About NUTNET NUTNET is a network that aims to improve the management of soil fertility in Africa. It is a partnership of fifteen organisations from six African and two European countries: About Enhancing soil fertility in Africa: from field to policy-maker (NAGREF) from Greece. It is funded by the International Cooperation for Development (INCO) programme of the European Union, which links ongo...

The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) is an independent global programme of scientific collaboration cosponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. TDR's strategy is based on stewardship for research on infectious diseases of poverty, empowerment of endemic countri...

The UNICORE Grid technology provides a seamless, secure, and intuitive access to distributed Grid resources. Since its initial funding in two German-funded research projects, UNICORE evolved to a full-grown and well-tested Grid middleware system. Today it is used in daily production at many supercomputing centers. In this paper we present an overview on the UNICORE production environments at th...

Traditional numerical methods for polynomial root computation are fast but they sometimes return wrong results. Algorithms from computer algebra, on the other hand, guarantee correctness but tend to require long computing times. The computing time can, however, be dramatically reduced if exact arithmetic is carefully replaced by floating point arithmetic and if, moreover, ways are found to empl...

The Lab starts to work on metrics for evaluation of science and technology about 20 years ago, moving from bibliometrics to webometrics in mid-nineties when Internet became an important tool for scholarly communication. In these two decades the Lab members have published about two hundred papers in peer reviewed journals, participating in about 100 international scientific conferences, attendin...

Computer Supported Collaborative learning (CSCL) is nowadays well mature and it is able to set guide-lines to enrich e-learning. On its side, e-learning does not fully exploit its potentialities yet. Suggestions from CSCL could be useful to empower the presence on the elearning on the market and would foster a vision of learning as not a simple further “commercial product”. The European Commiss...

AxlR8 is a coordination and support action funded by the european Commission Directorate General for Research & Innovation under the Health theme of the 7th Framework Program (FP7) within the funding framework on Alternative Testing Strategies: Replacing, reducing and refining use of animals in research. AXLR8 is aimed specifically at accelerating a transition in europe toward a more sophistica...

In the academic sector, most engineering research funding presupposes collaborative projects. Collaboration between academia and industry is encouraged. This approach creates successive complexity in most Research and Development (R&D) projects in many ways. Projects funded by the European Commission or jointly funded by national agencies are often encouraged to become large, competing companie...