Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
An integrated platform enabling Theranostic applications at the Point of Primary Care (THERAEDGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Portugal,Sweden,United Kingdom,Italy,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11783434.0
EU funding (EUR): 8000000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

TheraEDGE is an industry-driven effort to accelerate the adoption of theranostics applications in Primary Care by pushing Point of Care Test (POCT) technology far beyond its current state-of-the-art and by delivering clinical, analytical and operational breakthroughs. TheraEDGE is built around the high-incidence clinical case of early-diagnosing lower respiratory tract infections in Primary Care. Simultaneous testing for different pathogens and their antibiotic resistance will have a huge European impact: •better clinical outcomes and standards of care through more effective and timely diagnosis and treatment •improved health economics through optimization of antibiotics prescription, infection control practices and reduction of clinical visits or hospital stays •substantial business for the In Vitro Diagnostics industry through the standardisation and commercialization of innovative POCT products and systems TheraEDGE consists of three multidisciplinary platforms: •a core Lab-On-a-Chip supporting multi-marker assays and using Single Molecule Detection (SMD) as an alternative to PCR-based molecular diagnostics. SMD removes the need for amplification and has the potential to become a key enabler for Nucleic Acid Testing at the Point of Care by providing less complex, faster, more sensitive and more specific assays •an architecture that provides Plug and Play semantic interoperability and creates opportunities for the standardisation of POCT instruments and information systems, offering radical usability, robustness and vendor interoperability improvements. Practitioners will be able to run out-of-the-box multiple compliant devices from one single PDA-based operator interface •a set of applications built on a convergent ITC platform that supports General Practitioners in their patient management and clinical decision-making, and provides therapeutic services for patient education and compliance monitoring in order to fight antibiotic misuse and abuse.

Keywords: point of care testing,primary care,molecular diagnostics,lab-on-a-chip,single molecule detection,plug & play,semantic interoperability,patient management,patient therapeutic services
Digital holography for 3D and 4D real-world objects' capture, processing, and display (REAL 3D)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Türkiye,Italy,Switzerland,Ireland,Poland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5871072.0
EU funding (EUR): 4500000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Current and newly-developed 3D displays have the disadvantage that they either force the user to wear special eyewear, limit the number of simultaneous viewers, discard completely certain depth cues (such as blurring) thus causing fatigue, or else encode only a small number of distinct different views of the 3D scene. It is universally accepted that there is only one known family of techniques that can capture a full 3D scene in a single shot, including phase information, and re-project that light field perfectly thus overcoming all of the above disadvantages: the broad family of holography techniques. All other techniques are only 3D under a whole host of conditions. Unfortunately, holograms are not dynamic. By replacing the conventional holographic plate with a digital camera and an optoelectronic 2D screen, we can capture and display holographic video. However, the full implications of bringing a digital version of holography into the world of 3D video acquisition and 3D display, or how effective it would be, are as yet unknown. The 3D information encoded in digital holograms has not yet been fully exploited. We will work towards eliminating the current obstacles in achieving the world's first fully functional 3D video capture and display paradigm for unrestricted viewing of real-world objects that employs all real 3D principles, hence our acronym "Real 3D." Our outputs will include functional models of four digital holographic 3D capture, processing, and display scenarios encompassing (i) the full 360 degrees of perspectives of reflective macroscopic 3D scenes, (ii) microscopic reflective 3D scenes, (iii) transmissive or partially transmissive microscopic 3D scenes, and (iv) capture of 3D scenes at infra-red wavelengths.

Keywords: digital holography,3d display,3d video,3d real-world object sensing,3d image processing,3d signal processing
Towards 0.5 Terahertz Silicon/Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Technology (DOTFIVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Germany,Belgium,Germany,France,Germany,Germany,Austria,Italy,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14740480.0
EU funding (EUR): 9699969.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

DOTFIVE is a three-year IP proposal for a very ambitious project focused on advanced RTD activities necessary to move the Silicon/germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) into the operating frequency range of 0.5 terahertz (THz) (500 gigahertz GHz) enabling the future development of communication, imaging or radar Integrated Circuits (IC) working at frequencies up to 160 GHz . For a given lithography node bipolar transistors and more recently HBT have always lead the frequency race compared to MOS devices, while offering higher power density and better analogue performances (transconductance, noise, transistor matching).The main objective of this highly qualified consortium is to establish a leadership position for the European semiconductor industry in the area of millimeter wave (mmW) by research and development work on silicon based transistor devices and circuit design capabilities and know-how. SiGe HBT is a key reliable device for applications requiring power > few mW (future MOS limitation) and enabling high density, low cost integration compared to III-V. To achieve the goal DOTFIVE unites a powerful consortium: Seven academic partners for the physics understanding of nanotransistors, simulation, modeling, and characterization (down to few k) of devices; as well as the design and characterization of demonstrator electronic blocks (Low Noise Amplifier, mixers…). Two research institutes in charge of developing novel process modules and transistor structures on silicon wafers, capable of fabricating innovative SiGe HBT concepts. Two industrial companies, capable of producing 250 GHz HBT on silicon, and willing to push their capabilities to 500 GHz by incremental structural and technological improvements utilizing some of the most advanced equipments introduced recently by the CMOS miniaturization race. Two SME capable to deliver to designers, transistor parameter extraction and RF advanced compact models for all the silicon providers above.

Keywords: terahertz,heterojunction bipolar,rf modelling,rf design,sige transistors,hbt
Youth, unemployment, and exclusion in Europe: A multidimensional approach to understanding the conditions and prospects for social and political integration of young unemployed (YOUNEX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Italy,France,Sweden,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1905920.01
EU funding (EUR): 1460560.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This research aims to advance knowledge on the causes, processes, and perspectives for change related to the social and political exclusion of unemployed youth. It has three main objectives: (1) to generate a new body of data on young unemployed (in particular, young long-term unemployed), but also precarious youth; (2) to advance theory and extend knowledge on the social and political exclusion of young unemployed; and (3) to provide practical insights into the potential paths for the social and political integration of young unemployed. The overall design of the research has three main components: (1) a multidimensional theoretical framework that combines macro-level, meso-level, and micro-level explanatory factors while taking into account various dimensions of exclusion (social and political exclusion, individual well-being); (2) a cross-national comparative design that includes European countries with different institutional approaches to unemployment (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland); (3) an integrated methodological approach based on multiple sources and methods (analysis of state and EU policies and practices towards unemployment, a survey of organizations active in the field, a survey of young long-term unemployed and precarious youth, in-depth interviews with young long-term unemployed, and focus groups with stakeholders). Three important features of the proposed research underscore its innovative impact: (1) its comparative approach allowing for bench-marking and best-practice analysis; (2) its multidimensional approach allowing to consider the mediating impact of (European, national, or local) public policy on the way people cope with their situation of unemployed; (3) its interactive research process spurring policy-learning by bringing together different expertise and knowledge, and allowing at the same time for the transfer of scientific findings into policy recommendations.

Keywords: youth,unemployment,precariousness,social exclusion,political exclusion
Nano Packaging Technology for Interconnect and Heat Dissipation (NANOPACK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Hungary,Germany,France,Sweden,Germany,Switzerland,Spain,Germany,Finland,Austria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-11-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11201517.0
EU funding (EUR): 7399980.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

One of the major limitations to continued performance increases in the semiconductor and power electronics industries is integration density and thermal management. Continued transistor downscaling is quickly reaching its limits forcing a new focus on heterogeneous integration and 3D packaging technologies to continue performance improvements by reducing interconnect length between memory and multi-core logic. These efforts must combine high density electrical interconnects with low resistance thermal interfaces to remove heat from the intricate layered assemblies. Power electronics applications in hybrid vehicles and power supplies are also being pushed to new integration densities that are largely limited by the ability to transfer heat across interfaces to liquid coolers and heat sinks. Improved thermal management and integration densities for these applications will also be important to improve energy and manufacturing efficiency and component reliability. The proposed project aims at developing new technologies and materials for low thermal resistance interfaces and electrical interconnects by exploring systems such as carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles and nano-structured surfaces using different enhancing contact formation mechanisms combined with high volume compatible manufacturing technologies such as electro-spinning. Recent groundbreaking work on nested channel interfaces to control particle interactions during the formation of interfaces will be utilized to exploit the beneficial properties of the new materials. In addition, state-of-the-art modelling and simulation techniques with world class supercomputers will be combined with the development of experimental test structures to measure the performance of new interface technologies and validate design tools. Finally the technology will be used in several different applications to demonstrate improved performance of high power radio frequency switches, microprocessors and hybrid vehicle power electronics.

Keywords: packaging,carbon nanotubes,thermal interface material,nanoparticles,nanostructures,power-electronics,interconnect,thermal characterization
Generating Interethnic Tolerance and Neighborhood Integration in European Urban Spaces (GEITONIES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Netherlands,Austria,Spain,Greece,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1855824.4
EU funding (EUR): 1462749.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In the context of the growth of diversification within European nation states there has been much debate in public and policy discourse regarding the cultural specifics of immigrant groups and their descendents. As global processes and events have stressed cultural differences concerns about the cohesion of society, related often to a perceived cultural mismatch between immigrant and indigenous groups, have propelled multiculturalism and integration to the top of the political agenda. Whilst there has been a trend across several European states where a discourse of failing multiculturalism has been accompanied by fears regarding integration, the republican model in France has also been criticised due to its failure to recognise inequality and diversity. Both of these perspectives have been further endorsed by recent urban conflicts in different European cities. These policy shifts and debates are also relevant to the newer destinations of the South where issues of integration are pertinent as in the new reception countries of the East. Whilst being politically important these debates reveal a gap in the evidence base regarding how and in what form cultural engagement and communication actually occurs in urban settings and on the subsequent impacts on integration in social and economic terms. This cross-comparative project intends to address these issues from a relational perspective through the lens of place, assuming that in contemporary multi-ethnic cities spaces of intercultural communication and engagement are vital to promote tolerance and cohesion. A survey will be administered not only to immigrants but also indigenous individuals in 6 European cities at the neighbourhood level, given this is a place were daily social practises, representations and group relations develop. Furthermore, the role that place or neighbourhood dynamics (in their national/urban contexts) play in developing or hindering intercultural interaction and tolerance will be deliberated.

Keywords: place,cultural interaction,neighbourhood dynamics,multi-ethnic cities,integration
Design and Versatile implementation of nonbinary wireless communications based on innovative LDPC codes (DAVINCI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,France,France,Belgium,Spain,Poland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3626521.0
EU funding (EUR): 2489086.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The DaVinci project aims at developing new technologies targeting future B3G or 4G wireless broadband transmission systems such as IEEE 802.16e/m, or 3GPP-LTE. It is well known that the increase in data rate and heterogeneous transport in wireless networks demands very efficient coding schemes, coupled with adaptive resource allocation strategies. Beside the recent progress made these last 15 years, coded modulation schemes presenting near-Shannon performance at high spectral efficiency with short blocks are still missing. Besides, whilst most of the European technology has focused on Turbo-Codes (3GPP, DVB-RCS, IEEE 802.16), it has facilitated as a side effect development of the competing technology, namely LDPC codes worldwide (3GPP2, DVB-S2, IEEE 802.11n). In order to ensure European supremacy in enabling technologies mandatory for IMT-Advanced systems, the DaVinci project plans to go beyond usual LDPC codes, and develop breakthrough channel coding, together with tailored Link Level technologies. The DaVinci solution is based on systems which completely operate using high order nonbinary symbols, in all receiver blocks. However, the expected performance gain comes at the expense of increased hardware complexity, and unsolved technical issues such as nonbinary Hybrid-ARQ strategies, or nonbinary turbo-receivers. Consequently, low complexity nonbinary LDPC codes/decoders will be developed in the DaVinci project, and compared in a realistic framework, using a versatile FPGA implementation and real link using a MIMO-OFDM platform. Our consortium has a strong expertise in the design of efficient, but practical B3G/4G communication systems, and we believe that the joint design of the code, the resource allocation and the hardware model is the necessary basis for proposing better systems for next generation wireless networks. We target, as main dissemination of the DaVinci project, a system proposal for the IMT-advanced call in 2008-2009.

Keywords: nonbinary ldpc codes,coded modulation,block fading channels,flexible transmission,hardware implementation
Development and integration of processes and technologies for the production of Organic Low-cost and large-Area flexible Electronics (OLATRONICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,France,Switzerland,Austria,Germany,United States,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6203319.0
EU funding (EUR): 3800000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

During the last years, there has been a rapidly expanding effort for the development of the materials and processes for the manufacturing of electronic devices based on organic thin film materials. The wide implementation of active (organic semiconductors) and passive (barrier, electrode) materials for the manufacturing of Flexible Organic Electronic Devices (such as flexible Electrochromic-EC and Photovoltaic-OPV devices) will be defined on the ability to synthesize, prepare and encapsulate these devices using low-cost and large-scale roll-to-roll (R2R) technologies. The objectives of the OLAtronics Project are: a) The development and optimization of production processes for active and passive materials by establishing an effective combination of vacuum, wet, and printing methods to provide materials with advanced properties, performance, stability and lifetime, together with low-cost and large-area processing, b) Effective encapsulation of the developed active and passive materials into components, and their large-scale fabrication onto flexible R2R substrates combined to real-time monitoring and control of materials process and quality by in-line optical techniques, c) Integration of the developed manufacturing technologies into a pilot-scale to allow the low-cost and large-area manufacturing of prototype device demonstrators, ultimately in large scale. The OLAtronics objectives are consistent with the topics addressed in "ICT-2007.3.2: Organic and large-area electronics visualisation and display systems". The project is targeting the development of large-area and low-cost manufacturing technologies (like printing) and encapsulation of active and passive materials towards high added-value material components and products that will put a major thrust towards the reinforcement of the European Industry's competitiveness in organic and large-area electronics. For more information on the OLAtronics project you may visit the following website: www.olatronics.org

Keywords: organic electronics,roll-to-roll,printing,encapsulation,photovoltaic,electrochromic
Carbon nAnotube Technology for High-speed nExt-geneRation nano-InterconNEcts (CATHERINE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,France,Italy,Latvia,Romania,Sweden,Netherlands,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3489894.0
EU funding (EUR): 2649999.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

CATHERINE will provide a new unconventional concept for local and chip-level interconnects that will bridge ICT beyond the limits of CMOS technology. The main goals of CATHERINE are: G1) to develop an innovative cost-effective and reliable technological solution for high-performance next-generation nanointerconnects. G2) to develop proof-of-concept nanointerconnects to assess and verify the new proposed solution The expected results of CATHERINE are then summarized by the following points: R1) definition of all causal relations within the design-chain "microstructure characteristics – fabrication process – functional properties" R2) development of multiscale multiphysics simulation models for the prediction of the multifunctional performance of the interconnect and for the EMC analysis R3) development of electromagnetic and multifunctional test procedures and experimental characterization methods R4) manufacturing and testing of proof-of-concept samples of nanointerconnects at laboratory level. The final project product will be: P1) integrated data-base for nanointerconnect design P2) proof-of-concept nanointerconnect The new bottom-up approach proposed by CATHERINE consists in realizing CNT-based nano-interconnects for integrated circuit exploiting two different techniques: (i) a template-based CVD technique that allow high control of the growth of perfect aligned arrays of CNTs. The CNTs are synthesized within the pores of properly designed alumina nanostructures. CNTs wall thickness is controlled by the reaction time, the CNT length by the thickness of alumina nanostructures, the CNT external tube diameter by the nanostructures pore size; (ii) CVD growth of CNTs and carbon nanofibers (CNFs) on substrate patterned with nano-imprint lithography. Both techniques do not require electron beam lithography (EBL) for CNTs growth or substrate preparation. The resulting process is cost-effective and can be easily implemented at industrial scale.

Keywords: high-speed nanointerconnects,carbon nanotube technology,multiscale modelling