WIWES contributed by Martin Fatun
Chip is inserted in the body at birth which will monitor the body, prevent diseases and heal the body if necessary. It can also communicate with health centre and ask for medical intervention and treatments. People will no lo...
This wildcard was generated from the Grand Challenge Work Life Balance. The original idea was derived from a work saving aspect whereby thoughts could be transferred straight from the brain onto software similar to Microsoft W...
Secure and safe internet that is easy to use
This wild card was deemed originally as very dull but very wild. As the title suggests a new Internet would be developed that would be safe from criminal activity and social pathologies (private information theft, pornography,...
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...
A significant breakthrough in physics of materials has been made to further to increase efficiency in production of energy. New non-fragile carbon composites were developed as well as new superconductors.
Clean coal technology discovered
Energy industry in number of countries will be still to a large extent based on conventional coal energy. Despite of the fact that coal is the most pollutive fossil fuel, it is still to be the most widely used source of energy ...
A breakthrough discovery in plasma physics
A shocking discovery has been made in ITER, which enables fast implementation of thermonuclear fusion into practical utilization in energy production.
A considerable increase in efficiency of renewable resources
An ongoing rapid development of renewable resources of energy results in increase of their efficiency, availability and stability. As a result, some countries start to consider renewable resources as a real alternative to conve...
Severe accident of a nuclear power plant
Although the risk of a severe accident of a nuclear power plant is extremely low, it is still not a zero-risk. In the past, at least two major accidents of nuclear power plants occurred – in Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, w...
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...
The Moore's Law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years. When the ...
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...
3D media trustworthily copying reality
Advanced 3D technology is used for image data recording and presentation, which can perfectly imitate reality, Practically whatever from personal appointmente to new clothing trial can be done in 3D virtual space instead of rea...
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 ...
Information crisis caused by personalized information delivery
Development of smart internet media technologies, which enable targeted supply of information to individual users according to their expressed preferences and unexpressed patterns of behaviour, together with development of perv...
In case of stopping civil wars and lethal epidemics, fair land distribution and increase of education Africa may become important player on the economic map of the world. There is enormous wealth of raw materials and natural re...
Health care of the elderly is predominantly IT-based
Currently state budgets on health care for the ageing population are rising. This wildcard revolves around robots and technology being used more in caring for the elderly, especially to save on costs.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Handling of thermal management of intricate layered electron ...
New technologies and materials for low thermal resistance interfaces and electrical interconnects have been discovered, which enable to eliminate obstacles with heat in intricate layered electronic assemblies. This technology m...
3D video holography brakethrough
The 3D holography is only one known technology that can capture a full 3D scene in a single shot, including phase information, and re-project that light field perfectly thus overcoming all of the above disadvantages: holography...
Ultra low cost laboratories on chips
Conventional analytical methods often require a large sample volume and complicated time-consuming protocols. The ultra low cost laboratories on chips (LOC), which will integrate the Microsystems (valves, pumps, reservoirs, hea...
It was spoken about paperless office and electronic books for long time, but none of considered elecronic technologies was able to reach excellence of the common paper until the " true electronic paper" has been developed. It h...
Far Infrared (FIR) camera module used in high volume automotive Night Vision Enhancement Systems (NVE) is capable of detecting a person on the road from a distance of up to 120 m. This makes FIR system together with intelligent...
Printed electornics revolution
Printed electronics is a set of printing methods used to create electrically functional devices. Paper has been often proposed to be used as substrate but due the rough surface and high humidity absorption other materials such ...
Not only closing with integrated electronic appliances and data transmition channels, but as well closing which can instantly change its collor, shape and size in harmony with surrounding environment or on demand of user. And ...
Biochips for early detection of diseases
The biochips are envisioned to “prophesize” potential predisposition to, or diagnose the early onset of human diseases, paving the way for advances in personalized health care. Such a clever chip may be implatnt to everybod...
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-...
Universal personal energy wallet
Everyody has one's own personal "energy wallet" which may be used as univerzal source of energy (battery) for various electronic personal gadgets (such as notebook, mobile phone, mp3 player, gameboy, shaving machine etc.). Tha...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
One standardized web services architecture dominates the sof ...
One standardized reliable and trustworthy open source web services architecture dominates the worldwide software industry under the baton of European open source prject leaders. Through support of open source software platform ...
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...
People behaviour controlled by ultrasonic transponder system
There is developed a novel telemetry technology for biomedical applications that will enable any kind of deeply implanted device (the transponder) to communicate and be powered wirelessly via acoustic waves with the external sy...
The war between natural and artificial ecosystems
Microsystems will evolve in the future into integrated smart systems which are able to sense and diagnose a situation, which are predictive, and therefore are able to decide and help to decide. Smart systems address and identif...
Large-scale offshore wind farms solve the energy crisis
A key socio-economic challenge for Europe is: how to deal with a climate change, while meeting rapidly increasing demand for energy and ensuring security of supply? Wind energy can be a significant part of the answer. The new f...
Europe gains dominance in optical computing technology
An optical computer (also called a photonic computer) is a device that uses the photons in visible light or infrared (IR) beams, rather than electric current, to perform digital computations. An electric current creates heat in...
European research centres under attack of miniature robotic ...
Huge quantities of robotic bugs and flies of unknown origin were uncovered in many top-class research centres across Europe. These miniature spies are able to organise themselves autonomously, collect information from their sur...
Development of new intelligent robotic devices and machines started new era in utilization of ocean environment and resources. Elecric power from solar power plants on the ocean survace is utilized in underwater factories built...
Artificial companions exceed in popularity live biological p ...
After new generation of flaqles artifical companios had been invented, the popularity of living with robotic partner increased rapidly. New robotic companions are helpful, nice, empathetic and obliging day and night and it is p...
Several robotic platforms were developed across Europe, but no sufficient common communication standards were established. Therefore it is difficult and expensive to ensure mutual cooperation between individual robots and robot...
Sign language established as the main tool for intarnational ...
After English lost its worldwide significance and Chinese proved to be too complicated to learn for western population, sign language has bee established as the main tool for international communication. The sign language was ...
Harmfulness of wireless communication has been proved
New technology of dynamic spectrum allocation (i.e. technology capable to detect free holes in used wireless spectrum and to use these holes for broadcastintg) made possible strong grows of wireless broadcasting and wireless da...
Common virtual ICT infrastructure for European research esta ...
New service based ICT infrasturcture enables efficient utilization of common ICT resouces across all the European R&D institutions and structures. This common attitude significantli improves utilization of computing resources a...
Successful intelligent R&D data mining tools created
Today's growing wealth of digital data in Europe is poorly exploited. Advances in storage, pervasive computing, digital sensors and instrumentation have led to massive growth in the volume of data collected and the number and c...
Dozen people killed by computer gaming
New type of unautorized computer network games has emerged on the internet. These games are potentially dangerous for the players. In combination with specific gaming gadgets they are able to cause serious health demage or even...
Economic crisis caused by unreliability of SCM software
It is a well-known fact that collaborative supply chain management and planning reduces overall costs. Nevertheless it is not being exploited due the fact that partners are reluctant to share the necessary, but sensitive data. ...
Traditional "camera-on-top-of-a-TV-set-on-a-cart" videoconferencing systems have failed to meet the "telepresence challenge" of providing a viable alternative for physical business travel, which is nowadays characterized by una...
Complete loss of privacy - Europe is lagging in cryptography
Due to huge improvement of rough computing force the Chinese scientists are able to solve all the secret codes currently used in digital communinication. New cryptography methods are necessary, but European scientists are laggi...
3D multimedia revolution didn't come
Film or cinema had been the driving force for the entertainment industry, setting the standards of quality, providing the most compelling experience, and feeding the distribution chains of other media (broadcast TV, cable and s...
New system of IPR based on innovation permits
New European/international system of Intelectual Property Rights is established. The system is based on so colled 'innovation permits'. If someone puts into the system a new invention or technology, he gains approwal (i.e. perm...
P2P networks as a predominant technology for data management
P2P (Peer-to-Peer) is a technology that fosters self-deployment and self-organisation, thus, it is reducing operational costs, while it achieves optimised resource utilisation for the deployed applications and services.Therefor...
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...
Advanced software systoms will become so complex, that the diagnostic of their correct/incorrect opperation will be unaccomplishable by common tools for software development. It will cause slowdown of further software developm...
Efficient work with personal data made impossible due to exo ...
Permanently increasing legislation demands to personal data protection will cause a serious security incident - imprtant data about treatment of patients in a big hospital are irrecoverably lost, because it was not possible to ...
Collapse of internet network connection structure
Due to quickly growing demand for intenet bandwidth in combination with frequent and massive hacking attempts on the interet, the connection through the network will become highly unstable and unreliable. Practically no real ti...
