Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Novel materials and extreme conditions to open new frontiers in heavy fermion physics (NEWHEAVYFERMION)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to explore novel phenomena of heavy fermion systems. The focus will be on low temperature novel properties such as quantum criticality, unconventional superconductivity and multipole ordering, which will leads to new horizon not only of heavy fermion physics, but also of material science. We will concentrate on: (1) new materials and high quality single crystals, (2) precise temperature-pressure-field (T,P,H) phase diagrams, (3) quantum singularities and Fermiology, (4) the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity including ferromagnetic superconductor, (5) field-induced phenomena. To reach our targets, we will first attempt to grow many new compounds based on U, Ce, Yb and other rare earth elements with a careful choice of target, using various techniques. Very high quality single crystals can be a breakthrough in this field of research, in particular for unconventional superconductivity. Then, we will measure their low temperature properties with various experimental techniques under extreme conditions, namely low temperature, high field, high pressure. Activities of material growth and studies of their properties will be coordinated in order to provide rapid a feedback. This work will be comforted by theoretical work. To carry out specific experiments, we will develop a new AC calorimetry system under extreme conditions and a de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) measurement system. With this experimental method, we aim to directly observe the heavy electronic state. This is a major issue to clarify the possible Fermi surface instability at quantum singularities. The high quality samples will be supplied to other groups in order to extend our macroscopic and microscopic experimental multi approach.

Keywords: heavy fermion,actinide science,unconventional superconductivity,crystal growth
Extreme biophysics: single molecule characterisation of extremophilic protein folding (EXTREME BIOPHYSICS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499664.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499664.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Extremophilic (extreme-loving) organisms have evolved unique features to enable them to function in extreme environmental conditions. Despite much progress in understanding extremophilic protein structure, there is a lack of quantitative information on the conformational dynamics and flexibility of proteins in extreme environments, information which is crucial to develop an understanding of their functional capabilities. Understanding the physical mechanisms of extremophilic organisms and their remarkable preservation capability is not only of fundamental interest, but also pivotal to our abilities to rationally engineer or re-engineer biological materials for exploitation. This proposal aims to develop quantitative biophysical approaches to characterise the physical mechanisms of protein folding and stability in extreme environments. This is an ambitious program of work with great potential to lead to ground-breaking scientific breakthroughs in the fields of water and aqueous solutions, protein folding and protein adaption in extremophilic environments. A state-of-the-art, custom built force spectroscopy instrument will be used to examine the conformational dynamics of single extremophilic proteins. A newly built, state-of-the-art diffractometer at the ISIS pulsed neutron facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in the UK will be exploited to uncover details of the structural architecture of extremophilic proteins and their surrounding solvent environment. The development of these methods will deliver fundamental insights into the mechanisms of extreme organisms, in addition to developing research tools that will be exploited in synthetic biology, industry and bionanotechnology. A unique collection of skills, together with a world class team of collaborators from across Europe, gives this proposal unrivalled ability to transform extremophilic protein folding research in Europe.

Keywords: single molecule biophysics,water
Towards Automated Interactions between the Internet and the Carrier-Grade Management Ecosystems (ONE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Korea, Republic of,Poland,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3862984.0
EU funding (EUR): 2229125.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

There is a wide consensus among telecom vendors and operators that the next decade will see a mélange of evolving Internet architectures embedded into high-bandwidth technologies and carrier-grade systems for control and management. The combined Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet-based optical transport solutions are expected to drastically lower capital and operational expenses and improve overall network performance. Central to this premise is the concept of autonomic network management, offering a radical improvement in the way Internet can interact with the transport layers, making automated use of available capacity and physical interconnectivity. Unfortunately, practice lags far behind this promise. The segmentation of IP and carrier-grade technologies has not only produced the carrier’s organizational separation, but also a fragmentation of the technical competence through separate Network Management Systems (NMSs). In the isolated Internet and carrier-grade management ecosystems, even simple operations, such as IP link upgrades, require multiple human-assisted configurations, and are far from automation. As a result, carriers are seeking ways to alleviate the dependency on manual processes that do not only create management expenditures, but also lead to a heavy overprovision of the IP network. In the project ONE, we propose to alleviate the current isolation between the IP and carrier-grade management ecosystems. As first step towards a commercially-viable autonomic management solution, we plan to design and prototype an ontology-based communication adapter between the two NMS systems, enabling: i) automated provisioning of IP topologies and services; ii) policy-based setup/release of resources; and iii) coordinated self-healing. We emphasize that the solution does not aim to integrate the NMSs, but it should enable their communication, and thus effectively exploit a set of common objectives as they evolve in future systems.

Keywords: network management,ontology-based communications system,automated provisioning,coordinated self-healing
New Principles of Unbound Embodied Evolution (EVOBODY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 249560.0
EU funding (EUR): 166000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Evolutionary computation is an efficient optimizing and solution-generating mechanism inspired by biological evolution. It has been successfully applied in many branches of engineering, business, artificial biological (synthetic biology) and technological (robotics) systems. Evolution-based models of computation in a broader sense are now ``invading’’ new interdisciplinary research areas in innovative fields within bio-chemistry, on-chip factories, reconfigurable and evolvable hardware, molecular computing, and pervasive adaptive systems. The resulting systems are permanently driven by internal and/or external forces with long-term evolve-ability, unbound developmental processes, and very strong embodiment. Traditional evolutionary computing does not provide knowledge about such novel systems. The given proposal targets evolutionary and related multi-disciplinary communities, such as bio-inspired, adaptive, bio-synthetic ones, which use mechanisms of evolutionary computation. The main goal is to facilitate identification and formulation of novel research topics on the field of unbound developmental and self-developmental evolutionary processes, embodied in different real systems. Such systems are estimated to have an essential impact on science, technology and society in next years, this support activity aims to connect different communities to create also an awareness of these global trends and to focus researchers on fundamental challenges and their impact.

Keywords: understanding life,evolutionary computing,evolutionary (synthetic) biology and bio-molecular science,evolvable and bio-inspired hardware,evolutionary robotics
Socio-Economic Impact Assessment for Research Projects (SEQUOIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 590710.0
EU funding (EUR): 502001.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

SEQUOIA will perform an assessment of the socio-economic impact of research projects in the area of Software as a Service and Internet of Services. At the same time, it will capture and document this process in order to develop a self-assessment methodology that on-going and future research projects will be able to adopt and apply on their own after the end of this support action. Finally. SEQUOIA will also develop recommendations for how self-monitoring mechanisms can be built into the FP7 project instruments in order to facilitate the self-assessment process and enable the impact of SaaS/IoS to be optimised in future FP7 calls and in FP8.

Keywords: socio-economic impact self-assessment internet of services research projects
makeSense: Easy Programming of Integrated Wireless Sensor Networks (MAKESENSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2806878.0
EU funding (EUR): 1799999.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Wireless sensor networks are expected to play a critical role in the next computing revolution of cooperating objects and smart embedded devices. However, industry adoption is hampered because sensor networks are currently very difficult to program. To realize a sensor network application, programmers must be sensor network experts and must focus on low-level details instead of the high-level objectives of the application. MakeSense intends to drastically improve the ease of wireless sensor network programming by allowing programmers to express high-level objectives and leave the low-level details to the compiler and run-time system. Our approach consists of three layers: an application model layer, a macroprogramming abstraction layer, and a self-optimizing run-time system layer. The application model layer integrates the sensor networks with business application systems by allowing WSNs to be expressed as a business application concept. The macroprogramming layer provides a network-centric programming abstraction that relieves the programmer of the details of low-level, node-centric programming. The self-optimizing run-time system layer adapts to the specific conditions in the deployed sensor network by optimizing communication patterns and resource consumption based on input from the higher layers. By design, makeSense enables integration of wireless sensor networks into business processes. The project thereby enables a far-reaching adoption of sensor networks in European industry, holding the potential to become the reference sensor network programming platform in Europe. The project consortium is very strong and has extensive experience from previous projects in the area. We therefore have the required expertise, skills, and excellence to take this project from its important vision to landmark results that have a significant impact for the future of wireless sensor networks in European industry.

Keywords: wireless sensor networks,programming,integration with business processes,cooperating objects,building automation
Open Flow in Europe: Linking Infrastructure and Applications (OFELIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Switzerland,United States,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Brazil,Portugal,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6175282.0
EU funding (EUR): 4449912.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the OFELIA project is to create a unique experimental facility that allows researchers to not only experiment 'on' a test network but to control the network itself precisely and dynamically. To achieve this, the OFELIA facility is based on OpenFlow, a currently emerging networking technology that allows to virtualize and control the network environment through secure and standardized interfaces. In a nutshell, OpenFlow enables experimenters to change the behavior of the network as part of the experiment rather than, if at all, as part of the experiment setup. OFELIA will provide high-performance OpenFlow equipment to enable experiments at scale and to ensure that the facility is based on mature technology. Another strength of OFELIA is its concept of federated or interconnected islands. A set of five islands creates a diverse OpenFlow infrastructure that allows experimentation on multi-layer and multi-technology networks provided by the different islands. The facility will extend all the way from standard Ethernet to optical and wireless transmission and it will also include an emulation wall for scalability tests comprising thousands of nodes. The facility will grow in three phases to, on the one hand provide an early access to the facility (after 6 months already) and, on the other hand to evolve during the project lifetime, incorporating the feedback of the user community and extending its reach to other test facilities. Two open calls will be published to invite experimenters that bring their use cases and scenarios to the facility creating a feedback loop to extend the OFELIA facility according to the needs of the user community.

Keywords: openflow,research facility,testbeds
EXpAnding LTE for Devices (EXALTED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Serbia,Germany,France,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10268248.0
EU funding (EUR): 7029313.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The number of networked humans will reach saturation by the middle of the next decade, while the number of networked devices will continue to increase dramatically for some time to come. The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) has set out a vision of the future where 7 trillion wireless devices will be serving 7 billion people by 2017. The vast majority of wireless traffic will be between machines in remote locations. However, wireless communication networks have been designed mainly with human users in mind. And while scale and type of M2M applications are growing rapidly over today’s cellular networks, they are still defined following mainly human’s communication requirements. To meet the requirements of M2M applications, a new kind of network is needed to serve efficiently a huge number of devices which may have rather modest communications needs. The project will work towards meeting following main aims: • To develop and provide a new architecture to support efficient and cost-effective wireless M2M communications. • To provide energy efficient wide area coverage for M2M applications such as wireless sensor networks. • To extend the scalability of the LTE infrastructure with the aim to extend the range of applications to very cost sensitive “mobile narrowband” applications. • To develop a cost, spectrum and energy efficient radio access technology for M2M applications, adapted to coexist within a high capacity LTE network. • To increase energy efficiency of devices, as they may need to be autonomous for months or years. New sleep mode optimization and wake-up mechanisms will be developed within the LTE extensions. Achieving these aims, EXALTED will impact both the network and service infrastructure, and also the use and exploitation of LTE networks, thus boosting the European manufacturers and operators.

Keywords: lte,capillary,security,p2p,device management,interworking,broadcast,multicast
Exploring the isotopic dimension of the global mercury cycle (MERCURY ISOTOPES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1176924.0
EU funding (EUR): 1176924.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mass-independent fractionation (MIF) of isotopes in terrestrial geochemical processes was first observed in 1983 for oxygen and in 2000 for sulfur isotopes. Recently mercury (Hg) was added to this shortlist when isotopic anomalies were observed for Hg s two odd isotopes, 199Hg and 201Hg in biological tissues. The objective of the MERCURY ISOTOPES project is to take Hg MIF beyond the initial discovery, and use it to address major outstanding scientific questions of societal and philosophical interest. Similar to the profound insights that carbon and oxygen isotope systematics have brought to climate research, we propose to use variations in Hg isotopic compositions to fingerprint natural and anthropogenic sources, quantify isotope fractionation processes, and provide new constraints on models of mercury cycling. The MERCURY ISOTOPES project centres on the use of mercury MIF to understand global Hg dynamics at different time scales, from the Pleistocene to modern times. Three main themes will be investigated: 1. the modern Hg cycle focusing on Asian urban-industrial emissions related to coal burning, 2. recent atmospheric Hg deposition in the Arctic, recent Arctic Ocean Hg records from archived biological tissues, and post-glacial Hg deposition from 10,000 yr old ombrotrophic peat records along a mid-latitude sub-Arctic gradient. 3 Continuous atmospheric Hg speciation and isotopic monitoring at the Pic du Midi Observatory (Pyrenees). By tapping information from the isotopic dimension of Hg cycling, including revolutionary mass-independent effects, I expect a maximum scientific impact while supporting a socially relevant and urgently needed investigation at the frontier of isotope geosciences.

Keywords: mercury isotope geochemistry
Advanced TEchnology MOdelling for eXtra-functionality devices (ATEMOX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Switzerland,France,France,Hungary,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4330254.0
EU funding (EUR): 3024035.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Within previous European projects with major contributions by the current proposers, process simulation has been brought to a state which allows in industrial environments a sufficiently accurate simulation of doping profiles in advanced CMOS technologies. Important electrical characteristics of core CMOS devices can now be predicted from scratch or with a minimum calibration effort. However, concepts towards low-power electronics, smart power applications, CMOS image sensors, and CMOS derivatives providing extra functionalities are still not sufficiently supported by TCAD. This concerns especially the prediction of leakage currents in such or parasitic devices caused by electrically active defects that remain after processing, and alternative doping techniques like plasma immersion ion implantation, low-temperature implantation, diversified cocktail implants and laser annealing which are considered for low-leakage ultra shallow junctions. The lack of suitable models that can be used in the early stages of industrial R&amp;D inhibits the necessary cost reduction in the development of devices for which Europe is still at the forefront. Our project will develop the full set of missing models and implement and include them into the Sentaurus TCAD platform of Synopsys so that they are of immediate value to the European semiconductor industry. The integrated models will finally be evaluated by STMicroelectronics with respect to industrial needs. To reach these ambitious goals, a consortium of European companies active in complementary fields of competence (STMicroelectronics: device manufacturing, Synopsys: TCAD software, Exico, IBS: equipment production, Probion, Semilab: characterization) and leading European research institutes (CNR-IMM, CNRS-LAAS/CEMES, ETH-Zurich, Fraunhofer-IISB, Univ. Newcastle) has been formed which, together, is well prepared to expertly cover all fields from experiment via characterization and modelling to simulation.

Keywords: technology computer aided design,tcad,leakage current,low-power electronics,extra-functionality devices