PlatformUptake.eu brings into the spotlight open platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domains which were engaged and analysed by the project. In this issue of the special newsletter we would like to bring to your attention six open platforms that we presented during…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – May 2022
The fourteenth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #14 – May 2022 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/52dd78494ea1/platformuptake-newsletter-from-pilot-to-scale-in-digital-technology-for-active-and-healthy-ageing
Webinar: From pilot to scale in the area of digital technology for Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA)
In this webinar PlatformUptake.eu project demonstrates the role of pilots for the integration of digital services and tools into open platforms for maintaining independent, safe and dignified living of older people. In this context, the case of an open platform developed by the PHArA-ON project is presented including the challenges…
PlatformUptake.eu – 2η εκδήλωση ανάπτυξης και σύναψης σχέσεων στους τομείς AHA/AAL
Το ευρωπαϊκό πρόγραμμα PlatformUptake.eu μαζί με τον οργανισμό AAL Austria οργανώνουν μία ακόμη εκδήλωση ανάπτυξης και σύναψης σχέσεων, δίνοντας στα ενδιαφερόμενα μέρη στους τομείς Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) και Active and Assisted Living (AAL) από την Αυστρία, καθώς και από την υπόλοιπη Ευρώπη και παραπέρα, την ευκαιρία να αδράξουν…
PlatformUptake.eu – 2nd matchmaking event in the AHA/AAL domains
PlatformUptake.eu project together with AAL Austria organise another matchmaking event to provide players in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) and Active and Assisted Living (AAL) domains from Austria, and also from across Europe and beyond, with the excellent opportunity to exploit the potential for future collaboration with their counterparts…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – March 2022
The thirteenth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #13 – March 2022 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/133b68d9c08e/platformuptake-newsletter-the-importance-of-open-platforms-in-technology-for-ageing-and-care
Διαδικτυακό Σεμινάριο: Εργαλεία ελέγχου και αυτοαξιολόγησης
Στο έργο PlatformUptake.eu αναπτύχθηκαν εργαλεία ελέγχου και αυτοαξιολόγησης, που υποστηρίζουν τους παρόχους ανοικτών πλατφορμών και τους χρήστες τους (που αναπτύσσουν τεχνολογίες και παρέχουν φροντίδα) στους τομείς AHA και AAL να αυτοεκτιμούν την επιτυχία και την υιοθέτηση των πλατφορμών καθώς και της προόδου τους καθώς αναπτύσσουν λύσεις βασιζόμενες σε αυτές. Το…
Webinar: Monitoring and Self-evaluation tools
PlatformUptake.eu has developed monitoring and self-evaluation tools which support open platform providers and their users (technology developers and care organisations) in the AHA and AAL domains to self-assess the success and uptake of the platforms and their progress while developing solutions on top of them. This webinar will aim to…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – February 2022 (b)
The twelfth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #12 – February 2022 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/b70164c072de/platformuptake-newsletter-networking-and-brokerage-event-on-open-platforms-and-solutions-for-aha-aal
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – February 2022
The eleventh newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #11 – February 2022 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/11e37a5af98d/platformuptakeeu-newsletter-join-us-at-ageingfit-for-networking-opportunities-in-the-field-of-open-aha-aal-platforms-and-solutions
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – Under the spotlight
PlatformUptake.eu brings into the spotlight open platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domains which were engaged and analysed by the project. In this issue of our special newsletter we would like to bring to your attention the OpenRemote platform, including a short description…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – Under the spotlight
PlatformUptake.eu brings into the spotlight open platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domains which were engaged and analysed by the project. In this issue of our special newsletter we would like to bring to your attention the FIWARE platform, including a short description…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – December 2021
The tenth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #10 – December 2021 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/9b787e5db36c/platformuptake-newsletter-matchmaking-event-for-open-platforms-and-solutions-in-the-aha-and-aal-domain
PlatformUptake.eu – 1η εκδήλωση ανάπτυξης και σύναψης σχέσεων στους τομείς AHA/AAL
Το ευρωπαϊκό πρόγραμμα PlatformUptake.eu οργανώνει την πρώτη του εκδήλωση ανάπτυξης και σύναψης σχέσεων, δίνοντας την ευκαιρία σε παρόχους ανοικτών πλατφορμών στους τομείς AHA και AAL, τεχνολόγους στην ενεργό και υγιή γήρανση (εφαρμογές, αισθητήρες, wearables, κλπ.), οργανισμούς φροντίδας και φορείς χάραξης πολιτικής να πραγματοποιήσουν συνεργασίες με τους ομολόγους τους και να…
PlatformUptake.eu – 1st matchmaking event in the AHA/AAL domains
PlatformUptake.eu project organises the first matchmaking event to give providers of open platforms in the AHA and AAL domains, developers of technology for active and healthy ageing (apps, sensors, wearables etc.), care organisations and policy makers the opportunity to realise collaboration with their counterparts and benefit from the knowledge exchange.…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – Under the spotlight
In this issue of the special newsletter “Under the spotlight with PlatformUptake.eu project” you will learn how to benefit from the services of AIOTES platform, and meet its developers to discuss collaboration opportunities. The newsletter is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/50d5070ea12b/under-the-spotlight
Μαζικό ανοικτό διαδικτυακό μάθημα (MOOC) για οργανισμούς υγειονομικής περίθαλψης και δημόσιες αρχές
Στο πλαίσιο του έργου Platformuptake.eu σχεδιάστηκε ένα διαδικτυακό μάθημα (MOOC) με στόχο την ευαισθητοποίηση αναφορικά με την υιοθέτηση ανοικτών πλατφορμών στον τομέα της ενεργούς και υγιούς γήρανσης (ΑΗΑ). Το μάθημα εστιάζει στην αναγνώριση και επιλογή ανοικτών πλατφορμών και έχει σχεδιαστεί ειδικά για επαγγελματίες σε οργανισμούς υγειονομικής περίθαλψης και φροντίδας, δημόσιες…
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for healthcare organisations and public authorities
To raise awareness in the adoption of open platforms in the AHA domain an online course has been drafted by PlatformUptake.eu project. The course focuses on the identification and selection of open platforms and is especially designed for professionals in healthcare and care organisations, public authorities, health insurance organisations and…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – November 2021
The ninth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #9 – November 2021 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/737b901b7ea5/platformuptake-newsletter-supporting-the-use-of-open-platforms-in-the-aha-and-aal-domain
EWAHA 2021 – Workshop: Large-scale uptake of open platforms in the AHA/AAL domain
The EWAHA is taking place from October 18th till 21st, online. PlatformUptake.eu is organising a workshop entitled Large-scale uptake of open platforms in the AHA/AAL domain on October 18th at 15h00 (till 15h55) to introduce the project and share/discuss some insights into open platforms, benefits, use cases, etc. We will…
Webinar: SetUP2match
PlatformUptake.eu is organizing a webinar to set the stage for the upcoming matchmaking activities. For this the project will invite representatives of each stakeholder group and offer them the opportunity to present gaps and innovation needs in the field and comment on technology developments and the potential of open platforms…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – September 2021
The eighth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #8 – September 2021 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/c687f7cae466/platformuptake-newsletter-meet-us-at-the-european-week-of-active-and-healhty-ageing-ewaha?e=bf746805d2
EWAHA 2021 – Hackathlon
PlatformUptake.eu project supports the AAL Hackathon and will make a presentation in the opening session of this event on October 16th 2021. They event organisers are still look for: – Companies (SMEs, startups), research centers, or civil society organisations, to join one of the hackathon teams to develop a prototype…
Webinar: Meet2match
PlatformUptake.eu kicks off matchmaking webinar and event series with focus on platforms in the AHA and AAL domain. The events aim to create synergies between open platforms, technology providers, care organisations and other relevant stakeholders in the AHA and AAL domains. When: 08.10.2021 10:00 AM CET
Παράταση προθεσμίας έρευνας – Ανάπτυξη λύσεων AHA/AAL που βασίζονται σε ανοιχτές πλατφόρμες
Η προθεσμία για συμμετοχή στην έρευνα Developing solutions with Open Platforms παρατάθηκε μέχρι τις 24/9. Σας παρακαλούμε για τη συμμετοχή σας. Είμαστε στη διάθεσή σας για οποιεσδήποτε απορίες.
Deadline extended for survey – Developing solutions with Open Platforms
Participation at survey Developing solutions with Open Platforms has been extended until 24/9. We kindly ask you to provide your answers as soon as possible. We are here to help in case you have any questions.
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – July 2021
The seventh newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter #7 – July 2021 is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/9d0019751a72/platformuptake-newsletter-call-for-participation-in-upcoming-events-and-survey-on-developing-solutions-with-open-platforms
Υπενθύμιση συμμετοχής σε έρευνα – Ανάπτυξη λύσεων AHA/AAL που βασίζονται σε ανοιχτές πλατφόρμες
Σας υπενθυμίζουμε να συμμετάσχετε στην έρευνα Developing solutions with Open Platforms. Σαν ένδειξη της ευγνωμοσύνης μας για τη συμμετοχή σας, σας προσφέρουμε τη δυνατότητα να παρουσιάσετε δωρεάν τη λύση, υπηρεσία ή τεχνολογία ΑΗΑ/AAL που αναπτύσσετε στον Κατάλογο Εφαρμογών που θα έχουμε σύντομα διαθέσιμο: PlatformUptake.eu Open Information Hub. Η ομάδα-στόχος της…
Reminder to participate in survey – Developing solutions with Open Platforms
This is a friendly reminder to participate in our survey Developing solutions with Open Platforms. Your feedback is important driver of the uptake of open platforms in AHA and AAL domains and as such will help us understand from a developer perspective the functionalities, operability, and other aspects of the…
Πρόσκληση συμμετοχής σε έρευνα – Ανάπτυξη λύσεων AHA/AAL που βασίζονται σε ανοιχτές πλατφόρμες
Εκ μέρους του προγράμματος PlatformUptake.eu σας προσκαλούμε να λάβετε μέρος σε έρευνα που διεξάγουμε σχετικά με την ανάπτυξη λύσεων AHA/AAL που βασίζονται σε ανοιχτές πλατφόρμες. Survey: Developing solutions with Open Platforms Οι απαντήσεις σας θα μας βοηθήσουν να κατανοήσουμε τα χαρακτηριστικά των λύσεων / υπηρεσιών που αναπτύσσονται στην κάθε πλατφόρμα,…
Invitation in survey – Developing solutions with Open Platforms
On behalf of the PlatformUptake.eu project consortium, a H2020 project, I would like to kindly request your participation in our survey “Developing solutions with Open Platforms”. This survey will help us understand your experiences and insights from an end-user perspective regarding the functionalities, operability, and other aspects of the open…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – June 2021
The sixth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project Platformuptake.eu presents open platforms in the active and healthy ageing domain is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/81ed62de3620/platformuptake-newsletter-collection-of-open-platforms-in-the-active-healthy-ageing-domain
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PlatformUptake.eu – YouTube channel
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PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – May 2021
The fifth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project Voices from the industry reflect on open platforms in the active and healthy ageing domain is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/4faccc13df2d/platformuptake-newsletter-voices-from-the-industry-reflect-on-open-platforms-in-aha-domain
EXPLORE the PlatformUptake.eu knowledge database
EXPLORE our knowledge database. LEARN more about the evolution, uptake, sustainability and socioeconomic benefits of open service platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) domain. https://platformuptake.eu
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – March 2021
The fourth newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project Platformuptake.eu online information hub goes live is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/2c06af9e0eee/platformuptake-newsletter-online-information-hub-goes-live
Πρόσκληση συμμετοχής σε έρευνα
Σας προσκαλούμε να συμμετάσχετε σε έρευνα αναφορικά με τις πλατφόρμες ανοικτών υπηρεσιών στους τομείς AHA/AAL. Την έρευνα διεξάγουμε στα πλαίσια του ευρωπαϊκού προγράμματος PlatformUptake.eu. Το κάθε ένα από τα παρακάτω ερωτηματολόγια απευθύνεται σε διαφορετικό κοινό και μπορεί να απαντηθεί μέσα σε 10 λεπτά περίπου. Είναι πολύ πιθανό να ταιριάζετε σε…
Invitation to participate to survey – We want to hear from you
On behalf of PlatformUptake.eu project we would like to kindly invite you to participate in the following surveys for: Primary end users (AHA) Government Technology providers End user customers The collected information will help us deepen the analysis of the factors which are relevant for the successful uptake of open…
PlatformUptake.eu project promoted a discussion in Portuguese language about open service platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing domain
On the 25th of February 2021, a workshop with the title “Plataformas Web abertas que apoiem o envelhecimento ativo e saudável”( “Open service Platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) domain”) was held in Portuguese language. The event was hosted and broadly promoted by Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra, Portugal.…
Online Workshop for Providers and Developers of Open service platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) domain
You are kindly invited to participate in the online Workshop for Providers and Developers of Open service platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) domain, organised by PlatformUptake.eu project. Date: March 11th 2021, 14.00-15.30 CET Language: English Workshop agenda
Online Workshop for End-users of Open service platforms in Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) domain
You are kindly invited to participate in the online Workshop for End-users of open service platforms in Active and Healthy Ageing organised by PlatformUptake.eu project. Date: March 10th 2021, 14.30-15.45 CET Language: English Workshop agenda
Invitation to participate in workshops
Open service platforms for active and healthy ageing (AHA) enable the connection of sensors and devices, ensuring seamless integration with the communication networks and provide resources and mechanisms for the management of these connected things and data. Platforms connect the individual user for example to health or social care provisions,…
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – February 2021
The third newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/861ba2c40b65/platformuptake-newsletter-experiences-from-users-of-open-service-platforms-in-the-active-and-healthy-ageing-domain
PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – January 2021
The second newsletter of PlatformUptake.eu project is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/ecf07552b8bf/platformuptake-newsletter-supporting-open-service-platforms-for-active-and-healthy-ageing
Invitation to participate in workshops
Open service platforms for active and healthy ageing (AHA) enable the connection of sensors and devices, ensuring seamless integration with the communication networks and provide resources and mechanisms for the management of these connected things and data. Platforms connect the individual user for example to health or social care provisions,…
PlatformUptake.Eu Workshops to discuss open service platforms in the Active and Healthy Ageing domain
Open service platforms for active and healthy ageing (AHA) enable the connection of sensors and devices, ensuring seamless integration with the communication networks and provide resources and mechanisms for the management of these connected things and data. Platforms connect the individual user for example to health or social care provisions,…
Meet PlatformUptake at AgeingFit 2021
PlatformUptake.eu will attend the AgeingFit 2021 conference, the European event fostering innovation in the healthy ageing sector, and covering the fields of prevention allowing seniors to be autonomous and in good health as long as possible, and also the care of older and frail people staying in hospitals or care…
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PlatformUptake.eu Newsletter – May 2020
The first newsletter of the PlatformUptake.eu project is now available here: https://mailchi.mp/0cfc580cba0a/platformuptake-newsletter-supporting-open-service-platforms-for-active-and-healthy-ageing
DataPorts: A Data Platform for the Cognitive Ports of the Future
DataPorts will boost the transition of European seaports from connected and digital to smart and cognitive, by providing a secure environment for the aggregation and integration of data coming from the several data sources existing in the digital ports and owned by different stakeholders, so that the whole port community…
PlatformUptake.eu
Ageing presents one of the greatest socio-economic challenges of the 21st century. EU has devoted a high level of resources to ICT projects in the field of Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA). As such a considerable number of open service platforms for the development of innovative solutions in the AHA…
DITAS: Data-intensive applications Improvement by moving daTA and computation in mixed cloud/fog environmentS
There is an increasing need to develop data intensive applications able to manage more and more amounts of data coming from distributed and heterogeneous sources effectively, quickly, correctly, and securely. However, the current adoption of Cloud Computing paradigm is not fully appropriate to store and analyse such data: latency, security,…
CloudPerfect: Enabling CLoud Orchestration, Performance and Cost Efficiency Tools for QoE Enhancement and Provider Ranking
Cloud environments are notorious for their lack of stability in performance characteristics, a feature that makes it extremely difficult for owners of time-critical applications to make the decisive step for migration and owners of SaaS to be unable to present performance vs cost tradeoffs to their customers when acting as…
BASMATI: Bringing innovAtion by Scaling up nanoMATerials and Inks for printing
The BASMATI project will address the development of active nanomaterial and electrochemical inks for printing technologies such as screen and inkjet printing. The ink formulations will be tested on a case study through printing of a thin film battery. The general objective of the project is to scale-up the ink…
BLOOMEN: Blockchains in the new era of participatory media experience
Digital technologies have transformed media content production and distribution in the global entertainment and media industry over the last two decades. The market is forecast to continue to grow over the next five years, and is currently estimated to be worth just over $2 trillion . Acute challenges remain, though,…
ACTIVAGE: ACTivating InnoVative IoT smart living environments for AGEing well
ACTIVAGE is a European Multi Centric Large Scale Pilot on Smart Living Environments. The main objective is to build the first European IoT ecosystem across 9 Deployment Sites (DS) in seven European countries, reusing and scaling up underlying open and proprietary IoT platforms, technologies and standards, and integrating new interfaces…
HHGhole2: High-harmonic spectroscopy for core-hole dynamics
Nowadays x rays play a unique role in understanding the electronic and nuclear structure of atoms, molecules, materials, or systems in solutions, and also in following their fundamental transient dynamics. X-ray applications have high impact on society, ranging from medical and security to cutting-edge research on Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and…
SLALOM: Service Level Agreement – Legal and Open Model
SLALOM is a support action tackling the complexity of cloud computing SLAs and contracts through standardisation of the SLA and contract terms and a reference model for SLA management. In doing so it will support the adoption of cloud (SLA complexity is an identified barrier to adoption) and support the…
RADICAL: RApid Deployment and adoption of sustainable socially-aware and intelligent sensing services for emerging smart cities
Exploring and addressing the challenges of urban social ecosystems has gained focus, with various initiatives aiming at combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development. Several European cities have already deployed sophisticated ICT infrastructures as a means to offer added-value services to their citizens, in order to cope with societal challenges while…
EPIC: European Platform for Intelligent Cities
The EPIC platform will combine the industrial strength of IBM’s ‘Smart City’ vision and cloud computing infrastructure with the knowledge and expertise of leading European Living Labs’ such as Apollon partners IBBT Brussels, ISSY-Media and Manchester to ensure development of a European ‘innovation ecosystem’ that provides an extensive range of…
AAL: ACTIVE AND ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAMME
Chronic illnesses take a huge toll on the lives of European citizens, even though much is known about how to prevent chronic disease, and how to delay or avoid many related complications. Systematic and comprehensive health care can benefit both chronically ill patients and providers by enhancing their encounters, improving…
APSN: Network of Excellence on Advanced Passive Safety
Following the mobilisation of critical R&D mass on vehicle passive safety in EU Thematic Network projects like PSN & EVPSN2, this Network of Excellence (NoE) on aims at a durable integrated European vehicle passive safety research & implementation program and creation of a Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE). The Member’s…
EGEE: Enabling grids For E-science
EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe) aims to integrate current national, regional and thematic computing and data Grids to create a European Grid-empowered infrastructure for the support of the European Research Area, exploiting unique expertise generated by previous EU projects (DataGrid, Crossgrid, DataTAG, etc) and national Grid initiatives (UK…
ECHOGRID: European and Chinese Cooperation on Grid
ECHOGRID will foster collaboration in Grid research and technologies by defining short, mid, and long-term vision in the field. The project will: – develop a collaboration roadmap that identifies common areas of interest and opportunities for collaboration on Grid technologies between the EU and China; – consolidate this vision and…
CHALLENGERS: Support action on challenges in Grids
CHALLENGERS SSA aims to provide the framework that will support the gathering and consultation work of a group of experts from the research and business community with well established experience and deep knowledge in the area of Grid technologies. The focus of the consultation work will be: -The Forward Looking…
NextGRID: The Next Generation Grid
The goal of NextGRID is to develop architectural components that will lead to the emergence of the Next Generation Grid. This will prepare the way for the broader use of Grid technologies and their widespread adoption by organisations and individuals from the business and public domains. This widespread use will…
AKOGRIMO: Access to knowledge through the grid in a mobile world
Mobility has become a central aspect of life of citizens in business, education, and leisure. Related mobility-enabled 3G network infrastructures and user communities have surpassed corresponding Internet figures. Independently, Grid technology is evolving from a niche market solely addressing the HPC domain towards a framework useable within a broad business…
FIDIS: The Future of Identity in the Information Society
The European Information Society (EIS) requires technologies which address trust and security yet also preserve the privacy of individuals. As the EIS develops, the increasingly digital representation of personal characteristics changes our ways of identifying individuals, and supplementary digital identities, so-called virtual identities, embodying concepts such as pseudonymity and anonymity,…
BEinGRID: Business Experiments in GRID
Grid computing promises to deliver a step-change in the way we do business in the European Union today. Its development is at a crucial stage. The Grid has already demonstrated its value to scientific research and it must now demonstrate its value to industry and commerce and thereby support the…
iTACITUS: Intelligent tourism and cultural information through ubiquitous services
iTACITUS aims to provide a bespoke experience for the individual cultural traveller, based upon a dispersed repository of cultural (e.g. historical, scientific and archaeological) resources, enabling both location-based and context-based interface paired with location-independent services. The services provided will include audio-visual, mixed reality and VR organisational components, and will be…
IRMOS: Interactive Realtime Multimedia Applications on Service Oriented Infrastructures
The overriding objective of IRMOS is to enable ‘real-time’ interaction between people and applications over a Service Oriented Infrastructure… The primary objective of IRMOS is to enable ‘real-time’ interaction between people and applications by developing, integrating and validating an adequate Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) which today still remains insufficient and…
OPTIMIS: Optimized Infrastructure Services
With the challenges of service and infrastructure providers as the point of departure, OPTIMIS focuses on open, scalable and dependable service platforms and architectures that allow flexible and dynamic provision of advanced services.The OPTIMIS innovations can be summarized as a combination of technologies to create a dependable ecosystem of providers…
SCOVIS: Self-Configurable Cognitive Video Supervision
SCOVIS will investigate weakly supervised learning algorithms and self-adaptation strategies for analysis of visually observable procedures. SCOVIS research directly affects ease of deployment and minimises effort of operation of monitoring systems and is unique in the sense that it links object learning using low-level object descriptors and procedure learning with…
VISION Cloud: Virtualized Storage Services Foundation for the Future Internet
The goal of the VISION project is to advance the competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing a powerful ICT infrastructure for reliable and effective delivery of data-intensive storage services, facilitating the convergence of ICT, media and telecommunications. This infrastructure will support the setup and deployment of data and storage…
4CaaST: Building the PaaS Cloud of the Future
To survive in today’s economy; short time-to-market and efficiency are paramount for the creation of innovative products and to survive in the current economic climate. This is especially true for IT services which will dominate the way people work and live in the future. Cloud computing is essentially changing the…
SocIoS: Exploiting Social Networks for Building the Future Internet of Services
In SocIoS we intend to use Social Networks as a vehicle towards the implementation of the Internet of Services concept. Social Networks have the potential to be the ideal future service marketplace because they concentrate four basic characteristics: mass participation of users, overabundance of material to be commercially exploited (i.e.…
+Spaces: Policy Simulation in Virtual Spaces
Positiv Spaces (+Spaces) aims to provide novel technologies and instruments that will allow government bodies to measure public opinion on a large scale and seize the outcomes of prospective policy measures by leveraging the power of the communities. From the +Spaces perspective, Virtual Spaces (VS) form a vast reserve of…
PONTE: Efficient Patient Recruitment for Innovative Clinical Trials of Existing Drugs to other Indications
PONTE is a European project standing for Efficient Patient Recruitment for Innovative Clinical Trials of Existing Drugs to other Indications. PONTE provides a platform following a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach that offers intelligent automatic identification of individuals eligible to participate in clinical trials (concerning their safety and clinical trial…
POLYMNIA: Personalised leisure and entertainment over cross media intelligent platforms
The POLYMNIA proposal aims to develop an intelligent cross-media platform for personalised leisure and entertainment in thematic parks or venues. The system we will develop allows the visitor to be the real protagonist in the venue. POLYMNIA caters for a great variety of media needs of the visitors: from recording…
HOLA CLOUD: Effective collaboration for European RD and Innovation in software, services and Cloud computing: Knowledge discovery and Roadmapping
HOLA CLOUD targets to establish effective mechanisms for efficient collaboration among the members of the software, services and Cloud computing community building on a decade of experiences acquired by people who are themselves core members of this community, and extends this collaboration to stakeholders who can turn the community knowledge…
ANSWER: Artistic-Notation-based Software Engineering for Film, Animation and Computer Games
A new approach to the creative process of film and game production ANSWER assists the creative artist to record a distilled, clear, accurate description of the media she wishes to create. The project will produce a notion system (DirectorNotation) for describing the creation of multimedia content. This will offer a…
SECOVIA: South East Europe jointly developed COmmon advanced VIrtual Accessibility solutions to support public services
SECOVIA project promotes jointly developed, advanced IT solutions that harvest the benefits of cloud computing to support access to shared public IT services, resources & infrastructures and tackle the digital divide among SEE territories. SECOVIA is a South East Europe (SEE) Transnational Cooperation Programme project and it started as scheduled…
HPC-EUROPA2: Pan-European Research infrastructure on High Performance Computing for 21st century Science
The main objective of HPC-Europa2 is to continue the provision of a high quality service for transnational access to the advanced HPC systems available in Europe. This activity has been available on an ongoing basis as a highly-rated and trusted service for almost two decades. The HPC-Europa2 partnership includes as…
OpenScienceLink: Open Semantically-enabled, Social-aware Access to Scientific Data
OpenScienceLink will introduce and pilot a holistic approach to the publication, sharing, linking, review and evaluation of research results, based on the open access to scientific information. OpenScienceLink will pilot a range of novel services that could alleviate the lack of structured data journals and associated data models, the weaknesses…
ARTIST: Advanced software-based seRvice provisioning and migraTIon of legacy Software
Successful software has to evolve to keep it compatible and up to date. Up to 90% of software cost is spent on maintenance and of this 75% is spent on the development of new features for staying competitive. The industry progresses through periods of incremental development interlaced with true paradigm…
Consensus: Multi-Objective Decision Making Tools through Citizen Engagement
Every real-world planning problem, especially in governance and policy-making, possesses several objectives that are typically subject to inherent conflicts with underlying tradeoffs to be discovered. Policy makers are in need of proper tools that will utilize an overall analytical process, that is, assist in modelling the real-world planning process, automatically…
BonFIRE: Building service testbeds on FIRE
BonFIRE will design, build and operate a multi-site Cloud prototype FIRE facility to support research across applications, services and systems at all stages of the R&D lifecycle, targeting the services research community on Future Internet. The BonFIRE vision is to give researchers in these areas access to a facility that…
CoherentPaaS: A Coherent and Rich PaaS with a Common Programming Model
Cloud data management, Big Data and the Internet of Things raise specific challenges with respect to scalable data management, both in real-time and offline. Big Data analytics puts the emphasis on large queries over big cloud data stores. The emerging Internet of Things applications also raise specific challenges with respect…
COSMOS: Cultivate resilient smart Objects for Sustainable city applicatiOnS
In a world of multi-stakeholder information and assets provision on top of millions of real-time interacting and communicating things, COSMOS aims at enhancing the sustainability of smart city applications by allowing IoT based systems to reach their full potential. COSMOS will enable things to evolve and act in a more…
EXPERIMEDIA: EXPERiments in live social and networked MEDIA experiences
Offering collective and participative experiences to real-world and online communities is at the heart of the Future Media Internet (FMI) and will form an essential part of entertainment, education, collaborative working, product and service innovation and advertising. Communities involved potentially include hundreds of professionals, tens of thousands at live public…
LeanBigData: Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics
LeanBigData aims at addressing three open challenges in big data analytics: 1) The cost, in terms of resources, of scaling big data analytics for streaming and static data sources; 2) The lack of integration of existing big data management technologies and their high response time; 3) The insufficient end-user support…
ORBIT: Business Continuity as a Service
More and more areas of public life become dependent on availability of Internet based services. Banks, logistics, travel, sales and media – to name a few – are severely disrupted when hit by service outages. In August 2012 a lightning strike hit AWS EC2 Ireland, bringing down Amazon’s only European…
SAM: Dynamic Social and Media Content Syndication for 2nd Screen
The SAM project enables consumers to “socialise around media”, via their second screens, where they are fed with relevant digital content created once and fully syndicated to all for maximum impact. Today people use “2nd screen” tablets or smartphones while watching their “1st screen” – typically a TV. They engage…
SUPER: Social sensors for secUrity Assessments and Proactive EmeRgencies management
“Social media (SM) statistics during recent disasters (e.g., the 20 million tweets relating to «Sandy» storm and the sharing of related photos in Instagram at a rate of 10/sec) provide tangible evidence that security forces and civil protection agencies could greatly benefit from the effective blending of SM information into…
SUPER
Title: Social sensors for secUrity Assessments and Proactive EmeRgencies management Acronym: SUPER URL: http://super-fp7.eu/ Abstract: SUPER is a joint effort of social media experts (including social network providers) and security experts (including security and civil protection agencies), towards introducing a holistic, integrated and privacy-friendly approach to the use of social…
LeanBigData
Title: Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics Acronym: LeanBigData URL: http://leanbigdata.eu Abstract: LeanBigData targets at building an ultra-scalable and ultra-efficient integrated big data platform addressing important open issues in big data analytics. Current big data infrastructure scale to large amounts of data and system sizes, however, in…
HPC-Europa2
Title: Pan-European Research infrastructure on High Performance Computing for 21st century Science Acronym: HPC-Europa2 URL: http://www.hpc-europa.org Abstract: HPC-Europa2’s Transnational Access programme offered European-based computational scientists the opportunity to travel to another country to work in collaboration with researchers in a similar field, while having access to some of the most…
HPC-Europa
Title: Pan-European Research Infrastructure on High Performance Computing Acronym: HPC-Europa URL: http://www.hpc-europa.org Abstract: HPC-EUROPA was an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative operated by six leading HPC centres and five centres of excellence working on research on HPC tools and methods. The fundamental aim of the project was to provide advanced computational services…