EASTWEB: building an integrated leading Euro-Asian higher education and research community in the field of the Semantic WEB.

EASTWEB DIT-PRJ-05-128

Status NOT active project
DISI role Coordinator
Project type Research Project
Dimension International
Acquisition date 2005-12-09
Start date 2006-01-01
End date 2008-01-01

Project details

Project astract The goal of this project is to build an integrated leading Euro-Asian high education and research community in the field of the Semantic Web, the next generation of the Web. Direct target groups are: graduate students, faculty staff and enterprises management personnel. Indirect target groups are: European and Asian students, researchers and enterprises personnel at large. We plan to operate on the following four main actions: (1) Human resources development: joint teaching and supervision of master and doctorate students; integration and collaboration among senior and young faculty; training the next generation of IT educators as well as of IT enterprises management. (2) Distance Learning and Knowledge Management platform: to support current and future activities also after the end of the project (3) Networking: we will foster the interaction among universities and companies in Europe and Asia in the field of Semantic Web. The European partners (Italy, Austria, Ireland, Poland) are leading institutes in the Semantic Web. The Asian partners (India, Thailand, China, and the associate partner Hong Kong) are among the best performance institutions in Asia .The duration of the project is 36 months.
Keywords Semantic Web
Fundings 750000 €
Partners
  • DIT - UniTN
  • DIT - UniTN
  • University of Innsbruck
  • National University of Ireland, Galway
  • The Poznan University of Economics
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • Asian Institute of Technology
  • Jilin University
  • ITC-IRST
  • Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
  • National University of Ireland

DISI Sub-project details

Keywords Semantic Web
Fundings 750000 €
Manager Marco Ronchetti