Towards European standards for quantum technologies

The Second Quantum Revolution facilitates the engineering of new classes of sensors, communication technologies, and computers with unprecedented capabilities. Supply chains for quantum technologies are emerging, some focused on commercially available components for enabling technologies and/or quantum-technologies research infrastructures,...

Assessment of the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Support Public Services: Methodology and Roadmap

To assess the social and economic impacts of Artificial Intelligence on public services,a methodology using a public value perspective was developed. This workshop aims to validate this methodology as well as to develop a roadmap for implementation of this methodology,including the identification of opportunities, threats, enablers and barriers.

Perspective on a risk-based roadmap towards the implementation of the safe innovation approach for industry

The challenge in ensuring the safety of manufactured nanomaterials and products stems from the lack of knowledge among industries about the potential environment and health risks of nanotechnology based innovations and the legislations that apply to them. A lack of information and preparedness for the regulatory safety assessment of innovative...

De quantumrevolutie begint in Delft

Quantumfysica is voor gewone stervelingen een ongrijpbaar fenomeen. Toch weten knappe koppen het te vertalen naar quantumtechnologie die de belofte van concrete ‘gamechanging’ toepassingen in zich heeft. Het Delftse onderzoeksinstituut QuTech ontwikkelt er demonstrators voor. Zo heeft de toekomstige quantumcomputer een ongelooflijke...

The Electromagnetic framework of 'Nanoarchitectronics'

'Nanoarchitectronics' (NTX) denotes a new interdisciplinary research area at the crossroad of Electromagnetics and Nanoelectronics. This new technology will develope reconfigurable, adaptive and cognitive structures with unique physical properties, and engineering applications in the whole electromagnetic spectrum. This FET project funded by the...

ResiStand: Increasing disaster Resilience by establishing a sustainable process to support Standardisation of technologies and services : Delivrable 5.3 : Roadmap for standardisation deliverables improving disaster resilience

In order to develop the ResiStand roadmap, the collected data of the preceding tasks has been processed, based on the central tools and concepts of the project like the ResiStand Assessment Framework. The data has been analysed, assessed and transformed into potential individual standardisation items providing key some characteristics.

ResiStand: Increasing disaster Resilience by establishing a sustainable process to support Standardisation of technologies and services : Delivrable 6.2 : Testing the ResiStand Process

Standardisation is a powerful tool to achieve better interoperability. However, it needs to overcome a lack of interest and modest participation from stakeholders. Also, promising research results are not always used as the basis for new standards. The overall goal of ResiStand is to find new ways to improve the crisis management and disaster...

Integration of vulnerable road users in cooperative ITS systems

Introduction: This paper describes the development of an architecture for the integration of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), i.e. pedestrians, cyclists and powered two-wheelers (PTWs) in Cooperative ITS (C-ITS) systems, and the requirements for VRU devices. Methods: This paper starts with a literature overview on research related to safety...

Microfluidic standardization: Past, present and future

This paper addresses the issue of standardization in microfluidics. It contains the main points of an industry wide agreement about microfluidic port pitches and port nomenclature. It also addresses device classification and future steps.

Roadmap towards a smart logistics ecosystem

Currently, the fundamentals of a technical infrastructure for a logistics ‘systems-of-systems’ are laid, facilitating improved, more effective and efficient logistics services based on higher levels of self-organization. Through situation awareness with enhanced methods for sharing (real-time) data, logistic stakeholders can improve decision...

COPRA Aviation Security Research Roadmap

The EU funded project COPRA (Comprehensive European Approach to the Protection of Civil Aviation) developed a roadmap for future research activities, which could lead to a more resilient, flexible and comprehensive approach. Tackling 70 existing and potential threats to aviation (security) identified during the COPRA project, the research...

Turbulence Compensation: an overview

In general, long range visual detection, recognition and identification are hampered by turbulence caused by atmospheric conditions. Much research has been devoted to the field of turbulence compensation. One of the main advantages of turbulence compensation is that it enables visual identification over larger distances. In many (military)...

Probiotics and prebiotics to combat enteric infections and HIV in the developing world: A consensus report

Infectious disease in the developing world continues to represent one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. Every year over a million children suffer and die from the sequela of enteric infections, and in 2008 was estimated almost 2.7 million (UNAIDS 2009 update) adults and children became infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)....

Assistive Robotics in Robotics for healthcare, roadmap study for the EC

To gain understanding in the current status of Robotics in healthcare the European Commission issued a roadmap study into this domain. This paper reports on the main characteristics and results of this study. The study covered the wide domain of Healthcare and in this paper the domains relevant for Assistive Technology are highlighted. The study...

Policy and regulatory roadmaps for the integration of distributed generation and the development of sustainable electricity networks. Final report of the SUSTELNET project

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