CELTIC-NEXT

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
