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.

Celtic News 2/ 2008 (July 2008) published
Cover Theme: European Telecommunications Testbeds
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".

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Celtic Core Group strengthened by Turkcell.

The research activities within the Celtic frame work are now also followed by Turkcell, who joined the Celtic Core Group in June 2008. The Core Group consists now of 13 companies from industry, operators, and research. More...

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

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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The 4th annual Celtic Event 2009 will take place from 11 to 12 March 2009 in Paris. The Event can only be attended upon personal invitation. More...

Celtic Information Day on Call 7 on 10 March 2009

On 10 March 2009 the Celtic Information Day for Call 6 will take place in Paris. The Information Day is open for interested people who intend to prepare or discuss new project proposals with other experts. More...

19 Celtic Proposal Outlines (PO) invited for FPP

On 18 June Public Authorities and the Celtic Core Group have selected from 22 submitted proposal outlines 19 proposals and invited them to submit a full project proposal by 1st October 2008. The invited proposals, abstracts and contact points are indicated in the Celtic project tables.

Invited projects can access the FPP submission page.

TRAMMS Project News Letter

The TRAMMS project released its first news letter. more>

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.