Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Search and monitoring of Harmful contaminants, Other pollutants And Leaks in vessels in port using a swarm of robotic fish (SHOAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Spain,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-02
End date: 2012-07-01
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4227770.0
EU funding (EUR): 2750000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

We have identified a cutting-edge method for monitoring pollution in ports as specified in EU Directive 2005/35. This monitoring process is currently costing approximately 350 million Euros per year in the EU. SHOAL will develop a shoal of robotic fish to analyse contaminants in water and produce a real-time map of which pollutants are in the water, in what concentrations and where these are on a 3D map of the port. SHOAL will use advanced swarm intelligence techniques to control the robots, utilising hybrid particle swarm/ant colony optimisation techniques in order to coordinate the group efficiently and adapt quickly to changes in the environment. This will benefit not only monitoring operations in ports across the EU, but also lead to important advances in robotics, chemical analysis, underwater communications and robot intelligence. At present there are no fully autonomous systems for monitoring pollution in ports. SHOAL is innovative in that it can analyse chemicals not only on the surface of the water (e.g. oil) but also those that are dissolved in the water (e.g. nitrates). This will allow the fish to find pollution from agriculture as well as leaks from vessels in a port. SHOAL will build robot fish which will function independently and as part of a larger group to analyse and monitor pollution in a port. These robotic fish will be equipped with chemical sensors to find pollutants in the water and modems to create an ad hoc network for communication within the swarm. This will allow the shoal of robot fish to build up a broad map of the pollutants moving through the port in real time whilst adapting naturally to changes in environmental conditions in the port. Beyond this, due to the design of the robots, they will be able to search underwater rather than simply on the surface, meaning that if a leak is still occurring they will be able to isolate it even if it originates underwater (for example from the hull of a ship or an underwater pipeline).

Keywords: robot fish swarm intelligence chemical analysis underwater communications cfd
Western Balkan Countries Inco-Net Support in the field of ICT (WINS-ICT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Greece,Türkiye,Serbia,Romania,Germany,United Kingdom,Croatia,Italy,Belgium,Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina,North Macedonia,Montenegro
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 966891.0
EU funding (EUR): 849975.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

WINS-ICT aims to strengthen S&T cooperation between the EU and the Western Balkan countries by deepening the bi-regional strategic relations in the field of ICT and promoting the participation of WB ICT research actors in FP 7. The objectives of the WINS-ICT project are to - Provide comprehensive understanding of the current framework of EU-WBC ICT RTD policies and RTD collaboration - Optimize the current policy framework and establish strategic partnerships with other projects, such as WBC-INCO.NET - Support the building of sustainable networks between innovative WBC ICT researchers and their EU counterparts - Enhance the capacities and capabilities of WBC researchers to successfully participate in the FP7 ICT research activities The WINS-ICT project will thus contribute to the Commission’s priority to extend future EU-Western Balkan S&T co-operation by promoting WBC involvement in the ICT programme at multiple levels comprising support to the regional and bi-regional dialogues, capacity building at the regional and national levels, and targeted dissemination strategies. The political dimension will in particular be closely intertwined with the WBC.INCO-NET project, and will further entail regional dialogue and regular information exchange with ICTC members and other EC Directorates General. The ultimate aim is to fully integrate researchers from the region into networks of FP-active EU organizations and enable their related research organisations to submit their own project proposals as coordinating institutions. The main output of the project will be an improved policy dialogue in the field of ICT, reflecting the WBCs needs and priorities in future ICT Work Programmes and thus providing the ground for enhanced participation from the target region. The project consortium includes 15 partners from the EU Member States, Accession Candidate Countries and the Western Balkan region, covering all countries within the latter. WINS-ICT’s duration is 24 months.

Keywords: western balkans,information society,policy,support
Transformative, Adaptive, Responsive and enGaging EnvironmenT (TARGET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Finland,Portugal,Austria,Austria,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Slovenia,Poland,Italy,Bulgaria,Ireland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9405868.0
EU funding (EUR): 6787613.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

There is a need to reduce the knowledge worker “time-to-competence”. The main aim is to develop a new genre of TEL environment that supports rapid competence development within the domains of innovation and project management. The TARGET environment consists of a learning process supported by the TARGET platform, consisting of a main core of a serious game. Here, the learner is presented with complex situations in the form of game scenarios. Interacting with the game results in experiences that are gradually honed into knowledge. TARGET integrates five developments: a) Threshold Concepts, resembling knowledge gateways that transform a person’s understanding of a knowledge domain b) Knowledge Ecology, defines knowledge as a “living organism” c) Cognitive Load Theory, a learner’s attention and working memory is limited, therefore learning processes must be designed to allow effective internalization without overload d) Learning Communities, where members of a community develop their competences by leveraging the experience of their peers e) Experience Management, to allow learners to accumulate lessons learned through real and theoretical situations. The TARGET aims will be realized through the following specific objectives: a) Conceptual Framework, the conceptual blueprint of TARGET b) Knowledge model, how the game scenarios, concept thresholds, and competences are related c) TARGET Learning Process, supported by a pedagogical framework d) TARGET Platform, of which the core is the Virtual Business Environment e) Pedagogical Agents, available to assume unfilled roles within a game scenario f) TARGET Communities, four sustainable communities revolving around the TARGET environment g) HRM Integration, integration of TARGET within an organization h) Evaluation Framework, for assessing a learner’s competence development.

Keywords: threshold concepts,cognitive load theory,serious games,social networks
HUman behavioral Modeling for enhancing learning by Optimizing hUman-Robot interaction (HUMOUR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3366031.0
EU funding (EUR): 2562000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The HUMOUR project will investigate and develop efficient robot strategies to facilitate the acquisition of motor skills. We will address both the (human) trainee and the (robot) trainer sides, by combining behavioural studies on motor learning and its neural correlates with design, implementation, and validation of robot agents that behave as ‘optimal’ trainers, which efficiently exploit structure and plasticity of the human sensorimotor systems. On the human trainee side, we will focus on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the acquisition of a variety of motor skills, by specifically aiming at understanding the way humans physically cooperate in acquiring a motor skill and how physical assistance affects motor learning. Experiments will enable us to identify determinants and dynamics of the learning process in representative motor tasks, and will provide the foundations for designing efficient schemes of assistance. On the robot trainer side, we will develop several robot agents for the acquisition of a variety of motor skills. They will be capable of generating appropriate schemes of assistance, based on the specific task needs and possibly learned from human experts. Robots will continuously adapt assistance, in terms of the observed performance and of neural and cognitive correlates of adaptation, to the specific user (e.g. patient) and his or her state. Robot trainers will be validated in the context of motor skill learning and robot-assisted rehabilitation. Robot agents that facilitate the capture of new motor skills may potentially benefit large groups of individuals, by helping professionals, e-g- surgeons, to acquire delicate motor skills; by providing older persons greater access to activities like fitness, sports, and arts, thus ultimately improving their quality of life. Furthermore, more effective training agents would also represent an innovative approach to robot therapy, which would likely increase its impact and extend its scope.

Keywords: motor skill learning robot therapy brain-computer interfaces human-robot interaction
Event Recognition for Intelligent Resource Management (PRONTO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Finland,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3945413.0
EU funding (EUR): 2965000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

PRONTO emphasizes the role of event recognition in intelligent resource management (IRM) and proposes a methodology for fusing data from various sources, analysing it to extract useful information in the form of events and delivering the resulting knowledge for decision making, through a user-friendly IRM application. In order to achieve this objective, PRONTO draws methods and expertise from the fields of data fusion, information extraction, temporal representation and reasoning, machine learning, and knowledge management systems. PRONTO derives its motivation from the fact that today’s organizations collect data in various structured and unstructured formats, but are not able to fully utilize these data to support and improve their resource management process. Therefore, it is evident that the analysis and interpretation of the collected data needs to be automated and transformed into operational knowledge. Events are particularly important pieces of knowledge for resource management. PRONTO proposes the aforementioned synergy of techniques to facilitate the recognition of events from the collected raw data, that remain underutilized with current technologies. The PRONTO methodology to IRM comprises five main steps: (a) Aggregation of data from various sensors and communication between actors, e.g. fire-brigade officers. (b) Analysis of the data and extraction of ‘low-level’ events. (c) Recognition of ‘high-level’ events, using Dynamic fine-tuning of event models, using machine learning. The novelty of PRONTO lies in the difficult task of real-time, accurate recognition of complex events given multiple sources of information, including various types of sensor and modes of actor interaction. The usability and acceptance of the derived methods and tools in real-world environments will signal the success of the project. Progress will be measured by real end-users, participating actively, as consortium partners, in all stages of the development of the project.

Keywords: temporal representation and reasoning,machine learning,information extraction,data fusion,knowledge management systems.
ANGuilliform robot with ELectric Sense (ANGELS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Uruguay
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4034076.0
EU funding (EUR): 3100000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the ANGELS project is to design and build a prototype of a reconfigurable Anguilliform swimming robot able to split into smaller agents (and vice-versa), each equipped with a bio-inspired “electric sense” used both for recognition of objects and communication between agents. This mode of active perception, present in some fish, is based on the polarisation of certain regions of their body, so generating an electric field flowing through an electroreceptive skin. The robot will exploit both “mechanical re-configurability”, by changing body topology, and a new concept of “electric re-configurability” that will allow the robots to self-adapt their perception to their environment by changing the location of emitters and receptors on the robot boundaries. The electric field generated around the robots can be considered as an “electric-body” shaped through electric reconfigurations. ANGELS will explore the range of abilities conferred by different mechanical and electric morphologies, from the shaping of the common electric body shared by the agents navigating in formation, to design of behavioural cooperative rules inspired by fish for improving multi-agent perception through emergent collective behaviours. Thus the intelligence encoded in the animals’ morphology will be applied to the design of a new generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles able to adapt to their environment and suited to a wide spectrum of uses, in particular in situations where vision cannot be used. To achieve these goals, the ANGELS will form a multidisciplinary team combining the complementary expertise of biologists, roboticians, image-processing specialists and nuclear physicsits specialised in the design of particle detectors.

Keywords: reconfigurable/swimming robots,electric sensing/perception,multi-robot cooperation,bio-inspired
Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot (ECCEROBOT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,Serbia,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999276.0
EU funding (EUR): 2334875.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Standard humanoid robots mimic the human form, but the mechanisms used in such robots are very different from those in humans, and the characteristics of the robots reflect this. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions such robots can engage in, on the knowledge they can acquire of their environment, and therefore on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. However, a new kind of robot is just beginning to emerge - the anthropomimetic robot. Instead of just copying the outward form of a human, it copies the inner structures and mechanisms - bones, joints, muscles, and tendons, and thus has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world. Unfortunately, there are as yet no established methods for controlling such robots, nor even for describing their intrinsic movement patterns. This project has three goals: to design and build a robot using anthropomimetic principles; to characterise its dynamics and control it; and to exploit its human-like characteristics to produce some human-like cognitive features. The consortium already has access to an excellent anthropomimetic torso design; this will be further developed to include significant engineering refinements, and will be mounted on a powered mobile chassis to permit mobile manuipulation. Advanced techniques of motion capture and causal analysis will characterise the robot's intrinsic dynamics. Three major approaches to control will then be assessed: classical control theory, the use of physics based internal models, and sensory-motor strategies. These will be combined in a single architecture to cope with different types of tasks, and the consortium will then focus on the use the robot can make of its human-like interaction with the world to begin to cognise the world in a human-like way. Finally, the performance of the robot will be evaluated, both absolutely, and in comparison with the relevant outputs from the EU RobotCub project.

Keywords: humanoid,robot,biologically inspired,embodied cognition
Early and late health risks to normal/healthy tissues from the use of existing and emerging techniques for radiation therapy (ALLEGRO)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radiation protection
Destination: Radiation Protection
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Sweden,Belgium,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3917300.0
EU funding (EUR): 2599350.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Curative cancer treatment with radiation seeks to optimise the magnitude of the radiation dose to the treatment volume while restricting the dose to normal healthy tissue. With an increasing population of surviving cancer patients treated with radiation therapy, the harmful effects of the radiation to normal tissue are becoming more evident. The ALLEGRO project will address the many aspects of normal healthy tissue damage that are not yet well understood in both conventional treatment techniques and emerging techniques (protons, heavy ions). The project will include measurement of radiation doses outside the treatment volume and investigation of the accuracy of methods of dose calculation in this region. The extensive existing databases of radiation treatments and outcomes will be used to investigate models of normal tissue damage and second primary cancer. The measurements and data analysis will be supported by theoretical modelling and surveys to develop the link between radiobiological mechanisms and empirical normal tissue complication (NTCP) models, and to extend conventional models to apply to the emerging techniques. The project is restricted to two years, so there will be a limit to the amount of new research possible. Therefore an essential part of the project will be to engage a forum of experts to redefine the current knowledge on normal tissue damage following radiotherapy, identify gaps in the knowledge and make recommendations for future research, data collection, and technological developments. The final report will consist of a series of focused documents directed to clinicians (for the application of normal tissue risks in treatment optimisation), equipment manufacturers (recommendations on safety design), and the research community (summary of knowledge and recommendations on data collection and project proposals).

Keywords: radiotherapy,normal tissue complications,second cancer induction,radiation safety
Ambulatory Magneto-Enhancement of Transdermal High Yield Silver Therapy (AMETHYST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,Spain,Estonia,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1065934.4
EU funding (EUR): 819104.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

There are approximately 2 million people who suffer from chronic wounds such as venous leg ulcers in Europe at the present time. These wounds typically take between 12 and 24 weeks to heal, but 30% take over two years. This represents a cost to the European healthcare services of at least €8 billion a year in treatment. Two thirds of cases are released immediately for treatment in the community, and it is common for 40% of community nurses’ time to be taken up by the management, dressing and care of this type of wound. In addition to the above, one of the reasons behind the phenomenon of antibiotic resistant bacteria is the widespread use of medication when there is no clinical infection. If low level silver ion dressings could be used in prophylaxis instead of antibiotics there would be an additional saving in terms of the cost of treating patients who contract antibiotic resistant infections. More importantly the incidence of antibiotic resistance will be lower. Current wound treatments are either expensive, inadequate or dangerous. Our idea provides a way of enhancing the effectiveness of silver-containing dressings used in the treatment of ulcers by creating a pulsed electromagnetic field at the wound site by the incorporation of a pulsed electromagnetic element in a low silver dressing. The pulsed electromagnetic field increases the concentration of silver ions available to the wound bed margin. The device is designed to be worn by patients in their every-day lives without the need to attend a medical facility for treatment. The system consists of two distinct components – an electronic pulse generator and an electromagnetic component contained in a disposable surgical dressing which is impregnated with silver-containing nanoparticles.

Keywords: ulcer care,silver ion therapy,wound bed adsorption