Celtic News 3/ 2009 (December 2009)

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: The networked home of the future

                                
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Read about the technical solutions, developed by DeHiGate, in assuring communication during disaster situations. more...

Celtic at Innovation Days 2009 in Lisbon

Celtic took part at a rather large exhibition, which was organised by EUREKA. Two successful projects, HDVIPER and LOOP, were showing their results.
See interview of Celtic director.

German EUREKA Chairmanship

Germany has taken over the EUREKA chairmanship from Portugal until June 2010 more

Celtic Awards granted to three successful projects
Three, very successfully closed projects, received the Celtic Awards 2008, which were handed over at the Celtic Event in Paris.

• The Gold Award received the project TIGER;
• The Silver Award was given to the project MOVIES, and
• The Bronze Award received the project CARLINK

Celtic congratulates the projects for their outstanding work and successful results.

The BUGYO Project
Europeans declare telecommunications security as high priority issue.
Publication of German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)

IEEE article about Celtic ("Very large projects")
Telecommunications solutions for European leadership in Telecommunications
IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2009

MADEIRA: New technologies for better network management

The EUREKA-funded CELTIC MADEIRA project, winner of the 2008 CELTIC Excellence Award, has successfully applied new ways to manage large telecommunications networks using a web-based interface. more

Celtic brochure

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

(download in Web quality (PDF) - 1MB)
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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.

• NEM (Networked and Electronic Media Technology Platform)
• eMobility (Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology Platform)
• NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative)
• ISI (Intergral Satcom Initiative)

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.

Celtic Event 2010 in Valencia/ Spain
from 12 to 13 April 2010

Towards a Smart Connected World

The Celtic Initiative will organise its 5th official Celtic Event on 12th and 13th April 2010 at the Valencia Congress Center in Valencia/ Spain. The Event is targeted to decision makers, managers, and technical experts from telecommunications industry, operators, and academia.

This Event will be embedded in a whole week's conference, titled, "FP7 European Innovation and RTD Transforming Sectors Week" from 12 to 16 April 2010, which will be co-organised with the Spanish Ministry, the EU Commission and the FIA (Future Internet Assembly).

Participation requires a personal invitation. Please contact the Celtic Event Office for further details.

Celtic Call 2010 (Call 8)

The next Celtic Call (Call 8) will be launched on 8 March 2010. Submission deadline for proposal outlines (PO) will be on 14 May 2010. For support of the call there will be an Information and Brokerage Day organised on 13 April 2010 after the Celtic Event in Valencia (more..). Further information will be provided soon.

12 Celtic Call 7 labelled projects

On 3rd December 2009 the Celtic Core Group and the Public Authorities assessed and labeled in total 12 new projects. The list of accepted proposals and contact details to the project coordinator are found here.

ESTC 2009 - Vienna 2-3 December 2009

The 3rd European Semantic Technology Conference - ESTC2009 - will be organized in Vienna, Austria. At this conference there will be a special session "Future Communication" organised together with Celtic. This session will offer Project Matchmaking opportunities with interested partners for new or current projects.

The Celtic Purple Book - Version 2007-2009

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.