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European Academy for Marine and Underwater Robotics (ROBOCADEMY)

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

"The Robocademy ITN will establish a European training and research network to develop key skills and enabling technologies in underwater robotics for the scientific and economic exploration of the oceans(e.g. offshore oilfield of the future). Through the close collaboration of leading research institutes,academia, industry, and SMEs in robotics, marine technology, marine science, and offshore ind ...
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Long-Term Human-Robot Teaming for Robot-Assisted Disaster Response (TRADR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Using a proven-in-practice user-centric design methodology, TRADR develops novel S&T for human-robot teams to assist in disaster response efforts, over multiple missions: The novel S&T makes experience persistent. Various kinds of robots collaborate with human team members to explore the environment, and gather physical samples. Throughout this collaborative effort, TRADR enables the team to gradu ...
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New operational steps towards an alliance of European research fleets (EUROFLEETS2)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

EUROFLEETS2 is the enhancement of EUROFLEETS1, with the aim of developing a new pan-European distributed infrastructure with common strategic vision and coordinated access to Research Vessels (RVs) and marine equipment. EUROFLEETS2 will furthermore undertake specific actions to consolidate research fleets’ organization, methodology and tools through operational initiatives (like virtual fleets) le ...
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Social Innovation on active and healthy ageing for sustainable economic growth (SIFORAGE)

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

The general aim of SIforAGE project will be to strengthen the cooperation mechanisms and tools among the stakeholders working along the value chain of active and healthy ageing, with the aim of improving the performance of the European Union competitiveness and growth, through research and innovative products for more and better lives.The objective is change minds and attitudes for a new vision of ...
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Inspection Capabilities for Enhanced Ship Safety (INCASS)

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

In the day-to-day ship operations, structural and machinery failures may lead to major accidents, endangering crew and passengers lives onboard, posing a threat to the environment, damaging the ship itself and having a great impact in terms of business losses. Moreover, with the introduction and building of a big number of new ships, their monitoring and inspection from both regulatory bodies and ...
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Quality Translation by Deep Language Engineering Approaches (QTLeap)

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

In the last decade, the incremental advancement of mainstream research on Machine Translation (MT) has been obtained by encompassing increasingly sophisticated statistical approaches and fine-grained linguistic features that add to the surface level alignment on which these approaches are ultimately anchored.It has been ventured recently, in some leading academic and industry circles, that the inc ...
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Future Internet - Core (FI-Core)

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

FI-WARE has started to materialize as a powerful foundation for the Future Internet. FI-WARE is an innovative, open cloud-based infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, at a scale not seen before. FI-WARE is now well under way to successfully achieve its goals of boosting the effectiveness of creating new services of high economic and societal value, reinforcing EU comp ...
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Steering towards Green and Perceptive Mobility of the Future (STREETLIFE)

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

The goal of the STREETLIFE project is the reduction of carbon emissions through a sustainable mobility concept in cities based on ICT. In particular, the aim of the project is to reduce the number of car trips by i) informing commuters about the existing transport alternatives and their real value (in terms of time, cost, carbon footprint), ii) enhancing public transport to meet the needs of the c ...
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OSMOsis applications for the Sensing Enterprise (OSMOSE)

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

The main objective of the OSMOSE project is to develop a reference architecture, a middleware and some prototypal applications for the Sensing-Liquid Enterprise, by interconnecting Real, Digital and Virtual Worlds in the same way a semi-permeable membrane permits the flow of liquid particles through itself.In concrete terms, the OSMOSE project will design and develop:i.\ta Reference Architecture f ...
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EURO-MILS:\nSecure European Virtualisation for Trustworthy Applications in Critical Domains (EURO-MILS)

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

Cyber-physical networks based on embedded systems are part of our society and gain spread and importance. Next generations of aircrafts and cars will be tightly interconnected with each other, with the Internet and other infrastructures. The same holds for many industries and areas of our life. Ubiquitous, highly critical systems go online and create a domain of mixed criticalities, where security ...
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Reliable and Smart Crowdsourcing Solution for Emergency and Crisis Management - EU (RESCUER)

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

Disasters occurring during large-scale events and in industrial areas may have a huge impact on human lives, property, and the environment. Fast reaction is vital in order to avoid physical damages as well as damages to the public image of the involved organisations. As a result several measures are taken and periodically bolstered to ensure effective and efficient emergency and crisis management. ...
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ALLOW Ensembles

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The recent advances in pervasive technologies enable construction of large-scale socio-technical systems which tightly interweave humans and their social structures with the technology. These systems are realized as a collective of diverse heterogeneous actors situated both in the physical world such as people, objects etc., and in the backend computer systems such as control processes. The object ...
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Predicting long-term toxic effects using computer models based on systems characterization of organotypic cultures (NOTOX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"NOTOX will develop and establish a spectrum of systems biological tools including experimental and computational methods for i) organotypic human cell cultures suitable for long term toxicity testing and ii) the identification and analysis of pathways of toxicological relevance. NOTOX will initially use available human HepaRG and primary liver cells as well as mouse small intestine cultures in 3D ...
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Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing (FITMAN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

According to the 2010 EC Competitiveness Report, Manufacturing is still the driving force of Europe's economy, contributing over € 6553 billion in GDP and providing more than 30 million jobs. It covers more than 25 different industrial sectors, largely dominated by SMEs, and generates annually over € 1535 billion (42%) worth of value added services.The mission of the FITMAN (Future Internet Techno ...
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Active Constraints Technologies for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments (ACTIVE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Description Active Constraints Technologies in Neurosurgery for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments The ACTIVE project exploits ICT and other engineering methods and technologies for the design and development of an integrated redundant robotic platform for neurosurgery. A light and agile redunda ...
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Intelligent Context-Aware Systems for Healthcare, Wellness, and Assisted Living (iCareNet)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Context awareness has the potential to revolutionise the way people interact with information technology. Whereas conventional computers merely interpret explicit user input, context-aware systems analyse and automatically respond upon users’ behaviour and situation he/she is in. This enables electronic systems to assist users in situations in which the use of conventional computers and mobile d ...
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EXploring Customer Interactions through Textual EntailMENT (EXCITEMENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Identifying semantic inference relations between texts is a major underlying language processing task, needed in practically all text understanding applications. For example, Question Answering and Information Extraction systems should verify that extracted answers and relations are indeed inferred from the text passages; multi-document text summarization needs to infer that one sentence entails a ...
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Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience (SocialSensor)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Description Enhanced discovery, analysis, retrieval of newsworthy and high-quality content in social media sources to assist news, event professionals to improve the experience of news readers and event goers.SocialSensor offers technologies for analyzing the activity in social networks with the goal of discovering trending and high-quali ...
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Large-scale, Cross-lingual Trend Mining and Summarisation of Real-time Media Streams (TrendMiner)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The recent massive growth in online media and the rise of user-authored content (e.g weblogs, Twitter, Facebook) has lead to challenges of how to access and interpret these strongly multilingual data, in a timely, efficient, and affordable manner. Scientifically, streaming online media pose new challenges, due to their shorter, noisier, and more colloquial nature. Moreover, they form a temporal st ...
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Vanquishing fear and apathy through E-inclusion: \nPersonalised and populated Realistic Virtual Environments for clinical, home and mobile platforms (VERVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Description The project will develop ICT tools to support the treatment of people who are at risk of social exclusion due to fear and/or apathy associated with a disability. These tools will be in the form of personalised Virtual Reality (VR) scenarios and serious games specifically designed for therapeutic targets and made broadly available ...
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Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long-Term Social Interaction (ALIZ-E)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Description From theory to practice: Methods for an adaptive and prolonged child-robot interaction The goal of ALIZ-E is to develop novel methods for developing and testing interactive, mobile robots which will be able to socially interact with human users over extended periods of time, i.e. a pos ...
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Virtual Simulation and Training of Assembly and Service Processes in Digital Factories (VISTRA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The information gap between virtual product and manufacturing engineering and the physical start of production is a fundamental problem for Europe's manufacturers. Information about products and processes, which is currently distributed over heterogeneous systems, is rich of information, but a platform for presenting this knowledge according to the different user roles (e.g. production planners or ...
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MIRROR - Reflective Learning at Work (MIRROR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Description MIRROR will develop technologies that are integrated in the daily work environment of employees to support learning-on-the-job and experience sharing through reflection.Due to the dynamics in business environments and the large number of changes in job roles and tasks for employees, a time-consuming development of formal learn ...
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PREPARATION AND LAUNCH OF A LARGE-SCALE ACTION FOR QUALITY TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY (QTLaunchPad)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The support action will prepare the grounds for a new type of collaborative MT research dedicated to overcoming existing quality barriers. QTLaunchPad will assemble and provide needed data and tools in-cluding specialised translation corpora, test suites and tools for quality assessment, create a shared quality metrics for human and machine translation, improve automatic translation quality estima ...
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Social Signal Processing Network (SSPNet)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for success in life.Although each one of us understands the importance of social signals in everyday life situations, and in spite of recent advances ...
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Natural human-robot cooperation in dynamic environments (NIFTi)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description Working together to assess real-life urban disaster sites NIFTi investigates how natural behavior in human-robot cooperation can arise. The project operationalizes natural cooperation as balancing operational and cooperation demands in a cognitive architecture (CA), to minimize human c ...
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Sustainable Urban Development Planner for Climate Change Adaptation (SUDPLAN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The SUDPLAN project aims at developing an easy-to-use web-based planning, prediction, decision support and training tool, for the use in an urban context, based on a what-if scenario execution environment, which will help to assure population's health, comfort, safety and life quality as well as sustainability of investments in utilities and infrastructures within a changing climate.This tool is b ...
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Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to medium CMS/KMS providers (IKS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Description A Semantic-based Open Source Platform for Small to Medium CMS ProvidersIKS will raise the semantic capability of European software houses to develop intelligent content management solutions for their customers. What is IKS? IKS is an integrating project targeted at the hundreds of SMEs in Europe, which are providing technology ...
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Cognitive Workflow Capturing and Rendering with On-Body Sensor Networks (COGNITO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Description System design to assist and interact with individual human activity, particularly that concerns with task solving and hand manipulation of objects and tools The automatic capture, recognition and rendering of human sensory-motor activities represent essential technologies in many diver ...
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GLOCAL: Event-based Retrieval of Networked Media (GLOCAL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

We describe the world by using words. Yet, words usually bring to mind different mental views of the world in different individuals, because of their personal experience and context. This is the reason why the "semantic gap" between our conceptualizations of the world, expressed using language, and our experience of the world, whose most direct representations are media, is far beyond the reach of ...
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Marine INspection rObotic Assistant System (MINOAS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"The increasing competitiveness in marine operations creates a need for new system concepts that introduce high technology value added products, facilitate the processes involved and minimize the downtimes. The need, thus, lies not only in incorporating the technological means so far available, but in changing the way the corresponding authorities stand against the challenges at hand.MINOAS projec ...
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Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (ACCURAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Lack of sufficient linguistic resources for many languages and domains currently is one of the major obstacle in further advancement of automated translation. The main goal of the ACCURAT research is to find, analyze and evaluate novel methods how comparable corpora can compensate for this shortage of linguistic resources to improve MT quality significantly for under-resourced languages and narrow ...
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Cognitive Systems that Self-Understand and Self-Extend (CogX)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Description Building robots capable to understand their own abilities and knowledge, and to choose which of their abilities or knowledge to extend at any time CogX project builds what is missing for the development of cognitive systems able to work in open ended, challenging environments, dealing ...
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The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator: Creating Socially Interactive Information Technologies for a Sustainable Future (FuturICT)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The ultimate goal of the FuturICT Flagship is to understand and manage complex, global, socially interactive systems, with a focus on sustainability and resilience. Revealing the hidden laws and processes underlying societies constitutes the most pressing scientific grand challenge of our century and is equally important for the development of novel robust, trustworthy and adaptive information and ...
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COllaboration and INteroperability for networked enterprises (COIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector and domain in order to rapidly set-up, efficiently manage and effectively operate different forms of business collaborations, from the most traditional supply chains to the m ...
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Community-based Interoperability Utility for SMEs (Commius)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

More than 99% of European enterprises are SMEs. While collaboration with other enterprises provides potential for improving business performance, enterprise interoperability research is yet to produce results which can be used by SMEs without the need for high start-up costs (learning costs as well as system purchasing and installation costs). For a solution to be taken up by SMEs it must offer bo ...
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Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment (GRAPPLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

Description GRAPPLE has delivered a truly generic and extensible technical infrastructure to support life-long adaptive learningProject GoalTo deliver to learners a technology-enhanced learning environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and ...
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Sustained Emotionally coloured Machine-human Interaction using Nonverbal Expression (SEMAINE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The aim of the SEMAINE project is to draw together the current research on non-verbal signs and to produce a system that capitalises on them to achieve genuinely sustained, emotionally coloured interactions between a person and a machine. To do that, it develops an idea which was introduced in the FP5 project ERMIS and pursued in HUMAINE. The idea is to build a 'Sensitive Artificial Listener', or ...
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A Metropolis of Ubiquitous Services (m:Ciudad)

Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

Description The final goal of the m:Ciudad project is to set up the basis for the engineering of a complete new service infrastructure, a metropolis of truly ubiquitous services...M:CIUDAD's primary goal is to set up the basis for the engineering of a complete new service infrastructure, a metropolis of truly ubiquitous services with the ...
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Visual Analytics - Mastering the Information Age (VisMaster CA)

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

One of the most important challenges of the emerging Information Age is to effectively utilise the immense wealth of information and data acquired, computed and stored by modern information systems. On the one hand, the appropriate use of available information volumes offers large potential to realize technological progress and business success. On the other hand, there exists the severe danger th ...
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