The work leading to the many of results presented on this site (typically with the PIPER name) has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Program ([FP7/2007-2013]) under grant agreement 605544 [PIPER project]). The PIPER EU project ended on April 30, 2017.

Other acknowledgements include:

• all the Open Source software used to build the PIPER software, and in particular the Sofa Framework, VTK, etc
• funding from previous projects (ProEtech and CASPER) for the ancestor of the PIPER Child model
• Ifsttar, Univ. Lyon 1 and INRIA for hosting the the website, data, source code and the continuous integration platform
• and of course organizations of individuals participating to piper-project.org.