Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Green networked Data Centres as Energy Prosumers in smart city environments (GEYSER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Ireland,Switzerland,Greece,Germany,Romania,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4844220.0
EU funding (EUR): 2979000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Despite the ongoing efforts on energy efficiency improvements,, the lower energy consumption per data centre does not compensate the cumulative increasing energy demand, due to the combined action of increasing load density in the computer room and rising digitization of human activities. Hence data centres are consuming increasing amount of energy, with a negative impact on the environment and on power supply continuity. The GEYSER project aims to step well beyond today’s Green data centres sustainability efforts by researching and delivering an innovative conceptual and software framework aimed at improving and trading-off local energy efficiency and carbon reduction footprint against a broader system-level smart city energy efficiency, while maximizing the use of renewable energy. GEYSER will originally combine innovative AC/DC data center optimized design practices with real time smart synergistic IT infrastructure (computing, storage), cooling and power subsystems for energy monitoring and control, with flexible supply/demand load and energy management within green energy-led marketplaces and geographical renewable energy supply-aware load balancing. GEYSER future green networked data centres will be able to monitor, control, reuse and optimize their energy consumption and production, from renewable energy in particular, within the framework of a holistic representation of energy (either power or heat) and along the underway roadmap towards acting as energy prosumers. Expected outcomes will be beyond-SoTA values for energy efficiency metrics, i.e PUE below 1,20 and CUE and ERE improvement by 30% in average. The effectiveness of the GEYSER technologies in meeting the planned objectives will be proved through a two-stage validation process, consisting of a simulation-based lab trial, followed by a real life one year validation in four operational data centres, partially powered by renewable energy, located in Italy, Germany and The Netherlands

Keywords: green data centres,networked data centres,energy efficiency,data centres sustainability,monitoring and control.
Friendly and Affordable Sustainable Urban Districts Retrofitting (FASUDIR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Hungary,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ENV-EeB, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4046711.06
EU funding (EUR): 2937732.54
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

About 40% of overall energy consumption in Europe is related to the building sector and over 50% of all materials extracted from earth are transformed into construction materials and products. With more than 70% of the building stock built before the first energy crisis (1970’s), energy retrofitting of buildings is envisaged as the most promising strategy to reach EU’s “20-20-20” targets. However, the traditional approach to the building energy efficient retrofitting brings poor results in relation to the urban sustainability, resource efficiency and economic return. Although the district retrofitting approach is frequently the most sustainable and cost-effective, the complexity of decision making grows exponentially when the intervention targets larger scale, even more when considering the fragmentation of the construction sector (many stakeholders, most of them SMEs). Furthermore, to support the necessary building-retrofitting market mobilization in Europe to fulfill EU-targets in 2020 and 2050, new business models and financial supporting tools need to be developed. FASUDIR will provide an Integrated Decision Support Tool (IDST) based on a new methodology supported by a software tool that will help decision makers to select the best energy retrofitting strategy to increase the sustainability of the whole district. FASUDIR’s IDST will incorporate key actors and relevant networks at the district scale and the entire value chain, and will ensure that new technologies for energy and resource efficient retrofitting are incorporated, especially those emerging from SMEs. FASUDIR takes advantage of the economies of scales and the variety of stakeholders when scaling up to the district, giving more opportunities for the development of new business and financial models with high impact in the economy. The developed methodology and software tool will be validated in three diverse urban areas, including a variety of historical periods.

Keywords: energy efficiency,energy building retrofitting,district sustainability,energy district retrofitting,citygml,data modelling,gis,decision support tool,key performance indicators
International Cancer Research Fellowships (ICARE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3347350.0
EU funding (EUR): 1338940.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC), the Italian leading charity providing about 40% of all research funds invested in cancer research in Italy, proposes to award 56 fellowship/years for international mobility in two yearly calls for proposals. The fellowships will be awarded, started and concluded in the 4 years of the iCARE duration. iCARE will address the following issues: - International mobility. AIRC aims at promoting the flow of cancer researchers to and from Europe with Outgoing, Incoming and Reintegration Fellowships. - Individual-driven mobility. Fellows will be able to choose freely their destination (country, hosting institution and laboratory). - Fields of research. With a completely bottom-up approach, fellows will propose the their own research topic, with a clear focus on cancer. - Working conditions. iCARE will improve the fellows conditions by awarding full employments contracts, including social security contributions. - Training. Fellows will have the opportunity of widening their competences and expertise by receiving complementary skills trainings. - Selection process. AIRC will employ its fair and transparent peer review process to select only the most competitive and meritorious applications. - Gender balance. When equally qualified, researchers will be selected in order to achieve an optimal gender balance among the awardees. - Geographic distribution. When equally qualified, researchers from less favoured countries will be selected. The expected outcomes of this fellowship programme will coincide with the main objectives of the European Research Area (ERA). With this initiative AIRC will increase the flow of competent researchers through Europe, improve their employment conditions and enhance their professional advancement. Ultimately, iCARE will create the optimal conditions for the generation, transferring and sharing of knowledge and technological development, bringing to a wide-opening of the ERA to the world.

Keywords: charity,cancer,research,oncology,health sciences,cancer awareness,investigator-driven mobility,transnational mobility,fellowship,knowledge transfer,peer review.
Health Monitoring and Life-Long Capability Management for SELf-SUStaining Manufacturing Systems (SELSUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Denmark,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD), 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7367668.6
EU funding (EUR): 5397345.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The vision of SelSus is to create a new paradigm for highly effective, self-healing production resources and systems to maximise their performance over longer life times through highly targeted and timely repair, renovation and up-grading. These next generation machines, fixtures and tools will embed extended sensory capabilities and smart materials combined with advanced ICT for self-diagnosis enabling them to become self-aware and supporting self-healing production systems. Distributed diagnostic and predictive repair and renovation models will be embedded into smart devices to early prognosis failure modes and component degradations. Self-aware devices will built on synergetic relationship with their human operators and maintenance personnel through continuous pro-active communication to achieve real self-healing systems. This will drastically improve the resilience and long term sustainability of highly complex manufacturing facilities to foreseen and unforeseen disturbances and deteriorations thereby minimising energy and resource consumption and waste. The SelSus vision will be achieved by the development of a new synergetic diagnostic and prognosis environment which is fully aware of the condition and history of all the machine components within a system or factory and is in constant knowledge enriched dialogue with their human personnel. The SelSus project will adopt a systematic approach, supported by a well-defined work plan. The work plan comprises nine carefully defined work packages. In order to guarantee fully committed teams towards comprising goals, the number of individual work packages is kept clearly constrained. The strong industrial pull for the project will be translated into a clear set of industrial requirements aimed at well-defined demonstration scenarios from the automotive and white goods industry.

Keywords: renovation and repair strategies,self-diagnosis models,decision support,self-monitoring intelligent manufacturing devices,multi-modal data acquisition and analysis
A Programme to attract International Experienced Researchers to the Basque Country in any Research Field (SMARTBRAIN2)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15628003.31
EU funding (EUR): 6251201.32
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to reinforce the System of Science of the Basque Country, attracting excellence scientists from any country, in order to consolidate the Basque Region as a European Reference Point for excellence in research. Ikerbasque is a Foundation fostered by the Basque Government to strengthen the Basque Science System by means of attracting senior researchers. The new call, to be launched by Ikerbasque, will host incoming (non national and non resident researchers) and reintegrating (national and non resident) experienced researchers. The researchers must demonstrate their experience in, at least, one of the following research areas: Experimental sciences (Chemistry, Physic, Biology, Mathematics, Biophysics); Engineering and Technology (Chemical Engineer, Telecommunication, Industrial, Electrical and Electricity Engineer); Life Sciences (medicine); Social Sciences (economy, law, social psychology); Human Sciences (Psychology, Linguistics, History). The calls have regular selection rounds for experienced researchers based on an open and widely advertised competition, with transparent international peer review and selection of candidates based on their scientific excellence. The selection process assures no discrimination of researchers for any reason. The selected researchers will have a permanent contract and all the freedom to choose their own research programme, as well as the host institution amongst the universities, research centres and different laboratories that have an agreement with Ikerbasque. That research programme will fit his/her individual needs, providing the best conditions for his/her personal objectives and for the development of a valid research project. A special regard is given to working conditions and career development.

Keywords: contracts,researchers,international,physical sciences,health sciences,technological sciences,social sciences,natural sciences
MOVE-IN LOUVAIN: Incoming Post-doc Fellowships (MOVE-IN LOUVAIN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8960000.0
EU funding (EUR): 3584000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Building upon the success of the current "IPoD" programme, the partner institutions (Université Saint-Louis (USaint-Louis), Université de Namur (UNamur), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)) launch a new programme called “MOVE-IN LOUVAIN”. This programme, which is targeted at incoming researchers, aims at reinforcing the international dimension of the partner institutions by supporting highly-qualified postdocs from abroad. The scheme is based on a bottom-up approach as all research fields are eligible (Sciences and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences). The ultimate ambition is to build scientific and technological (S&T) collaborations and long-lasting networks between the respective research teams. This programme is not just the continuation of the previous one but it will also add major improvements in particular a higher budget, a longer duration and better employment conditions with the addition of travel allowance. For the whole programme and the 3 calls (Y1, Y2 and Y3), 160 fellows should be funded, that means +/- 53 fellows per call.

Keywords: incoming researchers trans-national mobility bottum-up approach sciences and technology humanities and social sciences health sciences long-lasting networks employment conditions training
Impact of Research on EU Agriculture (IMPRESA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Italy,Switzerland,Germany,Italy,European organisations area,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2510176.8
EU funding (EUR): 1991979.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project will: • describe the contemporary evolution of traditional public and private agricultural research, particularly as its boundaries with food processing, biotechnology and bioeconomy activities (for example, renewable energy) are becoming increasingly blurred, and its objectives are broadening, using on-going structured interaction with an expert stakeholder panel • survey the trends, sources and objectives of agricultural research in EU and EEA countries and Switzerland, providing a scoping survey which provides a preliminary view of the range and integration of activities, and to design a framework, compatible with the OECD Frascati manual, to assess the volume and effectiveness of research • carry out econometric analysis and input-output modelling on the effect of research on agricultural productivity, including lag modelling, as the call specifically requires this, but with a view to acknowledging the importance of additional objectives for research; limited to a small number of country studies, to include small, medium and large countries which also reflect geographic diversity • in a number of regional case studies, selected for agro-ecological (and possibly also socio-economic) diversity, investigate the overall causal framework of case-specific individual research-based innovations, using active searching for disconfirming evidence as a validation criterion • innovatively and effectively communicate the results of the major workpackages to national governments and other stakeholders, through a variety of dissemination channels (webinars, policy briefs, as well as traditional reports and conference presentations)

Keywords: agricultural r&d,sustainable innovation,productivity,technology adoption,environmental quality,participatory approach,case studies,lag analysis,structural decomposition,stochastic frontier
Convergence between EU and MAGHREB MPC innovation systems in the field of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) – A test-bed for fostering Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Space (EMIS) (MAGHRENOV)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Reinforcing cooperation with European Neighbourhood Policy countries on bridging the gap between research and innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Morocco,Spain,Tunisia,France
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2013-9, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1076329.2
EU funding (EUR): 994440.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

MAGHRENOV addresses Mediterranean innovative markets in the field of Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) with three main objectives: • Explore practical methods devoted to capacity building and to fostering innovation on Mediterranean RE& EE markets • Favour convergence between EU and MPCs initiatives both for the development of sustainable energies adapted to regional specificities and for the establishment of a shared and dynamic Research and Innovation Systems (R&IS) in the domain • Create real mobility between young academics and entrepreneurs in both regions (EU and MPC) making use of the build-up capacity Expected impact of the project thus concerns practical results from our capacity building activities as well as more general lessons addressed to stakeholders and policy makers both in the EU and the MPCs. Our implementation method rests on a double experience developed actively on both sides of the Mediterranean these last years: • The research and innovation EU policy as supported by the SET Plan (Strategic Energy Technology Plan) and the KIC (Knowledge and innovation community) INNOENERGY established by the EIT (European Institute of Technology) in the domain of sustainable energies, on the one hand, • and the different plans carried out in the Maghreb in support to the deployment of renewable energies while reforming deeply the Education, Research and Innovation systems, on the other hand. Our approach inscribes also in the framework of the current EUROMED dialogue on research and innovation. Especially, we take full account of the analyses and recommendations delivered in the context of the works carried out by the Inco-Net MIRA (Mediterranean Innovation and Research coordination Action) toward the establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Space (EMIS). We also take account of the works and conclusions of the recent Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and Innovation (Barcelona, 2-3 April 2012).

Keywords: mediterranean innovative market,renewable energies and energy efficiency,capacity building in human resources and infrastructure,dynamic research and innovative systems,business creation.
Embodied Audition for RobotS (EARS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Israel,Germany,France,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4631728.0
EU funding (EUR): 3519981.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The success of future natural intuitive human-robot interaction (HRI) will critically depend on how responsive the robot will be to all forms of human expressions and how well it will be aware of its environment. With acoustic signals distinctively characterizing physical environments and speech being the most effective means of communication among humans, truly humanoid robots must be able to fully extract the rich auditory information from their environment and to use voice communication as much as humans do. While vision-based HRI is well developed, current limitations in robot audition do not allow for such an effective, natural acoustic human-robot communication in real-world environments, mainly because of the severe degradation of the desired acoustic signals due to noise, interference and reverberation when captured by the robot’s microphones. To overcome these limitations, EARS will provide intelligent ‘ears’ with close-to-human auditory capabilities and use it for HRI in complex real-world environments. Novel microphone arrays and powerful signal processing algorithms shall be able to localise and track multiple sound sources of interest and to extract and recognize the desired signals. After fusion with robot vision, embodied robot cognition will then derive HRI actions and knowledge on the entire scenario, and feed this back to the acoustic interface for further auditory scene analysis. As a prototypical application, EARS will consider a welcoming robot in a hotel lobby offering all the above challenges. Representing a large class of generic applications, this scenario is of key interest to industry and, thus, a leading European robot manufacturer will integrate EARS’s results into a robot platform for the consumer market and validate it. In addition, the provision of open-source software and an advisory board with key players from the relevant robot industry should help to make EARS a turnkey project for promoting audition in the robotics world.

Keywords: robot audition,smart acoustic sensing,embodied microphone arrays,audio-visual data fusion,human-robot interaction,humanoid service robots