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Market requirements, barriers and cost-benefit aspects of assistive technologies (MARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2010-02-28
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 698560.0
EU funding (EUR): 467162.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

MARE is an 18 month support action which aims to carry out a technology and foresight analysis in the field of Assistive Technologies (AT). AT are all technologies used in daily life to improve quality of life and to live independently for longer. Typically AT refers to those devices that are designed with electronics, microprocessors and high performance materials which allow: powered mobility, augmentative communication, environmental control and the use of microcomputers. MARE will carry out an analysis of the state of development of these technologies and on the identification of the barriers to their full development, and will formulate a technology foresight to understand their future developments in Europe. This will be achieved through the following activities: 1) Defining ICT AT environment and delimit AT sectors; define AT “Users Centred Approach”; describe existing barriers to the full potentiality of AT; identify market stakeholders and missing players. 2)Creating a dynamic repository for ICT AT technology as a result from FP6 and FP7 EC projects, EU and national projects and programmes, to cross analyse objectives and results achieved. 3) Setting up a large AT User community that will be involved in the project activities via interviews and web activity, and creating an AT Expert group to be involved in the project for contributions, reviewing and consolidation of the AT foresight outcomes. 4) Analyse maturity of ICT AT market, identify market trends and convergence paths, cross analysis of User requirements versus market structures, regulation frameworks, and market organisations. 5) Defining a specific tailored Technology Foresight Model to identify AT future trends and responsiveness to a User Centred Approach. 6) Implementing a web tool and project dissemination activities to allow to carry out interviews via the web portal, thus to facilitate user participation and to disseminate the project results 7) Formulate technology foresight recom

Keywords: einclusion,assistive technologies,market requirements,barriers,cost benefits
Personalised and intergrated cardiac care: Patient-specific Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation for In Silico Disease Understanding and Management (EUHEART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,France,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 19143221.0
EU funding (EUR): 13900000.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has a significant impact on the European society in terms of mortality, morbidity and allied healthcare costs. The opportunity of multi-scale modelling spanning, sub-cellular level up to whole heart is to improve CVD outcomes by providing a consistent, biophysically-based framework for the integration of the huge amount of fragmented and inhomogeneous data currently available. However, multi-scale models have not yet been translated into clinical environments mainly due to the difficulty of personalising biophysical models. The challenge of the euHeart project is to directly address this need by combining novel ICT technologies with integrative multi-scale computational models of the heart in clinical environments to improve diagnosis, treatment planning and interventions for CVD. To meet this challenge we will bring together leading European physiological modelling and cardiac groups to develop, integrate and clinically validate patient-specific computational models of the cardiac physiology and disease-related processes. The main outcome of euHeart will be an open source framework for the description and representation of normal and pathological multi-scale and multi-physics cardiovascular models, using the international encoding standards. In addition, a library of innovative tools for the execution of the biophysical simulations, the personalisation of the models and the automated analysis of multi-modal images are developed. Evidence of clinical benefit will be collected to quantify potential impact for a number of significant CVD’s namely, heart failure, cardiac rhythm disorder, coronary artery disease and valvular and aortic diseases. Each of the selected clinical applications provides a complementary focus for the resulting integrated model of cardiac fluid-electro-mechanical function. The consortium contains a mix of academic leadership, clinical sites, and industrial partners ensuring exploitation of the wealth of models

Keywords: patient-specific cardiovascular modelling and simulation in silico disease understanding & management medical device evaluation & optimization
Future Internet Research and Experimentation - Strategy Working Group (FIREWORKS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 790000.0
EU funding (EUR): 790000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of FIRE Works SA (Specific Support Action) project is to create a sustainable forum for testbed actors in Europe in the area of future networks. By the means of this project relevant parties are brought together in order to exchange ideas, experiences, specifications for future needs and information on test activity offerings in Europe and beyond. Through individuals involved in testbed activities, e.g. researchers, developers, managers of RandD units and ICT policy makers, it is formed a common understanding of what exists and what will be needed for future experimental facilities. The FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Initiative launched by the Commission within FP7 has two related dimensions: on one side, promoting experimentally-driven long term, visionary research on new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for the future internet; on the other side, building a large scale experimentation facility to support both medium and long term research on networks and services by gradually federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet technologies. The FIRE Works SA is proposing to continue the work of the FIRE Expert Group work preceding the FIRE Initiative and to take further the two dimensions. It aims at clustering and concentrating activities in Europe in the area of testing new communications technologies and services, as support for numerous related Research and Development (RandD) projects running under European and national umbrellas. In particular, various available testbeds and experimental laboratories, including experimental communications networks, as well as so-called User-Driven Innovation platforms will be considered, in order to support creation of a federation of testbeds. The objective is to ensure both tighter collaboration of testbeds with the aim to improve overall testing features and provision of a higher number of testing services in Europe.

Keywords: testbed,experimental facility,research network,testbed federation,future internet,next generation network
Thin Interconnected Package Stacks (TIPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Switzerland,Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-08
End date: 2012-03-07
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4206689.0
EU funding (EUR): 2749998.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project TIPS aims at the conflation of embedding technologies for electronic components into extremely thin packages and the interconnection of those packages into stacked electronic systems. The testing of individual packages before stacking is performed will mitigate stacked package yield issues. Embedding of components will be developed starting from a basis of different technical approaches, depending on component type (active or passive), dimension and commercial availability. In order to reach the targeted stacked package thickness of 100 µm at maximum, the thickness of the embedded electrical components will be sub 50 µm. In this way modular thin packages will be realized, containing either arrays of or single electronic components. All packages have in common the same interface interconnection scheme to the next package. The interconnection scheme is to be developed in the project. The top and bottom package will have a layout for assembly of SMD components on the one hand or a ball grid array for soldering of the package stack onto a substrate board. Whether the packages stacks are interconnected within the stacking process or after stacking will be defined in the project. It is crucial to the outcome of the project that the stacking/interconnection is a highly robust process with an extremely low reject rate. Furthermore the realized package stacks have to withstand subsequent harsh process steps such as reflow soldering. Therefore early and continuous reliability testing of the packages as well as of packages stacks will be preformed. Viability and cost effectiveness of the developed technologies will be addressed throughout the development. In this way a future application of the technology will be more likely. Demonstrators for medical applications will be realized, where miniaturization and high functionality are the primary objectives.

Keywords: advanced packaging techniques for microelectronic systems - medical
Boosting Energy Awareness With Adaptive Real-time Environments (BE AWARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Italy,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3965802.0
EU funding (EUR): 2711816.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Reduction of energy consumption is a societal challenge that requires combination of technical, economical, and social means. So far, energy conservation has focused on new technologies and automation, treating users as passive consumers. However, strong evidence suggests that users can adapt actively their behaviour to energy saving with suitable feedback, support, and incentives, reducing significantly and cost-effectively energy use without impacting adversely their comfort. At present, energy information flows are slow, aggregated, and hidden, being operated by a market lacking incentives and proper service models. The opaqueness discourages users to learn and apply conservation strategies in their everyday lives. However, novel ICT’s offer opportunities for removing this bottleneck. In particular, ubiquitous interfaces combined with low-cost sensors support real-time information from energy networks and consumption, empowering users to learn and share conservation strategies. BeAware studies how ubiquitous information can turn users into active players by developing: 1) an open and capillary infrastructure sensing wirelessly energy consumption at appliance level; 2) ambient and mobile interaction to integrate energy use profiles into users’ everyday life; 3) value added service platforms and models where consumers can act on ubiquitous energy information while energy producers and other stakeholders gain new business opportunities. BeAware combines research excellence with relevant industrial involvement. To ensure wide applicability, a Nordic and a Southern evaluation site are planned. A liaison with the CITRIS programme in the USA facilitates dissemination. The expected impact focuses on 1) grounding the conservation potential to users’ cognitive constraints and practices, 2) ubiquitous computing applications for sensing wirelessly energy use and enabling users to act, and 3) value added service models to innovate a new energy and multi-utility market.

Keywords: energy saving,active power consumers,real time energy sensing,ubiquitous interaction,sustainable environment,distributed service-based architectures
Coordination and Implementation of a European Strategy on Smart Systems Technologies (CEPOSS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,Italy,France,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,France,Spain,Italy,Germany,Norway,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1319013.0
EU funding (EUR): 950000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Microsystems will evolve in the future into integrated smart systems which are able to sense and diagnose a situation, which are predictive, and therefore are able to decide and help to decide. Smart systems address and identify each other and enable the products in which they are incorporated in to interact with the environment and with other smart systems. The CA CEPoSS will deal with Smart Systems Technologies with particular emphasis on integration matters both on sub-systems and systems level. The activities of the project are based and rely on the work done in EPoSS, the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration and will help the platform to further develop. The objectives of CEPoSS support those of EPoSS, i.e. defining the future technology path from microsystems technology towards smart systems integration, strengthening the Smart Systems value chain in Europe, helping to realise a European Research Area in Smart Systems Integration and making European industrial and public research structures in this sector the most competitive in the world. Hence, CEPoSS proposes new and additional functions and tasks to be carried out within the EPoSS aiming at coordinating better European RandD efforts, setting priorities for industrial RandD and implementing its strategy by mobilising human and financial resources. At operational level CEPoSS will develop a new public-private partnership model based on Art. 169/171, (re-)define research and development priorities, timeframes and action plans and re-engineer its Strategic Research Agenda. It will provide recommendations to policy makers, launch bi- and multilateral pilot initiatives among member states and companies, motivate High-Tech SMEs to participate in the EPoSS activities, and increase political awareness related to the potential of new smart systems devices. For carrying out these activities the CA CEPoSS will have to provide also the necessary infrastructures and organisational backbone.

Keywords: smart systems,smart systems integration,etp,micro/nanosystems,eposs
Usability of Music for Social Inclusion of Children (UMSIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Finland,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2833773.0
EU funding (EUR): 2130000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this multidisciplinary and trans-national SandT project is to develop and use up-to-date technology in a coordinated, intelligent and accessible way to support social inclusion. Whilst intended for all children, UMSIC aims to particularly support, through music, those children who are at increased risk of being marginalized. These include children with social or emotional disorders (or both), those with moderate learning disabilities, and those who are immigrant with no or limited host country language skills. From their first school year, such children are at risk of less than optimal functioning in many areas related to school success unless their needs are recognised and addressed. Low academic achievement, in turn, is one of the most significant individual risk factors of marginalization. Furthermore, there is a growing body of neurological and related research evidence that the promotion of early competences in music and language are interwoven and can affect positively children’s emotional, social, and intellectual development. Although ICT applications for special educational purposes have been increasingly developed, any serious attempts to design ICT-based, user sensitive learning environments for musical creativity and social sharing of music do not yet exist. Consequently, in the proposed UMSIC project, the system is developed to open interactive environments for children to communicate informally with their peers by using familiar modern technologies. With a special impact on child-centered usability, intelligent musical engineering and carefully developed pedagogical design allied to structured learning material, the system allows children both stand-alone as well as networked operations with easy start up and impressive extensibility. Children will draw benefit from the targeted learning material in multiple ways by learning independently the usage of musical software required to enter musical online communities.

Keywords: usability,ubique,middleware,musical engineering
High density integration by embedding chips for reduced size modules and electronic systems (HERMES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Germany,France,France,Germany,Luxembourg,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14384215.0
EU funding (EUR): 8349999.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed HERMES project wants to initiate a new mainstream packaging concept not bound by the existing supply chain, and by large-scale manufacturing technology. The project is aiming at further developing the concept of embedded thin chips into electronic boards, as a base for an integrated manufacturing of electronic circuits. The project consortium will develop a technology for embedding active and passive components, allowing more functional integration and higher density. The technology will be based on printed circuit board manufacturing and assembly practice, and on standard available silicon dies, highlighting fine pitch interconnection, high power capability and high frequency compatibility. Apart from research necessary for the technological advances towards fine pitch, new materials, multilevel stacking, high reliability, essential developments are needed for setting up an integrated manufacturing. Key issues are testability of the circuits during and after manufacturing, yield and cost of the processes, and organizing the supply chain. The benefits of HERMES will be very large : • Technologically : Higher density because some “borders” (the packaging/soldering interface) have disappeared, a smaller form factor and even possibility for 3D stacking • Low cost : Large-scale production will be possible, with still high accuracy due to innovative equipment and processes (placement, LDI, etc.), and by using “cheap” PCB processes to a large extent. Even for a smaller number of modules to be made, the embedded component technology in a PCB manufacturing will be interesting, by the flexibility of PCB layout, and component placement. • Time-to-market of complex and hybrid systems : By bringing the production and assembly of a module to one place, very short times-to-market will be possible, especially when compared to traditional solutions with advanced (e.g. WLP) packages (with long delivery times), and system-on-chip solutions.

Keywords: embedded components - high density interconnection - printed circuit board - low cost module miniaturization - die assembly
The effects of auditory training on human communication skills: behavior and physiology (AUDITORY LEARNING)

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-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human communication relies on an array of auditory skills ranging from basic encoding of sound to auditory memory and attention. Improving these skills could benefit many individuals who either attempt to improve their communication skills (e.g., by learning a foreign language) or suffer from communication disorders. However, improving auditory skills remains a challenge because the mechanisms underlying auditory learning are poorly understood. In particular it is not clear whether learning simple auditory skills can generalize to more complex ones. To address this issue, we will compare the outcomes of different auditory training regimens in the general population and between individuals with and without persistent reading and learning difficulties. We hypothesize that learning will modify both general and specific auditory mechanisms. However, we expect that while the modification of specific encoding mechanisms will be closely related to the nature of the stimuli used in training, general mechanisms like attention will be similarly affected by different training programs. To this end, students learning English as a second language will train on one of three training regimens (the first 2 are commercially available) emphasizing either general listening skills (LACE), phonemic discriminations (Phonomena), or basic auditory skills. Cognitive, perceptual and neural outcomes of training will be compared between the trained groups as well as to naïve controls. In addition to the theoretical implications of the proposed study, it is expected to provide clinicians, educators and the general public information regarding the suitability of the studied training regimens to specific clinical or educational purposes. The study’s relevance to the Work program lies in the central question it addresses in Auditory Neuroscience and the way it will facilitate the (re)integration of the coordinator to the EU/Israeli scientific community after working in the US.

Keywords: auditory perceptual learning,neural plasticity,speech perception,language acquisition,learning disabilities