EU initiative: over 58.5 million euro for Future Internet Research and Experimentation
10 September 2008 - 10 September 2008
Austria
On 10 September, the European Commission will officially launch 14 research projects, which are part of the FIRE initiative for Future Internet Research and Experimentation.
The launch event in the Paris City Hall will be opened by Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Innovation and Education, and Gilles Bloch, Director General of Research and Innovation at the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research. More than 165 researchers, innovation managers, including European experts from national and European research projects, as well as representatives of European and national research funding institutions are expected to attend.
The event, which takes place in the context of the French EU Presidency, is organised by the Directorate General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission in cooperation with the EC-funded projects FIREworks and OneLab2.
The 14 FIRE projects contributing to the event are funded by the EC under the 7th Framework Programme for Research (FP7) and cover a wide range of research topics in the area of Future Internet Research and Experimentation, including advanced networking approaches to architectures and protocols, coupled with their validation in large-scale testing environments, as well as interconnection of testbeds that enable experimentation on a large scale. The total planned budget of these projects is more than 58.5 million euro, of which the EC funds about 40 million euro.
What all these projects have in common is that they aim at creating a multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms for the Future Internet. They also share the vision of federated European testbeds, whose combined capabilities will enable participating EU companies and research institutions to play a major role in the definition and development of the Future Internet. At the launch event the participating stakeholders will continue the work on drafting a vision and a roadmap for advancing research in this field and setting up the planned European Experimental Facility.
The event is part of the general FIRE activities for developing a joint strategy for Future Internet Research and Experimentation in Europe. The European Commission is expected to further reinforce the European activities in the area of Future Internet Research and Experimentation. The next FIRE call for FP7 project proposals is planned for mid 2009.
About FIRE:
FIRE – Future Internet Research and Experimentation – is an initiative under the ICT theme of EU Framework Programme 7. The initiative has two related dimensions: Building a European Experimental Facility for Future Internet research, and supporting experimentally-driven advanced research, which defines the challenges for and takes advantage of the dynamically evolving facility. FIRE is promoting the concept of experimentally-driven yet long-term research, joining the two ends of academy-driven visionary research and industry-driven testing and experimentation, in a truly multidisciplinary and innovative approach. To make this approach a reality, FIRE aims at creating a large scale European Experimental Facility, built by gradually connecting and federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet architectures, services and technologies.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire(opens in new window)
About FIREworks:
FIREworks is a Support Action funded from FP7 Call 2, Objective 1.6 "New paradigms and experimental facilities" with EC contribution of 790,000 euro.
FIREworks coordinates and supports interworking of testbed activities in Europe and their respective connections outside of Europe, mainly North America and Far East. FIREworks brings together stakeholders in the field, to build the strategy and the roadmap for Future Internet Research, including the European Experimental Facility.
http://www.ict-fireworks.eu(opens in new window)
About OneLab2:
The OneLab2 project provides an open federated laboratory, develops and operates PlanetLab Europe, which supports network research for the future internet. OneLab2 is a large-scale integrating project (IP) from FP7 Call 2, Objective 1.6 "New paradigms and experimental facilities" with a global budget of 8.9 million euro and with EC contribution of 6.3 million euro. The project started on 1 September 2008, and runs for 27 months, following directly on its predecessor, the OneLab project.
http://www.one-lab-2.org(opens in new window)
The launch event in the Paris City Hall will be opened by Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Innovation and Education, and Gilles Bloch, Director General of Research and Innovation at the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research. More than 165 researchers, innovation managers, including European experts from national and European research projects, as well as representatives of European and national research funding institutions are expected to attend.
The event, which takes place in the context of the French EU Presidency, is organised by the Directorate General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission in cooperation with the EC-funded projects FIREworks and OneLab2.
The 14 FIRE projects contributing to the event are funded by the EC under the 7th Framework Programme for Research (FP7) and cover a wide range of research topics in the area of Future Internet Research and Experimentation, including advanced networking approaches to architectures and protocols, coupled with their validation in large-scale testing environments, as well as interconnection of testbeds that enable experimentation on a large scale. The total planned budget of these projects is more than 58.5 million euro, of which the EC funds about 40 million euro.
What all these projects have in common is that they aim at creating a multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms for the Future Internet. They also share the vision of federated European testbeds, whose combined capabilities will enable participating EU companies and research institutions to play a major role in the definition and development of the Future Internet. At the launch event the participating stakeholders will continue the work on drafting a vision and a roadmap for advancing research in this field and setting up the planned European Experimental Facility.
The event is part of the general FIRE activities for developing a joint strategy for Future Internet Research and Experimentation in Europe. The European Commission is expected to further reinforce the European activities in the area of Future Internet Research and Experimentation. The next FIRE call for FP7 project proposals is planned for mid 2009.
About FIRE:
FIRE – Future Internet Research and Experimentation – is an initiative under the ICT theme of EU Framework Programme 7. The initiative has two related dimensions: Building a European Experimental Facility for Future Internet research, and supporting experimentally-driven advanced research, which defines the challenges for and takes advantage of the dynamically evolving facility. FIRE is promoting the concept of experimentally-driven yet long-term research, joining the two ends of academy-driven visionary research and industry-driven testing and experimentation, in a truly multidisciplinary and innovative approach. To make this approach a reality, FIRE aims at creating a large scale European Experimental Facility, built by gradually connecting and federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet architectures, services and technologies.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire(opens in new window)
About FIREworks:
FIREworks is a Support Action funded from FP7 Call 2, Objective 1.6 "New paradigms and experimental facilities" with EC contribution of 790,000 euro.
FIREworks coordinates and supports interworking of testbed activities in Europe and their respective connections outside of Europe, mainly North America and Far East. FIREworks brings together stakeholders in the field, to build the strategy and the roadmap for Future Internet Research, including the European Experimental Facility.
http://www.ict-fireworks.eu(opens in new window)
About OneLab2:
The OneLab2 project provides an open federated laboratory, develops and operates PlanetLab Europe, which supports network research for the future internet. OneLab2 is a large-scale integrating project (IP) from FP7 Call 2, Objective 1.6 "New paradigms and experimental facilities" with a global budget of 8.9 million euro and with EC contribution of 6.3 million euro. The project started on 1 September 2008, and runs for 27 months, following directly on its predecessor, the OneLab project.
http://www.one-lab-2.org(opens in new window)