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Opening European eHealth research programmes to new participants

As Europe's population ages, improving healthcare and inclusion for the elderly is becoming a fast expanding field of research. But researchers in the new member states and candidate countries have been slow to take advantage of IST funding and cooperation in these areas. The EPIST project team sought to change that.

"The main problem is that research organisations and companies in the New Member Countries (NMCs) and Associated Candidate Countries (ACCs) don't know how EU research projects work," explains EPIST coordinator Ira Vater of European Business Associates in Italy.

SAPHIRE: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform

Supporting Healthcare Professionals with Advanced Tools to Reduce their Loads
The medical practitioners at all levels are becoming more overloaded as the aging population of Europe increases. The health services of the EU can claim considerable credit for the decline in mortality over the last thirty years. However this success, particularly the fall in mortality rates among older people, has increased the demand for healthcare.

IST project seeks to improve online news delivery

Researchers working on an EU-funded project have developed a new set of semantic Web tools which they claim will help users find the online news that matters to them most, more quickly.

Internet must remain the driver for democracy and economic development

The first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) begins yesterday in Athens. It is an important milestone agreed last November at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (WSIS) as part of the drive to internationalise internet governance, to safeguard freedom online and to bridge the global digital divide.

Semantic-web technologies for enhanced knowledge management

Effective knowledge management is key to navigating the sea of information being made available using internet technologies. And participants in the IST project SEKT aim to lay the foundations for that greater effectiveness, by developing three core technologies for the semantic web.

New website leads the way in raising awareness of RFID

A new website launched by Informationsforum RFID aims to educate German consumers about the possible applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) in everyday life and consumer products.

Users can click on any category, ranging from 'refrigerator' to 'children' and 'mobile phones' to 'medicine' to read a short passage on how RFID is affecting people's lives in these areas.

EU project starts work on world's largest dyslexia databank

A new EU-funded project is aiming to create the world's largest databank on dyslexia. Dyslexia is a common learning disorder that affects at least 5% of school children in Europe. The range and severity of the problem varies widely, but the main areas of difficulty are reading, writing, spelling, numeracy, personal organisation and time-keeping.

Research and Development News

Opening European eHealth research programmes to new participants

SAPHIRE: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform

IST project seeks to improve online news delivery

Internet must remain the driver for democracy and economic development

Semantic-web technologies for enhanced knowledge management

New website leads the way in raising awareness of RFID

EU project starts work on world's largest dyslexia databank

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