Authors’ Note: This work has been partially funded by the Spanish National Projects FLeXO (TSI-0203012008-19, www.ines.org.es/flexo) and aDaPTaLeaRN (TIN2007-68125-C02-01) and by european Projects eU4aLL (IST-2006-034778, www.eu4all-project.eu) and alfa-CID (ww.aproa.cl/cid-alfa/, II-0511-a). The Complutense University of Madrid has also supported this work (research group 921340). We also than...

The European Multicentre Bronchiectasis Audit and Research Collaboration (EMBARC) is a European Respiratory Society (ERS) Clinical Research Collaboration dedicated to improving research and clinical care for people with bronchiectasis. EMBARC has created a European Bronchiectasis Registry, funded by the ERS and by the European Union (EU) Innovative Medicines Initiative Programme. From the outse...

......As guest editors, we are extremely honored to introduce the IEEE Micro special issue on European multicore computing projects. In 2004, the European Commission funded the HiPEAC Network of Excellence as an instrument to overcome the research landscape fragmentation in the fields of computer architecture and compilation in Europe. In response to the paradigm shift to multicore-based comput...

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For more than ten years, beginning in the early 2000s, the European Commission has been supporting targeted research in the fields of Cognitive Systems and Robotics. In this note we discuss the rationale of the underlying research agenda (including its relevance to the BICA challenge), structure the large set of funded projects, and outline perspectives for future research.

The ten years of activity in three Polifonia projects that we address today were not the first Polifonia projects. The history of Polifonia as cooperation between institutions in Higher Music Education (HME) in Europe dates back to 1992. Then, 14 institutions participated in a program in the framework of the ERASMUS, funded by the European Union. This group established the "ERASMUS Chamber Orch...

Funding bodies in general, and the European Commission in particular, have for over a decade funded project centred Research and Technology Development (RTD) efforts. While these have traditionally operated in isolation with little co-operation and cross-fertilization of results, a crucial requirement has emerged, following the latest advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)...

BACKGROUND Public health research is of growing interest within Europe. Bibliometric research shows the UK with a high absolute output of public health publications, although lower per capita than Nordic countries. UK contributed to a European Union (EU) project PHIRE to assess public health research and innovation. METHODS UK health research structures, and programmes funded in 2010, were de...

The UNICORE Grid-technology provides a seamless, secure and intuitive access to distributed Grid resources. In this paper we present the recent evolution from project results to production Grids. At the beginning UNICORE was developed as a prototype software in two projects funded by the German research ministry (BMBF). Over the following years, in various European-funded projects, UNICORE evol...