Shared by Peter Nõu, VINNOVA
Vinnova has sponsored ‘internet industry’ to come together and analyse and propose what needs and should be done in the ‘future internet’. As a result a report called Swedish Agenda for the Future Internet has been published. The public review process of said report is happening right now.
The 3rd ceFIMS-CONNECT Newsletter is now available at: http://www.cefims.eu/fif/newsletter-august-2015/.
In the 3rd 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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WELCOME| FIF and ceFIMS-CONNECT ACTIVITIES | MONITOR NEWS FROM NATIONAL INITIATIVES | NEWS FROM JOINT EUROPEAN INITIATIVES | UPCOMING EVENTS |PROJECT CONTACTS
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
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. Read more…
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…
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).
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.
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 20th May and closed last 18th 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.
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.
By Jesús Cañadas, National Innovation Office, Spain
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. Periodic coordination meetings have been held in order to plan and organize strategy and events.
Highlighted actions are:
The heroes of the Future Internet (Madrid, 21st May 2015)
FIWARE accelerate programme is already working and delivering first results. During 2014, Spanish Future Internet ecosystem has organized different events and workshops focused on presenting and giving information about FIWARE and its accelerators (13th May, 24th September, 15th-17th October 2014). The strategy for 2015 still considers giving information about the remaining opportunities (last open calls), but mainly focuses on the results and the experience acquired by the beneficiaries of the programme, the SMEs that are actually working and developing their projects and business with FIWARE under EC support. 21st May’s event have highlighted entrepreneurship.
The event has been organized by AMETIC through Watify (European entrepreneurship campaign) and es.INTERNET, and was supported by the Madrid city Hall and the Ministry of Industry. The brief opening session, with representatives from industry and different levels of the Administration (Ministry and city Hall) left patent that the Spanish success on the Future Internet European programmes are not fruit of chance, but of a coordinated work between industry and Administration, covering European, national, regional and local levels.
The main session consisted on speeches from some selected projects and SMEs funded by FIWARE programme: KOIKI, PGPlaning Plice, StoormFlow, 3DENT, INEVIO, Smart-TV solutions in e-health, STEPLA, Plactherm and WIIM were projects exposed by their own promoters and developers, the real protagonists of the Future Internet.
The second session gave the floor to some of the accelerator’s representatives. FINODEX, FABULOUS, SOUL-FI, CREATI-FI, IMPACT, FICHe, INCENSe and FI-C3 commented also the details and particularities of each, results, new opportunities, and calendar. This session ended with an additional speech to explain future FIWARE commercial development (topic of interest for SMEs and participants in FIWARE programme)
Planning International conference on Future Internet (expected October 2015)
The Ministry of Industry is planning a conference to show the Spanish ICT technological ability and its enormous potential, tackling topics as Future Internet, 5G, Smart Cities or Industry 4.0 and adopting an international framework (focused on Latam).
Plan includes high level institutional speeches, exhibition area and plenary session addressing main topics.
Shared by Thomas Zergoi, FFG, Austria
Following the great success of the European Internet of Things Conference Global IoT Day Event #gide2015 in Vienna which was attended by over 500 participants, on 04.11.2015 Seidler Consulting and IoT Austria will organize “The Austrian IoT Day 2015“. The conference to demonstrate the potentials of the Internet of Things in Austria (#taid2015) will be held in Vienna’s Museum Quarter. The agenda includes:
- IoT Conference with 14 presentations and a prominent panel discussion
- IoT Talks Special: Industrial 4.0 with 8 special speakers
- IoT Academy with 14 workshops
- IoT Exhibition with more than 30 exhibitors
- and IoT Party – the great celebration of the IoT community from 22:00
Looking for research partners in Austria? ICTprofiles (http://www.ictprofiles.at) offers a free online service, tailor-made to help you to find Austrian partners for your ICT research and development projects – either in the context of EU-funded Research and Development projects (Horizon 2020 Programme, Active Assisted Living Joint Programme) or within a broader search for technology-orientated partnerships (Joint Technology Initiatives). All profile entries on ICTprofiles Austria are quality-checked by the Austrian ICT National Contact Point (NCP). The service includes details of more than hundred Austrian ICT companies, research and development organisations, ICT users and end users.
Shared by Cezary Mazurek, Adam Olszewski, Piotr Pawałowski, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) (http://psnc.pl), one of the leading research and development centres in Poland, has been strongly involved in the FIWARE programme (http://fiware.org) since its start. PSNC is committed to build a complete FIWARE ecosystem, and has so far provided FIWARE Lab infrastructure, funding and support for SMEs within a FIWARE A16 Acceleration Programme and established the Poznań Internet Innovation Hub (http://www.i3h.eu). To ensure a high level of FIWARE exploitation, PSNC works closely with key Future Internet stakeholders across Poland: Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, ICT National Contact Point, National Centre for Research and Development. Additionally, PSNC representatives are participating in several working groups on regional Smart Specialization Strategy for Wielkopolska.
As a growing number of SMEs funded by A16 Accelerators are bringing FIWARE-based products to the market, PSNC has decided to launch a commercial FIWARE node, providing these companies with a highly reliable infrastructure and support. FIWARE related services are going to be launched by the end of 2015 with an initial focus on SMEs from eHealth and mHealth areas. In the beginning of 2016, the node will be opened for all A16 SMEs and other companies interested in using a commercial FIWARE ecosystem to bring innovative Future Internet solutions to the market.
On top of FIWARE node, PSNC is planning to open its ICT laboratories to provide the most demanding entrepreneurs with advanced R&D services and tools including security testing, trainings or access to cutting edge IoT and Future Internet laboratories. The services will be provided by TechInnowacje, a company fully owned by PSNC and supporting the commercialization of PSNC’s projects results and technology transfer processes.
Shared by Roderick Marmara, Malta
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Maltese government research and develop technologies in the country.
The MoU includes a commitment by Huawei to start testing 5G. The understanding also implies that the company will help the country develop its digital Malta strategy. The strategy includes a nationwide fibre-to-home project and fibre wire connectivity to other countries aside from Sicily.
Read more at: maltatoday.com.mt and timesofmalta.com
ceFIMS-CONNECT is looking for short articles describing Future Internet and 5G initiatives and developments in European countries.
Started in December, 2014, as a dedicated publication for the FIF members, the Monitor concept is now extended to all national Future Internet and 5G stakeholders, including three different types of Monitors:
If you have news to share, please E-mail submission to alicja (at) man (dot) poznan (dot) pl or jclarke (at) tssg (dot) org or submit to our LinkedIn group discussion. Article submissions typically range from 600 to 1,000 words, with a short feature on the author(s)
See the template and example submissions at http://www.cefims.eu/publications/#monitors
Submissions received will be highlighted in the ceFIMS-CONNECT and FIRE newsletters, reaching well over 1,000 targets.
ceFIMS-CONNECT is delighted to announce the publication of 2nd 5G Monitor. In this issue 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 -> 2nd-5G Monitor-Hungary_March2015.
You too can share your national or European best practices, success stories and developments in the area of Future Internet and 5G.
Submit your article!
To publish an item via the ceFIMS-CONNECT Monitor, please email to the contacts below:
ceFIMS-CONNECT Project Coordinator: James Clarke: jclarke (at) tssg (dot) org
ceFIMS-CONNECT Dissemination Coordinator: Alicja Laskowska: alicja (at) man (dot) Poznan (dot) pl
See http://www.cefims.eu/publications/ for more details
In December, 2014, ceFIMS-CONNECT launched its first version of a dedicated publication entitled FIF Monitor, where the FIF members could highlight events, projects, initiatives, best practices, etc. related to Future Internet activities in their countries. The Member State highlighted in the first FIF Monitor was Hungary, which can be found here –> FIF-Monitor-Hungary_Dec2014.
Due to the popularity of the concept and following our call for success stories and receipt of many entries from FIF as well as stakeholders from National and EU Research & Innovation communities in both FI and 5G, the project has decided to extend the Monitor concept to include three different types of Monitors, including the following:
ceFIMS-CONNECT are delighted to announce the publication of their first FI Monitor and 5G Monitors today here –> FI Monitor – Spain – SmartAppCity and 5G Monitor – European initiatives – ICIRRUS.
A FIF Monitor highlighting events and initiatives related to Future Internet activities in Hungary has been published. The Monitor can be found here –> FIF-Monitor-Hungary_Dec2014 .
As presented at the 12th FIF meeting in Berlin in October, 2014, the FIF Monitor is an ongoing tool for Member States and Associated Countries to publish and share their national best practices, success stories and Future Internet developments on a regular basis.
If you would like to publish an item via the FIF Monitor, please email to the contacts below: Project Coordinator: James Clarke: jclarke (at) tssg (dot) org Dissemination Coordinator: Alicja Laskowska: alicja (at) man (dot) Poznan (dot) pl.
