Information day, Objective ICT-2011.1.6 Call 8 of FP7-ICT

Responsible for the topic/session: Rapolas Lakavicius, EC

Call 8 Leaflet available here: Leaflet Call8.pdf
Call 8 slides available here: Call8 slides.pdf

The presentations & video of the session are available here.
More on FIRE wiki.

The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - Initiative is creating multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms. FIRE is promoting the concept of experimentally-driven research, combining visionary academic research with the wide-scale testing that is required for industry. FIRE works to create a dynamic, sustainable, large scale European Experimental Facility, which is constructed by gradually connecting and federating existing and upcoming testbeds for Future Internet technologies.

During the years 2008-2010 two waves of FIRE projects established the first prototypes of FIRE facility and used it for the visionary research on Future Internet. The ICT Work Programme 2011-2012 foreseen the prolongation and extension of the FIRE activities. In Call 8 Objective 1.6 will address the following fields of activities:

• FIRE Federation: implementing a demand-driven high level federation framework for all FIRE prototype facilities making the facility self-sustainable towards 2015 (one IP will be accepted).
• FIRE Experimentation: Experimentally-driven research in the broad field of the Future Internet using one or more of the existing FIRE facility prototypes (STREPs).
• Coordination and Support Actions: EU-wide co-operation with related EU-level and Member States and associated countries activities such as the Public Private Partnership on the Future Internet, or national experimentation facilities, etc (CSAs).

The indicative budget in Call 8 of the Objective 1.6 will be as follows:

• IP/STREP: EUR 23 million of which EUR 8 million for IP and EUR 15 million for STREP
• CSA: EUR 2 million

Note:
Taking into account the great success of Open Calls it is recommended that for future Calls (e.g. Call 8), IP/Facility projects should also reserve budget for their Open Calls.

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13 July 2011