carry out specific fact-finding, consultative and collaboration actions to reinforce the international dimension of the EU ICT research programme and leverage the combined impact of Cooperation, Capacities and People programmes with Indian involvement. Actions will lead to the identification of long term policy perspectives aligned with the EU ICT research policy, programme, priorities and recommendations for future co-operation initiatives including counterpart funding to leverage research capability and capacity available in India and for identifying new research and market opportunities for Europe. Euro-India SPIRIT emerges as a logical sequence to previous EU-India initiatives and aims to ensure a sustained action and to serve a dedicated forum for European and Indian ICT communities and research stakeholders for the purpose of presenting, discussing &amp; tackling the major issues in the development of a sustainable, long term EU and Indian Policy dialogue covering the research dimension. The Euro-India SPIRIT project comes at a crucial time in the evolution of international co-operation strategy of the EU in the ICT research domain vis-à-vis Inco priority countries in general and India in particular and. The project is conceived by a highly qualified and strongly committed consortium of partners with complementary skills and experiences in international cooperation, policy and actions. Euro-India SPIRIT major results: 1 Report on Research dimension in Indian ICT Policy, 2 Stakeholder EU &amp; India Surveys, 4 policy &amp; joint RTD priority Recommendation Reports, 1 Roadmap for leveraging

Keywords: international co-operation,euro-india cooperation,ict addressing societal challenges,egovernment,ehealth,einclusion,audiovisual,media,internet,digital libraries,emerging technologies,einfra
Cognitive radio and Cooperative strategies for POWER saving in multi-standard wireless devices (C2POWER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,France,United Kingdom,Cyprus,Poland,France,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5159714.0
EU funding (EUR): 3450888.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The promise of a truly mobile experience is to have the freedom to roam around anywhere and not be bound to a single location. However, the energy required to keep mobile devices connected to the network over extended periods of time quickly dissipates. In fact, the operational time, has been identified as the number one criteria by the majority of the consumers purchasing a mobile device. Moreover, concern about exhausting battery lifetime is also one of the main reasons why users do not opt to use advanced multimedia services on their mobiles more frequently. The perspective for the future does not look encouraging in this aspect, as one could easily expect a rise of power demand for 4G devices while the progress of battery technology is very slow. Therefore, without any new approaches for energy saving, 4G mobile users will relentlessly be searching for power outlets rather than network access, and becoming once again bound to a single location. In addition, high power dissipation means that the temperature of the small handheld devices would rise to unpleasant values for the user, and make active cooling necessary. To avoid the foreseen 4G “energy trap” C2POWER project will investigate, develop and demonstrate how cognition and cooperative strategies can be extended to decrease the overall energy consumption of mobile devices while still enabling the required performance in terms of QoS. In particular, C2POWER will investigate two complementary techniques to increase power efficiency at the wireless interface of handsets: •Cooperative power saving strategies between neighbouring nodes using low power short range communications; •Cognitive handover mechanisms to select the Radio Access Technology which has the lowest energy demand in heterogeneous environments. As a consequence C2POWER should have impact on emerging standardization groups and will provide sufficient evidence on the technology and economics viability and its deployment.

Keywords: cognitive radio,cooperative networks,short range communications,power efficiency,battery lifetime,4g handsets
Modeling, Control and Management of Thermal Effects in Electronic Circuits of the Future (THERMINATOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,Hungary,Belgium,France,Germany,Italy,Austria,United States,Armenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10997930.0
EU funding (EUR): 6293810.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Electronic devices of the latest generations, being those integrated circuits or discrete components, are often required to operate in harsh environmental conditions, where the temperature may reach over hundred degrees centigrade. Obviously, this has negative impact on several parameters of the electronic devices, ranging from slow-down and transient, recoverable errors to permanent failures and device breakdown. To complicate the picture, electronic components tend to get warmer on their own as they operate, due to the fact that the power drawn by the devices from the power supply is dissipated by Joule effect. As time passes, heat and temperature management is becoming increasingly problematic, for reasons ranging from economical to technological. Packages that are able to sustain high temperatures are very expensive, and so are heat-sinks and cooling systems. In addition, high operating temperatures tend to cause malfunctioning of circuits and components, thus impacting the reliability of the electronic products which incorporate such devices. The development of new, thermal-aware design paradigms can no longer be postponed if the goal is to enable designers to fully exploit the electronic technologies of the future, being those CMOS or alternative to CMOS. The thermal problem has several facets, thus it needs to be addressed in a comprehensive manner. The THERMINATOR projects will address the following major challenges: 1) To devise innovative thermal models usable at different levels of abstraction, and to interface/integrate them into existing simulation and design frameworks. 2) To develop new, thermal-aware design solutions, customized for the different technologies and application domains of interest. 3) To enhance existing EDA solutions by means of thermal-aware add-on tools that will enable designers to address temperature issues during their daily work and with their usual design flows.

Keywords: thermal-aware design platform,modeling of thermal effects in semiconductor devices,circuits and systems,modeling and design of heterogeneous nanoelectronics systems (digital,analog,discrete).
role of a small GTPase, RhoA, in skin inflammation (RHOA IN INFLAMMATION)

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: Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2014-05-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Psoriasis is a common immune-mediated disease, characterized by aberrant epidermal differentiation, surface scale formation and marked cutaneous inflammation. It affects about 1% of the European population and has currently no effective treatment. The visible nature of the disease ensures that patients have both physical and psychosocial effects intruding their life style. Using genetically modified mice, engineered to have a keratinocyte-restricted deletion of the RhoA gene, we found for the first time that RhoA regulates the sensitivity of skin to inflammatory stress in vivo. Moreover, around a metal ear tag, those mice develop a severe skin defect bearing similarities to psoriasis. Our goal is to understand the role of RhoA in skin inflammation and the possible involvement of decreased RhoA signaling in the development of psoriasis. To achieve our goal we propose to investigate gene expression in vivo through an array on freshly prepared primary keratinocytes and to test if the induced gene expression is cell autonomous by using a lentivirus strategy. A lentiviral knockdown sublibrary will help us to determine which signaling mechanisms contribute to those changes in gene expression. Moreover, we want to use our model to investigate the sensitivity of RhoA null skin to an irritant contact dermatis model and to induce an allergic contact dermatis. We will then analyze the infiltrating cells and determine the mechanisms involved in the inflammation. Using tissue sections from our mice and from psoriasis patients we will study the similarities between ear tag lesions and psoriatic lesions by establishing new immunostaining protocols. Our work will increase our understanding of psoriasis development and identify new drug targets that are needed to improve the current psoriasis therapies.

Keywords: skin-chronic disease-keratinocytes-genetically modified mice-psoriasis-inflammation rhoa-gtpase
Beaming through augmented media for natural networked gatherings (BEAMING)

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,Switzerland,Italy,Israel,Denmark,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12393737.0
EU funding (EUR): 9226330.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

BEAMING is the process of instantaneously transporting people (visitors) from one physical place in the world to another (the destination) so that they can interact with the local people there. This is achieved through shifting their means for perception into the destination, and decomposing their actions, physiological and even emotional state into a stream of data that is transferred across the internet. Simultaneous streams of data from the destination site to the visitor’s perceptual apparatus, and from the actions and state of the visitor to the destination site, cohere together to form a unified virtual environment representing the physical space of the destination in real-time – a destination that now includes the beamed people. BEAMING will endow this process with physicality. The visitor’s actions at the destination site can have physical consequences, the actions of local people at the destination site can have physical consequences for the visitor. The visitor may be embodied at the destination site as a physical robot, and yet be seen by the locals virtually in human form. This project will bring today’s networking, computer vision, computer graphics, virtual reality, haptics, robotics and user interface technology together in a way that has never been tried before thereby transcending what is possible today. The goal is to produce a new kind of virtual transportation, where the person can be physically embodied interacting with life-sized people who may be thousands of kilometres away. Moreover, this is underpinned by the practical utilisation of recent advances in cognitive neuroscience in understanding the process whereby the brain represents our own body. The project brings technology researchers together with neuroscientists in order to develop and understand this complex but far reaching technology. The profound ethical and legal issues raised by a (near) future world in which this will be possible are considered in a dedicated workpackage.

Keywords: virtual transportation,networking,augmented environment,remote meeting,beaming,robotics,haptics,user interface
Threedimensional Adaptive Camera with Object Detection and Foveation (TACO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Norway
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4791835.0
EU funding (EUR): 3572000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

TACO develops a 3D sensing system with real 3D foveation properties endowing service robots with a higher level of motion and affordance perception and interaction capabilities with respect to everyday objects and environments. By 3D foveation properties we mean properties based on the process of acquiring 3D images with coarse level of details, applying fast object recognition techniques to identify areas of interest in the coarse 3D image and then concentrate the image acquisition on details of interest allowing for higher resolution 3D sampling of these details. This new 3D foveation concept will allow robots to interact with everyday environments in a more natural and human-like manner, increasing the level of detail whenever needed for interaction between the robot and everyday objects and humans. These 3D foveation properties are achieved by utilising the power of micro-mirror MEMS technology combined with state-of-the-art time-of-flight methods to ensure a system that is small, light-weight and easily mounted on an ordinary-sized service robot or even a robot arm. The project will explore control strategies for 3D foveation allowing 3D robot vision that is adaptable with space- and time-variant sampling, processing and understanding. The project will verify and test the 3D sensing system in a robotic environment, exploring the capabilities of the system to allow the robot to navigate autonomously and interact with a diverse number of everyday objects. The TACO consortium has RTD partners and industrial end users: Fraunhofer IPMS (micro-mirror scanning device), Fraunhofer IPM (3D range sensors), CTR (Electronics), SINTEF (3D foveation software), TU Wien (benchmarking with state-of-the-art 3D sensing methods), Shadow Robotics (application towards robot grippers) and Oxford Technologies (application towards robots for harsh environments)

Keywords: 3d foveation for robotics,3d sensing system,cognitive system,high-level motion and affordance perception,time-of-flight methods,micro-mirror mems technology
ENabling technologies for a programmable many-CORE (ENCORE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Greece,Sweden,Israel,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3551209.0
EU funding (EUR): 2533000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Design complexity and power density implications stopped the trend towards faster single-core processors. The current trend is to double the core count every 18 months, leading to chips with 100+ cores in 10-15 years. Developing parallel applications to harness such multicores is the key challenge for scalable computing systems. The ENCORE project aims at achieving a breakthrough on the usability, reliability, code portability, and performance scalability of such multicores. The project achieves this through three main contributions. First, defining an easy to use parallel programming model that offers code portability across several architectures. Second, developing a runtime management system that will dynamically detect, manage, and exploit parallelism, data locality, and shared resources. And third, providing adequate hardware support for the parallel programming and runtime environment that ensures scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency. The technology will be developed and evaluated using multiple applications, provided by the partners, or industry-standard benchmarks, ranging from massively parallel high-performance computing codes, where performance and efficiency are paramount, to embedded parallel workloads with strong real-time and energy constraints. The project integrates all partners under a common runtime system running on real multicore platforms, a shared FPGA architecture prototype, and a large-scale software simulated architecture. Architecture features will be validated through implementation on ARM&apos;s detailed development infrastructure. ENCORE takes a holistic approach to parallelization and programmability by analyzing the requirements of several relevant applications ranging from High Performance Computing to embedded multicore, by parallelizing these applications using the proposed programming model, by optimizing the runtime system for a range of parallel architectures, and by developing hardware support for the runtime system.

Keywords: parallel programming,multicore,runtime system,architecture,parallel applications