Title: The Hope Project
1- The Hope Project
- A paradigm of successful Balkan Integration
- Katerina Papakonstantinou
- BIT-Bureau for International Research and
Technology Cooperation -
2Overview
- HOPE (EUROMAP 3)
- HOPE 2001
- IST Success Stories
- BIT
3 Boosting Opportunities for Human Language
Technology Uptake in Europe
4What is HLT ?
- Multilinguality
- for all online content
- translation automation
- covering all language pairs
- Natural interactivity
- voice and text, handwriting and touch
- accessing language, image and sound
- in user-friendly conversational mode
- Active content
- across all natural languages
- accessing all forms of knowledge
- generating new knowledge
5 Background and objectives
- Enormous potential of HLT research and user base
in Europe - BUT Low return on investment for HLT RTD funding
in Europe mainly due to lack of knowledge and
awareness - Euromap will try to boost market take-up by
- Encouraging closer co-operation between players
- Building communities, at national and European
level - Accelerating HLT technology transfer
- Enabling the preparation of good HLT project
proposals - Providing relevant information about existing
projects
6Background and continuity
- 1996 Euromap I - surveying Language Engineering
in Europe - 1998 Euromap II - communicating the HLT and FP5
message to Member States - 2000 Euromap III - delivering focused services to
HLT communities - Start 2/2000
- Duration until 1/2002
- 8 partners in 9 countries
- Volume ca. 2.4 Mio. Euro
- HOPE 2001
7Activities in national level
- Build sector based communities
- identifying players
- workshops, publications
- Maintain contacts database
- National HLT support service (help
desk,information services etc.) - Help HLT players wishing to participate in the
IST programme - Awareness activities like thematic national
events, press releases - Company visits, case studies, good practice
profiles
8Activities in european level
- Euromap as an integral part of HLTCentral.org
web site - HLT in Europe, results and opportunities,
repository - HLT discussion forum, events and news, links
- HLT partnering / Euromap contacts database
maintenance - Creating task forces to
- nurture communities in specific areas like
tourism or e-commerce - facilitate and encourage technology transfer
9Which partners by now?
10Which countries by now?
Taalunie
CSC
CST
VDI/VDE-IT
BIT
Instituto Cervantes
ILSP
CPR
11Perspectives
- Growth perspective for other EU countries
- Responsibilities for other countries in HOPE by
actual NFPs - Possibilities for including new NFPs
- Integrate future Euromap partners by
- Spreading the word about HLT opportunities
- Cooperating with potential partners
- Euromap workshops and training sessions
- HOPE 2001
- High impact PR-function
- path-to-market knowledge packaging and
dissemination - preliminary survey of HLT players, resources,
opportunities in CEEC - HLT Policy articulation in the EU
12HOPE 2001
BULGARIA
ITRI
FRANCE
CLPP
ELRA
UK
13East Extension
HOPE 2001
new
LMD (CLPP BAS)
members
Other EU networks
BALRIC-LINGBalkan Regional Information Centers
for Awareness and Standardization of Ling
Resources and Tools in HLT
TELRI II Trans-European Language Resources
Infrastructure Slovakia, Hungary, Russia,
Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Czech Rep.,
Estonia, Latvia, and
BIS-21Bulgarian Information Society Center of
Excellence for Education, Science and Technology
in 21 Century
BG, GR, RO
BG, TR, AL, RO, Croatien, SL
14IST Success Stories
- IDEALIST- Information dissemination and european
awareness launch for the ist programme under the
5th framework programme (Accompanying Measure) - REGNET- Cultural Heritage in Regional Networks
(Combined Measures) - GN1- GEANT Network (RTD)
- TRAINCOM- Integrated communication system for
intelligent train applications (Combined
Measures) - CMOSSENS- Smart Chemical Gas Sensor System
Fabricated in Low Cost CMOS Technology with
Integrated Electronics and Hybrid Sensitive
Layers (RTD)
15BIT
- Private non-profit organisation founded 1993
- Personnel 51
- Responsible for
- 5th Framework programme
- IRCA
- CEEC department
- EUREKA secretariat
16BIT objectives
- Support EU RTD Implementation in Austria
- Enhance Austrian participation and success
- Support co-ordination of RTD activities
- Information dissemination
- free, user-friendly, transparent and equal access
to international RTD co-operation - Communication with all stake holders in RTD
policy - Ensuring complementarity and synergies with
national and international RTD activities
17Ideal-IST Partnersuche
Information Dissemination European Awareness
Launch for IST-Programme
18Report on research activities
19Partnersearch accomplished
20Thanks for your attention!
- Katerina Papakonstantinou
- Tel. 01/581 16 16-141
- Fax 01/581 16 16-18
- hope_at_bit.ac.at
- www.bit.ac.at/ist