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The recent massive growth of online media and the rise of user-generated content (i.e. Blogs, Twitter, Facebook) requires a high ability to interpret written information in different languages, and in an efficient and convenient time.

From the scientific point of view, new media pose different challenges due to the type of conversation that trigger: conversational, quick and short. Moreover, these conversations generate a deep-rooted stream of events within the context. Consequently, the pre-existing technological languages are no longer adequate because they are not precise, scalable and portable. The aim of the project is to develop an innovative and open-source methodology to allow the synthesis in real time (summarisation) of multilingual information's flows generated by the new media.

VENUS-C is a project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission with the objective to develop, test and deploy a large Cloud Computing infrastructure, highly scalable and flexible, in order to enhance the activities of European researchers and SMEs in Europe .

The Venus-C platform is based on Windows Azure and the resources of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, Spain), the European Microsoft data center and the Engineering Group's  data center. Azure provides a multi-layer, including computing power and storage, development environment and offer immediate services. VENUS-C scenarios develop applications for the Cloud in ten thematic areas: biomedicine, architecture and civil engineering, civil defense and emergency situations, data on marine biodiversity, Information technologies, medicine, mathematics and physics, SMEs, earth science, biology and biodiversity.

Eurokleis is participating in the E! LEILAS project: "Language-based Entity Identification for Location Aware Services", applied research to the identification and normalisation of geographic entities. The project will develop a technology through which geographical entities (city, address ...) in the web documents will be automatically recognised and assigned through their spatial coordinates.

Eurokleis has successfully participated in the SEQUOIA study, commissioned by DG Information Society of the European Commission, in order to develop a socio-economic self-assesment methodology to evaluate the potentiality of 25 research projects.

With reference to the objectives set by the European Union within the Lisbon strategy, the future of the Internet will become increasingly an essential part of future European ICT infrastructure and will be an important vehicle for promoting the internationalisation of markets and the development of productivity and employment in Europe.