This paper describes a method of collecting mulitiligual speech data for use in the compilation of spoken command vocabularies for ICT devices and services in the EU, the EFTA countries and Turkey and Russia. The resulting vocabularies will be published as a European standard, for use by industry in the production of such applications. The context of this work is the EU i2010 framework for addr...

financially support the implementation of the objectives of the European Union in the employment, social affairs and equal opportunities area, and thereby contribute to the achievement of the EU2020 goals in these fields. The seven-year Programme targets all stakeholders who can help shape the development of appropriate and effective employment and social legislation and policies, across the EU...

This study analyses the activities of local and regional authorities (LRAs) from EFTA countries in Brussels. It generates new up-to-date knowledge on mobilization EU by LRAs from...

Insights into health communication This evidence review was commissioned by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as one of the outputs of the Framework Partnership Agreement Grant/2009/007 'Establishing a programme for dissemination of evidence-based health communication activities and innovations on communicable diseases for country Support in the EU and EEA/EFTA, 2009...

At the level of individual projects, each ESPRIT project is contracted to a consortium of organisations, with a minimum of two partners from different member states; projects are typically contracted to 4 to 8 partners. A major difference for the participants is also that the Community supports 50% of the project budget, as opposed to 100% with DARPA. The other 50% contributions come from the o...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the paper is to demonstrate progress of the works on the Polish version of SCORE-15 and the results of the preliminary data analysis of changes in the process of family therapy, obtained with this tool. The works on the Polish version, ongoing since 2010, were inspired by the Research Committee European Family Therapy Association EFTA. Since the Polish version of SCORE-15 ...

BACKGROUND In the context of an European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) research project, our objective was to describe current recommendations regarding HIV testing and counselling targeting migrants and ethnic minorities in the European Union/European Economic Area/European Free Trade Association (EU/EEA/EFTA) Member States. METHODS An on-line survey was conducted among 31...