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FAIR-AI: Fostering Austria’s Innovative strength and Research excellence in Artificial Intelligence

ongoing
Jan 1, 2024 Dec 31, 2026

The FAIR-AI project aims to address gaps in dealing with societal risks in AI applications, focusing on the challenges posed by the upcoming European AI law.

Memorise: Virtualisation and Multimodal Exploration of Heritage on Nazi Persecution 1

Memorise: Virtualisation and Multimodal Exploration of Heritage on Nazi Persecution

ongoing
Oct 1, 2022 Sep 30, 2026

In the MEMORISE research project, a mobile application is being developed for the Bergen-Belsen and Westerbork memorials. The content is based on a data set of diary entries of the former camp prisoners.

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CHAMPI4.0NS: Intelligent and Sovereign Use of Data using the Example of Timber Industry

CHAMPI4.0NS: Intelligent and Sovereign Use of Data using the Example of Timber Industry

ongoing
May 1, 2022 Apr 30, 2026

The overall objective of champI4.0ns is the (further) development of methods and tools that allows an intelligent and sovereign use of data in production and the clarification of the potentials of cross-company data use in production with the help of demonstrators.

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UNDERPIN: Pan-European data space for holistic asset management in critical manufacturing industries 2

UNDERPIN: Pan-European data space for holistic asset management in critical manufacturing industries

ongoing
Dec 1, 2023 Nov 30, 2025

UNDERPIN addresses the vision of European Digital Single Market with the idea of a European-wide Data Space for Manufacturing for dynamic asset management and predictive/prescriptive maintenance.

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Nature First: Forensic Intelligence and Remote Sensing Technologies for Nature Conservation

Nature First: Forensic Intelligence and Remote Sensing Technologies for Nature Conservation

ongoing
Oct 1, 2022 Sep 30, 2025

By fusing theoretic foundations from the fields of ecology and environmental forensics with empirical environmental observations (satellite-based & on-site), we hope to develop predictive, proactive, and preventative capabilities for those involved in nature conservation.

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DataBri-X: Data Process & Technological Bricks for expanding digital value creation in European Data Spaces 1

DataBri-X: Data Process & Technological Bricks for expanding digital value creation in European Data Spaces

ongoing
Oct 1, 2022 Sep 30, 2025

The emergent European Data Economy relies on the availability of data as a basis for further innovation and exponential development of technologies, especially the development of trustworthy “made in Europe” Artificial Intelligence (AI) that reflects European values.

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GeoCROW:  GeoSemantic and Crowdsourced enhanced Virtual Reality for Situational Awareness

GeoCROW: GeoSemantic and Crowdsourced enhanced Virtual Reality for Situational Awareness

ongoing
Feb 1, 2023 Jan 31, 2025

GeoCrow project aims to help military forces by conducting disaster relief and emergency operations by providing relevant information about future operational areas through semantically enriched, categorised data, and their visualisation in a virtual reality environment.

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Finished

2023

PORQUE: Polylingual Hybrid Question Answering 1

PORQUE: Polylingual Hybrid Question Answering

finished
Dec 1, 2020 Nov 30, 2023

PORQUE will develop and evaluate an extensible platform for polylingual question answering by relying on knowledge graphs and text. We will deliver a prototype, which will be evaluated through commercial solutions in three domains (open data, publishing, energy).

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RAIDAR: Rapid Artificial Intelligence based Detection of Aggressive or Radical Content on the Web

RAIDAR: Rapid Artificial Intelligence based Detection of Aggressive or Radical Content on the Web

finished
Oct 1, 2021 Sep 30, 2023

The RAIDAR project researches methods and approaches for the quantitative collection and assessment of content that threatens democracy, hate on the net, and radicalisation.

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2022

TRUSTS: Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space

TRUSTS: Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space

finished
Jan 1, 2020 Dec 31, 2022

The Horizon 2020 project TRUSTS – Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space aims to develop a data sharing platform for secure, trustworthy, and GDPR-compliant data exchanges.

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OBARIS: Ontology-Based Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Sector

finished
Feb 1, 2020 Oct 31, 2022

The FFG-funded OBARIS project aims to advance the status quo in the area of auditable semantic artificial intelligence systems (SAISs), by investigating both conceptual aspects of these systems as well as a technology stack that facilitates transposing these system types into concrete settings.

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WATEREYE: O&M tools integrating accurate structural health in offshore energy

WATEREYE: O&M tools integrating accurate structural health in offshore energy

finished
Nov 1, 2019 Oct 31, 2022

WATEREYE’s integral solution will allow Wind Farm Operators to accurately predict the need for future operation & maintenance to reduce operation & maintenance costs and to increase the offshore wind annual energy production thanks to accurate structural health monitoring and control of the offshore Wind Farms.

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ELE: European Language Equality

ELE: European Language Equality

finished
Jan 1, 2021 Jul 1, 2022

The European Language Equality project developed a strategic research, innovation, and implementation agenda as well as a roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030.

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The Prêt-à-LLOD Project: Ready-to-use Multilingual Linked Language Data for Knowledge Services across Sectors

The Prêt-à-LLOD Project: Ready-to-use Multilingual Linked Language Data for Knowledge Services across Sectors

finished
Jan 1, 2019 Jun 30, 2022

In this project we aim to increase the uptake of language technologies by exploiting the combination of linked data and language technologies, that is Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD), to create ready-to-use multilingual data.

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SSHOC: Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud

SSHOC: Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud

finished
Jan 1, 2019 Apr 30, 2022

SSHOC will transform the current social sciences & humanities data landscape with its disciplinary silos and separate facilities into an integrated, cloud-based network of interconnected data infrastructures.

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2021

LOGISTAR: Enhanced Data Management Techniques for Logistics Planning and Scheduling in Real Time

LOGISTAR: Enhanced Data Management Techniques for Logistics Planning and Scheduling in Real Time

finished
Jun 1, 2018 Jun 30, 2021

LOGISTAR is aimed at allowing effective planning and optimizing of transport operations in the supply chain by taking advantage of horizontal collaboration relying on the increasingly real-time data gathered from the interconnected environment.

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Projects 1

LYNX: Legal Knowledge Graph for Smart Compliance Services

finished
Dec 1, 2017 Mar 31, 2021

The main objective of Lynx is to create an ecosystem of smart cloud services to better manage compliance, based on a legal knowledge graph (LKG) which integrates and links heterogeneous compliance data sources including legislation, case law, standards and other private contracts.

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2020

CitySPIN: Cyber-Physical Social Systems to Support City-wide Infrastructures

CitySPIN: Cyber-Physical Social Systems to Support City-wide Infrastructures

finished
Oct 1, 2017 Mar 31, 2020

CitySPIN aims to lay foundations for effective cyber-physical social systems engineering by investigating feasible system architectures, developing design approaches and architectural patterns, and integrating suitable tools into a technology stack and prototyping environment.

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2019

DMA: Data Market Austria

DMA: Data Market Austria

finished
Oct 1, 2016 Sep 30, 2019

The Data Market Austria project pioneered a data services ecosystem in Austria by creating a significantly improved technology base for secure data markets and cloud interoperability and establishing a data innovation environment.

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SYMBIOPTIMA: Human-mimetic approach to the integrated monitoring, management and optimization of a symbiotic cluster of smart production units

SYMBIOPTIMA: Human-mimetic approach to the integrated monitoring, management and optimization of a symbiotic cluster of smart production units

finished
Sep 1, 2015 Feb 28, 2019

SYMBIOPTIMA will improve European process industry efficiency levels by developing a cross-sectorial energy & resource management platform, enabling the integration of different thermal energy sources, flows and sinks, as well as monitoring and elaboration of all relevant information flows of the symbiotic cluster.

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2018

PROFIT: Promoting Financial Awareness and Stability

PROFIT: Promoting Financial Awareness and Stability

finished
Jan 1, 2016 Dec 31, 2018

The european project consortium develops a financial awareness platform that will be publicly available. The smart application shall improve the financial literacy of various user groups ranging from teenagers, mid-career professionals to retirees.

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DALICC: Data Licenses Clearance Centre

DALICC: Data Licenses Clearance Centre

finished
Nov 1, 2016 Oct 31, 2018

Data Licenses Clearance Center is a tool that supports legal experts, innovation managers, and application developers in the legally secure re-utilization of multiple data sources. The DALICC framework supports the automated clearance of rights, thus helping to detect licensing conflicts and significantly reducing the costs of rights clearance in the creation of derivative works.

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ADEQUATe Open Data: Analytics & Data Enrichment to improve the QUAliTy of Open Data

ADEQUATe Open Data: Analytics & Data Enrichment to improve the QUAliTy of Open Data

finished
Oct 1, 2015 Mar 31, 2018

The ADEQUATe project will identify the requirements for the quality of open data management in Austria and evaluate the needed mechanisms to monitor, evaluate and solve these identified data quality issues on open data portals and beyond.

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ALIGNED quality-centric, software and data engineering

ALIGNED quality-centric, software and data engineering

finished
Feb 1, 2015 Jan 31, 2018

The aim of this project is to develop an aligned methodology for parallel software and data engineering of web-scale information systems. Linked Data is used as a unifying technical foundation for system specification, process, and tool integration.

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2017

BigDataEurope: Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing Europe's Societal Challenges

BigDataEurope: Integrating Big Data, Software & Communities for Addressing Europe’s Societal Challenges

finished
Jan 1, 2015 Dec 31, 2017

Big Data Europe will undertake the foundational work for enabling European companies to build innovative multilingual products and services based on semantically interoperable, large-scale, multi-lingual data assets and knowledge, available under a variety of licenses and business models.

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2015

SemaGrow: Data intensive techniques to boost the real-time performance of global agricultural data infrastructures

SemaGrow: Data intensive techniques to boost the real-time performance of global agricultural data infrastructures

finished
Nov 1, 2012 Oct 31, 2015

SemaGrow aims at developing scalable and robust query decomposition, source selection, and distributed querying methods that are evaluated on real, complex, interconnected datasets comprising data and document collections, sensor data, and GIS data.

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NoLDE: Network of Linked Data Excellence 1

NoLDE: Network of Linked Data Excellence

finished
Oct 1, 2013 Sep 30, 2015

This project aims at establishing new methods of enterprise data management for publishing houses, more specifically, to commercially tap existing Linked Data technologies, improve production workflow and expand the existing range of services.

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2014

LOD2: Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

LOD2: Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data

finished
Sep 1, 2010 Aug 31, 2014

The focus of this project is the adoption of Linked Data technologies in an enterprise context by developing new methods and technologies, and make their complementary software solutions available as an integrated technology stack.

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2012

EAR-LD: Enriching Augmented Reality with Linked Data

finished
May 1, 2011 Sep 30, 2012

The project EAR-LD – Enriching Augmented Reality with Linked Data – combines the two technology concepts Augmented Reality (AR) and Semantic Web with the aim of significantly reducing the technical and financial costs of data integration and increasing the information and experience quality of AR applications.

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