CELTIC-NEXT

CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day on 29 June 2015 in Issy-les-Moulineaux
2015-06-29 - 2015-06-30 | CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day at Orange Amphitheatre, 38-40 Rue du Général Leclerc, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 92130, France
CELTIC-NEXT organised a Proposers Day
in Issy-les-Moulineaux on 29 June 2015,
co-located with the EuCNC 2015 conference.

The CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day is a platform for organisations related to telecommunications interested to participate in a CELTIC-NEXT project, and wanting to benefit from performing collaborative research through the EUREKA Cluster CELTIC-NEXT. It is an ideal opportunity to discuss project ideas with potential partners and to learn about the funding possibilities.
Programme
Keynote – Security and Privacy Challenges in the Internet of Things, Jean-Pierre Tual, Gemalto
CELTIC-NEXT success stories
Cost effective e-health solutions for patients and doctors HIPERMED/E3, Oscar Chabrera, Vilynx
Novel quality-of-expereince agent for business monitoring QUEEN, Frédéric Guyard, Orang
Funding of CELTIC-NEXT Projects
CELTIC-NEXT project funding in France Serge Bodjrenou, DGE
CELTIC-NEXT proposal ideas pitches

Presentation downloadNameCompanyCountry

1OISE – Optimization Integration Energies SystemsJacques NoeJnCoFrance

2Secure Service-Oriented Scalable Smart IoT (SIoT) Francous TuoutGemaltoFrance

3SECINET (Service oriented smart IoT)Adrien BecueAirbus DS CybersecurityFrance

4Tele-Monitoring Systems for Water and Underwater Environmens using Cloud and Big Data Systems George SuciuBEIA ConsultRomania

5Satellite related research items Ádám KapovitsEurescomGermany

6Indoor geolocation application on smartphone/tablet Locos David Herve,IT_LinkFrance

7Utilization of NFV to support IoT services in heterogeneous networks and clouds Sami RuponenVTTFinland

8Scene Interpratation for Blind and Visually Impaired PeopleEffi BergidaOffice of the Chief Scientist (OCS)

9CitySens Mikko PitkanenUniversity of JyväskyläChina

10Encrypted Cloud Platform PEPSHenri BinsztokMLstate

How to submit a CELTIC-NEXT project proposal, Peter Herrmann, CELTIC-NEXT office

EuCNC Conference
Three CELTIC-NEXT projects had stands at the exhibition of EuCNC 2015 (European Conference on Networks and Communications). Please see the short video clips taken by our colleague Oscar Chabrera (Vilynx) from the CELTIC-NEXT Hipermed / E3 project.

EuCNC Website

CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day, Oulu
2015-05-07 - 2015-05-08 | Scandic Oulu, Saaristonkatu 4, Oulu, 90100, Finland
An opportunity to discuss project ideas with potential partners and to learn about the funding possibilities
CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day is a platform for organisations related to telecommunications that are interested to participate in a CELTIC-NEXT project and want to benefit from performing collaborative research through the EUREKA Cluster CELTIC-NEXT.
Organizers of the event are CELTIC-NEXT, University of Oulu and Business Oulu.
Co-located with Oulu Smart City Seminar
The CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day was co-located with the Oulu Smart City Seminar on 4-6 May, 2015. Please see in this context also the EUREKA Smart City Intercluster Initiative

Programme
Keynote
Expand the human possibilities of the connected world, Seppo Yrjölä, Nokia Networks
CELTIC-NEXT success stories
SASER – Safe and Secure European Routing, Markus Sihvonen, MPY
HFCC_G_fast, Per Ödling, Lund University
SIGMONA/COMMUNE/MEVICO, Jari Lehmusvuori, Nokia
Best practise for proposing and performing CELTIC-NEXT projects – hands on experience
Performing a CELTIC-NEXT project, Pekka Eloranta, Mobisoft, Coordinator of COMOSEF and WiSafeCar
Preparing a CELTIC-NEXT project proposal, Peter Herrmann, Celtic Office
CELTIC-NEXT proposal ideas pitches

Presentation downloadNameCompanyCountry

15G Positioning technology for future mobile servicesGiuseppe Destino, Matti Latva-ahoUniversity of OuluFinland

2ROBust INterworking Heterogeneous networks for brOadband access, smart-grid cOntrol, and Dependability,Nandana RajathevaUniversity of OuluFinland

3Reliable Industrial Communication Over the Air (ReICOvAir)Frank BurkhardFraunhoferGermany

4Digital Health ServicesJarmo Pääkkönen Centre for Health and TechnologyFinland

5Passion for life – the digital heath preventor platform Jan Aidemark, Linda AskenäsLinnaeus UniversitySweden

Funding information of the Finish Public Authority
Tekes Funding for Parallel Projects 2015, Tiina Nurmi, Tekes

Photos of the Event

CELTIC-NEXT Event, Vienna
2015-04-27 - 2015-04-28 | Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 63, Vienna, 1040 , Austria
The CELTIC-NEXT Event 2015 on 27-28 April in Vienna was co-located with the Software Days 2015. It was hosted by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG together with the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the Vienna Business Agency.
About 600 people were registered and made use of the comprehensive matchmaking facility to meet other experts from the ICT community to discuss emerging R&D needs and proposals for related collaborative projects.
15 CELTIC-NEXT projects demonstrated their results at the related exhibition. Award-winning CELTIC-NEXT projects presented their results at the conference and 17 project ideas for future potential projects were presented.
Please have a look at the various material of the event:
Presentations at the CELTIC-NEXT Event
Recorded videos of the various sessions:

Welcome, Keynote and Best of CELTIC-NEXT
CELTIC-NEXT Project Ideas Pitches
Telecommunication beyond Europe and Panel on Future of Telecom

Mini-interviews about the benefits of CELTIC-NEXT and CELTIC-NEXT project results

Photos of the Event and the Exhibition

Programme
Please see Event Website

Colloquium DGE/Eureka
2015-02-17
Colloquium on 17 February 2015 in Paris, France
“EUREKA accompagne les pépites de la French Tech à la conquête des Smart Cities”
More info and Programme here
Registration Form (registration is required)

CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Day
2014-11-18 09:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Basel, Switzerland
Programme and presentations
The proposers day is an excellent opportunity to present and to learn about project ideas, and to discuss them with potential partners. It is just one day before the EUREKA Innovation Event on 19 November 2014 in Basel, so you can perfectly combine both events.
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome by Swiss Host
9:15 – 9:40 Keynote: Michael Kerle, Head of Product Marketing, Swisscom
– How to compete as a Telecom with Online Service Providers
9:40 – 10:00 CELTIC-NEXT success stories
– HIPERMED (Finalist EUREKA Innovation Award), Oscar Chabrera, Vilynx
10:00-10:30 Best practise for proposing and performing CELTIC-NEXT projects – hands on experience
– Performing a CELTIC-NEXT project (experiences of the H2B2VS Coordinator Raoul Monnier, Thomson Video Networks)
– Preparing a CELTIC-NEXT project proposal (Peter Herrmann, Celtic Office)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Signature of the MoU between CELTIC-NEXT and Prompt (Canada)
– Signature of the MoU
– Presentation of Canadian project ideas
11:30-13:00 CELTIC-NEXT Proposal Presentations
1. Personalised Media Services enabled by connected devices, Luc Overmeire, VRT, Belgium
2. M2M Telemetry system for severe operating environments, George Suciu, BEIA Consult, Romania
3. RelCOvAir, Frank Burkhardt, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
4. PST – Predictable and performant Software for Telecom system, Mikael Sjödin, Mälardalen University, Sweden
5. Secure, Scalable Video Services in Cloud, Harri Hyväri, VTT, Finland
6. Electronic Identification in the European E-Government, Peter Tihanyi, E-Group ICT, Hungary
7. Virtual, Model-Based and Risk-Driven Health Management, András Simonyi, Hungary
8. NETAS, Riza Durucasugil, NETAS, Turkey
9. INTERFEROFF: efficient inter-cell INTERFerence coordination, cEll planning and tRaffic OFFloading in next-generation mobile hetnets, Hakima Chaouchi, Institut Télécom, France
10. WATTSI Technology, Times Lakatamitis-Erdelyi, Effishoes Innovation Ltd., Hungary
11. EURO MD2, Laurent Manteau, Gemalto, France
12. DigitalSense, Sacha Helfenstein, Agora Center, Finland
13. SPECMORE Spectrum Efficiency and Coexistence for Mobile Radio Emergency Systems, Pradeep Kumar, Univ. of Oulu, Finland
13:00-14:30 Lunch and “Meet the Proposers”
– Networking of proposers and interested partners.
– Opportunities to talk to representatives of the national funding authorities.
14:30-15:30 Panel with Public Authorities about research priorities and funding situations
– Moderated session where the audience hear the news from the representatives of the national funding authorities about hot research topics and funding opportunities.
Moderator: David Kennedy, Eurescom

CELTIC-NEXT Proposers' and Networking Day
2014-06-25 09:00 - 17:00 | Berlin, Germany
Event Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 – Time: 9:00 am / 3:30 pm
Location: Kalkscheune, Berlin – Johannisstraße 2, 10117 Berlin
Programme and presentations
9:30 – 9:50
CELTIC-NEXT achievements and research programme Jacques Magen, CELTIC-NEXT chairman
CELTIC-NEXT Research Possibilities Valérie Blavette, Vice-chair
9:50 – 10:10 SASER – A European Research Initiative addressing safety and security aspects of today’s and future communication networks Dr. Andreas Leven, Alcatel-Lucent
10:10 – 11:00
National research priorities and funding aspects
Germany: BMBF Funding possibilities and priorities for communications systems and IT-security, Bernhard Wybranski, VDI/ VDE-IT
further presentations (tbc)
Research priorities and strategies of Core Group companies:
Gemalto, Jean-Pierre Tual
Alcatel-Lucent Technology Vision, Jean-Francois Picquet, Alcatel-Lucent, France
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:50 5G-PPP Concepts and Positioning, David Kennedy, Director Eurescom
11:50 – 12:00 Process and Recommendations for CELTIC-NEXT Proposals, Heinz Brüggemann, Director Celtic Office
12:00- 13:30 Lunch break/Exhibition visit
13:30 – 15:30 Proposal Presentations
5-10 minutes/ proposal
Announced project ideas so far to be presented and discussed among interested experts :
On Demand Secure Isolation, Jean-Philippe Wary, Orange, France
Intent-based Computing using Edge Clouds, Stefan.VanBaelen iMinds, Belgium
Industrial Small Cells, Manfred Baumgärtner, BVB Innovate, Wolf-Dieter Wurst, Nash Technologies,
Thomas Bangemann, ifak, Germany
Business Model Design Patterns, Lorenz Grünewald, HMKW Berlin
Connect-&-Grow with the Internet of Smart Things: COExIST, Pardeep Kumar, University of Oulu, Finland
Peer-to-peer (P2P) interactions of smart objects, Jonathan Ouoba, VTT, Finland
Security platforms for the IoT, Rolf Blom, SICS and Staffan Persson, ATSEC, Sweden
Architectural Cloud Security (ARCH), Marius Corici, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

SASER Conference "Secure Communications for Europe"
2014-06-24 | Kalkscheune, Johannisstraße 2, Berlin, 10117, Germany
Secure European Communications have become a hot topic and the possibilities how to achieve secure communications within Europe but also outside of Europe are currently investigated and researched. The conference tried to put some additional focus on technical and political aspects and presented one of the current “flagship” projects dealing with safe and secure European routing.
After signing the SASER memorandum of understanding (from left): Dr. Andreas Leven (Alcatel-Lucent), Christoph Glingener (CTO of ADVA), Dr. Georg Schütte (State Secretary, BMBF – German ministry for education and research), Alain Maloberti (Senior VP Network, Orange), Dr. Hermann Rodler (Managing Director, NSN Germany), Cornelia Rogall-Grothe (State Secretary, BMI – German ministry of the interior), Jacques Magen (Chairman of CELTIC-NEXT), and Wilhelm Dresselhaus (CEO of Alcatel-Lucent Germany). (copyright: hannibal/BMBF)
Agreement for secure European network communications signed in Berlin
Major European communications technology companies signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of secure network technologies at the “Secure Communications for Europe” conference in Berlin on 24 June 2014.
ADVA Optical Networking, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Orange and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories agreed to coordinate their joint R&D efforts over five years for a secure, robust, and reliable network. This joint work will be done within and beyond the SASER project for “Safe and Secure European Routing”. SASER is a ﬂagship project under Celtic- Plus which was launched in August 2012 and will run until the end of September 2015.
Secure network communications have become a crucial topic for ICT research and development within and beyond Europe. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) marks an important milestone for developing the technologies for enabling safe and secure networks in Europe. The central technological and political relevance of the MoU was underlined by the fact that representatives of the German government and other governments participated in the event.
Dr. Schütte (copyright: hannibal/BMBF)
Dr. Georg Schütte, state secretary of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), stressed the importance of secure communications in Europe: “We can only use the possibilities of modern communication technologies in full, if we can control the related risks. To achieve this we need joint efforts in Europe. SASER is a sparkling example of how we can improve digital sovereignty through joint efforts.”
The conference presented interim results of the SASER project, including improved transmission algorithms in fibre-optical networks and methods for increased network security. In this context, SASER has been working on innovative optical crypto algorithms and new methodologies for key exchange as a basis for improved data security. A major goal of the SASER project is to replace unsecure and energy-hungry routers with new integrated optoelectronic nodes.
About SASER
SASER (Safe and Secure European Routing) is an 80 million euro public-private partnership project comprising 61 companies, research organisations, and universities from Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, and the UK. The project runs from August 2012 to September 2015 under CELTIC-NEXT, the EUREKA Cluster for a Smart Connected World, and is partly publicly funded by the research ministries/ agencies BMBF (Germany), DGCIS (France), and TEKES (Finland).
Further information
SASER project website
BMBF press release (in German)
Press contact
Peter Stollenmayer, CELTIC-NEXT Office, office@celticnext.eu, phone: +49 6221 989 153

CELTIC-NEXT Event 2014 and Proposers Day
2014-04-23 - 2014-04-24 | Monaco, Germany
CELTIC-NEXT Event and Proposers’ Day in Monaco
The Event was held 23 April 2014
The Proposers’ Day was held on 24 April. The proposals are linked further down.
Wednesday 23 April 2014 – Event Presentations

Opening Speech
Serge PIERRYVES , Directeur de l’Expansion Economique
(Business Development Agency), Monaco
EUREKA Norwegian Chair – Priorities
Kristin Danielsen, The Norwegian Research Council
Secure Cloud Technology & Services (tbc)
Janne Järvinen, F-Secure, Finland
“LTE state-of the art”
Frédéric Pujol, iDATE, France
CELTIC-NEXT, achievements, and future directions
Jacques Magen, CELTIC-NEXT Chair
Valérie Blavette, CELTIC-NEXT Vice Chair
Augmented reality
Vincent Marcatté, VP open innovation Orange Labs, France
“City of Oulu came through big structural change and has still been chosen twice as the most intelligent city in Europe”
Janne Mustonen, Business Oulu
5G PPP, Objectives and Opportunities
Bernard Barani, DG CONNECTE – Deputy Head of Unit E1- “Network Technologies”
Network Functions Virtualization: Promises and Progress
Yuri Gittik, RAD/ Israel
Celtic Award winners presentations:
4GBB
EO-NET
HIPERMED
ENGINES
Panel session – (collocated WIMA and CELTIC-NEXT) “Mobile technologies and contactless services for Smart Cities”
Moderator: Pierre Métivier, Managing Director, Forum SMSC
Dynamic Smart City concepts have been emerging in many cities accross Europe in recent years and are revolutionizing and facilitating the everyday life of the citizen, who want to be connected anytime, anywhere and in any place. A growing infrastructure supported by fast, secure and reliable networks, offer new interoperable contactless city services for transport, payments, commerce, tourism and administrations, using the latest mobile technologies including NFC, BLE QR and pervasive cloud computing techniques.
Smart Cities are a part of the evolving Internet of Things (IoT), which will create tens of billions of new communicating objects and sensors, all generating real time data. Large scale Smart City deployments, need to receive and process efficiently the “Big Data” generated by the growing number of devices through the development of effective cloud services able to manage the data in a secure and safe environment.
Join this not to be missed panel discussion with insights from WIMA and CELTIC-NEXT industry experts, around the key mobile technologies and contactless services at the forefront of Smart Cities.
Panelists (tbc):

Martin Peronnet, CEO Monaco Telecom
Laetitia Gazel Anthoine, CEO Connecthings
Laurent Manteau, Gemalto, France
Sinem Altuncu, CardtekGroup – Chief Financial Officer
Damien Legrand, Orange/ France
Juan Rico, TST-Sistems/ Spain (TILAS – smart city concept)

Thurday 24 April 2014 – Technical Session, Invited project presentations:

“SPECTRA: Spectrum and energy efficiency in 4G communication systems and beyond”
Lorenzo Iacobelli, Thales, France
Secured Embedded Element for Cloud (SEED4C)
Jean-Marc Lambert, Gemalto, France
Strategic path to 5G
Mustafa Ergen, VP of Technology, Turk Telekom Argela
Process and Recommendations for CELTIC-NEXT Proposals
Heinz Brüggemann, Director Celtic Office
Research Priorities and funding aspects. Chair Jacques Magen, CELTIC-NEXT.
Round table discussion of Public Authorities:

Finland (Tijna Nurmi, TEKES)
France (Geoffroy Hermann, DGCIS, tbc)
Germany (Katrin Gassner, VDI/VDE, tbc)
Spain (Óscar Fernández Moyano, CDTI)
Sweden (Andreas Aurelius, VINNOVA)
Israel (Effi Bergida)
Yavuz Bayhan, Tübitak, Turkey

CELTIC-NEXT Proposers’ Day – Proposal Presentations:

SICO – Safe wireless interconnected vehicles, Gunnar Widforss, Mälardalen Univ, Sweden
PIM Predictable Integration In Manycores, Gunnar Widforss, Mälardalen Univ, Sweden
FIRE and XiPi, Timo Lahnalampi, Martel Consulting, Sweden
EURO MD2, Gemalto, France
Cyber-Fault-Management/ Cyber-Event Processing, Ali Dogru, METU
Q-Biz Quality for Business, Martín Varela, VTT, Finland
CyberWI, Marjo Heikkilä,Centria, Finland
Multi-Loyality (Common Multiple Loyalty), Eren Göktaş, Cardtek, Turkey
OSN a source for troadcasting news, Amram Noam, LiviU Ltd, Israel
iMinds, Stefan Van Baelen, iMinds, Belgium

CELTIC-NEXT Information Day, Oslo, Norway
2014-03-03 09:00 - 17:00 | Oslo, Norway
Event Date: March 3, 2014 – Time: 9:00 am / 5:00pm
Location: Oslo, Norway
Programme and presentations
Welcome
SVP Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Head of Telenor Research,
Overview of the Celtic–Plus programme and processes
Jacques Magen, Celtic Chairman
Research priorities and funding possibilities
Olaug Råd, Norwegian Research Council (tbc)
Telenor Rearch Agenda and Experiences of at CELTIC-NEXT projects
Terje Tjelta, Telenor (tbc)
Experience from a Norwegian Company in CELTIC-NEXT (MARCH)
Audun Fosselie Hansen, Celerway/ Norway
Break
The future Service Model for Home & Community Healthcare
Hans A. Kielland Aanesen, EPR-forum (tGov)
Smart Control Template Server
Knut Yrvin, Skolelinux and Hans Aanesen
General discussion
