8 The first Assembly of the Mexican Technology Platform steering board held in Mexico DF

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1 to know FIRST is an ICT project supported under the EU s 7th R&D Framework Programme (FP7) 2 FIRST project: From dreams to facts 4 RECIIF works towards national and international cooperation 5 Machi brings the Future Internet Perspective to Chile 7 PLATA Future Internet is born in Argentina 8 The first Assembly of the Mexican Technology Platform steering board held in Mexico DF 10 Institute of European Studies, coordinated by USP, starts its activities 11 MoU signed between project FIRST and SUCESU/SP 12 Future opportunities for cooperation between Europe and Latin America on Future Internet in FP7 13 TESTBEDS for Future Internet Services To suscribe to this Newsletter, please visit: First is a Support Action funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme in order to foster International Cooperation in the areas of Future Internet and ICT Components and systems between Europe and Latin America.

2 to know FIRST project: From dreams to facts The original ideas and ambitions raised by the FIRST project are becoming reality and factually implemented. The consortium FIRST presented the first year project results on 11th March 2011 in Brussels. All the 9 FIRST partners were present at the review, thus demonstrating the commitment and support to the project as well as the high potential expected from the project achievements. During the review a warm welcome was given to Mr. Antonio Alfaro from ROSE, who defined and launched the FIRST project and is now back to the project after a 7 months leave period. Mr. Julián Seseña took over the project coordination during summer time in year 2010 and then Mr. Tonny Velin acted as coordinator starting from mid-september The experts congratulated the coordinator for the excellent management of the project, as well as all partners for the effort done in a close cooperative consortium, explicitly mentioning the huge achievements made in accordance with the work plan foreseen in the Description of Work. Mr. Alfaro opened the project review presenting the overview and current status of the project, by depicting the original project objectives and the achievements made so far. After this initial presentation, a more detailed description of the status of each work package was performed by each work package leader. Mr. Mauro Bianchi from TESEO commented the results of the strategic analysis of the potential areas for cooperation, and identification of key stakeholders in the field of Future Internet, making special emphasis FIRST partners at the review in Brussels (Belgium). March 11th on the successful methodology defined by the project and announcing the production of a new document: The success story on the project methodology. Mr. Velin explained the status of the creation of the LATPs, with 4 LATPs launched so far: PLATA in Argentina, MACHI in Chile, Red de Colaboración para la I+D+i en Internet del Futuro (RECIIF) in Colombia, Mexican Technology Platform (MTP) in Mexico. Prof. Moacyr Martucci from Universidade de São Paulo announced the official launch of the Brazilian Future Internet Platform (BraFIP) on 15th April Mrs Silvia Bidart from ALETI presented activities performed in WP4 focused on the set up of the Regional strategy for cooperation EU-LatAm and the analysis of the viewpoints from LatAm organiza- 2

3 tions regarding Future Internet that already support the creation of LATPs: ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean), SELA (Latin American and Caribbean Economic System), OAS (Organization of American States), ILCE (Latin American Institute for e-commerce), RedCLARA (Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks), AHCIET (Latin American Association of Research Centres and Telecommunications companies). Mr. Halid Hranisca from EURES- COM described the activities performed during the first year establishing liaison between LATPs and ETPs (and other European bodies). FIRST has constantly provided feedback to ETPs, already creating some permanent links between ETPs and LATPs. Finally Ms. Fernanda Arcadini from Futura Networks presented the work done focusing on the wide dissemination and public awareness. Particular emphasis shall be made on the 10 National events held in each target country (2 events in each of them) in order to create LATPs, the results of the project conferences within 3 Campus Parties organized in São Paulo, Madrid and Bogotá, and the EU-LatAm oriented activities performed at the ICT 2010 event in Brussels. Looking to the future, the main challenges for the project in its second year are the definition of Strategic Research Agendas (SRA) for each LATP and the development of a common EU-LatAm strategy through the definition of a common EU- LatAm Vision, SRA and roadmap for implementing the SRA. Main messages after the review assessed that although this was a challenging and ambitious project, after one year of activity it has demonstrated to be capable of making a real difference and provoke a change of mindset in the region. It was confirmed that the consortium is on the right track to successfully achieve its objectives, providing unique networking opportunities for the preparation of new research EU- LatAm consortia. The Consortium took note of all the comments raised by the reviewers and thanked them for their positive criticism, the high quality and value of all the suggestions issued. These recommendations will definitely help the project to improve its results during the second year. The Consortium also thanked the Project Officer, who became a fundamental part of the success of the project, providing support to the project since the very beginning. The Review resulted to be a great success and it helped at boosting even more the enthusiasm of the attendants, targeting a better Final Review in a year time. The agenda and presentations can be found in the FIRST web site: FIRST achievements during the first year Creation of 4 Latin American Technology Platform on Future Internet and ICT Components: RECIIF, Red de Colaboración para la I+D+i en Internet del Futuro in Colombia. Mexican Technology Platform (MTP) in Mexico. Chilean LATP named MACHI. PLATA (PLAtaforma Tecnológica Argentina de Internet del Futuro) in Argentina. The Brazilian Future Internet Platform, BraFIP. More than 350 members already involved in the platforms. Involvement of key LatAm organisations: ECLAC, SELA, OAS, ILCE, RedCLARA, AHCIET. Wide dissemination and public awareness: Conferences in 3 Campus Parties in São Paulo, Madrid and Bogotá with over attendants. 10 National events with 646 attendants. EU-LatAm oriented activities at ICT 2010 in Brussels, over 140 participants to the networking session, and 100 participants the other 2 seminars and workshops co-organized and 120 interested visitors to the LA LAC ICT Gateway stand. 5 Newsletters produced (one special edition for ANDICOM 2010). 3

4 to know RECIIF works towards national and international cooperation Colombia is a country with high potential for research, innovation and technological development. The Software and Information Technology sector has been identified by the Colombian Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism as one of the world-class sectors of Colombia and Mobile communications has been one of the most dynamic industries in recent years 1 in the country. On October 29th 2010, the Latin American Technology Platform RECIIF Red de colaboración para la I+D+i en Internet del Futuro was launched at the International ICT Congress ANDICOM 2010 in Colombia. RECIIF is an open community that gathers representatives from the Colombian Industry and Academia to encourage and promote a coherent approach to R&D&I activities on Future Internet. This community focuses on three topics that congregate in Colombia a significant mass for undertaking research: Mobile and wireless communications, Networked & Electronic Media and Software & Services. The intended scope of the RE- CIIF community is to provide a unified view and a shared strategic research agenda in the field of Future Internet, to ensure that RECIIF members have a svolid manner of interaction at national and international level and to act as a facilitator to establish complementary and cooperating R&D&I, therefore optimizing R&D&I efforts and providing Colombian know-how to the world. RECIIF s Steering Council is composed of large companies, SMEs and Universities of Colombia, such as UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones, Telefónica Telecom, Internexa, ETB, Avantel, Crearmedia, Multimedia services, Sytecno, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad Santo Tomas, Universidad Manuela Beltrán, Universidad San Buenaventura and the Universidad del Quindío. Also the Colombian Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation COLCIENCIAS and the National Academic Network of Advanced Technology RENATA, an advanced technology network that connects, communicates and fosters collaboration among the scientific and academic community in Colombia, participate as observersin the activities of Colombian Technology Platform. RECIIF has started its process toward identifying research priorities and cooperation opportunities in Future Internet. It is currently working in the definition of research topics in Mobile and Wireless Communications (Infrastructure, Applications and Business), Networked and Electronic Media (Creation of content and applications, Content presentation, Content management and Support Technologies) and Software and Services (advanced software engineering, frameworks for software developments, platforms for service delivery, cloud computing, Semantic Web, BPM, BI, as well as on the development of new services and applications, in particular SW for Health, security and mobile applications). RECIIF invites all R&D&I stakeholders (industry, academia, associations, etc.) of the Future Internet field in Colombia, willing to contribute to the activities of this community, to join the platform, free of charge. It also invites members of European Technology Platforms Net!Works, NESSI, NEM and international initiatives such as FIRE, FIA and FIF to contact and explore joint opportunities in forthcoming FP7 calls and therefore to create and maintain liaisons between Colombian, Latin American and Euro- 1 Cosette Castro. Industrias de Contenidos en Latinoamérica. 4

5 pean organizations. RECIIF will continue its operations towards becoming, for the year 2012, the national meeting place par excellence of the Colombian Industry and Academia, the international reference point for the promotion and creation of R&D&i projects on Future Internet and a national reference point for the government that contribute to the development of ICT sector and society in the country, allowing Colombian R&D&I efforts to contribute to the goal that all Colombians access the virtual world anytime, anywhere and through any device. For more information about RECIIF, do not hesitate to contact FIRST local partner in Colombia, CINTEL at (+57) ext. 168 or mmontenegro@cintel.org.co Machi brings the Future Internet Perspective to Chile On December 1st, 2011, Chileans established Machi Future Internet, the first Chilean community that gathers representatives of Industry, Academia and Government aimed at identifying Chilean ICT priorities so as to strengthen R&D activities. Currently, Machi Leaders want to involve more Chileans and Europeans in this process. They sent the following letter to deliver this message: We invite all organizations established in Chile to participate in Machi Future Internet, the first Chilean community that gathers representatives of Industry, Academia and Government aimed at identifying Chilean ICT priorities so as to perform more R&D activities 1. Machi Future Internet is the network of stakeholders of industry, academia and government that will foster R&D activities in ICT field with Europe. Since this is an open and free community all interested stakeholders can participate. For Chile, this is a huge challenge. Thanks to FIRST, the academia and industry sectors are starting to get to know one other with the future aim of making joint projects. Additionally, the industry starts to be aware of the funding opportunities that the Framework Programmes offer, besides the fact that this community is a door to internationalization. 1 Machi was born within the frame of the FIRST project, funded by the European Commission (FP7), also taking place in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. 5

6 to know consequently, with Machi Future Internet aims. Artemis Chile Leader For academia, it is an opportunity to start a networking relation with the industry and government. Machi is made of Working Groups that mirror European Technology Platforms; we are starting to define the list of R&D priorities in which Chile can make a difference. This would be an excellent cornerstone to start a strong cooperation with European Union in the Frameworks Programme. We would like to underscore that this is an open call process, hence, every interested entity can participate. The result of this will be the Strategic Research Agenda document for Chile. On a political level, the implementation of Machi is especially meaningful since Chile will be the next host of EU-LAC Summit to be held in 2012, announced by president Piñera last year during the EU-LAC Summit, held in Madrid. One of the strongest points of EU- LAC was the confirmation of the key role played by science, technology and innovation for achieving sustainable development and social inclusion, as well as mutual benefits through cooperation in capacity building, research programs, and technology transfer activities. This is a fact of major importance since this goal is in line with the FIRST project and, EPoSS Chile Leader Hector Torres NESSI Chile Leaders Pablo Caroca Mario Andres Bruno Emobility Chile Leader Secretariat Gerardo Rivas Hugo Durney ALETI Participate in MACHI Internet del Futuro - CHILE Group at Linkedin! 6

7 PLATA Future Internet is born in Argentina It is a pleasure to announce that Argentina has implemented a Future Internet Technology Platform for fostering R&D activities. Its name is PLATA, the acronym for Plataforma Tecnológica Argentina and also the name of the most famous river in Argentina, called Rio de la Plata (literally, Silver River). The leaders of PLATA want to involve Argentinean and European R&D stakeholders; FIRST to Know has the honor to share their message to all our readers: We are very excited with this excellent news for many reasons. Firstly, we are dealing with new concepts: Future Internet & Technology Platform. Future Internet as a whole field of knowledge is more familiar to Academia, but not for Industry, therefore it is very positive for the Industry to start thinking about these topics. Argentina does already have something similar to Technology Platform as a tool for enhancing the relation between Academia, Industry and Government, but it used to work in a different way. Secondly, PLATA has Working Groups that are a mirror to the European counterparts NESSI, NEM, EPoSS, Net!works, ENIAC, etc. Therefore we are trying to network and share experiences with them. Thirdly, PLATA is being supported by the National Ministry of Science and Technology, which makes it a renowned Technology Platform. Consequently, we expect that PLATA will have continuity when the FIRST project finishes. To end, we would like to remark the following messages: For Argentineans: PLATA is a door to increasing competitiveness in the region and to foster Internationalization. We want to point out that participating in PLATA is free and open to all sectors (industry, academia, associations, etc.) interested in innovation and R&D. For Europeans: we are very glad to have a mirror organization to ETPs and we expect to meet you soon in order to exchange ideas about our Working Groups, your Platforms and your experience. Sincerely, PLATA Integrated & Embedded Systems Leader Javier Orozco PLATA ICT Components Leader PLATA Daniel Lupi PLATA NUEVONET Leader Gabriel Baum PLATA NUEVONET Leader Secretariat José María Louzao ALETI 7

8 to know The first Assembly of the Mexican Technology Platform steering board held in Mexico DF This event was organized on March 18th by the Monterrey Tech (ITESM) as partner of the FIRST project as well as MTP Secretariat. The Assembly was held at the campus of the ITESM in Mexico City using the technology of the Virtual University of the Monterrey Tech and broadcasted nationally through the internet. There were 22 attendants at the campus while the others members of the Steering Board joined the meeting virtually. The satellite transmission was available for other members of the MTP to join the meeting as well. Mr. Julian Seseña, project FIRST coordinator, participated in the event, as well as participants from the Mexican Technology Information Industry, both from large companies as Panel: Julián Seseña, Miguel Ramírez, Angeles Vela and Carmen Agüero from SMEs and representatives from associations and chambers such as National Chamber of Electronics and Information Technology Industry (CANIETI) and Information Technology Mexican Association Industry (AMITI). Members of Government Institutions also attend: Mexican Science Council (CO- NACYT), Communication and Transport Ministry (SCT) and Economy Ministry, representatives from a vary of TICs clusters from all over Mexico, as well as members from the Information Technology Researchers Network (RedTIC) which represents more than 180 researchers from the country were also present. Finally, the National Contact Point (NCP) for IT in Mexico was present. The content of the Assembly include the review of mission, vision and Governability of the MTP, as well as future actions to take. The session started with the welcome speech from Mrs. Carmen Agüero, project FIRST leader in Mexico and from Mrs. Ángeles Vela, the representative of Steering Board Council President of the MTP. After the introduction, Mr. Julián Seseña presented the topic: Mechanism to promote Mexican- European Union cooperation through Technology Platforms The agenda included a discussion session moderated by Mr. Miguel Ramirez, manager of the project FIRST for Mexico. At the end of the event a round table discussion was held about the future actions and the importance of the MTP in the future of the Mexican-Eu- 8

9 rope Union cooperation. Conclusions and the summary of future actions that we agreed on this Assembly are as follows: 1. Development of the Strategic Agenda on Research to work as a bench marker on public policies, and to line up the Industry needs with the Research needs. 2. Encourage the dynamism of the Working Groups in the PTM: NEM,-MEX NESSI-MEX, ARTEMIS-MEX, e-mobility MEX and e-health-mex to work in cooperation for the growth of the Future Internet. 3. To elaborate a plan of work with the European counterparts: NESSI, NEM, e-mobility, ARTEMIS, e-health with the help of the whole FIRST team (Europeans and Mexicans). 4. Provide trainings to all members on Project proposals for the 7th Frame Program of the EU and other similar. 5. Look for talents in SME of TICs to bring support to the development of innovative ideas and strengthen them with the cooperation of big TICs industries in Mexico. 6. Establish the participation of the MTP in the development of a Regional Strategic Agenda for LatinAmerica working along with other Platforms recently form in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. 7. Find the ideal mechanism of collaboration between FIRST and the government entities as Mexican Science Council (CO- NACYT), Communication and Transport Secretariat (SCT) and Economy Secretariat (SE). 8. Incorporate new members. Allow join cooperation between FIRST Mexico and TICs related organisms. The General Assembly close with the encouraging words of Mr. Julián Seseña, that allow all our members to keep motivated and continue the great work and effort of project FIRST Mexico as a tool for the development of the country industry as well as the key to establish concrete relations with the EU. This session was recorded and can be downloaded from the Virtual University of the Monterrey Tech de Monterrey by the all the members. 9

10 to know Institute of European Studies, coordinated by USP, starts its activities The creation of the Institute of European Studies (IEE-BR Instituto de Estudos Europeus Brasil), is an initiative that falls under the strategic partnership between Brazil and European Union. It was launched on November 29th, 2010, by a consortium of Brazilian Universities and Communities, coordinated by USP, with seven universities in Brazil and seven European universities. Its objective is to maximize the bilateral cooperation between Brazil and the European Union (EU), through teaching, research and extension, thus contributing to the development of higher education in Brazil, in areas of mutual interest. The ceremony, held at the Council Hall of the University of São Paulo, began with the airing of a video of Ambassador John Pacheco, head of EU Delegation in Brazil, speaking of the relevance of the Institute, which aims to develop research to better understand the Europe and Brazil. It s one of the major projects of cooperation which the EU will stick with Brazil, said the ambassador. cover all areas of knowledge. The dean of research at USP, Marco Antonio Zago, recalled that the initiative to introduce this cooperation should also increase the weight of Brazil in the global economy, research and technology, and stressed that Europe represents one quarter of all Brazilian foreign trade. On top of that, 16% of scientific production in Brazil is made in cooperation with European countries. Dialogue, education, research and extension The IRR-BR will conduct activities for dialogue, with workshops, annual meetings, discussion forums; education, which is the creation of program with graduation courses - PhD in European Studies, offering elective courses in under graduation, titles standardization and mutual recognition of qualifications courses obtained in Brazil and the EU; research, by encouraging collaborative research that already exists and promoting new collaborative research; and extension, through the creation of specialized courses LatoSensu, digital library, information about funding for students and researchers. After signing the creation document for IEE-BR, the coordinator of the Institute, Moacyr Martucci Jr., a professor at the Polytechnic School of USP, started its first activity, inviting the diplomatic and academic representatives to discuss cooperation between Brazil and Europe. The General Consul of Belgium in São Paulo, Klaus Peter, said that the idea of forming the IEE-BR is very welcome, as he believes that the knowledge that both parties have about each other is still very small. The Institute can therefore help to improve this situation, Another important feature of the institute, said the general coordinator of the State University of Campinas (UNI- CAMP), Edgar Salvadori de Decca, is that it is intended to From left to right: The UNICAMP (State University of Campinas Brazil) general coordinator, Edgar Salvadori de Decca; the dean of research from USP, Marco Antonio Zago; the head of the cooperation sector of EU in Brazil, Jerome Poussielgue; and the coordinator of the IEE-BR, Moacyr Martucci Jr. 10

11 with the participation also of the 13 general consulates in São Paulo, which are available to collaborate with the project, according to the Consul. The Executive Vice Chancellor for International Relations, Adnei Melges de Andrade took the opportunity to comment on the dedication of USP in the international area, speaking of programs and initiatives. He cited data from the International Cooperation Committee (CCInt), that reveal that Europe is the premier destination for academic exchange of students at USP, and that students from Europe are rank third in the list of foreigners at USP. -Karlstads Universitet Karlstad (Sweden) -Freie Universität Berlin Berlin (Germany) Brazilian and European Universities representtives that form the IEE-BR consortium MoU signed between project FIRST and SUCESU/SP Brazilian Universities -Universidade de São Paulo (USP) -Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) -Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio Mesquita Filho (UNESP) -Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) -Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) -Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) -Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI) -Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) European Universities -École nationale d administration (ENA) Paris (France) -Universidade do Porto Porto (Portugal) -Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels (Belgique/België) -Brunel University London (United Kingdom) -Università degli Studi La Sapienza Roma (Italia) USP team is pleased to announce that after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed with the SUCE- SU/SP (Society for Information Technology and Telecommunications Users at São Paulo State). This agreement satisfies the FIRST s goals and enables BraFip (Brazilian Future Internet Platform) to proceed with the Platform development with the full support and commitment of SUCESU/SP. The MoU provides a process where SUCESU/SP and project FIRST collaboration will result in the following: 1. Bringing together professionals from ICT sector; 2. Presence of SUCESU/SP at USP workshop/networking events; 3. Presence of USP at SUCE- SU/SP workshop/networking events; 4. Links exchange and cross reference on their websites. The BraFip Governance document will be signed during the BraFip launch on 15 April 2011 at USP. FIRST and SUCESU/SP expect to agree further details of the MoU and BraFip Governance available after its launch. Brazilian First Team considers the signing of the MoU a huge achievement and looks forward to working closely with the SUCESU/SP over the coming years in developing the Brazilian Technology Platform. This is a first step for BraFip. There is a SUCESU organization in each of the most important Brazilian States, and this partnership that was born at São Paulo has the possibility to be extended to many other Brazilian States. 11

12 to know Future opportunities for cooperation between Europe and Latin America on Future Internet in FP7 Halid Hrasnica, Eurescom GmbH Even a significant number of research topics on Future Internet have been addressed by recently closed calls for project proposals in European Commission (EC) Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Call 7 and Future Internet Public-Private- Partnership (FI-PPP) two upcoming FP7 Calls Call 8 and FI-PPP Call 2 will give an additional opportunity for project consortiums to create proposals addressing various research topics in the broad area of the Future Internet. The FP7 Call 8 will be open in 2011 with a tentative deadline for submission of the project proposals in January The Future Internet PPP Call 2 will be open in 2012 with tentative submission deadline in October Of course, both Calls provide a good opportunity for both European and Latin American researchers and research organisations to work on interesting research topics related to the Future Internet, to build the project consortiums, and to submit joint project proposals. FP7 Call 8 Among various topics from the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) area, which will be addressed by the Call 8, the following programme objectives can be identified as the most relevant in the scope of the Future Internet: FutureNet- Objective 1.1 works, Objective 1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering, Objective 1.4 Trustworthy ICT, and Objective 1.6 Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE). Future Networks This FP7 objective addresses in Call 8 the following areas: Wireless and mobile broadband systems: LTE-Advanced and post-lte systems, Enabling technologies for flexible spectrum usage for mobile broadband, including new approaches to cognitive radio, novel radio network topologies, and integration of radio technologies with optical fibre networks. High capacity end-to-end infrastructure technologies: Ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra high capacity alloptical networks. Novel Internet architectures: Management and operation frameworks. Flexible, resilient, broadband and integrated satellite communication: Innovative system architectures and technologies and novel technologies and architectures for resilient and flexible networks. Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering Intelligent and autonomic management of cloud resources, ensuring agile elastic scalability Service engineering principles, convergence with Internet of Things and Internet of Contents, and methods and tools to manage Internet of Services Advanced engineering, Quality measure and assurance, and tools and methods for community-based and open source software development. Trustworthy ICT Heterogeneous networked, service and computing environments: Trustworthy architectures and protocols, trustworthy polymorphic Future 12

13 Internet, virtualisation, and metrics and tools for quantitative security. Trust, eidentity and Privacy management infrastructures: Trust architectures, protocols and models, privacy infrastructures, and management of identity claims. -To develop the core platform and the use case specific functionalities, and instantiate them on the test infrastructure, -To finalise selection, prepare and run early trials for all use cases, and -To prepare large scale trials in terms of SME participation as application and service developers and infrastructure integration across Europe. Source: EC FP7 Work Programme 2011 Cooperation, Theme 3, ICT EC C(2010)4900 of 19 July 2010 Data policy, governance and socio-economic ecosystems. Future Internet Research and Experimentation FIRE Federation: implementing a demand-driven high level federation framework for all FIRE prototype facilities and beyond FIRE Experimentation: Experimentally-driven research in the broad field of the Future Internet Future Internet PPP Call 2 After establishment of an initial set of Usage Areas and the Technology Foundation by projects accepted in Call 1 of the Future Internet PPP, launching first implementation phase of the programme, the Call 2 will ask for proposals dealing with experimentation dedicated to particular Usage Areas. Please, note that Call 2 will be fully open and that Usage Areas accepted in Call 1 will be not necessarily continued in the second phase of the FI-PPP programme, which main targets are: -To ensure the availability of the necessary test infrastructure for the early trials, TESTBEDS for Future Internet Services The TEFIS project ( develops an open platform to access heterogeneous and complementary experiment facilities for communities of software/business developers to test and experiment. It provides appropriate tools and methodologies to address the full development life-cycle of innovative services. The project was launched on June 1st, 2010 through the 7th framework Programme, under the ICT thematic priority Future Internet experimental facility and experimentallydriven research (FIRE). Its framework is organized into four main functional blocks: TEFIS Portal, TEFIS Middleware (including back-end components and core services), TEFIS users tools, and TEFIS testbed connectors. The set of components constituting the TEFIS portal are made available directly through a common user interface which will allow testbeds to be searched for, the retrieval of reference data sets, the configuration of tests to perform, gathering of diagnostic parameters or the specification of resource prerequisites The Core services, exposed by the portal, will allow the gap to be reduced between the testbed users expectations in terms of experiment support and the functionalities and complexity of underlying testbeds. The TEFIS system relies on the concept of connector to manage the interaction with testbeds. On the top of that, is provided the TEFIS API which is a set of common functionalities 13

14 to know offered by the TEFIS middleware in order to give access to services provided by the TEFIS middleware. Living Labs Heterogeneous and complementary facilities are available in TEFIS for: network performances experiments, software testing, and user oriented living labs. Planetlab targets the computer networking community, including graduate students, researchers, and industrials. The facility is designed for the testing and evaluation of network protocols and large-scale distributed systems under real conditions. PACA Grid provides computational resources for applications requiring relevant computing effort such as scientificsimulations, prototypes for the evaluation of algorithms, financial computations, image processing, etc. ETICS is a solution for software development lifecylce management. The ETICS system is designed to simplify the development process while improving the quality, reliability and interoperability of distributed complex systems. SQS IMS testbed is offered as an infrastructure for validating and testing applications over IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem). It targets Telecommunications Operators that need to ensure that systems deployed is compliant with the protocols and standards defined. It also targets service providers performing end-to-end validation in order to assure both compliance of the system with the reference protocols and standards, and interoperability in a real network. The main mission of Botnia Living Lab. is to serve as a facility for research, development and innovation (RDI) for the creation and refinement of ICT based services. Real ICT-based products and services are experimentally developed in real-life contexts with real users. TEFIS in Brazil KyaTera is an environment for network performance evaluation provided in TEFIS by University of Sao Paulo (also a partner in FIRST). KyaTera is the big network which interconnects several institutes in Sao Paulo, born with a mission to bring together the expertise and laboratory resources necessary to develop science, technology and Internet applications of the future. More than 600 researchers from the state of Sao Paulo in various areas of knowledge are working on this challenge together by an optical network with high capacity. Built for research, this network streamlines interactions and serves as a platform for the technology. Open call for experiments TEFIS seeks to incorporate new experiments to run tests orchestrated across multiple heterogeneous testbeds. The experiments shall propose usage scenarios exploiting at least 2 of the 6 facilities provided by TEFIS. The rules of participation and funding for each partner are the same as for any FP7 project. Date of close of call: h00 Brussels time Total available funding for the call: 731K Internet address for further information: Submission address: tefisopencall@cdt.ltu.se 14

15 EU-Latin America ICT Research Cooperation Projects Common Entry Page FIRST aims to further improve cooperation between Europe and Latin America focusing on the field of Future Internet, ICT components and systems. The central goal of the project is to adapt the successful concept of European Technology Platforms (ETPs) to the Latin American Region, and launch 5 Technology Platforms focused on Future Internet, in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, bringing cooperation between Europe and Latin America in the ICT R&D field to a new level. PRO-IDEAL and PRO-IDEAL PLUS promote the ICT dialogue and support the ICT R&D cooperation between Europe and Latin America through on-line tools (ICT Wiki, training modules, partner search) and face-to-face events (ICT Days and ICT Fora). Furthermore, local Project Angels are trained to create a sustainable support network in Latin American countries.. FORESTA The project aims to promote research cooperation between the European Community and Latin America (EU-LA) in terms of Information Technology to identify research opportunities between communities and examine the IT policies in each country to identify the main future complications for researchers (and how to make best use of instruments of support among the communities to avoid such complications). Rose Vision, S.L Spain Eurescom European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GMBH Germany Technical support for European organisations sprl Belgium Thales Services SAS France Universidade de São Paulo Brazil Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Mexico Centro de Investigación de las Telecomunic Colombia Futura Networks do Brasil Consultoria Lda Brazil Federación de asociaciones de Latinoamérica el Caribe y España de entidades de tecnologías de la información Costa Rica For more information, please visit 15