Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Biaxial Nematic Devices (BIND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Ireland,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-07
End date: 2012-02-06
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3166915.0
EU funding (EUR): 2399999.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The recent experimental discovery of novel biaxial liquid crystal (LC) phases is a major breakthrough in functional materials and presents a challenge to develop the technology for a new generation of faster biaxial LC displays. These expectations are based on the existence of a secondary director that can be controlled by external fields. However, to be put in practice, this new possibility requires rethinking LC displays and materials as we know them now. BIND, a collaborative research project on biaxial nematic electro-optic device systems and materials, aims to provide the basic know-how enabling the production of a new generation of fast LC displays. It comprises (i) deepening the fundamental understanding of structure-properties relationships in biaxial nematic materials, with a particular view to bring their range of stability down to room temperature, (ii) developing experimental protocols for the identification and quantification of biaxiality and (iii) investigating novel alignment methods and candidate display architectures. The technological objective is to demonstrate the first working device based on nematic biaxiality. To go from basic understanding of materials properties to working devices, an interdisciplinary consortium of leading research teams has been assembled. Expertise in BIND encompasses state-of-the-art chemical synthesis and characterisation, physical measurement, molecular modelling, computer simulation and design of liquid crystal devices. A variety of liquid crystal types will be assessed, ranging from low-molar-mass nematics to oligomers, multipodes, linear polymers and elastomers. Solving a scientific problem by leading European research groups, and taking this through from fundamental studies to applications, presents a unique opportunity for the EU to take a leading role in developing the know-how on biaxial displays and thereby to strengthen its position in a research area that is presently at the edge of emerging technologies.

Keywords: liquid crystals,biaxial nematics,nematic elastomers,liquid crystal displays,optical devices,phase transitions in liquid crystals,molecular theory of liquid crystals,molecular simulations
Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors and Attack Threats (WOMBAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Austria,Italy,Netherlands,Greece,Poland,Ireland,Singapore,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4401578.0
EU funding (EUR): 2890795.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The WOMBAT project aims at providing new means to understand the existing and emerging threats that are targeting the Internet economy and the net citizens. To reach this goal, the proposal includes three key workpackages: (i) real time gathering of a diverse set of security related raw data, (ii) enrichment of this input by means of various analysis techniques, and (iii) root cause identification and understanding of the phenomena under scrutiny. The acquired datasets and knowledge will be shared with all interested security actors (ISPs, CERTs, security vendors, etc.), enabling them to make sound security investment decisions and to focus on the most dangerous activities first. Special care will also be devoted to impact the level of confidence of the European citizens in the net economy by leveraging computer security awareness in Europe thanks to the gained expertise.

Keywords: malware,threat intelligence
Representativity Indicators for Survey Quality (RISQ)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Socio-economic and scientific indicators
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Belgium,Slovenia,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1041094.0
EU funding (EUR): 827490.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Data that is missing due to nonresponse impose a serious threat to the quality of statistics that are based on both surveys and registers. In most cases nonresponse relates to demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the selected persons or enterprises and importantly also on the data collection process. In recent years a growing focus can be observed in survey research on differentiated data collection protocols and adaptive designs. The theory of Deming (1986) about improving quality and productivity in industry is well-known. Many of his famous 14 points for management also apply to the production of statistical information. Quality must be built in at the design stage. Deming’s points particularly apply to the data collection process. The response rate is often used as an indicator of survey quality. However, literature gives various examples where increased data collection efforts led to a higher response rate but also to a larger or comparable nonresponse bias. Therefore, to assess the effects of nonresponse, other quality indicators are needed. These indicators should measure the degree to which the respondents of a survey or register still resembles the population. First examples of such Representativity Indicators have emerged recently. The main objectives of this project are to elaborate and develop these Representativity Indicators, to explore their characteristics and to show how to implement and use them in a practical data collection environment. It will be demonstrated that Representativity Indicators can be used in several stages of the data collection process to improve the quality of the resulting statistics. The project facilitates the efficient allocation of data collection resources and a sophisticated trade-off between quality and costs. Furthermore, in order to enable a sensible incorporation of register data in the production of statistics, quality indicators are important tools in the reduction of respondent burden.

Keywords: missing data,cost reduction,nonresponse reduction,quality indicators,survey fieldwork monitor,data collection
Reliable Application Specific Detection of Road Users with Vehicle On-board Sensors (ADOSE)

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,Italy,Belgium,Greece,Belgium,Finland,Austria,Germany,Sweden,Norway
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10223008.0
EU funding (EUR): 6099793.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The White Paper on EU Transport Policy for 2010 states a key objective: 50% reduction of casualties due to road accidents by the end of 2010. Improvements on road safety are achievable increasing the EU market penetration of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), currently limited by performance and cost of sensor technologies. According to ICT-2007.6.1, ADOSE addresses research challenges in the area of 'accident prevention through improved…sensing including sensor fusion and sensor networks'. Besides, focus is on 'increased performance, reliable and secure operation' for 'new generation advanced driver assistance systems'. ADOSE project aims at enhancing ADAS functions through the development of high performance and low lost technologies suitable for reliable detection and classification of road users in hostile environments. The specific objectives of ADOSE are: a) five sensing technologies (FIR imager, multifunctional CMOS and 3D ranging cameras, harmonic radar/tags and silicon retina stereo sensors); b) ‘technology-dependent’ pre-processing algorithms; c) assessment of the sensor prototypes on functional demonstrators; d) synergies and complementary actions with on-going and new projects in FP7 on road safety. The innovations claimed are: a) low-cost FIR optics and imager combined to multispectral (NIR plus VIS) CMOS sensor for reliable pedestrian’s detection at night; b) multifunctional integration on a single enhanced high resolution CMOS imager; c) harmonic radars with passive and active tags for reliable localisation and identification of vulnerable road users; d) 3D packaging technology in TOF ranging cameras improving resolution and distance accuracy; e) bio-inspired silicon retina stereo sensors addressing time critical decision applications; f) low-cost process and packaging technologies for thermal detectors, CMOS-based cameras and tags.

Keywords: road safety,vulnerable road users,adas,environmental monitoring,multi-sensing device,fir add-on sensor,cmos imager,ranging camera,harmonic radar,tag,retinal sensor,optical packaging
SEnsor Network for Dynamic and Opportunistic Radio Acess (SENDORA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Sweden,Finland,Norway,Spain,Italy,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5635649.0
EU funding (EUR): 3846702.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Dynamic spectrum allocation has become a key research activity in wireless communications field and in particular a key technology for "The Network of the Future" objective proposed in ICT Work Programme 2007. Following these current trends towards dynamic spectrum allocation, the SENDORA project will focus on developing innovative techniques based on sensor networks, that will support the coexistence of licensed and unlicensed wireless users in a same area. The SENDORA project ideas stem from recent fundamental works on cognitive radio technology. The capability to detect spectrum holes, without interfering with the primary network currently in use, is the actual major difficulty faced by the cognitive radio. The innovative concept proposed in SENDORA project consists in developing a "sensor network aided cognitive radio" technology which will allow to solve this issue, thanks to the introduction of sensor networks and associated networking capabilities. The sensor network aided cognitive radio proposed and studied in SENDORA project will address many different advanced techniques, but will also propose an analysis of the potential exploitation of these techniques. First, scenarios of interest will be defined and will provide the technical activities with requirements to cover. Different types of scenarios will be proposed, corresponding to real needs, mainly identified by the potential integrators of the solutions. On the technical point of view, novel spectrum sensing techniques will be first proposed to be able to identify spectrum holes. Corresponding information management and exploitation will be studied to achieve the co-existence of cognitive radios with primary licensed technology without generating harmful interferences. The design, dimensioning and networking of the wireless sensor network will be deeply addressed. Finally, a proof-of-concept demonstration will be developed to assess the theoretical research.

Keywords: cognitive radio,sensor network,dynamic spectrum allocation
Supporting Highly Adaptive Network Enterprise Collaboration Through semantically enabled knowledge services (SYNERGY)

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,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Serbia,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5191334.0
EU funding (EUR): 3949742.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The next phase of enterprise interoperability is the sharing of knowledge within a Virtual Organisation (VO) to the mutual benefit of all VO partners. Such knowledge will be a driver for new enhanced collaborative enterprises, able to achieve the global visions of enterprise interoperability. The SYNERGY project envisages the delivery of Collaboration Knowledge services through trusted third parties offering web-based, pay on demand services, exploitable through interoperability service utilities (ISUs). The overall aim of SYNERGY is to enhance support of the networked enterprise in the successful, timely creation of, and participation in collaborative VOs by providing an infrastructure and services to discover, capture, deliver and apply knowledge relevant to collaboration creation and operation. Specifically SYNERGY aims to (a) provide semantic ontology-based modelling of knowledge structures on collaborative working; (b) develop the service-oriented self-adaptive SYNERGY holistic solution for knowledge-based collaboration services; and (c) facilitate the testing and evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the SYNERGY solution in concrete case studies.

Keywords: knowledge oriented collaboration,virtual organisation,knowledge sharing,risk management
Emergence of communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction (ROSSI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Sweden,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3701187.0
EU funding (EUR): 2800000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Starting from the assumption that cognition is embodied, the ROSSI project addresses the question how the possibility of communication between agents (e.g. humans and robots) is effected by differences in sensorimotor capacities. This is an important issue, given that robots are expected to become more common in non-structured environments, such as homes or hospitals. While there is a trend towards humanoid robots, it is clear that for the foreseeable future there will still be substantial differences in physical embodiment between robots and humans. To explore to what extent concepts must be shared to facilitate communication, we will build robots with sensorimotor systems structurally roughly similar to human beings. Furthermore, the control mechanisms for these robots will be based on insights into the neural mechanisms underlying human concepts and language. In particular, two types of neurons in premotor cortex will be modelled: (1) canonical neurons, which are active during both the execution of specific object-directed actions and the mere visual observation of the same objects, and (2) mirror neurons, which are involved in both an agent's own actions and the visual observation of such actions performed by others. In this framework, the project's aims are twofold. First, behavioural and neurophysiological experiments will provide new evidence and insights into the grounding of human conceptualization and language. Second, computational modelling of the underlying neural mechanisms will provide novel approaches to grounding of robotic conceptualization and language. More specifically, the project aims at building robots endowed with the sensorimotor and neural/computational mechanisms that allow them to: (a) flexibly manipulate and use objects in the environment, (b) use a simple form of language, i.e. nouns and verbs referring to objects and object-oriented actions, (c) use such concepts and verbal labels in social interaction with humans.

Keywords: emergence of communication,language grounding,embodiment,canonical and mirror neurons,affordances,developmental and evolutionary robotics
Euro-India ICT Co-operation (EUROINDIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark,France,United Kingdom,France,India
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 770949.0
EU funding (EUR): 581100.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The mission of the Euro-India ICT Co-operation Initiative, builds on the achievements and momentum created by EuroIndia2004 and MONSOON project, whose goals profiled and engaged the widespread Indian ICT research community by analysing its research capacities and priorities. EuroIndia seeks to: - Identify, exploit and sustain EU and Indian RTD potential through an exhaustive mapping of the Indian ICT knowledge, research and innovation landscape; - Provide critical inputs to strengthen policy dialogue between the EU’s i2010 strategy and the Indian Information Society policy; - Reinforce the promotion of the EU ICT programme and increase Indian buy-in and participation; - Network a wide range of stakeholders through an institutional mechanism and a well-defined agenda in order to evolve and support a vibrant EuroIndia ICT research community; - Synchronise ICT research priorities and objectives. EuroIndia, owing to its highly qualified and strongly committed consortium of partners, will be in an optimal position to address these strategic needs in objectives comprising: technological mapping activities, survey reporting, communication and outreach to take place in India in the form of Information days, technology brainstorming events and joint EU-Indian ICT workshops, where the project identifies mutual areas of co-operation and collaboration. These actions will maximise EU and Indian RTD potential, increasing the visibility of EC Programmes in India and preparing groundwork for lasting strategic partnerships. Operationally, the project locates complementary Indian constituencies, understands their potential to formulate objectives of collaboration and initiate partnerships. The ultimate project’s objective is to continue to evolve and support a qualified Euro-India community. Major results of EuroIndia are: 2 ICT RTD Technology Roadmaps, 3 Indian and EU ICT User community reports, 6 Technology Brainstorming events, 2 Survey reports, 6 ICT EC Info Days and 2 E

Keywords: international co-operation,technology knowledge mapping,eu-india policy dialogue support,outreach & communication
Tooling of and training for collaborative, distributed product innovation (IDSPACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Denmark,Cyprus,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2010-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2286234.84
EU funding (EUR): 1791539.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Industries increasingly rely on innovative design. Innovative design is characterised by an intense, collaborative process of generating and exploring ideas meant to contribute to the solution of particular problems. Innovators go through cycles of divergence, in which new ideas are generated and explored, and convergence, in which new ideas are valued and detailed. These cycles rely on knowledge elicitation (formal learning) and knowledge sharing (informal learning). Innovators also need appropriate tools to generate ideas, reuse them, take them apart, criticise them, or even reject them. Currently, innovation processes use a large variety of tools, relatively independent of each other, with little or no regard for past efforts, with little or no attention to the context in which they arose. Also little effort is made to safeguard and share the results of the innovation process for future use, in other contexts, with other people. Optimally to foster the growth of new ideas and the elaboration of new production processes, past knowledge needs to be elicited and new knowledge needs to be shared and stored, all the while being aware of the rich context in which the ideas arose, were elaborated and fleshed out. To that end we will to design and build a responsive web-based environment – idSpace. It will offer an integrated suite of knowledge eliciting and sharing tools, and create a collective, sharable memory of the entire design process. idSpace, we surmise, forms the substrate for the emergence of a productive and lasting community of practice and learning that will maximally foster innovation. We will test our claims with users in realistic if not authentic settings as well as through the consultation of experts.

Keywords: creativity,innovation,distributed work,learning,design,idea generation,collaboration
Living Web Archives (LIWA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Hungary,Netherlands,Czechia,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3624871.0
EU funding (EUR): 2682371.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Web content plays an increasingly important role in the knowledge-based society, and the preservation and long-term accessibility of Web history has high value (e.g., for scholarly studies, market analyses, intellectual property disputes, etc.). There is strongly growing interest in its preservation by library and archival organizations as well as emerging industrial services. Web content characteristics (high dynamics, volatility, contributor and format variety) make adequate Web archiving a challenge. LiWA will look beyond the pure “freezing” of Web content snapshots for a long time, transforming pure snapshot storage into a "Living" Web Archive. "Living" refers to a) long term interpretability as archives evolve, b) improved archive fidelity by filtering out irrelevant noise and c) considering a wide variety of content. LiWA will extend the current state of the art and develop the next generation of Web content capture, preservation, analysis, and enrichment services to improve fidelity, coherence, and interpretability of web archives. By developing methods which improve archive fidelity, the project will contribute to adequate preservation of complete and high-quality content. By developing methods for improved archive coherence and interpretability, the project contributes to ensuring its long-term usability. LiWA RTD will focus on innovative methods for content capturing, filtering out spam and other noise, improving temporal archive coherence, and dealing with semantic and terminology evolution. Two exemplary LiWA applications - focusing on audiovisual streams and social web content, respectively – will show the benefits of advanced Web archiving to interested stakeholders. To ensure demand-driven RTD development and broad, sustained project impact, the LiWA consortium will closely work with the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) as well as important library and archiving organizations, two of which are members of LiWA.

Keywords: web archiving,preservation,semantic evolution,spam filtering