Potential Synergies Report
One of ceFIMS first major deliverables is a report on potential Future Internet synergies between Member States and between Member States and the EU. This report takes the regional, national, and EU-level information gathered by ceFIMS and examines the degrees of activity across Member States and between Member States and the EU. The report also discusses cooperation models and pillars on which such models could stand, and it identifies potential areas for synergies between projects/initiatives.
The report, therefore, provides a background context against which ceFIMS will prepare its roadmap and describes the preliminary work undertaken to identify areas of potential synergies, in addition to areas for more strategic cooperation between Member States and between Member States and the EU.
Cooperation Models
The report begins with a discussion on cooperation models. This includes the steps required to develop a cooperation model and potential pillars (themes/content, funding mechanisms, barriers/areas for more strategic cooperation) on which to build same.
It then lists and describes a number of sample synergy topics and the Member States that could potentially be involved in them. Next, it analyses the level of trans-national activity across Member States and the level of engagement between Member States and the EU, including their participation in ERA-NETs and ERA-NET+s.
It is against this collaboration backdrop that ceFIMS will develop its roadmap. Finally, because this report on potential synergies will feed directly into the first ceFIMS interim roadmap, a number of points are raised in order to stimulate further discussion.
The report is available on the ceFIMS website, together with all other public project deliverables.
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Future Internet Award Winners
An Internet-of-Things initiative called SmartSantander has won the second Future Internet Award.
Prof. Robert Szabo from the Award’s Judging Panel made the announcement during the closing ceremony of Budapest’s Future Internet Assembly event on 19th May. Prof. Szabo said SmartSantander, “promotes smart services development” and provided exemplary work which “could be replicated in other countries.”
The SmartSantander initiative involves a city-wide experimental research facility to support applications and services for a “smart city”. It is flexible enough to engage with other experimental facilities, and it will stimulate new user applications, facilitate research on Internet-of-Things technologies and assess real-life users’ acceptability testing.
20,000 sensors
Comprising more than 20,000 sensors, SmartSantander‘s core facility will be located in the city of Santander on Spain’s north coast. Other locations involved include Germany, Denmark, UK, Serbia & Australia.
The rich variety of partners involved in the SmartSantander initiative caught the particular attention of the Future Internet Award’s Judging Panel. One Judge said, “There is a dialogue between cities, businesses, citizens, and ICT researchers and developers applying user-driven innovation methodologies.”
The third Future Internet Award competition is now open for entries. More details on the Award and the entry form are available here on the ceFIMS website.
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ceFIMS presents at FP7 Call 8 event
Project coordinator TSSG presented ceFIMS in London on March 31st, to an event entitled ‘FP7 Call 8 Early Awareness’.
The event was organised by the Knowledge Transfer Network and was attended by over 100 delegates. This ‘Early Awareness’ meeting was designed to be a major networking and learning opportunity to allow business and academic researchers share their innovation aims in three related areas: Future Networks, Cloud Computing & Software, and Trustworthy ICT.
In addition to the above topics being discussed, speakers from the European Commission with intimate knowledge of these areas described the work-programme which details the opportunities available in this call. The deadline for proposals in Call 8 is 17th January, 2012.
Presentations from the event, including the ceFIMS slides, are available here.
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Research Councils Workshop
ceFIMS hosted its first European-level workshop on 18th May, during Budapest’s Future Internet Week.
Participants at the workshop included members of research councils and funding agencies from across 17 Member States, Future Internet Forum (FIF) members and representatives from the INFINITY PPP project. Approximately 40 delegates discussed opportunities for collaboration and potential synergies between the various Member State funding agencies.
Transnational Collaboration
The workshop combined plenary and break-out sessions, and focused on specific issues around the topic of finding common European themes for transnational collaboration and how best to achieve this. As well as hearing from the European Commission (Mr. Andrew Houghton), Nick Wainwright also gave an overview of the FISA roadmapping exercise.
On the day, workshop participants divided themselves into four groups of 8-10 persons and discussed a number of topics. The conclusions from these discussions were then presented to the workshop’s closing plenary session. The workshop report is available here.
Discussion Paper
The report gave rise to a discussion paper which is acting as a bridge to the ceFIMS interim roadmap. The document outlines potential themes, funding mechanisms and barriers & challenges in order to stimulate further discussions between stakeholders, incl. FIF members, research councils, and EU programme managers.
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