Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Promoting ICT cooperation opportunities and policy dialogue with the Western Balkan Countries (ICT-WEB-PROMS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,North Macedonia,Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Serbia,Montenegro,Bulgaria,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 538323.0
EU funding (EUR): 480000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

ICT-WEB-PROMS aims at increasing capacity of stakeholders in the Western Balkan countries (WBC) to fully participate in European ICT research and in the European Research Area. This will be done by creating and supporting strategic partnerships between stakeholders in the EU and the WBC while providing access to relevant knowledge. By encouraging participation of West Balkan stakeholders in European ICT research, they will gain access to ICT technologies already developed in the EU, and European stakeholders will be able to introduce their technologies into the West Balkan market, thus also strengthening EU competitiveness. Workshops and road shows will be organized in the whole area of the WBC, also outside the big cities, an interactive web portal in several languages provided, and a network of stakeholders created all over the WBC and the EU, building on existing networks. Focus will be on direct support to stakeholders, creating understanding not only for procedural issues, but also for the technology of the ICT FP7 programme emphasising areas of mutual interest. Feedback will be provided for the implementation of ICT and information society strategies in the WBC and for considering the needs of the WBC in ICT research of the EU. Activities are defined in order to achieve maximum impact, to work efficiently towards achieving the goals, and to build on previous and on-going support actions as much as possible. The partnership includes universities and research centres in all Western Balkan countries. These have been chosen in view of their capacity with respect to understanding of technology and their ability to best promote the ICT programme and networking with the EU. All are ICT experts in their countries, are well respected and have contributed to developing national ICT strategies. Partners are committed to sustain activities in continuing the operation of the web portal and working with stakeholders after the end of the project.

Keywords: strategic partnerships between eu and wbc,promoting the ict programme,opportunities for co-operation,targeted information in the wbc,increasing visibility of mutual rtd potential
Action for the Science of complex SYtems for Socially intelligent icT (ASSYST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Portugal,Italy,Italy,Poland,Switzerland,Germany,Spain,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Israel,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1000624.0
EU funding (EUR): 900000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

ASSYST will coordinate research around the call Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT) in the context of the wider science of complex systems (CS). ASSYST will make Complex Systems science and the potential of COSI-ICT better understood by scientific policy makers and funders at national and international levels in Europe. It will showcase sucessful applications of the science. It will inform European policy makers on the global context of European CS and COSI-ICT and funding polices. It will advise policy makers and scientists on the state of the art, and provide high-quality input and advice for funding policies at national level and for the funding agencies of the European Commission including FP7. ASSYST will promote applications of complex systems and COSI-ICT in the public and private sectors, and publicise successful applications. It will build bridges between complex systems scientists and industry and commerce in Europe, and actively promote civil and commercial applications of the new ICT-driven science. ASSYST will achieve its mission through organising many meetings across Europe and around the world with targeted outcomes related to its objectives, through proactive engagement with policymakers, the business community, and the public sector. It will provide open educational resources to promote complex systems science and COSI-ICT. It will provide conference support for rapid dissemination of complex systems and COSI-ICT research. It will collect information and publish it in easily accessible forms available through an excellent ‘one stop’ CS and COSI-ICT web site. To make the impact of ASSYST sustainable in the long term, it will work closely with the Complex Systems Society which will take over its assets and continue its mission when the project ends.

Keywords: complex systems,socially intelligent ict,coordination action
Intrinsically Motivated Cumulative Learning Versatile Robots (IM-CLEVER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7726783.0
EU funding (EUR): 5899884.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

IM-CLeVeR aims to develop a new methodology for designing robots controllers that can: (1) cumulatively learn new efficient skills through autonomous development based on intrinsic motivations, and (2) reuse such skills for accomplishing multiple, complex, and externally-assigned tasks. During skill-acquisition, the robots will behave like children at play which acquire skills autonomously on the basis of “intrinsic motivations”. During skill-exploitation, the robots will exhibit fast learning capabilities and a high versatility in solving tasks defined by external users due to their capacity of flexibly re-using, composing and re-adapting previously acquired skills. This overall goal will be pursued investigating three fundamental scientific and technological issues: (1) the mechanisms of abstraction of sensory information; (2) the mechanisms underlying intrinsic motivations, e.g. “curiosity drives” that learn to focus attention and learning capabilities on “zones of proximal development”; (3) hierarchical recursive architectures which permit cumulative learning. The study of these issues will also be fuelled by a reverse-engineering effort aiming at reproducing with bio-mimetic models the results of empirical experiments run with monkeys, children, and human adults. The controllers proposed will be validated with challenging demonstrators based on a single humanoid robotic platform (iCub). As a main outcome, the project will significantly advance the scientific and technological state of the art, both in terms of theory and implementations, in autonomous learning systems and robots. This overall goal will be achieved on the basis of the integrated work of a highly interdisciplinary Consortium involving leading international neuroscientists, psychologists, roboticists and machine-learning researchers.

Keywords: humanoid developmental robotics,autonomous learning,reinforcement learning,action hierarchies,neural networks,novelty detection,developmental and cognitive psychology,brain,dopamine
Swarm of Micro Flying Robots (SFLY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Greece,France,Greece,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3358251.0
EU funding (EUR): 2550000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Autonomous micro helicopters are about to play major roles in tasks like reconnaissance for search and rescue, environment monitoring, security surveillance, inspection, law enforcement, etc. The ability to fly allows easily avoiding obstacles on the ground and to have an excellent bird’s eye view. Therefore flying robots are the logical heir of ground based mobile robots. Its navigational and hovering advantages make them the ideal platform for exploration, mapping and monitoring tasks. If they are further realized in small scale, they can also be used in narrow out- and indoor environment and they represent only a limited risk for the environment and people living in it. However, for such operations today’s systems navigating on GPS information only are not sufficient any more. Fully autonomous operation in cities or other dense environments requires the micro helicopter to fly at low altitude or indoors where GPS signals are often shadowed and to actively explore unknown environments while avoiding collisions and creating maps. This involves a number of challenges on all levels of helicopter design, perception, actuation, control, navigation and power supply that have yet to be solved. Our S and T endeavor proposed in this project will therefore focus on micro helicopter design, visual 3D mapping and navigation, low power communication including range estimation and multi-robot control under environmental constraints. It shall lead to novel micro flying robots that are: • Inherently safe due to very low weight (around 500g) and appropriate propeller design; • capable of vision-based fully autonomous navigation and mapping; • able of coordinated flight in small swarms in constrained and dense environments.

Keywords: micro air vehicles,visual navigation,quadrotor,multi-robot control,v-slam,micro-helicopter
Social Engagement with Robots and Agents (SERA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1484952.0
EU funding (EUR): 1150000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The project SERA (Social Engagement with Robots and Agents) aims to advance science in the field of social acceptability of verbally interactive robots and agents, with a view to their applications especially in assistive technologies (companions, virtual butlers). To this aim, the project will undertake a field study in three iterations to collect data of real-life, long-term and open-ended relationships of (fully consenting and healthy adult) subjects with robotic devices. The three iterations test different conditions (functionalities) of the equipment, which will consist of a room equipped with sensors at the subjects’ home, a computer and a simple robotic device (the Nabaztag) as the front-end for interaction. The project partners will analyse the collected audio and video data in parallel, using different, mainly qualitative, methods. Data analysis will be prepared and accompanied by theoretical and methodological research in order to a) take into account the state of the art and b) ensure quality of the field study. The project will use findings from the field study to specify, build and implement a reference architecture for social engagement, and use it for developing a showcase system of combined speech based service applications with relevance to the target field and audience.

Keywords: socially situated affective interaction,assistive robotic compnaions,social-emotional architecture
ONTOlogies meet business RULEs (ONTORULE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Austria,France,Spain,Germany,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8032233.0
EU funding (EUR): 5400000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of ONTORULE is to enable the right people to interact in their own way with the right part of their business application: different people with different requirements and background, ranging from business executives to IT developers, have to interact in different ways with different aspects of a business application, to use, control and manage it. We believe that this can be achieved by cleanly separating the domain ontology from the actual business rules; and the representation of the knowledge from its IT implementation. The vocabulary required to express the business rules, and the underlying ontology, must be acquired from the natural language sources; the rules must be authored, using that vocabulary, by the owner of the business policies; the data models for the IT applications must be designed by IT developers based on the application requirements. The relevant people in the organisation must be able to manage and maintain Ontologies, business rules and data models separately, without having to care about maintaining the others items. To implement the rules in the business application, the ontology must be mapped onto the application’s data model and the rules operationalised accordingly. ONTORULE aims to develop and integrate all the required pieces of knowledge and technology to allow the acquisition of ontologies and rules from the most appropriate sources, including natural language documents; their separate management and maintenance; and their transparent operationalisation in IT applications. To achieve that objective, ONTORULE will deliver: - An integrating modelling and acquisition framework, based on the OMG SBVR standard and NLP technology - Usable ownership and management systems to empower the business owner of rules and ontology - Execution and inference engines to combine ontology and rule-based reasoning usefully and efficiently - End-to-end pilot applications to show the feasibility and added value of ONTORULE.

Keywords: integrating business policies,managing business knowledge,owl,rif,description logics,business rules,logic programming
Keeping Emulation Environments Portable (KEEP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3973445.0
EU funding (EUR): 3149741.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The overall aim of the project is to facilitate universal access to our cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects. The very success of computing technology, where machines are rapidly superseded, has created a serious and growing challenge of how to preserve access to digital material produced on obsolete machines. Cultural heritage organisations are particularly sensitive to the threat of major data loss resulting from technical obsolescence. KEEP will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable the accurate rendering of these objects, designed for a wide variety of computer systems, so that they can be securely accessed in the long term. KEEP will address the problems of transferring digital objects stored on outdated computer media such as floppy discs onto current storage devices. This will involve the specification of file formats and the production of transfer tools exploited within a framework, and taking into account possible legal and technical issues. KEEP will address all aspects ranging from safeguarding the original bits from the carrier to offering online services to end-users via a highly portable emulation framework running on any possible device. In addition to producing a software package, the project will deliver understanding about how to integrate emulation-based solutions with an operational electronic deposit system. Existing metadata models will be researched and guidelines will be developed for mapping digital objects to emulated manifestations. Overall, KEEP will create the foundation for the next generation of permanent access strategies based on emulation. Although primarily aimed at those involved in Cultural Heritage, suc

Keywords: modular emulation framework,media transfer,virtual machine,emulation access platform,transfer tools,metadata,long-term preservation of digital objects,permanent access,cultural heritage
Early Detection Of CAncer using photonic crystal Lasers (EDOCAL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Poland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1805664.0
EU funding (EUR): 1448715.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

In Europe there are 3 million new cancer cases per year. According to the WHO the burden of cancer can be reduced by systematic and equitable implementation of evidence based strategies for cancer prevention, early detection and management of patients with cancer. 33% of the cancer burden could be reduced if detected early and treated adequately. The WHO concludes that, early diagnosis of cancers could save the developed world an average of €40 billion per year on medical costs and €80 billion per year on realized productivity. The direct savings on medical treatment alone would be more than €10.000 per patient if early detection was possible. Early cancer diagnosis today consists of recognition of some of the ‘early’ signs by the patient themselves or detection from screenings carried out on specific population groups. If something suspicious is found the next step is to perform a blood analysis and/or to look with non-invasive imaging techniques. Current imaging techniques are widely used in diagnostic procedures but they cannot give conclusive evidence of cancer. Today, only a biopsy and the subsequent pathologist’s interpretation can give a definitive diagnosis of cancer and this is not always enough EDOCAL will use a tunable blue laser to selectively excite an accumulated photo sensitizer, called proto-porphyrin. This sensitizer is taken by the patient to enhance contrast between healthy and cancerous tissue. Reflected light is filtered using state of the art ultra narrow photonic crystal technology. Initial studies have shown that it is possible to detect cancerous tissue using blue light in combination with FDA approved sensitizers (ALA-5 and Proto-Porphyrin). This tool will be based on the principle of preferential retention of proto-porphyrin by cancer cells. The purpose of this project is to create a breakthrough tool for early cancer detection by combining state of the art laser and imaging technology with leading medical research.

Keywords: medical diagnostics,early cancer detection,tunable blue laser,fluorescense,proto-porphyrin,wide angle imaging
An Innovative, Ultra Low Cost, High Performance, Monolithic Millimeter Wave Imager Module to Increase the Safety of European Citizens (IMAGINE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,France,Sweden,Spain,Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498485.67
EU funding (EUR): 1122161.75
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Protecting its citizens from terrorism remains a high priority for the EC. Current SOA security procedures for air travel have significantly improved airport security. The need is now to protect the softer, unprotected areas such as mass transportation systems and hubs which are being targeted with devastating effect (London, Madrid). They are largely unprotected since current security systems are too expensive and too slow. Therefore, there is an urgent need for innovative new security screening technology that can provide a low cost, rapid ‘walk-by’ screening at normal flow rates. Whilst millimetre-wave (mm-wave) technology is the leading technology, cost is a barrier. The critical part of mm-wave systems is the detector module, at a cost of €1125 per pixel, the imager module accounts for 60% of the overall system cost. At present this high cost is due to the cost of semiconductor material and the cost of assembly and tuning to overcome resonance effects. This proposal will develop an innovative solution to reduce mm-wave module cost down to €150. This is clearly ambitious, but with the innovations below we are confident we can be successful: a) Integrating the LNA & detector stages onto a single semiconductor wafer b) Developing GaAs semiconductor wafer using mHEMPT epi-layer instead of pHEMT c) Integrating a novel antenna and waveguide into a low cost, injection moulded liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate. This is an extremely challenging project requiring significant scientific knowledge generation and technology development. As an SME we do not have all the in house skills to develop this solution alone and the skills gaps are provided by our RTD performers. Without the research for SME initiative we would not have the financial resources to engage this leading European expertise. The US currently dominates the growing imaging market ($49m, predicted to grow by 1800% in 5 years) which we aim to access for Europe with this project.

Keywords: integration of lna & detector. development of gaas mhempt epi-layer. integration of novel patch antenna & waveguide into injection moulded lcp substrate.