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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 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…

 

Spain: Future Internet support in Spain

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 26, 2015   |   Comments Off

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)
  • International conference on Future Internet (planning in progress, expected date: October 2015)

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.

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Poland: Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center to launch the first commercial FIWARE node in Poland

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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.

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Malta: Huawei and Malta signed MoU to test 5G

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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

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ceFIMS-CONNECT Monitor open call – Submit your article on Future Internet and 5G initiatives!

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 22, 2015   |   Comments Off

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:

  • FIF Monitor – existing publication contributions from FIF members summarizing national FI and 5G developments, success stories, best practices;
  • FI Monitor – contributions from National and European projects or initiatives with special interest in the Future Internet (FI) domain;
  • 5G Monitor –contributions from all projects or initiatives (national and European) with special interest in the 5th generation mobile networks.

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.

Two new ceFIMS-CONNECT Monitors published

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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:

  • FIF Monitor – existing publication contributions from FIF members summarizing national FI and 5G developments, success stories, best practices;
  • FI Monitor – contributions from National and European projects or initiatives with special interest in the Future Internet (FI) domain;
  • 5G Monitor –contributions from all projects or initiatives (national and European) with special interest in the 5th generation mobile networks.

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.

FIF Monitor highlighting FI initiatives and events in Hungary published

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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.