Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Juxtapositioned reflective performance enabling science and technology learning (JUXTALEARN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2642936.0
EU funding (EUR): 2099403.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

School and University students studying science and technology often encounter barriers to their understanding of complex concepts. However, unlike in the arts, students are frequently poorly motivated to overcome these barriers. Focusing on ‘performance’ JuxtaLearn will provoke student curiosity in science and technology through creative film making and editing activities. Computational identification of students’ barriers to conceptual understanding will be overcome by scaffolded creative application of concepts in activities juxtaposed to traditional understanding. State of the art technologies will support students transferable reflections focusing on two pedagogical approaches: juxtaposition performance and reflective performance. Juxtaposition performance: JuxtaLearn ICMAs (Interactive Computer Marked Assessments) will support students’ identification of threshold concepts that are their own personal barriers to understanding. Students’ understanding will be enhanced by them creating personal performances through application of a theory in a formal activity and then again in a creative juxtaposed activity (e.g. physics used in music DJ-ing, chemistry occurring in kitchens, possible evolution of an alien race). New media and learning analytics of public video resources will facilitate student creative inspiration and further conceptual insight and understanding. Reflective performance: State of the art systems for automated and personalised film making and editing will support curiosity and creative expression. A deeper understanding will be reinforced through scaffolding reflections on essential elements in applying the theory. Students will, for example, be supported in instigating reflective decisions on what to film, how to film it and what and where to edit. Public displays will enable sharing and commenting of these performances thus encouraging public curiosity and a ‘buzz’ around specific complex concepts.

Keywords: performance,conceptual understanding,threshold concepts,computer-marked assessment,mobile,tabletop,learning analytics,interactive situated displays,film-making,film-editing,multimedia
Ultra-Low-Power Holistic Design for Smart Biosignals Computing Platforms (PHIDIAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2260938.0
EU funding (EUR): 1799958.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Emerging and future HealthCare policies are fueling up an application driven shift toward long term monitoring of biosignals by means of embedded ultra low power Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs). In order to break out, these applications need the emergence of new technologies to allow the development of extremely power-efficient bio sensing nodes. This project aims at unlocking the development of ultra-low power bio-sensing WBSNs by tackling the following key technological breakthroughs: • The development of new signal processing models and methods based on the new Compressive Sampling paradigm and optimized for low power computational architectures that will generate the necessary front-end but will necessitate to depart from the traditional Shannon sampling methodologies, • The efficient hardware implementation of components, both analog and digital, building upon the new ultra-low-power signal processing front-end, • The joint architecture optimization and integration of those components using novel ultra-compact heterogeneous 3D architectures, • The evaluation of the global power reduction using a system wide integration of hardware and software components focused on compressed sensing based biosignals analysis, Based on these breakthroughs, PHIDIAS aims at developing and evaluating a proof-of-concept system that will allow disrupting the design of WBSNs for biosensing applications as well as shifting the expectations of health monitoring applications. PHIDIAS will tackle these challenges by bringing together a mixed consortium of academic and industrial research partners representing pan-European excellence in those technologies. Moreover, PHIDIAS will pioneer a unique holistic approach, ensuring that key breakthroughs work out in a cooperative way toward the global objective of the project.

Keywords: ultra-low power wireless body area sensor networks,compressive sensing,ultra-power heterogeneous 3d architectures,3d system-in-package
SUpporting Cloud Research Exploitation (SUCRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Poland,United Kingdom,Germany,Japan,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 658244.0
EU funding (EUR): 490000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Cloud Computing is now deemed the key computing paradigm for empowering distributed information systems and mainstream applications. The same holds for Open Source development models and software solutions. Their interrelation however remains not fully explored and exploited. SUCRE will discuss and identify the impediments on why open source cloud solutions have not been yet widely adopted. We will also examine how this adoption can be facilitated through an international dialogue on the “hot” topics of interoperability and data portability involving experts from both the EU and Japan. SUCRE will investigate and suggest means for reinforcing the adoption of open source cloud solutions by key stakeholders. We will engage two user communities whose future computing requirements could be very well served by open source cloud solutions, namely, the public sector and the industry that provides computing services to the health care sector. Both are of paramount societal importance and will serve as the SUCRE use-cases. SUCRE will produce a recommendation report with Open-Source Solutions for Interoperable Clouds in these two high-impact economic sectors, addressing issues related to interoperability and standards, including technological, societal, and legal aspects. Particular attention will be given to the interaction between academia and industry as well as among industry players. This will be reflected in the formation of the SUCRE EU – Japan Experts Group, as well as in our effort to bring together the researchers of tomorrow with industry and areas experts in the fields of the Internet of Services, Clouds and Open Source. Through the “5-step” integrated approach, SUCRE will set up an all-embracing, still focused, supporting mechanism for projects funded by the Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit, consisting of targeted workshops, an experts group, a young -researchers forum, publications and promotional material.

Keywords: cloud computing,open source models,uptake of open source clouds,japan,interoperability,use cases,societal challenges,videos,magazine,workshop,experts group,recommendation report
Connectivity management for eneRgy Optimised Wireless Dense networks (CROWD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,France,Spain,Germany,Germany,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4644276.0
EU funding (EUR): 2978000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Wireless traffic demand is currently growing exponentially. This growing demand can only be satisfied by increasing the density of points of access and combining different wireless technologies. Mobile network operators have already started to push for denser, heterogeneous deployments; however, current technology needs to steer towards efficiency, to avoid unsustainable energy consumption and network performance implosion due to interference. While some efforts have already been devoted to evolving the technology, these efforts mostly take a restricted PHY perspective and do not consider higher-layer mechanisms, which are required to fully optimise global performance. In this context, CROWD promotes a paradigm shift in the future Internet architecture towards global network cooperation, dynamic network functionality configuration and fine, on demand, capacity tuning. The project targets very dense heterogeneous wireless access networks and integrated wireless-wired backhaul networks. In this framework, CROWD pursues four key goals: i) bringing density-proportional capacity where it is needed, ii) optimising MAC mechanisms operating in very dense deployments by explicitly accounting for density as a resource rather than as an impediment, iii) enabling traffic-proportional energy consumption, and iv) guaranteeing mobile user’s quality of experience by designing smarter connectivity management solutions. The technology developed by the project will be designed taking into account the requirements for commercial deployment. Exploitation plans comprise a thorough roadmap for standardisation that includes the support letters from chairs of the relevant groups at IETF, IRTF, IEEE and Femto Forum. The consortium combines the integrated perspectives of a major mobile operator, a top leader manufacturer, a provider of test equipment, an innovative company engaged to develop new technologies, two leading academic partners and a world-renowned research institute.

Keywords: long term evolution,ieee 802.11,wifi direct,offloading,energy efficiency,wireless dense networks,wireless backhaul optimization,distributed mobility management
Innovative Nano and Micro Technologies for Advanced Thermo and Mechanical Interfaces (NANOTHERM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,France,Sweden,Poland,Hungary,Germany,Spain,Poland,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9514464.0
EU funding (EUR): 6070000.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Future electronic power devices and packages will need to demonstrate more performance and functionality at reduced cost, size, weight, energy consumption and thermal budget. Further, increasing reliability demands have also to be met by industry to be competitive in this growing multi-billion Euro market of heterogeneously integrated systems.To respond to these challenges, new innovative nano- and micro-technologies and materials, both of which are key enablers for advanced thermal and mechanical interfaces, have to be developed and compatibly integrated to obtain higher electrical, thermal and reliability performance under harsh environmental conditions.Nanotherm’s objective is to take up these challenges in design, technology and test:Novel approaches to thermal technologies with superior electrical, thermal and thermo-mechanical properties will be developed in the project and demonstrated on automotive, avionics, solid-state lighting and industrial applications. Parallel routes will be followed addressing nano-sinter-adhesive bonding, phonon-coupled VACNT joining, nano-functionalised nano-filled adhesive die attach and graphene-enhanced surfaces. The main principle common to all technologies is the exploitation of nano-effects to obtain outstanding interconnect properties by especially developed processes.In parallel, a multi-scale and multi-domain modelling framework will furnish guidelines for materials design by various approaches from ab-inito up to continuum modelling and verified by corresponding experimental techniques.The consortium, composed of 18 partners from industry, SME and academia out of 8 European countries, embodies the necessary excellence and interdisciplinarity to address these tasks successfully. We are convinced that Nanotherm’s results will enable the next generation of heterogeneously integrated power packages, cut down thermal interface resistance at least by 50% and impact also on other power system-in-package configurations.

Keywords: modelling,simulation,new materials,more-than-moore,power dissipation,tim,power application,thermal management,reliability
Topology driven methods for complex systems (TOPDRIM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2457563.0
EU funding (EUR): 1920000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Many complex systems are characterized by multi-level properties that make the study of their dynamics and of their emerging phenomena a daunting task. The huge amount of data available in modern sciences can be expected to support great progress in these studies, even though the nature of the data varies. Given that, it is crucial to extract as much as possible features from data, including qualitative (topological) ones. The goal of this project is to provide methods driven by the topology of data for describing the dynamics of multi-level complex systems. To this end the project will develop new mathematical and computational formalisms accounting for topological effects. To pursue these objectives the project brings together scientists from many diverse fields including as topology and geometry, statistical physics and information theory, computer science and biology. The proposed methods, obtained through concerted efforts, will cover different aspects of the science of complexity ranging from foundations, to simulations through modelling and analysis, and are expected to constitute the building blocks for a new generalized theory of complexity.

Keywords: topology of data,statistical methods,formal methods,bio-oriented methods
Training and Research in Unconventional Computation in Europe (TRUCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 570844.0
EU funding (EUR): 509000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Unconventional computation (UCOMP) is an important and emerging area of scientific research, which explores new ways of computing that go beyond the traditional model, as well as quantum- and brain inspired computing. Such alternatives may encompass novel substrates (e.g., DNA, living cells, or mixtures of the two) as well as new paradigms which, for example, support combined information processing and material production (as living systems do). UCOMP researchers draw inspiration from a wide and diverse range of sources, from physics, to chemistry, biology and ecology. The field is growing quickly, and has the potential to revolutionize not only our fundamental understanding of the nature of computing, but the way in which we solve problems, design networks, do industrial fabrication, make drugs or construct buildings. The problems we already face in the 21st century will require new and creative approaches, conceptual frameworks, mechanisms and perspectives. UCOMP offers one route towards this. TRUCE is a coordination action to help organize the international UCOMP community. The inherent diversity of the field has led to fragmentation, with many sub-fields developing in parallel. With large-scale project support now being offered by the European Commission, the time is precisely right to organize and coordinate the field at the European level. The proposed coordination action will engage the European community (and beyond), construct the first UCOMP roadmap, reach out to a wider public beyond the scientific community, and build the foundations for a new, sustainable and coherent scientific discipline.

Keywords: unconventional computing,nature-inspired computing,training,community building.
Operating ICT basic switches below the Landauer limit (LANDAUER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Portugal,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3192904.0
EU funding (EUR): 2400000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The scientific objective of this project is to test the fundamental limits in energy dissipation during the operation of physical switches representing the basic elements of logic gates. We address the physical limits arising from a generic switch mechanism that is common to any digital device, with specific reference to the fundamental limit arising from the decrease of information in the computation procedure, also known as Landauer limit. The technological objective of this project is to introduce new conceptual devices that, through novel computing paradigms with radically improved efficiency, are capable of trading the minimum amount of energy dissipated with the computational precision. In order to reach such objectives in a joint effort, the LANDAUER consortium composed by world leading experts in nanoscale energy management will fabricate, test and evaluate three classes of new conceptual devices: “magnetic switching nanoparticles”, “nanomechanical switches” and “nanoelectronic stochastic logic gates” addressing applied prototypes for computing tasks in the presence of noisy operating conditions.

Keywords: energy dissipation switch logic gates landauer thermodynamics beyond cmos noise fluctuation equilibrium
Social Telemedia Environment for Experimental Research (STEER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2090620.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Social media already influence social relationships thus changing social structure enabled by technological advances. These advances transform the environment(s) we are surrounded by, as they introduce new kinds of interactions between humans and objects. It is therefore natural for users within this emerging social cyberspace to demand the kind of experiences they are accustomed to in their daily lives with the community type of communications being at the central stage. STEER will address this community-centric digitally-based ecosystem which we refer to as “Social Telemedia”, a cross-breeding of social networks and networked media. Social Telemedia will further intensify current societal practices and habits and they will flourish on a new network middleware framework that will combine Social Informatics and Content Delivery. Social Informatics loosely refer to any digitized information that is generated or exchanged in the context of social networking whereas content delivery represents the communication medium through which social informatics are exchanged, only this time content could be delivered through a bundle of synchronised and heterogeneous flows to a community of users. The overall objective of STEER is to make significant advances in Social Telemedia research and practices, and engineer an operational Social Telemedia environment customized to support various innovative experiments. These experiments are oriented toward investigating the intrinsic nature of the Future Social Telemedia Lifecycle that revolves around communities, revealing new properties and patterns, creating new insights, and, exploring the synergy between Social Informatics and Networked Media delivery and its impact on user experience. To achieve this objective STEER will contribute new experimental facilities such as smart houses and mobile devices, it will develop a Social-Aware Media Enabled Cloud architecture and integrate with OpenLab and EXPERIMEDIA project facilities.

Keywords: social media,content distribution,smart homes,home gateways
EURO-MILS: Secure European Virtualisation for Trustworthy Applications in Critical Domains (EURO-MILS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Belgium,France,Germany,France,France,France,Netherlands,Germany,France,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8448892.0
EU funding (EUR): 6000000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Cyber-physical networks based on embedded systems are part of our society and gain spread and importance. Next generations of aircrafts and cars will be tightly interconnected with each other, with the Internet and other infrastructures. The same holds for many industries and areas of our life. Ubiquitous, highly critical systems go online and create a domain of mixed criticalities, where security and safety requirements of different levels mix. Today, state of the art technology does not provide trustworthiness for such interconnection and mix. The project’s cornerstone is MILS (Multiple Independent Levels of Security), a high-assurance security architecture that supports the coexistence of untrusted and trusted components, based on verifiable separation mechanisms and controlled information flow. For the first time in Europe, EURO-MILS does a complete “Common Criteria” security evaluation of a MILS system to its highest levels of assurance, including formal verification engineering. Hardware dependencies are addressed from the beginning by prototype development on two hardware platforms in automotive and avionics. EURO-MILS is strongly market oriented, is carried out in pan-European context, and has an advisory board with government IT security authorities (BSI-Germany and ANSSI-France). In addition, the methodology gained from this high-assurance certification and investigating MILS business, legal, and social acceptance benefit not only the MILS domain but all high-assurance security certifications in Europe. The project brings together eight leading industrial companies, a research company, two research oriented SMEs, and three universities from five European countries to form a complete chain stretching from basic research, via applied research, up to end-user oriented service providers. EURO-MILS is expected to put Europe into a strong position with regards both to high-assurance Common Criteria certification and MILS systems.

Keywords: security,high assurance,mils,virtualisation,mixed criticality systems,highly critical embedded systems,avionics,automotive,formal methods,common criteria certification,eal7,separation kernel