Future Internet

A final deadline extension on EuCNC 2017 is being granted until Friday this week, 24th. Feb. 2017

Posted by www.cefims.eu on February 21, 2017 | Comments Off

EuCNC is sponsored by the European Commission, IEEE ComSoc, and EURASIP, being held in Oulu, Finland, from 12th to 15th June 2017.

All the information is available at http://www.eucnc.eu, and you can always consult our Twitter account (@EuCNC) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/eucnc) for updates.

The conference will include:

— regular sessions with papers from the open call (to be submitted to IEEE Xplore), the call being available at http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/58;

— workshops, the call being available at http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/60;

— special sessions, the call being available at http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/94;

— poster sessions, the call being available at http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/59;

— tutorials, the call being available at http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/172;

— panels;

— keynote talks;

— demos and exhibitions, the call being available at http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/84.

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions and proposals.

Best Regards,

Matti Latva-aho

Technical Program Chair, EuCNC 2017

SAVE THE DATE: Net Futures 2017 conference 28 and 29 June 2017

Posted by www.cefims.eu on February 2, 2017 | Comments Off

Please find a message below from Pearse O’Donohue, Acting Director, Future Networks, European Commission, DG CONNECT in relation to Net Futures 2017!

Dear Net Futures Community,

Net Futures conference will be back this year! After two very successful conferences in 2015 and 2016 we forge ahead in preparing an even better conference for 2017. Net Futures will take place in Brussels on 28 and 29 June 2017. This year’s theme is

“Internet, the economy and society in 2027″

With this we want to step back and critically ask questions such as ‘What will the future internet look like?’ Are we addressing the right issues, such as privacy, skills, human values, and how can we address them adequately?

The mid-term review of the Digital Single Market strategy is an ideal occasion to reflect on and reformulate the goals that Europe should address while entering a period where everything will be connected and every part of society and economy ‘internetised’.

This digital transformation is inescapable, but we need to ensure that it is positive for all.

We invite all Europeans who want to give these developments a voice. If you are an ICT or a non-ICT player from the public sector, a private organisation, or from academia and from the young and creative innovators community, Net Futures 2017 will be an event where you can meet and exchange ideas and concerns.

Looking forward to seeing you at Net Futures 2017!

Yours sincerely,

Pearse O’Donohue

Acting Director, Future Networks

European Commission, DG CONNECT

New RECOMMENDER feature added to the XiPi+ testbed repository enabling EaaS

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 26, 2017 | Comments Off

Please find some information in relation to a new feature on the XiPi+ testbed.

A new feature called RECOMMENDER has been added to the XiPi+ testbed repository enabling EaaS.

In the context of the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI), the XiPi+ testbed repository offers a new feature called RECOMMENDER for enabling Experimentation-as-a-Service (EaaS) functionality.

With that, XiPi+ provides a communication bridge between experimenters and infrastructure owners in order to create an interaction workflow between the two stakeholders to cover:

Searching an infrastructure; and
Setting up an experiment.

** Save Time, Efforts, Money – Start your NGI Experimentation with a right type of testbed TODAY! **

More information and details: http://www.ict-fire.stfi.re/new-recommender-feature-added-to-the-xipi-testbed-repository-enabling-eaas/ (short link: http://bit.ly/XiPi-EaaS).

General Information:

XiPi+ testbed repository works like a marketplace for the Next Generation Internet (NGI) ecosystem bridging the gap between experimenters’ need and experimentation testbeds. It is an inventory of ICT infrastructures that, among its functionalities, offers:

Registration of new infrastructures and their description based on a general and extensible data model called Common Description Framework (CDF);
Management of owned infrastructures;
Search of infrastructures for a given experiment; and
Match infrastructures with experiments (recommender).

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Consultation on Cloud Computing Research Innovation Challenges for WP 2018-2020

Posted by www.cefims.eu on September 6, 2016 | Comments Off

The European Commission (DG CONNECT, Unit “Cloud and Software”) is consulting all interested stakeholders on the future research and innovation challenges in the area of Cloud Computing to be addressed in the forthcoming H2020 LEIT ICT Work Programme 2018-2020.

All interested stakeholders (industry, research centres, academia, SMEs and users) are invited to contribute. The consultation will run from Monday, 5 September until Monday, 10 October 2016.

More information is available here.

This news item is from the Future Internet website. It is hosted by the Digital Agenda for Europe Newsroom.

The 3rd ceFIMS-CONNECT Newsletter is now available!

Posted by www.cefims.eu on September 15, 2015 | Comments Off

The 3rd ceFIMS-CONNECT Newsletter is now available at: http://www.cefims.eu/fif/newsletter-august-2015/.

In the 3^rd ceFIMS-CONNECT Newsletter, you can find an update on the ceFIMS-CONNECT repository database development and ongoing Future Internet and 5G related developments in Austria, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Moreover, it presents a summary of the latest FIRE workshops and FIRE+ extension with new projects, FIWARE initiatives for boosting FIWARE usage beyond the FI-PPP programme, and first phase projects of the 5G-PPP. Finally, the newsletter highlights the upcoming events including the upcoming ICT 2015 conference, where the 14th FIF meeting will be held also.

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Below, we highlight the news received from Member States via the ceFIMS-CONNECT Monitor service. A big thank you to those who shared posts with us.

Austria: Austrian Iot Day 2015 And IctProfiles Service

Following the great success of the European Internet of Things Conference Global IoT Day Event in Vienna, on 04.11.2015 “The Austrian IoT Day 2015″ will take place on 04.11.2015. Also Austria promotes its free online service for partner search. Read more …

Ireland: FIWARE Mundus visit in SE Ireland

A meeting was held in Waterford, Ireland between the FIWARE Mundus programme representatives and interested representatives from South East Ireland, with the view to setting up an official FIWARE region in the South East of Ireland. Read more …

Hungary: Hungarian MTA-BME Future Internet Research Group

In the 2nd 5G Monitor, Vilmos Németh from Hungarian National Innovation Office summarizes the research works carried by MTA-BME Future Internet Research Group at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in the area of 5G. Read more …

Malta: MoU between Huawei and Maltese Government

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Maltese government research and develop technologies in the country. Read more …

Poland: PSNC to launch commercial FIWARE node

As a growing number of SMEs funded by A16 Accelerators are bringing FIWARE-based products to the market, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center has decided to launch a commercial FIWARE node, providing these companies with a highly reliable infrastructure and support. Read more …

Portugal: AIOTI mirror platform and FIWARE and H2020 event

Spain: Future Internet and 5G initiatives

Following the previous year’s support activities to Future Internet in Spain, the Administration (mainly Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism) and the ICT industry (AMETIC – Spanish ICT industries association – through the Future Internet Spanish Technology Platform, es.INTERNET) have kept on providing information and encouraging national SMEs participating on FI-PPP as well as on national calls. Read more…

Portugal launches the “AIOTI – Plataforma Espelho Portuguesa” (“AIOTI – Portuguese Mirror Platform”)

Posted by www.cefims.eu on September 1, 2015 | Comments Off

Shared by Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

The National Portuguese ICT Cluster – TICE.PT recently created the “Plataforma Espelho” (“Mirror Platform”) initiative, which aims to extend the contact od Portugal initiatives with European Technology Platforms in the area of ICT. This initiative is based on the Alliance for the Internet of Things (AIOTI) launched by the European Commission and several key IoT players. Its goal is to aggregate national authorities vertically- and horizontally within these topics (but also others that are identified as priorities for the national context) to maximize the collaboration and involvement of national entities with global AIOTI platform. The “Plataforma Espelho” mission includes the organization of events and workshops to promote interaction and discussion at national level.

See more details here (only in Portuguese).

Tagged Future Internet, Internet of Things, IoT

Future Internet and FIWARE ecosystems in Portugal

Posted by www.cefims.eu on September 1, 2015 | Comments Off

Shared by Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

Portugal continues to foster its growing Future Internet ecosystem. Engaged with its responsibilities in Information Society public policies, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), in collaboration with the IPN – Instituto Pedro Nunes, organized a whole day event dedicated to the Future Internet and FIWARE opportunities within the Horizon 2020. Together with the participation of the European Commission (Mário Campolargo) and FIWARE Tech (Sérgio Garcia Gomez), which contributed for the attendees to better understand the European and world-wide trends and strategies for the Future Internet and the FIWARE framework, the event had the participation of FIWARE Accelerators (SOUL-FI and INCENSe) and SMEs and entrepreneurs who shared their experiences (see the event’s programme here).

The advantage of the openness provided by FIWARE, which represents an opportunity to companies to easily deliver applications into the market, was one of the key messages of the event. The event also enhanced the central role of FIWARE Accelerators in the whole FIWARE ecosystem.

Tagged FIWARE, Future Internet, H2020

Spain: Digital Economy and Society Strategic Action

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 27, 2015 | Comments Off

By Jesús Cañadas, National Innovation Office, Spain

The Ministry of Industry, through the Secretariat for Telecommunications and the Information Society, launches R&D&I national calls for projects in a yearly basis. Since 2009, these calls include topics regarding Future Internet, always in harmony with the European ICT priorities in FP7 and, more recently, H2020.

The Digital Economy and Society Strategic Action mobilized 200 M€ for 2015 call. It includes future internet related topics as well a specific line on 5G technology. Call was published on 20^th May and closed last 18^th June. Today, the call is under evaluation, but according to the submissions the topic on 5G has certainly arisen the interest of a number of proposals.

The Spanish R&D&i strategy regarding ICT has been in the same line than the European for years. This fact, together with the national Future Internet ecosystem organization, has become essential not only for the development of Future Internet project at national level, but also for the success of the Spanish entities in the European calls such as those in the framework of the FI-PPP. The bet for 5G has, again, the commitment of the Spanish Administration and industry.

Tagged 5G, call, R&D&I, Spain

Spain: Smart Cities call in Spain

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 27, 2015 | Comments Off

By Jesús Cañadas, National Innovation Office, Spain

The Spanish Government, though the Ministry of Industry, has approved in July 2015 the allocation of 78 M€ to promote smart cities. This initiative is broken down into two new calls, the “second call for smart cities” (which gives continuity to the first one launched in 2014) and a specific call for “smart islands”, equipped with a budget of 48 and 30 M€ respectively, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

These calls are launched in the framework of the Digital Agenda for Spain, the current reference ICT national strategy, and particularly within the Smart Cities National Plan, recently updated up to 188 M€.

The second call for smart cities is addressed to local authorities of more than 20,000 inhabitants of all Spain. This instrument will fund a maximum of 80% of the actions envisaged by the different beneficiary projects, which shall not exceed 8 million euros of budget.

The smart islands call is addressed to local administrations which manage public services in the whole of the territory of any island of the Balearic or Canary Islands. 100% of the actions will be covered and initiatives shall not exceed 10 million euros of budget.

Objectives include innovation for improving local services in terms of sustainability, efficiency, accessibility, interoperability and openness. Eligible activities may include consulting and analysis, provision of technological infrastructure, implementation of software solutions, actions enabling the availability of open data, development of software applications or training, among others.

Deadlines for these calls are in October 2015 and execution phase will extend up to 3 years.

These calls confirm the commitment of Spain to the Smart Cities.