MedAlert

[Gal GenoveseParticipant]

Priority Axis 1 – Strengthening innovation capacities

Specific Objectives
The project idea come from the widespread need in the lands of the Mediterranean basin to front with sudden and destructive climatic events and the associated problems of floods and hydrogeological instability that, in recent years, seem to have multiplied their strength by creating serious problems for the urban population but especially for the rural areas inhabitants.
The main objective of the project is to create a warning and forecasting system of destructive and potentially dangerous events through a efficient and shared monitoring system supported by a network of stakeholders deep-rooted in the territory and with a smart and simple control and survey systems, suitable for sharing information quickly and effectively through channels that can reach the largest number of users in the shortest possible time.

The strategic actions of the project can be:

1) Study of the parameters to be monitored regarding pluviometric data, river basins, temperature, anemometry, hydrogeological instability and safety of the slopes.
2) Creating a model and a management structure suitable to treat and disseminate the recovered data
3) Identify a network of people who can handle operationally data collection and the instrumentation responsible for it; equip these subjects of wireless hotspots and monitoring stations in order to collect data and share them quickly
4) Individuate the communication and information system best suited to share the information collected and give alert, to the largest number of users in the shortest possible time, in case of detected danger.
5) Identify systems to encourage participation of local stakeholders such as buying smartphone (suitable for running the data collection app and disseminate the information) or as create courses to teach how to use these technologies.
6) Identify local figures able to take action to address the problems highlighted by the warning system and study a form of adequate remuneration of them

Annalisa Cevasco
Development Agency GAL Genovese
info@appenninogenovese.it
http://www.agenziadisviluppogalgenovese.com

[ECHMIParticipant]

Dear Annalisa,
Representing a small municipality in Northern Greece (Chalkidona) I would like to express our interest
in participating in such a project. Axios river is a crucial challenge for the whole territory; your activities match exactly our needs as we face problems with pollution, corrosion, floods and lack of alerts. In case that you think that our Municipality could be a supporting partner, we would be happy to exchange more information on this issue. Furthermore, our close relationship with Thessaloniki’s University could deliver one more partner in case that you would need a research organisation
Best regards
Alkis Stavridis

[Zoi Papavasileiou]

Dear Mrs Cevasco

Your project sounds very interesting and within the fields of interest of our group of research in our laboratory of the University of Thessaly.

The Hydromechanics and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, supports research and teaching in the areas of Environmental fluid mechanics, deterministic and stochastic modeling of environmental time series, impact of regional and global climate change on water resources, ecosystems modeling, The laboratory is funded by the Greek State, European Union and local government agencies and it is founding member of the research and education network HYDROMEDON. Research is conducted in the following areas:
Environmental Fluid Mechanics: 1) Diffusion and dispersion processes in lakes, reservoirs, aquifers, 2) Groundwater modeling and simulation, 3) Biofilms.
Water Resources Management and Engineering : 1) Modeling, Protection and Restoration of aquatic systems, 2) Design, analysis and retrofitting of water supply networks, 3)Linear and nonlinear modeling of hydro-meteorological time series, 4) Compression and fusion of field, plant and laboratory physico-chemical data.
Physics of Fluids :1) multi-scale methods in fluids, extending from nano- to meso- to macro-simulations and the calculation of fluid properties based on atomistic models, 2) laminar-to-turbulence transition and low-order models of flow systems, 3) turbulence and turbulence modelling.

We also have strong relationship and cooperation with local authorities and municipalities in the region of Thessaly (a mostly rural region) that face problems of sudden and destructive climatic events and the associated problems of floods and hydrogeological instability and would be very interested in participating in the creation of a warning and forecasting system of destructive and potentially dangerous events.

Looking forward to hearing from you in case you are interested in a partnership. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss any further details.

Yours sincerely,
Zoi Papavasileiou
University of Thessaly, Greece
Laboratory of Hydromechanics & Environmental Engineering
zpapavasil@uth.gr
http://fluids-lab.civ.uth.gr/index-en.html

[Agriteco]

Dear all, we express our interested about your project. Agri.Te.Co. started in 1978 with the goal of providing users (public and private) an integrated service in agriculture, urban and environmental. In 1981 the Company ‘has changed the social base by including in its structure architects, geologists, biologists, chemists and naturalists, finding its specificity’ professional in the planning, development of aquaculture and fisheries, environmental monitoring, studies and in searches.
We work in Venice’s area.
best regards
Giovanna Martellozzo
Agri.te.co.

[ANATOLIKI S.A. Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki’s Local Authorities]

Dear Annalisa,

On behalf of “ANATOLIKI S.A. Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki’s Local Authorities” we have sent you an e-mail at info@appenninogenovese.it.
Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,
Chrysostomos Makrakis Karachalios
Project Officer
ANATOLIKI DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Dept. of Environment
1st Km Thermis -Triadiou (Gold Center N. 9)
P.O. Box: 60497, 57001 Thermi, Greece
Tel.: +30 2310 463930, Fax +30 2310 486203
URL: http://www.anatoliki.gr

[ADF AlParticipant]

Albanian Development Fund (ADF) is a public agency whose mission is programming and implementing Regional Development Plans and Projects. ADF is a governmental instrument to ensure the implementation of public infrastructure and economic development investments in the Albanian territory at local and regional level.

ADF is governed by a Board of Trustees, whose members are Ministers from the line ministries as well as mayors of representative LGUs. The Board is chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister. ADF main offices are located in Tirana with 9 local offices in the other regions, covering all the territory of Albania with a staff of 80 employees. For more details you may refer to the ADF website: http://www.albaniandf.org.

ADF plans and implements direct investments financed from public funds and other International Financial Institutions such as World Bank, EU, EIB, CEB, EBRD, KfW etc.In addition ADF has accumulated a solid expertise in managing CBC projects in partnership with important institutions in the neighbouring countries.

In frame of MED first call for proposals, ADF is looking for strategic partners to cooperate in projects related to the support of Sustainable Tourism, Urban Transport, Efficient Buildings, Biodiversity Protection.

We have consulted your proposal and find it interesting to cooperate further. If you are interested we can exchange more information on the following email address ggjoncaj@albaniandf.org.

Best regards

[Gal GenoveseParticipant]

Dear all,

thank you for your interest in the project idea “MedAlert”.
Development Agency GAL Genovese cannot unfortunately carry on the project as Lead Partner. We are very sorry, but we think that it could be an interesting topic to develop, so we hope someone of you could provide the coordination of the project preparation as Lead Applicant. In any case we are ready to collaborate and give our inputs to the proposal.
Please let us know and keep in touch!

Best regards,

Annalisa

[Elvira Takli]

Dear all,

I write on behalf of the Department of Production and Management Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace, which is located in Xanthi, Greece. We are really interested in participating in this project as long as there is someone to take part as a Lead Partner.

The research group consists of the Director of the Laboratory of Robotics and Automation, 2 post-doc fellows, 4 doctoral students, several MSc and undergraduate students and 1 technical staff. These are adequate to fulfill any commitment implied by a collaborative project. In all our past projects external collaborators were also hired, according to the specific needs of the committed work. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art PCs, cameras, robots and other scientific materials. Our expertise is mainly in vision and other sensors based automation. We design and implement intelligent mechatronics systems, primarily for robotics applications (navigation, manipulation etc). We are competent both in hardware and in software design.
The group possesses a good record in FP funded projects. A list of our active and past funded projects is apposed here: http://robotics.pme.duth.gr/research/projects/

Recently we have developed and implemented algorithms based on the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) deep learning architecture, which can provide the model of a region in space and time, the way human brain does. The input to this network can be a series of measurements with specific topological configuration. The architecture learns how a signal evolving in time can be related to its neighbors and, thus, it can «predict» future inputs based on multiple data. Such an architecture finds a lot of applications, especially in video recognition and action categorization. Yet if the input signal is not a visual one, but a flow of meteorological data from stations with space adjacency, then the HTM architecture, based on the history of the measurements can predict the future states of the data, thus providing alerts in case of emergency.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

Elvira

[Elvira TakliParticipant]

Dear all,

I write on behalf of the Department of Production and Management Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace, which is located in Xanthi, Greece. We are really interested in participating in this project as long as there is someone to take part as a Lead Partner.

The research group consists of the Director of the Laboratory of Robotics and Automation, 2 post-doc fellows, 4 doctoral students, several MSc and undergraduate students and 1 technical staff. These are adequate to fulfill any commitment implied by a collaborative project. In all our past projects external collaborators were also hired, according to the specific needs of the committed work. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art PCs, cameras, robots and other scientific materials. Our expertise is mainly in vision and other sensors based automation. We design and implement intelligent mechatronics systems, primarily for robotics applications (navigation, manipulation etc). We are competent both in hardware and in software design.
The group possesses a good record in FP funded projects. A list of our active and past funded projects is apposed here: http://robotics.pme.duth.gr/research/projects/

Recently we have developed and implemented algorithms based on the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) deep learning architecture, which can provide the model of a region in space and time, the way human brain does. The input to this network can be a series of measurements with specific topological configuration. The architecture learns how a signal evolving in time can be related to its neighbors and, thus, it can «predict» future inputs based on multiple data. Such an architecture finds a lot of applications, especially in video recognition and action categorization. Yet if the input signal is not a visual one, but a flow of meteorological data from stations with space adjacency, then the HTM architecture, based on the history of the measurements can predict the future states of the data, thus providing alerts in case of emergency.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

Elvira

[zpapavParticipant]

Dear All

We are sorry but we believe we (University of Thessaly) do not have enough time to prepare and lead the project “Med Alert” at the moment. However, the ideas of the project are very interesting and we would like to discuss them in a next call for proposals at Interreg or perhaps for another programme such as LIFE, HORIZON 2020 or anything else relative. Please consider us as possible partners if you find another leader for this call for proposals or another one in the future.

Best Regards
Zoi Papavasileiou
University of Thessaly, Greece
Laboratory of Hydromechanics & Environmental Engineering
zpapavasil@uth.gr
http://fluids-lab.civ.uth.gr/index-en.html

[JOSE MORAN]

My name is Jose Moran and I represent the Farmers Union of the Valencia Region ( La Unió) and The Valencia Institute for Agro-Environmental Research and Training ( IVIFA) .
I am writing because we have read with great interest your proposal to the project first call and would like to participate in the consortium.
We are the most important agro-rural cluster in the Valencia region. As La Unió ( http://www.launio.org) We represent about 60% of all professional farmers Valencia with more than 6,000 farmers, with 60 branches spread throughout of Valencia, and a staff that covers all types of professionals as lawyers, agricultural engineers, economists and several types of technicians.
As IVIFA we represent the bridge between in Universities ( 5 Universities) in the rural territories of our region, with a large history ( from year 2000) of studies, simposiums, workshops and publications ( http://www.ivifa.org)
We have already worked on projects both European territorial cooperation Interreg IVC, Locfood, http://www.locfood.no as in Life ( project Fertilife, priority climate) and in several Leonardo da Vinci http://www.slmsc-project.eu/es/ and wwww.streetfood.eu.com. and especially in terms of this proposal our Erasmus project “Partnership for Biodiversity Protection in Viticulture in Europe”. We believe we can provide a reliable management and the know-how needed to help the drafting of the proposal.
Referring to the proposal that we want to review the most important Valencia reference in terms of advice to the rural territories through our offices and headquarters , in this sense La Unió is , in fact, the voice of the rural communities in our region taking part in all the LAG (8) representing 337 municipalities and being a very active part in the design of the strategic plans for each one of them.
In terms of your proposal, we can offer a very big platform of places for Alert check points and professionals for to make measures of pluviometry hydrogeological instability and safety of the slopes and another climatology factors and pushing to introduce improvements in the rural communities for preventing disasters.
Just a final note, along different projects we have developed a powerful network of contacts and experience in dissemination of results.
We believe that in relation to its proposal we can make our great transferring/diffusion capacity, which is an essential aspect in MED, both among our members, also all the Spanish State through the Union of Farmers Unions and among many different types of professionals, from university graduates through IVIFA, and public agencies, municipalities, and several other professional organizations.
If you think our organization can be interesting as a part of the consortium, please don´t hesitate in contact me, my email is: jmoran@launio.org
Many thanks in advance,
Best regards,
JOSE MORAN. EU PROJECTS COORDINATOR.

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