Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Micro- and Nano-Optomechanical Systems for ICT and QIPC (MINOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3523463.0
EU funding (EUR): 2267412.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Micro- and Nanomechanical systems have the potential to revolutionize Information Science Technologies (IST) by bringing back mechanics as an essential component to information processing with completely new versatility. Already now, these systems are about to provide a broad range of novel applications with impact in a variety of fields such as life sciences, optical sciences, materials science and, eventually, quantum information science. European research has to play a central role in this exciting development. This STREP will provide future key technologies to achieve this goal. Downsizing mechanics to micro- and nanomechanical systems allows entering a novel regime in which the mechanical properties can directly be manipulated by light and vice versa. These optomechanical effects open up a completely new field of controllable light-matter interaction on the micro- and nanoscale. At present, Europe is among the key players in this young and emerging field of micro- and nano-optomechanical systems (MOMS/NOMS). The proposed STREP collects Europe’s leading scientists in the field to foster European competitiveness and to constitute clear lead competences. One main objective of the research initiative will be the development of new knowledge, methods and applications that can establish MOMS/NOMS as a future key technology for nanoscience. The prospects are clear: since both photonics and nanoscience will certainly play a vital role in future ICT, a combination of these technologies has the potential to create synergies of unpredictable impact.

Keywords: optical technology,quantum optics,micromechanics,nanoscience,metrology,optomechanics,quantum information
MAsk less lithoGraphy for IC manufacturing (MAGIC) (MAGIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Germany,Czechia,Germany,France,Austria,Israel,Germany,Austria,Ireland,Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16694010.0
EU funding (EUR): 11749999.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

In the CMOS manufacturing environment, the mask-based optical lithography technique is up to now the driving solution to deal with all industry concerns. Nevertheless, this solution becomes less effective for each new technology node. Effectively, it requires more and more complex and expensive masks due to the introduction of optical proximity correction and phase shift techniques. The blow up of the tool price plays also an important role in the overall cost of ownership of this technique. This trend opens opportunities for the Mask-Less Lithography (ML2) technology, based on multi-beam principles and developed by the two European companies MAPPER and IMS Nanofabrication AG. The cost effective model of the ML2 option in association with the high resolution capability of the electron lithography and a reasonable throughput target represents an attractive alternative for lithography and is supported by some key CMOS manufacturers around the world, like TSMC, STMicroelectronics, QIMONDA, TOSHIBA, and Texas Instruments… This project proposes to support the development of ML2 technology in Europe. It is composed of two linked poles. The first one will be focused on MAPPER and IMS-NANO tool developments with the objective to deliver a first ML2 alpha platform compatible for 32nm half pitch technology before 2010, aligned with the semiconductor manufacturer requirements. In relation with this activity, the program will develop the required infrastructure for the usage of these tools in an industrial environment. Among the tasks to be addressed, there is the delivery of a reliable software platform to treat the data base preparation and to provide solution for ML2 related electron beam proximity effects. The last concern of this project will be to demonstrate the ability to integrate CMOS processes in real manufacturing conditions on the ML2 platforms developed by the tool partners.

Keywords: lithography,direct write,mask less,ml2,electron lithography,semiconductor manufacturing,data prepration,mdp,ebpc,electron beam proximity corrections,asic,dram,cmos industry,nanoelectronic
Ubiquitous Care System to Support Independent Living (CONFIDENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Slovenia,Italy,Finland,Sweden,France,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4659541.0
EU funding (EUR): 3499997.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of this proposal is the development and integration of innovative technologies for the detection of abnormal events (such as falls) or unexpected behaviours that may be related to a health problem in elderly people. With the proposed approach, the elderly will gain confidence and independence. CONFIDENCE will be a cost effective, non-intrusive and reliable system that will increase the quality of life and security of the elderly and, thus, prolong their personal autonomy and participation in society. Hence, CONFIDENCE directly addresses the objective ICT-2007.7.1. ICT and Ageing. Not only will the elderly profit from the system, but also their families and caregivers, since the burden on them will be substantially reduced. CONFIDENCE will decrease the need of institutionalisation of the elderly and, thus, there will be a significant cut down in healthcare expenditure. The fear or result of fall accounts for 40% of the nursing home admissions. Moreover, the fear of falling decreases quality of life and increases the decline in the ability to perform daily activities. These effects are measured using the Fall Efficacy Scale (FES).The project aims to achieve a value above 50 in the FES, which represents a fair confidence level in daily activities. CONFIDENCE will work both outdoors and indoors. The user will wear a few tags, whose positions are determined using radio technology. The tags’ coordinates will be used to reconstruct the user’s posture. This information, together with some environment information, will be analysed to decide whether to trigger an alarm. The system will be easy to setup and to use and will not constrain the user’s daily life. The result of this multidisciplinary research will be a working prototype. The end-user will be involved in the RTD activities by co-defining the specifications, monitoring and testing the project. Psychological, ethical and legal surveillance activities will be carried out throughout the project.

Keywords: inclusion,positioning,health,elderly,confidence,independent living,active participation
Dynamic Personalization of Multimedia (MYMEDIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4362874.0
EU funding (EUR): 2880723.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

MyMedia addresses the key social problem of what has been called the “Crisis of Choice”, the problem of information overload. We want to increase the level of relevant content over the “noise”. The problem worsens year-by-year as more and more content, including self-created content, becomes available online as well as through traditional broadcast means (delivered through satellite, over-the-air, IPTV, and cable). This is not a new problem yet it still has not been solved in a way that satisfies end-users. We will address this problem by creating an open source software framework to dynamically personalize the delivery and consumption of multimedia. MyMedia will tame growing volume of content streams by combining them and allow users to sip from a single manageable stream of the most personally relevant content. The project will pioneer the integration of multiple, content catalogues and recommender algorithms in a single system. The project delivers an open source software framework which allows researchers and potential commercial exploiters outside of the consortium to easily plug-in and experiment with new recommender algorithms and content sources. This simplifies take-up outside the consortium and creates an even wider impact. The project will evaluate resulting theoretical user models through a set of lab analysis and field trials. The framework will also be evaluated on multiple trial platforms and will be language agnostic. To understand cultural differences field trials will be conducted in multiple countries and languages. MyMedia will innovate by enabling the creation of media-centric social networks that leverage user generated metadata such as tags and explore other possibilities focused on improving the end user experience such as automatically generated content metadata enrichment. It will pave the way to sharing preferences and recommendation results, in a privacy respecting manner, within communities.

Keywords: recommender systems,dynamic personalized multimedia,algorithms,metadata,media-centric communities
Natural Products and related Redox Catalysts: Basic Research and Applications in Medicine and Agriculture (RED CAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Portugal,Germany,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,France,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2785650.0
EU funding (EUR): 2785650.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Intracellular redox processes are pivotal for cell survival and proliferation. Redox active natural products, enzymes and their mimics may therefore be considered as regulators of various cellular processes which may, for instance, control inflammatory processes, cancer formation and proliferation, but also bacterial, fungal and microbial growth. It is now apparent that redox control exerted by such natural and synthetic products may be used for prevention and therapy in Medicine and for the development of ‘green’ pesticides in Agriculture. This training network will study chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of the modulation of cellular redox balances by selected natural agents and their mimics. It relies on expertise of 10 full and 7 associated partners (1 SME) in a range of scientific disciplines, including synthetic, analytical, biological and pharmaceutical chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology, microbiology, cancer research and agricultural research. The network will address 4 36-month work packages (WP): A WP on natural antioxidants, inflammation and cancer; a WP studying intracellular redox control and signalling events triggered by external redox agents; a WP on green antibiotics and pesticides from plants and fungi; a WP on redox catalysts as agents selective against cancer and inflammatory cells. The network will provide interdisciplinary training for 4 experienced and 10 early stage researchers, all of which will acquire expertise in 3 or more of scientific disciplines. Each researcher will develop a training portfolio when joining the network. All early stage researchers are expected to obtain international recognised PhD degrees. In addition to intensive scientific training at various host institutes, there will be a framework programme offering training in science related matters and soft skills, such as logical and ethical aspects of research, IP, patenting and commercialisation, communication skills and cultural and gender issues.

Keywords: natural products,antioxidants,redox catalysts,cell signalling,inflammation,green antibiotics and pesticides,cancer research,pharmaceutical chemistry,biochemistry,cell biology,agriculture
Quality Impact Prediction for Evolving Service-Oriented Software (Q-IMPRESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Sweden,Italy,Czechia,Italy,Croatia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4680826.0
EU funding (EUR): 3333446.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The Q-ImPrESS project aims at bringing service orientation to critical software systems, such as industrial production control, telecommunication and critical enterprise applications. All these domains share a need for guaranteed end-to-end quality of service, but also a need to evolve over their long lifetimes. The Q-ImPrESS project targets this challenge by providing a method to allow developers, users and maintainers to foresee the impact of design decisions and evolutionary changes to the system not only on its overall quality of service, but also on its internal quality properties such as maintainability. Therefore, a new service architecture meta-model is developed which is accompanied by tool-supported model-driven quality of service prediction approaches and automated quality assessment. The consortium bundles outstanding European research groups on the field of quality assessment and prediction together with leading case study providers and agile and highly innovative SMEs which guarantee practicability, sustainability and open dissemination of the results.

Keywords: service-oriented software,predictable quality of service,performance,reliability,design decision impact analysis,software evolution,maintainability
Pyroelectrical and piezoelectrical printable large area sensor technology (3PLAST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Sweden,Germany,Austria,Germany,Luxembourg,Finland,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3191373.0
EU funding (EUR): 2199796.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In order to establish cost-efficient innovative solutions for safety and security systems , self-controlled machine monitoring and user-friendly human-machine interfaces, it is necessary that items are able to communicate bidirectional which is realized by advanced sensor functions. Therefore, devices using novel sensor concepts manufactured via high-throughput processes on cost-efficient, flexible substrates are essential in order to be applied in high-volume markets. Within 3PLAST, a novel concept combining physical polymer sensors with organic electronics all printed on large-area flexible substrates is developed. The macroelectronic 3PLAST sensors provide accurate information on changes in temperature and pressure and are unbeatably flexible in design. Integration of 3PLAST sensors on everyday objects adds temperature and pressure sensitivity to them. The basic sensor device is comprised of a piezo- and/or pyroelectric polymer thin-film capacitor, integrated with high-performance organic thin-film transistors operating at low voltages, and acting as signal amplifiers and conditioners. Application of low-cost manufacturing technologies such as screen printing and hot embossing, which can be applied in high-throughput processes, ensures that the developed components can be manufactured with a high-competitive cost structure in the future. Covering the entire value chain, The 3PLAST consortium consists of highly experienced research institutes such as Fraunhofer, Joanneum and Acreo and the University of Linz. Application scenarios are determined by the driving industrial partners such as, IEE, Festo, or Motorola. ASEM and Emfit – as an SME – are enriching the consortium as material supplier, manufacturer of process tools and end user. 3PLAST consortium provides completely new solutions in the context of integrated macroelectronic sensor technology enabling versatile applications in consumer electronics, automotive and process automation industry.

Keywords: sensor,organic electronics,large-area,ofet,nanoimprint
Support action to the Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI) (SISI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Greece,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1415359.0
EU funding (EUR): 990043.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

sISI is a support action (SA) intended to stimulate the participation in future Community ICT research of a large number of actors through facilitating their involvement into the Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI), the Technology Platform for Satellite Communications within FP7. To this purpose, sISI will provide all necessary support to ISI to make it an efficient platform, able to provide plenty of opportunities for all of its participants. In particular, support will be provided to: 1)ISI contributions to EU, ESA, and National policies and involvement of all actors and stakeholders (organization of the ISI Mirror Group, involvement of the ICT National Contact Points into ISI, involvement of SMEs, International Cooperation, monitoring of EU policies of interest to ISI, identification of actions in favour of EU policies of interest to ISI, monitoring of ESA policies of interest to ISI, identification of actions in favour of ESA policies of interest to ISI, logistic support in Brussels). 2)ISI operations (organization of meetings, production of minutes, organization of elections, editing of general documents). 3)ISI promotion (website, mailing list, flyers, newsletter, press releases, monitoring of activities standardization and regulatory, etc.). 4)ISI activities towards end-users (identification of end-user groups of interest to ISI, involvement of end-user groups, end-user requirements identification, support to market studies, etcetera). 5)ISI Technical Activities (support to the update of the Strategic Research Agenda, identification of open calls of interest to ISI, coordination of technical proposals, monitoring of results, exchange of technical information). The results of sISI will be exploited not only and not mainly by the proposing Consortium, but particularly by all ISI participants in Member States and in Cooperating Countries.

Keywords: isi satellite support action promotion operations activities
Smartest Cars Video Project (SCVP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1399501.0
EU funding (EUR): 1290000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The Smartest Cars Video Project proposes to produce a high quality video documentary to raise public awareness of eSafety systems via mass media broadcasting. The project is in response to the stated need for such video documentaries in the i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative. The project directly addresses the ICT Work Programme Challenge 6: ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in terms of the goals of achieving a 50% reduction in road fatalities by 2010 and strengthening the competitiveness and technological leadership of Europe's automotive and supplier industries on the world market. Smartest Cars will be engaging, entertaining, and educational for the everyday TV viewer. It is intended to be shown on the major television channels throughout Europe. The project budget will support 180 minutes of video content, organized into several episodes. The documentary will be based on consultation with the vehicle industry. We will work with the industry to film the latest (non-proprietary) smart-car technology in action, as well as interview industry professionals. The experiences and perceptions of end users will play a major role. The documentary will avoid favouritism towards any particular company as well as the promotion of any particular product. A specific project task focuses on making arrangements with major broadcasters in Europe for airing the video program. Smartest Cars will also be shown to selected live audiences. A companion website with more information and extended video clips available for on-line viewing will be created. The project will also liase with relevant eSafety Forums and ICT for Mobility projects. The project coordinator H3B Media is the production company for Smartest Cars. The H3B team includes experts in ITS media, intelligent vehicles, and documentary filmmaking. Administrative support is provided by Irion Management Consulting. We will acquire specific video production services via subcontract.

Keywords: public awareness,user acceptance,market uptake,video,website,intelligent vehicle systems,esafety
Cognitive Systems that Self-Understand and Self-Extend (COGX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Slovenia,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8846820.0
EU funding (EUR): 6799947.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The challenge laid out in this call is to understand the principles according to which cognitive systems should be built if they are to handle novelty, situations unforeseen by their designers, and open-ended, challenging environments with uncertainty and change. Our aim is to meet this challenge by creating a theory — evaluated in robots — of how a cognitive system can model its own knowledge; use this to cope with uncertainty and novelty during task execution; extend its own abilities and knowledge; and extend its own understanding of those abilities. Imagine a cognitive system that models not only the environment, but its own understanding of the environment and how this understanding changes under action. It identifies gaps in its own understanding and then plans how to fill those gaps so as to deal with novelty and uncertainty in task execution, gather information necessary to complete its tasks, and to extend its abilities and knowledge so as to perform future tasks more efficiently.

Keywords: active learning,cognitive robotics,planning,interaction,dialogue,vision,manipulation,spatial cognition,meta-cognition