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Information Day on the 6th Call for Proposals of the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme
The draft ICT PSP Work Programme 2012 has been approved by the Competitiveness and Innovation...[more]
Challenges of the Digital Era for film heritage institutions
The European Commission has unveiled a study on a Digital Agenda for European Film Heritage. The...[more]
LAPSI 2nd Public Conference and 3rd LAPSI Award
This event will give the opportunity to present and discuss with experts and interested parties...[more]
CIP Workshop: Funding opportunities in ICT for Health, Ageing Well & Inclusion
In the frame of the Competitiveness & Innovation Programme ICT Policy Support Programme (CIP ICT...[more]
Towards tailor made tourism through smart use of ICT to support SMEs
The European Commission launched today a tourism initiative to facilitate SME's interconnection to...[more]
Events
3rd Future Internet Architecture Open Workshop
22 Feb. 2012, Brussels Open Workshop on the Future Internet Architecture Design Principles[more]
ARTEMIS Spring Event 2012
28,29 February and 1 March 2012 in the NürnbergMesse in Nuremberg, Germany[more]
NEWS
Future Internet … a thing of beauty and promise
An article on Future Internet, featuring some of the relevant projects, IoT video and teasers.[more]
Special issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Call for papers: Smart Applications for Smart Cities: New Approaches to Innovation[more]
Announcement of the First FI-Ware Open Call for Additional Beneficiaries
Project acronym: FI-WAREProject grant agreement number: 285248Project full name: FI-WARE: Future...[more]
NESSOS Newsletter, January 2012
Newsletter of the Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and...[more]
BonFIRE second open call
Attached please find the full call text, also available at www.bonfire-project.eu. On the website...[more]
Call for FIA related contributions
The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is active since early 2008 and brings together more than 150 projects addressing every aspect of the Future Internet. To reinforce this major European research effort the FIA community seeks your contributions in several areas.
FIA Poznan report available
Horizon 2020: Commission proposes €80 billion investment in research and innovation, to boost growth and jobs
The European Commission has today presented a package of measures to boost research, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced Horizon 2020, an €80 billion programme for investment in research and innovation. Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou has put forward a Strategic Innovation Agenda for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which will receive €2.8 billion of funding under Horizon 2020. In parallel, Vice-President Antonio Tajani has announced a complementary new programme to boost competitiveness and innovation in SMEs, with an additional budget of €2.5 billion. The funding programmes run from 2014 to 2020. See also
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Future Internet Assembly 10-11 May 2012, Aalborg, Denmark
The first Future Internet Assembly (FIA) of 2012 will be held in Aalborg on May 10-11, under the Presidency of Denmark in the EU Council. The theme for FIA-Aalborg will be “Smart Cities and Internet of Things”, and the event will bring together projects that have recognized the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet, to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. Currently, FIA brings together research projects that are part of the ICT programme of FP7. All of these projects are advancing the state of the art in their respective areas, and FIA enables open interactions and cross-fertilization across the technical domains, reaching out to talent in Europe's Future Internet research community.
FIA-Aalborg will be co-hosted with a number of European Future Internet events.
FIA Budapest report available
The Future Internet Assembly was held in the frame of the Future Internet Week in Budapest, Hungary from 17-19 May 2011. The FIA Budapest report is available for
download. More information is available at
...
FIA book 2011 published

The Future Internet Assembly published its third book titled: "The Future Internet, Future Internet Assembly 2011: Achievements and Technological Promises", Edited by Domingue, J.; Galis, A.; Gavras, A.; Zahariadis, T.; Lambert, D.; Cleary, F.; Daras, P.; Krco, S.; Müller, H.; Li, M.-S.; Schaffers, H.; Lotz, V.; Alvarez, F.; Stiller, B.; Karnouskos, S.; Avessta, S.; Nilsson, M. The book is available
online
What is FIA?
A comprehensive guide to the Future Internet Assembly
The European Future Internet Assembly also known as FIA, is a collaboration between projects that have recognised the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace.
Currently FIA brings together around 150 research projects that are part of Challenge 1 of the ICT programme of FP7. Download a comprehansive guide "
What is FIA", or
read more online
Future Internet Support Actions
Several support actions work together to improve the FIA as a whole. Each support action takes a lead in one of the areas relevant to the FIA, such as on dissemination, standardisation, international collaboration, roadmapping, an architecture for the Future Internet and others. Each area is developing its own portal that is accessible through this main portal.
More information.
FIA Valencia 2010 report published
The Future Internet Assembly was held in conjunction with the IV Conference on the FP7 "The European Framework Programmes: From Economic Recovery to Sustainability" in Valencia, Spain. The FIA 2010 Conference Report is available for
downloading
FIA book 2010 published

The Future Internet Assembly published its second book titled: "Towards the Future Internet - Emerging Trends from European Research", Edited by Georgios Tselentis, Alex Galis, Anastasius Gavras, Srdjan Krco, Volkmar Lotz, Elena Simperl, Burkhard Stiller, Theodore Zahariadis. The book is available
online
X-ETP Group Future Internet Strategic Research Agenda
The Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) on Future Internet of the cross-European Technology Platforms (X-ETPs) Group aims to define short, medium and long-term research challenges and identify future important trends.
White Paper on the Future Internet PPP Definition
On 2nd February, the European Future Interent Initiative (EFII) released the
White paper on the Future Internet PPP Definition.
This document is intended to convey the vision of the European Future Internet Initiative (EFII) for the Future Internet dedicated call (PPP):
- As an input to the preparation of the work programme 2011 – 2013 for a dedicated call on the Future Internet.
- As a call to sector industries (utilities, transport, health, energy, content,…) to engage with ICT community in an innovative approach to a focused research programme.
- As a call to others in the ICT industry and academic & research institutions to work with us the development of this programme of activities to accelerate the Future Internet in Europe.
The main objective of this PPP is to significantly advance the implementation and uptake of Future Internet services by 2015 and, in doing so, establish European-scale markets for smart infrastructures with integrated communications functionality.
The concept of supporting and enhancing the life of the citizens in the Digital Society of the future will be an integrating theme in this approach.
We hope to engage the application sectors and the ICT community in a comprehensive discussion on the nature and structure of the activities and projects that could be used to realise the ambitions of this programme in the first half of 2010.
Visit the
EFII website.
Draft Report of the Task Force on Interdisciplinary Research Activities applicable to the Future Internet
A Task Force of the European Commission's DG Information Society and Media (DG INFSO) was created in January 2009 to develop recommendations on interdisciplinary research activities that cut across the many different technological domains of the Future Internet. This task force was complemented and supported by four external technical experts, whose names and profiles can be found in the
annex of the
draft report.
The focus of this report is on interdisciplinary research, it does not deal with any of the topics that fall within the scope of singular objectives that constitute Challenge 1 of the current ICT Work Programme. Its recommendations should therefore not be construed as proposals for the research that should be undertaken within those individual domains.
Request for comments on the Future Internet report
The report is open for consultation and comments at: forum.future-internet.eu
Future Internet tender notice
The European Commission just published a tender notice for a study entitled: "The economic and societal impact future Internet technologies, services and application will enable in Europe and elsewhere - A quantitative study 2015-2020".
Study in support to the definition of a Public Private Partnership on Future Internet
SMART 2009/0044, Deadline 12 October 2009
The study will identify the potential economic and social impact of a large-scale public-private partnership on the FUTURE INTERNET, eventually a joint undertaking in the meaning of article 171 of the treaty, with focus areas in smart energy grids, smart environmental information systems, smart systems for transportation and mobility, and smart healthcare systems. The study shall provide the necessary quantitative and qualitative assessment as a pre-condition for the Commission services to draw-up a legal proposal for the establishment of a joint technology initiative on the FUTURE INTERNET.
Contract Notice in the official journal 28 August 2009
Contact:
infso-future-internet(at)ec.europa.eu
EIFFEL think tank white paper
Discussions about the Future Internet challenges are going on all over the world in different groups. One of this group consisting of U.S and E.U based Internet experts are working within the EIFFEL think tank that has been set up by the European FP7
project EIFFEL. On July 13th, the group has issued a
white paper identifying three main areas and challenges of the Future Internet: technology, business and society. The overall aim of the whitepaper is to stimulate focussed debate on desirable research and regulatory goals, actions to be taken in reaching them, and potential barriers to their realisation.
Future Internet Conference Publication
The Future Internet continues to gather momentum. In Prague we had over 440 leaders representing over 90 projects which have now signed the Bled Declaration. In April/May 2010 with the support of the Spanish EU Presidency we will hold the fifth Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Valencia establishing FIA as a fixpoint within the Future Internet initiative. We would like to mark this milestone with a second book containing best of European Future Internet research results. The FIA 2010 publication will follow-on from the
first FIA Book whose publication coincided the 2nd Future Internet Conference held in Prague in May 2009.
Call for papers
FIA book 2009 published

The Future Internet Assembly published a book titled: "Towards the Future Internet - A European Research Perspective", edited by Georgios Tselentis, John Domingue, Alex Galis, Anastasius Gavras, David Hausheer, Srdjan Krco, Volkmar Lotz, Theodore Zahariadis. The book is available
online
Future Internet Assembly Stockholm 2009
In conjunction with the Swedish Presidency of the European Union you are cordially invited to Stockholm and Kista Science City for the next Future Internet Assembly conference November 23-24, 2009, hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The program features technical sessions as well as a gala dinner at the Stockholm City Hall.
More information can be found at http://www.fi-stockholm.eu/
Invitation presentation at the closing plenary session of FIA Prague
Future Internet Conference Prague 2009
Thanks to the Czech EU presidency, Prague was for a few days the place where the European vision of Future Internet was discussed. EU commissioner for information society and media, Mrs Vivian Reding, and Vlastimil Ružicka, Vice-Minister of Education of the Czech Republic, opened the
Future Internet conference that took place in Prague from 11-13 May 2009. About 400 participants attended the conference, which provided the floor for a number of accompanying events, workshops and other meetings. Most notably the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) met on 12-13 May 2009 in plenary and parallel break-out sessions. All presentations and reports will be available shortly on the Future Internet portal.
Organising Committee pages
Future Internet 2020, Visions of an industry expert group
An industry expert group report calls decision makers, industrialists, technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers to come forward with concrete plans aimed at creating an EU-shaped Internet economy responsive to the needs and ambitions of its citizens.
Download the expert group report.
Mrs. Reding speaks to the Lisbon Council
Commissioner Reding
delivers a speech to the Lisbon Council on 2 February 2009. Mrs. Reding underlines, among others, the importance of keeping up the economic investments in areas such as ICT research for the future Internet that is essential for Europe's long term future.
Service Web 3.0 Video
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. [
more]
Report from the National ICT Research Directors
The National ICT Research Directors work group on the Future Internet analysed a series of Future Internet related issues to identify the need for joint actions between Member States and the EC in this specific research domain. The work group published a report that provides a summary of the views expressed by national delegations on these issues, and constitute a first step towards a more comprehensive Future Internet strategy at European level. The outcome of this work will be presented to the National ICT Research Directors Forum in Lyon in November 2008 as a basis for broader discussion. This report will also serve as an input to the Commission Communication on "A strategy for ICT R&D and Innovation in Europe" to be issued in spring 2009.
Download the National ICT Research Directors work group report
Cross-ETP Vision Document
The European Technology Platforms (ETPs), devised a strategy and action plan that will make the Future Internet an industrial, economic and societal success for Europe. Jointly the ETPs strongly recommend to the EU Commission, Members States and European Parliament to actively support their efforts to make the Future Internet a reality driven by European interests.
The ETPs consider that a European coordinated approach to the Future Internet, will allow to fully address the multiple technological challenges which are ahead. Turning these challenges into opportunities requires that bold steps are taken at European level. The ambition to meet the societal needs ahead in terms of economic growth, sustainable environment and quality of life, can only be realized, if the European Union provides its full support to this vision.

