CONET   (INFSO-ICT-224053)

The CONET Consortium is working on building a strong Community in the area of Cooperating Objects including research, public sector and industry partners from the areas of embedded systems, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks. The vision of Cooperating Objects is relatively new and needs to be understood in more detail and extended with inputs from the relevant individual communities that compose it. This will enable us to better understand the impact on the research landscape and to steer the available resources in a meaningful way. CONET Project's Objectives are the following: Create a visible and integrated community of researchers on the topics related to Cooperating Objects capable of driving the domain in the coming years. Identify, arise awareness and steer academic research efforts towards industry-relevant issues without forgetting fundamental scientific issues; make the community more reactive to novel issues and approaches, and to coordinate its efforts; establish tight relationships with the European industry, leveraging interactions with leading US institutions in the field. Stimulate cooperation between researchers in order to achieve a lasting and sustainable architecture that is able to cope with the vision of Cooperating Objects.

Recognizing Emotions using Wireless Sensor Networks (BSN) research cluster's main goal is is to investigate the application of cooperative techniques between multiple BSNs and between BSNs and environmental WSNs for recognition of human emotions and other mental conditions. The research will focus both on the required communication and signal processing algorithms, as well as on the integration of the algorithms and their implementations in an integrated software framework. Expected results are: Methods for cooperative data fusion between multiple BSNs and WSNs. Methods for inferring socially relevant interactions between the users. Methods for personalized content adaptation based of the users emotional state. Methods for adaptation of human-machine control interfaces based of the users emotional state. Demonstrators illustrating the developed techniques.

GENESIS   (FP6-2004-IST-4)

GENESIS (Enterprise Application Interoperability via Internet-Integration for SMEs, Governmental Organisations and Intermediaries in the New European Union), is focusing on the research, development and pilot application of the needed methodologies, infrastructure and software components that will allow the typical, usually small and medium, European enterprise to conduct its Business transactions over Internet, by interconnecting its main transactional software applications and systems with those of collaborating enterprises, governmental bodies, banking and insurance institutions with respect to the current legal and regulatory status in the various countries and in EU level.

Next Steps in Developing Information Society Services in the New Member States: The Cases of eGovernment, eHealth and eLearning (study, 150342-2005 F1ED HU)

The particular study is focusing mainly on the quantitative and qualitative description of the current institutional, policy framework as well as underlines R&D trends, developments and challenges with regards to the New Member States future in the areas of eGovernment, eHealth, and eLearning.

MPOWER   (Middleware platform for eMPOWERing cognitive disabled and elderly) (FP6-034707)

MPOWER will define and implement an open platform to simplify and speed up the task of developing and deploying services for persons with cognitive disabilities and elderly. The platform will in particular support: (1) Integration of SMART HOUSE and sensor technology; (2) Interoperability between profession and institution specific systems (e.g. Hospital Information System); (3) Secure and safe information management, including both social and medical information; and (4) Mobile users which often change context and tools. The project will research and develop the platform as a suite of independent building blocks. We will demonstrate its feasibility through the deployment of two end-user applications that will be deployed over a longer period. The end-user applications are: Individual plan management - the goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of the platform in relation to a dynamic sharing of plans and information. Smart home and sensor connectivity - this application will demonstrate the feasibility of the platform in relation to interconnectivity and integration of smart home and sensor technologies.

LINKCARE   (Linking Health Professionals in Emerging Care Environments) (eTen 517453)

LINKCARE is the project that aims to market validate new competitive services with a view to link health professionals in emerging care environments. The main idea for the business case of LinkCare is the provision of services that: Facilitate the establishment of an European convergent healthcare system that is centred on the chronic patients, coordinated across different levels of the health and community services Facilitate ubiquitous and mobile new working practices for health professionals with a multiplicity of working profiles that, in turn, require interoperability with existing information resources. LINKCARE will focus, not only on the suitability of the platforms, from the technical point of view - interoperability, security, standards and regulations -, but also on the needs and requirements that are specific for the care of patients with chronic health problems - coordination of professionals across time, centred on the patient, and collaboration among different levels of care. In the framework of the market validation, the consortium will run pilot installations, will establish the requirements to integrate the services in the existing operational/legacy systems, will set up the training plan to successfully validate the platform and will elaborate the deployment strategy on the basis of the outcome of the market and business analysis and the conclusions from the pilots validation. The 3 test sites used for the evaluation provide common services for patients with chronic conditions. They are HCPB in Spain, CNRHA in Norway, and LITO in Cyprus.

EPRI-start   (IST-FP6 Project No.015871)

EPRI-start (STimulate the pARTicipation of SMEs of NMS in IST activities) is a project that aims to stimulate, increase, but at the same time qualify the participation of SMEs from New Member States of the European Union in the IST Programme. In particular, it aims to: establish a Qualified Partner Pool of at least 300 IST-oriented SMEs from NMS, qualified by Letters of Intent and concrete project ideas, develop a Certified Partner Pool of 150 qualified IST-oriented SME partners from NMS described by Company Fact Sheets developed by a Guide for NMS participants, ensure an overall number of 50 project participations from IST-oriented SMEs from NMS in the different IST Calls during the lifetime of the project. The process of stimulating and developing SME participation will feed a second, parallel process. It involves political decision makers of the target countries and political decision makers on the level of European ICT policy in order to discuss socio-economic impacts of ICT and to prepare and support the discussion of Framework Programme 7. EPRI-start aims at the broadest possible coverage by involving partners from all New Member States of the European Union. On the other hand, EPRI-start works with a clearly specified and realistic focus on the field of SME participation in the IST programme. It addresses three important target groups: The group of highly innovative research oriented SMEs from the New Member States with no or low experiences in participating in the IST programme, The IST community, which will benefit from new and innovative resources as an enhancement of existing or newly arising consortia, The societal environment receiving impacts from participation of NMS SMEs in IST research projects which are being represented by political decision makers of the SMEs regional and national environments. The consortium refers to comparable experiences in earlier programmes. Its coordinators have carried out a similar project during the accession process of the German New Laender. EPRI-start addresses the strategic objectives research and innovation development policy, network, twinning Innovation support services.

INTELCITIES   (IST-1999-29088)

The IntelCities project addresses the EU policy objective of developing the intelligent city - an integrated citywide ICT information system continuously accessible to all that will enable more inclusive decision-making and support more sustainable life-styles.

BEEP   (IST-2000-26224)

The Best eEurope Practices (BEEP) Project collects, analyses and refines good practices (best practices) in a variety of socio-economic areas, by collecting case studies and coding them according to a wide variety of indicators . This will result in an extensive Beep Knowledge System relating to employment and skills, the digital SME, social inclusion and regional cohesion. The Beep project widely disseminates these results both via electronic and traditional methods. The project is funded by the European Commission under the Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme of the 5th Framework programme.

PRISMA   (IST-1999-29088)

New digital technologies have had a profound impact on every aspect of life in the European Union. The European Information Society, eEurope, has empowered new ways of working, new commercial service opportunities, and new ways of social interaction for EU citizens. The power of these technologies to provide global reach and interactivity is also dramatically changing models of governance and the provision of public services by national and regional administrations in Europe. The PRISMA Project has researched the options and opportunities presented by these challenges.

EDIPED   (European Digital Portfolio for the Evaluation of Educators)

EDIPED project (within the framework of Socrates Programme) aims at the development of a new, dynamic, digital appraisal tool for the collection and presentation of portfolio evidence of a educator's competencies, which can be used in the various educational and appraisal systems throughout the European Union.