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Title: The Hope Project


1
  • The Hope Project
  • A paradigm of successful Balkan Integration
  • Katerina Papakonstantinou
  • BIT-Bureau for International Research and
    Technology Cooperation

2
Overview
  • HOPE (EUROMAP 3)
  • HOPE 2001
  • IST Success Stories
  • BIT

3

Boosting Opportunities for Human Language
Technology Uptake in Europe
4
What 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

6
Background 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

7
Activities 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

8
Activities 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

9
Which partners by now?
10
Which countries by now?
Taalunie
CSC
CST
VDI/VDE-IT
BIT
Instituto Cervantes
ILSP
CPR
11
Perspectives
  • 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

12
HOPE 2001
BULGARIA
ITRI
FRANCE
CLPP
ELRA
UK
13
East 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
14
IST 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)

15
BIT
  • Private non-profit organisation founded 1993
  • Personnel 51
  • Responsible for
  • 5th Framework programme
  • IRCA
  • CEEC department
  • EUREKA secretariat

16
BIT 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

17
Ideal-IST Partnersuche
Information Dissemination European Awareness
Launch for IST-Programme
  • http//www.ideal-ist.net/

18
Report on research activities
19
Partnersearch accomplished
20
Thanks 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
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