Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Platform for Advanced Single Cell-Manipulation and Analysis (PASCA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Ireland,France,Denmark,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3935225.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Analysis of biological cells down to single cell resolution is a prospective technique in nearly all fields of life science research. In particular manipulation and analysis of single cells can open up a new dimension in cell biology, tissue engineering, drug development and diagnostics. The advancement of single cell technology as a whole requires tools and instrumentation to sort, transport and manipulate single living cells. Micro system technology with its sophistications can provide in this context capabilities far beyond today’s methods. Therefore, this project aims to develop a single cell manipulator (SCM) micro instrument for inkjet like printing of single living cells confined in micro droplets of only 50µm size. Such a device can serve as a universal tool for manipulating cells in a non-invasive flexible manner. Within the project the SCM device will be applied to cell biological applications in cancer research and drug development to demonstrate and validate the performance of the device, as well as to establish a flexible platform for advanced single cell-manipulation and analysis (PASCA). In order to achieve these objectives crosscutting technological challenges have to be faced which can be overcome by integrating and interfacing multiple core technologies, only. Cutting edge bio-sensing technology like impedance spectroscopy and state of the art micro dispensing methods will be applied and combined with latest cell biological methods to establish the SCM instrument as multifunctional microsystem for cell manipulation. Through the highly innovative integrated approach and the validation within the PASCA platform the SCM instrument has excellent exploitation perspectives in multiple application sectors. Also the project structure as a whole supports the objectives of the work program:By intensively involving SMEs to feed the innovation cycle and by bringing the user into research cycles through the open access partner structure.

Keywords: single cell manipulation,micro-instrumentation
EUROPRACTICE CAD and IC Service for European universities and research institutes (EUROPRACTICE IC5)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2927421.0
EU funding (EUR): 1850000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This project is to continue the current EUROPRACTICE IC4 Service. The current EUROPRACTICE IC4 Service project, part of the 7th Framework and ending on 31 December 2010, is widely recognized as a world-leading service offering state-of-the-art CAD tools and microelectronics-based technologies to universities and industry. Today, through the EC funding of the EUROPRACTICE IC4 project, 650 European Academia (550 universities and 100 research centers) have access to this Service. Continuation of this project is considered indispensable as universities need to be able to renew their annual CAD licenses for continuing support of their research and training courses and need to get further IC prototyping services. In order to avoid a gap (waiting for the next call – possibly in 2011), this proposal is submitted now. As the budget for CSA activities in Call 5 is limited, the proposal covers only 1 year of full operation (2011). The objectives are offering access to CAD tools for training and research, and access to advanced IC and MEMS technologies for prototyping. As a broker, EUROPRACTICE negotiates low cost conditions with the most popular industry-standard CAD vendors for educational use and non-commercial research within the 650 European Academia. EUROPRACTICE has negotiated with several IC and MEMS foundries agreements to buy or share low cost MPW (Multi Project Wafer) runs in order to offer low cost prototype possibilities to universities and research institutes. New advanced technologies, such as 65nm and 40nm CMOS will be added to the portfolio of technologies as soon as those technologies become available and affordable. Also discussions are going on with other European “service” providers, initiated by EC funded projects, in order to make them available on a wider European scale to the existing network of 650 European Academia. As such, the IC service will be further extended with prototyping possibilities in selected MEMS-like technologies

Keywords: microelectronics,cad,asic,prototyping,universities,mems,training,service,europractice
Silicon Quantum Wire Transistors (SQWIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,France,France,Belgium,Spain,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4326034.0
EU funding (EUR): 3150000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the SQWIRE project is to develop a disruptive, industry-compatible CMOS technology based on novel silicon nanowire transistor structures. The co-ordinator has demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally that nanowire MOS transistors can be fabricated at wafer level using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates. These novel devices have shown electrical properties that are comparable or even superior to those of regular transistors. Two such novel devices are the Gated Resistor (a junctionless transistor simulated, prototype fabricated and patented) and the variable-barrier tunnel transistor (VBT, simulated and patented). To obtain industrial validation, fabrication routes will be developed for these devices on novel 300 mm SOI wafers with silicon film thicknesses of only 10 nm. These routes will be underpinned by process development targeting atom-scale control of the silicon film thickness across the wafer. Device performance will be characterised at die-level and evaluated in a statistically meaningful manner at wafer level. The extracted parameters will serve as the basis for the development of a compact model of the Gated Resistor devices, which can be used for further circuit design and the validation of advanced numerical simulations. The fabrication process for the first device (Gated Resistor) is less complex and more flexible than that of regular transistors. It has the potential of increasing yield and reducing the price of integrated circuits. Furthermore, the Gated Resistor offers the promise of superior scaling to sub-22 nm dimensions compared to regular transistors. In addition, the process can easily be implemented in semiconductor materials other than silicon. The second device (Variable Barrier Transistor) is capable of providing subthreshold slopes sharper than any conventional transistor. This permits one to reduce the supply voltage of integrated circuits, and hence their energy consumption.

Keywords: silicon on insulator,silicon nanowires
Future Integral SatCom Initiative (FISI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Germany,Italy,Greece,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 648473.0
EU funding (EUR): 490000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Merit to their inherent properties of ubiquitous coverage and dependability, Satellite communication (SatCom) solutions by now play a significant role for the delivery of telecommunication services to European citizens and institutions in entertainment, digital divide, private networks, disaster management and security domains. Emerging SatCom architectures featuring increased capacity and flexibility conform with Future Internet requirements, shall make available disruptive performances and service capabilities. These emerging architectures will contribute to EU policy objectives (European Council resolution 10500/09) for Institutional telecommunication service needs in Security, Transport and Energy and for the Universal Service. The FISI project aims at supporting * the Integral SatCom Initiative (Technology Platform) in defining a strategic vision on research and development priorities to reinforce the competitiveness of the European SatCom industry in the evolving ICT context. * the upcoming SatCom architectures in response to EU policy objectives; To achieve this goal, the FISI project will: * Highlight the added value of emerging SatCom architectures in support of private communication requirements in the Universal Service and Future Internet domains; * Coordinate the definition of a consistent SatCom R&D and standardization road map for the timely development of emerging SatCom solutions; * Foster the transition of the ISICOM concept (global SatCom infrastructure to serve institutional telecommunication needs) towards a flagship initiative as long term framework for the development of enabling technologies for emerging SatCom architectures; * Promote emerging SatCom architectures towards European and international end-users and stakeholders; * Maintain ISI as key Platform and Support the ISI operations; The FISI consortium is formed by key actors of ISI, highly involved in its operations.

Keywords: satellite communication systems,technology platform,research and development priorities,standardisation plan,implementation plan
Coordination Action for Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (AWARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 809070.0
EU funding (EUR): 724996.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of the AWARE Coordination Action is to provide a focal point for the wide range of research domains potentially addressed by the FET Proactive Initiative in AWARENESS. Self-awareness in autonomic systems can include ideas and concepts from artificial intelligence, network performance, distributed systems, machine learning, and artificial consciousness. This CA seeks to provide a common forum for cross-disciplinary interactions, by facilitating the exchange of ideas and personnel, by coordinating the development of the research projects and programme, and timely dissemination of research within the community and to a broader scientific and technological audience. The long-term purpose of these activities is to build a new, self-sustaining scientific community and the project will engage in a number of specific initiatives to bring this about. These will include workshops, summer schools, researcher placements, a periodical newsletter, a magazine, book, a video documentary, research consultations and other road-mapping, agenda-setting activities. A successful outcome of the project will include cross-fertilisation between different research domains, a gathering of scientists with a common purpose and training for an active group of well-informed, well-connected young researchers. The resulting generation of new knowledge and opportunities will reinforce Europe&apos;s position at the forefront of this exciting and challenging field of research.

Keywords: self-awareness,authonomic systems,pervasive
Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making (DICODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3510004.0
EU funding (EUR): 2599991.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the Dicode project is to facilitate and augment collaboration and decision making in data-intensive and cognitively-complex settings. To do so, it will exploit and build on the most prominent high-performance computing paradigms and large data processing technologies - such as cloud computing, MapReduce, Hadoop, Mahout, and column databases – to meaningfully search, analyze and aggregate data existing in diverse, extremely large, and rapidly evolving sources. Building on current advancements, the solution foreseen in the Dicode project will bring together the reasoning capabilities of both the machine and the humans. It can be viewed as an innovative workbench incorporating and orchestrating a set of interoperable services that reduce the data-intensiveness and complexity overload at critical decision points to a manageable level, thus permitting stakeholders to be more productive and concentrate on creative activities. Services to be developed are: (i) scalable data mining services (including services for text mining and opinion mining), (ii) collaboration support services, and (iii) decision making support services. The achievement of the Dicode project’s goal will be validated through three use cases addressing clearly established problems. These cases were chosen to test the transferability of Dicode solution in different collaboration and decision making settings, associated with diverse types of data and data sources, thus covering the full range of the foreseen solution’s features and functionalities. They concern: (i) scientific collaboration supported by integrated large-scale knowledge discovery in clinico-genomic research, (ii) delivering pertinent information from heterogeneous data to communities of doctors and patients in medical treatment decision making, and (iii) capturing tractable, commercially valuable high-level information from unstructured Web 2.0 data for opinion mining.

Keywords: collaboration,decision making,data mining,high-performance computing
Exploring a Future Internet suited to a probable paradigm shift in global societal developments (PARADISO2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 540480.0
EU funding (EUR): 481928.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project has the ambition to amend a paradoxical situation: to a large extent, the Internet of the future is explored today without investigating how our societies might or should evolve in the future… PARADISO2, building on the successful achievements of the PARADISO FIRE project selected at FP7 Call 1, aims at exploring a Future Internet suited to a probable paradigm shift in global societal developments, characterized by substantially revised economic, environmental and social objectives in order to avoid major risks of breakdown. This envisioned Future Internet will be fully analyzed and specified, and presented in the “PARADISO reference document” that will also include precise recommendations for the preparation of FP8. The specification will allow being ready to validate the approach through the FIRE experimental facility The PARADISO2 partnership is the same one who successfully developed PARADISO activities and is constituted by two complementary and fully committed organisations: the Club of Rome and Sigma Orionis. Beyond this formal partnership quite a unique high-level international expert panel will be actively involved in the exploration of the envisioned Future Internet. The project aims at contributing putting Europe at the forefront of Future Internet developments, involving the greatest number of stakeholders (including the PARADISO worldwide community) and having the highest impact. To reach these objectives, two open project events will be organised (a PARADISO scientific workshop and the 2nd PARADISO conference), the PARADISO web site will be further enhanced with Web 2.0 and push technologies, and substantial dissemination activities will be undertaken. The sustainability of the momentum created by PARADISO beyond the formal project period will be investigated early in the project lifetime, so that a “PARADISO think and action tank” can continue its activities, after the end of the project.

Keywords: future internet - high-level expert panel - multidisciplinary - economic,environment,and social - societal models - ict - global - analysis,specification and validation
Future Internet Research and Experimentation By Adopting Living Labs - towards Smart Cities (FIREBALL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Finland,Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Portugal,France,Greece,France,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1673244.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499990.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The over-all objective of the FIREBALL project is to coordinate and align methodologies and approaches in the domains of Future Internet (FI) research and experimentation testbeds and user driven open innovation towards successful innovation in “smart city” environments. In doing so, and in covering the whole FI research and innovation value chain driven by smart cities being the users of the FI, FIREBALL aims to establish effective forms of cooperation across the FI innovation value chain, creating synergies and cooperation practices among different research and innovation communities related to the FI. To that end, FIREBALL brings together the different constituencies to establish common processes and methodologies and share their assets. FIREBALL explores how the different assets (testbeds, facilities, methods, know-how, applications, users) within these constituencies can be shared and configured to the demands of smart city showcases. FIREBALL will empower the different constituencies to jointly exploit the opportunities of FI innovation. To that end FIREBALL establishes a network of advanced smart cities in Europe to drive the demand for FI services and create and exchange good practices and showcases and: - Alignment of processes, methods and approaches of the different constituencies working towards the FI, based on the key role of cities and user-driven open innovation principles, - Identification of common assets of the constituencies involved, and how these can be shared for implementing smart city showcases of FI innovation, - Empowered constituencies and city innovation-ecosystems that form part of a European community dedicated to exploiting the opportunities of FI open innovation, - A widely supported action plan and roadmap for experimentally-driven research and innovation towards the FI and towards objectives to be realised by smart cities, - Recommendations for future policy and strategy at the European level.

Keywords: future internet research and exeperimentation,testbeds,living labs,smart cities,user driven open innovation
Qualitative study of nonlinear dispersive equations (DISPEQ)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: France,France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 880269.99
EU funding (EUR): 880269.99
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

We plan to further improve the understanding of the nonlinear dispersive wave propagation phenomena. In particular we plan to develop tools allowing to make a statistical description of the corresponding flows and methods to study transverse stability independently of the very particular arguments based on the inverse scattering. We also plan to study critical problems in strongly non Euclidean geometries.

Keywords: nonlinear dispersive equations
Supramolecular materials for organic electronics: unravelling the architecture vs. function relationship (SUPRAFUNCTION)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Starting Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SUPRAFUNCTION aims at mastering principles of supramolecular chemistry, in combination with top-down nanofabrication, to achieve a full control over the architecture vs. function relation in macromolecular materials for organic electronics, by analyzing and optimizing fundamental properties through which new capacities can emerge. Highly ordered supramolecularly engineered nanostructured materials (SENMs) will be self-assembled from conjugated 1D/2D molecules, and ultra-stiff multichromophoric arrays based on poly(isocyanides). Their interfaces with chemically functionalized top-down/bottom-up nanofabricated electrodes and with dielectrics will be tailored to reach SENM energy barriers with height <0.1eV and interface roughness of 3-7Å. Multiscale characterization of SENMs, nanoelectrodes and various interfaces will be done by Scanning Probe Microscopies, ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and other methods, especially to quantitatively study 3 relevant properties, viz charge injection at interfaces, charge transfer, and photoswitching current through a molecular material. Prototypes of nanowires and Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) will be fabricated especially focusing on (1) unravelling charge transport vs. charge injection, (2) the effect of photo-doping in electron acceptor-donor dyad based SENMs, and (3) novel photo-switchable FETs based on either (i) photo-responsive azobenzene SAMs chemisorbed on electrodes/dielectrics to reversibly modulate the charge injection at interfaces, or (ii) electroactive SENMs of dithienylethenes featuring extended conjugation in the side arms to promote a light tuneable p-p stacking among adjacent molecules, ultimately affecting the charge transport in stacks. The generated knowledge will offer new solutions to nanoscale multifunctional organic based logic applications.

Keywords: supramolecular electronics,conjugated materials,organic electronics,scanning probe microscopies,nanowires and transistors