Objective
Main Objective
EPRI-COM aims to provide a platform for dialogue between the ACTS community and political decision makers in Europe. Furthermore EPRI-COM will demonstrate the state-of-the-art technologies and services developed within the framework of the ACTS Programme, with a particular emphasis on countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
The key objectives are:
-to present the activities and results of the ACTS Programme to political decision makers in Europe and to initiate a political dialogue between ACTS and the political community in Europe
-to establish a truly trans-European information and communication service on the basis of a multimedia information service for parliaments in the CEEC, the EU (EP and national parliaments) and the North Atlantic Assembly. This service will integrate continuous media information (video, audio) as well as other sources of information (text, graphics)
-to facilitate direct communications between Eastern and Western Parliamentarians and policy makers, by exploiting and continuously improving the information and communication services offered by EPRI-COM.
Technical Approach
EPRI-COM fosters interaction between the ACTS Community and CEEC Parliamentarians, European Parliamentarians following three main lines of activities:
-providing a video-on-demand (VoD) service digital video to its users. They will be able to retrieve videos encoded in lower bandwidth. The EPRI-COM information service will be based on a central server system and a number of smaller mirror servers. Mirror servers will be installed in 3 Eastern European parliaments (Lithuania, Romania, Slovak Rep.) and directly connected to the in-house LANs of the parliaments. A PC will be connected via a number of dial-in modems to the European Parliament.
-organising a number of workshops and demonstrations with members of parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe to provide information about the activities and services offered by the ACTS Programme and recent political and technological developments in the telecommunication market
-implementing hotline support and technical maintenance for the systems that provide the EPRI-COM audio/video information service.
Summary of the Trials
EPRI-COM is to be understood as one continuous trial that tests and stimulates the use of a user-friendly and desk-top independent advanced communication and information service by parliamentarians. The objective of the service trial is to demonstrate that communications services of the future need to have a greater degree of user friendliness, as the emerging political vision encompasses a user-friendly Information Society. Therefore, EPRI-COM is to organise East-West trials using a Video on Demand service, disseminating audio/video material on ACTS and its projects and audio/video material of the European Parliament. EPRI-COM intends to link the service platform via satellite (VSAT) to Central and Eastern European Parliaments. The technical system developed and integrated in EPRI-COM will be demonstrated in a number of trial phases:
-In a first trial phase the central server will be installed, a digitising system will be set up and a first subset of content will be provided to clients in the European Parliament. The aim of this trial phase is mainly to test the integration of a new integrated multi-lingual user interface for text, video and audio.
-In a second trial phase of the project a first mirror server will be set up in the Parliament in Romania, connected via VSAT to the central server. At the same time, a mirror server will also be set up in Brussels so that parliamentarians from the European Parliament can access the content from a local server. In this second trial the functionality of the mirroring software will be demonstrated and the full service will be made available to the European Parliament as well as the one Parliament in Eastern Europe
-In a third trial phase a total of four mirror servers will be set up in the European Parliament and the national parliaments of Romania, Slovak Republic and Lithuania respectively
Expected Achievements
-to test and stimulate the use of a user-friendly and desktop independent advanced communication and information services by parliamentarians;
-to generate a new information system combining textual, graphic and video sources;
-to improve awareness of issues related to ACTS amongst those involved in policy formulation.
Expected Impact
EPRI-COM will play a significant role in improving awareness about the policy concerns relating to technology in different CEEC Parliaments, and among European policy makers.
It will also benefit the ACTS Community by disseminating information specifically targeted to the needs of policy makers and offering support to this particular interest group so that its members can personally experience advanced communications services.
Key Issues
Four main results are expected
-two-way interaction between the ACTS Community and European, CEEC Parliamentarians and other policy makers
-VoD supporting the presentation of ACTS Trials and Enlargement of the EU issues
-Integration of a mirroring service into the server system software for the parallel RTSP server
-Seminars and Workshops in the field of ACTS programme and results.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering aerospace engineering satellite technology
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications system software
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Germany
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