A presentation of E-CLIC project as it was described at the end of 2008.

1. European Collaborative Innovation Centres
for Broadband Media Services

2. NORTH SEA REGION
• Strong knowledge base
• Excellent IT infrastructure
• Committed to innovation
• Ambition to be leading in
broadband services

3. WHY FOCUS ON BROADBAND
MEDIA SERVICES?
• Broadband access is essential to the prosperity and future
development of Europe’s rural regions.
• Broadband media services are a prerequisite for effective
business and a must for the growth of jobs on which regional
economies depend.
• The potential of broadband is not fully utilised.
• Broadband internet services are among the fastest growing
sectors in the worldwide economy.
• Internet services themselves are a way of
improving quality of life.

4. AIM OF THE PROJECT
• To stimulate innovation through the
establishment of eight new European
collaborative innovation centres for broadband
media services.
• To develop the capacity for growth and
employment across the North Sea Region.

5. OBJECTIVES
• Establish transnational cooperation between business clusters,
research institutes, universities and public support agencies in the
field of development and provisioning of broadband services and
media products.
• Establish regional centres based on the Triple Helix model of
innovation.
• Develop a common process for joint transnational innovation and
product development based on LivingLabs and the Triple Helix
model.
• Generate human capital and develop human potential for driving
innovation and business development.
• Establish structural and sustainable networks for continuous
cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration.

6. OBJECTIVES
• Create new market oriented products and services.
• Strengthen the regional R&D strategies to secure resources and
encourage SMEs to improve their innovation capacity.
• Develop solutions to bridge the digital divide and enable
“broadband for all” at reasonable cost in rural areas.
• Analyse future needs in the European media broadband market
within the scope of regional capacity building.
• Overcome brain-drain in rural areas.

7. E-CLIC Consortium
The E-CLIC consortium is established with the main objective of
building a strong NSR cluster in the area of broadband services,
media technology, broadband systems, usability and testing, while
maintaining a balance between competencies, industry and
academia.
The consortium brings together 16 partners from 6 Member States.
The partners have considerable expertise and experience in the
fields of interest to E-CLIC, and the project combines a unique set of
partner skills. Hence, only in close co-operation can the E-CLIC
Centres meet the objectives.

8. E-CLIC Centres
A connected ring of European Collaborative Innovation Centres…
Värmland, Sweden
Rogaland, Norway
Borås, Sweden
Norfolk, England Hannover, Germany
Willhelmshaven, Germany
Kortrijk, Belgium Groningen, Netherlands

9. E-CLIC for Students
Reputation CV
• High quality education
• Assessment and assistance
• Participating in top projects
• Connection to Industry

10. E-CLIC for Institutions
Reputation CV
• Extra benefit to attract students
• Keeping up to date
• Collaboration with public sector
• Public relations
• Transnational collaboration

11. E-CLIC for Companies
Reputation CV
• Scouting employees
• Involvement in new developments
• Useful instrument for own developments
• Public relations
• Competence development
• Transnational contacts
• Private - public partnership

12. Regional areas of expertise
Värmland: Mobile media services and processes for quality assurance
Borås: Impact evaluation research, Co-design research
Hannover: Digital media, Mobile gaming, Usability engineering
Wilhelmshaven: Broadband access technologies, gaming
Groningen: ICT applications and broadband services for training purposes
Kortrijk: Industrial Product Design, Multimedia, Digital Arts and
Entertainment
Norfolk: Development of digital HD & IP TV content production
Rogaland: Development, deployment and
provisioning of broadband services

13. E-CLIC Värmland, Sweden
Participating partners are:
• Karlstad University
• Compare Foundation (consists of 100 ICT-companies)
• County Administrative Board

14. E-CLIC Värmland, Sweden
Areas of expertise/facilities:
Location 1: Broadband Wireless Networks
(Karlstad University) Transport and P2P Protocols
Cross-layer interactions
Privacy and Identity Management
Network Security
Usability Studies
Mesh Network Testbed
Wizard of Oz lab
Eye-tracking equipment
Network emulation software
Location 2: Test and quality assurance
(Compare Testlab) Usability research
Telecom consulting
Standardized computer system environments
in which new prototypes, services and
products can be tested and evaluated

15. E-CLIC Borås, Sweden
Participating partners are:
• ESPIRA (Incubator and collaborative platform)
• University College of Borås
• Ladok Division (development platform for broadband services
connected to universities in Sweden)

16. E-CLIC - Borås, Sweden
Areas of expertise/facilities:
Innovation Lab
Lab for e-service development
Espira Incubator – Transformation into commercial initiatives
Alexanderson foundation (Campus Varberg)
– supporting e-service initiatives
e-Me student Living lab test bed

17. E-CLIC Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Participating partner is:
• University of applied science in
Oldenburg/Elsfleth/Wilhelmshaven

18. E-CLIC Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Areas of expertise/facilities:
A server park with possibilities for 3D animation
Laboratories to produce new services
Possibilities for testing new services.

19. E-CLIC Groningen, Netherlands
Participating partners are:
• University of Groningen
• Hanzehogeschool
• Groningen Internet Exchange

20. E-CLIC Groningen, Netherlands
Areas of expertise/facilities:
The Agent Lab – TAL
Centre for High Performance Computing and Visualization (HPC/V)
Sensor LAB (CENSI)
Wireless city LAB
Computer gaming
IT service management
Professor business development and ICT
Professor directing sources and services
Professor graphical arts
Music composition and studio productions
Infrastructure design and maintenance
Software engineering
Business intelligence

21. E-CLIC Kortrijk, Belgium
Participating partner is:
• HOWEST (Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen) -
department PIH
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22. E-CLIC Kortrijk, Belgium
Areas of expertise/facilities:
Multimedia and communication, a broad spectrum on
developing web applications (Rich Media sites), with the
latest technology
Digital art and entertainment (3D developing and
design, storyboarding, gaming and a like)
Research groups on server technology, logo
recognition (For IDTV)

23. E-CLIC Norfolk, UK
Participating partner is:
• Norfolk County Council
(EPIC)

24. E-CLIC Norfolk, UK
Areas of expertise/facilities:
HD studio production
HD post production
Surround sound audio production/post production
DVD authoring
Internet streaming
Online media/new media platform development
In-house companies have expertise in IP streaming
Speech technologies
Social networking software
Graphic design
3D animation and integration with E-learning systems etc.

25. E-CLIC Rogaland, Norway
Participating partners are:
• University of Stavanger
• iPark (incubator for new companies)
• Rogaland Training and
Education Centre

26. E-CLIC Rogaland, Norway
Areas of expertise/facilitates:
Television studios
Nettopp multimedia development centre
Student Entrepreneurship centre
Incubator for new companies
CIAM (Centre for industrial asset management, a UIS centre with 20 industrial
companies as members, mainly from petroleum sector)

27. European Collaborative Innovation Centres
for Broadband Media Services
www.e-clic.eu