International Projects

Oct 2024-Dec 2025: "AI Techniques for Patterns Discovery in Distributed Systems" (AI-PATTERNS), EU NextGeneration, PNRR Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3
https://www.becogsys.com/projects/ai-patterns.html

Nov 2024-Oct 2028: "Conversational Systems for Emotional Support and Customer Assistance" (CRYSTAL), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) ID 101182965.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101182965

Nov 2023-March 2026: "A pilot analysIs of behavioRal and opeRational data for detEcting Socio-emotional PrEcursors of mild CogniTIVE impairments (MCI) and dementia” (IRRESPECTIVE), D.D. n. 1409/2022 - PRIN 2022 PNRR - Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza a titolarità del Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca. Duration two years and three months.
https://www.irrespective.org

Feb 2019-Jan 2024: "Mental health monitoring through interactive conversations” (MENHIR). EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, Grant N. 823907. Coordinator Zoraida CALLEJAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA, SPAIN, Duration 48 months.
https://menhir-project.eu/.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/823907

Dec 2022-Jun 2024: "Socially Aware Learning through Interactions in Crowded Environments" (SALICE), Funded through competitions from Università delle Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli”, Duration 1 year and 6 months.
PDF : https://www.unicampania.it/RipartizioniFS/RAG/Bandi_Ateneo/Bando_Piano_Strategico_2022/Graduatoria_di_merito_Bando_Giovani_Ricercatori.pdf

Jan 2022-Jan 2025: "Promoting Socio-emotional and Motivational well-being: an integrated intervention for the prevention of cognitive decline" PI: Gabriella Santangelo, PON Research and Innovation New program actions funded with ESF REACT-EU resources.

Sept 2020-Sept 2023: "Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization", (TAILOR) H2020 ICT-48 European network of AI excellence, EC Grant Agreement number: 952215, Call identifierH2020-ICT-2019-3 (https://tailor-network.eu/about/about-2/), https://tailor-network.eu/network/network-members/.

Apr 2019-Apr 2023: "The neural architecture of consciousness”, EU COST Action CA18106, Chair Dr Kristian SANDBERG (Denmark). Duration 48 months https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18106/#tabs|Name:management-committee
Cordis : https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/218542/factsheet/en.

Dec 2019-Dec 2022: "AutoNomous DiscoveRy Of depressIve Disorder Signs” (ANDROIDS), Call D.R.: n.28 del 11.01.2019), Programma V:ALERE 2019, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli” DR n. 906, del 04/10/2019. Duration: 36 months https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/overview-and-activities https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/android-project.
https://becogsys.com/projects/androids.html

Oct 2019-Oct 2022: "Gamified Career Guidance: Promoting Meaningful and Participative Career Construction and Vocational Development through a Gamified Digital Platform” EU Erasmus+ (2018-1-DE01-KA203-004222); Coordinator Francisco Luís Baptista de Sá Machado (Instituto Universitário da Maia - ISMAI, Porto, Portogallo). Duration: 36 months, https://g-guidance.eu/language/en/team/.

Jan 2019-Jun 2022: "SocIal ROBOTics for active and healthy ageing" (SIROBOTICS) Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON), AUTORITÀ di Gestione MIUR DD n. 1735 del 13/07/2017 Progetti di ricerca Industriale e Sviluppo Sperimentale, Area di Specializzazione "Tecnologie per gli ambienti di vita” Duration 36 months . The ambition of the proposal is to provide and evaluate new assistance processes for a continuative care carried out through a wide range of health services consisting of different levels of assistance in a domestic and residential field. The expected goals consist in strengthening and promoting the advancement of innovation, automation and the robotics community in Southern Italy, thus favouring the emergence of potential start-ups, not only in the healthcare field but also in other field related to ICT robotics technologies like logistics, medicine, cleaning, etc.
https://www.exprivia.it/en-tile-7907-si-robotics/

12. Nov 2017-Apr 2021 "Empathic, Expressive, Advanced, Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly (EMPHATIC)”. EU H2020 Grant N. 769872. Coordinator Maria Ines Torres, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA. Duration 36 months.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/769872

Sept 2016-Sept 2020: "Measuring homelessness in Europe” EU COST Action CA15218, Chair Koen HERMANS (BE). Duration 48 months, European Fundation in Science and Technologies https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA15218/#tabs|Name:management-committee.

Apr 2015-Apr 2019 "Enhancing Children’s Oral Language Skills across Europe and Beyond: A Collaboration Focusing upon Interventions for Children with Difficulties Learning Their First Language", EU COST Action IS146, Chair James LAW (UK).
European Fundation in Science and Technologies, Duration 48 months
https://www.cost.eu/actions/IS1406/#tabs|Name:management-committee

May 2014-May 2015 "Computational Intelligence Methods for Biomedical ICT in Neurological Diseases", Event’s grant n. 17, funded inside the proposal "Connecting ICT in Europe and Southeast Asia (Connect SEA). EU FP7 Framework Programme. Grant N. 611014

Jun 2014-Jul 2017 "Psychological Status Monitoring by Content Analysis and Acoustic-Phonetic Analysis of Crew Talks and Video Diaries (CAPA)”, European Space Agency (ESA) approved project n. HSO-U-LE-0302. Duration 36 monthsa
https://www.spsc.tugraz.at/research-projects/capa-psychological-status-monitoring-by-content-analysis-and-acoustic-phonetic-analysis-of-crew-talks-and-video-diaries.html

May 2013-2016 "LangTERRA - Enhancing the Research Potential of ILSP/Athena R.C. in Language Technology in the European Research ERA” Coordinator Spyros Raptis, ILSP/Athena, Greece. Duration 36 months, FP7-REGPOT
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/285924/reporting

Jul 2012-Jul 2015 "Psychological Status Monitoring by Computerised Analysis of Language phenomena (COALA)”, (ESA) approved project n. HSO-US 2012-108. Duration 36 months
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Concordia/This_year_s_science

Dec 2012-Nov 2015 vAssist (AAL-2010-3-106) Voice Controlled Assistive Care and Communication Services for the Home. Duration 36 months
http://vassist.cure.at

Oct 2012-Jun 2013

"The future concept and reality of Social Robotics: Challenges, Perception and Applications - Role of Social Robotics in current and future society”, EU COST http://www.cost.eu/events/socialrobotics

Jun 2011-Oct 2014 "Support for incorporating R&D teams in international cooperation in the area of image and audio signal processing”. CZ/EU funded project N. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0094. Coordinator Hicham Atassi, Brno University of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Communication and Telecommunications, CZ 61200 Brno. Duration 36 months
http://spl.utko.feec.vutbr.cz/en/our-cooperation

Jul 2010-Nov 2014 "MUltilingual and Multifaceted Interactive information Access" (MUMIA), EU COST Action IC1002, Chair Michail Salampasis. Duration 48 months, European Fundation in Science and Technologies
https://www.cost.eu/actions/IC1002/#tabs|Name:management-committee

Jan 2010-Apr 2014 "Time in Mental Activity” (TIMELY), EU COST Action TD0904, Chair: Argiro Vatakis. Duration 48 months European Fundation in Science and Technologies, European Fundation in Science and Technologies. https://www.cost.eu/actions/TD0904/#tabs|Name:management-committee

Local Projects

"Virtual Communities and Conformity: The Social Influence of the Web on the Perception of Emotional States”. (Financial Year 2013) Scientific Director Prof. Anna Esposito

"The Propagation of Information in Social Networks”. University Research 2014, Second University of Naples (Financial Year 2014) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco

"The Amount of Emotional Information Transmitted by Audio and Video Channels”. University Research 2016 Second University of Naples. (Financial Year 2016) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco

"The Categorization of Digital Information through the use of Euler Diagrams”. University Research 2017 UNIVERSITY OF CAMPANIA "LUIGI VANVITELLI”. (Financial Year 2017) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco

"How Adults Over 65 Perceive the Personality of Virtual Agents: Hedonic and Pragmatic Aspects”. (Financial Year 2018) Scientific Director Prof. Anna Esposito

"The Attitude of Elderly Users Towards Assistive Virtual Agents: The Role of Voice and Gender”. University Research 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CAMPANIA "LUIGI VANVITELLI”. (Financial Year 2019) Scientific Director Dr. Gennaro Cordasco