Mit dem Ziel, die Karriereentwicklung weiblicher Nachwuchsführungskräfte im F&E Bereich technologieorientierter Industrieunternehmen zu fördern, startet am 2. Mai 2010 das Projekt FAMOS (Female Academy for Mentoring, Opportunities and Self-Development), ein speziell auf Studentinnen und Absolventinnen technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Ausbildungsrichtungen zugeschnittenes Qualifizierungsprogramm mit 2-jähriger Laufzeit.

FINCA setzt als Qualifikationsangebot am Ende der Ausbildungszeit von Studentinnen an, um deren Karriereverlauf vor allem denÜbergang vom Studium zur ersten Berufstätigkeit zu erleichtern. Insbesondere adressiert FINCA das Problem der Qualifikationsbarrieren von Studentinnen technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Studienrichtungen im Hinblick auf den Zugang zu Beschäftigungspositionen in technologieorientierten Unternehmen.FINCA stellt so-mit eine Maßnahme zur Erhöhung des Frauenanteils in Unternehmen dar vor dem Hinter-grund der Frauenpartizipation. Gleichzeitig erhöht FINCA bei (zukünftigen) Führungskräften im technisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich die Genderkompetenz. Organisatorisch be-trachtet ist FINCAein Vernetzungs- und Kooperationsprojekt der wissenschaftlichen Partner Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, der Technischen Universität Wien und der Technischen Universität Graz. Diese kooperieren als Ausbildungspartner von (Hochtechnolo-gie)unternehmen und bieten eine Sommerakademie (SOMA) für Studentinnen im Juli 2009 und 2010 an. Die Unternehmenspartner bieten den Studentinnen Praktika oder Diplomarbei-ten im F&E Bereich sowie begleitend eine Betreuung durch eine/n Mitarbeiter/in im Unter-nehmen. Durch die gemeinsame Bewerbung an drei Universitätsstandorten wird die Anzahl von 20 bis 25 Studentinnen erreicht. Zur Sensibilisierung der Studentinnen, zum Verdeut-lichen der Karriereoptionen in den Unternehmen sowie zur Vernetzung unter den Teilneh-merinnen wird eine webbasierte Kommunikationsplattform eingerichtet.

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Many emergency service providers and companies who provide non-public maintenance services meet the problem that their fleet of vehicles has to provide three different types of services: 1) Cover a certain region and be prepared for an emergency case. 2) Provide immediate service in an emergency case. 3) Provide some regular service (e.g.: dial-a-ride problems -- the pick-up and delivery of patients, predetermined service tasks, periodic pick-ups). In most cases the fleets are heterogeneous and some services can only be provided by specialized vehicles or workers. From the perspective of managing the regular services the objective is minimizing the total travelling distance subject to certain restrictions (e.g. be on time, use the appropriate vehicle, ..). Two types of the transportation services, emergency services as well as regular dial-a-ride services, have to be realized with one fleet.Therefore, specific dynamic aspects influence the schedule for the regular service. When an emergency occurs and an ambulance vehicle is required, the vehicle with the shortest distance to the emergency is assigned to serve the emergency patient. Therefore, it can happen, that an ambulance vehicle which has to carry out a scheduled transport order of a patient, which is not started yet, is used to serve the emergency patient and the schedule for the regular services has to be reoptimized and another vehicle has to be reassigned to the regular patient.Besides the constraints in classical Dial-a-Ride Problems we have the following features of our problem: 1) different (hard as well as soft) time constraint types.¿ e.g. dialysis patients must arrive exactly on time because the dialysis machine is reserved. 2) Heterogeneous fleet - We deal with a heterogeneous fleet concerning capacities of the vehicles and concerning the different available equipment on the vehicles. 3) Dynamic aspects - Some orders are known in advance. Additionally, the vehicle availability changes dynamically. The reason is the disappearance and reappearance of vehicles (emergency requests are serviced with the same fleet). 4) Stochastic aspects - Expected return transport orders (relatively long planning horizon), expected availability of vehicles, expected transport orders (relatively short planning horizon, in some cases emergencies occur and most probably additional vehicles are required.)

FODOK Austria will integrate the common parts of the Austrian Reserach Documentation systems of Austrian universities and Academies of Arts. They comprise, specifically,- Publications - Projects - Presentations - Scientific Community Services - Scientific Awards Search facilities according to specific criteria shall be provided, specifically focusing on subject areas. Furthermore, a tool based on self-organizing maps (SOM) will be used to create knowledge maps.

The purpose of the Future Internet Austria (FIA) Community is to build up Austria as a leading national centre of research and innovation excellence and technology transfer to industry in the area of Future Internet. Future Internet is about developing and transferring to market the technologies and tools needed to underlie future communication and data exchange. Today‟s Internet is already a major part of global business and social activities, yet is poorly prepared for future growth in number of online users and devices, the scale of data that will be stored and processed, or to support advances in IT that will be part of the Future Internet such as 3D HD multimedia or the Semantic Web. The EU alone is funding Future Internet research as part of more 90 research projects with a combined budget of circa 300 million Euros. Austrian IT research activities need to focus more strongly on Future Internet topics, both to become more competitive in acquiring European funding and to ensure that Austrian research remains relevant and cost-effective in a fast moving ICT landscape. Austrian industry stands to benefit from new solutions that will emerge from future technological developments as well as needs to be prepared for the new challenges that the increasing ubiquity and possible activity on the Internet will bring (handling new scales of data, creating new business models). Critically, Austria must go ahead in the game in today‟s globalised world where the Internet in particular is breaking down national and political boundaries. Also, networking both researchers and professionals around the Future Internet will be vital to ensure that both research activities and technology transfer to industry can prove to be effective and high impact. There is new commercialization potential in the Future Internet which Austrian entrepreneurs and new start-up companies can exploit, with the help of business idea evaluation and mentoring. As a result, we propose the formation of a Future Internet Austria Community which will bring together research and industry within Austria and provide several tools for building this community in terms of expertise, knowledge transfer, collaboration and outreach: Austrian and international state of the art¿review¿ Future Internet roadmapping and trendscouting Future Internet community building through online communication and face-to-face MeetUps Future Internet networking at conference events and research-industry workshops Austrian SeedCamp for innovation within the Future Internet Austrian Future Internet presence at European and international level

In order to provide security for sensitive business data (e.g. corporate secrets or individual-related information), strong protection techniques are of growing importance for enterprises. The data-centric approach of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) makes it the prime candidate for the protection of sensitive information in open system environments where data has to be exchanged between organizations frequently. However, the critical challenge and main market barrier of ERM systems is the implementation of the client. The software has to hide cryptographic keys that allow access to protected documents. Today, ERM clients usually implement software obfuscation techniques, which are susceptible to attacks and cannot be considered secure. Trusted Computing technologies can improve security, but lack compatibility with modern industry standard operating systems. Thus, no satisfactory solution for the implementation of secure ERM clients is known to date.Within this project we plan to develop a novel way of protecting cryptographic keys in software. It relies on software obfuscation that is combined with lightweight hardware. The hardware device neither protects the key directly nor performs any cryptographic functions; we still use software obfuscation to protect keys, but parameterize the obfuscation through data provided by hardware components. This approach can make reverse engineering more difficult and thus prevents the extraction of the cryptographic key. In particular, the aims of this project are (a) to identify software obfuscation techniques that can be assisted by hardware components, (b) to utilize lightweight Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) to improve obfuscation and (c) to demonstrate our approach by developing a prototype of an ERM client that is based on our solution of hardware-assisted software obfuscation.

Objective of HarmoSearch is to leverage the use of an existing mediation and harmonisation service for the European tourism market, called Harmonise, by adding new components of clear market value addressing specific user needs. The current version of Harmonise, Harmonise 2.0, is an online service to exchange data with others partners without the need to change the local data schema. Research work is needed to develop an (semi-) automatic mapping tool, which allows users to generate mappings without any technological knowledge or mapping skills, and a semantic meta-search component, based on a semantic registry, to addresses scientific issues like mapping of search queries and intelligent routing to appropriate data sources. HarmoSearch is based on the work of past projects and activities, like Harmonise (IST 2000-29329), Harmo-TEN (eTEN C510828), a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA 15992:2009 E), activities of the non-profit HarmoNET association, the euromuse.net project (eTEN C046229) and portals like e.g. VisitEurope.com. This project brings together five SME partners with a history in the domain and of which some have already made investments in the Harmonise system in the past. They would benefit from a broader use of the Harmonise system in general, but each partner also brings a specific need in addition. Even in a conservative business model, carefully evaluating future incomes, the project could generate additional sales on a five year horizon doubling the total project volume and exceeding the investment needed by SME partners for this project. Not considering the overall positive impact on the European tourism market by overcoming technical obstacles for new and improved services. Project results are first of all the ownership of the SME partners, while RTD partners have the right to use knowledge for their research work and other partners may use the outcomes for their networks (HarmoNET and euromuse.net).

According to recent studies, Risks Against Patient Safety (RAPS) represent one of the most important factors of dead inhospitals: during therapy, more then 8% of patients recovered in hospitals suffer for additional disease that in almost 50% of thecases produce either dead or significant additional health problems. RAPS occur in any stage of the patient care process.REMINE project idea originates from the common difficulty in conducting a analysis, early identification andeffective prevention on RAPS when there are significant mass of inhomogeneous data sources, stored in multimedia databases,and a distributed environments with different care professionals contemporary involved.To contrast the RAPS trends and the malpractices diffusion, REMINE prosecutes a number of main objectives. a newtechnological platform, new care process organizational requirements. Main elements are: mining of multimedia data; modeling,prediction, detection of RAPS, RAPS management support system and info broker patient safety framework.Main outcomes of REMINE will be: time reduction in collecting data, time reduction in RAPS analysis, standardization ofcommon language, evolution in the interaction model, reference framework, patient safety improvement, health care cost saving(within an extimated RAPS reduction between 6% to 9% of RAPS.REMINE consortium has been conceived with some of the major players in the field.Major milestones in the project are¿ M6 User requirement and user driven test bed settled up ¿ M12 first REMINE prototype ¿ M18 second REMINE prototype ¿ M33 third REMINE prototype ¿ M36 project end