Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Model-based synthesis of digital electronic circuits for embedded control (MOBY-DIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Spain,Italy,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3166025.0
EU funding (EUR): 2122380.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

A key functionality of embedded systems is the ability to react dynamically to changing conditions and guarantee desired behaviour for the physical system they are embedded into. The design of embedded systems that are capable of such control functionalities must take the interactions between the embedded device and the dynamics of the physical embedding environment into account. The heterogeneity between those parts, the ever growing complexity of the overall system, stricter requirements, and the lack of systematic embedded control system design tools, make the design task very time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone. The standard approach is to decouple the design by splitting the control design and circuit design tasks into two separate phases, often executed by engineers with different backgrounds. The only interaction between the two designs is around specs (such as sampling frequency, memory, flops, etc.), which are possibly negotiated iteratively until a satisfactory design is reached, but more often unidirectionally communicated. The resulting outcome is typically far from optimal. A coherent and consistent paradigm for the design of embedded control systems is the goal of the MOBY-DIC project. A new methodology and associated tool chain will be developed encompassing in a unique framework the modelling of the physical process, design of the control algorithms, design of embedded circuits, and the assessment of the overall performance properties of the system. MOBY-DIC will achieve such an integrated design flow by developing a core methodology based on “piecewise affine” representations, that at the same time (i) provide a rather flexible structure for control functions, and (ii) are directly mapped into digital architectures of small-size and low-power. The effectiveness of the developed embedded control design approach will be demonstrated by MOBY-DIC on a set of challenging applications arising in the automotive industry.

Keywords: embedded control,circuit and control co-design,complete design tool chain,integrated circuits
Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media (PADGETS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Greece,Ireland,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2377134.0
EU funding (EUR): 1700000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Today the ever growing visibility of the web as a medium that exhibits the potential to attract and maintain society’s involvement coupled with the need for a more citizen-centric and socially-rooted policy making, calls for novel tools with the capability to analyze society’s input and forecast the possible impact of policies. Thus, more citizen-centric governance arises more pressing than ever. The proposed project aims at bringing together two well established domains, the mashup architectural approach of web 2.0 for creating web applications (gadgets) and the methodology of system dynamics in analyzing complex system behavior. The objective is to design, develop and deploy a prototype toolset that will allow policy makers to graphically create web applications that will be deployed in the environment of underlying knowledge in Web 2.0 media. For this reason, the project introduces the concept of Policy Gadget (Padget) – similarly to the approach of gadget applications in web 2.0 – to represent a micro web application that combines a policy message with underlying group knowledge in social media (in the form of content and user activities) and interacts with end users in popular locations (such as social networks, blogs, forums, news sites, etc) in order to get and convey their input to policy makers. Through the proposed platform any policy can become a reusable and communicable web application to be used in relation to underlying content and social activities over the web. Policy makers will be able to set up such applications on their own and use them to communicate their policies to the public. People can use these applications as they use everyday services and policy makers can track the results of this interaction back to their policy making process to assist them in reaching solid decisions that represent society’s input and aspirations.

Keywords: policy modelling,policy gadgets,system dynamics,web 2.0,e-participation,mashups,social networking
Patient Safety in Robotic Surgery (SAFROS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Estonia,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,Hungary,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5002368.0
EU funding (EUR): 3889033.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal addresses the development of technologies for patient safety in robotic surgery. We define patient safety metrics for surgical procedures and then develop methods that abide by safety requirements, formulated in terms of our metrics. We aim at demonstrating that a properly controlled robotic surgery carried out in accordance to our safety criteria can improve the level of patient safety currently achievable by traditional surgery. The main innovative aspects of this project are: 1- Research driven by patient-safety requirements 2- Emphasis on methodological rigor: development of a methodology founded in evidence-based medicine 3- Scope: the entire surgical workflow is considered for development and validation. SAFROS focuses on innovative development of methods for the following technologies: Soft organ modeling and calibration, considering patient pathologies and anatomical variants Simulation planning in deformable environments Intra-operative registration and workflow monitoring Robot modeling and performance monitoring Surgeon training Operator interface with integrated stereovision and haptics New methods are integrated and validated on two distinct surgical robots (MIRO and RAMS), with respect to two inherently different contexts (pancreatic and vascular surgery). We quantitatively validate the adherence of our methods to the safety criteria, using surgical phantoms and animals. By comparing across robots and surgical contexts we draw conclusions about the generality of our approach. The SAFROS consortium comprises: Hospitals with worldwide reputation, which provide medical knowledge and can validate our approach Europe’s leading research groups in telerobotics and surgical robotics Innovative companies, to develop new technologies for surgical simulators World Health Organization, with global expertise in patient safety surgical safety guidelines Renowned educational organizations, to innovate surgeon training

Keywords: safety for robotic surgery,safety of computer-assisted diagnosis,computer-assisted planning for robotic surgery,operator interface for robotic surgery,validation of robot-assisted surgery
Open service network for marine environmental data (NETMAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Ireland,United Kingdom,France,Norway
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3892852.0
EU funding (EUR): 2970950.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

NETMAR aims to develop a pilot European Marine Information System (EMIS) for searching, downloading and integrating satellite, in situ and model data from ocean and coastal areas. It will be a user-configurable system offering service discovery, access and chaining facilities using OGC, OPeNDAP and W3C standards. It will use a semantic framework coupled with ontologies for identifying and accessing distributed data, such as near-real time, model forecast and historical data. EMIS will also enable further processing of such data to generate composite products and statistics suitable for decision-making. NETMAR will develop interoperability and connectivity between heterogeneous data systems to meet the demand for information from different user groups. Standardising data and metadata formats, as well as exchange protocols, are the first steps to bridge existing marine data systems. The next step is to define the semantics of the services, including an uncertainty model, to allow transparent computer-based discovery. Developing a semantic framework for marine data services, backed by a multilingual and multidomain ontology enabling searches across (human) languages and application domains, is therefore a key task. EMIS will enable search for and use single services, as well as to compose new and more powerful services by service chaining, defining the workflow of the composite service using existing services as ”building blocks”. EMIS will then merge established standards and tools with these new “building blocks” for application in practical monitoring of the marine environment. This will be done through a set of use cases in different European seas, where identified users will test and evaluate the EMIS. The use cases include monitoring and forecasting of oil spills, plankton blooms and Arctic sea ice. Furthermore, the use cases will validate an ecosystem model, study the relation between physical and biological variables and data exchange with coastal web atlases.

Keywords: inspire,gmes,sise,seis,marine information system,interoperability,ontology,semantic framework,web-gis
Matrix for Chemical IT (MATCHIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Israel,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3630149.0
EU funding (EUR): 2770000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

MATCHIT (MATrix for CHemical IT) will develop programmable information chemistry by introducing an addressable chemical container (chemtainer) production system and interfacing it with electronic computers via MEMS technology with regulatory feedback loops. As in the biological subcellular matrix, the chemical containers at the micro- and nanoscales will be self-assembling, replicable and self-repairing. At the nanoscale, DNA containers will provide a programmable and replicable chemistry in which positional information can be harnessed for a range of nanoscale utilities. At the microscale, containers based on DNA-labeled heterophase droplets and vesicles, will form microscopic labeled reaction vessels that can themselves determine their next processing steps. Their DNA-based addresses will be computable, enabling parallel chemical programming in a new multilevel architecture through autonomous address modification and resolution at the container-container, container-surface, and container-molecule levels, providing a concrete embedded application for DNA computing. This generic programmable information chemistry will not only be an enabling technology for “immersed systems” IT applications in the life sciences, chemistry, and nanotechnology, but also promote a deeper understanding of the computational power of coupled production and information processes, as in biology, and provide a platform for building the more organic computers of the future. MATCHIT will investigate the general use of self-assembling chemtainers for information-intensive Chem-IT. The project will develop and apply multiscale physical simulation tools and novel embedded IT architectures to process and integrate modular chemical and digital information. It will integrate and disseminate multidisciplinary European activities in Chem-IT, supported by the European Center for Living Technology and provide an assessment of the likely long-term socio-technical impact of this powerful technology.

Keywords: self-organization,programmable chemical information,self-replication,natural computing,embedded systems,living technology
Spectrum and energy efficiency through multi-band Cognitive Radio (SACRA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Finland,France,Germany,France,Austria,Greece,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5904956.0
EU funding (EUR): 3768425.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

As highlighted in the Work Programme, energy efficiency and flexibility in the use of spectrum resources are two major research challenges for the development of future wireless communications technologies. To address these challenges, SACRA project proposes to develop a multi-band cognitive radio technology. In SACRA, new techniques for the global efficiency of wireless systems will be developed in the following four directions: - the spectral efficiency thanks to the use of cognitive radio techniques in a multi-band scheme, - the minimization of electronic component number in wireless systems, - the energy optimization for wireless communication terminals by optimizing architecture design and algorithms implementation, - the minimization of the generated interference in the environment by selecting the adequate band which will guarantee the shortest transmission distance and the minimum power while preserving the QoS. The innovation and impact brought by SACRA project are in the combination of innovative approaches on Radio Frequency (RF) front-end and base band components design with new cognitive radio techniques integrated into a demonstrator platform. The major outcome of SACRA project is a proof-of-concept able to communicate jointly and cognitively in two separate frequency bands, which corresponds to concrete needs today in Europe. The initial target scenario is the management and optimal distribution of broadband mobile communications on two separate frequency bands at 790-862 MHz and 2.6 GHz as proposed by European regulation authorities. Considering the current ICT challenges, SACRA project, by designing and validating new techniques for spectrum and energy efficiency in wireless communications, is expected to have a significant impact on future wireless mobile systems.

Keywords: spectrum efficiency,energy efficiency,multi-band cognitive radio
Structural and Functional Studies of Human Adenosine A2A Receptor G protein Complex: Toward Understanding GPCR Activation (ADORA)

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: Finland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This application is to partially fund a junior research position at the Oulu Biocenter (BCO) and the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, concerning structural determination of human adenosine receptor subtype selectivity and allosteric modulation. As a basis of this project, we recently determined the crystal structure of the human adenosine A2A receptor. By the research described in the research plan, we will accomplish one or more of following goals (2010-2014): To solve human adenosine A1, A2A, A2B and A3 structure complexes with subtype-selective ligands and co-factors. To study allosteric modulation of adenosine receptors. To study the functional/structural role of lipids those were co-crystallized in the initial A2A structure. To determine the structure of carboxy terminal domain(s) of human A2A receptor and further characterize its functional properties and interaction partners. To biophysically characterize the dynamic and conformational changes upon ligand/co-factor binding in the purified adenosine receptor those are important to the activation mechanism. The main goal is to establish an independent research team and equipments at the BCO. The team would be specialized on structural and functional studies of GPCRs. The BCO and the protein science facilities available at Oulu University provides excellent environment for the research proposed, with access to instruments and facilities needed for the proposed research. The major collaborators in this project include R.C.Stevens (the Scripps Research Institute, USA) and A. Ijzeman (University of Leiden, Netherlands). We will seek more collaboration nationally and internationally on GPCRs and biophysical characterization of the targets. With this application, partial salary of the PI is applied. The BCO is committed support a start up package for setting up a laboratory, an annual grant for materials and consumables and salary for two other project members for this proposal.

Keywords: structural biology,g protein coupled receptors,gpcr,adenosine receptors,drug selectivity
Characterization of pheromone-evoked sexually dimorphic social and reproductive responses in wild-caught TRPC2 mutant mice, under semi-natural conditions (SEX-DIMOR-REP-BEHAV)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sexually dimorphic behaviors represent a robust set of innate social and reproductive responses including mating, nursing and aggression. A long-standing and fundamental neurobiological question is ‘how do sex differences in behavior arise?’ Although sexually dimorphic social and reproductive behaviors represent the most extreme examples of behavioral variability within a species, the basic principles underlying the sex specificity of brain activity is largely unknown. In most mammals, pheromone signals detection play major roles in regulation of innate sexually dimorphic behaviors, along with substantial neuroendocrine responses. Recently, I have uncovered evidence to suggest the surprising possibility that circuitry mediating both female and male typical behaviors may develop and persist in both the female and male brain, but sex-specific chemosensory circuitry directs pheromonal cues to brain sites that activates same sex circuitry and represses opposite sex behavior circuitry. The research proposal aims at using multidisciplinary approaches that integrate mouse genetics with innovative ethologically-relevant paradigms, to undercover fundamental functional effects of pheromone signals on behavioral and neuroendocrinology sex-typical responses in naturally ethological-relevant system. The project main objectives are: 1. To develop new mouse model (i.e. genetic knockout wild-caught mice) and experimental design to study pheromone-mediated responses under natural biologically relevant context. 2. To use this ethological-relevant experimental approach in order to identify novel behavioral, physiological and neurobiochemical pheromone-mediated responses, in freely socially-interacting mice. This study will establish a powerful experimental model to study sexually dimorphic behavioral responses in a natural-like habitat, and provide a strong foundation for gaining new insights into normal and abnormal social and sexually dimorphic mammalian brain functions.

Keywords: neurobiology,zoology,biology,laboratory animal science,neurosciences
Probing models of pulsars through multi wavelength observations (PROMOPS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars (NS) that emit beamed electromagnetic radiation and are very interesting astrophysical objects because of, among other reasons, their extreme physical conditions. However, and despite more than 40 years of observations and theory, there is no convincing pulsar emission model that explains in detail the characteristics of the radiation emitted by pulsars. Part of the problem lies in that, while more than 2000 radio pulsars are known to date, only a small fraction of them have detected emission at higher energies, making the construction of a complete picture very difficult. In this proposal we attempt at alleviating this problem by doing a systematic study of optical emission from pulsars, new pulsars detected in gamma-rays by the Fermi satellite and also on already known optical pulsars. For the new gamma-ray pulsars we will search for optical counterparts and then try to characterize their optical radiation properties, including polarisation. A similar approach will be used for the already known optical pulsars, also as part of an ongoing program. The ultimate goal will be to provide multi wavelength studies of pulsar emission, including polarisation, and to use them to constrain theoretical models of emission. A second goal is to study pulsars companions to high-mass OB-type stars (BeXs). Here, X/gamma-rays are produced by accretion of matter from the circumstellar disc around the Be star onto the NS, and by the emission of the NS itself. We plan to investigate the interaction between the viscous decretion disc around the Be star and the NS, i.e. the truncation of this circumstellar disc by the neutron star. The project will contribute to strengthen EU science by promoting collaborations among institutes and countries within the Community, and the scientific goals are well matched to those from other projects founded by the EU, e.g. OPTICON (of which the proponent is member).

Keywords: astrophysics,pulsars,optical photo-polarimetry