Heather Smith

PULSE is working with five global cities to harvest open city data, and data from health systems, urban and remote sensors, personal devices and social media to enable evidence-driven and timely management of public health events and processes. The PULSE project focuses on the link between air pollution and the respiratory disease of Asthma, and […]

Europe faces some serious health challenges that are simply not going away. More threats from infectious disease due to emerging pathogens and increased resistance to antibiotics and antivirals. More incidents of non-communicable disease, raising the costs of long-term care. The first of these is identified as a global risk by the World Economic Forum in

Researchers, policymakers, and representatives of the computing industry met in Sofia, Bulgaria to discuss the role of High Performance Computing (HPC) in transforming Europe’s digital future. Around 130 stakeholders from academia and industry and policymakers met on 19 April 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria, to discuss the role of High Performance Computing (HPC) in transforming Europe’s digital future.

Europe has a leading edge in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. This workshop report describes activities being carried out in the field of AI in different Member States and in some of the countries associated to Horizon 2020. Learn about the academic, industrial and funding ecosystems, and find out more about the various governmental initiatives

The EIT today launches a Call for expressions of interest for the selection of new members of the EIT Governing Board The EIT Governing Board is entrusted with providing the strategic leadership of the EIT. The board is independent and autonomous in its decision-making and is responsible for the selection, designation and evaluation of the EIT’s Innovation

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), in partnership with the Data Protection Authorities of Austria, Ireland and Schleswig-Holstein and supported by the Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN), is pleased to announce the launch of the EDPS-IPEN Privacy by Design contest for mobile Health (mHealth) applications for the month of April 2018. This initiative aims at promoting

On 10 April 25 European countries signed a Declaration of cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Whereas a number of Member States had already announced national initiatives on Artificial Intelligence, they now declared a strong will to join forces and engage in a European approach to deal therewith. By teaming up, the opportunities of AI for

           PULSE is an international pioneer project in the use of new technologies applied to the field of public health and has developed an app (PulseAir) to facilitate the citizen participation in the data generation that will help to evaluate public health policies. PulseAir helps to generate information about mobility, the

ECHAlliance board director, Bleddyn Rees participated as a panelist at the “Digital Health and Big Data” session at the Transatlantic ICT Forum 2017 during the 9th European Innovation Summit, 27 November to 1 December. Read the full text on Connector. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

App and sensors for residents to measure pollution and improve the quality of life: the Pulse project. They have called it “the audit of smog”, and it is an international project that can count on sophisticated technologies developed by the Engineering Department of the University of Pavia. It is called PULSE (Participatory urban living for