Embedded World 2007 Exhibition & Conference takes place in Nuremburg, from the 13th until the 15th of February. During the Exhibition & Conference, on the 14th of Februrary, takes also place the Symposium on EU funded embedded systems research projects.

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Read in CORDIS: The service oriented programmable smart environments for older Europeans-project (SOPRANO), that will be carried out during the next three years, aims to design and develop highly innovative, context-aware, smart services with natural and comfortable interfaces for older people at affordable costs.

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Read in CORDIS: Telefonica I+D coordinates an interesting european project called “Complete Ambient Assisting Living Experiment” (CAALYX). The main objective of the project is to develop a wearable light device able to measure specific vital signs of the elder or ill person, to detect falls and to communicate autonomously in real time with his/her caregiver in case of an emergency.

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Read in CORDIS: Vodafone Omnitel N.V. coordinates an european project called PERSONA that aims to develop a scalable open standard technological platform to build a broad range of AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) services.

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Read in CORDIS: BSH Electrodomésticos España S.A. coordinates an interesting european project called EASY LINE+. The project aims to develop prototypes of white goods (large electrical home appliences) that support longer independent life of elderly persons with or without disabilities and compensate their loss of physical and/or cognitive abilities.

The following research groups of I3A are involved in this project: The Group of Power Electronics and Microelectonics (GEPM), The Computer Vision Laboratory (CV_Lab) and TECNODISCAP.

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Read in CORDIS: Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya coordinates an interesting european project called SHARE-IT. The project aims to develop a flexible system of add-ons and assistive technologies integrated into an intelligent home that informs and assists the user and his/her caregivers through monitoring and mobility help.

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Read in CORDIS: The Vienna University of Technology coordinates an interesting european project called COMMROB that aims to develop the sate of the art in high-level communication with and among robots. The project intends to develop multimodal communication models that involve behaviours (movements, gestures …) as well as their recognition for advanced Human-Robot Interaction. You can find the description of the project here.

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Mañana miércoles día 31 de enero tendrá lugar la conferencia “Ecodiseño: Oportunidad del Siglo XXI” impartida por José Ángel Rupérez, Responsable General de Medio Ambiente del Departamento de Riesgos, Seguridad y Salud Laboral de BSH Electrodomésticos-España. La conferencia tendrá lugar a las 18:00 horas en la Sala de Grados del Edificio Torres Quevedo del Centro Politécnico Superior (CPS) de la Universidad de Zaragoza. La conferencia está organizada por la Catedra Samca (CPS-I3A). Para ver la nota de prensa completa, pincha aquí.

El Grupo de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Sistemas de Eventos Discretos (GISED) del I3A ofrece una beca de Formación de Personal Investigador (FPI) para trabajar en un proyecto que se centrará fundamentalmente en el formalismo de redes de Petri continuas, definido relajando las restricciones de integralidad de forma similar a como se hace en redes de colas fluidas, y más específicamente en problemas de optimización asociados. El anuncio completo está en la página web del I3A y los interesados pueden rellenar la solicitud en la página web del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.

Read in CORDIS: The Intelligent robot swarm for attendance, recognition, cleaning and delivery project (IWARD) that will be carried out during the next three years, aims to develop robots able to take care of the attendance, recognition, communication and support (assisting/cleaning) activities at hospital wards.

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La convocatoria de ayudas para “la formación de personal investigador” (FPI) ha sido publicada en el BOE con la fecha de 22 de enero. El plazo de presentación de solicitudes será de 15 días naturales, contados desde el día siguiente a su publicación en el BOE.

RTLinux (una distribución de Linux pensada para sistemas de tiempo real) es el corazón de un sistema de control de cámara de vídeo empleado por CableCam para la retransmisión de partidos de la liga NFL de fútbol americano. Las cámaras son controladas en tiempo real por un operario, y están suspendidas sobre el estadio por cables, permitiendo ángulos de visión y tomas espectaculares.

Para más información : Real-time Linux flies cameras over NFL games

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La convocatoria de ayudas del Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (I+D+I 2004-2007) en la parte dedicada al Fomento de la Investigación Técnica para “proyectos científico-tecnológicos singulares y de carácter
estratégico” ha sido publicada con la fecha de 18 de enero en el BOE. El plazo para presentar las solicitudes será de 30 días naturales, contados desde el día siguiente a su publicación en el BOE.

Check this Partner Offer at CORDIS: Forest DS (FDS), specialized in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing Technologies seems interested in finding partners for european collaborations.

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Check this Partner Offer at CORDIS: Q-Life research group of the University of Umea, specialized in the new technologies that can be applied to improve quality of life, seems interested in finding partners for a european proposal addressing psychological and societal problems arising from loneliness and physical and social isolation in the elderly.

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Check this Partner Offer at CORDIS: Artificial and Knowledge Engineering Gruop (AIKE), interested in fields as Bioinformatics, Medical informatics, Biomathematics, Biometrics, Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Systems engineering and Computer technology, seems interested in finding partners for european collaborations.

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Check this Partner Offer at CORDIS: Belgian research centre Multitel, specialized in fields such as Speech and Signal Processing, Image processing, Networking and Photonics seems interested in finding partners for european collaborations.

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The first EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) takes place in Brussels, Belgium, and in other European cities from Monday 29th of January to Friday 2nd of February. According to their web-page, EUSEW “aims to become the key annual reference point for sustainable energy issues in Europe”. You can find a day-by-day overview of the activities here.

The 6th ManagEnergy Annual Conference that takes place in Brussels from the 30th of January until the 1st of February forms part of the EUSEW.

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Read in CORDIS: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas (CSIC-CENIM) has coordinated a project (ALUSI) that has explored the capabilities of aluminium forming alloys to be employed as biomaterials for hip or knee surgical implants. You can read the whole article here.

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Miércoles día 17 de enero y a las 18:00 horas Lynn Margulis impartira la conferencia “Revolución en la Evolución” en el Ateneo del CPS-I3A, en el Salón de Actos del Edificio Ada Byron del Centro Politécnico Superior (CPS) de la Universidad de Zaragoza.

Frecuentemente a Lynn Margulis se le nombra como una de las mujeres más influyentes en las ciencias biológicas a nivel mundial. Su nombre se relaciona por ejemplo con la Teoría Simbiótica sobre el origen de las células complejas o la Teoría GAIA. La nota de prensa sobre la conferencia está disponible en la página web del I3A

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