First Future Internet Award goes to PII and StratAG

Award ceremony at FIA meeting in Ghent on 17 December 2010

The EU-funded research project PII has won the Future Internet Award for the best European Future Internet initiative that is currently running and nearing completion. PII coordinator Anastasius Gavras from Eurescom received the award on behalf of the project at an official ceremony within the closing plenary of the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Ghent on 17 December 2010.

 

 Joan Batlle i Montserrat from the City Council of Barcelona presenting the Future Internet award to PII coordinator Anastasius Gavras in Ghent.

 

The second Future Internet Award went to the EU-funded StratAG research project in the category ‘best new initiative that is about to start’. The project acronym stands for ‘Mobile Spatial Interaction of the Future Internet of Things’.

 

The two winners in the first edition of the Future Internet Award were selected from 32 submissions.

 

The judging panel consisted of six senior representatives from the ICT industry and from politics. The panel had given PII and StratAG the highest values on ten criteria, including, for example, innovative use of technologies, inclusion, excellence. The Future Internet Award has been organised by the ceFIMS Coordination Action in order to acknowledge projects of great potential to advance the Future Internet and innovate products and services.

 

PII, the Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation project, is part of the FIRE intiative on Future Internet Research and Experimentation. The FIRE concept and especially PII are widely recognised beyond the boundaries of Europe. Recently, the Canadian research programme CANARIE launched a similar testbed federation concept, explicitly referring to PII.