Youssef Blog: May 2015

Friday, May 29, 2015

CORDIS Express: Exploring the past with the technology of the future (via CORDIS)

This edition of CORDIS Express takes a look at EU-funded projects that are driving advances the fields of archaeology and restoration.

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SEA CHANGE and RESPONSEABLE join efforts to maximize impact for ocean literacy (via CORDIS)

SEA CHANGE and RESPONSEABLE – two new Horizon 2020 projects – recently held a joint kick-off meeting, marking the beginning of a close collaboration aimed at improving ocean literacy.

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CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES: Workshop about innovation policies for Cultural Heritage Istitutions - 10 July 2015, Budapest (via Research & Innovation)

The CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES project has the task to design a Roadmap for broadening e-Infrastructure deployment to support citizen researchers in digital culture. This Workshop will be the occasion to present an advanced version of the Roadmap, in order to obtain other inputs from different stakeholders before finalising the Roadmap.

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UNLOCK THE INNOVATION POTENTIAL OF DIGITAL HERITAGE – CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES FINAL CONFERENCE - 12-13 November 2015, Berlin (via Research & Innovation)

The final conference of the Civic Espistemologies project will illustrate and promote a Roadmap that indicates a set of steps to improve the relationship between cultural heritage and society.The conference will offer an opportunity for as many members as possible of the network of common interest to come together to discuss the topic of citizen researchers in digital cultural heritage and humanities and to contribute to the general vision to an open science infrastructure for the digital cultural heritage in 2020.

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Rheumatology & Aging Conference 2015 - 8-11 September 2015, Cambridge, UK (via Research & Innovation)

This conference will focus on the cells that control the immune system, their function in health, disease and aging, and the role of inflammation on musculoskeletal diseases of aging. At the end of this conference the participants will understand immune cell function in health and disease, and aging. The format of this conference will include plenary sessions with related abstracts presented by participants, a poster session, and free time to network, discuss and reflect on the ideas presented at the conference.

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Graphene Connect Workshop: Investment and business opportunities within the ‘emerging technology’ market? (via Digital Agenda for Europe)

Share thisAre you an investor looking for business opportunities within the ‘emerging technology’ market? Or are you an entrepreneur or SME working with graphene-based products looking for investment? Then participate to this workshop and register before 15 June.

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Sigma-Tech Days - Additive Manufacturing: a new way of thinking about objects design and manufacture - 15-18 June 2015, Limoges, France (via Research & Innovation)

This event will serve as a forum to establish a snapshot of the academic and industrial landscape internationally in targeted research area and enable participants to share and exchange ideas. The scientific topics discussed cover a wide range of applications of additive manufacturing technologies. Materials issues (ie feedstocks) hardware and sotfware will be detailed in conjunction with the fields of health, energy, aerospace and information technology and communication.

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EU and Japan step up cooperation on 5G mobile technology and strengthen research and innovation collaboration (via RAPID)

European Commission - Press release Brussels, 29 May 2015 With the new 5G agreement, the EU will join forces with Japan to cope with the increasing need for wireless Internet and complement current efforts to create a Digital Single Market in Europe. Günther H.

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Research Headlines - Gauging the impact of climate change on mountain water resources (via Research & Innovation)

Rising temperatures in mountain regions could have a significant impact on ecosystems, societies and economies around the world over the coming decades, according to EU-funded researchers who led a landmark study into the effects of climate change on mountain water resources.

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Targeted education proved to reduce cannabis use rates (via CORDIS)

Cognitive behavioural sessions provided to sensation-seeking teenagers can substantially reduce their consumption of cannabis, an EU-funded study has found.

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Trending Science: Danish researchers reveal long-held secrets of a Bronze Age teenager (via CORDIS)

Thanks to strontium isotope analyses, a team at the National National Museum of Denmark and the University of Copenhagen has reconstructed the story of the Egtved Girl, a Bronze Age teenager.

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Off-road run-ins for driverless fleets (via CORDIS)

Carlos Holguin from the University of Rome, project coordinator with the CITYMOBIL2 project, talks about how the project is demonstrating automated road passenger transport through large and small-scale off-normal traffic experiments in European cities.

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Smart fish put stock monitoring practices into question (via CORDIS)

Almost 70 % of marine fish stock are fully or over-exploited according to the UN’s Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Or could it be just a trick played by clever fish? While industrial overexploitation is indeed a worrying issue, a study carried out by EU scientists on the coasts of Mallorca, which focused on recreational fishing in the area, raises some doubts about the accuracy of current monitoring tools.

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High chlorine coal affects pollution from domestic stoves - 28 May 2015 (via JRC)

A study looking into the dioxin concentrations in flue gases – which are emitted from coal burnt in residential stoves – show they increase 100 times if the chlorine content in the fuel rises from 0.07% to 0.38%.

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Targeted education proved to reduce cannabis use rates (via CORDIS)

Trending Science: Danish researchers reveal long-held secrets of a Bronze Age teenager (via CORDIS)

Off-road run-ins for driverless fleets (via CORDIS)

Smart fish put stock monitoring practices into question (via CORDIS)

Career Tracking of Doctorate Holders - Investing in the future: are we supporting the right choices? (via ESF)

ESF has just published a report on a pilot study of the career paths of post-doctorates and doctorate alumni from five research funding and research performing organisations: AXA Research Fund (AXA RF), France, Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg, Goethe Graduate Academy at the Goethe...

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Career tracking of Doctorate Holders - Investing in the future (via ESF)

Are we supporting the right choices? ESF has just published a report on a pilot study of the career paths of post-doctorates and doctorate alumni from five research funding and research performing organisations: AXA Research Fund (AXA RF), France, Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR),...

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Success Stories - Building for the future with self-repairing concrete (via Research & Innovation)

Bridges, tunnels and other civil engineering structures could become safer thanks to self-repairing being developed as part of a European research project. Engineers at Ghent University in Belgium have taken a lead role in the pioneering work.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Innovative Financing: Opportunities for Active & Healthy Ageing (Brussels, 3 June 2015) (via Active and Healthy Ageing)

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Off-road run-ins for driverless fleets (via CORDIS)

Smart fish put stock monitoring practices into question (via CORDIS)

Tackling the fastest and most powerful computing systems on the planet- ParaPhrase Project (via Digital Agenda for Europe)

Share thisA world-leading team of academic researchers and industrial experts from across Europe are celebrating the conclusion of a four year research collaboration tackling the challenges posed by the fastest and most powerful computing systems on the planet. The ParaPhrase project with around €4.2M total cost, from which over €3M comes from EU ICT FP7 fund, brought together academic and industrial experts from across Europe to improve the programmability and performance of modern parallel computing technologies.

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EUSEW 2015 Energy Day Event. Pilot Scheme 1: A Holistic Approach to Smart Cities - 15 June 2015, Tervuren (near Brussels) (via Research & Innovation)

Pilot Scheme 1 (PS-1) - achieving and sustaining city society well being and quality of life - is a generic typically holistic multicultural integrated interdisciplinary interactive project based on simulation with a high educational value where the city (village or town) is treated here as a patient making this fascinating project that integrates Big Data not only surrealistically complex but also useful. Pilot Scheme 1 is embedded in the New Capacity Building Programme that integrates the Education of Tomorrow with the Governance of Tomorrow, Smart Cities and Life Sciences/Medicine. The workshop is basically for networking and shall explore the complexities of holistic multicultural interdisciplinary integration and collaboration.

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COCORO: robot swarms use collective cognition to perform tasks (via Digital Agenda for Europe)

Share thisScientists have created underwater robot swarms that function like schools of fish, exchanging information to monitor the environment, searching, maintaining, exploring and harvesting resources in underwater habitats. The EU supported COCORO project explored and developed collective cognition in autonomous robots in a rich set of 10 experimental demonstrators, which are shown in the 52 videos.

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Research Headlines - The two-in-one brain scan (via Research & Innovation)

Today's powerful neuroimaging techniques can map the structure and function of a patient's brain in great detail. They are crucial for the detection and treatment of many illnesses. Combining two key methods could provide even better brain scans, say EU-funded researchers who have built a prototype of an innovative hybrid instrument.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

EU researchers form world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research (via CORDIS)

EU-POLARNET is among a range of recently launched Horizon 2020 projects focusing on Atlantic Ocean research.

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EU scientists set to catch next wave in renewable energy (via CORDIS)

EU-funded researchers with the CEFOW project are about to put cutting edge wave power technology to the test in real ocean conditions.

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Speeding up prototyping and Big Data app development (via CORDIS)

Scientists and engineers participating in MIKELANGELO aim to improve the virtual infrastructure stack, continuously testing and validating their progress with use cases – lightweight aircraft design, use in medicine (implant production) and deployment of big data technology. Ensuring a high quality of big data applications is also the focal point of the DICE project, within which an integrated development environment to design new big data applications is being developed.

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EU researchers form world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research (via CORDIS)

EU-POLARNET is among a range of recently launched Horizon 2020 projects focusing on Atlantic Ocean research.

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EU scientists set to catch next wave in renewable energy (via CORDIS)

Speeding up prototyping and Big Data app development (via CORDIS)

EU researchers form world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research (via CORDIS)

EU-POLARNET is among a range of recently launched Horizon 2020 projects focusing on Atlantic Ocean research.

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EU scientists set to catch next wave in renewable energy (via CORDIS)

Speeding up prototyping and Big Data app development (via CORDIS)

EU researchers form world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research (via CORDIS)

EU-POLARNET is among a range of recently launched Horizon 2020 projects focusing on Atlantic Ocean research.

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EU scientists set to catch next wave in renewable energy (via CORDIS)

Speeding up prototyping and Big Data app development (via CORDIS)

EU researchers form world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research (via CORDIS)

EU-POLARNET is among a range of recently launched Horizon 2020 projects focusing on Atlantic Ocean research.

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EU scientists set to catch next wave in renewable energy (via CORDIS)

Speeding up prototyping and Big Data app development (via CORDIS)

EU researchers form world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research (via CORDIS)

EU-POLARNET is among a range of recently launched Horizon 2020 projects focusing on Atlantic Ocean research.

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EU scientists set to catch next wave in renewable energy (via CORDIS)

Speeding up prototyping and Big Data app development (via CORDIS)

Safe, affordable technology opens the way to automated transport (via CORDIS)

Antonio Casimiro, coordinator of the KARYON project for the University of Lisbon, talks about the project outcomes and what will come next.

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Safe, affordable technology opens the way to automated transport (via CORDIS)

Visegrad 4 for Secure Data - Contribution of V4 to H2020 R&I effort in data security - 28 May 2015, Brussels, Belgium (via Research & Innovation)

A digital environment - with the possibility of massive data exchange and processing - is expected in all fields that should define the scope of activities in the forthcoming two-year programming period of Horizon 2020. In parallel, the V4 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia ) have issued a common position for a Digital Single Market based on digital economy and cyber security. If the V4 countries want to deal with these challenges then they need to support the research and innovation activities in this area as well as improve the business environment. The following topics will be discussed by our distinguished speakers: • Releasing the potential of cloud computing in Europe - building the secure environment for big and small partners • User friendly and easy cyber security solutions for citizens and SMEs • Data driven economy in V4 and their contribution to European activities The conference will be held at premises of the Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU, Avenue de Cortenbergh 79, 1000 Brussels Belgium.

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Safe, affordable technology opens the way to automated transport (via CORDIS)

Speeding up prototyping and Big Data app development (via CORDIS)

Safe, affordable technology opens the way to automated transport (via CORDIS)

EU researchers form world’s largest consortium of expertise and infrastructure for polar research (via CORDIS)

EU-POLARNET is among a range of recently launched Horizon 2020 projects focusing on Atlantic Ocean research.

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EU scientists set to catch next wave in renewable energy (via CORDIS)

Safe, affordable technology opens the way to automated transport (via CORDIS)

New smart specialisation platform on energy supports EU regions to develop low-carbon solutions - 26 May 2015 (via JRC)

On 26 May the European Commission launched the European smart specialisation platform on energy, which will support regions and Member States in using Cohesion Policy funding more effectively for promoting sustainable energy.

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Safe, affordable technology opens the way to automated transport (via CORDIS)

Research Headlines - Important new model for car safety (via Research & Innovation)

The EU-funded ADSEAT project has developed the world's first virtual crash test dummy of an average female. The computational model is to be used in virtual testing of vehicle seat safety performance.

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