On February 26th, the best 2007 FIT-IT Research Proposals were presented during a festive event at the Zeiss Planetarium of the City of Vienna. The outstanding projects of last year's call belong to one of five program lines: Embedded Systems, Semantic Systems and Services, Systems on Chip, Visual Computing and Trust in IT Systems. The awards were presented by Christa Kranzl, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT).

In the ‘Semantic Systems and Services’ category, the RAVEN Project (Relation Analysis and Visualization for Evolving Networks) has been awarded the 3rd prize. RAVEN is a joint effort between MODUL University Vienna's Department of New Media Technology, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the Know-Center Graz as well as the industry partners Gentics Software and SmApper Technologies.

Additional Information

• RAVEN Project

• RAVEN Consortium
• Department of New Media Technology
• FIT-IT Semantic Systems