Award Competition Opens
The fourth Future Internet Award competition is now open.
This Award recognises excellence in innovation among Future Internet projects and initiatives from across Europe, with the winning entry having an opportunity to promote their work to a Europe-wide audience of industry, academic and public agency bodies.
The winners will also receive a specially engraved Waterford crystal vase for their efforts!
The two-page entry forms can be downloaded here with more information on the criteria and judging process available on the website.
Winning Entry
The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday 6th April, 2012.
The winning entry will be announced at the closing ceremony of Aalborg’s Future Internet Week, 7-11 May, 2012.
The ‘Future Internet Award’, supported and organised by the ceFIMS Coordination Action, is an opportunity for European national and regional Future Internet initiatives to promote their work. Initiatives can take the form of innovative products and services that will shape the Future Internet. The Award is presented every six months to the initiative that is adjudged to have the greatest potential to advance the Future Internet and which provides an exemplar for innovate products and services.
The winning FI initiative will be able to use the Award for promotional purposes. The Award will be a crystal glass vase with the inscription Future Internet Award and the location where the presentation is made.
Click here to see past winners of the Award.
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Interim Roadmap Delivered
ceFIMS has now completed its first interim roadmap towards an ERA-NET+ on the Future Internet.
This document draws on all the work carried out by the project in its first 12 months of operation.
The roadmap presents a preliminary analysis of the current landscape in European Future Internet research, and sets out a vision of a future involving enhanced cooperation among key Future Internet stakeholders.
The roadmap looks at:
Current Landscape
- State-of-the-art in Future Internet research
- Stakeholders involved
- Existing collaboration instruments
- Relevant activity levels of Member States
- Policy context
Vision of the Future
- Modalities of an ERA-NET+
– Barriers and challenges
– Potential thematic content and approaches that Member States and the EC may have in common.
The roadmap also outlines the next steps required to advance an ERA-NET+ on the Future Internet.
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Aalborg Workshop
The next ceFIMS workshop takes place in Aalborg, during Denmark’s Future Internet Week in May.
Attendees will discuss how best to advance collaboration between Member States on Future Internet research. A Working Group has been put in place and a position paper is currently being drafted.
This position paper will focus on two main elements which Member States may have in common:
(1) Future Internet research themes
Based on feedback from FIF members, the following research themes have been identified as those with the most potential for collaboration between Member States:
- Infrastructure
- Services & smart applications (incl. smart cities, green tech, smart grid, etc.)
- Mobility & IoT
- Security
(2) Collaboration & funding mechanisms
The position paper will also cover collaboration structures such as ERA-NET+, joint programming, joint technology initiative, etc.
The workshop date and time will fit around the FIF meeting in Aalborg – the logistics of which will be confirmed soon.
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Database Updates
As ceFIMS continues to make its gathered data more accessible, the project is now updating the layout of and information in its online database.
The new format will contain two main sections:
(1) SUMMARY: a 10-line summary of the project/initiative;
(2) KEY RESULTS: bullet points of the main project/initiative outputs.
There will also be a link “for further info”.
Contact has now been made with each entry in the database, inviting them to forward their key results & outputs. A 10-line summary of each is already in place.
The entry form for the Future Internet Award has also been updated to reflect this new layout.
A number of entries have already returned their key results & outputs and samples of these can be seen on p. 4 of this newsletter.
This new layout will not affect the tag cloud which provides a novel means to search the database. And in this regard, a new semantic search facility is also currently being examined.
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FIF 2.0 Launched
The Future Internet Forum (FIF) was launched in Prague in 2009, and had the following initial objectives:
- Share knowledge, experience & best practice;
- Identify national actors, activities & complementarities between frameworks;
- Devise common approaches for maximising synergies.
Since then, there have been a number of FIF advances, including increased networking, support/advice on launching EU initiatives, emerging national programmes, and the growing realisation that the Future Internet can add real value.
Shifting Gears
“However,” said Mario Campolargo at the FIF meeting in Poznan, “the FIF has reached the limit of the current process – the time for observing has ended and it is time to shift gears.”
He continued, “The current economic crisis represents a call to arms and Europe must become more innovative and productive – the Future Internet is part of Europe’s toolbox to achieve this.”
Hence, FIF 2.0, which is captured in the R3 challenge:
- Reinforced Membership
- Renewed Commitment
- Revamped Role
FIF meetings will have a number of new agenda points, such as: progress on open action points; selected themes; focussed discussions; operational conclusions.
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