Weak Signals contributed by Martin Fatun
In the nuclear research, R&D also in other fields of science is necessary. It is expecially the material science and its progress in development of new materials, first used in other industries (e.g. in airplanes) and then appl...
Lack of interest in nuclear energetics among young generation
Development of every industry is depended on availability of human resources. In the countries which declared a phase-out from nuclear energetics, an apparent decrease of interest in this field among young generation is seen, a...
Small-scale nuclear power plant operating
Small-scale nuclear power plant delivering energy only for two cities was put into operation. The production of the energy from this source make the two cities independent on pan-European energy system.
Nuclear power plants built in third world countries
Nuclear power becomes world-spread and nuclear power plants are being built in third world countries - with limited security infrastructure, or inappropriately qualified personnel. The risk of a nuclear disaster would become higher.
Increasing shortage of qualified labor force
With continuous ageing of population and low birth rate, the shortage of qualified labor in certain industrial sectors can become an increasingly wide issue, especially for the developed countries, but also for some of the deve...
Fast electronics for compact lab-on-chip applications
The goal of the ULTRA project is the development of THz systems for medical, biological and chemical analysis. The combination of electronic, microfluidic, THz and 3D packaging technologies will enable low-cost, reliable and hi...
Next generation peer-to-peer content delivery platform
P2P-Next develops an open source, efficient, trusted, personalized, user-centric, and participatory television and media delivery system with social and collaborative connotation using the emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm, ...
Virtual laws and nations in cyberspace
Project VirtualLife aims to provide an immersive and secure virtual life environment, combining a high quality 3D virtual experience with the trustiness of a secure communication infrastructure. The project constitutes a new fo...
Publish-subscribe Internet routing paradigm
Despite its success, the Internet suffers from several shortcomings, forcing a fundamental reform of its paradigms and core technologies. A major flaw in the design of the Internet is its imbalance of powers in the favour of th...
Migration of internet services in pervasive ICT environment
The objective of FP7 project OPEN is to provide ICT users with migratory interactive services, which enable them to change interaction platforms and still continue their tasks through an interface adapted to the new context of ...
Terabit silicon photonic on chip
BOOM is an integration project that aims to pursue the systematic advancement of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) integration technology to develop compact, cost-effective and power efficient silicon photonic components that enable p...
Sign language for deaf ICT users
The project Dicta-Sign addresses the need for communication between deaf individuals and communication via natural language by deaf users with various HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) environments. It will research and develop ...
The SFLY project is focused on micro helicopter design, visual 3D mapping and navigation, low power communication including range estimation and multi-robot control under environmental constraints. Autonomous micro helicopters ...
Quality impact prediction for evolving service-oriented soft ...
The Q-ImPrESS project aims at bringing service orientation to critical software systems, such as industrial production control, telecommunication and critical enterprise applications. All these domains share a need for guarante...
Humanoids learning socio-communicative skills by observation
Human communicative skills rely on a complex mixture of social and spatio-temporal perception-action processes. Autonomous virtual agents that interact with people could benefit greatly from socio-communicative skills; endowing...
A metropolis of ubiquitous information services
User-friendly creation tools in the mobile, optimised execution environment, a model for knowledge warehouse, a proposed specific searching engine and a set of business models for users, for service providers and for third part...
The 3DPHONE project aims to develop technologies and core applications enabling a new level of mobile 3D experience, by developing an all-3D imaging mobile phone. The aim of the project is to realise all fundamental functions o...
Dynamic personalisation of multimedia
Project MyMedia addresses the key social problem of what has been called the "Crisis of Choice", the problem of information overload. The goal is to increase the level of relevant content over the "noise". The problem worsens y...
Computer Aided Cryptography Engineering
The goal of project CACE is to design, develop and deploy a toolbox that will support the specific domain of cryptographic software engineering. The proposed toolbox will allow non-experts to develop high-level cryptographic ap...
The goal of the NoE (Network of Excellence) PetaMedia is to bring together the research of four national networks in the Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and Germany in the area of multimedia content analysis (MCA) and social peer-...
Context-aware data-centric information sharing
An efficient, fast and seamless data exchange is vital for today's society. At the same time such exchange should not create risks of violating confidentiality and privacy that may be associated with the data. To deliver a tech...
Networks require greater degree of service-awareness. This implies that not only are all digital items pertaining to a service delivered, but also all relevant business goals are fulfilled, and network resources are used optima...
Wireless alliances for testing experiment and research
Very and Ultra high-speed radio platforms are key developing technologies for emerging applications but raise issues of efficient radio spectrum management and interoperability of technologies, from radio to media access contro...
Trusted revocable biometric identities
TURBINE is a multi-disciplinary privacy enhancing technology, combining innovative developments in cryptography and fingerprint biometrics. It aims at providing highly reliable biometric 1:1 verifications, multi-vendor interope...
Self-optimisation and self-configuration in wireless networks
The SOCRATES project investigates the application of self-organisation methods, which includes mechanisms for self-optimisation, self-configuration and self-healing, as a promising opportunity to automate wireless access networ...
Industrial deployment of advanced methods of systems enginee ...
The overall aim of the DEPLOY Project is to make major advances in engineering methods for dependable systems through the deployment of formal engineering methods. Formal engineering methods enable greater mastery of complexity...
Open Media Platform (OMP) is a European project which aims to define an open and extensible service & software architecture for media-rich end-user devices, such as mobile phones or mobile media players, that will address softw...
Software services and systems network
S-Cube, the European Network of Excellence in Software Services and Systems, will establish an integrated, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community. This will enable Europe to lead the software-services revolution, thereby...
Collaboration and interoperability for networked enterprises
By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector an...
Content generation and delivery for 3D television
The 3D4YOU project aims to pave the way for the introduction a 3D TV system. The project will develop the key elements of a practical 3D television system, particularly, the definition of a 3D delivery format and guidelines for...
Media distribution based on satisfaction of users
The predominant candidate for current trend of multimedia services convergence with mobile/fixed networks and broadcast-interactive applications is the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). IMS entails novel business opportunities for...
Telecommunications is experiencing major change. Sector actors are searching for new strategies as globalisation, mergers, convergence and new and disruptive technologies happen. The eMobility Technology Platform was formed to ...
Development of future generations of hybrid fibre coax netwo ...
The aim of the REDESIGN project is to further evolve HFC network architectures and transmission technologies used in these networks by creating a smooth migration path towards future infrastructure concepts. A reliable and cost...
There are a couple of projects in FP7 ICT priority with ambition to create an artificial robotic fish capable of autonomous movement and sensual perception in water environment, which may enable performing of specific activitie...
Interactive real-time multimedia applications on service ori ...
The project IRMOS will design, develop, integrate and validate a Service Oriented Infrastructure that enables a broad range of interactive real-time applications. It will support the development and deployment of real time appl...
New visual progrmamming platform development
The main objective of the project FAST (Fast and Advanced Storyboard Tools) is to create a new a visual programming environment that will facilitate the development of complex front-end gadgets, involving execution of relativel...
Personalized media streaming environment
The main idea of My-e-Director project is to research and develop a unique interactive broadcasting service enabling end-users to select focal actors and points of interest within real-time broadcasted scenes. The service will ...
Together anywhere, together anytime
How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships? This is the question asked by the collaborative project "Together Anywhere, Together Anytime" (TA2). For many people, families form the key social unit. Many of...
Coordination of global RFID-related activities
Standardisation, and associated regulations, in respect of RFID is of critical importance in realising open systems applications of global significance, such as supply chain traceability and logistics. Of parallel significance ...
Managing the complexity of the open source infrastructure
The project Mancoosi aims to develop the scientific knowledge and build the tools necessary to manage the complexity of the open source infrastructure, which is one of the essential building blocks of tomorrow's software archit...
User-centric paradigm for seamless mobility in future internet
PERIMETER's main objective is to establish a new paradigm of user-centricity for advanced networking. In contrast to network-centric approaches, user-centric strategies could achieve true seamless mobility. Putting the user at ...
Network of excellence in wireless communications
NEWCOM++ is the acronym of a proposed Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications. The core concept of NEWCOM++ is that of an NoE of medium size, which is created for the purpose of scientifically addressing medium/long te...
Cognitive self-managed elemenets for the Future Intenet
Project Self-NET aims to design, develop and validate an innovative paradigm for cognitive self-managed elements of the Future Internet. The present Internet model is based on clear separation of concerns between protocol layer...
Publicky availabel testbed for computer networking and distr ...
PlanetLab is a group of computers available as a testbed for computer networking and distributed systems research. As of March 2009, PlanetLab was somprised of 913 nodes at 460 sites worldwide. Each research project has a 'slic...
Development of new decenralised technology for the wireless ...
The motivation behind the SMART-Net projedt is to overcome the limitations of conventional Broadband Wireless Access systems, in which all communications are required to pass through one costly central base station. Therefore, ...
Comprehensive method of maintaining life long privacy of int ...
Life long trail of personal data of each individual arises in the net. The project PRIMELIFE reflects an effort to propose comprehensive method of maintaining life long privacy of internet users. This effort may be considered a...
New type of SLA management framework for Service Oriented In ...
The SLA@SOI project consortium strives to create an open source SLA (Service Level Agreement) framework for the SOI (Service Oriented Infrastructure). There is an assumption of a product economy transformation towards a service...
Smart self-improving personal pervasive computing spaces
Concept of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, where information processing is thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities, is more than 20 years old. But current trends in the design of pervasive systems have con...
