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June 2006
CTIT Newsletter – June 2006
NIRICT colloquia
The NIRICT management is planning to organize colloquia, at the three universities. Connected by video conferencing tools, we will have an interactive colloquium. We do need someone to coordinate this. In case you are interested in coordinating these interactive colloquia, please contact Anja Annink.
CTIT Symposium 2006 "Smart Environments"
On May 31, CTIT organized her annual symposium. This year the theme was "Smart Environments". Presentations and photos are available: http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/newsflash/smart_environments.doc/
Agenda:
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20 June 2006: Integrated Micro Nano Systems: R&D Challenges ahead and enabling Applications, University of Twente, Cubicus Building, Room B209 |
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28 June 2006: Information meeting Smart Mix, NWO |
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25-27 October 2006: 1st European conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2006), Enschede, The Netherlands |
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23-11-2006: ProRISC workshop 2006 (Veldhoven) |
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23-11-2006: SAFE workshop 2006 (Veldhoven) |
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22/24-11-2006: IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership, Helsinki, Finland. |
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13-2-2007: EU/FP7 Congress, organized by EG-Liaison. Location: WFCC (World Forum Convention Center), Den Haag. |
Information on research funding programmes
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Smart Mix |
See Newsletter May 2006.
28 June 2006: Information meeting Smart Mix, NWO
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Innovation vouchers (SenterNovem) |
IST/ FP7:
Documents:
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The Commission details its plan for a European Institute of Technology |
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Report from the Information Society Technologies Advisory Group (ISTAG): Shaping Europe’s future through ICT |
General information FP7:
On 4 April 2006 an agreement has been reached on the financial framework for FP7. The budget has been raised to 50.5 billion euro. The programme will determined autumn 2006, with a duration of 7 years. The first calls are to be expected at the end of 2006/beginning 2007. The budget is specified as follows:
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Cooperation (Collaborative research): 32.2 billion euro |
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Ideas (Frontier research): 7.4 billion euro |
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People (Human potential): 4.6 billion euro |
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Capacities (Research capacity): 4.2 billion euro |
More information at:
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EG-Liaison: Het Zevende Kaderprogramma (information in Dutch) |
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FP7 website; a.o., information on Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) |
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FP7 general information |
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Technology Platforms / Information on ETPs (EG-Laison) |
Information on ETPs:
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Artemis (Embedded Systems) |
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The Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology Platform (eMobility) |
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The NEM Initiative - European Initiative on NETWORKED and ELECTRONIC MEDIA |
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Upcoming deadlines:
Continuously:
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EW fonds voor funderende exacte componenten en technologieën (EFFECT) |
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NWO: Cognition integration grants, Cognition network grants, Cognition à la Carte grants |
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NWO: EFFECT, for basic research on components and Technologies |
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August:
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31-08-06: deadline full proposals NWO Vici, more information also at NWO Veni, Vidi, Vici |
September:
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1-09-06: Deadline pre-proposals Smart Mix |
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4-09-06: Innovatiesubsidie samenwerkingsprojecten 2e tender R&D-projecten Internationaal en R&D-projecten in opkomende markten (open per 1-5-2006) |
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5-09-2006: deadline Veni-subsidie, see also: NWO Veni, Vidi, Vici |
December:
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1-12-06: Deadline full-proposals Smart Mix |
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31-12-06: Open Competition “Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen” |
Intelligent Vehicles
Project Manager: Prof. dr. ir. B. van Arem
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Tel: +31 53 4893046
Fax: +31 53 4894040
E-mail: b.vanarem@utwente.nl
Summary
The central objective is to use in-vehicle telematics as a breakthrough technology to improve quality of travel and sustainable traffic and to value the potential of in-car telematics (in the context of an intelligent road-vehicle system in terms of safety, throughput, reliability and environment). The project will address:
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The role of the driver and his or her needs and wants of in-vehicle intelligence; a simulation environment including adequate driver modeling as an integral element for designing, predicting and evaluating effects and effectiveness of in-vehicle intelligence; |
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In-vehicle intelligence, comprising integrated autonomous control and driver assistance systems related to the operational driving task at the navigation, maneuvering and control level on one hand, and related to traffic management and transport efficiency on the other; |
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The context for the relation between intelligent road-vehicle systems and the road users in terms of motive, destinations, routes, and operational driving or supervisory tasks, as well as the control issues involved. The role of the intelligent vehicle both the potential of a ‘future’ intelligent road-vehicle system as well as the development path toward it; |
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The need for hands-on experience through on-road testing of concepts for systems with ‘intelligence’ levels varying from information, actively supporting and automated systems. The on-road testing of concepts are referred to as "pilots" in this proposal; |
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The needs of all relevant actors in bringing in-vehicle systems closer to implementation, including industry, government and knowledge institutes, so that issues dealing with traffic and transport modeling and with strategy, policy and regulation as well as technological issues, such as sensing issues (technology and interpretation), inter-vehicle and vehicle-roadside communication, system robustness, reliability and fault tolerance; |
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A business case example for in-vehicle intelligence. |
Innovative elements of this project are the :
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full partnership among the industrial, governmental and knowledge institutes organizations with tripartite knowledge transfer; |
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on-hands experience in the real-life, physical laboratory-like implementation of in-vehicle systems and their interaction with advanced traffic monitoring and management applications; |
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addressing of transition issues of mixing old and new technologies and the confrontation of various - sometimes conflicting- interests of actors; |
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synergies achieved with existing projects nationally and internationally; |
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explicitly focusing on implementation issues. |
Work in intelligent vehicles is of international scope. A large investment project aimed at strengthening the knowledge on the topic of intelligent vehicles in the area of traffic management must be internationally oriented. Dissemination activities will therefore be both national and international. Likewise, the need for international participation, particularly by industrial partners, is crucial to success of laboratories and eventual implementations and thus of the project. Therefore, we expect that international parties will participate in this project.
Participants: DuraVermeer, Trinity, TNO, TUD, TRAIL, UTwente, SWOV, ST Software, Ministries of Transport and Economic Affairs
Project duration: 4 years / 2005-2009
Project budget CTIT: 464 k-€
Involved groups: Centre for Transport Studies
CTIT Strategic Research Orientation: eProductivity
SPICE: Service Platform for Innovative Communication Environment
Project Manager: Marten van Sinderen
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Tel.: +31-53-4893677
Email: m.j.vansinderen@utwente.nl
Summary
Vision: To design, develop, evaluate and prototype an extendable overlay architecture and framework that supports:
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Easy and quick service creation of intelligent and ambient-aware services |
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Cooperation of multiple heterogeneous execution environments |
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Pan-European seamless delivery of services across operator domains, networks and terminals |
Objectives:
Provide a unified and seamless way to deliver services over heterogeneous execution platforms, network and terminals
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Enrich the service landscape, through an overlay structure offering a personalised user experience anytime, anyplace |
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Create a trusted and open platform that will simplify the use of services and devices through personalisation and customisation |
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Open-up to new business models and value chains |
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Enabling Pan-European service provisioning |
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Promoting the uptake of innovative IT software technologies in a telecommunications grade service platform environment |
Participation CTIT is through the Telematica Instituut.
Project duration: 1-1-2006 / 1-1-2007
Project budget CTIT: 65 k-€ / 32.5 k-€ funding
Number of person/years CTIT: 0.5 fte
Project Coordinator: France Telecom
Participants:
Operators: FT, Telecom Italia, T-Systems, Telenor, DoCoMo Eurolabs, TP
Vendors: Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, NEC, Bull
SMEs: Neos, Iris, Volantis
Research Centres / Academics: Telematica Instituut, Fraunhofer Fokus, Universities of Kassel, Surrey, Turin, Brussels, NTNU Trondheim
Operational PM support: Alma
Involved groups: Architectures and Services of Network Applications
CTIT Strategic Research Orientation: ASI (A-services Internet)
PhD defenses
28-06-2006: P.S. Bonsma (EWI)
Please inform a.g.h.westhoff@utwente.nl about the PhD defenses. Every CTIT PhD-student will receive a book coupon from CTIT!
CTIT Newsletters
The CTIT Newsletter will appear every month. In case you have input for the newsletter, about workshops, phd defenses or other events, please send the information to a.g.h.westhoff@utwente.nl
Contact information:
Peter Apers, scientific director: p.m.g.apers@utwente.nl
Iddo Bante, managing director: i.bante@utwente.nl
Wilma Hiddink, project manager: w.g.hiddink@utwente.nl
Anja Annink-Tanke, secretary: a.m.annink-tanke@utwente.nl
Sandra Westhoff, secretary: a.g.h.westhoff@utwente.nl