Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Colourless and Coolerless Components for low Power Optical Networks (C-3PO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2596085.0
EU funding (EUR): 1990000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

As the capacity demands for telecommunications continue to grow exponentially, the energy consumption of the network increases super-linearly with capacity. As a result, energy limits will constrain future growth, and this is predicted to be a significant brake on development of the global knowledge economy. The C-3PO project will develop a new generation of ‘coolerless’ and ‘colourless’ photonic components that will reduce power consumption, whilst enabling bandwidth growth and constraining cost. Taking a large modern internet data and switching centre with 5MWatt power consumption (44GWh/year) as an example, the ability of C-3PO photonic components to operate without cooling can lead to annual communications equipment and air-conditioning power savings of up to 4GWh, which will reduce energy costs by ~500k€/year for such a typical data centre. In addition, the C-3PO components will be ‘colourless’, or non-wavelength specific, which allows a single component type to operate at any wavelength in a dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM) system. As such, C-3PO technology can be universally applied from low-cost and reconfigurable router interfaces for metro networks down to the end-user optical modem in fibre to the home/business networks. In detail, C-3PO will develop low cost photonic-integrated multi-wavelength laser sources with high temperature-stable performance and use these as ‘optical wavelength power sources’ to seed colourless and coolerless InP-based reflective modulators driven by power-efficient SiGe BiCMOS electronics. This will remove the need for use of expensive, thermoelectrically cooled tuneable lasers, leading to projected global annual equipment savings of more than 300M€ from data and switching centre applications alone. This saving would be achieved through simplification of optical and electronic hardware, the reduction of the need for thermal management and the elimination of manufacturing costs associated with device characterisation and the generation of individual laser tuning maps. The presence of major European industrial players in the consortium will enable rapid commercialisation of the project outputs, enhancing European competitiveness in the global telecommunications market and ultimately leading to new high technology jobs for European workers.

Keywords: power-efficient inp photonic components,colourless & low cost dwdm,electronic and photonic integrated circuits
Magnetic Isolation and moleculaR Analysis of single CircuLating and disseminated tumor cElls on chip (MIRACLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Germany,Norway,Sweden,Sweden,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9204391.0
EU funding (EUR): 6999999.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer remains a prominent health concern afflicting modern societies. Continuous innovations and introduction of new technologies are essential to level or even reduce current healthcare spending. As the analysis of occult tumour cells (OTC) in blood or bone marrow is most promising in this respect, MIRACLE aims to develop a low-cost, fully automated, integrated lab-on-a-chip (LOC) system for the isolation, counting and characterization of OTCs starting from clinical samples. A major challenge for OTC detection is their extremely low concentration (below a single cell per mL) in clinical samples. Current detection methods are often based on enrichment techniques followed by cumbersome microscopic analysis of the cell phenotype. Some of these procedure steps have been semi-automated (Cellsearch®, J&amp;J), but the interpretation of the cell morphology requires expertise and remains partially subjective. In contrary to standard phenotyping tests, MIRACLE aims to determine the genotype by integrating all sample processing and detection steps in a miniaturized system. This envisaged, fully-automated MIRACLE test would yield decisive results within half a day for less than 50 EUR, as compared with contemporary diagnostics tests that may take days. With the essential individual modules recently demonstrated on automated chips in a joint project by some of the partners involved (MASCOT FP6 027652), the MIRACLE’s consortium is uniquely positioned to lead the project’s main objectives to a successful outcome, well ahead of the current state-of-the-art. Combining the team’s multidisciplinary and unique expertise avoids unnecessary overlap. Integrating all components into a fully operational LOC platform will represent an immense advance for Europe to cope with interfacing and integration problems generic to microfluidic and smart miniaturized systems. More importantly, the realisation of the MIRACLE vision will revolutionise cancer diagnostics and individualized theranostics.

Keywords: lab-on-chip,microsystem,circulating and dissemination tumour cells,heterogeneous integration
Attribute-based Credentials for Trust (ABC4TRUST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Greece,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Germany,France,France,Belgium,Denmark,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13063511.0
EU funding (EUR): 8849998.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The number of transactions performed electronically is rising fast. Every day people use the Internet for purposes ranging from accessing information to electronic commerce and e-banking, to interactions with government bodies. As securing these transactions requires strong authentication, electronic authentication tokens and mechanisms become common. These mechanisms unfortunately use unique identifiers that link all transactions to users, thus seriously threatening their privacy. In several application areas, unique identification is inappropriate, making privacy-preserving attribute-based authentication desirable. However, some applications require both accountability and anonymity: e.g. voting, opinion surveys, or services restricted depending on age, citizenship, or other attributes. Other applications only require the ability to link to natural persons under very exceptional circumstances (e.g. criminal prosecution) and should otherwise make such linkage impossible. Over the past few years Attribute-based Credential (ABC) systems have emerged to support userids that can be trusted yet protect privacy at the same time. A position paper issued in 2009-02 by ENISA on “Privacy Features of European eID Card Specifications” underlines the need for “privacy-respecting use of unique identifiers” in emerging eID cards, and explicitly refers to ABC technologies as having significant potential in this area. None of these technologies has been successfully deployed so far for lack of architectural guidance and practical experience. ABC4Trust’s objective is (1) to define a common, unified architecture for ABC systems to allow comparing their respective features and combining them on common platforms, and (2) to deliver open reference implementations of selected ABC systems and deploy them in actual production pilots allowing provably accredited members of restricted communities to provide anonymous feedback on their community or its members.

Keywords: attribute based credentials,trust,trustworthy,identity,privacy
Integrated digital.me Userware for the Intelligent, Intuitive, and Trust-Enhancing Management of the User’s Personal Information Sphere in Digital and Social Environments (DIGITAL.ME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Ireland,Germany,Spain,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4351747.0
EU funding (EUR): 3118910.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The use and disclosure of personal information for private, and business life is a major trend in information society. Advantages like enhancing social contacts, personalising services and products compromise with notable privacy risks arising from the user’s loss of control over their personal data and digital footprints. Large amounts of scattered personal data lead to information overload, disorientation, loss of efficiency. digital.me aims at integrating all personal data in a personal sphere by a single, user-controlled point of access: the digital.me userware. This tool will run on the user’s devices, and rely on scaleable peer-to-peer communication in order to avoid external storage of personal data as far as possible and to enhance data portability. External services (e.g. web-communities, enterprise systems) will be integrated via gateways. Communication to individuals and services will make use of digital faces, i.e. user data selected for a particular purpose and context. An open trust, privacy, and security infrastructure will enable the user to securely use personal data. Trust metrics will guide the user to avoid risky behaviour. Anonymous data disclosure, data withdrawal and policies will foster privacy and trust. A semantic core with data mining, semantic mapping and reasoning, will support an intelligent management of personal data and communication history including recommendations how to take advantage of the personal sphere. Intelligent user interfaces on desktop and mobile devices will promote the intuitive usage of powerful semantic and privacy-technologies and will enable the user to monitor, control, and interpret personal data. The project implements a user-driven design process. Usability and uptake will be monitored and improved by large-scale quantitative evaluations supporting a scaleable test-concept. Leading industrial partners will involve their customers for validating the project’s artefacts with consumers and professional users.

Keywords: personal sphere,portability,user control,trust,privacy,semantic,intuitive ui,mobile context
REuse and Migration of legacy applications to Interoperable Cloud Services (REMICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,France,Germany,Spain,France,Poland,Estonia,Bulgaria,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5682236.0
EU funding (EUR): 4371981.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of REMICS is to develop advanced model-driven methodology and tools for REuse and Migration of legacy applications to Interoperable Cloud Services. Service Cloud paradigm stands for combination of cloud computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for development of Software as a Service systems. To support the migration, REMICS will enhance the OMG Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) methodology with specific methods, metamodels and tool support, including knowledge discovery, patterns and transformations for SOA and Cloud Computing, Model-Driven Interoperability (MDI), Models@Runtime, Model Checking and Model-based Testing (MBT). REMICS will also link the extracted knowledge from legacy systems with requirements models outlining the application logic in the form of user-system interaction scenarios. REMICS will take an active role in the standardisation of metamodels and languages for Service Clouds including OMG PIM4Cloud/CloudML. The technical results will be compliant with the proposed standards ensuring high industry acceptance. The current migration approaches are mostly ad-hoc limiting EU companies from benefiting of latest Future Internet technologies for service provision. REMICS will provide the technologies that will shorten the “time-to-market” and improve the manageability for service cloud systems based on legacy. Performance testing of applications in the cloud will enhance the runtime monitoring facilities and allow for optimization of cloud-based applications. REMICS tools and techniques will be supported by the REMICS methodology for migration, introducing relevant agile practices and agile method engineering principles. The REMICS consortium after extension consists of eight RTD partners and two SME users. DOME and DI Systemer are two SMEs that will provide requirements and case studies for the REMICS approach validation in the areas of travel and accounting systems respectively. Additional cases will be provided by the new partners, especially regarding online transaction-based systems. The particular RTD focus for SINTEF is in Service Cloud and model-driven interoperability, SOFTEAM and Netfective in Architecture Driven Modernisation (ADM) SOA and tools, Fraunhofer in Model Checking and MBT, Tecnalia and IICT-BAS in methodologies, WUT in requirements models and transformations to SOA, and for UT in migration techniques for online transaction-based systems and performance testing in the cloud.

Keywords: cloud,recovery,migration,services,model driven interoperability,validation,models@runtime
New Electronics Concept: Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Graphene (CONCEPTGRAPHENE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Sweden,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4587727.0
EU funding (EUR): 3229780.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The concept of this project is to unlock the potential of epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) for development of scalable electronics with the view to develop graphene-based devices &amp; circuits with a non-conventional functionality. Our strategy is to explore two promising directions of graphene-based technology: (i) the development of large-scale graphene wafers for manufacturing high-density of devices on a single SiC wafer, and (ii) the development of hybrid circuits for applications of graphene in spintronics and metrology by exploiting the flexibility for design offered by the large area of graphene on SiC. The consortium of bidders brings together groups with complementary expertise and substantial achievements in the relevant area of graphene research and nanotechnology in general. The objectives are to (1) reliably produce large-area graphene with a controlled carrier density and improved transport characteristics; (2) pattern graphene for applications using industrial nanostructuring and nanofabrication methods, aiming at high integration densities with a good yield of working devices; (3) produce a prototype for a graphene-based Quantum Hall Resistance standard with characteristics surpassing existing silicon- and GaAs-based devices; (4) develop a pilot version of spintronic devices of epitaxial graphene; (5) start exploiting the commercial potential of graphene by establishing a start-up company that will produce graphene wafers for users outside this consortium. These objectives relate directly to major parts of the call, namely, the need for new circuit architechtures, metrology and characterization techniques; new device structures for non-Si and Si based advanced integrated components to add functionality to circuits and (sub)systems; and new technologies and functional devices beyond CMOS.

Keywords: graphene technology,graphene wafers,sic,metrology,spintronics,device integration
VIPER: Intelligence Push in the Enterprise Realm (SRT-15)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4410339.0
EU funding (EUR): 2828329.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of VIPER is to build an open, scalable and dependable service platform. The target of the VIPER platform is to enable the construction of novel large-scale distributed services on the Internet. In order to achieve this goal, VIPER will allow for dynamic composition of reusable services deployed in a mix of private and public infrastructures (creating services in such mixed infrastructures is of interest for 41% of companies) taking full advantage of the on demand model, i.e., of private and public elastic clouds. VIPER will solve the public and private cloud compatibility problems, ensuring the interoperability between different service platforms. The specific research challenges associated with VIPER are: discovery, composition and enabling of distributed data sources, preservation of user data privacy, dependability, as well as guaranteeing service level agreements.

Keywords: distributed systems,on-demand,private cloud,public cloud,dependability,publish/subscribe
Semiconducting Nanowire Platform for Autonomous Sensors (SINAPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-08-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3094733.0
EU funding (EUR): 2369999.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the SiNAPS project is to develop standalone “dust”-sized chemical sensing platforms that harvest energy from ambient electromagnetic radiation (light) and will enable miniaturisation below the current mm^3 barrier. Current solutions in nanoelectronics are enabled by new materials at the nanoscale. It is proposed to use high-density semiconductor nanowire arrays, such as Si and Ge, as efficient photovoltaic units and low-power chemical sensing elements on small volume modules to be integrated, via 3D system in a chip, in a miniaturised platform that transmits the acquired information wirelessly for further processing. To demonstrate the proof-of-concept without committing huge resources in optimization the SiNAPS project has set a pragmatic but ambitious, miniaturisation target ~10^8 µm^3, beyond the state-of-the-art. With further development of the energy harvesting and sensing technology, 10^6 µm^3 and below can be possible. SiNAPS brings together a consortium to address the two topics of the ICT-Proactive call, namely: (a) fundamentals of ambient energy harvesting at the nanoscale and (b) development of self powered autonomous sensor devices, with target dimensions of 1 mm^3. These topics are of great interest in the areas of energy supply, energy use in ICT, smart(er) buildings, medical diagnostics, e-health and integrated smart systems. SiNAPS involves the development of the capacity of nanowires for use as a nanoscale energy harvester and a (bio-)chemical sensor for the prototype biotin-streptavidin system via fundamental studies. Miniaturised CMOS electronics will be developed for efficient power management and sensor interface. Existing IP for wireless communication will be used to avoid costly development. The integrated modules will be used to demonstrate the SiNAPS mote concept. Concluding SiNAPS, a set of new technologies for self powered autonomous devices and beyond will be available for further development towards commercialisation.

Keywords: energy harvesting,autonomous sensor,silicon nanowires,photovoltaics
Initiative to enHance cOLlaboration and promote Advancement of future ICT services in Europe (HOLA!)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Norway,Greece,Italy,Spain,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 577773.0
EU funding (EUR): 441000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Within nowadays global markets and complexity of ICT, collaboration has gained a critical importance towards creating competitive advantages in the R&amp;D and industrial arenas. Within this context, important efforts have been carried out within FP to support collaboration amongst the different stakeholders involved in R&amp;D at European level. The SSAI Constituency (Software Services - Engineering, Architectures, Infrastructures) has been particularly active, implementing what has been called “concertation mechanisms”. However, the way these initiatives are being implemented is being surpassed by the increasing importance of collaboration towards the future and of the complexity of technical issues related to future services. It becomes a pressing need to revise collaboration mechanisms within the SSAI Constituency overcoming critical limitations of existing ones. Furthermore, with the current financial model sustainability of these instruments is not guaranteed, nor in terms of continuation of efforts towards excellence of collaboration. HOLA! aims at supporting the EC in the creation of a critical mass of SSAI stakeholders working together in building concepts for services in the Future Internet. It will be achieved by implementing successful mechanisms for long-term collaboration and knowledge management: 1.HOLA! will help the EC manage existing collaboration mechanisms such as the organisation of workshops and the ECSS website. 2.HOLA! will enhance the current portfolio of collaboration mechanisms in order to overcome their main limitations. 3.HOLA! will help increasing the visibility of projects in this area in and outside the SSAI Constituency, maximizing their impact. 4.HOLA! will aim at raising consolidated knowledge from the European Research Projects within the SSAI area. Previous experiences from HOLA! Partners will be of great important to the fulfilment of the aim and objectives of the project.

Keywords: collaboration,internet of services,knowledge