Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Technology CAD for III-V Semiconductor-based MOSFETs (III-V-MOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,Belgium,Denmark,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4336961.0
EU funding (EUR): 2900000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

According to ITRS, III-V compound semiconductor n-type MOSFETs will reach production in 2018 as part of a new scaling scenario for high performance at very low voltage. The present lack of dependable TCAD models for the early stages of industrial development is a hindrance to benefit from the cost saves and time to market reduction that TCAD is recognized to deliver. To bridge this gap, III-V-MOS aims to provide to the European Semiconductor Industry accurate device simulation models and methods, integrated into TCAD tools, for successful introduction in CMOS technology of optimized device designs based on III-V MOSFETs at and beyond the 14nm node. III-V-MOS will develop, validate and transfer to industry a new device simulation methodology enabling the use of accurate quantum drift-diffusion and Monte Carlo TCAD tools. The models, calibrated by comparison with measurements on complete devices and ad-hoc test structures, will provide comprehensive descriptions of Ultra Thin Body Semiconductor on Insulator FETs, FinFETs and nanowire FETs at and beyond the 14nm node including device parasitics. A hierarchical approach will be used, starting from atomistic band structure calculations all the way down to customized TCAD simulation setups ready for direct use in an industrial environment.Systematic application of the new methodology under industrial guidance will provide new insight in nanoscale III-V semiconductor device physics and identify the potential of the technology boosters, thus substantially reducing the options to be explored for the device design and the corresponding costs. Future exploitation and high impact of the project results are guaranteed by the TCAD market leader (Synopsys); by a SME specialized in the growing business of atomistic simulations for technology development (QuantumWise); by a research center (IMEC) and an industry lab (IBM) engaged in CMOS fabrication technology development and by the European foundry GLOBALFOUNDRIES Dresden.

Keywords: nanoelectronics,iii-v semiconductor mosfets,techonology computer aided design,modelling and simulation,energy efficient devices.
PAssive and electro-optic polymer photonics and InP electronics iNtegration for multi-flow Terabit transceivers at edge SDN switcHes and data-centER gateways (PANTHER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,Germany,France,Italy,Denmark,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5406665.0
EU funding (EUR): 3369926.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Multi-rate, multi-format and multi-reach operation of optical transceivers is important, but it is not enough for next generation terabit products. What is still missing to make these products viable is a solution for the flexible control of this enormous capacity at the optical layer and its distribution among a number of independent optical flows. PANTHER aims to provide this solution and develop multi-rate, multi-format, multi-reach and multi-flow terabit transceivers for edge switches and data-center gateways. To this end, PANTHER will combine electro-optic with passive polymers and will develop a novel photonic integration platform with unprecedented potential for high-speed modulation and optical functionality on-chip. It will also rely on the combination of polymers with InP gain chips and photodiode arrays, and on the use of the InP-DHBT platform for driving circuits based on 3-bit power-DACs and high-speed TIA arrays. Using 3D integration techniques, PANTHER will integrate these components in compact system-in-package transceivers capable of operation at rates up to 64 Gbaud, operation with formats up to DP-64-QAM, spectral efficiency up to 10.24 b/s/Hz, capacity using a dual-carrier scheme up to 1.536 Tb/s, and flexibility in the generation and handling of multiple optical flows on-chip. This impressive performance will come with a potential for 55% power consumption reduction and more than 60% cost/bit reduction, taking into account benefits from the material system, the integration concept, the operation at high baud-rates and the possibility for IP traffic offloading. PANTHER will incorporate the transceivers in edge switch and data-center gateway architectures and will evaluate their performance in lab and real-network settings. Finally, PANTHER will develop a thin software layer that will control the operation parameters of the transceivers, pioneering in this way the efforts for extending the SDN hierarchy down to the flexible optical transport.

Keywords: polymer integration platform,electro-optic polymers,inp-dhbt electronics,power-dac,multi-flow transceivers,terabit transceivers,ip traffic offloading,software-defined optics (sdo),software-def
Sustainable and robust networking for smart electricity distribution (SUNSEED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Slovenia,Denmark,France,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4714918.0
EU funding (EUR): 2990000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

SUNSEED proposes an evolutionary approach to utilisation of already present communication networks from both energy and telecom operators. These can be suitably connected to form a converged communication infrastructure for future smart energy grids offering open services. Life cycle of such communication network solutions consists of six steps: overlap, interconnect, interoperate, manage, plan and open. Joint communication networking operations steps start with analysis of regional overlap of energy and telecommunications operator infrastructures. Geographical overlap of energy and communications infrastructures identifies vital DSO energy and support grid locations (e.g. distributed energy generators, transformer substations, cabling, ducts) that are covered by both energy and telecom communication networks. Coverage can be realised with known wireline (e.g. copper, fiber)or wireless and mobile (e.g. WiFi, 4G) technologies. Interconnection assures end-2-end secure communication on the physical layer between energy and telecom, whereas interoperation provides network visibility and reach of smart grid nodes from both operator (utility) sides. Monitoring, control and management gathers measurement data from wide area of sensors and smart meters and assures stable distributed energy grid operation by using novel intelligent real time analytical knowledge discovery methods. For full utilisation of future network planning, we will integrate various public databases. Applications build on open standards (W3C) with exposed application programming interfaces (API) to 3rd parties enable creation of new businesses related to energy and communication sectors (e.g. virtual power plant operators, energy services providers for optimizing home energy use) or enable public wireless access points (e.g. WiFi nodes at distributed energy generator locations). SUNSEED life cycle steps promise much lower investments and total cost of ownership for future smart energy grids with dense distributed energy generation and prosumer involvement.

Keywords: smart grid,converged communication networks,dso,telecommunication operator,deg,gis,intelligent control,sensor nodes,wams
REPLICA2: Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces (REPLICA2)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2013-PoC, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160000.0
EU funding (EUR): 147000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at designing and optimizing a pre-industrial process to produce artificial biomimetic anti-adhesive polymer/metal surfaces by direct copy of the morphology of a natural water-repellent substrates such as lotus leaves, and subsequent modification thereof. Thus, morphological modifications are exploited rather than chemical treatments to obtain water/ice/particle-repellent surfaces. The experimental procedure, devised in the ERC Starting Grant "Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials" (BIHSNAM), has proven to be an extremely simple yet efficient way to exploit natural nano- and micro-structural hierarchical designs for the production of durable artificial antiadhesive surfaces. A modification and improvement of this process would lead to a considerable simplification in existing industrial production techniques, with the possibility of creating nanoscale features on large surfaces with a relatively uncomplicated and economical, and therefore industrially attractive method. The process under consideration should in this project be technically verified, improved and taken to a pre-commercial stage, for applications in industrial sectors such as white goods, automotive, air transport, and possibly advanced construction materials.

Keywords: 279985
European Conferences on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) (EUCONNECTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 348425.0
EU funding (EUR): 280000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

It is the purpose of EuConNeCts, a Supporting Action, to organise the following 2 editions, 2014 and 2015, of the EC sponsored conference in the area of communication networks and systems. The conference will be named EuCNC - European Conference on Networks and Communications. EuCNC will serve as a technical and scientific conference for researchers, namely European ones, to show their work in the area of Telecommunications, focusing on communication networks and systems, but reaching services and applications. However, the conference will not be restricted to European researchers, rather aiming at attracting others from all other regions in the world. It will also serve as a showcase for the work developed by projects co-financed by the EC, namely those in Challenge 1 (Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures), and more specifically, those addressing Objective ICT-2013.1.1 (Future Networks), but aiming at attracting works in the area of communication networks and systems from other objectives. EuCNC will: 1) be a European conference, but with a large international dimension; 2) showcase the R&D activities performed within EC programmes, directly and indirectly; 3) showcase the cooperation in R&D between European organisations and worldwide ones; 4) bridge between academia / research centres and industry; 5) coordinate its goals with the EC and the main European players; 6) be a high-quality R&D conference; 7) be a well-recognised conference in Telecommunications; 8) provide a forum for the presentation of state-of-the-art technology, in both theoretical and experimental forms; 9) communicate the research results to the wide audience of the general public; 10) foster the participation of both established researchers and students, as well as industry members from various areas; 11) be a transparent and not-for-profit conference; 12) positively differentiate itself from other conferences, which will be achieved by reaching all previous objectives

Keywords: conferences organisation,communications networks and systems,eucnc
Flexible Event pRocessing for big dAta aRchItectures (FERARI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Israel,Greece,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4294308.0
EU funding (EUR): 2954000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Many of today’s Big Data technologies were built on the tacit assumption of web-based systems processing human generated-data at Facebook or Google. Such data is typically unstructured and predominantly persistent. As a result, the focus to date has been on batch processing of Big Data stored in distributed file systems. However data volumes generated from Machine-to-Machine interactions (M2M) surpass by far the amount of data generated by humans. Example applications include smart energy grids, car-to-car communications, mobile network monitoring, and automated negotiation systems – all identified as important hot use cases for Big Data.As Big Data finds its way to these critical M2M based business areas, these design decisions need to be fundamentally rethought. M2M data streams must be processed in real-time, are predominantly transient and naturally distributed, and are much more structured in nature. Current Big Data technologies are inadequate for handling massive M2M data streams, lacking the smartness and flexibility to allow non-expert users to set up complex analytics tasks, as well as the speed and scalability to support real-time, planetary-scale services over distributed data sources.The goal of the FERARI project is to address these limitations and to pave the way for efficient, real-time Big Data technologies of the future. It will enable business users to express complex analytics tasks through a high-level declarative language that supports distributed Complex Event Processing and sophisticated machine learning operators as an integral part of the system architecture. Effective, real-time execution at scale will be achieved by making the sensor layer a first-class citizen in distributed streaming architectures and leveraging in-situ data processing as a first (and, in the long run, the only realistic) choice for realizing planetary-scale Big Data systems. The system is tested on massive real-world data sets from the telecommunication domain.

Keywords: big data,data stream management,data mining,complex event processing,distributed systems
Scalable Energy Management Infrastructure for Aggregation of Households (SEMIAH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Norway,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5316223.0
EU funding (EUR): 3763688.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The consortium behind the SEMIAH project aims to pursue a major technological, scientific and commercial breakthrough by developing a novel Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure for the implementation of Demand Response (DR) in households. This infrastructure enables the shifting of energy consumption from high energy-consuming loads to off-peak periods with high generation of electricity from Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The project’s innovative approach is based on the development of an open ICT framework that will promote an environment for the deployment and innovation of smart grid services in households. A centralised system for DR service provisioning based on aggregation, forecasting and scheduling of electricity consumption will be developed. Furthermore, the project delivers a DR solution for control of electrical loads at a competitive price. The solution consists of a number of smart plugs that can be controlled over a home area network through a gateway connected to a wide area network. The consortium will integrate security and privacy functions to ensure that the system cannot be compromised. Finally, the consortium will develop new business models for electricity players and residential customers to quantify costs and benefits for players in the value chain. SEMIAH will provide benefits to residential customers, energy utilities and the society in general, through lower electricity bills, improved integration of RES and higher stability of the electricity grid. Hereby, the project will enable savings in CO2 emissions and fuel costs and reduce investments in electricity network expansions and electricity peak generation plants. The consortium of 12 partners from 4 different European countries, coming from ICT (Aarhus University, Centre Suisse D'Electronique et de Microtechnique, University of Agder and Haute Ecole Specialisee de Suisse Occidentale), Energy (Fraunhofer IWES, Agder Energi Nett, SEIC Teledis, EnAlpin, Misurio and Develco Products) and Telecommunications (Devoteam Solutions and netplus) jointly possess the technological skills and competencies needed to overcome the identified challenges and to drive this ambitious project to successful result.

Keywords: smart grids,demand response,energy management systems,renewable energies,aggregation,forecasting,scheduling,load control,grid stability,peak shifting,security and privacy,business models
Beyond 2020 heterogeneous wireless network with millimeter wave small cell access and backhauling (MIWAVES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Finland,Germany,France,Sweden,Germany,Spain,France,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11349195.0
EU funding (EUR): 7358113.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Providing broadband wireless communications to a majority of European citizens is a major objective of the EC at the horizon of 2020. With a current annual growth rate in the range of 70%, the mobile data traffic of smartphones, tablets, machine-to-machine and other portable devices dramatically challenges the 4G wireless cellular network currently under deployment. To sustain this growth, high data-rate millimetre-wave (mmW) technologies, that demonstrate striking capabilities for short- and medium-range wireless communications, can bring a tremendous performance improvement.MiWaveS will develop the key technologies for the implementation of mmW wireless access and backhaul in future 5th Generation heterogeneous cellular mobile networks, taking advantage of the wide unlicensed or light-licensed frequency bands available to allow flexible spectrum usage as well as peak capacities above 10 Gbit/s aggregated throughput, well beyond the LTE-Advanced system. Installed in dense urban environments, miniature mmW small-cell access-points connected to the cellular network through optical fibre or mmW wireless backhaul will support massive data exchanges for mobile users with low latency, low interferences, high QoS and low power consumption per bit. They will also contribute to a reduced exposure of the public to electromagnetic fields (EMF) thanks to lower transmitted power and reduced skin penetration at mmW, steerable directive antennas focusing the signals in the directions of interest, and reduced data traffic through the lower frequency legacy base-stations.To lead this research in Europe, the MiWaveS consortium groups major network operators, equipment/component providers, OEMs, research institutes and academic institutions with world-known expertise in the relevant areas for designing and demonstrating heterogeneous cellular networks with mmW access and backhaul.

Keywords: wireless network,cellular network,heterogeneous network,small-cell,backhaul,millimetre-wave communications,emf exposure,spectral efficiency,energy efficiency.
Model-Based Social Learning for Public Administrations (LEARN PAD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Creativity and Learning
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,France,Switzerland,Italy,France,Lithuania,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3532993.0
EU funding (EUR): 2635000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

In modern society public administrations (PAs) are undergoing a transformation of their perceived role from controllers to proactive service providers, and are under pressure to constantly improve their service quality while coping with quickly changing context (changes in law and regulations, societal globalization, fast technology evolution) and decreasing budgets. Civil servants are challenged to understand and put in action latest procedures and rules within tight time constraints. Learn PAd will build an innovative holistic e-learning platform for PAs that enables process-driven learning and fosters cooperation and knowledge-sharing. Learn PAd technical innovation is based on four pillars: 1. a new concept of model-based e-learning (both process and knowledge) 2. open and collaborative e-learning content management 3. automatic, learner-specific and collaborative content quality assessment 4. automatic model-driven simulation-based learning and testing Learn PAd considers learning and working strongly intertwined (learning while doing). The platform supports both an informative learning approach based on enriched business process (BP) models, and a procedural learning approach based on simulation and monitoring (learning by doing). Formal verification and natural language processing techniques will ensure quality of content and documentation. Specialized ontologies and KPIs will be defined to keep learners engaged, while automatically derived tests will challenge their acquired knowledge. Learn PAd is inspired by open-source communities principles and cooperation spirit: contents are produced by the community, and meritocracy is naturally promoted, with leaders emerging because of their skill and expertise. Finally Learn PAd will contribute to dissemination and evolution of BPMN and related modeling standards.

Keywords: model-based learning,kpi for learning in pa,social learning for pa,automatic quality assessment for learning contents ontologies for learning contents in pa