This document announces an information day about the Horizon 2020 'Inclusive Innovative and Reflective Societies' Work Programme for 2017. The event will include presentations on the work programme and calls for proposals, advice on preparing proposals, and a presentation on a successful Cypriot project. It will take place on November 25th in Nicosia, Cyprus, and include sessions on the work programme, getting started on proposals, a Q&A, coffee breaks, and a presentation on a Cypriot cultural heritage project.
On the 30th October 2014 Historic Scotland hosted a gathering at Edinburgh Castle. Over 50 archaeologists from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland gathered together with experts in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Scotland Europa, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Resourcing Scotland’s Heritage and Creative Scotland (Creative Europe). There was also a delegate from the Isle of Man. The presentations from the day are on this slideshare.
Euroweb+ meeting at the University of L'Aquila, ItalyHenry Muccini
EUROWEB+ is a scholarship programme for students on undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral level, as well as for university staff in academic or administrative positions, financed by the European Commission, and a continuation of the previous project EUROWEB.
The EUROWEB+ Scholarship Programme is open to selected nationals in EU countries and Western Balkans who want to study or work at one of the partner institutions, see Applicant information.
The overall objective of EUROWEB+ project is to create a partnership in research and education that will strengthen the ties between EU and Western Balkans.
http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/eurowebplus/
On the 30th October 2014 Historic Scotland hosted a gathering at Edinburgh Castle. Over 50 archaeologists from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland gathered together with experts in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Scotland Europa, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Resourcing Scotland’s Heritage and Creative Scotland (Creative Europe). There was also a delegate from the Isle of Man. The presentations from the day are on this slideshare.
Euroweb+ meeting at the University of L'Aquila, ItalyHenry Muccini
EUROWEB+ is a scholarship programme for students on undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral level, as well as for university staff in academic or administrative positions, financed by the European Commission, and a continuation of the previous project EUROWEB.
The EUROWEB+ Scholarship Programme is open to selected nationals in EU countries and Western Balkans who want to study or work at one of the partner institutions, see Applicant information.
The overall objective of EUROWEB+ project is to create a partnership in research and education that will strengthen the ties between EU and Western Balkans.
http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/eurowebplus/
GRAVITATE:Geometric and Semantic Matching for Cultural Heritage ArtefactsGravitate Project
The GRAVITATE project is developing techniques that bring together geometric and semantic data analysis to provide a new and more effective method of re-associating, reassembling or reunifying cultural objects that have been broken or dispersed overtime. The project is driven by the needs of archaeological institutes, and the techniques are exemplified by their application to a collection of several hundred 3D-scanned fragments of large-scale terracotta statues from Salamis, Cyprus. The integration of geometrical feature extraction and matching with semantic annotation and matching into a single decision support platform will lead to more accurate reconstructions of artefacts and greater insights into history. In this paper we describe the project and its objectives, then we describe the progress made to date towards achieving those objectives: describing the datasets, requirements and analysing the state of the art. We follow this with an overview of the architecture of the integrated decision support platform and the first realisation of the user dashboard. The paper concludes with a description of the continuing work being undertaken to deliver a workable system to cultural heritage curators and researchers.
@inproceedings {gch.20161407,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage},
editor = {Chiara Eva Catalano and Livio De Luca},
title = {{GRAVITATE: Geometric and Semantic Matching for Cultural Heritage Artefacts}},
author = {Phillips, Stephen C. and Walland, Paul W. and Modafferi, Stefano and Dorst, Leo and Spagnuolo, Michela and Catalano, Chiara Eva and Oldman, Dominic and Tal, Ayellet and Shimshoni, Ilan and Hermon, Sorin},
year = {2016},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2312-6124},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-011-6},
DOI = {10.2312/gch.20161407}
http://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/gch20161407
The definitive version is available at http://diglib.eg.org/
Color Restoration of Scanned Archaeological Artifacts with Repetitive PatternsGravitate Project
Our work addresses the problem of virtually restoring archaeological artifacts. Virtual restoration is the process of creating a noise-free model of a degraded object, to visualize its original appearance. Our work focuses on restoring the coloring of the object. We considered both 2D and 3D objects, including scans of ancient texts and 3D models of decorated pottery. Our denoising method exploits typical characteristics of archaeological artifacts, such as repetitive decoration motifs and a limited palette of colors. Our classification method is based on minimization of an energy function, which includes a correspondence term, to encourage consistent labeling of similar regions. The energy function is minimized using the Graph-Cuts algorithm.
In this document we describe the challenges introduced to the project by the geographically distributed nature of the project partners and our approach to ensuring an efficient development methodology based on “agile” principles. We propose the use of DevOps to support incremental software releases and ongoing requirements updates, and show, using examples from the GRAVITATE platform development, how this is being implemented.
Gravitate D6.1 report on existing 3D scans and metadataGravitate Project
This report describes the available data relating to artefacts relevant to GRAVITATE, and documents the current level of metadata description (morphology, materials, etc.). The artefact data originates from the main participating collections: Cyprus Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum and British Museum.
This is a ‘living document’ updated internally. This public version represents a snapshot of all artefacts available to GRAVITATE researchers at this moment in time. Access to metadata and 3D scans of real-world artefacts is critical for real-world grounded evaluations of the semantic and geometric GRAVITATE technology. We also expect additional artefacts to be added to this catalogue as the GRAVITATE project progresses.
A Framework for Improved Access to Museum Databases in the Semantic WebMariana Damova, Ph.D
This paper presents a framework for processing Museum databases according to a set of interlinked ontologies, including CIDOC-CRM, and loading them in a reason-able view of the web of data, providing additional links to datasets from the LOD cloud. The infrastructure allows accessing the data via SPARQL queries and to verbalize the query results in natural language, the GF formalism, which allows access to 18 natural languages.
Contribution to the TU1204 WG2 meeting in Madrid
People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World
dealing with the considerations when establishing a Vritual Research Environment
GRAVITATE:Geometric and Semantic Matching for Cultural Heritage ArtefactsGravitate Project
The GRAVITATE project is developing techniques that bring together geometric and semantic data analysis to provide a new and more effective method of re-associating, reassembling or reunifying cultural objects that have been broken or dispersed overtime. The project is driven by the needs of archaeological institutes, and the techniques are exemplified by their application to a collection of several hundred 3D-scanned fragments of large-scale terracotta statues from Salamis, Cyprus. The integration of geometrical feature extraction and matching with semantic annotation and matching into a single decision support platform will lead to more accurate reconstructions of artefacts and greater insights into history. In this paper we describe the project and its objectives, then we describe the progress made to date towards achieving those objectives: describing the datasets, requirements and analysing the state of the art. We follow this with an overview of the architecture of the integrated decision support platform and the first realisation of the user dashboard. The paper concludes with a description of the continuing work being undertaken to deliver a workable system to cultural heritage curators and researchers.
@inproceedings {gch.20161407,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage},
editor = {Chiara Eva Catalano and Livio De Luca},
title = {{GRAVITATE: Geometric and Semantic Matching for Cultural Heritage Artefacts}},
author = {Phillips, Stephen C. and Walland, Paul W. and Modafferi, Stefano and Dorst, Leo and Spagnuolo, Michela and Catalano, Chiara Eva and Oldman, Dominic and Tal, Ayellet and Shimshoni, Ilan and Hermon, Sorin},
year = {2016},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {2312-6124},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-011-6},
DOI = {10.2312/gch.20161407}
http://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/gch20161407
The definitive version is available at http://diglib.eg.org/
Color Restoration of Scanned Archaeological Artifacts with Repetitive PatternsGravitate Project
Our work addresses the problem of virtually restoring archaeological artifacts. Virtual restoration is the process of creating a noise-free model of a degraded object, to visualize its original appearance. Our work focuses on restoring the coloring of the object. We considered both 2D and 3D objects, including scans of ancient texts and 3D models of decorated pottery. Our denoising method exploits typical characteristics of archaeological artifacts, such as repetitive decoration motifs and a limited palette of colors. Our classification method is based on minimization of an energy function, which includes a correspondence term, to encourage consistent labeling of similar regions. The energy function is minimized using the Graph-Cuts algorithm.
In this document we describe the challenges introduced to the project by the geographically distributed nature of the project partners and our approach to ensuring an efficient development methodology based on “agile” principles. We propose the use of DevOps to support incremental software releases and ongoing requirements updates, and show, using examples from the GRAVITATE platform development, how this is being implemented.
Gravitate D6.1 report on existing 3D scans and metadataGravitate Project
This report describes the available data relating to artefacts relevant to GRAVITATE, and documents the current level of metadata description (morphology, materials, etc.). The artefact data originates from the main participating collections: Cyprus Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum and British Museum.
This is a ‘living document’ updated internally. This public version represents a snapshot of all artefacts available to GRAVITATE researchers at this moment in time. Access to metadata and 3D scans of real-world artefacts is critical for real-world grounded evaluations of the semantic and geometric GRAVITATE technology. We also expect additional artefacts to be added to this catalogue as the GRAVITATE project progresses.
A Framework for Improved Access to Museum Databases in the Semantic WebMariana Damova, Ph.D
This paper presents a framework for processing Museum databases according to a set of interlinked ontologies, including CIDOC-CRM, and loading them in a reason-able view of the web of data, providing additional links to datasets from the LOD cloud. The infrastructure allows accessing the data via SPARQL queries and to verbalize the query results in natural language, the GF formalism, which allows access to 18 natural languages.
Contribution to the TU1204 WG2 meeting in Madrid
People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World
dealing with the considerations when establishing a Vritual Research Environment
We are happy to announce that Budapest was the host city of yet another remarkable international event, the Global Sustainable Fashion Week (GSFW), which took place between the 7th-10th of July, 2017, patroned by István Tarlós, mayor of Budapest.
The founder of the GSFW, the National Fashion Leage Hungary Association trusts that this outstanding event is interesting not only for fashion professionals but also to the general public who is sensitive and responsive to the topic of sustainable fashion. We are proud of the fact that this global and intercultural cooperation – between nations and cultures allows us to not only be participants but also a catalyst for sustainable fashion. We believe Budapest and Hungary has the potential to not only be a part of a world-class professional event, but to be the leader of it.
Remember: „The future of fashion is the future of the next generation” It is up to us!
The main sponsors of the event: INNOVATEX, VOSZ, RADICI GROUP, MELLOW MOOD HOTELS, Enterprise Europe Network by Hungarian National Trading House, Italian Culture Institute, MKB Bank, Conto Bene Jeans. http://www.fashionhungary.com/sponsors/.
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The conference will mark seven years of U.S. Agency for International development support to civil society in Serbia and the closeout of the Civil Society Advocacy Initiative (CSAI) program, implemented by the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC).
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
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Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
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Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
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Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
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jimsmith30024@gmail.com
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
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The H2020 ‘Inclusive Innovative and Reflective Societies’ Work Programme for 2017
1. INFORMATION DAY
‘The H2020 ‘Inclusive Innovative and Reflective Societies’ Work Programme for 2017’
25th
of November 2016
A.G Leventis Gallery
(5, A. G. Leventis (ex Leonidou) street, 1097 Nicosia, please see map here)
09:00 – 09:15 Registration and Coffee
09:15 – 09:30 Welcome, Introduction and the NCP Services
Research Promotion Foundation
09:30 – 10:30 Horizon 2020 Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies Work Programme and
Calls for Proposals
Ms Halina WALASEK
Unit B6 – Open and Inclusive Societies
European Commission
Research & Innovation Directorate-General
10:30 – 11:30 What’s Next? How to Get Started Preparing your H2020 Proposal
Ms Constantina MAKRI
HORIZON 2020 National Contact Point of Cyprus for Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective
Societies
European Research Programmes and International Cooperation Unit
Research Promotion Foundation
11:30 – 12:15 Q&A Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 12:50 Successful Societal Challenge 6 Project with Cypriot Participation
Project ‘GRAVITATE’- Geometric Reconstruction and Novel Semantic Reunification
of Cultural Heritage Objects’
Ass. Prof. Sorin HERMON
STARLAB Director
The Cyprus Institute
12:50 – 13:15 Q&A Session and Closure