Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
iCargo - Intelligent Cargo in Efficient and Sustainable Global Logistics Operations (ICARGO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Netherlands,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Poland,Spain,Belgium,France,Sweden,Finland,Belgium,Belgium,Sweden,Italy,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16886573.0
EU funding (EUR): 11146496.0
Participants: 32
Project status: CLOSED

iCargo IP aims at advancing and extending the use of ICT to support new logistics services that: (i) synchronize vehicle movements and logistics operations across various modes and actors to lower CO2 emissions, (ii) adapt to changing conditions through dynamic planning methods involving intelligent cargo, vehicle and infrastructure systems and (iii) combine services, resources and information from different stakeholders, taking part in an open freight management ecosystem. To achieve the above targets, iCargo will design and implement a decentralized ICT infrastructure that allows real world objects, new planning services including CO2 calculation capabilities and existing systems to co-exist and efficiently co-operate at an affordable cost for logistics stakeholders. iCargo infrastructure will include Intelligent Cargo items to facilitate automated reactive decision-making and to integrate information obtained from on-going execution (all modes) into planning processes to optimize environmental performances, including real-time information about traffic and transport infrastructure conditions. iCargo involves representatives of the main stakeholders in three main areas of activity: (i) research and technological development, involving leading ICT companies and institutes to integrate in iCargo the necessary technology components, including results from key related EU projects, and to develop innovative approaches and business models for co-modal transport environmental optimization and dynamic planning; (ii) implementation, demonstration and validation of three extensive pilots in end-to-end multi-actor intermodal chains, involving users from logistics companies, shippers and public authorities; (iii) extensive dissemination of research results, demonstration and pilot cases validation activities, aimed at transferring iCargo results to the international transport logistics community and supporting take-up and extensive exploitation immediately after the project

Keywords: intelligent cargo,decarbonization,transport,federated,intermodality
Policy Formulation and Validation through non moderated crowdsourcing (NOMAD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Ireland,Greece,Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3425546.0
EU funding (EUR): 2587981.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Collaboration and crowdsourcing are the realities of today’s public Internet. The so-called “Web 2.0” represents a precious repository of thematic information, thanks to the heterogeneous content that is inserted daily and spontaneously updated by its users. Very recently, a big commercial interest has started to arise – especially within industries that manufacture consumer goods and services – in acquiring, classifying and managing all product related information that emerges out of Web 2.0 channels, thus going beyond the known capabilities of consolidated search engines. It would be possible to use this insight to information at multiple stages of the policy-life cycle to support the definition of the political agenda, the creation, the implementation and the monitoring of policy proposals. In this context, modern politicians could test, detect and understand how citizens perceive their own political agendas, and also stimulate the emergence of discussions and contributions on the informal web (e.g. forums, social networks, blogs, newsgroups and wikis), so as to gather useful feedback for immediate (re)action. In this way, politicians can create a stable feedback loop between information gathered on the Web and the definition of their political agendas based on this contribution. The ability to leverage the vast amount of user-generated content for supporting governments in their political decisions requires new ICT tools that will be able to analyze and classify the opinions expressed on the informal Web, or stimulate responses, as well as to put data from sources as diverse as blogs, online opinion polls and government reports to an effective use. To this end, NOMAD aims to introduce these different new dimensions into the experience of policy making by providing decision-makers with fully automated solutions for content search, selection, acquisition, categorisation and visualisation that work in a collaborative form in the policy-making arena.

Keywords: egovernance,policy modelling,web2.0,crowdsourcing,digital reputation tools
Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living USEFIL (USEFIL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Finland,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Israel,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4622870.0
EU funding (EUR): 3376999.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The USEFIL project aims to address the gap between technological research advances and the practical needs of elderly people by developing advanced but affordable in-home unobtrusive monitoring and web communication solutions. More specifically, USEFIL intends to use low cost "off-the-shelf" technology to develop immediately applicable services that will assist the elderly in maintaining their independence and daily activities. Installation of the USEFIL system will not require retrofitting in a person’s residence and will be almost invisible once installed. Thus we expect that it can be used in a wide variety of residential environments, which will be validated in three different field trial studies. Because the system will be "software driven," based on open source platforms, applications can be easily added or subtracted with no real limit to the overall number of services offered. Furthermore, USEFIL intends to provide guidelines for the community of technology developers to optimize future generation of applications for an ageing population. Within the domain of the USEFIL project, we will deploy systems and applications that can unobtrusively record elderly behavioural indicators such as cognitive decline, emotional status and health vital signs; supply information services in parallel; and provide the means to enable individuals to keep their social life active - all irrespective of an older person’s mobility state. Technology implementation will be based on user acceptance and an understanding of user interactions that will truly address user needs. USEFIL aims to provide efficient and effective means of care delivery and increased adherence to medical recommendations and treatments by older patients. This should extend the time that older people can live independently in their homes while limiting increases in public expenditure. USEFIL has ambitious objectives. However, a strong and committed team, together with a solid governance structure, will ensure that it is capable of tackling this challenging and important research agenda – and maximizing market impact.

Keywords: unobtrusive monitoring,off the shelf products,open source os,web tv,cognitive decline,emotion awareness,video monitoring of vital signs
Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet (CONFINE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Italy,Germany,Portugal,Luxembourg,United Kingdom,South Africa,Austria,Germany,Greece,United Kingdom,Belgium,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6489808.0
EU funding (EUR): 4942000.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Community networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far beyond. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE infrastructure by establishing a new facility built on the federation of existing community IP networks constituted by more than 20,000 nodes and 20,000 Km of links. These community networks incorporate a large and wide variety of commodity wireless and optical links, heterogeneous nodes, different routing protocols, applications and a large number of end-users, following an innovative model of self-provisioning using unlicensed and public spectrum. The project develops a unified access to an open testbed with tools that allow researchers to deploy, run, monitor and experiment with services, protocols and applications on real-world community IP networks. This integrated platform will provide user-friendly access to these emerging networks supporting any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experimental technologies for open and interoperable network infrastructures, strengthening open community networks. The project will take a multi-disciplinary and integrated view to this emerging network model as part of the Future Internet across Europe and beyond. The project includes as partners well established community networks with large end-user bases and diverse application providers (e.g. content distribution, voice, data and multimedia communication), research institutions with experience in key related areas, non-profit organizations and SMEs.

Keywords: ip community networks,self-organizing networks
Clothes Perception and Manipulation (CLOPEMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Czechia,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3715051.0
EU funding (EUR): 2810000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to advance the state of the art in the autonomous perception and manipulation of all kinds of fabrics, textiles and garments.The novelty and uniqueness of this project is due chiefly to its generality. Various garments will be presented in a random pile on an arbitrary background and novel ways of manipulating them (sorting, folding, etc.) will be learned on demand in a real-life dynamic environment. The removal of previously indispensable deterministic assumptions about the modes of the textiles presentation and handling is expected to lead to greater robustness, reliability, and a wider field of applications.CloPeMa's main objective is closer integration of perception, action, learning, and reasoning. Perception means integrated haptic and visual sensing, recognition, and support for perception-action reactive cycle. Actions will be performed by a cooperating pair of robotic hands, part of the CloPeMa experimental testbed duplicated in three project partners. The hands will combine all state of the art solutions for manipulation of limp material: variable impedance actuation on a compliant hand mechanism architecture using smart materials and tactile sensorization with artificial skin on large areas.Goals and actions will be learned in a dynamic environment. All components will be subject to statistical learning, spatial reasoning, and high-level reasoning. Thus integrated, CloPeMa is aimed at functionalities that had hitherto proved elusive for systems using only some of these parts in isolation.Data and procedures to obtain them on the experimental testbed will be collected and made public. Results will be measured and analysed within three carefully defined demonstrator projects of increasing difficulty.The consortium includes expertise in all the component areas, as well as industrial involvement promising cross-fertilisation and applicability. Both basic exploratory research and implementations of its results are foreseen.

Keywords: robotics,tactile sensing,visual sensing,textile manipulation
Brain-neural computer interfaces on track to home – Development of a practical generation of BNCI for independent home use (BACKHOME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4186628.0
EU funding (EUR): 3110000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Research efforts have improved Brain-Neural Computer Interface (BNCI) technology in many ways and numerous applications have been prototyped. Until recently, these BNCI systems have been researched almost exclusively in laboratories. Home usage has been demonstrated, though only with on-going expert supervision. A significant advance on BNCI research and its implementation as a feasible assistive technology is therefore the migration of BNCIs into people’s homes to provide new options for communication and control that increase independence and reduce social exclusion. The goal of BackHome is to move BNCIs from laboratory devices for healthy users toward practical devices used at home by people in need. This implies a system which is easy to set up, portable, and straightforward. Thus, BackHome will (1) develop BNCI systems into practical multimodal assistive technologies that will provide useful solutions for communication, web-surfing, and environmental control, and (2) provide this technology for home usage with minimal support. These goals will be attained through three key developments: practical electrodes; telemonitoring with home software support; and easy-to-use applications tailored to people’s needs. BackHome will build on on-going projects in the FP7 BNCI cluster that laid the foundations for this project and provide us with a network of connections and resources that will be valuable in the project. The consortium combines extensive experience with software development, definition of standards, neuroscience and psychology research methods, user-centred approaches and training users in their homes. We will leverage this experience to get BackHome started quickly, maintain solid interactions with end users, and interact effectively with other key research groups. We will evaluate, disseminate and plan future exploitation of the BackHome scientific and technical results in close interaction with end-users. BackHome will thus have a strong impact on European dominance in the field, in the short and longer term, and could make a real difference not only for the end-users targeted but also for caregivers, support personnel, and medical professionals.

Keywords: bci/bnci,affective signals and biosignals,user-centred design,biopsychosocial impact,end users at home,telehealth,remote patient monitoring,stroke,chronic disease management
SW/HW extensions for virtualized heterogeneous multicore platforms (VIRTICAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,France,France,Greece,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-07-15
End date: 2014-10-14
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4263979.0
EU funding (EUR): 2860000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Embedded devices are pervasive in our everyday live and their complexity increases exponentially. Among them, heterogeneous multi-core processors and specific hardware accelerators allow the required computing power while exhibiting a good performance/watt ratio. The flexibility required by them is promoting an application-centric model, which makes future systems face new challenges: Openness (total decoupling from hardware to application software), security, programmability and performance.Virtualization, widely used in the general-purpose computing domain, allows an effective and clean way to isolate applications from hardware, so being suitable to cope with the challenges faced by heterogeneous multi-core embedded systems. However, virtualization on embedded systems is still in its infancy. Their real-time requirements, resource constraints and heterogeneous nature demand for an integral and different approach of the virtualization concept. The vIrtical project aims the vertical and full development of the virtualization concept addressing the specific requirements for effective embedded virtualization. A virtualization-ready SoC platform and the associated programming models will be developed, tackling all the system layers: applications, programming model, hypervisor and hardware. This unique integrated approach is able to address the evolution towards heterogeneous multi-cores and even many-cores in embedded systems by focusing not only on the well-known processor virtualization but on the hardware assisted virtualization for the overall SoC. Security and protection, real-time QoS guarantees, reliability, process variation, power savings, and memory coherency will be addressed and will influence the way the system is virtualized.The vIrtical consortium is formed by key European players in the embedded market (UNIBO,UPV,TEI,ST,THALES,ARM,SYSGO,VOSYS), so guaranteeing the right development of the different layers tackled in the virtualization-ready SoC platform

Keywords: virtualization,heterogeneus,multicore,embeded systems.
Interactive Analysis, Simulation and Visualisation Tools for Urban Agile Policy Implementation (URBANAPI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Austria,Austria,Bulgaria,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2992086.0
EU funding (EUR): 2406371.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

In the context of European initiatives to improve policy as a more transparent and understandable process, the urbanAPI project aims to support activities such as issue identification, policy analysis, consultation, decision and evaluation in urban planning and land management policy. For this purpose, a policy metamodel, a formalised vocabulary, a set of rule languages to define data integration and abstract simulation models are introduced. Furthermore, the urbanAPI approach will transpose elements of agile ICT development to the urban policy making process: Multiple activities can run in parallel, and all activities are kept synchronized. In such a process, risks are identified earlier, conflicts are understood better, and that knowledge gained in one activity can directly be used in all other activities. On this formal basis, a novel ICT toolset is developed. The urbanAPI toolset allows the fast development and deployment of participative policy support applications. These applications can be used for decision support, conflict management, analysis and visualisation and rely on innovative interaction platforms. Concepts known from web 2.0 and semantic web technologies, such as linking, tagging, rating and adding of semantic annotations, are supported directly. Applications created with the urbanAPI toolset also make use of a comprehensive data integration system to make use of the vast data resources – geospatial and statistical datasets – related to planning. Local initiatives in the four urban regions working in this project will be encouraged to participate within the planning process, to contribute to the final solutions and understand and finally accept the expected impacts on environment and habitants. Based on the toolset, adapted urban planning applications will be created, deployed, evaluated and used to support policy makers, planners and stakeholders at different governance and spatial levels (urban quarter level, municipal level, urban region level).

Keywords: ict tools,spatial analysis,simulation,visualisation,urban planning,integrated urban management,public participation,stakeholder integration
Novel Insights into Multi-drug Resistance to Antibiotics and the Primordial Ribosome (NOVRIB)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120314, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2487989.0
EU funding (EUR): 2487989.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Multi-drug resistant phenotype formation creates global severe clinical threat among the most important challenges facing medicine today, dictating an urgent need for novel approaches. We aim to reveal the scope and mechanisms of resistance in pathogens, by studies that have not been pursued so far worldwide. In parallel we initiated innovative research towards understanding the ribosome origin, aiming at illuminating the transition from the primordial RNA world to the contemporary coded translation era, alongside exploring new targets and providing useful clues for antibiotics design. We base our interdisciplinary objectives on our discoveries originating from the ribosomes high resolution structures, the results of our pioneering efforts and subsequent perseverance. By revealing unique properties of genuine pathogens that facilitate their exclusive resistance pathways,instead of depending solely on benign eubacterial models, we expect to gain matchless new insights. As no crystals of ribosomes from pathogens are available, we have initiated crystallographic studies, and present here preliminary results on two pathogenic life threatening bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus (associated with MRSA resistance) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis via Mycobacterium smegmatis that serve as its medical diagnostic tool. We also aim at experimentally defining the intra-ribosome region suggested by us to be a vestige of a prebiotic apparatus (proto-ribosome) by designing autonomous molecular entities with catalytic capabilities. Constructs the bind substrates have already been obtained. The expected enhancement in understanding peptide bond formation should lead to novel insights into this universal essential process. Our studies are designed to provide unprecedentedly powerful new tools for minimizing pathogens resistance thus should be of immense therapeutic relevance & will open up new horizons for researchers seeking response to challenges of the increasing antibiotic resistance.

Keywords: ribosome,antibiotics,resistance,origin of life,rna,pathogen,staphylococcus aureus,mycobacterium tuberculosis,mycobacterium smegmatis