Future internet-news jun-2014

Future Internet News • June 2014
© CONCORD project / Future Internet Public-Private Partnership 2014 • www.fi-ppp.eu
Programme Chairman: Ilkka Lakaniemi, Aalto University • Public Relations: Milon Gupta, Eurescom
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Future Internet News
June 2014
Launch of Phase 3
In phase 3 of the FI-PPP programme over 80 million euros in grants will be given to SMEs for application development.
Read more about FI-PPP phase 3 in this issue
2nd ECFI in Munich
The 2nd European Conference on the Future Internet in Munich from 17 to 18 September 2014 will mark the launch of phase 3. More in this issue
1st ECFI in Brussels
At the 1st European Conference on the Future Inter- net the Future Internet PPP programme showed its high potential to industry and political stakeholders.
Read more about ECFI Brussels in this issue
In this issue
 Launch of Phase 3: €80m stimulation for SMEs to expand use cases
 Internet-driven growth: 1st European Confer- ence on the Future Internet in Brussels
 Upcoming events: > CAPS 2014 > ECFI Munich

June 2014
Launch of Phase 3
€80m stimulation for SMEs to expand use cases
In phase 3 of the FI-PPP programme, starting in the second half of 2014, 16 new projects using new mechanisms to give over 80 million euros in grants to SMEs for application developments will be started.
The third phase of the Future Internet PPP builds on technological developments and trials performed in earlier phases. Seed-type activities will be un- dertaken to generate actual take-up of innovative Internet services and applications.
Through open calls, the third phase is meant for SMEs and web entrepreneurs to develop highly innovative services and applications.
The 16 FI-PPP “accelerator projects" will publish open calls for the distribution of grants to SMEs and Web entrepreneurs as of September 2014. SMEs and Web entrepreneurs may submit proposals to these Open Calls, in accordance with the requirements defined by the projects launching the Open Calls.
The first open calls will be launched soon. The list below indicates the call schedule of accelerator projects.
For further information, check out the F6S website at http://www.f6s.com/fi-ware
Accelerator projects and their call schedule:
CEED ISSUE
First Call : Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Other Calls : Aug 2015
Open (No specific domain)
CREATI-FI
First Call : 01 Oct 2014 - 30 Nov 2014
Other Calls : 01 Oct 2015
Creative Industry
ExpaMeco
First Call : 01 Sep 2014 - 30 Nov 2014
Other Calls : Date tbc
Creative Industry
FABulous
First Call : Mid Nov 2014 - Mid Dec 2014
Other Calls : 01 July 2015
Creative industry, Manufacturing &3D printing
FI-ADOPT
First Call : 15 Sept 2014 - 31 Oct 2014
Other Calls : 01 Nov 2015
Health, Education, Social Integration, Well being
FI-C3
First Call : 01 Nov 2014 - 30 Nov 2014
Other Calls : 01 June 2015
Creative Industry, Health, Smart cities, Media & Content

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FICHe
First Call : 01 Sept 2014 - 31 Oct 2014
Other Calls : n/a
Health
Finish
First Call : End Oct 2014 - Mid Dec 2014
Other Calls : Mar 2015
Agriculture, Food, Logistics, Manufacturing
FINODEX
First Call : 07 Oct 2014 - 19 Dec 2014
Other Calls : May 2015
Health, Environment, Transport, Finance, Open
FRACTALS
First Call : 30 Nov 2014 - 28 Feb 2015
Other Calls : n/a
Agriculture
frontierCities
First Call : 15 Sept 2014 - 10 Dec 2014
Other Calls : n/a
Smart mobility
INCENSe
First Call : Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Other Calls : June 2015
Energy, Cleantech
IMpaCT
First Call : 01 Oct 2014 - 31 Oct 2014
Other Calls : 01 Apr 2015
Creative Industry
SmartAgriFood2
First Call : 01 Sept 2014 - 30 Nov 2014
Other Calls : n/a
Agriculture
SOUL-FI
First Call : 01 Sept 2014 - 01 Apr 2014
Other Calls : 01 Sept 2014
Smart city, Smart mobility
SpeedUp_Europe
First Call : 10 Sept 2014 - 10 Dec 2014
Other Calls : Date to be confirmed
Agriculture, Energy, Smart city
In addition to the 16 accelerator projects there are five more projects launched in phase 3:
Technology foundation continuation project
In the second half of 2014, a new technology foundation continuation project, FI-Core, will build on the work of FI-WARE, ensure availability of open source implementations and provide support to the other FI- PPP projects for the remainder of the programme.
Promoting uptake and use of FI-PPP results
Also in the second half of 2014, the four new FI-PPP support action projects: FI-LINKS, FI Business, FI- MPACT, and I3H will start on a series of activities to highlight the business relevance and usefulness of the FI-PPP results to date and thereby to significantly increase the uptake and usage of the FI-PPP results.
Information on the phase 3 projects and the open calls will soon be available on the FI-PPP website at
www.fi-ppp.eu

June 2014
Internet-driven growth
1st European Conference on the Future In- ternet in Brussels
At the 1st European Conference on the Future Inter- net the Future Internet PPP programme showed its high potential to industry and political stakeholders. In addition, the ECFI provided opportunities to discuss central socio-economic and technological topics of Future Internet infrastructures and services in Europe. More than 200 attendees joined the event, which took place at The Egg in Brussels on 2–3 April 2014.
One of the insights from the event was that Europe is quite competitive in the digital arena. In his opening presentation, Ilkka Lakaniemi, Chair- man of the Future Internet PPP, presented study results by ETLA, the Re- search Institute of the Finnish Economy, according to which 7 out of the 10 most advanced countries in re- gard to digitalisation of business are from Europe. Based on this, he expects a considerable impact of the FI-PPP on European growth and competitiveness and called the FI-PPP an “engine for growth”.
Wide range of topics
The ECFI programme consisted of three plenary and nine parallel sessions. In these 12 conference sessions speakers from the nine FI-PPP projects and from a vari- ety of political and industry stakeholder organisations, including Digital Europe and the European Internet Foundation, presented and discussed results and fore- sight on how Europe can achieve global leadership in ICT by 2020 through innovative Internet technologies. As proof of the high business relevance of the FI-PPP, several speakers from SMEs already using FI-PPP technologies explained how these technologies have helped them become more competitive.
Insights at the opening session
In the opening session of the conference, after the en- couraging opening words by FI-PPP Programme chair Ilkka Lakaniemi, a video message to the ECFI participants by Neelie Kroes, Vice- President of the European Commission, was presented. She emphasized the im- portance of providing the right framework for the Fu- ture Inter- net as well as the necessity of having all stakeholders involved in the development of the right solutions. Further contributions were provided by Ajit Jaokar (EIF), John McSweeney (ESB), as well as Juanjo Hierro (TID, FI-WARE project).
ECFI opening panel (from left): Ilkka Lakaniemi, Chairman of the FI-PPP; Ajit Jaokar, Advisor to the European Internet Foundation; John McSweeney, Head of Innovation at ESB Group; and Juanjo Hierro, FI-WARE Coordinator and Chief Architect
After the opening session, a high-level panel explored how the Future Internet will drive innovation in Europe. Unfortunately, two of the panel participants, Daniel Pataki (ETNO Director) and Malcolm Harbour (MEP), cancelled shortly be- fore the event. Nevertheless, a vivid and interesting discussion developed. Mario Cam- polargo, director Net Futures at the EC’s DG Connect, made an inspiring contribution, pleading to “enable the entrepreneurs enable the end users”. According to Mr Campolargo, openness is the key to the process of mak- ing FI-PPP platforms sustainable on the market. Mod- erator David Kennedy (Eurescom, CONCORD project) added to this by saying: “We need consistent platforms on a European scale to enable innovative applications.”

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The other panelists were Patrice Chazerand, Digital Europe, and Ilkka Lakaniemi.
High-level panel discussion (from left): David Kennedy, Eurescom/CONCORD project; Mario Campolargo, director Net Futures at the EC’s DG Connect; Patrice Chazerand, Digital Europe; and Ilkka Lakaniemi, Aalto University/FI-PPP chairman
The conference was concluded with a final plenary session on the Future Internet PPP and the new 5G PPP, which discussed how outcomes from the Future Inter- net PPP will be used as input for the new 5G PPP, for which a call for proposals is open under Horizon 2020.
Privacy and data protection
In the early afternoon of the first conference day, the session on “Privacy and Data Protection” opened the discussion on what should be done for protecting citi- zens' data and their privacy on the Internet. Among the speakers in this session were Achim Klabunde, Europe- an Data Protection Supervisor, and Claus-Dieter Ulmer, Chief Privacy Officer at Deutsche Telekom.
In parallel, the “Future Internet and Smart Utilities” session focused on energy and the cur- rent, global shift to sustainability. This session highlighted how the moment has arrived to de- sign solutions that make use of energy generation from renewable energy sources and optimize energy usage efficiency, as well as a smart energy system supported by disruptive Future Inter- net technologies. FINESCE, the smart energy use case project of the 2nd phase of FI-PPP, was also introduced, and its contribution to the development of innovative open IT infrastructures was presented.
Smart Cities
The third session in the early afternoon on “Net- work Infrastructures for Smart Cities” addressed the role of Future Internet technologies and experimental infrastructures for the development of Smart Cities. During this session several representatives from smart cities and public authorities reported on their work and efforts in the Smart Cities area. The second part of the session moved to the technology providers, FI-WARE and XIFI. During the active and fruitful debate, citizen engagement, difficulties of scalability of services, pro- curements and integration of technological legacy were addressed.
Bridging the gap between R&D - innovation
The first conference day concluded with three sessions, including the session “Crossing the chasm – moving European R&D to the market”, which was organized by Digital Europe. It addressed the crucial issue of how Europe can bridge the gap between R&D and innovation on the market. Representatives from the European Business Network, from industry and from different institutions discussed the topic.
The session on a “European roadmap for Future Inter- net infrastructures” explored a roadmap for the further evolution of Future Internet infrastructures in Europe, which takes into account socio- economic as well as technological requirements. The basis for the discussion was a roadmap re- port proposed by INFINITY, an FI-PPP Support Action project focusing on FI infrastructures. The audience seemed to be particularly interest- ed in the XiPi platform, which was as a great opportuni- ty to publicize user’s experimentations based on one or more infrastructures. A final dialogue with the audience confirmed that companies accessing phase 3 of the FI-PPP framework would particularly benefit from XiPi and its diverse use cases.
The final session for the day, “Future Internet at the crossroads of content, media, networks and creativity”, organized by the FI-CONTENT 2 project, tackled main platforms and specific enablers being developed in Smart Cities, connected television and pervasive games domains. The FI-Content trials are being developed across Europe in a set of open platforms that SMEs and developers can use to quickly develop applications and services for the marketplace.

June 2014
FI-WARE session on Open APIs
On the second conference day, the FI-WARE session on “Open APIs and Open Minds – Success stories of today, opportunities for tomorrow” addressed the elements in the title via three sub- sessions: Open APIs as one of the elements of the available results reflecting the technical part that supports the FI-WARE philosophy; Open Minds and success stories of today ranging from the suppliers to the real users and players of the innovation ecosystem as well as opportunities for tomorrow providing information on the coming opportunities to become part of the FI-PPP community.
The FI-WARE session presented SME users like Christoph Mül- ler-Dechent, CEO FoodLoop Mobile Solutions
In parallel a session on “Future Internet – Enabling opportunities for vertical application sectors” set the stage for a productive discussion between the stakeholders from ICT and vertical application sectors using, and planning to use, the services and facilities of the future communications network infrastructures. A key theme of the session was to identify the opportunities for supported ICT cross-sector collaborative research in FI-PPP Phase 3 and planned Open Calls for developers of innovative applications.
The third parallel session on “Business models for the use of Future Internet technologies” was organized by the FI-PPP Exploitation and Business Modeling Working Group. It explored alter- native business models for the exploitation of Future Internet technologies that enable the virtualization of business from product development to marketing and consumer support. Interest- ing questions came out of the debate. In particular on how to best assess and define Cloud services, as some services delivered in the Cloud do not necessarily need to be in it.
FI-PPP results in the ECFI exhibition
Between the conference sessions, the ECFI participants visited the exhibition, which highlighted the results achieved in the FI-PPP programme so far. In the exhibition eight FI-PPP projects demonstrated cutting-edge research results on the European Internet infrastructures and services of the future. In addition an FI-PPP info desk offered the attendees information about the event as well as the FI-PPP programme in general.
Further information on the 1st European Conference on the Future Internet is available at http://www.ecfi.eu/Brussels2014/

June 2014
UPCOMING EVENTS
FI-PPP at CAPS 2014 in Brussels
On 1 July 2014, FI-CONTENT 2, XIFI and FISpace will be in Brussels at the CAPS 2014 conference to participate in a panel session with representatives from the Euro- pean Commission to present “Synergies between CAPS and FI-PPP“.
As the FI-PPP aims at the creation of a commonly de- ployable and accessible platform federated across dis- tributed nodes to be broadly used by several actors in Europe, CAPS players could directly benefit from this technology.
Phase 2 of the FI-PPP programme has allowed the development of FI applications and services in several sectors, like health care, media, and Smart Cities, which can represent a common ground of work for CAPS players as well as for many other SMEs across Europe. A convergence between the FI-PPP initiative and the CAPS community will increase opportunities for bring- ing in CAPS players in the ICT scene via the Open Calls the 16 FI-PPP Phase 3 accelerators will launch in Sep- tember 2014.
The FI-PPP-CAPS session will include some FI-PPP project presentations as well as an interactive questions and answers part.
Further information is available on the conference website at http://caps-conference.eu
2nd European Conference on the Future Internet
Munich, Germany – 17-18 September 2014
The ECFI presents trends, technologies and innovations for the smart use of tomorrow‘s Internet in different application sectors. The event will bring together key stakeholders from large industry players as well as SMEs to discuss the development of Future Internet infrastructures and services in Europe.
ECFI Munich will present cutting-edge research results on the European Internet infrastructures and services of the future, which have been developed in the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP).
In addition, the event will mark the start for the SME- driven third phase of the programme, where the FI-PPP will invest 80 million euros for innovative application and service projects driven by European SMEs.
Anyone who would like to participate it is advised to register as early as possible to secure a ticket. The registration deadline is 3 September 2014.
Further information and registration are available on the conference website at
http://www.ecfi.eu/munich2014/
ECFI Brussels Twitter hashtag: #ECFI2

June 2014
About the FI-PPP programme
The Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) is a European programme for Internet-enabled innovation. The FI-PPP will accelerate the development and adoption of Future Internet technologies in Europe, advance the European market for smart infrastructures, and increase the effectiveness of business pro- cesses through the Internet.
FI-PPP website: www.fi-ppp.eu
FI-PPP on Twitter: @fi_ppp
Imprint
Editor: Milon Gupta, Eurescom (CONCORD project)
Contributors: Katariina Malmberg, Aalto University (CONCORD project)
Future Internet News is published quarterly by the CONCORD Support Action project of the FI-PPP Pro- gramme. Please send an e-mail to info@fi-ppp.eu for commenting articles or suggesting topics for upcoming issues.
Acknowledgement
CONCORD and the FI-PPP Programme receive funding from the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The European Commis- sion has no responsibility for the contents of this publi- cation.

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