Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Planar Atomic and Molecular Scale devices (PAMS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Poland,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Finland,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9188726.0
EU funding (EUR): 6683998.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The PAMS project will explore all scientific and technological aspects of the fabrication of planar atomic and sub-molecular scale electronic devices on surfaces of Si:H, Ge:H, AlN, CaCO3 (calcite) and CaF2 with atomic scale precision and reproducibility. The sub-nanoscale devices will be made by combining ultra-precise Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) and non-contact-Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM) atomic and molecular manipulation, including hydrogen extraction from passivated surfaces, controlled local doping and on-surface chemical synthesis of molecular devices and wires by coupling of precursors. PAMS will develop new solutions to reliably address sub-nanometer scale devices from the human scale by developing a new generation of low-temperature interconnection and manipulation machines comprising four STM/NC-AFM heads with sub-Å precision, allowing for contacting nanopads connected to dangling bond nanowires, doped silicon nanowires or molecular nanowires. Understanding and optimization of the electronic structures of these nanowires and of the contacts between the various components of the planar device will be one of the central objectives. The atomic and molecular devices will include dangling bond circuitries, functionalized by coupling with organic molecules, and controlled by remote alteration of molecular states by local band bending; alternatively multi-branch polyaromatic logical gates will be synthesized and addressed by up to four nanowires. PAMS will address the novel theoretical challenges posed by these planar devices. Accordingly, new methodological tools will be developed, allowing for a multiscale description (using from first-principles to empirical force-fields) of the structural, electronic and transport properties of such atomic and molecular devices, as well as their fabrication and characterization. These new theoretical tools will ultimately permit us to optimize the design and synthesis of atomic and molecular gates.

Keywords: planar atomic scale devices and technology theory and simulation of nano-devices remote addressing of nano-devices on-surface synthesis interconnection machine surfaces of h passivated si and ge,aln
A Decision Support System incorporating a validated patient-specific, multi-scale Balance Hypermodel towards early diagnostic Evaluation and efficient Management plan formulation of Balance Disorders (EMBALANCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Italy,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4740777.0
EU funding (EUR): 3523000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Human balance is achieved and maintained by a complex set of sensorimotor systems that include sensory input from vision, proprioception and the vestibular system (motion, equilibrium, spatial orientation); integration of the sensory input; and motor output to the muscles of the eye and body. Failure at the level of the sensory inputs or at the integration of the sensory information by the central nervous system may lead to a variety of age spanning diseases which affect balance. This complexity leads to undiagnosed or under-treated patients with balance disorders for long periods and results in large socio-economic costs. The EMBalance project aims to extend existing but generic and currently uncoupled balance modelling activities leading to a multi-scale and patient-specific balance Hypermodel, which will be incorporated to a Decision Support System, towards the early diagnosis, prediction and the efficient treatment planning of balance disorders. Various data will feed the intelligent system increasing the dimensionality and personalization of the system. Human Computer Interaction techniques will be utilized in order to develop the required interfaces in a user-intuitive and efficient way, while interoperable web-services will enhance the accessibility and acceptance of the system. The vision extends to the experimental and clinical validation of the project outcomes with existing and newly acquired data (by conducting small scale clinical trials), and includes showcases in balance disorders diagnosis, prediction, treatment and follow-up in normal and micro-gravity environments. The final outcome will be a powerful web-based platform provided to primary and secondary care physicians across specialties, levels of training and geographical boundaries, targeting wider clinical acceptance as well as the increased confidence in the developed DSS towards the early diagnostic evaluation, behaviour prediction and effective management planning of balance problems.

Keywords: intelligent dss web-based interoperable multi-scale hci patient-specific hypermodel balance disorders diagnosis treatment prediction follow-up validation clinical trials proof-of-concept usability
Green Computing Node for European micro-servers (EUROSERVER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,France,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Spain,Greece,Sweden,Gibraltar
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11404479.0
EU funding (EUR): 8153530.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Data-centres form the central brains and store for the Information Society and are a key resource for innovation and leadership. The key challenge has recently moved from just delivering the required performance, to include consuming reduced energy and lowering cost of ownership. Together, these create an inflection point that provides a big opportunity for Europe, which holds a leading position in energy efficient computing and market prominent positions in embedded systems. EUROSERVER is an ambitious and holistic project aimed to arm Europe with leading technology for conquering the new markets of cloud computing: 1. Capitalise on the European strength in embedded and low power computing to provide an innovative combined architecture-and-technology integration platform that enables the reuse of highly-integrated, high-performance, energy-efficient component subsystems in a micro-server solution suitable across both cloud data-centres and embedded application workload. 2. Perform a combined architecture-technology exploration that creates the hardware and the software for micro-server based computing in support of cloud-based and embedded applications. 3. Evidence this architecture in a data-centre grade low-power physical micro-server prototype solution utilizing advanced ARM IP, industry leading FD-SOI fabrication technology, and state of the art 2.5D device integration technologies and prove the advantages of these European technologies as the enabler of next generation, low-cost, power-efficient, high-density compute. The EUROSERVER consortium brings together world-class leaders in their own fields and creates the critical-mass required to deliver "More than Moore" solutions. A unique differentiator of EUROSERVER is its broad access to the required industrial technologies and specialised academic support. The potential impact of EUROSERVER is therefore very high to competitively accelerate and improve the delivery of energy-efficient computing worldwide.

Keywords: embedded microservers,enterprise microservers,datacenter workloads,low energy consumption,3d interposer technology
Mobilising Expert Resources in the European Smart Systems Integration Ecosystem (EXPRESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1487502.0
EU funding (EUR): 1117000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed EXPRESS CA responds to ICT-2013.3.3-b (iv) 'Supporting the development of an ecosystem for smart systems integration in Europe'. In this context, ecosystem is defined as a sustaining environment to promote economic growth, skills growth, and growth in industrial capability and global competitiveness, fuelled by the extension of knowledge, the ambitions of innovators and the business and societal needs of the community at large. The ultimate aim is to accelerate the adoption and thereby bring forward the rewards of Smart Systems Integration. Partial eco-systems exist in the form of national and regional groupings of business and public research actors, special interest groups, knowledge transfer networks, research collaborations, and the tiered supply chains of major industrial players. These groupings, although many of their members have relevant resources, are not yet marshalled to push EU capabilities in what is becoming a dominant and global industrial arena in the run-up to 2020. EXPRESS will i. identify the existing strands of capability in groupings and value chain players from research to the marketplace, ii. examine the gaps to be bridged and iii. create strategies and tools to complete the eco-cycles of skills>research>investment>innovation>exploitation>re-investment that are vital if the economic opportunities and societal benefits of Smart Systems Integration are to be realised. EXPRESS will also ally itself to other programmes aligned with ICT-2013.3.3-b and apply the experience of the extensive EPoSS membership, which has been translated into actions such as the Erasmus Mundus on Smart Systems Integration. This experience and capability will be deployed in tandem with the outputs of the CSA IRISS, which include a description of the activities and scope of players along the value chain; a Strategic Research Agenda; evidence of global capabilities; and an understanding of the valuable contributions to be made by SMEs.

Keywords: smart systems integration,sustainable ecosystem,roadmaps,sra,strategy,coordination of clusters,multi-level cooperation,take-up,innovation capacity (of sme),expert resources,competiveness
Enabling Linked Data and Analytics for SMEs by Renovating Public Sector Information (LINDA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1931624.0
EU funding (EUR): 1419959.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

As public sector information data sources and initiatives have proliferated over the last years, linking and combining datasets has become one of the major topics for information managers of SMEs. Due to the massive growth of available data, conventional methods of data integration are bound to fail while the complexity of processes within organizations ask for more agile options to link and mash-up data in a qualified way. However, in many cases public sector information is not published in a machine-processable format but only as unstructured documents or reports, thus making the effort and cost of linking and utilizing this information unbearable for SMEs. The majority of available Linked Data tools have an academic focus and hence there is a strong need for supporting consumers unfamiliar with the linked data paradigm through interfaces that hide the underlying complexity and allow the re-use of existing software applications. The LinDA project aims to assist SMEs and data providers in renovating public sector information as well as analyzing and interlinking them with enterprise data, by providing Open Data renovation and Consumption application libraries that are based on the Linked Data paradigm but with a strong business, rather than academic, focus.The LinDA project aims to develop : a) A rule-based system for renovating and converting a wide range of supported data structures into arbitrary RDF graphs, b) A repository for accessing and sharing Linked-Data vocabularies and metadata amongst SMEs’, c) An ecosystem of Linked Data publication and consumption apps (visualization, exploration, data mining), which can be bound together in a dynamic manner, leading to new, unpredicted insights. Comprising 8 partners (3 SMEs), LinDA project will develop linked data apps that will be tested and exploited through the establishment of three pilots in the domains of Business Intelligence, Environment and News / Media.

Keywords: linked data,open data renovation,open data consumption,link analysis,smes analytics
Cloud for Europe (C4E)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal Actions
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Austria,Austria,Türkiye,Netherlands,Portugal,Estonia,Belgium,Finland,Italy,Slovenia,Romania,Slovakia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13293552.0
EU funding (EUR): 9865000.0
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

Cloud for Europe (C4E) addresses the objectives of the European Cloud Partnership program. It gives a clear view on the public sector requirements and usage scenarios for Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of C4E are to remove the obstacles for Cloud adoption and to harmonize the requirements from different public organisations beyond national borders. Stakeholders from industry, purchasers, government users and citizens are involved in this process. This analysis phase will be followed by a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) for services that are identified as missing or need to be adopted for Governments use. To overcome legal issues, C4E will spend efforts to accomplish suitable contractual terms and conditions for future Cloud procurements. The C4E consortium brings together a fine range of experts and demonstrates a sound balance between legal, procurement and technology experience. By performing market and requirements analysis on current technologies and legal issues, gaps will be identified and documented. Continuous dialog with stakeholders is essential from the beginning of the project. This will stimulate industry, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to participate in the PCP and to develop solutions needed by the public sector. Eight Consortium partners are indicating their conditional intent to invest in the PCP phase. How the costs, risks and benefits of the PCP phase will be distributed among all partners will be determined in negotiation with the European Commission and the partners. Each partner will do the investment in the PCP phase as stated in a contract between the partners that is to be established. Lessons learned and the developed Cloud services will be published for future re-use of the PCP instrument in other R&D projects. C4E will build trust in Cloud Computing by applying PCP as an instrument for industry innovation and simultaneously enhance cloud adoption in the public sector.

Keywords: public sector cloud services,pre-commercial procurement,european cloud computing partnership
Personalised Guidance Services for Optimising lifestyle in teen-agers through awareness, motivation and engagement (PEGASO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Romania,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11610802.0
EU funding (EUR): 8934000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

Obesity and other lifestyle-related illness are among the top healthcare challenges in Europe. Obesity alone accounts for up to 7% of healthcare costs in the EU, as well as wider economy costs associated with lower productivity, lost output and premature death. Obesity in younger age is an alarming predictor for obesity in adulthood, but also entails short term health complications in juvenile age along with greater risk of social and psychological problems. Knowing how to stay healthy is not enough to motivate individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles, but relevant progress can be achieved through the use of incentives delivered through a combination of processes and mobile technologies. Recognizing the effectiveness of this approach, the PEGASO project will develop a multi-dimensional cross-disciplinary ICT system that will exploit sophisticated game mechanics to motivate behavioral changes towards healthier lifestyles and prevent overweight and obesity in the younger population. The project relies on ICT technologies to implement a framework for the promotion of an health service based on three main features: individual&environmental monitoring, including wearable sensors, mobile phone and multimedia diaries for the acquisition of physical, physiological and behavioural attributes of participants; feedback to the user, presenting personalised healthy options for alternative lifestyles; social connectivity, encouraging involvement in social network experience sharing and social engagement. For the system development, a user centered approach, social and networked games and online education will be used. PEGASO will be tested with over 300 adolescents in three EU member states (Spain, Italy, UK). The development of PEGASO project will mobilize a wide stakeholders' ecosystem contributed by National Health Authorities and Research Institutions, Industries and Academia from the ICT and healthcare sectors, as well as food companies and SMEs

Keywords: virtual individual model,prevention,lifestyle management,sensor system,social networks,social gaming,serious games,avatar,fitness
Drift In Amorphous Semiconductors - A Partnership Of Rüschlikon and Aachen (DIASPORA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1033262.0
EU funding (EUR): 1033262.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Phase-change materials are currently the most promising class of materials to be used as the next generation of memory. Their unique set of properties enables them to act as fast, reliable and durable, non-volatile memory. Research groups have demonstrated an excellent scaling behavior of phase-change memory and several large scale memory chips have been produced already demonstrating the outstanding potential of the technology. The final step to commercialize phase-change memory and outcompete the current Flash memory is the implementation of multi-level storage. The major obstacle for this is the resistance increase over time which occurs in the amorphous phase of phase-change materials. On the other hand, to compete with DRAM, the transient behavior of the field dependent conductivity in amorphous phase-change materials (a-PCM) is crucial to be understood on a fundamental level. The aim of this project is to correlate the underlying physics of the aforementioned phenomena all the way from the electrical transport properties to the structure via the density-of-states (DoS) of the a-PCM. Direct electrical measurements that are going to be performed are temperature dependent (photo)-conductivity and Seebeck effect. DoS spectroscopy will be performed via infrared and field effect spectroscopy and the modulated photo-current method. The latter will also give insight into the dynamics of defects present in the material, which is strongly linked to the transient behavior of the a-PCM. Finally, the link to the structure will be concluded by MD simulations. Such a broad study demands a variety of competencies, and the need to perform those measurements in the technological relevant melt-quenched phase requires nano-structured devices. For this reason, IBM Research - Zurich and RWTH Aachen University team up since this combines nanotechnological competence on one side with a deep understanding of the materials science of phase-change materials on the other side.

Keywords: phase change materials,phase change memory,resistance drift,amorphous semiconductors,electrical transport,density of states,defect states,defect dynamics,spectroscopy,seebeck effect