Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Promoting Scientific Creativity by Utilising Web-based Research Objects (DR INVENTOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Creativity and Learning
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Ireland,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3412934.0
EU funding (EUR): 2650000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Scientific creativity and innovation represent the beating heart of European growth at a time of rapid technological change. Dr Inventor is built on the vision that technologies have great potential to supplement human ingenuity in science by overcoming the limitations that people suffer in pursuing scientific discovery. It presents an original system that will provide inspiration for scientific creativity by utilising the rich presence of web-based research resources. Dr Inventor will act as a personal research assistant, utilising machine-empowered search and computation to bring researchers extended perspectives for scientific innovation by informing them of a broad spectrum of relevant research concepts and approaches, by assessing the novelty of research ideas, and by offering suggestions of new concepts and workflows with unexpected features for new scientific discovery. Dr Inventor is an attempt to understand the potential of technology in the scientific creative process within current technology limitations. It represents a sound balance between scientific insight into individual scientific creative processes and technical implementation using innovative technologies in information extraction, document summarization, semantics and visual analytics. The outcomes will be integrated into a web-based system that will allow evaluation in a selected research area under real-world settings with carefully designed metrics, benchmarks and baseline for creative performance, leading to tangible measurements on the performance of the technologies in enhancing human creativity and a blueprint for future technologies in computational creativity. Dr Inventor has huge implications for scientific innovation in Europe, as it has the potential to change the way in which scientific research is undertaken. The acceptance of the system by general research communities will open opportunities for many industrial sectors, leading to reinforced leadership of European industry.

Keywords: scientific creativity,computational creativity,analogy,conceptual blending,information extraction,document summarization,semantic technologies,visual analytics,patent industry
Miraculous-Life for Elderly Independent Living (MIRACULOUS-LIFE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Switzerland,Cyprus,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4195276.0
EU funding (EUR): 3320457.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of the Miraculous-Life project is to design, develop and evaluate an innovative user-centric technological solution, the Virtual Support Partner (VSP), attending to the elder (65+) daily activity and safety needs, while the elder goes about his normal daily life. The VSP will provide implicit daily activities support which is based on behaviour and emotional understanding and appropriate respond exhibiting distinctive emotions, deliver in a human like way simulating in essence the interaction with a real life partner. Specifically, the VSP fuses together user’s facial expressions, voice intonation, gestures and other contextual information of the user’s environment and provides intelligent responses and delivery of services through an Avatar-based interface exhibiting empathic respond through face emotions and voice intonations. Through an intelligent dialogue, and the use of different ICT services for elder home daily activities support and safety, the VSP stimulates and motivates the elder to act. The validation of the system will be realized in two well selected use cases in two different countries. Up to 100 elderly people and their caregivers will use the system over a six month period. The system will be delivered to the user in form of a stand-alone consumer product, operating on a scalable distributed network of interconnected tablet and Kinect devices, focusing on minimum essential personalized elder’s daily activities care support at home. The system will provide benefits on a practical, psychological and social level enabling and motivating the elderly to remain longer active in carrying out their daily life at home prolonging thus their independence and improving their wellbeing.

Keywords: virtual support partner,daily activity and safety support at home,behaviour and emotion recognition,multimodal avatar-based interface,intelligent dialogue,independent living
Cyber-Physical European Roadmap and Strategy (CYPHERS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,France,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 584694.0
EU funding (EUR): 535000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The ongoing integration of software-intensive embedded systems and global communication networks into Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is considered to be the next revolution in ICT with a lot of game-changing business potential and novel business models for integrated services and products. CPS will be a core enabling technology for securing economic leadership in embedded systems/ICT, having an enormous social and economic importance, and making decisive contributions to societal challenges. Europe is well positioned to meet this merging of the physical and virtual worlds. However, to effectively address the associated challenges, a strategic agenda is needed to ensure Europe's competitiveness. This Support Action will systematically survey, analyse, and evaluate the economic, technical, scientific, and societal significance of Cyber-Physical Systems for Europe. The project will develop an integrated strategic CPS research agenda for Europe, and derive comprehensive recommendations for action that will cover the identification and prioritization of research areas, support measures for both horizontal and vertical cooperation, and an outline of possible research partnerships, and will address questions of research funding as well as the issues of training, standardization and policies.

Keywords: embedded systems,networks,systems of systems,cyber-physical systems,roadmap,integrated research agenda,recommendations for action
PROMOTING ICT DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION WITH THE MPC TOWARDS HORIZON 2020 (MED-DIALOGUE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: International Cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,France,Jordan,Algeria,Morocco,Lebanon,Egypt,Tunisia,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 948088.0
EU funding (EUR): 777189.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

In line with the new concept in Horizon 2020 which integrates industrial cooperation and innovation, and the need to go beyond the old “extended workbench” principle, two are the most important aspects of such ex-tension: 1) to incorporate ETPs 2) to increase the participation of innovation driven SMEs from both sides. In this transition between FP7 ending and the launch of HORIZON 2020, comes the MED-Dialogue Support Action, brought forward by a balanced mixture of • 7 MPC governmental and academic organisations directly involved in the elaboration of policies and on the promotion of the Research and Development cooperation locally and internationally, • 4 EU partners experienced in Management and Strategy Consulting in the areas of Technology Re-search and Development, Industrial and Innovation Policies, and IT Research, highly experienced in the European Framework Programmes, supported by an advisory group of more than 20 influential and knowledgeable stakeholders from the entire MPC region MED-Dialogue is a bridge for a two-way cooperation between the MPC and the EU aiming at four main objectives: A: Support through a flexible modular approach the Dialogue between EU and the Region in any form or structure, be that political, technical, formal, informal, by providing on demand customized timely in-put solidly documented on all the new Horizon 2020 concept aspects. B: Raise awareness on the H2020 first Calls and assist the organisations in the Region to prepare proposals and find partners in order to increase their participation in the Programme. C: Support the EC in the preparation of the Horizon 2020 workprogramme 2016-17, by identifying the strengths and opportunities in the MPC (through the identified and validated ICT priorities) for mutually beneficial cooperation. D: Support the coordination of International Cooperation instruments in the MPC by exploiting synergies of running projects and make recommendations for future INCO activities in H2020.

Keywords: cooperation with the mpc
Sensing, monitoring and actuating on the UNderwater world through a federated Research InfraStructure Extending the Future Internet (SUNRISE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Portugal,Netherlands,United States,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Türkiye,Greece,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5320023.0
EU funding (EUR): 4036000.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

We must learn to both sustainably exploit & protect our vast oceans, provider of oxygen, food, hydrocarbons & other resources. A solution lies in sensing & interacting through an Internet of Things, with distributed networks of intelligent sensors & actuators. Unfortunately, we currently lack a marine Internet, crucial to achieve distributed, coordinated & adaptive control, due to the rapid absorption of light & radio waves in seawater. The SUNRISE objectives are to develop: 5 federated underwater (UW) communication networks (CommsNet), based on pilot infrastructure already designed, built & deployed by consortium partners, in diverse environments, web-accessible & interfaced with existing FIRE facilities to experiment with Future Internet technologies. A software-defined open-architecture modem & protocol stack that will empower open collaborative developments. Standard platforms for simulation, emulation & replay testing to estimate CommsNet performance at a fraction of current at-sea experiments, validated by tests conducted on the SUNRISE networks over a variety of applications & environments. A user-friendly interface for diverse users to interact with SUNRISE systems to conduct trials & benefit from databases of CommsNet performance data gathered over long periods from the SUNRISE infrastructure. SUNRISE directly addresses FIRE objectives by combining technology with novel paradigms in new, open experimental facilities, integrating physical systems with software development in a new physical domain. SUNRISE will provide a way to select UW CommsNet standards based on objective measures of performance, strengthening as more sites are added in the future. The SUNRISE network will remain key for UW Internet development long after the project ends, with broad involvement of researchers, manufacturers & users ensuring that appropriate technologies are developed, selected & implemented in products that support sustainable maritime exploitation and management.

Keywords: internet of things,embedded systems,wireless sensor and actor networks,underwater wireless sensor networks,underwater robotics,underwater testing infrastructures.
a Multimodal Authoring and Gaming Environment for Location-based coLlaborative AdveNtures (MAGELLAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Creativity and Learning
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom,Czechia,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9937963.0
EU funding (EUR): 6748523.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Computer games represent a vast economic market, a key driver of technology, and an increasingly powerful medium for a broad range of applications. The latest wave of innovation for computer games is ‘mobile’ and, more precisely, ‘location-based’. These outdoors mobile experiences are radically different from traditional computer games or their mobile equivalent. They focus the players’ attention on the real world around them as much as on the digital world of the game, aiming to create a powerful juxtaposition of the two. Although location-based gaming is an industry on the verge of explosive growth, the creation and deployment of such experiences, especially those involving multiple participants, is simply out of reach for the vast majority of creative industries and authors because of the blend of many cutting-edge technologies they require, their hard to master limitations, and the complex gaming concepts they employ. The first objective of MAGELLAN is to deliver an unprecedented authoring environment based on visual authoring principles in order to enable non-programmers, as well as more advanced users, to cost-effectively author and publish multi-participant location-based experiences. The second objective is to deliver a scalable web platform featuring social networking means and supporting the publication, browsing and execution of a massive number of such experiences. Finally, MAGELLAN will produce a series of guides for authors of location-based experiences that will constitute a reference for interested people as well as a foundational document for future research in the field. To achieve this, MAGELLAN will adopt a holistic approach integrating interdisciplinary research involving a complementary group of world-class experts from multiple scientific and technological domains. A user-centred approach will be adopted in order to place end-users, represented by the 5 SMEs partners and the open User Group members, at the heart of the project.

Keywords: multi-participant location-based experiences,collaborative authoring,visual authoring multimodal natural user interface,3d geographic information,augmented reality,3d tracking,cloud-computing
Micro-ring resonator-based biophotonic system for food analysis (BIOFOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Switzerland,France,Netherlands,Spain,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3733966.0
EU funding (EUR): 2750000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Current methodologies for detection of food contamination based on heavy analytical tools cannot guarantee a safe and stable food supply. The reasons are the complexity, the long time-to-result (2-3 days) and the cost of these tools, which limit the number of samples that can be practically analyzed at food processing and storage sites. The need for screening tools that will be still reliable but simple, fast, low-cost, sensitive and portable for in-situ application is thus urgent. BIOFOS aims to address this need through a high-added value, reusable biosensor system based on optical interference and lab-on-a-chip (LoC) technology. To do this, BIOFOS will combine the most promising concepts from the photonic, biological, nanochemical and fluidic parts of LoC systems, aiming to overcome limitations related to sensitivity, specificity, reliability, compactness and cost issues. BIOFOS will rely on the ultra-low loss TriPleX photonic platform in order to integrate on a 4x5 mm2 chip 8 micro-ring resonators, a VCSEL and 16 Si photodiodes, and achieve a record detection limit in the change of the refractive index of 5•10-8 RIU. To support reusability and high specificity, it will rely on aptamers as biotransducers, targeting at chips for 30 uses. Advanced surface functionalization techniques will be used for the immobilization of aptamers, and new microfluidic structures will be introduced for the sample pre-treatment and the regeneration process. BIOFOS will assemble the parts in a 5x10x10 cm3 package for a sample-in-result-out, multi-analyte biosensor. The system will be validated in real settings against antibiotics, mycotoxins, pesticides and copper in milk, olive oil and nuts, aiming at detection below the legislation limits and time-to-result only 5 minutes. Based on the reusability concept, BIOFOS also aims at reducing the cost per analysis by at least a factor of 10 in the short- and 30 in the mid-term, paving the way for the commercial success of the technology.

Keywords: bio-photonics system,aptamers based sensors,optofluidics,food analysis,aptamer regeneration
The What-If Machine (WHIM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Creativity and Learning
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2193614.0
EU funding (EUR): 1700000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

In Computational Creativity research, we study how to engineer software which can take on some of the creative responsibility in arts and science projects. There has been much progress towards the creative generation of artefacts of cultural value such as poems, music and paintings. Often, when produced by people, such artefacts embed a fictional idea invented by the creator. For instance, an artist might have the fictional idea: [What if there was a quiz show, where each week someone was shot dead?] and express this through a painting, poem or film. While such ideation is clearly central to creativity, with obvious applications to the creative industries, there have only been a few small, ad-hoc studies of how to automate fictional ideation. The time is therefore ripe to see whether we can derive, implement and test novel formalisms and processes which enable software to not only invent, but assess, explore and present such ideas. We propose to investigate the following model for creative idea generation: (a) collect and analyse some information about a domain, to form a shallow world view of that domain (b) form a set of what-if style ideas from the analysis using notions of surprise, semantic tension and incongruity (c) assess, rank and select ideas based on the quality and quantity of narratives that can be generated using each idea, and (d) use the world view, idea and narratives in linguistic renderings, taking into account notions of relevancy, expansion, obfuscation and affect. Given that ideas are for human consumption, we will also collect crowd-sourced data about how people value, appreciate and expand these ideas, and will machine learn predictors for how people will react to automatically generated ideas. We expect this project to not only bring into being a new era of idea-centric approaches to Computational Creativity, but also to highlight to creative industry practitioners the huge potential of creative software collaborators.

Keywords: computational creativity,artificial intelligence,machine learning,data mining,natural language processing,automated idea generation,creative language generation
User Empowerment for Enhanced Online Presence Management (USEMP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Greece,United Kingdom,Sweden,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3206266.0
EU funding (EUR): 2270000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

A large majority of Europeans engage with Online Social Networks (OSNs) and a recent Eurobarometer study concludes that 74% of respondents think that they do not have enough control of the data they share and 70% are concerned with the way such data are handled by OSNs. In response to these concerns, USEMP aims at developing a framework that will empower users by enhancing their control over the data they distribute or interact with. The framework will reduce the existing asymmetry between data processing and control means available to OSNs and those afforded by citizens. USEMP will contribute to the reduction of this asymmetry and will propose a multidisciplinary approach motivated by the following objectives: -Advance the understanding of privacy issues on the Web through an empirical approach that combines legal, sociological, media studies and computer science perspectives. These aspects reveal different facets of the problem and are essential to the proposition of innovative privacy and personal data protection models. -Empower users through the introduction of semi-automatic mechanisms that assist them in personal data management tasks. Focus will be put on integrating insights from legal and user studies in multimedia information extraction tools in order to enhance user experience. -Contribute to raising users’ awareness concerning the advantages and risks related to sharing personal data. Particular attention will be given to the proposition of means to understand monetisation processes that take place on OSNs and on the user-controlled licensing of a part of the personal data. USEMP will demonstrate the added value of its outcomes through two use cases that will investigate (a) OSN presence control and (b) economic value of personal information. The FIRE infrastructure will be used to carry experiments related to user research, notably using living labs approach, and to evaluate developed tools from a technical perspective in large scale settings.

Keywords: personal data management,privacy,legal aspects,user empowerment research,multimedia information extraction,user assistance in osn,living labs,prototyping