Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Intangible Assets and Regional Economic Growth (IAREG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,France,Germany,Hungary,Germany,Finland,Austria,United Kingdom,Estonia,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1769167.8
EU funding (EUR): 1350000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of IAREG is to analyse the role played by intangible assets (IA) in the generation of innovation, competitiveness and consequently economic growth and increases in productivity at regional level with a special emphasis on the geographical space in which such processes occur. The specific objectives of the project will be: To develop new indicators for improving the measuring of some of the IA that we consider to have the most influence in the generation of economic development. To analyse how IA and their interaction define the environment affecting firms’ location. To measure the role of regional externalities in the generation of IA and in determining local economic performances in Europe and in the diffusion of knowledge. To provide decision makers with policy recommendations in order to support them in the future design and implementation of regional innovation strategies. The main result expected in the project is the guide of policy recommendations and the dissemination of this guide among regional, national and European policy makers. The project will be carried out by a consortium of 11 partners from 9 European countries. To ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives, the project is structured in 8 workpackages. The first block of workpackages, comprised by WP1, WP2 and WP3 will research on the impact of different intangible assets on innovation, regional economic growth and productivity, both at a theoretical but especially at the empirical level. WP4 and WP5 will analyse the role of spatial knowledge flows (knowledge diffusion) as a transmission mechanism from IA to innovation and growth. WP6 will be devoted to the development of a guide of policy recommendations for stimulating intangible investment and economic growth. WP7 will focus on the broad dissemination of the results achieved in the project, specially of the policy recommendations guide. And WP8 will ensure the correct management and monitoring of the project.

Keywords: intangible assets,innovation,regional competitiveness,economic growth,knowledge capital,human capital,social capital,entrepreneurship capital,intangible assets indicators
Adaptive and Trusted Ambient Ecologies (ATRACO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2552080.0
EU funding (EUR): 1949992.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

ATRACO considers ambient ecologies consisting of people, context-aware artefacts and digital commodities (e.g., services and content). Members of the ecology are able to adapt to each other and form trusted ad hoc collaborations to achieve specific goals resulting from the need to serve specific human activities. The aim of this proposal is to research the factors and develop the technologies that will lead to the realisation of such ecologies (ATRACOs), following an interdisciplinary effort which involves Computer Science, HCI, AI, Control Theory and Sociology. Key factors of the ATRACO problem space that will be examined include adaptation, interoperability, context awareness, user interaction and dynamicity of trust. We will focus our efforts on seeking abstractions and mechanisms to mark the digital boundaries of ATRACOs for establishing trust relationships between its members, based on the concepts of digital territory and bubble, and to devise adaptation mechanisms based on supervisory control theory of discrete event systems and type-2 fuzzy logic. The project objectives are: .To understand the structure, principles and dynamics of the ATRACO problem space and to develop a conceptual framework consisting of a set of concepts implemented as an ontology, a novel interaction metaphor, implemented as a language and a layered architecture implemented with a set of components. . To research and implement the adaptation mechanisms and privacy policies, as part of the component platform. Adaptation will be provided in terms of artefact operation, ecology composition, network selection and man-machine interaction with respect to user context and behaviour. . To validate the results of our research by developing an integrated application testbed. We will experiment with our proposed component platform both within a testbed (iDorm-2 of UEssex) as well as within a simulation environment.

Keywords: conceptual framework,component platform,user interaction,adaptation and privacy policy management,ontology
SUPPORT ACTION for a European and Latin American Strategic cooperation on Networked Media RandD (SALA+)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,France,Chile,Spain,Argentina,Guatemala,Costa Rica,Honduras,Uruguay,Colombia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 805200.0
EU funding (EUR): 719220.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

SALA+ is a Support Action (SA) intended to foster International Cooperation in the area of Networked Electronic Media (NEM) between Europe and Latin America. The global aim of the project is to prepare for future concrete partnerships between Europe and Latin American countries. SALA+ will provide support to the implementation of the FP7 ICT Work Programme. In this context, the SALA+ project will encourage entities from Europe and Latin America to cooperate in the Networked Media field through collaborative R&D projects. SALA+ will identify specific areas for Scientific & Technological cooperation within the Networked Electronic Media field. One of the most relevant expected results from SALA+ will be the establishment of robust relationships between European and Latin American entities (industrial sector, universities, technological centres, associations, etc.) aiming to foster the launch of collaborative R&D projects in the context of the forthcoming FP7 ICT Work Programme 2009-2010 and beyond. In addition, the SALA+ project will: 1. Identify the Latin American R&D programmes and agencies responsible for research activities in the Networked Media sector and propose new R&D themes suitable for enhanced scientific cooperation between EU and Latin America. 2. Produce one specific Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) per country for the following countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Uruguay. 3. Produce one harmonized EU-Latin America SRA, in alignment with the NEM Technology Platform SRA and other European national R&D programmes in terms of priorities, objectives, expected output, impact, etc. This harmonization is intended to facilitate future cooperation between European and Latin American partners. 4. Organisation of conferences, workshops and FP7 ICT Info Days in order to increase awareness of the opportunities that are available for Latin American organisations through the EU FP7 ICT Programme and other European R&D programmes.

Keywords: networked media,research,nem,nemglobal,europe,latin america: cooperation,roadmap,strategic agenda
Demographic Change and Housing Wealth (DEMHOW)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Belgium,Denmark,Finland,France,Germany,Hungary,Netherlands,Portugal,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1647273.0
EU funding (EUR): 1262193.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

DEMHOW will investigate links between demographic change and housing wealth. Whereas those who rent their homes may have no housing wealth at all, for many older Europeans - perhaps 75% of the total - housing is their single largest item of wealth But, increasing numbers do not have children to whom their wealth might be bequeathed. The potential of housing assets is that they offer: older households a way of increasing their consumption; governments a way to respond to the pension crisis;and financial institutions a way to increase business. DEMHOW will investigate the ways in which, across member states, ageing populations and housing wealth are linked, how housing wealth has been used in the past and how attitudes to its use in old age are changing. In addition, it will investigate developments in policy and in financial markets that may encourage its use as a form of pension, and assess the characteristics of housing assets as a form of pension.

Keywords: ageing populations,asset-based welfare,housing equity,pensions
International Co-operation in Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures (INCO-TRUST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 830001.0
EU funding (EUR): 830000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The main purpose of the INCO-TRUST Coordination Action, specifically targeting international cooperation in the area of Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures, is: 1. To promote collaboration and partnerships between researchers from the developed countries with the goal of coordinating the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of ICT Trust, Security and Dependability (TSD). 2. To leverage and harmonise efforts on the respective sides related to the building and maintenance of large-scale trustworthy ICT systems and infrastructures and the services they deliver". The CA would provide the organisation and financial support required for a practical and effective platform engaged in: (a) discussing progress and priorities; (b) setting the research agendas to be pursued at an international scale; and (c) co-ordinating the sharing, where possible and practical, of best practice, test facilities, knowledge and experience in an effort to avoid duplication in addressing problems arising from interdependencies (both planned and unplanned) of national ICT infrastructures at a global level. This CA is specifically focused on ensuring that Europe has a strong influence on which TSD areas should be prioritized for international collaboration and equally importantly that Europe ensures that agreed solutions reflect the European trust, security and dependability requirements. The CA would support collaboration and networking activities of EU researchers internationally, by engaging with top level researchers in the USA, Japan and Australia. This could be achieved through the active participation of researchers from many different regions via systematic and coordinated research activities.

Keywords: international collaboration,security,dependability,trust,ict infrastructures
Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing (NEUROCHEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,France,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2856601.0
EU funding (EUR): 2150000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Biological olfaction outperforms chemical instrumentation in specificity, response time, detection limit, coding capacity, time stability, robustness, size, power consumption, and portability. This biological function provides outstanding performance due, to a large extent, to the unique architecture of the olfactory pathway, which combines a high degree of redundancy, an efficient combinatorial coding along with unmatched chemical information processing mechanisms. The last decade has witnessed important advances in the understanding of the computational primitives underlying the functioning of the olfactory system NEUROCHEM will develop novel computing paradigms and biomimetic artefacts for chemical sensing taking inspiration from the biological olfactory pathway. This project proposes to build computational models of its main building blocks: olfactory receptor layer, olfactory bulb, and olfactory cortex. To reduce the model complexity, models, they will go through an abstraction stage in which their processing capabilities are captured by algorithmic solutions. To demonstrate this approach, a biomimetic demonstrator will be built featuring a large scale sensor array mimicking the olfactory receptor neuron layer. In addition The olfactory receptor array will be interfaced to a full-scale parallel simulation model of the rat olfactory bulb and cortex. In addition, abstracted biomimetic algorithms will be implemented in an embedded system that will interface the chemical sensors. This research will provide a radically new way to process chemical signals, and it will bring performances exceeding the current state of the art provided by chemometrics.

Keywords: olfactory system,large-scale chemical sensor arrays,artifitial olfaction
Research for Development of Future Interactive Generations of Hybrid Fibre Coax Networks (REDESIGN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Poland,Portugal,Germany,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2509922.0
EU funding (EUR): 1793796.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

A reliable and cost efficient broadband infrastructure is vital for the economy and society of the 21st century. Broadband access based on hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) networks stimulates the accretion of broadband markets and features strong service innovation. The further development of HFC architecture and transmission technologies is essential for maintaining the ability to meet the future requirements of broadband users and to remain competitive with alternative access technologies. The aim of this project is to further evolve HFC network architectures and transmission technologies used in these networks by creating a smooth migration path towards future infrastructure concepts. In its technical objectives, the project addresses in a first scenario the evolution of the current HFC access network with state-of-the-art RF radio transmission technology. The development of related technologies will be performed through a liaison with the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) project which has recently started to compose Commercial and User Requirements for the second generation DVB for cable (DVB-C2) system. The timing of the project is aligned to the roadmap of the industry and the organisations involved in the DVB-C2 work. In a second scenario ReDeSign researches transmission techniques which accelerate the deployment of HFC bidirectional network investments towards more cost efficient, robust, and high quality HFC networks with higher orders of bandwidth capacity including deep fibre architectures where economically feasible. The objectives will be achieved via close alignments with the DVB project and the recognized standards body for cable CENELEC. Chairmen of DVB Technical Module, DVB-C2 Commercial Moudle and CENELEC TC 209 are members of the consortium. An operators Forum will be set up for information gathering and results dissemination purposes. First MSOs (KabelDeutschland, Telenor, Vectra) have already indicated their interest in supporting this activity

Keywords: multi-service access network,broadband cable,hfc,triple play,wired transmission technology
Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators (WHERE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Spain,France,France,France,Portugal,Netherlands,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Spain,Canada,China
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5551112.0
EU funding (EUR): 4046843.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

To increase ubiquitous and mobile network access and data rates, scientific and technological development is more and more focussing on the integration of radio access networks (RANs). For an efficient usage of RANs, knowledge of the position of mobile terminals (MTs) is valuable information in order to allocate resources or predict the allocation within a heterogeneous RAN infrastructure. The main objective of WHERE is to combine wireless communications and navigation for the benefit of the ubiquitous access for a future mobile radio system. The impact will be manifold, such as real time localization knowledge in B3G/4G systems that allow them to increase efficiency. Satellite navigation systems will be supplemented with techniques that improve accuracy and availability of position information. The WHERE project addresses the combination of positioning and communication in order to exploit synergies and to improve the efficiency of future wireless communication systems. Thus, the estimation of the position of MTs based on different RANs is the main goal in WHERE. Positioning algorithms and algorithms for combining several positioning measurements allow to estimate the position of MTs. Appropriate definitions of scenarios and system parameters together with channel propagation measurements and derived models will allow to assess the performance of RAN based positioning. Based on the performance of RAN positioning, location based strategies and protocols will be developed in order to optimise as well as to cross-optimise different OSI layers of communication systems and RAT selection policies. Performance assessment of the algorithms is provided by theoretical studies and simulations. Hardware signal processing will provide a verification of the performance of dedicated algorithms under realistic conditions. All the tasks are covered by different work packages, which are in close interaction to ensure an integral research of positioning and communications.

Keywords: ofdm,uwb,b3g,location based ran procedures and protocols,hybrid communication,positioning,localisation,navigation,cooperative positioning
Secure Process-oriented Integrative Service Infrastructure for Networked Enterprises (SPIKE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Slovakia,Spain,Austria,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2829936.0
EU funding (EUR): 1964396.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

SPIKE will develop a software platform for the easy and fast setup of business alliances. The project targets two main organisational objectives: first, outsourcing parts of the value chain to business partners (and vice versa, offering such parts in form of services); second, enabling collaboration between members of participating organisations through ad-hoc created as well as predefined business processes. SPIKE will enable collaboration and cooperation between the networked enterprises. The solution will encompass a semantically enriched service oriented infrastructure including a virtual semantic service bus for workflow control and handling and transformation of messages. At the enterprise interface level, we follow a collaborative process portal approach, capturing the user’s working context and seamlessly transmitting it to other applications and services according to the current workflow. This will also enable integration of legacy systems via tailored portlets and connectors. Special focus will be put on the security issues involved; the solution will include an easy-to-administer security infrastructure for the networked enterprise which will provide security services for service and workflow management. The user partners will demonstrate the potential of SPIKE at the case of pilot deployments and use cases, i.e. a collaborative business alliance and two services ready for use in the networked enterprise. Because of its focus, the project will have an impact on organizations of all sizes that want to collaborate with each other. The base SPIKE components will be developed as an open source solution, with a special emphasis on easy adoption and cost feasibility. Where possible, we will build upon and enhance existing open source software. This way, SPIKE will have a special impact on SMEs. It will enable them to offer their services to potential new customers in a cost-saving and timely manner.

Keywords: short-term virtual organisation,semantic service bus,service infrastructure,semantic business process management,security,seamless context integration,portal