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Giving hope to millions of epileptic people
A poor man lies on the ground, at the bottom of the monumental stairs in the way to the University of Coimbra, writhing and foaming at the mouth. People pass by, look and continue their path. Someone puts a handkerchief in his mouth, to prevent that his tongue would fold back inside and block his respiration. This 1973 image, when I was a young student at Coimbra, is still very vivid in my mind. It was the first time that I heard (and saw) about epilepsy.
Project RePlay sets out to preserve traditional sports
Have you ever been to Ireland? I have. That was on holiday, several years ago when I was still a student. Up to now I keep many memories of this country, and the most vivid ones are the landscapes of unique green, the unforgettable beauty of the Kylemore Abbey and my being very intrigued at the sight of local men engaged in hurling, a traditional Irish sport not known to me at that time.
How to build trust in the Digital World?
Have you ever thought about how little we know about the technologies we use every day and yet how indiscriminately we trust them? And in fact, this concerns society as a whole, as we all swiftly move towards the digital world.
Exploring RINA: The Recursive InterNetwork Architecture
Every day, we enjoy the benefits of a myriad of distributed applications delivered through the Internet. So you might wonder why the European Commission is investing in improving a system that already works so well. In fact, the current high performance is mostly courtesy of an army of skilled engineers who keep it up and running; something which leads to expensive operating costs. Moreover, the current Internet faces limitations in the areas of performance, resource utilisation, multi-homing, mobility or security; limitations that are well documented.
The HealthTech Innovation Award for epSOS
It all started when Fredrik Lindén, the coordinator of the epSOS project proposed to me in mid January 2013 to take his place and represent the project at the ID WORLD Abu Dhabi 2013 world conference that took place on the 11th and 12th of February, 2013 in Abu Dhabi.
The conference was very well organised and over 500 important people participated from all over the world. It is a cornerstone, must-attend appointment for government representatives and all players involved in government sector related innovation, including the Postal and Healthcare sectors.
Robots now have their own Internet - the Roboearth Cloud Engine
Imagine a world where, every day, you wake up in the morning and find the breakfast table already set and the house tidied up. A special treat by your fairy god mother? Not quite; try Roby and Rosy, the robots.
DG Connect adopts a paper-free communication policy
Over the past 3 years, DG CONNECT has managed to reduce the number of copies of paper publications we produced from 68,400 to 4,480, a reduction of 93.5%.
This is illustrated best by one significant change in the way we communicate as a public institution to a group of our key stakeholders: a couple of years ago, we moved from producing annual telecoms implementation & benchmarking reports – a brick of a document with 500 pages – to a web-based scoreboard, where the data is available for download and graphics are as important as text.
EU funded project awarded by UN and UNESCO
Can you imagine a Europe where learners and professionals would be able to revisit online the best lectures? Have you also wished to access content that is always intellectually fresh, exciting and challenging? Would you like that kind of content's dissemination to be personalised? Well, this is exactly what we are doing at VideoLectures.Net and that is why we got an award hosted by UN and UNESCO.
EU-funded projects win award for innovation in research libraries
Two leading European digital libraries, founding members of the EU-funded IMPACT Centre of Competence on digitisation and active partners in the EU SUCCEED project have been awarded the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL). The winners were chosen from 24 libraries worldwide (see the full list).
The EU Open Data Portal is here
Just before Christmas, we launched an important element of the Commission's Open Data Policy: a portal site for data held by the Commission, the European Environment Agency, and potentially other institutions and bodies of the Union.
