Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Goal-directed, Adaptive Builder Robots (GOAL-LEADERS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Netherlands,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2357421.0
EU funding (EUR): 1800000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The Goal-Leaders project aims at developing biologically-constrained architectures for the next generation of adaptive service robots, with unprecedented levels of goal-directedness and proactivity. Goal-Leaders will realize builder robots able to realize externally assigned tasks (e.g., fetching objects, composing building parts) and, at the same time, keeping their homeostatic drives within a safe range (e.g., never end up without energy or get hurt), by operating autonomously and for prolonged periods of time in open-ended environments. To this aim, Goal-Leaders will pursue a combined neuroscientific, computational and robotic study of three key sets of competences:-the biological and computational mechanisms behind an agent’s goal system, which integrates somatic, affective, and cognitive elements, and realizes the setting and selection of the agent’s goals;-the biological and computational mechanisms that support the assignment of situation-dependent value to an agent’s state and action representations, and therefore realize the link between the agent’s goal system and perceptual-motor processes;-the biological and computational mechanisms behind an agent’s anticipatory and mental simulation abilities.The Goal-Leaders achievements beyond the state of the art will be assessed against behavioral and neuroscientific data, and by realizing three demonstrators in which robots will perform autonomous navigation and construction tasks, and will readapt without reprogramming to novel task allocations or changes in their environment.The project consortium includes a highly complementary, interdisciplinary team of top European researchers who focus on neuroscience, cognitive science, and robotics. Our robotic design methodology will have a significant impact both for the understanding of goal-directed action in living organisms, and for the realization of goal-directed service robots by combining navigation and manipulation within an unconstrained environment.

Keywords: goal-directed behavior,robot,anticipation,mental simulation,motivation,proactivity,behavior flexibility
The DigiBIC Creative Industries Network unites leaders in research, innovation, industry and finance in order to optimise deployment of new ICT-based cultural and memory preservation services (DIGIBIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Italy,France,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Hungary,Spain,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1531288.0
EU funding (EUR): 1197988.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

DigiBIC is a 30 month project focused on the deployment of best practice, tools and results from FP6, FP7 and national research projects in cultural heritage, digital libraries and preservation to the wider Creative Industry (CI) sector and in particular to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The following activities are planned over the duration of the project: o Creation of an open and interactive network of players in the Creative Industry sector involving all EU countries – SMEs, large industry players, support organisation, policy leaders, researchers etc. o In the initial phase of the project, the DigiBIC project will focus on the deployment of results from 14 FP6/FP7 projects in Digital Libraries and Content (3D-COFORM, CINeSPACE, EPOCH, iTACITUS, EASAIER, IMAGINATION,MEMORIES,MultiMATCH,PAPYRUS,Treble-CLEF,PRESTOSPACE, PRESTOPRIME, PLANETS and LIWA. o The results of these projects which are ready for deployment to SMEs will be presented through the DigiBIC online platform. SMEs and CI clusters will be invited to participate in offline and online training to better understand the opportunities for deployment and a widespread promotional campaign and DigiBIC workshops will be organised in every European country. One-to-one support will be provided to interested end-users to support deployment of results. o In the second phase of the project, results from other European, and national research projects in ICT based memory preservation services will be deployed through the DigiBIC process. o Finally the results of the DigiBIC process and feedback from the different stakeholders will be presented to policy makers through reports and a final dissemination event.

Keywords: validation deployment dissemination results ec research digital libraries cultural heritage digital content ict based memory preservation services
Patient specific modelling and simulation of focused ultrasound in moving organs (FUSIMO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Norway,Germany,Czechia,Italy,Switzerland,Israel,Sweden,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4684688.0
EU funding (EUR): 3471679.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years, High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound and Focused Ultrasound (FUS) have become frequent tools for non-invasive benign tumour therapy. Applications in the treatment of fibroadenoma of uterus has become commercial and passed FDA clearance in 2004 and sonication of bone metastasis has obtained a CE mark. Other tumours are under preclinical (prostate, kidney) and clinical (breast, brain and liver) evaluation. However, treating tumours with focused ultrasound is still challenging in terms of reliable therapy planning, monitoring and outcome prediction especially in moving organs with a complex blood supply. It is important to understand that the processes involved in FUS therapy are multi-level ranging from organ morphology, perfusion and motion, down to microscopic and cellular level. The relation within and between these levels is not well understood. FUSIMO will develop, implement and validate a multi-level model for moving abdominal organs for use with FUS and Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery. The overall model will consist of several sub-models, which interact and describe aspects in a hierarchical manner. The integrated model will consist of; - Abdominal organ model to simulate motion and the influence on ultrasound application - Target organ/tumour model to capture organ/tumour physiology, and organ/tumour reaction to therapy - Microscopic tissue model to simulate direct heat ablation, model energy distribution, tissue heating and cooling - Model to evaluate first steps to simulate drug delivery, microbubble distribution and dynamics The FUSIMO developments in the field of hardware and software will be combined into an integrated system, which will allow both abdominal FUS application to moving organs, and also other treatment modalities such as radio frequency, laser or cryotherapy or other types of interventions based on particles or fields in radiation therapy.

Keywords: high-intensity focused ultrasound,magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound,kidney,liver,abdominal,moving organs,patient specific modelling,simulation
Evidence based Diagnostic and Treatment Planning Solution for Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBICARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4217044.0
EU funding (EUR): 3158000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain – it is a major health problem and the most common cause of permanent disability in people under the age of 40 years. Yearly cost from TBI in Europe exceeds 100 billion euros. Recent statistics show a steep increase in the incidence of TBIs, with an increase of 21 % over the last five years – threefold greater than the rate of increase in population. Despite this TBI has been seriously underrepresented in medical R&D efforts compared to many other, less significant health problems. TBIcare project provides such an objective and evidence-based solution for management of TBI by improving diagnostics and treatment decisions for an individual patient. A strictly evidence-based approach realises the objectives of developing: 1) a methodology for finding efficient combinations of multi-modal biomarkers used in statistical models to objectively diagnose and assess an individual TBI patient, and 2) a simulation model for objectively predicting outcome of the planned treatment of an individual TBI patient. These objectives are supplemented by realization of: a software solution to be used in daily practice to diagnose and plan treatments; new approaches for extracting information from multi-source and multi-scale physiological databases for management of an extremely heterogeneous disease; and innovative data quantification methods for the clinical TBI environment. Thus, TBIcare transfers the scientific Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) concepts to clinical practice. TBIcare has impacts for healthcare professionals by improving the healthcare process and increasing medical knowledge; for the patients and their nearest by increased quality adjusted life years; for society it brings reduction in healthcare costs and losses due to working disability, and for the European industry it brings an impetus to increased global competitiveness by providing immediately exploitable innovative methods.

Keywords: traumatic brain injury,diagnostics,treatment planning,statistical modeling,simulation,system dynamics
Composing Learning for Artificial Cognitive Systems (COMPLACS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Austria,France,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5853582.0
EU funding (EUR): 4427284.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

One of the aspirations of machine learning is to develop intelligent systems that can address a wide variety of control problems of many different types. However, although the community has developed successful technologies for many individual problems, these technologies have not previously been integrated into a unified framework. As a result, the technology used to specify, solve and analyse one control problem typically cannot be reused on a different problem. The community has fragmented into a diverse set of specialists with particular solutions to particular problems. The purpose of this project is to develop a unified toolkit for intelligent control in many different problem areas. This toolkit will incorporate many of the most successful approaches to a variety of important control problems within a single framework, including bandit problems, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs), continuous stochastic control, and multi-agent systems. In addition, the toolkit will provide methods for the automatic construction of representations and capabilities, which can then be applied to any of these problem types. Finally, the toolkit will provide a generic interface to specifying problems and analysing performance, by mapping intuitive, human-understandable goals into machine-understandable objectives, and by mapping algorithm performance and regret back into human-understandable terms.

Keywords: cognitive systems,optimal control,intelligent systems,machine learning,probabilistic inference
Virtual Museum Transnational Network (V-MUST.NET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Bosnia and Herzegovina,France,Sweden,Cyprus,Netherlands,Egypt,Germany,Spain,Belgium,United Kingdom,Greece,Spain,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5060774.0
EU funding (EUR): 4550000.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Virtual Museums (VM) are a new model of communication that aims at creating a personalized, immersive, interactive way to enhance our understanding of the world around us. The term "VM" is a short-cut that comprehends various types of digital creations. Unfortunately, although its idea is not new, development and implementation researches have not, already, brought Europe to be the leader in this field, as expected. This sector has not reached a sufficient level of maturity, such as Cinema or Game sectors, as to be as much widespread as it should be. Moreover in Europe, unlike USA, we still face a disconnection between the research, that develop tools with little interest in their wide application, and the industry, that build ten-year plans addressing the market. VM domain is the perfect application area where all these problems NEED to be solved for the real benefit of community. Unfortunately there are no solutions ready to be developed through research. A NoE would be required at this point. V-MusT.net partners believe that Europe CAN be the leader in the worldwide panorama of VM. A large subset of the most important VMs are implemented by EU groups. Some of the most notable and excellent researches related to this field are developed in EU. This leadership can be achieved only by going beyond the actual research fragmentation, by soliciting a common effort in assessing limitations emerging from all VM experiences consolidated so far, finding proper solutions, assessing them through experimental activity and finally consolidating a transnational network dedicated to VMs. V-MusT.net will bridge technological domains, archival, social and cognitive sciences to advance the state-of-the-art of digital preservation, for VMs future persistence. It will finally create a virtual research area; identify researches for further development; identify the VM of the Future; increase competitiveness of the EU-ICT industry; create a quality evaluation procedure.

Keywords: virtual museum,visualisation,interaction,data preservation
Examination of Practical Aspects of Innovative Bonded Composite Repair Techniques (EXPECT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,Greece
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-01, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 56250.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Even though adhesively bonded composite repairs exhibit significant advantages in terms of mechanical efficiency compared to mechanically fastened ones, they are at the same time extremely sensitive to process parameters variations. Small deviations against the repair specifications (e.g. surface preparation) may lead to disproportionally larger consequences to the final mechanical performance of the repair and, consequently, to the integrity of the structure. Moreover, the inevitable differences between laboratory and repair shop conditions, may lead to the cancellation of promising technological achievements for “practical” reasons, because the required conditions could not be easily met in standard practice. The scope of this proposal is to examine from a practical application point of view the innovations achieved within GRA Task 1.3.6-02 for bonded composite repairs, in order to facilitate their transfer to production conditions. For this reason, the whole chain of process steps which have to be followed for the performance of a typical repair will be executed in standard repair shop conditions, in terms of facilities, equipment, tooling and personnel training. Potential contradictions of innovations developed by the GRA to standard repair practices will be identified and alternative solutions will be proposed, to facilitate their efficient transfer to production standards and requirements. The project success is guaranteed from the background of the consorium: a) GMI Aero, a bonded composite repair equipment manufacturer and supplier of major airlines and MROs, with over 25 years experience in the development of repair equipment, techniques, advanced solutions and technicians personnel training, and b) NTUA, a leading institute in the research of bonded composite repairs, cooperating with GMI Aero for more than 15 years in the development of advanced bonded repair processes and having participated to several research projects on composite and metal bonding.

Keywords: bonded composite repair
Belgian Presidency Conference related to "Conditions for Achieving Excellence in Universities and other Research Organisations" (BELPRESCONF)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Destination: Support for the coherent development of research policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215193.2
EU funding (EUR): 200000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Belgian Presidency Conference related to “Conditions for achieving excellence in universities and other research organisations” will be organised in Brussels, Belgium on 14th and 15th October 2010. The conference will focus on universities and research institutes and the way they can adapt themselves in order to contribute to the completion of the ERA. The knowledge landscape where universities and research institutes are working is changing very fast, with increased specialisation, new information technologies, distance learning, new learners, new provides and global competition for the best students and researchers. Public authorities and universities are called to respond to these various challenges by modernising their ways of working and by introducing far-reaching new types of cooperation (regional, national and cross-border) involving different categories of higher education institutions, research organisation and enterprises. The conference will study the link between good institutional governance, competition and research performance; common principles for financial management and responsible external research funding and innovation research training (the example of research schools). In the context of the EU 2020 strategy and the innovation union, attention will also be given to Research and industry partnerships

Keywords: excellence,universities,research,governance,european research area (era),innovation,synergies,networking,human resources,financing,funding alternatives,research schools.
Energy Efficient and Intelligent Lighting Systems (ENLIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ENIAC (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,Sweden,Finland,Netherlands,Germany,France,France,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Finland
Call:  (ENIAC-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-01
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 41316131.0
EU funding (EUR): 6899791.0
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

The lighting industry is currently going through a radical transformation, driven by both the rapid progress of Solid State Lighting (SSL) and semiconductors technologies, and the changing societal needs like sustainability, energy efficiency and CO2 reduction. Therefore, we have to adapt rapidly by collaborating in a supportive open-innovation eco-system, which can drive research and development to serve the new business needs. The potential of LED lighting (novel form factors, intelligence) have to be employed to address people’s needs and to enhance people’s life. The main goal of the project EnLight – Energy Efficient and Intelligent Lighting Systems – is to exploit the full potential of Solid State Lighting through breakthrough innovations in non-conventional, energy efficient, and intelligent lighting systems, far beyond retrofit applications. The major innovations of EnLight will cover three levels: 1) Solutions: user needs, ensuring full interoperability and integration, enabling market introduction of intelligent lighting control solutions by using optimally the LED specific capabilities. 2) Systems: focus on system integration, interoperability and costs, i.e. task and activity sensors, sensing algorithms, interface architecture, for intelligent lighting systems, including non-conventional luminaires. 3) Components: focus on the optimal utilization and integration of LEDs, optics, heat management and electronics and controls into modules, to achieve higher energy efficient LED engines and modules. EnLight brings together a complete value chain on lighting from semiconductors industry, sensor manufacturers, IC, SW/HW developers, and knowledge institutes, up to luminaire makers and utility providers. Together with Philips and Osram, the EnLight consortium is able to bring the best lighting solution forward, fit for a quick uptake by the many SME luminaire manufacturers in Europe. The project will strengthen Europe’s leading position in the lighting industry.

Keywords: energy efficiency ssl lighting solutions led lighting modules system integration non-conventional luminaires intelligence