Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Improving Diagnoses of Mental Retardation in Children in Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia through Genetic Characterisation and Bioinformatics/-Statistics, (CHERISH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Estonia,Lithuania,Czechia,Poland,Cyprus,Armenia,Ukraine,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2007-B, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3351582.42
EU funding (EUR): 2647211.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Mental retardation (MR) is a highly heterogeneous disorder and is of genetic origin in about 50% of the cases. Despite recent progress in research the causes and the pathophysiology of MR remains obscure. It is essential to investigate this in order to develop future diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. The overall goal of this proposal is to establish an interdisciplinary Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) consortium of experts with a joint programme of activities to generate knowledge about MR and the structure and dynamics of the brain as such. This project will be the first to study in depth the prevalence and incidence of MR in EECA . The objectives of the CHERISH project are to: - to develop a standardized approach for MR diagnosis through clinical workshops and courses - to create a large data-base of patients with clinically well defined MR, both syndromic and non-syndromic - identify cryptic genomic rearrangements through molecular cytogenetic analysis - sequence MR genes and analyse the molecular epidemiology of MR in Eastern European populations - develop diagnostic tools for recurrent/common mutations - identify new MR genes in X-linked and autosomal recessive forms of the disorder - increase awareness on the possible genetic origin of MR and implications for novel therapeutic strategies The project partners will join forces to create a large collection of samples and a database from MR patients which will be become the reference. All institutions involved are the referral centres for MR in their respective countries. The molecular studies will be performed in technologically-advanced genetic laboratories. A straightforward outcome of CHERISH will lay the basis for a significant improvement of clinical, educational and industrial developments. The project will contribute to improve the management of MR with the potential to reduce the high health care costs and to improve quality of life of the concerned population.

Keywords: mental retardation,eastern europe central asia,genetics,genomics,children,adolescence
BRINGING EUROPE’S ELECTRONIC INFRASTRUCTURES TO EXPANDING FRONTIERS II (BELIEF-II)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,India,Brazil,United Kingdom,South Africa
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2010-04-30
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1100292.0
EU funding (EUR): 900000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

BELIEF-II, building on achievements and momentum created by BELIEF [2005-2007], aims to coordinate effective communication, results, networking and knowledge flow between EU eInfrastructure projects and their users, promoting their development and exploitation globally. BELIEF-II seeks to: Ensure Europe’s diverse eInfrastructure projects evolve in synergy with one another to ensure common directions and efficient interaction; Reinforce the relevance of Europe’s eInfrastructures worldwide sustaining successful development and exploitation; Network a wide range of stakeholders through a coordinated mechanism to support a vibrant eInfrastructure community; Synchronise eInfrastructures priorities through easy to read eInfrastructure communication products; Provide a unique, communication platform for projects to manage their content, communicate activities to users and the public to learn more about eInfrastructures. BELIEF-II, owing to its qualified and committed international consortium of partners, is in the optimal position to address these strategic needs through: eConcertation coordination, Brainstorming Workshops, eInfrastructure Guides, Digital Library evolution and outreach in Latin America, S. Africa and India through International Symposia. These actions will maximise the overall communication of eInfrastructures potential, and increase the visibility of EC Programmes in developing countries aiming at evolving and supporting a qualified, research and enterprise eInfrastructures community globally. Major results of BELIEF-II are: 2 eConcertation meetings with Reports, 2 European Brainstorming events, 2 editions of eInfrastructures guide, 1 DVD, 2 EC eInfrastructure dissemination publications, 5 Research Infrastructures News publications, 3 International Symposia. The DL implemented in BELIEF will be further enhanced in BELIEF-II with a number of services and functionalities to provide improved support for the community (eConcertation, Symposia, RI

Keywords: einfrastructures,digital library,concertation activities,communication & outreach,new user communities
India-Europe Cooperation to promote IPv6 adoption (6CHOICE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: India,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 678174.0
EU funding (EUR): 550000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The EU and India have established an extensive Information Society dialogue. On the research side, six priority sectors were highlighted at the occasion of the last EU-India Information Society Forum: EUROINDIA 2006. Internet security, next generation mobile wireless, migration from IPv4 to IPv6, languages technologies, Open Source software and high capacity research and education network (e.g. possible connection of the European network GEANT to its Indian counterpart ERNET) are the main topics of such dialogue. ERNET, the educational and Research Network in India has deployed nationwide high speed networks to cover all universities and public research institutes. According to the new government policy, the broadband is of high priority along with IPv6 technology. With 6CHOICE Proposal, the close co-operation between ERNET and European GEANT and GRID network is planned. 6CHOICE project supports such co-operation through joint network interconnection, service planning and the experiments will be facilitated across ERNET and GEANT linked universities and research institutes. This will be complemented with number of workshops to be held and conducting workshops to different level of target audience and complemented with training events with experts involved. 6CHOICE will complement the implementation of the Framework Programme across Europe and India for future Community research and technological development policy activities including monitoring and assessment activities. In particular, the project will involve conferences, seminars, studies and analysis, working groups and expert groups, operational support and dissemination, information and communication activities, or a combination of these, as appropriate in each case. The activities proposed encourage and facilitate the participation of small research teams, newly developed and remote research centres in the activities of the Communication Network Development scheme.

Keywords: co-operation,e-infrastructure,policy,ipv6,deployment and test
Baltic Grid Second Phase (BALTICGRID-II)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Sweden,Estonia,Estonia,Latvia,Poland,Poland,Lithuania,Switzerland,Belarus
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2010-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3344777.0
EU funding (EUR): 2998000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The Baltic Grid Second Phase (BalticGrid-II) project is designed to increase the impact, adoption and reach, and to further improve the support of services and users of the recently created e-Infrastructure in the Baltic States. This will be achieved by an extension of the BalticGrid infrastructure to Belarus; interoperation of the gLite-based infrastructure with UNICORE and ARC based Grid resources in the region; identifying and addressing the specific needs of new scientific communities such as nano-science and engineering sciences; and by establishing new Grid services for linguistic research, Baltic Sea environmental research, data mining tools for communication modelling and bioinformatics. The e-Infrastructure, based on the successful BalticGrid project, will be fully interoperable with the pan-European e-Infrastructures established by EGEE, EGEE associated projects, and the planned EGI, with the goal of a sustained e-Infrastructure in the Baltic Region. The present BalticGrid e-Infrastructure of 26 clusters in five countries is envisaged to grow, both in capacity and capability of its computing resources. The consortium is composed of 13 leading institutions in seven countries, with 7 institutions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 2 in Belarus, 2 in Poland, and one each in Sweden and Switzerland. The overall vision is to support and stimulate scientists and services used in the Baltic region to conveniently access critical networked resources both within Europe and beyond, and thereby enable the formation of effective research collaborations.

Keywords: grid infrastructures,ict-based e-infrastructures,support to existing research infrastructures
Random Walks on Groups and Representation Theory (UB07)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Locally compact groups have many unitary representations. For example, the regular representation, or more generally, the quasi-regular representations arising as function spaces over group actions. These representations can be written as direct integrals of irreducible ones. The space of all irreducible unitary representations is the "unitary dual" of the group. It exists, and has a Borel structure and a funny topology that can be described abstractly, but the truth is, that for a general group, this space is a complete mystery. In fact, we don't know even a single non-trivial representation! The main objective of the proposed research is to study the unitary dual of a locally compact groups. We intend to do this by breaking it up into pieces, and study those pieces and the mutual relations between them. The "pieces" that we propose to study are "Generalized Principal Series" associated with Poisson Boundaries which stem from Random Walks on the group. The theory of Random Walks provides us spaces endowed with very strong ergodic properties - the Poisson boundaries of the random walks, and their factors. We conjecture that the associated quasi-regular representations are irreducible. One can use these spaces to construct not just one representation, but a series of such. These series could be called "generalized principal series", as they form a generalization of the principal series arise in the representation theory of semi-simple groups. We propose certain character formula that, we believe, serves as an invariant associating the random walk with the corresponding representations. Aiming towards our goal, we propose various intermediate conjectures that could be studied independently, along with related subprojects concerning the study of the asymptotics of random walks, the ergodic properties of the boundary actions, the structure of the lattice of factors of the Poisson Boundary, and related topics

Keywords: unitary represntation theory,random walks on groups,unitary dual,ergodic theory
Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Intelligent Food Packaging Applications (NANOPACK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is a great need for rapid, accurate, cost effective, reliable, non-invasive and non-destructive sensing platforms to evaluate real-time quality of food products. Integration of such devices into intelligent packaging systems provides an efficient tool for real-time monitoring of food quality, facilitating food safety and biosecurity. The main objective of the suggested research is to develop novel multifunctional nanomaterials and devices that could in future power intelligent forms of food packaging. The materials will be based on elctroochemically-prepared nanostructured inorganic porous scaffolds, composed primarily of silicon (Si) and silicon oxide (SiO2) and their hybrids with various polymers/hydrogels. These materials will be designed to perform different tasks, including detecting, sensing, biosensing, and tagging. An emphasis will be made on the interaction of these devices with food, their long term stability and their integrability with conventional food packaging platforms. The potential of the suggested technology is far reaching, and is expected to have an impact on numerous disciplines including, packaging science, food science, biotechnology, polymer science, nanotechnology and sensor science.

Keywords: remote sensing,nanotechnology,materials technology,food biotechnology
Zero- and First-level Packaging of RF-MEMS (MEMSPACK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Finland,Germany,Italy,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4468387.0
EU funding (EUR): 3400000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Future personal and ground RF communications systems and communications satellites necessitate the use of highly integrated RF front-ends, featuring small size, low weight, high performance and low cost. Off-chip, bulky passive RF components, like discrete PIN diode switches and ceramic filters, are limiting further chip scaling. MEMS technology is now rapidly emerging as an enabling technology to yield a new generation of high-performance RF-MEMS passives, like switches, high-Q resonators and tunable filters. Today, the commercialization of RF-MEMS, is greatly hampered by two critical success factors, namely, the development of an appropriate packaging technology and solving the reliability issues. There has not been sufficient effort towards solving these issues in Europe. The proposed MEMPACK project tackles the packaging issue. The project’s objective is to (further) develop and to characterize generic wafer-level (or 0-level) and 1-level packaging solutions for housing a large variety of RF-MEMS. The project will address all relevant issues of the development chain, i.e., the design of the package (including RF design, thermomechanical design, design for reliability), the packaging technology (e.g., 0-level “chip capping” technology, 0-level “thin film capping”, 1-level packaging technology), the package characterization (RF, temperature stability, hermeticity) and the package evaluation (impact of the package on the device performance, towards meeting industrial specifications). As the potential and future for RF-MEMS is likely to be situated in the monolithic (SoC) and/or module (SiP) integration of RF-MEMS components, the impact, the constraints and the potential of the RF-MEMS packaging on the system integration will be studied as well. One of the expected outcomes of the project will be an “RF-MEMS packaging design guideline”, that can effectively be used by industry for the development of RF-MEMS.

Keywords: microelectromechanical systems,rf-mems,mems packaging,0-level packaging,1-level packaging,reliability,chip capping,thin-film capping,rf performance.packaging guidelines
Building EnergY WATCHer (BEYWATCH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,France,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5083578.0
EU funding (EUR): 2873170.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Targeting environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and new power distribution business models, BeyWatch aims to design, develop and evaluate an innovative, energy-aware, flexible and user-centric solution, able to provide interactive energy monitoring, intelligent control and power demand balancing at home, block and neighbour level. The system will interconnect legacy/consumer electronic devices with a new generation of energy-aware white-goods in a common network, where multilevel hierarchic metering, control, and scheduling will be applied, based on power demand, network conditions and personal preferences. By scheduling and controlling the electronic devices operation, BeyWatch aims to minimize power distribution peaks, balancing energy load in power distribution networks and ultimately achieving predictable large-scale energy-consumption profiles. Moreover, BeyWatch will integrate an innovative combined photovoltaic/solar (CPS) system, which will provide hot water for white goods in order to reduce/remove the energy-hungry heating operational cycles and generate electrical energy, which can be utilised at home, or during peak periods even fed to the electricity network in a reverse power generation/ distribution business model. BeyWatch proposed solution combines innovation in six areas: a) Technologies for very low-cost white goods’ power consumption. Incorporate ultra-low power motor control and FET technologies (refrigerator) and removal/ reduction of the heating phases by using hot-water available from solar energy and smart cycles (washing machine, dishwasher). b) Mechanisms and standards for in-home ultra low-cost communications. Select the most appropriate technology and protocol for seamless, reliable and ultra low-cost in-home communication and control of white goods and consumer electronic devices. c) Intelligent personalized energy-management/control and small-scale power demand balancing platform. Design and build an intelligent metering/remo

Keywords: efficient energy management and control,networked energy aware white-goods,networked small scale res,business support system
PAtient Specific Simulation and PreOperative Realistic Training for liver surgery (PASSPORT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5457174.0
EU funding (EUR): 3635048.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

In 2006, over 45.000 European citizens died of cirrhosis of the liver and 44,000 additional citizens of liver cancer, knowing that the same year 48,700 new liver cancer cases were declared. Surgical procedures remain the options that offer the foremost success rate against such pathologies. Regretfully, surgery is not so frequent due to several limitations. Indeed, eligibility for liver surgery is based on the minimum safety liver volume remaining after resection (standardized FLR), but this minimum value varies over time and from one patient to another according to biological and mechanical properties of the liver. Since 1996, a large set of preoperative planning softwares has been developed, but all of them provide only the volume of the liver before and after resection. However interesting, this limited information is not sufficient to improve the rate of surgical eligibility. PASSPORT for Liver Surgery aims at overcoming these limitations by offering a patient-specific modelling that combines anatomical, mechanical, appearance and biological preoperative modelled information in a unified model of the patient. This first complete “Virtual liver” will be developed in an Open Source Framework allowing vertical integration of biomedical data, from macroscopic to microscopic patient information. From these models, a dynamic liver modelling will provide the patient-specific minimum safety standardized FLR in an educative and preoperative planning simulator allowing to predict the feasibility of the gesture and surgeons’ ability to realise it. Thus, any patient will be able to know the risk level of a proposed therapy. Finally, we expect to increase the rate of surgical treatment so as to save patients with a liver pathology. To reach these purposes, PASSPORT is composed of a high level partnership between internationally renowned surgical teams, leading European research teams in surgical simulation and an international leading company in surgical instrumentation.

Keywords: liver,3d mesher,segmentation,elastography,texture,biological,dynamic,vertical integration.