Category archive for ‘FP6-FP7 Success Stories’

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  2010

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  EUROAFRICA-ICT (2008-2010) (0)

  

  Building upon the significant achievements reached by the initial project, START (IST-6-45377-SSA / 2006-2008), the EuroAfriCa-ICT project aimed at promoting and supporting the development of S&T cooperation on ICT research between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and between Europe and the Caribbean.
  Project activities included the organisation of cooperation forums on ICT research, FP7/ICT awareness workshops and [...]

   
• Jan

  2010

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  GRIFS (2008-2009) (0)

  

  The Global RFID Interoperability Forum for Standards (GRIFS) is a Support Action Project funded by the European Commission with the aim to improve collaboration and thereby to maximise the global interoperability of RFID standards. It has run over two years and was coordinated by GS1, ETSI and CEN. The GRIFS project has initiated a forum [...]

   
• Jan

  2010

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  FLOSSINCLUDE (2008-2010) (0)

  

  FLOSS (Free / Libre / Open Source Software) is arguably one of the best examples of open, collaborative, internationally distributed production and development. FLOSS provides numerous benefits for developing countries, such as low cost, adaptability, and a free-of-charge high quality training environment, as shown by the FP6 FLOSSWORLD study. The FLOSSInclude project aims [...]

   
• Jan

  2010

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  SIMBA (2006-2008) (0)

  

  The SIMBA project intended to transform road transport through worldwide cooperation. It brought together European Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Infrastructure and vehicle maker practitioners and technology providers with their counterparts in China, India, Brazil and South Africa in order to establish a cooperation network that discussed how to increase road safety, mobility and transport efficiency [...]

   
• Jan

  2010

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  SIMBA II (2008-2010) (0)

  

  SIMBA II is an EU/FP7 project funded by the European Commission (DG Research), aiming at increasing road transport research cooperation between Europe and the emerging markets of Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa building on the network established in the first SIMBA project, by bringing together key stakeholders in the fields of the automotive industry, ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) and infrastructure.

   
• Jan

  2010

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  S-PULSE (2008-2010) (0)

  

  S-PULSE, namely Shrink-Path of Ultra-Low Power Superconducting Electronics, is a project that takes place in the frame of FLUXONICS. The overall goal of S-PULSE is to prepare Superconductor Electronics (SE) technologies for the technology generation beyond the CMOS scaling limits (“beyond CMOS”). S-PULSE supports joint efforts of European academic and industrial groups in the field [...]

   
• Jan

  2010

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  STADIUM (2009-2013) (0)

  

  The STADIUM project (Smart Transport Applications Designed for large events with Impacts on Urban Mobility) is an FP7 EU-funded project (DG Research) aiming at providing local authorities responsible for transport in candidate cities to host large events with a set of guidelines and specific tools to improve the performance of transports services and systems.

   
• Jan

  2010

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  START (2006-2008) (0)

  

  Sustainable development in Africa, with ICT contributing to the full, is in Europe’s economic, political and strategic interest. S&T cooperation is one of the efficient means for Africa to move towards appropriate ICT solutions involving policy and regulation, infrastructure, applications and content, capacity building and training.
  Within this environment, the START project had the ambition to [...]

   
• Jan

  2010

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  VOICES (2011-2013) (0)

  

  The VOICES project is an European Project funded under the 7th framework programme, started on January 1, 2011 and running for a period of 30 months.
  The consortium driving the project has 12 partners from France, Netherland, Switzerland, Italy, Senegal, South Africa, Portugal and Mali.
  The focus of VOICES is the investigation of voice-based services in a [...]