During the two years of the project, DISCOVERY has established privileged relationships with relevant organizations and key stakeholders across Europe, the US and Canada, which represent invaluable assets to support transatlantic dialogues and to achieve the expected impacts of the project. In order to leverage the assets created by the project and to secure a wide impact of DISCOVERY, we have focused on the achievement of six selected impacts, connected to the Transatlantic ICT Forum and collaboration in areas that are essential for sustainable transatlantic collaboration, like Cybersecurity, eHealth, AI and inclusive design, IoT and smart cities:
Impact 1: Make the Transatlantic ICT Forum sustainable
Impact 2: Continue DISCOVERY dialogue with the hosts of the Transatlantic Digital Economy
Impact 3: Trilateral partnerships in ICT testbeds to enable sustained experimental collaborative research in IoT and smart cities
Impact 4: Improve access to funding and strategic partnerships in eHealth
Impact 5: Leverage new collaborative relationships in Cybersecurity and to identify potential Twinning opportunities to build a stronger and more effective international cooperation across EU/US/Canada.
Impact 6: Lay the groundwork for a joint funding program in inclusive design
The Transatlantic ICT Forum - TIF is a major achievement that served to promote and realize the multi-term phases of the DISCOVERY vision. TIF 2017 cemented this activity as a unique platform to benefit policy debate and provide expert opinions and recommendations to transatlantic dialogues for ICT R&I cooperation; opened the Forum to new members from the EU, the US and Canada; and created the basis for substantive and results-oriented annual events.
Moreover, DISCOVERY is having a significant impact to leverage new research and business opportunities in key areas for transatlantic collaboration in ICT research and innovation. New collaborative relationships and ‘twinning’ opportunities in Cybersecurity across the Atlantic has been established or are emerging. For example, the Smart Grid and Cyber Physical Systems Program Office with NIST, twinning with UCC expert involved in ANASTACIA project; and identified potential for ECSO (EU) to work with NIST (US).
Moreover, trilateral partnerships in ICT testbeds to enable sustained experimental collaborative research in IoT and smart cities are ongoing. This includes testbed federation agreements between Canada, the US and GEANT and also collaboration agreement on smart city applications among SAVI, Toronto GTHA, Montreal, Albuquerque, FIWARE, and Amsterdam.
In the area of eHealth, we have delivered a strategic implementation plan for eHealth (Health IT) where several priority areas of research have been identified, establishing the strategic lines for effective cooperation and future combined research calls between Europe and North America with existing instruments and initiatives.
Furthermore, we have laid the groundwork for a joint funding program in inclusive design, which involves funding mechanisms from the three jurisdictions, US, Canada, Europe.
