PARTNERS

The training of valuable engineering specialists for industry and economy can only be carried out by an educational institution with internationally recognized cutting-edge R&D activities. It is important for the fields of education, research and innovation to be well-balanced in the operation of the institution, and to entirely exploit the resources of one another. The University of Pannonia is built on these principles. The educational program of the university is tailored to international front-ranking quality, the results of its research activity are published in prestigious international journals, and the innovation programs of the institution support the development of competitive industrial products. Government support received for training makes up one third, while R&D projects provide two thirds of the university budget. The Centre for Medical Informatics Research & Development (CMIRD) takes a significant share in running R&D project at UP. The CMIRD operates in a matrix-like structure which means that for every project, the necessary human and infrastructural resources are provided and shared by the Departments of the Faculty of Information Technology. The currently running CMIRD project which is most related to the scope of the proposal is the Lifestyle analysis and assessment based on lifestyle logs project, which is part of the consortium project: „Telemedicine-focused research activities in the field of Mathematics, Informatics and Medical Sciences”. Research consortium: University of Szeged (coordinator), Szeged, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Biological Research Centre, Szeged. and the past project High-Performance Computer-Based Dietary Menu Planning ( OMFB-00234/2010) Work package leader for the Hungarian partner (2010-2012).

A limited company in Hungary, established in 2006, focuses on research and development IT work and consultancy, has been operating for more than 10 years now. Owned by Balázs GAÁL, PhD in Information Technology, the company has been and continues to be involved in various pioneer engineering and software development projects, including: Robot AI, control UI and simulation design for Aeolus Robotics Inc. San Francisco,

Systems engineering and design for mobile R&D project for Garzon Butor zRt. (GINOP-2.1.1-15-2016-00791), system integration, and expert system implementation for an intelligent office desk for workplace stress detection and health promotion, Web user-interface and backend logic design and development for Nestlé Purina, Buk, Hungary for various industrial monitoring, statistical, and e-learning applications, Software and hardware development for industrial inkjet printing applications, OEMs include RTI (Canada), Printing Innovation (Germany), OWN-X (Switzerland), Rigoli (Italy), Xitron (USA), Lavinia lifestyle counseling mobile application user interface and backend development, and web portal development, web system hosting and maintenance, Menugene lifestyle and nutrition counseling expert system design and integration work, project leadership (INNO-6-2007-0021 OMFB-01013/2007), XBody user interface and operating system customization development (as subcontractor for Door2World Kft.), System integration work, webservice middleware design and development for Ferencvarosi Torna Club (as subcontractor for ExcelSoft Bt.). The company employs a multitude of high quality and agile IT experts as contractors, making it able to have the flexibility of hiring the best for the needs of any given project.

Instituto Pedro Nunes is a non-profit private organization, which aims to promote innovation and the transfer of technology, establishing the interface between the scientific and technological environment and the industry. IPN is co-founder of the Ageing@Coimbra reference site of the EIP on AHA and is associated partner of EIT Health. IPN owns six technological development laboratories, one business and ideas Incubator, one business Accelerator. IPN Laboratory for Automation and Systems (IPNlas) has expertise on the development of solutions for the domains of Telemedicine, Hospital2Home, Home-Care and Care-Home. IPNlas accumulates a solid track record in European and National projects that target the development of innovative solutions for Medical Devices & Unobtrusive Monitoring, Human Activity Recognition and Robotics. IPNlas key activities include electronic and system design and implementation (e.g. smart sensing, robotics, embedded systems), and Technology Transfer that is helping companies to become competitive by bringing highly innovative solutions into the market.

A1 Slovenia (formerly Si.mobil) has been the first private mobile operator in Slovenia, introducing its services to users in March 1999. With its entry into the market, competition in the Slovenian telecommunications market began to develop. In the Slovenian market, the company has a market share of around 30%.

The company has 558 employees and 714,000 users, of which in the segment 65+ are around 135,000 users. For its successful business, A1 received several awards and certificates, to list some: Family Friendly Company, a Respectable Employer, Best employer in the category of large companies, the internationally recognized Superbrands Award.

A1 Slovenia is 100% owned by Telekom Austria Group, an international telecommunications group, which has about 23 million users of fixed and mobile telephony. The Telekom Austria Group employs more than 18,000 people and generated total revenues of EUR 4.21 billion in 2016, in Slovenia 204.6 million.

Institut Jozef Stefan (JSI), is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research. Staff of more than 930 specializes in natural sciences, life sciences, and engineering. The Institute accumulates and disseminates knowledge through the pursuit of research, development, and education at the highest international level of excellence. The Computer Systems department, which will be involved in this project, is concerned primarily with the development of advanced computing structures and efficient algorithms for massive-data processing, and systems for effective human-computer interaction. Within this broad area, we are concentrating on self-reparable and self-organizing systems, modeling and optimizing of complex, dynamic and nondeterministic systems. Our research results are implemented within applications for production, transport, energy, environmental sustainability, bioinformatics, health, and medicine. JSI is currently involved (as technology partner and coordinator) in relevant projects PDManager and SaaM – Supporting active aging through multimodal coaching. The project is developing an mHealth platform for Parkinson’s disease management with a similar approach and aims as the proposed system (serious games, data collection and analysis, smart sensors, nutrition database, accessible interfaces design, usability testing).