Dear colleagues,

The Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) aims to advance Europe's competitiveness in Future Internet technologies and systems and to support the emergence of Future Internet-enhanced applications of public and social relevance. The Work Programmehas been published and the Call 1 of the FI-PPP has been opened on 20 July and will close on 2 December.

Proposals for projects under the following objectives can be submitted:
1.7 - Technology Foundation (one IP, 41 MEuro, 3 years, 30% flexible)
1.8 - Use Case Scenarios (7-8 areas, IP, 5 MEuro, 2 years)
1.9 - Capacity Building (one CSA, 3 MEuro, 3 years)
1.10 - Programme support (one CSA, 6 MEuro, 5 years)

With Best Regards,

In brief

A consultation on key questions arising from the issue of net neutrality has been launched by the European Commission. The consultation covers such issues as whether internet providers should be allowed to adopt certain traffic management practices, prioritising one kind of internet traffic over another; whether such traffic management practices may create problems and have unfair effects for users; whether the level of competition between different internet service providers and the transparency requirements of the new telecom framework may be sufficient to avoid potential problems by allowing consumers' choice; and whether the EU needs to act further to ensure fairness in the internet market, or whether industry should take the lead. All interested parties – service and content providers, consumers, businesses and researchers – are invited to respond to the consultation by 30 September 2010. The consultation will feed into a Commission report on net neutrality, which should be presented by the end of this year.

The eMobility Technology Platform 6th General Assembly will take place in Venice on 16 September 2010. All members and non-members are cordially invited to attend.
At the General Assembly, members of eMobility will discuss selected activities of eMobility Working Groups and the Steering Board on the ICT sector and the preparation of Framework Program 8 for future collaborative research, networking opportunities for the forthcoming FP7 Calls 7 and 8 for consortia building and for Future Internet activities relted to the first Call for Proposals for the Future Internet Public-Private-Partnership.

The ICT event is approaching. As every second year, this conference will gather researchers, business people, investors and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. Hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the EU, it will take place in Brussels Expo, from 27 to 29 September.

Two parallel sessions will be dedicated to the Future Internet topic on Tuesday 28 September in the afternoon:
- The potential socio-economic impact of the Future Internet
- A public-private partnership on the Future Internet
In addition to these two parallel sessions, at least seven networking sessions will deal with questions related to the Future Internet. Don't miss this event!

The purpose of the Future Networks Concertation meeting is to bring together the ongoing FP7 projects funded under the Network of the Future objective and facilitate exchange of results and achievements, and build consensus.
The Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Plenary Meeting will facilitate the kick-off for the Call 5 projects and their fast integration with the running projects in the Future Network community. The 21 projects starting in July/September 2010 are invited to present their aims and expected achievements during the project lifetime. Additional cluster meetings and the project workshops will facilitate exchanges of research results and discussion around well targeted topics of common interest amongst Future Networks project participants.

The members of the Integral SatCom Initiative European Technology Platform (ISI) launched a specific action to identify the research topics in satellite communications that could help in addressing grand societal challenges. ISI produced an innovative paper, the first one produced by a Technology Platform focusing on interdisciplinary cooperation for societal challenges. The key words to remember: smarter systems for culture and knowledge management, healthcare, transport, mobility, environmental information, energy grids and broadband for all. Read the ISI paper!

The next ISI GeneralAassembly will take place on 30th November. In addition, on 1st December, a SatCom day will also take place, with panel discussions on various subject involving actors from the StaCom industry but also representatives from user groups and other industry stakeholders. Consult the event Agenda!