Coordinating European Future Internet Research

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INDENICA

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SUMMARY

The aim of service-centric computing is to provide a globally integrated environment in which a large number of loosely coupled services can cooperate and form a service ecosystem. Already today, this has led to a plethora of service platforms that are available for use by applications. This high degree of heterogeneity is necessary as such service platforms have to fulfill completely different functional and non-functional requirements. Nevertheless, this heterogeneity results in the following fragmentation of service platforms in terms of Quality of Service, interface design and technological basis.

All three forms of fragmentation are today major stumbling blocks for the successful development of service-based applications and hinder the emergence of a full service ecosystem.

In this context, the INDENICA project aims to develop virtual, domain-specific platforms which will be fully open and interoperable. The project will provide methods, architectures, components, tools and assets for reuse-based creation of the adapted platforms. Effectively, INDENICA will research on a product line for the development of domain-specific platforms that are interoperable by design. Members of the product line (i.e., platforms) can be modified after deployment, thus providing capabilities to make decisions at runtime that are currently made in the design process.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Simplifying the overall complexity of service platform development caused by the mentioned fragmentation.
  • Providing methods, architectures and tools that support the development of context and domain-specific platforms along with the services.
  • Supporting platform convergence and interoperability to avoid the increased dependency on external service and platform vendors.
  • Fostering a common basis for families of platforms which integrate system management and interoperability capabilities right from the start.
  • Producing a reusable infrastructure for platform development and support the automatic deployment and the monitoring, governance, and adaptation of services in a Virtual Service Platform.

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LINK: http://www.indenica.eu

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EIT ICT Labs

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SUMMARY

EIT ICT Labs is one of the first Knowledge and Innovation Communities set up by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, as an initiative of the European Union.

EIT ICT Labs’ mission is to drive European leadership in ICT innovation for economic growth and quality of life.

Since 2010, EIT ICT Labs has consistently brought together researchers, academics and business people. By linking education, research and business, EIT ICT Labs seeks to empower top ICT talents for the future and brings ICT innovations to life. EIT ICT Labs’ partners represent global companies, leading research centres, and top ranked universities in the field of ICT.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Linking the the knowledge triangle of education, research, and business in Europe
  • Enabling the emergence of a Europe-wide entrepreneurial ecosystem
  • Focusing and implementing ICT solutions to societal challenges

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LINK: http://www.eitictlabs.eu/

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Cloud for Europe

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SUMMARY

Cloud Computing is becoming an accepted and widely utilised technology both for private and public organisations. The Cloud for Europe Project addresses the objectives of the European Cloud Partnership and offers partners the opportunity to determine how to adopt a well-defined European Cloud Computing Strategy for the Public Sector.

Over the course of three years, the project will build trust in European cloud computing by applying pre-commercial procurement (PCP) as an instrument for industry innovation and simultaneously enhance cloud adoption in the public sector. The Project is funded by the European Commission under its Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and brings together 24 partners from 11 countries.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing a clear view on the public sector requirements and usage scenarios for cloud computing
  • Collaborating with shareholders to remove the obstacles for cloud adoption and to jointly identify the requirements from different public organisations beyond national borders
  • Establishing suitable contractual terms and conditions for future cloud procurements

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LINK: http://www.cloudforeurope.eu/

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Stride

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SUMMARY

The Internet of Things will allow the Transport and Logistics sector to more intelligently exploit its rich and complex data base leading to more efficient and effective use of the transport infrastructure.

The challenge is to create an environment where data providers have incentives to share data and application and service providers have access to it in a usable manner.

The Stride project, delivered by a consortium of world class partners, will create an IoT Cluster for Smart Transport, initially focused on the East of England. The project will focus on the creation of a Smart Transport ecosystem where all stakeholders share data so that innovations and synergies can be found at every level of service provision.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing a critical mass of diverse transport data including historical and real-time data collected from sensors
  • Acting as a focal point for the development of smart transport applications and business process improvements
  • Determining the commercial conditions that must exist for such an ecosystem to thrive
  • Working with stakeholders to ensure a broad dissemination and uptake of project outputs

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LINK: http://www.stride-project.com/

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The SRT-15 Research Project

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SUMMARY

The objective of the SRT-15 research project is to bridge the gap between cloud infrastructures and enterprise services through building a distributed service platform. For that purpose, SRT-15 relies on four key enabling technologies which, combined, allow the SRT-15 platform to scale across public and private clouds and thus enable reliable and dynamic interaction between various enterprise applications.

The approach of SRT-15 will be verified by a large-scale proof of concept prototype driven by the industrial partners within the SRT-15 consortium.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Using cutting-edge technology and algorithms to connect, filter and aggregate data exchanged between users, services and applications in a flexible and timely manner
  • Integrating four key enabling technologies: content-based routing, complex event processing, dependability and data privacy.
  • Providing an open and re-usable abstraction for accessing the resources of different public and private cloud infrastructures, thus allowing for easier and more cost-effective adoption of the on-demand model
  • Validating and verifying the SRT-15 platform through testing use cases provided by the industrial partners to demonstrate the applicability of the SRT-15 contributions

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LINK: http://srt-15.unine.ch/

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EFRAIM

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SUMMARY

The EFRAIM project aims to identify and develop distributed network solutions for media distribution. The developed solutions will be robust, scalable, cost efficient and above all energy efficient, without sacrificing quality of service. Collaboration with a consortium of content owners, producers, distributors, vendors, operators and researchers will be key in ensuring that the identified solutions will be technically relevant and commercially attractive.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a Swedish ecosystem for future media distribution which can locate synergies and efficiencies so as to ensure optimal performance and quality of service for end-users
  • Developing robust, scalable, cost efficient and energy efficient distributed network solutions
  • Analysing proposed solutions in terms of total energy consumption for the media delivery, user behaviour and quality of service

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LINK: https://www.acreo.se/efraim

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COMMIT

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SUMMARY

The goal of the COMMIT programme is to find solutions to societal problems and to exploit socio-economic opportunities through the use of ICT technology. The programme also aims to strengthen the Dutch ICT innovation ecosystem by establishing best-practices in public-private collaboration. COMMIT will pursue three specific objectives: producing multi-disciplinary research projects whose impact on society is directed according to given priority themes; providing solutions through conducting leading-edge, needs-oriented fundamental; consolidating and disseminating acquired knowledge.

The COMMIT programme will fund 26 high-quality, publicly and privately funded research projects in six societal themes: well-being, information services, sciences, applied sciences, transport, and public safety. These themes have been selected not only because of their priority status for Dutch society, but also because of their potential for realising major ICT innovations.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing information retrieval methods for information services

  • Promoting interaction for universal access

  • Designing wireless sensor networks to safeguard public safety

  • Implementing e-infrastructure virtualisation for e-science applications

  • Constructing composable embedded systems for healthcare

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LINK: http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/research/projects/national/COMMIT/COMMIT.doc/

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Smart City

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SUMMARY

The Smart City project aims to create a dynamic ecosystem in which administrators, companies, citizens and research institutions jointly produce comprehensive, innovative and impactful services. The project seeks to assist the various interest groups to arrive at optimum, ICT-integrated solutions to the problems arising from city life through balancing collective and individual interests. The smart use of Big Data will enable the development of tangible solutions from a systematic overview. The project comprises a number of varied, multi-disciplinary sub-projects within the domain of research

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SOLUTIONS

  • Producing an model for strategic urban planning:
    • Designing a calculation model for interactive planning which comprises of leading-edge software and TNO expertise
    • Composing realistic simulations using precise data such as up-to-date digital maps, traffic flows and demographic data
    • Calculating the affect of modifying a variable such as the width of a road on a whole list of different criteria such as traffic intensity, air quality, noise pollution and external security
  • Developing a psychological model that describes the factors that influence self-reliance amongst citizens:
    • Identifying a range of interventions which can boost self-reliance through altering individual and social factors
    • Pilot-testing prototype solutions
  • Enabling municipal authorities to manipulate and exploit Big Data generated by social media
    • Localising Twitter messages on a large scale, collecting and collating the most reliable and useful messages
    • Investigating the power of online social influence from micro, macro and reflective perspectives

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LINK: http://www.tno.nl/content.cfm?context=uitgelicht&content=uitgelicht_content&laag1=1275&item_id=1275

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MITER

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SUMMARY

From the viewpoint of software engineering, ensuring confidence in implemented security mechanisms is a key objective. As such, it is vital that the IT industry constantly improve the design and implementation process of software security.

In this context, the MITER project aims to devise a security model which will accurately identify security concerns, present these concerns from a business perspective and test itself against agreed security requirements. These three aims will converge in an integrated, model-driven security process which can be embedded within a standard business model making security concerns heuristically identifiable and removable.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Proposing a portfolio of well-defined security models, classified in terms of their structural and behavioural aspects, without considering a specific target business model
  • Automatically composing a subset of selected security models, specified according to the target business model, to obtain a new business model augmented according to the security specifications
  • Heuristically validating and verifying the developed security model before final implementation

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LINK: https://sites.google.com/site/jacqueskleinwebpage/grants/miter

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Validation and Verification Laboratory

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SUMMARY

Validation and Verification (V&V) is instrumental in the development and design of reliable and secure software systems. The University of Luxembourg has launched a programme which addresses both the technical and managerial aspects of software V&V. On the technical side, the programme will focus on both upstream V&V activities, such as requirements quality assurance and architecture analysis; as well as downstream activities, such as software testing. The programme team will also develop methods to identify and evaluate the trade‐offs between dependability, cost, and timeliness.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating synergies with existing research activities thereby adding long term value and raising the competitiveness of the University and its partners
  • Advancing techniques for quality assurance and architecture analysis
  • Producing a new methodology to calculate the most efficient design and production trade-offs

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LINK: http://www.fnr.lu/en/Research-Programmes/Research-Programmes/Projects/Validation-and-Verification-Laboratory

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ESCAPE

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SUMMARY

ESCAPE is a project which seeks to develop data mining techniques for use in analysing and exploiting finance data. The research involves the exploration of financial text news through Machine Learning and Text Mining techniques as well as the analysis of the incidents concerning the evolving sovereign debt crisis in Europe. The project makes use of Thomson Reuters finance data.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Using big data to analyse the contagion effects of the European sovereign debt crisis
  • Developing topic finding techniques for financial text news with content ageing theory
  • Designing sentiment classification of financial news items through multiple perspectives

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LINK: http://wiki.uni.lu/mine/ESCAPE.html

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eBig3

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SUMMARY

The eBig3 project aims to create a network for cross-border research cooperation in technology enhanced learning (TEL) and to develop a strategy for educational business promotion services. The project will implement the strategy and pilot a set of innovative learning solutions for inclusive human resource development.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Combining three, complementary applications of TEL:

    • eLearning – mainly computer and/or internet-based learning;
    • tLearning – TV based learning;
    • mLearning – learning with a use of mobile devices; to produce an effective & innovative cross-media learning delivery system (eBig3) that goes beyond traditional web-based learning approaches
  • Integrating the wide coverage of TV technology , the wide accessibility of mobile technology and the high capacity and flexibility of broadband in one platform for educational business promotion services

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LINK: http://www.latlit.eu/eng/running_projects/lliii183_ebig3

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Cluster Development Project

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SUMMARY

The goal of this project is to improve the market share of the Latvian IT sector through forging strong networks between IT companies and research institutes. Specifically, the project aims to identify and realise potential synergies across the Latvian IT value chain, creating an active innovation ecosystem.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Meeting rising consumer demand with innovative Latvian IT products and services
  • Establishing IT embassies and networks abroad
  • Promoting innovation in core areas through specific technological platforms
  • Fostering excellence amongst the IT Cluster’s specialists
  • Developing the Riga IT Demo Centre to raise Latvian IT’s brand awareness
  • Identification and exploitation of emerging market niches

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LINK: http://www.itbaltic.com/en/case-studies/kap-%28cluster-development-project%29/

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Small Scale Open Source Systems

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SUMMARY

The goal of the Small Scale Open Source Systems project is to research how open-source operating systems and protocol stacks can be fruitfully applied in the industrial world to reduce software development time and the cost of small-scale embedded systems. The development of actual products will be conducted in cooperation with private research centres and companies.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing real-time control of a gravimetric dosing equipment for plastics ingredients
  • Developing technology for distributed environmental control of industrial ovens and their accessories
  • Producing an application for remote, web-based management of industrial ovens
  • Evaluating developed technologies through collaboration with industry partners

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LINK: http://www.ceng.ieiit.cnr.it/projects/ssoss/

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GECKO

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SUMMARY

The GECKO project aims to develop an adaptive control infrastructure for the management of production facilities based on Internet of Things technology. The objective is to create a productive environment consisting of a network of autonomous, hierarchically collaborating modules implanted in mechatronic equipment. The infrastructure will be tested in the field with the collaboration of industry partners.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a modular production environment of interoperable Smart components
  • Producing virtual representations of a shopfloor capable of illustrating production dynamics
  • Allowing the technology to automatically adapt over time and implement resource production and energy efficiency optimization strategies

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LINK: http://www.ceng.ieiit.cnr.it/projects/gecko/index.php

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FI Forum & IPv6 Taskforce

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SUMMARY

The Irish Future Internet Forum and the Irish Ipv6 Task Force are both collaborative organisations established by Irish ICT organisations with a shared interest in and desire to accelerate the development of the Future Internet in Ireland.

Irish Future Internet Forum
The IFIF was established by the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group at Waterford Institute of Technology. The purpose of forum is to bring the Irish ICT research community together so as to facilitate the discussion of issues related to Future Internet activities in the EU and globally. At the first meeting of the IFIF, 160 participants from Government, Industry and Academia met to discuss a number of topics related to the Future Internet.

It is envisaged that the IFIF will allow Irish industrial and academic partners to engage in discussions that will lead to new research initiatives .

Irish IPv6 Task Force
The Irish IPv6 Task Force, and chaired by Mícheál Ó Foghlú of TSSG, was established in 2004. The Irish National IPv6 Centre was set up in 2005 as a collaboration between the TSSG in Waterford Institute of Technology, the Hamilton Institute in NUI Maynooth, BT Ireland and HEAnet. The role of these organisations is to encourage the transition of the Irish network to IPv6 to allow continued growth of the Internet and its services in Ireland.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Promoting Ireland as an early adopter of the Future Internet
  • Creating of awareness of the Future Internet and its potential impact on the Irish economy
  • Promoting participation of Irish stakeholders in the European Future Internet Initiates
  • Encouraging greater R&D investment in activities around the Future Internet
  • Encouraging the development of test sites and trails around aspects of the future internet
  • Promoting greater strategic alignment between National and European research and innovation initiatives in the Future Internet Environment
  • Ensuring the successful transition of the Irish network from IPv4 to IPv6 so as to guarantee the future development of the internet and its services

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LINK: Irish Future Internet Forum http://www.futureinternet.ie/FutureInternet11/index.php

LINK: Irish IPv6 Task Force http://www.ipv6.ie/

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Technologies for Embedded Computing Centre

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SUMMARY

The Technologies for Embedded Computing Centre (TEC) Centre works extensively with companies who have requirements for ICT innovation, particularly in embedded systems. The centre has completed prototyping and innovation projects in distributed sensing, hardware systems, automated resource monitoring, indoor and outdoor real-time tracking, multimedia systems, websites and application software.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a one-stop-shop facility for industry R&D in the Southern region
  • Building industry-led programmes to sustain growth in the Irish embedded systems industry
  • Creating new start-ups with international potential

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LINK: http://nimbus.cit.ie/tec/

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Creative World

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SUMMARY

A major challenge facing Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Business to Consumer (B2C) service brands today is increasing consumption and enhancing customer loyalty. The Creative World project aims to provide the most effective one-shop solution for meeting these challenges through the development of a collaborative web/mobile application.

With the Creative World platform, organisations and brands can harness the creative power of human resources in collaborative, online co-branding and innovation processes . To this end, the project team has developed crowd-sourcing and employee to business applications for utilising internal and external human resources.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Implementing, testing and launching the main components of the platform on the Hungarian market
  • Designing a multilevel task-resolution system to manage and actualise generated concepts and ideas
  • Developing a built-in motivation which rewards creative input from employees and the external community
  • Integrating social media components and providing multi-language modules to ensures that clients can reach a critical number of consumers
  • Creating mobile applications which allow android and iOS users to submit their ideas and comments wherever and whenever they desire through textual, photographic and video media.

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LINK: http://www.collaborationline.com/

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Creative Selector

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SUMMARY

Creative Selector supports the formation of new businesses that use advanced web, mobile and social networks. It allows individuals to share business ideas with other innovators to support the formation of the final business concept and in the promotion to build trust and community.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Supporting the formation of businesses that use the web, mobile and social media networks
  • Providing an “idea” crowdsourcing platform to share information among partners
  • Building an active and creative community willing and able to think on new business trends

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LINK: www.creativeselector.hu

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Collaborative Society

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SUMMARY

The Collaborative Society project seeks to organise a cooperative market for goods and services, through generating a standard database of information culled from smart device end-users. By furnishing co-operative firms with relevant information, entrepreneurs can more effectively meet the wants and needs of society.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Fostering a healthy, consumer-oriented industry
  • Cultivating an enlightened customer-base
  • Developing an efficient Collaborative Society

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LINK: http://humania.hu/HumaniaKapuja

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Ubicom

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SUMMARY

Embedded computing operates imperceptibly in people’s and companies’ everyday working environments. Objects and machines communicate wirelessly between themselves and adjust their operations independently in real time.
The embedded computing sector is facing a steep development curve. Even now, 98% of the world’s microprocessors are in embedded systems. Digital homes are becoming more common and new embedded electronic systems are being increasingly employed in transport equipment, public infrastructure and factories. The increasing pervasiveness of embedded computing improves efficiency and safety and at the same time creates enhanced services for consumers.

The Ubicom – Embedded ICT project strengthens research into ubiquitous computing, increases the resources available for the industry’s commercial competitive offerings, enhances the international cooperation environment and spurs on cooperation between different branches of industry by creating new industry networks and industry standards.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Increasing the pool of resources available to the Finnish embedded computing industry through the provision of funding
  • Fostering an international collaborative environment through concluding cooperation agreements and issuing joint calls
  • Establishing an industry ecosystem and network, thereby creating synergies between individual value chains through agreeing joint action plans, holding seminars and workshops and facilitating forums
  • Some of the targeted areas for funding:
    • Bioinformatics
    • Cleantech
    • Healthtech

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LINK: http://www.tekes.fi/ubicom/

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Next Media (Tivit)

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SUMMARY

The production and consumption of media is undergoing radical transformation. The digitalisation of production, distribution and consumption of media as well as the growing penetration of broadband access and mobile Internet has allowed for the distribution of increasingly rich media content to a variety of terminals.

The Next Media research project aims to generate innovative solutions for the media sector through developing new business models, concepts and technology. The main objective of the project is to renew the business environment of the media sector by breaking through the limits of media content and changing the way it is created, configured, serviced and consumed.

This endeavour takes advantage of the current transition towards co-creation, interactivity and independence of time and place. The diversity of terminals and devices in consumers’ everyday life is increasing and the significance of mobility is emphasized.
Next Media has the support of the whole Finnish media industry. The individual component firms have together created a strategy for the media sector and are committed to research and development activities consistent with Next Media objectives

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SOLUTIONS

  • Engaging media services and enabling technologies that support co-creation and participation as well as monetising media experiences in real and virtual environment along six generic themes:
    1. media access,
    2. production tools,
    3. personalisation,
    4. social interaction,
    5. media use
    6. business models & concepts
  • Serving the major needs of the media users:
    • news & information,
    • education & learning,
    • entertainment & games
    • community media

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LINK: http://www.nextmedia.fi/

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The Future of the Internet of Things

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SUMMARY

The near future shall see the continued, seemingly exponential growth of Internet connected devices which will produce, consume and process information in a variety of different environments. This interconnected network of physical information sources is The Internet of Things (IoT).
This project seeks to develop new, scalable, compatible and secure solutions for both the management of the ever more broad, complexly-networked Internet of Things, and also for the support of various business models.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Establishing of a competitive IoT ecosystem
  • Designing new revenue models for participating companies in the emerging IoT market
  • Founding a local ecosystem for proof of concept, initial market, and critical mass for international business
  • Discovering solutions for establishing and sustaining global IoT ecosystems
  • Creating IoT business enablers
  • Developing IoT product concepts and prototypes and test them in real-life environments
  • Supplying critical components for IoT proliferation (such as gateway/border router to connect IoT with Internet)
  • Improving Finland’s global IoT visibility and demonstrating Finnish cutting-edge IoT technology in pilots and prototypes.
  • Impacting IoT technology evolution and standardization
  • Significantly influencing IoT standards at IETF, 3GPP, IEEE, W3C, and other relevant forums
  • Developing IoT pilot implementations (prototypes, showcases, testbeds etc.)

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LINK: http://www.internetofthings.fi/

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EVE

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SUMMARY

The EVE – Electric Vehicle Systems Programme is aimed at companies and research institutes that work with electric vehicles and machinery and the components and systems used in them. The long-term goal of the project is to increase the volume of business activity related to electric vehicles and machinery from the 2010 figure of EUR 200 million to approximately EUR 2 billion by 2020.

The aim of the EVE programme is to create a community of electric vehicle and support system developers with close contacts to international research and business networks. The project also focuses on developing test environments and standards for the industry.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing funding for projects in the area of Electric Vehicle Systems
  • Holding seminars and workshops to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer
  • Publishing studies from Finland and abroad
  • Arranging excursions and opportunities for networking to strengthen inter-industry synergies
  • Financing test environments

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LINK: http://www.tekes.fi/en/programmes-and-services/tekes-programmes/eve/

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Digital Services

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SUMMARY

The virtualisation of services, the emergence of mobile internet access and the reduction of barriers to investment in service infrastructure and access terminals have all brought new opportunities to the ICT services sector. Finland is now in a position where it can define the direction of mobile services development in the future.

The TIVIT Digital Services Program is an ecosystem effort to pool services enablers and platforms so as to rapidly launch, horizontalize and ensure the maintenance of new services. Work is conducted in a true partnership model, where partners gain access to a pool of complementary platform and enabler assets and share executive power.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing an ecosystem which will provide support for the development, scaling and visibility of new innovative services and enablers in four, high-potential thematic areas:
    1. SME Services
    2. Financial Services
    3. Educational Services
    4. Wellness Services
  • Giving Finland a leading edge position in the global market for mobile services through:
    • Building a leading service development ecosystem with a common language, a superior palette of common enablers, platforms and mutual trust.
    • Creating an ecosystem which supports several layers of economic activity in its value chain and which has a low barrier to entry for new players.
    • Developing ways of working which enable radically new service launches and scaling at speeds that cannot be matched.
    • Acquiring a first to market advantage, enabling sustainable cash flow streams from a billion new customers.

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LINK: http://www.tivit-services.fi/

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Data to Intelligence (Tivit)

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SUMMARY


The Data To Intelligence (D2I) project is focused on big data, data reserves and user-centric service development. The aim of the project is to develop intelligent tools and methods for managing, refining and utilizing diverse data in order to enable the development of innovative business solutions.
As a result, Finnish enterprise can gain a competitive advantage through intelligent (context-sensitive, personalized, proactive) data processing technologies and services that add measurable value.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing new, data-intensive services improving productivity, cost effectiveness, comfort or knowledge.
  • Creating new data-driven business and earning models.
  • Identifying interoperability opportunities enabled by modern key technologies.
  • Designing, implementing and testing user-centric automated services utilizing big data analytics.
  • Building re-usable, technology-free service modules and technological components.
  • Developing methods for big data analytics that handle complexity through fusion of heterogeneous data sources, and use adaptivity, context-sensitivity, scalability, and user relevance as the main methodological objectives.
  • Creating common (open) frameworks for intelligent data processing methods.

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LINK: http://www.datatointelligence.fi/

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Cloud Software Programme (Tivit)

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SUMMARY

The Cloud Software programme aims to significantly improve the global competitive position of the software-intensive, Finnish industry in the areas of operational efficiency, user experience, web software, open systems, security engineering and sustainable development. As software becomes increasingly web-based, cloud software is fasting becoming one a basic infrastructure of the future internet. The Cloud Software Programme especially aims to pioneer in building new cloud business and lean software enterprise models as well as developing innovative open cloud software infrastructure.

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SOLUTIONS

Cloud Technologies:

  • Collecting a compilation of best practices for cloud computing
  • Developing a toolbox for cloud computing application development
  • Building a cloud demonstration environment
  • Defining guidelines for openness in the cloud
  • Developing sample applications that benefit from cloud computing and content mashupping

Lean Software Enterprise

  • Developing a framework for applying the lean principles towards an enterprise transformation.
  • Conducting Lean Enterprise Transformation. Making lean applicable in cloud software organizations.
  • Scaling Agile Software Development. Perfecting & automating the cloud software R&D engine.
  • Developing Integrated Software R&D Approaches. Seeking for competitive edge.

Superior User Experience

  • Creating a common UX framework that supports the overall objectives of the cloud SW research and development:
    • Cloud computing and Web services with excellent UX
    • Better security with improved UX
    • Market success of green SW with good UX
  • Developing, through industrial case studies, efficient and integrated methods and tools for UX design and evaluation, including SW development tools that provide good UX both for end users and developers
  • Providing tools for using UX as a business factor by development of measures and tools to communicate UX to decision makers

Cloud Security

  • Producing a feasible Secure Development Lifecycle methodology supporting agile and lean SW development, and
  • Designing vulnerability, complexity and robustness management and risk-driven security metrics methodologies and tools that help developers to achieve adequate security, trust, dependability and privacy goals cloud computing environment.

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LINK: http://www.cloudsoftwareprogram.org/

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3gERP

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The purpose of the 3gERP Project is to establish the academic and market basis for developing a standardised, yet highly flexible and configurable, global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) The project team intends that the developed system will be implemented and maintained at a fraction of the cost of current ERP systems.

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SOLUTIONS

 

  • Identifying differences in requirements for local markets .
  • Locating future trends in international standards for accounting and supply chains
  • Developing speedy and reliable future IT architecture
  • Designing tools and technology for real time business analysis
  • Defining organisational implementation and partnership models

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LINK: http://3gerp.iwvi.uni-koblenz.de/

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OpenSaaS

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Becoming a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) player requires mastering a wide technological domain and developing new business models and alliances. For smaller companies, to be able to compete in this disruptive SaaS environment, mastering synergies on different levels is a vital component of any successful business strategy.

The OpenSaaS project’s goal is to launch a Flemish Open SaaS Platform. The platform will assist Business to Business (B2B) SaaS Providers to realize their growth strategies by offering know-how, infrastructures and technologies.

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SOLUTIONS

  • OpenSaas intends to assist businesses in:
  • Scaling up SaaS applications (allowing more users and higher data volumes).
  • Finding optimal revenue models, and acquiring technical know-how to implement them.
  • Enhancing customer interactions and services by using customer communities and usage data analysis
  • Transforming non-SaaS software applications which require advanced rendering capabilities and large files into SaaS point solutions

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LINK: http://www.opensaas.be/

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Audit 4 SOAs

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Audit 4 SOAs seeks to address one of the current major problems in Service-oriented Architectures (SOAs) development: testing support. In particular, the project is focused on a systematic testing and diagnosis approach of complex SOAs with the help of real world quality environments.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Decreasing time-to-market
  • Enabling rapid prototyping of research ideas and product candidates
  • Enhancing general design quality in this complex and subtle domain, researchers and engineers have to be assisted in the design and verification process.

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LINK: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/linksites/audit4soas/abstract.html

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Sense Smart City

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 6, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The aim of this project is to turn the small, northern municipality of Skellefteå into a Smart City – an urban space interconnected through sensor networks which manage the collection, measurement and communication of data and the allocation of resources. The end result will be the provision of more efficient, comprehensive and energy-aware services to Skellefteå’s citizens.

The project supports the collaboration of local SMEs with municipal authorities in researching innovative mobile systems technology and developing SmartCity products and services at the local university.

A platform will also be developed by the project team to manage collected sensor data and security, which will enhance existing Smart services and enable the provision of new ones.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing a new product which measures sewage flow so as to detect and report leaks and overflows.
  • Collaborating with local SME’s on other Smart prototypes.
  • Constructing a “Sense Smart City platform” to store collected sensor data and security in the cloud and host new applications utilising the gathered data.

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LINK: www.sensesmartcity.org

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Catalunya Connecta

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 6, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Catalunya Connecta is a project of the government of Catalonia. The project aims to execute a deployment plan for the development of the government’s electronic communication services.

The plan has already enabled universal access to new telecommunications services to citizens, administrations and the Catalan business, providing coverage of digital terrestrial television services, mobile and broadband, al least in the villages of more than 50 people, and coverage of broadband and mobile telephony to all industrial estates in Catalonia. Ultimately, the project hopes to contribute to making Catalonia an advanced and competitive territory, where citizens, businesses and the Government are fully connected.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Building telecomms antennas to in rural areas to enhance the provision of ICT services and provide businesses with critical communication infrastructure
  • Collaborating with local industry partners such as Ribalta and Sons Ltd  to provide broadband access to various plants

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LINK: http://www.catalunyaconnecta.cat

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FInest

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 5, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Future Internet (FI) technology offers unique opportunities for the transport and logistics industry to address pressing challenges associated with international freight transport, including business efficiency, competitiveness and environmental sustainability.

To address those challenges, FInest (an EU FP7 Future Internet PPP use case project) leverages FI technology to the benefit of all transport and logistics partners. It offers novel Web 2.0 business-to-business collaboration facilities which seamlessly link third-party and legacy applications to create customized solutions, allowing for the “on demand” management of shipments and supply chains. Through software prototypes, FInest aims to contribute to the development of a rich service ecosystem whose value also extends to other domains such as smart cities and agriculture.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Designing a future-Internet-enabled, standardised business-to-business collaboration platform, which builds on generic FI enablers
  • Developing four core transport and logistics services offered through open-source APIs : (1) collaboration services, (2) semi-automated e-contracting services, (3) intelligent and proactive “sense and respond” event management services, (4) real-time planning and re-planning services.
  • Running large-scale trials of the FInest solutions in Europe’s leading edge experimental facilities

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LINK: http://www.finest-ppp.eu/

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NDIX

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 3, 2011   |   No Comments

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SUMMARY

NDIX an open platform which seeks to facilitate competition, innovation and the development of new digital services by offering unlimited and secure connectivity between content suppliers and end-users.

As a result, NDIX aims to:

  • Boost competition between suppliers of existing services (like Internet, telephony and hosting/backup)
  • Facilitate the development of new services (for learning, security, healthcare, public services, in the cultural, social, entertainment and creative sectors)
  • Promote investment in new broadband infrastructures.

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KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS

  • Offering flexible and concurrent use of  many different services
  • Creating a critical mass of users for new service development
  • Stimulating innovation

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LINK: www.ndix.net

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Mindenki

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 2, 2011   |   No Comments

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SUMMARY

The Mindinki project aims to develop a Relevancy Network based on web 3.0 semantic technology which will allow internet users to develop a digital personality which can connect them to person-specific content. The Relevancy Network is an organic system, permanently moulded by its end-users, in which knowledge, gained from interaction is communicated in a manner analogous to the human nervous system. End-users will not have to search out content. Content will, instead, search out them.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing universal open access to person-specific content
  • Creating a significance based cross-reference network between contents by means of user-content interaction
  • Connecting Long Tail, user-specific content within an integrated cross-reference system.

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LINK: www.mindenki.hu

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