List of initiatives / actions of interest to FIRE

This page lists the various European and international initiatives of interest to FIRE, i.e. either with which FIRE shall interact one way or another, or to monitor in case there is something of interest to FIRE. It also includes some coordination or support actions of interest. The main objectives of FIRE interaction with other initiatives are to promote and give visibility to FIRE facilities and FIRE research projects to the stakeholders involved in the initiatives, and to increase the usage of FIRE facilities by research projects supported by the initiative or by the community of this initiative at large, at European and at international level.

Objectives also include enlarging and strengthening the FIRE community and the FIRE facilities offer. Although the objectives highlighted in the previous section can also be addressed through participation in events organized by these initiatives, these two objectives can be achieved only by interacting directly with the people in charge of the initiatives.

Brief description / Web site

The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) was created in March 2008 by the European Commission and the Member States, with support from many research projects and the related European Technology Platforms eMobility, NEM, ISI and EPoSS, in order to coordinate the activities towards a coordinated European approach to the Future Internet.
http://www.future-internet.eu/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

FIRE is one of the constituencies (clusters) of the FIA. The objective is to make FIRE projects and especially the facilities better known to the FIA community in order to increase its visibility and to promote the usage of the FIRE facilities by FI projects and organisations.

Means of interaction

FIRE Cluster within FIA;
Organisation of FIRE sessions at FIA Events;
Participation in other FI cluster meetings/events;
FI portal (Eurescom);
FIA book

Proposal for next steps

FIRE(Works) has been involved in the organisation of FIA and the FIA events from their inception. FIREStation will follow up in these footsteps.

Brief description / Web site

The Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI PPP) is a 300 M€ initiative supporting FP7 research projects embedded in the ICT Work Programme 2011-2012. The aim is to set up an Internet infrastructure which can be efficiently used by several large-scale trial projects from application sectors such as transport, health and energy.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/lead/fippp/index_en.htm

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

FI PPP projects shall be encouraged to use FIRE facilities

Means of interaction

Interaction between FIRESTATION (representing FIRE) and projects from Objective FI.ICT-2011.1.9 Capacity Building and Infrastructure Support (refers explicitly to FIRE), and to a second extend with the projects from Objective FI.ICT-2011.1.8 Use Case scenarios and early trials

Proposal for next steps

The projects (including the CSAs) shall start around mid-2011; see then whether setting up a direct interaction with the CSA on “Capacity Building & Infrastructure”, and/or a direct interaction with the CSA on “Programme Facilitation & Support” or with some of the IPs and STREPs makes sense once they have started

Brief description / Web site

The European Future Internet Alliance (merged EFII and FIRA) intends to establish one unique platform that provides a single point of access for all stakeholders in the European Future Internet domain. This includes industry (ICT and sectors), academia, SMEs, European Commission representatives, National Research authorities and other national and transnational technology "bodies".
http://www.future-internet.eu/news/view/article/efii-fira-evolution.html

http://initiative.future-internet.eu/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

The main objective of EFIA seems to be the submission of FI PPP projects; it remains to be seen what this initiative will become once FI PPP projects are started. Therefore the reason and objectives for an interaction with EFII shall be investigated later.

Means of interaction

n/a at this stage.

Proposals for next steps

Investigate again 6 months after the FI PPP projects have started whether interaction is required.

Brief description / Web site

The EX-FI Support Action (Expanding the European Future Internet Community) is a short project (May 2010 - April 2011) whose main objective is to support industry prepare the FI PPP projects. It will then be somewhat replaced with the CSA on “Programme Facilitation and Support” planned in the FI PPP.
http://initiative.future-internet.eu/home/supported-by-ex-fi-fp7-support-action-project.html

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

EX-FI could be approached in order to make sure that FIRE is visible before the FI PPP projects actually start; it could be helpful in particular to promote the usage of FIRE facilities in the proposals that will be submitted by industry.

Means of interaction

Direct contact between EX-FI and FIRESTATION (representing FIRE).

Proposal for next steps

The projects (including the CSAs) shall start around mid-2011; see then whether setting up a direct interaction with the CSA on “Capacity Building & Infrastructure”, and/or a direct interaction with the CSA on “Programme Facilitation & Support” or with some of the IPs and STREPs makes sense once they have started.

Brief description / Web site

The Future Internet Forum (FIF) was created end of 2008 by the European Commission further to a request from the Member States, to promote the interest of the Member and Associated States in a European approach to Future Internet. The FIF represents somewhat the public side and EFII and FIRA the industry side.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/lead/fif/index_en.htm

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

FIF involves most representatives from Member States who follow what is going on around Future Internet; it is important to make sure that FIRE is one of the main constituencies of FI in the mind of the FIF members.

Means of interaction

Direct interaction between FIRESTATION (representing FIRE) and the FIF shall be set up, maybe through the CEFIMS support action which is currently under way.

Proposal for next steps

Contact the FIF representatives and/or the CSA in charge; investigate what could be done to promote FIRE and possibly set-up interactions with FI initiatives and test facilities at national level.

Brief description / Web site

Austria - Future Internet Austria ; Belgium – IBBT ; Finland - ICT SHOK ; France - Groupe de Reflexion Internet du Futur – Flab; Germany - G-Lab; Ireland - Future Internet; Italy – TERIT; Luxembourg - IPV6 Council; Spain - Spanish Technology Platform convergent towards Future Internet; Sweden - Ambient Sweden; The Netherlands - Future Internet; UK - Future Internet Strategy Group; etc.
(Full list of initiatives available in the document “Member States activities on Future Internet” –cf.http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/library/docs/fif_compendium.pdf)

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

Direct interactions with national initiatives may prove of added value in addition to the interaction with FIF, in order to enlarge the community of FIRE facilities and FIRE users / research projects.

Means of interaction

Interaction via FIF members or direct interaction as required.

Proposal for next steps

Contacts have already been established with GLab. FIRESTATION shall investigate further whether direct contacts with some national initiatives (e.g. in Belgium and in the UK via its partners) would have an added value.

Brief description / Web site

eMobility is the European Technology Platform for communication networks.
http://www.emobility.eu.org/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

eMobility encompasses all the major stakeholders in the communications domain and is related to a great number of FP7 projects. Interaction with eMobility could help raise FIRE visibility and usage of facilities both by research projects and by the network community. In addition, eMobility could be useful to set up interactions with other facilities, as they have already identified a number of open or private test beds (cf. http://www.emobility.eu.org/TestingFacilities.html)

Means of interaction

Direct interaction between FIRESTATION (representing FIRE) and the eMobility Steering Board to promote the usage of test facilities in research projects and also to invite facilities identified by eMobility to join or set up interactions with the FIRE community. Participation in eMobility events.

Proposal for next steps

FIRESTATION shall suggest to help eMobility in going on with the work that has started with respect to finding “Experimental Testing and Developing Facilities” that could be useful to eMobility stakeholders; offer to work jointly and promote the usage of such facilities.

Brief description / Web site

NESSI is the European Technology Platform dedicated to Software and Services. Its name stands for the Networked European Software and Services Initiative.
http://www.nessi-europe.com/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

NESSI encompasses all the major stakeholders in the software and services domain and is related to a great number of FP7 projects. Interaction with NESSI could help raise FIRE visibility and usage of facilities both by research projects and by the software and services community.

Means of interaction

Direct interaction between FIRESTATION (representing FIRE) and the NESSI Steering Board to promote the usage of test facilities in research projects. Participation in NESSI events. Aim at common trials and experiments in NESSI domain.

Proposal for next steps

Define how FIRE facilities (present and future) could possibly address the requirements from the software and services domain in contact with the NESSI Steering Board

Brief description / Web site

The Networked & Electronic Media (NEM) European Technology Platform addresses the convergence of media, communications, consumer electronics, and IT.
http://www.nem-initiative.org

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

NEM encompasses all the major stakeholders in the multimedia and home networks domain and is related to a great number of FP7 projects. Interaction with NEM could help raise FIRE visibility and usage of facilities both by research projects and by the multimedia community.

Means of interaction

Direct interaction between FIRESTATION (representing FIRE) and the NEM Steering Board to promote the usage of test facilities in research projects. Participation in NEM events. Aim at common trials and experiments in NEM domain.

Proposal for next steps

Define how FIRE facilities (present and future) could possibly address the requirements from the multimedia and home networks domain in contact with the  NEM Steering Board.

Brief description / Web site

The Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI) is the European Technology Platform on Satellite Communications.
http://www.isi-initiative.org/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

ISI encompasses all the major stakeholders in the satcom domain and is related to a number of FP7 projects. Interaction with ISI could help raise FIRE visibility and usage of facilities both by research projects and by the satcom community.

Means of interaction

Direct interaction between FIRESTATION (representing FIRE) and the ISI Steering Board to promote the usage of test facilities in research projects. Participation in ISI events. Aim at common trials and experiments in ISI domain.

Proposal for next steps

Define how FIRE facilities (present and future) could possibly address the requirements from the satcom domain in contact with the  ISI Steering Board.

Brief description / Web site

Celtic is a EUREKA cluster and the only European R&D programme in ICT fully dedicated to end-to-end telecommunication solutions. Celtic initiates and runs privately and public funded ICT/ telecommunications R&D projects.
http://www.celtic-initiative.org/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

Celtic is supported by most of the major European players in communication technologies and involves many industry and academic players of the telecommunications sector. Celtic was also at the origin of Panlab. Interaction with Celtic could help raise FIRE visibility and usage of facilities both by research projects and by the Celtic community; and it could also help in setting up interactions with test beds and facilities from operators and vendors at national or private level.

Means of interaction

Direct interaction between FIRESTATION (representing FIRE) and the Celtic Core Group or the Celtic Office to promote the usage of test facilities in Celtic research projects and also to invite private or national facilities identified by Celtic Core Group members to join or set up interactions with the FIRE community; participation of FIRE (FIRESTATION and FIRE projects) in Celtic events to promote FIRE visibility and the usage of FIRE facilities.

Proposal for next steps

FIRESTATION shall contact the Celtic Office in order to define what could be done jointly.

Brief description / Web site

ITEA 2 is a EUREKA cluster and a strategic pan-European programme for advanced pre-competitive R&D in software for Software-intensive Systems and Services (SiS).
http://www.itea2.org/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

ITEA2 is supported by most of the major European players in software and embedded systems technologies and involves many industry and academic players of these sectors. Interaction with ITEA2 could help raise FIRE visibility and usage of facilities both by research projects and by the ITEA2 community, especially now that there are more service-oriented projects in FIRE.

Means of interaction

Participation of FIRE (FIRESTATION and FIRE projects) in ITEA2 events to promote FIRE visibility and the usage of FIRE facilities; direct interaction with the ITEA2 Office and/or the ITEA2 Board?

Proposal for next steps

Participate in the ITEA2 & ARTEMIS Co-Summit 2010;
investigate whether direct interaction with the ITEA2 Office and/or the ITEA2 Board could be beneficial to FIRE.

Brief description / Web site

The ARTEMIS Embedded Computing Systems Initiative is a JTI on embedded systems. The ARTEMIS JTI is implemented as a Joint Undertaking (JU) which is a public-private partnership between the European Commission, Member States, and ARTEMISIA, a non-profit Industrial Association.
https://www.artemis-ju.eu/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

It is not clear at this stage why FIRE shall interact with ARTEMIS.

Means of interaction

n/a at this stage

Proposal for next steps

Investigate whether it would make sense for FIRE to set up interactions with ARTEMIS, and to what purpose.

Brief description / Web site

GÉANT is the pan-European data network dedicated to the research and education community. Together with Europe's national research networks, GÉANT connects 40 million users in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries.

www.geant.net (and also cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/home_en.html)

https://www.artemis-ju.eu

Brief description / Web site

The IST Advisory Group (ISTAG) has been set up to advise the Commission on the overall strategy to be followed in carrying out the ICT thematic priority under the European framework programme for research. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/istag/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

ISTAG is quite influential in defining priorities of the next ICT work programmes, and will certainly have a say in the definition of priorities for FP8. Interaction with some influential members of ISTAG to promote FIRE projects and facilities could help find an appropriate place and budget in FP8 for FIRE.

Means of interaction

Unofficial interactions with some of the ISTAG members? Interaction with the EC representatives?

Proposal for next steps

Investigate who from FIRESTATION (and/or the FIRE projects?) could interact with ISTAG members from industry, academia and the EC and promote FIRE. The list of ISTAG member is available at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/istag/membership-2010-12_en.html.

Brief description / Web site

The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a NSF funded virtual laboratory for at-scale networking experimentation on future internet paradigms.
http://www.geni.net/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

The objectives of GENI are to a great extent similar to FIRE, however, the approach and structure differ somewhat. Especially project level cooperation is encouraged for effective and best use of resources, best serving the global customers of experimental platforms. FIRESTATION can mediate this interaction and streamline efforts.

Means of interaction

Interaction with GENI Office participation at GENI Engineering Conferences in  order to follow GENI progress, catalyse and coordinate project(s)2project(s) cooperation, identify common design challenges and work on them ultimately with common trials.

Proposal for next steps

Ensure continuity of interaction if/when some projects change on both sides, follow project2project cooperation and facilitate it with bi-annual meetings between FIRE and GENI projects.http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/istag/membership-2010-12_en.html.

Brief description / Web site

The Asia Future Internet Forum (AsiaFI) coordinates research and development on Future Internet among countries in Asia as well as with other continents.
http://www.asiafi.net/

Reason for interaction / Objectives of interaction

AsiaFI collects users and experimental facility providers in Asia and liaison with this community is relevant to FIRE. Especially project level cooperation is encouraged for effective and best use of resources, best serving the global customers of experimental platforms. FIRESTATION can mediate this interaction and streamline efforts.

Means of interaction

Interaction with AsiaFI and participation at its events in  order to exchange knowledge and catalyse cooperation between projects, identify common design challenges and work on them.

Proposal for next steps

Representation of FIRE by FIRESTATION in the next AsiaFI meeting, EU-Japan symposiums and some international conferences serve as a forum for cooperation (project2project) development.