Celtic Awards granted to three successful projects
Three, very successfully closed projects, received the Celtic Awards 2009, which were handed over at the Celtic Event in Valencia.

• The Gold Award received the project TRAMMS;
• The Silver Award was given to the project B21C, and
• The Bronze Award received the project EnComPAs-2

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

Celtic News 1/ 2010 (March 2010)

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: Mobile applications

                                
Eurescom mess@ge 1/2010    Celtic News 1/2010 (pdf)
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Read the EUREKA News article about EnComPAs success story. more

EUREKA/ Celtic Success Story: DeHiGate
"Magic box for mission impossible"

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.

Israeli EUREKA Chairmanship

Israel has taken over the EUREKA chairmanship from Germany until June 2011 more

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

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-Plus has received the EUREKA label
On 23 June Celtic-Plus, the extension of Celtic until 2019 has received the EUREKA label. The budget expectation for this cluster are expected to remain in the same range as for Celtic (i.e. around 700 million euro): Beginning 2011 the first call for Celtic-Plus will be launched. The Celtic Plus research program  is described in the new Celtic-Plus Purple Book.

Celtic Call 8 (FPP-Phase) is running
The Celtic Call (Call 8) PO Phase has been recently closed. The proposers of the selected proposals have been invited submit a full project description (FPP) until 15 October 2010. It may be possible, in exceptional cases, to accept FPP proposal submissions even without a prior PO. This requires, however, advanced approval of the Celtic Core Group. In case of questions please contact the Celtic Office.

More about Call 8 (abstracts, search for additional partners, etc.)

Successful Celtic Event 2010 and
Celtic Information and Brokerage Day

The Celtic Initiative organised its 5th official Celtic Event from 12th and 13th April 2010 in Valencia/ Spain.

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

Photos and presentations are accessible at the following link.

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.

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.