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SUPPORTING DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION BETWEEN EUROPE AND KOSOVO (under UNSC 1244) IN COLLABORATIVE ICT R&D (ICT-KOSEU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: International Cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Kosovo,Austria,Italy,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 334562.0
EU funding (EUR): 298973.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

ICT-KOSEU aims at supporting Kosovo’s efforts for inclusion to the European Research Area by strengthening its capacity to participate to FP7 ICT research and facilitating its ICT researchers’ collaboration with researchers in the EU. This will be done by: enhancing Kosovo’s ability to develop an ICT research strategy in line with the local capacity and needs, the state of the art and the priorities set by ERA; implementing this strategy, for the benefit of businesses, government/administration and the citizens of Kosovo; creating wide spread understanding of ICT and its need for competitiveness, social welfare and the integration with the European Union; and raising the level of Kosovo to that of the other Western Balkan countries, and in the long run to that of the countries of the European Union, with respect to their participation in the FP ICT program. The main elements of the project are: the implementation of a thorough ICT Technology Audit and an open consultation process that will lead to identification of the Kosovo ICT research priorities; facilitation of a dialogue between EU and Kosovo; and implementation of a capacity strengthening, networking and dissemination strategy that will provide assistance to local stakeholders in order to be able to participate on equal footing with their peers in the rest of the WBC and the EU to cooperative ICT research. The partnership includes at the local level representatives of the “triple-helix” of ICT research in Kosovo: the Ministry responsible for research and technology; the main public University and the Association that represents the balk of IT firms. On the EU level participants from neighbouring Greece, Bulgaria and Italy bring in a lot of experience working in ICT research as well as working with stakeholders in the WBC environment.

Keywords: capacity building,ict research priorities setting,networking,policy dialogue,policy recommendations,kosovo (under unsc 1244),roadmap to fp association.
Distant-speech Interaction for Robust Home Applications (DIRHA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Portugal,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4845572.0
EU funding (EUR): 3450000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The DIRHA project addresses the development of voice-enabled automated home environments based on distant-speech interaction in different languages. A distributed microphone network is installed in the rooms of a house in order to monitor selectively acoustic and speech activities observable inside any space, and to eventually run a spoken dialogue session with a given user in order to implement a service or to have access to appliances and other devices. The multi-microphone front-end is based on the use of arrays consisting of analog microphones or Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) digital microphones. The targeted system analyses the given multi-space acoustic scene in a coherent way, by processing in a parallelized fashion simultaneous activities which occur in different rooms, and in case by supporting at the same time the interaction with users who may speak in different areas of the house. These very challenging objectives require advances in different scientific and technical fields. In fact, based on the given network of microphone arrays, multi-microphone front-end processing includes, among the others, tasks as speaker localization, acoustic echo cancellation, speech enhancement, acoustic event segmentation and classification. It is then necessary to have robust technologies for distant-speech recognition and speaker identification (and verification). Effective solutions for language modeling in the selected languages, speech understanding, concurrent management of spoken dialogue interaction, together with user interface and integration between the resulting technological components, will also represent fundamental features for the implementation of the proposed smart home interface. The final prototype will be integrated in an automated home and evaluated by real users.

Keywords: home automation,distant-speech,spoken dialogue,microphone arrays
Building a global multidisciplinary digital governance and policy modelling research and practice community (EGOVPOLINET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Slovakia,Netherlands,Greece,Italy,Belgium,Canada,United Kingdom,United States,Netherlands,New Zealand,Russian Federation,Ireland,Australia,Germany,Ukraine,Brazil,Macao
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-08-15
End date: 2015-02-15
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 752513.0
EU funding (EUR): 526685.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

eGovPoliNet sets up an international community in ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling. The international community of researchers and practitioners will share and advance research and insights from practical cases around the world. To achieve this, eGovPoliNet will build on experiences accumulated by leading actors bringing together the innovative knowledge of the field. Capabilities, tools and methods brought forward by academia, ICT industry, highly specialised policy consulting firms, and policy operators and governance experts from governments will be investigated and collected in an international knowledge base. Comparative analyses and descriptions of cases, tools and scientific approaches will complement this knowledge base. Therewith, the currently existing fragmentation across disciplines will be overcome. Functions of eGovPoliNet towards community building, RTD monitoring and comparative analysis will mainly be conducted in an internet-based participatory manner, complemented with regular physical meetings attached to conferences. Community building of experts from academia, industry and public organizations, and other interested stakeholders will be supported by a community portal for knowledge sharing, collaboration, dissemination, and multidisciplinary constituency building in an open environment. eGovPoliNet expertise covers a wide range of aspects for social and professional networking and multidisciplinary constituency building along the axes of technology, participative processes, governance, policy modelling, social simulation and visualisation. Regular physical and virtual meetings with off- and online discussions and comparative studies will contribute to capacity building of the community. Through sharing of approaches and exposing them to the community’s discussions, eGovPoliNet will advance the way research, development and practice is performed worldwide in using ICT solutions for governance and policy modelling.

Keywords: global research and practice community,policy modelling,digital governance,ict solutions,methods and tools for governance and plicy modelling
Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide (FROG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Portugal,Spain,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2491867.0
EU funding (EUR): 1899990.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

FROG proposes to develop a guide robot with a winning personality and behaviors that will engage tourists in a fun exploration of outdoor attractions. The work encompasses innovation in the areas of vision-based detection, robotics design and navigation, human-robot interaction, affective computing, intelligent agent architecture and dependable autonomous outdoor robot operation. The FROG robots’ fun personality and social visitor-guide behaviors aim to enhance the user experience. FROG’s behaviors will be designed based on the findings of systematic social behavioral studies of human interaction with robots. FROG adapts its behavior to the users through vision-based detection of human engagement and interest. Interactive augmented reality overlay capabilities in the body of the robot will enhance the visitor’s experience and increase knowledge transfer as information is offered through multi-sensory interaction. Gesture detection capabilities further allow the visitors to manipulate the augmented reality interface to explore specific interests. FROG plans to build a highly dependable robot that operates autonomously in populated outdoor real-world settings. New robust outdoor localization and navigation algorithms based on 6 DOF localization and SLAM will offer precise localization that is required for human-friendly navigation and optimal positioning of the robot’s augmented reality overlays. Moreover, robust, safety-critical, human-aware navigation algorithms will be developed, taking into account human interaction at all levels. The intelligent agent architecture is a platform that will allow the integration of low-level guidance and communication controls with high-level interaction generation including affective computing algorithms and contextual recognition. This approach will lead to the creation of a new generation of highly sophisticated autonomous outdoor robotic guide services.

Keywords: robot personality,socio-cognitive interaction,vision-based adaptivity,human-friendly safe navigation,ease of use,robustness,real-life outdoor environment,user engagement,reliable,edutainment
Development of strategic research and engineering roadmaps in Systems of Systems Engineering and related case studies (ROAD2SOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1242418.0
EU funding (EUR): 991987.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The emerging System-of-Systems (SoS) concept describes the large scale integration of many independent self-contained systems to satisfy global needs or multiple requests. The increasing number of interacting (mostly embedded) systems in our strongly connected society and industry as well as the growing overall complexity of systems have triggered a paradigm shift and the need to enhance the classical view of Complex System Engineering towards SoS Engineering. SoS find their application in many highly relevant areas to our society: air-traffic control, urban transport, smart grids and integrated multi-site production, among others. The inherent complexity of SoS as well as the need to meet optimised performance for both the individual systems and SoS, raise many questions which are the object of important research efforts nowadays. The project Road2SoS will develop advanced research and engineering roadmaps to identify future RTD and Innovation (RTD&I) strategies for Europe in the field of SoS Engineering in four key domains: • Distributed energy generation and smart grids • Integrated multi-site industrial production • Multi-modal traffic control • Emergency & crisis management The roadmaps will comprise the latest high-level scientific results and will identify trends in research and development and associate them to future product and application visions. They will also be integrated in the socio-economic context, via workshops and case studies in order to facilitate the transfer and integration of European RTD+I results and developments from the SoS Engineering sector to relevant stakeholders. The project will help European organisations to stay at the front of these new developments and to be prepared for future challenges in the industrial applications of SoS in order to reinforce the leading position of the European industry in Complex System Engineering.

Keywords: system of systems engineering,sos,smart grids,energy grids,emergency coordination,global traffic control,urban traffic control,multi-site industrial production
Policy dialogue in ICT to an Upper level for Reinforced EU-EECA Cooperation (PICTURE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: International Cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Greece,Armenia,Georgia,Ukraine,Uzbekistan,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Moldova, Republic of,Russian Federation,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 734652.0
EU funding (EUR): 620000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Following the tradition of scientific collaboration between EU and the EECA region, and built on the sound outcomes and lessons learnt of three clustering projects (ISTOK-SOYUS, SCUBE and EXTEND), a group of leading EU and EECA specialists from twelve countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) with complementary competences have come together in the PICTURE project with the sole purpose to bring the ICT R&D policy dialogue and cooperation between EU and EECA to an upper level. The overall aim of the project is to engage the EU and EECA stakeholders from across research, academia, industries, government and civil society to enrich and support the EU-EECA ICT Policy Dialogue, and to reinforce strategic partnerships between EU and EECA ICT organizations. To reach the objective of the project, the consortium will: -Update the EU-EECA ICT priorities for cooperation and provide an overview of the EECA ICT policy dialogue, currently existing in the region -Enrich the Policy Dialogue process and meetings between the EU and EECA, encompassing findings from policy research and stakeholder views dealing with common R&D perspectives, priorities, opportunities and challenges -Set up and animation of working groups, focusing on Computing Systems, Internet of Services and ICT Policy -Organisation of 3 workshops on Computing Systems, Internet of services and ICT Policy topics, with ten working groups meetings, providing input and follow up, -Implement pilot projects that would be different in each country -Recommend future co-operation initiatives -Explore and recommend existing EECA programmes in order to open new perspectives for participation of the EU ICT teams As final outcome, the project will present recommendationsand strategies for reinforcement of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, covering the large geographical area of the EECA countries.

Keywords: eeca,ict,policy dialogue,partnership,research links
Support action to contribute to the preparation of future community research programme in user centred Design for ECO-multimodal MOBILity (DECOMOBIL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 407685.0
EU funding (EUR): 311000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

DECOMOBIL will take advantage of the structured research network set up in HUMANIST NoE and followed up in HUMANIST VCE, in order to develop and widely disseminate knowledge in the area of human centred design of ICT for sustainable transport. Expected impacts of DECOMOBIL are: widening the market for ICT based mobility and transport services by contributing to the development and the widespread of user-friendly innovative nomadic services, impacting bicycles, public transport and car-sharing use through the understanding of multimodal travelers needs; by setting up design recommendations for the next generation of cooperative systems and improving integrated road transport system; by analysing long term effects and potential impact of ITS deployment on clean and safe multimodal mobility and improvements in efficiency and environmental friendliness of mobility and transport in Europe by improving eco-driving behavior leading to the decrease of vehicles carbon emission for car, bus and trucks and by understanding human behavior critical parameters linked to the implementation of electric mobility system. For this, activities in DECOMOBIL will provide understanding on acceptability and usability of ICT for the population, and setting up design guidelines and recommendations to avoid misuse and to allow user-friendly interaction with ICT functionalities. Through organisation of scientific seminars and international conferences, definition of road mapping for future research priorities, reflection on JRIs, and dedicated structured contributions to the eSafety forum in the framework of the iCar Initiative and any relevant committees in this area, objective of the DECOMOBIL project is to contribute to the acceptability and the usability of ICT for cleaner and safer mobility through identification, discussion and dissemination of updated knowledge and know-how in HMI and Human Centred Design areas towards the ITS community at a European and international level.

Keywords: design for eco-multimodal mobility,ict,market widening,emission reduction,mobility and transport efficiency,environmental friendliness
A NEXT-GENERATION, SECURE LINKED DATA MEDICAL INFORMATION SPACE FOR SEMANTICALLY-INTERCONNECTING ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS AND CLINICAL TRIALS SYSTEMS ADVANCING PATIENTS SAFETY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH (LINKED2SAFETY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Luxembourg,Ireland,United Kingdom,Germany,Greece,Cyprus,Romania,Switzerland,Germany,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4381886.0
EU funding (EUR): 3099000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The vision of the proposed Linked2Safety project is to advance clinical practice and accelerate medical research, to improve the quality of healthcare, benefiting public health, and to enhance patients’ safety; by providing pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professionals and patients with an innovative semantic interoperability framework, a sustainable business model, and a scalable technical infrastructure & platform for the efficient, homogenized access to and the effective, viable utilization of the increasing wealth of medical information contained in the EHRs deployed and maintained at regional and/or national level across Europe, dynamically interconnecting distributed patients data to medical research efforts, respecting patients’ anonymity, as well as European and national legislation. The 36-month Linked2Safety project with the developed reference architecture, data protection framework, common EHR schema, lightweight semantic model and integrated platform will facilitate the scalable and standardized semantic interlinking, sharing and reuse of heterogeneous EHR repositories, which will provide healthcare professionals, clinical researchers and pharmaceutical companies experts with a user-friendly, sophisticated, collaborative decision-making environment for: a. analyzing all the available data including the genetic, environmental and medical history of subjects that exhibit adverse events occurring in the frame of clinical trials, based on the clinical care information existing in the specific patients’ EHR, leading to the identification of the phenotype and genotype factors that are associated with specific adverse events and thus having direct impact on the patient safety through the early detection of potential patient safety issues. b. wide identification and selection of patients for clinical trials, though the seamless and standardized linking with heterogeneous EHR repositories, providing advice on the best design of clinical studies

Keywords: semantic interoperability,electronic health records,clinical trials,personal data protection,adverse event prediction,genetic analysis
Integrated Magnetic imAgery based on spIntronics Components (IMAGIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Portugal,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5569528.0
EU funding (EUR): 3820056.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Structures reliability, installations safety and products quality are requirements that industrial sectors must take into account. The stake is to guarantee the integrity of the structures. In transport and nuclear fields, a major stake of people safety is associated. To take up this challenge, industries are users of non destructive testing (NDT) which gathers methods providing information on the health of a structure without impairing its future usefulness. Among the existing methods, eddy current (EC) inspection is widespread by ensuring subjacent or surface-breaking flaws detection. Classical winding coils are the most commonly used EC sensors, but their spatial resolution and sensitivity are limited because of the technology itself. In this context, magneto-resistive (GMR, TMR) sensors are promising because of their frequency independent sensitivity, their small size, and their collective manufacturing process which facilitates the making of array probes. To improve the performances of the inspection methods, IMAGIC aims at developing a new integrated magnetic imagery based on high sensitive and spatial resolution GMR and TMR array sensors. The objective is to lead developments to the industrialization of smart systems combining technological developments (array sensor, integrated electronic) with sophisticated treatment tools (sensors design, flaw characterization). IMAGIC will ensure the increase of the probe sensitivity and spatial resolution: smaller and more buried cracks and located in complex zones could be detected. Magnetic probes based on new spintronics array components will also have important impact for biomedical and geological applications. In the current context of sustainable development, IMAGIC will promote the use of magnetic methods as an alternative method to penetrant inspection, whose exploitation is threatened due to the use of polluting products.

Keywords: giant magneto-resistance,tunneling junction,magnetic imagery system,array probe,high sensitivity and high resolution,non destructive testing,biomedical and geological potential applications