ICT Research & Innovation

A number of Questions & Answers related to upcoming Photonics call have been published on the Participant Portal

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is planning an online release event (30 March) to present the first components, services and tools of its six ICT Platforms to the scientific community (platforms on Neuroinformatics, Brain Simulation, High Performance Analytics and Computing, Medical Informatics, Neuromorphic Computing and Neurorobotics.) There will be a live stream via AdobeConnect Webcast. More info will be made available on the HBP website in due course.

INTEROP-VLab, the International Virtual European Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability, and the University of Minho (PT) jointly organize the 8th International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications (I-ESA’16), in Guimarães (PT).

I-ESA is the official conference of INTEROP-VLab, supported by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Policy and business leaders are urgently trying to understand how digital technologies are changing Europe’s economy. How can digitalisation be turned into an opportunity for businesses and entrepreneurs? What cutting-edge research currently exists? And critically, how can researchers, businesses and policy-makers collaborate to set Europe’s Digital Economy on the right course?

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This edition of the FET Newsletter brings the latest news on Future and Emerging Technologies research, projects, funding opportunities in 2016 and it reports on workshops & conferences and future events.

The Converging Media and Content Unit is organising an Info Day on 16/03/2016 for potential applicants to the call for proposals ICT19-2017. We will give information on the call and the criteria for the evaluation of proposals.

Parkinson's Disease is a progressive disease of the nervous system which affects around 6.3 million people worldwide, most of them aged 55 and over. Symptoms appear gradually and slowly get worse, making it difficult to diagnose. Today there is still no specific test for the condition and treatment options only help to manage symptoms. This is why the project consortium has joined forces to build early detection test and design innovative interventions using the potential of new technologies.

Interesting data is available about the results of ongoing PCPs funded by FP7. Data shows first impacts on opening the market for new players, creating cross-border growth opportunities for companies, bringing research results to the market and contribution to growth and job creation in Europe.

The AAL Association will hold an Information Day on the next call topic of the AAL Programme: “Living well with dementia. The contribution of ICT to integrated solutions for enabling the wellbeing of people living with dementia and their communities.”

H2020 provides 130M euro funding for innovation procurements in 2016-17 across several areas: Research Infrastructures, ICT, Health, Security, Energy, Transport, Space and Climate Change/Environment.

Get ready to submit your proposal to the next call: the "open" PCP call (deadline 12 April 2016). It finances 90% of the coordination and procurements costs for pre-commercial procurements (PCP) in "any" domain of public interest that requires ICT based solutions.

The Active and Assisted Living Programme is launching its first Challenge Prize to source innovations in internet connected devices and technologies (Internet of Things) that empower older adults to achieve the quality of life they aspire to.

A new sensor is capable of detecting all types of fall, even sinking falls, which currently available products do not register. SINTEF and Tellu AS have developed and tested the detector in the course of a one-year project financed by the Oslo Regional Research Fund and EU-funded HEADS project, which develops software platforms for “Internet of Things” applications.

Out of 822 proposals submitted the third and final cut-off of the H2020-FETOPEN-2014/2015 call "Novel ideas for radically new technologies" 13 have concluded grant agreements and will start work soon.

The Quantum Manifesto is a call to launch an ambitious European initiative in quantum technologies, needed to ensure Europe’s leading role in a technological revolution now under way. The Manifesto is now available online for collecting stakeholder endorsement, before its official release during the Quantum Europe Conference in May 2016.

The goal of the DECI project is to design and demonstrate the value of feasible interventions on business models in elderly care, enabled by ICTs, to be scaled across National Healthcare Systems. DECI will propose ways to strengthen traditional care organization models, through the support of digital tools targeted for elderly with Cognitive Impairments, based of innovative technologies, information sharing, data interoperability and replicable logics.

The goal of the DECI project is to design and demonstrate the value of feasible interventions on business models in elderly care, enabled by ICTs, to be scaled across National Healthcare Systems. DECI will propose ways to strengthen traditional care organization models, through the support of digital tools targeted for elderly with Cognitive Impairments, based of innovative technologies, information sharing, data interoperability and replicable logics.

Flora Robotica develops and investigates relationships between robots and natural plants. The project explores the potentials of plant-inspired robots, and aims at growing artificial plants.

Listen to state-of-the-art research, industry representatives giving their view on graphene in biosensor and implant applications. Building on these presentations, there will be moderated group discussions with the possibility of representatives across industry sectors to interact with each other as well as with researchers. The aim of the workshop is to strengthen collaboration throughout the value chain from researchers, to component, system producers and end-users.

The Graphene Flagship will introduce a Graphene Zone at the 2016 Mobile World Congress. Alongside co-exhibitors from industry and academia, the Flagship will highlight graphene in mobile applications, from bendable batteries to new wearables sensors.

The Graphene Flagship introduced a Graphene Pavilion at the 2016 Mobile World Congress (#MWC16 - #GrapheneMWC). Alongside co-exhibitors from industry and academia, the Flagship highlighted graphene in mobile applications, stretching from bendable batteries to new wearables sensors. Read and watch videos reporting on past exciting days @MWC16.