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- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- eMobility General Assembly
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16 September 2010 Venice, Italy
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.
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Come and meet eHealth projects at ICT2010 Exhibition and Networking Sessions
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27 September 2010 - 29 September 2010 Brussels, Belgium
only 4 weeks to go until the ICT2010 Conference will open the doors - this mail intends to inform you of the ICT for Health projects present at the ICT2010 conference. CD-Medics, Epilepsiae, HeartCycle, Hamam and Oldes will be exhibiting. Three eHealth related networking sessions will also take place on the following topics: Patient empowerment, EU-ASEAN Cooperation opportunities and Low-cost Imaging Technologies for Healthcare.
Contact: eHealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: eHealth Research - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- VPH NoE: Strategic consensus meeting
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29 September 2010 Brussels, Belgium
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.
Contact: vphnews@yahoo.it
See also: Pre-registration - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- VPH Industry Day - 2nd edition
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8 September 2010 - 9 September 2010 Barcelona, Spain
The second VPH Industry Day will be held in Barcelona on 8th and 9th September 2010. The event is organised by the European Network of Excellence for the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) in collaboration with the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology, the University of Sheffield, University of Pompeu Fabra and Instituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. It aims to increase the awareness amongst European Industry of the vision, the concepts, and the concrete technological achievements of VPH-related research. This year the event is organised around three themes: a) Research to Business (R2B): VPH research projects are presented to industry experts both in terms of vision and of exploitable results; b) Business to Business (B2B): Companies present to other companies concepts, products and services that can be used to develop VPH-related products; and c) Regulatory to Business (G2B): Regulators discuss standardisation and regulatory affairs in Europe and the USA relevant for VPH-based technology.
Contact: villalba_elena@cdti.es
See also: Registration (compulsory) - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Final Conference "Healthy Regions: When Well-being Creates Economic Growth"
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23 September 2010 Brussels, Belgium
The Healthy Regions project has been running for three years and has had as overall objective to develop a toolbox with methods, tools, guidelines and recommendations that regional and local authorities can use to bring health and health promotion on the political agenda. The Healthy Regions project included a trial period, where the participating regions have tried out the toolbox. During this final conference each of them will show how they used the tools, what they got out of it and how the Healthy Regions project made a difference on a political and / or practical level.
Contact: Registration (before 10/09/2010)
- EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
- SME Conference is perfect platform for change
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17 November 2010 - 18 November 2010 Dolce La Hulpe Brussels, Belgium
The research and innovation small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) Conference under the Belgian presidency will take place in November of this year. This unique event puts SMEs in direct contact with key personnel and Ministers from three EU presidencies - past, present and future. The conference is the ideal platform for SMEs to influence the highest level of EU policymakers and air their views on what improvements can be made to the Framework Programme.
- NEWS ARTICLE
- iCARDEA: An Intelligent Platform for Personalized Remote Monitoring of the Cardiac Patients with Electronic Implant Devices
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(25 August 2010)The EU co-funded project iCARDEA will address this challenge, by exploiting competencies of 8 partners from 5 different EU countries. iCARDEA will improve the care and follow-up of patients with Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs) by integrating CIED data to the automated follow up processes through computer interpretable clinical guideline models and adaptable healthcare planners and hence will provide improved disease management at the point of need. With its clinical guideline based automated analysis and monitoring platform, iCARDEA will reduce the workload of clinical staff in healthcare settings (electrophysiology or other care settings responsible for follow-ups and monitoring) and hence provide economic benefits for health systems using CIED devices.
Contact: asuman@srdc.com.tr
See also: ICT for Health Research Projects - NEWS ARTICLE
- ICT research: EU funded clinical workstation will help accurately detect breast cancer
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(10 August 2010)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.
Contact: ehealth@ec.europa.eu
See also: Futuris video-report on Euronews on Hamam project - PRESS RELEASE
- ICT research: EU funded WOUNDMONITOR helps pinpoint bacteria and speed up healing in burn victims
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(12 August 2010)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.
- CALL FOR TENDERS
- Boosting the exploratory power of open research in future and emerging technologies (SMART 2010/0055)
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(Deadline: 06/10/2010) 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.
Contact: infso-fetopen@ec.europa.eu
See also: FET-Open website
New in the Library
- REPORTS AND STUDIES
- Internet of Things Europe 2010 conference report
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16 August 2010
Vice President and EU Commissioner for the European Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes kicked off this two day conference in Brussels. .... She stated that the Internet of Things, the next wave of internet enabled connectivity, is not simply a technical innovation but a broad process in the heart of our society...
- REPORTS AND STUDIES
- El reto de la Telemedicina en Europa
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30 July 2010
La telemedicina, o medicina a distancia, no es una idea de nuevo cuño. Ya se hablaba de ella en los primeros programas-marco financiados por la Comisión, dio lugar a múltiples ejemplos y proyectos piloto que rápidamente evidenciaron sus limitaciones, ya fuera por motivos técnicos (rendimiento de las redes y de los dispositivos médicos) o por motivos de aceptación por parte de los profesionales sanitarios. Este número especial tiene como finalidad ayudarle a analizar el desarrollo de la telemedicina en sus diferentes aspectos, en entornos diferentes. Es un conjunto de testimonios y análisis llevados a cabo por responsables políticos e industriales, por pacientes y representantes de los profesionales sanitarios, lo que nos parece el mejor modo de transmitir mensajes breves y comprensibles por todos los públicos.
Contact: dossiers.europeens@wanadoo.fr
See also: El informe puede ser comprado de la empressa "The European Files" - REPORTS AND STUDIES
- ACTION-Grid White Paper: "Linking Biomedical Informatics, Grid Computing and Nanomedicine"
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15 June 2010
The Action-Grid project (International Cooperative Action on Grid Computing and Biomedical Informatics between the European Union, Latin America, the Western Balkans and North Africa) was a 24-months support action funded by DG INFSO that ended in May 2010. The main accomplishments of the project include a white paper: "Linking Biomedical Informatics, Grid Computing and Nanomedicine" and a survey on Grid Initiatives in the European Union, Latin America, the Western Balkans and North Africa.
Contact: vmaojo@fi.upm.es
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