Academic Research Consortium

Project “V4+ Academic Research Consortium integrating databases,

robotics and languages technologies”

(2018-2019)

On June 18, 2018, an agreement was signed between the International Visegrad Fund and the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, the coordinator of the project “V4+ Academic Research Consortium integrating databases, robotics and language technologies” to provide financial support. The partners of the project are 5 scientific and educational institutions from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. The the Institute for Digitalisation of Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine ( the Institute of Information Technologies and Learning Tools of NAES of Ukraine) is among the partners.

To provide ICT-support for joint research the company IBM Slovakia delivered to V4+ Consortium the cloud based platform for project management «BOX WPad».

The purpose of the V4+ Consortium is to develop computer technological instruments to tackle regional problems related to EU ICT research priorities.

The research activity of the V4+Consortium is focused on several issues:

• ICT for partner search for Horizon 2020;
• building of the digital platforms of the future;
• to overcome the languages barriers with the use of ICT;
• technology-enhanced learning;
• ICT to support research and retrieval of scientific cultural heritage;
• ICT know-how exchange.

Partners of the project:

• Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava;
• Ostrava Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic;
• Siedlce University, Poland;
• Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary;
• Institute for Digitalisation of Education of the NAES of Ukraine (the Institute of Information Technologies and Learning Tools of the NAES of Ukraine), Kyiv, Ukraine.