The European ICT project SAME (Sound And Music for Everyone, Everyday, Everywhere, Everyway) promotes a design contest for innovative applications/services/devices which make use of mobile phones for creating and enjoying music in an everyday situation. Designers are invited to make use of the new technology available through the SAME Consortium (but not exclusively). This technology enables mobile phones to be transformed into new expressive musical instruments which break the traditional ways of music listening. Submit your proposal till 30 September 2010 here.

3D4YOU won the special prize for Visual Effects at the Dimension 3 Festival in Paris
This documentary shows how peregrines survive in the city of London and how they hunt to feed their chicks; the pilot is co-produced by BBC Natural History and the 3D experts from KUK Filmproducktion GmbH in Munich. The production is funded by the EU FP7 Research Project 3D4YOU.

The currently introduced first generation of 3D television requires viewers to wear glasses in order to see the 3D effect. At the IBC in Amsterdam (Sept. 10-14) as well as the NEM summit in Barcelona (Oct. 13-15), the 3D4YOU project will demonstrate the key elements of a more advanced future 3D television system that will support both glasses-aided as well as glasses-free 3D viewing. The 3D4YOU advanced 3D data formats, containing information about the depth of objects, will also enable viewers to adjust the 3D depth effect according to their personal viewing preferences, independent of viewing distance and screen size.

CNG Workshop 2010 - Online Games: Economic, technological and User-Dimension - State of the art, 30 June 2010 at Gijón in Spain,
This international workshop, organized by EGDF (European Game Developers Federation) in cooperation with Gamelab, gathered relevant people from the Game Industry and the Academia to speak about current economic, technological and social trends around online games. The presentations can be downloaded here.

3D VIVANT at IBC 2010 Conference and Exhibition
A paper entitled "3D LIVE IMMERSE VIDEO-AUDIO INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA " has been accepted to be presented in the Technical Paper session of IBC 2010 Conference to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands between 9-14 September 2010. In addition to this a demo based on the Holoscopic work of Brunel University, raising awareness about 3D VIVANT will be exhibited in the New Technology Section of the Exhibition.

The first newsletter of iSearch project is available here 

3DVIVANT first newsletter is online. Check it here!

First issue of the 3DLife Newsletter is available here.

Future Internet Public Private Partnership
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 Call for Proposal  is open till 2 December 2010.

Future Media Internet - Research Challenges and the Road Ahead
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ICT Research: The policy perspective - The future of media in a networked world (Click here to get your free copy!)

Cross-disciplinary Challenges and Recommendations regarding the Future of Multimedia Search Engines.
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All our publications can be downloaded on Cordis

01 - 03 September 2010
UCMEDIA 2010, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
This conference seeks to improve our understanding of the changing landscape of media. It has a particular focus on forms of media that are user centred and on the way they will be delivered over a Future Media Internet.

09 - 14 September 2010
IBC 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Each September, the leading brands, finest minds and wisest investors come to IBC – the premier annual conference and exhibition for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and media content worldwide.

20 - 23 September 2010
CLEF 2010, Padua, Italy
The CLEF 2010 conference is the continuation of the popular CLEF campaigns and workshops that have run for the past ten years (2000-2009). CLEF 2010 will cover a broad range of issues from the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.

27 - 29 September 2010
ICT 2010, Brussels Expo, Belgium
This bi-annual event has become a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. ICT 2010 will focus on policy priorities such as Europe's Digital Agenda and the next financial programme of the European Union for funding research and innovation in ICT.

04 - 06 October 2010
IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2010), Saint-Malo, France
MMSP-10 is the twelfth international workshop on multimedia signal processing. The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Organized in Saint-Malo, MMSP-10 provides excellent conditions for brainstorming on, and sharing the latest advances in multimedia signal processing and technology in one of the most charming and picturesque cities in the world.

13 October 2010
Networked Media Systems Concertation meeting
will take place before the NEM Summit 2010, Barcelona, Spain

13 - 15 October 2010
NEM Summit 2010, Barcelona, Spain

20 - 21 October 2010
3rd EU-Japan Symposium on the "Future Internet and Next Generation Networks", Tampere, Finland

25 October 2010 Networked Media and Search Systems InfoDay, Brussels, Belgium
The Networked Media and Search Systems InfoDay aims at presenting the Objective  1.5 of the Call 7 of the ICT Work Programme2011-2012 and facilitating networking amongst the constituency in view of building quality partnerships and consortia for submission of project proposals.

25 - 29 October 2010
ACM Multimedia 2010, Firenze, Italy

ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. The Conference offers to scientists and practitioners in the area of Multimedia plenary scientific and technical sessions, tutorials, panels and discussion meetings on relevant and challenging questions for the next years horizon of multimedia

29 November - December 1 2010
INTERNET OF THINGS 2010 "IoT for a Green Planet" International Conference for Industry and Academia, Tokyo, Japan

16 - 17 December 2010
FIA Ghent, Search Break Out Session, Ghent, Belgium

23 - 27 January 2011
SPIE 2011 Conference on Real-Time Image and Video Processing, San Francisco, California United States  

Public consultation on the open internet and net neutrality
DG Information Society and Media has launched a public consultation on key questions arising from the issue of net neutrality. 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. More info here

ICT Workprogramme 2011/2012
The ICT Workprogramme 2011/2012 has been approved and can be accessed here.

Future Internet PPP Call 1 opened on 20 July '10!
After approval of the FP7 ICT work programme 2011/12 in July 2010, the Commission proceeded with the publication of the first calls, among which the first call for the Future Internet PPP (the call closes on 2 December 2010).
All call relevant documents are published here.
Also, visit the Commissions' Future Internet website which gives a comprehensive overview of all FI activities.
For information only, we prepared a separate document with only the FI-PPP work programme text.

Countering data roaming bill shocks
One of the most successful DG INFSO policies has been the EU Roaming Regulation, which has reduced the prices for roamed calls by up to 70% since 2005. Thanks to the roaming rules Europeans benefit from cheaper prices when travelling abroad in the EU.
Since the 1st of July customers roaming in another EU Member State no longer need to worry about accidentally running up huge bills when surfing the web using mobile networks via a mobile phone or computer when abroad in the EU. More info here

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