Polish Potential and Contribiution to EU Success in ICT

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Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Ladies and gentlemen,
the Polish National Contact Point for Research Programmes of
the EU, European Commission and the Polish Ministry of Science
and Higher Education are organizing the ICT Proposers’ Day which is
the biggest ICT networking event this year. On this occasion, we give
you this publication whose idea is to present the research potential
and contribution of Polish organizations to R&D and deployment
projects financed by DG-INFSO by means of the 7th Framework
Programme and the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme.
The publication contains 140 projects out of 256 projects of this type
in which Polish partners had a significant contribution.
The Polish National Contact Point’s activity began during the 4th
Framework Programme. During the last 13 years we have been sharing knowledge about the Framework Programmes, but also we have
been providing training and advice in the field of proposal writing
to future beneficiaries. Many of our initiatives such as promotion
of the most active research centers, enterprises (by means of the
“Crystal Brussels” award), the support of cooperation between Polish
enterprises within the frameworks of Technology Platforms and
the Polish Centers of Excellence initiative have significantly contributed to Polish participation in Framework Programmes, as well
as facilitated international cooperation. In total we had over 4650
beneficiaries from Poland and 560 coordinators of projects financed
from the 5th, 6th, 7th and CIP-ICT PSP Framework Programmes.
Together, they received over € 627 m.
Recent years have opened new opportunities for us. We experienced
a thorough reform of the Polish R&D sector. New research support
agencies have been founded and Poland initiated the implementation
of new national research and technology programmes. More than € 1
bn has been invested in the most advanced research infrastructures.
As a result, many Polish Higher education entities, as well as research
and development centers have acquired modern research equipment
and may now conduct their work in conditions that are on par with
our EU partners. Poland is more and more involved in international
cooperation and aims to become a strong link in the European
Research Area.
The following document is designed to help you find the best partner
for your research project or a technology initiative. We hope that this
publication will help you to assemble a successful team.
Dr Andrzej Siemaszko
Director of the National Contact Point
for Research Programmes of the EU
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Introduction
Basic information about FP7, e-Infrastructures
and CIP-ICT PSP Programmes
FP7 is the short name for the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. It is the main
EU’s instrument for funding research and development for 2007– 2013.
The broad objectives of FP7 have been grouped into four Specific Programmes:
Cooperation, Ideas, People and Capacities.
ICT in FP7
ICT is one of ten key thematic areas within the Cooperation Specific Programme.
It’s objective is to improve the competitiveness of the European industry – as well as to enable Europe to master and
shape the future developments of these technologies so that the demands of its society and economy are met.
The EU Member States have earmarked a total of € 9.1 bn for funding ICT over the duration of FP7; making it
the largest research theme in the Cooperation programme, which is the largest Specific Programme of FP7 (with
64% of the total budget).
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are critical to improve the competitiveness of European
industry and to meet the demands of its society and economy.
ICTs have a catalytic impact in three key areas:
• productivity and innovation, by facilitating creativity and management;
• modernisation of public services, such as health, education and transport;
• advances in science and technology, by supporting cooperation and access to information1.
In the following publication we also mention projects realised within Future and Emerging Technologies (FET),
which is the basic research engine fuelling the ICT programme. It provides a unique combination of high-risk,
long-term, multidisciplinary and collaborative, frontier research with the structuring of more mature ideas and
communities. Thus, it is able to convert novel proofs of concepts into mainstream research and innovation and
ultimately industrial applications and systems.
FET supported research goes beyond the conventional boundaries, is an ICT incubator and pathfinder for new
ideas and themes for long-term research in the area of information and communication technologies2.
e-Infrastructures
The e-Infrastructures activity, as a part of the Research Infrastructures, within Capacities programme, focused on
ICT-based infrastructures and services, aims at empowering researchers with an easy and controlled online access to
facilities, resources and collaboration tools, bringing to them the power of ICT for computing, connectivity, storage
and instrumentation. This allows for instant access to data and remote instruments, “in silico” experimentation, as
well as the setup of virtual research communities (i.e. research collaborations formed across geographical, disciplinary
and organizational boundaries).
e-Infrastructures foster the emergence of e-Science, i.e. new working methods based on the shared use of ICT
tools and resources across different disciplines and technology domains. Furthermore, this enables the circulation
of knowledge in Europe online.
In particular e-Infrastructures focus on the further development and evolution of the high-capacity and
high-performance communication network (GÉANT), distributed computing infrastructures (grids and clouds),
supercomputer infrastructures, simulation software, scientific data infrastructures, e-Science services as well as on
the adoption of e-Infrastructures by user communities.
Introduction
CIP-ICT PSP Programme
The ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) is one of the three specific programmes of the Competitiveness
and Innovation programme (CIP) (2007–2013) – a complementary programme to FP7. It aims at stimulating smart
sustainable and inclusive growth by accelerating the wider uptake and best use of innovative digital technologies and
content by citizens, governments and businesses3.
The ICT PSP aims at stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and best use of ICT
by citizens, governments and businesses.
While FP7 supports research and development of new innovative ideas, CIP-ICT PSP enables first deployment and
testing these solutions in a real conditions as large scale pilots.
1). http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/home_en.html
2). http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet_en.html
3). http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/about/index_en.htm
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FP7 ICT
Since the beginning of FP7 Polish organizations have participated in ICT projects 187 times, this includes 7 projects with
Polish coordinators. While this may not seem as very impressive, compared to Western States’ participation rate in ICT, it
gives Poland the position of a leader among EU12 States and a strong place among countries such as Denmark, Ireland,
Portugal or Finland. In addition, Polish teams have been supported by European Commission with € 38.8 m worth of
grants. However, the total value of ICT projects with Polish participation has reached almost € 1 bn.
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Figure 1. Participation statistics of EU27 States in FP7 ICT priority
Among the 187 beneficiaries, almost 35% were funded within Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures theme. 37 Polish organizations obtained funding in projects in the scope of components, systems, engineering. It’s
also worth to underline Poland’s activity in public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives. The total of 21 ICT beneficiaries
of Energy Efficient Buildings and Green Cars calls have obtained 1% of total EC funding intended for these initiatives
and constitute 2.5% of all participants. This is a distinguishing result as in all ICT priorities Polish organizations are only
1.3% of all participants and have obtained 0.8% of funding. Polish organizations have also been involved actively in FET
initiatives, acting 21 times as partners in projects and having received for their participation over € 5.4 m.
The most popular beneficiary type is higher education institution (20 organizations participating 78 times in ICT projects)
and private-commercial organizations (38 companies participating 65 times in ICT projects). These organizations are
situated mainly in big agglomerations. Almost 90% of all participants are located in one of four big cities: about 50% of all
participants are concentrated directly in Warsaw; other centers include Poznań (30 participations), Wrocław (21 participations), and Kraków (20 participations).
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Warsaw University of Technology (21 ICT projects);
Wrocław University of Technology (11 ICT projects);
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish
Academy of Sciences (PSNC)(10 ICT projects);
AGH University of Science and Technology (10 ICT projects).
Among European organizations that collaborated the most with Polish organizations in ICT projects there are: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V (26 common projects), Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo
SA (20 common projects), Commissariat A L Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives and Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT (19 common projects). This networking included many Polish beneficiaries in various thematic challenges. However the organization that has coordinated most projects with Polish participation was a Norwegian research
organization STIFTELSEN SINTEF, leading 5 projects.
Introduction
The leaders, as far as the number of funded projects is concerned, include:
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FP7 e-Infrastructures
E-Infrastructures, next to Integrating Activities, is one of the two big components of the Research Infrastructures (RI) objective within Capacities programme. Polish involvement in projects of this initiative amounts to 36 funded participations
of 11 Polish organizations. Even though the participation rate was much lower than in FP7 ICT priority, the funding
for Polish beneficiaries of e-Infrastrauctures amounted to € 13.2 m. The total budget of all e-Infrastructures projects with
Polish participation has reached over € 517 m. This result was caused by the peculiarity of RI projects and their size. The
mean number of partners in consortium of projects with Polish participation amounted to 39 organizations.
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) was the most active Polish organization. PSNC was also the
only Polish coordinator in e-Infrastructures. Other beneficiaries were located mainly in Kraków (including AGH with
4 participations) and Warsaw (including University of Warsaw with 6 participations).
In 32 projects with Polish participation, Polish organizations participated the most often with Greek Research and
Technology Network S.A. (12 common projects) and CSC-Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy (9 common projects) and
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (8 common projects).
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Figure 2. General statistics on Polish participation in FP7 ICT, FP7 e-Infrastructures and CIP-ICT PSP initiatives
CIP-ITC PSP
Introduction
The participation of Polish institutions is also visible in CIP-ICT PSP programme. After 5 calls conducted by EC,
24 projects engaged 33 Polish teams in research activities as partners. The level of Polish activity is similar to Czech,
Norwegian, Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian participation. However, Poland has not yet coordinated projects in
this programme. Most of the projects with Polish participation were funded as Pilot Type B projects (13 projects) and
only 2 projects exemplified Pilot Type A funding instrument. The EC has supported Polish organizations with grants
amounting to € 3.3 m.
It is too early to name Polish leaders in CIP-ICT PSP, as the level of participation is not very representative. One can name
the institutions which were funded twice in this initiative. This includes: the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing (twice
in Pilot Type A), the Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, the City of Warsaw, the Ministry of
Health and University of Łódź. These are all public organizations. Institutions from private sector were funded 9 times
in CIP-ICT PSP projects.
The organizations that most commonly collaborated with Polish teams include: National Technical University of Athens,
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung EV and Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit.
However, the most projects were coordinated by Nyelvtudomanyi Intezet Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia.
7th Framework Programme
Information and Communication Technologies
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ALPHA
Project’s title:
Project’s description:
Architectures for fLexible Photonic
Home and Access networks
The ALPHA project (Architectures for fLexible Photonic Home and
Access networks) investigates innovative architectural and transmission
solutions based on the manifold of optical fibers (single-, multi-mode and
plastic) as well as wireless technology to support both wired and wireless
services in a converged network infrastructure. The focus is on using the
newest physical layer achievements and adequate management and control algorithms to reach a yet unprecedented end-to-end provisioned
capacity for access and in-building networks at a fraction of the price of
today’s technologies and to simultaneously include the transport of existing
2G/3G and Beyond 3G (B3G) signals whether they are Internet Protocol
(IP) or non-IP-based.
Project’s objective:
ICT-2007.1.1
The network of the future
Pervasive and trustworthy network and service infrastructures
http://www.ict-alpha.eu
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17. Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Poland
FP7 ICT
Project’s website:
18. Alcatel Lucent France S.A., France
Project’s start date:
Project’s end date:
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
31-03-2011
16 470 418 €
11 160 692 €
Polish participant:
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.
ul. Twarda 18
00-105 Warszawa
Contact person:
Andrzej Tymecki
Email: [email protected]
The Consortium:
1. Acreo AB, Sweden
2. France Telecom S.A., France
3. Alcatel – Lucent Bell Labs France, France
4. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Project’s objectives:
The project addressed the challenges of building the future access and all
types of in-building networks for home and office environments with
support of 2G/3G/B3G transport. The project supported the evolution
towards a cognitive network by dynamically utilizing the resources of an
optical network infrastructure to support a heterogeneous environment of
wired and wireless technologies.
Organization’s profile:
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., is a leading service provider in Poland with
more than 15 thousand employees. Orange Labs Poland (OLP) is a Research
& Development Center providing innovative IT solutions, services meeting
quality (QoS) and simplicity standards, to provide a competitive advantage
to TP Group. Thanks to its highly qualified research personnel, OLP presents
a vast number of service prototypes and IT references on scientific conferences. This unit may be proud of employing 25 Doctors of IT Science
and nearly 20 PhD students. OLP participates in standardization works of
international organizations such as ITU, CENELEC, Broadband Forum,
Home Gateway Initiative.
5. Andrew Wireless Systems S.r.l., Italy
6. Alma Mater Studiorum-Universita di
Bologna, Italy
7. Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo S.A.,
Spain
8. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,
The Netherlands
9. Telsey S.p.A., Italy
10. University Hospitals Coventry and
Warwickshire National Health Service
Trust, United Kingdom
11. Politecnico di Torino, Italy
12. Luceat S.p.A., Italy
13. Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband
Technology, Belgium
14. Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
15. Homefibre Digital Network GmbH,
Austria
16. 3S Photonics S.A., France
19. Commscope Italy S.r.l., Italy
The OLP representative was appointed as vice-president of the Broadband
Forum. OLP actively takes part in establishing new standards in areas such
as: protection of people and environment from electromagnetic radiation,
parameter optimization of aerial transmission systems and radio systems
range, analysis of electromagnetic compatibility between telecommunication
systems for different frequency ranges, new generation networks (NGN),
signalization protocols and others. Orange Labs Poland provides information technology and services, accelerates innovations generation and their
implementation in TP Group and delivers production for FT in selected areas
– core, access, multimodal applications development, middleware, service
platforms. Orange Labs in Poland participates in European R&D projects
and national/international standardization bodies activities.
The main activities of our company cover many information and communication technology domains needed for mass market and enterprise services
offerings, as well as support for the development of TP Group products.
Activities are performed in the following areas:
• wireline service coverage extension;
• wireless service coverage extension;
• IMS mobile & VoIP;
• multimodal applications;
• IP service and aggregation routers;
• open platform and Services;
• network optimization and research;
• Residential Gateways, STBs & TV.
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ALPHA
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FP7 ICT
Telekomunikacja Polska took part in all WPs of the project with main focus
on techno-economic and standardization activities. Telekomunikacja Polska
led task covering cost analysis of ALPHA developed solutions and was one of
major participants in all tasks covering techno-economic analysis. Telekomunikacja Polska was one of the most active partners in standardization activity
(including leadership of one Task) providing liaison between ALPHA project
and respective working groups of CENELEC and IEC standardization
committees. Moreover, Telekomunikacja Polska provided notable input into
all technical tasks with major focus on next generation access technologies
and in-building/home cabling technologies. Extensive research on plastic
optical fibers (POF) transmission capabilities ended up with numerous
recommendations including one presented at IEC standardization meeting which ended up with new international standard for POF connectors.
Telekomunikacja Polska took part in demonstration activity which concluded
3-year activities of the project partners.
Organization’s role in the project:
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BONE
Project’s title:
Building the Future Optical Network
in Europe: the e-Photon/ONe network
ICT-2007.1.1
The core activity of the BONE-project is the stimulation of intensified
collaboration, exchange of researchers and integration of activities and
know-how into and amongst partners. Through the establishment of Virtual
Centers of Excellence, the BONE-project looks into the future, builds and
supports the final “Network of the Future” through education & training,
research tools & test labs on new technologies & architectures.
The BONE-network brings together 49 laboratories and research institutes
from all over Europe in a close networking infrastructure, built on the
foundations laid down by the FP6 ePhoton/ONe network and represents
the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Networks.
http://www.ict-bone.eu/
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12. Universidad Carlos Iii de Madrid, Spain
FP7 ICT
13. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
28-02-2011
4 751 923 €
3 752 801 €
Polish participants:
AGH University of Science
and Technology
Al. Adama Mickiewicza 30
30-059 Kraków
http://www.agh.edu.pl
Contact person:
PhD Krzysztof Wajda
Assistant professor, lecturer
Phone: +48 12 617 36 38
Poznań University of Technology
Pl. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5
60-965 Poznań
The Consortium:
Technology, Belgium
2. Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
3. Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
4. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der
Angewandten Forschung e.V, Germany
5. Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt,
Germany
6. Universitaetsklinikum HamburgEppendorf, Germany
7. Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
9. Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de
Catalunya, Spain
10. Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo S.A,
Spain
11. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
14. Consultores de Automatizacion y Robotica
S.A., Spain
16. Universidad de Vigo, Spain
The core activity of the BONE-project was concentrated on stimulation of
intensified collaboration, exchange of researchers and integration of activities
and know-how into and amongst partners. Through the establishment of
Virtual Centers of Excellence, the BONE-project looks into the future and
builds and supports the final “Network of the Future” through education
& training, research tools & test labs on new technologies & architectures.
The leading-edge position of European Research in the field and, consequently, of European industry, could be threatened by returning to an
uncoordinated and scattered approach to optical networking research.
BONE consolidates the process, supported during FP6, of integration and
reorganization of research efforts across European academic and industrial
groups in FP7 through:
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building Virtual Centers of Excellence that cover specific issues in the
field of Optical Networking that can serve to European industry with
education & training, research tools & test labs and pave the way to
development of new technologies & architectures;
reaching out, including and linking to research activities in national
programmes, or programmes outside Europe;
stimulating an intensified collaboration, exchange of researchers between
the research groups involved and active in the field;
disseminating the expertise and know-how of these European Research
groups to a broader audience, both R&D oriented as well as industryand decision maker oriented.
AGH University of Science and Technology, founded in 1919, consists
of 15 Faculties and employs about 2000 faculty members serving approximately 38 000 students within undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing
education programs. The Department of Telecommunications is a part of
the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and
Electronics, and is an important centre for education and research in communications technology focusing on high-speed networking and services to
the e-world. The department faculty and staff consist of 48 people, including
5 full professors. Since 1996 the Department of Telecommunications was
or has been involved in various European projects within FP4 ACTS (BBL,
BTI, BIDS), FP5 IST (LION, MOBYDICK), FP6 IST (DAIDALOS I and
II, NOBEL I and II, E-NEXT, ePhoton/One, EuroNGI, CONTENT), and
FP7 (INDECT, CARMEN, SmoothIT, BONE, NI2S3, and Euro-NF).
AGH University of Science and Technology was also active in developing
strategies and network planning for major Polish telecommunications operators. Professors and researchers of the Department served as consultants for
network operators, equipment vendors, and regulatory bodies in Poland
and abroad. Department members have been active in professional socie-
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BONE
20. Institute of Communication and Computer
Systems, Greece
21. Computer Technology Institute & Press
Diophantus, Greece
22. National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens, Greece
23. University of Peloponnese, Greece
24. Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi
Egyetem, Hungary
25. Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Fakultet
Elektrotehnike i Racunarstva, Croatia
26. Coritel – Consorzio di Ricerca Sulle
Telecomunicazioni, Italy
27. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
28. Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni
e-delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Italy
29. Politecnico di Milano, Italy
31. Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di
Perfezionamento Sant’Anna, Italy
32. Alma Mater Studiorum-Universita
di Bologna, Italy
33. Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio
Emilia, Italy
34. Universita degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza,
Italy
35. Telenor ASA, Norway
The Netherlands
37. Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal
38. AGH University of Science and Technology,
Poland
39. Poznań University of Technology, Poland
40. Huawei Technologies Deutchland GmbH,
Germany
41. Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan, Sweden
42. Bilkent Üniversitesi, Turkey
43. Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
44. University of Southampton,
United Kingdom
45. The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
46. University College London, United
Kingdom
47. University of Essex, United Kingdom
49. Ericsson Ltd., United Kingdom
50. Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH,
Germany
51. Universite de Mons, Belgium
Poznań University of Technology (PUT) is one of the biggest Universities
of Technology in Poland, it educates about twenty thousand students at
eighteen majors. The Institute of Computing Science exists since 1970.
The Institute employs more than 100 people, most of them occupying
academic positions. It is one of the leading institutes in computer science
in Poland. The Institute cooperates as a Center of Excellence with Poznan
Supercomputing and Networking Center (affiliated to the Polish Academy
of Sciences).
The research activities of PUT’s team are mainly concerning data mining,
ontologies/semantic web data, social networks, and other complex data.
The team cooperates with PSNC in the domain of digital libraries, and on
ontology-based data mining with the University of Bari (on methods), and
with the University of Aberystwyth (on applications in systems biology).
The team was also involved in some tasks within the EU and national
projects. Some of these projects were titled: “Frequent pattern discovery from
knowledge bases in description logic with rules”, and “Inductive reasoning
on ontological knowledge bases”.
AGH-UST was a partner in the BONE consortium. Within the project
AGH was responsible for access network techno-economic studies, resilience
investigation of grid networks and control plane issues for intelligent optical
networks. AGH-UST was also the organizer of BONE’s Summer School
and Master School.
19. Research and Education Laboratory in
Information Technologies, Greece
ties, organizing international conferences (including IEEE and IFIP events)
and workshops as well as holding important editorial positions in leading
journals and magazines, such as IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE
Transactions on Communications, Computer Communications, or Annales
des Télécommunications.
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18. Institut Telecom, France
FP7 ICT
17. France Telecom S.A, France
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CARMEN
Project’s title:
CARrier grade MEsh Networks
CARMEN (CARrier grade MEsh Networks), aims at studying and
specifying a wireless mesh network supporting carrier grade triple-play
services in future heterogeneous mobile/fixed network operator environments. Based on the assumption that future mobile operator networks will
be comprised of a common core network and several access networks, the
CARMEN access network will complement existing access technologies
by exploiting low costs mesh networking techniques. The project proposes
the integration of heterogeneous wireless technologies in a multi-hop fashion
to provide scalable and efficient ubiquitous Internet access.
ICT-2007.1.1
FP7 ICT
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http://www.ict-carmen.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
31-12-2010
6 222 269 €
3 987 440 €
Polish participant:
and Technology
30-059 Kraków
http://www.agh.edu.pl
Contact person:
PhD Marek Natkaniec
Assistant professor
Phone: +48 12 617 40 40
The Consortium:
1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
2. British Telecommunications Public Ltd.,
United Kingdom
3. Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
4. NEC Europe Ltd., United Kingdom
5. Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Germany
7. University College Dublin, National
University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Poland
To address integration issues of such heterogeneous technologies CARMEN
introduces a layer 2.5 located between the technology and the routing
layer able to abstract technology specific primitives into a common set
of events and commands for upper layers. These can make use of this
information to dynamically adapt functions such as routing, mobility and
monitoring. CARMEN will use special purpose capacity handling algorithms exploiting natural features of the mesh networks such as availability
of multiple links between two peers (i.e. multipath) or the use of broadcast
instead of unicast to alleviate load in the mesh network.
CARMEN will focus on three layers, namely the technology, the message
transfer and self-configuration & management to ultimately provide
a complete solution for setting up and maintaining a cost-effective carrier
grade wireless mesh network.
The CARMEN project focuses on developing a heterogeneous mesh backhaul
solution to provide carrier grade services with greater flexibility and lower
cost than existing solutions. A primary concern for operators is to provide
access to typical services via their existing radio access networks, thereby
leveraging the capital already invested in these networks. Therefore any
backhaul solution must be capable of providing transport for voice, video and
data services. To achieve a high system capacity at carrier grade quality and
reliability while preserving flexibility and cost efficiency is a key challenge due
to the inherent limitations of wireless mesh networks, namely throughput
and scalability. This is a key objective of the CARMEN project. The following
provides a detailed overview of the specific CARMEN goals:
1. Create a cost-effective mesh network that supports carrier grade
services:
• design and validation of an admission control mechanisms;
• development a framework for cross-layer self-configuration and
management functions;
• design and validation of network monitoring techniques.
2. Support for mobile unicast and broadcast services in a mesh environment:
• design and validation of a multipath routing solution for heterogeneous mesh networks;
• design and validation of a broadcast/multicast routing protocol
and algorithm to provide broadcast services over a wireless mesh
network;
• design and validation of an algorithm and protocol to provide
network based mobility management.
3. Support for heterogeneous radio access technologies by designing an
interface to provide an abstraction of radio based MAC layers:
• development of an abstract interface to allow mesh network components to utilise different radio access technologies in a technology
agnostic manner;
• development of extensions to 802.11 and 802.16 MAC layers to
improve the efficiency of MAC layer broadcast;
• development of a distributed scheduling algorithm for 802.16.
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The CARMEN project has designed a complete architecture that includes the
full specification of the different modules, algorithms and mechanisms and
has been validated by an economical analysis that shows its cost effectiveness
compared to traditional network architectures. The proposed architecture
has been fully implemented and integrated in the testbed, which has served
to prove the concepts behind the architecture and to evaluate their performance. Two basic scenarios, which are very different in nature and also have
vastly different requirements have been defined in CARMEN project: a city
coverage scenario and an emergency scenario. The standardization activities
have also been carried out during the project lifetime. AGH University of
Science and Technology has designed, implemented and validated the
complete monitoring system and partially self-configuration mechanisms for wireless mesh networks in the CARMEN project. AGH has also
provided a contribution to the ETSI draft document “Autonomic network
engineering for the self-managing Future Internet (AFI); Scenarios, Use
Cases, and Requirements for Autonomic/Self-Managing Future Internet”.
This scenario, along with others described in the document, will help specify
a generic autonomic network architecture for the Future Internet.
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DAVINCI
Project’s title:
Design And Versatile Implementation
of Nonbinary wireless Communications
based on Innovative LDPC Codes
The DAVINCI project aimed at setting up foundations of pioneering
Non-Binary Digital Wireless Transmission targeting the high spectral
efficiency requirements of next generation wireless communications. Five
major objectives are targeted, namely:
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
30-06-2010
3 626 521 €
2 489 086 €
The major achievements aimed at the above objectives can be summarized
as follows:
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Polish participant:
ITTI Sp. z o.o.
ul. Rubież 46
61-612 Poznań
http://www.itti.com.pl/
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Contact person:
Krzysztof Samp
Partner, Business Development Director
Phone: +48 616 226 985
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The Consortium:
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1. Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd.,
United Kingdom
2. Ecole Nationale Superieure de
l’Electronique et de Ses Applications,
France
3. Stmicroelectronics S.A., France
4. Universite de Bretagne Sud, France
5. Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica
Centrum VZW., Belgium
Catalunya, Spain
7. ITTI Sp.z o.o., Poland
8. WISER S.r.l., Italy
development of new structures of non-binary LDPC codes;
development of adapted link level procedures;
design of adequate algorithm and architecture for low cost implementation;
quantification of the performance benefits using IMT-Advanced compliant link and system level platforms;
real-time demonstration of DAVINCI codec on OFDM wireless platform.
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development of new structures of non-binary LDPC codes outperforming the binary codes but also enjoying highly desirable features
such as flexibility in trading-off the performance and complexity,
rate-compatibility, reliability in fading scenarios, and compliance with
hardware parallel implementation;
development of adapted link level procedures suited to OFDM wireless transmission including adaptive coding and modulation (ACM)
schemes, ARQ/H-ARQ, turbo channel estimation, and multiple antenna
(MIMO) techniques;
design of low complexity DAVINCI decoder, referred to as L-Bubble
check algorithm, together with the proof and validation of DAVINCI
codec implementation using adequate architectures on FPGA, ASIC
(45 nm technology), and ASIP (65 nm technology);
quantification of the performance benefits of DAVINCI codec compared
to reference IMT-Advanced binary FEC schemes showing:
• up to 0.5 dB in the SISO context converting into up to 5% average
sector throughput, and 1 to 2 dB in the MIMO context;
• higher gains for high order modulations, reflecting the potential of
DAVINCI codes to achieve high spectral efficiencies; and
• better reliability to non-linear distortions compared to binary
codes.
on the overall, the project successfully meet all its 8 milestones as
specified in the Annex I of the Grant Agreement, delivered more than
50 technical deliverables, filed 4 intellectual property rights applications, and published more than 40 articles in journals and international
conferences. Plans for commercial exploitation and valorisation of the
project outcomes have been also set.
The DAVINCI project succeeded in setting up the foundations of Nonbinary digital wireless communications. It proved that non-binary technology
has a great potential to complement or replace the binary technology in the
long run to meet the high spectral efficiency requirements of next generation
wireless multimedia communications. The DAVINCI project will certainly
serve as a key reference for a continuous exploration of the potential benefits
of non-binary technology for future wireless communications but also for
other communication media. This is with the aim of an enhanced capacity
and quality of future radio access networks, which will benefit the end users
in terms of more affordable prices for higher quality services.
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The DAVINCI project aimed at developing
new technologies targeting future B3G or
4G wireless broadband transmission systems
such as IEEE 802.16e/m, or 3GPP-LTE. It is
well known that the increase in data rate and
heterogeneous transport in wireless networks
demands very efficient coding schemes,
coupled with adaptive resource allocation
strategies.
ITTI Sp. z o.o. is a private company, focused on consulting and applied
research in IT and telecommunications. It is located in Poznań, Poland
and currently has about 50 employees.
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In the recent years ITTI was awarded the prestigious “Cristal Brussels Prize
2006” for the most active and successful Polish SME participating in FP6
IST and “Crystal Brussels Prize 2010” for the most active and successful
Polish company participating in FP7 IST. ITTI received also a reward for
high performance in R&D projects for European Defence Agency given by
Polish Ministry of Defence (2009). ITTI contributed as well to the works
of TeleManagement Forum, while developing the eTOM Business Process
Framework. Moreover, ITTI is an institutional member of Public Safety
Communication Europe Forum and contributes to Industrial Mission Group
for Security (IMG-S).
At national level ITTI co-operates with Polish telecommunications regulators, as well as numerous operators (i.e. fixed, mobile, CaTV, ISPs) and
equipment providers.
ITTI was involved in system-level and link-level simulations aiming at
designing and assessing several transmission techniques including:
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Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) schemes suitable for
frequency-flat channels and frequency-selective channels with different
level of Channel State Information (CSI) at the transmitter side;
Iterative (turbo) algorithms for equalization of wireless frequency-flat
and frequency-selective channels with the adoption of non-binary
LDPC;
Hybrid Automatic ReQuest (ARQ/H-ARQ) with incremental redundancy strategies in combination with advanced coding schemes. Moreover, we evaluated quality of the transmission system with NB LDPC
taking into consideration network Quality of Service (QoS) and service
Quality of Experience (QoE);
ITTI also identified the performance targets and link level requirements
of IMT-Advanced candidates focusing on IEEE 802.16m. Link-level
simulations were done in different radio environments to evaluate and
compare the transmission performance/reliability DAVINCI NB LDPC
codes with other FEC techniques used in other systems (IEEE 802.16m
and 3GPP LTE). This approach took into account constraints such as
non-linearity (High Power Amplifier), mobility (Doppler effect) and
complexity as well as parameters of NB LDPC codes (codeword length,
code rate). We elaborated the simulations with MIMO transmission,
too. ITTI was participating in dissemination of project outcomes.
The DAVINCI consortium has a strong
expertise in the design of efficient, but
practical B3G/4G communication systems,
and the consortium believes that the joint
design of the code, the resource allocation
and the hardware model is the necessary
basis for proposing better systems for the
next generation of wireless networks. The
consortium targets, as main dissemination of
the DAVINCI project, a system proposal for
the IMT-advanced call in 2008–2009.
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consulting in the telecommunications sector – ITTI offers consulting
services to practically all key telecommunications players in Poland;
IT and telecom consulting for end-users – ITTI assists the end-users
(i.e. public administration, utilities, banks, companies) in purchasing,
implementation and optimisation of IT and telecom systems (incl.
construction of broadband networks); a number of professional methodologies are used in this area, e.g. PRINCE2, CISA, PMI, TOGAF,
ITIL, ISO 27001, BS25999;
applied R&D in the area of IT and telecommunications – ITTI is
working mainly in EU IST FP5, FP6 and FP7 Framework Programmes,
PASR, EDA project, NIAG studies.
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The DAVINCI solution was based on systems
which operate using high order non-binary
symbols, in all receiver blocks. However,
the expected performance gain comes at the
expense of increased hardware complexity,
and unsolved technical issues such as nonbinary Hybrid-ARQ strategies, or non-binary
turbo-receivers. Consequently, low complexity non-binary LDPC codes/decoders will
be developed in the DAVINCI project, and
compared in a realistic framework, using
a versatile FPGA implementation and real
link using a MIMO-OFDM platform.
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Apart from the recent progress made in the
last 15 years, coded modulation schemes
presenting near-Shannon performance at
high spectral efficiency with short blocks are
still missing. Moreover, whilst most of the
European technology has focused on TurboCodes (3GPP, DVB-RCS, IEEE 802.16),
it has facilitated as a side effect development of the competing technology, namely
LDPC codes worldwide (3GPP2, DVB-S2,
IEEE 802.11n). In order to ensure European supremacy in enabling technologies
mandatory for IMT-Advanced systems, the
DAVINCI project plans to go beyond usual
LDPC codes, and develop breakthrough
channel coding, together with tailored Link
Level technologies.
The activities of ITTI can be grouped into three categories:
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EUWB
Project’s title:
EUWB – Coexisting Short
Range Radio by Advanced
Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology
The EUWB R&D project is upgrading and finally integrating recently
developed disruptive UWB Radio Technology in four prominent application scenarios being of major interest for the European industry in order
to enhance the competitive advantage of such industries. The EUWB R&D
project team consists of 26 major industrial, highly regarded academic and
excellent consulting partners, and it is taking care of the exploitation of the
major investments done by the European Industry and the public sector.
The continuous support of the European Commission for UWB related
R&D activities, such as previously successfully finished projects whyless.
com, U.C.A.N., PULSERS, PULSERS Phase II starting from feasibility
over basic research and technology development will now turn into practical
application scenarios enhancing comfort for the European Citizen as well
save energy for information transport, which is a key issue for the Knowledge
Society of the Future.
ICT-2007.1.1 – The network of the future
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-04-2008
31-07-2011
20 999 941 €
13 728 941 €
Polish participant:
Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ Sp. z o.o.
ul. Stabłowicka 147, 54-066 Wrocław
www.eitplus.pl
Contact person:
Małgorzata Piesiewicz
European Project Manager
Phone: +48 510 132 209
The Consortium:
1. GWT-TUD GmbH, Germany
2. Stmicroelectronics N.V., Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, Succursale
De Plan-Les-Ouates, Switzerland
3. TES Electronic Solutions GmbH, Germany
4. Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V.,
The Netherlands
5. ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Germany
6. Commissariat a l Energie Atomique et aux
Energies Alternatives, France
7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet
Hannover, Germany
8. Create-Net (Center For Research And
Telecommunication Experimentation For
Networked Communities), Italy
9. Oulun Yliopisto, Finland
10. Eads Deutschland GmbH, Germany
11. Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo SA, Spain
12. Thales Communications & Security SA, France
13. Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT, Finland
14. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
15. Wisair Ltd., Israel
16. Acorde Technologies S.A., Spain
17. TES Electronic Solutions Ltd., United Kingdom
18. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
19. Alma Mater Studiorum-Universita di
Bologna, Italy
20. Universitaetsklinikum
Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
21. Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Germany
22. Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft
Dresden, Germany
23. Veebeam Ltd., United Kingdom
24. FBConsulting S.A.R.L., Luxembourg
26. Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke v Praze,
Czech Republic
27. Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti,
Romania
28. Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ Sp. z o.o.,
Poland
EUWB‘s key objective is to exploit the enormous potential of the innovative
and disruptive radio technology embodied in Ultra-Wideband Radio
Technology (UWB-RT) for key industrial sectors in Europe by innovation
of cutting-edge short range radio solutions. EUWB aims to consolidate the
technical advances in scientific areas related to UWB-RT and combining them
in order to define system concepts and enable the implementation of applications for envisaged four application areas: Heterogeneous Network, Public
Transport, Home Environment, Automotive. Main goals of EUWB are:
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combining UWB-RT with advanced methods of wireless technology
such as cognitive signaling, intelligent multiple antenna and multiband/
multimode concepts;
applying R&D results to enable the introduction of advanced services
and competitive next generation UWB applications;
driving international standards and industrial initiatives (ECMA
368/369, TGUWB, IEEE 802.15.3c/4a, WiMedia, WUSB).
Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ Sp. z o.o. (Wrocławskie Centrum Badań
EIT – WCB EIT) was established in 2007 to perfect innovation and applied
science for the Silesian Region of Poland. The institute was created and is
owned by Wroclaw Commune, Regional Parliament of the Lower Silesia
Province, Wroclaw University of Technology, University of Wroclaw,
Wroclaw Medical University and Wroclaw University of Environmental
and Life Science. The seed funding received equals 200 million euro together
with large campus with about 25,000 square meters of office and lab space
dedicated for research activities as well as for high tech SMEs. WCB EIT
focuses on 4 pillars: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Energy and ICT. The
ICT research centre specializes in mobile networks modeling and simulation,
networks planning and optimization, Self Organizing Networks (SON)
aspects, cognitive radio and reconfigurable optical networks as well as on
broad range of information science aspects.
Members of the WCB EIT+ team participated in dozens of European projects
including FP6/FP7 in the area of ICT – mobile network planning and
optimization areas, self-organizing cellular networks, cognitive systems and
networks including UWB and optical networks. Specialized experience is
connected with specialized simulation software design, prototyping, implementation and running for heavy duty large scale simulations including low
level code optimization for rapid execution.
WCB EIT focuses on developing architecture, communication mechanisms
and protocols for a distributed cognitive pilot channel (DCPC).
NEtwork of Excellence in Wireless
COMmunications++ (NEWCOM++)
The project NEWCOM++ realized within the objective of the network
of the future mainly targets its activities in the direction of “Ubiquitous
network infrastructure and architectures”. The fundamental premise
behind project NEWCOM can be summarized as follows:
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EC funding:
01-01-2008
30-04-2011
9 170 059 €
4 964 199 €
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despite the fact that the European space already includes very strong
research groups in many of the scientific areas commonly and collectively
described as wireless communications, the landscape does suffer from
symptoms of thematic fragmentation, lack of coordination on a large
scale, under-funding and lack of a critical mass in certain vital areas,
symptoms which may prevent Europe from being the envisioned and
desired leader at the international scene;
the research challenges posed by the target outcome “Ubiquitous
network infrastructure and architectures” are by their very nature
very complex and interdisciplinary, thus requiring a fully committed
and large-scale collaboration between strong research groups in different
disciplines, a collection that can hardly be found at a single institution/country;
the NEWCOM Network of Excellence (NoE), funded in FP6 and ended
in February 2007, has successfully put in motion an effective integration mechanism between these spatially scattered research entities, thus
enabling a process which, however, could not be fully materialized in the
three years of its operation (as opposed to the original 5-year plan).
Wireless Communications,
60-965 Poznań
http://www.put.poznan.pl/
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Contact person:
Prof. Hanna Bogucka
Phone: +48 61 665 39 11
Therefore, the main manner by which NEWCOM++ intends to promote
solutions to the above mentioned problems and challenges is by creating
a trans-European virtual research centre linking a proper number of leading European research groups in a highly integrated, carefully harmonized,
cooperative fashion.
The Consortium:
1. Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Sulle
Tecnologie dell’Informazione e delle
2. Bilkent Üniversitesi, Turkey
3. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
Israel
Athens, Greece
The current project draws inspiration, shape/form, and substantive direction
from its successful predecessor, the NoE NEWCOM, which was approved
and funded by the EC. At the same time, NEWCOM aspires to inject
new vision, expanded roles, ever-higher degrees of research integration,
and a definitive roadmap to financial security for the long-term life of this
undertaking in the European research and higher-learning space.
9. Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, France
The core concept of NEWCOM++ is that of an NoE of medium size, greatly
reduced from the initial NEWCOM Consortium, formed by keeping the
most committed and performing partners, exploiting the successful integration tools that NEWCOM designed and activated, and which is created
for the purpose of scientifically addressing medium/long term, complex,
interdisciplinary, fundamental research problems in the field of wireless
networks, focused towards identifying, posing in the right modelling perspective, and at least partially characterizing the information-communication
theoretical limits. Its main objectives are:
10. Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique et aux
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le Telecomunicazioni, Italy
Catalunya, Spain
8. Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
11. Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Germany
13. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
14. FTW Forschungszentrum
Telekommunikation Wien GmbH, Austria
15. Wireless Communications, Poznań
University of Technology Poznań University
of Technology, Poland
16. Chalmers Tekniska Hoegskola AB, Sweden
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identify a selective set of scenarios;
define suitable performance measures that take into account the wireless
channel nature;
perform a detailed analysis of the main theoretical results available;
evaluate information-theoretical bounds on the achievable performance;
design and analyze transmitting/receiving algorithms and protocols in
order to approach those limits;
analyze implementation aspects of the above algorithms in flexible,
energy-aware user terminals;
output the major findings into an integrated simulation library;
enhance the already good cooperation level among researchers working
in the field of mobile and wireless communications.
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17. Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
18. Institute of Accelerating Systems and
Applications, Greece
The Wireless Communications research group from Poznań University of
Technology has been involved in research Work Packages dealing with adaptive coding and modulation for wireless channels, iterative receivers, joint
radio resource management, flexible use of radio spectrum and opportunistic
wireless networks, as well as in almost all Work Packages which goal was
research integration, spreading of excellence and management.
Simple Economic Management
Approaches of Overlay Traffic in
Heterogeneous Internet Topologies
Internet traffic is still doubling approximately every 18 month; up to 80%
of this traffic is stemming from Peer-to-Peer applications. This traffic is
created by overlay network-based applications. The available bandwidth of
end-nodes is also increasing. Thus, overlay-based applications will become
more and more interesting and diversity of such applications will increase.
Therefore, a slow paradigm shift from centralized offered services to services
offered by end-nodes is happening. For today’s Telecommunication Service
Providers (telco) and Internet Service Providers (ISP) the issue arises,
how to control and manage network traffic stemming from overlay-based
applications. The use of mechanisms based on incentives for controlling
and managing network traffic of overlay applications in the Internet is still
in its early stages. Initial results have shown that such mechanisms do have
the important property of scalability with respect to the number of players
(i.e. providers, consumers, or peers), and lead to a more efficient network
operation. In managing the traffic created and routed through their networks
today’s ISPs, who may be in more general terms service providers on the
basis of the IP, employ methodologies suitable for traditional traffic/service
profiles. In the near future most network traffic will follow paths that form
logical network overlays at the service layer, such as Virtual Private Networks,
Network Management System overlays, or distributed collaboration overlays.
As the structure of overlays determines the traffic flows in ISP networks, it
is highly efficient for an ISP to influence overlay configuration based on
information on their structure. Overlays have to be managed to:
ICT-2007.1.1
http://www.smoothit.org/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
31-12-2010
4 373 608 €
2 997 121 €
Polish participant:
and Technology
30-059 Kraków
http://www.agh.edu.pl/
Contact person:
PhD Rafał Stankiewicz
Assistant professor
The Consortium:
1. Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland
2. Docomo Communications Laboratories
Europe GmbH, Germany
3. Technische Universitaet Darmstadt,
Germany
Athens, Greece
5. PrimeTEL PLC, Cyprus
Poland
7. INTRACOM S.A. Telecom Solutions,
Greece
8. Julius-Maximilians Universitaet Wuerzburg,
Germany
Spain
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maximize the benefit for multiple operators/ISPs involved, independently of an underlying topology and
increase the capability to withstand faults, and balancing the load in
the network.
From the user’s point of view, SmoothIT enables new overlay services
that can be utilized by anyone. Those services may differ with respect
to Quality-of-Service (QoS) metrics and will be charged differently. This
enables a market of competitive overlay services and their management.
Users will benefit from the competition in this market, from the variety of
services and service qualities, both made conveniently available to users,
and from customized and competitive pricing of the services, giving rise to
a high value for money.
From provider’s perspective, SmoothIT provides the relevant decentralized
control technology and management approaches, backed by thorough
theoretical investigations, which will enable new business models to be
analyzed and implemented. The application of such scalable economic
management mechanisms will enable the ISPs to reduce their service provisioning and maintenance costs, thus, leading towards a highly competitive
market advantage. At the same time, since Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
and other overlay applications often cover end-users connected to multiple
ISPs, appropriate incentives schemes for collaboration among ISPs (which
may also be competing ones at the same time) have to be defined.
The Internet traffic stemming from overlay-based applications, e.g.,
Peer-to-Peer applications, increases rapidly with the increase of available
bandwidth of end-nodes. For today’s Telecommunication Service Providers
(telco) and Internet Service Providers (ISP) the issue arising is: how to control
and manage network traffic stemming from overlay-based applications. As
the structure of overlays determines the traffic flows in ISP networks, it
is highly efficient for an ISP to influence overlay configuration based on
information on their structure. Overlays have to be managed to maximize the
benefit for multiple operators/ISPs involved, and to increase the capability
to withstand faults, and balance the network load.
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SmoothIT will structure overlays in a way that is efficient or optimal,
both for user communities and for ISPs. This is to be attained by means
of incentive mechanisms;
SmoothIT will study and define key requirements for a commercial
application of economic traffic management (ETM) schemes for ISPs
and telcos;
in order to advance traffic management beyond traditional limits, specialized economic theory will be applied for building in a fully decentralized
way network efficient Internet-based overlay services in multi-domain
scenarios, solving the information asymmetry problem;
SmoothIT will design, prototype, and validate the necessary networking
infrastructure and their components for an efficient implementation of
such economic traffic management mechanisms in an IP testbed and
trial network;
SmoothIT will develop an optimized incentive-driven signaling approach
for defining (theory) and delivering (technology) economic signals across
domain boundaries in support of co-operating and competing providers
in an interconnected heterogeneous network environment.
SmoothIT will stress operator-orientation by verifying key results of
the work through ISP and telco requirements as well as its supporting
technology.
The AGH University of Science and Technology was a partner in the
SmoothIT project.
Self-Optimisation and
self-ConfiguRATion in
wirelEss networkS
Future communication networks will exhibit a significant degree of
self-organisation. The principal objective of introducing self-organisation,
comprising self-optimisation, self-configuration and self-healing, is to effectuate substantial operational expenditure (OPEX) reductions by diminishing
human involvement in network operational tasks, while optimising network
efficiency and service quality.
ICT-2007.1.1
http://www.fp7-socrates.org/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
28-02-2011
4 980 437 €
3 248 863 €
Polish participant:
Nokia Siemens Networks Sp. z o.o.
ul. Domaniewska 39a
02-672 Warszawa
Contact person:
Agnieszka Szufarska
Radio Research Manager
The Consortium:
2. Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast
Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek
– TNO, The Netherlands
SOCRATES (Self-Optimisation and self-ConfiguRATion in wirelEss
networkS) project aimed at the development of self-organisation methods
to enhance the operations of wireless access networks, by integrating network
planning, configuration and optimisation into a single, mostly automated
process requiring minimal manual intervention.
Regarding the technological scope, SOCRATES primarily concentrated
on wireless access networks, as the wireless segment generally forms the
bottleneck in end-to-end communications, both in terms of operational
complexity and network costs. As a consequence, the largest gains from
self-organisation can be anticipated here. The partners of the SOCRATES
consortium selected the 3GPP LTE (3rd Generation Partnership Project,
Long Term Evolution) radio interface as the central radio technology in our
studies. The reason for this choice was that 3GPP LTE is the natural, highly
promising and widely supported evolution of the world’s most popular
cellular networking technologies (GSM/EDGE, UMTS/HSPA).
The general objective of SOCRATES was to develop self-organisation methods in order to optimise network capacity, coverage and service quality while
achieving significant OPEX (and possibly CAPEX) reductions. Although
the developed solutions are likely to be more broadly applicable (e.g. to
WiMax networks), the project primarily concentrated on 3GPP’s LTE radio
interface (E-UTRAN). In more detail the objectives were as follows:
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3. Atesio GmbH, Germany
4. Ericsson AB, Sweden
Technology, Belgium
6. Technische Universitaet Braunschweig,
Germany
7. Vodafone Group Services Ltd.,
United Kingdom
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9. Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co.
KG, Germany
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the development of novel concepts, methods and algorithms for the
efficient and effective self-optimisation, -configuration and -healing
of wireless access networks, adapting the diverse radio (resource management) parameters to smooth or abrupt variations in e.g. system,
traffic, mobility and propagation conditions. Concrete examples of
the radio parameters that will be addressed include: power settings,
antenna parameters, neighbour cell lists, handover parameters, scheduling parameters and admission control parameters;
the specification of the required measurement information, its statistical
accuracy and the methods of information retrieval including the needed
protocol interfaces, in support of the newly developed self-organisation
methods;
the validation and demonstration of the developed concepts and methods for self-organisation through extensive simulation experiments.
In particular, simulations will be performed in order to illustrate and
assess the established capacity, coverage and quality enhancements, and
estimating the attainable OPEX (/CAPEX) reductions;
an evaluation of the implementation and operational impact of the
developed concepts and methods for self-organisation, with respect to
the operations, administration and maintenance architecture, terminals,
scalability and the radio network planning and capacity management
processes;
influence on 3GPP standardisation and NGMN activities.
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SOCRATES
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Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global system provider and enabler of
telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability,
the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged
network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy
and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It
is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional
services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters
are in Espoo, Finland.
Nokia Siemens Networks Sp. z o.o. (NSN Poland) was directly involved in
FP7 SOCRATES project research activities. This project developed solutions for dedicated self-organisation use cases for 3G LTE networks. Each
use-case group was working on different aspect of self-organizing networks
like admission control optimization, load balancing, Home eNB, handover
parameters optimization etc. One of these use cases focused on load balancing
problems was led by NSN Poland representative. NSN Poland contributed
to definition of requirements and assessment criteria for self-organisation
algorithms, algorithm development for stand-alone self-organisation solutions and simulation tool development.
Work done in the project resulted in co-authoring of several technical
publication and one of the first book treating of SON concepts in telecommunication (published by Wiley and Sons). Involvement in SOCRATES
project triggered for internal activities through discussion with other project
partners (mainly ERICSSON, Vodafone), allowed close contact to NGMN
forum and results in standardisation activities e.g. on load balancing issues
for RAN2/RAN3 and cell outage management for SA5. Due to good project
results and reputation NSN get an opportunity to increase reputation of
NSN SON activities in the research community and with customers.
Advanced Data Mining and
Integration Research for Europe
The ADMIRE project (Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research
for Europe) is motivated by the difficulty of extracting meaningful information by mining combinations of data from multiple heterogeneous and
distributed resources. It will also provide an abstract view of data mining
and integration, which will give users and developers the power to cope with
complexity and heterogeneity of services, data and processes. The ADMIRE
infrastructure will enable a set of gateways connected together over the
Internet and Grid. The gateways communicate with one another using
ADMIRE-developed standard representations over the Infrastructure Service
Bus. Each gateway provides a core set of data mining and integration services,
which can be driven using a high-level language.
ICT-2007.1.2
Service and software architectures,
infrastructures and engineering
http://www.admire-project.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-03-2008
29-05-2011
4 241 573 €
3 001 662 €
As a benefit of the ADMIRE’s platform and strategy can automate the whole
knowledge discovery process, making large-scale data analysis tasks easier
and more cost-effective.
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Polish participant:
Comarch S.A.
Al. Jana Pawła II 39a
31-864 Kraków
http://www.comarch.pl/
The Consortium:
1. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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for domain experts it offers better-quality decision making, better use
of data resources, better understanding of the use of data in business
or research processes;
for data analysis experts it offers a powerful methodology and common language for developing data mining and integration solutions
for increasingly large and complex data sets;
for data-intensive distributed computing engineers it offers tools and
methods to separate the specification of data intensive processes from
their implementations, making it easier to support the data analyis and
domain experts in their chosen fields.
2. Universitaet Wien, Austria
3. Consultores de Automatizacion y
Robotica S.A., Spain
The project ADMIRE is designing new methods and tools for comfortable
mining and integration of large, distributed data sets. One of the prospective application domains for such methods and tools is the environmental
applications domain, which often uses various data sets from different vendors where data mining is becoming increasingly popular and more computer
power becomes available.cular, the main objectives includes:
4. Ustav Informatiky, Slovenska Akademia
Vied, Slovakia
5. Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd.,
United Kingdom
6. Comarch S.A., Poland
Comarch S.A. is a strong, knowledge based company, with significant experience in developing sophisticated software and IT solutions for several key sectors. Most products offered by Comarch are developed in-house. Comarch’s
capacity for constant innovation is backed by its vast experience, highly
qualified human resources and above all, by considerable R&D spending.
A major part Comarch’s strategy is to conduct research and development
aimed at implementing new products and their standardization from the
very beginning, when they are being prepared for the customer. This ensures
that even if a solution has been developed for a particular client, some, or
all of the software code can be used to develop a standardized product.
Such a strategy results in higher profitability and a growing customer base.
Expenditures were financed by the Company’s own funds as well as public
R&D financing.
Comarch S.A. is the partner in ADMIRE project.
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Project’s title:
Marrying Ontology and
Software Technology
MOST is an early innovation in the field leading to more efficient and
higher-quality soft ware development with a better integrated understanding of the resulting soft ware product. While currently the MDSD
market is mostly driven and led by the US software industry, Europe has an
advantage in ontologies and reasoning techniques. By providing a systematic
way of bridging these two technologies, MOST delivers fundamental results
that can be leveraged by European soft ware vendors.
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http://www.most-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2008
30-04-2011
5 541 703 €
3 729 258 €
Polish participant:
Comarch S.A.
Al. Jana Pawła II 39a
31-864 Kraków
http://www.comarch.pl
Contact person:
Krzysztof Miksa
Project Manager
Phone: +48 12 646 10 00
The Consortium:
1. Comarch S.A., Poland
2. SAP AG, Germany
3. Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
MOST has been involved in the creation of standards with the two most
influential standards bodies in the areas of Semantic Web and Soft ware
Engineering: W3C and OMG. The influenced standards were: OWL2,
SPARQL1.1, RIF API4KB and ODM.
Target users/sectors in business and society
The results of the MOST project are considered valuable both for vendors
of development tools and software developers. ODSD advances current
techniques for metamodelling, i.e., the development of consistency preserving modeling languages and introduces advanced means for monitoring and
predefining the software development process. This makes the implementation and customization of development tools easier. Software developers
can exploit ODSD to challenge problems of software development that still
cause tremendous effort for the soft ware developer despite the adoption of
MDSD. The results can be used by the soft ware industry in their offerings
for any sectors in business.
MOST improved software engineering by leveraging ontology and reasoning technology. To reach this goal, a seamless integration of ontology
technology into model-driven software development (MDSD) was realized, resulting in ontology-driven software development (ODSD). This
concerns the integration of all involved artifacts (ontology and modeling
languages, models, tools), as well as the development processes (process and
reasoning guidance, traceability of models).
4. Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Germany
5. The University Court of the University of
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
6. BOC Information Systems GmbH, Austria
Comarch S.A. was the coordinator of the MOST project.
Service Web 3.0
Even after four decades of rapid advances, computing is currently subject to
revolutionary changes at all levels, including hardware, middleware, network
infrastructure, but more importantly intelligent applications. Emerging
technologies such as the Semantic Web or Web Services transform the
Internet from a network of information to a network of knowledge and
services. The number of services which will be offered on the Internet is
expected to rise dramatically in the next few years.
ICT-2007.1.2
http://www.serviceweb30.eu
Project’s start date: 01-01-2008
31-12-2009
Project’s budget:
721 273 €
EC funding:
482 350 €
The mission of Service Web 3.0 was to address these emerging developments
and contribute to the implementation of framework programmes and their
projects, and support the preparation of future community research and
technological development.
The project focused on:
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Polish participant:
Poznań University of Economics
Al. Niepodległości 10
61-875 Poznań
http://www.ue.poznan.pl
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Contact person:
Prof. Witold Abramowicz
Head of Department of Information
Systems
Phone: +48 618 543 381
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organization of special conferences and seminars;
establishment of collaborative groups and publication of roadmaps to
facilitate a communal framework for a future service world;
providing support for standardization activities for semantic service
descriptions,
discovery and development of synergies through networking and
cross-fertilization with other research and network projects related to
this area;
setting up dedicated cross-project clusters focusing on Semantic Web
Services within STI International;
provision of information material comprising white papers, feasibility studies, promotional movies and raise awareness for technology adoption.
The project was also responsible for the track on services within the Future
Internet Assembly and administration of one of the FIA working groups.
1. Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria
2. Open University, United Kingdom
The Service Web 3.0 project being the Support Action did not deliver
results as research projects from the ICT field e.g. software that could
be applied in different contexts. The project, after various consultations
with experts from the field, being the representatives of both industry and
academia, developed a set of roadmaps concerning application services
and semantic technologies in the industry with the next few years (with
a special focus on semantic web services).
3. Poznań University of Economics, Poland
4. Semantic Technology Institute
International, Austria
Moreover, the project consortium organized a number of different events
(tutorials, seminars, conferences, workshops, face-to-face meetings) promoting the idea of Semantic Web and Semantic Web services. The project
delivered a set of dissemination materials that may be used while teaching
on application of semantic technologies. The project was also responsible for
coordination of the Services WG by the Future Internet initiative.
Established in 1926, Poznan University of Economics – PUE (Uniwersytet
Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu) is one of the oldest and most prestigious business
universities in Poland. The university’s main strengths are its educational
experience, international relations, well-developed research base and its
co-operation with business and industry. PUE has participated in a number
of EU funded Programmes, including e.g., SOCRATES/Erasmus, Leonardo
da Vinci, and FP5, FP6 and FP7 projects.
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Department of Information Systems (DIS), being involved in the project,
belongs to the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy. The research
areas of DIS cover: knowledge representation and management techniques,
business information systems, information extraction, information retrieval
and filtering (with emphasis put on personalization and contextualisation),
Semantic Web and Linked Data, service orientation as well as mobile solutions for wellness.
It is a mission of DIS to provide tools that help to acquire and manage
various resources both in a continuous manner (filtering) and in an ad hoc
setting (retrieval) and then, help to combine the acquired artifacts according
to requester’s needs. In both cases, the DIS’s objective is to consider a variety
of technological, functional and economical factors influencing relevance
of acquired entities and to ensure enough semantics for their automated or
semi-automated usage.
DIS members were or still are taking part in a number of research projects
in the relevant research areas, including international projects as e.g., FP6
Use-Me.GOV, ASG and SUPER or FP7 INSEMTIVES as well as national
ones – e.g., Advanced data extraction methods for the needs of expert search
or Ego – Virtual Identity. The results of research carried out lead to a number
of high quality publications including conference and journal papers.
Poznań University of Economics was responsible for the dissemination Work
Package including organization of various events, preparation of dissemination materials as well as services’ roadmap development.
Project’s title:
INfrastructure for heTErogeneous,
Resilient, SEcure, Complex, Tightly
Inter-Operating Networks
INTERSECTION (INfrastructure for heTErogeneous, Resilient, SEcure,
Complex, Tightly Inter-Operating Networks) is a Collaborative Project
whose overarching challenges are:
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the creation of a trustworthy and resilient Future Internet as a conglomerate of networks and systems, with built-in security, dependability,
privacy and trust;
enabling users to understand security, privacy and trust in the Future
Internet by providing usable and credible support protecting their data
and privacy, thus allowing them to make informed decisions on the
trustworthiness of information, services, social contacts and services.
http://www.intersection-project.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
31-12-2009
4 591 845 €
2 900 000 €
ITTI Sp. z o. o.
ul. Rubież 46
61-612 Poznań
http://www.itti.com.pl/en
Contact person:
Krzysztof Samp
Phone: +48 616 226 985
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp. z o.o.
ul. Aleje Jerozolimskie 181
02-222 Warszawa
http://www.t-mobile.pl
Contact person:
Zbigniew Kowalczyk
The Consortium:
The increasing complexity and heterogeneity of the communication networks used to connect components also increases their level of vulnerability.
Furthermore, the progressive move away from dedicated communications
infrastructures and proprietary networked components, together with the
growing adoption of IP-based solutions, exposes critical information infrastructures to cyber attacks coming from the Internet. These infrastructures
are characterised by a vulnerability level similar to other systems connected to
the Internet, but the socio-economic impact of their failure can be enormous.
Therefore, it becomes extremely important to strongly protect network infrastructures from attacks and failures in order to ensure the secure end-to-end
transmission of control information generated by critical systems.
The INTERSECTION project is identifying and classifying vulnerabilities
related to interconnections between telecom providers, and providing key
action points for overcoming them.
INTERSECTION aims at enhancing the European potential in the field
of security by assuring the protection of heterogeneous networks and infrastructures. The project focuses on vulnerabilities at the intersection points
between different interoperating network providers.
INTERSECTION designs and implements an integrated security framework made of different subsystems and components providing network
and infrastructure security. A working prototype is implemented to be used
as final demonstrator of specific scenarios. Involved end-users will share
information on attacks and malfunctions, validate obtained results and host
the demonstrator.
1. Elsag Datamat S.p.A., Italy
2. Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per
l’Informatica, Italy
3. Thales Research & Technology (UK) Ltd.,
United Kingdom
4. Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Spain
7. Coronis Systems S.A., France
INTERSECTION also contributes to standardisation in order to foster
multi-operator interoperability and coordinated strategies for securing networked systems. Security metrics for assessment and certification of network
infrastructures and systems will be defined.
The main objective of the INTERSECTION project is to design and implement an integrated framework able to:
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9. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
Zürich, Switzerland
10. Telespazio S.p.A., Italy
11. Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp. z o.o., Poland
In order to achieve its objectives, INTERSECTION has identified the
following technical areas of work:
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analysis and classification of vulnerabilities of heterogeneous networks;
requirements analysis and design of an integrated framework comprising
different security tools;
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detect anomalous events;
react to well-known, as well as to new forms of anomalies;
deploy truly distributed countermeasures against evolving threats;
provide mechanisms for intrusion tolerance to reduce the likelihood of
intrusions generating system failures.
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development of techniques and tools for increasing security and resilience of networked systems;
integration of the developed tools and their validation;
standardization and definition of security metrics. A prototype of the
security framework has been released during the project. It is used to
build a final demonstrator showing specific scenarios and is validated
by both the INTERSECTION partners playing the role of end-users
and the members of Group of Experts supporting the project.
ITTI Sp. z o.o. (ITTI).
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa S.A. (PTC) is the operator of the T-Mobile
network in Poland. PTC offers both mobile and fixed-line telephony and
Internet access in pre-paid, post-paid and mix systems. Deutsche Telekom
Group is the first co-founder and currently the sole owner of PTC.
As one of the strategic objectives of the Deutsche Telecom Group and thus
PTC is innovation. The company is strongly motivated to search, initiate
and commercialize new service ideas.
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa S.A. commenced its commercial activity in 1996
under the Era GSM brand which was later changed to Era. The company rapidly
became one of the largest telecommunications companies in Poland. PTC was
the first Polish operator to introduce GPRS data transmission services, UMTS
technology and video-calls via the mobile phone. It enabled customers access
to the HSDPA and HSPA+ technology for broadband data transmission. With
its range covering almost 100% of the area of Poland, the operator provides its
services to over 14.5 million customers. On June 5, 2011 PTC introduced the
international T-Mobile brand in Poland which replaced the Era brand.
PTC employs approximately 5200 people and is ranked among top Polish
employers.
The company is one of the leading sponsors of cultural, sports, educational and charity events in Poland, e.g., the “T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty”
(“T-Mobile New Horizons”) film festival, T-Mobile Ekstraklasa (the highest professional football league in Poland) and the “Razem dla innych”
(“Together for Others”) volunteering programme.
PTC has contributed in the following European R&D projects:
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RURAL WINS (Roadmap for ICT Solutions for Rural Areas and
Maritime Regions);
TU AMO (The Ultimate Entertainment Advanced Mobile OpenServices
Platform);
DAIDALOS (Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and
Administration of Location independent, Optimised personal Services);
ASG (Adaptive Services Grid);
EuQoS (End-to-end Quality of Service support over heterogeneous
networks);
MDS (Mobile and Wireless Systems and Platforms Beyond 3G);
INTERSECTION (INfrastructure for heTErogeneous, Resilient,
SEcure, Complex, Tightly Inter-Operating Network);
BuNGee (Beyond Next-Generation Mobile Broadband);
BeFEMTO (Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks);
SEMIRAMIS (Secure Management of Information across multiple
Stakeholders).
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Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa S.A., as mobile operator, was mainly involved in
the identification of vulnerabilities associated with the interconnection of
heterogeneous communication networks. Furthermore, ERA’s contribution
largely concerned the demonstration activity through the definition and
implementation of the INTERSECTION demonstrative scenarios.
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state of the art analysis of heterogeneous networks technologies;
vulnerabilities analysis of the heterogeneous networks;
end-users requirements gathering, analysis and specification. In the
course of WP2, ITTI edited 3 project deliverables;
numerous meetings with end-users (mainly telecommunication operators) were arranged;
as far as development activities are concerned, ITTI created INTERSECTION Vulnerability Ontology formalizing knowledge about heterogeneous networks vulnerabilities as well as the application dedicated
to use the ontology (PIVOT);
ITTI also supported framework specification (WP3) and worked on
innovative intrusion and anomaly detection techniques (WP4). In particular, ITTI focused on the signal-based intrusion/anomaly detection
algorithms based on DWT and greedy algorithms such as Matching
Pursuit;
ITTI also supported integration, verification and demonstration activities (WP5 and WP6);
within the dissemination activities ITTI published over 10 scientific
papers and attended numerous conferences and events.
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Within the project INTERSECTION ITTI was also responsible for:
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Project’s title:
Worldwide Observatory of Malicious
Behaviors and Attack Threats
The project work focused on three different areas:
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http://www.wombat-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
30-04-2011
4 401 578 €
2 890 795 €
Polish participant:
Research and Academic
Computer Network
ul. Wąwozowa 18 Nr Lok. 010
02-796 Warszawa
http://www.nask.pl/
Contact person:
Piotr Kijewski
Phone: +48 22 380 81 99
The Consortium:
2. EURECOM, France
3. Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
5. Vereniging voor Christelijk Hoger
Onderwijs Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en
Patientenzorg, The Netherlands
6. Foundation for Research and Technology
Hellas, Greece
7. Hispasec Sistemas S.L., Spain
8. Research and Academic Computer
Network, Poland
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collecting information on malware using crawlers and honeypots
(including improving those techniques and proposing new ones);
development of new techniques for enriching the collected information;
advanced analysis of threats, based on correlation of information from
project partners, in order to identify the causes and understanding the
problem.
For the purpose of systematic analysis a new framework was created. Known as
the WAPI (WOMBAT API) it provides easy and trouble-free access to data from
multiple systems participating and being developed under the project (incl.
Virustotal, SGNET, Shelia, Wepawet, HoneySpider Network, HARMUR,
Anubis). WAPI code was made available (and is still being improved!) under
a BSD license: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wombat-api/
A new threat intelligence system (FIRE – FInding Rogue Networks)
was developed by the project, feeding on information from other systems
developed as part of the project. Apart from the development of tools and
systems (as well as the creation of numerous new ones) by the partners in the
project, a large amount of presentations were given on the project’s achievements at major scientific conferences (e.g. RAID, DIMVA) and technical
conferences (e.g. BlackHat, FIRST, Honeynet Project Workshop).
The aim of WOMBAT is to provide new means to understand the existing
and emerging threats that are targeting the Internet economy and the
net citizens.
The Research and Academic Computer Network (Naukowa i Akademicka
Sieć Komputerowa – NASK) is a Polish research institute in the ICT area.
CERT Polska, a division of NASK that was set up to handle Internet security
incidents for the .pl constituency and has been operational since 1996.
CERT Polska cooperates with other IRTs from around the world and with
many ISPs, banks, government institutions and LEA in Poland. It also runs
a nation-wide early warning system, that uses a large distributed network of
sensors located in various Polish institutions to collect and analyze network
activity to detect new threats. CERT Polska has contributed to many EU
funded projects, under FP7 (WOMBAT), EPCIP (FISHA, and currently
NISHA), FP5 (eCSIRT.net) and the Safer Internet Action Plan (SpotSpam
and NIFC Hotline Polska). NASK closely cooperates with ENISA, providing
Poland’s representative to the ENISA management board.
9. Symantec Ltd., Ireland
11. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
NASK’s contribution in the project was related to:
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analyzing the state of the art in the subject matter and specifying the
requirements for the WOMBAT environment;
work on developing the shared API (WAPI), and adapting tools to
integrate with it;
improving a system of client honeypots – HoneySpider Network
– developed at NASK;
development of a tool based on machine learning techniques to reduce
false alarms for Capture-HPC system;
development of tools for visualization and analysis of relationships
between the detected malicious URLs Additionally, some instances of
the HoneySpider Network system fed data to a new threat detection
system FIRE (FInding Rogue Networks) developed under the project.
Network-Aware P2P-TV
Application over Wise Networks
The NAPA-WINE project aimed at:
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Networked media
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http://www.napa-wine.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2008
31-01-2011
5 489 513 €
3 705 140 €
providing a careful analysis of the impact that a large deployment of both
general P2P-TV and P2P-HQTV services may have on the Internet,
through an in detailed characterization of the traffic they generate;
providing guidelines for P2P-TV developers regarding the design of
systems that minimize the impact on the underlying transport network
while optimizing the user perceived quality;
providing a road map for Internet Service Providers to better exploit
the network bandwidth by showing simple and minimum cost actions
that can be taken in presence of P2P-TV traffic.
NAPA-WINE project’s goal was finding innovative solutions for P2P live
streaming to meet opportunities envisaged by content providers while
soothing worries of network operators.
Faculty of Mathematics and Information
Science and Faculty of Electronic and
Information Technology, Warsaw
University of Technology
pl. Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warszawa
http://eng.pw.edu.pl
Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) is a research amd academic
institution focused on undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering,
natural and social sciences. With 17 departments/faculties, over 30.000
students served by over 2000 professors and instructors, Warsaw University
of Technology is the largest and the highest ranking engineering university
in Poland. It maintains over 160 bilateral agreements of cooperation with
many universities and scientific institutions from all over the world. Research
teams of WUT have participated in over 130 projects supported by European
Union’s framework programmes.
Contact person:
Marcin Pilarski
Assistant
Phone: +48 22 699 56 01
ul. Twarda 18, 00-105 Warszawa
http://www.tp-ir.pl/
Contact person:
Zbigniew Kopertowski
The Consortium:
1.
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Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Lightcomm S.r.l., Italy
Institut Telecom, France
France Telecom S.A., France
Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi
Egyetem, Hungary
Netvisor Informatikai es Kommunikacios
Szolgaltato Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag,
Hungary
Magyar Telekom Tavkozlesi Nyilvanosan
Mukodo Reszvenytarsasag, Hungary
NEC Europe Ltd., United Kingdom
Information Technology, Warsaw University
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Poland
Netvisor Informatikai es Kommunikacios
Zartkoruen Mukodo Reszvenytarsasag,
Hungary
WUT has signed general agreements on cooperation not only with many
leading universities from all over the world, but also with some large corporations like Siemens, Fiat, Daewoo, who have funded scholarships and prizes,
and the University undertakes their approved research programmes.
Within NAPA-WINE, the teams from Faculty of Mathematics and
Information Science and from Faculty of Electronic and Information
Technology, Warsaw University of Technology participated in tasks of
WP3, WP5 and WP6. In particular they were responsible for the activity
on feedback and explicit signaling between the network and the P2P overlay
where it will exploit its expertise on content delivery networks. Furthermore
it will participate to experimental activities and to dissemination.
TP S.A. had a key role within WP5, that is coordinating all the experimental
activities. In addition it contributed to WP3 tasks collecting a wide set of
experimental data on its own nationwide operational IP network. TP also
intends to contribute with validating the practical applicability of methods
developed in the project and also with experiences of their usability in an
operational network environment.
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Project’s title:
Networking for Communications
Challenged Communities: Architecture,
Test Beds and Innovative Alliances
N4C addressed the problem of ‘Internet Access for All’ in regions that are
‘communications challenged’. N4C focused on highly challenging scenarios
with sparse populations in remote and topographically complex areas. The
solution investigated by N4C experiments extended the evolving Delay- and
Disruption-Tolerant Networking technology (DTN), combining it with
enhanced WiMAX wireless technology.
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New paradigms and experimental facilities
http://www.n4c.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2008
30-04-2011
5 011 684 €
3 650 000 €
Polish participant:
ITTI Sp. z o.o.
ul. Rubież 46
61-612 Poznań
Contact person:
Krzysztof Samp
Phone: +48 616 226 985
The Consortium:
1. Lulea Tekniska Universitet, Sweden
2. Albentia Systems, S.A., Spain
3. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
4. Intel Performance Learning Solutions Ltd.,
Ireland
5. The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the
Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen
Elisabeth Near Dublin, Ireland
6. Northern Research Institute Tromso AS,
Norway
8. Instituto Pedro Nunes, Associacao para
a Inovacao e Desenvolvimento em Ciencia
e Tecnologia, Portugal
As a FIRE project, the heart of N4C work were real-life tests in test beds
that provided truly challenging environments; the designs for these experiments and the hypotheses they were intended to test were investigated through
simulations and laboratory tests before deployment in the field. N4C test beds
were built in the Kocevje region of Slovenia and in Swedish Lapland.
Regular tests embedded in end-users’ everyday lives at these sites continued
throughout the project. In the last year of the project, WiMAX and the
combination of WiMAX and DTN were tested in a real life context in
Spain and at a technical test site in Ireland. To demonstrate the economic
relevance of the proposals, applications were developed to prototype level
or beyond, ranging from unique applications for DTN, to the extension
of generic services such as e-mail. The theme of animal tracking provided
engineering challenges and had major economic relevance for many remote
areas. ‘Nomadic-friendly’ hardware solutions were developed to support the
DTN infrastructure including a portable solar-powered ‘village router’ based
on an Intel Atom low power processor. Business models and exploitation
plans were developed. Open source software for several applications and the
infrastructure of DTN were described in public documents, together with
data analysis tools, installation packages, and integration and simulation
platforms for professional and end-user communities. The Slovenian was
offered to the FIRE test bed federation, as a complement to the large scale
facilities for the traditionally connected regions.
The EC target for i2010 aims to provide broadband and other ICT solutions
which will give access to advanced public services and richer content for
entertainment, training and work. A special problem affects areas where
technologies in common use are out of reach.
The N4C objective was to take a major step in supporting the extension of
Internet (or Internet-like) communication capabilities into regions that
were ‘communications challenged’. In places where it was not economically
viable, or for other reasons not practical or even appropriate to construct
infrastructure in order to provide the usual network service, the realization
of this ambition raised several problems. As a solution for this situation,
N4C focused on the DTN technology, combined with wireless technology
as physical layer. Research and development in the WiMAX area as well as
evaluation of off-the-shelf WiFi solutions was planned.
9. Meis Storitve za okolje d.o.o., Slovenia
10. Tannak AB, Sweden
11. Power Lake AB, Sweden
12. Folly Consulting Ltd., United Kingdom
By focusing on the practicalities of networking in the most challenged areas,
the goal was to produce advanced technology that could be used as a solution
in many developmental and operational problem areas worldwide, while
providing attractive technical alternatives for the achievement of important
European social goals.
Central for the N4C scope was to demonstrate user experience comparable
with what users had come to expect from a broadband connection. A set
of initial applications with specialized software and hardware were to be
developed and also tested by the project in real life tests. The applications to
be developed in N4C were mainly set before the project start, but space was
also given for developing applications as response to interaction with user
communities in the areas of the two N4C test beds.
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ITTI designed, developed, and implemented a simulation platform aiding in integration and testing of DTN software. The simulation platform
made it possible to test real as well as virtualized network nodes with actual
implementations of DTN networking software and service applications,
interoperating in simulated DTN networks of various scenarios.
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ITTI contributed to the review of the state of the art and related projects,
architecture and development of the system integration platform, testing
various software components, including DTN networking software and
applications, analysis of test results, workshops with the local communities
at the remote test bed sites, and business plans.
ITTI took part in most of the work packages of the project: project management, system architecture, pervasive applications (for the end user),
software for DTN and opportunistic networking, system integration, tests
and validation in two remote test beds, and dissemination.
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ONELAB2
Project’s title:
An Open Federated Laboratory
Supporting Network Research
for the Future Internet
An open and sustainable large-scale shared experimental facility allows
European industry and academia to innovate today and to design the future
Internet. The OneLab2 project leveraged the original OneLab project’s
PlanetLab Europe test bed and its international visibility to make this
facility a reality. PlanetLab Europe will continue to function beyond the
end of the project period, providing ongoing services to the research
community at large.
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http://www.onelab.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2008
31-01-2011
8 852 508 €
6 298 153 €
Information Technology, Warsaw
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
http://eng.pw.edu.pl
Contact person:
Marcin Pilarski
Assistant
ul. Twarda 18
00-105 Warszawa
http://www.orange.pl
The Consortium:
1. Universite Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6,
France
2. Alcatel Lucent France S.A., France
Experimentally driven research is the key to success in today’s Internet. Many
test beds support research and development, and product prototyping in
communication networks. However, they tend to specialize in particular
access technologies or services, or explore near term product offerings, often
with limited availability and openness. An open and sustainable large-scale
shared experimental facility allows European industry and academia to
innovate today and to design the Future Internet.
The OneLab2 project leveraged the original OneLab project’s PlanetLab
Europe test bed and its international visibility to make this facility a reality.
OneLab2 is built on three complementary pillars. The Platform Pillar
operated PlanetLab Europe, extending PlanetLab service across Europe,
and federating with other PlanetLab infrastructures worldwide. It integrated
new features into the system. The Tools Pillar enhanced the test-bed-native
network monitoring service that supports experiments. And the Customers
Pillar met the needs of the facility’s customers by providing them with
access to diverse facilities, achieved through federating different types of
test bed. An experimental facility must know its customers. OneLab2 has
done this by directly involving pilot customers who are testing novel ideas
in networking research. OneLab2’s coalition assembles some of the most
highly respected networking research teams from university and industry
labs in Europe. Each team had an active research agenda in new network
technologies, network monitoring, or test bed management. OneLab2’s
success would mean that PlanetLab Europe is established as a competitive
and federated facility with international visibility and a broad set of customers, implementing OneLab2’s vision and research contributions. PlanetLab
Europe continue to function beyond the end of the project period, providing
ongoing services to the research community at large.
Warsaw University of Technology – WUT
3. Alcatel-Lucent Italia S.p. A., Italy
4. British Telecommunications PLC,
United Kingdom
Orange Polska (Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.)
6. Centre for Research and Technology Hellas,
Greece
8. Ericsson GmbH, Germany
9. Ericsson Magyarorszag Kommunikacios
Rendszerek K.F.T., Hungary
Angewandten Forschung e.V., Germany
12. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
14. Institut National de Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique, France
Joining the project in its second phase (OneLab2), the teams from Warsaw
University of Technology were involved in WP7 Content and WP9 Benchmarking (as well as WP2 Operations and WP3 Dissemination).
In the project’s first phase (OneLab1) Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. was
responsible for a large-scale PlanetLab deployment in Poland, extending the
number of PlanetLab hosts in its core network to at least two new locales
and six nodes by the end of 2005. In the project’s second phase (OneLab2)
the Research & Development department of TP is participating in a project
to realize one of the tasks in WP9 Benchmarking and WP7 Content. This is
firstly a statistical analysis, then a design and prototype for new features in
the laboratory and implementation of content distribution applications.
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Key staff from Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.:
Marcin Pilarski – in 2003 has become PlanetLab Principal Investigator, the
first one from Central Europe. He collaborates with Research and Development Centre at Polish Telecom since 2004, and is in close collaboration with
PlanetLab management team since 2005 exploring PlanetLab network. He
plays an essential role in building of PlanetLab based (tpPLC) Content
Distribution Network testbed in French Telecom Group.
17. National ICT Australia Limited, Australia
18. Quantavis S.r.l., Italy
19. Tel Aviv University, Israel
20. Thales Communications & Security S.A.,
France
24. Universita di Pisa, Italy
25. Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
26. Faculty of Mathematics and Information
Information Technology, Warsaw University
28. Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem,
Hungary
29. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
30. National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan
31. Alcatel – Lucent Bell Labs France, France
32. Tsinghua University, China
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21. Technicolor, France
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OPNEX
Project’s title:
Optimization driven Multi-hop Network
Research and Experimentation
OPNEX delivers a first principle approach to the design of architectures
and protocols for multi-hop wireless networks. Systems and optimization
theory is used as the foundation for algorithms that achieve full transport
capacity of wireless systems. Subsequently a plan for converting the algorithms termed in abstract network models to protocols and architectures in
practical wireless systems is given. Finally a validation methodology through
experimental protocol evaluation in real network test-beds is proposed.
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2008
30-04-2011
2 213 200 €
1 430 000 €
Polish participant:
pl. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5
60-965 Poznań
Contact person:
PhD Andrzej Szwabe
Assistant professor
Phone: +48 61 665 39 58
The Consortium:
Greece
2. Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
OPNEX uses recent advances in system theoretic network control,
including the back-pressure principle, max-weight scheduling, utility
optimization congestion control and primal-dual method for extracting
network algorithms. These approaches exhibited already vast potential for
achieving maximum capacity and full exploitation of resources in abstract
network models and found their way to reality in high performance switching architectures and recent variants of TCP that embody the primal-dual
optimization principle.
Wireless, the fastest growing component of internet today, is also the least
understood for the designer due to mobility, rapidly changing topology,
radio link unpredictability and volatile load distribution among others.
Current approaches used in practice for multi-hop wireless, the basic communication infrastructure for sensor network extensions of the internet, are
mostly empirical and heuristic. Our system optimization approach provides
a rigorous integrated system design framework from physical up to network
and transport layer that renders itself to validation and comparison with
the theoretically optimal performance in terms of throughput, spectrum
and energy utilization. The adopted approach on decentralization, communication and computational complexity reduction as well as autonomous
operation leads to implementable algorithms and architectures to be validated
eventually in the proposed test-beds.
The scientific objectives of the OPNEX project leading to its work plan aim
at the following key challenges:
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5. THOMSON Research, France
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radically rethink the protocol stack by designing advanced systems optimization and control theory-driven algorithms for multi-hop wireless
networks;
deliver a concrete plan for converting the algorithms termed in abstract
models to protocols and architectures that extract the full transport
capacity in real dynamic multihop wireless environments while being
amenable to decentralized low-complexity and low-overhead implementation;
implement the theory-driven protocols and experimentally demonstrate performance improvement in realistic wireless testbeds over
currently used techniques. Two different platforms, an 802.11-based
and a sensor-based one will be used to assess the appropriateness of the
methods in different application domains.
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The group has developed two optimization-driven light-weight protocol
extensions. The proposed protocols have been experimentally evaluated in
the wnPUT testbed, as well as in the DES-Testbed environment of Freie
Universitat Berlin. The solutions were used to initiate the OPNEX protocol
standardization process within Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Two IETF Internet Drafts were submitted. They specify backpressure-based
traffic engineering extension for OLSR version 2 (OLSRv2) and multi-path
packet forwarding extension for OLSRv2, respectively. Both documents
were provided as the joint work of two OPNEX partners: Poznań University of Technology and INRIA. The draft specifying the multi-path
OLSR extension was created in collaboration with the research group
from Nantes University.
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One of the goals was to implement the optimization-driven protocols
enabling the effective operation of backpressure-based Max-Weight
Scheduling (MWS) systems for wireless multi-hop networks. The theoretical model of the Delay-Aware Network Utility Maximization (DANUM)
was the basis for the algorithm for indirect sender-side flow control based on
the system of virtual units, the algorithm for packet forwarding component
located above the 802.11 MAC layer, and the algorithm for distributed
indirect estimation and control of MAC queue levels.
The PUT group conducted the research on wireless resource allocation
techniques applicable to both file transfer and media streaming under realistically defined resource constraints. The effort was focused on the development of distributed delay-aware control algorithms for efficient operation
of a multi-service wireless multi-hop network.
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INSPIRE
Project’s title:
INcreasing Security and Protection
through Infrastructure REsilience
The INSPIRE project is a very timely and necessary activity in the European
and global context considering the current state of the world’s resources,
the global economic situation and the readiness of educated people to be
proactive in the effective use of resources with a responsible attitude toward
nature that was cultivated by decades of effort on the part of different
stakeholders. The project’s specificity is found in the multilevel and crossrelational interactions between the different countries and their experience
in educational systems, between researchers, teacher trainers, teachers and
students, between the teachers of different subjects, school teachers and
the staff of extracurricular educational venues, and also between the idea of
sustainable development and the possibilities of its realization in relation
to renewable energy and climate changes. Although, it is a relatively small
project on a global scale, its impact in the project countries and potentially
on the EU and elsewhere in the world could be much more impressive
because of the practical materials that are offered.
http://www.inspire-strep.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-11-2008
31-01-2011
3 697 402 €
2 400 000 €
Polish participant:
ITTI Sp. z o.o.
ul. Rubież 46
61-612 Poznań
Contact person:
Krzysztof Samp
Patner, Business Development Director
Phone: +48 616 226 985
The Consortium
Athens, Greece
The main objective of the INSPIRE project is to create synergies and
links between out-of-school places of learning and curricular learning,
thus improving the base of knowledge of European pupils on matters
related to education for sustainable development. In addition, it aims to
prepare a set of materials which may support teacher training on renewable
energy and climate issues, as well as test such materials with a view to a subsequent use in support of informal education. INSPIRE´s goals are therefore
very much in line with the objectives of the UN Decade of Education for
Sustainable Development. The project partnership in Germany, Latvia and
Poland will develop approaches, methods and materials which may be used
in other countries in Europe and beyond.
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ITTI was involved in WP2 entitled “Analysis and modeling of networked
process control system vulnerabilities” where current weaknesses, threats
and cascading effects of ICS/SCADA systems were analyzed. ITTI was
involved in analysis of interdependencies between SCADA systems and
communication and IT infrastructure, identification of vulnerabilities and
ontological approach to represent the experts knowledge.
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ITTI worked on INSPIRE Security Ontology formalizing knowledge
about threats to SCADA/ICS and IT systems. Moreover, ITTI developed INSPIRE Decision Aid Tool (DAT) – the application dedicated for
security operators allowing them for assessing current risks to networked
infrastructure, rank threats, suggest countermeasures and simulate future
network configuration changes.
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ITTI also worked on integrating DAT into the INSPIRE Offline Security
Framework where DAT cooperates with other tools, namely: Ontology
Handler and Vulnerability Collector. Moreover, ITTI led Work Package
4 entitled “Verification, validation and integration”. In the course of
WP4 ITTI worked on testbed specification and implementation and
was responsible for creating verification and validation plans. Then,
verification and validation procedures were performed in order to assess
INSPIRE techniques and solutions.
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ITTI was also responsible for integration activities. In the course of
WP4, ITTI edited 3 deliverables: Verification and validation report,
Integration Report and INSPIRE Prototype.
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ITTI also worked on trial and demonstration, specifically focusing on
Offline Security Framework and DAT demonstrations. In WP6 within
dissemination activities, ITTI published over 10 scientific papers and
attended numerous conferences and events.
3. Bar-Ilan University, Israel
4. Irish Research Council for Science,
Engineering and Technology, Ireland
6. Kite Solutions s.n.c. di Dunne Catherine
e. C., Italy
Germany
France
10. S21sec Information Security Labs S.L.,
Spain
11. CESS GmbH Centre for European Security
Strategies, Germany
12. Selex Sistemi Integrati S.p.A, Italy
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Information and communication
technologies: critical infrastructure
protection
Advanced coexistence technologies
for radio optimization in licensed
and unlicensed spectrum
ICT-2009.1.1
The project aims at strengthening European knowledge and leadership
in the focused area of cooperative communications with coexistence
specifically considering the intersection of cognitive radio, opportunistic
spectrum access, flexible radios, and self-organizing networks. The overall
Joint Programme of Activities (JPA) in ACROPOLIS not only accounts
technical issues, but also considers economical, regulatory and standardization related challenges and boundary conditions.
http://www.ict-acropolis.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2010
30-09-2013
4 133 470 €
3 000 000 €
The primary objective of ACROPOLIS is to research and develop optimization techniques for cooperative and cognitive wireless systems. The core
of the Joint Research Activities in this NoE is the use of concepts of these
two twin paradigms within the context of cognitive radio, opportunistic
spectrum access, flexible radios, and self-organizing networks to increase
efficiency of such future networks.
ul. Stabłowicka 147, 54-066 Wrocław
www.eitplus.pl
Contact person:
Phone: +48 510 132 209
Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ Sp. z o.o:
Wireless Communications, Poznań
60-965 Poznań
Contact person:
Prof. Hanna Bogucka
Phone: +48 61 665 39 11
The Consortium:
Germany
2. Universita Degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza, Italy
3. Institute of Accelerating Systems and
Applications, Greece
5. University of Piraeus Research Center, Greece
6. Wrocław Research Centre EIT+ Sp. z o.o., Poland
7. King’s College London, United Kingdom
9. Ss. Cyril And Methodius University in Skopje,
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Catalunya, Spain
11. JRC -Joint Research Centre- European
Commission, European Union
12. Wireless Communications, Poznań
University of Technology, Poland
13. University of Surrey, United Kingdom
14. EURECOM, France
16. EADS Deutschland GmbH, Germany
Wireless Communications, Poznań University of Technology
WCB EIT is engaged in a industry partnership programme as well as runs
ACROPOLIS web portal.
Wireless Communications, Poznań University of Technology
The research group from Poznań University of Technology is involved in
research Work Packages dealing with cognitive radio technical enablers,
fundamental research methods and tools, and metric identification, decision
making algorithms and solutions as well as in Work Packages whose goal was
research integration, dissemination of project results, education and training,
harmonization of activities and the project sustainability and impact.
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ARTIST4G
Project’s title:
Advanced Radio Interface
Technologies for 4G Systems
The non-uniformity of the quality of service within the network can be
tackled by following two different approaches. On the one hand, one can try
to change the network topology in order to harmonize the transmit power
distribution. However it would be naive to think that a perfect uniform
throughput distribution can be achieved given the intrinsic nature of propagation rules. On the other hand, one can try to minimize the main limiting
factor: interferences. Consequently, the major research topic of ARTIST4G
is interference management, which is further divided in two sub-topics:
https://ict-artist4g.eu
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Objective:
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
30-06-2012
14 395 224 €
8 676 703 €
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the first approach is to avoid interference at the receiver. This can be
interpreted as keeping a high level of orthogonality between multiple
transmissions, while improving spectral efficiency;
the second approach is to step back from the paradigm of fully avoiding
interference by designing purely orthogonal transmission schemes and,
instead, allow for soft-tuning between avoidance and allowance for
interference. The goal here is to exploit interference.
Polish participant:
(NSN Poland)
ul. Domaniewska 39a
02-672 Warszawa
http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
The main ARTIST4G objective is to improve the ubiquitous user experience of cellular mobile radio communications systems by satisfying the
following requirements:
Contact person:
Agnieszka Szufarska
Radio Research Manager
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high spectral efficiency and user data rate across the whole coverage area;
fairness between users;
low cost per information bit;
low latency a good key performance indicator for this objective is the
ratio of the cell-average over the cell-edge spectrum efficiency.
This ratio will be enhanced with respect to the following guideline:
The Consortium:
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improve significantly the cell-average spectrum efficiency over cell-edge
spectrum efficiency ratio;
maintain or improve the cell-average spectrum efficiency.
2. Vodafone Group Services Ltd.,
United Kingdom
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4. Telecom Italia S.p.A, Italy
5. Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co.
KG, Germany
6. Qualcomm CDMA Technologies GmbH,
Germany
Spain
11. EURECOM, France
12. Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe
B.V., The Netherlands
13. Sequans Communications S.A., France
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15. Nomor Research GmbH, Germany
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16. Nokia Siemens Networks Oy, Finland
17. Nokia Siemens Networks Sp. z o.o., Poland
Nokia Siemens Networks Sp. z o.o. (NSN Poland) was an active contributor
in the ARTIST4G project from its very beginning. As the basic responsibility,
NSN Poland took care of the development of the concept of carrier aggregation for relaying in LTE-Advanced systems. The activity involved end-to-end
concept creation and evaluation. For bigger part of the project duration, NSN
Poland had also the position of task leader for Radio Resource Management
in the Advanced Relay Concept Work Package. This responsibility involved
coordination of the work of other partners in the field.
Finally, NSN Poland also contributed to multiple side activities such as
defining requirements, coordinating simulator calibration or performance
evaluation. Overall, NSN Poland in the ARTIST4G project contributed
to seven public deliverables and three internal reports. Out of those, NSN
Poland held the editor role for three deliverables. The work done in the
ARTIST4G project also resulted in eight technical publications and multiple
public presentations with direct involvement of NSN Poland.
Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks
The project BeFEMTO targets both near-term and long-term solutions.
With its strong industry consortium, the BeFEMTO project aims to have
a real impact on the standardisation of the next generation Femtocell
technologies based on LTE-A in the near term. In the long-term, the project
focuses on novel concepts and usage scenarios such as self-organizing and
self-optimizing Femtocell Networks, Outdoor Relay Femtocells as well as
Mobile Femtocells.
ICT-2009.1.1
http://www.ict-befemto.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
30-06-2012
10 175 149 €
6 851 221 €
The aim of BeFEMTO is to develop evolved femtocell technologies based
on LTE-A that enable a cost-efficient provisioning of ubiquitous broadband
services and support novel usage scenarios like networked, relay and mobile
femtocells.
Polish participant:
02-222 Warszawa
http://www.t-mobile.pl/en/home/home
Contact person:
PhD Mirosław Brzozowy
Coordinator
Phone: +48 22 413 58 81
The Consortium:
1. Sagemcom SAS, France
Spain
6. Qualcomm Cdma Technologies GmbH,
Germany
7. Tti Norte, S.L., Spain
8. Mimoon GmbH, Germany
Catalunya, Spain
PTC is involved in WP2 (Use Cases, Requirements and System Architecture)
where the company participates in FemtoCell related uses cases identification as well as building the business models. Also PTC contributes to WP5
(Femtocells Access Control, Networking, Mobility) regarding Revenue
sharing mechanism and IP security topics.
Finally, the company is involved in WP7 (Standardization and Knowledge
Dissemination) supporting project standardization activities and cooperating
with Small Cells Forum.
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BUNGEE
Project’s title:
Beyond Next Generation
Mobile Broadband
An IMT-Advanced key requirement for next generation systems is the support
for unprecedentedly high throughputs per user. This implies an infrastructure
– composed of access and backhaul network – capable of supporting the
resulting high capacity densities. The current next-generation technologies LTE and WiMAX support a mere 100 Mbps/km² in ordinary cellular
deployment. This is insufficient, in particular in dense urban areas where the
market demand for wireless broadband access is the highest, thereby seriously
jeopardising the wide scale uptake of IMT-Advanced technologies.
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http://www.ict-bungee.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
30-06-2012
4 669 537 €
2 975 953 €
Polish participant:
02-222 Warszawa
http://www.t-mobile.pl/en/home/home
Contact person:
Coordinator
Phone: +48 22 413 58 81
The Consortium:
1. Alvarion Ltd., Israel
BuNGee’s goal is to dramatically improve the overall infrastructure
capacity density of the mobile network by an order of magnitude (10x) to
an ambitious goal of 1Gbps/km2 anywhere in the cell – thereby removing
the barrier to beyond next-generation networks deployment. To achieve this
objective, the project will target the following breakthroughs:
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unprecedented joint design of access and backhaul over licensed and
license exempt spectrum;
unconventional below-rooftop backbone solutions exploiting natural
radio isolations;
beyond next-generation networked and distributed MIMO & interference techniques;
protocol suite facilitating autonomous ultra-high capacity deployment.
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2. Arttic in Brussels SPRL, Belgium
High-Capacity 4G Mobile Network that is Cost-, Spectrum- and
Energy-Efficient;
Novel mobile Radio Network Architecture
Multi-beam antenna assisted MIMO;
Co-Operative Technologies at Base Station;
Dynamic Channel Modelling and Estimation;
Cognitive Radio and Network Technologies for Reduced Management
Complexity;
Innovative Usage of Licensed, Unlicensed and Unused Radio Spectrum;
System Live Test.
Catalunya, Spain
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4. Cobham Antenna Systems (Microwave
Antennas), United Kingdom
5. University of York, United Kingdom
France
7. Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
9. Siklu Communication Ltd., Israel
As PTC has a lot of information about users’ needs and potential problems
related to mobile communication, the company leads the WP1 (Requirements and BuNGee Architecture) and is also involved in all remaining
technical WPs.
Primarily, PTC delivers business, technical and user requirements and participates in evaluation of the project results. PTC participates also in the
live test assessment and contributes to dissemination, standardization and
exploitation activities.
C2POWER
Cognitive radio and Cooperative
strategies for POWER saving in
multi-standard wireless devices
The key C2POWER concept relies on the ability of mobile handsets to
use its multi-standard radio interfaces in a way that enforces higher
energy efficiency, and thus fosters longer handset’s battery lifetimes. The
C2POWER consortium gathers different entities both from academia and
industry to establish a sustainable team that is capable of designing flexible
Radio Front-ends and Baseband units as well as link-layer and system-layer
energy efficient methods for wireless networks, which are then integrated
in the demonstrators. The dissemination of C2POWER concepts is performed through various standardization bodies, such as ETSI RRS (European
Telecommunications Standards Institute Reconfigurable Radio Systems) or
IEEE P1900.6, industry consortia, such as SmallCellForum, GreenTouch,
and scientific publications at top international journals and conferences.
ICT-2009.1.1
http://www.ict-c2power.eu/ and
http://twitter.com/#!/C2POWER
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
5 159 714 €
3 450 888 €
Polish participant:
ul. Stabłowicka 147
54-066 Wrocław
www.eitplus.pl
Contact person:
Phone: +48 510 132 209
The Consortium:
1. Instituto De Telecomunicacoes, Portugal
4. Create-Net (Center for Research and
Telecommunication Experimentation for
5. Portugal Telecom Inovacao SA, Portugal
6. Sigint Solutions Ltd., Cyprus
Poland
8. Cassidian SAS, France
9. Veebeam Ltd., United Kingdom
10. Infineon Technologies AG, Germany
11. LANTIQ Deutschland GmbH, Germany
C2POWER’s main objective is to research, develop and demonstrate
energy saving technologies for multi-standard wireless mobile devices,
exploiting the combination of handovers in heterogeneous networks and
wireless short-range cooperative techniques, while still enabling the required
performance in terms of data rate and QoS (Quality-of-Service) to support
active applications. In technical terms these objectives map into investigation
on the ways to achieve energy efficiency through usage of ubiquitous context
information, design and demonstration of a wireless short-range cooperative relay scenario, design and demonstration of inter-RAT (Radio Access
Technology) handover mechanisms, and design and demonstration of reconfigurable multi-standard transceiver (Baseband and Radio Front-end).
WCB EIT is responsible for the two main contributions:
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design and evaluation of energy efficient handover algorithms and policies for heterogeneous wireless networks;
design and evaluation of short-range wireless cooperative techniques
which could be employed by multi-standard mobile devices to decrease
energy consumption of the cellular connectivity.
In addition, both of the contributions are inter-related through the common
system architecture which is partially designed and specified by WCB EIT.
All the activities of WCB EIT are supported by a continuous knowledge dissemination at scientific conferences, workshops and various presentations.
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FIVER
Project’s title:
Fully-Converged Quintuple-Play
Integrated Optical-Wireless
Access Architectures
FIVER project proposes and develops a novel integrated access network
architecture employing only OFDM signals for the provision of quintuple play services (Internet, phone/voice, HDTV, wireless – WiMAX,
UWB and LTE femtocell- and home security/control). FIVER architecture
is completely integrated: the optical access FTTH, the in-home optical
distribution network and the final radio link become part of the access
network. This permits a streamlined network architecture avoiding most of
the conversion stages and proving cost, space and energy savings. FIVER
is a fully OFDM based network. This permits cost effective, fully centralized network architecture where the transmission impairment (both optical
and radio) compensation and network management is done only at the
Central Office.
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http://www.ict-fiver.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
4 180 463 €
2 768 406 €
FIVER objective is to develop an integrated and streamlined network
architecture that enables a centralized network management strategy.
Polish participant:
54-066 Wrocław
www.eitplus.pl
Contact person:
Phone: +48 510 132 209
The Consortium:
2. Portugal Telecom Inovacao SA, Portugal
3. CORNING SAS, France
5. Thales Communications & Security SA,
France
6. Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft
Dresden, Germany
Poland
9. DAS Photonics S.L., Spain
WCB EIT develops impairment compensation algorithms for wide-band
RF signals transmission over fibers.
FLexible Architecture for Virtualizable
future wireless Internet Access
FLAVIA’s approach is based on three main pillars:
• lower the interface between hardware-dependent layers and upper layers;
• apply a hierarchical decomposition of the MAC/PHY layer functionalities, and
• open programmable interfaces at different abstraction levels.
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To prove the viability of this new architectural vision FLAVIA will build a prototype based on two wireless technologies currently available, 802.11 and
802.16, representing today’s two main radio resource allocation philosophies:
contention-based and scheduled. Moreover, FLAVIA will assess the applicability
of the proposed architecture concepts to the emerging 3GPP standards.
http://www.ict-flavia.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-07-2012
30-06-2013
6 088 414 €
3 933 886 €
FLAVIA’s concept will allow boosting innovation and reducing the cost of
network upgrades. Operators, manufacturers, network designers, emerging
third-party solution developers, and even spontaneous end users, will be able
to easily and rapidly optimize and upgrade the wireless network operation,
quickly prototype and test their new protocols, and adapt the wireless access
operation to emerging scenarios or service needs.
Polish participant:
Academic Computer Centre
CYFRONET AGH, AGH University
of Science and Technology
ul. Nawojki 11
30-950 Kraków
http://www.cyfronet.pl/en/
FLAVIA fosters a paradigm shift towards the Future Wireless Internet: from
pre-designed link services to programmable link processors. The key concept
is to expose flexible programmable interfaces enabling service customization and performance optimization through software-based exploitation
of low-level operations and control primitives, e.g., transmission timing,
frame customization and processing, spectrum and channel management,
power control, etc.
Contact person:
PhD Marian Bubak
Phone: +48 12 617 39 64
The Consortium:
1. Consorzio Interuniversitario per le
2. Alvarion Ltd., Israel
3. Nec Europe Ltd., Germany
4. Telefonica Investigacion & Desarollo, Spain
5. Mobimesh, Italy
6. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
7. Institute for Information Transmission
Problems of the Russian Academy of
Science, Russia
8. Fundacion IMDEA Networks, Spain
9. Hamilton Institute of the National
University of Ireland, Ireland
10. Sequans Communication S.A., France
11. Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET
AGH, AGH University of Science and
Technology, Poland
Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH (Akademickie Centrum
Komputerowe CYFRONET AGH – ACC CYFRONET AGH) is a separate
legal entity of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow.
CYFRONET is one of the biggest Polish supercomputing and networking
centers, is a real centre of competence and is a leading unit in the development
of the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) of the city & region of Cracow.
The research unit of the Centre, together with the Institute of Computer
Science AGH, devotes its efforts to scalable distributed systems, cross-domain
computations in loosely coupled environments, knowledge management
and support for life sciences. The team took part in a series of successful
scientific projects, including CrossGrid (interactive middleware for scientific
computations on Grid; coordination of the project), K-WfGrid (ontological modeling of scientific or crisis team workflows, semantic composition,
monitoring and execution of workflows) and int.eu.grid (adaptation of
infrastructure to e-Science applications).
Currently the team is involved in ViroLab (providing a modern virtual
laboratory for HIV-related research and treatment in Europe) and GREDIA
(secure while easy to adopt collaborative scenario enactment environment for
business: media and banking). CYFRONET has successfully participated in
the CoreGRID Network of Excellence project in the Work Package devoted
to tools and environments. Since April 2004 CYFRONET participates in
a series of EGEE projects (I, II and III). It is responsible for operations in
Central Europe region including SLA enforcement and coordination of
resource allocation activity in the project.
CYFRONET was the driving force behind the establishment the Cracow
Centre for Telemedicine and Preventive Medicine which organizes many
conferences, notably the annual CGW Cracow Grid Workshop.
CYFRONET is also the leader of Polish PL-Grid project (NGI), whose
members are: ICM-UW (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computational Modelling Warsaw University), PSNC (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking
Centre), WNSC (Wrocław Networking and Supercomputing Centre) and
CI TASK (Gdańsk Academic Computer Centre) – acting as a third party
(not claiming funds).
ACC CYFRONET was a partner in the project FLAVIA.
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GEYSERS
Project’s title:
Generalised architEcture for
dYnamic infraStructure sERviceS
GEYSERS’s vision is to qualify optical infrastructure providers and
network operators with a new architecture, to enhance their traditional
business operations. Optical network infrastructure providers will compose
logical infrastructures and rent them out to network operators; network
operators will run cost-efficient, dynamic and mission-specific networks
by means of integrated control and management techniques. GEYSERS’s
concept is that high-end IT resources at users’ premises are fully integrated
with the network services procedures, both at the infrastructure-planning
and connection-provisioning phases. Following this vision, GEYSERS will
specify and implement a novel optical-network architecture able to support ‘Optical Network + Any-IT’ resource provisioning seamlessly and
efficiently. Energy-consumption metrics for the end-to-end service routing
are part of this efficiency.
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
10 429 526 €
7 035 000 €
GEYSERS proposes to:
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ul. Twarda 18
00-105 Warszawa
Contact person:
Monika Antoniak-Lewandowska
Laboratory manager
Adva Optical Networking Sp. z o.o.
ul. Śląska 35/37
81-310 Gdynia
http://www.advaoptical.com
Contact person:
Maciej Maciejewski
Senior Manager
Phone: +48 697 711 942
Poznań Supercomputing and
Networking Center, Institute of
Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish
Academy of Sciences
ul. Zygmunta Noskowskiego 12/14
61-704 Poznań
http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/pl/
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specify and develop mechanisms that allow infrastructure providers
to partition their resources (optical network and/or IT), compose
specific logical infrastructures and offer them as a service to network
operators. This will be done overcoming the current limitations of networks/domain segmentation, and will support dynamic and on-demand
changes in the logical infrastructures;
specify and develop a Network Control Plane for the optical infrastructure, by extending standard solutions (ASON/GMPLS and PCE),
able to couple optical network connectivity and IT services automatically
and efficiently, and provide them in 1 step, dynamically and on-demand,
including infrastructure re-planning mechanisms.
ADVA Optical Networking is a global provider of intelligent telecommunications infrastructure solutions. With software-automated Optical+Ethernet
transmission technology, the Company builds the foundation for high-speed,
next-generation networks. The Company’s FSP product family adds scalability and intelligence to customers’ networks while removing complexity
and cost. With a flexible and fast-moving organization, ADVA Optical
Networking forges close partnerships with its customers to meet the growing demand for data, storage, voice and video services. Thanks to reliable
performance for more than 15 years, the Company has become a trusted
partner for more than 250 carriers and 10 000 enterprises across the globe.
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), affiliated to
the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
was founded in 1993 to build and develop computer infrastructure for
science and education in Poznań and in Poland. This infrastructure includes
metropolitan network POZMAN, High Performance Computing (HPC)
Center, as well as a national broadband network PIONIER, providing the
Internet and network services on international, domestic and local levels.
With the development of the computer infrastructure, PSNC has been
managing research and development within the field of the new generation of computer networks, high performance – parallel and distributed
– computations and archive systems, cloud computing, grid technologies,
in particular, projects, products & tools for grid resources management.
A huge part of this research work is to meet the needs of highly specialized
systems for e-Science, such as modern services platforms.
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The Consortium:
1. Interoute S.p.A., Italy
2. Martel GmbH, Switzerland
3. ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany
PSNC is working also on the themes of green ICT, Future Internet technologies & ideas, network safety, innovative applications, web portals, as well
as creating, storing and managing digital content. Since PSNC is a public
entity, the development of solutions for e-Government, education, medicine,
new media & communications is within its scope of interests.
8. Poznań Supercomputing and Networking
Center, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
9. Nextworks, Italy
11. Fundacio Privada i2CAT, Internet
i Innovacio Digital a Catalunya, Spain
12. Universiteit van Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
14. Research and Education Laboratory in
Information Technologies, Greece
Germany
Technology, Belgium
17. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
India
TP S.A. contributes to GEYSERS in 4 WPs. As a large telecommuniaction
company TP was working on business cases and the insights of future business
models from a point of view of a telecom operator as well as technological
solutions.
ADVA’s involvement in GEYSERS concentrates on the specification and
development of the GMPLS Control Plane and the components of the Path
Computation Engine (PCE) architecture. In the early phase of the project
ADVA supported definition, analysis and documentation of requirements.
Within the architecture definition area the company focused on GEYSERS
multi-region and backward compatibility with existing GMPLS-based
control plane. An important area ADVA is participating is the specification
of GEYSER interfaces and network reference points. In the main area of
interest, from the implementation perspective, remain:
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•
18. Lyatiss SAS, France
19. ADVA Optical Networking Sp. z o.o.,
Poland
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standard-based model for backward compatibility of GMPLS+ and
GMPLS;
incorporation and verification of energy efficiency extensions on an
industrial class solution;
verification of interworking between various network resource virtualization techniques.
Additionally, the company was playing an important role in integration,
as it was responsible for collecting all implementation related documents
(release notes). ADVA contributed with wavelength switching equipment,
providing network infrastructure based on FSP3000 platform to Poznań
Supercomputing and Networking Center for GEYSERS testbed purposes.
With the long story in DWDM, configuration and maintenance support
for delivered equipment is provided. Rich experience of ADVA’s engineers in
building NBI interfaces was used to support physical infrastructure adapters
(SNMP and MTOSI based) development activities. Upon the completion
of implementation and integration phase the company takes part in test
planning and execution as well as demonstration.
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center contributed to the
GEYSERS project with a part of pan-European optical network testbed as a background hardware platform for the WP5 activity. PSNC
will also contribute to the overall architecture and interfaces definition
(WP2), design and implementation of prototypes (WP3 and WP4), and
finally, to the project demonstration and dissemination activities (WP5
and WP6, accordingly). PSNC coordinates WP5 “Integration, Validation
and Demonstration”.
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PSNC has a broad policy of cooperation with the scientific community,
a community of young knowledge based companies, as well as partnership
with other branches of business. It is also an important R&D center, representing the Polish science in many associations and organizations, that are
well-known around the world, participating and co-organizing international
meetings and conferences in the field of ICT.
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5. Alcatel-Lucent Italia S.p.A., Italy
4. SAP AG, Germany
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COGEU
Project’s title:
COGnitive radio systems for
efficient sharing of TV white
spaces in EUropean context
The COGEU project is a mixture of technical, business, and regulatory/
policy domains, with the objective of taking advantage of the TV digital
switch-over (or analog switch-off) by developing cognitive radio systems
that leverage the favorable propagation characteristics of the TVWS through
the introduction and promotion of real-time secondary spectrum trading and
the creation of new spectrum commons regime. COGEU will also define
new methodologies for TVWS equipment certification and compliance
addressing coexistence with the DVB-T/H European standard.
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http://www.ict-cogeu.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
At the technical level the main goals of the COGEU project were to:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
5 113 696 €
3 383 365 €
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•
Polish participant:
design, implement and demonstrate enabling technologies based on
cognitive radio to support mobile applications over TVWS for spectrum
sharing business models;
quantify the impact of TVWS devices on DVB-T receivers and define
methodologies for TVWS equipment certifications and compliance in
the European regulatory context.
Wireless Communications research
group, Poznań University of Technology
60-965 Poznań
At the business models level the main goal was to:
Contact person:
Prof. Hanna Bogucka
At the regulatory/policy level the main goals were to:
The Consortium:
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•
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investigate business models enabling innovative wireless services which
increase the spectrum of utilization through the exploitation of TVWS
based on the spectrum of commons and secondary market regimes.
define the spectrum of policies and etiquette rules to promote fairness and
avoid the tragedy of the commons in case of unlicensed spectrum usage,
and monopolization in case of the secondary spectrum market usage;
analyze the dynamics of bandwidth sharing and pricing in a spectrum
market environment of TVWS under QoS and regulatory constraints.
2. The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars,
and the other Members of the Board, of the
College of the Holy und Undivided Trinity
of Queen Elizabeth, Ireland
France
4. Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co.
Kommanditgesellschaft, Germany
5. Portugal Telecom Inovacao S.A., Portugal
6. Sigint Solutions Ltd., Cyprus
7. Wireless Communications research group,
Poznań University of Technology, Poland
8. University of the Aegean-Research Unit,
Greece
9. Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik GmbH,
Germany
The Wireless Communications research group at Poznań University of Technology has been involved in research Work Packages dealing with European
TV’s white spaces use-cases, economics and regulation, TV white spaces
radio transceiver design, dynamic radio resource management and protocols,
demonstration and evaluation as well as in Work Package whose goal was to
disseminate the project results.
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ONE
Project’s title:
Towards Automated Interactions
between the Internet and the
Carrier-Grade Management Ecosystems
ONE is a Collaborative Project – STREP, founded by the European Commission from the call for applicants FP7-ICT-2009-5.
http://www.ict-one.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2010
31-08-2013
3 847 018 €
2 229 125 €
Polish participant:
ADVA Optical Networking Sp. z o.o.
ul. Śląska 35/37
81-310 Gdynia
http://www.advaoptical.com/
Contact person:
Maciej Maciejewski
Senior Manager
Phone: +48 697 711 942
ONE project has successfully demonstrated automated multi-layer service
provisioning and restoration in a network in northern Germany operated
by Telefonica. The demonstration makes the way to significant opex and
capex savings via close interworking between IP/MPLS and optical layers,
say project participants.
Germany
The project ONE addresses three important trends in networking: programmability, semantic adaptation and orchestration. ONE’s main goal is
to contribute to these trends, especially in the context of integration of
high-speed optical transmission and switching with the Future Internet.
ONE is an architecture, system and tool at the same time. ONE unique
focus on network management systems (NMS).
Spain
4. Seoul National University, Republic of
Korea
The Consortium:
5. ADVA Optical Networking Sp. z o.o.,
Poland
ADVA Optical Networking provides vendor specific knowledge into the
project. The company is involved in all activities and work packages in the
ONE project. Contributions involve input towards all project work packages
and deliverables, as well as co-writing of publications and undergoing patent
contributions.
Our main focus lies in the architecture of project solution. As such ADVA
Optical Networking is the leader of the ONE adapter architecture deliverable
D2.2 – Architectural design of the management adapter.
We are actively involved in dissemination of the ONE project across telecommunication environment. ONE project has been presented by ADVA
at: Future Network Mobile Summit 2011, and IEEE/IFIP Network
Operations and Management Symposium NOMS 2012. Additionally
the company provided optical ROADM equipment that enables testing
of project developed solutions.
Due to the existence of human-in-the-control-loop, this combination will
likely complement efforts for full automation of network management,
just like an autopilot compliments (and does not replace) a live presence
of a pilot. To enhance dynamic provisioning, configuration, fault detection
and response in complex multi-service networks, a combination of manual
workflow programmability (as defined by humans) and automation of many
common functions is critical. Both manual programmability and automation
can be combined with sophisticated analytics, so that many elements in the
network and human organizational procedures, together with resources and
traffic behaviors, can be continually monitored, analyzed and effectively
executed. Any types of special conditions can be detected and responses can
be provided depending on requirements, and (human) business processes.
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ONE envisions network management of the future to be a combination
of Manual Programmability, Smart Analytics and Autonomic Network
Management.
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ONEFIT
Project’s title:
Opportunistic networks and
Cognitive Management Systems
for Efficient Application Provision
in the Future InterneT
OneFIT project develops and validates the vision of opportunistic networks
that are managed, and coordinated with the infrastructure, by advanced
cognitive systems. Validation will show enhanced wireless service provision
and extended access capabilities for the Future Internet, through higher
resource utilization, lower costs, and management decisions with a larger
“green” footprint. OneFIT leads to better services for the user and creates
market opportunities for manufacturers, operators and service providers. OneFIT efficiently addresses several technical challenges, and evolves,
bundles and exploits different types of approaches, ranging from dynamic
spectrum management and infrastructureless networks to social networks.
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http://www.ict-onefit.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-07-2010
30-12-2012
6 767 830 €
3 965 365 €
The main objective of the project is to design, develop and validate the
concept of applying opportunistic networks and respective cognitive
management systems for efficient application/service/content provisioning in the Future Internet. In order to achieve this main objective, the
project conducts work addressing the various technical challenges.
Polish participant:
54-066 Wrocław
http://www.eitplus.pl/
Contact person:
Phone: +48 510 132 209
The Consortium:
1. University of Piraeus Research Center,
Greece
Spain
France
6. Nec Technologies (UK) Ltd.,
United Kingdom
Poland
12. Bundesnetzagentur fuer Elektrizitaet,
Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und
Eisenbahnen, Germany
13. Intel Mobile Communications GmbH,
Germany
The WCB EIT team is focused in OneFIT on the development of Control Channels for the Cooperation of the Cognitive Management Systems
(C4MS), based on the integrated and evolved concepts of Cognitive Pilot
Channel (CPC) and Cognitive Control Radio (CCR). C4MS is intended
to be utilized for exchanging information and knowledge between cognitive
management systems for the purpose of Opportunistic Network creation and
management. Additionally, WCB EIT is involved in the process of defining
scenarios, use cases, requirements and technical challenges (to be addressed by
the OneFIT system) as well as in the development of functional and system
architecture. WCB EIT is also a Work Package leader of the C4MS related
Work Package (titled: “Control channels for the cooperation of the cognitive
management systems”) and is actively involved in the OneFIT standardization activities, pushing C4MS related concepts towards standardization
within ETSI Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS).
Sharing Physical Resources
– Mechanisms and Implementations
for Wireless Networks
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In current wireless communications, radio spectrum and infrastructure are
typically used such that interference is avoided by exclusive allocation of
frequency bands and employment of base stations. SAPHYRE will demonstrate how equal-priority resource sharing in wireless networks improves
spectral efficiency, enhances coverage, increases user satisfaction, leads
to increased revenue for operators, and decreases capital and operating
expenditures.
http://www.saphyre.eu/
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SAPHYRE analyses and develops new self-organizing physical layer
resource (spectrum, spatial coexistence) sharing models by a generalized
cross-layer and cross-disciplinary approach;
•
SAPHYRE proposes and analyses efficient co-ordination mechanisms
which require only small intervention (to counteract selfish, malicious
users). In particular in sharing scenarios, incentive based design is
applied in order to reduce regulatory complexity;
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SAPHYRE develops a framework for infrastructure sharing to support
quality of service with sufficiently wide carrier bandwidths and competition between different operators.
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
5 299 200 €
3 850 000 €
Polish participant:
54-066 Wrocław
www.eitplus.pl
Contact person:
Phone: +48 510 132 209
The Consortium:
3. Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche, Italy
Czech Republic
5. Eurecom, France
7. Linkopings Universitet, Sweden
8. Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy
10. Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena,
Germany
Poland
12. Alcatel-Lucent Telecom Ltd.,
United Kingdom
WCB EIT focuses on system-level simulations as well as novel business
models for spectrum sharing.
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HOLA!
Project’s title:
Initiative to enHance cOLlaboration and
promote Advancement of future ICT
services in Europe
Nowadays global markets and complexity of ICT, collaboration has gained
a critical importance towards creating competitive advantages in the R&D
and industrial arenas. Within this context, important efforts have been carried
out within FP to support collaboration amongst the different stakeholders
involved in R&D at European level.
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virtualisation
http://www.holaportal.eu/
31-10-2012
Project’s budget:
577 773 €
EC funding:
441 000 €
Polish participant:
MOST Foundation
ul. Siewierska 15 Nr Lok. 5
02-360 Warszawa
http://www.most-program.org/
The SSAI Constituency (Software Services – Engineering, Architectures,
Infrastructures) has been particularly active, implementing what has been
called concentration mechanisms. However, the way these initiatives are
being implemented is being surpassed by the increasing importance of collaboration towards the future and of the complexity of technical issues
related to future services. It becomes a pressing need to revise collaboration
mechanisms within the SSAI Constituency overcoming critical limitations of
existing ones. Furthermore, with the current financial model sustainability of
these instruments is not guaranteed, nor in terms of continuation of efforts
towards excellence of collaboration.
HOLA! aims at supporting the research community and the European
Commission in the creation of a critical mass of stakeholders belonging to
the Internet of Services constituency (IoS) working together in building
concepts for services in the Future Internet. This aim will be achieved by
successfully fulfilling the following 4 objectives:
Contact person:
Marta Gerszberg-Grudzińska
Project Information Officer
Phone: +48 886 117 866
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The Consortium:
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1. Stiftelsen SINTEF, Norway
3. Research, Technology Development and
Innovation, S.L., Spain
5. MOST Foundation, Poland
Systems, Greece
7. Hewlett Packard Italiana S.r.l., Italy
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during the project duration, HOLA! will be responsible for the organization of the collaboration workshops being held annually by the EC since
FP6 within the IoS area;
HOLA! will be responsible of the maintenance of the ECSS website.
Furthermore, HOLA! intends to enhance it during the project towards
the “HOLA! Portal”;
HOLA! will develop a structured Digital Library to host the consolidated
work (public deliverables) of the European Research Projects within the
IoS area, aiming at increasing their impact in and outside the Constituency, facilitating technology transfer action;
HOLA! will launch a viable business model to allow for sustainability of
activities and project results. HOLA! Partners have already been working
on the design of this model in order to guarantee the achievement of
this objective.
The MOST Foundation (Mobile and Open Society through wireless
Technology), has been officially initiated during the CeBIT’2001 Exhibition
in Hanover by Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa S.A. (the operator of the T-Mobile
network in Poland), T-Mobile, and Warsaw University of Technology. The
concept of MOST has been prompted by the pressing need for generating
interdisciplinary thinking and acting synergy between research scholars,
practicing industry executives, content providers, and decision makers who
share a strong interest in the topic of Information Society, Mobile Economy,
and Higher Education Models based on interactions within and between
humans and information systems.
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MOST is the leader of WP1: Collaboration Workshops. The global objective of this WP is to facilitate, via collaboration meetings, the creation of
synergies between projects, mutual awareness of each others priorities and
plans, discuss common issues and foster plans for interaction with other
initiatives. It is also about creating a vivid forum for discussing IoS-related
policies, sharing experience and ideas in a structured creative process leading
to measurable outputs in form of policy improvement proposals as well as
recommendations targeted at research community. This goal is achieved by
organization of annual Collaboration Workshops, where participants will
actively discuss together. At the preparation stage, goals and objectives of the
event are well-defined and topics and key-speakers are selected. A tailor-suited
workshop methodology is built on proven workshop methodologies, such
as DeBono Thinking Hats, lateral thinking, BASIS, assisting means such as
color post-it cards, monopoly money as virtual credit points, etc.
MOST has experience in organizing interactive and creativity stimulating
workshops, which has already been proven under FP projects. Important
efforts is carried out for the identification, compilation and proper dissemination of outcomes after each workshop, also working at keeping discussions
alive and facilitating activities from one workshop to the next one. Collaboration Workshops results are well documented, collected, reviewed and
published in wrap-up reports, published at HOLA! Portal. Apart from the
organization of the Collaboration Workshops, MOST is also involved in
WP2: Hola! Portal, WP4: Sustainability, Exploitation and Dissemination
and WP5: Management.
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MOST has organized (and co-organized) many national and international
events, incl. international conferences, seminars, MOST Think Tank summits,
and dozen of interactive workshops. MOST runs the Secretariat for Polish
eMobility Platform and takes an active role in the European eMobility
Technology Platform. Apart from that MOST published several books and
many articles in newspapers, participated in TV and radio broadcasts maintaining permanent contacts with local professional ICT press and other media.
MOST Foundation operates in liaison with BRAMA, a mobile technology
laboratory and technology incubator at Warsaw University of Technology.
The objectives of the MOST Foundation include the construction of an
efficient mechanism for the flow of thought and know-how, exchange of
experience and personnel between universities and suppliers of telecommunication services, as well as the widely understood content providers. It also seeks
to find solutions to concrete problems through projects of a technical and
business character and undertakings of educational character or sociological
research. MOST is very active on the European and national research scene
by participating and fostering initiation of research project within FP and
Polish national research programmes. It has coordinated the SSA ALIPRO
within FP6 and participated in other EU projects (EASIER, 3S).
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REMICS
Project’s title:
REuse and Migration of legacy
applications to Interoperable
Cloud Services
The REMICS project will provide tools for modeldriven migration
and will be actively involved in the standardization process of the
underlying standards PIM4Cloud, PIM4ServiceInteroperability and
PIM4Models@Runtime that will extend OMG SoaML and business
models extensions for Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM).
In order to instrument the migration process the REMICS project will integrate a large set of metamodels and will propose several dedicated extensions.
For the architecture recovery, REMICS will extend the KDM metamodel.
On Platform Independent Model level, the components and services are
defined using SoaML (SOA Modelling Language). The REMICS project
will extend this language to address the specific architectural patterns and
model driven methods for architecture migration, and to cover specificities
of service clouds development paradigm. In particular, the PIM4 Cloud
Computing, model driven Service Interoperability and Models@Runtime
extensions are intended to support the REMICS methodology for service
cloud architecture modelling. Furthermore, REMICS will investigate existing test notations such as the UML2 test profile (UTP) for their application
to the SOA and Cloud Computing domain and refine and extend them. The
REMICS project will focus on Open source Metamodels and Models with
an emphasis on Open Models for standards based on Open Interfaces.
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Internet of services, software
and virtualisation
http://www.remics.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2010
31-08-2013
5 676 092 €
4 371 981 €
Polish participant:
Software Modeling Group,
Warsaw University of Technology
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
http://www.pw.edu.pl
Contact person:
Prof. Michał Śmiałek
Phone: +48 22 234 73 70
The goal of REMICS is to develop advanced model-driven methodology
and tools for REuse and Migration of legacy applications to Interoperable
Cloud Services. Service Cloud paradigm stands for combination of cloud
computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for development of
Software as a Service (SaaS) systems. In short, the project aims at constructing
an environment that would enable “recycling” of old software and give it new
life through refactoring its architecture and moving it into the cloud.
The Consortium:
1. Stiftelsen Sintef, Norway
2. Softeam, France
4. Fundacion European Software Institute,
Spain
5. Netfective Technology S.A., France
6. Di Systemer A.S., Norway
7. Dome Consulting & Solutions, SL, Spain
8. Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation,
Spain
9. Software Modeling Group,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
10. Tartu Ulikool, Estonia
11. Institute of Information and
Communication Technologies, Bulgaria
Warsaw University of Technology is represented in the project by the SMoG
(Software Modeling Group) team. Its role is to define and implement
a requirement-based framework for the recovery and migration of legacy
applications. The first aim is to recover the legacy application logic and
represent it through comprehensible constrained language scenarios and
domain vocabulary. What is important, this is done independently of the
legacy system internals and is based on examining its observable behaviour
(the UI). The second aim is to transform these scenarios and vocabulary into
SoaML architectural models and even into partial dynamic code.
This whole recovery-and-migration path is currently implemented by
developing a special-purpose TALE (Tool for Application Logic Extraction)
recovery environment and developing model-driven transformations within
the ReDSeeDS tooling framework. The path will also be extended with
a module to generate test scripts to verify meeting the recovered application
functionality by the new system. Prior to this, the WUT team has specified the
AL (Application Logic) extension of KDM (see the project main description)
that supplies meta-modelling facilities for the above tools. The presented tools
will be validated through performing a significant case study. This will involve
migrating a legacy banking system and moving it into a private cloud. The
case study requirements were already specified in cooperation with a major
Polish software consultants and providers: Infovide-Matrix.
The WUT solution will be integrated into a common IDE with the tools
prepared by other project partners. This will be done at the level of the
SoaML models. The application logic recovered through TALE will be able
to be joined by the domain logic recovered by directly processing the legacy
source code. The final solution should significantly facilitate the evolution
of legacy (often discontinued) software and support companies wishing to
“move into the cloud”.
DEcentralized, cooperative, and
privacy-preserving MONitoring
for trustworthinesS
As an Integrating Project strategy, DEMONS aims at addressing all the
key aspects that are essential in monitoring approaches for the Future
Internet. DEMONS’ ultimate goal is to:
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Trustworthy ICT
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http://www.fp7-demons.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
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01-09-2010
28-02-2013
8 294 291 €
5 346 821 €
Polish participant:
ul. Twarda 18
00-105 Warszawa
Contact person:
Robert Filasiak
Project Manager
Email: robert.fi[email protected]
Phone: +48 508 163 338
The Consortium:
design a more scalable, flexible and autonomic monitoring infrastructure;
exploit monitoring intelligence distributed inside programmable
traffic probes and mediating devices;
improve monitoring applications’ performance, capability effectiveness
(detection, reporting, and mitigation) and deployment easiness;
operating in compliance with the customers’ privacy rights, and
taking advantage of cross-domain cooperation mechanisms to permit
improved defence against global scale cooperative threats and operational
failures.
DEMONS envisions building a novel cooperative network monitoring
and mitigation system based on a completely decentralized, application-aware, privacy-preserving, multi-jurisdictional monitoring infrastructure. Such an infrastructure will provide the detection, reporting and
mitigation mechanisms needed to combat not only today’s threats, but also
those of tomorrow. DEMONS aims to realize this infrastructure by applying
novel distributed systems technologies and leveraging their native scalability
and fault tolerance characteristics. In doing this, DEMONS will put special
emphasis on privacy, trust, and legal issues arising from collecting and
exporting data across operator domains and across multiple jurisdictions. These issues have previously prevented other security solutions from
being widely deployed and have therefore rendered them ineffective.
Spain
6. FTW Forschungszentrum
Telekommunikation Wien GmbH, Austria
9. Institut Telecom, France
11. Invea-Tech A.S., Czech Republic
12. Singularlogic Anonymos Etairia
Pliroforiakon Systimaton & Efarmogon
Pliroforikis, Greece
Systems, Greece
14. Optenet S.A., Spain
15. Kyos Sarl, Switzerland
Orange Labs Poland, as the part of TP S.A., participates in following Work
Packages:
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WP1: Scenarios, Requirements and Architecture;
WP3: Measurement Layer Principles and Components;
WP5: Application Layer Components;
WP7: Assessment and Trials;
WP8: Dissemination.
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OCEAN
Project’s title:
Open ContEnt Aware Networks
OCEAN will design a new open content delivery framework that optimizes
the overall quality of experience to end-users by caching content closer to
the user than traditional CDNs do and by deploying network-controlled,
scalable and adaptive content delivery techniques.
ICT-2009.1.5
Networked media and 3D Internet
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2010
31-01-2013
4 810 044 €
3 131 619 €
Polish participant:
ul. Twarda 18
00-105 Warszawa
Contact person:
Marcin Pilarski
Strategic Projects Expert
The OCEAN architecture will clearly define light-weight signaling protocols
and public interfaces between its major building blocks in order to foster
multi-vendor solutions and contribute to cut down content delivery cost.
OCEAN will elaborate business strategies providing better investment incentives to the different types of players in the value chain (content providers,
Internet service providers, CDN service providers and industrials).
Moreover, OCEAN will build innovative self-learning caching algorithms that
meet the specifics of the highly unpredictable location and time-dependent
consumption patterns and dynamically adapt to the rising popularity of
future delivery services. New media-aware congestion control mechanisms
based on slight, but controlled quality degradation will provide a better
alternative than mere blocking of user requests. The validity and performance
of these algorithms and mechanisms will be assessed through simulations,
large-scale emulations and a trial in a real ISP network.
OCEAN aims to find solutions to the imminent problem of multimedia
content traffic clogging up the future aggregation networks, when the
offering of online video of high quality over the Open Internet continues
to increase.
The Consortium:
2. Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV, Belgium
Technology, Belgium
4. Institut de l’Audiovisuel et des
Telecommunications en Europe – IDATE,
France
In the project, Orange Labs Poland has a key role in WP6 (coordinating all
the field tests activities). Orange Polska intends to contribute to validating the
practical applicability of the concepts and methods developed in the project.
5. N2NSoft, France
6. Universite de Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines., France
9. Union Europeenne de Radio TelevisionEBU, Switzerland
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NOVI
Project’s title:
Networking innovations Over
Virtualized Infrastructures
NOVI aims at providing algorithms and tools to end-users and FI service
providers for the establishment and management of federated virtualized
infrastructures.
http://www.fp7-novi.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2010
28-02-2013
3 264 400 €
2 363 999 €
Polish participant:
Networking Center affiliated to the
Bioorganic Chemistry of Polish
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
http://www.man.poznan.pl
Contact person:
Artur Binczewski
Head of Network Department
Research prototypes will be developed in NOVIs early phases. Validations
of an integrated prototype will follow in the experimentation phase over
existing FIRE facilities, notably PlanetLab/OneLab – Federica, and European
National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) – GEANT.
NOVI concentrates on methods, algorithms and information systems
that will enable users to compose and manage isolated slices, baskets of
virtual resources and services provided by diverse yet federated Future
Internet (FI) platforms.
Key objectives of the NOVI project are:
• to formally describe virtualized network and cloud computing objects
in a complex environment, assisted by semantic methods and ontologies;
• to enable interoperable operations of virtualization mechanisms
across federated heterogeneous platforms;
• to allocate virtual resources with QoS attributes and set up federated monitoring systems to allow for accountable, predictable Future Internet services;
• to enrich the FIRE facility with federated models and methods enabling
comprehensive and reproducible experiments.
The Consortium:
1. National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
France
4. Consortium GARR, Italy
The Netherlands
6. Fundacio Privada I2CAT, Internet
i Innovacio Digital a Catalunya, Spain
7. Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen
Forschungsnetzes DFN Verein e.V.,
Germany
Hungary
Center affiliated to the Bioorganic
Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland
11. Cisco Systems International B.V.,
The Netherlands
The NOVI consortium aspires to advance European know-how within the
global environment for Future Internet research. This is manifested by the
concerted effort of academic researchers and operators of advanced public
e-Infrastructures (NRENs – GÉANT, FEDERICA, PlanetLab Europe) in
partnership with a pioneer vendor in Internet technologies (Cisco). As
such, PCSN will contribute to these tasks.
Its research objectives can be classified within four closely related areas,
within the NOVI Innovation Cloud. Users are assigned slices consisting
of virtual instances of networking and processing resources, drawn from
a federated FI substrate.
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experimentally-driven research
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INFINITY
Project’s title:
INfrastructures for the Future
Internet commuNITY
One of the most important aspects of the Future Internet – Public Private
Partnership (FI-PPP) Programme is to leverage existing investments in
advanced infrastructures in Europe for testing and experimentation of
novel Future Internet (FI) technologies and speed up their introduction
into the market. Europe has the potential to deliver massive capacity for
Future Internet developments by leveraging the abundance of advanced
infrastructures. However, most of the initiatives are limited to small communities of users (researchers from a very specific technological domain or
regional-level end-users). Consequently, the infrastructures are not designed
for the interoperability that is essential for large-scale experimentation by
FI-PPP projects.
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Capacity building and infrastructure
support
http://fi-infinity.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-04-2011
31-03-2014
3 808 291 €
3 000 000 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
INFINITY project will address a need for developing interaction between all
stakeholders necessary to enable wide scale testing of new ideas and to provide
an environment for sustainable growth of value adding FI solutions.
The other aim of INFINITY is to facilitate communication and collaboration between Future Internet infrastructure owners across Europe and
organisations developing Future Internet applications in order to:
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Contact person:
Agnieszka Stoklosa
Phone: +48 61 858 20 94
The Consortium:
S.A., Spain
The INFINITY project will:
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4. Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
5. CREATE-NET (Center for Research and
Telecommunication Experimentation for
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Societe de l’Information Aisbl, Belgium
position Europe at the center of the Future of the Internet;
directly support experimentation for FI-PPP projects and investors;
accelerate the development and uptake of social and commercial
solutions that will provide benefit to the citizens, businesses and governments of Europe. Although several recent initiatives such as FEDERICA,
OneLab and PanLab federate some heterogeneous testbeds, no specific
projects or efforts have been funded so far by the EC to identify the
interoperability requirements needed to integrate different infrastructures and federate them according to use case requirements, especially
at the industrial level.
gather, analyse, evaluate and organise information about Future Internet
infrastructure and usage profiles across Europe;
make that information available to other FI initiatives through a “live”
web enabled repository;
encourage and support interaction, collaboration and experimentation
between application and infrastructure owners, operators, industry, local
and regional authorities and end users;
capture and present user case studies to encourage wider take-up;
communicate and promote the activities of European Future Internet
research capacity and infrastructures world-wide;
help prepare a route map to the future through integration of identified
FI infrastructures in phase 2 of FI PPP Programme.
Spain
10. Thales Services SAS, France
11. Ericsson GmbH, Germany
13. Delivery of Advanced Network Technology
to Europe Ltd., United Kingdom
PSNC participates in a number of tasks across the project including infrastructure modeling, development of infrastructures’ repository value added
services, assessment of infrastructures in terms of constraints and available resources, and roadmapping for upgrading infrastructures in FI-PPP
Phase 2. The goal of INFINITY is to cover the EU national and regional
infrastructures with special emphasis on the EU12. Thus, besides the above
mentioned involvement, PSNC as a partner from one of the EU12 countries
plays a special role in establishing connection with infrastructures in these
countries through its contacts.
Project’s title:
LIving with Robots and
InteractivE Companions
ICT-2007.2.1
Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
LIREC is a research project exploring how we live with digital and interactive companions. Throughout the project the consortium is exploring how
to design digital and interactive companions who can develop and read
emotions and act across-platforms. The project is also bringing together
the world of ethology, social science, design & computer science to design
future real world applications today.
http://lirec.eu/
http://lirec.ict.pwr.wroc.pl/
LIREC aims to establish a multi-faceted (memory, emotions, cognition,
communication, learning, etc.) theory of artificial long-term companions, embody it in robust and innovative technology, verify the theory
and technology experimentally in real social environments, and provide
resulting guidelines for designing such companions.
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-03-2008
29-08-2012
10 992 017 €
8 200 000 €
Polish participant:
Unit of Fundamental Cybernetics
and Robotics, Institute of Computer
Engineering, Control and Robotics,
Wrocław University of Technology
Wyb. Stanisława Wyspiańskiego 27
50-370 Wrocław
http://www.pwr.wroc.pl
Contact person:
Prof. Krzysztof Tchon
Project leader
Phone: +48 71 320 32 71
The Consortium:
1. Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London, United Kingdom
2. SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer
Science AB, Sweden
3. INESC ID – Instituto de Engenharia de
Sistemas e Computadores, Investigacao
e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
4. The University of Hertfordshire Higher
Education Corporation, United Kingdom
5. Medizinische Hochschule Hannover,
Germany
6. Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
7. Unit of Fundamental Cybernetics
and Robotics, Institute of Computer
Engineering, Control and Robotics,
Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Hungary
9. Foam – Foundation of Aperiodic
Mesmerism VZW, Belgium
10. Cnotinfor – Centro de Novas Tecnologias
da Informacao, Limitada, Portugal
Whether as robots, social toys or graphical and mobile synthetic characters,
interactive and sociable technology is advancing rapidly. However, the
social, psychological and cognitive foundations and consequences of such
technological artifacts entering our daily lives – at work, or in the home – are
less well understood. The technology is commonly based on evaluation of
short-term interactions or even first encounters, and limited to one specific
embodiment. Research shows that the novelty effect, which may attract
interest in the first encounter, quickly runs out and that people’s preferences
and attitudes towards the system change. Successful technology can only be
delivered on the basis of strong scientific foundations, and with partners in
psychology, ethology, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, robotics and graphical characters, LIREC will advance understanding of
the concepts of embodiment, autobiographic memory and social interactions
in the context of companions where the “mind” might migrate to differently
embodied “bodies”.
Experimental human-human and human-animal studies and longitudinal evaluation of the developed technology in social settings will support
the development and delivery of mechanisms for verbal and non-verbal social
interaction and communication; an autobiographic emotionally-tagged
memory; mechanisms for detecting and responding sensitively to the user’s
affective state, motives and intentions; an autonomous cognitive-affective
architecture and support for migrating companions. These will be combined
in case study long-life companions that will take social technology to a new
state-of-the-art.
Wrocław University of Technology (WRUT) is a public academic institution devoted to conducting research and teaching in technical science. Th e
mission of our University is to shape the creative and critical personalities of
students and define the directions of development in science and technology.
The education offered at our institution is strongly linked with scientific
research and the needs of economy and is consistent with standards of the
European Higher Education Area.
The group involved in LIREC recruits from the Unit of Fundamental
Cybernetics and Robotics, Institute of Computer Engineering, Control
and Robotics, WRUT. The Unit has been conducting robotics research for
about 30 years, mostly within national research projects. LIREC has been
our first international European project.
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The role of Unit of Fundamental Cybernetics and Robotics, Institute of
Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of
Technology concerns the following issues:
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building a robotic companion integrating and demonstrating the LIREC
technology;
elaborating and implementing new concepts of companion migration
between different embodiments.
The WRUT contribution to LIREC has been the following:
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software system FacET for detection of facial expressions and a system
for detection of sound source direction, dedicated to a social robot;
prototypic robotic companion FLASH composed of independent reconfigurable modules: balancing platform, head EMYS able to express emotions, and a pair of dextrous arms/hands WANDA able to gesticulate;
complete design of hardware (mechanics, electronics), software, control
algorithms and motion controllers;
new concept of behavioral identity invariants of a migrating agent, its
implementation and experimental verification in robotic embodiments;
integration of FLASH with 3-layer LIREC architecture, development
of SAMGAR;
presentations, fairs and media events (LSM, CeBIT, ITM, TV, Radio,
Press).
Major innovations introduced by WRUT:
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balancing social robot equipped with gesticulating hands and emotive
head;
robotic experimental framework for robot-dog and HRI experiments;
concept of behavioral identity invariants of a migrating agent, and its
implementation in robotic embodiments;
development of a software system UNIFRACX for unified low level
description of robotic behaviors;
development of a unified software system UNIFRACX for description
of robotic behaviors;
expansion of the URBI Software Platform and its application in the low
level controller of a modular social robot.
Open source software provided by WRUT:
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FacET: http://ppa.launchpad.net/admo/lirec/ubuntu/pool/main/libf/
FLASH control: https://launchpad.net/~admo/ archive/lirec
UNIFRACX: http://lirec.iiar.pwr.wroc.pl/~bk/unifracx
Full FLASH Urbi code: https://lirec.ict.pwr.wroc.pl/svn/urbi_scripts
WRUT SAMGAR: http://svn.lirec.eu/l
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STIFF-FLOP
Project’s title:
STIFFness controllable Flexible
and Learn-able Manipulator
for surgical OPerations
The STIFF-FLOP project takes inspiration from biological “manipulation
and actuation” principles as they are, for example, found in the octopus who
can turn its links from a completely soft state into a state of precise and, if
needed, powerful articulation – an approach that combines advantages associated with both soft and hard systems by selectively controlling the stiffness
of various parts of the body depending on the task requirements. Tightly
integrating the input from established experts in biology, cognitive sciences,
robotics, sensing and medical sciences, this project aims to overcome the
drawbacks of current robotic manipulation concepts and to move into
a new era for flexible robotics with great promise for many applications
areas including minimally invasive surgery.
ICT-2011.2.1
Cognitive systems and robotics
http://www.stiff-flop.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2012
31-12-2015
9 554 661 €
7 350 000 €
Industrial Research Institute for
Automation and Measurements
02-486 Warszawa
http://www.piap.pl/
Contact person:
Jakub Główka
Project Manager
Foundation for Cardiac Surgery
Development
ul. Wolności 345A
41-800 Zabrze
Contact person:
PhD Zbigniew Nawrat
director of Heart Prostheses Institute FRK
Phone: +48 32 373 56 60
The Consortium:
Perfezionamento Sant’anna, Italy
3. Fundacion Tecnalia Research and
Innovation, Spain
4. Industrial Research Institute for
Automation and Measurements, Poland
5. Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia,
Italy
6. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
8. Universitaet Siegen, Germany
9. The Shadow Robot Company Ltd.,
United Kingdom
10. Foundation of Cardaic Surgery
Dvelopment, Poland
11. European Association for Endoscopic
Surgery – EAES, The Netherlands
12. Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
The main objectives of the project STIFF-FLOP are:
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to use biological inspiration to create novel, flexible manipulator
structures that are inherently capable of morphing their state from
completely soft to entirely articulated;
to create novel control strategies based on biological inspiration taken
from octopus;
Embed distributed sensing (tactile as well as position) to enable cognitive development and intelligent control in a highly redundant
manipulation device;
to advance learning and cognitive reasoning in a complete embodiment of a hyper-redundant manipulation system that experiences and
learns from physical interactions with its environment;
to provide a practical solution to the important areas of minimally
invasive surgery with great commercial potential and impact;
to bring together a multi-disciplinary team of scientific experts from
engineering, biologists and medicine to progress a novel manipulation
concept from an initial idea to a testable prototype.
Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements
(Przemysłowy Instytut Automatyki i Pomiarów – PIAP) was established in
1965 as a R&D public nonprofit entity whose basic task was to prepare and
implement new technologies in the field of automation systems, production
plants and specialist measuring equipment in various industrial branches.
PIAP’s activities include:
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scientific and technical research;
design small and medium-sized production and to the introduction
of modern automation techniques and systems including robotics
to industrial enterprises;
recycling;
vocational training for SME’s in automation and robotics;
recycling, stimulating technological innovation;
increasing of competitiveness, etc.
PIAP has also considerable experience in coordination and participation in
national and international projects (Leonardo da Vinci, FP5, FP6, FP7 and
EU Structural Funds). PIAP is an editor of science and technology journals
PAR and JAMRIS and also organizes annual International S&T Conference
– AUTOMATICON.
Foundation for Cardiac Surgery Development
(Fundacja Rozwoju Kardiochirurgii im. prof. Zbigniewa Religi – FRK) has
achieved national and European recognition for their work on bioengineering
devices and materials for cardiovascular application (artificial heart prostheses, biomaterials and medical robots). The Foundation’s activities include:
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Artificial Heart Prostheses (focusing on basic, practical and implementation researches on extracorporeal heart assist devices and heart prostheses, clinical investigation on heart prostheses experimental application,
hospitals staff’s trainings in the field of mechanical heart assistance usage
and new technology in extracorporeal heart and lung support),
Biotechnology (focusing on researches on cells culturing technology in
relation with heart muscle cells treatment, researches on technologies
of cells and tissue culturing in relation with in vitro biological heart
components growing),
Biocybernetics & Robotics (focusing on cardiac surgery robotic development, mathematical modelling for cardiac and vascular surgery support,
basic researches on various theoretical subjects concerning the artificial
heart, heart valve prostheses’ laboratory tests and equipment).
The Foundation’s mechanical heart ventricle assistance system is used in
7 clinics since 1993. Current state of Polish Robin Heart family & Robin
Heart Uni System mechatronic surgical tools is represented over ten years
of experiences in cardiac surgery robot development started from basic
studies. The Robin Heart system includes the planning system, training
system, experts’ program, as well as tele-manipulators and automatic surgical
tools. The mile stone of the project was an animal experiment, carried out
in January 2009 and May 2010 for three operations on pigs: cholecystectomy, TECAB – the operation the coronary by-pass on as well as the repair
operation of mitral valve are planned and first model of teleoperation at
distance Zabrze-Katowice. The new kind of robot – Robin Heart mc2 creates
a completely new job opportunities for surgeon – both in the local area and
globally. It can be compiled as an arm of the platform (a small robot with
two endoscopic tools and endoscope for observation ) or as telemanipulator
working for three people - the mean surgeon and his assistant, and an assistant holding the endoscope (controlled from console by one operator).
The inter-disciplinary team of FRK has long-standing expertise in the following areas:
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design and clinical application of medical electromechanical devices
and biotechnology products.
computer simulation and physical modelling methods for cardiovascular
application.
training on models containing natural tissues to experiments on living
animals.
creation of the robotized Robin Heart system including tele-manipulation
and automatic surgical tools.
knowledge about ergonomic interface between humans and surgical
tools and other medical devices.
In the project, PIAP concentrates on modeling, processing and distributed
sensing integration. Pose estimation and prediction algorithms are crucial
for the accurate and flexible manipulation. Another task for PIAP is supporting hardware integration process between project partners. Many different
electronic and mechanical devices must be integrated to demonstrate the
advantages and value of the project results.
The Robin Heart Team (FRK) supports the project to develop first flexible
robotic instruments in designing, construction and testing work related to
a gripper, operator console and feedback device, verification and application
robot study and dissemination of project results.
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NANOTEC
Project’s title:
Nanostructured materials
and RF-MEMS RFIC/MMIC
technologies for highly adaptive
and reliable RF systems
The aim of the NANOTEC project is to significantly enhance the reliability
of RF-MEMS switches by using nanostructured materials (e.g. as dielectrics)
as well as to demonstrate highly adaptive and miniaturized telecommunication and RF-sensing circuits, antenna front-ends and systems
enabled by monolithical integration of low-loss RF-MEMS switches in
GaN/GaAs/SiGe IC foundry processes from OMMIC, IHP and TRT.
ICT-2011.3.2
Smart components and smart systems
integration
http://project-nanotec.com/
01-09-2011
31-08-2014
9 693 019 €
6 630 000 €
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
Polish participant:
TopGan Sp z o.o.
ul. Sokołowska 29/37
01-142 Warszawa
http://www.topgan.eu
NANOTEC project objectives are, on one hand, to significantly enhance
the reliability of RF-MEMS switches by using nanostructured materials
(e.g. as dielectrics) and on the other hand to demonstrate highly adaptive,
high-performance and miniaturized telecommunication and RF-sensing
circuits, front-ends and systems enabled by monolithical integration of
low-loss RF-MEMS switches in GaN/GaAs/SiGe foundry processes.
TopGaN is a European pioneer in the development of Gallium Nitride
technologies. Was the first to demonstrate defect free GaN crystals, and
second in Europe to construct nitride laser diodes. TopGaN is focusing on
high power laser diodes and nitride diode arrays for illumination, medicine
and printing applications. TopGaN is focusing on nitride structures for
building electronic devices.
The Consortium:
1. Thales S.A., France
2. Eads Deutschland GmbH, Germany
3. IHP GmbH – Innovations for High
Performance Microelectronics/LeibnizInstitut fuer Innovative Mikroelektronik,
Germany
4. Silicon Radar GmbH, Germany
5. Totalforsvarets Forskningsinstitut, Sweden
France
7. Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
8. Coventor SARL, France
10. OMMIC SAS, France
11. Alfa Imaging S.A., Spain
Germany
13. Institutul National de Cercetaredezvoltare
Pentru Microtehnologie, Romania
Hellas, Greece
15. TopGan Sp z o.o., Poland
16. SHT Smart High-Tech AB, Sweden
Athens, Greece
TopGaN role in the project is to crystallize (by MOVPE method) nitrides
based epi-layers nanostructures on foreign substrates (Si, SiC, sapphire) for
building high-frequency electronic devices (RF-MEMS RFIC/MMIC).
Contact person:
Prof. Mike Leszczynski
Phone: +48 602 391 349
6. Thales Air Systems S.A.,
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FACESS
Project’s title:
Flexible Autonomous Cost efficient
Energy Source and Storage
The goal of the FACESS project was to manufacture efficient organic solar
cells (OSC) and a thin film battery (TFB) on flexible substrate using commercially available materials and cost efficient roll-to-roll (R2R) mass
production techniques, printing, as well as integrate a control transistor
circuitry on a foil. The ultimate goal was to integrate these three structures
to a single assembly resulting in a flexible, fully autonomous energy source. In
this assembly organic solar cells harvest the solar energy and charge the thin
film batteries which provide the electricity for an external load. The Si-based
transistor circuitry integrated on the foil controls the charge operation. The
effort of the FACESS consortium was to create a new technology that is
derived from the strengths of European region, to the area of low cost power
source manufacturing and its utilization in different applications.
ICT-2007.3.2
Organic and large area electronics,
visualization and display systems
http://www.vtt.fi
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
30-04-2011
4 598 080 €
3 400 000 €
Polish participant:
Faculty of Chemistry of Warsaw
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
FP7 ICT | Components, systems, engineering
Contact person:
Artur Zakrzyński
Specialist
The Consortium:
Centrum VZW, Belgium
4. Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
5. Umicore NV, Belgium
6. Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH,
Germany
7. Suntrica Oy, Finland
8. Coatema Maschinenbau GmbH, Germany
In FACESS project roll-to-roll printed organic solar cells (OSC) and
thin film batteries (TFB) were developed, manufactured and integrated
to a flexible autonomous cost efficient energy source.
The team of the Faculty of Chemistry of Warsaw University of Technology
was in charge of realization of its part of Facess Project. Its effort is to create
a new technology used to produce the printed organic solar cells (OSC)
and thin film batteries (TFB). Thanks to FACESS (including the efforts
of Warsaw University of Technology), the production of OSC and TFB is
possible of the base of commercially available materials. Thanks to that, new
synergies and co-operation between the electronic and printing industry are
done. Also, the competitiveness of industry in Europe rises.
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DELIGHT
Project’s title:
Development of low-cost technologies
for the fabrication of high-performance
telecommunication lasers
The DeLight project aimed at developing advanced structures and technologies, in particular nano-imprint lithography (NIL), for the low-cost
fabrication of high-performance telecommunication lasers working at
1.3 ľm and 1.55 ľm. Surface gratings a thousand times smaller than the
diameter of human hair has be used to generate ultra-pure light, while
multiple laser sections has provided direct-modulation speeds capable of
sending the content of approximately 10 full DVDs per second.
ICT-2007.3.5
Photonic components and subsystems
http://www.delightproject.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2008
31-08-2011
4 668 233 €
3 300 000 €
Polish participant:
50-370 Wrocław
Contact person:
Prof. Jan Misiewicz
Director of Institute of Physics
Phone: +48 71 320 36 76
The Consortium:
1. Tty-Saatio, Finland
2. Universitaet Kassel, Germany
Germany
5. III-V Lab GIE, France
6. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology,
Israel
7. Modulight Oy, Finland
8. Mergeoptics GmbH, Germany
9. Color Chip Israel Ltd., Israel
10. Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto, Finland
11. Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
The fabrication techniques recently used for distributed feedback (DFB) and
distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) semiconductor lasers include overgrowth,
which had leaded to problems with yield, performance and device cost. The
DeLight project removed the need of overgrowth by making use of surface
gratings. Nano-imprint lithography was developed as a production tool
for such gratings to reduce the fabrication costs further. Also, by exploiting high-order photon-photon resonances in multiple longitudinal section
lasers, DeLight extended the direct-modulation bandwidth far beyond the
current limits imposed by electron-photon resonance. This reduced the cost
and complexity of high-speed optical transmitters by eliminating the need
of an external modulator.
The DeLight project had two main objectives:
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development of high-performance surface-grating-based DFB/DBR
telecommunication lasers;
development of ultra-high speed directly modulated lasers
(> 40GBit/s) with a simplified multi-section design, which exploit
high-order photonic resonances for extending the modulation
bandwidth.
The project approach was to develop a common technological fabrication
platform for both types of lasers based on surface gratings and other
surface micro- and nano-structures. One important advantage in using
surface structuring for increasing the performances and functionality of
edge-emitting lasers was the elimination of the re-growth stage, which adds
to the fabrication cost, affects the laser performances (notably the reliability
and the characteristics shift in time) and reduces yield. The surface micro- and
nano-structures was imprinted by the low-cost and high-yield nano-imprint
lithography, which contributed to reducing the fabrication cost.
The developed surface-oriented technology was largely independent on the
underlying semiconductor structure and was applied for the fabrication
of InP- and GaAs-based edge-emitting lasers (EELs) working in the 1300
and 1550nm ranges. Although advanced materials (like dilute nitrides and
antimony-containing dilute-nitrides) as well as low-dimensional structures
(quantum dots and quantum dashes) were investigated for developing the
active regions of the lasers, the surface-oriented technology was directly
applicable to epitaxial layer structures already developed and tested in regular
Fabry-Perot telecommunication EELs. Thus the developed surface-oriented
approach had the unique advantage of enabling the fabrication of higherperformance lasers from already tested and qualified ‘legacy’ epiwafers.
The role of Wrocław University of Technology in the project was to perform
the characterization of the active laser material developed by the technological
partners, by means of optical spectroscopy techniques combined with the
band structure calculations. WRUT was responsible for several deliverables
and milestones (all delivered and achieved in time). Additionally, WRUT
took the responsibility for leading the activities as project results dissemination and the project world wide visibility via media as project dedicated
website designed, maintained and updated by WRUT, and organization of
a workshops. The results of the project have been published in regular papers
and presented during conferences.
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SENSHY
Project’s title:
Photonic sensing of hydrocarbons based
on innovative mid infrared lasers
The project SensHy focusesed on the development of novel photonic
gas sensors based on tunable diode laser spectroscopy. A new class of
tunable mid infrared (MIR) laser sources with performance presently
unattainable has ben realized in the wavelength range 3.0–3.6 μm.
ICT-2007.3.5
Photonic components and subsystems
http://www.senshy.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-03-2008
28-02-2011
3 188 149 €
2 350 000 €
Polish participant:
Laboratory of Optical Spectroscopy of
Nanostructures at Institute of Physics,
50-370 Wrocław
http://www.senshy.eu/
Contact person:
Prof. Jan Misiewicz
Director of Institute of Physics
Phone: +48 71 320 36 76
The Consortium:
1. Nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies
GmbH, Germany
These devices have been used for the subsequent development of photonic
sensor systems for highly sensitive hydrocarbons detection based on their
characteristic fundamental transitions in the MIR. By using the fundamental
transitions instead of presently used overtones different hydrocarbons can
be more easily distinguished and the sensitivity can be increased. Particular
challenging applications with significant market potential are investigated
within the project (portable methane sensing with sensitivity 1 ppm as well
as industrial process control of aliphatic hydrocarbons such as propene and
propane with resolution 100 ppm). Here the detection is hampered by the
presence of different gas constituents within a general hydrocarbon gas
matrix, requiring the development of innovative signal-processing techniques
in combination with the fabricated tunable laser sources. Improvements
had to be attained in various fields from epitaxial semiconductor growth
to widely tunable laser processing to MIR sensor development, to achieve
these challenging goals of the project.
The main objective of the SensHy project was the development of high
performance tunable semiconductor lasers for photonic sensing applications based on the GaSb material system in the wavelength range from
3.0 to 3.6 μm for which currently no suitable lasers were available. These
devices were implemented in photonic sensor systems using innovative
signal-processing techniques for the detection of various gas constituents
within a multi-component hydrocarbon gas mixture. The main scientific
and technological objectives of the SensHy project were to:
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2. Universite Montpellier 2 Sciences et
Techniques, France
3. Gas Measurement Instruments Limited,
United Kingdom
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4. Laboratory of Optical Spectroscopy of
Nanostructures at Institute of Physics,
Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
5. Siemens Laser Analytics AB, Sweden
Germany
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develop GaSb based active material and epitaxial structures for
emission in the 3.0 to 3.6 μm wavelength range for application grade
lasers using o type I quantum well and type II interband cascade
GaInAsSb/AlGaInAsSb structures with high optical quality laser
structures with suppressed non-radiative recombination and improved
quantum efficiency;
develop and investigate tunable MIR laser sources for gas sensing
based on innovative device concepts enabling o continuous wave operation at room temperature o an extended tuning range of = 30 nm using
multi-section DFB/DBR device designs with binary superimposed
gratings;
develop highly sensitive photonic sensor systems for important
hydrocarbons:
• innovative signal-processing techniques to identify various gas
constituents within a general hydrocarbon matrix;
• portable system for methane detection meeting requirements of gas
distribution industry (sensitivity 1 ppm and response time 1 s);
• real-time process control system for aliphatic hydrocarbons (propene, propane 0–5%, resolution 100 ppm).
The Wroclaw University of Technology was represented in the project SensHy
by Laboratory of Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructures at Institute of
Physics headed by Prof. Jan Misiewicz and having 8 persons of permanent
research staff and 6 PhD students. The laboratory specializes in application of
different optical techniques for characterization of low dimensional semiconductor structures and has the necessary facilities: five laboratory rooms with
several independent setups equipped with monochromators and photodetectors (including the multichannel detection) allowing to cover a very broad
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spectral range of 0.2–17 μm; cryostats for temperature tuning in the range
of 5–400 K; different kinds of lasers and other light sources (including the
tunable ones); and many others allowing for instance measurements under
the hydrostatic pressure up to 18 kbar or magnetic field up to 6 T.
The group has been involved in a number of international collaborations
worldwide (e.g. Wuerzburg University – Germany, Stanford University
– USA, McMaster University – Canada, NRC Ottawa – Canada, III–V
Thales Alcatel Labs – France, EPFL – Switzerland) and in several EU projects
(GIFT, CERION, CERION II, ZODIAC, DeLight) in the areas related to
photonics and optoelectronics. The WRUT team has many years of experience in various kinds of optical spectroscopy (like photoluminescence,
photoluminescence excitation and several modes of modulation spectroscopy experiments, e.g. photoreflectance, contactless electroreflectance) of
semiconductors and low-dimensional semiconductor structures in the
infrared spectral range. The WRUT team has also considerable experience
concerning optical characterization of GaSb quantum well samples emitting
in the mid-infrared.
The role of WRUT in the project was to perform the characterization of the
active laser material developed by the technological partners, by means of
opticalspectroscopy techniques combined with the band structure calculations. To the main goals of WRUT there belonged:
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determination of the main nonriditive carrier losses in the two developed
types of the active materials;
electronic structure determination including band gap discontinuities
in for the new materials and their combination, and
evaluating the overal mateial optical quality.
WRUT was respomsbile for several related delivrralbles and milestones
(all delivered and achived on time):
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D1.2 Report on band gap discontinuity optimization in type I QW
structures;
D1.4 Report on nonradiative recombination channels in type I structures;
D1.6 Summary report on type I QW material properties including band
gap discontinuity optimization;
D2.3 Report on electronic structure of type II interband cascade material;
D2.5 Report on radiative properties of long wavelength GaSb based
material including comparative analysis between I type and type II
structures;
D4.2 Creation of website;
D5.4 Awareness and wider societal implications;
M1.4 Determination of the main nonradiative recombination channels
and identification of the optimum band gap discontinuities for type I
structures;
M2.3 Determination of the energy level structure and identification of
the main carriers loss mechanisms for type II material.
Additionally, WRUT took the reponsibilty for leading the activities as
project resuls dissemination and the project world wide visibility via media
as project dedicated website designed, maintained and updated by WRUT,
and organization of a workshop on laser-based gas sensing. The results of
WRUT partner have been publihsed in 10 regular papers and prestented
during more than 20 conferences.
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MEMFIS
Project’s title:
Ultrasmall MEMS FTIR Spectrometer
Infrared spectroscopy is a recognised and established analytical technique,
which is used in a wide range of applications. Whereas a particularly powerful method of mid-infrared spectroscopy hardly makes use of its analytical
potential due to lack of instrumentation at competitive prices. To promote
a widespread use of these analysers and sensors, a small, robust and easy to
use FT-spectrometer, that could be built inexpensively, is needed.
ICT-2007.3.6
Micro/nanosystems
http://www.memfis-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2008
29-02-2012
4 426 560 €
2 850 000 €
The effort of the MEMFIS project was set towards the development of the
innovative building blocks and sub-systems, as well as their integration
into a functional prototype and its applicability testing. The feasibility of
a spectroscopic mid-infrared based on miniature FT-IR spectrometers was
demonstrated while using newest technologies and production techniques,
integrated electronics and sophisticated software approaches. The MEMFIS
project targeted to progress well beyond the state of the art:
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Polish participant:
Vigo System S.A.
ul. Poznańska 129/133
05-850 Ożarów Mazowiecki
http://www.vigo.com.pl
Contact person:
PhD Adam Piotrowski
Manager of Detectors Department
Phone: +48 22 733 54 07
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The Consortium:
1. TECHNIKON Forschungs- und
Planungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria
2. Bruker Optik GmbH, Germany
3. CTR Carinthian Tech Research AG, Austria
5. Koc University, Turkey
6. RHE Microsystems GmbH, Germany
7. Societe de Production et de Recherches
Appliquees S.A. (SOPRA S.A.), France
8. Vigo System S.A., Poland
9. Hiperscan GmbH, Germany
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miniaturisation of FT-IR spectrometers by about one order of
magnitude. It was expected that the MEMFIS concept will lead to an
extremely rugged and reliable device, which will be based on integration
of maintenance-free micro optical interferometer system for the mid-IR
range, high scanning frequency, compactness and low power;
reduction of the measuring time of FT-IR spectrometers to (sub-)ms
time resolution in direct scanning mode. The MEMFIS instrument
aimed at outperforming all FT-IR spectrometers that are currently commercially available by reducing considerably the time used for acquiring
a scan;
development and application-oriented optimisation of novel
translational photonic MEMS devices and concepts. Compared to
conventional systems, the use of optical MEMS opens the possibility
to produce small and reliable systems in a large quantity at competitive
production costs;
prototype proof of principle and feasibility of an autonomously
operating smart micro-FT-IR analyser/sensor, including the
implementation of chemometric models and stable data processing
algorithms.
The fully developed spectroscopic analysers are expected to play a key role
in label-free detection of a wide range of substances. For example medical
diagnostics of body fluids and tissues as well as environmental and workspace
monitoring for example from the point of view of the quality of breathing
air in cities or from the air conditioning. Furthermore, the analyser could
be used to assess the quality of nutrition, pharmaceutical and food products
in addition to facilitating process control during production to evaluate the
effectiveness of resource use.
10. Sopralab SAS, France
MEMFIS planed to show the feasibility of a miniature spectroscopic
chemical sensor system based on a micro-FT-IR spectrometer. Based
on mid-infrared spectroscopy offering analyte selectivity unrivalled by
any other method and paired with the inherent sensitivity of a FT-IR
spectrometer, such devices could be used in a wide range of applications,
from air monitoring over in-line real-time process control to security monitoring. The spectrometer utilises innovative optical components based on
MEMS-technology, leading to very compact and rugged spectroscopic
devices with ultra-rapid scanning capabilities. The addition of a miniature
source and a dedicated, highly sensitive detector completes the spectrometer
module. Adding electronics and data evaluation and providing a standardized interface to various different modern IR probes, the MEMFIS
spectrometer presents a very powerful spectroscopic sensor and a significant
step forward in the smart spectroscopic sensors, microsystems technology
and vibrational spectroscopy in general.
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Vigo System S.A. has extensive experience in optoelectronics technologies used for unique high performance MWIR and LWIR photo detectors
operating without cryocoling: epitaxial growth of complex Hg1-xCdxTe
hetero-structures, processing of IR devices, monolithic integration. Vigo
System S.A. is a leading designer and manufacturer of high performance
uncooled IR photodetectors and accessory products. The company mission is to replace the present generation of cryogenically cooled photodetectors in the middle and far infrared by a new generation of detectors without
cryogenics. Vigo System S.A. offers:
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IR photodetectors;
research and development in IR technology;
related optoelectronic accessories;
microprocessor controlled instrumentation;
technical consultation;
distribution of components, devices and optoelectronic systems.
Vigo System S.A. responsibility was a leader of WP5: Detector Technology.
The main task was: to develop a fast and miniaturized detection module
working in mid and long infrared region (2.5–16 um), HgCdTe active
material, optical elements, etc.
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PYTHIA
Project’s title:
Monolithically integrated
interferometric biochiPs for label-free
earlY deTection of Human dIseAses
The PYTHIA project aims at developing a novel integrated optoelectronic
biochip for the early diagnosis of diseases. These biochips are envisioned
to “prophesize” potential predisposition to, or diagnose the early onset of
human diseases, paving the way for advances in personalized health care.
The principle of operation of the PYTHIA biochip is based on Broad-Band
Mach-Zehnder Interferometry rendering it to an ultra-sensitive diagnostic
tool. Its breakthrough design makes use of conventional microchip technologies while circumventing common manufacturability issues encountered
so far. The final goal of the biochip is to enable the medical community
to simultaneously diagnose a variety of diseases. In addition, the design
includes the production of the microchip on a low-cost disposable cartridge,
as well as the easy delivery of specimens and the facile contact with external
low-noise electronic components.
ICT-2007.3.6
Micro/nanosystems
http://www.pythia-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2008
30-10-2011
3 519 782 €
2 650 000 €
Polish participant:
Macromolecular Nanofilms Group
for electronics and biotechnology,
Jagiellonian University of Kraków
ul. Gołębia 24
31-007 Kraków
http://www.if.uj.edu.pl/pl/ZINM/polyfilms/
Contact person:
Prof. Andrzej Budkowski
The Consortium:
1. National Center for Scientific Research
“Demokritos”, Greece
4. PhoeniX BV, The Netherlands
5. Jobst Technologies GmbH, Germany
6. LioniX BV, The Netherlands
7. Macromolecular Nanofilms Group for
electronics and biotechnology, Jagiellonian
University of Kraków, Poland
8. Kentro Gennetikon Erevnon Kai Analyseon
A.E., Greece
9. University College London,
United Kingdom
The system is completed by a user-friendly software for ease-of-use that does
not require the presence of highly-trained personnel and can be applied in
any size diagnostic centre or even a privately owned praxis. The final system
has the ability to be tailored to diverse diagnostic applications and patient
or population genetic profiles.
The great potential and analytical breakthroughs of the proposed biochip
will be demonstrated through its use in:
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prostate cancer, a frequently occurring disease severely burdening health
care systems;
MEN2, a medical condition, linked to an inherited faulty gene (RET),
demonstrating the ability of the biochip for efficient predisposition
screening of population-specific genetic profiles;
Retinitis Pigmentosa (inherited diseases group causing retinal degeneration and vision loss) demonstrating substantial downgrading of the
diagnostics costs of genetically complex diseases.
The PYTHIA project aimed at the development of a novel biochip based on
monolithic, fully integrated biosensor array fabricated by standard Si-technology and its application to the early diagnosis of human diseases through
label-free and multi-analyte detection. The basic sensor scheme consists of
a VIS-NIR light source and a waveguide monolithically fabricated on a silicon
wafer, while its principle of operation is the spectroscopic interference due to
the optical path difference originating by biochemical events.
The signal recording is realized either via an also monolithically fabricated
photodetector or via an external spectrophotometer. This dual approach
provides the user with higher flexibility in terms of the recording, since it
exploits both the intensity and spectral characteristics of the output signal.
The integrated nature of the basic biosensor scheme allows for the development of arrays tailored to specific diagnostic applications. Each biosensor
array is comprised of individually functionalized light source/optical fiber
series coupled to a single detector for multiplexing operation.
Encapsulation with an appropriately designed microfluidic system allows
an easy delivery of the samples to be analyzed and ensure the facile contact
with the external low-noise electronic components. The encapsulated array
is fixed on a cartridge with all the necessary electronics, ready to be manually
inserted to its final position in the housing, where it is directly connected to
the optical and electrical interconnects.
The biochip, controlled by accompanying user-friendly software, is capable of
simultaneous multi-analyte detection (e.g. mutations of specific genes), and
real-time monitoring and processing, with a detection duration that does not
exceed a few minutes with minimal blood sample volumes or specimens.
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Macromolecular Nanofilms Group for electronics and biotechnology (Jagiellonian University of Kraków & AGH – University of Science and Technology), headed by Prof. Andrzej Budkowski, forms the core of Department of
Advanced Materials Engineering of the M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics
– a unit of Jagiellonian University (founded in 1364 in Kraków, Poland).
The Group is also a part of the “Centre of Excellence for Nanometer-scale
Science and Advanced Materials NANOSAM”. The groups mission is the
research on interfacial properties of thin macromolecular films, from view
point of polymer physics (e.g. self-organisation in blend films) and recently,
biophysics (protein – organic surface interactions), aimed at the development
of advanced applications (e.g. photovoltaic devices, plastic electronics, protein micro-arrays) as well as analytic techniques (e.g. submicron tomography,
morphology description) and processing methods (e.g. soft lithography).
Including colleagues from the AGH Technical University of Kraków, the
group consists of 5 persons of the permanent research staff, as well as 4 PhD
and 2 MSc students. Research infrastructure is composed of:
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organic surface preparation laboratory;
meso- and nano-scale microscopy laboratory, equipped with scanning
optical (NSOM) and scanning probe (AFM) microscopes as well as
optical and fluorescence microscopes;
laboratory for the analysis of molecular structures TOF-SIMS;
surface spectroscopy laboratory (XPS and SIMS).
Personnel involved: Dr. habil. Andrzej Bernasik, Prof. Andrzej Budkowski, Dr.
Joanna Raczkowska, Dr. Jakub Rysz. This personnel has participated in various
international projects, including those funded by EU within FP6 and FP7.
The main role of the Macromolecular Nanofilms Group in the project was
characterization of active biosensor surfaces through the use of advanced
microscopic (Atomic Force Microscopy AFM, Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy NSOM) and spectroscopic techniques (Angle-Resolved X-ray
Photoelectron Spectroscopy ARXPS, Time-of-Flight- Secondary Ion Mass
Spectrometry TOF-SIMS) with unique spatial resolution, surface sensitivity
and chemical specificity. Biosensor surfaces were characterized in terms of:
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submicron uniformity of molecular coverage (NSOM);
total molecular surface density (coverage) (ARXPS);
multi-molecular composition (TOF-SIMS) with enhanced sensitivity
(Principal Component Analysis);
inner (lateral and vertical) nano-structure (AFM: images and histograms);
conformational changes visible in vertical arrangement of functional
groups (high-resolution ARXPS).
Micro-spectro-scopic analysis assisted the transfer of standard molecular
(protein, DNA) assays from (microwell plates) to (flat) sensor surfaces (with
drastically changed volume to surface ratio). Such an analysis was critical
for the selection and the optimization of surface functionalization (direct,
indirect, multi-step, using adsorption and covalent bonding) allowing for an
efficient analyte detection. In addition to active surface examination prior and
after the analyte detection, the Group contributed to the control of biochip
fabrication. Namely, the 3-dimensional composition maps were determined
with TOF-SIMS to check the quality of active electronic components (e.g.
doping levels of the LED emitters after implantation).
This, in addition to a constant access to other scanning probe microscopes,
working in other modes (e.g. force spectroscopy), allow for a complete preparation and characterization of organic surfaces and macromolecular films.
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POBICOS
Project’s title:
Platform for Opportunistic
Behaviour in Incompletely Specified,
Heterogeneous Object Communities
The POBICOS project targeted communities of regular objects, found
in homes and buildings, with embedded sense-compute-actuate nodes.
Such objects are inherently heterogeneous in terms of their sensing, actuating
and computing resources. Moreover, the actual mix of objects available in
different settings is unknown at the development time. Thus, the main
challenge of pervasive computing applications that run on top of such object
communities is to take the best advantage of whatever resources happen to
be available. It is referred to this as “opportunistic behavior”.
ICT-2007.3.7
Network embedded and control systems
http://www.ict-pobicos.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2008
30-06-2011
3 190 230 €
2 300 000 €
The goal of POBICOS was to design, implement and test a platform that
simplifies the task of developing and deploying opportunistic applications
in such heterogeneous and incompletely specified object communities.
The platform included:
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Polish participant:
Institute of Telecommunications,
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
http://meag.tele.pw.edu.pl/
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appropriate middleware-based programming model and related mechanisms;
implementation of the middleware on resource-constrained, embedded
nodes;
tools for application testing, deployment and monitoring, and
proof-of-concept applications.
The domain of home automation and energy-efficient buildings provides
the context for application scenarios and system requirements.
Contact person:
PhD Jarosław Domaszewicz
Adiunkt
The Consortium
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2. Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw
University of Technology, Poland
The major S&T objectives in POBICOS were:
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abstractions and techniques for ontology-driven, multi-resolution
representations of sensor/actuator resources;
abstractions and protocols for physical node transparency;
integrated programming model and API, and
mechanisms for application deployment and monitoring, ensuring
security and privacy.
3. Kentro Erevnas Technologias kai Anaptyxis
Thessalias, Greece
4. Accenture SAS, France
5. SAE-Automation, s.r.o, Slovakia
6. Kentro Ananeosimon Pigon ke
Exikonomisis Energeias (Centre for
Renewable Energy Sources and Saving),
Greece
WUT played a key role in developing:
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abstractions and techniques for ontology-driven representations of sensor/actuator resources;
architecture and implementation of the POBICOS middleware, and
development tools.
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NANO-TEC
Project’s title:
Ecosystems Technology and
Design for Nanoelectronics
NANO-TEC seeks to build a community of academic researchers in the
field of nanoelectronics. It addresses research relevant for Beyond CMOS
from the perspective of both technology and design. As a part of the project
a methodology for continued consultation and analysis of research needs and
trends will be developed. However, the main activity is a series of workshops
with experts, preceded by a methodology-contents preparation phase and
subsequent analysis and documentation. Besides determining what is relevant
for Beyond CMOS devices and design, benchmarking and a SWOT analysis
will be performed. An end-of-the-project public dissemination event will
present the results of the work of NANO-TEC to stake-holders, including
the EC and relevant ETPs. Two elements are crucial here. One is the access
to expertise in Europe, albeit fragmented, in the area of Beyond CMOS
both in technology and in design. The other is a platform to carry out the
work and document it. The former is inherent to the consortium, although
non-exclusive, as partners come mainly from institutions which have a tradition of nanofabrication for nanoelectronics research and are members of
national consortia and are in contact with the research community in the
field. The latter is part of the long-term community-building objective and is
a web-platform that enables documents and exchanges to take place, as well
as is the place where the working groups can evolve into a Specialist Interest
Group on the combined ecosystems of technology and design.
ICT-2009.3.1
Nanoelectronics technology
https://www.fp7-nanotec.eu/
28-02-2013
Project’s budget:
822 724 €
EC funding:
709 835 €
Polish participant:
The Institute of Electron Technology
Al. Lotników 32/46
02-668 Warszawa
www.ite.waw.pl
Contact person:
PhD Piotr Grabiec
Head of the Department of Silicon
Microstructures and Nanostructures
Phone: +48 (22) 716 59 92 to 94 int. 21
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to identify the next generation of emerging device concepts and technologies for ICT;
to build a joint technology-design community to coordinate research
efforts in nanoelectronics.
The Consortium:
7. National Center for Scientific Research
The Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) is a major Polish research centre
with the primary focus on semiconductor micro- and nanotechnology.
ITE has wide experience in leading edge basic and applied R&D of innovative applications based on semiconductor technology, world-wide research
co-operation, including participation in many international projects as well
as collaboration with universities. The applied research led by ITE is focused
on meeting the demand of the industry for new, innovative technologies and
products in the field of micro/nano-electronics, with emphasize on photonics
and More-than-Moore domain. ITE develops and sells market products such
as devices, services and intellectual property rights to domestic and foreign
customers ITE research teams actively participate European consortia which
execute projects supported by the EU research framework programmes.
8. University College Cork, National
University Of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
1. Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, Spain
3. edacentrum GmbH, Germany
5. The Institute of Electron Technology,
Poland
6. Technische Universiteit Delft,
The Netherlands
9. Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH,
Germany
10. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
Switzerland
In charge of collection, selection and preparation of basic materials for
workshops. ITE contributes also by providing access to national networks
and international connection in the NMS region. The ITE activity in the
NANO-TEC goes in line with efforts to gather national research & industrial
communities in technological nanoelectronic/microsystem platform
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IDESA-2
Project’s title:
Implementation of widespread IC design
skills in advanced deep submicron
technologies at European Academia
For advanced CMOS technologies (90nm and beyond) a lot of new issues
related to performance and yield are becoming very important and they affect
the design and implementation flow in major ways. The industry response
includes new design methodologies and EDA tools that have been introduced
to address these issues. Unfortunately, universities do not have experience or
incentives or resources to independently follow these trends. The purpose
of IDESA is to develop and make available didactic training materials
on the design flow for integrated circuits for advanced deep submicron
technologies, for the benefit of European universities. This will bring
universities to a more advanced level of implementation skills to start
engaging in 65 and 45nm designs.
ICT-2009.3.2
Design of semiconductor components and
electronic based miniaturised systems
http://www.idesa-training.org
31-08-2012
Project’s budget:
1 099 772 €
EC funding:
850 000 €
Polish participant:
Institute of Microelectronics and
Optoelectronics at the Faculty of
Electronics and Information Technology,
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
Contact person:
Prof. Wiesław Kuźmicz
Phone: +48 22 234 72 07
The Consortium:
Switzerland
4. Science and Technology Facilities Council,
United Kingdom
5. Slovenska Technicka Univerzita v Bratislave,
Slovakia
6. Institute of Microelectronics and
Optoelectronics at the Faculty of
Electronics and Information Technology ,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
7. 1-Tech s.p.r.l., Belgium
IDESA organized several 4–5-day courses on advanced IC implementation
flow, targeting professors, post-docs and PhD-students. These course will
tour all over Europe, starting May 2008. All courses will include lectures
and also several hands-on sessions. The courses can give you ECTS points
as they are approved by many doctoral schools in Europe.
The goal of the project is to develop and make available didactic material.
The project will provide 4 advanced training courses, targeting professors, post-docs and PhDs involved in teaching in engineering master
curricula at European universities and polytechnic schools.
Academic teachers from the Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics participate as trainers in the IDESA-2 courses.
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PRIAM
Project’s title:
Printable functionalities for
truly autonomous, intelligent
lighting and signalling systems
The main objective of PRIAM is the development of new autonomous
road signals and lighting modules (tail lights) integrating heterogeneous
functionalities on plastic foils by high throughput homogenous processes.
Specifically the project addresses the development of two prototypes on
a flexible substrate: energy harvesting and storage, communication, control,
sensor to measure light intensity, intelligence and light emitters.
ICT-2009.3.3
Flexible, organic and large area electronics
PRIAM addresses the development of two new product families:
• light emitting autonomous road signs;
• autonomous car signals and taillights.
http://www.priam-project.eu
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
3 840 459 €
2 664 887 €
Polish participant:
Amepox-Microelectronics Ltd.
ul. Stefana Jaracza 6
90-268 Łódź
http://www.amepox-mc.com/
Contact person:
PhD Andrzej Moscicki
President
Phone: +48 42 633 22 02
The Consortium:
1. Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A., Italy
4. Microtec Gesellschaft fuer
Mikrotechnologie MbH, Germany
5. Centro Ricerche Plast-Optica Spa, Italy
6. Amepox Microelektronics Ltd., Poland
7. Solari di Udine S.p.A., Italy
The underlying technology includes a plastic foil containing:
• a solar cell;
• a thin film battery;
• solid state light sources;
• a sensor of ambient light;
• a Radio Frequency RF communication element;
• an energy management processing unit.
The developed systems do not need to be connected to an external source of
energy, there is no need of expensive cabling or dedicated infrastructures.
Amepox-Microelectronics Ltd., launched in 1991, is a producer of materials
for electronics and microelectronics applications. Company‘s production line
includes: the highest purity silver powder and flake, formulations with silver
fillers as electrically conductive adhesives, pastes and inks, thermally conductive
greases and adhesives and magnetic flux conductive formulations. Amepox
has many unique products like “heavy” silver powder, “heavy” copper powder,
highly resistant for environment and extremely high temperature formulations or
solderable formulations. The newest, and the main direction of AXmc development for actual and future activity is multifunctional nanoformulations (polymer
binder base formulations with nano-size of fillers) for nanotechnology purpose.
Amepox has significant achievements in this field, especially with electrically
and thermally conductive nanoformulations. The organization is working with
novel electrically conductive formulations for Jet-Printable technology.
The organization aims to become the producer of highest purity and quality
electronic materials. Amepox is working very close with several High Technical Institutes and Universities. Some of the work was presented on several
international conferences and special workshops for experts for electronic
industry. Amepox works very closely together with customers and is very
sensitive to their requirements. We see this as a the key to success. Amepox
developed new technologies for preparing extremely small silver powder
and several binders which could be useful for Jet-Printing techniques.
Amepox is a small sized company but most of its employees are highly educated
and with many years of experience in materials for electronic applications filed.
The organization performs all types of activities, such as marketing, production,
R&D and QC lab, shipment and management. We expect to increase the
number of the employees by about 25% after the completion of the project.
Amepox is involved in the technological development of proper electrical
contacts between electro-photonic devices with inorganic light emitting
nanostructures, especially with using Jet-Dispenser techniques. Moreover
Amepox is involved in the development of novel packaging solutions for
the proposed nanophotonic devices. Special nanoformulation for interconnection of nanostructures is connected with Jet-Printing technique, which
is the best for nano-sized structures. One of the main problems connected
with the newest production technologies is interconnection technique in
case of packaging of hi-tech circuits. This is a crucial issue, especially in case
of nano size structures. Amepox is working with this type of problems and
has wide experience in this field.
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
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ACTMOST
Project’s title:
Access To Micro-Optics expertise,
Services and Technologies
The project forms a unique world-force in micro-optics technology with
unprecedented cohesion and coherence that operates as a pan-European access
centre for micro-optics. The partners and key-researchers of ACTMOST
constitute a consortium with an excellent track record in micro-optics
services to industry. ACTMOST owns its present-day collective excellence
in the field of micro-optics to years of experience in collaborative efforts,
to its well-structured and deeply-integrated technological facilities, and to
proven know-how in exploitation of R&D results and joint expertise in
transfer of knowledge.
ICT-2009.3.7
Photonics
http://www.actmost.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2010
28-02-2013
1 840 773 €
1 200 000 €
Institute of Micromechanics and
Photonics, Warsaw University of
Technology
pl. Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warszawa
http://www.pw.edu.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Małgorzata Kujawińska
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 5
20-031 Lublin
Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27
50-370 Wrocław
Institute of Electronic
Materials Technology
ul. Wolczynska 133, 01-919 Warszawa
The Consortium:
1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2. Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie,
Germany
3. Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics
at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
7. Itä-Suomen Yliopisto, Finland
9. Stiftelsen SINTEF, Norway
10. Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderung
der Wissenschaften e.V., Germany
11. Institut fuer Photonische Technologien e.V.,
Germany
12. Universite de Franche-Comte, France
13. Wrocław Uniwersity of Technology, Poland
14. Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland
15. Institute of Electronic Materials
Technology, Poland
The objective of the project ACTMOST is to stimulate industrial innovation
in Europe through a platform that facilitates industrial access to photonics
experts and micro-photonic technologies. ACTMOST works as an efficient
“one-stop-shop-solution-provider” for European companies. It pro-actively
provides companies with timely, cost-effective, and investment-free access to
cutting-edge micro-photonic technologies and knowledge to professionally
support the development of new products.
Prof. M. Kujawińska from Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics at
Warsaw University of Technology (IMiF WUT) is the vice-coordinator of
ACTMOST. She is also the leader of Training Workpackage and chair of
Characterization, Measurement and Testing Platform. IMiF and IMiO contribute significantly to what the three technology platforms have to offer:
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modelling and design platform. This involves extended hardware
equipped with commercial and in-house software to support microoptical design and modeling as well as hybrid experimental-numerical
methods which serve as interface between measurement and both M-O
design and prototyping/production stages;
characterization, measurement and testing platform. This includes
a unique collection of high-end instrumentation of both commercial
and in-house origin. IMiF covers the field of static and active MEMS/
MOEMS testing, (3D) optical characterization of photonics elements
and refractive index/birefringence mapping and DOE measurements.
IMiO covers the field of spectroscopic characterization of optically
passive and active M-O materials. Moreover, the newly developed
Waveguide Photonics Laboratory enables significant extension of the
IMiO offer towards fiber-optic components versatile characterization
and testing;
reliability platform, with expertise in the evolution of photonic material
constants with time and in device performance studies through optical
modeling and characterization, internal strain measurements and FEM
analysis. Also as IMiF and IMiO have photonics labs and clean rooms
with highly precise optical, optoelectronic and mechanical components,
high-end spatial light modulators, sources and image processing systems,
they have offered feasibility studies and help in development of proofof-concept demonstrators of photonics devices/sensors with application
in multimedia, engineering, telecom and biotechnologies.
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PARADIGM
Project’s title:
Photonic Advanced Research
And Development for Integrated
Generic Manufacturing
PARADIGM addresses the whole product development chain from
concept, through design and manufacturing to application. It will
establish a library-based design, coupled with standardized technology
process flows and supported by sophisticated design tools. The goal of
the consortium is to develop technical capability at the platform level, rather
than at the level of individual designs, greatly reducing the cost and time
required to bring a new component into production, whilst allowing the
designer great freedom for creativity at the circuit level.
ICT-2009.3.7
Photonics
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2010
30-09-2014
13 223 312 €
8 725 000 €
The objective of PARADIGM is to effect a fundamental change in the way
photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on indium phosphide (InP)
which are designed and manufactured in Europe, with the aim of reducing
the costs of design, development and manufacture by more than an order
of magnitude and making more complex and capable designs possible than
ever before.
Polish participant:
Institute of Microelectronics and
Optoelectronics, Warsaw University of
Technology
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
Contact person:
Prof. Paweł Szczepański
Director of the Institute
Phone: +48 22 234 77 77
The Consortium:
The Netherlands
2. Willow Photonics Ltd., United Kingdom
3. The Centre for Integrated Photonics Ltd.,
United Kingdom
4. Oclaro Technology PLC, United Kingdom
7. Filarete S.r.l., Italy
8. Phoenix BV, The Netherlands
9. Gooch & Housego (Torquay) Ltd.,
United Kingdom
10. Photon Design Ltd., United Kingdom
11. III V Lab GIE, France
13. Philips Electronics Nederland B.V.,
The Netherlands
14. Linkra S.r.l., Italy
16. Institute of Microelectronics and
Optoelectronics, Warsaw University of
Technology, Poland
Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) role is to extend the outreach
of the PARADIGM project to Eastern Europe by establishing an Eastern
Europe Design Hub (EEDH), which will offer state-of-the-art expertise
in design and characterization of application specific photonic integrated
circuits (ASPICs) to large companies, SMEs and research institutes from
Eastern Europe. Establishing the EEDH at the Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics at WUT will lead to significant broadening of
awareness, amongst East-European enterprises and research institutes, of
the potential of ASPICs for their businesses. This, in combination with
support for the cost-effective chain of design, development, fabrication,
packaging and testing of ASPICs, will result in broadening of the application users pool, as well as enlargement of the potential application areas of
photonics in this part of Europe and a further increase of the interest in
photonic-based solutions.
The Eastern Europe Design Hub, as a partner of PARADIGM, enables access
to the highest-level photonic technologies for companies and researchers
from new member states, without necessity of significant investments in
sophisticated and extremely expensive technological infrastructure. It also
integrates research effort and paves the way for long-range strategic partnerships among the PARADIGM’s partners. WUT supports the PARADIGM
consortium with designers experienced in generic technology design
process and also researchers fluent in optical characterization techniques.
As a result, significant acceleration of development is expected, as targeted in
Objective ICT-2011.11.3. Apart from design and characterization activities,
WUT, presents in a natural way the Eastern Europe point of view, and also
provides leadership in the dissemination of knowledge of the potential of
ASPICs among the Eastern Europe partners (Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine,
Slovakia, Czech Republic, etc.).
http://paradigm.jeppix.eu
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PIANO+
Project’s title:
ERA-NET-PLUS on photonics-based
internet access networks of the future
PIANO+ is a transnational call for research project proposals according to the
European Commission’s “ERA-NET Plus” (EN ) scheme. It is organized as
a competition for funding and will be implemented jointly by the PIANO
agencies. National and European funds have been allocated for the purpose
of funding research projects under this call. This joint transnational approach
towards fibre access technology will harness the expertise and the resources
of the relevant European institutes and companies, to encourage collaborative
approaches and facilitate a common technology platform.
ICT-2009.3.7
Photonics
http://www.pianoplus.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2014
22 506 834 €
7 321 710 €
Polish participant:
National Centre for Research
and Development
ul. Nowogrodzka 47a
00-695 Warszawa
http://www.ncbr.gov.pl/
Contact person:
Wojciech Piotrowicz
Senior specialist
Phone: +48 785 661 476
The Consortium:
1. VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH,
Germany
2. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
Muenchen, Germany
3. The Technology Strategy Board,
United Kingdom
4. Matimop, Israeli Industry Center for
Research & Development, Israel
6. National Centre for Research and
Development, Poland
8. Oesterreichische Forschungsfoerderungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria
The challenge is to enable economic, ubiquitous broadband access of
1 Gbit/s (and beyond) per subscriber by 2015–2020, whilst meeting the
shorter term needs of system operators and users. Proposals are sought for
the development of photonic technology and systems for the scalable, future
proof and energy efficient access network and its extension to the customers’
premises including the home.
PIANO+ consolidates public funding activities in the participating countries
(Austria, Germany, Israel, Poland and the UK) and supports the best possible
exploitation of the resources. Moreover, it is expected to act as a strong incentive
for the European companies to engage in strategic research cooperation as it
will constitute a unique opportunity for them to benefit from a more efficient
use of their R&D resources and from comprehensive expertise made available
by a variety of research institutes.
PIANO+ is ERA-NET-PLUS on photonics-based internet access networks of
the future. It aims at consolidating the respective funding activities throughout
Europe and achieving the best possible exploitation of the resources and the
innovative potential of European industry and science. This shall be achieved
through a joint call focusing on photonic technology and system architectures for
the scalable, future proof, cost-effective and energy efficient access network.
The National Centre for Research and Development (Narodowe Centrum
Badań i Rozwoju – NCBiR) is the implementing agency of the Minister of
Science and Higher Education. It was appointed in the summer 2007 as an
entity in charge of the performance of the tasks within the area of national
science, science and technology and innovation policies. When it was founded,
it was the first entity of this type, created as a platform for effective dialogue
between the scientific and business communities.
The main task of the National Centre for Research and Development is management and execution of strategic research and development programmes,
which leads directly to the development of innovativeness.
Among the tasks of the National Centre for Research and Development, are
the support of commercialization and other forms of transfer of scientific
research results, the management of applied research programmes and the
performance of national security and defense projects.
The Centre also attempts to provide young scientists with training and development opportunities i.a. by implementing international scientific mobility
programmes. Special attention is paid to the participation of young scientists
in research programmes.
The Centre enables young researchers to expand their business and intellectual
property management skills and to learn how to commercialize research results.
In addition, the National Centre for Research and Development extended its
activity with new initiatives and possibilities on 1. September 2011. Assigned
by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education the function of the Mediation Institution in three operational programmes (in framework of Structural
Founds): Human Capital, Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment, the Centre became one of the greatest innovation centers in Poland.
National Centre for Research and Development as a government-funded
agency is responsible for managing and funding strategic scientific research
and experimental development programmes in Poland.
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e-BRAINS
Project’s title:
Best-Reliable Intelligent Ambient
Nanosensor Systems
Best-Reliable Intelligent Ambient Nanosensor Systems – e-BRAINS
– represents a giant leap for outstanding future applications in the area of
ambient living with the ultimate need for integration of heterogeneous
technologies, high-performance nanosensor devices, miniaturization,
smart wireless communication and best-reliability. e-BRAINS with
minimum volume and weight as well as reduced power consumption
can be utilized in ambient living systems.
ICT-2009.3.9
Microsystems and smart
miniaturized systems
http://www.e-brains.org/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2010
31-08-2013
15 249 347 €
10 000 000 €
Polish participant:
Institute of Electron Technology
Al. Lotników 32/46
02-668 Warszawa
http://www.ite.waw.pl/
Contact person:
PhD Tomasz Bieniek
Assistant/Project leader
Phone: +48 22 716 59 92 to 94 int. 21
The Consortium:
3. DICE Danube Integrated Circuit
Engineering GmbH & Co KG, Austria
4. SensoNor Technologies AS, Norway
Successful market entry of such innovative ambient intelligence products
will be determined by the performance improvement achieved and the cost
advantage in relation to the total system cost. The basic requirement for
robustness and reliability of the heterogeneous integration technologies and
the nanosensor layers is in the focus of all e-BRAINS developments. The
designated nanosensor systems represent a very promising innovative
approach with the potential to enable high-performance and precise
functions in new products. The application of nanotechnology will allow
large improvements in functionality and will open a wide range of applications
for European companies. Future e-BRAINS applications require significantly
higher integration densities. Performance, multi-functionality and reliability
of such complex heterogeneous systems will be limited mainly by the wiring between the subsystems. Suitable 3D integration technologies create
a basis to overcome these drawbacks with the benefit of enabling minimal
interconnection lengths. In addition to enabling high integration densities,
3D integration is a very promising cost-effective approach for the realization
of heterogeneous systems. Besides the heterogeneous system integration the
main criteria of e-BRAINS is the need for miniaturized energy storage/delivery
systems, low power consumption, smart communication and methodology for
reliability and robustness. e-BRAINS benefits from the established European
3D technology platform as major result of the IP e-CUBES.
e-BRAINS (Best-Reliable Intelligent Ambient Nanosensor Systems) is about
the creation of a new generation of sensors which leverage integration
of heterogeneous technologies, high-performance nano sensor devices,
miniaturization, smart wireless communication and best-reliability.
5. Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria
University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
7. Magna Diagnostics GmbH, Germany
8. 3D PLUS S.A., France
ITE is involved in work packages 1.3 and 1.4.:
9. Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Germany
10. SORIN CRM SAS, France
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12. VERMON S.A., France
13. Institute of Electron Technology, Poland
14. SIEMENS AG, Germany
16. Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria
Centrum vzw, Belgium
18. Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique Et Aux
19. eesy-id GmbH, Germany
20. IQE Silicon Compounds Ltd.,
United Kingdom
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WP 1.3 ITE works on hierarchical system modeling and model validation. They develop in collaboration with other project partners dedicated
test structures for heterogeneous integration and the fabrication of
corresponding test devices.
WP 1.4 ITE together with partners (e.g.: EPFL, SINTEF) investigates influence of thermal and mechanical effects of complex integrated structures with
nanocomponents modeled in WP 1.3. (e.g.: stability of nanostructures).
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SMAC
Project’s title:
SMArt systems Co-design
Smart systems consist of heterogeneous subsystems and components providing various functionalities normally implemented as “Multi-Package
on a Board”. To fully exploit the potential of current nanoelectronics
technologies, as well as to enable the integration of existing/new IPs and
“More than Moore” devices, smart system miniaturization and “Multi-Chip
in a Package” implementation are unavoidable. Such goals will be better
achievable if a flexible software platform (i.e., the SMAC platform) for
smart subsystems/components design and integration will be made available
to designers and system integrators. The SMAC platform includes methodologies and EDA tools enabling multi-disciplinary and multi-scale
modeling and design, simulation of multi-domain systems, subsystems
and components at all levels of abstraction, system integration and exploration for optimization of specific metrics, such as power, performance,
reliability and robustness. Key ingredients for the construction of the
SMAC platform include:
ICT-2011.3.2
Smart components and smart
systems integration
http://www.fp7-smac.org/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2011
30-09-2014
13 048 155 €
8 197 000 €
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Polish participant:
Al. Lotników 32/46
02-668 Warszawa
http://www.ite.waw.pl/
Contact person:
PhD Grzegorz Janczyk
Head of the Department of Integrated
Circuits and Systems
Phone: +48 22 548 78 50
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The main objective of the SMAC project platform is to address the following
grand challenges related to the design and manufacturing of miniaturized
smart systems:
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The Consortium:
1. Stmicroelectronics S.r.l., Italy
2. Philips Medical Systems Nederland bv,
The Netherlands
3. On Semiconductor Belgium BVBA,
Belgium
the development of a co-simulation and co-design environment which is
aware (and thus considers) the essential features of the basic subsystems
and components to be integrated;
the development of modeling and design techniques, methods and tools
that, when added to the platform, will enable multi-domain simulation
and optimization at various levels of abstraction and across different
technological domains.
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development of innovative smart subsystems and components demonstrating advanced performance, ultra low power and the capability of operating under special conditions (e.g., high reliability, long
lifetime);
design of miniaturized and integrated smart systems with advanced
functionality and performance, including nanoscale sensing systems,
possibly operating autonomously and in a networked fashion.
4. Agilent Technologies Belgium nv, Belgium
5. Coventor Sarl, France
6. Muneda GmbH, Germany
7. EDALab S.r.l., Italy
8. Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia,
Italy
10. Institute of Electron Technology, Poland
12. Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italy
13. The University of Nottingham,
United Kingdom
14. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
The Netherlands
Slovakia
17. ST-POLITO Societa’ consortile a r.l., Italy
Within the SMAC project, using its experience ITE participates in design/
modeling/validation works on various level of abstraction. Internal ITE technological facility is ready to support several fabrication experiments necessary for
SMAC-related tools development and validation of new CAD tools developed,
or already existing tools incorporated into the SMAC platform. According
to project partner needs ITE participates in common works also supporting
experiments to verify its own idea to be introduced in SMAC project.
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ASPICE
Project’s title:
Action to Support Photonic
Innovation Clusters in Europe
The enabling technology of photonics has developed dramatically worldwide
over the last 20 years and has now become a key emerging technology in
a modern industrial economy. Europe has benefited disproportionately from
this growth having increased its photonic revenues by 30% in the period
2005–2008. The rapid development of the market is explained by a number
of photonic applications that are replacing old fashioned technologies. The
applications are carried out by specialists that are leading the evolution process to new technologies and solutions. While the expansion to new areas is
wide, the real impact is low, because of no interaction with others markets. In
parallel with this expansion, photonic clusters have emerged so that today we
have 40 photonic innovation clusters across Europe. Many of these clusters
have initially focused on their indigenous growth but to achieve long term
growth there must be a greater focus on cluster collaboration in Europe,
particularly across value/supply chains where photonics is a key driver. One
of the main goals of ASPICE is to lead a dialog with the industry, where
today presence of photonic technologies is relative low. Collaboration with
photonics clusters and their members is crucial.
ICT-2011.3.5
Core and disruptive photonic technologies
http://www.fp7-aspice.eu/
31-08-2014
Project’s budget:
910 733 €
EC funding:
779 949 €
Polish participant:
54-066 Wrocław
www.eitplus.pl
Contact person:
Phone: +48 510 132 209
The Consortium:
1. Esp Central Ltd., United Kingdom
2. Opticsvalley-Au Service de l Optique de
l Electronique et de l Ingenierie Logicielle
en Ile-De-Franc, France
3. Optonet EV, Germany
4. Southern European Cluster in Photonics &
Optics Associacion, Spain
5. Foundation for Research And Technology
Hellas, Greece
The need for on-going international cooperation among photonics clusters
is pivotal in increasing their overall effectiveness in promoting research and
innovation, strengthening the European economy and addressing societal
challenges. ASPICE aspires to advance this cause by:
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surveying the photonic innovation clusters and platforms landscape and
developing a reference guide of good practices. Under the term good
practices, the reference guide will refer to specific, proven, efficient
(least amount of effort) and effective (best results) services provided by
clusters and platforms;
profiling and leveraging the value/supply chains in two societal challenges where photonics technology will be a key solution provider,
namely ‘Healthcare in an Aging Society’ and ‘Safety and security for
Europe’s citizens’;
engaging cluster and platform representatives and other relevant
stakeholders to ensure the ‘translation’ of the reference guide and the
value/supply chain profiles into actionable plans for embedding the more
suitable practices into the programmes of Europe’s photonic clusters.
6. National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland
Poland
WRC contributes in all support WPs (WP1–5) where it is involved in
identifying good practice in technology transfer and the models of R&D
services for collaboration in photonic clusters, with emphasis in Northeastern
Europe. WRC is connecting companies and researchers by matching their
value/supply chains so as to increase the number of companies and scientists
cooperating in the relevant clusters.
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OLAE+
Project’s title:
Organic and Large Area Electronics
European Competition for
Collaborative R&D Funding
Organic and large area electronics allows electronic circuits and devices to
be produced using relatively low cost printing processes onto any surface,
whether rigid or flexible, and over large areas. It will lead to the creation
of whole new generations of products such as conformable and rollable
displays, large area efficient lighting, low cost solar cells, low-cost RFIDs and
memories, flexible and environmental friendly batteries, etc.
ICT-2011.3.6
Flexible, organic and large area electronics
and photonics
The main objectives of the project OLAE+ are:
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http://www.olaeplus.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2011
30-09-2016
18 431 452 €
6 000 000 €
Polish participant:
and Development
ul. Nowogrodzka 47a
00-695 Warszawa
Contact person:
Wojciech Piotrowicz
Senior specialist
Phone: +48 785 661 476
The Consortium:
1. The Technology Strategy Board, United
Kingdom
2. VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH,
Germany
Muenchen, Germany
6. Agentschap voor Innovatie door
Wetenschap en Technologie, Belgium
7. Verket för Innovationssystem, Sweden
8. Agencia de Suport a l’Empresa Catalana,
Spain
Development, Poland
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to stimulate the technology and business relationships within the European OLAE community, removing barriers to industrialization;
to contribute to knowledge and technology transfer from “lab to fab”,
thus significantly accelerating the speed of innovation and industrial
development of OLAE in Europe;
to enhance the supply chain, by improving materials and processes and
substantially advancing the potential for new business cases in OLAE;
to stimulate collaboration between European enterprises, universities
and R&D Centres.
The National Centre for Research and Development as a government-funded
agency is responsible for managing and funding strategic scientific research
and experimental development programmes in Poland.
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IMPACT
Project’s title:
Improving Access to Text
The IMPACT project is a European research project focused on innovating OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software and language technology to improve the digitisation of historical printed text. IMPACT is
led by the KB National Library of the Netherlands. Our group of partners
includes several major European national libraries, universities, research
centres and two private sector companies (ABBYY and IBM Haifa).
ICT-2007.4.1
Digital libraries and technology-enhanced
learning
http://www.impact-project.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
31-12-2011
16 563 683 €
12 163 911 €
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
Agnieszka Stoklosa
Phone: +48 618 582 094
University of Warsaw
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
00-927 Warszawa
The Consortium:
IMPACT recently launched the IMPACT Centre of Competence, a network
of experts in digitisation that will build on the research and development
of partners from the IMPACT project and continue to improve access to
text. At the end of the project in June 2012, IMPACT is presenting the
following results:
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the improved commercial OCR engine ABBYY FineReader 10 (the
IMPACT FineReader);
IBM’s Adaptive OCR engine with the CONCERT tool that facilitates
OCR correction with volunteer involvement;
computerlexica for nine European languages and tools for lexicon
building;
a digitisation framework with facilities for wrapping all tools as web
services, creating workflows with IMPACT and external tools and instruments, as well as resources for demonstrating and evaluating results;
an invaluable dataset of over half a million images from 11 European
libraries (extensive ground truth for 50.000 images), which can foster
further research activities;
the Functional Extension Parser, a document understanding software
tool capable of decoding layout elements of books;
a postcorrection tool with text and error profiler for interactive post-correction of OCRed documents;
novel Approaches to preprocessing and OCR for future development;
the IMPACT Centre of Competence for digitisation: a unique network
bringing together experts from different communities with the mission
to make the digitisation of historical printed text in Europe faster, better,
cheaper, and to provide tools, services and facilities for further advancement of the State of the Art in this field.
1. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
2. The British Library, United Kingdom
IMPACT project will push innovation in OCR and language technologies for historical document processing and retrieval and build digitisation capacity in Europe. IMPACT will support all European players
such as libraries, cultural institutions, but also companies, decision making
bodies and funding agencies with high-level information concerning the
mass digitisation and transformation of historical texts. The Centre of
Competence that is to be set up during the project will aim to further the
collaboration and build a sustainable environment that will allow research
institutes, private sector partners and cultural heritage organisations to work
together to continue to improve access to historical texts. This community
will bridge the gap between specialist research and commercial/archival
needs, providing access to a suite of specially developed tools, as well as large
datasets of content from major European libraries and evaluation tools to
support further research.
3. Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek,
Austria
Germany
6. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany
7. Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen
Stiftung Oeffentlichen Rechts, Germany
8. Abbyy Production LLC, Russian Federation
9. IBM Israel – Science and Technology Ltd.,
Israel
10. Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie,
The Netherlands
11. National Center For Scientific Research
FP7 ICT | Digital libraries, content and technology-enhanced learning
Project’s title:
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Muenchen, Germany
13. University of Bath, United Kingdom
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
14. The University of Salford, United Kingdom
15. Bibliotheque Nationale de France, France
16. Institute for Parallel Processing of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
17. Nacionalna Biblioteka Sv. Sv. Cyril
i Metodij, Bulgaria
18. Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
19. Narodna in Univerzitetna Knjiznica,
Slovenia
20. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic
21. Narodni Knihovna Ceske Republiky,
Czech Republic
23. Fundacion Biblioteca Virtual Miguelde
Cervantes Saavedra, Spain
24. Biblioteca Nacional de Espana, Spain
26. University of Warsaw, Poland
27. Universidad de Alicante, Spain
The University of Warsaw, founded in 1816, is the largest university in
Poland, with about 2,900 academic staff among its 5,300 employees, and
over 60,000 students. It offers courses in 32 fields of arts and sciences, its
18 faculties include natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and over 30
extra-departmental and inter-faculty centres and programs.
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), a basic unit within the University of Warsaw, was founded
in 1993. It is a research centre in computational sciences and a centre of
high-performance e-infrastructure (www.icm.edu.pl).
The research performed at ICM has a strongly interdisciplinary profile. It
encompasses computational and information sciences. However it gives special
attention to the mathematical foundations of those fields, as well as applications
in other areas of science, technology and e-economy. In Poland and internationally, ICM is widely recognized as a provider of wide-range e-infrastructure
services, in particular those based on high-key knowledge infrastructure.
ICM’s e-infrastructure includes heterogeneous high-end computing and data
processing systems, broad spectrum of middleware and scientific software
solutions, enriched by large data collections and a virtual library of science,
offering licensed collections of the leading international publishers as well
as a comprehensive repository of Polish scientific publications.
Since it was founded, ICM has contributed to the development of new computational models for a range of challenging large-scale scientific applications,
and to the optimisation of numerous scientific codes for new computing
architectures, from multi-processor vector, massively parallel, to most recent
hybrid set-ups with embedded GPU-based nodes. The research also addresses
specific needs of various distributed environments, such as computational
and data grids, with contributions to robust middleware solutions, as well.
In 2010, the IMPACT consortium was extended with eleven new partners
from Southern and Eastern Europe, to contribute to the project’s goals of
optimising OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software and language
technology for historical material and sharing institutional knowledge and
expertise on digitisation.
Two Polish partners joined the IMPACT project, namely Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) and University of Warsaw
(UWAR), to verify how the tools developed in scope of the IMPACT project
can improve access to Polish historical documents. Polish partners selected
an experimental dataset, consisting of almost 10.000 scanned images of
Polish historical documents from five Polish digital libraries. Based on the
produced ground-truth data (full text of scanned images) it was possible to
develop language resources for the Polish language by the UWAR partner.
This allowed to demonstrate IMPACT tools in the context of Polish historical
documents and developed resources. PSNC has also actively participated in
building the IMPACT Centre of Competence as a premium member.
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WEKNOWIT
Project’s title:
Emerging, collective intelligence for
personal, organizational and social use
WeKnowIt project was about making use of collective knowledge – collective inteligence which is conceived in the process of cooperation between
many groups or individuals. For that purpose innovative technologies
were developed to make it possible to analyse data from different sources
(phone, voice, video, text). Their combination made it possible to develop
new information management services and extract information both for end
users and organisations.
ICT-2007.4.2
Intelligent content and semantics
http://www.weknowit.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-04-2008
31-03-2011
7 504 014 €
5 367 909 €
Polish participant:
Software Mind S.A.
ul. Bociana 22a
31-231 Kraków
http://www.softwaremind.pl/
Contact person:
Marcin Sieprawski
Software Architect
Phone: +48 607 282 537
The Consortium:
Greece
3. Lycos Europe GmbH, Germany
4. Motorola Ltd., United Kingdom
5. The University of Sheffield,
United Kingdom
Two solutions were developed as part of the WeKnowIt project to demonstrate possible applications of the developed techniques and tools:
Emergency Response Process and Social Consumer Groups.
Emergency Response Process as part of which ordinary people (system users)
are able to report threats they have noticed using a variety of means of communication (e-mail, mobile devices, SMS, websites). The system automatically
analyses and classifies the reported signals. For instance, automatic speech
recognition process extracts names of endangered streets and places from
telephone conversations. Automatic classification of such data makes it possible to control the mass of information incoming in an emergency situation
and provides appropriate services with aggregated and complete data free of
informational hype. The objective of the system is both to streamline the work
of emergency services and provide information services to individuals affected
by emergency situation (eg. information about available escape routes, nearest
hospitals etc.) This solution was implemented, among other places, in the city
of Sheffield which is one of the participants of WeKnowIt project.
Social Consumer Groups: solution used for publication of information
concerning one social group (such as throwing a party) and making it possible to obtain extra meta-information from different sources and group
discussions. The objective was to make use of collective intelligence for
private, commercial and public benefit purposes.
The main objective of WeKnowIt was to develop novel techniques for
exploiting multiple layers of intelligence from user-contributed content,
which together constitute Collective Intelligence, a form of intelligence that
emerges from the collaboration and competition among many individuals,
and that seemingly has a mind of its own.
9. Sheffield City Council, United Kingdom
To this end, input from various sources was analysed and combined: from
digital content items and accompanying metadata (Media Intelligence),
massive user feedback (Mass Intelligence), and users social interaction (Social
Intelligence) so as to benefit end-users (Personal Intelligence) and organisations (Organisational Intelligence).
10. Vysoke Uceni Technicke v Brne,
Czech Republic
7. Vodafone – Panafon Anonymi Elliniki
Etaireia Tilepikoinonion, Greece
8. Software Mind S.A., Poland
Spain
12. Yahoo Iberia SL, Spain
Germany
Software Mind S.A. is a software house company operating on a global
market. Software Mind provides innovative IT solutions and highest quality
of services to clients in industries such as telecommunications, modern
media and finances/banking. It also offers its own support systems for Sales
& Marketing 2.0, and innovative IPTV solutions. Key areas for operation
include the European Union countries and North America.
Our motto is ‘Focused on Results’ – each project is designed for specific business purposes and intended results. We are well aware that each implementation is a business challenge, where technology is a tool. We deliver solutions
that are a guarantee to our customers of achieving their business goals and
notable benefits. The company’s excellent market knowledge and high business culture have gained recognition of the world’s largest companies.
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Software Mind S.A. was the technological leader in the project. The
company was responsible for developing the architecture of the entire
system which is of key importance to the success of the project, designing
the system on all levels including development of ontology and collective
intelligence tools, implementation of proof of concepts and end solutions
with tests and implementation at the consortium level, integration of websites developed by partners (backend), development and implementation of
knowledge base (i.e. a hybrid storage for all kinds of data: semantic, object
and multimedia–related), participation in implementation of the front end
layer, and maintenance of the developer environment (repository of code
and artefacts, continuous integration server, bugtracker).
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JUMAS
Project’s title:
Judicial Management
by Digital Libraries Semantics
JUMAS project is focused on supporting the workflow management
and the semantic interpretation of recorded audio-video streams by
developing new models and techniques for representing and automatically extracting the embedded semantics derived from multiple data
sources. JUMAS will be used for collecting, sharing, annotating and retrieving information from multimedia data streams typical of video-recorded
administrative and public debates. The main testbed will be instantiated in
the judicial domain where JUMAS will be used for managing the workflow
and supporting information sharing and retrieving in all the different phases
of the investigation and judicial decision process.
ICT-2007.4.2
http://www.jumasproject.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2008
31-01-2011
3 696 187 €
2 725 001 €
The most important goal of the JUMAS system is to collect, enrich and
share multimedia documents annotated minimizing manual transcription activities.
EsaProjekt Sp z o.o.
ul. Długa 1–3
41–506 Chorzów
Contact person:
Rafał Dunal
Sales Director
Phone: +48 502 604 161
Courts of Wrocław within Polish
Ministry of Justice
ul. Ulica Sadowa 1
50-046 Wrocław
The Consortium:
1. Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische
Hochschule Aachen, Germany
2. Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Italy
3. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
4. Ministero Della Giustizia, Italy
5. Project Automation S.p.A., Italy
6. European Media Laboratory GmbH,
Germany
7. Institute of Telematics and Informatics,
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas,
Greece
8. Computer and Automation Research
Institute, Hungary
9. Courts of Wrocław within Polish Ministry
of Justice, Poland
10. EsaProjekt Sp z o.o., Poland
11. National Centre for IT in Public
Administration, Italy
12. EML Research GmbH, Germany
The EsaProject company’s history dates back to 1990. Initially, the company realized projects based on cooperation with Italian partners – Philips
Automation S.p.A. and related to road transport. The dynamic development
of the company resulted in the gradual extension of the activities to new
sectors of the domestic market. Major importance was the emergence of the
OPTIMed system in the late 90s, dedicated to support health care providers.
The system was developed and successfully sold to date, and the medical
sector product range is constantly enlarged. During its activity EsaProjekt
also realized many projects for public administration at both central and
regional levels. Some of them are directly concerned with issues related to
environmental protection. In recent years the range of our products has been
further expanded to include projects related to safety, as well as universal
solutions – are not closely related to a specific industry.
EsaProjekt provides advanced services for corporate and institutional clients.
The organization supports the following sectors: industrial, healthcare, environmental protection, public administration, logistics and road transport.
Deep market knowledge that is running the client, resulting from sectoral
specialization, educated staff and the experience gained in the implementation of complex projects allow you to offer customers the highest quality
services and products based on the latest technologies.
EsaProjekt took part in the project JUMAS in two important tasks – the
integration and demonstration of the resulting system.
System Integration. The result of this task was created by the various partners of the consortium JUMAS final prototype of the system (including all
suggestions made by end users). It was installed on a pilot basis in courts in
Italy and Polish (Regional Court in Wrocław). This system is delivered in
the language appropriate for each country.
EsaProject was responsible for the creation of the Polish language and to
developing an universal module to manage a variety of languages used in
the portal JUMAS. All modules which are available in the system are fully
integrated with each other at the level of database and application layer.
All standalone modules were integrated into a unified prototype, supporting
all features that JUMAS system provides.
System Demonstration. As part of the second task of the EsaProjekt, we
carried out many activities that were aimed at sound design JUMAS through
for instance participating in a series of conferences in the EU. After the end of
the project annual workshops with end users – students of law and European
Commission experts will also be organized by JUMAS. The project assumed
a demonstration system for the largest possible number of end users. The pilot
will be installed in Poland and Italy. The system has been tested for compatibility with user requirements, and regulations in terms of applied technology.
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TARGET
Project’s title:
Transformative, Adaptive, Responsive
and enGaging EnvironmenT
The global competition for highly skilled people has led to increasing acceptance by organizations, as a key business strategy, of the need to retain and
re-train their existing staff through some kind of tailored competence development that reduces the lead-time for a learner to achieve target productivity:
the “time-to-competence” (TTC).
ICT-2007.4.3
Digital libraries and technology-enhanced
learning
www.reachyourtarget.org
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2009
31-07-2012
9 406 168 €
6 787 613 €
Polish participant:
Lean Enterprise Institute Polska Sp. z o.o.
ul. Muchoborska 18, 54-424 Wrocław
http://lean.org.pl/
Contact person:
Marek Eisler
Research Program Manager
Phone: +48 717 985 733
The Consortium:
2. The Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and
Sport, Israel
3. Javna Agencija za Tehnoloski Razvoj
Republike Slovenije, Slovenia
4. Cyntelix Corporation Ltd., Ireland
5. Giunti Labs S.r.l., Italy
6. Conselleria de Economia e Industria. Xunta
de Galicia, Spain
7. Ministry of Economy Finance and
Employment, France
8. Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio, Finland
9. Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba, Lithuania
10. Inesc Id – Instituto de Engenharia de
Sistemas e Computadores, Investigacao
e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
11. Nokia Oyj, Finland
12. The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
13. Jerusalem Institute for Israeli Studies, Israel
14. Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige
Universitet NTNU, Norway
15. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
16. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Oesterreich, Austria
18. University College London, United Kingdom
19. Clear Communication Associates Limited
– CCA, United Kingdom
20. BIBA – Bremer Institut fuer Produktion
und Logistik GmbH, Germany
21. Inovacijsko-Razvojni Institut Univerze
v Ljubljani, Slovenia
22. Lean Enterprise Institute Polska Sp. z o.o.,
Poland
24. Virtech Ltd., Bulgaria
25. Alfamicro-Sistemas de Computadores, Lda,
Portugal
26. Helsingin Kauppakorkeakoulu, Finland
28. Cyntelix Corporation BV, The Netherlands
Today, the main route to shorten TTC is a bespoke (hand-crafted) face-toface or blended course, which tends to be resource-intensive (expensive to
create and deliver).
The work within the project TARGET aimed at research, analysis, and
development a new genre of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
environment that supports rapid competence development of individuals,
namely knowledge workers within the domains of living labs (innovation)
and project management.
The overall aim of the TARGET project was to provide individuals and enterprises with a new learning environment that is more effective than what is
available today, will be achieved through the following specific objectives:
• Conceptual Framework;
• Knowledge model;
• TARGET Learning Process;
• TARGET Platform;
• Pedagogical Agents;
• TARGET Communities;
• Human Resources Management (HRM) Integration;
• Evaluation Framework.
Lean Enterprise Institute Polska Sp. z o.o. (LEI Poland) is a private legal
entity registered in Poland. LEI Poland is a spin-off company from Wrocław
University of Technology (WUT). LEI Poland was created in 2006, however
its roots date back to 1999 when the Lean Manufacturing Program of WUT
was started. LEI Poland is a legal successor to this program.
The activities of Lean Enterprise Institute Polska include:
• training activities (approx. 2000–2500 managers and engineers trained
per year);
• publishing management workbooks;
• organization of conferences;
• implementation-oriented research projects and
• lean implementations in the industry.
LEI Poland is one of 14 partners within the Lean Global Network, responsible for Poland and Central Europe (http://www.lean.org/WhoWeAre/
GlobalNetwork.cfm). LEI Poland is regarded by Polish industry as the principal focal point on lean management knowledge. It also has extensive experience
in other central European countries. Industrial partners include e.g. Whirlpool, Volvo, Electrolux, Gillette, 3M, MAN, Cadbury, Philips, Carlsberg.
LEI Poland conducts also research activities on disseminating lean knowledge
among SMEs. It includes participation within large scale integrated FP7
project FutureSME.
Lean Enterprise Institute Polska Sp. z o.o. was responsible for managing one of
the Work Packages. The Work Package aimed at conducting dissemination
and exploitation activities. LEI Poland was also responsible for providing
subject matter experts in domain of Sustainable Global Manufacturing as
well as linking outcomes of the project with business needs.
Project’s title:
e-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary
Collaborative Research in Data Mining
and Data-Intensive Sciences
The e-Lab comprises three layers:
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ICT-2007.4.4
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http://www.e-lico.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2009
31-01-2012
4 468 853 €
3 417 403 €
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the e-Science layer, built on an open-source e-Science infrastructure,
will help researchers around the world to share workflows and results,
to form communities and to learn from each other. e-LICO is using the
myExperiment.org portal as its main entry point to the community;
the data mining layer is the distinctive core of e-LICO. It provides
comprehensive data mining tools for various tasks and special applications. The researcher will be assisted by a knowledge-driven data mining
assistant and workflow planner guiding the expert scientist through
the data mining process without imposing the requirement for deep
statistical knowledge on them;
the application layer. e-LICO will be showcased in two application
domains: a systems biology task (biomarker discovery and molecular pathway modeling for diseases affecting the kidney and urinary
pathways) and a video recommendation task based on videos from
VideoLectures.Net.
Polish participant:
60-965 Poznań
http://www.put.poznan.pl
The goal of the e-LICO project is to build a virtual laboratory for interdisciplinary collaborative research in data mining and data-intensive
sciences. The proposed e-Lab comprises three layers: the e-Science layer and
the data mining layer form a generic knowledge discovery platform that can
be adapted to different scientific domains by customizing the application
layer. The project’s overall research strategy can be summarized as the bottom-up construction of this three-tiered architecture.
Contact person:
PhD Agnieszka Ławrynowicz
Assistant professor
Phone: +48 61 665 30 26
The Consortium:
1. Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
2. Institut National de la Sante et de la
Recherche Medicale (INSERM), France
3. Medicel Oy, Finland
4. National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens, Greece
5. Rapid-I GmbH, Germany
6. The University of Manchester,
United Kingdom
9. Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia
The team from Poznań University of Technology provided its cross-disciplinary
expertise in data mining and Semantic Web/ontologies. PUT was involved
mainly in ontology engineering tasks, supporting them in terms of content as
well as methodologically, and in the variety of tasks related to the paradigm
of semantic/ontology-based data mining in several work packages. PUT
also contributed to dissemination activities by co-organizing 2011 edition
of the Workshop on Inductive Reasoning and Machine Learning from the
Semantic Web-IRMLeS, and a tutorial on Semantic Data Mining at a major
data mining conference.
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INSEMTIVES
Project’s title:
Incentives for Semantics
ICT-2007.4.4
INSEMTIVES studies incentive models and means to optimally combine
human and computer intelligence to enable the creation of massive
amounts of valuable semantic data and to establish a global-scale user base
therefore. These issues are seen as one of the core building blocks currently
missing for a global adoption of semantic technologies.
http://insemtives.eu
The core scientific and technological objectives of the project are as follows:
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-04-2009
31-03-2012
5 431 023 €
3 777 342 €
Polish participant:
Department of Information Systems,
Al. Niepodległości 10
61-875 Poznań
http://ue.poznan.pl
Contact person:
Prof. Witold Abramowicz
Phone: +48 861 543 3 81
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design methodologies for semantic content authoring balancing
between human and computational intelligence;
design incentive models and participatory methods enabling massive
human involvement in semantic content authoring tasks;
design models for representing user-generated semantic content and
methods for supporting the life cycle of this content;
implement a semantic content management platform and end-user
semantic authoring tools based on the design guidelines and incentive
mechanisms defined.
INSEMTIVES implemented three case studies in order to exercise the
scientific and technology outputs in the sectors of knowledge management
in the telecommunication sector, services technology, and online games and
virtual worlds.
The Consortium:
In the INSEMTIVES project, Department of Information Systems, contribution to the Framework for Semantic Content Creation is twofold: creation
of business models for semantically annotated content and development of
a semantic annotation tool for mobile devices. Semantic content providers, as all enterprises, need to identify customers or customer-segments,
recognize their needs, then to structure offers that satisfy those needs and
deliver perceived value over the free-sources by differentiating products.
The semantic content production may be related to two different areas of
company activities: where information is a product offered by a company
or the information concerns the main product of the company and is a way
of promoting this product. The main outcome of the work conducted by
DIS is the creation of a business model design template.
2. Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
3. Universitaet Siegen, Germany
4. Sirma Solutions JSC, Bulgaria
5. Seekda OG, Austria
6. Peppers Ghost Productions Ltd.,
United Kingdom
Spain
8. Ontotext AD, Bulgaria
9. Seekda GmbH, Austria
10. Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca,
Romania
11. Department of Information Systems,
Poznań University of Economics, Poland
The business model describing the semantic initiatives consists of three major
parts (dimensions): offering, revenue and customer describing different
points of view on offering and the way the revenue may be generated. The
developed business model design template can guide organizations while
making decisions regarding the usage or creations of semantically annotated
content. The second area of responsibilities of DIS focused on the definition
and creation of a semantic content creation tool for mobile devices. The
tool is supporting users in the process of creation of semantically annotated
reviews of various venues as well as offers personalised, semantic-enabled
search possibilities. It uses DBpedia as a source of data and is integrated
with the Facebook portal.
For the needs of the application, a distinct disambiguation solution has
been designed, adjusted to the specific needs of a mobile device. In order to
attract users and ensure their engagement in the semantic content creation
process, a methodology of incentivizing semantic creation apps developed
within the INSEMTIVES project has been applied.
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WF4EVER
Project’s title:
Advanced Workflow Preservation
Technologies for Enhanced Science
Wf4Ever addresses some of the biggest challenges for the preservation of
scientific workflows in data-intensive science, including:
ICT-2009.4.1
Digital libraries and digital preservation
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http://www.wf4ever-project.org/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-12-2010
30-11-2013
3 864 921 €
2 940 000 €
Polish participant:
Networking Center (PSNC), Institute
of Bioorganic Chemistry of Polish
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
Agnieszka Stoklosa
Phone: +48 61 858 20 94
The Consortium:
1. Intelligent Software Components S.A.,
Spain
United Kingdom
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To address these challenges, the Wf4Ever project investigates and develops
technological infrastructure for the preservation and efficient retrieval and
reuse of scientific workflows in a range of disciplines (at first astronomy
and bioinformatics). Wf4Ever combines, adapts and extends existing results
obtained by project partners (iSOCO, University of Manchester, Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center,
University of Oxford, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, and Leiden
University Medical Centre) in the areas of Scientific Workflow Management,
Digital Libraries, Social Networks, and Semantic Web. Wf4Ever results are
being evaluated in real-world applications by tackling complex problems in
the scientific domains of Astronomy and Genomics, including the preservation and management of scientific workflows from their very inception and
the collaborative access and reuse by the scientific community to previously
archived workflows. By carefully choosing these two applications, Wf4Ever
aims to stimulate both the creation of methods and tools for the preservation of scientific data and the application of such advances in very
relevant scientific domains.
The Wf4Ever project addresses the following challenges:
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Center (PSNC), Institute of Bioorganic
Poland
6. Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
7. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van
Wetenschappen – KNAW, The Netherlands
the consideration of complex digital objects that comprise both their
static and dynamic aspects, including workflow models, the provenance
of their executions, and interconnections between workflows and related
resources;
the provision of access, manipulation, sharing, reuse and evolution
functions to these complex digital objects;
integral lifecycle management functions for workflows and their associated materials.
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the creation and management of complex research objects that take into
account the dual nature (static and dynamic) of scientific workflows;
the archival, classification, and indexing of scientific workflows and
their associated materials in scalable semantic repositories, providing
advanced access and recommendation capabilities;
the creation of scientific communities to collaboratively share, reuse
and evolve workflows and their parts, stimulating the development of
new scientific knowledge.
Wf4Ever brings significant new functionality to scientists, enabling them
to take a step forward in the preservation of scientific knowledge by
introducing the novel concept of workflow-related research objects,
which acknowledges the central role of workflows in e-Science and their
relevance for scientific preservation. The project addresses the preservation
requirements of scientific data by considering workflows as live entities,
which as they evolve need to be kept consistent with respect to research
materials, many of them beyond the control of the originating scientists.
The main tangible outcomes of the project include:
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a software architecture for the design and implementation of scientific
workflow preservation systems;
a reference implementation instantiating the architecture and enabling
the preservation and efficient retrieval of scientific workflows across
a range of domains;
a new research object model for the description of scientific workflows
and related materials;
new techniques and tools for workflow decay analysis, abstraction and
comparison;
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new techniques and tools for research object evolution, personalized
recommendations and collaboration between scientists;
new techniques and tools for integrity and authenticity management
based on provenance models of workflow-related research objects;
the application of project’s results and technology to two workflow-intensive scientific use cases in thin the areas of Astronomy and
Genomics.
The aim of the Wf4Ever project corresponds to directions of development
of Polish e-Infrastructure. Its results can also be deployed within PIONIER
Network and use by Polish scientific community. By contributing digital
library expertise PSNC helps in achieving the project goal leading Work
Package on Software Architecture and Technology for Scientific Workflow
Preservation (WP1). The objective of WP1 is to design the architecture for
the management, preservation and sharing of research objects defined in
WP2 (including workflows and their related objects), according to which
the services of WPs 2–4 are developed, and to realize this architecture in an
implementation that is being extended by these components and used by
the applications developed in WP 5 and 6. Additionally, PSNC is highly
involved in WP3, called Workflow Evolution, Sharing and Collaboration.
In this WP project partners works on a collaboration and evolution model
that adapts and extends previous experiences in collaborative scenarios for
ontology versioning and evolution to the case of research objects. This model
is built on top of the research object model with the possibility to represent
the different stages of the lifecycle of research objects and of their dependencies with other resources.
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NEXT-TELL
Project’s title:
Next Generation Teaching,
Education and Learning for Life
The NEXT-TELL project aims to provide, through research and development, computational and methodological support to teachers and
students.
The NEX-TELL project has following complementary objectives:
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http://www.next-tell.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2010
31-08-2014
8 034 809 €
6 450 000 €
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Polish participant:
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BOC Information Technologies
Consulting Sp. z o.o.
ul. Aleje Jerozolimskie 109 Nr Lok. 26
02-011 Warszawa
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Contact person:
Michał Kossowski
Phone: +48 608 355 788
The Consortium:
1. Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft
mbH, Austria
2. Uni Research AS, Norway
3. Medien in der Bildung Stiftung, Germany
5. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
6. The University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom
7. Institute of Education, University of
London, United Kingdom
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articulate a conceptual framework for designing and implementing
methods that can be used to formatively assess ICT-enhanced learning
and to negotiate the assessment process amongst stakeholders;
provide resources and ICT support for teachers and students to develop
learning activities and appraisal methods appropriate for 21st Century
learning based on this conceptual framework;
provide IT support in the classroom so that teachers and students
have available nuanced information about students’ learning when it
is needed and in a format that is supportive of decision making, thus
optimizing levels of stimulation, challenge, and feedback;
provide IT support for making students’ activities in informal learning places – and in general in the “learning ecology” outside of school
– part of ‘accountable work’, thus building on students’ interests, fostering their identity development and supporting their social networks;
foster in-service teachers’ professional development by providing
new methods and tools for learning from students’ learning and for
learning from peers’ teaching;
increase a school’s capacity for data-driven decision making by means
of leadership development, including ICT support for the strategic
planning of teachers’ professional development.
The BOC Group is a technological leader in IT-based management tools and
offers consulting services in the areas of Strategy and Performance Management, Business Process Management, and IT Management. The organization
operates internationally with the company’s headquarters based in Vienna
and with several offices in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Poland, Spain,
and Switzerland.
The products of the BOC Management Office, especially the Business
Process Management Toolkit ADONIS and the IT Architecture and Service
Management Toolkit ADOit, are used worldwide both in big corporations
and small and medium-sized enterprises.
9. Verein Offenes Lernen, Austria
10. BOC Asset Management GmbH, Austria
11. BOC Information Technologies Consulting
Sp. z o.o., Poland
12. MTO Psychologische Forschung und
Beratung GmbH, Germany
In addition to providing software tools and services on the domestic market,
BOC in Poland actively supports leading Polish universities in promoting BPM concepts by providing IT tools and trainings for educational
purposes.
The main role of BOC in the project is to provide software tools and support
in modelling of teaching and assessment as well as strategic management
in schools.
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Technology-enhanced learning
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IPROD
Project’s title:
Integrated management of
product heterogeneous data
Data and knowledge management technologies are of strategic importance
for industrial innovation, provided they are integrated in the company processes, in the organizational structure, and can be flexibly adapted to company
evolution. In particular the Product Development Process (PDP) of manufacturing companies, requires the efficient management of huge amounts of
data from different sources and their integration in the sub-processes that
compose the product chain. The efficient use of information lifecycle, by the
large adoption of virtual testing and by the inter-functional management of
related data in the product management would become a strategic advantage
for the innovation race. Present ICT solutions separately address parts of
product development, but an integrated approach that includes data and
services required for the whole Product Development Process does not yet
exist. iProd will improve the efficiency and quality of the Product Development Process developing a flexible, service oriented, customer driven software
framework that will be the backbone of computer systems associated with
current and new development processes. To achieve these goals, iProd will
rely on knowledge management (KM), knowledge based engineering (KBE)
and process integration and automation technologies. iProd will assume
the challenge of complexity, semantic diversity and richness of content
establishing semantically rich, open and transparent methodologies that will
enable knowledge workers from aerospace, automotive and home appliances
industries to manage product and process complexity, managing “higher
value information” like functional specifications, requirements, decision
rationale and engineering and business knowledge in general. This knowledge base along with a reasoning engine will support information sharing,
collaboration across companies, common understanding of PDP among
different industries and will promote efficient decision taking.
ICT-2009.4.3
Intelligent information management
http://www.iprod-project.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2011
31-01-2014
4 664 858 €
3 300 180 €
Polish participant:
SCAI Polska Sp. z o.o.
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 62
00-322 Warszawa
http://www.scai.nazwa.pl/www/scai/
FP7 ICT | Intelligent information management
Contact person:
PhD Marek Kosnik
Phone: +48 22 403 67 30
The Consortium:
1. LMS International NV, Belgium
The iProd proposal addresses the high amount of heterogeneous information
involved in all activities associated with current and new product development processes, from the definition of subjective goals from customer
viewpoint (and subsequent description in the form of technical goals), to
the drawing up of the Tests Plan (physical and virtual) and its monitoring, to
final approval and product validation. This process involves most company
departments, such as Marketing, Quality, Experimentation.
3. Paragon Anonymh Etaireia Meleton
Erevnas Kai Emporiou Proigmenhs
Texnologias, Greece
4. Screen 99 S.a.s. di Baruzzo &C, Italy
5. SCAI Polska Sp. z o.o., Poland
6. Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique
ASBL – Cenaero, Belgium
7. Pininfarina S.p.A., Italy
Switzerland
9. Fundacion Cidaut, Spain
11. Ke-Works Knowledge Engineering, The
Netherlands
12. Alessi S.p.A, Italy
13. Electrolux Italia S.p.A., Italy
14. Noesis Solutions, Belgium
15. Ke-Works B.V, The Netherlands
SCAI Polska Sp. z o.o. is a part of the SCAI Group. Its objective is to generate
contacts among Italian and East European Companies active in the field
of ICT technology transfer. SCAI Polska has a wide range of intervention
possibilities in Poland. Its main competences are: information technology,
technological transfer models, engineering, process organization, monitoring. SCAI Polska develops strategies, policies and programs to strengthen
the competitive position. Offers a significant know-how for European and
Polish companies.
SCAI Polska will be mainly involved in the Software Development and
dissemination work packages, especially on the Polish market (for instance
railways-related customers and industries). Dissemination activities are
a useful tool for increasing and improving business opportunities among
customers and industries. Dissemination activities are a sharp tool in order
to increase and improve business opportunities among customers, captive
and prospect ones.
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ROBUST
Project’s title:
Risk and Opportunity management
of huge-scale BUSiness
communiTy cooperation
The project ROBUST is targeted at developing methods to understand
and manage the business, social and economic objectives of the users,
providers and hosts and to meet the challenges of scale and growth in
large communities. Hence, the objectives of ROBUST are to find solutions
for community risk management, large scale data management, models of
community polity and politics, community simulation and community
data analysis.
ICT-2009.4.3
Accessible and assistive ICT
http://www.robust-project.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-11-2010
31-10-2013
10 323 562 €
6 860 500 €
Polish participant:
Software Mind S.A.
ul. Bociana 22a
31-231 Kraków
http://www.softwaremind.pl/
Contact person:
Marcin Sieprawski
Software Architect
The Consortium:
2. SAP AG, Germany
Israel
4. National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland
United Kingdom
Germany
7. TEMIS S.A., France
8. Software Mind S.A., Poland
9. The Open University, United Kingdom
10. Meaningmine Ltd., Ireland
The ROBUST will provide a tool in order to assist the decision maker
and support the online community risk management process. For this
reason, techniques for risk identification, modeling and evaluation have
also been reviewed. The techniques range from qualitative to quantitative
approaches with varying level of complexity. According to the evaluation of
the reviewed techniques, Bayesian networks, compartment models and agent
based simulation stand out as feasible approaches for risk and opportunities
specification, assessment and forecasting in ROBUST.
Agent-based simulation and compartment models are considered for
forecasting of whether risks or opportunities are likely to occur in the future.
This is key to achieving the proactive community management consortium
strives to support in ROBUST. Given that a forecasting tool can give a probability of a risk occurring, mitigating actions can be taken by the community
owner before the risk has actually occurred.
The objectives of ROBUST fall into five categories: risk and opportunity
management, large scale community data management, community polity
and politics, community simulation and community analysis.
Risk management: The identification and modeling of risks and opportunities in online communities will support the understanding and management
of these communities. In particular it will enable stakeholders to identify
threats, support their decision making process and lead them in choosing
proactively measures to counter risks or seize opportunities.
Community data management: The volume of data created in online
communities in the form of texts, the interaction between users or simply
the interaction of users with the system itself demands for new technologies
for large scale data management and processing.
Community polity and politics: Understanding the behaviour and needs
of users on a micro level requires detailed user models. This allows to classify users based on behaviour patterns and determine the role they play in
a community, what is their status and what motivates their actions.
Community simulation: A model on a macro-level captures the dynamics
of entire communities and their development. Understanding the effects
of policies on a community can help to forecast the way the community is
evolving and in which direction it is heading.
Community analysis: The ability to detect communities, find the topics
they are dealing with and to recognize patterns in massive community data
complements the other objectives.
Software Mind S.A. is the main technological supplier and the architecture
developer of the whole solution, is also responsible for the implementation
of work management and integration of components developed by partners.
Other role of Software Mind S.A. is to maintain the developer environment
(repository of code and artifacts, continuous integration server, issue tracker)
and production environment (projects servers, web application containers,
virtual machines, integration platform). Software Mind S.A. also takes the role
of Scrum Master of Scrum Process in Robust Project. Last but not least Software Mind S.A. releases a Robust System as a standalone virtual machine.
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PERFORM
Project’s title:
A sophisticated multi-parametric
system for the continuous-effective
assessment and monitoring of motor
status in Parkinson’s disease and
other neurodegenerative diseases
The PERFORM project aimed to tackle problems associated with the
efficient remote health status monitoring, the qualitative and quantitative
assessment and the treatment personalization for people suffering from
neurodegenerative diseases and movement disorder, such as Parkinson’s
disease (PD). The PERFORM project aspired to research and develop an
innovative, intelligent system for monitoring neurodegenerative disease
evolution through the employment of a wide range of wearable micro-sensors, advanced knowledge processing and fusion algorithms.
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ICT-2007.5.1
Personal health systems for monitoring and
point-of-care diagnostics
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2008
31-07-2011
8 969 326 €
6 756 492 €
Polish participant:
Gdańsk University of Technology
ul. Gabriela Narutowicza 11/12
80-233 Gdańsk
http://pg.gda.pl
Contact person:
Gabriela Wiśniewska
Administrative assistant
Phone: +48 58 348 60 52
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to develop wearable devices for the monitoring of the patient health
status 24h/day;
to objectively assess patient motor symptoms;
to objectively evaluate disease progression and evolution;
to assess the effectiveness of pharmacological treatment plans.
Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) has over 100 years of tradition.
Today there are 26,000. In nine faculties they have the opportunity to obtain
engineer, MSc or doctoral diplomas, as well as undertake postgraduate or
MBA studies. Studies and various specializations are also conducted in
English. Some of the courses offered by GUT are unique in Poland.
The University has 2,500 staff members, including 1,200 academic teachers
to attend to student needs. Students have access to specialist laboratories,
lecture theatres with multimedia facilities, a library with 1.2 million volumes
and various sports facilities. Undergraduates can also join some 60 scientific
and language circles as well as other organizations. Annually, around 300
undergraduates study abroad, many eventually acquiring more than one
university diploma.
The Consortium:
S.A., Spain
2. Medtronic Iberica S.A., Spain
3. Anonymos Etaireia Antiprosopeion
Emporiou kai Viomichanias, Greece
4. Gdańsk University of Technology, Mobility
Center, Poland
5. Logicom Solutions Limited, Cyprus
6. The University of Westminster,
United Kingdom
7. Michalis Papasavas A.E., Greece
8. Panepistimio Ioanninon, Greece
9. Patmos S.r.l., Italy
10. Medmark s.r.o, Slovakia
11. Boehringer Ingelheim Italia – S.p.A., Italy
12. Universidad de Navarra, Spain
13. Talanton sa Business Consulting and
Marketing Services, Greece
14. Oxygen Solutions s.r.o., Czech Republic
15. Siemens S.A., Spain
16. Oxford Computer Consultants Ltd.,
United Kingdom
17. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones
Tecnicas de Gipuzkoa, Spain
18. Kingston Computer Consultancy Ltd.,
United Kingdom
19. Logicom Public Ltd., Cyprus
20. Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale di Modena,
Italy
GUT scientific staff are engaged in numerous projects on the regional,
national and international level. They carry out a lot of work that is
financed from EU Structural Funds. In this respect GUT is one of the
leaders among technical universities. GUT willingly cooperates with business
and industry, which results in not only creating interesting ventures and
implementations but also opportunities for students to obtain scholarships,
internships and professional experience. GUT’s solutions and patents are
frequently awarded prizes at prestigious, international fairs and competitions.
The Gdańsk University of Technology organizes many national and international conferences, symposiums and seminars. It is one of the most important
centers of science in Poland.
Legal, financial, and administrative assistant.
A remote controlled Sensorized
ARTificial heart enabling
patients empowerment and
new therapy approaches
The SensorART platform is an open, interoperable, extendable and VAD-independent platform which incorporates different hardware and software
components in order to improve both the quality of the patients’ treatment
and the workflow of the specialists.
SensorART provides:
ICT-2009.5.1
Personal health systems
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http://www.sensorart.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-03-2010
28-02-2014
8 551 897 €
6 240 000 €
Polish participant:
Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics
and Biomedical Engineering Polish
Academy of Sciences
ul. Księcia Trojdena 4
02-109 Warszawa
http://www.ibib.waw.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Marek Darowski
Deputy Director for Research
The Consortium:
1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Perfezionamento Sant’anna, Italy
4. Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedale Niguarda
ca’ Granda, Italy
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innovative telemedicine services supporting patients with chronic
heart failure and healthcare professionals, allowing patients to be treated
at home without renouncing to accessing high medical expertise;
innovative tele-control services allowing the patient and the healthcare
professional to keep under control the performance of cardiovascular
implanted assist devices (VAD);
demonstrate of effectiveness and cost effectiveness of specialized
telemedicine services and the positive impact on the healthcare system
reducing hospitalisation time, by considering also the higher degree
of device acceptability at home by a training of the patient and his
empowerment.
The psychological support, evaluation and counseling before and after
implantation is strongly considered, by taking into consideration the importance of brain-heart and brain-homeostasis recover relations. Circulatory
modeling and simulation of cardiac and circulatory dynamics is adapted
to reconstruct the patient’s status and analyze separately the effects of heart
and circulatory conditions along with the assistance conduction. Through
this application, novices has the possibility to make himself familiar with
VADs, while gaining in-silico experience in treating acute heart failure. The
analysis and exploitation of the medical device market by the development
of an open, standardized interoperable system is able to easily interact with
the existing products.
The SensorART project focuses on management and remote treatment on
patients suffering from heart failure. In this scope the project provides novel
ICT advancements based on:
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wearable sensors;
artificial intelligent algorithms;
light-weight portable hardware controllers;
“smart” signal processing algorithms.
5. Implemental Systems SL, Spain
Hellas, Greece
7. Circulite GmbH, Germany
8. University Claude Bernard Lyon, France
9. Datasel Bilgi Sistemleri AS, Turkey
10. Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical
Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland
11. Velti Anonymos Etairia Proionton
Logismikou & Synafon Proionton &
Ypiresion, Greece
12. Intrarom S.A., Romania
The Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Polish
Academy of Sciences (Instytut Biocybernetyki i Inżynierii Biomedycznej
im. Macieja Nałęcza Polskiej Akademii Nauk – IBBE PAS) was founded in
1975. The Institute is the biggest centre of biomedical engineering in Poland
and has a long history of training and awarding young generation of the
biomedical engineering experts. IBBE PAS is a coordinator of the nationwide
scientific network carrying studies in the field of biomedical engineering
(BIOMEN), a coordinator and co-implementer of the nationwide Foresight
project concerning development of “Scenarios of Medical Technologies’
Development until 2020 in Poland”. According to appraisal of the Ministry
of Science and Higher Education the Institute is a first category institution
ranked at 4th position among 53 institutions from group of research units in
the field of “Electrotechnics, automatics, electronics and information technologies”. In 2008 IBBE PAS joined a newly established BIOCENTRUM
Ochota consortium that also associates: Institute of Experimental Biology
PAS, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Institute of Experimental
and Clinical Medicine PAS, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
PAS and International Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology.
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ICT for health, independent living, inclusion and governance
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At present the Institute employs 149 employees including 11 professors and
13 associate professors. Since 2008 its structure consists of six departments:
Hybrid Biosystems Engineering, Technical Support of Medical Diagnosis
and Therapy, Biophysical Measurements and Imaging, Technical Support
of the Lost Functions of the Organism, Mathematical and Computer
Modeling of Physiological Processes as well as Engineering of Nervous
and Muscular Systems.
The Institute publishes the Journal of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, which is indexed and abstracted in the following Thomson Reuters
products: Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®) and Journal Citation
Reports/Science Edition.
The laboratory of hybrid modeling of cardiovascular and pulmonary systems
support of Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of
Polish Academy of Sciences (IBBE PAS) in cooperation with cardiovascular
engineering group (section in Rome) of the Institute of Clinical Physiology of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-IFC), proposed a novel
approach to modeling that involves merging simple physical models with
more complex numerical models. This solution opened the way to a new
type of circulatory models, defined as hybrid, that should revolutionize
the idea and modeling possibilities, increasing the accuracy and flexibility,
and concurrently reducing the costs. A reliable circulatory model is the
pre-requisite to create a credible alternative to animal experiments that,
apart from ethical issues, increase the cost of research. The hybrid technology
makes the model quite independent of the structure: it makes possible to
realize modeling platforms easily adaptable to any experimental conditions
maintaining the full comparability and repeatability of the results.
Last but not least, such a platform can include a respiratory system model to
analyze concurrently the circulatory and respiratory system, as well as their
interaction. Realization of this modeling platform is remarkably advanced
now and its first results have been published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences. Of course, beyond clinical applications,
the platform will become, a powerful educational tool.
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TLEMSAFE
Project’s title:
Improving safety and predictability of
complex musculoskeletal surgery using
a patient-specific navigation system
TLEMsafe is a navigation system based on innovative ICT tools for
training and pre-operative planning. Extensive, innovative validation
techniques including quantitative indicators to improve safety (of
surgical operation) and quality (highly predictable effects of complex
surgery) are included. The emphasis on the M-S pathologies and the adaptive
capabilities of the human M-S system creates a unique system. Co-developing
the software of the visual and interactive (surgical) parts with clinicians and
companies eases the successful introduction to (future) surgeons.
ICT-2009.5.2
ICT for patient safety
The project’s key objectives are:
Polish participant:
Institute of Micromechanics and
Photonics (IMP),
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
http://www.pw.edu.pl/
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Robert Sitnik
Phone: +48 22 234 82 83
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The Netherlands
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validate the recently developed Twente Lower Extremity Model (TLEM)
further and use innovative measurement methods to acquire unique
validation data;
apply and validate 4-D shape measurements on patients, as an improvement to conventional marker-based movement analysis systems;
generate a patient-specific representation of the lower limb using innovative imaging techniques and fast computer algorithms;
add new features to TLEM such that it can incorporate adaptive capabilities of patients that require complex M-S surgery;
create a computer program of the patient-specific model which allows
the surgeon to pre-plan and execute the surgery, as well as an interface
which can be used during surgery;
develop a surgical simulator that can be used as a training method for
reconstructive surgeons.
3. Brainlab AG, Germany
4. Anybody Technology A/S, Denmark
WUT is responsible for development of Surgeon-Model Virtual Reality
(SMVR) system based on haptic interaction with 3D interactive model. Testing of dynamic, full-field 3DMADMAC measurement system for validation
and assessment of its usefulness for musculo-skeletal model development is
also planned. The WUT is a member of the Project Management Team.
5. Materialise NV, Belgium
6. Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics
(IMP), Warsaw University of Technology,
Poland
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28-02-2014
4 332 259 €
3 060 720 €
FP7 ICT
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
TLEMsafe aims to develop, validate, and clinically implement an ICT-based
patient-specific surgical navigation system. The system uses image-based
patient-specific musculoskeletal models. It helps the surgeon safely reaching
the optimal functional result for patients that require complex M-S operations, and is a user-friendly training facility for surgeons.
http://www.tlemsafe.eu
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P-MEDICINE
Project’s title:
From data sharing and integration via
VPH models to personalised medicine
p-medicine – From data sharing and integration via VPH models to
personalized medicine is a 4-year Integrated Project co-funded under the
European Community’s 7th Framework Programme aiming at developing
new tools, IT infrastructure and VPH models to accelerate personalized
medicine for the benefit of the patient.
ICT-2009.5.3
Virtual physiological human
http://www.p-medicine.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2011
31-01-2015
18 481 405 €
13 329 907 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
http://www.pcss.pl
Contact person:
Juliusz Pukacki
Phone: +48 61 858 21 71
The Consortium:
1. Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany
2. European Research And Project Office
GmbH, Germany
Hellas, Greece
Hannover, Germany
7. Custodix NV, Belgium
The Netherlands
9. Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf,
Germany
Systems, Greece
S.A., Spain
12. Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel,
Germany
13. Istituto Europeo di Oncologia Srl, Italy
14. Ecancermedicalscience AG, Switzerland
16. A. Persidis & Sia Oe, Greece
17. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
18. National University Corporation Hokkaido
University, Japan
Israel
In p-medicine project 19 partners from 9 European countries and Japan
have dedicated themselves to create support and sustain new knowledge
and innovative technologies to overcome current problems in clinical
research and pave the way for a more individualized therapy.
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creating a collaborative environment facilitating clinically driven multiscale VPH modeling leading to personalized medicine;
developing, sharing and running VPH simulations for clinical decision
support;
building a data warehouse for the secure storage and sharing of heterogeneous data to be used by the scientific community;
building a p-medicine workbench as a central access point for tools,
models, services workflows and to data resources;
exploiting the potential of high performance computing and cloud
storage for the use of VPH models and data services;
improvement of semantic interoperability and data integration;
increasing the quality of data mining in biomedical research;
establishing a service framework for access to biomaterial resources;
empowering patients through respective tools, which include them more
actively in the health care decision process and in clinical research;
linking the p-medicine environment with important European Research
infrastructure initiatives;
develop training and educational e-Learning tools for end-users to foster
VPH models for decision support;
develop a business plan to maintain and further develop p-medicine
into a self-sustaining entity.
PSNC is present in a few Work Packages of the p-medicine project. The
most important activity is to provide cloud storage infrastructure that
will be exploited by the data warehouse developed in the project. We
are responsible for reliable, long term storage of biomedical data including
MRI scans, CT, PET images, simulation output etc.
The proposed solution will take advantage of local storage resources of PSNC
as well as production based National Data Storage developed in PLATON
project. We are also taking part in the designing system architecture based
on the requirements gathered in the first stage on the project. Reference
architecture designed for the project provides patterns to effectively guide
and support the construction of coherent, consistent and interoperable
SOA-based systems and services. Particular emphasis is given to the definition
of appropriate interfaces among the modules to enable interoperability. In the
design process the relevant existing standards with impact on the system are
identified, analyzed, and will be selected for the implementation phase.
The third area where PSNC is involved in p-medicine, is the support for
the new implementation of Oncosimulator application. The role of PSNC
is two-fold:
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PSNC is responsible for optimizing the code and adopt it to the HPC
architectures including parallelization and GPU adaptation;
PSNC is going to provide integrated environment for application
execution on HPC resources with user friendly web interface and
real-time visualization.
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Project’s title:
Virtual Physiological Human: Sharing
for Healthcare – A Research Environment
The VPH-Share project aims to develop and to deploy the VPH infostructure through which the VPH community will be able to store, share,
reuse and integrate data, information, knowledge and wisdom on the
physiopathology of the human body.
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http://www.vph-share.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-03-2011
28-05-2015
14 245 299 €
10 699 995 €
Polish participant:
CYFRONET AGH, AGH University of
Science and Technology
ul. Nawojki 11
30-950 Kraków
Contact person:
PhD Marian Bubak
Phone: +48 12 617 39 64
The Consortium:
1. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Technology, Poland
3. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS,
United Kingdom
4. Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
5. ATOS Origin Sociedad Anonima Espanola,
Spain
7. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
8. Empirica Gesellschaft fuer Kommunikations
und Technologieforschung mbH, Germany
9. SCS srl., Italy
10. NHS Health and Social Care Information
Centre, United Kingdom
12. Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy
13. Open University, United Kingdom
The Netherlands
The Netherlands
16. University of Auckland, New Zealand
17. Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
20. Agencia d’Avaluacio de Tecnologia Irecerca
Mediques, Spain
21. Fundacio Privada Clinic per a la Recerca
Biomedica, Spain
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expose and share data and knowledge;
jointly develop multiscale models for the composition of new VPH
workflows;
facilitate collaboration within the VPH community.
Four flagship workflows (representing @neurIST, euHeart, VPHOP and
Virolab projects) provide existing data, tools and models, engaging with
the services developed by VPH-Share to drive the development of the
infostructure and pilot its applications. Data sources are usually clinical
data from individual patients – medical images and/or biomedical signals
– sometimes with population information. Operations range from secure
access and storage through annotation, data inference and assimilation, to
complex image processing and physics-based mathematical modeling, to
data reduction and representation.
The objectives of VPH-Share are to provide a collaborative environment
in which researchers can share data, knowledge and multiscale simulation models, that can be combined into reusable VPH workflows. These
workflows are composed from atomic services, which are deployed and
executed on the cloud platform.
As a leading academic computer research centre, CYFRONET will lead
work designing and developing the cloud platform and assist in the
development of VPH’s user portal.
During the first year of the project, CYFRONET and its partners have been
concentrating their efforts on defining the design of the cloud computing
platform and selecting the appropriate technologies to build it. The cloud
must have the capability to deal with the specific requirements of VPH
projects, such as batch processing tasks, data mining and complex simulation
workflows. Their first job is to establish the exact details of these requirements
and then to select the best technology to meet them.
To ensure the platform meets the specific requirements of its users,
CYFRONET will work with the leaders of all VPH flagship workflows.
The leaders from euHeart, ViroLab, VPHOP and @neurIST will be asked to
describe their applications – the individual stages that make up their projects
– and the cloud will be developed to accommodate these.
Apart of that CYFRONET was involved in some of other tasks, among
them:
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T2.1 Analysis of the state-of-the art work package definition;
T6.1 Workflow composition/management: state of the art;
T2.2 Design of the Cloud Platform;
T2.3 First prototype of the cloud platform.
VPH-Share develops the organizational fabric and integrates optimized
services to:
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ASTERICS
Project’s title:
Assistive Technology Rapid
Integration & Construction Set
The AsTeRICS project gathers expertise from different fields (social, research,
industry) for the development of the Assistive Technologies (AT) construction set – AsTeRICS.
ICT-2009.7.2
Accessible and assistive ICT
http://www.asterics.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
3 391 329 €
2 649 520 €
Polish participant:
HARPO Sp. z o.o.
ul. 27 Grudnia 7
61-737 Poznań
http://www.harpo.com.pl/
Contact person:
Jarosław Urbański
CEO
Phone: +48 61 853 14 25
The Consortium:
1. Kompetenznetzwerk Informationstechnologie zur Foerderung der Integration
von Menschen mit Behinderungen, Austria
2. Fachhochschule Technikum Wien, Austria
3. University of Cyprus, Cyprus
France
5. CEDO, spol. s r.o., Czech Republic
6. Starlab Barcelona S.L., Spain
The aim of AsTeRICS is to develop innovative user driven Assistive Technologies (AT) by combining emerging sensor techniques, like BrainComputer Interfaces and computer vision, with basic actuators to control
a computer system. To reach this aim it is important to clearly identify the
needs of users with disabilities and to use that knowledge to inform the development of the AsTeRICS system. AsTeRICS provides a flexible and affordable
construction set for realizing user driven Assistive Technologies. People with
reduced motor capabilities now have a flexible and adaptable technology at
hand which enables them to access the Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) of
the standard desktop but in particular also of embedded systems like mobile
phones or smart home devices. AsTeRICS implements a set of building
blocks for the realization of Assistive Technologies:
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sensors which allow the individual to exploit any controllable body or
mind activity for interacting with human machine interfaces (HMI);
actuators for interfacing to standard IT, to embedded systems and to
interact with the environment;
an Embedded Computing Platform that can be configured to combine
sensors and actuators to tailored Assistive Technology solutions which
support the full potential of an individual user.
AsTeRICS revolutionizes the concept of Assistive Technology: Assistive
Technology today mostly focuses on a certain task or situation. Due to
the growing importance of the PC, Assistive Technology has been oriented
towards standard Human-Computer (HCI) or desktop interfaces.
AsTeRICS respects the strong need for flexible, adaptable assistive functionalities accompanying people with disabilities away from the desktop, enabling
them to interact with a diverse and fast changing set of deeply embedded
devices in our modern environment.
The goal of the AsTeRICS Project is to develop a construction set for assistive technologies which can be adapted to the motor abilities of end-users.
AsTeRICS is intended to allow access to different devices such as PCs, cell
phones and smart home devices, with all of them integrated in a platform
adapted as much as possible to each user. The main objective of the project is
to develop a support platform that will facilitate and improve communication
resources of people with motor disabilities in their upper limbs.
7. Harpo Sp. z o. o., Poland
8. Sensory Software Ltd., United Kingdom
Harpo Sp. z o. o./Poland – a limited liability company established in 1985.
The company has been delivering solutions for visually and print impaired
since 1988. Harpo has been bringing products from developed countries
to Polish customers. Also, we have been making research using our own
resources and by appointment and financed by Polish Ministry of Science
and Higher Education. Thanks to our own research we were able to develop
many successful products for blind and profoundly disabled people. These
products are now sold in Poland and all over the world.
9. Fundacion Instituto Gerontologico Matia
– Ingema, Spain
10. Institut Mikroelektronickych Aplikaci s.r.o.,
Czech Republic
Harpo Sp. z o. o. (Ltd.) employs about thirty people. Nine of them work in
research and development. Most of the company’s yearly income is reinvested
in development of new products every year. At present Harpo is a leader
on the market of electronic and computer equipment for the disabled in
Poland. We are an important player on the world market of Braille devices
and a strong partner or leader of a number of research projects.
Harpo Sp. z o. o. took the leadership of dissemination and exploitation activities in the project, it also plays an important role in user tests and software
programming. Harpo expects to exploit the results of the project. The Polish
partner will take hold of distribution of the AsTeRICS system worldwide.
COntinuous Multi-parametric
and Multi-layered analysis
Of DIabetes TYpe 1 & 2
COMMODITY12 aims to design, build, and validate an intelligent
system for the analysis of multi-parametric medical data. It will uptake the
existing cutting-edge technologies and extend these technologies by combining state-of-the-art networks, software interoperation, and artificial intelligence techniques in order to realize the concept of translational medicine
by means of a Personal Health System. Moreover, the COMMODITY12
system will build a new level in patient empowerment, providing the tools
for self-management support. Indirectly, this system will also help wider
implementation of Personal Health Systems, reinforcing leadership and
innovation capability of the European industry in that area.
ICT-2011.5.1
Personal health systems (PHS)
http://www.commodity12.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2011
30-09-2014
5 046 184 €
3 722 000 €
In COMMODITY12 the consortium will build a multi-layered multi-parametric infrastructure for continuous monitoring of diabetes type
1 and 2. The COMMODITY12 system will exploit multi-parametric data
to provide healthcare workers and patients, with clinical indicators for the
treatment of diabetes type 1 and 2.
Polish participant:
Medical University of Łódź
al. Tadeusza Kościuszki 4
90-419 Łódź
http://www.umed.pl/pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Przemysław Kardas
Head of First Department of Family
Medicine, Medical University of Łódź
The Consortium:
1. Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer
Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Germany
2. Haute Ecole Specialisee de Suisse
Occidentale, Switzerland
3. Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine, United Kingdom
4. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
United Kingdom
5. Medical University of Łódź, Poland
6. Bodytel Europe GmbH, Germany
7. Hospices Cantonaux Chuv, Switzerland
9. Portavita BV, The Netherlands
COMMODITY12 project will focus on the interaction between diabetes
and cardiovascular diseases.
The Medical University of Łódź (Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi) is one of
the most prominent universities in Poland. The University was established in
1949 and due to subsequent development, now it consists of eight faculties.
The University covers all the area of medicine with its six own teaching
hospitals, and numerous clinical departments within different hospitals.
Numerous laboratories and research facilities exist in the University, as
well. This infrastructure serves for both education and research and enables
maintenance of high scientific standards. Due to its well-experienced, highly
educated academic staff, the Medical University of Łódź is internationally
recognized in the field of scientific research.
The expertise of the University is connected with scientific research. Extensive
basic and clinical research is undertaken within University and a unique
knowledge is accumulated regarding trial performance. Our expertise covers
particularly the field of patient compliance, from both patients‘ and physicians‘ perspective, management of the chronic conditions in the outpatient
settings, and the translational medicine. A number of clinical trials developed
in this field as well as scientific publications prove our high international
recognition. Medical University of Łódź participated in over 20 international projects within framework programmes, and is experienced with this
research-funding scheme.
Medical University of Łódź is actively involved in the medical part of the
project, and especially those parts that are developed in the outpatient
settings.
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EURIDICE
Project’s title:
EURopean Inter-Disciplinary research
on Intelligent Cargo for Efficient, safe
and environment-friendly logistics
EURIDICE was an Integrated Project that aimed at creating the necessary concepts, technological solutions and business models to establish
information services platform centered on the context of individual cargo
items and their interaction with the surrounding environment and the types
of users. The EURIDICE platform aimed to simultaneously improve the
logistics, business processes and public policy aspects of freight transportation, by dynamically combining services at different levels:
ICT-2007.6.1
ICT for intelligent vehicles and
mobility services
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http://www.euridice-project.eu/
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2008
31-10-2011
14 381 510 €
8 248 853 €
Polish participant:
FP7 ICT | ICT for a low carbon economy
The EURIDICE platform supported ‘on the fly’ combination of services
between user, context and cargo improving and integrating a number of
advanced technologies, including:
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Oracle Polska Sp. z o.o.
ul. Przyokopowa 31
01-208 Warszawa
http://www.oracle.com/pl/
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Contact person:
Rafał Cieplak
Principal Consultant
Phone: +48 661 966 293
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The Consortium:
1. Insiel – Informatica per Il Sistema Degli
Enti Locali S.p.A., Italy
3. Venice International University, Italy
immediate proximity of a RFID tagged cargo item, mobile users and
vehicle services;
producer Shipper and Carrier Supply chain including qualification,
handling and routing;
freight corridor, represented by authority and infrastructure services
including authorisation, security and safety control.
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service-oriented architectures incorporating mobile technologies,
interoperability between heterogeneous environments and advanced
security features;
semantic web and domain ontologies, for automated discovery of services associated to any specific cargo item, context and user request;
advanced context technologies, for combination of item, vehicle and
user IDs with automatically detected conditions like, e.g., position and
status of cargo;
distributed intelligent agents, for optimisation, anomaly and threat
detection (alerting) and decisions support.
The beneficiaries of the EURIDICE platform were a variety of private and
public sector organizations including: industrial companies, for proactive,
real-time ‘bottom-up’ monitoring of goods, logistic services providers, for
synchronization of schedules across multi-modal routes, public authorities, for automated security and public safety control, infrastructures, for
emergency management and congestion prevention.
4. Telit Communications S.p.A., Italy
5. Verein zur Foerderung der
Wissenschaftlichen Forschung in der Freien
Hansestadt Bremen e.V., Germany
The basic concept of EURIDICE was to build an information services
platform centered on the individual cargo item and on its interaction with
the surrounding environment and the user.
6. Singkioular Lotzik Anonymos Etairia
Pliroforiakon Systimaton & Efarmogon,
Greece
The main objectives of the EURIDICE project were the following:
7. Dievropaiki Etairia Symboulon Metaforon
Anaptixis Kai Pliroforikis A.E., Greece
8. Enicma GmbH, Germany
9. CETIM – Center for Technology and
Innovation Management GmbH, Germany
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10. Logica Nederland B.V., The Netherlands
11. Oracle Polska Sp. z o.o., Poland
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supporting the interaction of individual cargo items with the surrounding environment and users on the field;
improving logistic performances through application of the intelligent
cargo concept and technologies in the working practices of operators
and industrial users;
developing collaborative business models to sustain, promote and
develop an intelligent cargo infrastructure;
realizing more secure and environment friendly transport chains through
the adoption of intelligent cargo to support modal shift and door-todoor inter-modal services.
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13. Fachhochschule Vorarlberg GmbH, Austria
14. Caen Rfid S.r.l., Italy
Oracle designs hardware and software to work together in cloud and in data
centers. Oracle is a supplier of comprehensive IT solutions, for all kinds of
enterprises and organizations. For over 30 years, the Oracle Corporation
has been the leader in information management software, supporting over
380 thousand customers worldwide. The company employs over 108 thousand experts, with annual turnover of $ 35.6 bn (financial year 2011). It offers
its database servers, middleware, business tools and applications, consulting
services, training courses and technical assistance in 145 countries worldwide,
cooperating with over 20 thousand partners. The corporation’s headquarters
is located in Redwood Shores in California. All Fortune 100 companies
are Oracle’s customers. In January 2005, Oracle merged with PeopleSoft.
Towards the end of January 2006, the merger with Siebel was completed.
This move made Oracle the world’s largest provider of CRM systems. In
2008, Oracle acquired BEA Systems, becoming the world’s largest provider
of middleware. The latest merger with Sun Microsystems allowed Oracle
to enter a new market – computer hardware. For more information about
Oracle visit www.oracle.com
18. Searail Eeig, Finland
19. Anonymos Etaireia Ellinikon Kai Diethnon
Metaforon Proodos AE, Greece
20. Akarnaniko Kentro Syndyasmenon
Systimaton Metaforon Anonymos Etareia,
Greece
21. Omega International Transport & Logistics
SRL, Romania
22. Associazione fra gli Industriali della
Provincia di Belluno, Italy
23. BIBA – Bremer Institut fuer Produktion
und Logistik GmbH, Germany
24. SAFILO – Societa’ Azionaria Fabbrica
Italiana Lavorazione Occhiali – S.p.A., Italy
25. Kuehne+Nagel Societe Anonyme for
Transports & Logistics, Greece
Oracle Polska was established in 1992. Currently, the company employs 345
people and cooperates with 300 partners creating software for enterprises. In
order to provide its customers with comprehensive, cutting-edge solutions,
Oracle is cooperating closely with system integrators and the world’s largest
computer hardware manufacturers.
26. Searail Oy, Finland
27. Singularlogic Anonymos Etairia
Pliroforiakon Systimaton & Efarmogon
Pliroforikis, Greece
Warsaw Center of Excellence Oracle Poland has participated in EURIDICE
project for many areas. One of the activities we were involved in was the
analytical aspect, which contains:
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participating in developing the so called ‘Intelligent Cargo Concept’ (ICC);
developing the ORPHEUS platform;
developing technical documentation concerning business process
orchestration.
Thanks to ICC’s implementation, in five years most of the goods flowing
through European freight corridors will be ‘intelligent’, i.e.: self-aware, context-aware and connected through a global telecommunication network to
support a wide range of information services for logistic operators, industrial
users and public authorities. ORPHEUS platform will make intelligent
cargo accessible to end users as self-identifying freight, easy to interact and
to communicate with.
The other area of cooperation was connected with the implementation of some
test environment pilot projects, to prove the EURIDICE’s functionalities.
Oracle and other EURIDICE partners have successfully delivered an integrated end-to-end pilot system that will be used to track shipments flowing
through intercontinental African-European transport corridors. The system
created for Fiorital, as a part of work package 23, allows complete tracking
of the shipment process starting from the source suppliers’ destinations in
Nigeria, through the distribution channels in Tanzania, then Belgium and
Venice, to be completed in customers’ premises in Rome. This is achieved
by delivering a dedicated software-hardware environment that automates
creation of consignments plans and is able to monitor physical shipments
state on their complete route from Africa to Europe. Not only is it able
to monitor but also it is capable of reacting in an appropriate manner. In
case of exceeding predefined set of ranges for certain monitored parameters
(temperature, shocks, etc.) or breaking allowed shipment route it is able to
generate and send immediate alerts to interested parties for further processing
and taking appropriate actions.
ICT for a low carbon economy
17. Gebrueder Weiss Gesellschaft m.b.H.,
Austria
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16. Sdag Gorizia Servizi Logistici Integrati
S.p.A., Italy
FP7 ICT
15. Autorita Portuale di Trieste, Italy
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GENESIS
Project’s title:
GENeric European Sustainable
Information Space for environment
The GENESIS FP7 is an Integrated Project which has been launched by
DG INFSO in September 2008. The duration of the project is 3 years. The
GENESIS consortium comprehends the 29 partners involved in the project;
the Coordinator of the project is Thales Alenia Space France.
ICT-2007.6.3
ICT for environmental management
and energy efficiency
http://www.genesis-fp7.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2008
31-08-2011
13 610 354 €
8 898 432 €
Institute of Meteorology and Water
Management – National Research
Institute
ul. Podleśna 61
01-673 Warszawa
http://www.imgw.pl
Contact person:
PhD Walczykiewicz Tomasz
Chief of the Water Management Systems
Division,
Phone: +48 12 639 81 36
and Technology
ul. Mickiewicza 30
30-059 Kraków
Tadeusz Kosciuszko Kraków University
of Technology
ul. Warszawska 24
31-155 Kraków
The Consortium:
1. Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and
Environmental Research – BIOFORSK,
Norway
2. Thales Alenia Space France, France
4. Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und
Raumfahrt e.V., Germany
5. Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft
MbH, Austria
6. Sogreah Consultants SAS, France
7. Acri-St SAS, France
9. Lulea Tekniska Universitet, Sweden
10. Spacebel S.A., Belgium
Relying on standards and harmonization processes, GENESIS offers a thematic-independent innovative solution: made of a generic software package.
It is used as an “information system set-up framework”, which provides
the interoperability layer to existing information systems, so that they can
access to environmental databases or services available at regional, national
or European levels. The proposed solution, highly flexible and scalable, can
be easily instantiated and customized to various thematic fields and various
contexts all over Europe. The GENESIS framework is based on a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), where software components are grouped in
classes of services; each class providing a particular type of function.
Needs addresses by GENESIS:
• easy discovery and access to information whatever its source, e.g. space
data, in-situ data, historical databases and location;
• combination of heterogeneous environmental data, e.g. static and
near-real-time data, different spatio-temporal coverage and resolution;
• correlation between environmental and health data – Near Real Time
decision-making processes;
• implementation of the European Policies, in particular the INSPIRE,
CAFEU (Clean Air for Europe) and WFD (Water Framework Directive)
Directives.
The GENESIS Project has the objective of providing Environment
management and Health actors with an innovative solution based on
advanced ICT. Relying on interoperability standards and harmonization
process, GENESIS helps to constitute complex information networks, by
combining benefits of various information systems with a collaborative
systems approach. The proposed generic solution allows easy deployment
and customization to thematic needs on a wide range of applications, at
regional, national or Europe levels for various thematic fields.
Summarizing, the main objectives of GENESIS project are:
• to increase the amount of resources, data or services accessible to all;
• to ease the build-up of new systems compliant with standards;
• to foster the collaboration between communities and the sharing of
resources;
• to help the take-up of an e-Market of services by providing a generic
framework;
• the GENESIS project represents an important to solution as part of the
future SISE (Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment).
The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research
Institute (IMGW-PIB) is a research and development unit created on the
basis of the decree no. 338/72 issued by the Council of Ministers on 30
December 1972 on merging the State Hydrological and Meteorological
Institute with the Institute of Water Management. IMGW-PIB operates on
the basis of the act dated 25 July 1985 concerning research-development
units (full text is contained in the official gazette announcing current legislation no. 44/91, para. 194 and no. 107, para. 464 with further changes. The
Institute is supervised by Ministry of the Environment. Basic statutory tasks
of the Institute include scientific and development activities as well as state
services in the following domains:
• meteorology;
• hydrology;
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14. Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, France
15. JRC -Joint Research Centre- European
Commission, European Union
16. Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig
Onderzoek, The Netherlands
17. 4c Technologies NV, Belgium
18. Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches
Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und
Umwelt GmbH, Germany
19. GMV Aerospace and Defence S.A.
Unipersonal, Spain
20. Eidgenoessische Anstalt fur
Wasserversorgung Abwasserreinigung und
Gewaesserschutz, Switzerland
21. G.I.M. Geographic Information
Management NV, Belgium
22. Intecs Informatica e Tecnologia del
Software S.p.A, Italy
Poland
24. EBM Websourcing SAS, France
25. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
26. ERDAS S.A., Belgium
27. AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology
GmbH, Austria
28. IGEM Danismanlik Organizasyon
Arastirma Ltd. Sti.,Turkey
Bodies of the Institute: Director and Scientific Council. Water Management Systems Division (ZGWiSW) was directly involved in the GENESIS
project.
One of the pilot sites in the GENESIS project was the Szczecin Lagoon.
Concentration of different type of harmful contaminations at the entrance of
the Szczecin Lagoon and weather conditions (wind speed and wind direction)
create contamination risk, especially at Polish part of this area.
The main goal of the decision support tool is to assist sanitary inspector in
making decision about additional sampling water on selected bathing places
when measured concentration of suspended solids (marker) and wind speed
and direction cause some hazard of contamination of the water in the lagoon.
According to EU regulations administrators of bathing places are obliged
to sampling water few times per season. In some cases (when water will be
polluted just after sampling) there is a risk that bothers will use contaminated
baths during many days.
Using this tool, the sanitary inspector on the basis of observed weather conditions and measured concentration of suspended solids makes the decision
about additional sampling water on bathing places. In case of a contamination event or measured high concentrations of any harmful substance, the
user can apply the particle tracking tool to see where the substance is driven.
This should help to assess the risk at a certain time and location and may
support the user in his decision to e.g. additional sampling water on bathing
places. The work is focused on the following elements:
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30. British Publishers Ltd., United Kingdom
31. Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
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32. Cambridge Environmental Research
Consultants Ltd., United Kingdom
33. Tadeusz Kosciuszko Kraków University of
Technology, Poland
34. Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
And Medicine, United Kingdom
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installation of the suspended solids sensor at the entrance of the
Szczecin Lagoon and preparation of software which will send the information to IMGW national data base;
preparation of the software tool which takes data describing current weather and quality of water, comparison of its with threshold
values and take decision if it is necessary to warn sanitary inspector. The
concept of the data flow from the sensor to the GENESIS purposes
were prepared;
web page supporting sanitary inspector to make decision about additional water sampling on bathing places;
Informing end-users about quality of water an bathing places and decision taken by sanitary inspection.
37. Comune di Cimitile, Italy
38. CHU de Nice, France
Muenchen, Germany
Athens, Greece
41. University of Dundee, United Kingdom
42. Institut fuer Ostseeforschung
Warnemuende an der Universitaet Rostock,
Germany
43. Institute of Meteorology and Water
Management – National Research Institute,
Poland
44. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mining,
Geology and Petroleum Engineering,
Croatia
45. Helmholtz-Zentrum fuer
Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ,
Germany
52. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur
Foerderung der Angewandten
Forschung e.V, Germany
46. Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique
et aux Energies Alternatives, France
53. Oracle Belgium BVBA, Belgium
47. Sveriges Meteorologiska och
Hydrologiska Institut, Sweden
48. Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Kobus
und Partner GmbH, Germany
49. Institut Pasteur, France
United Kingdom
51. Klaipedos Universitetas, Lithuania
54. University of the West of Scotland,
United Kingdom
55. Bureau de Recherches Geologiques
et Minieres, France
56. Research Studios Austria
Forschungsgesellschaft mbH,
Austria
57. Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
– Paris 6, France
13. Gis-Geoindustry, s.r.o., Czech Republic
oceanology;
water management and engineering;
water resources quality;
wastewater management;
sewage utilization.
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FP7 ICT
Germany
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ENERGY WARDEN
Project’s title:
Design and real time energy
sourcing decisions in buildings
Energy sourcing decisions for new and existing buildings is far from optimal
as the factors affecting them in terms of Producing (P), Storing (S), and Using
(U) energy, are becoming more complex. In the context of EnergyWarden,
“energy sourcing” includes a design decision as to what energy infrastructure
should be deployed, either at the design or the retrofit stage. More importantly,
“energy sourcing” implies a real time, “dynamic decision” controlling the
balance between energy supply, storage, use and feed-to-the-network. The
measurement and improvement of the CO2 building footprint will also be
enabled both at the design as well as the real time utilization of the building.
ICT-2009.6.3
ICT for energy efficiency
http://www.energywarden.net/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
3 993 890 €
2 741 485 €
EnergyWarden (EW) is a FP7 project addressing the optimization of
renewable energy technology (RET) deployment in the building domain.
EW will develop and market the following products:
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Polish participant:
ASM Market Research and Analysis
Centre Ltd.
ul. Grunwaldzka 5
99-300 Kutno
http://en.asm-poland.com.pl/
Contact person:
Agnieszka Kowalska
Head of the Knowledge and Technology
Transfer Department,
Senior Project Manager
Email:
[email protected]
Phone: +48 24 355 77 54
The Consortium:
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SIMULATOR (EW-S) – a simulator and modelling tool, including
dynamic models for energy producing, storing and using units that
may provide decision aid when designing or retrofitting energy infrastructures at the building domain. Though EW-S may be used as an
independent web enabled software, it is through integration with the
other EnergyWarden components and especially the EW-C that is will
unleash its full power;
EW-CONTROLLER – a hardware device ready for deployment and
wiring in built environments. It includes data collection, transmitters
and (wireless) sensors. EW-C possess a TCP/IP port that allows it to be
managed and monitored over the web. The EW-S controller will provide
control of energy infrastructure based on a combined neural network
and rule based approaches;
EW-POLICY – a software, database driven application that supports
policy & conformance with eu directives & related standards. EW-Policy
will allow the management of building energy information and knowledge in order to draft, modify, and enact policy regulation changes.
2. Acciona Infraestructuras S.A., Spain
EnergyWarden (EW) aim at the development of tools for monitoring
and control of energy resources, including renewables, deployed in the
building domain.
3. Applied Industrial Technologies Ltd.,
Greece
The key objectives of EnergyWarden are to:
1. CNE Technology Ltd., Cyprus
4. ASM Market Research and Analysis Centre
Ltd., Poland
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5. Building Research Establishment Ltd.,
United Kingdom
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6. D’Appolonia S.p.A., Italy
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7. Daedalus Informatics Ltd., Greece
8. Fundacion Fatronik, Spain
9. Institute Mihailo Pupin, Serbia
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support the design and retrofit of energy infrastructures in buildings
through the use of the EW Simulator;
develop a controller (EW-Controller) to optimize in the real time energy
sourcing decisions in a rapidly diversifying building environment;
provide for a data management tool (EW-Policy) for evaluation of the
energy performance of buildings and CO2 emissions savings from the
use of RES and real life performance evaluation against standards of
common energy producing modules;
validate developed modules through their performance evaluation at
building sites;
disseminate results to achieve good project visibility and attract critical
reviews.
ASM Market Research and Analysis Centre Ltd. (ASM-Centrum Badań
i Analiz Rynku Sp. z o.o.) is a private, non profit SME founded in 1996. In
2011 the company has been granted by the Minister of Economy with the
status of Research and Development Center. It is specialised in a wide range
of research and management consultancy in following areas: construction
market surveys and analysis, public projects including social issues, multi-site
European research projects funded by the European Commission.
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ASM has 10 years of experience in managing over 30 European projects (as
a partner and coordinator), co-financed under 5th, 6th and 7th Framework
Programmes, Intelligent Energy Europe, Leonardo da Vinci, European Fund
for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals. Similar projects realized by
ASM include:
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GE20 (Geo-clustering to deploy the potential of Energy efficient Buildings across EU);
COST EFFECTIVE (Resource- and Cost-effective integration of
renewables in existing high-rise buildings);
CILLECTA (A user-oriented, knowledge-based suite of Construction
Industry Life Cycle Cost Analysis software for pan-European determination and costing of sustainable project options);
TRANS-IND (New Industrialised Construction Process for transport
infrastructures based on polymer composite components).
As a member of several associations ASM takes initiatives with the aim
to: transfer knowledge, increase the cooperation between academic and
industrial environment in the construction sector, and promote participation
of Polish entities in international projects:
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coordinator and founder of the Polish Construction Technology
Platform;
coordinator of 7th Framework Programme Contact Point for Polish
construction sector;
member of the European Construction Technology Platform and Energy
Efficient Buildings Association.
Currently the consortium is preparing the patent application that will be
submitted in November 2012.
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monitoring of changes in EPO patent procedures/regulations, communication with patent office at national and European level, gathering
data and documents to successfully submit the patent application;
exploiting EnergyWarden results: communicating with partners to
decide on the patent scope, supporting partners on how to describe
the innovation in the patent application and verifying the description
of the technical aspect of the patent.
FP7 ICT
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Within EnergyWarden project ASM Market Research and Analysis Centre
Ltd. is responsible for submitting patent application at European Patent
Office. The work includes:
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ENPROVE
Project’s title:
Energy consumption prediction with
building usage measurements for
software-based decision support
ICT-2009.6.3
ICT for energy efficiency
The objective of EnPROVE is to develop a reliable method in predicting energy consumption of a building once appropriate energy-efficient
technologies are employed. This objective is critically important to prepare
an implementation plan convincing building owners to renovate with energysaving, energy-generating, and energy-storing solutions. The result will be
an easy-to-use software decision-support tool, which is structured to fit
on a variety of architectural software programs.
http://www.enprove.eu/
The main objectives of the project EnPROVE are to:
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2010
31-01-2013
3 683 629 €
2 499 918 €
Polish participant:
Mostostal Warszawa S.A.
ul. Konstruktorska 11a
02-673 Warszawa
http://www.mostostal.waw.pl/
Contact person:
Piotr Dymarski
Head of Group Information and
Communication Technologies
Phone: +48 22 548 56 46
The Consortium:
1. Uninova – Instituto de Desenvolvimento de
Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
3. Philips Technologie GmbH, Germany
4. Centre Scientifique et Technique du
Batiment, France
Spain
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model the energy consumption from monitored data on infrastructure
usage;
predict consumption under alternative scenarios using the energy
consumption models;
support the decision making process, providing recommendation and
plans, in compliance with C31 CAD tools;
integrate the EnPROVE hardware and software components in a deployable A29platform that can interoperate with CAD and FM (Facility
Management) tools;
validate the system in real construction scenarios and assess EnPROVE
deployment.
Mostostal Warszawa S.A. is one of the largest construction companies in
Poland with a 65-year history. Although its name is linked inseparably
to the rebuilding of Warsaw’s bridges, the company is currently active
in all sectors of the construction market in Poland and Europe. During
last 15 years as a consequence of Polish economy transformation and the
company commercialization its range of activities has been significantly
broadened. Nowadays Mostostal is well recognizable not only as an executor of bridges but also public utility buildings, industrial objects, activities
from the area of environmental protection as well as roads or underground
constructions. Mostostal’s activities include all areas and specialization fields
in the construction sector, both as far as project engineering and as far as
execution are concerned. In the civil engineering working area, Mostostal
has experience in road building, urban development, airports, harbors, beach
regeneration, execution of dams, water piping, tunnels, gas pipes, water
purification, metropolitan railways and railroads. Regarding the building
sub sector, Mostostal has executed works such as industrial, services, societal
utility and real estate buildings.
6. G.E.M. Team Solutions GdbR, Germany
7. Mostostal Warszawa S.A., Poland
8. Groupe Archimen, France
The Netherlands
Mostostal Warszawa S.A. is involved in following activities within the
EnPROVE project:
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System Requirements Definition;
deployment and evaluation the EnPROVE system in one of the
buildings;
Dissemination and Exploitation.
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URBANFLOOD
Project’s title:
UrbanFlood
The UrbanFlood project creates an internet based hosting platform for EWSs.
The EWS platform is run as an Internet service and connects via the Internet
to sensor networks, to online sources of information and other EWSs. The
platform is able to host multiple EWSs, corresponding to various hazards
and belonging to different organizations. Through the Internet, additional
computer resources required by the EWS platform are made available on
demand. Artificial intelligence technologies detect alarming conditions in
the objects monitored. In an alarming situation, a decision support system,
making use of computational models of the physical environmental, informs
stakeholders about the developing catastrophe. The core of the EWS hosting
platform is a Common Information Space (CIS). The CIS is run as an online
service, supports web service technologies and connects via the internet
with other CISs. The EWS is also able to process simulated (data), turning
the EWS into a simulator with which disaster mitigation scenarios can be
developed and personnel can be trained.
http://www.urbanflood.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-12-2009
30-11-2012
4 082 980 €
2 990 544 €
Polish participant:
CYFRONET AGH,
and Technology
ul. Nawojki 11
30-950 Kraków
Contact person:
PhD Marian Bubak
Senior EU project leader
Email: cgoffi[email protected]
The Consortium:
The Netherlands
Technology, Poland
4. Hr Wallingford Ltd., United Kingdom
5. Stichting Toegepast Onderzoek
Waterbeheer, The Netherlands
6. OOO Siemens, Russian Federation
UrbanFlood will validate the EWS framework and method for implementation in the context of dike performance (failure) in an urban environment.
A number of live pilot sites will be used to prove the methodology. Dikes
will be equipped with sensor systems and the EWS service built up from
a series of dike failure and flooding specific modules which include dike
breach evolution and flood-spreading models. UrbanFlood will investigate
and show the feasibility to remotely monitor dikes and floods, whether from
nearby offices or from other countries and continents through secure use of
web based technologies.
CYFRONET has the task to develop the workflow and the distributed
resource scheduling mechanism, the core of the Common Information Space.
This will be based on the Virolab technology that has been developed in
several EC projects (virolab.cyfronet.pl). The team is still involved in ViroLab
(providing a modern virtual laboratory for HIV-related research and treatment
in Europe) and GREDIA (secure while easy to adopt collaborative scenario
enactment environment for business: media and banking). CYFRONET has
successfully participated in the CoreGRID Network of Excellence project
in the work package devoted to tools and environments.
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ICT for environmental services and
climate change adaptation
FP7 ICT
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Web2Energy
Project’s title:
WEB to Energy
The countries of the European Community strongly support the growth of
renewable energy sources for better environmental protection, for sustainable
energy supply through saving fossil primary energy and to lower the dependency on imports of primary energy. In the next years more and more Gigawatts
(GW) of wind and solar energy will be fed into the electricity networks.
ICT-2009.6.5
Novel ICT solutions for smart electricity
distribution networks
http://www.web2energy.com/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2010
31-12-2012
4 662 932 €
2 891 429 €
Today’s networks are not dimensioned for this. Furthermore, a large number
of small power producers in the household and the charging of millions of
electro-mobiles pose new challenges for the electricity networks. All these challenges can only be met by Smart Grids. The problem is that each consumer
can demand electricity whenever it is desired. In this way a permanent change
of demand happens with a peak in Germany of about 80 GW in day time and
a weak load of about 30 GW in the night. At each moment, electricity should
be produced in accordance with the demand. But wind and solar power plants
feed in accordingly their availability. They cannot be controlled like a traditional
power station. This problem is addressed by the Web2Energy project.
Polish participant:
iPLS sp. z o. o
ul. Ptasia 2 Nr Lok. 13
00-138 Warszawa
http://www.ipls.pl/
The project Web2Energy is directed to implement and approve all three
pillars of “Smart Distribution”.
• Smart Metering – the consumer participates in the energy market;
• Smart Energy Management – Clustering of small power producers;
• Smart Distribution Automation – higher reliability of supply.
Contact person:
Michael Marschollek
President
Linking the users: all these pillars of smart distribution require the information exchange between the users of the network like consumers, producers,
terminals, control centre of the network operator, traders and VPP. Communication channels have to cover also the last meters to these participants.
The Consortium:
1. Heag Sudhessische Energie AG,
Germany
The Intelligent Powerline Systems Sp. z o.o. (iPLS Sp. z o.o.) is a SME
enterprise founded in 2005. iPLS delivers intelligent electronic devices like
smart meters, RTUs coupling units and bridges to the Polish industry for
creating distribution line carrier (DLC) communication on low and medium
voltage lines. iPLS offers engineering, consulting, development delivery
pilot plant for component testing in existing grids. iPLS cooperates with
the E-meter producers in Poland and independent research centres. Pilot
plants with DLC communication technology, smart meters and RTUs are
present tested in installations on the MV and LV level.
2. NTB Technoservice Export/Import e.K.,
Germany
3. Heag Medianet GmbH, Germany
4. Landis+Gyr GmbH, Austria
5. Otto-Von-Guericke-Universitaet
Magdeburg, Germany
6. Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum
Nederland, The Netherlands
7. IT4power GmbH, Switzerland
8. EUS GmbH, Germany
9. Intelligent Powerline Systems Sp. z o.o.,
Poland
10. Verteilnetzbetreiber (VNB)
Rhein-Main-Neckar GmbH & Co. KG,
Germany
iPLS was responsible for metering communication to IEC communication. Only the metering communication is still not using IEC 61850
standardization.
Today, various proprietary communication protocols are implemented in
meters depending on the vendor. Often in the catalogues the use of standardized communication is offered. However, as a rule this concerns only to
one or two layers of the OSI/ISO model. In Europe efforts for a metering
communication standard are only in a pre-standardization phase.
The goal of the work is concentrated on cooperation with the consortium partners to standardize the communication of electricity, gas, heat and water meters
in a common way. However, the interoperable integration of meters into the
power system requires the conversion of currently available meter communication
protocols into IEC protocols. This will be an RTD task tackled in this project.
The other tasks included:
• RTU IEC 61850-80-1 development;
• the mapping of the IEC 61850 data models to the templates of the world
wide used standard IEC 60870-5-101 (point to point) and 104 (WAN)
for communication between substations and control centres; it has been
published as a technical specification IEC 61850-80-1;
• the software for embedding this new protocol into remote terminal
units will be developed and implemented first time.
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ICT 4 E2B FORUM
Project’s title:
European stakeholders’ forum
crossing value and innovation chains
to explore needs, challenges and
opportunities in further research
and integration of ICT systems for
Energy Efficiency in Buildings
ICT4E2B Forum is a European project that brings together ICT and
building stakeholders to identify needs, challenges and opportunities in
further research and integration of ICT systems for energy efficiency
in buildings.
http://www.ict4e2b.eu
31-10-2012
Project’s budget:
1 603 140 €
EC funding:
995 335 €
Polish participant:
02-673 Warszawa
http://www.mostostal.waw.pl
Contact person:
Tomasz Sasin
R&D Manager
Phone: +48 22 548 54 58
The ICT4E2B Forum project aims at the following objectives:
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bring together relevant stakeholders to identify and review the needs in
terms of research and systems integration;
update the REEB research roadmap;
promote the use and further development of ICT for improved energy
efficiency of buildings.
By accomplishing these objectives, ICT4E2B Forum will map the sector-specific priorities into a common view and vocabulary, thereby enabling
communication and understanding between experts in different sectors
that need to join forces in order that fundamental improvements in energy
efficient buildings can be achieved. All this coordination work will support
in defining future research directions as well as in channeling efforts, while
favoring consensus buildings on the roadmap itself.
The Consortium:
1. D’Appolonia S.p.A, Italy
Mostostal Warszawa S.A. is active in all primary sectors of the construction
industry and its scope of services encompasses general construction and
delivery of turnkey projects for domestic and international partners. Currently company activities aimed at increasing competitiveness of the services
and implementation of new construction technologies.
2. Atos Spain S.A., Spain
4. SAP AG, Germany
5. Schneider Electric S.A., Greece
7. Schneider Electric Buildings AB, Sweden
Mostostal Warszawa S.A. is mainly responsible for user awareness and decision
support. Company takes also part in preparing analysis of research projects
at European and national levels, defining state-of-the-art as well as industrial
requirements and barriers.
ICT4E2B Forum will map the sector-specific priorities into a common
view and vocabulary. This will enable communication and understanding
between experts in different sectors that need to join forces in order to achieve
fundamental improvements in energy efficiency of buildings. An outcome of
the project will be to suggest future research directions in this field.
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ICT for energy-efficient buildings and
spaces of public use
FP7 ICT
ICT4E2B Forum fosters the cooperation between researchers, end-users,
practitioners, building owners, technology-suppliers, and software developers as regards the use of ICT for an efficient use of energy at building and
district level.
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TIBUCON
Project’s title:
Self Powered Wireless Sensor
Network for HVAC System Energy
Improvement – TOwards Integral
BUilding CONnectivity
The TIBUCON project brings together experts, stakeholders and end
users in ICT for Energy Efficient Buildings to develop a new ICT component towards the energy use abatement and comfort improvement in
new and existing buildings.
EeB-ICT-2010.10.2
ICT for energy-efficient buildings and
spaces of public use
The project proposes a solution beyond the existing wireless based HVAC
control systems, derived from the use of Self Powered Multi Magnitude
Wireless Sensor Network (SP-MM-WSN) for building thermal condition monitoring. The SPMMWSN completely avoids the use of cables
and removable batteries, thanks to the combination of extremely energy
efficient wireless communication technology, ultra low power electronics,
and the power harvesting concept. The use of SPMMWSN therefore,
results in an easy-to-deploy and maintenance free building monitoring
system that makes it the ideal candidate for either new or existing HVAC
installations.
http://www.tibucon.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-09-2010
31-08-2013
2 460 761 €
1 585 965 €
Polish participant:
02-673 Warszawa
http://www.mostostal.waw.pl/
Contact person:
Piotr Dymarski
Phone: +48 22 548 56 46
The Consortium:
2. Fundacion TEKNIKER, Spain
3. Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen vzw,
Belgium
United Kingdom
5. TFP Sp. z o.o., Poland
6. Giroa Sociedad Anonima, Spain
Mostostal Warszawa S.A. is involved in the following tasks within the
project:
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project coordination;
definition of TIBUCON architecture for existing and new HVAC
systems improvements;
integration and system deployment;
dissemination and Exploitation.
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ECOGEM
Project’s title:
Cooperative Advanced Driver
Assistance System for Green Cars
EcoGem aims at providing efficient ICT-based solutions to sustainable
mobility by designing and developing a Fully Electric Vehicle (FEVs)
FEV-oriented highly-innovative Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS),
equipped with suitable monitoring, learning, reasoning and management
capabilities that will help increase the FEV’s autonomy and energy efficiency.
EcoGem will base its approach on rendering the FEV:
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http://www.ecogem.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
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01-09-2010
28-02-2013
3 157 978 €
2 043 922 €
Polish participant:
Motor Transport Institute
ul. Jagiellońska 80
03-301 Warszawa
http://www.its.waw.pl/
Contact person:
PhD Tomasz Kamiński
Head of Department
Phone: +48 606 145 900
The Consortium:
1. Temsa Global Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.,
Turkey
2. Pininfarina S.p.A., Italy
3. PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG.,
Germany
4. European Virtual Engineering Fundazioa
– Fundacion European Virtual Engineering,
Spain
5. Hi-Iberia Ingenieria y Proyectos SL, Spain
6. University of Bradford, United Kingdom
7. Motor Transport Institute, Poland
Systems, Greece
9. Cosmote Kinites Tilepikoinonies A.E.,
Greece
EcoGem’s view is that the success and user acceptability of Fully Electric
Vehicles will predominantly depend on their electrical energy consumption
rate and the corresponding degree of autonomy that they can offer. FEVs
must provide their drivers with the highest possible autonomy, as well as with
a high degree of reliability and robustness in terms of energy performance.
EcoGem argues that appropriate innovative ICT solutions must be pursued
and adopted to assist the driver in dealing with such energy-related issues
and strengthen FEVs’ autonomy and reliability.
EcoGem’s key objective is to integrate intelligence and learning functionalities to on-board ADAS for FEVs, enabling autonomous as well as
interactive learning through V2X interfacing. This learning process will
eventually render each EcoGem FEV capable of autonomously classifying
routes according to their degree of congestion, enabling energy-driven route
planning optimisation.
The EcoGem ADAS will additionally cater for the complete planning of
the vehicle’s recharging strategy. This optimisation process will typically
include automated battery monitoring and various levels of pro-activeness,
optimised scheduling according to several parameters (battery levels, energy
consumption rate, desired destination, present location, daytime, traffic, user
agenda, etc.) and real-time booking of recharging points.
Motor Transport Institute (Instytut Transportu Samochodowego) was
founded in 1952, upon the issue of the regulation by the Council of
Ministers. The Institute’s activities performed at the national level. The
research problems that the Institute has dealt with over the past 55 years
were constantly changing. These problems come as a result of the needs of
national economy and transport, together with technical and organisational
progress, both within the economy and transport.
At present, strategic directions of the Institute’s activities are:
11. NAVTEQ B.V., The Netherlands
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12. Temsa Arastirma Gelistirme ve Teknoloji
A.S., Turkey
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10. Softeco Sismat S.r.l., Italy
Spain
capable of reaching the desired destinations through the most energy
efficient routes possible;
fully aware of surrounding recharging points/stations while on move.
organisation, functioning and effectiveness of road transport;
safety improvements for road traffic participants;
limiting negative environmental impact of the road transport
development;
innovative design and material solutions for the road transport means,
their elements as well as service materials.
The Institute employs highly qualified scientific personnel. It also has laboratories and workrooms equipped with state-of-the-art testing and measuring
equipment.
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ECOGEM
The recognition for the Institute’s achievements is manifested in its
involvement in the work of numerous international scientific teams
and participation in European research projects in FP6 and FP7. Some
of these are DRUID (Driving Under Influence of Drugs and Alcohol),
Safeway2School (integrated system for safe transportation of children to
school), EcoGem (Cooperative Advanced Driver Assistance System for
Green Cars) or SHLOW (show me how slow: mobilising evidence from
transport research into speed). Institute’s achievements are presented at
various international congresses and conferences. The Institute operates
according to the international quality management systems implemented
according to the PN-EN ISO 9001:2001 standard.
Motor Transport Institute is involved in the following Work Packages
and tasks:
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WP2 – System Requirements and Architecture (Task 2.1 State-of-the-Art
Assessment, Use Case Scenarios and Applications Task 2.3 Traffic and
Recharging Management Platform Requirements, Task 2.4 Protocols and
Interfaces Requirements, Task 2.8 System Functional Architecture);
WP3 – System Specifications and Technical System Design (Task 3.1
Scalability and Performance Analysis of EcoGem Applications, Task 3.2
Route Planning and Vehicle Recharging Optimisation On-board ADAS
Specifications, Task 3.3 Traffic and Recharging Management Platform
Specifications, Task 3.4 Protocols and Interfaces Specifications, Task 3.8
EcoGem System Specifications and Technical Design Task 3.9 Prototype
System and Trials Specifications);
WP5 – Trials and Evaluation (Task 5.5 Trial Results Analysis, Task 5.6
Overall Evaluation and Applicability Analysis);
WP6 – Dissemination, Standardisation and Business Plan (Task 6.1
Dissemination Activities, Task 6.2 Standardisation Activities, Task 6.3
Exploitation Activities).
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COOLEMALL
Project’s title:
Platform for optimizing the design
and operation of modular configurable
IT infrastructures and facilities
with resource-efficient cooling
Data centers are responsible for around 2% of the global energy consumption.
Their growing energy demand results in very high costs, constrained growth
due to power supply limits, and significant CO₂ emissions. Many data centers
have poor Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and are not optimized for the
current conditions and loads. An additional increasingly important factor
in the construction of data centers is the use of modular building blocks
which are becoming popular due to lower costs, shorter building times, and
flexibility of design. However, as this flexibility gives a broad spectrum of
configurations, there is significant scope for analyzing the energy efficiency
aspects of the modular approach. In order to have a deep insight into the total
energy consumption of both large data centers and smaller facilities more
research is needed to determine how intrinsically efficient the approach is.
ICT-2011.6.2
ICT systems for energy efficiency
http://coolemall.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2011
30-03-2014
3 614 210 €
2 645 000 €
To address the aforementioned issues the aim of the CoolEmAll project is
to approach the complex problem of improving data centre efficiency
from a number of angles. The CoolEmAll consortium plans to take a holistic
approach to improving data centre energy efficiency that includes not just
the role of IT hardware or facilities equipment but also the applications they
ultimately support.
Polish participant:
The main goal of CoolEmAll is to provide advanced planning and optimization tools for modular data centre environments. Once developed, these
tools should help to minimize the energy consumption, and consequently
the CO2 emissions of the IT infrastructure with related facilities. This will
be achieved by:
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3. Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III,
France
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The Consortium:
4. Christmann Informationstechnik + Medien
GmbH & Co KG, Germany
5. The 451 Group Ltd., United Kingdom
6. Fundacio Institut de Recerca de l’Energia
de Catalunya, Spain
design of diverse types of data centre building blocks precisely
defined by energy efficiency metrics;
development of simulation, visualization and decision support
toolkit (SVD Toolkit) that will enable analysis and optimization of
data centers built of these building blocks.
Both activities will include three important aspects when considering the
energy efficiency of data centers: cooling techniques, applications properties,
and workload management policies. Project will also work on an analysis and
definition of energy-efficiency metrics for data centre building blocks.
To achieve these goals CoolEmAll will follow the interdisciplinary approach
using project partners’ expertise and technologies in relevant areas. Validation of results will be done by both real-life and simulation studies. The
former will be possible thanks to the small scale real prototype of data centre
building block with fine-grained monitoring. Simulation studies will allow
analyzing and optimizing energy efficiency in specific scenarios reflecting
end user needs. The ultimate goal of the CoolEmAll project is to decrease
energy consumption of data centers by allowing data center designers and
planners, administrators and decision makers, IT equipment vendors as well
as researchers to model and analyze energy efficiency of data centers. Using
software tools and models delivered by the project these end users will be able
to simulate various configurations of data centers and interactively visualize
impact on a heat transfer and energy consumption.
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Contact person:
PhD Ariel Oleksiak
Phone: +48 618 582 169
To achieve this goal, the project is going to deliver a data centre simulation
and visualization toolkit along with designs of energy efficient IT hardware that can be plugged into the simulations. By coming at the problem
of data centre efficiency from a number of angles the CoolEmAll consortium
hopes to develop solutions beyond the scope of other projects or industry
efforts. The EC-funded project has been underway since October 2011. The
participants in the 30-month project include a number of supercomputing and environmental research centers groups, as well as representatives
from industry. Participation of potential end users of project results should
facilitate their uptake.
FP7 ICT
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
http://www.pcss.pl
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Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) is the project
coordinator. Thus, its main responsibilities include management of the whole
consortium, representing a project in contacts with the European Commission, administrative and financial management, as well as dissemination of
project results. PSNC also provided a project collaboration environment
including the CoolEmAll portal, intranet, documents repository and other
tools for day to day collaboration of the consortium.
Apart from management tasks PSNC is involved in numerous research and
development activities within the project. In particular, PSNC is responsible
for a software platform enabling access to the project test environment in
order to perform experiments related to various aspects of energy-efficiency.
This platform will provide detailed monitoring information about power
usage and temperature of particular servers, as well as temperatures of inlet
and outlet air. The status of the testbed will be available via web interface
including 3D visualization, which will enable comparison of real measurements with simulation results. PSNC also develops a simulator which will
deliver information about impact of various types of workloads on power
usage and heat generation of IT equipment. The simulator will also help
to analyze how various management strategies influence energy-efficiency
of a data centre.
Based on these studies PSNC will propose energy- and thermal-aware
management policies for data centers. The output of this simulator will
be combined with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to
visualize distribution of temperature and air flow. As PSNC is an operator of
its own data centre it will also apply project tools to model and simulate the
PSNC server room. In this way, it will provide requirements for the project
and define a use case to validate models and software tools developed within
the CoolEmAll project.
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CORNER
Project’s title:
CORrelated Noise ERrors in
Quantum Information Processing
and Communication
The project addresses problems related to correlated noise errors in
quantum information processing, which are recognized as one of major
obstacles in practical implementations. The consortium combines complementary expertise by the member reseach groups, enabling them to cover
the entire range of relevant issues, ranging from general channel properties
(ultimate bounds on capacities, quantification of correlation effects and
identification of important classes of channels), through encoding and
decoding methods (optimization of attainable capacities in small- and
large-scale regimes, all-inclusive analysis of required resources, universal
coding for partly known channels) and quantum estimation of correlated
noise (efficiency of estimation procedures, extraction of crucial parameters),
to environments with memory (simulation techniques, effective channel
models, probing environment properties).
ICT-2007.8.0
FET open
http://corner.fizyka.umk.pl
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-07-2008
30-01-2012
2 734 213 €
2 086 998 €
Polish participant:
Nicolaus Copernicus University
ul. Jurija Gagarina 11
87-100 Toruń
http://www.umk.pl/
The goal of the project is to develop a general framework for understanding and managing of CORrelated Noise ERrors in Quantum Information Processing and Communication. The project reaches beyond current
restricted models that involve statistically independent errors and often are
inapplicable to real physical systems.
Contact person:
PhD Lidia Tańska
Phone: +48 605 122 713
The Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Toruń is the biggest university in northern Poland and it ranks among the top 5 Polish universities. The
Institute of Physics of the Nicolaus Copernicus University has active research
programmes in mathematical physics, quantum mechanics, atomic, optical,
and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, and biomedical optics.
The Consortium:
1. Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
2. Universita degli Studi di Camerino, Italy
4. University of Hertfordshire Higher
Education Corporation, United Kingdom
5. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen
Nurnberg, Germany
6. Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
7. Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the
Germany
Hannover, Germany
Germany
12. University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Tasks attributed to UMK:
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Nicolaus Copernicus University is the coordinator of the project;
analyze decoherence effects in optical fibers on classical and quantum
level;
develop realistic methods for characterizing channel properties;
implement protocols for characterization and utilization of correlated
noise.
FP7 ICT | FET open, FET proactive
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NANOICT
Project’s title:
Nano-scale ICT Devices and
Systems Coordination Action
The NanoICT was a Coordination Action which activities has been taken
to reinforce and support the whole European Research Community in
“ICT nanoscale devices”. It covers the research areas that demonstrate unconventional solutions beyond the expected limits of CMOS technology.
ICT-2007.8.1
Nanoscale ICT devices and systems
Activities performed by the project:
http://www.phantomsnet.net/nanoICT/
31-12-2010
Project’s budget:
950 000 €
EC funding:
950 000 €
Polish participant:
NANOSAM, Jagiellonian University
ul. Gołębia 24
31-007 Kraków
http://www.uj.edu.pl
Contact person:
Prof. Marek Szymoński
Head of the Nanosam Center
Phone: +48 12 663 55 60
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The NanoICT action plans was going beyond the organization of conferences, workshops, exchange of personnel, WEB site, etc. developing the
following activities:
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The Consortium:
1. Fundacion Phantoms, Spain
Switzerland
la Nanoelettronica, Italy
6. Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, Spain
7. Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU),
Spain
10. Lunds Universitet, Sweden
Germany
12. NANOSAM, Jagiellonian University,
Poland
demonstration of new concepts for switches or memory cells;
demonstration of new concepts, technologies and architectures for local
and chip level interconnects with substantial improvements over current
solutions;
demonstration of radically new functionalities by the integration of
blocks from a few nanometres down to the atomic scale into high
added-value systems.
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consolidation and visibility of the research community in ICT nanoscale
devices;
mapping and benchmarking of research at European level, and its
comparison with other continents;
identification of drivers and measures to assess research in ICT nanoscale
devices, and to assess the potential of results to be taken up in industrial
research;
coordination of research agendas and development of research roadmaps;
coordination of national or regional research programmes or activities,
with the aim to involve funding authorities in building the ERA around
this topic;
development of strategies for international cooperation on themes
related to NanoICT.
Expected impact was to enhance visibility, shape and consolidate the
NanoICT research community in Europe.
Centre for Nanometer-Scale-Science and Advanced Materials – NANOSAM
has been initiated as a competence centre within the structure of the Marian
Smoluchowski Institute of Physics which belongs to the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, the oldest educational and research institution in Central and
Eastern Europe. “Alma Mater Cracoviensis “ was founded by King Casimir
the Great in 1364 under the name of Kraków Academy. Due to its restoration in 1400 by benefactors from the royal Jagiello family it bears its name
Jagiellonian University. The Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer
Science is one of 12 faculties of the University. It continues the distinguished
traditions of natural sciences that originated in the Academy during the
fifteenth century when the famous school of astronomy was created and
Nicolas Copernicus enrolled as a student.
The scientific activity of the NANOSAM Centre research groups is concerned with various aspects of modern materials science and its theoretical
aspects, as well as properties of nanoscopic systems and nanometer-scale
modification of materials. The topics of materials research which are related
to properties of nano-size materials are focused on scanning probe methods,
on the design and characterization of functional materials with emphasis
on magnetic solids and polymers, on quantum phenomena in mezoscopic
systems, on manufacturing and characterization of self-assembling structures,
and on research with biomedical materials.
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The particular research topics of the Centre are:
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electronic and atomic properties of nanoscopic systems;
nano-scale modification of surfaces;
biological materials at nanoscale;
new liquid crystalline materials;
polymer materials, especially polymer mixtures;
magnetic properties, including magnetic and electronic structure of
rare-earth RmTnXp intermetallics (R – rare-earth atom, T – transition
d-electron atom, X – p-electron atom);
spin reorientation phenomena in R2Fe14B – type intermetallic compounds;
superconductivity.
NANOSAM group worked in the Working Group WG6 on Mono-Molecular
Electronics. The scope was to create a forum for those in Europe interested
in the creation of a new computing technology based on the use of a single
molecule what is called mono-molecular electronics. Embedding a large logic
function inside a single molecule requires the creation of news technologies
first at the lab scale and then at the production scale.
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FRONTS
Project’s title:
Foundations of Adaptive Networked
Societies of Tiny Artefacts
FRONTS established the foundations of adaptive networked societies
of small or tiny heterogeneous artifacts.
The consortium was set up to develop an understanding of adaptive
networked societies. This will enable us to establish their fundamental
properties and laws, as well as their inherent trade-offs. The consortium
approached its goal by working on a usable quantitative theory of networked
adaptation based on rigorous and measurable gains. It also intended to apply
its models, methods, and results to the scrutiny of large-scale simulations and
experiments, from which it has expected to obtain valuable feedback. The
foundational results and the feedback from simulations formed a unifying
framework for adaptive networks of artifacts that enabled the consortium to
come up with a coherent working set of design rules for such systems.
ICT-2007.8.2
Pervasive adaptation
http://fronts.cti.gr/
Project’s budget
EC funding:
01-02-2008
31-01-2011
3 093 737 €
2 350 000 €
Polish participant:
50-370 Wrocław
Contact person:
Prof. Mirosław Kutylowski
Phone: +48 71 320 21 05
The Consortium:
1. Computer Technology Institute & Press
Diophantus, Greece
Germany
Athens, Greece
5. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Italy
7. Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
8. Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
The aim of FRONTS project was to provide a unifying scientific framework and a coherent set of design rules, for global systems resulting from
the integration of autonomous interacting entities, dynamic multi-agent
environments and ad-hoc mobile networks.
The WUT group was responsible for solutions concerning trustworthy
algorithms and schemes, lightweight cryptographic mechanisms as well as
communication. The team was responsible for a key setup protocol implemented for the final experimental system unifying the results.
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CYBEREMOTIONS
Project’s title:
Collective Emotions in Cyberspace
CyberEmotions is a research domain that studies observable and analyzable phenomena related to any means of communication provided by
the Internet – such as text, sound, visual, or any combination of these – that
are related to emotional processes in individuals or groups.
ICT-2007.8.4
Science of complex systems for socially
intelligent ICT
http://www.cyberemotions.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2009
31-01-2013
4 636 660 €
3 600 000 €
Faculty of Physics,
pl. Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
http://pw.edu.pl
Contact person:
Prof. Janusz Hołyst
Phone: +48 22 234 71 33
Gemius S.A.
ul. Woloska 7
02-675 Warszawa
http://www.gemius.com/
The main aims of the CyberEmotions project are the understanding of the
role of collective emotions in the process of creation, forming and breaking up of e-Communities as well as constructing internet tools, aiming to
increase the positive emotions and suppressing the negative ones occurring
in e-Communities. In this project, the psychological models of emotional
influence are combined with complex systems based on probability models
as well as numerical simulations based on the so-called emotion-reactive
active agents. From the practical and technological point of view, the project
concentrates on the issues of supporting the emotional sense of security and
trust in e-Communities as well as conflicts prevention and their solving.
Transcending the classical analysis of human emotions, researchers in
this domain also deal with emergent properties of the interplay between
individual human emotions, the technical infrastructure of the Internet,
and communication processes linked to all spheres of life. Therefore,
research in the area of CyberEmotions is closely linked with human emotional
processes in general (biological, behavioral, and experiential), with Internetmediated communication (partially erasing space and time boundaries, and
with creating specific networks of interactions). A particular emphasis lies
on the automatic analysis of online messages using methodologies such
as sentiment analysis to provide access to emotional cues in large samples.
The precise relationships between individual and collective emotions on the
Internet are not yet known and likely require complex systems and network
approaches.
The main aims of the CyberEmotions project are:
Contact person:
Marta Klepka
Global PR & Communications Director
Phone: +48 22 390 90 90
or +48 607 676 620
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1. Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of
Technology, Poland
Switzerland
3. University of Wolverhampton,
United Kingdom
4. Oesterreichische Studiengesellschaft fuer
Kybernetik, Austria
7. Jacobs University Bremen GmbH,
Germany
8. Physikalisch – Technische Bundesanstalt,
Germany
9. Gemius S.A., Poland
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to understand the role of collective emotions in creating, forming and
breaking-up ICT mediated communities as a spontaneous emergent
behavior occurring in complex techno-social networks;
to understand the relationship between emotions of individuals as
revealed by subjective experience, behavior, physiological responses,
and expressions with online emotional behaviors of ICT mediated dyads
and groups in an integrative multi-level approach;
to create decentralized adaptive tools which allow the amplification of
positive or the suppression of negative collective emotions in e-Societies
and will take into account the heterogeneity of interacting humans;
to prepare the theoretical background for the development of the
next generation emotionally-intelligent ICT services using models
of self-organized active agents and sociophysics methods The project
focuses on the role of collective emotions in creating, forming and
breaking-up ecommunities.
Warsaw University of Technology (WUT)
Gemius S.A. is the leader in the field of internet measurement and consultancy in Europe and in the Middle East. Originating in Poland, Gemius
has expanded across the EMEA region and is currently operating on thirty
markets. The company is the pioneer of the full hybrid methodology for
online audience measurement, integrating both consumer panels and
advanced site-centric research, giving media planners highly credible results
(gemiusAudience). It also offers professional research solutions, analytical and
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advisory services, from site-centric and user-centric studies to technologically-advanced tools for studying internet user behavior on chosen websites
(gemiusTraffic), internet user socio-demographic profiles (gemiusProfile),
the quality of WWW page usage (gemiusUsability) and the effectiveness
of internet advertising campaigns (gemiusEffect). Gemius also conducts
research related to subjects submitted by customers (gemiusAdHoc). Apart
from the above-mentioned research services, Gemius offers studies on the
behavior of users who view online multimedia content (gemiusStream) and
a research tool for immediate measurement and presentation of all clicks
made by internet users on a website (gemiusHeatMap).
The Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research (CSR) is a part of
the Faculty of Physics at WUT. The Center was established in 2002 and it
continuously extends its interdisciplinary investigations on complex systems.
Since its beginning, it is directed by Prof. Janusz Hołyst, who acts as a coordinator of the project CYBEREMOTIONS. The Center includes/employs
researchers who have appropriate knowledge to collaborate with partners
from other research fields such as economy, social sciences and medicine.
The conducted studies cover statistical physics and its both traditional and
non-traditional applications in including: nonlinear dynamics, econophysics, sociophysics and biophysics. In the recent years the Center has been
involved in several EU funded projects on complex networks theory and
interdisciplinary applications of this paradigm.
Gemius S.A. takes part in the activities related to working out algorithms
used for identification of collective emotions in e-Communities as well as
studies on the possibilities of interaction between a person and a virtual
e-Agent. The main research focuses on working out the methodology of
emotional states detection, their quantitative analysis and classification using
the system of communication with an internet user.
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SOCIONICAL
Project’s title:
Complex Socio-Technical System
in Ambient Intelligence
SOCIONICAL focuses on the specific example of Ambient Intelligence
(AmI) based smart environments. A key component of such environments
is the ability to monitor user actions and to adjust its configuration and
functionality accordingly.
ICT-2007.8.4
Science of complex systems for socially
intelligent ICT
http://www.socionical.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2009
31-01-2013
7 169 741 €
5 299 998 €
Polish participant:
and Technology
30-059 Kraków
http://www.agh.edu.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Wiesława Sikora
Email: Wieslawa.Sikora@fis.agh.edu.pl
Phone: +48 12 617 38 50
The Consortium:
1. Universität Passau, Germany
2. Beacon Tech Ltd., Israel
3. Universitaet Linz, Austria
4. London School of Economics and Political
Science, United Kingdom
6. Vereniging voor Christelijk Hoger
Onderwijs Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en
Patientenzorg, The Netherlands
Poland
Germany
10. Sociedad Iberica de Construcciones
Electricas S.A., Spain
12. Smartcare S.r.l., Italy
13. Technische Universitaet Muenchen,
Germany
15. Civil Protection Department – Ministry of
Home Affairs, Malta
Thus, the system reacts to human behavior while at the same influencing it.
This creates a feedback loop and leads to a tight entanglement between the
human and the technical system. At the same time there is dynamic, heterogeneous human-human, human-technology, and technology-technology
communication leading to ad-hoc coupling between components and different feedback loops. The project will study global properties and emergent
phenomena that arise in AmI based socio-technical systems from such local
feedback loops and their coupling on two concrete scenarios: transportation
and emergency/disaster.
As of today the study of human computer interaction in AmI environments
has been mostly restricted to the investigation of individual users or small
user groups. SOCIONICAL will develop methods and tools for modeling,
simulation, and prediction for large scale, complex, AmI environment based
socio technical systems. It will focus on going from an understanding of
local interactions between humans and the ICT system to describing and
predicting the evolution of global properties, self-organization, and large
scale emergent phenomena. SOCIONICAL starts by looking at three types
of interactions among individual entities (“in the small”):
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the (possibly ICT enabled) interaction among humans;
interaction among humans and digital artifacts (ICT components/services, devices, gadgets, “smart things”);
interaction among digital artifacts themselves (based on self-management
capabilities, spontaneous and opportunistic interaction, etc.
SOCIONICAL is not interested in such local interaction for their own sake.
Instead it asks for (and attempts to predict) the effects and consequences
of massive, seemingly unpredictable occurrences and mutual causal interrelationships among such local interactions on the global properties of the
system as a whole (“in the large”).
With competence in a broad range of models the AGH University of Science
and Technology leads the parameterization work participating in all tasks
related to parameterization of the cases studies (with the exception of
the general AmI parameterization work). The partner is also a key player in
analytical modeling on extension of standard socio-physical models and the
analysis of the predictive power of the SOCIONICAL analytical models.
Finally AGH team works on using differential equations to predict emergent
structures (communities) in socio-technical networks. Most of our research
is concentrated on the scenario of emergency.
Evacuation is one of main motifs of the emergency scenario. We are interested in forces exerted by masses of pedestrians, when physical interactions
accumulate and the crowd size does matter. The symmetry of evacuated space
is also taken into account in our calculations. Apart of this, the AGH team
is involved in data analysis, social networks, mind representation, pattern
recognition and theory of complex systems.
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Q-ESSENCE
Project’s title:
Quantum InterfacES, SENsors and
Communication based on Entanglement
Quantum entanglement has the capacity to enable disruptive technologies
that solve outstanding issues in:
ICT-2009.8.2
FET proactive 2: quantum information
foundations and technologies
http://qessence.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2010
31-01-2013
6 508 270 €
4 700 000 €
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
00-927 Warszawa
http://uw.edu.pl
Contact person:
PhD Konrad Banaszek
Professor
trust, privacy protection, and security in two- and multi-party transactions;
novel or enhanced modes of operation of ICT devices;
reference standards, sensing, and metrology.
The development of entanglement-based strategies addresses these challenges
and provides the foundations for quantum technologies of the 21st century.
The practical exploitation of entanglement requires groundbreaking levels
of robustness and flexibility for deployment in real-world environments.
This ambitious goal can be reached only through radically new designs of
protocols, architectures, interfaces, and components.
Q-ESSENCE will achieve this by a concerted application-driven effort
covering relevant experimental, phenomenological, and fundamental aspects.
Our consortium will target three main outcomes:
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development of entanglement-enabled and entanglement-enhanced
ICT devices: atomic clocks, quantum sensors, and quantum random-number generators;
novel physical-layer architectures for long-distance quantum communication that surpass current distance limitations through the deployment of next-generation components;
distributed quantum information protocols that provide disruptive
solutions to multiuser trust, privacy-protection, and security scenarios
based on multipartite entanglement.
1. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw,
Poland
These outcomes will be reached through the underpinning science and
enabling technologies of: light-matter interfaces providing faithful interconversion between different physical realizations of qubits; entanglement
engineering at new scales and distances; robust architectures protecting
quantum information from decoherence; quantum information concepts
that solve problems of limited trust and privacy intrusion. The project builds
on the outstanding expertise of the consortium demonstrated by pioneering
works over the past decades, enhanced by a strong industrial perspective.
Germany
Quantum InterfacES, SENsors, and Communication based on Entanglement (Q-ESSENCE) is an Integrating Project which aim at:
University of Gdańsk
ul. Bażyńskiego 1a
80952 Gdańsk
The Consortium:
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4. Oesterreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Austria
5. Københavns Universitet, Denmark
6. Fyzikalny Ustav Slovenskej Akademie Vied,
Slovakia
8. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Muenchen, Germany
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development of quantum interfaces capable of high-fidelity mapping
of quantum information between different quantum systems;
generation of quantum entanglement at new scales and distances as
a resource to carry out quantum information tasks;
engineering multipartite entanglement in specific topologies of elementary systems.
University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski – UW) is one of the largest and finest Polish universities, it employs over 6,000 people, including
over 3,100 academic teachers and educates over 56,000 undergraduate and
graduate students.
The Faculty of Physics (http://www.fuw.edu.pl/) maintains a lively exchange
and collaboration programmes with many academic and research institutions
around the world and is known for its well equipped specialized research
laboratories.
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Hannover, Germany
13. Technische Universitaet Muenchen,
Germany
14. University of Gdańsk, Poland
15. Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Fundacio
Privada, Spain
The Netherlands
19. Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.,
United Kingdom
The Institute of Experimental Physics has a large Particle and Fundamental
Interaction Division, with research groups working on collider and accelerator-based experiments, neutino and astroparticle physics projects, as well
as on detector development for future astroparticle and particle physics
experiments.
The project is managed by the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, as
the Coordinator of the Consortium. Management duties of the Coordinator
are covered scientific, administrative and financial tasks. As for science, the
Coordinating Person (together with his/her support team) is maintains close
communication with the Sub-Project Leaders and the Steering Committee,
following continuously the advancements of the project. The Coordinator
is monitoring any cross-Sub-Project communication on the level of the
SP Leaders and below and is the first contact point for third parties. The
Coordinator is responsible for supervising public outreach of the project,
including the maintenance of the website and the preparation of popularization activities for general public.
20. ID Quantique S.A., Switzerland
22. Macquarie University, Australia
Main tasks assigned to the University of Warsaw are entanglement-enhanced
measurement schemes in the presence of loss and other physically relevant
decoherence mechanisms in SP1, diagnostic tools for modal characteristics of
light-matter interfaces in SP2, and verification and utilization of multipartite
entanglement in distributed protocols in SP3. The team from Faculty of
Physics will also lead SP4 and Workpackages WP4.1 and WP4.2.
21. Micro Photon Devices S.r.l., Italy
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NEUNEU
Project’s title:
Artificial Wet Neuronal Networks
from Compartmentalised
Excitable Chemical Media
The NEUNEU project aims at the development of mass-producible
chemical information processing components and their interconnection
into functional architectures. Droplets with Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
that proceeds in a lipid membrane are the basic units. The droplets can
communicate by exchanging signaling molecules through transmembrane
interactions. Architectures of interconnected droplets can emulate the switching networks of conventional information technology. The natural mode of
operation of droplets is fundamentally different from semiconductor-based
technology. Self-organization of lipids at a water-oil interface constructs
a self-healing membrane around the droplets. Self-assembly and self-insertion
of a biomacromolecule at the specific location of the contact area between
two droplets. Through this exploitation of self-processes the basic supramolecular units can be fabricated in bulk at very low cost.
ICT-2009.8.3
FET proactive 3: bio-chemistry-based
information technology (CHEM-IT)
http://neu-n.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2010
31-01-2013
2 334 698 €
1 780 000 €
Polish participant:
Department of Complex Systems and
Chemical Processing of Information,
Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish
Academy of Sciences
ul. Marcina Kasprzaka 44/52
01-224 Warszawa
http://www.ichf.edu.pl/res/res_en/depart/
cheminfo.html
Contact person:
Prof. Jerzy Górecki
The Consortium:
1. Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena,
Germany
United Kingdom
NEUNEU is oriented on proof-of-concept for a highly innovative
supramolecular information technology that:
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is inspired by the neural tissue of biological brains;
uses membrane encapsulated excitable chemical reaction systems which
communicate through channels;
the processing elements are powered directly and efficiently by chemical
energy;
can be fabricated using self-assembly and self-organization;
can spontaneously form and controllably formed into 2D- and
3D-structures;
can be interfaced with conventional technology (through optics, or
electrically) as well as through chemical messenger molecules;
respond to distinct activating and inhibiting chemical signals;
is flexible with regard to the computing paradigm that is implemented
(e.g., cellular automata or neuronal networks);
has a broad menu of options to side-step unforeseen difficulties or
specialize for specific application domains;
will exhibit a degree of self-repair and are robust to perturbations.
The NEUNEU project has three complementary objectives:
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Chemical Processing of Information of
the Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish
Academy of Sciences, Poland
4. University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
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The first is to engineer lipid-coated water droplets, inspired by biological cells, containing an excitable or oscillatory chemical medium.
Droplets containing a chemical reaction are the basic units of the studied
components because they can store chemical energy and rapidly and
repeatedly respond to input signals with a change in concentrations of
reagents they contain. The droplets can communicate by exchanging
signaling molecules much like cells in a tissue.
The second objective is to design architectures of droplet networks
and to demonstrate purposeful information processing in droplet architectures. The self-organization of organic compounds and proteins will
be complemented with dielectrophoretic manipulation to fabricate
small devices from interconnected droplets. For information processing
applications we consider spontaneously formed and controllably formed
2D- and 3D- droplet structures.
The third objective is to explore and establish the potential and the
limitations of droplet architectures, both from a theoretical perspective
and with laboratory prototypes. To achieve a realistic assessment of the
potential of the droplet technology the scalability of interconnections
and network size will be evaluated with iterations of fabrication and characterization of prototype devices. The robustness of architectures with
regard to droplet failures and chemical interference will be evaluated. We
expect that this collaboration among computer-scientists, bio-physicists,
chemical-physicists, biochemists, chemical-biologists, and electrical
engineers will develop a flexible and efficient substrate for molecular
information technology.
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The Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut
Chemii Fizycznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk) is a leading Polish institution in
the field of physical chemistry. The laboratories of the Institute of Physical
Chemistry conduct research in such fields as physical chemistry of soft
matter, green chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, computational and
theoretical chemistry, thermodynamics of liquids nanotechnology, photophysics and photochemistry of organic molecules, electrochemistry, physical
chemistry of solid state and surfaces and synthesis of novel materials under
high pressure conditions.
The technological section of the Institute, the CHEMIPAN Laboratory
develops and manufactures fine chemicals and specialized products for
agriculture and pharmacy, biological traps for woods and crop protection.
The Institute publishes approximately 300 original papers every year.
The NEUNEU project is conducted at the Department of Complex Systems and Chemical Processing of Information of the Institute of Physical
Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences. This Department employs world
class specialists in large scale computer simulations of structured multi-phase
medium, nonlinear chemical kinetics as well as experimentalists studying
the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction.
The main fields of research are: complex systems and nanotechnology inspired
by biology; complex phenomena in chemical systems; computational electrochemistry and molecular dynamics simulations of far-from-equilibrium
effects associated with chemical reactions.
The Institute of Physical Chemistry contributes to all tasks of the NEUNEU
project. Its primary role is to develop models for numerical simulations of
the chemical evolution of droplets and their interactions. The basic model
is based on partial differential equations that combine chemical kinetic
equations with terms describing diffusion and flows.
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how do excitations travel from one unit to another and which reagents
are involved in droplet communication?
how arriving signals are integrated at a droplet level?
To make the model realistic its parameters have to be adjusted (for example
the rate constants) such that the model correctly describes the phenomena
observed in typical experiments.
The institute performs experiments for a wide range of experimental conditions focusing attention on spatio-temporal structures appearing in a set of
interacting droplets. It performs simulations of the time evolution for systems
made of a few droplets. Such systems can be used as memory devices with
information coded in the stable modes of coupled oscillations.
The institute also plans to study networks containing a large number of
droplets. The networks composed of droplets with similar sizes can be generated with microfluidic reactors.
The institute investigates whether qualitative new phenomena appears when the
parameters characterizing the system size increase, density of droplets or their
connectivity. The existence of richer phase space for larger system has a direct
impact on the number of executed information processing operations.
The model should give answer to such questions as:
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ATMOL
Project’s title:
Atomic Scale and single Molecule
Logic gate Technologies
AtMol will establish a radically different and comprehensive process
flow for fabricating a molecular chip, i.e. a molecular processing unit
comprising of a single molecule connected to external mesoscopic electrodes
with atomic scale precision.
ICT-2009.8.7
FET proactive 7:
molecular scale devices and systems
http://atmol.phantomsnet.net
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2011
31-12-2014
9 629 838 €
6 899 849 €
Polish participant:
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
ul. Gołębia 24
31-007 Kraków
http://www.uj.edu.pl
Contact person:
Prof. Marek Szymoński
Head of the Nanosam Center
Phone: +48 12 663 55 60
A novel interconnection strategy will be developed which will integrate single
molecule logic gates while preserving the integrity of the gates down to the
atomic level. Logic functions will be incorporated in a single molecule gate,
or performed by a single surface atomic scale circuit, via either a quantum
Hamiltonian or a semi-classical design approach.
The AtMol research programme necessitates the use of state-of-the-art UHV
atomic scale interconnection machines comprising, within one integrated
UHV environment, a surface preparation chamber, a UHV transfer printing
device, an LT-UHV-STM (or a UHV-NC-AFM) for atomic scale construction, a FIM atomic scale tip apex fabrication device, and a multi-probe
system with its companion SEM or optical navigation microscope. Only
three of these systems exist worldwide and they are each housed within the
laboratories members of the AtMol consortium. These systems will be used
to interconnect molecular logic gates one-by-one in a planar atomic
scale multi-pad approach on the top, atomically reconstructed, surface
of the wafer. The back face of the wafer will incorporate nano-to-micro-scale
interconnections using nanofabricated vias which pass through the substrate
to the top face. The hybrid micro-nano approach to be developed in the
AtMol project will enable the full packaging of molecular chips preserving
the surface atomic scale precision of the gates. Successful implementation
of this approach will revolutionize molecular computing.
The Consortium:
3. Fundacion Phantoms, Spain
4. Fundacio Privada Institut Catala
d’Investigacio Quimica, Spain
7. Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
United Kingdom
10. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland
11. Institute of Materials Research and
Engineering, Singapore
The primary AtMol objective is to fabricate a molecular chip of this type that
can be tested under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions thanks to a unique
micro-meso-nano interconnection strategy before being encapsulated. This
also includes the alternative design, construction, interconnection and characterization of a single atomic scale logic gate up to its connection to external
electrodes. Additionally, AtMol will explore and demonstrate how the combination of classical and quantum information inside the same atomic scale
circuit increases the computing power of the final logic circuit.
Atomic scale logic gates will be constructed using atom-by-atom manipulation, on-surface chemistry, and unique UHV transfer printing technology.
Implementation and characterization of logic truth tables will first be carried
out in a surface science approach at the single molecule level, using single
metallic atoms as classical binary digits (the classical-to-quantum information
conversion will be effected at the intramolecular level).
Second, logic gate functionality will be measured from the top face of the
wafer using the multi-probe UHV STM instruments mentioned above.
Third, the AtMol unique back interconnect approach will be used to confirm
the logic truth table. Final objective in the AtMol project is to develop
the hybrid micro-nano approach that will enable the full packaging of the
molecular chips. In the successful approach the surface atomic precision of
the molecular gates has to be preserved.
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Our group takes part in several units across AtMol project. Namely, in Unit
devoted to back interconnects nanofabrication process we are assigned
to work on surface preparation and characterisation, and metallic nano-pad
fabrication. The main goal is to control the surface structure according to an
existing process compatible for silicon direct bonding and weak bonding.
This process consists of preparing wafers of hydrogen passivated surface,
bonding (under air and under vacuum) and de-bonding (under vacuum)
two wafers, and characterization of de-bonded surfaces with atomic resolution. Bonding and de-bonding procedures are very important for the full
packaging of the molecular chips.
Methods of manufacturing metallic nano-pads on a passivated semiconductor surfaces (either by UHV-transfer print or by standard metallic
growth mode) is crucial for the interconnection strategy. Next, in unit devoted
to LT-UHV-STM, NC-AFM atomic scale construction & simple testing, we
are assigned to work on on-surface polymerisation on passivated semiconductor/large band gap substrates, molecular orbital imaging on hydrogenated
semi-conductor surfaces, dangling bond wire construction with LT-STM
and LT-NC-AFM on Si(100):H, Ge(100):H and MoS2, surface molecule
logic gates characterisation. On-surface polymerisation and dangling bond
wire construction are important for the interconnection strategy, whereas
molecular orbital imaging and surface molecule logic gates characterisation
are crucial in gaining insight into operation of molecular processors.
Finally, in Unit devoted to atomic scale interconnections machines the
team was assigned to work with LT-UHV 4 STM probe systems under an
SEM planar testing to perform surface conductance measurements using
multiple metallic nano-pads, finite length surface atomic wires and long
molecular wires in planar configuration. All these measurements are very
challenging but feasible thanks to 4 probe STM system combined with SEM
operated in our laboratory.
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CHIST-ERA
Project’s title:
European Coordinated Research on
Long-term Challenges in Information
and Communication Sciences
and Technologies ERA-Net
ICT-2009.8.9
Coordinating communities, plans and
actions in FET proactive initiatives
CHIST-ERA is a coordination and co-operation activity of national (and
regional) research funding organizations in Europe. The project is supported
by the European Union under ERA-Net funding scheme of the FP7.
The objective of the project is to reinforce the transnational collaboration
between Member States in multidisciplinary research in the area of ICST and
potentially to lead to significant breakthroughs. The partner organizations
identify emergent scientific fields allowing European researchers to engage
in high risk, high impact projects that will bring some advances in science
by launching a transnational call for research proposals each year.
http://www.chistera.eu/
CHIST-ERA aims at overcoming the fragmentation of long term ICST
research along national lines and thus create synergy to amplify the activities
of national agencies, to contribute to the development of a concerted
scientific policy throughout the ERA, and to fulfill the needs and reinforce
the strengths of the European ICST research community, so that it can
achieve the leading edge.
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-12-2009
30-11-2011
1 642 722 €
1 499 970 €
Polish participant:
and Development
ul. Nowogrodzka 47a
00-695 Warszawa
Contact person:
Wojciech Piotrowicz
senior specialist
Phone: +48 785 661 476
The Consortium:
1. Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
2. The Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council, United Kingdom
3. Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universita
e della Ricerca, Italy
S.A., Spain
5. Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft – und
Raumfahrt e.V., Germany
6. Irish Research Council for Science,
Engineering and Technology, Ireland
Development, Poland
9. Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur
Forderung der Wissenschaftlichen
Forschung, Switzerland
The National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR) as
a government-funded agency is responsible for managing and funding
strategic scientific research and experimental development programmes
in Poland.
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GUARDIAN ANGELS
Project’s title:
Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life
Guardian Angels (GA) are future zero-power, intelligent, autonomous
systems-of-systems featuring sensing, computation, and communication beyond human aptitudes. GA will assist humans from their infancy
to old age in complex life situations and environments. Zero-power reflects
system-of-systems ability to scavenge energy in dynamic environments by
disruptive harvesting techniques. The project prepares zero-power technologies based on future energy-efficient technologies, heterogeneous design,
and disruptive energy scavengers. There are three zero-power generations
of GAs:
ICT-2011.9.5
FET flagship initiative preparatory actions
http://www.ga-project.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2011
30-04-2012
1 746 111 €
1 404 838 €
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Polish participant:
Physical Guardian Angels are zero-power, on-body networks or
implantable devices that monitor vital health signals and take appropriate actions to preserve human health;
Environmental Guardian Angels extend monitoring to dynamic
environments, using disruptive scavengers, personalized data communication, and first “thinking” algorithms. They are personal assistants
that protect their wearers from environment dangers;
Emotional Guardian Angels are intelligent personal companions with
disruptive zero-power, manmachine interfaces deployed at large scale.
They sense and communicate using non-verbal languages playing an
important role in health, education, and security worldwide.
al. Lotników 32/46
02-668 Warszawa
http://www.ite.waw.pl/pl/
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Contact person:
PhD Piotr Grabiec
Head of the Department of Silicon
Microstructures and Nanostructures
Phone: +48 22 716 59 92 to 94 int. 21
The Consortium:
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Switzerland
2. Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule
Zurich, Switzerland
3. Commissariat a l Energie Atomique et Aux
5. CSEM Centre Suisse D’electronique et
de Microtechnique SA – Recherche Et
Developpement, Switzerland
Catalunya, Spain
7. Hiqscreen Sarl, Switzerland
8. IBM Research GmbH, Switzerland
11. Intel Performance Learning Solutions
Limited, Ireland
la Nanoelettronica, Italy
15. Senarclens, Leu + Partner AG, Switzerland
16. NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.,
The Netherlands
17. Sanofi-Aventis Recherche &
Developpement, France
18. Siemens AG, Germany
19. Institut Sinano Association, France
20. Stmicroelectronics Crolles 2 SAS, France
21. Thales SA, France
University Of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
This project addresses the following scientific challenges for energy-efficient
visionary Guardian Angel autonomous systems:
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energy-efficient computing (down to E=10-100kT), and communication (approaching the limit of 1pJ/bit);
low-power sensing;
disruptive scavenging (bio-inspired, thermoelectric, etc, targeting energy
densities of tens of mW/cm2);
zero-power man-machine interfaces. A selection of emerging technologies based on energy efficiency is proposed. We will also develop design
tools that integrate electrical, mechanical, optical, thermal, and chemical
simulation tools over length and time scales currently not achievable.
ITE will actively participate the project by performing research in the
domains such as nanoelectronics, photonics and microsystem technologies
in the New Member States (Central and Eastern Europe) and then providing
adequate benchmarking information to the consortium.
ITE will act as a consultant to the core group of the project and will also play
a role in a dissemination, networking, training and exploitation activities.
23. The Chancellor, Masters and
Scholars of the University of
Cambridge, United Kingdom
24. Universite Catholique de Louvain,
Belgium
26. Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT,
Finland
27. Stichting Imec Nederland,
The Netherlands
28. Institute of Electron Technology,
Poland
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IDEALIST2011
Project’s title:
Trans-national cooperation among
ICT National Contact Points
ICT-2007.9.3
Transnational cooperation among
National Contact Points
Ideal-ist is an international ICT partner search network. The aim of the
network is to reduce the barriers faced by organizations wishing to participate
in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) programme by
offering transnational partner search. The project provides an entirely webbased platform and thus making it the ideal tool for joining ICT projects,
finding partners for a project idea and finding services to support organizations in ICT projects within the 7th Framework Programme.
http://www.ideal-ist.eu/
The main objective of Idealist2011 is reinforcing the network of National
Contact Points (NCP) for ICT under FP7, by promoting further transnational cooperation within this network. This cooperation is not be reduced
to only ICT NCPs but also a degree of collaboration and networking
with similar networks in parallel themes (Security, SSH, ENV, Transport,
Energy, Health, etc.) especially in the context of joint/coordinated calls
is to be covered.
FP7 ICT | Transnational cooperation, general accompanying measures
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2008
30-09-2011
3 525 882 €
2 995 160 €
Polish participant:
Institute of Fundamental Technological
Research Polish Academy of Sciences,
National Contact Point for Research
Programmes of the European Union
ul. Adolfa Pawińskiego 5b
02-106 Warszawa
http://www.kpk.gov.pl/
Contact person:
Małgorzata Szołucha
NCP for ICT priority in FP7
and CIP-ICT PSP
The Consortium:
1. Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft
– und Raumfahrt e.V., Germany
3. Agence Bruxelloise pour l’Entreprise,
Belgium
5. Verein Euresearch, Switzerland
6. Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus
7. Ustav Teorie Informace a Automatizace
AV CR, v.v.i., Czech Republic
8. Forsknings- Og Innovationsstyrelsen,
Denmark
9. Sihtasutus Archimedes, Estonia
10. Centro Para el Desarrollo Tecnologico
Industrial., Spain
11. UBIFRANCE – Agence Francaise pour
le Developpement International des
Entreprises, France
Special focus is put on helping less experienced NCPs from Member States
(MS) and Associated States (AS) to access the know-how accumulated in
other countries and to apply it in a locally relevant and efficient manner.
The National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the European Union
(KPK PB UE) operates under the Institute of Fundamental Technological
Research (IPPT PAN), which is one of the biggest scientific establishments
of the Polish Academy of Sciences. KPK PB UE operates as an umbrella
for the entire FP7 through a country-wide network with headquarters in
Warsaw. The network consists of 10 Regional Consortia of Contact Points,
21 Thematic Contact Points and many Local Contact Points located in different research organizations operating in the field of research and technological
innovation. KPK PB UE together with the network members provides various
services guiding the Polish R&D sector through different EU programmes
and instruments connected to the European Research Area.
KPK PB UE was founded in 1999 by the Ministry of Science and Higher
Education as a result of a national contest in connection with Poland’s participation in the 5th Framework Programme of the European Union. Since
then, the organization’s main goal is to promote the EU R&D programmes
throughout Poland in various research and industrial areas. This is being
achieved through training, consultancy and coaching, facilitating partner
search, encouraging project consortia creation and promoting international
co-operation.
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13. Hrvatski Institut za Tehnologiju, Croatia
14. Kozep-Magyarorszagi Regionalis Innovacios
Ugynokseg Kozhasznu Egyesulet, Hungary
Active participation in the following actions:
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16. Haskoli Islands, Iceland
17. Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca
Europea, Italy
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18. Consorzio Pisa Ricerche Scarl, Italy
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19. Luxinnovation GIE, Luxembourg
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20. Starptautiska Lietiskas Optikas Biedriba,
Latvia
22. Malta Council for Science and Technology,
Malta
24. Norges Forskningsrad, Norway
25. Polish National Contact Point for Research
Programmes of the European Union,
Poland
26. Agencia de Inovacao – Inovacao
Empresarial e Transferencia de Tecnologia,
Portugal
27. Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare
in Informatica – ICI Bucuresti, Romania
28. Verket för Innovationssystem, Sweden
Slovakia
31. Tubitak Marmara Research Center, Turkey
32. Singleimage Ltd., United Kingdom
33. EFPC (UK) Ltd., United Kingdom
34. Belarusian Institute of System Analysis
and Information Support of Scientific and
Technical Sphere, Belarus
35. Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation,
Egypt
36. Interactive Technology, Software and Media
Association, India
37. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios
Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico
38. Ministerie van Economische Zaken,
The Netherlands
activities promoting deeper cooperation and strengthening the benefits
of belonging to a larger European ICT NCP network;
surveys among ICT NCPs to understand the various national approaches
to offering NCP services and provide a basis for sharing experience and
good practices;
training and twinning measures targeted to less experienced NCPs;
strengthening the accessibility to reliable and up-to-date information on
ICT in FP7 and related Idealist services for clients and NCPs;
participation in organization of dedicated brokerage events at regional
and at European level especially during ICT conferences;
acquisition of information on the activities of other thematic groups,
especially when these activities have a direct relevance to the execution
of calls, the building of consortia, dissemination of this information to
all the members of the NCP network, including the ICT contact points
in the International Co-operation Partner Countries (ICPC).
Athens, Greece
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INSPIRE-INTERNATIONAL
Project’s title:
INcreasing Security and
Protection through Infrastructure
REsilience – International
cooperation aspects
The INSPIRE-International project aims specifically at fostering mutually beneficial international cooperation between the EC FP7 STREP
project INSPIRE (INcreasing Security and Protection through Infrastructure
Resilience; INSPIRE RTD) and the US power grid protection activities
and especially the NSF supported GridStat project ongoing at Washington
State University (WSU), Pullman, USA. This will also help form the basis of
broader co-operations across the EU and US grid-protection activities.
ICT-2009.9.2
Supplements to support International
Cooperation between ongoing projects
http://www.inspire-inco.eu/
30-12-2010
Project’s budget:
132 400 €
EC funding:
99 300 €
Polish participant:
ITTI Sp. z o. o.
ul. Rubież 46
61-612 Poznań
Contact person:
Krzysztof Samp
Phone: +48 616 226 985
The Consortium:
The INSPIRE-International cooperation project specifically supports the
international cooperation between the EC FP7 STREP INSPIRE project
and the US WSU GridStat project by fostering the collaboration between
INSPIRE RTD researchers and GridStat researchers in the field of power
grid protection. This collaboration aims at making power grid data available to INSPIRE RTD, establish relationship with GridStat partners,
exchange experiences and demonstration activities. In the framework
of the international collaboration joint meetings with GridStat team and
workshops with CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) players will be
organized both in Europe and in the US, and dissemination materials will
be produced to share the data collection from the US energy providers and
SCADA protection experiences from the US liaison with the broad EU
SCADA protection community.
Within the INSPIRE-INCO project ITTI researchers took part in joint
research and networking activities with the US researchers working on the
GridStat Projects. These included:
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Germany
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ITTI researchers took part in meetings in the US (Pullman, Pasco),
Canada (Vancouver), Germany (Darmstadt) and Italy (Naples) in
order to exchange experience regarding security and resilience solutions
for critical infrastructures and networked industrial control systems
(ICS/SCADA). Joint research on SmartGrid infrastructures was discussed and performed;
ITTI worked on analyzing data gathered by synchrophasors in order to
detect possible anomalies and cyberattacks;
ITTI used signal-based algorithms and techniques such as DWT;
ITTI presented INSPIRE Decision Aid Tool (DAT) in order to get feedback and assess further development needs and possibilities, especially
regarding energy and SmartGrids market.
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PROGR-EAST
Project’s title:
Innovative PROcurement techniques to
support the GRowth of competitiveness
for public services in EASTern Europe
PROGR-EAST aims to create a long term sustainable network of public
and private stakeholders able to support PCP strategies and policies in
Eastern Europe, by providing a set of services and tools to increase their
competences and initiate a platform to facilitate dialogue on PCP issues
between European stakeholders in order to:
ICT-2009.9.3
General accompanying measures
http://www.progreast.eu/
30-06-2012
Project’s budget:
482 670 €
EC funding:
399 765 €
Polish participant:
Innovatika Sp. z o.o.
ul. Czterech Wiatrów 8
02-800 Warszawa
http://innovatika.com
Contact person:
Sergiusz Sawin
Managing Director
Phone: +48 22 825 81 54
The Consortium:
1.
2.
3.
4.
6.
Innova S.p.A., Italy
Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia
Puskas Tivadar Kozalapitvany, Hungary
BIC Bratislava. spol. s.r.o., Slovakia
Innovatika Sp. z o.o, Poland
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support PCP strategies and policies in Eastern Europe;
facilitate dialogue on PCP issues between European stakeholders;
support the creation of transnational Public Private Partnerships;
implement innovative public services (e-Governement).
The objective of the PROGREAST project is to encourage the use of Pre
Commercial Procurement (PCP) in 5 targeted European Countries (PL,
CZ, SK, HU and SL), taking into consideration the specific needs and
constraints for public procurement and in particular for the procurement of
R&D existing in Eastern Europe. In particular the PROGR-EAST project is
focused on PCP for e-Government, and for other innovative on line services
for citizens and business.
In order to fulfill this goal the PROGR-EAST project will produce an
up-dated state of the art, including needs and constraints for the implementation of PCP in the 5 targeted countries and the identification and
description of the main PCP strategies and policies implemented in Europe
and abroad (USA, Asia).
INNOVATIKA is an innovation consulting & outsourcing firm focused on
helping companies excel in innovation performance, knowledge management
and intellectual capital measurement (Poland). Set up in 2004, it builds on
previous experience of the founding team gained on projects in Poland,
Germany, Italy, France, UK and India. It is made up of a group of 100
professional consultants and experts with a long standing and consolidated
knowledge in R&D and international marketing activities.
INNOVATIKA groups managers and specialists with extensive experience
from leading Polish and global companies. Advising clients, INNOVATIKA
reaches out beyond internal know-how and works closely with renown
external advisors and other partners.
INNOVATIKA supports managers to utilize natural energy and ideas of
their employees driving strategy and idea management processes development. It also consults on knowledge management and intellectual capital
(intangible assets relations, structures and processes). And is involved in
Future Centers development for various organizations and companies.
INNOVATIKA helps large companies innovate. Some of their major experiences involve Polish Telecom (France Telecom Group), Netia telecom,
Heinz, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, several media and financial services
companies. The main countries of coverage have been Poland, but also other
countries in Europe and recently the USA. INNOVATIKA has a consolidated experience in developing global networks of innovation experts and
practitioners that are leveraged extensively. All consultants have a proven
delivery track record and have the highest levels of professional integrity.
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INNOVATIKA gives companies access to an integrated toolkit of innovation methods & good practices, through strategic partnerships and collaboration with thought leaders and partners developing innovation related
tools like:
• IC Rating;
• Idea Central;
• Zing;
• Blue Ocean Strategy or Outcome-Driven Innovation.
INNOVATIKA, as partner in the PROGR-EAST project is responsible for
all the dissemination and on line communication activities. It manages all
the activities that are being carried out in Poland including the context assessment of PCP in the Polish conditions (WP1), running awareness building
workshop, development of the Pilot PCP project simulations with Polish
public procurers and the creation of roadmap for PCP in Eastern Europe.
Project’s title:
Application Performance
Optimisation and Scalability-EU
APOS-EU (Application Performance Optimisation and Scalability) is funded
by the European Commission and is performed in collaboration with a peer
project APOS-RU that was funded by the Ministry of Education and Science
of the Russian Federation.
ICT-2011.10.2
EU-Russia research and development
cooperation
The APOS-EU project investigates technologies and develops tools for the
software challenges encountered by computational scientists in the face of
new trends in high-performance computing architecture development.
The project targets a representative suite of simulation codes from the
strategically important application areas of seismic modelling, oil- and
gas-reservoir simulation, computational fluid dynamics, fusion energy,
and molecular dynamics. The expertise and technologies that are developed
in the course of this project will form a basis on which the wider scientific
community can build, with a view to tackling the challenges of the Exascale
computing era.
http://apos-project.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2011
31-01-2013
1 596 629 €
1 200 000 €
Polish participant:
Interdisciplinary Centre for
Mathematical and Computational
Modelling, University of Warsaw
00-927 Warszawa
http://www.icm.edu.pl/web/guest/home
Contact person:
Prof. Piotr Bala
The Consortium:
1. The University of Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
2. CAPS Entreprise, France
3. Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical
and Computational Modelling, University
of Warsaw, Poland
4. Total S.A., France
The APOS-EU project aims to:
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advance the-state-of-the-art in optimisation and scalability
methodologies;
increase cooperation and collaboration between European and
Russian scientists;
develop advanced tools for programming heterogeneous
supercomputers.
ICM is responsible for porting and optimization of the scientific applications to multicore systems including GPGPU. In particular ICM is
working with the applications selected from the plasma physics.
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IDEALIST2014
Project’s title:
Trans-national cooperation
among ICT NCPs
ICT-2011.11.2
Trans-national co-operation among
National Contact Points
Ideal-ist is an international ICT partner search network, with more than
65.000 contacts in line with the international cooperation strategy of the European Commission. Today the Ideal-ist network consists of 70 ICT national
partners from EU and Non-EU Countries, such as Associated States, Eastern
European Partner Countries (EEPC) and Mediterranean Partner Countries
(MPC) and emerging countries like China, Brazil, India, and South Africa in
line with the international cooperation strategy of the European Commission.
http://www.ideal-ist.eu/
The main objective of Idealist2014 is reinforcing the network of National
Contact Points (NCP) for ICT under FP7, by promoting further transnational cooperation within this network. This cooperation is not reduced to
only ICT NCPs but also a degree of collaboration and networking with similar
networks in parallel themes (Security, SSH, ENV, Transport, Energy, Health,
etc) especially in the context of joint/coordinated or PPP calls will be covered.
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2011
30-09-2014
4 775 575 €
3 999 000 €
Polish participant:
ul. Adolfa Pawińskiego 5b
02-106 Warszawa
http://www.kpk.gov.pl/index.html
Active participation/co-operation in tasks defined in:
WP2 – Quality Assurance.
Contact person:
Andrzej Galik
ICT Coordinator in FP7 and CIP-ICT
PSP – Programme Committees Expert
The Consortium:
1. Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft
– und Raumfahrt e.V., Germany
2. Information Society Technologies Center,
Armenia
4. Agence Bruxelloise pour l’Entreprise, Belgium
6. Belarusian Institute of System Analysis
and Information Support of Scientific and
Technical Sphere, Belarus
8. Ustav Teorie Informace a Automatizace
AV CR, v.v.i., Czech Republic
9. UBIFRANCE – Agence Francaise pour
le Developpement International des
Entreprises, France
10. International Center for Advancement of
Research, Technology And Innovation,
Georgia
11. Kozep-Magyarorszagi Regionalis Innovacios
Ugynokseg Kozhasznu Egyesulet, Hungary
13. Interactive Technology, Software and Media
Association, India
Europea, Italy
15. Starptautiska Lietiskas Optikas Biedriba, Latvia
16. Universite Sidi Mohammed Ben
Abdellah, Morocco
17. Institutul de Dezvoltare a Societatii
Informationale, Moldova, Republic
of Moldova
18. Malta Council for Science and
Technology, Malta
19. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios
Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico
20. Norges Forskningsrad, Norway
21. Polish National Contact Point for
Research Programmes of the European
Union, Institute of Fundamental
Technological Research Polish Academy
of Sciences, Poland
22. Institutul National de CercetareDezvoltare in Informatica – ICI
Bucuresti, Romania
24. Singleimage Ltd., United Kingdom
25. EFPC (UK) Ltd., United Kingdom
FP7 e-Infrastructures | Support to policy development and Programme implementation
7th Framework Programme Research Infrastructures
(e-Infrastructures)
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DORII
Project’s title:
Deployment of Remote
Instrumentation Infrastructure
The DORII project aims to deploy e-Infrastructure for new scientific
communities, where on the one hand the ICT technology is still not present
at the appropriate level, but on the other hand it is demanded to empower
its daily work. We deal with a group of scientific users, and this is a reference
for DORII, with experimental equipment and instrumentation that are not
integrated or integrated only partially with the European infrastructure.
INFRA-2007-1.2-02
Deployment of e-Infrastructures for
scientific communities
http://www.dorii.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2008
31-07-2010
3 601 688 €
2 850 000 €
FP7 e-Infrastructures | ICT-based e-Infrastructures
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
http://www.psnc.pl
http://www.ibch.poznan.pl
Contact person:
PhD Norbert Meyer
Head of the Supercomputing Department
Phone: +48 61 858 20 50
The Consortium:
Poland
The DORII is focusing on the following selected scientific areas:
• earthquake community, with various sensor networks;
• environmental science community;
• experimental science community, with synchrotron and free electron
lasers.
The scientific communities represented by the project are well recognised
and organised even in the industry area represented by SME. This means
the organisations are members of bigger consortia which deal with similar
topics mentioned above but also focus on research aiming to have a better
experimental environment. It will be provided by partners with experience
in supporting scientific communities in general as well with the particular
needs of the communities targeted by DORII.
Working closely with end-users, solutions will be put in place that build
upon the success of past and ongoing projects in such areas as remote
instrumentation (GRIDCC, RINGrid), interactivity (int.eu.grid), software
frameworks for application developers (g-Eclipse) and advanced networking
technologies (GN2) with EGEE based middleware.
These efforts have all shown that quite positive results can be achieved by
integrating applications with e-Infrastructure and DORII expects to continue
delivering such positive results. Finally, to insure the interoperability and
sustainability of DORII, DORII will promote standardisation and knowledge transfer via e-IRG and OGF research groups. Our goal is to deliver
solutions based on proven methodologies and technology while mimimizing
risk through regular communication with end-users and exploitation of
results with recognized organizations.
DORII recognised the following strategic goals and objectives:
• to adopt e-Infrastructure functionality across selected areas of science
and engineering;
• to deploy and operate persistent, production quality, distributed instrumentation integrated with e-Infrastructure;
• to generalize and deploy a framework environment that can be used for
fast prototyping.
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4. Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy
5. Centro Europeo di Formazione e Ricerca in
Ingegneria Sismica, Italy
8. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia
e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Italy
9. Ecohydros S.L., Spain
10. Greek Research and Technology
Network S.A., Greece
11. Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Muenchen, Germany
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PSNC coordinated the DORII project. Project coordination covered
technical and financial aspects;
PSNC was also the coordinator of WP concerned on preparation of
demo for EGEE User Forum.
The DORII project was awarded for the best technical demo during 5th
EGEE User Forum in Uppsala.
The User Forum is a key annual event organised by the Enabling Grids for
E-sciencE (EGEE) project. The forum provides an important opportunity
to scientific communities exploiting distributed infrastructure technologies,
to present their work, discuss technology usage with colleagues, and learn
about advances in middleware and application services. The 5th EGEE User
Forum took place on 12–15 April 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden. The event was
organized in collaboration with the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and the
Nordic DataGrid Facility (NDGF), gathered more then 350 participants.
During the closing plenary session, Vangelis Floros from GRNET, chair
of the programme committee announced the winners of the best demo
and poster competitions, as voted for by delegates. “Applications using
Remote Instrumentation in Grid environment DORII project” presented
by Marcin Plociennik from PSNC and Milan Prica from Sincrotrone Trieste
was awarded for the best technical demo.
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EUFORIA
Project’s title:
EU Fusion fOR Iter Applications
EUFORIA (EU Fusion fOR Iter Applications) is a project funded by the
European Union under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) which provides a comprehensive framework and infrastructure for core and edge
transport and turbulence simulation, linking grid and High Performance
Computing (HPC), to the fusion modelling community.
INFRA-2007-1.2-02
Deployment of e-Infrastructures for
scientific communities
http://www.euforia-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
31-12-2010
4 660 379 €
3 650 000 €
Polish participant:
Networking Center (PSNC),
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of
Polish Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/en/
Contact person:
PhD Norbert Meyer
Head of the PSNC Supercomputing
Department
Phone: +48 61 858 20 50
The Consortium:
2. Max Planck Gesellschaft fur Foerderung der
Wissenschaften e.V., Germany
4. Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas,
Medioambientales y Tecnologicas
– CIEMAT, Spain
5. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,
Germany
6. CSC-Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy,
Finland
7. Abo Akademi, Finland
9. Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro
Nacional de Supercomputacion, Spain
10. Commissariat a i Energie Atomique et aux
11. Universite Louis Pasteur, France
12. Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia
Poland
14. Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie
l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico
Sostenibile, Italy
Germany
16. Universite de Strasbourg, France
The EUFORIA project enhances the modelling capabilities for ITER
sized plasmas through the adaptation, optimization and integration
of a set of critical applications for edge and core transport modelling
targeting different computing paradigms as needed (serial and parallel
grid computing and HPC). Deployment of both the grid service and the
High Performance Computing services were essential to the success of the
project. A novel aspect is the dynamic coupling and integration of codes
and applications running on a set of heterogeneous platforms into a single
coupled framework through a workflow engine a mechanism needed to
provide the necessary level integration in the physics applications. This
strongly enhances the integrated modelling capabilities of fusion plasmas
and at the same time provides new computing infrastructure and tools to
the fusion community in general.
The EUFORIA project set out to achieve the following:
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deploy a grid service;
deploy an HPC infrastructure;
develop of a portal for general user access;
adapt a standard ontology for edge and core simulations;
adapt and optimize fusion simulation tools and codes targeting: serial grid
applications, parallel grid applications, High Performance Computing;
develop a framework or code platform tool providing: dynamic workflow
orchestration, high quality visualization, data mining capabilities;
develop middleware needed for deployment of computational resources
from framework tools.
PSNC had a major part in the research activities that aimed at enhancing
the modeling capabilities for ITER sized plasmas through the extension of
the Integrated Tokamak Modelling Task Force toolset to access grid and
HPC resources. This was achieved through the extension of the workflow
orchestration system and middleware to transparently incorporate grid and
HPC resources and provide the necessary level of integration between the
physics applications. The workflow orchestration system based on the open
source Kepler scientific workflows system has been extended with the Serpens
module enabling the distributed computing infrastructures. PSNC was also
active in supporting EUFORIA’s users and in general the fusion community
in the adaptation of the EUFORIA workflows for specific fusion scenarios
and codes.
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BALTICGRID II
Project’s title:
BalticGrid Second Phase
The BalticGrid Second Phase (BalticGrid-II) project was designed to increase
the impact, adoption and reach, and to further improve the support of
services and users of the recently created e-Infrastructure in the Baltic
States.
INFRA-2007-1.2-03
e-Science grid infrastructures
The project aimed to achieve the following objectives:
http://www.balticgrid.org/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2008
30-04-2010
3 344 777 €
2 998 000 €
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
PhD Norbert Meyer
Department
Phone: +48 61 858 20 50
The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute
of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy
of Sciences
ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków
The Consortium:
2. Estonian Educational And Research
Network, Estonia
3. Keemilise Ja Bioloogilise Fuusika Instituut,
Estonia
4. Latvijas Universitates Matematikas un
Informatikas Instituts, Latvia
5. The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute
of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland
Poland
7. Vilniaus Universitetas, Lithuania
8. Rigas Tehniska Universitate, Latvia
9. Vilniaus Universiteto Teorines Fizikos ir
Astronomijos Institutas, Lithuania
10. European Organization for Nuclear
Research, Switzerland
11. Belarusian National Technical University,
Belarus
12. United Institute of Informatics Problems of
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,
Belarus
13. Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas,
Lithuania
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extension of the BalticGrid infrastructure to Belarus;
interoperation of the gLite-based infrastructure with UNICORE and
ARC based Grid resources in the region;
identifying and addressing the specific needs of new scientific communities such as nano-science and engineering sciences;
establishing new Grid services for linguistic research, Baltic Sea environmental research, data mining tools for communication modeling
and bioinformatics.
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center was involved in following
tasks within the project:
Project management: PSNC representatives contributed to works of Project
Management Board and participated in working meetings of project management bodies.
Education, Training, Dissemination and Outreach: PSNC took a part
in organization of seminars, tutorials and Grid summer school covering
various topics of Grid computing and e-Science. PCSS also contributed to
preparation of disseminative materials.
Grid Operations: PSNC tasks included preparation and configuring of production quality grid infrastructure and project core services (monitoring, CA,
information services) as well as support of installation of new software. PCSS
was responsible also for deployment and test of Virtual User Support.
Research and Development: The research-development works of the project
were focused on development and integration of e-Infrastructure components
and services designed for grid applications as well as tools supported everyday
work of the user in grid infrastructure.
PSNC was the coordinator of JRA “Enhanced Application Services on
Sustainable e-Infrastructure” work package.
The JRA activity consolidated new generation middleware technologies and
e-Infrastructure services within user-friendly graphical environments, which
extends an intuitive user interface to Grid and enables users cooperation.
The JRA focused also on visualisation of computing results.
PSNC as a activity coordinator was responsible for ensuring smooth and
successful work of the activity as well as high quality of its results. PSNC
tasks aimed also at further development of a Migrating Desktop Platform
– used as a common software platform to access and manage BalticGrid
project applications, tools, resources and services.
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EGEE-III
Project’s title:
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III
The concept of a European Grid Infrastructure emerged in 2000. In FP5,
the EUDataGrid project and related initiatives proved a European Grid
system was capable of supporting different user communities. In FP6, the
EGEE project built on these results to establish a continuously available
production quality Grid infrastructure. Since 2006, EGEE-II focuses on
consolidating the operating procedures, expanding the resources, enlarging the Grid to more countries and attracting more user communities.
EGEE-II has improved the scalability of the Grid, and its reliability in
supporting a wide range of applications.
INFRA-2007-1.2-03
e-Science grid infrastructures
http://project.eu-egee.org/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-04-2006
30-04-2008
49 022 472 €
32 000 000 €
30-059 Kraków
Contact person:
Aleksander Kusznir
EU project manager
Phone: +48 12 632 33 55
EGEE has become a critical infrastructure for a range of top European
scientific undertakings. Most European countries have Grid infrastructures, at varying levels of maturity. A limitation of national Grids is their lack
of access provision to international science communities. Beyond the national
level standards become important to allow ease of connectivity and sharing
of applications. EGEE ensures that the European Grid infrastructure does
not fragment into national and thematic Grid infrastructures, with less
coherence at a European level. EGEE-III will provide a world class, coherent
and reliable European Grid, ensuring Europe remains at the forefront of
scientific excellence.
EGEE-III is a continuation of the EGEE and EGEE II, which initiated the
work for the preparation of the computing infrastructure for a wide range
of scientists from different disciplines.
The EGEE-III project has two clear main objectives that are essential for
European research infrastructures:
Academy of Sciences
PCSS
ul. Noskowskiego 12/14
61-704 Poznań
Phone:+ 48 61 858-20-01
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Modelling (ICM UW),
ul. Pawinskiego 5a
Block D, 5th floor
02-106 Warsaw
Phone: +48 22 874 91 00
http://www.icm.edu.pl/web/guest/home
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to expand, optimize and simplify the use of Europe’s largest production Grid by continuous operation of the infrastructure, support
for more user communities, and addition of further computational
and data resources;
to prepare the migration of the existing Grid from a project-based
model to a sustainable federated infrastructure based on National
Grid Initiatives.
The other objectives are:
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to simplify the usability of the system for the end user;
to provide active contributions to standardisation efforts for adoption
at European and international levels;
to work closely with businesses to ensure commercial uptake of the
Grid, key to sustainability.
By strengthening interoperable, open source middleware, EGEE-III will
actively contribute to Grid standards, and work closely with businesses to
ensure commercial uptake of the Grid, which is a key to sustainability.
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The Consortium:
1. European Organization for Nuclear
Research, Switzerland
Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH
3. MTA Kfki Reszecske-Es Magfizikai
Kutatointezet, Hungary
4. Cesnet, Zajmove Sdruzeni Pravnickych
Osob, Czech Republic
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre,
Vied, Slovakia
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM UW), University of Warsaw
Technology, Poland
Polish National Grid Initiative (NGI) exists since January 2007, when
the “PL-Grid” Consortium agreement was signed. Four members of the
Consortium take part in the EGEE III Project: Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre
(PSNC), Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational
Modelling (ICM) and Wrocław Networking and Supercomputing Centre
(WCSS).
coordinated the PL-GRID Consortium
composed of:
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical
and Computational Modelling (ICM UW),
University of Warsaw, Poland
8. Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Sveucilisni Racunski
Centar, Croatia
9. Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek
der Materie – FOM, The Netherlands
10. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
11. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,
Germany
12. SWITCH, Switzerland
14. Cggveritas Services S.A., France
15. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
17. Trust-It Services Ltd., United Kingdom
18. Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland
19. CSC –Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy,
Finland
20. Uninett Sigma AS, Norway
21. Vetenskapsradet – Swedish Research
Council, Sweden
22. Russian Research Centre Kurchatov
Institute, Russia
26. Tel Aviv University, Israel
28. Institut za Fiziku, Serbia
29. Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma
Kurumu, Turkey
The PL-Grid Consortium is led by CYFRONET, which also plays a role
of the lead beneficiary in frames of the EGEE-III Project execution.
In the EGEE-III CYFRONET is responsible for operations in the region of
Central Europe including SLA enforcement and coordination of resource
allocation activity in the project.
CENTRAL EUROPEAN FEDERATION
Seven countries compose the Central European Federation:
1. Austria
2. Croatia
3. Czech Republic
4. Hungary
5. Poland
6. Slovakia
7. Slovenia
CENTRAL EUROPEAN ROC (REGIONAL OPERATIONS CENTRE)
CE ROC is composed of three Polish supercomputing centers:
• Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH in Kraków, leading the
CE ROC; responsible for ROC management & operations;
• Poznań Supercomputing & Networking Centre (PSNC) in Poznań,
responsible for user training in the Region;
• Institute for Computer Modelling (ICM) in Warsaw, responsible for
user support.
The integration of diverse range of resources in order to provide a range of
services to the users of the grid as well as the their operation support is the
most important task of the ROC management. ROC plays also an important
role of the first contact for users in the region.
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30. Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica
Experimental de Particulas, Portugal
31. Instituto de Fisica de Altas Energias, Spain
32. The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars
& the Other Members of Board of the
College of the Holy & Undivided Trinity of
Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin, Ireland
United Kingdom
35. Inter-University Research Institute
Corporation, High Energy Accelerator
Research Organisation, Japan
36. Academia Sinica, Taiwan
37. Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Information, Korea
38. Chonnam National University, Korea
39. University of Melbourne, Australia
40. University of Wisconsin-Madison,
United States
41. The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, United States
42. BT Infrastructures Critiques SAS, France
Germany
44. BT Services S.A., France
Some most important activities of the CE ROC:
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representation of the CE Federation on the project different fora;
overview of the situation in the region;
coordination of all activities;
ROC-on-duty operation, as new activity, replacing previous CIC-on-Duty
operations;
Contacting Resource Centers & representing them on the project different fora;
assistance RC`s to deploy grid middleware;
validation and deployment of new middleware;
providing user support and training;
monitoring, authorization & accounting;
contacts with coordinator and related groups/organizations.
ROC’s are supposed to play more and more important role, as the partners
of the EGEE-III Project, with help of all other scientific groups, join efforts
with the EGI Project members aiming at the establishment of the sustainable
pan-European grid organization. Such organization will be based on National
Grid Initiatives, and resulting structure will rely very much on ROC’s.
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GN3
Project’s title:
Multi-Gigabit European Research
and Education Network and
Associated Services (GN3)
The GN3 project’s Service Activities are focused in the area of multi-domain
network service operations, where it is planned to organize a quick and
efficient provisioning of advanced services like bandwidth on demand or
performance monitoring, develop operational support crossing management
domains and security to ensure service integrity and protection of network
resources. This is complemented by the development of end-user services
in a federated environment which will focus on the creation of generic
“meta-services” particularly in the context of security as well as further
developments in the area of Roaming Services. Joint Research Activities
(JRAs) deal with a critical analysis of future networking technologies as well as
research into new services both from the point of supporting the development
of new services as well as researching into enhancements to the emerging
service portfolio (monitoring, mobility and resources management).
INFRA-2008-1.2.1 – GÉANT
http://www.geant.net/
31-03-2013
Project’s budget: 182 183 603 €
EC funding:
93 000 000 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
Artur Binczewski
Head of Network Department
The Consortium:
to Europe Limited, United Kingdom
2. Trans-European Research and Education
Networking Association, The Netherlands
5. Arnes, Slovenia
6. Belnet, Belgium
7. Bulgarian Research and Education
Network, Bulgaria
8. Hrvatska Akademska i Istrazivacka Mreza
– Carnet, Croatia
10. Kypriako Erevnitiko Kai Akadimaiko
Diktyo, Cyprus
11. Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen
Forschungsnetzes DfN Verein e.V., Germany
12. Estonian Educational and Research
Network, Estonia
13. Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica
Nacional – FCCN, Portugal
14. Consortium GARR, Italy
16. Heanet Ltd., Ireland
17. Inter University Computation Centre, Israel
18. The JNT Association, United Kingdom
19. Kauno Technologijos Universitetas, Lithuania
20. Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in
Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia
22. Nemzeti Informacios Infrastruktura
Fejlesztesi Iroda, Hungary
23. Nordunet A/S, Denmark
Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences
These will be supported by Networking Activities (NAs) dealing with both
internal and external project communications. GN3 is revolutionary in terms of
the services it provides. It will provide dramatic change in the services that will be
developed and offered to end users. This is particularly true for those high-end
users who demand leading-edge services and not just underlying technology.
GN will plan, provide and manage an advanced and cost-effective networking
infrastructure, interconnecting NRENs via a backbone optical interconnect,
supplemented where cost-effective and needed with direct CBF connections
that fit into the overall strategy for service delivery. The infrastructure will be
expanded to new countries providing better services to all partners.
The objective of the GN3 project is to create a leading edge network
supporting a much enhanced range of both network and added value
services targeted at end-users across the GEANT service area. A principal
goal of the project will be to create a portfolio of seamless multi-domain
services. In contrast to its predecessor, GN2, much more emphasis is put
on service development and service introduction.
PSNC is taking part in almost all tasks of the project. These activities
include investigating status and trends of network technologies and services,
designing and implementing GEANT network architecture, multidomain
network services, end user services in federated environment, future network
technologies, advanced multidomain services and resources and enabling
distributed research communities.
PSNC is coordinating tasks related to research and development of multidoman services like multidomain performance monitoring (for example
perfSONAR) and tools to support multi-domain workflows where develops
tools that support and complement each other’s functionality for the delivery
of multi-domain services. For example cNIS (Common Network Information Service) and AutoBAHN (Automated Bandwidth Allocation across
Heterogeneous Networks).
25. Entidad Publica Empresarial Red.es,
Spain
26. Groupement d’Interet Public Reseau
National de Telecommunications
pour la Technologie, l’Enseigneme,
France
27. Fondation Restena, Luxembourg
28. Agentia de Administrare a Retelei
Nationale de Informatica Pentru
Educatie si Cercetare, Romania
29. Zdruzenie Pouzivatelov
Slovenskejakademickej Datovej
Siete-Sanet, Slovakia
30. Latvijas Universitates Matematikas
un Informatikas Instituts, Latvia
31. SURFnet BV, The Netherlands
32. Switch – Teleinformatikdienste fuer
Lehre und Forschung, Switzerland
33. Tubitak Marmara Research Center,
Turkey
34. Universita ta Malta, Malta
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4D4LIFE
Project’s title:
Distributed Dynamic Diversity
Databases for Life
4D4Life (May 2009 – April 2012) is a Scientific Data Infrastructures Project
of the European Commission’s e-Infrastructure Programme, which is a part
of the Capacities programme of FP7. One of its main aims is to develop
the Catalogue of Life, a coherent classification and species checklist of the
world’s plants, animals, fungi and microbes that is fundamental for accessing
information about biodiversity. The Catalogue of Life provides a dynamically
updated global index of validated scientific names, synonyms and common
names integrated within a single taxonomic hierarchy growing rapidly.
INFRA-2008-1.2.2
Scientific data infrastructure
http://www.4d4life.eu
01-05-2009
30-04-2012
3 675 377 €
3 300 000 €
Polish participant:
Museum and Institute of Zoology
ul. Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa
http://www.miiz.waw.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Wiesław Bogdanowicz
Head of Museum
Phone: +48 22 629 32 21
The Consortium:
1. The University of Reading, United Kingdom
2. Botanic Gardens Conservation
International, United Kingdom
3. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France
4D4Life project aims to implement a number of specialized taxonomy services, such as a synonymy service, taxon name-change, and download services,
but also to include educational material. The data produced will also be made
available for different media, such as the hand-held devices. A continuation of
4D4Life, i4Life, is currently under negotiation. It aims at improving the content
and quality of Species Databases and to broaden the geographical reach of the
programme beyond Europe towards a Multi-Hub Network integrating data
from China, New Zealand, Australia, N. America and Brazil.
The main research interests of the Museum and Institute of Zoology – Polish
Academy of Sciences (Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk)
are: diversity, geography and history of animals as well as their ecology, biology and conservation. The Institute has a modern molecular and biometric
lab and the progress of hitherto existing research is marked by intensive
international cooperation. The Museum owns one of the biggest and most
valuable zoological collections in Europe.
The Institute is a home organization of the Salticidae Database. It participated in EC FP5 EuroCat project. Salticidae Database: Global Species
Database of Salticidae (Araneae) by Jerzy Proszynski. Taxonomic database
of world jumping spiders: Animalia – Arthropoda – Arachnida – Araneae
– Salticidae; 5,000 spp.
4. Narodni Muzeum, Czech Republic
5. Stichting Expertisecentrum voor Taxonomische Identificaties, The Netherlands
6. Cardiff University, United Kingdom
7. Stichting Nederlands Centrum voor
Biodiversiteit Naturalis, The Netherlands
Salticidae Database is a part of the WP3 GSD Network and responds to GSD
assessment, network consultations and workshops, acceleration of completeness and data quality, and pilots the project to enhance GSD quality.
8. Species 2000, United Kingdom
9. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee VZW, Belgium
10. Museum fur Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut
fur Evolutions und Biodiversitatsforschung
an der Humboldt, Germany
11. Natural History Museum, United Kingdom
12. Health and Safety Executive, United Kingdom
13. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, United Kingdom
21. National Museum Wales,
United Kingdom
22. Institut de Recherche pour le
Developpement, France
30. Wageningen Universiteit, The
Netherlands
31. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
33. International Trust for Zoological
Nomenclature, United Kingdom
24. TSJ BVBA, Belgium
34. Institute of Botany, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China
16. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
26. Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy
17. Leibniz-Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften
an der Universitaet Kiel, Germany
27. Universiteit van Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
18. Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum,
Germany
28. 1-Tech S.P.R.L., Belgium
19. Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish
25. Bayerische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Germany
Warwickshire National Health
Service Trust, United Kingdom
35. Centro de Referencia Em
Informacao Ambiental, Brazil
36. Smithsonian Institution, United States
37. Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation,
Australia
38. Landcare Research New
Zealand Ltd., New Zealand
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
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GEO-SEAS
Project’s title:
Pan-European infrastructure for
management of marine and ocean
geological and geophysical data
Geo-Seas will contribute to e-Infrastructure development in the areas
of Scientific Data (coherent management and access to data) and Standards (data management, metadata, formats, delivery). It will expand the
SeaDataNet infrastructure to include marine geological and geophysical
data held by the Geo-Seas partners.
INFRA-2008-1.2.2
Scientific data infrastructure
The specific objectives of the Geo-Seas project are:
•
http://www.geo-seas.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2009
30-10-2012
6 720 208 €
4 900 000 €
Polish participant:
Polish Geological Institute
– National Research Institute
ul. Rakowiecka 4
00-975 Warszawa
http://www.pgi.gov.pl/
Contact person:
Piotr Przezdziecki
Geophysicist
The Consortium:
1. Natural Environment Research Council,
United Kingdom
2. Mariene Informatie Service MARIS B.V.,
The Netherlands
3. Institut Francais de Recherche pour
l’Exploitation de la Mer, France
4. Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et
Minieres, France
6. Universitaetsklinikum HamburgEppendorf, German
7. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España,
Spain
8. Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia
I.P. Portugal
9. Instituto Geologikon Kai Metalleytikon
Ereynon, Greece
10. Department of Communications, Energy
and Natural Resources, Ireland
Germany
12. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di
Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, Italy
13. The Geological Survey of Denmark and
Greenland, Denmark
14. Geological Survey of Norway, Norway
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to expand the SeaDataNet infrastructure by including the network of
national geological surveys and selected geological research institutes,
and their marine geological and geophysical data holdings;
to publish and maintain common catalogues of available data, data
products and services, managed by national geological surveys and
research institutes in Europe;
to harmonise quality standards, and exchange formats, to facilitate
access to and delivery of data to the various user communities, including
research, government and industry;
to provide federated, marine geological and geophysical datasets, ready
for use in the user communities using middleware to access and deliver
the data via the internet to their networks and grid infrastructures;
to develop and to provide new dedicated geological and geophysical
data products and services;
to formulate, determine, and facilitate arrangements for use of the data
and data products;
to formulate, determine, and facilitate arrangements for consolidation
and long-term exploitation of the Geo-Seas infrastructure;
to promote the infrastructure and its services to users and to encourage
adoption of the protocols, standards and tools by other marine geological
and geophysical institutes and companies.
The Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute (Państwowy
Instytut Geologiczny – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy) was founded on the
7th of May 1919 with the Resolution of the Parliament of the Republic of
Poland. In addition to scientific activities in all fields of modern geology
the Institute was entrusted with the tasks of the Polish Geological Survey
and the Polish Hydrogological Survey. The Marine Geology Branch
(MGB) of the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute,
established in 1968, carries out the geological exploration of the Polish zone
of the Baltic Sea as well as geological and hydro-geological investigations
and works, including those on the geological aspects of the protection
of the natural environment, in Pomorskie, Kujawsko-Pomorskie and
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Provinces.
The Marine Geology Branch has implemented fundamental research works
related to the exploration of the Cenozoic sediment cover of the Baltic
Sea, geochemical investigations of the sea-floor sediments, documentation of gravel and sand deposits as well as the sand for replenishment of
beaches. The results of these works have served for the preparation of
maps as well as geological and geochemical atlases of the Polish zone of
the Baltic Sea. The works for the detailed exploration of the geological
structure and geodynamic processes in the coast zone at the contact zone
between the land and the sea are important for the national economy and
environmental protection.
MGB also carries out detailed works in the scope of geological, hydrogeological, economic-geological and geochemical mapping as well as
groundwater monitoring. The Marine Geology Branch manages: databases
holding seismoacoustic, geological and geochemical data from the Polish
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15. Polish Geological Institute – National
Research Institute, Poland
16. Eesti Geoloogiakeskus Oü, Estonia
17. Institute of Geology and Geography,
Lithuania
19. Institute of Oceanology – Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
20. National Observatory of Athens, Greece
21. Construction Industry Research and
Information Association, United Kingdom
23. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
zone of the Baltic Sea, archives of maps and geological documents, archives
of geological cores and samples and geological library. Information is made
available pursuant to the Geological and Mining Law and instructions of
the Ministry of the Environment.
As a member of Geo-Seas project the Marine Geology Branch of the Polish
Geological Institute – National Research Institute participates in the creation
of a pan-European infrastructure for management of marine geological and
geophysical data. MGB prepares the data for central European metadata
catalogue. Using special Download Manager software the MGB shares results
of marine geological and geophysical research with its partners. Simultaneously the MGB takes part in interchanging of experiences in developing
new data products, services and solutions for creating joint infrastructure
for oceanographic and marine geoscientific data.
25. EU-Consult, The Netherlands
27. Service Hydrographique et
Oceanographique de la Marine, France
28. The Secretary of State for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
30. Gamtos Tyrimu Centras, Lithuania
29. Latvijas Universitate, Latvia
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OPENAIRE
Project’s title:
Open Access Infrastructure
for Research in Europe
OpenAIRE is establishing the infrastructure for researchers to support them
in complying with the EC Open Access (OA) pilot and the ERC Guidelines
on Open Access. It provides an extensive European Helpdesk System, based
on a distributed network of national and regional liaison offices in 27 countries, to ensure localized help to researchers within their own context, and it
is exploring scientific data management services together with 5 disciplinary
communities. The project has launched an internet portal and is constructing
e-Infrastructure for European repository networks. OpenAIRE also provides
a repository facility for researchers who do not have access to institutional
or discipline-specific repositories.
INFRA-2009-1.2.3
Scientific information repository
supporting the European FP7 Research
Programme
http://www.openaire.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-12-2009
30-11-2012
5 027 379 €
4 169 927 €
Polish participant:
(ICM UW)
ul. Prosta 69
00-838 Warszawa
http://www.icm.edu.pl
Contact person:
PhD Marta Hoffman-Sommer
National Open Access Desk
OpenAIRE’s three main objectives are to:
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build support structures for researchers in depositing FP7 research
publications through the establishment of the European Helpdesk and
the outreach to all European Member States through the operation and
collaboration of 27 National Open Access Liaison Offices;
establish and operate an electronic infrastructure for handling peerreviewed articles as well as other important forms of publications (preprints or conference publications). This is achieved through a portal that
is the gateway to all user-level services offered by the e-Infrastructure
established, including access (search and browse) to scientific publications
and other value-added functionality (post authoring tools, monitoring
tools through analysis of document and usage statistics);
work with several subject communities to explore the requirements,
practices, incentives, workflows, data models, and technologies to
deposit, access, and otherwise manipulate research datasets of various
forms in combination with research publications.
The Consortium:
Athens, Greece
4. Stichting Surf, The Netherlands
United Kingdom
6. Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany
of Warsaw (ICM UW), Poland
8. Universidade do Minho, Portugal
9. European Respiratory Society, Switzerland
10. Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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11. Stichting Eifl.Net, The Netherlands
In OpenAIRE, ICM UW is mainly involved in the implementation and
maintenance of support mechanisms for the Polish scientific community. The
organization has launched and is running the local National Open Access
Desk (NOAD), which is responsible for the development and dissemination
of training and information materials that help researchers in Poland meet
the demands of the Open Access policy of the European Commission.
14. European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
Germany
15. Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH,
Germany
16. International Plant Genetic Resources
Institute – PGRI, Italy
17. Fundacion Espanola Para la Ciencia y la
Tecnologia, Spain
19. Kauno Technologijos Universitetas,
Lithuania
ICM UW is also engaged in dissemination initiatives meant to ensure the
widest possible awareness of the EC Open Access policy, both in the scientific
community and in society in general. ICM UW is also participating in the
development, implementation and maintenance of the OpenAIRE Information Space software, which includes services for deposition, presentation,
searching and storage of scientific publications, and tools supporting the
exchange of such content with third-party services.
20. Univerzitna Kniznica v Bratislave, Slovakia
21. Kungliga Biblioteket (National Library of
Sweden), Sweden
22. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at
the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Applicazione di Supercalcolo per Universita
e Ricerca, Italy
& the other Members of Board of the
Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, Ireland
26. Vysoka Skola Banska – Technicka
Univerzita Ostrava, Czech Republic
Germany
Athens, Greece
30. Universitetet i Tromsoe, Norway
31. Sarminfo S.r.l., Romania
33. Consortium Universitaire de Publications
Numeriques Couperin, France
Malta
23. Debreceni Egyetem, Hungary
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EGI-INSPIRE
Project’s title:
European Grid Initiative: Integrated
Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure
for Researchers in Europe
EGI-InSPIRE is ideally placed to join together the new Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) such as clouds, supercomputing networks and
desktop grids, for the benefit of user communities within the European
Research Area.
INFRA-2010-1.2.1
Distributed computing infrastructure (DCI)
http://www.egi.eu/about/egi-inspire/
30-04-2014
Project’s budget:
72 203 367 €
EC funding:
25 000 000 €
Polish participant:
ul. Nawojki 11, 30-950 Kraków
Contact person:
Aleksander Kusznir
EU project manager
Phone: +48 12 632 33 55
The Consortium:
1. Stichting European Grid Initiative,
The Netherlands
2. Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranes, Albania
3. Institute for Informatics and Automation
Problems of the National Academy of
Sciences of Armenia, Republic of Armenia
6. United Institute of Informatics Problems of
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,
Belarus
7. SWITCH – Teleinformatikdienste fuer
Lehre und Forschung, Switzerland
9. CESNET, Zajmove Sdruzeni Pravnickych
10. Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Germany
11. Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci Elektrotehnicki
Fakultet, Bosnia and Herzegovina
13. CSC – Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy,
Finland
15. Georgian Research and Educational
Networking Association, Georgia
Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is
becoming increasingly dependant on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national
facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage
resources linked by high-performance networks).
The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transition to a sustainable pan-European e-Infrastructure started in EGEE-III. It will sustain
support for Grids of high-performance and high-throughput computing
resources, while seeking to integrate new Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs), i.e. Clouds, SuperComputing, Desktop Grids, etc., as they are
required by the European user community.
It will also establish a central coordinating organization, EGI.eu, and support the staff throughout Europe necessary to integrate and interoperate
individual national grid infrastructures. EGI.eu will provide a coordinating hub for European DCIs, working to bring existing technologies into
a single integrated persistent production infrastructure for researchers within
the European Research Area. EGI-InSPIRE will collect requirements and
provide user-support for the current and new (e.g. ESFRI) users. Support
will also be given for the current heavy users as they move their critical
services and tools from a central support model to ones driven by their
own individual communities.
The project will define, verify and integrate within the Unified Middleware
Distribution, the middleware from external providers needed to access the
e-Infrastructure. The operational tools will be extended by the project to
support a national operational deployment model, include new DCI technologies in the production infrastructure and the associated accounting
information to help define EGI’s future revenue model.
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CYFRONET participates in the EGI Global Tasks in operation (SA1), namely
the Grid operation and oversight of the e-Infrastructure (TSA1.7) which
builds on experiences gained through similar activities in EGEE-III.
17. Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Sveucilisni Racunski
Centar, Croatia
18. MTA KFKI Reszecske – es Magfizikai
Kutatointezet, Hungary
& The Other Members of Board of the
20. Inter University Computation Centre, Israel
22. Vilniaus Universitetas, Lithuania
23. Research and Educational Networking
Association of Moldova, Republic
of Moldova
25. Ss. Cyril And Methodius University in
Skopje, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia
26. Stichting Nationale Computerfaciliteiten,
The Netherlands
27. UNINETT Sigma AS., Norway
Technology, Poland
31. Arnes, Slovenia
Vied, Slovakia
United Kingdom
Germany
Council, Sweden
39. Latvijas Universitates Matematikas un
Informatikas Instituts, Latvia
40. National Association of Research
and Educational e-Infrastructures
“E-Arena” Autonomous Non-Commercial
Organisation, Russian Federation
41. NORDUnet A/S, Denmark
42. Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Province of China
43. Advanced Science and Technology Institute,
Philippines
44. Institut Teknologi Bandung Bhmn, Indonesia
45. Inter-University Research Institute
Corporation, High Energy Accelerator
Research Organisation, Japan
Information, Republic of Korea
47. University of Melbourne, Australia
48. National University of Singapore, Singapore
49. Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
50. National Science & Technology
Development Agency, Thailand
53. Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
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EMI
Project’s title:
European Middleware Initiative
European Middleware Initiative (EMI) is a software platform for high
performance distributed computing. It is at the core of grid middleware
distributions used by scientific research communities and distributed computing infrastructures all over the world including WLCG – the Worldwide
LHC Computing Grid – which supports, for example, the search for the
Higgs boson and new types of matter searches of the physicists at LHC,
together with other large scientific challenges in astronomy, biology, computational chemistry and other sciences. Being a close collaboration among
well-established grid middleware providers and other specialized software
providers, EMI is a leading platform for scientific grid computing and looks
at expanding outside of its natural environment.
INFRA-2010-1.2.1
http://www.eu-emi.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2010
30-04-2013
24 274 720 €
12 000 000 €
Polish participant:
00-927 Warszawa
http://www.icm.edu.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Piotr Bala
The Consortium:
2. Fundacion Centro Tecnologico de
Supercomputacion de Galicia, Spain
4. Consorzio Interuniversitario CINECA, Italy
6. Stiftung Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany
der Materie – FOM,THE Netherlands
8. Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
12. Nemzeti Informacios Infrastruktura
Fejlesztesi Iroda, Hungary
United Kingdom
14. Switch –Teleinformatikdienste fuer Lehre
und Forschung, Switzerland
19. Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
20. Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Safarika v Kosiciach,
Slovakia
of Warsaw, Poland
Information, Korea, Republic of Korea
24. Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Province of China
The European Middleware Initiative (EMI) is a close collaboration of
the three major middleware providers, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and
other software providers. It will deliver a consolidated set of middleware
components for deployment in EGI (as part of the Unified Middleware
Distribution or UMD), PRACE and other DCIs, extend the interoperability and integration between grids and other computing infrastructures,
strengthen the reliability and manageability of the services and establish
a sustainable model to support, harmonise and evolve the middleware, ensuring it responds effectively to the requirements of the scientific communities
relying on it. Develop middleware that strengthens European presence by
consolidating or even going beyond existing DCIs (e.g. exploiting emerging
developments like virtualisation), while improving their stability, reliability,
usability, functionality, interoperability, security, management, monitoring
and accounting, measurable quality of service, and energy efficiency.
EMI has identified four high level project objectives:
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simplify and organize the different middleware services implementations
by delivering a streamlined, coherent, tested and standard compliant
distribution able to meet and exceed the requirements of EGI, PRACE
and other distributed computing infrastructures and their user communities;
increase the interoperability, manageability, usability and efficiency of
the services by developing or integrating new functionality as needed
following existing and new requirement of EGI, PRACE and other
infrastructures and their user communities;
strengthen the participation and support for user communities in the
definition and evolution of middleware services by promoting the EMI
achievements, objectives and plans, and move the EMI middleware
towards a more sustainable model by expanding the collaboration
with national and international research agencies, scientific research
programmes and with industrial providers.
ICM role in the project is to develop and maintenance components of the
UNICORE middleware and harmonize them with the other middleware
solutions. In particular ICM is responsible for the security infrastructure
for the UNICORE, UNICORE Virtual Organization Service. ICM has
developed Nagios probes for the UNICORE and has created tools for performing packaging of the UNICORE components. ICM is also taking part
in the dissemination activities providing help and training to the UNICORE
users. Another task is participation in the discussion on the sustainability
of the EMI results.
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IGE
Project’s title:
Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE)
IGE will serve as a comprehensive service provider for the European
e-Infrastructures regarding the development, customization, provisioning, support, and maintenance of components of the Globus Toolkit.
This involves the following activities:
INFRA-2010-1.2.1
http://www.ige-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2010
30-03-2013
3 692 942 €
2 350 000 €
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
PhD Norbert Meyer
Department
Phone: +48 61 858 20 50
Gridwisetech Sp z o.o.
ul. Boleslawa Chrobrego 28/4
31-428 Kraków
The Consortium:
1. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Germany
2. University of Southampton, United Kingdom
3. Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
4. Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca, Romania
5. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Poland
8. The University of Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
der MATERIE – FOM, The Netherlands
10. Gridwisetech Sp z o.o., Poland
11. The University of Chicago, United States
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continuous measurement of software quality;
operation of a software repository for European Globus development;
participation in standardization bodies and Globus-related conferences;
training, promotion, and documentation activities.
The initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) is a EU FP7 project to coordinate
European Globus activities. The main objectives of IGE are to:
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support continuously support the European computing infrastructures;
serve as a central point of contact in Europe for Globus;
drive the Globus developments forward in accordance with the requirements of European user;
strengthen the influence of European developers in the Globus Alliance.
PSNC is a leader of WP5 (Infrastructure Support) and together with other
project partners it contributes to activities of WP2 (Community Involvement, Dissemination and Training), WP3 (International Collaboration and
Standardization) as well as WP4 (Software Adaptation).
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MAPPER
Project’s title:
Multiscale Applications on
European e-Infrastructures
MAPPER is a science driven project with the aim to exploit existing European e-Infrastructures for a new mode of computing. To do so MAPPER
has brought together a strong European consortium covering the chain from
the infrastructure to the science applications, and by closely collaborating
with EGI and PRACE projects.
INFRA-2010-1.2.2
Simulation software and services
http://www.mapper-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2010
30-09-2013
3 272 777 €
2 400 000 €
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
PhD Krzysztof Kurowski
Applications Department Director
Phone: +48 61 858 20 72
ul. Nawojki 11
30-950 Kraków
The Consortium:
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
3. University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Poland
Technology, Poland
Muenchen, Germany
The main goal of the MAPPER project is to develop an environment for
distributed multiscale computing, consisting of dedicated programming
and execution tools, and production quality services that are needed to
support this mode of computing.
This project will respond to the critical need by developing computational strategies, software and services for distributed multiscale
simulations across disciplines, exploiting existing and evolving European
e-Infrastructure. This project is driven by the computational needs of seven
exemplary multiscale problems from a variety of disciplines including Systems
Biology, Fusion, Physiology, Engineering and nano-Material Science.
Mapper will use and enhance existing solutions to support the multiscale
simulation community, building simulation systems such as GridSpace.
The MAPPER focus on multiscale is important given that many areas of
research focus on investigating phenomena at every level of the system, from
the microscopic to the global and everything in between. Climate and weather
modelling are important examples, being able to take into account the global
state of the weather, but also local conditions, is important in understanding
how the entire system works and its possible future direction.
Driven by seven challenging applications from five representative scientific
domains (Fusion, Clinical Decision Making, Systems Biology, Nano
Science, Engineering), MAPPER deploys a computational science environment for distributed multiscale computing on and across European
e-Infrastructures. By taking advantage of existing software and services, as
delivered by EU and national projects, MAPPER results in high quality
components for today’s e-Infrastructures. The project advances the stateof-the-art in high performance computing on European e-Infrastructures
by enabling distributed execution of multiscale models. The project also
develops tools, software and services that allow two modes (loosely – and
tightly coupled) of multiscale computing, in a user friendly and transparent
way. The project integrates our applications into the MAPPER environment,
and demonstrates their enhanced capabilities by answering one challenging
scientific question related to each application. The consortium collaborates
with other projects on adaptation of successful MAPPER methodologies, and
works with resource providers to develop policies facilitating the new multiscale
computing paradigms.
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH
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Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center is a leader of WP5
“Service Activities: Vertical Integration Plan”. The main goal of this
work package is to ensure top-down and bottom-up vertical software and
e-Infrastructure services integration in support of large scale multidisciplinary
multiscale computing defined by MAPPER and external user communities.
The following list of objectives was defined for this WP:
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complete requirements analysis driving all vertical integration activities for multiscale software, tools and middleware services tailored for
distributed large scale computing;
complete analysis of existing e-Infrastructure capabilities to identify
missing features and required extensions offered by state-of-the-art
technologies;
release and regular updates to MAPPER vertical integration plan and
architecture;
various integration tests and MAPPER software packages releases for
e-Infrastructures, in particular PRACE and EGI;
validation scenarios and tests for example multiscale application templates and large scale distributed computing models performed on
various e-Infrastructure resources.
Therefore, PSNC is importantly engaged in other work packages, especially:
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WP4 – Service Activites: Adaptation of existing services;
WP6 – Service Activites: e-Infrastructure Operations;
WP8 – Joint Research Activities: Multiscale Computing programming
and execution tools.
The other Work Packages where PSNC is a participant are as follows: WP2
– Networking Activites: Dissemination and Outreach and WP3 – Networking Activites: Policy Support and Sustainability.
Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH’s expertise is relevant to
the objectives of MAPPER. This includes virtual laboratory for e-Science,
e-Science applications, collaborative applications design, realization and
management, in-silico experiment provenance tracking, storing and querying, scalable, distributed middleware development and maintenance,
semantics-enriched tools for e-Science, ontological modeling for e-Science
experiment workflows.
The work needed to integrate various software components provided by different groups from the MAPPER consortium requires the close cooperation
between institutions and active coordination of this task by PSNC.
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i4LIFE
Project’s title:
Indexing for Life
The i4Life project (Indexing for Life) is to create a Virtual Research Community that will develop and harmonise the various species catalogues used by
six of the world’s global biodiversity programmes using the Catalogue of Life
as a yardstick. One of the great issues in biodiversity science is how to synthesize a comprehensive view of the entire biodiversity to better understand
how it functions, and to model and forecast how it will respond to major
anthropogenic pressures. Harmonising the differing catalogues of species is
a crucial part of this synthesis and has enormous practical significance in
indexing the knowledge needed to protect biodiversity. Six ‘global biodiversity programmes’, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF),
the European Nucleotide Archive (part of INSDC), the Barcode of Life
initiatives, the IUCN Red List, the new LifeWatch programme, and the
Encyclopedia of Life, join in this project with the Catalogue of Life to initiate
this harmonisation and to explore the full extent of species surveyed in the
different programmes. The target is to enable each programme to enhance
its catalogue with the assistance of the others, and to create a harmonised
list for the entire set of organisms.
INFRA-2010-1.2.3
Virtual research communities
http://www.i4life.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-11-2010
31-10-2013
2 975 039 €
2 450 000 €
Polish participant:
Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish
Academy of Sciences
ul. Wilcza 64
00-679 Warszawa
http://www.miiz.waw.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Wiesław Bogdanowicz
Head of Museum
Phone: +48 22 629 32 21
The Consortium:
1. University of Reading, United Kingdom
2. Global Biodiversity Information Facility,
Denmark
Germany
4. Smithsonian Institution, United States
6. Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish
i4Life has one principal goal – to provide tools for the comparison and
harmonisation of the various species catalogues used by six global biodiversity programmes using the Catalogue of Life as a yardstick. This goal will be
archived by the establishing of a virtual research community that will interlink
and harmonise the taxonomic catalogues presently used by each of the global
partners and to create an enhanced list of the entire set of organisms.
MiIZ PAS is a WP8 leader of i4Life project. The team of MiIZ PAS is
engaged in several tasks. To prototype, make available for test, and implement
certain components for ongoing usage in collaboration with WP2.
In WP2 these components will be designed in collaboration and integration
with the rest of the project, scoped, tested and accepted for service. The main
activities are concentrated on:
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7. Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
8. Union Internationale pour la Conservation
de la Nature et de ses Ressources,
Switzerland
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9. Species 2000, United Kingdom
10. Stichting Expertisecentrum voor
Taxonomische Identificaties,
The Netherlands
12. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle,
France
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a pipeline for pulling the Catalogue of Life synonymic species checklist
and its taxonomic hierarchy into the BOLD and/or ECBOL informatics
platform at an agreed frequency, and with structure and functionality as
close as is practicable to the ECBOL organisation’s own requirements;
a protocol and service for supplying a particular instance of the BOLD
and/or ECBOL taxonomy to the CoL cross-mapping tool, running a crossmap in comparison with a particular instance of the CoL, and drawing
the cross-map created back into the BOLD and/or ECBOL informatics
platform for utilisation by a new functions within these platforms;
a service to transmit batches of name-, taxon-, BINS and FESIN records
that are presently available to BOLD/ECBOL but not in the Catalogue
of Life, to the Catalogue of Life reception buffer, for subsequent processing. The input to the CoL reception buffer will harmonise with the input
requirements for the CoL GSD-piping tool being created in WP12,
using protocols agreed and tested in WP2.
Those ‘successfully’ processed by the Sp2000 GSD Taxonomic Expert Array
will appear within later instances of the Catalogue of Life.
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NEXPRES
Project’s title:
NEXPReS – Novel EXplorations
Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services
NEXPReS is a three-year project aimed at further developing e-VLBI services of
the European VLBI Network (EVN), with the goal of incorporating e-VLBI
into every astronomical observation conducted by the EVN. NEXPReS is
comprised of 15 astronomical institutes and National Research and Education
Network (NREN) providers and has four main technical activities:
• Cloud Correlation;
• Dynamically Provisioned Network Resources;
• Computing in a Shared Infrastructure;
• Provisioning High-Bandwidth, High-Capacity Networked Storage.
INFRA-2010-1.2.3
http://www.nexpres.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-07-2010
30-06-2013
5 792 573 €
3 500 000 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
Dominik Stokłosa
Phone: +48 61 858 20 55
The Consortium:
1. Joint Institute for V.L.B.I. in Europe
(J.I.V.E.), The Netherlands
2. Stichting Astronomisch Onderzoek in
3. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy
United Kingdom
7. Ventspils Augstskola, Latvia
8. Fundacion General de la Universidad de
Alcala, Spain
9. NORDUnet A/S, Denmark
10. SURFnet bv, The Netherlands
Poland
13. Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio, Finland
14. Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
15. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation, Australia
The objective of NEXPReS is to offer enhanced scientific performance for
all users of the European VLBI Network (EVN) and its partners. The
proposed activities allow the introduction of an e-VLBI component to every
experiment, aiming for enhanced robustness, flexibility and sensitivity. This
boosts the scientific capability of this distributed facility and offer better
data quality and deeper images of the radio sky to a larger number
of astronomers. e-VLBI was successfully introduced in recent years for
real-time, high-resolution radio astronomy. Due to connectivity, bandwidth
and processing capacity limitations, this enhanced mode is not offered to all
astronomers yet, in spite of its obvious advantages.
By providing transparent buffering mechanisms at the telescopes and correlator,
NEXPReS addresses bottlenecks in e-VLBI, overcoming limited connectivity to
essential stations or network failures, eliminating the need for physical transport
of magnetic media. Such a scheme is far more efficient, and ultimately greener,
than the current model, in which complex logistics and a large over-capacity of
disks are needed to accommodate global observations. Additionally, NEXPReS
develops high-speed recording hardware, as well as software systems that manage
the process and hide all complexity. Real-time grid computing and dynamic
bandwidth on demand is also addressed to improve the continuous usage of
the network and prepare the EVN for the higher bandwidths which ensure it
will remain the most sensitive VLBI array in the world.
PSNC is involved in the following work packages:
• WP7 – Computing in a Shared Infrastructure;
• WP8 - Provisioning High-Bandwidth, High-Capacity Networked Storage on Demand.
In this research activity “Computing in a Shared Infrastructure”, the lessons
learned in FABRIC is put to use in order to create an automated, distributed
correlator using the global, shared infrastructure of the EVN and its associated global partners. This allows to take advantage of the available telescope
time to give scientists the chance to do the kind of observations illustrated
above. In order to facilitate this, a real-time infrastructure that integrates
network and computing resources is needed. In this research activity we
intend to develop some the necessary components of such an infrastructure.
Many disciplines could benefit from “stream processing”, where large data
flows need to be analyzed in real-time. Therefore we intend to develop components that are fairly generic, to ensure that this complement to standard
Grid-computing will be applicable outside astronomy as well. We also intend
to collaborate with the VLBI community outside Europe and integrate
another popular software correlator (DiFX) within this framework. Provisioning High-Bandwidth, High-Capacity Networked Storage on Demand
activity has two distinct aims with a common storage component. On one
hand it explores ways to implement on-demand networked storage that can
match the multi-Gbps bandwidth and Petabyte-class capacity requirements
of VLBI in a distributed manner. On the other hand, it addresses the use of
such high-capacity storage systems for the data archives of the future.
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DECIDE
Project’s title:
Diagnostic Enhancement of
Confidence by an International
Distributed Environment
The aim of DECIDE (Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment) project is to design, implement, and
validate a GRID-based e-Infrastructure building upon neuGRID and
relying on the pan-European backbone GEANT and the NRENs.
INFRA-2010-1.2.3
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https://www.eu-decide.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
•
01-09-2010
31-08-2012
2 986 757 €
2 399 998 €
Polish participant:
Department of Biomedical Physics of
00-927 Warszawa
Contact person:
Prof. Katarzyna Cieślak-Blinowska
The Consortium:
1.
2.
3.
4.
University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Consortium Garr, Italy
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Nasjonalt Kunnskapssenter for
Helsetjenesten, Norway
5. Fundacio Privada Institut de Recerca de
l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain
6. Cometa Consorzio Multi Ente per
Lapromozione e l Adozione di Tecnologie
di Calcolo Avanzato, Italy
7. Provincia Lombardo Veneta Ordine
Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Dio
– Fatebenefratelli, Italy
8. Associazione per la Ricerca Sulla Efficacia
della Assistenza Sanitaria Centro Cochrane
Italiano, Italy
9. Academisch Medisch Centrum bij
de Universiteit van Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
10. Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy
11. Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy
12. World Health Organization, Switzerland
13. Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg, Germany
14. Universita degli Studi di Foggia, Italy
15. Fondazione SDN per la Ricerca E L’alta
Formazione in Diagnostica Nucleare, Italy
16. National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence, United Kingdom
17. NHS Quality Improvement Scotland,
United Kingdom
18. MAAT France, France
20. Kustannus oy Duodecim, Finland
21. Department of Biomedical Physics of
University of Warsaw, Poland
22. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de
Toulouse, France
23. Alzheimer Europe, Luxembourg
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provide the Neuroscientific and Medical community with a dedicated Gridbased e-Infrastructure building upon the FP7 e-Infrastructure neuGRID
and relying on the pan-European backbone GEANT and the NRENs;
different competences and communities (neurological research, medical community, grid, networking) will be gathered, to implement the
e-Infrastructure in an innovative way;
deploy on this e-Infrastructure a secure and user-friendly service for the early
diagnosis and research on dementia and other brain diseases, and exploiting
large distributed reference databases of multimodal neuroimages;
validate the e-Infrastructure and service through application to real patient
cases (Alzheimer’s Disease, neurodegenerative dementias) and validate the
DECIDE model on cutting-edge diagnostic conditions (Schizophrenia);
propose a long-term vision for the sustainability of the e-Infrastructure and
its extension to new communities; ethical issues related to the management
and exploitation of sensitive patient clinical data will be specifically addressed
as well as the business model for the wider exploitation of the service;
disseminate the results to promote the adoption of the DECIDE
e-Infrastructure and service by the clinical community at large.
Department of Biomedical Physics of University of Warsaw (called UWAR
in this project) is active on the field of neuroinformatics. The main research
topics of the UWAR include signal and image analysis. UWAR is a leader
in the field of development of advanced methods of EEG, LFP and ERP
analysis, especially multivariate parametric models.
Directed Transfer Function (DTF) introduced by Kaminski and Blinowska
(Biol.Cyb. 65, 203, 1991) and developed further for analysis of fast
time-varying signals is used widely across the world. Moreover, the last years
became a basic tool for the determination of the functional connectivity in
the brain. UWAR also specializes in the statistical analysis of medical data
and computer aided diagnosis. UWAR is active in the field of integration
of different modalities such as EEG, MEG, fMRI. UWAR has experience
in construction of Internet platforms and shared databases. It supports
thr Internet portal EEG.PL linked with other vortals via the inter-neuro
initiative. Realistic models of brain activity based on the concept of neural
populations developed in UWAR make it possible to establish a direct relation between the model and observed brain signals.
The role of UWAR in the project involves elaboration of the EEG algorithms
for diagnostics of neurodegenerative diseases and their implementation in
the grid infrastructure. In particular the algorithms based on multivariate
autoregressive model involve estimation of coherences (ordinary, multiple
and partial) and Directed Transfer Function which allows the estimation of
the synchronization between brain structures and transmission of electrical
activity in the brain. The methods capitalize on the full multivariate information contained in the multichannel time series and in comparison with
bi-variate methods give clear information about interrelations between time
series. These kind of measures allow an estimation of functional connectivity
and have a potential to bring the diagnostic information already in the early
stage of degenerative diseases. The tasks performed by UWAR include:
adaptation of the algorithms to be compatible with grid infrastructure,
porting them to the grid, testing the algorithms performance, preparation
of the output files in the form fitted to be easily used by clinicians.
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GLORIA
Project’s title:
GLObal Robotic-telescopes
Intelligent Array
GLORIA is an innovative citizen-science network of robotic telescopes,
which will provide free access and research capabilities to a virtual community
via the Internet. The GLORIA partners offer access to a growing collection of
robotic telescopes via a Web 2.0 environment – 17 telescopes on 4 continents
by the project’s end. During the project, 2 experiments are deployed for the
citizen scientists, and a foundation is built up of documentation, free software,
and a community of people will have grown, to maintain and grow GLORIA
into the future. Significant dissemination efforts are made to draw in ordinary
people, as well as scholars, to use the network, to learn about astronomy, and
to do real science.
INFRA-2011-1.2.1
e-Science environments
http://gloria-project.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2011
30-09-2014
3 454 858 €
2 499 955 €
Polish participant:
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
00-927 Warszawa
http://www.uw.edu.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Aleksander Filip Żarnecki
Group leader
The challenge will be to involve people from around the world, to maximise
their collective intelligence, and to foster their participation in astronomy
research both in data analysis and actual observations. The e-Infrastructure
will be managed using the method of karma, proven in most successful
web 2.0 sites, whereby those users who participate the most are awarded
corresponding observing time.
University of Warsaw contributes to the development of software tools for
doing the experiments in GLORIA. Two main types of experiments are
considered:
The Consortium:
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1. Consultores De Automatizacion y Robotica
S.A., Spain
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2. Astronomicky Ustav AV CR v.v.i.,
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
5. Fyzikalni Ustav AV CR v.v.i.,
Czech Republic
6. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
7. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy
8. Institution of the Russian Academy
of Sciences the Special Astrophysical
Observatory of RAS, Russian Federation
10. Universidad de Chile, Chile
11. Universidad de Malaga, Spain
13. Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw,
Poland
on-line experiments (so called), which require scheduling dedicated
observation time, and
off-line experiments which are based on the analysis of archived data.
On-line experiments are based on the dedicated observation planner, which
collect requests for observations from users and allocate observation slots at
the telescopes in the network. For off-line experiments, dedicated analysis
framework is developed, including general analysis algorithms and standard
analysis schemes, based on current experience and selected analysis proposals. The corresponding demonstrators for experiments is being built and
corresponding analysis tools for checking the results.
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EUDAT
Project’s title:
European Data Infrastructure
EUDAT project aims to contribute to the production of a Collaborative
Data Infrastructure (CDI). The project´s target is to provide a pan-European
solution to the challenge of data proliferation in Europe’s scientific and
research communities. Although the scientific disciplines have different
approaches to data organisation and management and they face different
challenges in the area of data collection, exchange, enriching in metadata,
searching, mining, accessing and preservation, there are common basic
services that all scientists need. EUDAT works to establish a pan-European
infrastructure for data management that will allow the implementation of
these data services for multiple research domains. The infrastructure will
be hosted in academic computing centers across Europe, including BSC,
CINECA, CSC, FZJ, SARA, STFC, UNINETT and PSNC. As the services
are aimed for the end-users, they play a crucial role in the project consortium.
They provide the use-cases and detailed requirements against the CDI and
participate in services scouting, development, evaluation, productization,
exploitation and tuning. The project is divided into 7 workpackages:
INFRA-2011-1.2.2
Data infrastructures for e-Science
http://www.eudat.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-10-2011
30-09-2014
16 256 849 €
9 300 000 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
www.psnc.pl
Contact person:
Maciej Brzezniak
Computer system specialist
Phone: +48 61 858 20 54
or +48 61 858 21 95
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The Consortium:
1. Csc-Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy, Finland
2. Barcelona Supercomputing Center
– Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion,
Spain
3. Centre Europeen de Recherche et de
Formation Avancee en Calcul Scientifique,
France
5. Consorzio Interuniversitario Cineca, Italy
6. Cines, France
7. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic
8. Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH,
Germany
9. Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Austria
10. Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen,
Germany
12. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica
e Vulcanologia, Italy
13. Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
14. Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Germany
15. Maat France, France
Der Wissenschaften e.V., Germany
Poland
18. Entidad Publica Empresarial Red.Es, Spain
WP1-3 address the management of the project as well as assuring that
the project results will be disseminated and converted to sustainable
infrastructure and services.
WP4 collects functional and non-functional user requirements and
draws out the conclusions on the services needed by the users.
WP5 scouts for existing technologies and determines technological gaps to be addressed in order to provide users with demanded
functionality.
WP6 runs the production services while WP7 addresses the long term
challenges such as scalability and long-term preservation.
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help to fulfill the vision of a European Data e-Infrastructure by providing a sustainable platform for technologies, tools and services driven
by user needs;
engage individual users , universities, research labs, libraries, etc. in defining and shaping a platform for shared services that enable data-intensive
research potentially crossing all disciplines of science;
produce the common low-level services required to provide the level of
interoperation and trust of data necessary to support widespread access,
long-term preservation for use and re-use;
ensure that the data infrastructure is sufficiently robust to keep pace
with the expected acceleration of the scale and complexity of scientific
data being generated within the ERA and beyond.
Organization profile:
Organization role in the project:
PSNC has two main roles within the project. Firsty, PSNC acts as the
computing centre that contributes the data management and storage solutions and resources to the consortium, for the purpose of pan-European data
management and preservation of infrastructure. In this aspect, PSNC has the
knowledge, know-how and experience related to advanced, specialized data
management technologies including distributed data management systems,
data grids and clouds, high-performance disk systems, hierarchical storage
managements concepts, meta-data management solutions, relational DBMS
systems etc. Secondly, PSNC participates in technology analysis, including
technology scouting, technology evaluation as well as research.
19. Stichting Academisch
Rekencentrum Amsterdam (SARA),
The Netherlands
20. Uninett Sigma AS, Norway
Council, Sweden
22. Science and Technology Facilities
Council, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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OPENAIREPLUS
Project’s title:
2nd-Generation Open Access
Infrastructure for Research in Europe
OpenAIREplus is a large-scale project that brings together 41 pan-European
partners, including three cross-disciplinary research communities. It works
in tandem with OpenAIRE, extending the OpenAIRE mission further to
facilitate access to the entire Open Access scientific production of the
European Research Area, providing cross-links from publications to
research data and funding information.
INFRA-2011-1.2.2
http://www.openaire.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-12-2011
30-05-2014
5 147 060 €
4 200 000 €
Polish participant:
ul. Prosta 69
00-838 Warszawa
http://www.icm.edu.pl
Contact person:
PhD Marta Hoffman-Sommer
National Open Access Desk
The Consortium:
Athens, Greece
4. Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany
of Warsaw, Poland
6. Universidade do Minho, Portugal
8. Universiteit Gent, Belgium
9. Stichting Eifl.Net, The Netherlands
Athens, Greece
The Netherlands
Germany
The project capitalises on the successful efforts of the OpenAIRE project
which is rapidly moving from implementation of the EU Open Access Pilot
into a service phase, enabling researchers to deposit their FP7 and ERC
funded research publications into Open Access repositories and offering
help in this process.
OpenAIREplus expands the current network of open repositories to attract
data providers from all scientific areas and to guide researchers to Open
Access data. By doing this, the project supports the work of European
scientists and open up the road to multi-disciplinary science.
The principal goal of OpenAIREplus is the creation of a robust, participatory service for the cross-linking of peer-reviewed scientific publications
and associated datasets. As scholarly communication touches upon many
disciplines, the project’s horizontal outreach facilitates collaboration across
data infrastructures, providing information to scientists, non-scientists as
well as to providers of value-adding services. The project aims to establish
an e-infrastructure to harvest, enrich and store the metadata of Open
Access scientific datasets. Innovative underlying technical structures is
deployed to support the management of and inter-linking between associated scientific data.
ICM UW is involved in a number of OpenAIREplus activities. The organization is maintaining the Polish National Open Access Desk (launched in frames
of the OpenAIRE project) and now also extending our support functions to
research data archives and research data management systems as well as to
scientific publishers, in order to achieve a wide knowledge of Open Access
e-Infrastructures among all stakeholders of science publishing in Europe.
These activities are focused on populating the OpenAIRE/OpenAIREplus
Information Space with scientific content.
ICM UW is also cooperating on the development of new tools needed for the
OpenAIREplus Information Space software, which is designed to integrate
the management of enhanced content with existing OpenAIRE services.
These new tools include both advanced end-user functionalities that will
promote the sharing of data among researchers and highly advanced tools
for content analysis and text mining which are necessary for the construction
of rich data structures exploited in the project. Finally, ICM UW is engaged
in research activities investigating subject-specific practices on enhanced
publications and legal issues connected with the usage of linked research
data in an open access environment.
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OPENAIREPLUS
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
18. Fundacion Espanola para la Ciencia y la
Tecnologia, Spain
20. Kauno Technologijos Universitetas,
Lithuania
21. Univerzitna Kniznica v Bratislave,
Slovakia
22. Kungliga Biblioteket (National Library of
Sweden), Sweden
24. Debreceni Egyetem, Hungary
Applicazione di Supercalcolo per Universita
e Ricerca, Italy
27. Vysoka Skola Banska – Technika Univerzita
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Germany
30. Landspitali University Hospital, Iceland
31. Universitetet i Tromsoe, Norway
32. Sarminfo S.r.l., Romania
34. Consortium Universitaire de Publications
Numeriques Couperin, France
39. Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
40. Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia
41. Universita ta Malta, Malta
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TRANSPLANT
Project’s title:
trans-National Infrastructure
for Plant Genomic Science
transPLANT (trans-National Infrastructure for Plant Genomic Science) is
a project created to design, implement, deploy and operate the software infrastructure critical to the future needs of plant scientists. transPLANT exploits
solutions already developed in adjacent domains (e.g. medical informatics),
applying existing approaches to plants and extending them to deal with the
specific challenges and opportunities unique to the domain of plant research;
and thereby maximises the potential of genomics to contribute to the second
green revolution needed to keep the growing world population from hunger.
INFRA-2011-1.2.2
http://transplantdb.eu/
01-09-2011
31-08-2015
5 505 901 €
4 349 700 €
Polish participant:
Institute of Plant Genetics Polish
Academy of Sciences
ul. Strzeszyńska 34
60-479 Poznań
http://www.igr.poznan.pl/
Contact person:
Prof. Paweł Krajewski
Senior scientist
Phone: +48 616 550 238
The Consortium:
1. Centre de Recerca Agrigenòmica Consorci
Csic-Irta-Uab (CRAG), Spain
Germany
3. Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches
Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und
Umwelt GmbH, Germany
4. Gregor-Mendel-Institut fuer Molekulare
Pflanzenbiologie GmbH, Austria
5. Leibniz – Institut fuer Pflanzengenetik und
Kulturpflanzenforschung, Germany
6. Institut National de la Recherche
Agronomique, France
7. Institute of Plant Genetics Polish Academy
of Sciences, Poland
8. Biogemma, France
9. The Genome Analysis Centre,
United Kingdom
Spain
11. Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig
Onderzoek, The Netherlands
12. Keygene NV, The Netherlands
The main objectives of transPLANT project are:
• a common set of reference data to be shared between different researchers
and service provides;
• construction of missing data archives;
• provision of tools to manipulate and mine plant genomic data;
• provision of an integrating point of interactive access to diverse data sets;
• provision of a compute environment for programatic access to plant
genomic data;
• developing common standards for use within transPLANT and
a wider community;
• training potential users;
• engaging with other related communities to share experiences, tools
and roadmaps.
Institute of Plant Genetics Polish Academy of Sciences (IPG PAS) is a centre
of agrobiology and molecular genetics (100 scientific and technical workers, 25 PhD students).
The main areas of activities of IPG PAS are:
• research in genetics, genomics, cytogenetics, biotechnology, biometry
and bioinformatics, on crop and model plants;
• training of young scientists;
• IPG PAS coordinates POLAPGEN consortium (www.polapgen.pl) comprising ten Polish scientific and two industrial partners, devoted to joint
research and technological development in the area of genetics and genomics.
The Laboratory of Biometry (head P. Krajewski) conducts research in the area of
statistical and bioinformatic methods applicable in the analysis of results of
biological experiments, with a special focus on genetic and genomic research
and on plant breeding. The most important statistical methodologies which
are used are linear mixed models and multivariate methods.
Among bioinformatics methods are: biological database construction and
exploration, profile sequence analysis, analysis of biomolecule interactions,
homology and ab initio modelling of biomolecule structure. The results
are applied in: planning and analysis of genetic and breeding field trials
and laboratory experiments, statistical analysis of genotype x environment
interactions, and systems biology research.
The Institute also has experience in software development for plant researchers
and breeders and use of statistical software (Genstat) and general computing
(R, Matlab, Python) both on PCs and Linux clusters.
IPG PAS is a leader in WP3 devoted to the development of community
standards for the interoperability of data resources. This includes the standardization of phenotype description, web interface specifications, formats
for data exchange and recommended ontologies. IPG PAS also participates
in WP2 (collaboration of transPLANT with other plant research initiatives),
WP4 (training for plant scientists), WP6 (construction of integrated search
services) and in WP10, in which develops methodologies of optimal data
representation and storing based on the theory of sufficient statistics.
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
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PRACE
Project’s title:
Partnership for Advanced
Computing in Europe
The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has
identified High Performance Computing (HPC) as a strategic priority for
Europe. Supercomputers are an indispensable tool to solve the most challenging problems through simulations. If Europe is to remain competitive
internationally scientists and engineers must be provided with access to
capability computers of leadership class.
INFRA-2007-2.2-02
Preparatory phase for Computer and Data
Treatment research infrastructures in the
2006 ESFRI Roadmap
http://www.prace-ri.eu/
FP7 e-Infrastructures | Construction of new infrastructures
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
30-06-2010
20 379 286 €
9 980 000 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has the
overall objective to prepare for the creation of a persistent pan-European
HPC service, consisting of 3-5 centres, similar to the US HPC infrastructure. PRACE is the tier-0 level of the European HPC ecosystem. It
builds on the experience of the partners and use concepts and services from
EC-funded projects like GEANT2 and DEISA. The hosting centres of the
planned tier-0 systems provide the expertise, competency, and the required
infrastructure for comprehensive services to meet the challenging demands
of excellent users from academia and industry. PRACE prepared for the
implementation of the infrastructure in 2009/2010 by defining and setting
up a legal and organisational structure involving HPC centres, national
funding agencies, and scientific user communities to ensure:
• adequate funding for the continued operation and periodic renewal of
leadership systems;
• coordinated procurements;
• efficient use;
• fair access.
Germany
In parallel, PRACE prepared the deployment of Petaflop/s systems in
2009/2010. This includes:
• the procurement of prototype systems for the evaluation of software for
managing the distributed infrastructure;
• the selection, benchmarking, and scaling of libraries and codes from
major scientific user communities; the definition of technical requirements and procurement procedures;
• collaborations with the European IT-industry to influence the development of new technologies;
• components for architectures that are promising for Petaflop/s systems
to be procured after 2010.
Germany
Contact person:
PhD Norbert Meyer
Supercomputing Department Director
Phone: +48 61 858 20 50
The Consortium:
4. Grand Equipement National de Calcul
Intensif, France
5. The Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council, United Kingdom
Spain
7. Csc-Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy,
Finland
The Netherlands
Council, Sweden
In contrast to Research Infrastructures that focus on a single scientific instrument an HPC Infrastructure has unique characteristics: today’s supercomputers will no longer be competitive in two to three years. This requires
a periodic renewal of the tier-0 systems and a continuous upgrade of the
infrastructure. Furthermore, novel architectures and system designs will be
created by the vendors for leadership systems. At any given time there will be
between three and five different systems each of them serving a particular user
community best. This fact mandates a distributed Research Infrastructure,
since no single site can host all the necessary systems because of floor space,
power, and cooling demands. In detail, the following was planned:
• selection of an appropriate legal form;
• establishing funding strategies and usage models to ensure sustained
funding;
• defining a peer review process;
• defining a consistent operational model across the distributed tier-0
sites;
• manage the PRACE project using principles suitable for the permanent
infrastructure;
• providing the tools for a consistent management of the tier-0 systems
and for the integration of the tier-0 infrastructure into the European
HPC ecosystem;
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PRACE
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14. Uninett AS, Norway
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16. Faculdade Ciencias e Tecnologia da
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
17. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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deployment of prototypes of leadership class systems at selected sites that
are likely to become productions level systems in 2009/2010;
porting, optimising, and petascaling selected applications to prepare
them for production on the tier-0 systems;
defining a consistent procurement strategy, associated technical specification, selection criteria for the current and future generations of HPC
services, and the requirements for the physical infrastructure to host
tier-0 systems;
starting a permanent process of technology evaluation to transform user
requirements into specifications for future leadership class systems.
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preparation and participation in international exhibitions to promote
the scope of the PRACE AISBL and PRACE project itself;
issues related to data privacy and personal data of users;
project of implementation of the monitoring services and the usage of
computing infrastructure resources;
analysis of the selected tools supporting the programmer in the field of
optimization and scalability – continued;
work related to the analysis of energy efficient solutions. Green-IT
– systems with the low power consumption;
work on the algorithm of choice for future prototypes – for the low
power consumption;
porting NAMD on CELL architecture/Blade – continued;
promotion of the local information on training of HPC, the design,
construction initiative HPC ecosystem;
defining the process of peer-review (evaluation of applications for allocation of computing power basing on several criteria: technical, professional,
etc.) and participated in the first competition for the grant calculation
for Tier-0;
work on defining the date of policy, formal mechanisms for managing
user data, taking into account the local national law;
issues related to data privacy and personal data of users.
tests of data services between the selected tier-0 centers and tier-1;
preparation of the test and definition of indicators, which will be
monitored;
preparation of the specification of distributed HPC infrastructure
PRACE;
test software stack installed on the selected node, Tier-1 computing;
porting the chosen benchmark (SIESTA) for different architectures
available in the prototype PRACE;
the acceptance tests PABS;
analysis of selected tools supporting the programmer in the field of
optimization and scalability.
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E-IRGSP2
Project’s title:
e-Infrastructures Reflection
Group Support Programme 2
The e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 2 (e-IRGSP2)
project provides a comprehensive support framework for the work of the
e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG), an inter-governmental policy
organization consisting of 30 member states. The e-IRG is instrumental in
developing of the national and pan-European policies governing the use of
the research electronic infrastructure (e-Infrastructure).
INFRA-2007-3.0-03
Studies, conferences and coordination
actions supporting policy development,
including international cooperation, for
e-Infrastructures
http://www.e-irg.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-01-2008
31-12-2010
1 649 468 €
1 150 000 €
The main objective of the e-Infrastructure initiative is to support the creation of a political, technological and administrative framework for an
easy and cost-effective shared use of distributed electronic resources
across Europe. Particular attention is directed towards grid computing,
storage, and networking.
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704, Poznań
Contact person:
Radosław Januszewski
Phone: +48 61 858 20 34
The Consortium:
Finland
The Netherlands
3. Emergence Tech Limited, United Kingdom
Athens, Greece
7. Genias Benelux bv, The Netherlands
Poland
PSNC is operating Polish scientific network PIONIER and hosts computing resources used by Polish scientists. Because of this background PSNC
has gathered staff with experience in legal, fiscal and administrative problems one may encounter when creating or running national or European
e-Infrastructures. The role of PSNC is to share the expertise in above mentioned areas to support the activity of e-IRG. The support covers consultation
of the content and contribution to documents prepared on behalf of the
e-IRG. PSNC is especially active in WP4 which is dealing with overcoming
legal issues that concern e-Infrastructures.
Project’s title:
Mobilising and Integrating
Communities on Grid Standards
and Best Practices across Europe
The goal of the project OGF-Europe was to stimulate, co-ordinate and
harmonise networked actions on High Performance and High Throughput Computing (HPHTC) adoption across Europe and globally through
reinforcement of the Open Standards message.
INFRA-2007-3.0-03
Studies, conferences and coordination
actions supporting policy development,
e-Infrastructures
http://www.ogfeurope.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2008
31-01-2010
1 792 445 €
1 240 000 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
Contact person:
PhD Krzysztof Kurowski
Head of Applications Department
Phone: +48 61 858 20 72
The Consortium:
Spain
2. European Chapter of the Open Grid
Forum, EEIG, United Kingdom
Spain
6. Information Technology
Telecommunications and Electronics
Association, United Kingdom
Poland
Muenchen, Germany
The OGF-Europe project was aligned with OGF’s global mission of pervasive
HPHTC adoption through interoperable software standards. OGF-Europe
aimed to mobilise European community of researchers, developers and endusers in both public and private sector, focusing on issues that were of prime
importance within the EU, ultimately increasing the ability of industry and
commerce to influence requirements for more competitive ICT infrastructure
towards i2010. Key deliverables included outreach seminars and workshops,
adoption challenges and recommendations reports, community surveys, best
practice reports and tutorials. OGF-Europe also co-ordinated an “Industry
Experts” council to better understand how European enterprises were dealing
with issues surrounding interoperations and standardisation and to engage
them in the core work of OGF.
The project aimed to shape EU and global priorities while emphasising the
need for Open Standards and a level playing field for all participants within the
region. The ultimate objective was to support a qualified, trans-European
community, with strong commitment to promote the adoption of High
Performance and High Throughput Computing (HPHTC) specifications with the purpose of ratifying such specifications as internationally
recognised standards. In details, OGF-Europe was aimed at:
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barriers and foster mainstream HPHTC adoption;
creating a stronger voice in shaping European and global priorities while
emphasising the need for open standards;
synchronising requirements across key stakeholder communities, through
stronger engagement from Europe, and accelerating end-user adoption;
ensuring that standards developed are suited to European requirements;
capitalising on the significant innovation in HPHTC computing that
Europe has built so it may be more influential and better recognised globally.
Organization role in the project:
PSNC was responsible for the development of middleware, as well as tools
for the project.
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Project’s title:
e-Infrastructure Reflection
Group Support Programme 3
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group Support Programme 3 (e-IRGSP3)
will provide a comprehensive support framework for the work of the
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). The e-IRG is an inter-governmental
policy organization with delegates of the Member, Accession and Associated
States of the European Union, and the European Commission.
INFRA-2010-3.3
Coordination actions, conferences and
studies supporting policy development,
e-Infrastructures.
http://www.e-irg.eu/about-e-irg/
e-irgsp3.html
30-11-2013
Project’s budget:
1 088 400 €
EC funding:
860 000 €
Polish participant:
Academy of Sciences
61-704 Poznań
www.man.poznan.pl
Contact person:
Radosław Januszewski
Phone: +48 61 858 20 53
The Consortium:
The Netherlands
Finland
Germany
Hannover, Germany
5. Greek Research And Technology
Poland
8. Genias Benelux bv, The Netherlands
The principal objectives of the e-IRG are:
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to identify fundamental fabrics, services, and resources needed to
enable pan-European e-Science;
to recommend resource sharing policy guidelines to: National Grid
Initiatives; Other regional & European e-Infrastructure projects;
contribute to international policy forums;
give input to other policy bodies e.g. ESFRI (European Strategy Forum
on Research Infrastructures), NREN (National Research and Education
Network);
to focus at first on e-Science application user groups (as enablers of
novel architectures), but also address wider application domains (e.g.
e-Learning, e-Government, e-Health, e-Culture, e-Business) within the
ERIA (European Research and Innovation Area);
to identify, inform and promote grid awareness among communities
who can benefit from sharing resources;
to address governance issues of grid deployment;
to draw upon the experience of the NREN community (structure,
operations, AUPs);
PSNC is operating various e-Infrastructures in Poland: Polish scientific
network PIONIER and hosts computing resources used by Polish scientists.
Because of this background PSNC have gathered staff with experience in
the overcoming legal, fiscal and administrative problems one may encounter
when creating or running national or European e-Infrastructures. PSNC
supports tasks of e-IRG by providing technical expertise in following areas:
HPC, networking, cloud computing, green IT and legal problems concerning e-Infrastructures. PSNC also helps with dissimination activities
by supporting orgaization of e-IRG workshops, creation of dissimination
materials and using own contacts and dissimination channels.
Project’s title:
Service Delivery and Service Level
Management in Grid Infrastructures
The gSLM project aims to improve Service Level Management (SLM) in
the grid domain. This makes it easier for grid resource owners, operators,
and representatives of user groups to agree upon, document and manage
the many agreements between stakeholders required to make the grid run
smoothly. By bringing together experts in grid operations and management
with leading members of the IT Service Management community, the project
generates new approaches and concepts for grid SLM.
INFRA-2010-3.3
Coordination actions, conferences and
studies supporting policy development,
e-Infrastructures.
http://gslm.eu/
31-08-2012
Project’s budget:
606 598 €
EC funding:
474 999 €
Polish participant:
ul. Nawojki 11
30-950 Kraków
Contact person:
Tomasz Szepieniec
EU project manager
Phone: +48 12 632 33 55
The Consortium:
Muenchen, Germany
Service Level Management (SLM) is considered a vital discipline in the management of today’s information technology infrastructures. The widespread
and commonly approved international standard for IT Service Management,
ISO/IEC 20000, describes the objective of Service Level Management as
follows: to define, agree, record and manage levels of service. All of these
aspects are crucial when bringing the new e-Infrastructure technologies,
processes and services to new user communities.
Only by having a framework for establishing a common understanding of
these four aspects of the services provided and used, can the e-Infrastructure
maintain a sufficient “customer satisfaction” on sustainable level. However,
SLM has not been successfully implemented and deployed in any of the next
generation IT infrastructures (e-Infrastuctures).
To remedy this situation, grid environments are seen as a very promising starting point. By establishing grid-wide service catalogs and service agreements
between customers and a virtual grid provider, grid services can be delivered
in a more deterministic fashion. As the cross-organizational collaboration
models are evolving rapidly in the grid domain through the EGI initiative,
gSLM project can act as a crucial enabler for the application of grid technology and the grid concept in general also in environments where predictable
service utility and warranty are seen as significant requirements. The goal of
the proposed gSLM project is to bring together European experts from the
grid and service management community and promote the development
of SLM solutions that are well tailored to the requirements of and operational
conditions in the e-Infrastructure service provision today and in the future.
Technology, Poland
3. Emergence Tech Ltd., United Kingdom
The role of Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH within the
gSLM project was:
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to envisage and describe use cases of current and future e-Infrastructures;
an integral part of this objective is the establishment of a taxonomy of
use cases;
to propose an ontology for SLM of e-Infrastructures with the aim to
build a comprehensive terminology foundation Identifying, evaluating
and assessing requirements on Service Level Management (SLM) in
e-Infrastructures;
to provide qualified recommendations with respect to future initiatives
in the field of service level management in grid infrastructures.
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Project’s title:
European Network of National
Contact Points for Research
Infrastructures moving forward
Dialogue with other NCP networks represents one of the main pillars of
the communication strategy of EuroRIs-Net. Although the NCP systems
show a wide variety of architectures, from highly centralised to decentralised
networks, and a number of very different actors, from ministries to universities, research centres and special agencies to private consulting companies.
The unifying element of the different NCP networks is the possibility to reach
the vast majority of national stakeholders and support specific information
and awareness raising activities.
INFRA-2011-3.5.
Trans-national co-operation among NCPs
http://www.euroris-net.eu/
30-09-2013
Project’s budget:
1 199 043 €
EC funding:
949 984 €
EuroRIs-Net will consolidate its collaboration with thematic NCP networks
offering specific services and information that can complement the range of
information made available by each NCP to the scientific community:
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ul. Adolfa Pawińskiego 5b, 02-106 Warszawa
http://en.kpk.gov.pl/
Contact person:
PhD Wiesław Studencki
Infrastructures
Phone: +48 502 052 236
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activities”, the objectives of which are:
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Athens, Greece
2. Oesterreichische Forschungsfoerderungsgesellschaft MbH, Austria
Europea, Italy
4. National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the European Union, Institute
of Fundamental Technological Research
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
6. Sofiiski Universitet Sveti Kliment Ohridski,
Bulgaria
7. Dienst voor Wetenschappelijke en Technische Informatie – Sernice d’Information
Scientifique et Technique, Belgium
8. Department of Science and Technology,
South Africa
Malta
15. National Research and Development
Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic
Technologies ICSI RM Valcea, Romania
16. Nemzeti Innovacios Hivatal, Hungary
identification of Research Infrastructures (RI) thematic priorities which
are relevant to the other NCP Networks in order to diffuse information
on offered services and transnational access procedures;
dissemination of EuroRIs-Net activities which are relevant to the other
NCP Networks;
organization of synergy thematic events.
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development of new and existing RIs on the one hand, and intensify
the access to RIs – on the other;
to facilitate the Transnational Access and e-Infrastructures’ specific
horizontal services;
to raise awareness on e-Infrastructures and their services among
researchers in possibly all disciplines.
Information and Communication Technologies
Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness
and Innovation Framework Programme
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LITES
Project’s title:
Led-based Intelligent streeT
lighting for Energy Saving
The main objective of the LITES project is to perform a real life experiment
on intelligent street lighting using solid-state lights LED and verify
whether they drastically reduce energy consumption. The lighting service
delivered is compliant with road classes CE2-CE5, S- and A- according to
the standard of EN13201. That means that our devices can be installed in
secondary street, commercial access, allotment, pedestrian way, cycle track.
It is compliant with all electric standards for luminaries general requirements
and tests as well.
CIP-ICT-PSP-2008-2
ICT for energy efficiency in public
building and spaces, including lighting
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-12-2009
31-05-2012
2 560 000 €
1 280 000 €
Polish participant:
Gmina Piaseczno
ul. Kościuszki 5,
05-500 Piaseczno
http://piaseczno.eu
The core element of the solution that is responsible for dimming of the
lamps depending on the environmental factors; a set of embedded sensors
that measure ambient light, temperature, current, and detect motion. The
output data from the sensors is processed by the embedded intelligence
allowing an optimal regulation of light levels. The members within the
consortium have been carefully selected to cover the entire value-chain of
the project and the standardization. The consortium is convinced future
for this technology has a prosperous future. Its significant energy saving
potential (up to 70%), environmental and economical benefits and the
increased level of traffic safety for the public are but a few of the advantages
of this technology.
Contact person:
Jacek Poszepny
Department of Infrastructure
and Public Transport
Phone: +48 22 701 76 74
The project “LITES” aims at the implementation of several piloted sites of
street lighting using energy efficient Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and
optimizing all efficiency factors to see more with less light and thus generating
significant energy savings. This project and its objectives are fully compliant
with the Action Plan adopted by the Commission in 2006 as a reference for
Community policy in energy consumption and aiming at achieving a 20%
reduction in energy consumption by 2020.
The Consortium:
Project concentrates on:
1. Rigas Tehniska Universitate, Latvia
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4. Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
efficiency of the optical element of the lantern;
efficiency of the power supply;
quality of the sensors;
networking of the data processing;
network communication by power line communication;
remote management with collection of results and detection of faults.
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The objectives will be achieved by the development of a luminaire specially
designed to house the LED array, the embedded intelligence and sensors.
Each of the pilot sites will be equipped with a set of luminaires. To obtain
significant change in the demand for intelligent street lighting, current facts
and results about LITES will be presented at conferences, in fairs, in scientific
and non-scientific magazines, at websites, in video presentations on technical,
financial, and organizational issues of LITES technology implementation.
Videos will gather the experience from four pilot sites distributed in France,
Portugal, Latvia, and Poland. Adapted video clips will be developed for each
pilot country including an introduction presented by local expert from the
LITES team. The European content will be complemented with subscripts
in LITES partner country language
CIP-ICT PSP
ICT for energy and water efficiency and smart mobility
http://www.lites-project.eu/
The limitation of the proposed service to classes CE2-CE5, S- and A- roads
is due to the use of intelligent light dimming which is not compliant with
high traffic roads. On the other hand, this technology will allow quick and
significant decrease of energy consumption, as residential lighting represents
40% of the street lighting. The pilot project size has to suitable as to carry
out the algorithms and to prove the efficiency of the solution. A network
with a number of luminaires between 30 and 50 would be a suitable size
for each pilot.
6. Ville de Bordeaux., France
7. Thorn Europhane S.A., France
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collection of end users opinions;
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URB Energy – Energy Efficient and Integrated
Urban Development Action;
project LITES;
project “Let’s Talk”;
Solar Collectors;
e-Piaseczno;
JESSICA;
Sewage Treatment Plant, and others.
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Gmina Piaseczno is the urban-country commune located in the centre of
Poland in the direct neighborhood of the southern part of Warsaw. The commune is made up of the city of Piaseczno and 32 solectwos (Polish smallest
administrative units). The Commune of Piaseczno is currently one of the
fastest developing communes in Poland. According to the official data, the
Commune’s population has increased by over 50% within the last decade
and exceeded 60 thousand citizens. So dynamic increase in the number of
inhabitants generates more and more incomes to the budget, but at the same
time causes a significant increase in expenses for current maintenance of
the developing town infrastructure. This stimulates participation in several
projects co-financed from UE funds such as:
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E3SoHo
Project’s title:
Energy Efficiency in European
Social Housing
The E3SoHo service offers a holistic solution that provides advice on how
to reduce energy consumption, the appropriate installation of the system,
monitoring and tweaking of the level of energy the consumption. The proposed service will tailor, installation and tuning ICT based system that will
significantly reduce the energy consumption and will enable an improved
management of energy production systems already installed in the
building.
CIP-ICT-PSP.2009.4.1
ICT for energy efficiency in social housing
Therefore, the E3SoHo service is built up of the following sub-services that
can be provided separately:
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http://www.e3soho.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2010
31-01-2013
3 960 985 €
1 980 492 €
02-673, Warszawa
http://www.mostostal.waw.pl
Contact person:
Piotr Dymarski
Phone: +48 22 548 56 46
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perform an audit in the building to identify the energy saving potential;
provide the owner with an ICT based blue-print to reduce the energy
consumption;
implement the system according to the blue-print;
tuning of energy consumption by monitoring;
maintenance of the installed system.
The overall objective of E3SoHo project is to implement and demonstrate
in three Social Housing pilots an integrated and replicable ICT-based solution which aims to bring about a significant reduction of 25% of energy
consumption in European social housing by providing tenants with feedback
on consumption and offering personalized advice for improving their energy
efficiency, reducing the energy consumption and increasing the share of
RES (Renewable Energy Sources) by informing and supporting the user to
decide for the most appropriate behaviour in terms of energy efficiency, cost,
comfort and environmental impact, monitoring and transmitting consumption data to Energy Services.
City of Warsaw, Poland
Plac Bankowy 3/5
00-950 Warszawa
Warsaw University of Technology,
Poland
Plac Politechniki 1
00-661 Warszawa
The Consortium:
1. Acciona Infraestructuras S.A., Spain
2. City of Warsaw, Poland
3. Comite Europeen de Coordination de
l’Habitat Social AISBL, Belgium
4. Comune di Genova, Italy
5. Centre Scientifique et Technique du
Batiment, France
6. D’Appolonia S.p.A., Italy
7. ISA – Intelligent Sensing Anywhere S.A.,
Portugal
8. Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
10. Nobatek, France
11. Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Vivienda SL,
Spain
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and barriers;
building requirements and characteristics;
pilot implementation;
supervision of the software development;
awareness and training;
methodology for implementing ICT solution in Social Housing;
Dissemination and Exploitation Plan;
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ICE-WISH
Project’s title:
Demonstrating through Intelligent
Control (smart metering, wireless
technology, cloud computing, and
user-oriented display information),
Energy and Water wastage reductions
In European Social Housing
During the 3-years project duration, the ICE-WISH consortium will carry
out a daily commitment to implement and optimize the service for social
housing. For this, user and operational requirements will be captured, investigating with households and interested parties, during the first months of the
project. Results will be used to establish service specifications and finalize
the service architecture for monitoring a treated group of 30 dwellings
at each pilot site.
http://www.ice-wish.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
2011-04-01
2014-03-31
4 160 002 €
2 080 000 €
National Energy Conservation Agency
ul. Świętokrzyska 20
00-002 Warszawa
http://www.nape.pl
Contact person:
Szymon Firlag
Email: sfi[email protected]
City of Warsaw, Poland
Plac Bankowy 3/5
00-950 Warszawa
Vattenfall Heat Poland S.A., Poland
ul. Modlinska 15
03-216 Warszawa
ICE-WISH project aims to design, integrate and pilot an innovative
solution for social housing, using mature and interactive ICT, to enable
sustained reductions of energy and water consumption of at least 15% below
the current practice, without compromising living conditions, across 300
social dwellings in 10 European countries.
National Energy Conservation Agency (NAPE) was established in 1994 as
an initiative of the Energy Conservation Foundation (FPE). The Agency was
created with an aim of popularizing efficient and rational energy usage, above
all in the building sector, and the principles of sustainable development that
in 1994 were still little known.
Thereby, NAPE became one of the first private institutions combining
consulting in the building sector, research and development, and services
in the energy sector that were realized in accordance with the principles of
sustainable development understood as a commitment to provide access to
a sufficient amount of energy not only to ourselves, but also to the future
generations, without a harm to the natural environment on a local and
global scale.
The Consortium:
1. Consorzio Nazionale Casaqualita Scarl,
Italy
The sphere of NAPE’s interests includes all the problems of rational energy
management, especially the issues of renewable fuels.
2. Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Sociaal
Wonen NV, Belgium
We realize our goals through:
3. Union of Homeowners Associations,
Belgium
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6. Office Public d’Amenagement et de
Construction de l’Isere, France
7. Philips Consumer Lifestyle B.V.,
The Netherlands
8. Building Research Establishment Ltd.,
United Kingdom
9. University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
10. Utility Partnership Ltd., United Kingdom
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conducting expert evaluations and analyses, consulting for central and
local administration, private companies, and building administrators;
preparing and implementing projects in the framework of international
programmes;
organizing national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops;
preparing and issuing handbooks and promotional-instructional
materials;
elaborating mechanisms for financing investments in the area of energy
efficiency and renewable energy sources;
identifying investments in the area of energy efficiency and renewable
energy sources.
NAPE cooperates with the Energy Conservation Foundation (FPE), Association of Energy Auditors, regional energy conservation agencies, and multiple
foreign partners.
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This will cumulate in the integration and operation of the ICE-WISH service
for more than 12 months in 10 pilot sites. Within this operation phase,
a continuous management of customized information with real-time data
and feedback on resource consumption, a real-time advice/guidance on
optimum operation of the building systems and components, an assessment
of value of access to the offered interactive service and an assessment of service
viability and operability will be provided.
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11. Bournemouth Borough Council, United
Kingdom
12. National Energy Conservation Agency,
Poland
13. Viviendas Municipales de Bilbao Oal
– Bilboko Udaletxebizitzak Tokiko
Erakunde Autonomoa, Spain
NAPE will contribute to the realization of WP1, WP3, WP4, WP5 and
WP6 within the project through providing technical expertise. NAPE will be
engaged in setting requirements, planning of installation and monitoring of
measuring equipment, data collection and analysis, development of recommendations to optimize the overall performance of buildings. NAPE will
also take part in dissemination activities in the framework of the project.
14. Oikistikes Anaptykseis, Greece
15. Boligforeningen Ringgarden, Denmark
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16. Water Supply and Sewerage Municipal
Enterprise of Larissa, Greece
17. Joseph-Stiftung Kirchliches
Wohnungsunternehmen, Germany
18. City of Warsaw, Poland
19. Vattenfall Heat Poland S.A., Poland
The team from NAPE consists of people with experience in following
aspects:
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strategic decisions and concepts related to innovative solution for social
housing;
heat and mass transfer in gas condensing boilers;
national and international energy efficiency projects’ realization;
conducting research and analyzing data in the academic and professional
environment;
know-how transfer concerning renewable energy sources and measurement equipment;
contacts with the local authorities in the field of energy strategy at the
local level.
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CLEAR
Project’s title:
Clinical Leading Environment for
the Assessment and validation of
Rehabilitation protocols for home care
The project aimed at treating at least 800 European patients affected by
cognitive, neurological, orthopedic and pulmonary pathologies or by
chronic pain in Italy, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands through the “Habilis
platform”. CLEAR project’s objective was to increase patients’ autonomy
and their quality of life, but also to decrease the burden on the family, the
stress and the isolation.
CIP-ICT-PSP-2007.2.2
ICT for ageing well
01-09-2008
29-02-2012
5 615 722 €
2 740 000 €
Department of Orthopedics and
Traumatology of Locomotor System,
Medical University of Warsaw
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 61
02-091 Warszawa
http://www.habiliseurope.eu/
Contact person:
Iwona Drozdowska-Rusinowicz
Vicehead of Project Office in MUW
Phone: +48 22 572 04 61
Healthcare Information Systems Center
ul. Stanisława Dubois 5A
00-184 Warszawa
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to set-up a tele-rehabilitation service allowing doctors to design, develop
and implement clinical based protocols for home rehabilitation and
tele-care;
to contribute to the establishment of a “European standard” for rehabilitation services freely accessible from the web.
The Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Locomotor System
is located in Teaching University Hospital and has expertise in the field of
Orthopedics, Traumatology, and Rehabilitation of Musculoskeletal Diseases
and Injuries. The orthopedic department is located in Baby Jesus’ Clinical
Hospital. The clinical profile of the Department is very wide and includes
adult’ and pediatric orthopedics. The treatment is offered to patients in
congenital orthopedic diseases, scoliosis and other spinal disorders, total joint
replacements, extremities lengthening, sports injury’s treatment, whole profile
of orthopedic trauma, reconstructive surgery, complex treatment of infectious
complications, metabolic bone diseases and complex rehabilitation.
The hospital performs more than 5 thousand orthopedic surgeries a year.
The academic facility is a national leader in research and clinically oriented
development. One of the research teams in the department is currently
focused on telerehabilitation, eHealth, the Internet based videoconferencing,
telementoring in rehabilitation of musculo-skeletal diseases and many more
innovative services are provided frequently in various clinical situations.
The Department has the status of an innovation center in the field of
orthopedics and traumatology. The postoperative rehabilitation remains an
integral part of the orthopedic treatment. Modern, innovative technologies
are often applied here. This is an opportunity for medical students to obtain
the most up to date knowledge in the field.
6. The Governing Council of the University of
Toronto, Canada
The Consortium:
1. Signo Motus S.r.l., Italy
2. Region Midtjylland, Denmark
3. Fondazione Telethon, Italy
4. Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
7. Roessingh Research and Development BV,
The Netherlands
8. Gronlands Naturinstitut, Greenland
9. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
10. Stichting Revalidatiecentrum Het
Roessingh, The Netherlands
11. Department of Orthopedics and
Traumatology of Locomotor System,
Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Locomotor System participated in couple work packages of the CLEAR project. The objective of
one of the work packages was to define univocally the needs of the user. The
rationale was to respond to the real and day to day needs of patients and
clinicians involved in the management of the musculoskeletal disorders and
to build an Internet accessible telerehabilitation platform (Habilis) based
on patients’ needs.
The main work-package was the observational prospective cohort clinical
trial designed for pre-operative patients awaiting surgery and postoperative patients. Case control, nonrandomized, nonblinded studies were
provided. Homogenous groups of 372 patients, suffering hip and knee
osteoarthritis (OA) were enrolled into this study. The complexed protocols
of tailored exercises for osteoarthrosis patient’s home rehabilitation were
designed and implemented. Standard and reliable quality of life instruments,
ICT for eHealth, ageing well and inclusion
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
CLEAR sets up an innovative e-Health service based on the development
of protocols for rehabilitation and chronic disease management therapies,
which can be implemented at home following well-defined procedures under
the control of medical staff. The objectives of the project are:
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12. Kharkiv National Medical University,
Ukraine
13. Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie,
l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico
Sostenibile, Italy
14. Fundacio Privada Institut de
Neurorehabilitacio Guttmann, Spain
15. Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale 11 Empoli,
Italy
17. Regione Toscana, Italy
18. Stichting Menzis Beheer, The Netherlands
19. Healthcare Information Systems Center,
Poland
20. Fundacio Ticsalut, Spain
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21. Fundacio Institut Catala de L’envelliment,
Spain
function, physical examination measures were used to analyze results of the
telerehabilitation intervention versus the conventional approach. Our results
showed that four weeks of a individually tailored, intensive telerehabilitation
program for chronic osteoarthritis utilizing ICT enhanced platform was
safe and effective for preoperative hip, postoperative hip and knee patients.
This method is not inferior to conventional ones, (also in case preoperative
knee patients). Chronic OA patients gained some benefits, including the
improvement of their quality of life. We conclude that telerehabilitation can
be recognized as an option for patients who find it hard to attend on-site
outpatient rehabilitation.
The results of our project proved that there is an opportunity for telerehabilitation platforms (Habilis) in the European perspective of using ICT
technologies for home rehabilitation.
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epSOS
Project’s title:
Smart Open Services for
European Patients
epSOS is the main European electronic Health (e-Health) interoperability project co-funded by the European Commission and the partners. It
focuses on improving medical treatment of citizens while abroad by providing
health professionals with the necessary patient data. During the course of the
epSOS project, epSOS Services will be tested in practice in a pilot operation
phase which will last for one year.
CIP-ICT-PSP-2007.3.2
Experience sharing and consensus building
in eHealth
1st PHASE TESTING
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Institute of Logistics and Warehousing
ul. Ewarysta Estkowskiego 6
61-755 Poznań
http://www.ilim.poznan.pl/
Contact person:
Tomasz Kawecki
Research Consultant, Senior Specialist at
Phone: +48 61 850 49 69
Patient Summary – access to important medical data for the treatment
of patients;
e-Prescription or e-Medication systems – Cross-border use of electronic
prescriptions:
• e-Prescribing is defined as the electronic prescribing of medicine
using software to transmit the prescription data to the pharmacy
where it is being retrieved;
• e-Dispensing is defined as the electronic retrieval of an e-Prescription,
the dispensing of the medicine to the patient as indicated, and the
submission of an electronic report for the medicine dispensed.
2nd PHASE (EPSOS EXTENSION PHASE)
Phase 2 of epSOS will further consolidate, scale up and operationalize the
epSOS Services for ID management, security, semantics and standards.
If feasible, the following new epSOS Services will be tested:
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patient access to their data provides patients with access to their information;
integration of 112 emergency services;
access to patient summary data in order to improve the quality of care
in the event their services are required;
integration of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
National Health Fund
ul. Grojecka 186
02-390 Warszawa
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The Consortium:
The epSOS architecture is based on IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) profiles.
1. Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, Sweden
2. Socialdepartementet, Sweden
3. Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit, Austria
epSOS aims to design, build and evaluate a service infrastructure that demonstrates cross-border interoperability between electronic health record systems
in Europe. epSOS attempts to offer seamless healthcare to European citizens.
Key goals are to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for citizens
when travelling to another European country. Moreover, it concentrates
on developing a practical e-Health framework and ICT infrastructure that
enables secure access to patient health information among different
European healthcare systems.
4. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Elektronische
Gesundheitsakte Arge Elga, Austria
6. IZIP a.s., Czech Republic
7. Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit,
Germany
8. Gematik Gesellschaft fur
Telematikanwendungen der
Gesundheitskarte mbH, Germany
9. Empirica Gesellschaft fuer Kommunikations
und Technologieforschung mbH, Germany
10. Medcom, Denmark
11. Sundhedsstyrelsen, Denmark
12. Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, Greece
13. Ministerio de Sanidad y Politica Social, Spain
14. Fundacio Ticsalut, Spain
15. Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Spain
16. Servicio de Salud de Castilla la Mancha, Spain
epSOS can make a significant contribution to patient safety by reducing the
frequency of medical errors and by providing quick access to documentation.
In emergency situations, this documentation provides the medical personnel
with life-saving information and reduces the (sometimes needless) repetition
of diagnostic procedures.
For the first time, patients in Europe will have the opportunity to use crossborder e-Health services when seeking healthcare in participating epSOS
pilot countries – whether as tourists, business travelers, commuters or
exchange students.
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31-12-2013
37 937 761 €
17 999 000 €
CIP-ICT PSP
http://www.epsos.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
epSOS will test cross-border e-Health services in the following areas:
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17. Agence Nationale des Systemes
d’Information Partages de Sante, France
18. Ministere du Travail de i’Emploi et de la
Sante, France
19. Regione Lombardia, Italy
20. Ministerie van Volksgezondheid Welzijn en
Sport, The Netherlands
21. Stichting Nationaal ICT Instituut in
de Zorg, The Netherlands
22. Narodne Centrum Zdravotnickych
Informacii, Slovakia
23. Department of Health, United Kingdom
24. Zentralinstitut fuer die Kassenarztliche
Versorgung in der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Germany
The Institute of Logistics and Warehousing (Instytut Logistyki i Magazynowania – IliM) is widely acknowledged as Poland’s centre of competence in
logistics and has been a GS1 (formerly EAN) member since 1990. It is an
interdisciplinary, state-owned R&D unit where logistics is perceived as both
a subject of research as well as the field of practical application. Consequently,
activities carried out in the Institute embrace both organisation and technology. The Institute is the leading Polish supplier of up-to-date solutions
supporting management of both: materials and information flows.
ILiM’s areas of competence embrace:
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27. Pharmaxis AE, Greece
29. Lombardia Informatica S.p.A., Italy
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28. Integrating the Healthcare
Enterprise-Europe AISBL, Belgium
49. Servei de Salut de les Illes Balears, Spain
30. Agencia d’Informacio Avaluacio i Qualitat
en Salut, Spain
31. Elga GmbH, Austria
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A list of ILiM’s services offered to the market embraces in particular:
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32. Plate-Forme Ehealth, Belgium
33. Ministry for Health the Elderly and
Community Care – Government of Malta,
Malta
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34. Eesti e-Tervise Sihtasutus, Estonia
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35. Terveyden ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos, Finland
36. Egeszsegugyi Strategiai Kutatointezet Eski,
Hungary
37. Helsedirektorate, Norway
38. National Health Fund, Poland
39. Administracao Central do Sistema de Saute,
IP, Portugal
40. Institut za Varovanje Zdravja Republike
Slovenije, Slovenia
41. Institute of Logistics and Warehousing,
Poland
42. Ministrstvo za Zdravje, Slovenia
43. Recip-e VZW, Belgium
44. Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Saglik Bakanligi, Turkey
45. Indenrigs-Og Sundhedsministeriet, Denmark
46. Kompetansesenter for Informasjonsteknologi
i Helsevesenet AS., Norway
47. SRDC Yazilim Arastirma ve Gelistirme ve
Danismanlik Ticaret Limited Sirketi, Turkey
50. Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
51. Les Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve,
Switzerland
52. Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
logistics and supply chain management (with a special focus on warehouse, inventory and transport management issues and safety of supply
chains, based on traceability);
e-Business;
IT and data communication, covering development and implementation of ILiM’s own warehouse management system, implementation
of EPC/RFID solutions as well as research and services in the field of
electromagnetic compatibility;
GS1 standards and solutions (the Institute has been the GS1 Member
Organization in Poland since 1990).
analyses of the Polish market and its distribution channels,
identification, modeling and solving of various decision problems in
logistics;
implementation of ADC (Automatic Data Capture) and IT solutions;
implementation of the ILiM’s own Warehouse Management System,
compatible with GS1 standards and supporting traceability solutions;
electronic document templates;
trainings in e-Business using modern e-Learning tools;
solutions for Electronic Data Interchange;
implementation of solutions based on GS1 standards.
ILIM has a significant experience in education, focuses mainly on e-Learning,
but also runs a certification system for logisticians in Poland, based on the
ELA competence standards.
ILiM is a project partner involved in activities implemented at two levels:
European activities:
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supporting partner for the legal aspects group;
supporting partner for the epSOS system architecture group.
National activities:
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supporting partner for the piloting organization (responsible for the
Polish pilot).
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EHR-QTN
Project’s title:
Thematic Network on Quality Labelling
And Certification of EHR Systems
EHR-QTN promotes certification by organizing international workshops
in 27 different European countries, by validating the EuroRec functional
statements (over 1.400 statements), translating a substantial set of them into
more than 20 different European languages and by validating the EuroRec
certification tools and certification procedures. The focus functionalities of
the validation and the translations to be addressed during the project will
be on medicinal product prescriptions, on medication management, on
summary records as well as on generic statements regarding reliability and
trustworthiness of the systems and on security and access management.
CIP ICT PSP.2008.1.6
Improving certification of eHealth
products
www.eurorec.org/RD/index.cfm
31-01-2012
Project’s budget:
789 000 €
EC funding:
789 000 €
EHR-QTN is a Thematic Network project that prepares the health community
across Europe for systematic and comparable quality assurance and certification of e-Health products, more specifically of the Electronic Healthcare
Record systems.
The Consortium:
1. European Institute for Health Records,
France
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to elaborate a method of validation and certification of electronic
health record suppliers;
to elaborate an uniform European EHR standard;
exchange of knowledge and project experiences in this field.
e-Health Section in the Department of Health Policy of the Marshal’s Office
of the Łódź Region (MOL) is a Regional self-government entity responsible for implementing EU-funded projects in the area of ICT for health
(e-Health). At present the most advanced initiative is the Regional System
of Medical Information of the Łódź Region (acronym: RSIM) which will
be implemented in the period 2009–2012 and is co-financed by ERDF
within the Regional Operational Programme of the Łódź Region for the
years 2007–2013 (ROP).
2. Prorec-Be VZW, Belgium
3. Research in Advanced Medical Information
and Telematics VZW, Belgium
4. Association Prorec Bulgaria, Bulgaria
5. Hrvatskog Drustva za Medicinsku
Informatiku, Croatia
6. Mediq AS, Denmark
7. Eesti E-Tervise Sihtasutus, Estonia
8. Centre Francais pour la Promotion de
Systemes de Dossiers de Sante Informatises
Europeens de Qualite, France
9. PROREC-DE e.V. Deutsches Referenz
Zentrum fur die Elektronische
Krankengeschichte, Germany
Hellas, Greece
11. Egeszsegugyi Strategiai Kutatointezet Eski,
Hungary
12. The Irish Centre for Health Telematics Ltd.,
Ireland
RSIM is being carried out in partnership with MOL as a project leader and
17 public healthcare centers subject to the self-government of the Łódź
Region as partners.
In addition to this, in the period 2010–2012, MOL is implementing another
project co-financed by ERDF within ROP – Regional Health Portals (acronym: in4health). This initiative concerns the creation of the regional health
information services for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Łódź region
and self-control and self-measurement portals for persons suffering from
chronic diseases such as: diabetes, asthma and hypertension.
Apart from participation in EHR-QTN project, MOL gained experience
in the international interregional cooperation as a partner of the project
Regional ICT based Clusters for Healthcare Applications and R&D Integration (acronym: RICHARD). This three-year initiative (2010–2013) is
being implemented as Coordination and Support Action within the FP7
Programme – Regions of Knowledge. The objectives of the project are to
identify, enhance, and even elaborate new ICT based models for the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, stroke and dementia as well as to
transfer best practices to the Łódź Region within mentoring activities.
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Contact person:
Marcin Zawisza
Head of eHealth Section
Phone: +48 42 291 97 08
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Marshal’s Office of the Łódź Region
Al. Marsz. Józefa Piłsudskiego 8
90-051 Łódź
http://www.lodzkie.pl
The main goals of EHR-QTN project are the following:
Polish participant:
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13. Prorec Italia, Italy
14. Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor,
Luxembourg
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15. Stichting Prorec-Nl, The Netherlands
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16. Kompetansesenter for
Informasjonsteknologi i Helsevesenet AS,
Norway
17. Marshal’s Office of the Łódź Region, Poland
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18. Administracao Central do Sistema de Saude
IP, Portugal
19. Prorec Romania – Asociatia Romana Pentru
Evidenta Electronica a Datelor Medicale,
Romania
20. Prorec Centrum Slovensko, Slovakia
21. Ustanova Prorecsi, Slovenia
22. Hospital de Fuenlabrada, Spain
23. Instituto de Salud Carlos Iii, Spain
24. Prorec-UK Ltd., United Kingdom
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25. Prorec Austria, Austria
26. Eteria Iatrikis Pliroforikis Kyprou, Cyprus
27. Ceske Narodni Forum pro Ehealth
Obcanske Sdruzeni, Czech Republic
28. Viestoji Istaiga Centro Poliklinika,
Lithuania
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translation of the repository of requirements related to certification of
EHR systems;
identification of EHR stakeholders: institutions engaged or potentially
interested in the certification of EHR systems in Poland and, on this
basis, elaboration of Electronic Health Record Market Overview
Report;
organisation of the national workshop (with the participation of foreign
experts-partners of EHR-QTN project as speakers) devoted to different
aspects related to the implementation of EHR such as:
• Role of certification in the field of EHR;
• Model of implementation of EHR;
• Role of interfaces in the field of EHR.
organisation of the conference devoted to the certification of EHR
systems, with the participation of foreign experts as speakers and representatives of other Polish regions which are implementing e-Health
projects (event will be organized in 2012).
Supporting the European eHealth
Governance Initiative and Action
Supporting the EU eHealth governance
initiative
SEHGovIA will provide to the Member States, the European Commission,
health authorities, competence centers, user groups, industry and other
relevant stakeholders with a European interoperability framework to facilitate
involvement and usage of the work in the defined policy areas. SEHGovIA
itself will also concentrate on evolving an e-Health Interoperability Roadmap
and will be used as a communication and dissemination platform for the
network members and beyond.
http://www.ehgi.eu
SEHGovIA initiated by the EU Member States and supported by the European Commission the EU e-Health Governance Initiative was set up in
2009. This Thematic Network will establish a platform for the e-Health
Governance Initiative, in view in particular to develop an e-Health Interoperability Roadmap. The ultimate goal of the SEHGovIA is to develop
concrete political recommendations and instruments for cooperation in
the specific areas which have been specified by the e-Health Network and
especially to provide input to the following levels:
31-01-2014
Project’s budget:
531 500 €
EC funding:
500 000 €
Polish participant:
Ministry of Health
ul. Miodowa 15, 00-952 Warszawa
Contact person:
Natalia Żylińska-Puta
Phone: +48 22 634 96 64
The Consortium:
1. Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit, Austria
2. Ministerio de Sanidad y Politica Social, Spain
3. Koordinacní Stredisko pro Resortní
Zdravotnické Informacní Systémy,
Czech Republic
4. Department of Health, United Kingdom
5. Narodne Centrum Zdravotnickych
Informacii, Slovakia
6. Egeszsegugyi Strategiai Kutatointezet ESKI,
Hungary
7. Kompetansesenter for Informasjonsteknologi i Helsevesenet A.S., Norway
8. Ministrstvo za Zdravje, Slovenia
9. Groupement Pharmaceutique de l’Union
Europeenne AISBL GPUE Pharmaceutical
Group of the EU, Belgium
10. European Health Telematics Association,
Belgium
11. Comite Permanent des Medecins Europeens
AISBL, Belgium
12. Forum des Patiens Europeens ASBL
European Patients Forum FPE EPF,
Luxembourg
13. Federation Europeenne des Hopitaux et des
Soins de Sante, Belgium
14. Ministere du Travail de l’Emploi et de la
Sante, France
15. Ministero della Salute, Italy
16. Federation Europeenne des Associations
Infirmieres AISBL, Belgium
17. Bundesministerium fuer Gesundheit,
Germany
18. Agence Federale pour la Securite de la
Chaine Alimentaire, Belgium
19. Indenrigs- Og Sundhedsministeriet,
Denmark
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legal, ethical and regulatory issues;
semantics and terminology;
identification and authentication;
standardization.
Ministry of Health has the overall responsibility for governance of the health
sector and its organization in Poland. It is responsible for the national health
policy, major capital investments and for medical research and education.
The Ministry is also responsible for supervising the training of health care
personnel, for funding very expensive medical equipment and for setting and
monitoring health care standards. The Ministry finances certain emergency
medical services and approves regional medical emergency care plans prepared by the voievodes. It also supervises health resort treatment and regulates
medical professions. It is also responsible for health policy, implementation
and coordination of health policy programmes, elaboration of solutions to
health problems caused by environmental and social factors, and, jointly
with the voivodeships, evaluation of access to health care.
Ministry of Health is a part of project consortium, with the voting right
during Project Steering Board meetings.
20. Administracao Central do Sistema
de Saude IP, Portugal
21. Veselibas Ekonomikas Centrs, Latvia
22. Aristotelio Panepistimio
Thessalonikis, Greece
23. Department of Health and
Children, Ireland
24. Socialdepartementet, Sweden
25. Ministry for Health the Elderly and
Community Care – Government of
Malta, Malta
26. Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Saglik
Bakanligi, Turkey
27. European Health Management
Association Ltd., Ireland
28. Continua Health Alliance Private
Stichting, Belgium
29. Comite Europeen de Coordination
des Industries Radiologiques
Electromedicales et d Informatique
de Sante AISBL, Belgium
30. Integrating the Healthcare
Enterprise-Europe AISBL, Belgium
31. Hl7 International Fondation, Belgium
32. Federal Office of Public Health,
Switzerland
33. Helsedirektorate, Norway
34. Ministry of Health of the Republic
of Cyprus, Cyprus
35. Ministere de la Sante, Luxembourg
36. Ministry of Health, Poland
37. Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia
38. Ministerie van Volksgezondheid
Welzijn En Sport, The Netherlands
39. Canope SARL, France
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SEESGEN-ICT
Project’s title:
Supporting Energy Efficiency in Smart
GENeration grids through ICT
Consensus building and experience sharing
for ICT for energy efficiency
and sustainability in urban areas
– ICT for sustainable urban
development and management
SEESGEN-ICT was a Thematic Network integrated by a large base of core
participants (24 from 15 different EU Countries) and increased through
the celebration of Workshops and Meetings. The final aim was to gather the
maximum number of key players in Europe as to enhance the role of ICT
based solutions for improving and implement energy efficiency in smart
distributed power generation and grids. SEESGEN-ICT reported state
of the art, good practices and recommendations regarding ICT and related
successful business cases from all regions (EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific),
thus creating a basis for improving business models and regulation. It also
made it easier to start new research and development initiatives to develop
the needed solutions.
The following topics were addressed in detail by the project:
http://seesgen-ict.rse-web.it/
31-05-2011
Project’s budget:
478 000 €
EC funding:
478 000 €
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Department of Computer Science,
University of Łódź
ul. Prezydenta Gabriela Narutowicza 65
90-131 Łódź
http://www.uni.lodz.pl
The Consortium:
1. Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico
– RSE S.p.A., Italy
2. Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove
Tecnologiel’energia e lo Sviluppo
Economico Sostenibile, Italy
The main objectives of SEESGEN-ICT consisted in producing a harmonized set of priorities to accelerate the introduction of ICT into the Smart
Distributed Power Generation Grids, investigating requirements, barriers
and proposing solutions. SEESGEN-ICT has produced policy recommendations, identify best practices and draw scenarios and roadmaps for the next
generation of electric distribution network.
Department of Computer Science at Univeristy of Łódź focuses mainly
on activities such as education (11 computer labs enabling introduction in
programmes supporting management) and research in the area of energy. The
department participated in the following EU funded projects: EU DEEP,
SYNERGY, MORE MICROGRIDS and SEESGEN-ICT. The research
performed as a part of these project mainly revolver around the issue of Smart
Grids and especially concentrates on the Distribution of Smart Grids.
5. Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
The University of Łódź was the partner in the project, participated in preparation as the co-author of papers and documentation in following topics:
6. Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
Spain
8. Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum
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ICT for energy efficiency monitoring in smartgrids;
ICT-system operation and environment protection in the operation
of smartgrids.
9. SAP AG, Germany
10. Österreichisches Forschungs- und
Prüfzentrum Arsenal GmbH, Austria
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ICT for management of smartgrids with DER integration;
ICT for energy efficiency monitoring in smartgrids;
ICT for demand-side integration (demand-response & demand-side
management);
ICT for business models management;
ICT-system operation and environment protection in the operation
of smartgrids;
Supporting best practices through experiences in test facilities.
Polish participant:
Contact person:
Prof. Jerzy Zieliński
Phone: +48 609 126 962
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11. Kentro Ananeosimon Pigon ke Exikonomisis
Energeias (Centre for Renewable Energy
Sources and Saving), Greece
16. Institute of Communication and
Computer Systems, Greece
21. Arbeitsgemeinschaft ASEW c/o
VKU, Germany
17. Global E-Sustainability Initiative,
Belgium
22. Enel Distribuzione S.p.A., Italy
13. Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch
Onderzoek NV, Belgium
18. Department of Computer Science,
Univeristy of Łódź, Poland
19. Filiala Institutul de Cercetari si
Modernizari Energetice, Romania
15. Institut fuer Solare
Energieversorgungstechnik e.V, Germany
20. Sintef Energi A.S., Norway
23. Public Power Corporation S.A.,
Greece
24. ECPE European Center for Power
Electronics e.V., Germany
25. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur
Foerderung der Angewandten
Forschung e.V., Germany
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ECLAP
Project’s title:
European Collected Library
of Artistic Performance
The richness and value of the European performing arts heritage is unquestionable. Even though these collections are now being digitized and published
online, they remain scattered, and coordination is lacking between digital
libraries and the performing arts field; however, there is a high demand for
access to this content. The project ECLAP fills this gap by creating a considerable, and hitherto missing, online archive for all the performing
arts in Europe, and providing solutions and tools to help performing
arts institutions to enter the digital Europe by building a network of
important European performing arts institutions and archives and publishing
content collections on Europeana, the European Digital Library. ECLAP is
presently distributing more than 63000 content objects, coming from more
than 20 prestigious European institutions: images, video, documents, audio,
slides, playlists, collections, annotations, etc. Within the next 12 months
other new 400.000 files will be published.
http://www.eclap.eu
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-07-2010
30-06-2013
4 250 004 €
3 400 000 €
Polish participant:
Institute of Polish Culture,
00-927 Warszawa
ECLAP is making use of advanced indexing database and delivery tools
for the production and dissemination of the rich multilingual European
heritage.
ECLAP major objectives:
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Contact person:
PhD Dorota Sajewska
Phone: +48 607 220 037
The Consortium:
1. Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
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2. Ctfr S.r.l, Italy
Italy
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5. Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld
en Geluid, The Netherlands
6. Institut del Teatre de la Diputacio de
Barcelona, Spain
7. Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8. Instituto Politecnico do Porto, Portugal
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bring together Europe’s most relevant performing arts content, content
never before accessible via the Internet, coming from major institutions; performing art material coming from theatre, dance, music,
cinema and film: representing performances, lessons, master classes,
teaching material, etc., in the form of videos, audio, documents, images,
animations, playlists, annotations, interactive content, etc. – available
through ECLAP portal and published on Europeana;
create a stable and open Best Practice Network of European performing art institutions, to help them to exploit digital content and to talk
about new technologies and tools;
providing solutions and services to major performing arts institutions
such as: content ingestion, metadata enrichment, content distribution,
content aggregation into Europeana, IPR management, content channel visibility, play lists, annotations, multilingual semantic/fuzzy search
queries, partner/colleague search,
provide solutions and services for a variety of users: teachers, students,
performers, researchers, and performing arts lovers for edutainment,
infotainment and entertainment.
9. Universidad de Castilla – la Mancha, Spain
10. Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute,
Hungary
The Institute of Polish Culture (IKP) is a part of the Faculty of Polish Studies
at the University of Warsaw. It was founded in 1976 as the Department of
Polish Culture. In 1998 it was granted the status of an institute by the Senate
of the University of Warsaw. Currently, over forty people is employed by the
Institute of Polish Culture.
11. Association du Festival International de
Films de Femmes, France
Muenchen, Germany
13. La Maison du Spectacle – la Bellone ASBL,
Belgium
14. The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the
15. Muzeum Zavod za Umetnisko Produkcijo
Posredovanje in Zaloznistvo, Slovenia
The Institute’s team covers a wide variety of research and teaching activities in
many areas of the anthropology, history and theory of culture. The common
denominator of the various and diversified collective and individual research
interests is constituted by the wide anthropological understanding of culture,
with particular emphasis laid on its communicative functions, together with
its historical and humanistic dimensions. Hence it is just the cultural media
– the word, performance/spectacle, and picture/image – that form the basic
area of our investigation. This approach has found its articulation in a series
of textbooks produced in the Institute: the essential one, the Anthropology
of Culture, is followed by the Anthropology of the Word, the Anthropology
of Performance, and the Anthropology of the Audiovisual.
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Greece
17. Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium Odin Teatret,
Denmark
18. Institute of Polish Culture, University of
Warsaw, Poland
20. University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
21. Axmediatech S.r.l., Italy
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23. Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale-Nuove
Tecnologie per i Beni Culturali, Italy
As one of content partners Institute of Polish Culture at the University of
Warsaw is a part of the ECLAP Consortium which brings together European leading national performing arts institutions, universities and research
institutes. The partners come from thirteen countries. Together they combine
their expertise and scientific minds to achieve the ECLAP’s goals. Within
the framework of the project IKP provides data and items (registration
of performances, images, posters, audio materials etc.) and takes part in
elaborating educational tools for ECLAP.
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EURO-Photo
Project’s title:
Disclosing the European Library on
common visual historical heritage
Euro-Photo will develop a unique pan-European press photo historical
archive available to the European citizens through Europeana, which is
a common multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed digital cultural
heritage.
http://site.project.europhoto.org
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2010
31-10-2012
4 600 002 €
2 300 000 €
Polish participant:
Polish Press Agency S.A.
ul. Bracka 6/8
00-502 Warszawa
Contact person:
Anna Brzezińska-Skarżyńska
Editor in Chief
Phone: +48 22 509 26 45
The Consortium:
1. Agenzia ANSA – Agenzia Nazionale Stampa
Associata – Societa Cooperativa, Italy
2. Stichting AAP Foundation,
The Netherlands
3. Agence Belga – Agence Telegraphique Belge
de Presse S.A., Belgium
4. DPA Deutsche Presse Agentur Gesellschaft
mit Beschrankter Haftung, Germany
5. Agencia EFE S.A., Spain
6. European Pressphoto Agency B.V. – EPA,
The Netherlands
7. Expert System S.p.A., Italy
8. Lusa – Agencia de Noticias de
Portugal S.A., Portugal
9. Magyar Tavirati Iroda Rt., Hungary
10. Polish Press Agency S.A., Poland
11. Berlingske Media A/S, Denmark
The Euro-Photo project aims to digitize historical pictures from archives
of 10 leading European News Agencies (150.000 the pictures that will be
digitalized during the project about 15.000 per partner) will be made available through Europeana (www.europeana.eu), together with an enormous
number of other historical pictures already digitalized and captioned.
The Polish Press Agency (Polska Agencja Prasowa – PAP) is the main provider
of written and photographic news material in Poland. PAP provides written
and photographic coverage of home and foreign events to the press, electronic
media, companies and public institutions in and outside Poland.
The PAP Daily Photographic Service consists of the agency’s own coverage
of current events, pictures received from cooperating agencies and archival
pictures. PAP’s digital photo base contains close to 6 million images,
including over 100 thousand digitalized archival images. The PAP Photographic Archive contains around 18 million pictures illustrating life in Poland
from the post-war years to the end of the 20th century. Many of them have
never been published before, some were banned by censoring authorities
in the communist era. For the past several years these pictures have been
gradually digitalized (transferred from analogue to digital carriers).
Owing to the high costs of the digitization process PAP seeks the necessary
funds from outside sources. The agency participates in European projects
designed to protect photographic material belonging to the common European heritage. Besides the present Euro-Photo project PAP took part in the
2007-concluded SHPAENA (Safeguarding the Historical Photographic
Archives of European News Agencies) undertaking financed from the
EU CULTURE 2000 Programme.
PAP’s and the remaining participating agencies’ role is to systematically
digitalize and share their photographic resources, which constitute a major
national and European historical heritage.
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At present this content is not available to citizens (except in the Netherlands)
and it could be considered as never published and known. In the past,
communist countries censored a huge quantity of pictures from the archive.
A significant amount of these pictures is now available in digital format,
others are planned to be digitized as a part of the project. It is the first time
that this kind of content will be accessible at the European level.
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EuDML
Project’s title:
The European Digital
Mathematics Library
A huge part of the mathematical knowledge produced in Europe now exists
in digital form. At the national level, digitization programmes have been
used over the last decade to construct digital repositories of mathematical literature. All recent mathematical texts have been published digitally.
However, this corpus was not as accessible and usable at it could be, mainly
due to a lack of adequate coordination. EuDML is a European project
that will design and build a collaborative digital library service that will
collate the current distributed content. Significant parts of the system are
based on YADDA software platform, developed by ICM. When operational, EuDML will also help plan the long term preservation of digital
mathematical literature through a network of academic libraries, that will
eventually be provided as open access.
Open access to scientific information
http://project.eudml.org
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2010
31-01-2013
3 200 002 €
1 600 000 €
Polish Participant:
Modelling,
00-927 Warszawa
http://www.uw.edu.pl
Contact person:
Wojtek Sylwestrzak
Project Manager
Phone: +48 22 874 91 00
The Consortium:
2. Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France
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3. The University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom
4. Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe
Gesellschaft fur WissenschaftlichTechnische Information GmbH, Germany
5. Masarykova Univerzita, Czech Republic
of Warsaw, Poland
8. Edition Diffusion Presse Sciences, France
9. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
11. Matematicky Ustav AV CR v.v.i., Czech
Republic
12. Ionian University, Greece
13. Made Media Ltd., United Kingdom
EuDML is a CIP-ICT PSP project to build the European Digital Mathematics Library. The project, partially funded with the EC funds, started
on 1 February 2010, and will last for three years, until 31 January 2013.
EuDML makes the mathematics literature published in Europe available
online, in the form of an enduring digital collection, developed and maintained by a network of institutions.
Over the period from its foundation, ICM has contributed to the development of new computational models for a range of challenging large-scale
scientific applications, and to the optimisation of numerous scientific codes
for new computing architectures, from multi-processor vector, via massively parallel up to most recent hybrid set-ups with embedded GPU-based
nodes. The developments addressed also specific needs of various distributed
environments, such as computational and data grids, with contributions to
robust middleware solutions, as well.
Centre for Open Science (CeON) and ICM provide the key technical role,
being the technical coordinator of the project, heavily involved in software
design and development but also in the maintenance of the EuDML production system online. Beside the technological expertise, the Centre provides
contents and metadata from Polish mathematical journals and is actively
involved in other aspects of the project.
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Linked Heritage
Project’s title:
Linked Heritage – Coordination
of standards and technologies for
the enrichment of Europeana
Linked Heritage has 3 main objectives:
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Enhancing/aggregating content
in Europeana.
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The project will address the problems associated with:
01-04-2011
30-09-2013
3 858 012 €
3 086 407 €
Polish participant:
International Centre for Information
Management System
ul. Zygmunta Krasinskiego 121b /113
87-100 Toruń
http://www.icimss.edu.pl
Contact person:
PhD Maria Śliwińska
Director
Phone: +48 56 622 24 11
The Consortium:
1. Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle
Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni
Bibliografi, Italy
2. Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy
4. Ministere de la Culture et de la
Communication, France
5. Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium,
Estonia
6. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism,
Greece
Greece
8. University of Patras, Greece
9. Collections Trust Lbg., United Kingdom
10. An Chomhairle Leabharlanna, Ireland
11. Pintail Ltd., Ireland
12. Fundacio Privada I2cat Internet i Innovacio
Digital a Catalunya, Spain
13. Philipps Universitaet Marburg, Germany
14. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Germany
15. Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Bulgaria
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non-standard descriptive terminologies;
the lack of private sector and 20th century content;
the preservation of complex metadata models within the Europeana
metadata schema.
The consortium includes representatives of all the key stakeholder groups
from 20 EU countries, together with Israel and Russia. These include ministries and responsible government agencies, content providers and aggregators,
leading research centers, publishers and SMEs.
Linked Heritage aims to enhance the quality, richness, re-use potential
and uniqueness of the metadata contributed to Europeana (the flagship online cultural heritage portal of the European Union, accessed at
www.europeana.eu).
The International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services
(ICIMSS) was created by resolution of the Nicolas Copernicus University
Senate on the16th of September 1997. The Conference of Higher Education
Institutions’ Presidents earlier supported the idea of the creation in Toruń of
this unit. The aim of ICIMSS is research and education in the introduction
of modern technologies (computerization, digitization, internet) and the
management of cultural institutions, mainly libraries, archives and information centers. International and national cooperation on the preservation of
Cultural Heritage is a key activity.
From 1997 to 2003 five courses of the graduate school were held, in which
students from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bulgaria, Croatia,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia,
Hungary and Poland participated.
Since 2002 ICIMSS functions as a scientific association established by
62 members from over 20 countries. Its activities are oriented towards
information, education, and culture. Information services are delivered to
the users through the 8 dedicated discussion lists that include about 3,000
addresses served. ICIMSS goals also include promotion of intercultural communication and research. ICIMSS participates in a wide selection of projects,
including the EC funded projects by such programmes as TEMPUS, IST,
eTEN, Leonardo da Vinci, e-Content, Central Europe. The majority of
the EC projects ICIMSS takes part in are oriented into digital libraries,
and contribute to the Europeana success. ICIMSS is also a publisher of
Uncommon Culture journal available online and in print.
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
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contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the
public and private sectors;
demonstrate enhancement of quality of content, in terms of metadata
richness, re-use potential and uniqueness;
demonstrate enable improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana
content. Linked Heritage will facilitate and deliver large-scale, long-term
enhancement of Europeana and its services.
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16. Javni Zavod Republike Slovenije za Varstvo
Kulturne Dediscine, Slovenia
17. The Cyprus Research and Educational
Foundation, Cyprus
18. International Centre for Information
Management System, Poland
19. Riksarkivet, Sweden
20. Medra S.r.l., Italy
Hannover, Germany
22. Editeur Ltd., United Kingdom
23. Mvb Marketing und Verlagsservice des
Buchhandels GmbH, Germany
24. Orszagos Szechenyi Konyvtar, Hungary
25. Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en
Geschiedenis, Belgium
26. Institutu Umeni – Divadelniho Ustavu,
Czech Republic
28. Valsts Agentura Kulturas Informacijas
Sistemas, Latvia
29. Packed Expertisecentrum Digitaal Erfgoed
VZW, Belgium
30. Cordia A.S., Slovakia
Italy
32. CTFR S.r.l., Italy
33. Departament de Cultura – Generalitat de
Catalunya, Spain
34. Promoter di Masi Pietro & C. s.n.c., Italy
35. Universite de Savoie, France
36. Association Dedale, France
37. Uma Information Technology GmbH,
Austria
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38. Digital Heritage Lbg., United Kingdom
ICIMSS delivers content to Europeana, and as the only Polish partner that
contributes to terminology management. While working on dissemination
of the project’s results, feedback will be collected from the users in order to
gain input into refinements to the system. ICIMSS will also be responsible
for preparing of one issue of Uncommon Culture journal.
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DCA
Project’s title:
Digitising Contemporary Art
By June 2013, the DCA project (Digitising Contemporary Art), drawing
upon the know-how of 4 experienced technical partners, will make available online central parts of the collections of 21 European art institutions:
paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, video, drawings,
prints, collages and book art created after 1945. Improved access to these
masterpieces will benefit both the general public and the professional art
community. The key objectives of the DCA project are to:
http://www.dca-project.eu
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01-01-2011
30-06-2013
3 947 286 €
1 973 639 €
Polish participant:
WRO Center for Media Art Foundation
ul. Kuźnicza 29 A
50-138 Wrocław
http://www.wrocenter.pl
Contact person:
Ms Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka
Project manager, curator
Phone: +48 71 343 32 40
The Consortium:
1. Packed Expertisecentrum Digitaal Erfgoed
VZW, Belgium
Technology, Belgium
Greece
4. Listasafn Islands, Iceland
5. Gioumpitek Meleti Schediasmos Ylopoiisi
Kai Polisi Ergon Pliroforikis Etaireia
Periorismenis Efthyni, Greece
6. Reykjavíkurborg, Iceland
7. Muzej Moderne i Suvremene Umjetnosti,
Croatia
8. Moderna Galerija, Slovenia
9. National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos
Museum, Greece
10. Argos VZW, Belgium
11. Fundacao de Serralves, Portugal
12. Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor
Mediakunst, The Netherlands
13. Fundacio Privada Antoni Tapies, Spain
14. Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, Austria
15. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium,
Belgium
16. Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung
Karlsruhe, Germany
17. WRO Center for Media Art Foundation,
Poland
18. Experimentalfilm Workshop e.V., Germany
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A main characteristic of the DCA project is the focus on sharing knowledge
from the experience gained during the project.
DCA project aims to create high-quality digital reproductions and assure
long-term preservation and online access to such reproductions and
their data in the Europeana portal. To support similar future digitisation
projects, it will also publish guidelines and documentation on best practices
regarding the digitization of contemporary art.
The WRO Center for Media Art Foundation is Poland’s first independent
organization specializing in the areas where contemporary art and culture
intersect with developing media. The WRO Art Center, a new cultural
institution ran by the Foundation opened in 2008, shares much of its history
with the WRO new-media festivals, that since their inception in 1989, have
been aiming at exploring the synergistic creative potential of audiovisual
forms, presenting the latest audiovisual works created using new media,
exploring their creative and communicative potentials and their significance
in cultural and social change. Since 1993 the WRO festivals have been held
every two years under the name of WRO Media Art Biennale.
The WRO Art Center’s mission includes organizing exhibitions, screenings, lectures and workshops, and developing projects that encompass art,
publishing, education and publicity – all in the realm of contemporary
art. The Center’s activities are aimed at a diverse audience: art and media
professionals as well as the general public, including children and teenagers.
The goal of this multifaceted program is to support art and education, and to
promote open international cultural and intellectual discussion via the WRO
Media Art Biennale, through the expansion of the highly accessible WRO
media archives, through the Center’s collaboration with international art
institutions and galleries, and by running international residency programs
for artists and curators. The WRO Art Center operates under the patronage
of Wrocław municipal authorities.
The WRO Foundation is the only Polish art-related organization in the
DCA project that performs digitizing. The WRO’s archive and collection
present a cross-section of Polish and international media art from the 1970s
to the present day, including video art, recordings and documentation of
audiovisual performances, multimedia objects, interactive installations and
net-based projects. The archive, which was founded in 1989, is continuously expanding. Some of its contents are artists’ and art theorists’ speeches,
video documentation of conferences and artistic events, as well as curatorial programmes.
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Project’s budget:
EC funding:
identify best practices for digitisation and metadata attribution for
different situations and contexts;
digitise contemporary artworks and contextual documents;
aggregate the digitised reproductions for ingestion into Europeana;
determine long-term preservation strategies.
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19. Stichting Tot Beheer Museum Boijmans
van Beuningen, The Netherlands
20. Grand-Hornu Musee des Arts
Contemporains de la Communaute
Francaise Asbl, Belgium
21. Macedonian Museum of
Contemporary Art, Greece
22. Kentro Syghronis Ellinikis & Evropaikis
Zografikis – Mouseio Frysira, Greece
23. Laikmetigas Makslas Centrs Biedriba,
Latvia
24. Muzee Kunstmuseum an zee Collecties van
de Provincie West-Vlaanderen en de Stad
Oostende, Belgium
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25. Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Germany
The materials, are digitalized and stored on a variety of analog and digital
media. After the process is completed the data is transferred in the best
available quality to a central repository. There the materials are made accessible to the general public via off-line Media Reading Room at the WRO
Art Center. In the course of the DCA project a part of the WRO collection,
was digitized anew according to the best practices and optimal technical
standards elaborated together with the project’s partners. They will be made
available to the international public through the Europeana along with
the appropriate metadata. The results, guidelines and solutions elaborated
together with all the partners of the DCA project in regard to such issues,
as content and metadata structure, digitization standards and other good
practices are being implemented also within the whole WRO archive. This
is performed to a wider extent than the works being digitized for Europeana.
WRO is involved in all projects’ activities, including dissemination and
serves as information source in the field of digitizing contemporary art for
any other similar organizations in the region.
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ARROW Plus
Project’s title:
Accessible Registries of Rights
Information and Orphan
Works towards Europeana
ARROW Plus plans to extend the number of countries covered, delivering
a genuinely pan-European infrastructure, closing the gap in book data quality
between European countries.
ARROW Plus will also analyze and pilot the extension of Arrow services
to the image domain. Interoperability of European book data sources,
between countries and between domains – library catalogues, Books
in Print (BIP) databases and Reproduction Rights Organizations (RRO)
repertoire – is the primary deliverable of the project. Particular attention is
paid to the establishment of new book data sources, including BIP and
RROs repertoire databases, where these sources do not exist, so to allow
a larger number of countries to be covered by the Arrow service.
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-04-2011
30-09-2013
5 625 000 €
4 500 000 €
Polish participant:
Association of Authors and Publishers
“Polska Książka”
ul. Sarego 2
31-047 Kraków
http://www.polskaksiazka.pl
Contact person:
Magdalena Kusak
Email: offi[email protected]
Tel.: +48 12 429 39 29
The Consortium:
1. Associazione Italiana Editori, Italy
2. Federation Internationale des Organisations
de Droits de Reproduction AISB, Belgium
3. Federation des Editeurs Europeens Fee
ASBL, Belgium
4. Kon inklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
5. MVB Marketing und Verlagsservice des
Buchhandels GmbH, Germany
7. Editeur Ltd., United Kingdom
8. Collecting Societies for European Visual
Artists GEIE, Belgium
9. Coordination of European Picture Agencies
Press Stock Heritage, France
10. Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle
Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni
Bibliografi, Italy
11. The Irish Copyriht Licensing Agency Ltd.,
Ireland
12. Magyar Könyvkiadók és Könyvterjesztok
Egyesülése, Hungary
13. Lietuvos Leideju Asociacija, Lithuania
14. Boekbe – Huis van het Boek vzw, Belgium
15. Ethniko Idryma Erevnon, Greece
16. Associacao Portuguesa de Editores Livreiros,
Portugal
ARROW Plus builds on and further implements the Arrow system, developed within the ARROW project (e-Content Plus programme). ARROW is
a system to facilitate libraries and other users in their diligent search for
rightholders in works that are to be included in a digitisation programme
of books, through querying a network of European data sources.
Association of Authors and Publishers “Polska Książka”, established in 2002,
was intended as an organization taking care of authors’ and publishers’
rights in the field of copyright law. It is a legal person working in the form
of an association, i.e. a nongovernment, non-profit organization. On 10th
March 2003 a status of collective management organization (i.e. managing
copyrights to printed works in the extent that is possessed by publishers)
was given to “Polska Książka” by the Minister of Culture. As a result in July
2003 “Polska Książka” started to collect levies from reprographic equipment
sold by producers and importers. Since that time also fees from copy shops
have been charged.
“Polska Książka” as a fees operator divides collected sums between publishers
following the strict internal regulations on distribution. The method of
distribution is based on the statistic research and statistic data (from the
National Library); as a result the collected money is given to all publishers
(not only members of the organization) as a kind of a remuneration for
permissible private use in the field of printed works. Authors (creators),
publishers and other people related to books or press publishing market
and other organizations working in that field can become members of the
organization. Currently member organizations are, among others: Polish
Chamber of Books (Polska Izba Książki), Polish Society of Book Editors
(Polskie Towarzystwo Wydawców Książek), Society of Publishers “Repropol”
(Stowarzyszenie Wydawców “Repropol”) and Chamber of Press Publishers
(Izba Wydawców Prasy).
“Polska Książka” performs activities in aid of literature and science, also by
popularizing knowledge about the copyright law and supporting anti-piracy
activities. Since 2006 is has been an associate member of International
Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO).
Currently “Polska Książka” is taking part in the ARROW Plus European
project in order to become a platform better supporting the book market
in Poland.
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17. Association of Authors and Publishers
“Polska Książka”, Poland
18. Ciela Norma AD, Bulgaria
19. Ditech S.p.A., Italy
21. Latvijas Gramatnieku Gilde, Latvia
22. Organismos Syllogikhs Diaxeirishs Ergon
toy Logoy Syn Pe (Greek Collecting Society
for Literary Work), Greece
23. European Writers’ Council, Belgium
24. Centro Espanol de Derechos Reprograficos,
Spain
25. Beenear S.r.l., Romania
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26. La Maison des Auteurs ASBL, Belgium
Association of Authors and Publishers “Polska Książka” is the only contracted
ARROW Plus project’s partner in Poland. Its role is to integrate Polish
stakeholders, ideas and data sources available and coordinate works at the
national level in order to prepare the database(s) which can be queried by
the Arrow system for the purpose of completing a diligent search, and which
could be also a basis for improving “Polska Książka” works in the field of
copyright.
As a result databases created in order to include Polish books into the
ARROW search program will also help to protect authors’ and publishers’
rights and – if they express such a will – facilitate managing their rights either
by themselves or with a help of “Polska Książka” as a Collective Management
Organization (CMO) and Reproduction Rights Organization (RRO).
Europeana Photography
Project’s title:
EuropeanaPhotography
– EUROPEAN Ancient PHOTOgraphic
vintaGe repositoRies of digitAized
Pictures of Historical qualitY
EuropeanaPhotography is a great and quite unique consortium and project
putting together some of the most prestigious photographic archives,
public libraries and photographic museums covering specifically the
length of time from the beginning of photography (1839 with the first
example of images from Fox Talbot and Daguerre) to the beginning of
the Second World War (1939).
http://www.europeana-photography.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2012
31-01-2015
5 099 908 €
2 549 954 €
Management System
ul. Zygmunta Krasinskiego 121b /113
87-100 Toruń
http://www.icimss.edu.pl
Contact person:
Dr Maria Śliwińska
Director
Phone: +48 56 622 24 11
Walery Rzewuski Museum of History
of Photography in Cracow
ul. Józefitów 16, 30-045 Kraków
http://www.mhf.krakow.pl/
Project objectives are directly aligned with those of the work programme,
and with the following solution to:
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Alinari 24 Ore S.p.A, Italy
Topham Partners LLP, United Kingdom
Imagno Brandstätter Images KG, Austria
Saeml Parisienne de Photographie, France
Istituto Centrale per Il Catalogo Unico
delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le
Informazioni Bibliografiche, Italy
Jp/Politikens Hus AS, Denmark
Ayuntamiento de Girona, Spain
Departament de Cultura – Generalitat de
Catalunya, Spain
United Archives Gesellschaft fur
Archivmanagement und Verwertung MbH,
Germany
National Academic Library Information
System, Bulgaria
Walery Rzewuski Museum of History of
Photography in Cracow, Poland
Arbejdermuseet med Arbejderbevaegelsens
Bibliotek og Arkiv, Denmark
Divadelny Ustav, Slovakia
Management Systems and Services, Poland
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en
Geschiedenis, Belgium
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Lietuvos Dailes Muziejus, Lithuania
Promoter di Masi Pietro & C S.N.C., Italy
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digitize and then deliver a substantial new corpus of high quality material
to Europeana;
validate (and then make available as fully-documented open-source)
a technical service for the ingestion of photographic-specific metadata
into Europeana;
protect and disseminate images which might otherwise be at risk of
vanishing;
develop tools and data models to support multilingual photographic
metadata creation, search and retrieval within Europeana;
develop a proven model of engagement with Europeana for public
private partnership consortia;
demonstrate the value that Europeana can have for private-sector content
providers, as a portal for the content industry.
International Centre for Information Management System
ICIMSS will take part in all project’s activities. Among others it will deliver
content to Europeana that will be collected from private sources and small
cultural institutions. It will contribute to the data model and multilingual
vocabulary development. ICIMSS responsibility includes also edition of one
issue of Uncommon Culture journal devoted to photography.
Digital Libraries
EuropeanaPhotography is therefore covering a precise historical period
in order to bring into Europeana some of the most important, precious
and beautiful images from a very important period that crated so much
changes in Europe in several sectors as a proof of diversity and richness at
the same time: from the industrial revolution to the social conquests, from
the improvements of the photographic processes (salt print, albumen prints,
collodion glass plates to the modern gelatin silver photos to the history of
important, unknown and famous photographic ateliers of photography), to
the changes of the lifestyle of our citizens, from the changes of our cityscapes
to the changes of our landscapes, from the First World War to the Grand
Europeans Expo Pavilions.
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ATLAS
Project’s title:
Applied Technology for
Language-Aided CMS
Although significant improvements have been made lately in the field of
web content management, there is still a growing demand for online content
services that incorporate language-based technology. Mechanisms such as
automatic annotation of important words, phrases and names, text summarization and categorization, and computer-aided translation could facilitate
the process of manipulating heterogeneous multilingual content as well
as enhance end-user experience by allowing for better content navigation.
This project unifies such mechanisms in a common software platform called
ATLAS (Applied Technology for Language-Aided CMS) and builds three
separate solutions around this platform.
Multilingual web content management:
methods, tools and processes
http://www.atlasproject.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-03-2010
28-02-2013
3 320 000 €
1 660 000 €
Polish participant:
Linguistic Engineering Group,
Department of Artificial Intelligence at
the Institute of Computer Science Polish
Academy of Sciences
ul. Jana Kazimierza 5
01-248 Warszawa
http://www.ipipan.eu/
Contact person:
PhD Maciej Ogrodniczuk
Assistant professor
Phone: +48 22 38 000 563
The Consortium:
1. Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli,
Italy
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2. Universite Paris i Pantheon-Sorbonne,
France
3. Tetracom Interactive Solutions Ood,
Bulgaria
4. Uzdaroji Akcine Bendrove MokslineGamybine Firma Sviesos Konversija,
Lithuania
5. Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer
Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Germany
6. The British Institute of International and
Comparative Law, United Kingdom
7. Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II,
Italy
The first solution, iPublisher, adds a visualisation layer to ATLAS and provides a powerful web-based instrument for creating, running and managing
small and enterprise content-driven web sites. iPublisher is freely available
as an online service and used by the consortium to build two thematic
content-driven web sites – iLibrarian and EUDocLib. iLibrarian allows its
users to store, organise and publish their personal works, to locate similar
documents in different languages, and to obtain easily the most essential
texts from large collections of unfamiliar documents. EUDocLib is a publicly
accessible repository of EU documents, which provides enhanced navigation
and easier access to relevant documents in the user’s language.
ATLAS project’s main purpose is to facilitate the multilingual Web content
development and management, in particular the authoring, versioning
and maintenance of multilingual web sites through the unification of such
mechanisms in a common software platform called ATLAS and three separate
solutions around it. The iPublisher service is mainly targeted at small enterprises and non-profit organizations providing them with the point-and-click
user interface to build content-driven web sites with a wide set of predefined
settings and whose textual content is automatically processed, i.e. categorized, summarized, annotated, etc. With iPublisher, publishers, information
designers and graphic designers can easily collaborate. In a similar fashion,
the service saves authors, editors and other contributors valuable time by
automatically processing textual data and allows them to work together to
produce high-quality content. The iLibrarian web site addresses the needs
of authors, students, young researchers and readers. Although most of the
requirements set forth by these target groups are general, such as the ability
to easily create, organize and publish various types of documents, there are
also specific requirements. These include the ability to find similar documents in different languages, to share personal works with other people,
and to locate the most essential texts from large collections of unfamiliar
documents. EUDocLib addresses the needs of people who require easier
access to EU documents in their own language. Users of this web site can
easily find similar documents, read the summaries of desired documents,
or read extracted important phrases and words. The services will be made
available in 6 languages – Bulgarian, English, German, Greek, Polish and
Romanian.
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9. Atlantis Symvouleftiki Anonymi Etaireia
Atlantis Consulting S.A., Greece
The Linguistic Engineering Group (Zespół Inżynierii Lingwistycznej – ZIL)
is a part of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of
Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences (ICS PAS).
10. Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof
Lyubomir Andreychin, Bulgaria
11. College de France, France
13. Stichting Katholieke Universiteit,
The Netherlands
14. Universitat Jaume i de Castellon, Spain
15. Linguistic Engineering Group, Department
of Artificial Intelligence at the Institute
of Computer Science Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland
16. Universitatea din Bucuresti, Romania
17. Diagenode S.A., Belgium
18. Universitaet Hamburg, Germany
19. Magna Carta – Human Rights Network
International, Belgium
20. Sigolis AB., Sweden
21. Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din
Lasi, Romania
22. University of Zadar, Croatia
Pentru Tehnologii Izotopice si MoleculareIncdtim Cluj-N, Romania
24. Universitat de Valencia, Spain
ZIL’s traditional area of interest is deep syntactic parsing of Polish, with the
use of Definite Clause Grammars (DCG) and generative linguistic formalisms, such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Lexical
Functional Grammar (LFG). For each of these approaches, a grammar of
Polish has been developed and implemented.
Another important focus of the Group’s research is automatic extraction
of structured data from domain texts, supported with named entity recognition and shallow parsing. Related work includes automatic acquisition
of linguistic knowledge – including valence frames – from corpus data.
More recently Linguistic Engineering Group has also been dealing with the
semantic processing of texts, concentrating on word sense disambiguation,
coreference resolution and sentiment analysis. More application-oriented
work within this thread concerns automatic summarisation and text categorisation.
The Linguistic Engineering Group is also active in the area of corpus linguistics. It coordinated the development of the 1.5-billion-word National
Corpus of Polish Language. In the process, the Group created various tools
for manual and automatic corpus annotation at multiple linguistic levels, an
XML schema for corpus annotation, and a manually annotated 1-millionword subcorpus. All tools created by the Group are publicly available as open
source software. They include: morphological dictionary PoliMorf, morphosyntactic taggers, a shallow parser Spejd, a deep parser Swigra, a named
entity recogniser Nerf, a word sense disambiguation platform WSDDE,
corpus tools Poliqarp and Anotatornia, etc.
25. Universidad de Vigo, Spain
As a leader of WP4 – Language Processing Chains – ICS PAS supervises
the formation of the core part of the project – specification of the linguistic
framework used during the project and the creation of chains of language
processing components used for text annotation for each of the target
languages.
Within WP4 ICS PAS is responsible for the deliverable D4.1 documenting
integration of language resources with the ATLAS framework, its verification
and performance evaluation.
Apart from their responsibilities as a WP leader, ICS PAS concentrates on
delivering and fine-tuning specific resources and tools for Polish (text processing tools, algorithms for categorization, coreference resolution configuration and corpus of summaries for text summarization, parallel corpora for
machine translation-related tasks). The components for Polish are based on
existing tools, mostly by ICS PAS: Spejd shallow parser (used for noun phrase
extraction), Pantera tagger, NERF statistical named entity extractor.
Multilingual Web
28. Centre Europeen de Recherche en Biologie
et Medecine, France
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27. Net Brinel S.A., Romania
The above tools and resources are used in applications co-developed by
Linguistic Engineering Group, e.g., in a multilingual content management
system. This Group has been and is active in multiple national and international projects. For more information, please visit www.zil.ipipan.waw.pl.
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26. Institute of Technology and Development
Foundation, Bulgaria
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CESAR
Project’s title:
CEntral and South-east
europeAn Resources
Human language technologies crucially depend on language resources and
tools that are usable, useful and available. However, even where language
resources and respective tools are available they have been developed mostly
in a sporadic manner, in response to specific project needs, with relatively
little regard to their long-term sustainability, IPR status, interoperability,
reusability in different contexts as well as to their potential deployment in
multilingual applications.
Open linguistic infrastructure
http://www.cesar-project.net/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-02-2011
31-01-2013
4 160 002 €
2 080 000 €
Linguistic Engineering Group,
Institute of Computer Science,
ul. Jana Kazimierza 5
01-248 Warszawa
http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl
Contact person:
PhD Maciej Ogrodniczuk
Assistant professor
Tel.: +48 22 380 05 63
ul. Narutowicza 65
90-131 Łódź
The Consortium:
2. Budapest University of Technology
and Economics, Department of
Telecommunications and Media
Informatics, Hungary
3. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities
and Social Science, Croatia
4. Linguistic Engineering Group, Institute
of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland
5. University of Łódź, Poland
6. University of Belgrade, Faculty of
Mathematics, Serbia
7. Institut Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia
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1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research
Institute for Linguistics, Hungary
8. Imperial Institute for Bulgarian Language,
9. Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, Slovakia
The CESAR project (Central and South-East European Resources), a part
of META-NET initiative, intends to address this issue by enhancing,
upgrading, standardizing and cross-linking a wide variety of language
resources and tools and making them available, thus contributing to an
open linguistic infrastructure. The comprehensive set of language resources
and tools covers the Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and
Slovak languages. The resources include interoperable mono and multilingual
speech databases, corpora, dictionaries and wordnets and relevant language
technology processing tools such as tokenizers, lemmatizers, taggers and
parsers. They are being made available at partners’ sites and their metadata
descriptions contributed to the META-SHARE digital exchange facility.
In addition to the technical work required, great effort is dedicated to ensure
sustainability through mobilizing the LT community, raising awareness of
the fundamental role of language resources among the R&D policy makers,
the media and the general public.
CESAR in close harmony with META-NET (Network of Excellence; FP7)
aims to deliver a set of electronic language tools and resources which
facilitate the development of natural language processing technologies such
as machine translation, speech recognition or information retrieval in
Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Croatian and Serbian and make them
available.
Currently, developers of online business solutions, language technology
experts, and researchers face the problem that language resources and tools
are on a poor level of interoperability.
The CESAR project will contribute to alleviating this bottleneck, by collecting resources, documenting, linking, and upgrading them to agreed standards
and guidelines, and adding them to a pan-European digital resource exchange
facility. Interoperability of tools and resources will be enhanced by the conversion from proprietary formats into community standards such as TEI
and ISO LMF, and by the integration into popular linguistic frameworks
such as UIMA. Where appropriate, tools and resources will be made available as web services, in accordance with the recommendations proposed
within CLARIN and FLARENET, and linguistic processing chains will
be constructed featuring the enhanced interoperability and demonstrating flexibility. Where possible, manual work will be replaced by advanced
techniques, creating or applying workflows where resources will be improved
via the use of automatic error discovery and correction methods in e.g.
corpora and lexica. In addition to the technical work required to bring the
resources up to META-NET specifications, great effort will be invested in
raising awareness of the fundamental role of language resources among the
R&D policy makers, the media and the general public.
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CESAR
Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ICS PAS)
coordinates the work of WP3 – Enhancing language resources, the key
work package of the project (contributing to 57% of the total man-month
time dedicated to all project activities), thus supervising the major part of
scientific work in the project.
Within WP3 ICS PAS is responsible for preparation of 3 main deliverables of the project (D3.1, D3.2 and D.3.3) describing language resources
delivered by all project partners in month 10, month 18 and month 24
respectively. Taking the importance of these tasks into consideration, Adam
Przepiórkowski, ICS PAS project leader, has been named the Chief Technical
Officer (CTO) of the project.
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Within WP2 – Analysis and selection of language resources – ICS PAS
already created the information vortal CLIP – Computational Linguistics
in Poland, gathering information on tools, resources, research centers and
projects related to natural language processing of Polish (see clip.ipipan.
waw.pl). Apart from the above, ICS PAS takes part in virtually all tasks of
the project in all work packages.
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SPOCS
Project’s title:
Simple Procedures Online
for Cross-Border Services
SPOCS is expected to further enhance the quality of electronic procedures
completion and has been designed for businesses that have an interest
in cross-border activities. It will allow them to meet all the administrative
obligations through a single contact point that will be available online. For
example, a company based in Belgium and willing to provide catering services
in Italy will be able to ensure that all the administrative procedures are filled
in online through the Italian single contact point.
Preparing the implementation of the
Services Directive
SPOCS will have the advantage to already benefit from the results achieved
by its sister projects, STORK (on electronic identity) and PEPPOL (on
electronic procurement), in relation to mutual recognition for the use of
electronic identity and signatures.
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ICT for innovative government and public services
http://www.eu-spocs.eu/
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
01-05-2009
30-06-2012
21 859 391 €
10 929 685 €
Polish participant:
ul. Ewarysta Estkowskiego 6
61-755 Poznań
http://www.ilim.poznan.pl/
Contact person:
Tomasz Kawecki
Senior Specialist at Institute of Logistics
and Warehousing
Phone: +48 61 850 49 69
The Consortium:
1. Capgemini Nederland BV, The Netherlands
2. Bundesverwaltungsamt BVA, Germany
3. Department for Business Innovation
& Skills, United Kingdom
4. Ministerie van Economische Zaken,
The Netherlands
5. Hellenic Ministry of Interior, Greece
6. Institute of Logistics and Warehousing,
Poland
8. Infocamere – Societa Consortile
Diinformatica delle Camere di Commercio
Italiane per Azioni, Italy
9. Siemens AG, Germany
10. Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany
12. Ministere de l’Economie des Finances et de
l’Industrie, France
13. Infocert S.p.A., Italy
14. Government To You, Greece
15. SPOCS.at, Austria
16. Ministerie van Economische Zaken
Landbouw en Innovatie, The Netherlands
17. Ministry of Economy of the Republic of
Lithuania, Lithuania
Luxembourg
19. Malta Enterprise, Malta
20. Registerenheten i Bronnoysund, Norway
This pilot project will be implemented in different phases and a special emphasis
will be drawn on the development of common specifications and tools for electronic services, such as technical and semantic interoperability, the promotion of
electronic documents (e-Documents) and the creation of a services directory.
SPOCS (Simple Procedures Online for Cross-Border Services) is a large-scale
pilot project launched by the European Commission in May 2009. It aims to
remove the administrative barriers European businesses face in offering
their services abroad. It’s objective is to build the next generation of online
portals (Point of Single Contact or PSC) through the availability of high
impact cross- border electronic procedures.
ILiM is a project partner involved in following activities:
European activities:
• active participation in all technical SPOCS work packages (analyzing
processes, software development, testing);
• involvement in SPOCS dissemination and promotion activities.
National activities:
• conducting a pilot case for cross-border procedures: real estate agent,
travel agent;
• SPOCS tools implementation at national e-Administration services
platforms (portal http://www.eu-go.gov.pl/).
21. Agencia para a Modernizacao
Administrativa, IP, Portugal
22. Inov Inesc Inovacao Instituto de
Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
23. Turismo de Portugal, IP, Portugal
24. Centrul de Studii Avansate Pentru
Servicii Electronice (E-Caesar)
Asociatie, Romania
25. Tillväxtverket, Sweden
26. Ministrstvo za Javno Upravo, Slovenia
27. European Business Register
Eeiggeie, Belgium
28. Camera di Commercio Industria
Artigianato e Agricoltura, Italy
29. Intertrade Azienda Speciale della
Camera di Commercio Artigianato e
Agricoltura di Salerno – CCIAA S., Italy
30. Malta Information Technology
Agency, Malta
31. Unisystems Information Technology
S.A., Greece
32. Viesoji Istaiga Eksportuojancioji
Lietuva Enterprise Lithuania,
Lithuania
33. Uzdaroji Akcine Bendrove Mit-Soft,
Lithuania
34. Data Intelligence Systems – UAB,
Lithuania
35. UAB JMSYS, Lithuania
36. Institutul National de CercetareDezvoltare in Informatica – ICI
Bucuresti, Romania
37. Atos IT Solutions and Services
GmbH, Germany
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NET-EUCEN
Project’s title:
Network of European stakeholders for
enhance User Centricity in eGovernance
NET-EUCEN is the thematic Network of European stakeholders for
enhance User Centricity in eGovernance.
NET-EUCEN project is focused on the outlining of the guidelines for
policy makers and senior government officials for deploying current and
forthcoming ICT solutions, exploring ways also for the future technologies to be applied in the wide area of user centricity, mass cooperation and
networking, mass and Real-time cooperative platforms, technologies for
privacy and security, simulation and mixed reality platforms, DTV and
T-Government.
31-03-2013
Project’s budget:
693 000 €
EC funding:
693 000 €
TECHIN Sp. z o.o.
ul. Czterech Wiatrów 8
02-800 Warszawa
http://www.techin.pl/
Contact person:
Karolina Kośmińska
Managing Director
Phone: +48 22 389 70 71
Cities on Internet Association
ul. Krakowska 11 A
33-100 Kraków
The Consortium:
1. Innova Spa, Italy
2. University of the Aegean-Research Unit,
Greece
3. Steinbeis Innovation GmbH, Germany
4. Inovamais – Servicos de Consultadoria em
Inovacao Tecnologica S.A., Portugal
5. Kidd Paul Thomas Cheshire Henbury,
United Kingdom
6. TECHIN Sp. z o.o., Poland
7. Whitehall Reply S.r.l., Italy
8. SIA DMG, Latvia
Luxembourg
10. Ventspils Digitalais Centrs, Latvia
11. Association for the Promotion of
Information on Science and Technology for
all Countries, France
12. Malta Information Technology Agency,
Malta
The outcome of NET-EUCEN is expected to provide a set of indications of
the key issues for consideration when evaluating information, consultation
and public participation, by offering also concrete examples drawn from
already existing and innovative.
The NET-EUCEN project looks at new thinking and practice in European
countries in the following means:
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user-focused e-Government;
multi-channel service delivery;
approaches to common business processes;
e-Government co-ordination;
measuring and demonstrating the costs and benefits of ICT investments
in order to priorities and better manage e-Government projects.
NET-EUCEN is a network of steakeholders all interested in the enhancement of the application of the user-centric paradigm in Europe and shall
be seen as a multi-disciplinary e-Government community.
The project objectives are specifically related to the creation of working
network aimed at producing an added value for both stakeholders and the
community by developing guidelines for the future Service for Users (S4U) in
the e-Government field. The idea is to provide assessed application scenarios
capable of checking user needs, analyzing the best practices and, overall, to
co-operate amongst each different actor’s profile in a cross-technical and
methodological analysis.
TECHIN Sp. z o.o. is a company specialized in marketing and technology
transfer with an extensive experience in supporting public organizations
and companies in R&D projects development and technology innovations
stimulation.
TECHIN provides consulting services in the field of project proposals writing
and project management under FP7, CIP and Leonardo da Vinci programmes. TECHIN participated in the FP6, realizing projects which include
training public administration bodies (TRANSFER EAST), conducting
analysis of clusters’ influence on SMEs performance, especially their ability
to innovate and to enter new markets (EFFORT).
TECHIN is coordinates Leonardo da Vinci projects, is also a partner of the
COLLECTIVE project (FP7), which aims at developing conditions for the
creation of communities (bottom-up approach) supporting each phase of the
innovation process by providing SME associations with an ICT operational
platform named iCOMMUNITY.
http://www.net-eucen.org/
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13. Technical Support for European
Organisations SPRL, Belgium
14. Hogskolen i Vestfold, Norway
15. Edata S.r.l, Romania
16. Birmingham City Council,
United Kingdom
17. Euroconsultants S.A., Greece
18. Informacines Visuomenes Pletros Komitetas
Prie Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausybes
Istaiga, Lithuania
19. In-Jet ApS, Denmark
20. Puskas Tivadar Kozalapitvany, Hungary
21. Dida Network S.r.l., Italy
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22. Cities on Internet Association, Poland
23. Anaptyxiaki Etaireia Dimou Trikkaion
Anaptyxiaki Anonymi Etaireia OTA – ETrikala AE, Greece
TECHIN has also supported the Polish Ministry of Regional Development
by offering specialized training services on structural funds and organized
training for the personnel of the Municipality of Warsaw, the Polish Agency
for Enterprise Development and Polish Academy of Sciences.
TECHIN Sp. z o.o. is responsible for:
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organization of the workshops in Poland – this task is implemented
in cooperation with another Polish partner – “Cities on Internet”
Association;
support of the consortium coordinator in the scenarios building and
validation it;
dissemination of the project in the national area;
individual contacts with organisations/institutions which can join
NET-EUCEN.
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SEMIRAMIS
Project’s title:
Secure Management of Information
across multiple Stakeholders
SEMIRAMIS will:
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A European infrastructure for secure
information management
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http://www.semiramis-cip.eu/
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Polish participant:
Contact person:
Coordinator
Phone: +48 22 413 58 81
The Consortium:
SEMIRAMIS will provide an easy-to-implement and easy-to-use solution
for single sign-on and secure access to services on which novel offerings can
be easily deployed.
SEMIRAMIS defines a Pilot infrastructure which provides e-Services in
line with the required underlying secure authentication and management
approach and tests it on the basis of two scenarios representing a large
number of options related to ID Management and Secure Data Transfer.
3. Universidad de Murcia, Spain
4. Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica
S.p.A., Italy
5. European Organisation for Security S.c.r.l.,
Belgium
6. Portugal Telecom Inovacao S.A., Portugal
In the project PTC is involve in following activities:
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8. Ayuntamiento de Ceuti, Spain
9. Postecom S.p.A., Italy
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provides its expertise on identity management scenarios and frameworks
and the internal prototypes on such subjects;
coordinates the deployment of the pilot within PTC and providing the
role of Identity and Service Provider.
Internet evolution and security
02-222 Warszawa
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31-08-2012
4 034 498 €
2 017 247 €
CIP-ICT PSP
Project’s budget:
EC funding:
deploy common rules and specifications for secure information management within organizations and across trans-EU e-Service chains,
including service compositions with public and private e-Services;
test, in real life environments, solutions for various types of cross-domain
and cross-stakeholders e-Services constellations;
interact with other EU initiatives to maximize the usefulness of the pilot
solutions and services;
provide application level, end-to-end security, paying special attention
to privacy concerns when dealing with sensitive information;
secure all communications between the end-user, ID Provider and
Service Provider;
support the specific approach of the ID provider in terms of personal
or organizational policies;
implement a user-centric identity interoperability, a federated schema
that can be managed by public/private organizations;
interface a pre-existing identity and role management solution (IDEAS)
with a comprehensive management solution to control, ensure compliance of agreements between providers and audit information flow and
use (RIGER) and a PKI based certificates services WebRAO.
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Index of Organizations
This index contains names of all Polish beneficiaries funded
within FP7 ICT, FP7 e-Infrastructures and CIP-ICT PSP
initiatives as well as acronyms of projects in which they
have participated. All projects have been marked with
a color box corresponding with their thematic objective
(yellow for FP7 ICT, green for FP7 e-Infrastructures and
blue for CIP-ICT PSP). Additionally, these projects which
have their profile in this publication have a page number
assigned to them. Please note that this index was based on
E-CORDA database after 337 calls conducted by EC and
does not contain information about the most up-to-date
grant agreements.
ACCREA ENGINEERING
ADVA Optical Networking Sp. z o.o.
AGH University of Science and Technology
IURO
46
GEYSERS
49
ONE
10
BONE
12
CARMEN
145
EGEE-III
154
EGI-INSPIRE
EURO-NF
45
FLAVIA
173
GSLM
158
MAPPER
SARACEN
19
SMOOTHIT
125
SOCIONICAL
UNIVERSAAL
111
URBANFLOOD
101
VPH-SHARE
Amepox Microelektronics Ltd.
75
PRIAM
ASM Market Research and Analysis Centre Ltd.
108
ENERGY WARDEN
Association of Authors and Publishers “Polska Książka”
197
ARROW Plus
BOC Information Technologies Consulting Sp. z o.o.
93
NEXT-TELL
Business Information Systems Institute Ltd.
“Cities on the Internet” Association
205
NET-EUCEN
City of Warsaw
178
E3SoHo
179
ICE-WISH
23
ADMIRE
24
MOST
87
JUMAS
Comarch S.A.
LOD2
Courts of Wroclaw within Polish Ministry of Justice
DomData AG Sp. z o.o.
Eses
EC Electronics Sp. z o.o.
ESTOMAD
EsaProjekt Sp. z o.o.
87
JUMAS
LENVIS
Evatronix IP Sp. z o.o.
SUCCESS
61
STIFF-FLOP
Foundation for Mobile Open Society Through Wireless Technology
52
HOLA!
Gdańsk University of Technology
96
PERFORM
Gemius S.A.
123
CYBEREMOTIONS
209
Gmina Piaseczno
176
LITES
GridwiseTech Sp. z o.o.
157
IGE
Harpo Sp. z o.o.
102
ASTERICS
Healthcare Information Systems Center
181
CLEAR
TRANSFORM
Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear
Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
144
MICIE
Innovatika Sp. z o.o.
BALTICGRID-II
61
STIFF-FLOP
137
PROGR-EAST
Innovation Technology Group S.A.
PLUGIT
Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical
Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences
97
SENSORART
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
200
ATLAS
202
CESAR
79
e-BRAINS
133
GUARDIAN ANGELS
73
NANO-TEC
80
SMAC
Institute of Electronic Materials Technology
76
ACTMOST
Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
174
EURORIS-NET+
134
IDEALIST2011
140
IDEALIST2014
Institute of High Pressure Physics
PHOTONICROADSME
183
epSOS
ICARGO
SPOCS
106
GENESIS
Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
SE2ND
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
PESI
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
128
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences
NEUNEU
NAME-QUAM
167
TRANSPLANT
Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases
AIRPROM
Intercon Sp. z o.o.
ARTREAT
VPH2
Management Systems and Services
193
Linked Heritage
199
Europeana Photography
IPLS Intelligent Powerline Systems Sp. z o.o.
112
W2E
ITTI Sp. z o.o.
14
DAVINCI
38
INSPIRE
136
INSPIRE-INTERNATIONAL
27
INTERSECTION
32
N4C
Institute of Meteorology and Water Management
204
210
Jagiellonian University of Kraków
130
ATMOL
120
NANOICT
70
PYTHIA
Kardiosystem Sp. z o.o.
Lean Enterprise Institute Polska Sp. z o.o.
EHEALTHMONITOR
88
Łódź University of Technology
TARGET
FLEXNET
POLYNET
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
76
ACTMOST
PHOSFOS
Marshal’s Office of the Łódź Region
185
Medical University of Gdańsk
EHR-Q-TN
BRAVEHEALTH
Medical University of Łódź
103
COMMODITY12
Medical University of Warsaw
181
CLEAR
MEDICALgorithmics S.A.
EHEALTHMONITOR
Ministry of Health of The Republic of Poland
187
SEHGovIA
178
E3SoHo
110
ENPROVE
113
ICT 4 E2B FORUM
114
TIBUCON
Motor Transport Institute
115
ECOGEM
Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
149
4D4LIFE
160
I4LIFE
PESI
National Centre for Research and Development
132
CHIST- ERA
CHIST-ERA II
82
OLAE+
78
PIANO+
National Energy Conservation Agency
179
ICE-WISH
National Health Fund
183
epSOS
National Heritage Board of Poland
CARARE
National Institute of Telecommunications
ALICANTE
National Library
Ev2
Nicolaus Copernicus University
119
CORNER
40
ARTIST4G
21
SOCRATES
OCTAGONET S.A.
Oracle Polska Sp. z o.o.
ENRIMA
104
EURIDICE
ORTEH Sp. z o.o.
SARABAND
Parasoft S.A.
OPENCOSS
Polish Geological Institute
EuroGeoSource
150
GEO-SEAS
211
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Polish Press Agency
EU-BRIDGE
191
Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa S.A.
EURO-Photo
iTranslate4
41
BEFEMTO
42
BUNGEE
27
INTERSECTION
207
SEMIRAMIS
AIRPROM
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Institute of
Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences
ALICANTE
144
BALTICGRID-II
BONFIRE
117
COOLEMALL
142
DORII
170
E-IRGSP2
172
E-IRGSP3
164
EUDAT
143
EUFORIA
FEDERICA
46
GEYSERS
148
GN3
157
IGE
83
IMPACT
58
INFINITY
158
MAPPER
161
NEXPRES
57
NOVI
171
OGF-EUROPE
ORIENTPLUS
100
P-MEDICINE
169
PRACE
PRACE-1IP
91
WF4EVER
90
INSEMTIVES
25
SERVICE WEB 3.0
39
ACROPOLIS
10
BONE
48
COGEU
89
E-LICO
17
NEWCOM++
36
OPNEX
Proximetry Poland Sp. z o.o.
EU-MESH
Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK)
ECONET
SCAIPolska Sp. z o.o.
30
WOMBAT
94
IPROD
PRACE-2IP
212
Software Mind S.A.
95
ROBUST
85
WEKNOWIT
Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Science
ESPAS
Techin Sp. z o.o.
GENESYS
205
Telcordia Poland Sp. z o.o.
NET-EUCEN
COMPAS
EFIPSANS
INDENICA
4WARD
8
ALPHA
CHRON
55
DEMONS
FINSENY
TopGaN Sp. z o.o.
46
GEYSERS
31
NAPA-WINE
56
OCEAN
34
ONELAB2
63
NANOTEC
TPF Sp. z o.o.
TIBUCON
TWINTEQ Sp. z o.o.
SECFUNET
“U Siemachy” Association
INCLUSO
University of Gdańsk
Q-ESSENCE
CESAR
188
SEESGEN-ICT
139
APOS-EU
ASSYST
BRAIN
181
DECIDE
DRIVER II
189
ECLAP
156
EMI
192
EuDML
FOX
163
GLORIA
ICTECOLLECTIVE
83
IMPACT
NESS
OCOPOMO
152
OPENAIRE
165
OPENAIREPLUS
126
Q-ESSENCE
QLECTIVES
Vattenfall Heat Poland S.A.
VECTOR Sp. z o.o.
179
ICE-WISH
REDESIGN
213
VIGO System S.A.
68
MEMFIS
PLAISIR
76
ACTMOST
COMET
123
CYBEREMOTIONS
DYNANETS
178
E3SoHo
ECONET
EFIPSANS
EURO-NF
64
FACESS
FLEXNET
GOLDFISH
IDESA
74
IDESA-2
NANOSIL
31
NAPA-WINE
34
ONELAB2
77
PARADIGM
72
POBICOS
REAL 3D
54
REMICS
SMARTIEHS
99
TLEMSAFE
WRO Art Center
195
DCA
39
ACROPOLIS
81
ASPICE
43
C2POWER
16
EUWB
44
FIVER
50
ONEFIT
51
SAPHYRE
76
ACTMOST
CARE
65
DELIGHT
122
FRONTS
LABONFOIL
59
LIREC
MAC-TFC
NEXPRESSO
PHOSFOS
66
SENSHY
TRANSFORM

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