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Pan-European crisis and disaster management research EPISECC
information technology to enable interoperability between public safety agencies. The electronic information exchange between these stakeholders will aide them in response to large disasters, such [...] and paramedics of Italy, Slovenia and Austria. The EPISECC project aims to develop the concept of a “Common Information Space” to become the key element in a future integrated Pan-European crisis and disaster [...] prototype and provided very positive feedback to the EPISECC team. The next challenge will be the transformation of the research results into marketable solutions and to introduce them into the operational disaster
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SESWA 2017 – Smart Energy Systems Week Austria
Infrastrukturen (Netze, Gebäude, Verkehrssystem) und deren Zusammenspiel, etwa als Building to Grid oder Vehicle to Grid, ein. Aber auch die Marktbedingungen für die Umsetzung innovativer Konzepte wurden erörtert
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Neue Österreichische Analyseplattform geht virtuellen Währungen auf die Spur
“International Consortium Launches to Prevent Criminal Use of Dark Web and Virtual Currencies”The Scotsman (main Scottish daily newspaper) “Blockchain consortium seeks to tackle cyber crime”Law Enforcement [...] kriminaltechnischen Untersuchungen behandelt. Im Fokus stehen virtuelle Währungen, Onlineforen, Peer-to-Peer Netzwerke im Darknet und von Ermittlungsbehörden sichergestellte Gerätschaften. Neues mächtiges [...] Langzeitspeicherung und Reproduzierbarkeit wird der gesamte Datenlebenszyklus abgedeckt. Helmut Leopold, Head of Center for Digital Safety & Security: In den Bereichen Cyber Security und Data Science haben wir
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FRESHER Project - Take part in our survey!
alternative futures where the detection of emerging health scenarios will be used to test future research policies to effectively tackle the burden of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs). The Scenario [...] in place to make one or the other scenarios unfold Please give us your expert opinion with a comment on innovative policy actions that you think can impact on the NCDs burden and contribute to a healthier [...] impact on NCDs, followed by the development of alternative future Health Scenarios, based on medium to long-term evolutions of these trends. FRESHER SCENARIOS The innovative approach of FRESHER is based
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AIT expert Klaus Kubeczko at panel discussion on “Smart & Sustainable Cities” in Brussels
CoR), Klaus Kubeczko was asked to discuss current activities by JPI Urban Europe and the Open & Agile Smart Cities Initiative from an RTI policy perspective, also referring to the foresight project BOHEMIA [...] 2017, AIT Senior Expert Advisor Klaus Kubeczko (Center for Innovation Systems & Policy) was invited to a joint hearing on “Cities as Actors of Open Innovation”, co-organized between The European Committee [...] BOHEMIA. Klaus Kubeczko: “In order to develop sustainable solutions for decarbonization, the most successful cities will establish innovation zones as testing grounds for future-oriented framework conditions
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OSCE supports green economy in Kazakhstan
only as an efficient tool to promote green economic growth but also as a means of contributing to energy security in the Central Asian region,” noted Diana Digol, Deputy Head of the OSCE Programme Office [...] Institute of Technologies (AIT) and the Energy Ministry aimed to foster co-operation in the area of developing "green" standards and providing training to the national and regional authorities on energy efficiency [...] with the Austrian Institute of Technology will further strengthen its national strategy of moving to a green economy." OSCE Homepage Contact: Astrid Schneider
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AIT experts awarded for “Best IxD&A paper of the year 2016”
improvement to be able to foretell the experience with a real game. The Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) understands itself as an interdisciplinary arena and “think tank” to present top [...] IxD&A paper of the year 2016”. Personalization of systems to the personal needs and preferences of users is generally regarded as good means to improve user experience of individuals – however, empirical
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UN-Conference in Astana: “Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Energy”
opportunity to explore how the United Nations system can help countries and business to implement or pursue sustainable agendas. Ministers, high-level delegations and leading energy experts explored how to drive
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IEA ANNEX 51: Acoustic Signatures of Heat Pumps
acoustic emissions is important to further increase the acceptance of heat pumps as air-to-water, water-to-air, air-to-air and brine-to-water (ground source) units. To increase this acceptance and minimize [...] respect to noise and vibration emissions. Another aim is collecting and combining research results in these fields on the different implementation levels (component, unit and application) to lead to [...] to directions for improved components, units and control strategies including guidelines, as well as training and inputs to future standards. Links: http://heatpumpingtechnologies.org/annex51/
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TEDxVienna Adventure at the Technology Experience Lab: The Type to Prototype
critical making challenge”, in which they had to build a simple prototype for a system to measure and share one’s emotions. The goal of prototyping is not necessarily to end up with a perfect model. The process [...] Center for Technology Experience hosted the TEDxVienna event The Type to Prototype. In a workshop, the attendees learned what it means to make a prototype and got hands-on experience. In groups of four, they [...] process of making is in itself valuable and can be used to learn – this is referred to as critical making. By deliberately leaving the exact design purpose and approaches open, questions arise automatically
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AIT at World Landslide Forum 4
China. With an even stronger involvement of MLR this cooperation can be expanded, leading to joint projects to prevent natural hazards in several provinces of China. Links: https://www.wlf4.org/ http://en [...] From May 29th to June 2nd 2017 the 4th World Landslide Forum was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. AIT was represented by Philip Leopold (Energy/ERT) who gave a well-received talk about the
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ERIGrid Consultation at European Utility Week (EUW)
European Utility Week 2017. This interactive discussion and presentation of the ERIGrid project aims to obtain feedback from representatives of utilities, standardisation organisations, industry/manufacturers [...] results on development and enhancement of simulation tools and methodologies Free of charge access to the ERIGrid research infrastructures/laboratories and the targeted research topics More information
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USE-iT: H2020 Project Focusing on Transport Infrastructure Is Successfully Concluded
data’ offer the potential for customers to become an active part of the transport operations system and have the information to make decisions – for transport to enable ‘mode agnostic’ personal and business [...] programme, with a vision to better understand the common challenges experienced across all transport modes, bring representatives of modes together to share experience and skills and to develop a set of common [...] for many complementary research actions due to technical overlaps in infrastructure requirements. Therefore, the objective of AIT experts’ work has been to gather knowledge on how operators and owners
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Training Workshop for IRAN delegation at AIT
and a Site Visit to Vienna’s Smart City Aspern were rounding off the visit. After the workshop, Mostafa Kazemi, Deputy Executive of the SCSRT, wrote in a letter of thanks ‘This is to appreciate your [...] will assist them in the workplace. (… ) Our objective (…) was to build on the concepts and achievements of the Smart City Bushehr as a pilot to achieve a smarter world. ‘ Contact: Ghazal Etminan [...] Bushehr City were receiving a 4-Day Urban Academy Workshop on ‘Smart City Development’ from June 26th to 29th, 2017 at AIT premises. The training included several important topics like the European Smart
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IIASA research scientists visit AIT
Systems Analysis (IIASA) are currently working on their theses in Laxenburg. They showed great interest to receive insights into the energy landscape in Europe and were open for a continuous scientific exchange
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"SPARKS" - ensuring a safe future
evaluated by a panel of experts. These achievements include approaches to assessing cyber-security risks to the smart grid; guidance on how to design and engineer secure smart grid architectures, and a set [...] but introduces new cyber-security risks that need to addressed. For the last three years, developing new processes, guidelines and technologies to ensure the security and resilience of the future smart [...] grids. The centrepiece of these technologies are integrated solutions that can be used to detect cyber-attacks to renewable energy sources and automatically mitigate their effects. This integrated solution
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Euromicro DSD/SEAA 2017
engineering, down to microarchitectures, digital circuits and VLSI techniques.Euromicro is an international scientific, engineering and educational non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the arts [...] long-standing international forum for researchers, practitioners from business and industry, and students to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns Software Engineering [...] sciences and applications of Information Technology and Microelectronics. Euromicro's contributions to the progress in this field form a unique European focal point of activities. In pursuing the mission
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TRA 2018: Full Paper Reviewer gesucht
Reviewer assignment to papers 03-30 October 2017 Review of full papers 28 Nov 2017 Full paper review and format decision sent to authors 25 Jan
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CEDR Conference on Asset Management & Maintenance
shall be developed to predict pavement durability and to get recommendations for maintenance procurement by investigating current practices. The five projects are: ARISE: Application to Roads of ISO55000 [...] in 2015. The aim of this research programme is to advance national road authorities' understanding of road equipment asset management, on why and how to implement ISO 55000 and on social benefits and costs [...] AIT experts within the next weeks. The purpose of this report is to bring together the findings and recommendations from the projects and to illustrate how road authorities can implement the recommendations
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AIT goes Berlin Science Week
dedicated to the dialogue between science and society to inspire a deeper understanding of our world. The Berlin Science Week fosters interdisciplinary exchange and encourages fellow participants to connect