Strategic impact Sample Clauses
Strategic impact. The important scientific and social impacts of dissemination projects that span national and international borders were outlined by ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, Head of Unit “GÉANT & e-Infrastructures, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission” in the GridBriefing Annual Report 2008-20097, produced by GridTalk: “Today, grid e-Infrastructures are facing significant challenges such as sustainability and the transition to a more user-driven and service-centric model. Grid computing has already engaged in the process of transitioning to a sustainable model of operation that would integrate at European level the corresponding national operations. This new pan-European organisation model will open grid e-Infrastructures to all scientific disciplines and complement national funding strategies in support of e-Science. Thanks to grid computing many prominent results have been achieved that directly affect people’s lives. It is essential to show the world and especially European citizens how European-funded research e-Infrastructures are working for them. Responsible and open communication plays an important role in ensuring public support of the European grid e-Infrastructures activities. This is where projects like GridTalk, disseminating the benefits, success stories and challenges of grid computing to a wider audience, play an important role. The effective communication of complex technical or scientific matters to a wider audience not only increases the public appreciation and support to scientific progress but also inspires the younger generations to get involved in the research process.” The need for dissemination projects to communicate the success stories and societal impact of grid computing and other EC funded e-Infrastructures has not diminished since GridTalk started in April 2008, and in fact with the transition to a new model for grid computing in Europe through the European Grid Infrastructure this is more important than ever. While dissemination will be carried out very effectively by ▇▇▇.▇▇ and the National Grid Initiatives in their own countries, there will still exist a strong need to offer a global picture of this field to the scientific community and the general public. E-ScienceTalk will be ideally placed to communicate this overview and its global context to the wide-ranging audiences already established for its products through the GridTalk project, and earlier in the case of the GridCafé and iSGTW, which have built up a l...
Strategic impact. Please describe the strategic impact of the project in addition to the impacts identified above by adding a few bullet points for each releveant area in the table below.
Strategic impact. Current European strength in mobile and wireless technologies means that global comput- ing applications like those above are an important potential market, of real importance for future competitiveness. This project will contribute new understanding of the principles and limitations behind such applications, vital for their eventual development into working products and services. The direct application of the individual workpackages is to generate results and knowl- edge that we shall pass through to the future projects that will build systems like these on a large scale. Several of the detailed avenues of research planned are speculative and even risky, in the anticipation that even if some are found impractical, this “negative” information is also useful to those trying to build concrete systems. As such, the strategic impact of this project will be on other, forward-looking, research projects that can draw on our work to more effectively build working systems for global computing.
Strategic impact. The purpose of the combination of collaborative activities and coordination and support actions proposed in NEXPReS is to further improve the research infrastructures for long baseline interferometry in Europe (VLBI, but also LOFAR). By its very nature this requires a European and often global approach. The continuation of the networking activities established in the past through the EXPReS project will ensure that this e-Infrastructure will be further integrated and consolidated by means of the most advanced ICT methods. The Service Activities will directly boost the scientific capacity of these large-scale facilities, leading to new, exciting scientific research by a larger user community. The R&D activities in the Joint Research Activities will explore new techniques enabling future capabilities in radio astronomy, and provide feedback into the ICT domain. Clearly, the proposed programme has all the qualifications to be considered as an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative, and will give Europe a leading role in the fields of radio-astronomy, long-haul, wide band connectivity, streaming computing and fast storage. Networking Activities will ▇▇▇▇▇▇ the cooperative culture established in our community over decades, but also provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration between radio astronomers and ICT infrastructure providers. Proper management is a common goal for all participants and this is implemented in WP1. Other objectives that will be addressed in Networking Activities include the strengthening of virtual communities. This is indeed the main activity of WP3 and WP4, which support the discussion platforms for EVN-NRENs and the e-VLBI Science Advisory Group. Both expert groups are essential for reaching the decisions that enforce and improve both the technical functioning and operational procedures of the infrastructure. Most of the funds are allocated to the organisation of meetings, which will definitely also attract parties from outside the consortium. However, these meetings are just the starting point for discussions and collaborations that will mostly work through e-mail and other means of communication. The EVN-NREN platform (WP2) is important for spreading good practices on high-speed connectivity beyond the NEXPReS partners, as well as discussing options and standards for the future. By associating these meetings with for example e-VLBI workshops, as has happened in the past, this activity plays an important role in disseminating ...
Strategic impact. MOLTO is addressing the task of high-precision translation of restricted language, which in the past has not belonged to the main stream of machine translation, but which is becoming increasingly relevant due to the advent of the Semantic Web. We expect the technology created in MOLTO to help greatly in the multilingual distribution of web content and also in its usage for information access and retrieval. MOLTO translation will be highly interoperable with Semantic Web standards (such as OWL) and adaptive to standard tools (web browsers and translators’ tools). The interoperability with Semantic Web standards will open existing ontologies and entity knowledge bases for the needs of MT tools. In turn grammar-based translation will strongly impact the way humans access structured knowledge, by providing NL query rendering to ontologies. The semantic retrieval results will also be rendered to grammatically flawless textual representations and presented to the end users as a high usability alternative to traditional table and graph based visualizations. Additionally, the grammar/ontology interoperability will empower knowledge extraction directly from text - a powerful metadata acquisition technique strongly desired by the Semantic Web, as a metadata layer struggling to capture the semantics of existing Web content. Translators are easy to build for new domains and to extend to new languages. They can even learn to translate better “on the fly”, by the use of example-based grammar writing, lexicon extension with minimal human intervention, and new statistical/grammar-based hybrid methods. A typical MOLTO translation system will work on a well-defined domain equipped with an ontology. The MOLTO developer’s tools will permit a domain expert, even without training in linguistics, to efficiently build a system that translates between an ontology and natural language. What is needed is a domain-specific lexicon and a set of example sentences describing the key properties of objects in the domain. This is made possible by the GF Resource Grammar Library (RGL) and the technique of example-based grammar writing. Porting the system into a new language is even easier, since the main relations between ontology and natural language tend to be similar in different languages; yet this similarity need not be followed, but can be overridden by transfer rules, most of which can be applied at compile time.
Strategic impact. The IncoNet EaP actively aims to contribute to reinforce the external dimension of the European Research Area (ERA) by promoting the attractiveness of Europe in the world, fostering coordination and joint actions between Member States (MS) and/or Countries associated (AC) to the next FP, and by contributing to the implementation of the new strategic framework for international Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation, communicated by the EC in September 2012, as well as of eventual upcoming initiatives of the Strategic Forum for International Cooperation (SFIC). The activities which the IncoNet EaP proposes are fully reflecting the Work Programme 2013 for international cooperation. • Firstly, the project ensures continuity in supporting the development of cooperation with a politically and socio-economically important neighbourhood region (i.e. Eastern Europe) for which ongoing actions are coming to an end in 2012/2013. • Secondly, the project invests efforts and creativity to operationally support the coordination of national policies and the development of joint activities between Member States and/or Associated Countries and EaP countries with a thematic focus on three societal challenges (namely climate change, energy and health). • Thirdly, the EaP countries possess competitive science and research capacities, which – although under threat of erosion (despite a number of promising reform efforts) – offer in comparison to other regions an important source for the advancement of European STI. Thus, our project aims to attract the best researchers from EaP countries to engage in cooperation with European researchers in Horizon 2020 as well as other cooperation opportunities. Specifically targeted instruments are employed for this. • Moreover, the Eastern European Neighbourhood region is an important and – by and large – steadily growing market with an enormous additional growth potential (if socio-economic reforms are effective), with an increasing demand for medium-tech and medium-high-tech products. The IncoNet EaP supports activities of mutual benefit across the whole STI chain to bridge the gap between research and innovation in the target region by facilitating contacts with EU’s businesses and alignment with EU’s standards. Targeted technical activities are employed in this project to create the desired impact in terms of:
(a) Improved access to knowledge, expertise and markets in Europe’s neighbouring region;
(b) Tackling more efficiently and effe...
Strategic impact. SHARE responds to all the priorities and expected impacts defined by the call ENV.2008.
1.3.1. 1, and will secure measurable progress beyond the state-of-the-art in all steps leading to a correct assessment of seismic hazard – in the definition of engineering requirements, in collection of input data, in their analysis, in procedures for hazard assessment, and in engineering applications – as well as long-lasting structural impact in areas of crucial societal and economic relevance.
1. We will achieve this by involving the relevant national experts in regional assessment of hazard, by adopting common European standards, and by producing a pan-European reference zonation of the anchoring variable for the definition of the national seismic zonation maps (peak acceleration on rock). This will result in more homogenous input for the implementation of the Eurocode 8 in 2010 and following years. −In parallel, SHARE will explore several ways to improve input specifications for the Eurocode 8, with specific reference to the “most appropriate return periods and ground-motion parameters for design for built environment for ultimate and damage-limit states”. To this end, we will (1) provide the basis to fully incorporate the principles of Performance-Based Seismic Design in the next generation of seismic design codes; (2) develop seismic hazard models capable of readily and more accurately providing earthquake actions in ways that are appropriate to the estimation of inelastic displacements, since these provide an effective control on damage at different limit states; (3) present alternative proposals to the current practice of defining the loading levels on the basis of pre-selected, and somewhat arbitrary, return periods; (4) explore alternative spectral shapes and site effect classifications; and (5) derive alternative parameters to characterize seismic input. −SHARE will cover all of the countries of Europe and of large parts of the Mediterranean, including Turkey and the countries of the Balkan area and of the Maghreb. This will result in the harmonization of the input zonations for the application of Eurocode 8 and ultimately in safer building construction practice in the whole Euro-Mediterranean region. −A declared priority of ENV.2008.1.3.1.1 is to improve the conditions for seismic hazard assessment for industry in Europe, and to provide a uniform framework for coherent PSHA for various applications. SHARE will achieve this goal, by developing a uniform pan-...
Strategic impact. The concept of a cluster of nanoscience facilities attached to LSFs, which aims at raising the standards of nanoscience experiments and offering access to state-of-the-art synthesis and nanofabrication to a wide research user’s community, has been included in the 2006 ESFRI roadmap by one of the specific Emerging Proposals named NANOSCIENCE. Thus, the NFFA proposal fully enters in the structuring project for the ERA, with the support of the EC under FP7. The European potential users of NFFA belong to diverse areas: materials science, physics, chemistry, life-sciences, various branches of engineering, bio-medical application, etc., and come from academia, national research institutions, and industry. Currently there are no open facilities for supporting full nanoscience projects involving design and nanofabrication of samples and functional systems. The research is done via collaborations between different institutions, with a generally low pace when complex processes are involved at far away institutions (like growth, lithography, electrical characterization, protection of samples, acquisition of beam time at a LSF). For this reasons, a strategic plan for a scaled implementation of Centres and their locations in Europe both in close connection and synergy with specific LSFs is needed at European level. This action will provide effective services also to nanoscience users from Countries that do not host LSFs. The NFFA activity will directly impact on European nanoscience by monitoring the effective response to users needs, both qualitative and quantitative, contributing to the development of a RI science policy. The often rather expensive equipment for nanofabrication will be optimised and used much more efficiently in NFFA user Centres than conventional operating mode, allowing also for a faster update. E-beam lithography machines or TEMs, as examples, are multi-million Euro instruments with a 5-6 year life at the edge of technology. Intensive use at NFFA Centres will make overall financially possible to stay at the state-of-the-art by replacing and upgrading even the top equipment. This is hardly affordable by typical nanoscience national laboratories in Europe, and simply not available to most of the academic research groups, or to entire national research communities within Europe. Routine technical cross checking of the nanofabrication and nanoprobing capabilities of the NFFA Centres will provide the metrology for establishing a NFFA standard that shou...
Strategic impact. This project will create an integrated diagnostic infrastructure for combined application and system tuning. Starting from system-wide basic performance screening of individual jobs, an automated workflow will route findings on potential bottlenecks either to application developers or system administrators with recommendations on how to identify their root cause using more powerful diagnostics. To this end, the European partners will contribute a collection of mature high-level tools for application performance analysis to be further enhanced with respect to their scalability, the depth of their analysis, and their support for asynchronous tasking. The tools will be made part of the workflow to ensure their most effective deployment. On future large-scale systems, with their heterogeneous architectures and their increasingly dynamic configuration, which is needed in response to their higher frequency of component failures, asyn- chronous tasking is believed to be a competitive alternative to the classic and more rigid fork-join execution model. In addition to the simplicity of the task abstraction, major advantages also include the higher autonomy and flexibility of the runtime system in scheduling the different parts of a computation. In this way, the programmer is shielded from many low-level decisions such as when and to which type of heterogeneous device a task will be dispatched. On the other hand, the lack of tools that can analyse the performance implications of the additional level of parallelism represented by tasks makes engineering well-performing codes a complex undertaking. This is precisely the scenario our project results will help to master. On a general level, our tuning environment encompassing both application and system performance analysis will help improve the efficiency of hybrid codes including those that utilise asynchronous tasking by providing insights into their performance behaviour and, thus, by guiding performance-relevant design decisions. The degree of automation offered by our environment will help achieve these improvements also faster, as tedious manual instrumentation and analysis of potentially unwieldy performance data sets will become dispensable and productivity of programmers is increased. Ultimately, the significant performance gain we expect will not only expand the potential of applications, making them fit for larger and more complex problems, but will also save valuable compute resources in terms of money and ...
Strategic impact. In CogX we aim to make significant progress in the science of how to build complete artificial cognitive systems. There has been good progress in the past few years in beginning to put back the pieces of AI together into complete cognitive robot systems. Despite this success these systems are still closely tied to their human operators. Mapping robots, for example, typically follow their guides waiting for the person to teach them about where they are. Robots for collaborative manipulation, while they can increasingly understand the connection between what a person says and what they see in the scene, essentially follow instructions to act or to learn, raising only simple queries in limited settings. The project answers both requirements specified as the call’s target outcomes2. It considers the issue of “achieving general goals” at several levels and addresses the issue of interaction between humans and robots through dialogue.