Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Converging technologies for micro systems manufacturing (COTECH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Denmark,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,Finland,France,Spain,France,Germany,France,Austria,Switzerland,Austria,Germany,Italy,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8466802.48
EU funding (EUR): 6000000.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project COTECH is to investigate new approaches of µ-manufacturing based on advanced technology convergence processes and to propose hybrid solutions for high added value cost effective µ-manufacturing emerging applications. The main goals of COTECH are to develop: (1) µ-replication technologies underpinned by emerging tool-making technologies for processing multi-material components and creating: a) 3D µ-components using high throughput multi-material µ-injection moulding with sub-µm resolution; b) 2D µ-components using direct multi-material hot or UV embossing with a sub-200nm resolution. (2) Radically new replication convergent technologies combining the capabilities of µ-injection or embossing to a complementary activation step to create intelligent devices in a single process step: a) Hybrid processes based on µ-injection moulding using modules of e.g coating and compression injection moulding, to provide functionality to µ-devices, such as active coatings and combination of micro and nano features in a single step; b) Ultimately the hybrid processes based on µ-injection with embossing will be validated. This will offer a very high throughput multimaterial µ-injection that will enable the fabrication of 3D high aspect ratio µ-parts, complemented by an embossing step to allow ultra precise 2D features. (3) Global process chains with increased MTBF (50%) and fabrication of high quality products. This requires innovative non-destructive inspection solutions and simulation models. (4) High added value µ-devices with advanced functionalities. COTECH proposes to validate industrially the new technology convergence processes with 8 demonstrators representing the most emergent industrial sectors (transport, biomedical, energy). The expected market for the industry exceeds 1 Billion €. COTECH will also address the problem of knowledge fragmentation by activating a polymer µ-manufacturing sub-platform as support to MINAM.

Keywords: micro-manufacturing,micro tooling,micro injection moulding,hot embossing,hybrid process,multimaterial,reliability,high precision
Dual-channel CMOS for (sub)-22 nm high performance logic (DUALLOGIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Belgium,Switzerland,France,France,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9000009.0
EU funding (EUR): 5799338.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to develop for the first time a dual-channel CMOS technology comprising high channel mobility (high-µ) Ge pMOS and III-V compound semiconductor nMOS transistors co-integrated on the same complex engineered substrate on Si. This offers a high performance booster as an option for the 22 nm technology creating competitive advantage for the European nanoelectronics industry. In addition, high-µ dual channel CMOS could be the main new introduction in sub-22 nm nodes in agreement with the strategic planning of the ENIAC technology platform. The project will develop the full set of FEOL modules from the starting local GeOI substrate to the dual-channel engineered substrate, the high-k/metal gate stacks and the S/D junctions with low resistivity contacts. Our aim is to use surface inversion channels and a self-aligned process with implanted S/D contacts for both III-V and Ge MOSFETs to ensure compatibility with the scaling and operation rules of CMOS. Device modelling and circuit design will assist in selecting the most suitable device architecture. The technology will be validated by the successful co-integration of short channel functional transistors using a 65 nm/200 mm pilot semiconductor processing line. This will allow characterization in terms of mobility at short gate lengths and identification of possible showstoppers associated with the behavior of high-µ channels at nanoscale dimensions. In addition, using toolsets, process flows and know how similar to Si, we aim at demonstrating that the high-µ dual channel technology is scalable and manufacturable without the need for introducing costly and disruptive technologies, thus ensuring the CMOS evolution for next generations. Mobilizing major technology development laboratories in Europe along with leading semiconductor and information technology industry and key semiconductor equipment manufacturers, this project can be a catalyst to the effort for maintaining competence in manufacturing and IP in Europe

Keywords: dual channel cmos
Together Anywhere, Together Anytime (TA2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,Switzerland,Austria,Czechia,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18632542.0
EU funding (EUR): 13349201.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships? This is the question asked by the collaborative project “Together Anywhere, Together Anytime” (TA2). For many people, families form the key social unit. Many of our enduring experiences, holidays, celebrations and moments of fun and laughter are framed as family events. This is something that current technology does not address well: modern media and communications serve individuals best, with phones, computers and electronic games devices tending to be individually owned and providing individual experiences. TA2 seeks to redress this imbalance, by exploring how technology can support group to group communication. Family letters are often written from one family to another; family games are played between families. Memories in the form of videos and photographs are often shared within families. TA2 wants to enhance and support these processes; enabling people to share their stories, pass digital photos and videos around, add comments to them, and to pass them back. TA2 wants to build systems that allow people to play games with each other, seeing and hearing each other as they laugh with, and at, each other, as they struggle with games like Ludo, Labyrinth or Pictionary. And TA2 also wants to find ways in which modern sensors and IT equipment can support the family to gain better awareness of each others activity, whilst mainaining each individual’s right to privacy. TA2 media and communication experiences will be characterised by their naturalness; clear relaxed voice communication and intelligently edited video. Through the TA2 system, stories are automatically generated from home-related content, the personal home video or from the antics of a lively game. TA2 will run for 4 years and finish in January 2012.

Keywords: media,home,social interaction,communication,leisure,games,family,personalised,network,interoperable,end-to-end,rendering,creative,communities,connecting people,moods,telepresence
Femtosecond opto-magnetism and novel approaches to ultrafast magnetismat the nanoscale (FANTOMAS)

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: Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,Poland,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3057350.88
EU funding (EUR): 3057350.88
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to create a training network in the newly-emerging multidisciplinary field of “nano-opto-magnetism”, a new scientific area with novel technological opportunities at the junction of coherent nonlinear optics, nanoscience and magnetism. The impact on society of this newly emerging field is potentially very high, therefore it is decisive that now young researchers are trained and equipped, so that they can become future leaders. We aim at achieving this by an integrated combination of a high-quality training program and their direct involvement in front-line research. In the research program we want to investigate nonthermal effects of light on nanomagnets in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of physical mechanisms leading to a highly efficient ultrafast (10-12 seconds and faster) optical control of magnetism at the nanoscale. Such scientific breakthroughs are expected to develop novel technology for unprecedented fast (THz) opto-magnetic recording. A high-level training program firmly embedded in a consortium of both academic and industrial partners is designed to create a unique training environment to educate a new generation of young researchers in this interdisciplinary, recently emerging area of nano-opto-magnetism. In order to advance the young researchers career development, the industrial relevance of this research as well as the involvement of industrial partners is fully exploited. In addition to the scientific and networking training, this offers unique opportunities for training of complementary skills of the fellows such as training in intellectual property rights, patent writing, commercial exploitation of the results and research-and-development policy.

Keywords: electronic and magnetic properties,nanosystems,magneto-optics and opto-magnetism
Field opErational teSts supporT Action (FESTA)

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: Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,France,Sweden,Germany,France,United Kingdom,France,Sweden,Netherlands,Germany,Finland,France,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-11-05
End date: 2008-05-04
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2113307.0
EU funding (EUR): 1398053.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

The FESTA Support Action is a vital step in the realisation of scientifically robust and efficiently run Field Operational Tests which aim to evaluate key ICT functions. A consortium of European experts with a wide range of skills has been formed to allow the development of a “best-practise” handbook which will guide the design and implementation of an FOT. The consortium involves the participation of academic institutes and national research laboratories, vehicle manufacturers and system providers, along with representatives of national road authorities. This allows the dovetailing of scientific integrity and practical considerations. This Support Action will consider the whole lifecycle of an FOT, from the analysis of stakeholders’ needs, the choice of behavioural and other (performance and individual) indicators, the methods by which they are measured (data acquisition), and analysed, reported and integrated and legal, ethical and procedural considerations. In addition, a whole range of ICT functions will be considered, ranging from vehicle systems (e.g. collision warning systems), cooperative systems (e.g. traffic management systems) and nomadic devices such as driver information systems. Running alongside the standard management functions, will be the development of two key workshops to involve wider participation of stakeholders. They will provide the opportunity to undertake needs analyses and dissemination activities. The potential for exploitation of the results and outputs of the FESTA Support Action are high, given the specific EC call for FOTs in the near future.

Keywords: field operational test,methodology,benefits,assessment
Integrated Circuit/EM Simulation and design Technologies for Advanced Radio Systems-on-chip (ICESTARS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,Austria,Germany,Finland,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4077063.0
EU funding (EUR): 2800000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

A big challenge awaits for technological developments to keep up with the demands in the market due to both the large variety of wireless communication channels as well as the fact that they are essentially all used at the same time by widely varying applications. For planned developments of wireless communication channels in the SHF and EHF bands, IC design automation tools are indispensable. These tools are needed to develop nanoscale designs of unprecedented complexity and performance and, in addition, enable the achievement of single-pass design success to avoid costly re-spins and the loss of market opportunities. Currently it is impossible to provide accurate simulations of such a system, or even a smaller section of it encompassing just the RF front-end. The advent of multi-standard and software defined radios requires a new generation of transceiver architectures and corresponding CAD tools. Dealing with centre frequencies in the GHz range, the noise figure is a limitation for state-of-the-art designs. Many transceivers have to work in a mobile environment. Therefore low power consumption is mandatory which must be traded off with the circuit’s linearity and gain. The key for enabling the realisation of single-chip integration of high-GHz wireless modules is resolving the shortcomings in available design flows. According to the 2006 Sematech roadmap this step in technology requires novel CAD tools and mathematical methods to deal with analogue/digital mixed signal simulation, with challenges in system design and methodologies, parasitic extraction, device and EM simulation, model extraction and optimisation tools. The ICESTARS project will deliver the methodologies and prototype tools to make this possible, by combining the research results of several domains to achieve a clear view on the dependencies between different parts of the complete RF design.

Keywords: rf simulation em analysis rf front-end system design mixed analogue/digital simulation
Material Development for Double exposure and Double patterning (MD3)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Germany,Greece,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2009-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4684221.0
EU funding (EUR): 3092423.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Double patterning lithography has been identified as one of the most promising solutions for the 32nm node patterning. This technique refers to a two step process where a first pattern is exposed, developed and sometimes etched and a second pattern is also exposed, developed and transferred on the top of the first one. For the moment, several issues still need to be addressed for enabling the Double Patterning process in production such as layout decomposition, topography at wafer level, overlay control, Line Edge Roughness and process throughput. For example, the conventional double patterning process requires two different exposure and etching steps which cumbersomely reduce productivity and increase the cost of ownership. In that perspective, MD3 aims to suppress the additional etching or exposure steps by developing new strategies for double pattering or double exposure. Three novel approaches will be evaluated: dual layer approach, pattern doubling strategy and double exposure technique. Each strategy will be compared to a reference double patterning process in terms of technical performances as well as cost of ownership. This requires some important material development which must be supported by appropriate simulations and patterning evaluation. Moreover, adapted integration schemes must be developed to validate the possibility of a transfer to the industry. In order to reach its objectives, MD3 will gather a multidisciplinary team of 7 partners with specific skills and strong background in photoresist development, lithography simulation, lithography process development and characterization and etching process development. To have double patterning or double exposure process ready on time for the 32nm production in 2010, this project is planned over 2 years with a total budget of 4.6ME.

Keywords: double patterning,double exposure,pattern doubling,193nm lithography,32nm node,material,advanced lithography
FOster the Comprehension, adoption and USe of Knowledge intensive technologies for coding and sharing 3D media content in consolidate and emerging application communities (FOCUS K 3D)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Switzerland,Germany,France,Norway,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1866324.0
EU funding (EUR): 1220000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

FOCUS K 3D wants to promote the adoption of best-practices for the use of semantics in 3D content modelling and processing. Aims To build multi-disciplinary communities of researchers, 3D content creators and users both in consolidate fields and in emerging areas To carry out analyses to identify issues that currently inhibit a broader user participation in the production of 3D content, and initiatives acting as catalysts for such a development To promote and evaluate the results achieved by recent and ongoing projects to identify promising future developments Motivation Recent research outcomes in the representation and processing of the semantics of 3D media risk to remain confined to the community of researchers, which are professional in the use of knowledge technologies and graphical tools, thus limiting their accessibility and opportunities for a general use. Their exploitation is now conditioned by how these experts will communicate with the domains that produce and use 3D content. FOCUS K 3D has identified a number of applications that are both consolidated in the massive use of 3D digital resources (like Biomedicine or Product Modelling) and emerging (like Gaming or Archaeology). Organization of work It will be organized through application-oriented working groups (AWGs) to customise the dissemination activities to the specific needs, and a methodological WG (MWG). The MWG will deliver strategy reports, questionnaires and roadmaps for future research. AWGs will deliver thematic workshops, reports, interviews, STARs. The activities will be disseminated to large communities through the web portal, conference presentations, newsletters. Impact The project will be useful for industry, to have an orientation for future ways of working in 3D content production, share and maintenance; academia, to develop research strategic agendas; IT providers, to have a perspective view into future business needs; the EU commission to define future actions

Keywords: 3d content,semantics,visual media
A Metropolis of Ubiquitous Services (M:CIUDAD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Finland,Germany,Austria,France,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3970270.0
EU funding (EUR): 2640866.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Imagine what kind of applications become possible when our mobile devices not only present data but provide valuable information to other users. Suppose that you are able to create instant services with information, contents and knowledge with your mobile device and in your mobile device. And suppose that this knowledge can be used remotely by other users in a simple way, with their mobile and portable equipment. And now, imagine the amount of available knowledge of those services. Millions or perhaps billions of potential sources with valuable information: constantly updated, relevant to our instant interests and context aware information. So, what are the required tools to let each user to become a service provider with a mobile device? In which way should the mobile platform behave to make it simple to use and efficient? How to reach to this type of distributed, volatile type of services and their associated knowledge or information? And, how to exploit businesses with that? User-friendly creation tools in the mobile, optimised execution environment, a model for knowledge warehouse, a proposed specific searching engine and a set of business models for users, for service providers and for third parties. This is m:Ciudad´s scope.

Keywords: ubiquitous services,knowledge searching