Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Mapping the NANOtechnology innovation system of RUssia for preparing future Cooperations between the EU and Russia (NANORUCER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-Mapping, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 484212.0
EU funding (EUR): 349000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The EU is interested in obtaining a survey of main Russian research infrastructures active in nanotechnology and nano-structured materials as a basis for initiating future cooperations between the EU and Russia. In the NANORUCER activity two leading organization from the EU and Russia in the fields of innovation research and nantoechnology join forces to deliver this aim. Based on a performance analysis using bibliometrics and patent statistics and a careful in depth mapping of nanotechnology and nano-strucutured materials research activities in Russia, a strengths and weaknesses analysis of the Russian nanotechnology innovation system will be made. A systematic comparison with respective EU R&amp;D activities in nanotechnology and nano-structured materials will allow identifying opportunities for future cooperations between the EU and Russia. These will be specified by thematic fields in order to detect areas of common interests with most benefits for cooperating partners. Involving Russian and EU stakeholders during workshops, recommendations for supporting such cooperations between the EU and Russia will be developed, and concrete actions proposed. A particular strength of the proposed support action is that it can build on a broad experience of both participants in analysing nanotechnology innovation systems. In previous projects the Russian partner has already developed databases of R&amp;D organizations providing research on nanoscale and its staffs provided the expertise for the National Program of Infrastructure Development for Nanotechnology. In addition the participants will mobilize the in depth knowledge of their mother organizations, the Fraunhofer Society and in particular the Fraunhofer Alliance Nanotechnology, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, in nantotechnology R&amp;D.

Keywords: nanotechnology,mapping,reseacrh capacity,russia,cooperation,action plan
VPHOP-SIMBIOS cooperation: Tools to develop the NeuroMusculoSkeletal Physiome (NMS PHYSIOME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,United States,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1156455.0
EU funding (EUR): 929450.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The musculoskeletal apparatus is probably the organ system where the need for the integrative approach advocated by the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative is most pronounced. The neuromotor control involves the entire body, whereas the processes involved in muscle twitching, bones and muscle adaptation, musculoskeletal aging, and in most musculoskeletal diseases take place at the molecular level. The traditional reductionist approach is reaching dead ends in a number of relevant questions in musculoskeletal research, such as those related to osteoporotic fractures, the pathophysiology of growth in cerebral palsy children, the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, etc. It is becoming more and more evident that the way out is the development of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that makes personalised, predictive, and integrative musculoskeletal medicine possible. Worldwide, the two largest research projects focused on this are the Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human (VPHOP) integrated project funded by the European Commission, and the Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures (SIMBIOS) funded by the USA National Institute of Health. Both projects are targeting the same strategic objective, but each project breaks it into research goals that are overlapping in a few cases and complementary in all the others. This unique condition creates an extremely interesting opportunity for international collaboration, which drastically increases the international impact of the work being done by the VPHOP project, and produces the conditions for global cooperation on this grand challenge of biomedical research. With the Neuro Musculo Skeletal Physiome (NMS Physiome) project, the SIMBIOS and VPHOP consortia intend to establish a more organic cooperation, structured around three objectives: integrate the project communities, integrate the projects’ tools, and work collaboratively on grand challenges.

Keywords: virtual physiological human,neuromusculoskeletal system,international cooperation,vphop,simbios.
Promoting Technology Transfer of Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies (PRONANO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,France,Germany,Denmark,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-CSA-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1225882.8
EU funding (EUR): 1099991.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

ProNano aims at validating new practices to remove the major barriers that prevent results out of scientific research projects on nanotechnology field from reaching market applications: market barriers, technology barriers, financial barriers, managerial barriers. Managed by experienced innovation consultant firms and venture capitalist from several European countries, and involving European and national nanotechnology networks and platforms, ProNano promotes existing results of scientific research projects available in EU research centres that have not yet been exploited, through assistance to the entrepreneurial teams connected to such research work. First, existing research results are identified and screened for evaluation of their commercial potential. The technical information is completed by a business-relevant analysis of technological competitive markets, road maps to financing, and management issues leading to draft business plans. Then, potential entrepreneurs and investors are associated to this process and coached by technology transfer and innovation professionals including specialists in venture capital/ private equity financing and banking instruments. The promising nanotechnologies are made ready to be licensed for sale to industry or developed into business proposals for start-up companies. ProNano ultimately aims at closing investment deals to prove the approach successful (completing full financing rounds to venture capital investors/established businesses, or licensing agreements). Lessons learnt during the project and policy recommendations are presented to the broad public at a final event.

Keywords: nanotechnology,supporting actions,commercialisation,barries,private fundings,spin-offs,licensing.
Innovative Nanostructured Optochemical Sensors (INGENIOUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Denmark,Spain,Poland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-EU-Russia, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2011288.33
EU funding (EUR): 1539000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH’s) and VOCs like benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX) are compounds of great social and environmental significance, are widely used in industry, in many different applications. However, they and can present serious medical, environmental, and explosion dangers. Because they are toxic even at parts per- billion concentrations, it is essential to know their concentration in the air, especially in industrial and populated areas. Measurement of these toxic compounds at trace levels in multi analyte mixtures is still a challenging task however, and involves the use of expensive laboratory bound equipment. This severely limits risk analysis and timely initiation of preventive measures in a working environment. The main objective of the INGENIOUS project is the development, evaluation and validation of novel ultra-sensitive and selective nanostructured optochemical sensors for the detection of PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and BTX (benzene, toluene, xylene) from complex mixtures. Within the sensor concept, nanoparticle-based materials with high selectivity and sensitivity will be created by combining principles of molecular imprinting and plasmonic enhancement of molecular fluorescence. Silica and polymer core-shell nanoparticles with molecularly imprinted shells will be used as building blocks of self-assembling colloidal aggregates acting as chemosensing elements. The sensing elements and microarrays of sensing elements will be obtained using modern printing technologies such as ink-jet and microcontact printing. The combined sensor elements will be implemented on a polymer foil format and validated as sensor transducers. The technology will be incorporated into an in-plane optical read-out platform and demonstrated for specific end user applications. The suggested approach will be used to create sensor devices capable of detecting relevant analytes in industrial processes, occupational health and plants safety like PAH

Keywords: molecularly imprinted nanoparticles,plasmonics,nanoscale pattering,optochemical sensors,occupational health
Effects of global warming and alien species invasions on high diverse communities of NW Mediterranean Sea. (CORALCHANGE)

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,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-13
End date: 2012-11-12
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Climate change and alien species invasions are leading to significant diversity loss and affect ecosystem functioning worldwide. In the NW Mediterranean the occurrence of unprecedented mass mortality events have been related to strong positive temperature anomalies possibly linked to climate change. On the other hand, in the Mediterranean there is an increasing number of invasive species. Up to now, most studies focus only on the effects of single disturbance source, although the potential combined effects of different disturbances are raising concern. This project will examine the direct and potential combined effects of climate change and the invasion of an algal species in the Mediterranean coralligenous. Coralligenous community is the richest one in terms of both species and organization among the Mediterranean benthic communities. It harbours great number of endangered species, long-lived organisms, very sensitive to strong disturbances. Among them, calcareous sciaphilic algae provide the structure of the community and gorgonians provide erect substrata like trees in the terrestrial forests. Gorgonians were severely affected by recent mass mortality events, but although the paramount role of calcareous algae on the structure and organization of coralligenous community we lack of quantitative information on mortality and noxious effects of positive temperature anomalies for these species. Conversely, the actual spreading of an invasive algae species may be causing strong impacts in the community and could be a major threat for the recovery process for species that have already suffered of mass mortalities due to global warming. This project will focus on 1) the factors that may favor invasion of alien species in coralligenous communities, 2) the response of calcareous algae and gorgonian populations face warming trend and invasive species. 3) the impact at a community level of positive thermal events and invasive species on coralligenous outcrops.

Keywords: natural sciences,biodiversity,biodiversity status and trends,global warming,alien species,invasive algae,coralligenous community,mediterranean
Flexible Skill Acquisition and Intuitive Robot Tasking for Mobile Manipulation in the Real World (FIRST-MM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,Belgium,Portugal,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4185097.0
EU funding (EUR): 2996998.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The development of flexible mobile manipulation systems is a promising area for the robotics industry as it allows to combine the success of manipulation robots with the flexibility of mobile robots. In the past, there has been a tremendous success in the areas of robotic manipulators and mobile robots. Many industrial processes highly depend on the reliability and robustness of robotic manipulators. On the other hand, research on mobile robots has led to systems that demonstrated the capability of safe and accurate navigation. The goal of this project is to integrate these two areas in the context of a real-world application scenario to build the basis for a new generation of autonomous mobile manipulation robots that can flexibly be instructed to perform complex manipulation and transportation tasks. The project will develop a novel robot programming environment that allows even non-expert users to specify complex manipulation tasks in real-world environments. In addition to a task specification language, the environment includes concepts for probabilistic inference and for learning manipulation skills from demonstration and from experience. The project will build upon and extend recent results in robot programming, navigation, manipulation, perception, learning by instruction, and statistical relational learning to develop advanced technology for mobile manipulation robots that can flexibly be instructed even by non-expert users to perform challenging manipulation tasks in real-world environments.The project results will be evaluated in a real-world setting involving mobile manipulation platforms built from state-of-the-art components and controlled by a fully integrated software system containing all developed components. The integrated system will, starting from a task specification, be capable of acquiring necessary low-level manipulation skills, imitating mobile manipulation behaviors demonstrated by a human it interacts with and, most importantly, will be able to generalize over such demonstrated behaviors to autonomously solve other tasks.

Keywords: mobile manipulation,learning,navigation,skill acquisition
Towards an Open and Sustainable ICT Research Infrastructure Strategy (OSIRIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,South Africa,Switzerland,Slovenia,Türkiye,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Hungary,Latvia,Czechia,France,Belgium,Netherlands,Latvia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1011143.0
EU funding (EUR): 818367.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The OSIRIS consortium is composed of participants involving Public Authorities and RI Champions across 12 EU Members States and Associated Countries and regions with direct links to existing and future ICT European RIs (i.e. High Performance Computing, Grids, Networks, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Future Internet). OSIRIS therefore has been established with the necessary structure and elements to reach its objectives: The main aim of the OSIRIS project initiative is to provide structured information and models for decision makers (European Commission, Member States, Associated Countries) who develop cross border public-public partnerships and who establish a coordinated approach to future large scale investments in transnational European ICT RIs. The OSIRIS project and consortium will collect, structure and provide this information based on an analysis of the current coordinating organizations active in the field and relevant documents and provide an overview and qualitative model of the important subjects to be considered when setting-up and running an ICT RI including Governance, Policy, Sustainability, Operational principles,.. This qualitative model will be applied to important examples of ICT research infrastructures together with a more detailed analysis of a representative set of ICT research infrastructures The OSIRIS project and consortium therefore paves the way to a platform for continuous analysis and recommendations on existing and future European ICT RIs leading to: • Complementary or common planning of investments and investment policies in order to obtain sustainable European ICT RIs • Procedures, rules and management mechanisms for coordinated investments in large scale transnational ICT RI’s in Europe

Keywords: ict ris,public authority cooperation,national champions,prins,geant,prace,future internet,grid computing,common investment policy,sustainable ri models
Quantitative Assessment of Secondary Spectrum Access (QUASAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Finland,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom,North Macedonia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5049403.0
EU funding (EUR): 2996000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The need for the radio spectrum for the rapidly growing broadband access services is evident. Abundant and fast access to spectrum has three main advantages: it fosters rapid innovation in wireless systems and services lowering entry barrier on the market; it enables affordable mobile broadband access to all; and makes new energy efficient wireless systems possible. Secondary use of already licensed, but poorly inefficiently used spectrum, (Cognitive Radio )has been proposed as a solution to make more efficient use of the spectrum. Low spectrum occupancy in a number of measurement campaigns worldwide has been the basis for claims of large gains in spectrum efficiency by cognitive radio. However, little research has been done to substantiate these claims. The QUASAR project aims at bridging this gap between the claims made in conventional cognitive radio research and practical implementation by assessing and quantifying the “real-world” benefits of secondary (opportunistic) access to primary (licensed) spectrum. The analysis is based on two key features of cognitive radio: the ability of the secondary users to discover the opportunity to use the spectrum, and assessing the electromagnetic impact of secondary user transmissions on primary system (receivers). Novel approaches are taken as we go beyond the conventional notion of detecting “spectrum holes” into treating spectrum opportunity discovery as a data fusion problem, as well as new schemes that cope interference from multiple uncoordinated secondary users. QUASAR will provide a comprehensive analysis of the techno-economical environment and provide detailed roadmaps and guidelines on how to apply and analyze new opportunistic spectrum access business models. The project will finally provide specific and reasoned proposals to go beyond the current regulatory framework. A balanced project team will provide results of high scientific quality and strong impact on the regulatory process and wireless business.

Keywords: cognitive radio,dynamic spectrum access,spectrum regulation
Polymer Photonic multiparametric biochemical SENSor for Point of care diagnostics (P3SENS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Hungary,Finland,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3629485.0
EU funding (EUR): 2596909.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The detection of chemical or biological substances increasingly appears as an essential concern in order to prevent human or animal health and security related problems. Present analytical techniques are expensive and often require highly specialized staff and infrastructures. The principal need is to perform screening tests, which can be carried out in non-specialized infrastructures, e.g. Point of Care, schools and field, before unambiguous identification in a specialized laboratory. There is thus a need to develop a new detection system that has low-cost and is portable but at the same time offers high sensitivity, selectivity and multi-analyte detection from a sample containing various components (e.g. blood, serum, saliva, etc.). The objective of P3SENS is to design, fabricate and validate a multichannel (50 or more) polymer photonic crystal based label-free disposable biosensor allowing for a “positive/negative” detection scheme of ultra small concentrations of analytes in solution (&lt; 1 ng/mL). The biosensor will be encapsulated in a specifically designed microfluidic system in order to deliver the sample to the multiple sensing zones. The design of the biochip will allow it to be easily inserted in a compact measurement platform, usable by non-specialized practitioners outside of specialized laboratories for carrying simultaneous multi-analyte detection, delivering real-time monitoring, and with an assay duration that will not exceed a few tens of minutes. The photonic chip proposed in this project will be based on polymer Photonic Crystal (PhC) micro-cavities coupled into a planar waveguide optical distribution circuit. The photonic chip will be fabricated with available fabrication technologies - and with an emphasis on low cost substrates (polymer) and fabrication processes (nano-imprint lithography). More generally, P3SENS will push forward the development of low cost disposable biochips based on photonics.

Keywords: photonic crystal,polymer photonics,nano-imprint lithography,multichannel biosensor,point of care diagnostics