4 February 2010 2010 will see two satellite projects kicked-off to further strengthen the VPHOP cluster. The first is called NMS Physiome, where NMS stands for NeuroMusculoSkeletal, and define a three years cooperation between some partners of VPHOP and some partners of SIMBIOS, the USA NIH Center for physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures established at Stanford University (http://simbios.stanford.edu/) and the second project, named MSV, aims to extend the MAF software we shall use in VPHOP to develop the end-user applications with capabilities to provide interactive visualisation of data defined on radically different spatiotemporal scales. This goal is pursued in collaboration with NA-MIC, the USA NIH National Alliance for Medical Image Computing Center (http://www.na-mic.org/). To follow the VPHOP project, subscribe to the newsletter.
Contact: info@vphop.eu
See also: The Ostheoporotic Virtual Physiological Human

24 November 2009 - 13 April 2010 — The health domain and its three main industries, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and eHealth, are dominant economic sectors with respect to employment creation and growth. Sustainable delivery of quality healthcare at affordable cost is a major challenge for European healthcare systems for a variety of reasons. This calls for changes in the way healthcare is delivered and the way medical knowledge is managed and transferred to clinical practice. The Call 6 opened on 24/11/2009 for Virtual Physiological Human proposals (Objective ICT-2009.5.3) among other topics. Specific details of the VPH call can be found on the ICT for Health VPH page.
Contact: INFSO-VPH@ec.europa.eu

1 February 2010 — CHRONIOUS is a European project aimed at defining an open platform to manage and monitor patients with chronic diseases during their daily life through the implementation and deployment of a platform that will be worn by the patients. The smart wearable platform is based on multi-parametric sensor data processing and is constantly monitoring their activity using audio observation methods and activity sensors, while at the same time tracking their medical condition via vital signs sensors. An overarching goal of the proposed system is to underline and emphasize, as well as built upon the partnership between technology-centred and human-centred sciences as technologies for sensing, interacting, computing and communicating become increasingly ubiquitous.
Contact: rosso@tesan.it
See also:http://www.chronious.eu

The event intends to provide an international forum for discussing the latest results in the field of medical and biological engineering and computing. The scientific program will consist of invited keynote talks given by leading scientists in the field, and special track sessions and workshops that cover a broad array of issues which relate technology and computing to (bio)medicine. A call for papers is open until 14 February.

1 February 2010 The Strategic Objective of the USEandDIFFUSE project is to enhance the dissemination and exploitation of research results and facilitate the exchange of best practices in this area. They have produced a guide packed with helpful information advice, quotes and real-life examples from SMEs that participated in 24 Best Practice projects.

Keynote Speech at the Data Protection Day, Brussels, 28 January 2010

28 January 2010 — The European Commission today started legal action against Bulgaria and called on it to make sure the technical requirements are in place for hearing aids, social alarms and emergency buttons at home, for old and disabled people. Bulgaria has not followed EU rules saying the 169 MHz frequency band should be made available to applications of social value and electronic services such as asset tracking and paging systems. EU rules aim at harmonising use of this radio spectrum band in the EU to facilitate the development and take-up of such applications. Bulgaria should have complied with the Commission Decision on this band by 1 January 2007 and to an update of these rules by 31 October 2008.

25 January 2010 — The European Commission published today the call for proposals for the Networking sessions at ICT 2010. The event, taking place in Brussels on 27-29 September 2010, will host dozens of networking sessions designed to facilitate contacts between researchers and innovators, engineers and investors from all fields of digital innovation. The ICT community can propose the topics for the networking sessions. This is your chance to help us focus the agenda of ICT and build future partnerships with the right people in your field! Deadline: 15 April 2010.
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22 January 2010 — The new website for the ICT 2010 research event is now online. The event will take place in Brussels, Belgium from 27 - 29 September. It is organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Belgian Presidency of the European Union and will examine European Union priorities in ICT research for over €2 billion of funding available in 20011-2012. More than 4000 participants are expected to attend the event. News and updates are also available from the ICT 2010 Twitter page.
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21 January - 1 June 2010 — A call for proposals has been launched under the 2010 Work Programme of the Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007 to 2013). The Work Programme 2010 focuses on 6 themes: ICT for a low carbon economy and smart mobility; Digital Libraries; ICT for health and inclusion; Open innovation for future Internet-enabled services in smart cities; ICT for improved public services for citizens and businesses; Multilingual Web.