Celtic-Plus
 Towards a Smart Connected World
 

Celtic-Plus is an industry-driven European research initiative to define, perform and finance through public and private funding common research projects in the area of telecommunications, new media, future Internet, and applications & services focusing on a new "Smart Connected World" paradigm. Celtic-Plus is a EUREKA ICT cluster and is part of the inter-governmental EUREKA network.

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EUREKA Korea Day - a key event for European companies, knocking on the doors of East Asian markets
This event will take place in Istanbul on 28-30 May 2013; more..

Innovation via collaboration
- an article from EUREKA
by Jacques Magen (Celtic-Plus chairman).
Publications: Science Omega Review Europe Issue 1

Celtic-Plus Awards 2013 (Kayseri/ Turkey)

For some years Celtic has honoured the most successful and most promising finished projects with an excellence award.

The prestigious Celtic-Plus Innovation Award was given to the very successful project 100GET. In the Celtic Excellence Awards category, the 4GBB project received the Gold Award, MEVICO received the Silver Award, and HOMESNET the Bronze Award.

“We are very proud to have such impressively successful projects within our programme portfolio, which clearly demonstrates how successful the EUREKA clusters perform,” said Celtic-Plus chairman Jacques Magen (see press release).

See also EUREKA success story about 4GBB


Celtic-Plus Award winners 2013 with Celtic-Plus officials

Celtic-Plus News, issue 3/ 2012 (November 2012) published
The newsletter is published three times a year. The print edition is distributed as an insert of the established R&D magazine Eurescom mess@ge.
Cover Theme: ICT in Horizon 2020

            
Celtic-News includes:
Interview with EUREKA Chairman Okan Kara, 4GBB, ENGINES, HOMESNET, MEVICO, Celtic-Plus at Spanish Smart City event in Seville.

►Web-edition                   ►PDF Version

   TU Chemnitz, an academic ITU-T member made a significant contribution to ITU-T Study Group 12 ....more>

EUREKA Chairmanship Turkey

Since 1st July 2012 Turkey has taken over the EUREKA Chairmanship, for a period of one year. The EUREKA Chairman is Okan Kara (see video).

Cooperation with European Technology Platforms and other related European activities
 Celtic and the following ETP have agreed on a closer cooperation within their Strategic Research Agendas (SRA) and the Celtic work programme. For the time being this cooperation will be assured through observers at the Steering Boards. The SRA of the ETP are also possible work items for Celtic projects.

Next Celtic-Plus Proposers' Day in Paris

The next Celtic-Plus Proposers' Day will take place in Paris on 13 June 2013 at Telecom Paris Tech, 46 Rue Barrault. The Proposers' Day is intended to present new project ideas for the autumn call and to network with potential project partners. Participation will be free of charge. more....

►Next Autumn Call for project proposals started

Calls for Proposals in 2013:

  • Spring Call: submission deadline 23 April 2013 (closed)
  • Autumn Call: submission deadline 14 October 2013

Online call submission will open soon. Further information about call topics and requirements can be found here.
Celtic-Plus Event Kayseri 6-7 March 2013

The Event and Proposers' Day in Kayseri was held in conjunction with the EUREKA meeting of NPC and HLG national representative from 6 to 7 March 2013. Around 150 people attended the event and proposers' day and around 250 people the exhibition.

Project Ideas presented at recent Proposers' Days

The project ideas presented at the recent Proposers' Days may still be valid for establishing contacts with proposers-

FuNeMS 2013 Future Network & Mobile Summit 2013
3 - 5 July 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

The Future Network & Mobile Summit 2013 will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet Infrastructure, based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures.

There will be Celtic-Plus Workshop held during the Summit (details to be published soon).

Jacques Magen at FuNemS/ Berlin about Celtic-Plus

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