FUNDING AGENCIES

1. AKA – The Academy of Finland: http://www.aka.fi/en-gb/A/

2. Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation: www.tekes.fi

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ORGANISATIONS

Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in the Field of ICT (TIVIT)

Tivit (Strategic Center for Science, Technology and Innovation in the field of ICT) was founded 2008 by a group made up of forty six different companies, universities or public bodies. The centre coordinates an annual investment of approximately fifty million euros in research and in development of ecosystems based on ICT technology. The Tivit coordinated programs address several short, medium and long term issues of the Internet infrastructure, which are essential both for Finnish industry and helps in the recovery of the economic crisis.

Currently running Tivit programmes are ‘Device and Interoperability Ecosystems’ (DIEM), ‘Next Media’ (NM), ‘Cloud Software’ (CSW), ‘Data to Intelligence (D2I)’, ‘Internet of Things (IoT)’, and ‘Digital Services (DS)’. Together these programmes cover basically the whole area of European “Future Internet”-PPP. Descriptions of the programmes can be found at www.tivit.fi

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland www.vtt.fi

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the biggest multitechnological applied research organisation in Northern Europe. VTT provides high-end technology solutions and innovation services. VTT is a part of the Finnish innovation system under the domain of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. VTT is a not-for-profit organisation.

From its wide knowledge base, VTT can combine different technologies, create new innovations and a substantial range of world class technologies and applied research services thus improving its clients’ competitiveness and competence. Through its international scientific and technology network, VTT can produce information, upgrade technology knowledge, create business intelligence and value added to its stakeholders. Information and communication technologies form one of the biggest focus areas in VTT operations.

University of Helsinki http://www.helsinki.fi/university/

Åbo Akademi University http://www.abo.fi/?lang=en

University of Turku http://www.utu.fi/en/

University of Tampere http://www.uta.fi/english/

University of Jyväskylä http://www.jyu.fi/en

University of Oulu http://www.oulu.fi/english/

Aalto University http://www.aalto.fi/en/

Lappeenranta University of Technology http://www.lut.fi/en/lut/Pages/Default.aspx

Tampere University of Technology http://www.tut.fi/en/

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PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

ICT SHOK

The programme addresses short, medium and long term issues of the Internet infrastructure, which are essential both for Finnish industry as well as for Finnish society to be ready for recovery from the economic crisis.

The Programme is part of TIVIT – the Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in the Field of ICT (= “ICT SHOK”). Tivit was founded by a group made up of forty different firms, universities or public bodies. The centre coordinates an annual investment of approximately forty million euros in research and in development of ecosystems based on ICT technology.

Other running TIVIT programmes are ‘Flexible Services’ (FS), ‘Device and Interoperability Ecosystems’ (DIEM) and ‘Cooperative Traffic’ (CT). In addition currently there are two programmes under preparation: ‘Next Media’ (NM) and ‘Open and Web’d Software’ (SW). Together these programmes cover the whole area of “Future Internet”. Recent descriptions of the programmes can be found here.

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Raiic

Currently, obtaining reliable, contractually guaranteed WAN connectivity increases connectivity price by orders of magnitude. This project focuses on a concept called Redundant Array of Inexpensive Internet Connections (RAIIC) which aims to provide a more economical alternative that would have equivalent capabilities to existing reliability solutions. The concept is based on the idea that unguaranteed access still works adequately for most purposes – if we could bundle several of these cheap links seamlessly together, traditional High Availability approaches could be implemented with fraction of a cost. Existing economical alternatives, such as multi-homing using routing protocols, suffer from long recovery times during outages. The project addresses and studies the background and issues in current operating environment, implements a possible technical approach, and includes studying of the economical impact of RAIIC if deployed.

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Tivit Programs

Tivit (Strategic Center for Science, Technology and Innovation in the field of ICT) was founded 2008 by a group made up of forty six different firms, universities or public bodies. The centre coordinates an annual investment of approximately fifty million euros in research and in development of ecosystems based on ICT technology. The Tivit coordinated programs address several short, medium and long term issues of the Internet infrastructure, which are essential both for Finnish industry and helps in the recovery of the economic crisis.

Currently running Tivit programmes are ‘Future Internet’ (FI), ‘Device and Interoperability Ecosystems’ (DIEM), ‘Cooperative Traffic’ (CT), ‘Next Media’ (NM), and ‘Cloud Software’ (CSW). Together these programmes cover basically the whole area of European “Future Internet”-PPP. Descriptions of the programmes can be found at www.tivit.fi

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