• H2020
• Industrial Leadership
• ICT

Maastricht University, the Netherlands, is to take part in two new Horizon 2020-funded projects for the development of innovative products and the promotion of research in the areas of health and education.

The collaborative projects were launched within the university’s Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) in January and bring together universities, industrial players and policy makers in ICT innovation.

The 18-partner, €7.6m MaTHiSiS project intends to develop innovative educational tools for both formal and informal settings that place the user’s emotion at the core of the learning process. It will do this via the application of cutting edge analytics and AI techniques, including robots, mobile devices and interactive boards, in mainstream, special and vocational learning contexts.

DKE will play a central role in the project in the fields of computer vision, AI, data analysis and game design.

ICT4Life meanwhile is a nine-member, €3.4m research and innovation project aimed at the development of ambient-assisted living instruments and smart interfaces for the elderly and their caregivers. Its main focus will be people with dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease who are still living independently.

To that end, ICT4Life, through Maastricht University, will work on smart sensors able to detect anomalies in human activities and smart interfaces for the elderly to report and receive feedback from their doctors and families.