On the 9th of February, the final audit of the VISNET
project, a Network of Excellence (NoE) of the European
Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme was carried out. This
programme integrated 13 European institutions besides INESC
Porto, namely Universities and Research Centres with
acknowledged scientific work. in the area of technologies
and audiovisual systems in networks.
The participation of INESC Porto covered several areas
(audio and video processing, networks, multimedia contents
management, distributed systems) and involved the
coordination of two Workpackages (José Ruela and Luís
Gustavo Martins) and the participation in the Supervisory
Committee (Maria Teresa Andrade).
In the audit, INESC Porto/UTM was represented by José
Ruela, who presented the Workpackage activities he
coordinated.
The preliminary conclusion transmitted by the auditors
focused on the fact that the project has achieved its goals
and closed its activities successfully.
In the same week, on the 7th of February, Brussels hosted
the sessions of final evaluation of a group of selected
projects that submitted proposals within the recent demand
in the “Networked Audiovisual Systems and Home Platforms”
area.
The final decision relative to the endurance of these
projects will be published soon.
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