Research Grants

Current

1. Copernicus App Lab: A Platform for Easy Data Access Connecting the Scientific EO Community with Mobile Developers
   (November 2016 - October 2018)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Commission, Horizon 2020
   • Investigators for NKUA: Manolis Koubarakis
   
   
2. Big Data Europe: Empowering Communities with Data Technologies
   (January 2015 - October 2017)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Commission, Horizon 2020
   • Investigators for NKUA: Manolis Koubarakis
   
   
3. WDAqua: Answering Questions using Web Data
   (January 2015 - October 2017)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Commission, Horizon 2020
   • Investigators for NKUA: Manolis Koubarakis
   
   

Past

1. MELODIES: Maximizing the Exploitation of Linked Open Data In Enterprise and Science
   (November 2013 - October 2016)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Commission, Framework Programme 7
   • Investigators for NKUA: Manolis Koubarakis
   
   
2. LEO: Linked Earth Observation Data
   (October 2013 - September 2015)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Commission, Framework Programme 7, Strategic Objective ICT 2013.4.3 “SME Initiative on Analytics”
   • Principal Investigator for NKUA and Coordinator: Manolis Koubarakis
   
   
3. Prod-Trees: Enriching EO Ontology Services Using Product Trees
   (December 2012 - June 2014)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Space Agency
   • Investigators for NKUA: Manolis Koubarakis
   
   
4. Optique: Scalable End-user Access to Big Data
   (November 2012 - October 2016)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Commission, Framework Programme 7, Call 8, Strategic Objective ICT 2011.4.4 “Intelligent Information Management”
   • Investigators for NKUA: Yannis Ioannidis and Manolis Koubarakis
     
5. SWeFS: Sensor Web Fire Shield
   (January 2012 - December 2014)
   
   • Funding Agency: Ministry Of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, Thales Programme
   • Investigators for NKUA: Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, Manolis Koubarakis and Elias Manolakos
     
     
6. TELEIOS: Virtual Observatory Infrastructure for Earth Observation Data
   (September 2010 - August 2013)
   
   • Funding Agency: European Commission, Framework Programme 7, Call 5, Strategic Objective ICT 2009.4.3 “Intelligent Information Management"
   • Principal Investigator for NKUA and Coordinator: Manolis Koubarakis
     
     
7. SemsorGrid4Env: Semantic Sensor Grids for Rapid Application Development in Environmental Management
   (September 2008 - August 2011)
• Funding Agency: European Commission, Framework Programme 7, Call 2, Challenge 6: ICT for Environmental Management and Energy Efficiency.
• Principal Investigator for NKUA: Manolis Koubarakis
  
  
8. Evergrowing Global Scale-Free Networks: their Provision, Repair and Unique Functions (EVERGROW)
   (January 2004 - December 2007)
   
   • Funding Agency: Integrated Project. Funded by the European Commission, Framework VI, IST/FET Complex Systems Initiative.
   • Role: The TUC team participates in the subproject "Decentralized Self-healing Services".
   • Principal Investigator: Manolis Koubarakis
     
     
9. OntoGrid: Paving the way for Knowledgeable Grid Services and Systems
   (September 2004 - August 2007)
   
   • Funding Agency: STREP project. Funded by the European Commission, Framework VI, IST GRID-based Systems for solving complex problems.
   • Participants: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (co-ordinator), University of Manchester, Victoria of Manchester, The University of Liverpool, Technical University of Crete, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Intelligent Software Components S.A., Acklin B.V., Deimos Space S.L., Boyd International B.V., Y'all.
   • Principal Investigator: Manolis Koubarakis
     
     
10. Continuous XML query processing on top of distributed hash tables. (Postgraduate Research Studentship for Iris Miliaraki).
    
    • Funding Agency: Microsoft Research (The  Ph.D. students chosen to be funded by this program in 2006 are listed here), Cambridge, United Kingdom
      
      
11. Peer-to-Peer Techniques for Semantic Web Services
    
    • Funding Agency: General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT) grant for "Cooperation with S & T Institutions in non-European Countries -2005"
    • Rarticipants: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Carnegie Mellon.
    • Principal Investigator: Manolis Koubarakis
      
      
12. BRIDGING GENOMES: An integrated genomic approach toward genetic improvement of aquacultured fish species
    (December 2001 - December 2005)
    
    • Funding Agency: European Commission, Quality of life and management of living resources.
    • Participants: Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology), University of Padova (Dept. of Biology), MPI fuer Entwicklungsbiologie, UMR 6061 "Genetique et Developpement" ( Faculte de Medecine), Universidade do Algarve, National Center for Mariculture (Genetics Department), Nireus Chios Aquaculture S.A., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Department of Animal Production), Technical University of Crete (Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering).
    • Role: The role of this laboratory in BridgeMap is to design and implement the bionformatics component of the project (database and related tools).
    • Principal Investigator: Manolis Koubarakis
      
      
13. Decentralised Information Ecosystem Technologies
    (July 2000 - June 2003)
    
    • Funding Agency: European Commission, Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) action.
    • Participants: BT Labs (Future Technologies Group), Technical University of Crete (Information Systems Laboratory), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, DFKI (Intelligent Visualisation and Simulation Systems).
    • Role: Our research in this project concentrates on Intelligent Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing.
    • Principal Investigator: Manolis Koubarakis
      
      
14. CHOROCHRONOS: A Research Network for Spatiotemporal Database Systems
    (August 1996-July 2000).
    
    • Funding Agency: European Commission, TMR Programme.
    • Principal Investigators for UMIST: Manolis Koubarakis and Babis Theodoulidis
      
      
15. Spatiotemporal Databases
    (October 1998 - September 1999).
    
    • Funding Agency: Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology
    • Action: Προσφορά Σταδιοδρομίας στην Ελλάδα σε Ελληνόφωνους Ερευνητές τουupsilon; Εξωτερικού
    • Scientist in Charge: Yannis Ioannidis (Dept. of Informatics, University of Athens)
    • Principal Investigator: Manolis Koubarakis