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EICEL: Effects & Impulses of COVID-19 on/for teaching development in Luxembourg
EICEL will investigate the effects of the distance learning period (as a COVID-19 prevention measure) in Luxembourgish schools on pupils, teachers, and families with regard to teaching and learning arrangements from an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall goal is to adapt and develop innovative teaching and learning practices and specific pedagogical methods of a digitally supported learning culture in Luxembourg. It will give essential impulses to teaching development for the 21st century for Luxembourg and beyond, in order to help reducing educational inequalities and to cope with t...
Easy ambulatory diagnostic profilometry for Covid19 symptoms tracking: computed in Luxembourg
This project contributes to the following work packages: WP01: Infection prevalence, WP02: Predictive markers for covid-19 severity, WP05:real-time epidemiological data on COVID-19 positive or suspected cases treated in the ambulatory setting, WP07 : map and analyse COVID-19 incidence in Luxembourg, WP05 : exit strategy and 'controlled return to normalisation'. In order to easily track symptoms and severity of Covid19 diagnosed or suspected subjects, we propose a simple ambulatory diagnostic system for creating a functional capacity profilometry of an individual with modular approaches i...
Detection Covid19 patients rapidly using cough and voice analyses
Emergency service hospital center receives a huge number of calls in epidemic period, among these calls there are critical cases that need rapid intervention, it may be delayed to answer these cases. Therefore, we suggest a solution by giving an indication of the health status of the person calling directly when hearing his voice and cough. This indicator depends on finding a degree of correspondence between the caller's voice, cough signatures and that of certain patients with the COVID-19 virus. This solution can also be used effectively by health professionals for remote consultations in...
Socio-technical security of a platform for COVID-19 biomedical data sharing and vaccination
Medical data sharing is a service that, especially in the time of a pandemic, is pivotal in fostering collaborative medical research and in prompting a scientifically solid response in the safeguarding of public health. This project will use as use case a new platform for CODVIS-19 medical data research, currently in development by ITTM and Data Vaccinator, to guarantee that the platform protocols' are secure and GDPR compliant, while assessing and improving the platform's usability security. Meant to be used by medical professionals and patients the socio-technical security of the platform...
Cytokines as biomarkers and therapeutic targets in COVID-19 infection
Cytokines play an important role in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 infection. A subgroup of patients develops a cytokine storm syndrome, correlating with a bad clinical outcome. For example, the concentration of the inflammatory cytokine Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been recognized as a risk factor for mortality and for respiratory failure in Chinese and German patient cohorts, respectively. Tocilizumab, an antibody directed against the IL-6 receptor alpha chain, is used in clinical trials as well as an FDA-approved inhibitor of Jaks, tyrosine kinases which mediate the signal transduction of mult...
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 with Open Banking API
According to the health authorities , due to the highly contagious potential of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 desease), the formal preventive quarantine has been replaced by an isolation strategy early March. However, such strategy cannot last for an undetermined period of time, since there is no concrete date for releasing a vaccine or discovering an effective medicine. The return of people to normal activities will probably happen gradually, but still it will create a new potential peak of cases if not made carefully. Thus, a post-isolation strategy needs to be well planned as the next phase....
Facilitating optimal exit strategies with smart access control and identification (SmartExit)
This project aims at facilitating exit strategies incorporating access to the public space, border crossing or critical areas such as retirement homes, based on the individual COVID-19 immunity and/or infection status. The smart access control will be based on passports, ID cards, smart cards, or even smartphone apps. We will propose a mechanism, produce a prototype implementation, and present a preliminary formal analysis of the proposed solution. While it might be necessary to waive users' privacy to contain the epidemic in the short term, we will look for mechanisms that waive it to the ...
Virus-Surface Interactions in Dynamic Environments (V-SIDE)
Since the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing body of scientific literature has reported on the pre-infection viability and stability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, qualitatively indicating the role of physical surfaces in transmission of the virus. The nature of the surfaces (e.g., paper v/s plastic v/s metals) and their properties (smooth v/s rough), are believed to play a critical role in determining the stability and viability during the pre-infection phase. Virus-surface interactions are inherently biophysical in nature wherein the dynamics of the environmental parameters (va...
