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Digital Day 2018: EU-funded success stories

Digital Day 2018 hosted sessions on a number of key themes, including 5G, Artificial intelligence, Blockchain, eHealth and Digital Research. The European Commission funds several successful projects in these thematic areas.

To illustrate the potential of Europe in the key themes discussed during Digital Day 2018, a number of successful EU-funded projects are showcased below:

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5G Public Private Partnership, the Next Generation of Broadband infrastructure

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The European Commission, with the 5G Infrastructure Association, launched in 2013 a Public Private Partnership on 5G (5G PPP). The 5G PPP will create new jobs, offering growth and innovation opportunities.It will create a secure, reliable high-performance network for a fast Internet accessible to everyone and everywhere.

Bison: big data analysis for contact centres

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The BISON project developed a technology which can analyse speech and provide customer feedback in real-time. This technology also allows contact centres to efficiently gather information from the big data collected.

Blockchain to enable medical data to be stored and transmitted safely and effectively

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Medical data is generally stored in separate locations, and is not always easily accessible to patients and research institutions. It can be vulnerable to security breaches and identity theft – and at the same time scientists do not always have access to data for biomedical research and the development of new treatments. My Health My Data (MHMD) aims to use blockchain technology to enable medical data to be stored and transmitted safely and effectively.

Blockchain to give people more control about their data

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DECODE is a project exploring and piloting new technologies that give people more control over how they store, manage and use personal data generated online. It will use blockchain technology to create tools that will give people ownership of the data which they and the devices they own generate.

GiantSteps: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for music

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GiantSteps project helps musicians and professionals alike to boost their musical creativity. The project built on multimodal music information research, created innovative visualisation techniques and produced music algorithms to be reused in computer apps and tools.

Multiscale Complex Genomics - Virtually unpacking DNA

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The MuG Virtual Research Environment supports the expanding 3D/4D genomics community by developing tools to integrate the navigation in genomics data from sequence to 3D/4D chromatin dynamics data.

Visual European search engine of the future

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Billions of images and videos are created every day but people lack sophisticated recognition tools to quickly find the information they need. Visual Artificial Intelligence (AI) changes the way we interact with visual big data.