Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A Hybrid High Quality Translation System (HYGHTRA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 833193.0
EU funding (EUR): 833193.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Since roughly a decade statistical machine translation (SMT) predominates in academic research. However, most commercial MT suppliers continue to offer systems based on more traditional rule-based architectures (RBMT). Difficulties with replacing the translation engines in the product set-up may explain this discrepancy in part. However, the main reasons are that RBMT makes available a whole bunch of functions which SMT does not provide, including human-readable, fully worked out 'conventional' dictionaries, and that for a number of language pairs RBMT-quality is still higher. SMT needs huge bilingual text corpora to compute satisfactory translation models, and it is inherently weak when dealing with rare data and non-local phenomena. Its advantages are low cost and robustness. The main disadvantages of RBMT are high cost and shortcomings with respect to resolving structural and lexical ambiguities. We propose a hybrid architecture for high quality machine translation which combines the strengths of both approaches and minimizes their weaknesses: At the core is a rule-based MT system which provides morphology, declarative grammars, semantic categories, and small dictionaries, but which avoids all expensive kinds of intellectual knowledge acquisition. Instead of manually working out large dictionaries and compiling information on disambiguation preference, we suggest a novel corpus-based bootstrapping method for automatically expanding dictionaries, and for training the analytical performance and the choice of transfer alternatives. As bilingual corpora with good literal translations are a sparse resource, we focus in particular on exploiting comparable monolingual corpora. We locate unknown words and expressions, and then use a statistically tuned analysis component in combination with similarity assumptions to identify relations across languages. This approach should make it possible to overcome the data acquisition bottleneck of conventional SMT.

Keywords: computational linguistics,translation,machine translation,statistical machine translation,rule-based machine translation,hybrid machine translation,corpus linguistics
Ultrafast laser processing of thin film interconnections in microelectronic, display, and photovoltaic applications (LASER-CONNECT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,Hong Kong
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 649269.0
EU funding (EUR): 649269.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Laser-Connect connects fundamental studies of ultrafast laser matter interactions with demand-driven high volume electronics production. The project is highly relevant to the development of new intelligent laser-based manufacturing systems in Europe targeting touch panel interactive screens, high density circuit boards for hand-held electronics, and other photovoltaic technologies. The project brings together a recently established high growth rate UK company engaged in laser systems development, its sister company engaged in system integration in Asia, and an Irish academic research group engaged in laser material ambient interactions. The objectives of the project are to generate improved understanding of laser-material interactions, develop new concepts in optical design and process control, and to demonstrate new processes for emerging thin film electronic materials and devices. The technical challenges of creating channels in thin film coatings on glass and flexible organic substrates, cutting tracks and drilling vias in high density multi-layer circuit boards, and etching isolation tracks for photovoltaics, over large areas, at high speed, with micron precision, are appreciable. The partners are committed to realising these goals by extensive knowledge transfer. Laser-Connect proposes 54 intersectoral fellowship months, with 40% involving early stage, 38% involving experienced and 22% involving more experienced researchers. Three researchers will be recruited to prepare and enhance impact of secondments. In addition to normal dissemination, the partners will communicate results at two regional workshops in years 2 and 4.

Keywords: materials engineering,laser processing,ultrashort pulses,thin films,multi-layer printed circuit boards,laser direct write,inkjet printing,displays,photovoltaics
Symbiotic Wireless Autonomous Powered system (SWAP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-08-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 991149.0
EU funding (EUR): 991149.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Symbiotic Wireless Autonomous Powered system (SWAP) combines the energy-efficient paradigm of wireless sensor networks with the self-sustainable capabilities of harvesting systems. SWAP aims at providing a novel sensor board consisting of 1) a high efficiency RF transceiver 2) a low power micro controller 3) an energy accumulator 4) modular harvesting systems. To this aim SWAP will study advanced solution for RF circuits and antennas, will use state of the art micro controllers, will implement highly efficient accumulator and will investigate on harvesting techniques. In particular, the different harvesting modules will be applied to standard sensor networks scenarios: for instance, environmental monitoring networks are more likely to use photo voltaic cells, while urban sensor networks can use instead vibrations, and harvest the available ambient electromagnetic (EM) energy. SWAP will also study communication protocol from the physical to the network layer in order to implement the techniques offering the highest efficiency as well as taking into consideration the temporary availability of energy sources. Also, the SWAP system will be realized and tested on the field; applications will be developed in order to provide the basic services for the new platform. As a final result, SWAP aims at obtaining a new wireless sensor paradigm totally independent from batteries and, instead, having as little an impact on the environment as possible.

Keywords: technological sciences,telecommunications technology,communication engineering,wireless systems
Network for strategic Industry-Academia research on energy efficiency, optimised resources use and process innovation of home appliances and their domotic integration (GREEN KITCHEN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,Italy,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1258329.0
EU funding (EUR): 1258329.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

GREEN KITCHEN implements a research program aimed at developing and sharing crucial knowledge in the field of home appliances and their domotic integration, in order to further advance technologies and eco-design strategies needed for drastically improving energy efficiency (up to 50%). The project is strategically oriented at building an Industry-Academia Competence and Excellence Center targeted at a vision of Future Generation Integrated and High-Efficiency Home Appliances. It will bring together scientific competences in appliance manufacturing, thermodynamic processes, electromagnetic cooling, sensors, actuators, signal processing and grid-integration, into a single experimental research environment to provide 23 researchers with the opportunity to work together and share knowledge. The project establishes 3 “Vertical” and 2 “Horizontal” Research Lines (RLs) covering main building blocks towards the vision of the GREEN KITCHEN. Each RL will explore new energy-efficient technologies in the context of concrete prototyping projects: Vertical Research Line 1: Advanced solutions for heat recovery -Prototyping project: developing novel heat recovery and heat reuse techniques. Vertical Research Line 2: Advanced resource sharing and waste recovery technologies -Prototyping project: Energy efficient combined home appliances, such as refrigerators and dishwashers, using novel heat recovery and other resources re-use techniques. Vertical Research Line 3: Advanced solutions for refrigeration -Prototyping project: Energy efficient refrigerators, using magneto-caloric properties of new materials. Horizontal Research Line 1: Advanced control technologies for cooking and refrigeration of food -Prototyping project: innovative sensors and actuators. Horizontal Research Line 2: Advanced domotic integration of energy efficient appliances -Prototyping project: innovative domotic control unit.

Keywords: energy efficiency,white goods,home appliances,heat recovery,magnetic refrigeration,water recovery,domotic system,energy management,intelligent controls for cooking & refrigeration
Microresonator based Frequency Comb Generators (ΜCOMB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1736750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1736750.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Optical frequency combs have revolutionized optical frequency metrology in just a few years. They have made it possible to directly count light field oscillations of several 100 million cycles per second. Traditionally they have been created with mode locked ultra short pulse lasers. In this project we propose to investigate frequency comb generation based on monolithic micro resonators. As recently demonstarted by the consortium they can create combs with a conveniently high mode spacing suitlable for many different applications. The scientific objective of the collaboration is to develop micro resonators based frequency combs using silica on chip micro resonators and crystalline micro resonators and test them in two applications, as a reference oscillator and as a calibration tool for spectrographs. The partners are the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) and Menlo Systems GmbH in Germany.

Keywords: physics,technological sciences,frequency combs,micro resonators
INCORPORATING EUROPEAN FUNDAMENTAL VALUES INTO ICT FOR AGEING: A VITAL POLITICAL, ETHICAL , TECHNOLOGICAL, AND INDUSTRIAL CHALLENGE (VALUE-AGEING)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Spain,Italy,Ireland,United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1834810.0
EU funding (EUR): 1834810.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

INCORPORATING EUROPEAN FUNDAMENTAL VALUES INTO ICT FOR AGEING: A VITAL POLITICAL, ETHICAL , TECHNOLOGICAL, AND INDUSTRIAL CHALLENGE (VALUE-AGEING) is a 48 month Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways Action which aims to foster co-operation between non-commercial and commercial entities on a joint research project about the incorporation of Fundamental Values of the EU in Info-Communication Technology (ICT) for Ageing. ICT gives individuals as well as societies the possibility to improve their lives and to free them from certain constraints. Technology alleviates the tyranny of human material constitution, its physical limitations, its spatiotemporal constraints, and its limited capacity to perform actions. This holds particularly true for ICT for ageing, provided that technology is respectful of values such as human dignity, autonomy, respect for privacy, family life, data protection and non-discrimination. Good technology is not just about making something better; it is about doing something different and consequently making people think differently. Fundamental values should be built into the design stage of ICT from the outset. We need to understand both the way in which existing values are driving technology innovation, and how technology in its turn is changing people’s standards. Social scientists and ethicists should learn from technologists, and in their turn technologists should learn from scholars working on human values. Value issues must be addressed at the design stages because it is then, when instruments are “thought up”, that meanings and values are embedded in technology. This makes a project like VALUE-AGEING a vital instrument to incorporate fundamental EU principles in industrial strategies and technological awareness in policy setting. The VALUE-AGEING partnership represents a unique multidisciplinary combination which will contribute towards educating a new generation of researchers in the fiel

Keywords: ethics,society,ageing,ict
Integrated Quantum Optics with Waveguides (IQOW)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173240.8
EU funding (EUR): 173240.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The present proposal will fund an experimental project which aims to implement optical quantum information devices on a solid state substrate. Optical waveguides will be used for the fabrication of different circuits that will be designed for the generation of nonclassical light sources, and reconfigurable linear circuits. Lithium niobate and lithium tantalate will be used as substrates for the fabrication of the guiding structure since they provide high second-order nonlinearity and a transparency range that goes from infrared to blue light. The two crystals are also compatible with the reverse proton exchange technique that will be used for the fabrication of high quality optical waveguides. Nonclassical light sources will be realized by spontaneous parametric down conversion in periodically poled waveguides. Different sources, such as squeezed vacuum and photon pairs, will be produced with innovative optical guiding configurations that are extremely compact and stable. Reconfigurable linear circuits will be fabricated using variable beamsplitters that can be externally controlled via the electrooptic effect. This basic structure will be the building block of a reconfigurable circuit that will be able to perform deterministic unitary transformation and probabilistic nonlinear operations. The final step of the proposal is the implementation of a completely integrated quantum circuit, from source to gate, all on the same chip.

Keywords: physical sciences,technological sciences
Bismuth and Graphene Nanostructures for Spintronics (BIGNSPIN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal addresses new scientific challenges in spintrontronics, with the focus on the miniaturization of magnetic sensors. Bismuth crystals and graphene layers show anomalously high Fermi wave length and mean free path. This allows us the observation of electron confinement effects in the length scale of nano-lithography techniques. Both systems can be grown and processed on Si-based substrates, which paves the way for the integration with the existing semiconducting technology. Quantum transport properties are to be studied twofold: by means of intense magnetic fields in nano-patterned devices, and by means of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) at the surface level. In Bi epitaxial films and graphene flakes, Landau quantization grants access to the topology of the Fermi surface through magnetotransport measurements. The exceptional high-mobility of Bi and graphene gives rise to giant Hall and magnetoresistance effects (&gt; 300,000 %), strongly influenced by structural parameters. Another consequence is the large spin-difussion length, which enables the transport of spin-polarized currents through large distances. Furthermore, the spin-split surface state of Bi crystals and graphene in contact with magnetic electrodes opens up the possibility of polarizing magnetically the medium and injecting spin-polarized currents. The purpose of STM studies here is to assess the influence of structural details at the atomic level on the macroscopic magnetotransport properties of Bi and graphene. STM in combination with pulsed field experiments will be used to investigate the loss of the 2-dimensional character of the electric transport as a function of the sample thickness. Both research lines are very appealing because of the enormous potential for practical device applications and the underlying Physics behind them.

Keywords: experimental physics,nanodevices,electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties,surface physics
Development of SnS Based Solar Cells (SNS PV CELLS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-02
End date: 2013-02-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 240289.6
EU funding (EUR): 240289.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Most solar cells manufactured are made using crystalline or multicrystalline silicon. However producing power with these cells remains expensive compared to conventional power generation. In order to reduce production costs thin film solar cells have been developed especially those based on the use of the compounds, cadmium telluride and copper gallium indium diselenide. Despite the excellent success of these cells in recent years, problems remain. Because of the cadmium contained in the former cells, there needs to be controlled disposal after use. In the latter cells there are concerns with the lack of abundance of indium and gallium when the scale of production is increased. It is possible that other inorganic materials can be used to produce solar cells without these drawbacks; one such material is tin sulphide. This compound has a near optimum direct energy bandgap for photovoltaic solar energy conversion, it consists of abundant elements and it can be made either n-type or p-type by appropriate doping. Large scale industrial processes already exist for producing thin films of tin and sulphidising metals and in previous work we have produced devices with efficiencies up to 1-2%. In this work we aim to increase the efficiency to&gt;10% to demonstratre the viability of this exciting new material.

Keywords: technological sciences
POPULATION DYNAMICS OF MEDITERRANEAN WATERBIRDS AND THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC AND BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHANGE (MATERGLOBE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165645.6
EU funding (EUR): 165645.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Coastal, wetland, island and marine ecosystems have been largely modified during the last century making them especially vulnerable to global change threats. In the Mediterranean basin over the last few decades, major socio-economic changes have increased the negative impact of human activity, mainly along the coasts, pushing many endemic species on the edge of extinction. The ability of populations to respond to environmental changes, and their speed, will depend on the existence of individual behavioural variability. The study of the relation between individual behaviours in response to environmental conditions (climatic factors, biotic relations and derived from socio-economic activities) and their demographic consequences, establish a key framework to investigate the role of present threats and of the future scenarios previsions on the dynamics and conservation of potentially vulnerable species. The present project aims to study the demographic and spatio-temporal population dynamics consequences of different individual life-history tactics in response to global change threats of three Mediterranean waterbirds: the Greater flamingo , the Audouin’s gull and the Cory’s shearwater. This proposal establishes a combination of state of the art modelling techniques, statistical tools and behavioural and individual-based information. This will imply estimating the individual behavioural responses to environmental conditions, their demographic parameters and applying matrix population models to explore the consequences of such behaviours. The project will be developed in a top European research centre – CEFE-CNRS, France – which provides highly expert background in complex statistical analysis and advanced modelling techniques. The project will count on the collaboration of two research centres –IMEDEA, Spain and the the Tour du Valat Biological Station, France– which provides the long-term datasets of the species and expert background in their natural history.

Keywords: nature conservation,behavioural biology,population biology,animal ecology,applied ecology,global change,global change adaptation strategies (climate change),marine ecosystems (climate change)