ERRIC

Empowering Romanian Research on Intelligent Information Technologies

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers (A&C) at the University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest is already well known as both a national and regional centre of excellence in Intelligent Information Technologies.

The main goal of the ERRIC project is to empower A&C existing excellence in research by unlocking its significant research potential and enhancing its national and regional leadership position in selected areas of Intelligent Information Technologies: agreement technologies, semantic and collaborative technologies for the web, advanced grid technologies, large scale distributed system services, and adaptive intelligent control. Throughout this project, fostering high quality research in these areas of A&C expertise will lead to a comprehensive and sustainable integration of A&C into the wider European Research Area context.

Based on our SWOT analysis of existing competence and experience, the project Action Plan includes: - Strengthening our research and technological innovation capacities by supporting and mobilizing existing human resources, recruitment of experienced researchers, and expansion of the research infrastructure; - Establish an ambitious research agenda to significantly develop our research potential in the identified strategic areas and bring A&C research activity to the highest European level; - Leverage existing relationships with 11 well established European research entities in 5 EU countries to achieve two-way secondments for exchanging know-how and experience, develop strategic partnerships, and dramatically widen A&C existing research network; - Organize high quality scientific events focused on knowledge sharing and network building, to raise international awareness of A&C research capacity; - Enhance the dynamic research environment and collaborative links with leading IT companies to support wider socio-economic impact through exploitation of research results and user-driven innovation; - Promote A&C research excellence and disseminate the project results to maximise visibility at regional, European and international level.'

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Partners on the EU-funded project http://www.erric.eu/ (ERRIC) (Empowering Romanian research on intelligent information technologies) helped to boost A&C's research potential and make it more visible in the European Research Area (ERA). They achieved this through high-quality scientific events across Europe, enhancing old collaborations and establishing new contacts for an extended scientific network.

New researcher hires, 76 transnational 2-way secondments (with 12 partnering organisations from 5 EU countries), and laboratory upgrades contributed to fulfilling ERRIC objectives and strengthening A&C's research excellence. One example is the new, fully functional Laboratory of Ambient Intelligence.

Launch of the ERRIC portal, ERRIC Knowledge E-Environment and A&C Alumni database have facilitated networking, community building and strategic partnerships. Partners established an ambitious research agenda and the Roadmap of A&C RTDI, as well as thematic priorities for A&C research.

Scientific events helped to promote A&C work in a wide range of IIT domains, and ERRIC leveraged media and other events to rebrand the faculty and raise awareness.

Twenty-one cooperation agreements were realised with universities from the EU and Romania, plus fifteen partnerships with universities from Asia and the EU, and over ten project proposals in cooperation.

Four A&C Brokerage Events hosted the participation of 48 companies. Cooperation agreements have been signed with 15 companies, including Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Thales, Google, IBM, Microsoft and CISCO. Such achievements lay the groundwork for better collaboration with high-tech companies and future valorisation of high-potential research results.

The team published 22 journal papers reporting ERRIC-supported work, 102 conference papers, book chapters, and over 300 papers reporting results in ERRIC domains. Nine books have also been published.

Project work and outcomes were presented at 43 dissemination events. The team produced an A&C Research and Excellence Flyer and an A&C Research Book, as well as promotional materials and a short movie. More information (including reports, flyers, papers and brochures) is available on the project website.

ERRIC has fostered high-quality research in A&C areas of expertise and help to boost European cooperation. ERRIC's successes have also strengthened opportunities for participation in internationally and EU-funded research, contributing to its integration in the wider ERA context.