Nowadays great attention is paid to the Industry 4.0. concept whose central idea is the exploitation of large amounts of data generated by different kinds of sensors, to enact highly automatized, robust processes and to develop high quality

Mobile communications have changed, and will continue to change our lives. With 5G under deployment, the interest of the scientific and industrial communities has started focusing on the future 6G communication networks, which will require

Distributed/Federated data analytics allow to improve the utility of data from multiple sources through various techniques, ranging from statistics to machine learning. For example, collaborative cybersecurity systems can offer significant

In this project, the team of researchers will address the problem of autonomous robotic grasping of objects in challenging scenes. We consider two industrially and economically important open challenges which require advanced vision-guided

During the past two decades, philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, clinicians and neuroscientists strived to provide authoritative definitions of consciousness within a neurobiological framework. Engineers have more recently

In the recent years, with the pervasiveness of computers and a great variety of electronic devices connected to the Internet, Digital Humanities (DH) as a research field has experienced a great transformation that has permitted the

In recent years NV centers in diamond have emerged as one of the post promising candidates for solid-state implementations of quantum information and computing. NV centers are defects in the diamond lattice consisting of a substitutional

The QScale project focuses on the development of advanced quantum communication technologies, specifically of quantum repeater architectures, which represent a major and timely challenge for the field of quantum information science and

Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Communication brought a radical, paradigmatic change in our understanding of the nature of information and of its use. Progress in efficient quantum computation and communication will be possible

Project context and objectives Trapped cold ions are among the most advanced physical platforms for the implementation of quantum information processing schemes and protocolls. In current state of the art experiments entanglement of qubits