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The LUMIRing project aims to deploy a multi-core fiber (MCF) test bed within Lisbon Metro’s Yellow Line — an ambitious and groundbreaking initiative to explore weakly coupled MCF transmission under real-world conditions. By leveraging the harsh mechanical stresses caused by metro operations in underground tunnels, the project offers a unique opportunity to investigate and address real-life transmission challenges.A core goal is to design, implement, and validate advanced techniques that both mitigate performance degradation and enable the integration of data transmission with sensing, pushing the limits of current MCF capabilities.The test bed’s main infrastructure includes a 12-tube cable, with each tube containing 12 fibers. The cable contains 74 standard cladding diameter WC-MCFs (of 5 different types, with 4 and 7 cores and with step and trench-assisted refractive index profiles) and 70 conventional single-mode single-core fibers (SSMF).

Adopting digitalization, innovation, and new technologies in the tourism sector is contingent upon smart tourism tools (STTs) availability. Such tools can facilitate the optimization of efficiency and sustainability in tourism operations. Moreover, awareness of past initiatives in smart tourism may catalyze the aforementioned uptake. The objective of the EUROSTIT project is to develop a comprehensive observatory that will provide a broad overview of the various Smart Tourism Tools and Initiatives currently available in Europe. A set of published catalogs was employed as a source of bootstrap content for a prototype version within the context of the European RESETTING project, which preceded this project proposal. The prototype is deficient in advanced, user-friendly search functionality and content classification. The plethora of technological solutions, coupled with the wealth of past experiences and lessons learned, necessitates a meticulous and methodical approach to identifying the optimal technological solutions and the underlying principles that must be adhered to to achieve the desired outcomes. A validated taxonomy, developed within the scope of RESETTING, will be employed to classify all European STTs identified. The EUROSTIT Observatory will constitute an independent entity associated with the ISTAR-IUL research unit, focusing on issues and challenges pertaining to the digital transformation of tourism, a sector with a significant impact on Portugal's balance of payments. The EUROSTIT team will critically examine the smart tourism ecosystem, thereby advancing scientific knowledge and transferring it to society. Furthermore, it will contribute to the definition of research methodologies, the formulation and evaluation of policies for promoting sustainable tourism (in terms of the environment, society, and the economy), and the provision of analysis and advice. The project is comprised of four interrelated tasks. The initial task entails the construction of ...

This challenge arose directly from conversations prior to the opening of the competition, between a group of Iscte teachers (under the aegis of the IA>AP Competence Center, https://iaap.iscte-iul.pt) and members of the PlanApp board. Among the tasks that were considered interesting for exploring and testing possibilities, the following stood out (in the area of AI / Data Science): 1. Analysis of topics from the outputs of the “Building Bridges” workshops 2. Extraction, processing and analysis of inequality monitoring indicators 3. Extraction of fields in public policy planning documents 4. Analysis of demographic indicators Task 1 aims to test the possibilities of semi-automatic processing of conference output in order to reduce processing time and/or flag up particularly relevant parts for the PlanApp of the documents resulting from the “Science and Public Policy Workshops: How to build bridges?”. In these workshops, participants are invited to write short texts with proposals, difficulties and challenges related to the interaction between academia and public policy, but the manual processing of this amount of text is demanding in terms of reading time for the organizers, and a semi-automatic processing is beneficial, which can not only highlight the most addressed topics, but also point out the most relevant parts (or those that address more original topics). The aim of Task 2 is to help with the implementation of the Inequalities Report, where PlanAPP has developed quantitative (description and simulation) and qualitative analyses of various dimensions of inequality. One of the main difficulties in this process is the continuous need to merge information from different sources. The aim of this task is to map the various sources and organize the process of merging and cleaning data, which will allow for a more stable analysis of these indicators. Task 3 is a task of structuring semi-structured documents. Public policy planning documents are usually semi-structu...