Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
EUWB - Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology (EUWB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,France,Germany,Finland,Germany,Spain,France,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Singapore,Italy,Germany,Germany,Serbia,Czechia,Romania,Poland,Switzerland,Israel,United Kingdom,Luxembourg
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20999941.0
EU funding (EUR): 13728941.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

Key objectives of EUWB are i) to explore the enormous economic potential of the ground-breaking Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio technology, ii) to extend the UWB concept with advanced cognitive radio, multiband/multimode networking, and multiple antenna system concepts, iii) to enable the introduction of advanced services and competitive applications using the radio spectrum in a sophisticated manner. The advanced scientific and technical project work will be accompanied by activities in European and world wide regulation and standardisation bodies in which EUWB partners are highly committed. As a key for economic success of UWB, the project partners will continue to devote significant efforts to participation in CEPT ECC, IEEE, ITU, ETSI, and ECMA working towards consensus building and iterative improvement of the initial European and world-wide UWB regulation and standardisation. UWB technology enables gigabits per second short range communications and inherent precise real-time location tracking. Prominent examples to be implemented in the EUWB project are the Intelligent Home environment, the Public Transport environment, the Automotive environment and the Next Generation of Heterogeneous Public Access Network environment, following a strong demand from the mentioned industry sectors. EUWB is an industry-led initiative of 22 highly regarded industrial, consulting, and academic organisations. It builds on previous projects, such as PULSERS, and take into account stakeholders of the whole value chain. Major aim is to consolidate the technology advances in scientific areas related to UWB and to define system concepts for the envisaged four application areas. The results will be materialised in four application platforms built on the open UWB technology developed in EUWB. Besides integration in the AIRBUS plane, the DAIMLER car, the PHILIPS future home, and the TELEFÓNICA access network, scientific studies will guide industry to gain competitiveness with their UWB system.

Keywords: ultra-wideband,uwb,short range wireless radio,ultra high data rate,low power radio,ranging,location tracking cognitive radio,spectrum regulation,coexistence
Sound And Music for Everyone Everyday Everywhere Every way (SAME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Finland,Sweden,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3517200.0
EU funding (EUR): 2506150.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Music making and listening are a clear example of a human activity that is above all interactive and social, two big challenges for the new communication devices and applications. However, to date music making and listening is usually a passive, non–interactive and non-context sensitive experience. The current electronic technologies, with all their potential for interactivity and communication, have not yet been able to support and promote this essential aspect of music making and listening. This can be considered a significant degradation of the traditional listening and music making experience, in which the public was (and still is) able to interact in many ways with performers to modify the expressive features of a music piece. The main objective of the SAME project is to create new end-to-end systems for mobile active, experience-centric, and context-aware active music listening. The project will try to answer to questions like “Which will be in the next 5 years the corresponding of the current iPod?”; “What kind of markets would such new devices open up?” The general objectives of the SAME project are threefold: (i) to define and develop an innovative end-to-end research platform for novel mobile music applications for participative, experience-centric, context-aware, social/shared active listening of music, for a broad target of non-expert as well as expert users; (ii) to investigate and implement new communication and interaction paradigms for mobile music applications based on high-level, expressive, non-verbal multimodal interfaces, empowering the user to influence, interact, mould and shape the listened content, by intervening actively and physically into the experience; (iii) to develop new mobile context-aware music applications, starting from the active listening paradigm, which will bring back the social and interactive aspects of music to our information technology age.

Keywords: end-to-end systems for experience-centric,context-aware active music listening,communication and interaction with music content based on high-level,expressive,non-verbal multimodal interfaces.
Evolution of gene regulatory networks in animal development (EVONET)

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: Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Norway
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): 2650000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2650000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Genetic and mutant analyses in Drosophila and other standard model organisms have revealed hierarchical gene networks and identified some key regulatory genes acting in animal development. While surprising conservation exists on a broad scale between distant phyla, significant differences have also been detected. Systems biology approaches in the main model systems have now revealed more complex gene regulatory networks (GRNs). To understand the logics and evolution of GRNs more basal animal phyla need to be studied. The comparative analysis of GRNs has thus become a new major focus of systems biology. The key questions are: (1) Does the higher complexity of some species correlate with an increase in complexity in GRNs? (2) How do GRNs evolve to drive changes in body plans? The major challenge for the next generation of researchers will be to integrate knowledge of developmental biology, bioinformatics, functional genomics and evolutionary biology. This requires a new combination of interdisciplinary training to bridge the gap between what are currently quite separate disciplines. In this ITN we will gather and compare information on GRNs from diverse animal systems, representing all major animal lineages, with particular emphases on the mesoderm specification network and the head regionalization network. To this end, we will provide early researchers with the skills necessary to apply state of the art systems biology, genomics and bioinformatics tools to emerging model organisms. The early researchers will receive an in-depth introduction into the selected model systems and training in how to conduct and analyze genomic experiments by the members of this ITN, which includes a company specialized in array technology. We will organize joint ITN/EMBO training courses and summer schools attended by three visiting renowned scientist, an exchange program between the ITN labs and a professional seminar in complementary skills.

Keywords: developmental biology,evolutionary biology,genomics
Emergence of Cognitive Grasping through Emulation, Introspection, and Surprise (GRASP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Germany,Finland,Austria,Greece,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7869539.0
EU funding (EUR): 5950000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Compared to humans or primates, the ability of contemporary robotic hands is suprisingly limited, they can grasp only few objects in constricted poses with limited grasping postures and position. The aim of GRASP is the design of a cognitive system capable of performing tasks in open-ended environments, dealing with uncertainty and novel situations. We have decided to study the problem of object manipulation and grasping, by providing theoretical and measurable basis for system design that are valid in both human and artificial systems. We believe that this is of utmost importance for the design of artificial cognitive systems that are to be deployed in real environments and interact with humans and other artificial agents. Such systems need the ability to exploit the innate knowledge and self-understanding to gradually develop cognitive capabilities. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we will instantiate, implement and evaluate our theories on robot systems with different emobodiments and levels of complexity. These systems will operate in real-world scenarios, with and without human intervention and tutoring. GRASP will develop means for robotic systems to reason about graspable targets, to explore and investigate their physical properties and finally to make artificial hands grasp any object. We will use theoretical, computational and experimental studies to model skilled sensorimotor behavior based on known principles governing grasping and manipulation tasks performed by humans. Therefore, GRASP sets out to integrate a large body of findings from disciplines such as neuroscience, cognitive science, robotics, multi-modal perception and machine learning to achieve a core capability: Grasping any object by building up relations between task setting, embodied hand actions, object attributes, and contextual knowledge.

Keywords: robotics,object manipulation and grasping,cognitive systems
Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER)

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: Switzerland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Italy,Austria
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): 5601450.0
EU funding (EUR): 5601450.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

A Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER) will be established in response to the critical need for reinforcing research in ion therapy and the training of professionals in the rapidly emerging field of hadron therapy. This is an interdisciplinary, multinational initiative, which has the primary goal of training researchers who will help to improve the overall efficiency of ion therapy in cancer treatment, and promote clinical, biological and technical developments at a pan-European level, for the benefit of all European inhabitants. This need has particular urgency since two particle therapy facilities will soon become operational in Heidelberg (HIT, Germany) in early 2008, and in Pavia (CNAO, Italy) later in 2008. These are the first dual particle therapy centres to be built in Europe but others have been recently approved in Austria, France, and Germany, and there are longer-term plans for advanced accelerator systems in Spain and UK. PARTNER brings together ten academic institutes and research centres of excellence, the two leading European companies in particle therapy, IBA and Siemens, and a recently established SME enterprise specialised in the area of radiation treatment planning solutions. All partners are known world-wide in the diverse but complementary fields associated with particle therapy: clinical, radiobiological and technological. Thus the network covers a unique set of competencies, expertise, infrastructures and training possibilities. The ultimate goal of hadron therapy is to deliver more effective treatment to the cancer patient. Potentially hadron therapy can have a very major impact on health of citizens. The context of a new technique and a dynamic research program in an area of great societal demand offers outstanding training opportunities for future careers of the young researchers.

Keywords: anticancer therapy,radiotherapy,tomography,oncology,diagnostics,medical imaging,x-ray radiotherapy,grid,gantry,treatment planning,resistant tumours
Finding a Place for Islam in Europe: Cultural Interactions between Muslim immigrants and Receiving Societies (EURISLAM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Belgium,France
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1960430.51
EU funding (EUR): 1448283.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The central research question of this project is: how have different traditions of national identity, citizenship, and church-state relations affected European immigration countries’ incorporation of Islam, and what are the consequences of these approaches for patterns of cultural distance and interaction between Muslim immigrants and their descendants, and the receiving society? We answer this question by focusing on three specific research questions: (1) What are the differences between European immigration countries in how they deal with cultural and religious differences of immigrant groups in general, and of Muslims in particular? This question has two aspects. First, the more formal aspect of legislation and jurisprudence, which we will address by way of gathering a systematic set of cross-national indicators using secondary sources. Secondly, cultural relations are also affected importantly by how conceptions of national identity, citizenship, church-state relations, and the position of Islam in relation to these, are framed and contested in the public sphere. (2) To what extent do we find differences across immigration countries in cultural distance and patterns of interaction between various Muslim immigrant groups and the receiving society population? On the one hand, we will focus here on attitudes, norms, and values. On the other hand, we will look at cultural and religious resources and practices. (3) To what extent can cross-national differences in cultural distance and patterns of interethnic and interreligious interaction be explained by the different approaches that immigration countries have followed towards the management of cultural difference in general, and Islam in particular?

Keywords: islam social cultural integration europe
Realizing Web Service Discovery at Web Scale (SERVICE-FINDER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1686228.0
EU funding (EUR): 1265000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The Web is moving from a collection of static documents to a collection of services. For realizing service interchange in a business to business setting, the service-oriented architecture together with the Web Services technology are widely seen as the most promising fundament. As a result, considerable attention has been given, both in research and in industry to Web Services and related technologies. In addition a paradigm shift in the usage of the Web in general has happened. The role of a Web user is shifting from a passive, only consuming function to one where he actively participates: the so called "Web 2.0" phenomena. Both Web Service’s technologies and Web 2.0’s technologies have been used in order to develop applications. However, up to now these two areas have been kept separate: the applications that use Web Services do not use the Web 2.0 approach, and vice versa. Instead, Service-Finder aims at developing a platform for service discovery in which Web Services are embedded in a Web 2.0 environment.

Keywords: web 2.0,discovery,web service,search engine,crawling,automatic semantic annotation,conceptual indexing,user clustering,service clustrering
BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal ACtive Touch (BIOTACT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Israel,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Switzerland,France,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7778998.0
EU funding (EUR): 5399913.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

BIOTACT will develop novel biomimetic computational methods and technologies for active touch sensing. The project is inspired by the functionality, morphology, and neural processing architectures of biological sensory systems that use tactile hairs known as whiskers or vibrissae. It will focus on two animals that are tactile specialists—the Norwegian rat and the Etruscan shrew. Both species make actively-controlled sweeping movements of their facial whiskers (“whisking”) as they explore their environments. Specific objectives are to understand, and then ‘reverse-engineer’ in the form of computational models, the ability of these animals to: i. generate fast rhythmic whisking behaviour, exquisitely modulated by sensory feedback, that allows precise positioning of the vibrissae in a manner that maximises information uptake; ii. accurately determine object properties such as position, shape and texture, encode tactile memories that can support recognition of familiar items and places, and make rapid and accurate decisions about object identity and spatial location; iii. determine the parameters of movement, shape, and position of detected prey animals that allow their tracking and capture using tactile sense data alone. The achievement of these goals will be demonstrated and extended through the development of two biomimetic artefacts: i. a novel active tactile sensing array—termed a BIOTACT sensor—with many hundreds of vibrissa-like sensing elements, that can fulfil a wide variety of sensing functions well beyond the capacity of existing tactile sensory devices. ii. an autonomous whiskered robot with the ability to seek-out, identify, track, and capture fast-moving target objects. Further objectives are to foster and accelerate research within the wider community of active touch researchers and to train young scientists in the multi-disciplinary skills needed to ensure rapid future progress in this field.

Keywords: biomimetic artefact,novel computation,active tactile sensing,computational neuroscience,touch sensors,whiskers,vibrissae,pattern generation
A sophisticated multi-parametric system for the continuous-effective assessment and monitoring of motor status in parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases (PERFORM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Poland,United Kingdom,Greece,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Cyprus,Slovakia,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8969326.0
EU funding (EUR): 6756492.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The PERFORM project aims to tackle problems associated with the efficient remote health status monitoring, the qualitative and quantitative assessment and the treatment personalisation for people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases and movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). The PERFORM project aspires to research and develop an innovative, intelligent system for monitoring neurodegenerative disease evolution through the employment of a wide range of wearable micro-sensors, advanced knowledge processing and fusion algorithms. Advanced sensors, attached to everyday personal gadgets (e.g. cloths, accessories) will be able to 'sense' the user's behaviour and motor status and store the recorded data in a local portable/handheld computer. These data are then processed and seamlessly transmitted to the centralised system for further fusion, monitoring and evaluation. The system will be modular and extensible, to enable different combinations of measurements. An indicative list of measurements includes: tremor through accelerometers or gyroscopes and possibly ElectroMyoGram (EMG), skin conductivity and sweating through appropriate Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) sensors, SPO2 and pulse rate through a pulse oximeter sensor, bradykinesia, through the finger tapping, other similar tests using devices to detect finger pressure such as piezo-electric and eye blinking rate through ElectroOculoGram (EOG) measurements. All monitoring gadgets will be wirelessly connected and seamlessly integrated to produce a user-friendly and patient-customised monitoring tool. The recorded signals will be pre-processed and stored at the patient site. At the point of care (hospital centre), the supervisor health professionals will be able to remotely monitor their patients, personalise their treatment and medication schedules and generate statistical data, so as to study and evaluate the efficacy of medication and drugs on various patient groups, based on the patients' specific personal and medical characteristics.