DEMENTIA AMBIENT CARE is a 4-year European project focused on the development of a complete system providing personal health services to persons with dementia, as well as medical professionals, by using a multitude of sensors, for context-aware, multiparametric monitoring of lifestyle, ambient environment, and health parameters. Multisensor data analysis, combined with intelligent decision making mechanisms, will allow an accurate representation of the person's current status and will provide the appropriate feedback, both to the person and the associated medical professionals.
STUDIOLAB was inspired by the merging of the artist’s studio with the research lab to create a hybrid creative space. The project proposes the creation of a new European platform for creative interactions between art and science. It brings together major players in scientific research with centres of excellence in the arts and experimental design and leverages the existence of a new network of hybrid spaces to pilot a series of projects at the interface between art and science including Le Laboratoire (Paris), Science Gallery (Trinity College Dublin), Royal College of Art (London), Ars Electronica (Linz) and MediaLab Prado (Madrid). STUDIOLAB will involve activities along three key dimensions: incubation of art-science projects, education and public engagement.
GOLDEN is a 5-year research programme developed by a global network of Business Schools and research centres in sustainability and corporate responsibility. It is supported by CROMA, Bocconi University (Italy), EABIS and Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). GOLDEN investigates how organisations can integrate sustainability into their business models. The project partners compile and benchmark 100 corporations worldwide to study how an effective change can be facilitated by offering “dynamic capabilities for sustainability” to organisations.
NAMDIATREAM is a 4-year interdisciplinary research project. It involves 22 partners from 8 European Countries (Ireland, Spain, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, UK) and 1 associated country (Switzerland). The Pan-European consortium is built around 7 High-Tech SMEs, 2 Multinational industries and 13 academic institutions. It aims to develop a cutting edge nanotechnology-based toolkit for multi-modal detection of biomarkers of most common cancer types and cancer metastases, permitting identification of cells indicative of early disease onset in a high-specificity and throughput format in clinical, laboratory and point-of-care devices. The project is built on the innovative concepts of super-sensitive and highly specific “lab-on-a-bead”, “lab-on-a-chip” and “lab-on-a-wire” nano-devices. This offers groundbreaking advantages over present technologies in terms of stability, sensitivity, time of analysis, probe multiplexing, assay miniaturisation and reproducibility.
REVERIE is a 3.5-year European project aiming to provide the means for building a mixed reality space in which real and virtual worlds engage and seamlessly interact in real-time, generating compelling and highly realistic immersive environments. REVERIE envisages an ambient, content-centric Internet-based environment, highly flexible and secure, where people can work, meet, participate in live events, socialize and share experiences, as they do in real life, but without time, space and affordability limitations. In order to achieve this goal, the integration of cutting-edge technologies related to 3D data acquisition and processing, sound processing, autonomous avatars, networking, real-time rendering, and physical interaction and emotional engagement in virtual worlds is required.
Tiss.EU was a 3-year European Union-funded research project, coordinated by the Department for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Göttingen (Germany). Its aim is to evaluate legislative and regulatory documents in relation to the procurement, storage and transfer of human tissue and cells for research in the European Union. The project ended on 1 April 2011.
GLEUBE (Globalising European Bioethics Education) was a 3-year European Union-funded project aimed at increasing the international profile of European bioethics. The project was a collaboration between the University of Central Lancashire (Co-ordinating institution), Cardiff University, Dublin City University, University of Helsinki and the University of Oslo. The project ended on 31 October 2011.