Network and Services Infrastructures - the Future Internet

senZations2011 - www.senzations.net
August 29 - September 2, 2011, Kotor (Montenegro)

Supported/co-organized by: 

FP7 SmartSantander (http://www.smartsantander.eu) 
SmartSantander tutorial - how to use the platform and how to apply for funding available to run experiments

FP7 HOBNET (http://www.hobnet-project.eu)

senZations offers a unique opportunity to learn first-hand from the leading European research projects about the latest developments and open challenges in an emerging area, that is expected to significantly impact our way of life and the way future business will be done in our economies. It combines lectures on fundamental and applied aspects of the Internet of Things with hands-on tutorials and experimentation, providing the participants with a solid understanding and experience to further advance research in this field.
The aims of the summer school are to:

- Survey fundamental and applied aspects of the Internet of Things
- Present recent advances and identify important open research challenges anddirections
- Provide hands-on experience for experimentally-driven IoT research on one of the leading European IoT research facilities
- Allow establishing new contacts with other young researchers and experienced scholars from academia and industry
- Provide an opportunity to discuss and share your own ideas
- Have fun and enjoy while acquiring new skills and expertise

PROGRAM
The summer school will last for 5 days and will feature a number of different activities:

28 February 2011 - 5 March 2011
Get Online Week is a Europe wide campaign to get new computer users online. It helps to get people through the doors of their local telecentres, enabling staff to build people's confidence to move on into more structured learning. Run in March 2010 as part of the European e-Skills week, it reached 68000 people. The Get Online Week 2011 campaign aims to : bring people online (with a focus on the offline Europeans, those who have never accessed internet before) ; raise awareness with the press and stakeholders of digital inclusion benefits ; promote and increase usage of telecentres across Europe ; demonstrate telecentres eInclusion impact at the European level. Telecentres, public authorities, public libraries, NGOs, and ICT companies, as well as schools and students will come together to organise a range of events, training sessions, competitions and more, to highlight the essential role of ICT skills in today's society.
http://getonlineweek2011.wordpress.com/

12 June 2011 - 15 June 2011 Bled, Slovenia

This year’s conference theme focuses on the impacts of e-initiatives and how they serve to shape the New eWorld. The deadline for submission of Research Papers is February 1, 2011. Business Track Proposals (panels, workshops, meetings) can be submitted until March 15, 2011.

http://www.bledconference.org/index.php/eConference/2011

In a public consultation launched today, the European Commission is asking businesses, consumers, telecoms operators and public authorities whether they see benefits in a system that would allow businesses to use the same telephone number in all EU Member States. EU-wide phone numbers could reinforce the EU's Single Market, as outlined by the Digital Agenda for Europe (see IP/10/581, MEMO/10/199 and MEMO/10/200). An EU wide phone number could help European businesses to offer cross-border sales more easily and facilitate access to after-sales and customer enquiry services irrespective of the Member State where the customer is situated. The consultation will help the Commission assess market demand for European business phone numbers and, if necessary, formulate initiatives for the introduction of such numbers. The consultation will run until 28 February 2011
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1664&forma...

The next Balkan Broadband Conference and Exhibition will take place on 14 April 2011, in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, with a focus on the revolution in Broadband. This 3rd edition of the SCTE Balkan Broadband Conference and Exhibition focuses on the predicted revolution in television viewing, e.g. "3D TV" and "Over the top TV". It is a highly visited event and will give the opportunity to also find partners for new proposals to the ICT programme. European funding will also be promoted at this event.
There is No attendance fee. If you wish to reserve places and keep yourself updated then please register in time.
More information can be obtained from Mrs. Edita Ibrahimi, T: +386 49 125 534, E: eibrahimi@hmconsult.eu. Please visit the site http://www.scte-event.eu/default.asp?ContentId=2617&LanguageId=44.

15 June 2011 - 17 June 2011 Warsaw, Poland

This conference will address all the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. The Summit showcases European research in the field, in particular from the EU Future Networks projects, and positions it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world. The scientific programme is based on an open Call for Papers, with Research, Technical, Visionary or Techno-Economic Scenarios in focus (deadline : 10 December 2010)

Contact: Future Network and Mobile Summit Secretariat See also:
Download Call for Papers

http://www.futurenetworksummit.eu/2011/default.asp?page=c4p

9 December 2010 Budapest, Hungary

In preparation of the upcoming FP7 Call on this objective, the European Commission is organising this Information and Networking day. The purpose of the event is to inform and assist prospective proposers, especially SME, preparing project proposals, to facilitate sharing of ideas and experiences. It will give participants the chance to network, to find partners for their projects and get feedback on proposed ideas from officials of the European Commission.

http://cordis.europa.eu

(25 November 2010) Broadband connections in Europe are much faster than one year ago according to statistics published today by the European Commission. In July 2010 29% of EU broadband lines had speeds of at least 10 megabits per second (Mbps) (up from 15% one year earlier).Broadband take up continues to grow in the EU with 25.6 subscriptions for every 100 citizens (23.9 one year earlier). Annual growth in mobile broadband is remarkable at 45%, with 6 mobile broadband dedicated access devices (usb-keys or dongles) per 100 citizens.
http://ec.europa.eu/

22 November 2010 Brussels, Belgium

The European Commission has launched in 2009 a Study on "Towards a Future Internet: Interrelations between Technological, Social and Economic Aspects". Building on an online survey and several multidisciplinary workshops held in Brussels, at MIT in Boston and in Tokyo, the final findings, touching on the infrastructure, policy and regulatory aspects of the Future Internet and their societal and economic impact, will be presented and discussed during this workshop. Registration is free of charge but compulsory.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/980525779

(11 November 2010) The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the successor to the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013 (CIP). The CIP is the main EU budgetary instrument targeting competitiveness outside the research and skills areas. Its main priorities are SMEs, access to finance, innovation (including eco-innovation), take-up and use of information and communication technologies (ICT), energy efficiency and renewables. Through the consultation, the public is invited to have its say on what the priorities of future competitiveness and innovation EU funding should be. The consultation will remain open until 4 February 2011.
More information
http://ec.europa.eu/cip/index_en.htm