Grants

The overall objective of SPERO project is to provide data concerning the field of special educational needs in order to identify the meaning of exclusion and to introduce policies and strategies for social inclusion. SPERO will collect and process material of training teachers mainly in special education. This will offer valuable information in the area of training. Samples will be gathered in several working posts where professionals meet current needs by not using "tools" based of ICT. Data will be collected by the "clever" questionnaire, which will be used to analyse factors, and variables that may lead to unemployment and social exclusion. Emerging issues will lead to proposed actions that may be adopted in order to prevent the risk of unemployment.

Funded under: LEONARDO

The overall objective of FAETHON project is to develop an integrated information system that offers enhanced search and retrieval capabilities to users of digital audiovisual (a/v) archives. This novel system will exploit the advances in handling a/v content and related metadata, as introduced by MPEG-4 and worked out by MPEG-7, to offer advanced access services characterized by the tri-fold "semantic phrasing of the request (query)", "unified handling" and "personalized response". From a technical point of view, the proposed system will play the role of an intermediate access server residing between the end users and multiple heterogeneous audiovisual archives organized according to new MPEG standards. Various types of interfacing modules will be designed/ implemented to support smooth communication of the intermediate server to the a/v archives. The major final product will be an integrated software system consisting of the two, semantic unification and personalization subsystems, together with two types of interfaces. Namely, those between the system and the individual a/v archives and those between the system and the end-users.

Funded under: FP5-IST

The main objective of ORESTEIA IST project is to define, design and validate the internal architecture and the collaborative functionality of artefacts with embedded hybrid intelligence. The targeted artefacts will possess encapsulated local decision capabilities, as well as on-line adaptability of their behavior, while being able to communicate to each other producing new more complex functionalities. Micro-power sources will enable artefacts to "live" in an autonomous mode. The proposal focuses on the creation of artefacts responsible for interaction with humans, possessing modularity, hybrid architecture composed of subsymbolic and symbolic components which continuously interact with each other, adaptable functionality and ability to communicate with each other and with information sites based on common structure of the information they possess, extract and exchange. Of particular importance to the project is the design of collections of artefacts providing health status analysis and hazard avoidance. ORESTEIA also aims at investigating enabling technologies for DC in the form of energy harvesting and low power wireless communications.

Funded under: FP5-IST

The overall objective of this project is to set up a framework to build interactive-multimedia networks over the Internet and WWW that would act as Electronic Roads for cultural and historical exploration in five Euro-Med countries with particular emphasis on the cross-national links of these Electronic Roads. This general objective can be broken down to three more specific objectives as follows: to study and develop an appropriate methodological framework for the development of multimedia systems for cultural exploration across national and regional boundaries, to technologically build particular prototypes of these regional Electronic Roads, to deploy these systems in various studies of the social and educational impact of the Information Society in the Euro-Med region.

Funded under: FP4-INCO

This EU-funded project aims to establish a pilot European multimedia network and organisation with the purpose of motivating encouraging school pupils to take up a career in technology and related businesses and industries, and to assist with the learning of languages within the context of learning about technological subjects in school at both primary and secondary level. The network will take the structural form of a group of European universities with skills in the development and use of multimedia materials and experience in teacher training working together with teachers and pupils in schools to provide a unified range of user configurable, multi-lingual, multimedia courses on topics in advanced technology for primary and secondary schools. Course materials will be developed in at least 6 topics with all materials available in English, German, and Greek. The project will be of 2 years duration starting in early 1998. ISDN links will be established between the 3 participating universities and from each of the universities to its group of schools (14 schools in total). Telecommunications service providers will establish these connections and be involved as partners in the project to assist with technical developments as well as with commercial aspects for exploitation of results. The project will form the pilot study for the creation of a self-funding European educational multimedia network and organisation for the teaching and learning of advanced technology which has the capability of assisting language teaching. In the 2 years following the project (2000-2002) it is planned to provide access to MODULATES materials for over 1,000 schools throughout the EU.

Funded under:MM Task Force

NEuroNet is a "Network of Excellence" in Neural Networks. It aims to promote the field of Neural Networks within Europe, and in particular to encourage technology transfer. The main objectives for NEuroNet II are to set up Industrial Clubs to help make neural network technology accessible to industry and the prospect of Neural Networks in the next decade.

Funded under: ESPRIT / IST