HiPE: High Performance Erlang is an ASTEC project at the Computing Science Department of Uppsala University, aimed at efficiently implementing the concurrent functional language Erlang.
Safer Erlang: A research project focussed on the design and prototyping of a secure and safe mobile code execution environment in Erlang.
UBF: Erlang is being used by Joe Armstrong for researching the transportation and description of complex data structures across networks.
Verification of Erlang Programs: A project to produce a method and prototype tool-set for verifying a substantial fragment of the Erlang programming language.
VoDKA Project: The University of A Coruña is researching Video On Demand applications using Erlang.