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Urban Living Labs
explain the principles and driving forces leading to a resilient and sustainable city. Thomas Madreiter from the City of Vienna will allow students to gain first-hand insights presenting the Living Lab [...] numerous application fields. Lectures are starting from open-innovation, and user innovation concepts, to transformation- and transition-research including resilience and sustainability concepts. In the practical [...] Drives, TU Vienna) Karin Stieldorf (Faculty for Architecture and Planning, TU Vienna) Brigitte Bach (Head of Energy Department, AIT) Tanja Tötzer (Scientist, Sustainable Buildings and Cities, AIT)Thomas Madreiter
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Delegation from AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and University of Zagreb at RACVIAC
robotics and computer technology related to open source cloud solutions for the Internet of Things. The visit was the first opportunity for RACVIAC staff to visit the Faculty of Electrical Engineering [...] staff with a presentation on AIT and the research and development it conducts aimed at contributing to the advancement of security and the industry as a whole. During discussion following the presentations [...] Furthermore, it provided an interesting insight into manners in which the academic community can contribute to enhancing security through applied sciences, research and development.
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Andrea Watzinger hat sich habilitiert
des AIT hat sich mit der Arbeit „The use of microbial lipid biomarkers and stable isotope methods to reveal soil functions“ an der Universität für Bodenkultur für das Fach "Bodenökologie" h
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Joint Workshop IEA-ISGAN Annex 6 & IEA-PVPS Task 14
21210 Wien, ATInternational Workshop on "the Use of Variable Renewables as Flexible Resources to Support Grid Operation and Power Transmission and Distribution Interaction".OrganiserAIT Austrian [...] generation side. Experiences and approaches concerning the use of variable renewables as flexible resources to support grid operation will be shared and discussed.With the introduction of new grid operation approaches [...] This includes a closer interaction between TSOs and DSOs. The workshop will be a great opportunity to learn about the TSO-DSO interaction in other countries and discuss further developments.Programme -
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Die Cloud-Strategie der Post AG
von Cloud Computing agilere und flexiblere Infrastrukturen und damit auch eine Beschleunigung des Go to Market für neue Geschäftsideen. Dabei werden mithilfe einer Cloud-Policy und eines Cloud-Competence-Centers [...] Punkt: „Das Business möchte agile und flexible Infrastrukturen. Mit der Cloud beschleunigen wir das Go to Market für unsere Geschäftsideen.“ Und das geschieht auch jenseits der Grenzen, denn: Die Österreichische [...] Aus diesen Grund unterstützen wir Initiativen wie "Trust in Cloud.", so Helmut Leopold, Head of Digital Safety & Security Department. Weitere Informationen: Trust in CloudÖsterreichische
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JEC Innovation Award for AIT Project 3D-LightTrans
ed thermoplastic composites. The key to the 3D-LightTrans innovation consists in designing a multi-material semi-finished fabrics made of hybrid yarn and shaped to deep draped pre-fixed multi-layered and
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AIT Energy will host the International Symposium on Smart Electric Distribution Systems and Technologies – Call for Papers
pilot projects to roll out of Smart Grids solutionsThe main objective of this symposium is to bring the research and industry community together to discuss recent developments and approaches to support the
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Cheetah – Photovoltaic project was launched
and 16 nationalities representing the consortium of the EU project Cheetah. The aim of the project is to develop technology and foster innovative manufacturing capabilities and photovoltaic products, so that [...] ng the implementation of innovative technologies in the PV industry. It is the ambition of CHEETAH to develop technology and foster manufacturing capabilities in Crystalline Si and thin film PV so that [...] 31/12/2017 (4 years duration). CHEETAH will be coordinated by ECN Solar Energy from the Netherlands.Link to the press release and the project websitehttp://www.cheetah-project.eu/consortium/ait.htmlhttp://cordis
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Initiative Trust in Cloud
damit aber eine Hybrid-Cloud. Dabei bedienen wir uns stark den SaaS-Ansätzen, u.a. im Hinblick auf Time-to-Market.“ Mit Hilfe der Cloud wird Mitarbeitern die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, von überall auf alle [...] diesen Grund unterstützen wir Initiativen wie "Trust in Cloud."", so Helmut Leopold, Head of Digital Safety & Security Department.Weitere Informationen Trust in CloudVideo: OMV Group-CIO
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AIT Energy @ Austrians Photovoltaic Conference in Linz
us furthermore a strong position to provide our customers the know-how along the entire value chain – from the solar cell to PV Power Systems”, says Christoph Mayr, Head of Business Unit Photovoltaic Systems [...] most important committees to develop the future standards in the field of PV Modules testing requirements and construction of PV plants. “These activities give AIT the possibility to shape general frameworks [...] standards. The results of the working packages within the IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Program were shown to complete AIT’s contribution.Energy leads projects within the international PV Power Systems ProgramThe
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Rescue of the Aral Sea
invited to actively participate in Working Session 1. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the situation in the Aral Sea Basin and mobilize the efforts of international community to carry out [...] In the early 1960s the Aral Sea used to play a main role in the development of region’s economy, having become ‘the heart’ of fishing industry. Today, the Aral Sea has become a desert area of 5.5 million [...] with a speech from The President of Uzbekistan Islom Karimov pointing out, that statistics is not able to picture the full extent of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Aral Sea region: shortage of water resources
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EU-funded graduate program holds second Training Module in Vienna, including Poster Award at Vienna City Hall.
modelling, district energy, electrical appliance modelling, and data management will be held, in addition to basic research skills training. The CI-NERGY Fellows, eleven Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and two [...] City of Vienna will host the event, leading with discussions about ‘Smart City Wien’ and challenges to energy management in the city. A Poster Session by the students of the Vienna International School
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ComForEn 2014 – AIT Industry Day
online monitoring of more and low voltage substations. In order to manage the growing number of distributed generators, new functionalities have to be integrated at secondary substation level. Furthermore, IT [...] scientific event that brings together energy and information technology experts from science and industry to discuss emerging topics in the context of current Austrian smart grids research projects. AIT Industry [...] SubstationsThe ComForEn Industry Day brings together equipment providers and grid operators. The event aims to exchange experience and information on latest developments in the context of secondary substation
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AIT 3D Innovation won entry at VISION 2014 Shortlist
HDR Depth Camera for Real-time 3D 360 ° Panoramic Vision of Autonomous Vehicles " won an entry to the VISION 2014 Shortlist as one of the best innovations. The AIT technology was nominated by Imaging
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AIT Keynote at Summer School in Dresden
Dresden was an exciting place from September 21 to 26, 2014, when the Interdisciplinary Summer School took place at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the TU in Dresden.Among some other high [...] Summer School had been focusing on the subject of “Inclusive Innovations in Health Care” and according to this, Peter Kastner was talking in his lecture about “The Internet of Things 4 pHealth”. The workshop [...] workshop on the following question: “Which kind of information sources and parameters should be included to improve the prediction of risk for worsening of heart failure and why?”The group picture only gives
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New EU-Project CARONTE (“Creating an Agenda for Research ON Transportation sEcurity”) started
terrorism, theft, cyber-attacks or vandalism – and how to assess them? More crucially, how to develop the capabilities and situational awareness needed to guard against these in the future, while ensuring [...] sEcurity”) is now exploring these issues. “Policymakers need guidance for such questions in order to shape the EU’s Security Research agenda in this critical sector but respecting the importance of efficient [...] Fraunhofer, Germany’s leading applied research institute and CARONTE’s coordinator. “We’re now working to a tight timetable, but the composition of our research group is a strong one, and we’re confident the
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AIT Vorträge auf dem International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC)
and are indication for further surface degradation right up to rail break. Due to security issues, defects have to be recognized early in order to take countermeasures in time. By means of differently colored [...] hypotheses in the EPI domain, which can directly be related to depth. The considered methods used in hypothesis assessment, which belong to a broader class of block-matching algorithms, are modified sum [...] by a shape-from-focus algorithm. A linear sharpness measure is shown to be computational advantageous as computational refocusing to a specific depth and sharpness assessment of each refocused image can
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YEAR - Annual Conference 2015
on key aspects of EU projects. For the 2015 edition, supported by EU FOSTER project, YEAR chooses to focus the conference on Open Science in Horizon 2020. This event provides young researchers with a [...] access requirements in H2020 projects and Open Data Pilots.Day 2:the young researchers are invited to come with a project idea relying on, or promoting open research data/open science aspects. YEAR Award:The [...] be awarded. The Award Consist of a European Project Management training course and 5000 euros each to further develop the project ideas. Date: 11th - 12th of May 2015, VTT - Technical Research Centre
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Presentation of AIT Senior Scientist in the Austrian Parliament on Democratic Innovations
financial market related, economic and social crises. In such a situation political systems are subject to debates about their legitimacy. Do we have a crisis of democracy, of which falling approval rates of [...] at elections are a proof? How can we make our democratic systems more resilient and more attractive to citizens? The answer lies in democratic innovations that are currently institutionalised in many political
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EU SPARKS Stakeholder Workshop 2015
major goal of the workshop was to highlight to stakeholders the serious nature of the cybersecurity threat to smart grid. In addition, the consortium presented their response to this threat. The workshop concluded [...] cascading effects. The aim of this activity is to identify security gaps in current and future smart grid deployments. Security technologies will be developed to address these gaps, which will be evaluated [...] concluded with presentations from projects that are related to SPARKS: the EU-funded HyRiM project, coordinated by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is tasked with investigating novel risk metrics