SUMMARY

The project aims to enhance cross-border IT R&D and Innovation networks among Vilnius, Grodno and Minsk science institutions in order to develop and strengthen their linkage to IT enterprises. The project partners intend to achieve this by designing innovative cross-border Cloud Computing (CC) cluster uniting Lithuania and Belarus and based on the latest CC technologies.

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SOLUTIONS

• Signing an agreement between partners with regard to the common use of Cloud Computing related infrastructure
• Helping 30 regional IT companies to develop CC technologies and reach global markets
• Initiating at least 3 R&D projects by IT SMEs in CC area

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LINK:http://www.enpi-cbc.eu/go.php/eng/1S_906_project_LLB_2_142/1026

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SUMMARY

The E-Mobility NSR (North Sea Region Electric Mobility Network) project aims to provide state-of-the-art information to support policy development in e-mobility in the North Sea Region. The research project also looks to provide insight into the insufficiencies, anachronisms, and gaps in the infrastructure, logistics and preliminary standards for multi-charging techniques. Ultimately, the project aims to develop an e-mobility ecosystem in the North Sea Region which will provide a long-term basis upon which regional and local governments, as well as other relevant stakeholders in the NSR, may engage with each other.

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SOLUTIONS

• Supporting policy development for e-mobility in the North Sea Region
• Developing an e-mobility ecosystem which will provide a long-term basis upon which regional and local governments, as well as other relevant stakeholders in the NSR, may engage with each other.

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LINK: http://www.iminds.be/en/projects/2014/02/28/emobility

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SUMMARY

Society is progressively moving towards a socio-technical ecosystem in which the physical and virtual dimensions of life are more and more intertwined and where people interaction often takes place with or mediated by machines. The scale at which this is happening and the differences in culture, language and interests makes the problem of establishing effective communication and coordinated action increasingly challenging.

So far, attention has been mainly devoted to collective adaptive systems (CAS) that provide or impose some form of harmonization or lightweight coordination of meaning and actions where machines do most of the computation and humans are at the periphery and only act as consumers. In these settings, collectives are generally homogeneous and are orchestrated to achieve a common global goal where knowledge adaptation only takes place locally to a single unit.

The SmartSocity project’s goal is to move towards a hybrid system where people and machines work in tandem to build a smarter society. The project envisions a new generation of CAS centred on the two foundational notions of compositionality and diversity.

To meet this ambitious goal these, the new new CAS will be hybrid, distributed, open and large scale where multitudes of heterogeneous peers producing and handling massive amounts of data can join/leave dynamically following unpredictable patterns with no central coordination and interoperating at different spatial and temporal scales.

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SOLUTIONS

• Building the next generation of collective adaptive systems (CASs) where humans and machines work synergetically
• Bridging the semantic gap between man and machine
• Implementing a continuous, unlimited cycle within the CASs in which data is sensed, interpreted, shared, elaborated and acted upon
• Identifying the right incentive schemes and privacy levels for CASs so that they can assist humans in their everyday activities, cope with the diversity of the world in terms of language, knowledge and personal experience and work with possibly imperfect information.

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LINK: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/smart-society/index.php

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SUMMARY

The overall objective of the SeaDataNet 2 project is to upgrade the present SeaDataNet infrastructure into an operationally robust and state-of-the-art Pan-European infrastructure for providing up-to-date and high quality access to ocean and marine metadata, data and data products extracted from member states.

The project will set, adopt and promote common data management standards and realise technical and semantic interoperability with other relevant data management systems and initiatives on behalf of science, environmental management, policy making, and economy.

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SOLUTIONS

• Creating a leading edge, Pan-European infrastructure which will provide real-time, high quality data for ocean and marine activities
• Running 40 data centres staffed by highly skilled professionals, actively engaged in data management and possessing the the essential capabilities and facilities for data quality control, long term stewardship, retrieval and distribution
• Realising data access and data products services that meet requirements of end-users and intermediate user communities, such as GMES Marine Core Services
• Establishing SeaDataNet as the core data management component of the EMODNet infrastructure and contributing on behalf of Europe to global portal initiatives
• Achieving INSPIRE compliance and to contribute to the INSPIRE process for developing implementing rules for oceanography

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LINK: http://www.seadatanet.org/

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SUMMARY

The OPENi project aims to deliver a consumer-centric, open source mobile cloud applications solution that will be the catalyst for mobile application innovation advancement. The platform will incorporate an open framework that will be capable of interoperating with any cloud-based service, abstracting the integration challenges to a single open standard without losing any service features. It will be a single platform that will inherently promote innovation by offering application developers an advanced framework in which to design and build complex applications involving the combinations of independent cloud-based services.

A visions central to OPENi’s mission is to reduce the fragmentation and duplication of citizens’ data. OPENi will provide application users with a single location to store and control their personal data. This personal cloudlet will enable consumers to manage what information is available to each application and for what purpose. It will be a single authorative source for their personal data and content. The cloudlet will empower application consumers to remain in control of their data – it will be inherently secure and trustworthy and as an open technology, validated by the open source community, consumers will be assured their data is not being used without their consent.

The combination of the open API and cloudlet concept creates a single platform of user data and service connectivity making OPENi a very powerful and beneficial platform for consumers, application developers and service providers.

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SOLUTIONS

• Defining and delivering a set of open source APIs that will allow applications (both native and web) to connect seamlessly to a broad spectrum of existing heterogeneous cloud-based services
• Building key technological enablers to ensure the practical applicability and efficient use of the OPENi APIs such as: a web based security and authorization framework that will satisfy the service provider’s requirements and a context broker that will enable the sharing of context information between applications.
• Delivering an open source platform that will allow application consumers to create, deploy and manage their personal space in the cloud (cloudlet); a novel entity that will be linked to its user’s identity over the web in a manner analogous to a social network profile
• Enabling application consumers to share and distribute their data across their applications.
  Promoting the OPENi functionalities and capabilities by implementing innovative usage scenarios that exercise the full potential of OPENi.
• Ensuring the OPENi environment maintains a low barrier to entry for application developers and service providers.
• Initiating and participating in related standardisation activities to ensure wide and long term adoption of the delivered specifications and technologies.

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LINK: http://www.openi-ict.eu/

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