Projects - 6th Framework program

Started in January 2007, the OLDES project aims at developping ICT solutions for the elderly persons to increase their quality of life and wellbeing while staying at home. Besides this technical objective, the project aims at creating a "co-construction" environment in Bologna and Prague in which the future users will be able to efficiently participate to the system definition and elaboration.

QUALity of Open Source Software (QUALOSS) is a Framework Programme 6 project funded by the European Commission. It is coordinated by CETIC and involves eight partners from 5 European countries, namely Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and The Netherlands.

GridTrust is a European project from the Sixth Framework Programme coordinated by CETIC. The overall objective of the GridTrust project is to develop the technology to manage trust and security for the Next Generation Grids (NGG). The project proposes to take a vertical approach to tackling issues of Trust, Security and Privacy (TSP) from the requirements level down to the application, middleware and foundation levels. CETIC is contributing to the development of models and tools to assist in reasoning about TSP properties across the wholearchitecture.

The mission of BEinGRID is to establish effective routes to foster the adoption of Grid technologies across the European Union (EU) and to stimulate research into innovative business models using Grid technologies. Business Experiments in GRID (BEinGRID) is the EU’s largest integrated project funded by Information Society Technologies (IST) research, which is part of the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) in R&D. The project aims are to understand the requirements for Grid uptake in the commercial environment involving software vendors,
IT integrators, service providers and end users; and to enable and validate the adoption of Grid technologies by businesses.

The goal of AssessGrid is to address obstacles to wide adoption of Grid technologies by bringing risk management and assessment to this field, enabling the use of Grid computing in business and society.

AssessGrid delivers Open Source software providing users’ estimation
and aggregated confidence information for provider selection and fault-tolerance/penalty negotiations, as well as risk assessment methods such as decision support for accepting/rejecting Service Level Agreements (SLAs), price/penalty negotiation, and capacity and service planning.

CoreGRID was a Network of Excellence in Grid technology funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development. The project involved 46 research teams (including CETIC and the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons) from 19 countries, 18 of which were in Europe. The project brought together 161 full-time researchers and 164 PhD students. CoreGRID has now been re-launched as a self-sustaining ERCIM Working Group covering research activities on both Grid and service computing, while maintaining the momentum of the European collaboration on Grid research.