Digitisation and Language Technologies in the Learning Process of Information Sciences

Objective. The objective of the article is the analysis of the EU framework programs for the development of research and technology as the main financial tool of EU innovation policy. Methods. The following methods and techniques of cognition are used in the research process: theoretical generalization and comparison, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, grouping. Results. According to the results of the study, it is substantiated that innovation has always been considered by the EU as a dominant determinant of socio-economic development and ensuring competitiveness. EU innovation policy has been closely linked to scientific, technical, industrial, environmental, regional and other EU policies. It is determined that the main goals of the EU innovation policy are: open innovation, open science and openness to the world. It is determined that since 1984 - until now: 8 framework programs have been implemented, the implementation of the 9th program is planned for 2021-2027; Framework programs are constantly evolving, which is reflected in the change: the duration of the framework programs, their objectives, thematic areas, horizontal activities, budget, etc. It is argued that the most ambitious of the EU Framework Programs is the 9th Framework Program, with a total budget of € 96899 million, divided between 4 horizontal programs (Widening Participation & Strengthening The European Research Area, Innovative Europe, Excellent Science, Global Challenges And European Industrial Competitiveness) and 15 components (Widening participation and spreading excellence, reforming and enhancing the European R&I System, European Innovation Council (EIC), European innovation ecosystems, European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), The European Research Council (ERC), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Research infrastructures, Health, Culture, creativity and inclusive society, Civil Security for Society, Digital, Industry and Space, Climate, Energy and Mobility, Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment, Non-nuclear direct actions of the Joint Research Centre (JRC)).

Türkiye has been developing strategic plans and related action plans to fight addictions including drugs since 2006. The responsibility for nationwide coordination is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Combating Tobacco and Substance Addiction in the Ministry of Health. This paper focuses on four research objectives: firstly, the inter-institutional coordination mechanisms in place for combating drug supply in Türkiye; secondly, the National Strategy Documents and Action Plans in the fight against drugs developed and implemented so far in Türkiye; and thirdly, the contents of the Action Plans the fight against drugs in Türkiye between 2006-2023 are presented. The fourth research objective covers noteworthy literature review on strategies to ensure the fight against drug supplies in Türkiye’s Action Plan are compatible with those of the EU Drugs Strategy and Action Plan. The paper concludes with recommendations for the coordination of the fight against drug supply in the Strategy and Action Plan for Northern Cyprus.

Technology and market orientation in company participation in the EU framework programme

Spatial interaction modelling of cross‐region R&D collaborations: empirical evidence from the 5th EU framework programme

BackgroundNoncommunicable diseases (NCDs) contribute significantly to global morbidity and mortality, accounting for 74% of all deaths worldwide. Many of these chronic diseases can be prevented or their onset mitigated through lifestyle interventions. Complementing these efforts, robust biomarkers enable early diagnosis (secondary prevention), while tertiary prevention can reduce long-term complications and improve disease management. Moreover, the importance of prevention extends beyond NCDs to infectious diseases, where lifestyle-related factors can also play a pivotal role. Innovative human-based research methods have shown suitable for modeling several diseases and advancing drug discovery. These approaches are particularly relevant in prevention research, given the inherently human nature of the lifestyle and environmental factors associated with disease risk and progression.MethodsHere we conducted a retrospective evaluation of biomedical research projects funded under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), Horizon 2020, and currently ongoing Horizon Europe (HE). We developed and refined a computer-based approach based on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to examine three key aspects: (i) the integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in these projects, (ii) the biomedical research areas which most frequently incorporate prevention, and (iii) the use of animal-based research versus human-centric approaches.ResultsOur findings reveal a persistent gap in the percentage of prevention-focused biomedical research projects, with only 4.4%, 4.5%, and 1.9% of FP7, H2020, and HE projects, respectively, addressing prevention. This gap was particularly pronounced in certain biomedical research areas, such as age-related diseases and diabetes and metabolic syndrome research, which showed a decrease in the percentage of prevention-related projects especially under most recent framework programme (HE). While the reliance on animal-based methods has been generally modest, averaging around 26% of all prevention-related projects, tertiary prevention research, and prevention projects focused on some biomedical areas (i.e., age-related diseases, personalized medicine, antimicrobial resistance, bone disorders, and respiratory diseases) showed increased percentages in projects using animals under more recent FPs. Analysis of funding distribution revealed progressively less funding allocated to prevention-related projects focused on diabetes and metabolic syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases, age-related disorders, and AMR. In addition, the proportion of funding allocated to both secondary and tertiary prevention decreased under HE.ConclusionsA shift toward human-centric approaches, particularly in prevention-focused research, is essential to enhance the translatability of findings. As policymakers prepare for the next EU funding framework, these insights offer critical guidance for developing targeted funding strategies that prioritize human-centric prevention research as a cornerstone of public health.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12967-025-07019-8.

This article discusses the current requirement for scientific research to be published in the English language and the problems arising from this requirement not only for authors whose first language is not English but also for society and for the world's scientific community. The assistance which is and should be available to authors is considered as well as a future looking towards multilingual publication.

Many regions including Europe, the USA, Australia and Canada are making significant progress in facilitating the discovery, access and long-term stewardship of marine data through the development, implementation and operation of national, regional or international distributed ocean observing and data management infrastructures such as SeaDataNet, EMODnet, IOOS, R2R, and IMOS. The Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) project, supported by the EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7), National Science Foundation (USA) and Australian government, was initiated 1st October 2012 and continues as ODIP II for another 3 years with EU HORIZON 2020 funding. ODIP includes many of the major organizations engaged in ocean data management in Europe, US, Australia and Canada. ODIP is also supported by the IOC-IODE, closely linking this activity with its Ocean Data Portal (ODP) and Ocean Data Standards Best Practices (ODSBP) projects.

The Council of Ministers of the European Union has brought forward the vision to develop the Information Society in Europe for all citizens in Europe to a leading status. The CEU supports the goal in the 5th Framework Programme, with research area IST — Information Society Technology. Of course is research a very important aspect and driving force in this development, but also other measures are needed. The development of the infrastructure, realisation of borderless interoperability, and support of implementation are also required. This has been realised by European Union and the individual member states. Therefore, they all have started action on national and European level. A common position has been adopted in the eEurope Initiative, which has led to the eEurope action plan 2002. In this action plan concrete targets and timelines have been set in order to support the development of the Information Society in Europe. One direction is the Information Society for all people, and here specific actions are combined in “eAccessibility”. eAccessibility is guided by a high level expert group of the member states (ESDIS) and coordinated by DG Employment with support of DG INFSO and other DGs. ESDIS has decided to create an eAccessibility expert working group of experts and/ or government representatives from all member states. The eAccessibility started working in January 2001 and is still ongoing. The group has to deal with four targets of the eEurope action plan and has made progress as follows: The adption of the WAI guidelines has been one mayor achievement of eAccsibility so far.KeywordsMember StateSocial InclusionInformation SocietyAssistive TechnologyUser ParticipationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) data play a crucial role in both scientific research and practical applications. GNSS datasets are used to monitor atmospheric conditions, tectonic plate movements, and Earth deformation, providing valuable insights for geodetic and geophysical studies. Although widely accessible, GNSS data often lacks the necessary structure and metadata for effective reuse, particularly for data-driven research based on machine learning. To address these challenges, we applied the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles to GNSS RINEX observation files hosted by the EUREF Historical Data Centre (EUREF-HDC).The EU action plan “Turning FAIR into Reality” introduced the concept of FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs), emphasizing the need for Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and rich, standardized metadata to ensure data can be reliably found, accessed, utilized, and cited. Building on this foundation, we developed a multi-layered FDO structure centered on GNSS RINEX data. Given the established nature of the EUREF-HDC repository, we adapted the FDO concept by prioritizing structured metadata, followed by persistent identifiers and robust (meta)data access procedures.To implement this approach, we designed the GNSS-DCAT-AP metadata schema, assigned PIDs to both data and metadata, and developed web services enabling humans and machines alike to seamless search, retrieve, and download (meta)data. The effectiveness of our solution was evaluated using the FAIRsFAIR Data Object Assessment Metrics, demonstrating a significant improvement in FAIR compliance.This work showcases the feasibility of transforming GNSS RINEX data into FAIR Digital Objects and could provide a practical roadmap for other geospatial data repositories seeking alignment with FAIR principles.

More than ever, professional English is now cruising towards an enormous challenge in the European university context due to the extremely significant moment we are living in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The European convergence process is demanding immediate reflections, serious analyses, and profound reforms in specialized language teaching that lead to reach Bologna standards by 2010. This book aims to present an overview of professional English in the current academic landscape in Europe. It intends to shed light on a range of issues, both theoretical and practical, related to ESP, focusing on discourse analysis, corpus analysis, information and communication technologies, methodological approaches, curriculum design, and empirical research into language learning in broad terms. Because teachers need to be researchers and inquirers, this overview thus makes a contribution to the professional English field with the purpose of highlighting several important questions in the entire ESP academic mainstream. Scholars from different European universities explore specialized languages and document ESP teaching methodologies at university levels from a multidimensional perspective.

BackgroundThe aim of the EU-funded HERA (health and environment research agenda) project is to set priorities for the future European research agenda in the environment, climate and health nexus. We report results from a European researcher’s perspective and identify research areas that have been inadequately investigated to date. MethodsAn online survey was completed by European researchers to assess, evaluate and visualise research gaps. These research gaps were identified for 21 predefined areas within 3 main categories: i) classical environment and health paradigm; ii) problem or sector-based research areas and approaches and iii) holistic research areas and concepts. All research gaps were then evaluated by expert groups with the pre-defined criteria and systematically summarized. For areas identified within the survey as under-reported, additional input was sought from a range of key selected experts. The EU project database Cordis was utilized to verify that these areas were under-researched. ResultsBetween May and July 2019, 318 respondents from 38 countries reported 624 research gaps. The main areas for attention identified were: urban environments; chemicals; and climate change, (combined n = 313 gaps). Biodiversity loss and health; transport, mobility, sustainable solutions and health; energy transition and health; waste and the circular economy and health; ethics and philosophy and health were areas that were acknowledged as under-researched (combined n = 27 gaps). These under-researched areas were identified as having certain commonalities, they: i) mostly fell in the category “problem or sector based approaches“; ii) they are essential for developing and implementing solutions; and iii) require trans-disciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration. ConclusionsCurrently attention is given to topical and highly researched areas in environmental health. In contrast, this paper identifies key topics and approaches that are under-researched, yet, are critical for the implementation of the EU Green Deal, related strategies and action plans, and require further investigation and investment. The findings reveal the imperative to foster solutions-oriented, trans-disciplinary and participatory research and its implementation through changes in research funding and research structures.

Conducting high-quality research on current problems in the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation requires the involvement of scientists capable of conducting research independently, universities with an appropriate laboratory, etc. Various resources are considered, including foreign, to fulfill it. One of the options for their cooperation is partnership in various forms provided by the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation. However, the types of partnerships have evolved, changed and improved since 1984 to the present. The article attempts to conduct a retrospective analysis of all types of partnerships that were and are valid in the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation. The author identified seven stages of this phenomenon and formulated their features, advantages and disadvantages, taking into account the action of these programmes: 1 stage) the period 1984-1991 and the existing framework programmes during this period: the birth of a partnership. The very concept of «partnership» or its types are still missing, but there are specific provisions about cooperation in these documents; 2 stage) in the period 1990-1994, the concept of «partnership» appeared for the first time without a definition or explanation at the EU legislative level; 3 stage) covers the period 1994-1998, when partnerships between universities, research institutes and industry, including partnerships with industry, were typical; 4 stage) the period 1998-2002, where the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership is present without disclosing its content or explaining at the EU legislative level; 5 stage) the period 2002-2006, when the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities, contributing to the creation of the European Research Area and to innovation, refused to establish a specific type of partnership; 6 stage) іn the period 20072013, there were initial attempts to define some types of partnerships: long term public private partnership, industry-academia partnerships, international partnerships with third country organisations in scientific society; 7 stage) since 2014 and to the present, when new types of partnerships appear or the existing types of partnerships are improved as well as almost all the proposed types of partnerships have definitions, specifics of application, etc. It was found that none of the nine specified programmes contain a definition of the term «partnership», the types of partnerships vary depending on many factors.

The paper investigates at which level two Asian giants – Peoples Republic of China (China) and India are influenced by EU Framework Programs; who their collaboration partners are, and what trends are linked with their publication performances.

Recognizing the fact that the support of the public sector of research and innovation lays the foundations for new technologies, industries and markets, this report presents the Market Creation Potential Indicator (MCPI) and applies it to the innovations coming out of the EC-funded FP research projects. This way, it contributes to the creation of a toolset to measure and assess the market creating effects of public R&I policies.

Modernity is characterized by major transformations and evolutions, which have penetrated into the depths of all levels of human existence, in all economic, political and social spheres, thus significantly increasing the quality of life. The Information Society is the model of society in which the main good is information itself. Although the accelerated development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is the process behind the evolution of the information society, the new model of society means much more than technological progress. In the technological age, action plans and policies are being developed to meet the challenges, the most important technology being ICT, which allows information to be processed and conveyed in a revolutionary way. The information society is the ICT-based knowledge society. Information society technologies will evolve in the direction of being at the fingertips of the knowledge process, by generating, storing, and transmitting knowledge. Knowledge is the result of the information management process, thus promoting innovation, economic development, and decision-making in an efficient and transparent way.