1. The project is supported by the European Commission under the ICT thematic area of the 7th Research Framework Programme Prof. Mircea GIURGIU Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Mircea.Giurgiu@com.utcluj.ro Seventh Framework Programme: New Opportunities for International Cooperation – Brokerage Session Kharkov, 2010 Research proposals for the FP7 - ICT Call -

2. The project is supported by the European Commission under the ICT thematic area of the 7th Research Framework Programme Description of the Organization/Company TUCN - high level education institution (www.utcluj.ro)www.utcluj.ro 12 technical faculties, 12076 students, 689 academic staff, 476 administrative, follows the Bologna process (4 BSc, 2MSc, 3Phd) infrastructure: 16 buildings (54.000 sqm), 7 student hostels (4200 places), 2 canteens (900 places), 2 Sport buildings, Olimpic Pool) Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications (www.etti.utcluj.ro)www.etti.utcluj.ro 3 Departments (Bases Electronics, Telecommunications, Applied Electronics), 56 teaching staff, 28 PhD students International projects: Educational, Research (FP7, eContent, eTEN), Mobilities, Enterprise cooperation (www.com.utcluj.ro)www.com.utcluj.ro Research interest: Automatic Speech Recognition, TTS, digital repositories, e-Services, web- based applications, business intelligence.

3. The project is supported by the European Commission under the ICT thematic area of the 7th Research Framework Programme Relevant Research Topics of the Organization/Company List of research topics corresponding to FP7 ICT Pervasive And Trusted Network And Service Infrastructures Network Collaborative Coding (www.ict-codiv.eu),www.ict-codiv.eu Future Internet (www.4ward-project.eu/).www.4ward-project.eu/ Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics Language-based Interaction (Speech Technology – ASR/TTS, robust and natural), cognitive modelling: www.sound2sense.euwww.sound2sense.eu Digital Libraries and Content Multimedia management, interoperability, knowledge modelling and processing: www.keytonature.eu, www.europeana.euwww.keytonature.euwww.europeana.eu ICT for independent living, inclusion and governance e-Services, digital signature for university services: www.eurowex.orgwww.eurowex.org

4. The project is supported by the European Commission under the ICT thematic area of the 7th Research Framework Programme Research Topics where Cooperation is Sought Cognitive Systems …  Language-based interaction –models and tools for speech understanding in noise –computational models for automatic annotation of speech corpora –increase the naturalness of synthetic speech by incorporating cognitive models Digital Libraries and Content –intelligent multimedia content management –improve the access to digital content – interaction with the location maps –solutions to make the content re-usable for educational purposes –interoperability issues ICT for independent living, inclusion and governance –e-Services, e-Security