Kick-off meeting of IDUNN project targeting cybersecurity solutions for the industry.

This is a cutting-edge research project with a budget of more than €5 million and a duration of three years, involving Spanish, Finnish and German partners. The aim of the project is to create a Unique Cognitive Detection System for Cybersecure Operational Technologies. Project partners believe that it will have a crucial impact on the productivity of any industry by…

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Steven LaValle received significant ERC funding to build the foundations of perception engineering

The European Research Council has announced today the winners of its 2020 call. The esteemed ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to our professor Steven LaValle for the realisation of the 5-year ILLUSIVE project (2,5M€) in which he and his team will create foundations for perception engineering, which expands the concept of virtual reality (VR) to span several disciplines. VR…

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University of Oulu is a part of the 4 M€ H2020 PRIME-VR2 project developing bespoke VR experiences for rehabilitation

The Center for Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), ITEE Faculty, University of Oulu, is working on the project PRIME-VR2: Personalised Recovery through a Multi-User Environment: Virtual Reality for Rehabilitation. The project is a 4 M€ Research and Innovation Action (RIA) financed by the Horizon 2020 EU Framework Programme. The action involves 14 European partners (academic institutions, companies and rehabilitation centers) collaborating on…

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University of Oulu joins 16 M€ ECSEL JU project FRACTAL – towards Industrial Edge Computing 

  The kick-off meeting, held remotely, took place on the 16-17th September.  The Center for Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), at the ITEE Faculty of the University of Oulu (UOULU), has joined project FRACTAL – A Cognitive Fractal and Secure EDGE based on a unique Open-Safe-Reliable-Low Power Hardware Platform Node. The project is a 16 M€ ECSEL Joint Undertaking (JU), co-financed by the Horizon…

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