Recent trends in cloud computing go towards the development of new paradigms (heterogeneous, federated, distributed clouds) as opposed to the current centralised model, with tight interactions between the computing and networking infrastructures.
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Open Call ICT-14-2016-2017: Big Data PPP: Cross-Sectorial and Cross-Lingual Data Integration and Experimentation
Europe lacks a systematic transfer of knowledge and technology across different sectors and there is an underdeveloped data sharing and linking culture. Traditionally, data has been collected and used for a certain purpose within sectorial "silos", while using data across sectors for offering new services opens new opportunities for solving business and societal challenges.
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Open Call ICT-22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills
Learning today takes place in a context of new interactions between formal and informal learning, the changing role of teachers, the impact of social media, and the students' active participation in the design of learning activities. While there is strong demand for (user-driven) innovation in digital learning,
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Open Call ICT-15-2016-2017: Big Data PPP: Large Scale Pilot Actions in Sectors Best Benefitting from Data-Driven Innovation
European research and development in data technologies produces promising results, but these are not yet deployed at large scale in a systematic manner. The challenge is to stimulate effective piloting and targeted demonstrations in large-scale sectorial actions ("Large Scale Pilot actions"), in data-intensive sectors, involving key European industry actors.
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Open Call ICT-24-2016: Gaming and Gamification
The software games business is growing fast. Its technological and methodological underpinnings have been laid down in years of research and development. At a significantly lower scale, they are now finding their way into non-entertainment contexts, helping deliver substantial benefits, particularly in education, training, research and health.
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Overview of eHealth Horizon 2020 Calls in ICT WP 2016-17
This overview is designed to help potential proposers find eHealth related calls in ICT WP 2016-17 topics across the Horizon 2020 work programme. ICT have a prominent role in 'Societal challenge' and is addressed in dedicated topics in three parts of the 'Personalised Medicine' call: active ageing and self-management of health; methods and data; coordination activities.
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Open Call SC1-HCO-16-2016: Standardisation needs in the field of ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing
The area of ICT for active and healthy ageing (AHA) is a new cross-sectorial domain in which standards play a key role. Standardisation efforts in the area tend to be taken by the different domains' actors individually, often lacking a coordinated and targeted approach.
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Recent trends in cloud computing go towards the development of new paradigms (heterogeneous, federated, distributed clouds) as opposed to the current centralised model, with tight interactions between the computing and networking infrastructures.