CELTIC-Initiative

Celtic - Telecommunication Solutions
For European Leadership in Telecommunications

Celtic is a EUREKA cluster and the only European R&D programme in ICT fully dedicated to end-to-end telecommunication solutions. Celtic will initiate and run privately and public funded ICT/ telecommunications R&D projects. It is supported by most of the major European players in communication technologies. Celtic projects are focusing at telecoms networks, applications, and services looking at a complete system approach. The size of the Celtic budget is in the range of 1 billion euro. Celtic is open to any kind of project participants from all EUREKA countries.

Six projects received the Celtic Excellence Award

At the third Celtic Event in Helsinki, Finland, on 27-28 February 2008, the following six Celtic project received the Celtic Excellence Award:
FIDELITY; BANITS, GANDALF, BUGYO; Wing-TV; MADEIRA.Press release

More bandwidth and security for the Internet

Celtic project 100GET works on a giant leap in the evolution of transport technology – the development of 100 Gigabit Ethernet.
Press release

Celtic News 1/ 2008 (March 2008) has been 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".

Subscription of Eurescom mess@ge/Celtic News print edition

26 Proposals of Call 5 have received Celtic Label

At the meeting with the Public Authorities 26 proposals, submitted to Call 5 have received a Celtic Label and are now starting actions to launch their projects. In the proposals 24 different countries and more than 300 companies are involved. The expected project budget of the labeled proposals accrues to about 216 million euro and about 1.860 person years of effort related to an average project duration of roughly 31 months.

Further information on the labeled proposals can be found here

Nokia Siemens Network and Telenor
joined the Celtic Core Group.

The research activities within the Celtic frame work are now followed by Nokia Siemens Network, taking over the role from Nokia. Also Telenor, Norway joined Celtic in October 2007. The Core Group consists now of 12 companies from industry, operators, and research.

Cooperation with European Technology Platforms
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.

BMBF - MOITAL The funding of German-Israeli industrial cooperation projects constitutes the latest pillar of German-Israeli scientific and technical cooperation. (More)

All running and labeled projects
Basic information (abstracts) on all Celtic projects

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Celtic Call 6 for Proposal Outline (PO) is closed!

The submission deadline was 25 April 2008

CELTIC Information Day on Call 6

On 26 February 2008 CELTIC organized an Information Day related to Call 6. At the Information Day several interesting project ideas were presented for which more participants are welcome to join a possible consortium. All presentations are publicly available.

Celtic Event 2008

The 3rd annual Celtic Event 2008 was held from 27 to 28 February 2008 in Helsinki/ Finland. This high-level Event was attended by over 200 people. Presentations are accessible for Event participants (password required).

New Celtic brochure

The new Celtic brochure provides a picture of the current status and perspectives for future work.

(download in Web quality (PDF) - 1MB)
(download in print quality (PDF ) - 6.5 MB)

The Celtic Purple Book - Version 2007

The Celtic Initiative has produced the Celtic Purple Book that describes the Celtic objectives and strategy towards the Celtic goal of a European leadership in telecommunications.

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Public Safety Communication Europe With the support of the European Commission, “Forum for Public Safety Communication Europe” has been established in order to facilitate consensus building in the area of public safety communication and information management systems. This Forum invites users and policy makers, industrials (technology and service providers), research organizations and standard making authorities to reach consensus on security related subjects.