Global Village an Integrated Project
The objective of Global Village “Large scale integrated Services for the inclusion of dependant people”  is to build a service-oriented framework fostering a rapid and widespread adoption of assistive services in order to enable people with disabilities and ageing citizens to fully participated to society. Global Village is an Integrated Project involving key players  in the field of assistive technologies, academics, SMEs and large companies and DOMUS lab of the University of Sherbrooke belongs to the “Global Village” Consortium coordinated by GET INT. The project failed the evaluation process and the Consortium is improving the proposal for submission to Call 6.

Agreement Signed in e-Learning  Athabasca University is partnering with the European Rural Wings project related to satellite wireless delivery of learning to remote communities using mobile devices.  This partnership will involve northern European partners in Finland, Norway and Denmark and others in the University of the Arctic as part of the International Polar Year initiative.  Contact IST-EC2  Debbie Kemp, for more information Debbie Kemp.

Integrated Project in Advanced Networking  IST-EC2 partner CPR announced the submission under the IST call 5 (Framework Programme 6) of an integrated project titled PHOSPHORUS - Lambda User Controlled Infrastructure For European Research. PHOSPHORUS will develop and demonstrate dynamic mechanisms for network level resource discovery, reservation and allocation over different European research hybrid network infrastructures. It will also demonstrate end-to-end user empowered service delivery across European and worldwide infrastructure. Some of the work in this IP will be world leading. Among other partners are i2CAT in Spain, Nextworks in Italy, CRC in Canada and CANARIE in Canada as a supporting partner.  CRC is a UCLP developer and will be involved in the adaptation of UCLP for interoperability and providing the laboratory facilities for the demonstration of results over CANARIE's CA*net 4 network. The Project has been successful and started in October 2006  with a term of 30 months. Concettina Larosa

STREP in Computer-Assisted Translations  IST-EC2 partners have assisted in the development of the iTrans Project. The aim of iTrans is to develop a computer-assisted system that will facilitate the cost-effective production of high-quality transcriptions and translations (HQTT). Project partners in Canada are RALI (Universite de Montreal) and CRIM. In Europe Spain is represented by ITI, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatico; Celer Soluciones S.L.and Mira lo que te digo S.L.U.; Germany by RWTH Aachen University; The United Kingdom by ATRIL; and the Czech Republic by University of West Bohemia. Contact IST-EC2 partnerDebbie Kemp for more information Debbie Kemp

Contributing Partner to Integrated Project in Embedded Systems Another project assisted by IST-EC and IST-EC2 is RUNES - Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems. RUNES is an integrated project (IP) that began in September 2004. IST-EC and IST-EC2 partner CRC has been accepted as contributor to the project, bringing in Sensor Network expertise. Contact IST-EC2 partner Debbie Kemp for more information Debbie Kemp

Project for Tools for Resilience of Communications and IT Systems in Negotiation The project DESEREC dedicated to the approach, framework, and tools apply to critical communication and information systems in order to improve their resilience and their dependability was submitted under Call 4 and was successful.  Project is to start early in 2006.   Partnering with Communications Research Centre¹s SEARCH-LAB Security Evaluation Analysis and Research Laboratory are institutions such as Thales Communications S.A. Politecnico di Torino, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research among others. Contact IST-EC2 partner Debbie Kemp for more information Debbie Kemp

iTRANS STREP in Computer-Assisted Translations
IST-EC2 partners have assisted in the development of the iTrans Project. The aim of iTrans is to develop a computer-assisted system that will facilitate the cost-effective production of high-quality transcriptions and translations (HQTT). Project partners in Canada are RALI (Universite de Montreal) and CRIM. In Europe Spain is represented by ITI, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatico; Celer Soluciones S.L.and Mira lo que te digo S.L.U.; Germany by RWTH Aachen University; The United Kingdom by ATRIL; and the Czech Republic by University of West Bohemia. While a second phase of this project was not funded, the partners are continuing their cooperation. Contact IST-EC2 partner Debbie Kemp for more information Debbie Kemp

GRID iT! a STREP in “Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services"
GRID IT! aims at designing, developing, testing and evaluating an Advances GRID Middleware framework that enables virtual organisations to directly implement real-time, dynamic, multimedia content services based on the Services Oriented Architecture Paradigm. GRID iT! is a STREP in “Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems” and Services, coordinated by the National Centre for Scientific Research ­ Demokritos  (NCSR). On the Canadian side, the University of Toronto joined the GRID IT! Consortium. Contact IST-EC2 partner Sandrine Roche for more information Sandrine Roche

Idealist7fp As a continuation from past Ideal-ist projects in FP4, FP5 and FP6, Ideal-ist partner CPR has invited Canada's IST NCP, the Communications Research Centre (Debbie Kemp) to join the project. The project has passed the Evaluation phase and its objective is to stimulate, encourage and faciltate the participation in current and future community ICT research organizations of all types, including INCO cooperation partners (which are NCP's of 3rd countries, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa).  The participation of Canada will increase the awareness of the cooperation opportunities with Europe to the Canadian IST constituency by encouraging participation in the IST priority areas of the EC. The Ideal-ist Consortium plans to organize a visit to Canada to present the Ideal-ist services, as well as FP7. The project kick-off meeting is planned to occur during the IST Annual Conference in Helsinki in November. Contact IST-EC2 partner Concettina Larosa for more information.  Concettina Larosa

RENAISSANCE- IntegRatEd InNovAtive ICT System enabLing SociAlly and independNtly aCtive living of agEing people

With RENAISSANCE elderly people enjoy independent but supported life in familiar environments by maintaining active participation to daily activities and without changing their life style with applied mature  technologies in their environments and support useful services through the integration and convergence of technologies.  The project will:

• manage and control the home network and services, implementing a trusted, personalised, adaptable and secure infrastructure. Self  organised sensor networks will allow adding/removing sensor nodes and  installing/configuring the monitoring systems. Longer lifespan of  sensor/communication nodes and the monitoring system will be obtained through lower power consumption so that the burden of system maintenance will be minimised. RENAISSANCE will monitor user behaviour  and movements giving automatic alerts in case something not "normal" occurs (gathering and interpreting data related to the movement,  activity and behaviour of people at home)
  

• favour social integration, the possibility of accessing relevant information, communicating and carrying out in the home environment  tasks (for example connected to e-government) that are important for active integration in the society. RENAISSANCE aims to support the user, and that a careful planning can allow the deployment of  applications that not only are accessible but can actively contribute to the social integration of older people

• therapeutic physical activities, due to rehabilitation of motor-sensor abilities in patients with acquired cerebral lesions

The distributed and embedded intelligence could be of great assistance to the elderly. Users affected by visual, hearing or motion impairments represent the majority of the elderly population; thus the issues of accessibility and particularly the topics of assistive  technologies should be incorporated in the automated environment.  Multimodal interfaces and accurate design of redundancies counteract  the hindrances of operating in limited conditions
Partners in the project include University of Victoria, Faculty of Engineering from Canada with European partners from Italy, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, UK, Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Romania.  Debbie Kemp

This project will be submitted in Europe under Call 2 of the Seventh Framework Programme. A Collaborative Health Research Project Grant with a Notification of Intent to Apply was filed to NSERC (Special Opportunities Grant) in Canada. The project aims at developing IT solutions to for aging population and assisted living. The Partners in Europe are: Telecom Italia (Italy), Aarhus University (Denmark), Tampere University of Technology (Finland), University of California at Berkeley (USA), San Raffaele Hospital (Italy), Docomo European Labs (Japan/Germany), Technical University of Berlin (Germany). the Partners in Canada are: University of Waterloo IT faculty (UOIT).
Contact IST-EC2 Partner Andrew Cameron for more information: Andrew Cameron