EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

ETN-FETCH: Future Education and Training in Computing: how to support learning at any time anywhere, Project No. 539461-LLP-1-2013-1-BG-ERASMUS-ENW, Agreement No. 2013 – 3862 / 001 - 001, coordinator - the University of Rousse, IICT-BAS partnership (2013-2016).

The main objectives of the Project are to introduce innovative technologies in education, develop an integrated environment for computing education, which includes curricula, syllabi, e-learning, resources, student exhibition forums, which will significantly raise education quality. It will also propose a set of recommendations for future Digital Curricula in Computing Education and Training 2020 and will develop new didactical theories and learning models for using social media in education. For more details visit http://fetch.ecs.uni-ruse.bg/

FIVES (2009-2011): Forensic Image and Video Examination Support, "Safer Internet Plus" Program of EC, SIP-2008-TP-131801. Consortium - Karlstad University (coordinator), NetClean Tech. AB (Sweden), IICT-BAS (Bulgaria), DFKI (Germany), KLPD (Netherlands) and FCCU (Belgium).

The objective of the FIVES project is to develop novel investigative tools specifically tailored for investigations involving images and videos of child sexual abuse. The tools will be based on already existing research and software created by the academic partners that will be adapted, extended and integrated into an easy to use tool set that fits the police requirements. The expected end result of the FIVES project is a self-contained tool set distribution that is easy to use and that supports easy translation to languages across Europe.

ETN TRICE (2008-2011): Teaching, Research, and Innovation in Computing Education, Erasmus Thematic Network No. 142399-LLP-1-2008-1-BG-ERASMUS-ENW. Consortium - 70 partners from 30 European countries, coordinator - the University of Rousse, http://trice.ecs.ru.acad.bg, IICT-BAS partnership.

The project is designed to promote research and innovation in Computing education practice. The targeted objective will be achieved through analysis of the state-of-the-art, exchange of positive experience, dissemination of the good practices between the involved partners, improvement of the quality of teaching through employment of innovative educational technologies. The project's goals also includes the integration between universities, research institutes and companies, so that the ETN-TRICE network grows to the level of operator of the teaching, research and innovations in the area of Computing Education.

COST 2101 (2006-2009): Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards, Consortium of 15 European partners, coordinated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

The goal of the project is to stimulate the cooperation of European researchers in the area of document and smart cards identity. Different biometric modalities are involved and their potential applicability will be evaluated.

BIOSECURE (2004-2007): Biometrics for Secure Authentication, Network of Excellence: 30 European partners and two USA companies, coordinator: Groupe des Ecoles des Telecommunications in Paris. Contract: 507634-IST-FP6-EC, http://biosecure.it-sudparis.eu/AB/, IIT-BAS partnership.

The main objective of this network is to strengthen and to integrate multidisciplinary research efforts in order to investigate biometric-based identity authentication methods for the purpose of meeting the trust and security requirements in our progressing digital information society.

ETN DEC (2004-2007): Doctoral Education in Computing, Erasmus Thematic Network No.114046-CP-1-2004-1-BG-ERASMUS-TN, Consortium - 70 partners from 30 European countries, coordinator - the University of Rousse, http://ecet.ecs.ru.acad.bg/etndec, IIT-BAS partnership.

The main project objective was to help the process of affirming the PhD education as "the third" level of the higher education, to reveal the possibilities to increase the quality of doctorate education, to establish methods and instruments for the estimation, approbation and certification of the knowledge and skills of the PhD students in the area of Computing, that would be synchronized to the practices in Europe and around the world.

Greek-Bulgarian Collaboration Project on "Study of Biomedical Data by the Methods of Multiresolution Analysis. Polyspline Wavelet Analysis in Immuno-Computations and Brain Research". Research project B-G-17/2005, co-funded by the National Science Fund of Bulgaria, BG team coordination by IMI- BAS, IIT-BAS partnership (2005-2007).

The main purpose of the Project was to unify the efforts of the specialists from two different research teams in Greece and Bulgaria, in the interdisciplinary area of Biomedical Informatics and more precisely, in the applications of modern mathematical methods to the analysis and approximation of biomedical data. The team from Bulgaria has been more concentrated over the analysis of the EEG data, while the team from Greece - over the DNA data.

Requirements and Framework for Environment and Transport Telematics, (1998-1999): CAPE Project (TR 4101/ IN 4101), FP5 of EC, IIT-BAS partnership.

The aim of the Bulgarian team in the project was the preparation of a regional report for the country's status in the area of environmental and transport telematics.