Institute of Informatics
Imaging data and services for aquatic science (iMagine)
Cloudové služby pre spracovanie obrazových údajov pre vedy o vode
| Duration: | 1.9.2022 - 31.8.2025 |
| Program: | Horizon Europe |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | iMagine provides a portfolio of free at the point of use image datasets, high-performance image analysis tools empowered with Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Best Practice documents for scientific image analysis. These services and materials enable better and more efficient processing and analysis of imaging data in marine and freshwater research, accelerating our scientific insights about processes and measures relevant for healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters. By building on the computing platform of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) the project delivers a generic framework for AI model development, training, and deployment, which can be adopted by researchers for refining their AI-based applications for water pollution mitigation, biodiversity and ecosystem studies, climate change analysis and beach monitoring, but also for developing and optimising other AI-based applications in this field. The iMagine compute layer consists of providers from the pan-European EGI federation infrastructure, collectively offering over 132,000 GPU-hours, 6,000,000 CPU-hours and 1500 TB-month for image hosting and processing. The iMagine AI framework offers neural networks, parallel post-processing of very large data, and analysis of massive online data streams in distributed environments. 13 RIs will share over 9 million images and 8 AI-powered applications through the framework. Having representatives so many RIs and IT experts, developing a portfolio of eye-catching image processing services together will also give rise to Best Practices. The synergies between aquatic use cases will lead to common solutions in data management, quality control, performance, integration, provenance, and FAIRness, contributing to harmonisation across RIs and providing input for the iMagine Best Practice guidelines. The project results will be integrated into and will bring important contributions from RIs and e-infrastructures to EOSC and AI4EU. |
EOSC Beyond: advancing innovation and collaboration for research
EOSC Beyond: pokrok v inováciách a spolupráci v oblasti výskumu
| Duration: | 1.4.2024 - 31.3.2027 |
| Program: | Horizon Europe |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | EOSC Beyond overall objective is to advance Open Science and innovation in research in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by providing new EOSC Core capabilities allowing scientific applications to find, compose and access multiple Open Science resources and offer them as integrated capabilities to researchers. To do so, EOSC Beyond supports a new concept of EOSC: a federated and integrated network of Nodes operated at different levels, national, regional, international and thematic, to serve the specific scientific missions of their stakeholders. Further specific objectives of the project are to accelerate ‘time to product’ of new scientific applications with software adapters, enable Open Science with machine composability and dynamic deployment of shared resources, support innovation in EOSC with a testing and integration environment, and align the EOSC Core architecture and specifications to integrate with European dataspaces. The project extends the state of the art of the EOSC Core and adopts a co-design methodology, including requirements elicitation, software development and validation in collaboration with different use cases from EOSC national and regional initiatives (e-Infra CZ, Czechia, NFDI, Germany, and NI4OS, South East Europe region), thematic research infrastructures from Social Sciences and Humanities (CESSDA), Life Sciences (CNB-CSIC and Instruct-ERIC), Environmental Science (ENES and LifeWatch), and Health and Food (METROFood-RI). EOSC Beyond builds on the capacities of prospective EOSC Nodes and partners with multi-annual experience in developing solutions for large-scale federated digital infrastructures and aligns with the technical architecture and requirements of data spaces from different business sectors. Ultimately, EOSC Beyond supports Open Science in modern, data-intensive, and multidisciplinary research, facilitating resource discovery, access, and reuse across scientific communities, organisations, and countries. |
European network on extreme fire behavior (NERO)
Európska sieť pre extrémne správanie požiarov
| Duration: | 17.10.2023 - 16.10.2027 |
| Program: | COST |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Glasa Ján CSc. |
Chemiresistive sensors based on 2D nanomaterials
Chemorezistorové senzory na báze 2D nanomateriálov
| Duration: | 1.1.2025 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: | Mobility |
| Project leader: | Ing. Mgr. Andok Robert PhD. |
| Annotation: | This project proposal builds on the previous project BAS-SAS-2022-05, which focused on investigating new progressive nanostructured 2D materials based on dichalcogenides of transition metals. In this project, we propose to focus on graphene as a 2D material for developing chemiresistive sensors. The subject of this project proposal is research concerning the preparation methods of nanometer patterns in 2D graphene using electron beam lithography, one of the alternative methods for creating nanometer patterns. An important part of the project is addressing the problems associated with the interaction of the electron beam in a very thin electron beam resist (10 - 50 nm) on 2D materials, including graphene. We will conduct experimental examinations and simulations of lithographic parameters on very thin electron beam resists on 2D graphene. We expect to observe new scattering effects that need to be analyzed and clarified in the case of low-energy secondary electrons. Additionally, the scattering of backscattered electrons, which involves long-range electron scattering in the substrate, will be examined. |
Inline evaluation of Li-ion batery electrod porosity using machine learning algorithms
Inline evaluácia pórovitosti elektród Li-ion batérií pomocou algoritmov strojového učenia
| Duration: | 1.6.2022 - 31.5.2025 |
| Program: | ERANET |
| Project leader: | Ing. Malík Peter PhD. |
Integrated Technological and Information Platformfor wildfire Management (SILVANUS)
Integrovaná technologická a informačná platforma pre manažment lesných požiarov
| Duration: | 1.10.2021 - 31.3.2025 |
| Program: | Horizon 2020 |
| Project leader: | Ing. Balogh Zoltán PhD. |
| Annotation: | SILVANUS envisages to deliver an environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform through innovative capabilities to prevent and combat against the ignition and spread of forest fires. The platform will cater to the demands of efficient resource utilisation and provide protection against threats of wildfires encountered globally. The project will establish synergies between (i) environmental; (ii) technology and (iii) social science experts for enhancing the ability of regional and national authorities to monitor forest resources, evaluate biodiversity, generate more accurate fire risk indicators and promote safety regulations among citizens through awareness campaigns. The novelty of SILVANUS lies in the development and integration of advanced semantic technologies to systematically formalise the knowledge of forest administration and resource utilisation. Additionally, the platform will integrate a big-data processing framework capable of analysing heterogeneous data sources including earth observation resources, climate models and weather data, continuous on-board computation of multi-spectral video streams. Also, the project integrates a series of sensor and actuator technologies using innovative wireless communication infrastructure through the coordination of aerial vehicles and ground robots. The technological platform will be complemented with the integration of resilience models, and the results of environmental and ecological studies carried out for the assessment of fire risk indicators based on continuous surveys of forest regions. The surveys are designed to take into consideration the expertise and experience of frontline fire fighter organisations who collectively provide support for 47,504x104 sq. meters of forest area within Europe and across international communities. The project innovation will be validated through 11 pilot demonstrations across Europe and internationally using a two sprint cycle. |
Smart Wound monitoring Restorative Dressings
Inteligentné diagnosticko-terapeutické náplasti
| Duration: | 1.1.2020 - 30.6.2025 |
| Program: | Horizon 2020 |
| Project leader: | RNDr. Bardošová Mária CSc. |
| Annotation: | The project aims to combine the expertise and resources of four academic groups working at the frontiers of material research and two SMEs, one engaged in producing commercial medical materials as well as having own research capacities. The Consortium plans to develop wound dressings which an be rated as a radical innovation in the area of chronic wound care. Our efforts will concentrate on the design of a new product which will combine diagnostic and therapeutic actions and facilitate wound healing, while at the same time minimize treatment costs and optimize wound management thus positively influencing patient's wellbeing. A range of new composites derived from naturally occurring materials, such as chitin and halloysite combined with colloids will be studied. The ensuing hybrid materials will be processed using micro- and nano-manipulating tools, including roll-to-roll and electrospinning technologies. A thorough characterization program will be undertaken in order to understand the molecular-level interactions between the composite components. The determination of materials structure will allow a complete understanding of how their properties originate so that they can be tailored to precisely fit their application. The dressing will feature diagnostic sensors capable of measuring pH, humidity, temperature and associated bacterial activity as well as a highly absorbent layer designed to drain the wound and release therapeutic agents. Each member of the Consortium is well-resourced in terms of facilities, infrastructure and technology transfer support so as to provide an ideal environment for the research program, the training of younger researchers and the exploitation of findings. Leveraging from nationally funded grants and actively engaging in research exchanges while seeking to produce a radical innovation in the area of 'smart' dressings the project will address all three key drivers of the knowledge-based society, namely research, education an innovation. |
Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud (AI4EOSC)
Umelá inteligencia pre EOSC
| Duration: | 1.9.2022 - 31.8.2025 |
| Program: | Horizon Europe |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | The AI4EOSC (Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud) delivers an enhanced set of advanced services for the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models and applications in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). These services are bundled together into a comprehensive platform providing advanced features such as distributed, federated and split learning; novel provenance metadata for AI/ML/DL models; event-driven data processing services or provisioning of AI/ML/DL services based on serverless computing. The project builds on top of the DEEP-Hybrid-DataCloud outcomes and the EOSC compute platform and services in order to provide this specialized compute platform. Moreover, AI4EOSC offers customization components in order to provide tailor made deployments of the platform, adapting to the evolving user needs. The main outcomes of the AI4EOSC project will be a measurable increase of the number of advanced, high level, customizable services available through the EOSC portal, serving as a catalyst for researchers, facilitating the collaboration, easing access to high-end pan-European resources and reducing the time to results; paired with concrete contributions to the EOSC exploitation perspective, creating a new channel to support the build-up of the EOSC Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning community of practice. |
leveraging the European compute infrastructures for data-intensive research guided by FAIR principles (EuroScienceGateway)
využitie európskych výpočtových infraštruktúr pre výskum náročný na údaje riadený zásadami FAIR
| Duration: | 1.9.2022 - 31.8.2025 |
| Program: | Horizon Europe |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | In the past decade, many scientific domains have been transformed into data-driven disciplines relying on the exchange and integration of internationally distributed data. Exploiting this data is still a laborious and largely manual task, prone to losses and errors, and increasingly specialised beyond most users technical capabilities. FAIR practices are encouraged but their adoption curve is steep. The needs for compute and data resources, tools, and application platforms are often domain-specific. Many scientists struggle to navigate this intricate ecosystem. Generally, researchers do not possess the computing skills to effectively use the HPC or Cloud platforms they need. Thus, new approaches are needed to enable all researchers, with widely ranging digital skills, to efficiently use the diverse computational infrastructures available across Europe, for asynchronous and for interactive applications. EuroScienceGateway will leverage a distributed computing network across 13 European countries, accessible via 6 national, user-friendly web portals, facilitating access to compute and storage infrastructures across Europe as well as to data, tools, workflows and services that can be customized to suit researchers' needs. At the heart of the proposal workflows will integrate with the EOSC-Core. Adoption, development and implementation of technologies to interoperate across services, will allow researchers to produce high-quality FAIR data, available to all in EOSC. Communities across disciplines - Life Sciences, Climate and Biodiversity, Astrophysics, Materials science - will demonstrate the bridge from EOSC's technical services to scientific analysis. EuroScienceGateway will deliver a robust, scalable, seamlessly integrated open infrastructure for data-driven research, contributing an innovative and customizable service for EOSC that enables operational open and FAIR data and data processing, empowering European researchers to embrace the new digital age of science. |
Secure Interactive Environments for SensiTive data Analytics (SIESTA)
Zabezpečené interaktívne prostredia pre analýzu citlivých údajov
| Duration: | 1.1.2024 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: | Horizon Europe |
| Project leader: | Ing. Tran Viet PhD. |
| Annotation: | The FAIR principles provide a framework for enabling proper access and reusability of scientific data, and implementing them is a key goal of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). However, providing access to sensitive or confidential data while preserving privacy/confidentiality and usability for researchers is still an open question. Existing solutions like safe rooms, safe pods, or data safe havens are often challenging for the development of reproducible research and seem counter-intuitive when dealing with open science and FAIR principles. The SIESTA project aims to provide a set of tools, services, and methodologies for the effective sharing of sensitive data in the EOSC, following a cloud-based model and approach. SIESTA will provide user-friendly tools with the aim of fostering the uptake of sensitive data sharing and processing in the EOSC. The project will deliver trusted cloud-based environments for the management and sharing of sensitive data that are built in a reproducible way, together with a set of services and tools to ease the secure sharing of sensitive data in the EOSC through state-of-the-art anonymization techniques. The overall objective is to enhance the EOSC Exchange services by delivering a set of cloud-based trusted environments for the analysis of sensitive data in the EOSC demonstrating the feasibility of the FAIR principles over them. |
The total number of projects: 10