The OpenAIREplus project aims to further develop and operate the OpenAIRE e-infrastructure, in order to provide a central entry point to Open Access and non-Open Access publications and datasets funded by the European Commission and National agencies. The infrastructure provides the services to populate, curate, and enrich an Information Space by collecting metadata descriptions relative to org...

This report was commissioned by MRG in partnership with with four Roma NGOs: IQ Roma Servis, European Union Association for Roma Youth, Project Schola and the Wide Open School Foundation. We were aware that large amounts of funding had been allocated by the EU to projects targetting the Roma in accession states and at the same time we were aware that many Roma communities report little or no ch...

P ublicly funded research involves the distribution of a considerable amount of money. Funding agencies such as the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the European Research Council (ERC) give billions of dollars or euros of taxpayers’ money to individual researchers, research teams, universities, and research institutes each year. Taxpayers acco...

Despite the availability of ICT tools and infrastructures, civil engineers and design consultants still don't take full advantage in their daily activities of the eBusiness scheme which may open the door of the global market to providers of specialized consulting services. This perspective may allow even small consulting offices to get in contact with potential clients located in any part of th...

2 Foreword This report is the result of a study of the research field smart textiles, which has been carried out within the EU financed Baltic Fashion Project. The report gives an overview of projects combining smart textiles and clothing as a basis of discussions of how smart textile innovation could be introduced in fashion. The overview covers different projects, research as well as commerci...

This study is carried out in the framework of SUCCESS (Smaller Urban Communities in CIVITAS for Environmentally Sustainable Solutions), an European project funded by the European Commission under the CIVITAS program. These demonstration projects provide a means of testing out a wide range of projects in a number of cities and the results of the evaluation will assist in showing which were succe...

The spread of free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) and the openness of its development model offer researchers a valuable source of information regarding software data. The creation of large portals, which host a vast amount of FLOSS projects make it easy to create large datasets with valuable information regarding the FLOSS development process. In addition initiatives such as FLOSSMole prov...