FIRE international cooperation

The new call 7 FIRE project OpenLab has a partner from Canada in its consortium. It is ETS/SYNC (Ecole de Technologie Supérieure).
www.ict-openlab.eu
www-eng.etsmtl.ca
The University of Waterloo is a partner of EINS.
uwaterloo.ca

Partners from the US are also present in some FIRE projects. The CONECT project counts the University of California (Berkeley and Los Angeles) among its partners.
www.conect-ict.eu
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
University of California is also a partner of OFELIA, which also includes in its consortium Stanford University.
www.fp7-ofelia.eu
www.stanford.edu

The TEFIS project involves a Brazilian partner, the University of Sao Paulo.
www.tefisproject.eu
www5.usp.br
Call 7 included a joint EU-Brazil call for proposal. One project with a small budget has been retained as part of FIRE: FIBRE. The consortium of this project includes nine partners from Brazil. The MyFIRE project has in their consortium a partner from Brazil: Instituto de Pesquisas tecnologicas de Estudo de Sao Paulo SA, the Institute for Technological Research, a public research institute linked to the São Paulo State Department of Development.
www.my-fire.eu
www.ipt.br

The MyFIRE project has in their consortium a partner from Russia: ITMO (Saint Petersburg State University for Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics), which provides training in advanced science and technology.
http://www.my-fire.eu/
http://en.ifmo.ru/

EINS KOREN AsiaFI Forum
The Call 7 Network of Excellence EINS has a Korean Partner (KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology).
www.kaist.edu/edu.html
FIRE STATION participated in the KOREN workshop which took place in May 2011 in Seoul.
www.ict-fire.eu/events/eventview/article/koren-workshop-2011.html
FIRE was represented in the AsiaFI Forum Summer School which was held in Daejeon, Korea, from 8 to 12 August 2011.
www.ict-fire.eu/events/eventview/article/asiafi-forum.html

The MyFIRE project has in their consortium a partner from India: ERNET INDIA, an autonomous scientific society under the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.
www.my-fire.eu
www.eis.ernet.in

Several FIRE projects include an Australian partner in their consortium. Indeed, the Australian research institute NICTA (National ICT Australia) is involved in three projects: OpenLab, FIBRE and EINS.
www.ict-openlab.eu
www.nicta.com.au

TEFIS involves a Chinese partner in its consortium:  The Shanghai Development Center of Computer Software Technology.
www.tefisproject.eu
www.ssc.stn.sh.cn/site/
The Call 7 Network of Excellence EINS (European INternet Science) also has a Chinese partner (the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
english.ict.cas.cn
The MyFIRE project has in their consortium a partner from China: BII Group Holding LTD, which is one of the first high-tech enterprises oriented to Internet and telecommunication in China.
www.my-fire.eu
www.biigroup.com

FIRE STATION is involved with Japan through EU-Japan events. The 3rd EU-Japan Symposium on Future Internet and New Generation Networks (NWGN) was held in Tampere on the 20th-22nd October 2010. It was intended to facilitate interactions between the European and Japanese participants.
www.ict-fire.eu/events/eventview/article/3rd-eu-japan-symposium-on-future-internet-and-new-generation-networks.html
The European Commission organized, on October 20, 2011, an Information Day for Japanese researchers on the ICT Call 8. FIRE STATION attended this event in order to be represented to the Japanese audience invited by the MIC (Ministry of International Affairs and Communications of Japan). www.ict-fire.eu/news/view/article/report-on-eu-japan-info-day-20-october-2011-tokyo-japan.html