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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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…
Continue ReadingThe 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…
Continue ReadingOrganised within the scope of the H2020 CUTLER project, the #WaterFrontHack Global Online Hackathon is an opportunity for developers, policy and domain experts around the world to come together and address the challenges of sustainable development in coastal urban areas. For more information please visit: https://www.cutler-h2020.eu/hackathon/ Prizes The Evaluation Committee will assign scores for the different criteria to the solution developed by…
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