Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Building the Environment for the Things as a Service (BETAAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Denmark,Spain,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3787905.0
EU funding (EUR): 2515000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The Internet of Things, i.e., millions to billions of low-end smart devices connected to the Internet, is becoming a reality. There have been important research initiatives addressing the problem of defining reference models and new alternative communication architectures. However, there have been comparatively little efforts dedicated to the definition of platforms for the deployment and execution of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications, which are the real drivers of innovation. In fact, M2M applications reduce the gap between the real and virtual world, and allow the secure and dependable automation of tasks to improve industrial productivity and quality of life of citizens. Currently, M2M applications are assumed to reside within systems in data centres, i.e., within the “cloud”. However, we argue that such a design is sub-optimal for M2M because of its inherent characteristics: typical cloud applications require data to be available at any location and for very long periods for use by human begins, whereas M2M applications have a very limited scope in time and space, require simple and repetitive interactions, and must respond in a consistent manner to avoid service disruption. In BETaaS we propose a platform for the execution of M2M applications, which is built on top of services deployed in a “local cloud” of gateways, the latter being the devices which provide the smart things with connectivity to the Internet (e.g., smart phones, home routers, road-side units). Adaptation layers will be defined to interconnect BETaaS with the main architectures proposed at a European level for M2M communication, including ETSI M2M and IoT-A. In addition to being highly scalable, security, dependability, and QoS features will be embedded “by design” into the BETaaS platform, which will be released as open source to the community. Platform validation will be done through experiments in two testbed facilities, targeting the Smart City and Home Automation use cases.

Keywords: machine-to-machine applications,internet of things,internet of services,distributed systems,platform as a service
Bistable Nano-Objects on Surfaces (BINOS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Coordination networks are molecular systems that show various physical properties (magnetic, electrical, optical, etc.). Some networks have the particularity to have bistable states, which are interesting towards the development of memories, switches or sensors. The study of the evolution of their properties at the nanometer scale let us foresee the development of miniaturized systems that can be included in more complex devices. The objective of this project is to develop synthesis tools of bistable coordination nanosystems on inorganic surfaces. We plan to use simple techniques of surface chemistry that do not require expensive facilities. In a second time, we will characterize the physical properties of these systems and we will determine the specific effects of the size reduction to the nanometer scale. We will use very sensitive techniques, adapted to systems with few materials, for which the weakness of the signals is often a critical element. Finally, we will use these techniques to address the systems in a controlled manner. Indeed, in order to develop memory devices, it is necessary to write and read the information independently. We also plan to perform measurements in environmental conditions with the purpose of elaborating sensors.

Keywords: surface chemistry,metal-organic frameworks,nanochemistry,bistability
Technology Enhanced Creative Learning in the field of Citizen Cyberscience (CITIZEN CYBERLAB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Switzerland,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4307237.0
EU funding (EUR): 3400000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Citizen Cyberlab will research and evaluate on-line collaborative environments and software tools that stimulate creative learning in the context of Citizen Cyberscience. Beyond helping scientists execute laborious tasks, Citizen Cyberscience projects enable citizens to learn about science and take part in the more creative aspects of research. Little is known about the learning and creativity processes stimulated by such projects, even though millions of volunteers participate. Even less is known about how to optimize those processes. Citizen Cyberlab will pioneer open source platforms and tools that enable and enhance learning and creativity in Citizen Cyberscience, using four pilot projects as testbeds, including a particle physics game by CERN, and collaborative disaster mapping by the UN Institute for Training and Research. Pioneers in extreme citizen science at University College London will develop a community learning pilot, leading proponents of open science at Université Paris Descartes will develop a hands-on crowdsourcing pilot in synthetic biology. Platforms and tools developed at Imperial College focus on virtualization of software and device-independent environments that enhance creative learning opportunities by reducing barriers to citizen participation. These pilots, platforms and tools will be evaluated by experts in educational technology and human-computer interaction at University of Geneva and UCL, with a focus on studying and evaluating learning processes and growth in creativity.. This research will produce new understanding of creative learning behaviours, anchored in real-world examples of Citizen Cyberscience. Citizen Cyberlab emphasizes direct participation of citizens at all stages of evaluation and research, in particular via the successful ThinkCamp events developed by The Mobile Collective. Citizen Cyberlab results will be sustained and exploited beyond the project lifetime by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre based at CERN.

Keywords: creativity,learning,scientific research,community,participation,games,crowdsourcing,collaboration
Lie groups, differential equations and geometry (LIE-DIFF-GEOM)

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: Hungary,Czechia,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 240900.0
EU funding (EUR): 240900.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the proposal is the creation, and development of a cooperative research network which utilizes the strengths and synergies of the knowledge of the member research groups. This new cooperation symbolizes the coercive power of two branches of mathematics, namely those of ALGEBRA and GEOMETRY, which had been unified first in the creation Decartesian coordinate geometry. 3 of 6 research groups are on the edge of algebraic research, while the others gained essential results and knowledge in geometry. With different backgrounds, new synergies and methodologies will arise and accelerate the research activities. Besides the traditional mobility schemes and distributing ideas on conferences and publications, new methodology of continuous reaction is planned to put in practice by the usage of world wide web, creating the platform of online web workshops at regular times. This will ensure sustainability of the network for long time. We plan to achieve new scientific results on the following topics: • imprimitive transformation groups, affine geometries over paradual near rings; • fundamental theorem of geometric algebra, Novikov’s conjecture and the properties of skew-symmetric and symmetric elements for general involutions in group algebras. • multiplication loops of locally compact topological translation planes; Lie groups which are the groups topologically generated by all left and right translations of topological loops; • the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for second order ordinary differential equations: existence of variational multipliers, in particular, of multipliers satisfying the Finsler homogeneity conditions, and Riemannian and Finsler metrizability; • metric structures associated with Lagrangians and Finsler functions • variational structures in Finsler geometry and applications in physics (general relativity, Feynmam integral); • Hamiltonian structures for homogeneous Lagrangians.

Keywords: m106 geometry,m108 lie groups - lie algebras
Love wave fully integrated Lab-on-Chip platform for food pathogen detection (LOVE-FOOD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,Greece,Czechia,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3922083.0
EU funding (EUR): 2997000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The project is aimed at developing a fully integrated lab-on-chip microsystem platform, performing multimodal analysis of several analytes combining nucleic acid and whole bacteria detection. The system will allow directly and without prior culture the identification in one single run of a multiplicity of pathogens and their specific sequences responsible will be targeted and identified. The heart of this system will be an acoustic detection biochip incorporating an array of Love wave acoustic sensors, integrated with a microfluidic module. This detection platform will be combined with a micro-processor, which, alongside with magnetic beads technology and a micro-PCR module will be responsible for performing sample pre-treatment, bacteria lysis, nucleic acid purification and amplification as well as whole bacteria detection. Automated, multiscale manipulation of fluids in complex microchannel networks will be combined with novel sensing principles developed by some of the partners. This system is expected to have a significant impact in food-pathogen detection by addressing for the first time a pathological condition on a global rather than germ-by-germ basis, while screening simultaneously for various pathogens. Finally, thanks to the low cost and compact technologies involved, the proposed set-up is expected to provide a competitive analytical platform for direct application in field settings.

Keywords: lab-on-chip,acoustic biochip,biosensor,microfluidics,micro-pcr,food borne pathogen detection,molecular diagnostics,dna assay,whole bacteria detection,magnetic nanoparticles for diagnostics
Functional anatomical molecular optical screening (FAMOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Denmark,United Kingdom,Germany,Israel,United Kingdom,Germany,Denmark,France,Switzerland,Austria,Germany,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13404446.0
EU funding (EUR): 10099999.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Biophotonics offers low-cost, non-invasive, accurate, rapid alternatives to conventional diagnostic methods and has the potential to address medical needs with early detection and to reduce the cost of healthcare. FAMOS will develop a new generation of light sources with step-changes in performance beyond the state-of-the-art to radically transform biophotonic technologies for point-of-care diagnosis and functional imaging. This will enable optical diagnostics with superior sensi-tivity, specificity, reliability and clinical utility at reduced cost, heralding an imaging renaissance in Europe. FAMOS addresses optical imaging from molecular over (sub)cellular to individual organs, with no gap in the arsenal of diagnostic tools for medical end-users. The world-class multidisciplinary FA-MOS team of 7 leading academic institutions and 10 top SMEs has unique complementary knowledge of optical coherence tomography, adaptive optics, photoacoustic tomography, coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering, multiphoton tomography as well as swept-source, diode-pumped ultrafast and tuneable nanosecond pulse lasers. Combinations of some techniques will offer multi-modal solutions to diagnostic needs that will exploit and enhance the benefits of each modality. FAMOS technologies have wide applicability, but our specific focus is on diagnosis in ophthalmol-ogy and oncology. Partnerships with leading innovative clinical users will enable preclinical evalua-tion. The objectives of FAMOS are: • Develop new light sources with a step-change in performance (2-3 times more compact and up to 3-4 times cheaper diode pumped Ti:sapphire, 4-10 times faster swept sources and tuneable nanosecond pulse sources) • Integrate these with optical imaging for a step-change in diagnosis (2-5 times better resolution cellular retinal imaging with more than 10 times larger field of view, up to 10 times enhanced penetration single source subcellular morphologic imaging, increased selectivity of intrinsic mo-lecular sensing as well as several frames per second deep tissue functional tomography • Perform preclinical studies to demonstrate novel or improved ophthalmic and skin cancer diag-nosis establishing novel biomarkers (melanocyte shape, NADPH, melanin concentration, Hb/HbO2 as well as lipid, water and DNA/RNA concentration) • Enable exceptional commercial opportunities for SMEs • Provide state-of-the-art academic training

Keywords: optical medical diagnosis,advanced light sources,enhanced imaging performance,multi-modal imaging,cancer,ophthalomolgy
A Source code analysis Toolbox for software security AssuraNCE (STANCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Germany,France,Austria,Hungary,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5565720.0
EU funding (EUR): 3800000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The immunity of a system to malicious third parties trying to modify its behaviour (e.g. to perform unauthorized actions) is called security. Ensuring this feature in information and communication technologies is a requirement for establishing a trustworthy Information Society. Several strategies can be explored to deal with this problem. One of them, called program analysis, relies on formal techniques to semi-automatically detect unintended behaviours in software systems. This approach allows the verification and secure exploitation of legacy and commercial-off-the-shelf components. Yet in the domain of security, program analysis techniques are still in infancy. They face several challenges, among which the incomplete detection of security flaws, and limited support both for programming languages and industrial verification procedures. These challenges are hindering the adoption of program analysis tools as part of security assurance practices and certification standards compliance checks. The objective of STANCE is to drive scientific and technological breakthroughs in the domain of software security. Over three years, STANCE will define, implement and validate a set of program analysis tools capable of verifying the security of complex software systems made in C, C++ and Java. STANCE proposes to build on existing assets: formal methods, state-of-the-art static and dynamic program analysis tools, security evaluation expertise, and industry-specific knowledge will be used and significantly extended. The resulting program analysis toolbox and supporting methods will increase the trustworthiness and the cost-effectiveness of existing security-oriented processes. These innovations will durably alter the domain of software security assurance, with broad consequences on its legal, societal, and economic aspects. STANCE gathers the expertise of 10 organisations from 5 countries, including 4 leading industrial partners, 2 SMEs and 4 academic and research partners.

Keywords: security critical systems,analysis tools,security evaluation,common criteria,static program analysis,vulnerabilities,toolbox,plug-ins,c++,java,automated software verification,trustworthy
MId- to NEaR infrared spectroscopy for improVed medical diAgnostics (MINERVA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Denmark,Belgium,Sweden,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10638811.0
EU funding (EUR): 7299988.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years it has become clear that mid-IR imaging spectroscopy has the potential to open a new chapter in bio-medical imaging and offers an effective tool for early cancer diagnosis and improved survival rates. Rather than a search for “cancer marker” absorption peaks, great progress has been made by analysing the entire bio-molecular mid-IR spectral signature using automated algorithms. However, the lack of suitable sources, detectors and components has restricted the technology to one of academic interest, based on weak thermal sources, low power lasers or synchrotron research tools. For the first time the photonic technology is in place to develop a new mid-IR technology platform on which entirely novel supercontinuum sources (c. 1000x brighter than thermal sources) covering the whole range from 1.5 to 12 µm may be built: -Low loss robust chalcogenide fibres for fibre lasers, supercontinuum generation and delivery -Fibre end caps, splicing and fusion technology for soft glass fibres -Crystal technology and novel designs for mid-IR AO modulators based on calomel -Flexible fast AO driver technology to enable high speed HSI acquisition -Low cost T2SL FPA detectors with performance matching state-of-the-art MSL devices -2.9 µm Er:ZBLAN and 4.5 µm Pr-doped chalcogenide fibre laser pumps -Robust designs for a range of mid-IR SCG sources: a) 1.5-4.5 µm from ZBLAN fibre b) 1.5-5.5 µm from InF3 fibre c) 3-9 µm from 2.9 µm pumped PCF chalcogenide fibre d) 4-12 µm from 4.5 µm pumped step-index chalcogenide fibre. Two specific high impact applications will be addressed: high volume pathology screening (i.e. automated microscope-based examination of samples) and in vivo, remote, real-time skin surface examination (i.e. non-invasive investigation of suspected skin cancer). This project will open the mid-IR to further exploitation, and the technology developed will be transferable to a huge range of applications both in bio-photonics and in wider industry.

Keywords: supercontinuum mid-ir laser chalcogenide fibre fiber detector cancer bio-photonics
Scalable, Secure Storage of Biobank Data (BIOBANKCLOUD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2750188.0
EU funding (EUR): 2080000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Big data is coming to Biobanks, driven by the decreasing cost of sequencing genomic data, which has been halving every 4 months since 2004. Biobanks, used to store and catalogue human biological material, are not prepared to handle this wave of data - there is a Biobank bottleneck: a lack of platform support for the storage and analysis of the coming wave of human genomic data. In this project, we will develop a cloud-computing platform as a service (PaaS) for Biobanking. The platform will provide security, storage, data-intensive tools and algorithms, and support for allowing Biobanks to share data with one another, all within the existing regulatory frameworks for Biobanking. Our research challenges include: the definition of the regulatory framework and data model for Biobank data sharing; the development of a scalable, highly available storage infrastructure; data-intensive tools and workflows for aligning, clustering, aggregating, compressing and anonymizing sequence data; a security platform that ensures data confidentiality, data integrity, and data access auditing; the inter-connection of Biobanks, while also leveraging the storage and processing capacity of public clouds; and the integration of these components as a PaaS. The project will require focused inter-disciplinary research. We have assembled a consortium containing complementary competencies, from developers and users of Biobanks to systems researchers with deep expertise in building dependable and scalable software platforms. Our platform will be evaluated and disseminated at existing Biobanks in Sweden and Germany. Our project goal is to have BiobankCloud remove the Biobank bottleneck, enabling global leadership for European Biobanks, with improved support for preventing diseases, spotting trends, and advancing our understanding of clinical and molecular pathology.

Keywords: big data,biobanks,ngs,data-intensive computing,large-scale storage,biobanking