REVERIE (ICT-287723) aims to move social networking towards the next logical step in its evolution: to immersive collaborative environments that support realistic inter-personal communication. Recent scientific advances in a variety of different research fields mean that it is now possible to integrate research outputs towards technologies that support real-time realistic interaction between humans in online virtual & immersive environments. REVERIE envisages an ambient, content-centric Internet-based environment, highly flexible and secure, where people can work, meet, participate in live events, socialise and share experiences, as they do in real life, but without time, space and affordability limitations. To achieve this goal, REVERIE will focus on the integration of cutting-edge technologies related to 3D data acquisition and processing, sound processing, autonomous avatars, networking, real-time rendering, and physical interaction and emotional engagement in virtual worlds. The project will also address usability and acceptability aspects of the resulting user experience. The project features two compelling use case scenarios that will be used as the basis for technical integration and that collectively will allow the project to demonstrate the validity and potential socio-economic benefits of REVERIE’s vision of the future of social networking.

Starting Date: 1/9/2011 Duration: 42 Months Status: Running Project Consortium: - STMicroelectronics        (Project Coordinator) - Queen Mary and Westfield College, University Of London  (Project Technical Manager) - CTVC Ltd - Blitz Games Studios - Alcatel-Lucent Bell N.V. - Disney Research Zurich - Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich Hertz Institute - Philips Consumer Lifestyle - Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - Institut Telecom - Telecom ParisTech - Dublin City University - Synelixis Solutions Ltd - CETRH/Informatics and Telematics Institute

FASTER (Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration) will facilitate the use of reconfigurable technology by providing a complete methodology that enables designers to easily implement and verify applications on platforms with general-purpose processors and acceleration modules implemented in the latest reconfigurable technology. We expect that the project will lead to a 20% productivity improvement due to seamless implementation and verification of dynamically changing systems, a 50% total ownership cost reduction for NIDS and Reverse Time Migration systems, with a 2x performance improvement under power constraints for Global Illumination and Image Analysis.

Starting Date: 1/9/2011 Duration: 36 Months Status: Running Project Consortium: - Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas       (Project Coordinator) - Chalmers University of Technology               - Imperial College London - Politecnico di Milano - Ghent University - Maxeler - STMicroelectronics - Synelixis Ltd

FINSENY (Future Internet Smart Energy) aims to identify the ICT requirements of Smart Energy Systems. This will lead to the definition of new solutions and standards, verified in a large scale pan-European Smart Energy trial. Project results will contribute to the emergence of a sustainable Smart Energy infrastructure, based on new products and services, to the benefit of all European citizens and the environment. As part of the FI-PPP programme, FINSENY will intensively analyse energy-specific requirements together with the other FI-PPP projects, develop solutions to address these requirements, and prepare for a Smart Energy trial in phase two of the programme. The growing FINSENY Smart Grid Stakeholder Group will provide broad visibility of the on-going project work in the energy community, enhancing the acceptability of the project results and facilitating the development of the smart energy market.

COAST (ICT-248036) project aims to design, a Future Content Network (FCN), based on the content-oriented paradigm. In conjunction to the client-server paradigm, the content-oriented paradigm focuses not only on the communication party, but also on the delivered data themselves. COAST is expected to deliver a FCN overlay architecture, where the users will just specify which data they need, and the COAST framework will find the desired data and forward it to the users efficiently, achieving network-wide SLAs in content consumption.

Starting Date: 1/2/2010 Duration: 33 Months Status: Running Project Consortium: - STMicroelectronics        (Project Coordinator) - Synelixis Ltd                 (Project Technical Coordinator) - NEC Europe Ltd - Telefonica I+D - Yahoo!Iberia - Technische Universität Berlin - Fraunhofer HHI                    - Fundacion Barcelona Media - Politecnico di Torino - University of California, Los Angeles - Seoul National University

HEAP (ICT-247615) project addresses a key problem in the development process for current and future multi-core and multi-threaded architectures: the identification of a sufficient amount of thread-level parallelism (i.e. macro-parallelism) to exploit the available hardware, without imposing an excessive burden on the communication structure (often a shared memory or cache).

Starting Date: 1/2/2010 Duration: 33 Months Status: Running Project Consortium: - STMicroelectronics        (Project Coordinator) - Synelixis Ltd                 (Project Technical Coordinator) - Thales Communications S.A. - SingularLogic S.A. - ACE Associated Compiler Experts - Compaan Design BV - ATHENA, Industrial Systems Institute                    - Politecnico di Torino - University of Genoa - Uppsala University

nextMedia Coordination Action (ICT-249065) supports professional and novice content producers and is at the crossroads of digital multimedia content and Internet technologies. It encompasses two main aspects: Media being delivered through Internet networking technologies (including hybrid technologies) and Media being generated, consumed, shared and experienced on the web.

Starting Date: 1/11/2009 Duration: 24 Months Status: Running Project Consortium: - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  (Project Coordinator) - Atos Origin - CREATE NET - CERTH/ITI - Queen Mary and Westfield College, University Of London - Synelixis Ltd

BeyWatch (ICT-223888) project aims to design, develop and evaluate an innovative, energy-aware and user-centric solution, able to provide intelligent energy monitoring/control and power demand balancing at home/building & neighbourhood level. The system will interconnect legacy professional/ consumer electronic devices with a new generation of energy-aware white-goods, where multilevel hierarchic
metering, control, and scheduling will be applied, based on power demand, network conditions and personal preferences.

Starting Date: 1/12/2008 Duration: 30 Months Status: Completed Successfully Project Consortium: - Telefonica I+D                (Project Coordinator) - Synelixis Ltd                  (Project Technical Coordinator) - GL Ltd - Electricite De France - Gorenje D.D. - Fagor Electrodomésticos - University of Palermo                    - Sigma Consultants

SEA (ICT-214063) project aims to offer a new experience of seamless video delivery, maintaining the integrity and wherever applicable, adapting and enriching the quality of the media across the whole distribution chain.

SEA motivation is to implement a context-aware networking delivery platform, by focusing on four key principles: a) Multi-layered/Multi-viewed content coding, b) Multi-source/Multi-network content streaming offering on-the fly adaptation, c) Cross-network/Cross-layer optimisation and d) Content Protection.

Starting Date: 1/1/2008 Duration: 24 Months Statuts: Completed Successfully Project Consortium: - STMicroelectronics S.r.l.  (Project Coordinator) - Synelixis Ltd                   (Project Technical Coordinator) - Thomson Grass Valley - Philips Consumer Lifestyle - Vodafone Panafon AEET - Nomor Research - Fraunhofer HHI - Politecnico di Torino                     - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid     - University of California, Los Angeles