EIT ICT Labs: News

EIT ICT Labs meets W3C on Web Applications In Your Car, Paris

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Cars are the next big opportunity for Web applications. Open Web technologies will reduce development costs compared to native apps which incur steep learning curves for each platform.

What APIs are needed for automotive apps? How to deal with trust, security, privacy and road safety? How to create apps that span user devices, e.g. coupling the car, smart phones, tablets, and devices on the users home network? How take advantage of the unique opportunities specific to automotive?

This workshop will focus on use cases, technical challenges and the need for new standards for automotive web apps. Read more on the workshop website and register by sending an email to Christian Mueller.

Organized by
• EIT ICT Labs Action Line: Intelligent Mobility and Transportation Systems, TIMS: Christian Mueller
• The GetHomeSafe consortium
• W3C: Dave Raggett
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence: Christoph Endres

Digital Cities of the Future Worskhop, Paris

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The workshop on Digital Cities of the Future thematic action line to show the results of 2011 activities and to communicate on 2012 activities will be held on March 19th in the Paris co-location centre. Prelimenary agenda is:
9:00 Welcome and reception
9:30 TDCT in 2011. Objectives, performance and realization
10:00 - 12:30 Presentation of the activities and their results. (we have 12 activities - 10 minutes each)
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Demonstrations
16:00 - 17:00 2012 activities + possible submissions for 2013
18:00 end of the workshop. Contact: Khaldoun Al Agha alagha@lri.fr

Workshop Networking Solutions for Future Media in Trento

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Project members - save the dates 15-16 March!

Tentative agenda:

• Presentation of foresight studies,
• Innovation, Tech transfer support and business coaching
• Status per current activity
• Call planning for 2013

More information and detailed agenda will follow

Kick-off activity TIK - The Interaction Toolkit, Paris

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The Kickoff meeting of the activity TIK - The Interaction Toolkit will be held on March 15th 2012 at the Paris Co-location center. Prelimary agenda:

10 minute presentation by the responsable person of the activity planned for 2012.
Open discussion about integrated our results into a shared toolkit.
Discussion about licensing and exploitation arrangements within ICT Labs.
Conclusion: discussion of preparation (and schedule) for the 2013 budget.

Travel information can be found at http://eit.ictlabs.eu/ict-labs/nodes-co-location-centres/paris/paris-node-location/ Nearby hotels can be found at http://eit.ictlabs.eu/ict-labs/nodes-co-location-centres/paris/paris-node-location Contact: James Crowley James.Crowley@inria.fr

Kick-off meeting European SME Progamme, Paris

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The goal of this meeting is to define content and schedules for the work packages - Budget - Planning of European SME Programme meetings. It will be held on March 9th 2012 at the Paris Co-Location Centre http://eit.ictlabs.eu/ict-labs/nodes-co-location-centres/paris/paris-node-location/ Agenda: 9:30 – 10:00 Welcome coffee 10:00 – 10:15 Introduction to ESP 10:00 – 12:00 Definition of the schedules for the work packages - Scan for new SME (presentation of the EIT ICT Labs process of selection) - Thematic workshops (model, choice of a topic, …) Lunch buffet on place 13:00 – 14:00 (…/…) Definition of the schedules for the work packages - Catalog of Services from each nodes - Open Innovation ITEA 15:30 – 15:45 Budget & next ESP meetings 15:45- 16:00 – Wrapping up session by round-table Contact: Isabelle de Sutter i.desutter@systematic-paris-region.org

EIT ICT Labs program CEBIT 2012

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

EIT ICT Labs PROGRAM at CeBIT 2012:

March 7

Theme: “Empowering ICT top talents for the Future” - special focus on EDUCATION
Hall 9, Stand F50 The “Knowledge Triangle” - how the INDUSTRY can benefit from EIT ICT Labs Master School and its Internships. Discuss with and learn from Prof. Hannu Tenhunen, Education Director EIT ICT Labs and Prof. Carl-Gustaf Jansson, Director EIT ICT Labs Master School

March 8

Theme: “Bringing ICT Innovation to Life” - special focus on ENTREPRENEURSHIP CeBIT lab talk,
Hall 9, Stand J50,
3:00 p.m. Opening by moderator Mr. Reinhard Karger, DFKI
3:05 p.m. Innovate with EIT ICT Labs, introduction by Mr. Klaus Beetz, Business Director EIT ICT Labs
3:15 p.m. Listen to the Innovators, listen to innovators from the EIT ICT Labs co-locations in Berlin, Eindhoven, Helsinki, Paris, Stockholm and Trento
3:45 p.m. Discuss with the Innovators, panel discussion moderated by Mr. Reinhard Karger.

Followed by:
4:15 p.m. “Engage with the Innovators” at EIT ICT Labs, Hall 9, Stand F50
Meet EIT ICT Labs business developers and innovators to discuss in depth about EIT ICT Labs approach to innovation.

March 9

Theme: “ICT for Quality of Life” - focus on Leveraging information society data
CeBIT lab talk, Hall 9, Stand J50, 16:00 – 16:20 p.m.

Theme: “Smart Energy” - focus on Smart Grid
CeBIT lab talk, Hall 9, Stand J50, 16:20 – 16:40 p.m. Theme: “Digital Cities” - focus on Open Networks
CeBIT lab talk, Hall 9, Stand J50, 16:40 – 17:00 p.m.

March 10

Theme: “STUDENT DAY” – “Empowering ICT top talents for the Future” CeBIT lab talk, Hall 9, Stand J50
SOFTWARE CAMPUS and the EIT ICT Labs MASTER SCHOOL - sometimes dreams come true…
12:30 – 12:50 p.m. presented by Udo Bub, Node Director EIT ICT Labs Berlin

All day: EIT ICT Labs MASTER SCHOOL offers an international network, internships and hands-on education. 7 majors, 19 universities – choose between top technical universities in Europe.
Helena Törnkvist, Master School Office, will support students, teachers, partners with information.

Theme: “Future Internet” - focus on FITTING
CeBIT lab talk, Hall 9, Stand J50, 12:50 – 13:10 p.m.

Theme: “Health & Well-being” - focus on Stress Management
CeBIT lab talk, Hall 9, Stand J50, 13:10 – 13:30 p.m. In EIT ICT Labs’ vision, ICT innovation is the key enabler to enhancing quality of life. Through a unique approach of integrating education, research and business in Europe, EIT ICT Labs aims to produce breakthrough innovations, and to breed top ICT entrepreneurial talent via the transformation of higher education and the promotion of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Sustainable energy supply, intelligent traffic management, and quality of life are just some of the challenges that society, business and politics will face in the future. Innovative ICT technologies offer one way of giving a much-needed boost to a new set of solutions. Find out more about CeBIT 2012 on www.cebit.de/home
Find out more about EIT ICT Labs on www.eit.ictlabs.eu
Find out more about EIT ICT Labs on CeBIT 2012 www.cebit.de/exhibitor/eit-ict-labs/Q451294
Find out more about Software Campus on www.softwarecampus.de
Find out more on EIT ICT Labs Master School on www.eitictlabs.masterschool.eu
QUESTIONS: info@ictlabs.eu

Rennes welcomes Willem Jonker on Feb 28th

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The EIT ICT Labs partners in Rennes (*) will welcome Willem Jonker for a full day session on Feb 28th. This will be a day of intense discussions:

The morning session will gather decision makers from the EIT ICT Labs partners in Rennes, as well as other key players, institutionals and politics. They will share on the Rennes and EIT ICT Labs strategies and synergies.
The afternoon session will be open to a larger audience of the EIT ICT Labs partners’ representatives. It will be the occasion for an update on the EIT ICT Labs operations and business plan. It will also illustrate the innovation potential in Rennes in a couple of areas of excellence: medias & contents, 4G mobile networks, interaction and VR, cloud computing.

This visit takes place at a time where the position of Rennes as a capital-city in ICT was just confirmed by the recent labeling by the French government of the B-Com Institute of Research and Technology (IRT) under the national program ‘Investissements d’Avenir’ (‘Invest for the Future’). Gathering industrials, SMEs and research labs, B-Com will be one of the only 2 IRTs in ICT in France. It will focus on the networks, medias and contents of the future. (*) The EIT ICT Labs partners in Rennes are: Orange, Alcatel-Lucent, INRIA, Institut Telecom, University Rennes 1 and the competitiveness cluster ‘Images & Networks’.

CPS Action Line Roadmapping Workshop

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) – the tight integration of computation and physical processes in software-intensive embedded systems connected to globally networked digital services – are considered the next computing revolution and a disruptive technology, opening completely new areas of innovation and novel business platforms, but also posing huge challenges to the design, development, exploitation and evolution of such systems. In 2012, EIT ICT Labs launches a new action line to address the challenges in the field of cyber-physical systems. The activity 12121 “Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering Challenges and Business Opportunities” aims at integrating EIT ICT Labs' key players in CPS from academia and industry to build up a strong community, and to define the scope and strategy for the new action line in this field.

The goal of the workshop is to gather EIT ICT Labs partners active in the field of cyber-physical systems, to form a common view on the key challenges for CPS in both research and business, to identify main focus topics that need to be addressed in response to these challenges, and to provide a forum where participants have the opportunity to team up with other partners to initiate potential activities for the action line.
Call for Presentations EIT ICT Labs community members are invited to contribute to the workshop by submitting talks. We specifically call for presentations with a programmatic touch, where participants outline their interests in CPS, their related current activities and on-going projects, personal views on key issues, and motivation for contributing to the action line. Participants are also encouraged to prepare brief presentations on ideas for potential activities for the action line.

In order to compile an interesting workshop program, we would like to ask you to provide a title and brief outline of your talk (an abstract of one paragraph to ½ a page) by sending an email to the address given below, preferably on or before February 15. It is planned to organise the workshop around contributed talks, breakout sessions focussing on specific CPS topics to discuss and identify related key challenges, and a forum to present ideas for future activities. The workshop is open to all EIT ICT Labs members; however, for planning purposes registration is required. Please indicate your intention to participate by contacting Holger Pfeifer (pfeifer@in.tum.de). More information about the workshop organisation, including directions and hotel recommendations, will follow. A detailed agenda will be provided once the contributed talks are known.

EIT Entrepreneurship Awards

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The EIT is pleased to announce its first EIT Entrepreneurship Awards competition which it is organising in close collaboration with its three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs): Climate-KIC, EIT ICT Labs and KIC InnoEnergy.

Promoting entrepreneurship is central to the institute's mission - and is also why it recently launched its first EIT Awards contest. For that, nine start-ups have been nominated for three prizes, to be awarded at a conference and awards ceremony on 21 February in Brussels.

Learn more on the EIT website

Trento node Winter Camp

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Trento Node is pleased to announce the first Winter Camp on Language and Data/Knowledge Technologies (LaDaKT). Launched by Trento RISE, the leading academic actor of Trento full node of EIT ICT Labs, the school will be a one-week event to be held in the premises of the CLC in Trento, Italy, from February 20-24, 2012.

The school offers various activities such as presentations, demos, introductory courses, laboratory tours, social events and discussions with current students and professors and aims at introducing the participants to the research and educational activities on Language and Data/Knowledge Technologies that take place within Trento RISE. As both areas are enjoying an increasing interest in the scientific and industrial communities, the program includes presentations on future opportunities as well. The school is intended to encourage students to apply for a PhD in one of the two scientific fields.

LaDaKT will accept 15 participants. The participants will have to be eligible to apply for a PhD in March 2012. Applications from students of other EIT ICT Labs nodes is encouraged as some places will be reserved for them. Registration is free of charge and support for accommodation and travel expenses of a number of students is foreseen.

Deadline for applying is January 22nd, 2012 More information can be found on www.trentorise.eu/LaDaKT12

Global Android Dev Camp, Paris

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The first ever Global Android Dev Camp will be held from 17th to 19th February 2012 and take place in more than 50 cities of the world. The French edition will be held in the Paris co-location centre and be co-organized by MSI (Mobile Services Initiative). During this weekend long event, participants will have the opportunity to design, develop and demo a complete application. The specific theme of this Paris event is Open Data. It will challenge the creativity of the local Android community to build new innovative and useful mobile applications by making good use of various data sets recently released by the public and private sector. At this occasion MSI has identified with some specific partners new datasets which will be made available to the developers for the Dev Camp. Read more about MSI: http://www.initiative-services-mobiles.org Contact: Julien Marboutin julien.marboutin@inria.fr

EWSN 2012 in Trento, Italy

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The Trento node is pleased to announce that the 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012) will be held in Trento, Italy.

Wireless sensor networks are increasingly at the forefront of ICT, supporting Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things scenarios, with applications notably including intelligent transport systems, smart cities and buildings, environmental monitoring, and process control, to name a few.

EWSN is the premier venue in Europe, and one of the most important worldwide, for research and practitioners working on wireless sensor networks and their applications. The program for this year includes 2 tutorials, a keynote and 16 research papers, and a poster/demo session with over 40 contributions. More information at the ESWN website.

This year, thanks to sponsorship by Trento RISE, EWSN 2012 will provide scholarships reserved to students (Master's or PhD) who are from institutions belonging to the EIT ICTLabs. Each scholarship covers one full conference registration and one registration to a tutorial, plus up to 700 EUR in support for accommodation and travel. Click here for more information about the scholarships - the deadline for scholarship application is January 25, 2012.

Internet of Things Day at SICS on February 9, 2012

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The future Internet is often described as the increasing amount of connected devices around us – that we are entering the networked society. So far we’ve only seen the beginning of the Internet of Things (IoT), but by the year 2020 there will be billions of devices communicating via mobile networks, WLAN and other solutions. To highlight the possibilities and challenges connected to IoT a conference is being held at SICS, in Kista, Sweden on February 9. Keynote speakers are Mike Kuniavsky, Orangecone, USA and Bu Fanjin, CESI (China Electronics Standardization Institute), China as well several key researchers in Sweden and representatives from the industry.

February 9 is also the day the Swedish Internet of Things Centre is launched, an event led by Professor Kristina Höök at SICS in collaboration with Ericsson, Microsoft, KTH, Mobile Life@Stockholm University, Wisenet, Swedish ICT etc. - We need a strong vision and understanding of what we should use the Internet of Things for, says Kristina Höök. So we decided to focus on the consumers – a different approach than the usual technology driven research initiatives. The Internet of Things Day is arranged by SICS and is sponsored by VINNOVA and EIT ICT Labs. Click here to watch Kristina Hööks TEDxKTH talk on Internet of Things, Dec 13, 2011

London Green Hackathon

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

EIT ICT Labs sponsored the Green Hackathon in Stockholm in October 2011 and the winner from that succesful event, James Smith from AMEE, has now set up a London weekend that is attracting a lot of participants. The location is the EIT ICT Labs partner University College London. The weekend is an opportunity for software developers, designers, and others to come together to build something for fun, outside the normal pressures of business, clients, and users. The hackathons are innovation powerhouses, where every idea adds something new. The themes of the London event are: Built environment, Transparency, Behaviour change, Transport and Visualisation with the following great speakers: Gavin Starks, AMEE, Sarah Krasley, Autodesk, Alastair MacGregor, Trucost, Ogi Kavazovic, Opower, Peter Miller, ITO World, and Paul Skinner, Wieden+Kennedy.

The presentations at the start and end will be streamed over the web via UStream.
For more information visit the Green Hackathon website and follow via Twitter: #greenhackathon

Technologies open market

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

6th Bourse aux technologies « Connected Objects »
January 19th 2012, Recent technological evolutions have enabled the massive diffusion of smart objects, that can embed, produce or sense data, and that are able to transmit them through RFID or other long-range technologies. This Techno event promotes some key technologies addressing issues like low cost and low power architecture, ad hoc networks, various kind of sensor networks, sensor fusion, interoperability, privacy and security technologies in order to secure data transmission etc. This event will gather around 16 mature technologies coming from Institut Telecom labs and from the labs of its academic partners (among them INRIA, VTT as EIT partners). Are exepcted around 100 people mainly coming from the SMEs. Entrepreneurs and innovators, come and find out the technologies that may help you grow tomorrow! We are looking forward to seeing you!! Find out program and practical details on this link:

Engineering and Trento RISE inaugurate ESTRO lab in Trento

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Trento Node core partners Engineering and Trento RISE inaugurate ESTRO "Engineering Society and Territory Research Office", the research laboratory for the development of innovative models in the context of the international network of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. More than thirty highly qualified researchers will work at the ESTRO laboratory. The event will take place on Monday, 16 January 2012 at 11:30 am in the headquarters of Trento RISE in via Sommarive 18, Povo Trento, on the 2nd floor of the North Building, Room 102. Lorenzo Dellai, President of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Michele Cinaglia, Chairman of Engineering, and Fausto Giunchiglia, Chairman of Trento RISE, will be present to address the theme of "Innovation, Prospects and Opportunities for ICT in Trentino". Stefano De Panfilis, Engineering's chief innovation officer, will introduce a Round Table on "Public-Private Partnerships as a lever for territorial development (the local, national and European dimensions)". Angelo Marino of the European Commission, Giordano Tamanini, President of Innovative and Technological Services of Confindustria Trento, Roberto Saracco, Trento Node Director, Dario Avallone, Director of Research and Development at Engineering Group, Paolo Traverso, CEO of Trento Rise, and Riccardo Pietrabissa, Head of CNR's ICT Department, will participate.

- Inauguration of the ESTRO laboratory,says Dario Avallone, Director of Research and Development at Engineering, offers the opportunity to reinforce the links already in place with local realities and to enhance competencies through the creation of a public-private research centre.In fact, the centre aims for recognition as a national and European pole of excellence through joint work on various issues.
- In this sense, a first test will be common work on technologies for next-generation search engines. The CUbRIK project, an important initiative in this area, is an example of how such European Commission-financed collaboration between Engineering and Trento RISE can be effective.

About 350 researchers and innovation specialists of the group are currently working in different laboratories on over thirty research projects in collaboration with an international network of over 150 academic and industrial partners. ESTRO is a further important milestone in this direction.

-The inauguration of the ESTRO laboratory at Trento RISE confirms the will of the Autonomous Province of Trento to become a territorial leader in innovation, and at the top even in the ICT sector, in line with the objectives of Europe 2020, says Fausto Giunchiglia, Chairman of Trento RISE.
- This shows once again that the Trentino model of partnership between public and private is a successful model and an extraordinary lever for local development.

According to Paolo Traverso, CEO of Trento RISE, working alongside important industrial partners such as Engineering is essential for transforming our small autonomous community into a knowledge economy, that is an economy of knowledge serving as a laboratory for Italian and foreign companies, to the benefit of Trentino families and businesses. The fact that Trento is home to the sixth full EIT ICT node greatly increases the attractiveness of Trentino on all fronts, and ESTRO is the proof.

Smart Match Making in Digital Cities workshop

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:07:00 +0100

2^nd Workshop on Smart Match Making in Digital Cities 19th December, 2011 at the Paris Co-location Centre The last workshop of the EIT ICT Labs Activity "Intelligent transportation in the city” will be held on 19th December 2011 at the Paris Co-location Centre (http://eit.ictlabs.eu/ict-labs/nodes-co-location-centres/paris/paris-node-location/) Prelimary program is: 10:30-11:00 Get Together: with coffee & croissants, connect WiFi etc. 11:00-12:30 Morning Session: “Smart Match Making in Digital Cities”, news from the action lines, activity, tasks, deliverables & EIT reporting issues 12:30-14:00 Lunch: "Via Italia", 21 avenue d'Italie 14:00-15:30 Afternoon Session: “Towards New Proposals” (everybody should give a short presentation about himself, his organization, his co-funding projects, and possibly about an idea for a new proposal) 15:30-16:00 Get Together: with afternoon coffee You are welcome! Please contact the activity leader Dominikus Heckmann (Heckmann@dfki.de) for further information and registration.

Open Innovation Workshop for the Intelligent Mobility Transportation thematic action line

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:14:00 +0100

The Thematic Action Line Intelligent Mobility and Transportation Open Innovation Workshop will be held in the Paris Co-locaton Centre on December 16th from 10:00-16:00. Agenda: download file below Goals:

Identify compelling business cases for the future both with respect to existing products, services as well as new, emerging ones.
Bottom-up collection of topics for the TIMS strategic agenda
Networking opportunity for SMEs, startups in the TIMS ecosystems
Discuss the status wrt new industry partners
Planning of 2012 Activities

Welcome
Action Line Lead
Christian Müller

TEDxKTH: ICT as a Game Changer

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

On December 13 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm, people meet up to listen to some great presentations and celebrate the Swedish Lucia Day at TEDxKTH - ICT as a game changer. The broadcast is sent live from the Ericsson Studio in Kista and at KTH main campus. You can also join via social media and bring your thoughts and reflections to the discussions and help lighten the December darkness with bright ideas. The theme of the TEDx is ICT as a game changer with presentations on how advances in Information and Communication Technology change our everyday lives — sometimes in hardly noticeable ways and sometimes in leaps and bounds. Four inspiring speakers will give their perspectives on how they see ICT changing lives. The event will be webcast at www.tedxkth.com and to TED.com.
About: TEDxKTH is an independently organised event series created in the spirit of the Silicon Valley-based TED conferences, with the mission of presenting “ideas worth spreading.” More than one thousand stimulating, thought-provoking talks are available for download at ted.com. TEDxKTH is produced by KTH Innovation at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and is webcasted from Ericsson - both organisations are core partners to EIT ICT Labs, who is sponsor to the event.

European Clusters Invest event in Paris, 8-9 December

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

European Brokerage Event for SME and Venture Capitalists This European Clusters Invest event is organised in Paris on 8-9 December 2011 between Small and Medium-sized entrerprises and European investors, within the framework of the Financing activity of the program "Ambition PME" coordinated by Systematic and the CRCI Paris - Ile-de-France (Regional Chamber of Industry and Commerce.) This will also be connected to the Business Club of EIT ICT Labs, in partnership with the clusters Cap Digital and Moveo. Attendees will be SMEs and private investors from France and Europe. To learn more, download program below. Contact: Mika Naumanen mika.naumanen@vtt.fi