Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Stimulation action on MEMS and SiP design (STIMESI-2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,United Kingdom,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 344157.0
EU funding (EUR): 270000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal is submitted to maintain and further increase the Microsystems design activities in European Universities and Research Institutes which has arisen since the start of the successful courses created and offered during the current STIMESI project due to end in December 2009. The goal of the STIMESI-2 project is similar but more focused than that of the current STIMESI. Experience over the past 2 years has shown that coupling of the hands-on courses provided by STIMESI with the design tools, design kits and MPWs of EUROPRACTICE has resulted in a significant increase in Microsystems design activity in the European academic sector. Consequently in STIMESI-2, it is proposed to concentrate on courses for the processes readily available through the EUROPRACTICE IC Service. The emphasis of the STIMESI-2 project is on ‘training’ and ‘hands on sessions’ supported by tutors close to the MEMS foundry and very familiar with the design tools. To maximize the didactic aspect, special attention is given to two course preparation &amp; evaluation meetings. The project will operate in close cooperation with EUROPRACTICE, which allows universities and research institutes to get access to the required MEMS design tools, design kits, and to MEMS technologies for prototyping at affordable prices. The project will additionally use EUROPRACTICE mailing lists and branding to ensure maximum penetration. After 4 years of stimulating by the first STIMESI project, about 400 students and professors from more than 100 institutes in 25 countries have attended a STIMESI course. Over the last year alone, 10 new institutes submitted 15 MEMS designs to EUROPRACTICE for fabrication. STIMESI-2 is a consolidation and evolution of the previous STIMESI project and investment. It additionally addresses an increasing need, in the More-than-Moore era, to deliver skilled young engineers and designers to the European industry to ensure European industrial competitiveness.

Keywords: mems,micro electro-mechanical systems,microsystems,training couses,education,sip,system in a package,soc,system on chip,europractice,mpw,multi project wafer
Learning to learn together: A visual language for social orchestration of educational activities (METAFORA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3116692.0
EU funding (EUR): 2399900.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Current pedagogy increasingly fails to engage young people with the study of Science and Math (S&M) in a way that threatens the future of Europe. Without basic S&M knowledge it is not possible to understand many of the important issues that confront us, such as global warming or genetic modification. A general lack of S&M literacy makes the ideal of Europe as a participatory democracy an unattainable goal, and means that the new products required for thriving in a global knowledge economy will not be developed. To address this problem, this project proposes to explore the potential of social learning for S&M by providing a visual language to support online groups in designing their own learning together. To gain deep knowledge of any specific domain learners need to integrate learning experiences with shared reflection through dialogue, in a way that builds conceptual understanding cumulatively. To this end, the objectives of the proposed project are: to further our understanding of meta-learning within collaborative communities engaged in S&M learning; to design a visual language to support students’ reflection on their individual and collaborative learning; to implement a platform integrating state-of-the-art argumentation tools with exploratory environments; to develop an adaptive diagnostic system utilizing AI techniques to support students and teachers during the collaboration and learning to learn process; to develop appropriate pedagogies to inform the design of the technical system; and to design new forms of assessment of the individual and collaborating learning exploiting the diagnostic system. Seven partners from 5 countries compose the consortium. Besides the technical development of the system, in its 3-year life the project will address the underlying pedagogical theory and extensive experimentation in classroom (ages 12-16) in the partners' countries. Extensive dissemination and exploitation-planning actions are foreseen as well.

Keywords: learning,learning to learn,teaching,science,mathematics,argumentation,microworlds,visual language,artificial intelligence,visualization
Mathematics and Numerics of Infinite Quantum Systems (MNIQS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 905700.0
EU funding (EUR): 905700.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the project is to study linear and nonlinear models arising in quantum mechanics and which are used to describe matter at the microscopic and nanoscopic scales. The project focuses on physically-oriented questions (rigorous derivation of a given model from first principles), analytic problems (existence and properties of bound states, study of solutions to timedependent equations) and numerical issues (development of reliable algorithmic strategies). Most of the models are nonlinear and describe physical systems possessing an infinite number of quantum particles, leading to specific difficulties. The first part of the project is devoted to the study of relativistic atoms and molecules, while taking into account quantum electrodynamics effects like the polarization of the vacuum. The models are all based on the Dirac operator. The second part is focused on the study of quantum crystals. The goal is to develop new strategies for describing their behavior in the presence of defects and local deformations. Both insulators, semiconductors and metals are considered (including graphene). In the third part, attractive systems are considered (like stars or a few nucleons interacting via strong forces in a nucleus). The project aims at rigorously understanding some of their specific properties, like Cooper pairing or the possible dynamical collapse of massive gravitational objects. Finally, the last part is devoted to general properties of infinite quantum systems, in particular the proof of the existence of the thermodynamic limit

Keywords: quantum theory,nonlinear analysis,spectral theory,numerical simulations,relativistic theory,quantum electrodynamics,condensed matter,defects in crystals,nuclear physics,statistical physics
Multidimensional context-aware adaptation of Service Front-ends (SERENOA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,Germany,France,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5106176.0
EU funding (EUR): 3273620.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Serenoa is aimed at developing a novel, open platform for enabling the creation of context-sensitive service front-ends (SFEs). A context-sensitive SFE provides a user interface (UI) that exhibits some capability to be aware of the context and to react to changes of this context in a continuous way. As a result such a UI will be adapted to a person’s devices, tasks, preferences, and abilities, thus improving people’s satisfaction and performance compared to traditional SFEs based on manually designed UIs. Serenoa will perform automatic adaptation of UIs involving the end user in two major ways: users can intervene in the adaptation (e.g. by controlling, suggesting, accepting/rejecting adaptations, requesting better adaptations) and the system can learn from users (e.g., by observation, by sensing, by machine learning).The final aim is to support humans in a more effective, personalized and consistent way, thus improving the quality of life for European citizens. In this scenario, we envisage Serenoa as the open source reference implementation of a SFE adaptation platform for the ‘Future Internet’. The expected outcome of Serenoa is: • a computational framework for multi-dimensional adaptations • reference models, languages and a methodology which will enable the rapid prototyping and engineering of context-sensitive SFEs • an open source adaptation engine covering the whole adaptation lifecycle • an authoring tool to facilitate the engineering, designing and development processes During the experimentation and evaluation phases of the project, the Serenoa technology will be instantiated, integrated and parameterized to satisfy the demands imposed by domain-specific scenarios (already identified) of context-aware adaptation of SFEs. Such instantiations (in the form of application prototypes) will serve to assess the soundness of our ideas, their acceptance by end-users as well as their viability from a pure technological point of view.

Keywords: service front-end context-aware adaptation platform
Mobile software and services, Standardisation, Quality, Interoperability, Testing, Open source (MOSQUITO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,France,China,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 733845.0
EU funding (EUR): 589735.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Internet is going to be massively “mobile”. The efficient and growing internet of services has also to take into account issues of this “mobility” as well as the mobile devices and their applications. If, at the origin, mobile internet solutions depended on the power of mobile operators, today the take-off of the iPhone and its application-platform “Appstore” upset the balance of the forces. The future of Mobile Internet of services is more and more about mobile applications The mobile application business however is plagued by a critical and recurrent issue: Fragmentation has an extremely large number of origins and the causes of fragmentation are not fully understood in detail. Fragmentation is striking standards based mobiles platforms more severely than proprietary. How sensitive mobile application markets are against fragmentation is definitely an insufficiently documented topic. At present, without disruption, the forces of the market are likely to make the mobile application ecosystem evolve in one of three directions: (i) One takes all. There is nothing but a single application platform surviving the fragmentation. That would have dramatic consequences on many economical sectors. (ii) As a variant, few non-interoperable application platforms would survive. (iii) The mobile Internet of services just does not happen. Because fragmentation remains at an unacceptable level, innovation and service just do not reach the consumers. The Mosquito project will provide key and focussed support mainly to overcome mobile application fragmentation which prevent taking full benefit of the development of internet of services that current technology such as 3G, Wireless and future 4G (LTE, Wimax) should permit. To overcome fragmentation, an important task would be to document all issues which need to be addressed, including aspects of convergence, standardisation, validation and interoperabilility.

Keywords: mobile internet of services,fragmentation,mobile platform,application,standardisation,interopability,convergence,open source,testing
Systems microscopy – a key enabling methodology for next-generation systems biology (SYSTEMS MICROSCOPY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Israel,Finland,Switzerland,Netherlands,Spain,Austria,Spain,France
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-two-stage, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15964673.33
EU funding (EUR): 11986690.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Biological processes occur in space and time, but current experimental methods for systems biology are limited in their ability to resolve this spatiotemporal complexity of life. In addition, traditional “omics” methods often suffer from limited sensitivity and need to average over populations of cells at the expense of cell to cell variation. Next-generation systems biology therefore requires methods that can capture data and build models in four dimensions, three-dimensional space and time, and needs to address dynamic events in single living cells. In fact, recent advances in automated fluorescence microscopy, cell microarray platforms, highly specific probes, quantitative image analysis and data mining provide a powerful emerging technology platform to enable systems biology of the living cell. These imaging technologies, here referred to as “Systems microscopy”, will be a cornerstone for next-generation systems biology to elucidate and understand complex and dynamic molecular, sub-cellular and cellular networks. As a paradigm to enable systems biology at the cellular scale of biological organization, this NoE will have as its core biological theme two basic but complex cellular processes that are highly relevant to human cancer: cell division and cell migration. Methods, strategies and tools established here will be applicable to many disease-associated processes and will be instrumental for obtaining a systems level understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying human diseases as manifested at the living cell level. Through close multidisciplinary collaborations in our programme of joint activities this NoE will develop a powerful enabling platform for next-generation systems biology and will apply these tools to understand cellular systems underlying human cancer. This provides a unique opportunity for Europe to acquire a global lead in systems microscopy.

Keywords: bioinformatics,cell division,cell migration,mitosis,modelling,statistics,systems microscopy
Networked Enterprise transFormation and resource management in Future internet enabled Innovation CloudS (NEFFICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Italy,Denmark,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4051734.0
EU funding (EUR): 2897739.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of NEFFICS is to provide a new software platform as a basis for a new innovation driven ecology for networked enterprises, extended on top of an established cloud-based, software-as-a-service business operation platform, combined with an advanced innovation management software platform. The business context and value of the new platform will be demonstrated and validated in enterprise communities in two major European industrial sectors, through optimising their operational performance and innovation capacity. Open Business Model Innovation and process/service/product innovation will be managed and measured to demonstrate value generation at the business level. The work in NEFFICS will be driven by the needs of two user communities: Virtual Factory Network through Vlastuin, and Liquid Hospital through the Hospital of Sant Joan de Déu. Additional communities will be involved. Methodology and model support will be provided for Business Value Analysis Models from IC Focus, Networked Innovation Models from ICI of Aalborg University, and Enterprise Process and Service Models from SINTEF. Two European software companies, Cordys and Induct, provide respectively the cloud-based business operations and SaaS-based innovation community platforms. Their current offerings will be enhanced and integrated with other NEFFICS results to support, on a massive scale, enterprise transformation to innovative value networks. The project will be actively involved in establishing international standards from OMG in the areas of value analysis models, business service/process models, and knowledge process/case management models; and European standards from the new European CEN TC389 on innovation management, ensuring their suitability for networked enterprises. The consortium consists of 5 research &amp; technology partners and 2 business networks, coordinated by SINTEF. NEFFICS will run for 30 months, has a budget of 4.1 M€ with a requested EC contribution of 2.9 M€.

Keywords: networked enterprise,business innovation,future internet
Network for EXchange and PRototype Evaluation of photonicS componentS and Optical systems (NEXPRESSO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Belgium,Switzerland,France,Poland,France,France,United Kingdom,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 848363.0
EU funding (EUR): 710000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

NEXPRESSO creates and implements a network for evaluation by researchers of prototype photonics components and systems manufactured by SMEs, at no net cost to either the university or the SME. As a result, students are trained on the next generation of emerging technologies and products as identified by European industries. This training orients students toward advanced technology jobs in Europe, thus helping to develop a highly educated and productive workforce in Europe. SMEs that participate in the NEXPRESSO programme have a new and valuable resource for implementing research and development that is precisely focussed on the products and on the issues that are most relevant to that company’s continued growth and success. NEXPRESSO greatly enhances professional mobility, particularly for students and researchers originating in new member countries. NEXPRESSO builds European leadership and competitiveness for SMEs by shortening time-to-market for components addressing new applications, and contributes to broader take-up of advanced photonic technologies by implementing key R&D evaluations that help to enable a prototype to become a product. NEXPRESSO goes beyond the State-of-the-Art created by the ACCORD-programme, which has been a unique project in its kind.

Keywords: photonic components,photonic systems,component exchange,exchange platform
Heterogeneous integration of autonomous smart films based on electrochromic transistors (SMART-EC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Portugal,Sweden,Germany,France,France,Germany,France,France,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7255666.0
EU funding (EUR): 5100000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

SMART-EC aims at the development of self powered (energy harvesting and storage) EC device integrating EC thin film transistor component on a flexible substrate for energy saving, comfort and security in automotive, e-cards and smart packaging sectors. The objective is to overcome the current limitations related to low switching time and manufacturing costs; the switching time can be reduced (&lt;1s) by introducing nanostructured EC materials, innovative EC transistors and high ionic conductive solid electrolytes. Radical innovative cheap manufacturing technologies on large area PVD, inkjet and roll-to-roll processes on low cost plastic will be developed. These processes are fully compatible with heterogeneous integration of several functions to produce a completely autonomous device (thin film battery, PV cell, sensors and communication) with great added value respect to traditional solutions. The optimization of co-integrated (separated building blocks laminated together) and convergence (using same materials for different building blocks) approaches will allow to fabricate a fully autonomous system. The first step will be the optimization of deposition and patterning technologies in terms of processes parameters and in-situ monitoring to allow the high control of film growth; the second step will be the heterogeneous integration of the different building blocks to produce the self-powered systems for the targeted applications. Four academic and research institutes guarantee a high level interdisciplinary research on solid-state physics, material chemistry and integration; this will assures the proper technology transfer to industrial partners at all product chain levels (materials, devices and end users) for a successful exploitation of results. SMART-EC materials and technologies are original and will pave the way for future generation smart surfaces with great potential impact at medium and long term (flexible and transparent electronics) applications.

Keywords: electrochromic tft,flexible elecronics,heterogenoues integration,stand-alone devices