Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Atalanta is TransnAtionaL Accelerator NeTworks Acceleration (ATALANTA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal Actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,France,Portugal,Italy,Spain,North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1329050.0
EU funding (EUR): 1136148.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective is to drive innovation, facilitate technology transfer and to support entrepreneurship on a transnational European level to contribute to the exploitation of more innovative products and services coming from European 36R&D projects and to support the creation of more successful ICT start-ups in Europe. This overall objective will be achieved through actions and events organised in thematic domains as well as the use of existing electronic platforms and networking tools. The project will have a special focus on acceleration programmes, which are the new paradigm regarding entrepreneurship support. With the focus on accelerator programmes, the project will complement the activities of incubator networks like the EBN. Accelerator programmes are not seen as a competing concept to business incubation, but as a complementing measure with the objective to accelerate the incubation of the most promising enterprises. In more concrete terms, the project supports groups of leading accelerators for delivering cross border services to innovative SMEs and entrepreneurs and links these groups with knowledge creators and education organisations (i.e. mentors, trainers, service providers and partners) on one side and to investors (i.e. venture capital organisations) and the business world (i.e. potential clients, partners, suppliers and venture capitalists) on the other. This corresponds to the following detailed objectives: 1) Transnational Accelerators Install transnational cooperation networks of accelerators; 2) Linking Knowledge Creation and Enterprise Creation Install new transnational cooperation networks and improve existing networks by linking accelerators with innovation networks (e.g. EBN); 3) Creating Synergy Networks Install new transnational synergy networks and improve existing ones by linking accelerator networks with investors; 4) New Techniques and Methodologies Provide new real and virtual techniques for transnational cooperation.

Keywords: business acceleration,transnational cooperation,ict start-ups,entrepreneurship,valley of death
Cyber security research Agenda for PrIvacy and Technology chALlenges (CAPITAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Switzerland,Spain,Italy,France,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1278233.0
EU funding (EUR): 999928.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Cyber security is a growing concern worldwide with cloud computing, smart grids, social networks, and Voice over IP telephony as key target domains. Europe’s interests, sensitivities, and commitment to liberal values in Cyber security and privacy are not necessarily aligned to those of other leading world actors. Therefore, leaning back and expecting others to solve the problems is not likely to lead to optimal outcomes for Europe. However, for Europe to move to a pro-active role, it has to exercise its power potential by achieving a sufficient degree of coordination among Member States. In addition, Europe’s ability to influence how Cyber security and privacy issues are handled is also key to the competitiveness of European industries in the field. CAPITAL has been built around two pillars: coordinate European R&D efforts in the cyber security domain and jointly address research and innovation within an Integrated Research & Innovation Agenda. The project will therefore cover two sub-bullets of the call objective. CAPITAL is proposed by a strong consortium gathering nine representatives from leading Industries and Research Organisations, well positioned -in terms of networking, expertise and market outreach - in the cyber security domain. CAPITAL complements the CYSPA project started on October 2012, also coordinated by EOS which aims at defining an overall strategy and creating a community of solution providers, Researchers and end-users to enhance the industrial community to protect itself from cyber-disruptions and support the European elaboration of regulations to enhance the overall protection level.

Keywords: cyber security,innovation process,research agenda,privacy,trust,critical infrastructures,european policies,internet
Focused Ultrasound Therapy Using Robotic Approaches (FUTURA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3626926.0
EU funding (EUR): 2779866.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Focused Ultrasound Therapy Using Robotic Approaches (FUTURA) aims at creating an innovative multi-robotic platform for non-invasive interventions. The project addresses all specific issues necessary for a concrete and effective transfer of robotic technologies into operating rooms. The robotic platform is expected to operate in an unstructured and extremely critical environment; perception capabilities and understanding will be augmented by merging external sensors and internal control strategies. FUTURA will address explicitly the topics of the call, including robot co-operation and collaboration, and robot interaction both with medical doctors and patients. Focused Ultrasound Surgery (FUS) is the ideal benchmark for FUTURA. While its medical effectiveness has been already demonstrated, limitations in accuracy, precision, repeatability and a strong reliance on medical skills hamper its spread diffusion into routine clinical applications. FUTURA will address all these issues by integrating cognitive processes in the operational workflow, all blended with state-of-the-art, flexible and safe instruments and techniques for therapy planning, delivery and monitoring. The Consortium ensures that all the required capabilities are fully covered; its structure has been chosen to be a nice blend of excellent universities and solid and highly motivated SMEs, already active in the field of innovative therapy solutions or desiring to enlarge their market potential in high added-value fields. FUTURA efforts will contribute to maintain the EU leadership in high-impact and high-level research. Expected results aim at setting in constantly growing market niches, such as robotic surgery, ultrasound ablators and image guided therapy.

Keywords: focused ultrasound surgery,robot co-operation,robot-human-interaction,machine learning for medical imaging,autonomous guidance,shared control
EU Community (EU COMMUNITY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Greece,Greece,Slovakia,Germany,Spain,Luxembourg,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2873235.0
EU funding (EUR): 2184000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

EU COMMUNITY MERGES ICT AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING WITH ESTABLISHED ONLINE MEDIA AND STAKEHOLDER GROUPS TO CULTIVATE TRANSPARENCY, ENHANCE EFFICIENCY AND STIMULATE FRESH IDEAS FOR EU POLICY-MAKING. THREE CHALLENGES are identified to reduce complexity and leverage under used technologies. 1. Ever more complex policy processes, thousands of contributors and documents, not easily understandable by people. REQUIRE reputation ranks and relevance filters; 2. eGov projects grow locally but have limited EU impact due to language, interface and trust barriers. REQUIRE co-development with stakeholders, leveraging visualisation technologies such as curated timelines; 3. Social media is prevalent but not helping EU legislation-making yet (except blocking ACTA). NOVEL APPROACH: over 36 months, a consortium of leading research centres, ICT SME’s and a large media network, will go from existing tools to further advanced prototype, pilot-testing and roll-out. They are supported by a number of high-calibre experts and a foundation serving as community guarantor. The results will be tested and deployed over an EU policy media network, with a track record of sustainability and multilingualism. Three pilots suiting the EU political mandates 2014-2019 have been selected (FUTURE OF EU, RENEWABLE ENERGY and INNOVATION STRATEGY) and will be undertaken by a network of European stakeholders (policy-makers, journalists, experts, NGO’s and informed citizens) in several EU countries, supported by localised policy media. OBJECTIVE: EU Community goes beyond current generation of policy modelling and argumentation tools. It provides decision makers with better policy options by combining social media interactions, qualified contributors, document curation, visual analysis plus online and offline trust-building tools. The results will be open source platforms, and the data itself will be open to re-use by other apps developers.

Keywords: social media,policy modelling
FIRE LTE testbeds for open experimentation (FLEX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,United States,Australia,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5208610.0
EU funding (EUR): 3799295.0
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

FIRE initiative targets the creation of a multidisciplinary research platform for investigation and experimental evaluation of innovative ideas in networking and services.At the infrastructure level, such a platform should embrace all major wired and wireless access technologies.FLEX aims at contributing a crucial missing piece in FIRE’s infrastructure puzzle:cellular access technologies and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in particular.LTE 4G cellular networks are gradually being adopted by all major operators in the world and are expected to rule the cellular landscape at least for the current decade. They will also form the starting point for further progress, ushering in the era of 5G mobile networks.The lack of open or at least openly configurable cellular equipment and core network software has limited applied research in this field within the boundaries of vendor and operator R&D groups.In FLEX we will build programmable LTE components as extensions to existing European testbeds, thus providing an open and remotely accessible platform for experimentation with LTE.The deployment of LTE components will take place on three existing and well-established FIRE wireless testbeds, thus reducing the required integration effort, and placing it instead on novel aspects of LTE experimentation-driven research.FLEX’s experimentation environment will feature both open source platforms and configurable commercial equipment that span macro-cell, pico-cell and small-cell setups. We will build upon current FIRE testbed management and experiment control tools and extend them to provide support for the new LTE components, and we will develop specialized monitoring tools and methodologies. Focus will be placed on mobility, with the establishment of both real and emulated mobility functionalities on the testbeds.FLEX will organize two open calls, aiming to attract research groups to conduct sophisticated experiments, test innovative usages or provide functional extensions of LTE testbeds

Keywords: lte wireless testbeds,open software network platfroms,network monitoring tools,novel cellular service experimentation,wireless network management
Reducing Boundaries (REDUCING BOUNDARIES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100800.0
EU funding (EUR): 100800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Urban safety and security represent a series of problems dealing with social, anthropological, economical, perceptual and physical problems that are specific to different territories and contexts and do not allow for general solutions. A large part of manifestations of social disease are connected with the perception of an increase in criminal phenomena which brings to the definition of modern society as a “risk society”. If on the one hand governance strategies mix repressive treatment of safety emergencies with security actions aimed at prevention and rehabilitation, on the other hand private, communal, local interventions against insecurity are progressively growing.Nowadays, we could say that the way the upper class reproduces itself is deeply entangled with ideas of risk and safety. Daniel Goldstein, for instance, has recently defined the “rise of the security paradigm as a framework for organizing contemporary social life”. Given the worldwide growing economic gap between the lower and the upper classes, our research aims at highlighting how a sense of ‘safety’ and ‘security’ is perceived and reproduced by these classes and how it modifies the urban territory. On the one hand, we intend to detect eventual prejudices in the perception of risk and safety and on the other hand we aim to make specific urban trends ‘recognizable’ and ‘manageable’ by local institutions. We aim at focusing the attention on the different strategies (from material to immaterial) of appropriation and defence of space, that the higher classes have developed in order to create a secure, comfortable environment for them, their families and businesses, both in gated communities and in the consolidation phase of gentrification processes. The final objective is to understand if a sense of safety and security can be produced with other means than building physical obstacles and barriers that result in a highly divided city.

Keywords: gentrification,exclusion,risk-perception,boundaries,spatial-devices,defensive spaces,safety,security
Steerable Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Technology for Flow Measurement and NDE Applications (SACUT)

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: United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1467236.45
EU funding (EUR): 1467236.45
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Accurate flow measurement has become increasingly important for many key industrial sectors including oil and gas, aerospace, automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical process industries, as well as various military and government operations. While ultrasonic flow measurement offer numerous advantages, there remain many challenges that need to be overcome while making ultrasonic flow measurement both accurate & reliable, especially for applications in gas medium. In order to tackle these issues, complex yet cost effective flow measurement instrumentation development is fundamental. Specifically, this SACUT MC-IAPP project involves design, construction and testing of novel ultrasound measurement system for air-coupled ultrasonics, primarily for flow measurement but also for generic Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) applications. This will be achieved through effective knowledge transfer and collaboration between the four principal partners; Prof. Steve Dixon (University of Warwick: Lead Academic Partner and program coordinator, based in the UK), Dr. Nishal Ramadas (Elster NV/SA: Lead commercial partner, based in Belgium), Mr. Andy Whittle (PeakNDT: SME, based in the UK) and Prof. Mario Kupnik (BTU-Cottbus: Academic partner, based in Germany). Prof. Steve Dixon (Program coordinator) and Prof. Mario Kupnik (the other academic partner from BTU-Cottbus) are leading experts in the ultrasound field, and their respective departments have a wide range of excellent facilities and expertise that is directly relevant for carrying out this research work successfully. Elster NV/SA, the lead commercial partner involved in this research, is a world leader in ultrasonic instrumentation for gas application, with over two decades of experience. PeakNDT Ltd., the other principal partner involved in this research, is a world leading expert in the development of electronics hardware especially for ultrasonic phased array instrument, for NDE application.

Keywords: ultrasound,phased array,flow measurement,air-coupled
Biodiversity Informatics and Technology Exchange for Snakebite management (BITES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-15
End date: 2017-12-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 163800.0
EU funding (EUR): 163800.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

India is a global hotspot for snakebite mortality, yet management of this significant public health issue requires substantial improvement. Many problems arise from lack of knowledge of the biology of biting species, and much remains to be learned about taxonomy, distribution, and venom characteristics of species such as Russell’s viper (widely considered to be the most dangerous snake in the world). This project will address four main research areas with fundamental gaps in knowledge, to provide a basis for subsequent improvement in clinical treatment and antivenin formulation. The project will synergistically combine EU experts in taxonomy and barcoding of venomous snakes (Bangor; SGN), proteomics of snake venom (CISC, SGN), and transcriptomics of venom glands (Bangor, CSIC, SGN) with corresponding centres of activity in India, including taxonomy and phylogeography at IISC (Bangalore), snake venom proteomics at Sastra (Tamil Nadu), transcriptomics and antivenomics at Tezpur (Assam). Involving both early-stage and experienced researchers, this project will address priorities such as identification of the species responsible for bites in the north-eastern region, where the so-called “Big Four” species (against which antivenin is currently raised in India) are mostly absent, as well as establishing the basis for reference collections of species and their venoms. Several workshops will be run in India to disseminate best practice, training in taxonomic and "omic" technology and analyses among early researchers. In turn, Indian partners will second experienced and early-stage staff to the EU for longer-term training in state-of-the-art techniques (such as next-generation approaches to transcriptomics and genomics). This partnership will also form the basis for further collaborative applications to address wider issues such as the use of venom components as drug leads, the evolution of snake venom, as well as application of knowledge gained for snakebite management.

Keywords: snakebite,proteomics,venomics,antivenomics,transcriptomics,barcoding,taxonomy,phylogeography,biodiversity informatics
What You Say Is What You Did (WYSIWYD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom,France,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4576521.0
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The What You Say Is What You Did project (WYSIWYD) will create a new transparency in human robot interaction (HRI) by allowing robots to both understand their own actions and those of humans, and to interpret and communicate these in human compatible intentional terms expressed as a language-like communication channel we call WYSIWYD Robotese (WR). WYSIWYD will advance this critical communication channel following a biologically and psychologically grounded developmental perspective allowing the robot to acquire, retain and express WR dependent on its individual interaction history. In order to achieve transparency and communication in HRI a number of elements must be put in place: a well defined experimental paradigm, an integrated architecture for perception, cognition, action and intrinsic motivation that, among other things, provides the backbone for the acquisition of an autonomous communication structure, a mechanism of robot self that together with mirroring mechanisms allows for mind reading, an autobiographical memory that compresses data streams and develops a personal narrative of the interaction history, a conceptual space that provides for an interface from memory to linguistic structures and their expression in speech and communicative actions. WYSIWYD will deliver these components as elements of an integrated architecture WR-DAC. The WYSIWYD project will advance all these elements building on the strong track record of the project partners in robotics, cognitive science, psychology and computational neuroscience. WYSIWYD will contribute to a qualitative change in human-robot interaction (HRI) and cooperation, unlocking new capabilities and application areas together with enhanced safety, robustness and monitoring. It is only through this step that humans will be able to trust robots: when they say what they do and do what they say.

Keywords: cognitive systems,human robot interaction,synthetic memory