Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Virtualized Storage Services Foundation for the Future Internet (VISION CLOUD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Spain,Germany,Italy,Greece,Germany,Sweden,Norway,France,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15539414.0
EU funding (EUR): 9175000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the VISION project is to advance the competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing a powerful ICT infrastructure for reliable and effective delivery of data-intensive storage services, facilitating the convergence of ICT, media and telecommunications. This infrastructure will support the setup and deployment of data and storage services on demand, at competitive costs, across disparate administrative domains, providing QoS and security guarantees. In doing so, VISION will lay a foundation for the Future Internet, radically extending earlier generations of service infrastructures. The prime deliverable of VISION will be an architecture and a reference implementation of a cloud-based infrastructure building on open standards and new technologies, capable of optimised delivery of converged data-intensive services. We will demonstrate how this infrastructure, where virtualisation plays a key role, supports emerging Telco/Media services that are not supported today. We aim to achieve significant and quantifiable improvements in service delivery productivity, quality, availability, reliability and cost. Scientifically, our work will advance the state-of-art in several dimensions, including: NEW MODEL OF DATA STORAGE, using objects with metadata to support effective access and management, enabling unprecedented scalability and simplification of storage services. DATA MOBILITY AND FEDERATION, enabling comprehensive data migration and interoperability across remote locations, overcoming current limitations. COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE, introducing a technology for specifying and executing computations close to storage, reducing overheads. CONTENT-CENTRIC STORAGE, facilitating access to data by content and its relationships, relieving applications and users from the need to be aware of the underlying storage implementation. CAPABILITIES FOR CLOUD-BASED STORAGE, supporting delivery of data-intensive services securely, at the desired QoS, at competitive costs.

Keywords: service oriented infrastructure,cloud,storage,telco/media/it convergence
Epigenetics towards systems biology (EPIGENESYS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Germany,Israel,France,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Sweden,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-two-stage, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15952636.25
EU funding (EUR): 11995024.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

The ‘EpiGeneSys’ Network of Excellence aims to enable European epigenetics research to enter the arena of systems biology, a new step forward with major implications for human health. Many diseases, not explained solely by gene mutation, have rather been associated with epigenetic disorders. Following the identification of key epigenetic regulators, a move towards a systems biology approach is needed to understand their dynamic functional relationships. This NoE identified 4 areas aiming at: 1) characterizing the molecular dynamics of epigenetic systems at the single molecule and cell level, 2) linking genotypes to epigenotypes, 3) investigating how environmental, developmental and metabolic signals act upon the epigenome, and 4) understanding epigenetic inheritance through replication, mitosis and meiosis. The common objective is to address fundamental epigenetic mechanisms in quantitative terms both spatially and temporally. The ultimate goal is to express the underlying dynamic events in mathematical terms in order to model and predict how the balance between maintenance and erasure of epigenetic information varies in specific developmental contexts under normal or pathological conditions. A major effort on data management and technology will provide standardised protocols for processing, normalising, and analysing each type of epigenetics data set. Common platforms, tools and resources including a key multilayer toolbox will be implemented for wide use and easy access for researchers, within the NoE and the epigenetics community at large. This NoE will function as an essential bridge between epigenetics researchers and the systems biology community. In the NoE, 22 teams will join efforts to address Epigenetics questions from a systems biology perspective. The combination of a strong training plan together with extension through open targeted calls to recruit young talent will further contribute to build a coherent new EpiGeneSys Area of European Research.

Keywords: systems biology,epigenetics,epigenomics,inheritance,signalling,molecular dynamics,quantitative modelling,bioinformatics,computational analysis
Autonomous DNA Evolution in a Molecule Trap (AUTO-EVO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1487827.0
EU funding (EUR): 1487827.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

How can we create molecular life in the lab? That is, can we drive evolvable DNA/RNA-machines under a simple nonequilibrium setting? We will trigger basic forms of autonomous Darwinian evolution by implementing replication, mutation and selection on the molecular level in a single micro-chamber? We will explore protein-free replication schemes to tackle the Eigen-Paradox of replication and translation under archaic nonequilibrium settings. The conditions mimic thermal gradients in porous rock near hydrothermal vents on the early earth. We are in a unique position to pursue these questions due to our previous inventions of convective replication, optothermal molecule traps and light driven microfluidics. Four interconnected strategies are pursued ranging from basic replication using tRNA-like hairpins, entropic cooling or UV degradation down to protein-based DNA evolution in a trap, all with biotechnological applications. The approach is risky, however very interesting physics and biology on the way. We will: (i) Replicate DNA with continuous, convective PCR in the selection of a thermal molecule trap (ii) Replicate sequences with metastable, tRNA-like hairpins exponentially (iii) Build DNA complexes by structure-selective trapping to replicate by entropic decay (iv) Drive replication by Laser-based UV degradation Both replication and trapping are exponential processes, yielding in combination a highly nonlinear dynamics. We proceed along publishable steps and implement highly efficient modes of continuous molecular evolution. As shown in the past, we will create biotechnological applications from basic scientific questions (see our NanoTemper Startup). The starting grant will allow us to compete with Jack Szostak who very recently picked up our approach [JACS 131, 9628 (2009)].

Keywords: synthetic evolution,minimal living systems,darwinian evolution,dna machines,origin of life
Information Transfer through Self-organization Processes in Systems Chemistry (SELFCHEM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494075.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494075.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Today, one of the greatest challenges facing physics, chemistry, and (bio)materials science, is to precisely design molecules so as to program their spontaneous bottom-up assembly into functional nano-objects and materials, based on recognition and self-organization processes. Beyond that, in order to reach higher-performing new materials and to bridge the gap between materials science and life science, it appears essential to bring together both multiple responsive levels of hierarchical organization and time-dependent processes. The objectives of the SelfChem research project are part of this bundle of explorations and thus lie within an area inquiry which encompasses a better understanding of complex systems, self-organization, and emergence of order from chaos. The main specificity and novelty of the SelfChem project is to focus on an issue that has not been approached to date, namely the possibility to transfer chemical or physical information, in space and time, through the self-induced organization of their own supramolecular carriers. In other words, we wish to show that the circulation of information can be the driving force for the self-assembly of systems that will in turn serve to transfer this very information. The main axes of the proposal are three-fold and deal with: a) the duplication of chemical information towards several generations of bounded systems that couple small molecular self-replicators within self-replicating vesicles (reproduction); b) the transfer and conversion of chemical information between two compartments separated by a non permeable membrane (transduction); and c) the transport of physical information, i.e. electric charges, by the enforced self-organization of molecular wires between two electrodes (conduction). In addition to these fundamental investigations, we plan to use the knowledge produced for the design of smart, responsive, and adaptive (bio)materials.

Keywords: systems chemistry,dynamic combinatorial chemistry
Thermodynamics of the Climate System (NAMASTE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1393440.0
EU funding (EUR): 1393440.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The investigation of the global structural properties of the climate system (CS) plays a central role for the provision of a unifying picture of climate variability and climate change on a large variety of scales and is of outstanding importance for the quest for reliable metrics to be used in the validation of climate models (CMs). The CS can be seen as a complex, non-equilibrium system, transforming potential into mechanical energy as a thermal engine, generating entropy by irreversible processes, and keeping an approximate steady state by balancing the thermodynamic fluxes with the surrounding environment. We move from the thermodynamical perspective pioneered by Lorenz by means of theoretical studies, numerical simulations performed with hierarchies of CMs, ranging from minimal models to state-of-the-art coupled atmosphere-ocean models, and, where possible, observations. We take advantage of both the tools of the phenomenological theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and, from a more fundamental point of view, of the recent developments of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, along the lines of the response theory developed by Ruelle. The main goals of this interdisciplinary project can be summarized as follows: - Advances in the thermodynamic description of the CS and planetary bodies, re-analysis of the hydrological cycle and of the atmosphere- ocean interaction; - Thermodynamic re-examination of mechanisms involved in past, present and future climate variability and change with CMs of various degrees of complexity; - Definition and implementation of a new generation of diagnostic tools for auditing CMs and for analysing observative (satellite) data; - Application of the response theory and Kramers-Kronig relations to CMs of various degrees of complexity for analysing generalized climate sensitivities and climate response to periodic forcings; - Analysis of the impact of stochastic perturbations on the statistical properties of the forced and free fluctuations of simplified CMs; - Study of the climatic tipping points and feedbacks by analysis of the resonances and divergence of the climatic response, and by investigation of the fluctuations of the large scale thermodynamical properties.

Keywords: climate dynamics/response theory/chaos/irreversibility/entropy production/numerical models
Random walks and Growth of Groups (RAWG)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 856320.0
EU funding (EUR): 856320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this project is to study random walks on groups, with the focus on boundary theory. We plan to establish new criteria for estimates of the entropy and Poisson-Furstenberg boundary triviality and apply this method to study the following question: which groups admit simple random walks with trivial boundary? In particular, we want to produce a classification for classes of solvable groups, more generally elementary amenable groups, and groups acting on rooted trees. We plan to make a contibution in the solution of the conjecture of Vershik and Kaimanovich, posed in the early eighties, that states that any group of exponential growth admits a symmetric measure with non-trivial boundary. We plan to study applications of random walks to growth of groups. In my previous work I have produced a method to use boundaries in order to obtain new low estimates for groups of Grigorchuk of intermediate growth. We plan to construct new classes of groups of intermediate growth, and to refine the existing method to obtain sharp bounds of the growth function. We also want to address Grigorchuk's conjecture about the gap in the range of possible growth functions of groups. Further applications include large scale geometrical properties of amenable groups, including amenable groups acting on rooted trees, as well as groups of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the interval, in particular, Richard Thompson group F

Keywords: random walks,boundary theory,growth of groups
Empirical analysis and theoretical modelling of self-organized collective behaviour in three-dimensions: from insect swarms and bird flocks to new schemes of distributed coordination. (SWARM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1124000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1124000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Animal groups represent paradigmatic cases of self-organized collective behaviour, where global coordination arises from local rules of interaction between individuals. A major issue, both for theoretical studies and technological applications, is to understand how self-organization emerges within a system with distributed intelligence. SWARM aims at providing new knowledge about self-organization and collective behaviour in 3D animal aggregations. To do that, SWARM will export concepts and methods from physics, and will integrate empirical work, data analysis and theoretical modelling. In particular, SWARM will: i) Perform field experiments on large insect swarms and bird flocks and retrieve individual 3D coordinates and trajectories. ii) Perform a statistical characterization of swarming/flocking behaviour; obtain information on the interactions between group members, and on the rules followed by individuals. iii) Develop empirically based models of 3D animal collective behaviour and design efficient, biologically inspired, algorithms of distributed coordination.

Keywords: collective behaviour,self-organization,swarming,flocking,emergent properties,distributed intelligence,decentralized control
Photonic Advanced Research And Development for Integrated Generic Manufacturing (PARADIGM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Italy,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Poland,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12985515.0
EU funding (EUR): 8725000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of PARADIGM is to effect a fundamental change in the way photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on indium phosphide (InP) are designed and manufactured in Europe, with the aim of reducing the costs of design, development and manufacture by more than an order of magnitude and making more complex and capable designs possible than ever before. The key step is to develop a generic platform technology for application-specific PICs. This will be achieved by adopting a similar methodology in the field of photonics to the one that has been so successful in microelectronics. The new approach developed in PARADIGM will be indispensable in creating a sustainable business sector with potential for significant future growth. PARADIGM addresses the whole product development chain from concept, through design and manufacturing to application. It will establish library-based design, coupled with standardized technology process flows and supported by sophisticated design tools. Our goal is to develop technical capability at the platform level, rather than at the level of individual designs, greatly reducing the cost and time required to bring a new component into production, whilst allowing the designer great freedom for creativity at the circuit level. To establish a generic, design-rule and library-based methodology for photonic ICs is an ambitious and demanding task, which could only be contemplated with a consortium possessing a wide range of complementary skills. PARADIGM has brought together just such a collaboration of Europe’s key players in the fields of III-V semiconductor manufacturing, PIC design and applications, photonic CAD, packaging and assembly. The project will verify the potential of the generic approach by fabricating a number of InP PICs, addressing a range of applications in communications, sensors, data processing and biomedical systems, at a level of complexity and performance that will define the state of the art.

Keywords: photonics,integrated,components,iii-v semiconductor,packaging
Virtualized dIstributed plaTfoRms of smart Objects (VITRO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,Spain,Spain,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3407307.0
EU funding (EUR): 2099941.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The quick growth of the Virtual Sensor Networking (VSN) domain has led to a highly dispersed gamut of technologies and approaches, which seriously jeopardize the long-term vision of an Internet of Things since very few of these solutions are able to mutually communicate. VITRO aims at providing this crucial but missing link between highly heterogeneous wireless sensors and actuators platforms and hence facilitate cooperative smart objects. This proposal is focused on developing architectures, algorithms and engineering methods, which will enable the realization of scalable, flexible, adaptive, energy-efficient and trust-aware VSN platforms. To achieve this objective, VITRO enabled platforms will: • Provide a homogeneous abstract appearance to enable federated collaboration with external entities (from objects and systems to domains and networks) and thereby extending the networking degree by several orders of magnitudes. • Simplify the discovery and management of the underlying hardware and software resources of large collections of heterogeneous smart objects (sensors, actuators and embedded processors). • Achieve energy-efficiency, trust-awareness and seamless connectivity and communication in large-scale heterogeneous VSN deployments and thereby enable dependable, secure and scalable inter-objects collaboration. The VITRO results will be packed in a VITRO toolbox, which will enable easy configuration and instant support for deploying VSN applications. Although VITRO aims to be application-neutral, the proposed architecture and protocol toolbox will be validated through extensive simulation testing and furthermore implemented in a large trial of sensor nodes and smart objects in smart home and building automation application domains. Moreover, the developed technologies will be proposed as new standards for embedded networking solutions, mainly to ETSI M2M, 6LowPAN and IETF ROLL.

Keywords: virtual sensor networking,energy-efficiency,trust-awareness,seamless connectivity,communication in large-scale vsn deployments