WORKPAD, an EU-funded ICT research project, has developed software applications that allow emergency teams responding to natural disasters to coordinate and communicate with each other quickly and efficiently, helping to save more lives. Coordination and communication is especially important when emergency teams from many different agencies, civil authorities and NGOs are on the ground at the same time. ?1.85 million of EU funding helped the researchers to explore how dozens of databases from different organisations can be linked via peer-to-peer technology to improve response time and avoid duplication of efforts.   More »

Europeans face less disruption when travelling by train this summer, thanks to a research project that has received ?2.6 million of EU funding. From 2006 to 2009, researchers from 12 universities (in Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands) and French railway company SNCF (Soci?t? Nationale des Chemins de fer Fran?ais) worked on the ARRIVAL project, under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Christos Zaroliagis from the Research Academic Computer Tecnology Institute (CTI), University of Patras.   More »