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Integrated system for real-time TRACKing and collective intelligence in civilian humanitarian missions (iTRACK)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The enduring humanitarian crisis in the Middle East, the unrelenting high levels of violence in Afghanistan and new outbursts of violence in South-Sudan have made 2014 another record-breaking year for acts of violence against humanitarian aid workers. In 2000 41 significant attacks on aid workers were recorded across the globe. By 2014, that number had risen to 190. In this 15-year period, over 3, ...
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SETA: An open, sustainable, ubiquitous data and service ecosystem for efficient, effective, safe, resilient mobility in metropolitan areas (SETA)

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

Around 50% of the global population lives in metropolitan areas, and this is expected to grow to 75% by 2050. Mobility within these areas is complex as it involves multiple modalities of transport, multiple managing authorities, as well as several millions of citizens. The cost of inefficiency in transport and mobility are enormous. For example, inefficiency costs the UK economy €5.8 billion each ...
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Event Prediction and Decision Support based on Huge Data from Physical-Social Systems (EPPICS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Miniaturisation, progress with energy issues and cost reductions have resulted in rapid growth in deployment of networked devices and sensors, very strongly connecting the internet with the physical world. With wide adoption of smartphones and social media, also people have become key sources of information about the physical world, corresponding events and the intents and plans of many individual ...
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WeSenseIT: Citizen Observatory of Water (WESENSEIT)

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

...r when initiated by citizens from their mobile devices; (b) a second “soft” layer consisting of techniques to harness citizens’ Collective Intelligence, i.e. the information, experience and knowledge embodied within individuals and communities, both in terms of enabling direct messages to the authorities (with mobile-phone pictures, messages, etc.) and in terms of crowd-sourcing (e.g. by mining so ...
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Enhancing biomass production from marginal lands with perennial grasses (GRASSMARGINS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Perennial grasses, which once established can be harvested and re-grow annually for many decades, have a number of other beneficial characteristics which suit them as biomass crops. These include high resource use efficiency, high productivity, good environmental qualities and a wide range of end uses. Environmental benefits include high rates of soil carbon sequestration, enhanced biodiversity an ...
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