Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A closed-loop neural prosthesis for dizziness suppression (CLONS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4339882.0
EU funding (EUR): 3329699.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of the CLONS project is to develop suitable technological solutions to increase the quality of life of people affected by vestibular disorders. Toward this aim, an innovative closed-loop sensory neural prosthesis will be developed and tested in animal models and in selected humans. This neural prosthesis will be able to restore vestibular information by stimulating the semicircular canals thanks to the information provided by inertial sensors embedded in a device attached to the head and donned by the user. The effectiveness of the CLONS neural prosthesis will be tested in animal models. The possibility of carrying out chronic implantations in selected human volunteers will be also verified during the final phase of the project by looking at the results achieved in animals in terms of biocompatibility of the implants and significant improvement of the sensory-motor performance. Project outcomes will allow the achievement of increased neuroscientific, clinical, and technological knowledge, guidelines for the development of other bidirectional interfaces and neural prostheses, as well as roadmaps for future development of hybrid bionic systems.

Keywords: neural prostheses,bionics,vestibular system
Activity and Context Recognition with Opportunistic Sensor Configurations (OPPORTUNITY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1987456.0
EU funding (EUR): 1508768.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

OPPORTUNITY picks up on the very essential methodological underpinnings of any Ambient Intelligence (AmI) scenario: recognizing (and understanding) context and activity. Methodologies are missing to design context-aware systems: (1) working over long periods of time despite changes in sensing infrastructure (sensor failures, degradation); (2) providing the freedom to users to change wearable device placement; (3) that can be deployed without user-specific training. This limits the real-world deployment of AmI systems. We develop opportunistic systems that recognize complex activities/contexts despite the absence of static assumptions about sensor availability and characteristics. They are based on goal-oriented sensor assemblies spontaneously arising and self-organizing to achieve a common activity/context recognition goal. They are embodied and situated, relying on self-supervised learning to achieve autonomous operation. They makes best use of the available resources, and keep working despite-or improves thanks to-changes in the sensing environment. Changes include e.g. placement, modality, sensor parameters and can occur at runtime. Four groups contribute to this goal. They develop: (1) intermediate features that reduce the impact of sensor parameter variability and isolate the recognition chain from sensor specificities; (2) classifier and classifier fusion methods suited for opportunistic systems, capable of incorporating new knowledge online, monitoring their own performance, and dynamically selecting most appropriate information sources; (3) unsupervised dynamic adaptation and autonomous evolution principles to cope with short term changes and long term trends in sensor infrastructure, (4) goal-oriented cooperative sensor ensembles to opportunistically collect data about the user and his environment in a scalable way. The methods are demonstrated in complex opportunistic activity recognition scenarios, and on robust opportunistic EEG-based BCI systems.

Keywords: activity recognition,context awareness,opportunistic systems,self-adaptation,self-learning,autonomous system,wearable/pervasive computing,machine learning,ambient intelligence,sensor networks
Self-Configuring ENvironment-aware Intelligent aCoustic sensing (SCENIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2059417.0
EU funding (EUR): 1559461.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Advanced sound processing applications, particularly those based on array processing, are critically sensitive to the environment’s acoustic response because their design does not account for the complex propagation phenomena that cause it. Reverberations are usually seen as a liability to take countermeasures against, while nature teaches us that the information provided by the acoustic interaction with the environment can become a valuable asset that enables complex navigational tasks and more. Turning the acoustic response from a liability into an asset requires a thorough understanding of propagation phenomena, and an accurate acoustic modelling of the environment. This can be done by listening to how the environment renders controlled sound emissions, as long as such emission exhibit a temporal as well as a spatial “structure”. The SCENIC project is aimed at developing a comprehensive set of methodologies and analysis tools that will enable acoustic systems to become aware of their own characteristics and geometry and those of the environment that they operate in, and will enable advanced space-time processing solutions to take advantage of the additional information provided by the environment’s acoustic response. One key point of the project is in the fact that, in order to achieve this status of awareness, sensors and sources will be used together in a synergistic fashion, while keeping into account requirements of flexibility, cost and real-time operation. The Consortium will focus on three research directions, two based on acoustic wavefield decomposition (modal and geometric) and one based on a point-to-point representation (channel identification). The joint use of such methodologies in space-time acoustic processing will pave the way to novel applications that go beyond what is currently possible today.

Keywords: acoustic array processing,acoustic self-calibration,acoustic assessment,acoustic probing
Barcelona Euroscience Open Forum2008 (BCN-ESOF2008)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Science in Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2008-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 502382.0
EU funding (EUR): 300000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ESOF2008 will be a forum for leading scientists, young researchers, policy makers, business people and journalists who share a vision: Science for a Better Life. Thousands of participants are expected, including Nobel laureates and eminent scientists, key decision makers, chief executives of global firms and top journalists from all over the world. There will be a massive attendance of the general public at the Event. The main aim of Barcelona Euroscience Open Forum2008 proposal is focused on the excellence of the Scientific Programme that aims to encourage analysis and debate on how science, technology and the humanities impact societies and their economies.

Keywords: forum for leading scientists,young researchers,policy makers,business people and journalists who share a vision: science for a better life
Nonlinear System Identification and Analysis in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains (NSYS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1947104.0
EU funding (EUR): 1947104.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recent advances in biology, neuro-imaging, the observation of space by satellites, and many other disciplines has lead to an explosion of data and it is now absolutely imperative that a theoretical framework is developed that can be used to analyse this data to identify system dynamic behaviours in a transparent manner to reveal core dynamic behaviours and features. Complex nonlinear behaviours are ubiquitous in the life sciences, neuro-imaging and many other domains but the problems that these challenges raise are also fundamental in many other disciplines and problem domains. The study of complex systems that evolve as a function of time has received enormous attention over the last century and many important results have been established. While there is still much work to do to fully understand this class of systems recent results demonstrate that there is now a unique opportunity to significantly enhance and extend this purely temporal focus both to include nonlinear frequency domain analysis, and to derive results for the important class of spatio-temporal complex systems. The main aim of this proposal is to develop methods for the identification and analysis of the class of severely nonlinear systems, to develop complimentary nonlinear frequency domain identification and analysis methods, and to study the large class of systems that are defined by both spatial and temporal dynamics. In each case the aim is to develop core generic systems approaches that allow the construction of transparent models from recorded data sets that can be related back and analysed in terms of the components of the underlying system. Exemplars will be used throughout as case studies; these will include modelling the magnetosphere, stem cell dynamics, understanding the visual processing in drosophila or fruit fly brain, modelling the link between the recorded fmri signals and neural activity in brain, and the modelling of chemical systems and crystal growth far from equilibrium.

Keywords: system identification
4D Space-Time Topology for Semantic Flow Segmentation (SEMSEG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Switzerland,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1645978.0
EU funding (EUR): 1260631.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The thorough analysis of flows plays an important role in many different processes, such as airplane and car design, environmental research, and medicine. Scientific visualization and its subfield flow visualization have provided a variety of techniques for the domain experts to visually analyze large and complex flow data sets. Among them, so-called topological methods play an important role. Vector field topology (VFT) is a mathematically rigorous theory that reveals the essential structure of a static vector field. However, this approach is only fully valid for static vector fields. Recent developments in the target domains of this project show a clear transition from steady to unsteady flow scenarios. Accordingly, we have to see that the traditionally proven approaches do not apply any more and that a conceptual change in the methodology of visual analysis is necessary. Topological methods which account for the complete dynamic behavior of flow fields are strongly needed but do not exist. Steps toward this goal have been done from several sides, delivering promising but yet only partial results. It is the objective of this project to research a new segmentation method for unsteady flows that has the elegance and specificity of (steady) VFT, but which provides correct results for unsteady flows as well. This project aims at the formulation of a sound theoretical mechanism to describe structural features in time-dependent flow. Similar to the case of steady flow, were topology has proven its usefulness in many years, it is straight-forward to expect that the new approach will also establish its important role in the analysis and discussion of time-dependent flow scenarios. As part of a successful project, concrete algorithms to extract and visualize the topological structures are derived from the new mechanism. Implementations of them will allow studying the usefulness on a number of real-life flow data from different areas of application.

Keywords: scientific visualization,visual computing,flow topology,time-dependent flow data analysis
Search for mechanisms to control massless electrons in graphene (HOWTOCONTROLGRAPHENE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1563800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1563800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Conduction electrons in the carbon monolayer known as graphene have zero effective mass. This property offers unique opportunities for fast electronics, if we can somehow learn to control the dynamics of particles which have a charge but no mass. Fresh ideas are needed for this purpose, since an electric field is incapable of stopping a massless electron (its velocity being energy independent). The applicant and his group at the Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics in Leiden University have started exploring the new physics of graphene soon after the announcement two years ago of the discovery of massless electrons in this material. We have identified several promising control mechanisms, and are now ready to embark on a systematic search. Our objective is to discover ways to manipulate in a controlled manner three independent electronic degrees of freedom: charge, spin, and valley. The charge is the primary carrier of classical information, being strongly coupled to the environment, while the spin is the primary carrier of quantum information, in view of its weak coupling to the environment. The valley degree of freedom (which defines the chirality of the massless particles) is intermediate between charge and spin with regard to the coupling to the environment, and provides some unique opportunities for control. In particular, we have the idea that by acting on the valley rather than on the charge it would be possible to fully block the electronic current (something which an electric field by itself is incapable of). To study these effects we will need to develop new methodologies, since the established methods to model quantum transport in nanostructures are unsuitable for massless carriers.

Keywords: graphene,quantum transport,random-matrix theory,quantum chaos,mesoscopic superconductivity,spintronics,valleytronics,quantum computing,quantum hall effect,dirac fermions
A joint EC/NEA EBS project synthesis report (EBSSYN)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Destination: Nuclear Fission and Radiation Protection
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2009-11-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 25000.0
EU funding (EUR): 25000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will involve the preparation of a synthesis report on Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) and the safety of deep geological repositories for high-level radioactive waste. The objective of the report will be to bring together the main conclusions from a series of key thematic international workshops organised by the OECD/NEA on the Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS). Using the proceedings of the workshops as a starting point, a report will be drawn up developing common views on the role that EBS play in the disposal system through reinforcing the performance of the natural barrier and on how integration is necessary to achieve successful design, construction, testing, modelling and performance assessment. The work will be conducted in collaboration with the EC and the OECD/NEA and members of the EBS Programme Committee convened by the OECD/NEA. The report will describe progress regarding EBS studies that occurred during the course of the OECD/NEA EBS project, will identify key messages from the four OECD/NEA EBS workshops, will discuss specific examples from national disposal programmes, and will identify open issues where further challenges may exist.

Keywords: engineered barrier system safety assessment radioactive waste disposal
Development of biotherapies for growth plate disorders (GENECELLTHER)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Skeletal dysplasias are a diverse and heterogeneous group of hereditary disorders characterized by malformations of bone and cartilage. These conditions affect development patterns in bones of growing children, and the clinical severity ranges from mild short stature to highly disfiguring, and even to lethal forms. Their treatment is very challenging, typically with no or limited success. This proposal is designed to explore the use of gene- and stem cell-based approaches to influence bone development in growth plate disorders characterized by aberrant constitutive cellular signaling in the growth plate chondrocytes. These biotherapeutic technologies offer the unique opportunity to manipulate and influence the cells in the developing growth plate, and if successfully applied, may functionally rescue bone growth and restore normal skeletal development. In this study, we will work to gain fundamental knowledge necessary for the rational design of a therapy for achondroplasia and Noonan syndrome. In attempting to address skeletal dysplasias, we have chosen to focus on these diseases because they are caused by gain-of-function point mutations affecting intracellular signaling in growth plate chondrocytes, and there exists transgenic mouse models containing mutations identical to that found in affected patients. The following specific aims will be addressed: Aim 1- To determine the biological effects of systemic gene delivery and overexpression of sFGFR3 in Fgfr3ach/+ mice. Aim 2- To determine if overexpression of sFGFR3 or inhibition of SHP2 expression can restore growth in bones from Ptpn11D61G/+ mice in an organ culture system. Aim 3- To determine the capacity of exogenous stem cells to influence the biology of diseased growth plate in vivo. The fellowship will contribute to the reintegration of Dr. Gouze, an expert in gene and stem cell therapies for musculoskeletal disorders, in the INSERM unit of Pr. Salles, an expert in pediatric endocrinology and growth disorders

Keywords: medical sciences,pediatrics,orthopaedics,biotherapies
An Initiative to Intensify and Strengthen the Regional S&T-Cooperation between Korea and the ERA (KORA-NET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Supporting the coordination of national and regional policies and activities of Member States and Associated States on international S&T cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Italy,France,Poland,Türkiye,Korea, Republic of,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2857667.96
EU funding (EUR): 2398321.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Strategic Objectives Assessed: Strengthening the ERA by integrating national and European S&T schemes through International Cooperation in S&T with Korea, with a specific focus on existing “Competency Networks”.

Keywords: s and t cooperation,competency networks
Further integrating key research institutions from Southeast Europe into the European Research Area (SEE-ERA.NET PLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Supporting the coordination of national and regional policies and activities of Member States and Associated States on international S&T cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Bulgaria,Croatia,France,France,Germany,Germany,Greece,Montenegro,Romania,Serbia,Slovenia,Türkiye,Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3249460.6
EU funding (EUR): 988420.38
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

In essence, SEE-ERA.NET PLUS is the next step in further integrating the Western Balkan countries (WBC) and selected key research communities into the European Research Area. It will further enhance the coordination of bilateral R&D cooperation with WBC. By joining forces and by pooling financial resources, the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS consortium will bring critical mass to bear. The main objective of SEE-ERA.NET PLUS is to launch and implement one joint call for trans-national research proposals (JERPs). With a call budget of EURO 3.5 Mio, it is planned to fund approximatly 23 trans-national research projects in the SEE-region. Specific scientific priorities will be chosen for the scope of the call, based on the regional collaboration needs of the participating countries and considering the priorities of the 7th EU Framework Programme on Research and Technological Development and Demonstration (FP7). The JERPs are selected through an independently peer review process. A final comprehensive review will assess the impact of the call and the results at European level. Three reports on the impact of the call, on policy recommendations for future cooperation and on the institutional sustainability of the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS consortium will be prepared and widely disseminated.

Keywords: joint call for research projects,southeast europe,coordination