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September 2010
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Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Meeting, 18-20 October 2010, Brussels - Register now! |
Editorial Farewell! |
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Dear Colleagues, We would like to announce the registration opening for the Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Meeting, which will take place in Brussels from 18 to 20 October 2010. The Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation meeting is taking the form of one day plenary meeting, cluster meetings and additional project workshops as follows:
We invite you to visit the event website for further details on the programme and finalise your registration before 11 October. We look forward to meeting you in Brussels! With Best Regards, Rainer Zimmermann & Luis Rodríguez-Roselló
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This is the last issue of the Future Networks Newsflash where I will be addressing to you as Head of Unit for Future Networks. During the last almost five years I was privileged to meet very talented people in this area that I would like to warmly thank one last time for joining forces in projects committed to deliver European innovative future network technologies and foster excellence in European research. I am faithful that our roads will cross again, as part of my new responsibilities in the Software and Services area, and pursue closer cooperation between the network A new generation of telecom infrastructure, network and internet technologies as fundamental building blocks to instrumental areas of our society is well underway. Research in this sector already brought considerable achievements and I trust they will sustain future economic developments and bring benefits to the EU citizens’ daily lives. This makes me confident that the networking area will keep playing a key role in bringing viable answers to great research and societal challenges in ICT that are ahead of us. It has been a pleasure to work with you towards the achievement of the EU ICT programme objectives and I wish you every success for the future. With these thoughts in mind, I would like to give a very warm welcome to the newly appointed Head of Unit for Future Networks, my friend and colleague, Luis Rodríguez-Roselló. Rainer Zimmermann |
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Editorial Welcome! |
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In addition to these two parallel sessions, at least seven networking sessions will deal with questions related to the Future Internet.
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It is a pleasure to take up this new role as Head of a Unit for Future Networks. First of all, I would like to warmly thank my predecessor, Rainer Zimmermann, for his strategic drive, commitment and for handing over to me a very promising project portfolio. As a telecommunications engineer and having worked in R&D since many years, it is with great interest and excitement that I am committing to the challenging networking area, in a complex context where the speeding development of networks, infrastructures and applications thereof is amazin Indeed there are still great research and societal challenges in ICT ahead of us and the networking sector will certainly play a role in providing viable solutions. In particular, on the infrastructure side we should drive in the coming years the path towards the next generation of mobile broadband (the so called 4G, further to the Long Term Evolution –LTE). This trend compounded with some other basic technologies for the optimisation of the spectrum, such as cognitive radio and the integration of radio networks with optical fibre, will make possible the realisation of one of one of the key goals of the Digital Agenda for Europe: ubiquitous access to broadband. The evolution of satellite communications, a domain in which European industry is excelling, towards ultra high capacity will ensure the provision of advanced services everywhere in Europe and the industrial leadership in a sector of critical importance. We should equally drive the evolution towards all optical networks enabling higher speeds and towards less energy consuming networks, as the increasing share of the telecommunication networks in energy consumption should be curbed so as to ensure a sustainable development of this basic infrastructure. Europe also needs our deepest focus and the right resources to develop further the future of the Internet. On top of ensuring the take up of services and common core platforms, as targeted by the Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP), enhanced R&D on novel architectures with a longer term perspective is essential. I count on your active support and strong commitment to ensure European citizens that our research and industries will be early front-runners in deploying highly performing ICT infrastructures. Developing in Europe the most advanced technologies and services of the new "highways" of this century will support the growth of our economies and help us build together a sustainable and inclusive future.
Luis Rodriguez-Roselló
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Portrait - New Head of Unit for "Future Networks" and Director a.i. "Converged Networks & Services" |
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Luis Rodríguez-Roselló holds a degree of Telecommunications Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). After some years of professional activity as engineer at a private company and as full professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications and Engineering Madrid in Computer Science and Control Systems, he was appointed Director of the R&D Department at the ITE (Institute for Technologies in Education) of the Ministry of Education in Spain and later on Head of the International Department of the CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico e Industrial). He joined the European Commission in 1989 as Head of Division in Directorate-General "Information Society and Media" responsible for the R&D Programme DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance). He also headed the Educational Multimedia Task Force of the European Commission. He was acting Director in 2003 and 2004 of Directorate "Emerging Technologies, Infrastructures & Applications". Domains of responsibility encompassed basic research (Future and Emerging Technologies), Grid Technologies, Research Infrastructures and application areas related to eInclusion and eWork. End 2004 he was appointed Head of the Unit for "Networked Media Systems", where he lead European R&D on this topic within the current EU Research Framework Programme (FP7). In October 2009 he was appointed Director a.i. of "Converged Networks & Services". Since September 2010 he is heading the Unit "Future Networks" whilst keeping his role of acting Director. |
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