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Lean innovative connected vessels (LINCOLN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

LINCOLN presents three new concepts of added-value specialized vessels able to run requested services for several maritime sectors in the most effective, efficient, economic valuable and eco-friendly way. LINCOLN will develop three types of completely new vessels concepts at TRL5, through dynamic simulation model testing. The first is a Multi-platform Catamaran to serve as: Service crew vessel and ...
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Exploiting Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things to promote Science Education (UMI-Sci-Ed)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Nowadays we are lucky to have many exciting new technologies available, like Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Mobile Computing (MobiCom) and the Internet of Things (IoT); in the following, we shall refer to them collectively as UMI. These technologies are so modern and powerful that can be both an educational means and end, thus fostering innovation and supporting promising scientific careers. The ...
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Green Awareness in Action (GAIA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

The GAIA project focuses on the educational community; faculty, staff, students and parents at all levels of education: primary/secondary/high schools and universities. Targeting Energy Efficiency in the context of the educational community is clearly very important due to a number of reasons since raising awareness among young people and changing their behaviour and habits concerning energy usage ...
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Machine Sensing Training Network (MacSeNet)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The aim of this Innovative Training Network is to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers (ESRs) in the research area of measurement and estimation of signals using knowledge or data about the underlying structure. With its combination of ideas from machine learning and sensing, we refer to this research topic as “Machine Sensing”. We will train a ...
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An innovative virtual reality educational environment for school physics education

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

School education is the most important educational period when students create learning mechanisms, construct knowledge and develop basic skills and acquisition methods. The quality and the effectiveness of school education is of strategic importance in all countries and a top priority in the EU agenda. Science school education is of strategic importance for the development, the economy and the so ...
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Virtual Learning Environment to Coach Interviewees

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The VeLoCiTy project aims to produce a 3D virtual world learning tool to simulate real interviews, real-life scenarios, and interview processes in order to familiarise Europeans with the diversities in the theories and practices applied across Europe mainly due to different ethnic and cultural backgrounds among the European states. The main objectives are as follows:- To explore and apply traits o ...
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OrganiCity – Co-creating smart cities of the future (OrganiCity)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

OrganiCity offers a new paradigm to European digital city making. Built on and extending the FIRE legacy, this project seeks to build a strong foundation for future sustainable cities through co-creation by a wide range of stakeholders. Globally, Europe is a champion of sustainable, inclusive and open societies. The digital age enables us to push this position further and to rethink the way we cre ...
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"Algorithms, Games, Mechanisms, and the Price of Anarchy" (ALGAME)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"The objective of this proposal is to bring together a local team of young researchers who will work closely with international collaborators to advance the state of the art of Algorithmic Game Theory and open new venues of research at the interface of Computer Science, Game Theory, and Economics. The proposal consists mainly of three intertwined research strands: algorithmic mechanism design, pri ...
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Assessment of Transversal Skills 2020

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The aim of the project is to develop students’, in upper primary and secondary compulsory education, transversal competences and appropriate assessment methods which will inform and support the implementation of transversal skills among education systems in EU Member States. The project will focus on three main areas of the transversal skills digital competences, entrepreneurship and language. Our ...
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Monitoring Technology Enhanced Pedagogy

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

MENTEP (MENtoring Technology-Enhanced Pedagogy), a policy experiment involving public authorities in 13 countries, coordinated by European Schoolnet, aims to:Develop a reliable, user-friendly and sustainable tool for teachers to self-assess progress in 1СГ competenceTest the tool's usefulness using rigorous counterfactual protocols, its effect on ICT competencies and peer learningBased on data fro ...
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Skills for Future Farmers

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Future farmers and agriculture professional are confronted with severe challenges, especially under financial stress in EU economies and other factors which call for improved competitiveness, a ‘green’ sustainable development and an increase in the agricultural productivity of EU. Such needs are accounted for in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform 2014-2020, which foresees the strengtheni ...
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Virtual Reality for STEM Entrepreneurship Training

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

STEM sector and ICT industry are demonstrating great growth and the interest of youth people to study STEM, their entrepreneurship skills and spirit has become of strategic importance for the economy and the society of all countries. Demand for STEM professionals is expected to grow by 13% till 2025, while the average growth forecast for all occupations is expected to be around 3%. In addition to ...
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Optical peRformanCe monitoring enabling dynamic networks using a Holistic cross-layEr, Self-configurable Truly flexible appRoAch (ORCHESTRA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

An optical network, like any system, has to be observable before it can become controllable and be subject to optimization, and this is the first capability ORCHESTRA introduces. ORCHESTRA’s high observability relies on information provided by the coherent transceivers that are extended, almost for free, to operate as software defined multi-impairment optical performance monitors (soft-OPM). Infor ...
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Enhanced Buying Experiences in SMART CITIES (SMARTBUY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

SMARTBUY intends to provide the technological infrastructure for small and medium sized retailers to become THE PLACE to buy for the people that don’t want to lose the advantages of in-store purchasing at the same time that they want to experiment the advantages of eCommerce; comparison of prices, choice of providers, reviews and specification awareness, etc. Smart Buying converts Smart Cities’ ph ...
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MOoc’s per studenti uniVErsitari in Mobilità Europea

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

European third level education is characterized by the huge phenomenon of student mobility, which is bound to increase exponentially as market globalization and internationalization of education become more and more established. Students on mobility programmes usually have a B1/B2 level of language competence and they enrol in courses where they are required to negotiate the considerable difficul ...
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Foundational Research on MULTIlevel comPLEX networks and systems (MULTIPLEX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Future advancements in ICT domain are closely linked to the understanding about how multi-level complex systems function. Indeed, multi-level dependencies may amplify cascade failures or make more sudden the collapse of the entire system. Recent large-scale blackouts resulting from cascades in the power-grid coupled to the control communication system witness this point very clearly. A better unde ...
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Renewable Mobility Services in Smart Cities (MOVESMART)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

MOVESMART aims at providing time-dependent route planning and renewable personal mobility services using a set of crowd-sourcing tools for collecting real-time information by multimodal travellers. The core of MOVESMART is a hierarchical urban-traffic infrastructure that is hosted and maintained by a cloud architecture. MOVESMART envisions the server-based creation and maintenance of time-dependen ...
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Using social networking ICT tools with peer learning and crowdsourcing techniques to train school communities on how to deal with student bullying

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Bullying is a word that is heard more and more often nowadays. School bullying has become an epidemic in our society and this fact has emerged a variety of studies across Europe aiming at investigating this rapidly spreading problem. To deal with bullying and to ensure a safe, learning environment the orchestrated contribution of all stakeholders of school education is necessary. School teachers a ...
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Heterogeneous Ad-hoc Networks for Distributed, Cooperative, and Adaptive Multimedia Signal Processing (HANDiCAMS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The project is aimed at developing a new ICT paradigm, which considers multiple heterogeneous devices that cooperate in multiple signal processing tasks. This is radically different from current ICT paradigms, in which stand-alone devices merely focus on individual tasks or multiple devices perform one joint task, e.g., in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Examples of the heterogeneous devices cons ...
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A Computational Environment to Stimulate and Enhance Creative Designs for Mathematical Creativity (M C Squared)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

The M C Squared project will design and develop an intelligent digital environment to support stakeholders from creative industries involved in the production of media content for educational purposes to engage in collective forms of creative thinking and working to co-design appropriate digital media. The focus will be on social creativity in the design of digital media intended to enhance creati ...
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Researching crowdsourcing to extend IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments, with more end-user interactions, flexibility, scalability, cost efficiency and societal added value (IoT Lab)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

IoT Lab is a research project exploring the potential of crowdsourcing to extend IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments with more end-user interactions. It will research and develop:1. Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabling testbeds to use third parties resources (such as mobile phones), and to interact with distributed users (the crowd). The crowdsourcing enablers will ...
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Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems:Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board, Rack-to-Rack data links (PhoxTroT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

PhoxTrot is a large-scale research effort focusing on high-performance, low-energy and cost and small-size optical interconnects across the different hierarchy levels in Data Center and High-Performance Computing Systems: on-board, board-to-board and rack-to-rack. PhoxTrot will tackle optical interconnects in a holistic way, synergizing the different fabrication platforms (CMOS electronics, Si-pho ...
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Make World: learning Science through Computational Thinking

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Despite we are living in an increasingly technological world, the decline in scientific vocations in the last decade is inexorable. The EC warned of this fact, and Fensham stated that the two main problems have to solve science education in the long term would be negative attitudes and lack of interest around it. Other reports (Rocard, PISA, ROSE) provide evidence of the loss of youth interest in ...
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Counselling via Social Media

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Career guidance is expected to address a variety of issues related to the labor market, always with the intention of improving labor market outcomes and efficiency, as well as supporting development goals. The role and tasks of the career professionals are very complex, given the fact that they are called to address specific labor market shortages and mismatches, foster lifelong learning and motiv ...
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Business Continuity as a Service (ORBIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

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 data center for two days. Later that year in October 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit New York City requirin ...
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Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources (Open Discovery Space)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it will demonstrate ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It will promote community building between numerous schools of Europe and emp ...
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Rigorous Mathematical Connections between the Theory of Computations and Statistical Physics (RIMACO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The proposed research aims to enhance the study of randomness in computation by using ideas of statistical physics. In particular, it aims to place the connection between computation and statistical physics --- the subject of wide heuristic discussion for more than three decades --- on rigorous mathematical ground. Its main methodological vehicle is the study of random Constraint Satisfaction Prob ...
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Smart Management for Sustainable Human Environment (SmartEN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

There are increasing concerns regarding the environmental impact of human actions, the use of the environment and climate changes. These are coupled with ageing infrastructure systems, continuously growing and changing demands on the built and natural environments as well as limited financial and depleting natural resources. Until now, research has been focused on the development of proactive risk ...
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ASPIS - Autonomous Surveillance in Public transport Infrastructure Systems (ASPIS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"The present proposal aims at the development of a prototype surveillance system based on autonomous, smart monitoring devices that capture data only upon the occurrence of an incident, potentially dangerous for the pas-sengers (like an explosion blast or the triggering of the fire detector). When triggered, these devices propagate the triggering to their neighbouring de-vices and send an alarm. S ...
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Task aware location based services for mobile environments (TALOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Despite the growth in the number of mobile users, the wide-spread adoption of ubiquitous wireless networks, and the ever increasing capabilities of mobile handsets, the market of mobile services is still dominated by simple infotainment services. This is especially apparent in the area of Location Based Systems, which with few exceptions (e.g. navigation), have not fulfilled its predicted commerc ...
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Promote, mobilize, reinforce and integrate wireless sensor networking research and researchers: Towards pervasive networking of WBC and the EU (ProSense)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

The main objectives of the project are improving, building, fostering and disseminating the wireless sensor networking (WSN) expertise in the WBC region. The human and infrastructure research capabilities of two WBC research centres (Skopje and Belgrade) will be improved to enable them to drive WSN research in the region and actively collaborate with research institutions from the EU. A sustainabl ...
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