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Research initiative on Ubiquitous Swarms — large-scale networks of distributed, physical and digital devices and agents embedded directly into environments to perform sensing, computation, or actuation, at the convergence of ubiquitous computing and swarm intelligence

Project description

Bridging the transatlantic tech grip

The rapid advancement of technology is outpacing global collaborative research efforts. This presents a significant challenge for the European Union and the United States as they strive to harmonise their endeavours in computing research. The absence of a cohesive strategy is impeding progress in critical areas such as distributed computing, swarm intelligence, and the computing continuum. Against this backdrop, the EU-funded DISCOVER-US project stands as a pivotal initiative. Spanning 30 months, it aims to bolster cooperation, support innovative research, and enhance Europe's role in forefront technologies. The project fosters a transatlantic network of 100 leading researchers and sponsors 20 pioneering pre-competitive collaborations. Its goal is to elevate Europe's prominence in cloud-to-edge computing and the Internet of Things.

Objective

The DISCOVER-US project aims to

(i) Strengthen long-term collaboration between the EU and the US by creating networking and collaboration opportunities to promote cooperation on new concepts and visions for the computing continuum, distributed computing and swarm intelligence.
(ii) Facilitate brokerage events for on-going and future work streams in EU and US projects addressing the edge-cloud continuum.
(iii) Implement research exchange and fellowship programmes to encourage and initiate collaboration.
(iv) Create a EU-US collaboration support infrastructure consisting of various services: networking, brokerage, training, vision building, communication and dissemination.

Content-wise, DISCOVER-US will focus on the following four key research topics for the collaboration.

(i) Managing complexity through high levels of abstraction.
(ii) New concepts for distributed computing, the computing continuum, swarm intelligence and edge intelligent things.
(iii) AI-based concepts for self-organized, dynamic, and adaptive management.
(iv) Collaborative programming frameworks and software development tools.

By addressing these research topics, DISCOVER-US provides support and coordination for EU-US cooperation initiatives and the European priorities addressing fundamental research on new concepts for the continuum of computing, distributed computing and swarm intelligence to enable the emergence of technological developments in distributed computing supported by open technologies and platforms and through the coordination of complementary activities structured around the cloud-to-edge-to-IoT continuum.
In this context, the DISCOVER-US project will boost synergies, experience and knowledge sharing and lay the groundwork for creating EU-US collaborative activities and address the selected European priorities for strengthening the European distributed computing research ecosystem by identifying a set of best practices and research models that will facilitate the replication of results, thus improving the overall impact of the simultaneously ongoing transatlantic activities.


The project will run for 35 months.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Net EU contribution
€ 561 802,50
Address
SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25
9000 Gent
Belgium
Region
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 561 802,50

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