The purpose of this contract is to study current practices in thematically open bottom-up approaches to funding cross-disciplinary frontier research (such as the Open scheme of the Future and Emerging Technologies challenge within the ICT workprogamme), to provide scenarios for the possible future developments of such schemes, and to formulate recommendations and options to address the opportunities ahead for boosting the exploratory power of bottom-up collaborative frontier research.

Members of eMobility will discuss selected activities of eMobility Working Groups and the Steering Board on the ICT sector and the preparation of FP8 for future collaborative research. The meeting provides a good networking opportunity e.g. for the preparation of new research consortia for upcoming FP7 calls 7 and 8 and the Future Internet PPP.

The scope of the meeting is to inform the whole VPH research community of all the strategic activities that are being conducted by various members in relation to the VPH research in the domain of ICT for health, the VPH internationalisation projects, the VPH toolkit, the VPH infrastructures, the ARGOS international observatory, the VPH FET initiative, etc. The VPH Network of Excellence invites all those who are involved with the VPH initiative to an all-hands meeting, where VPH key figures will be invited to update the community on strategic activities, to present detailed information and to discuss openly the general strategic directions that the VPH initiative will take in the next few years. From this public discussion will emerge the 2010 update to the VPH Research Roadmap, that the VPH NoE will compile and publish before the end of the year. Participation is open and free to anyone, but pre-registration is required.

The present tender is calling for: LOT1: "Metrics and Methodologies Related to Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy End-Use for 'Social Systems': Cities and Companies" to serve as a starting point for further research on methodologies, metrics and related data issues on energy end-use and GHG (or Co2equivalent) emissions. Duration: 9 months. The total price quoted cannot exceed 70.000 EUR ; LOT 2: "Metrics and Methodologies for infrastructures: Smart-Grids" to assist with the assessment of the potential contribution of Smart Grids to the decarbonisation of energy supply in Europe. Duration: 9 months. The total price quoted cannot exceed 180.000 EUR.

At ICT2010, a number of support actions funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme are joining efforts and organise this networking session to support the integration of Eastern European, Central Asian (EECA) and Western Balkan (WB) countries into the European Research Area. The objectives of this networking event are to promote the R&D developments made by organisations from these countries and to highlight the collaboration opportunities amongst ICT actors from EU, EECA and WB countries.

At ICT2010, a number of support actions funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme are joining efforts and organise this networking session to support the integration of Eastern European, Central Asian (EECA) and Western Balkan (WB) countries into the European Research Area. The objectives of this networking event are to promote the R&D developments made by organisations from these countries and to highlight the collaboration opportunities amongst ICT actors from EU, EECA and WB countries.

This event gathers deans, department chairs and senior faculty staff of leading European Computer Science and Informatics faculties, departments, research institutes and laboratories. The Summit provides a forum for anyone interested in issues of research, education and policy in the field of informatics.

This event will address the whole e-Infrastructures programme, from research networking to global virtual research collaboration. The Conference will be held in the framework of the "2010 Euro-Africa Week on ICT Research & e-Infrastructures", a series of events held under the aegis of the European Commission and the African Union Commission (AUC) with the support of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Employment and the Economy of Finland.

This is a side event to the 3rd Africa-EU Summit and will be held in the framework of the “2010 Euro-Africa Week on ICT Research & e-Infrastructures“, a series of events held under the aegis of the European Commission and the African Union Commission (AUC) with the support of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Employment and the Economy of Finland. One of the objectives is to allow European and African stakeholders involved in the development of cooperation on ICT to get together and to exchange views, share information, and identify synergies in order to increase the impact of their activities.

This event aims to promote breakthrough research, successful innovation networks and potential investment opportunities. It will bring together leading figures in science, engineering and technology across Europe for a high level meeting on how we can turn science into commerce.

More than 4000 people die in the EU each year because of accidents caused by fire and many thousands more are hospitalised to receive treatment for burns. Thanks to EU-funded research, medical experts will be able to more quickly identify the harmful bacteria or fungus which may be lurking in the wounds of burn victims and causing an infection, speeding up the diagnostic and healing process by days. Until now, doctors have had to rely on microbiological tests that took several days to identify which bacteria were causing the infection. Researchers from Germany, Italy, Lithuania and the UK have developed a small electronic device which can pinpoint the type of bacteria in just a few minutes, by identifying the minute amounts of gas the bacteria are producing. The quicker infections can be diagnosed, the faster patients can be treated, which can in turn lower the cost of lengthy hospital stays. The EU has invested €1.67 million of ICT research funding into the Woundmonitor, developing a successful first prototype device.

Each year 350,000 new cases of breast cancer are detected in the European Union, but a lack of effective technology to assist in cases that are difficult to diagnose means some cases go undetected or are incorrectly diagnosed. The EU is investing €3.1 million to develop better and quicker breast cancer diagnostics through the HAMAM project. This project is developing a prototype workstation to help diagnose breast cancer by integrating multi-modal images resulting from mammography, magnetic resonance imaging and other technologies as well as patient information. Doctors will be able to compare those multi-modal images side by side while viewing the patient’s history and medical analyses. The workstation will be tested in selected hospitals in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands.

In the first of a series of events, ENISA will gather opinion leaders from the European Commission, European Parliament, and Council as well as major industry representatives to discuss a policy framework for securing Europe’s future information society, while addressing aspects such as securing infrastructures, fighting cyber crime, promoting standardisation, enhancing ePrivacy and educating on ICT security.

This 1st AEGIS International Conference will showcase the world's most influential open source, web and mobile accessibility projects and bring together developers and people with disabilities. It gathers presenters and exhibitors that address assistive technology in Rich Internet Applications (RIA), desktop applications and mobile applications, as well as developer tools that embed accessibility plug-ins. It is organised by AEGIS, a research & development project supported by the European Commission. The AEGIS project develops software for persons with disabilities, covering the desktop platform, the web and mobile devices. It has just released an extension for the OpenOffice.org Writer that enables users to save documents as Braille or to send them directly to a Braille embosser.

This international information and brokerage event is organised by Ideal-ist in cooperation with other international networks for research, innovation and business and the European Commission. Organised during the ICT2010 conference, it aims to make research, innovation and business communities aware of funding opportunities offered by the Framework Programmes of the European Union and to foster potential co-operations through dedicated networking activities, such as the offered face-to-face meetings.

The study should identify: which are the communities that develop application codes for supercomputers and grids; which are these codes, what are the machines they run on, who are their users, what are the results they produce and which of them could eventually scale up for exploiting the High Performance Computing and GRIDS infrastructures; what have been the funding mechanisms for such development up to now (national grants, international agreements, EU); and who actually owns the property rights for such codes, as well as the different code-licensing schemes and to identify what should be the governance model for such an infrastructure.

The Integral SatCom Initiative European Technology Platform (ISI) released an innovative paper to identify the research topics in satellite communications that could help in addressing grand societal challenges. It is the first one produced by a Technology Platform on interdisciplinary cooperation for societal challenges. The key words to remember: smarter systems for culture and knowledge management, healthcare, transport, mobility, environmental information, energy grids and broadband for all.

In case of a severe crash, an eCall-equipped vehicle will automatically call 112, the EU's single emergency number. Even if no passenger is able to speak, e.g. due to injuries, a minimum set of data with information about the accident is sent automatically. The minimum set of data includes the exact geographic location of the crash site. eCall can also be activated manually. eCall has the potential to reduce the time that emergency services will need to arrive at the accident scene. This will contribute to reducing the number of people killed in road accidents, as well as the severity of injuries. The European Commission is carrying out an impact assessment of the eCall deployment. The assessment considers various policy options (no intervention, voluntary approach or mandatory implementation of eCall) to implement the eCall system in Europe. The main objective of this public consultation is to collect the opinions of stakeholders and EU citizens on the issue and therefore ensure the transparency of the decision making process. Closing date : 19/09/2010

The AAL Forum is the yearly conference of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme, which aims to invest around €700 million in products and services between now and 2013. It provides a platform for all stakeholders – investors, researchers, policy makers, industry providers and end-users – to discuss smart solutions for improved quality of life in later years. Ambient Assisted Living Technology is a relatively new and vibrant field of investment, research and development. Policy makers are already exploring options and planning on future technology investments in this area. Several regional and national initiatives are emerging around Europe to support public and private investment. In support of this, the 2010 AAL Forum will now launch and host the first ever European ‘AAL Investment Forum’. The objective of the one-day Investment Forum is to improve communication between investors and researchers and introduce investors to projects which require immediate and/or long term funding. World leading entrepreneur, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil will be one of the keynote speakers at this event.

WORKPAD, an EU-funded ICT research project, has developed software applications that allow emergency teams responding to natural disasters to coordinate and communicate with each other quickly and efficiently, helping to save more lives. Coordination and communication is especially important when emergency teams from many different agencies, civil authorities and NGOs are on the ground at the same time. €1.85 million of EU funding helped the researchers to explore how dozens of databases from different organisations can be linked via peer-to-peer technology to improve response time and avoid duplication of efforts. One central dispatch point that receives and sends out information to all emergency teams can help save more lives in a quick and efficient way. The technology has already been tried successfully in Southern Italy and is available to be used anywhere in the world.