1st Architects’ Week: FI-WARE meets Use Case projects in Zurich

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May 242012
 

 Once the FI-PPP Programme has been running for more than a year it is time to get together with the technical people from the Use Case Projects and share the knowledge generated in the course of these months. The event is running from Monday, 21st in the morning to the end of Thursday, 24th so there will be plenty of time to exchange information and provide feedback.

Basically, the Architects’ Week will be like this: FI-WARE provides details of their GEs in the mornings and the Use Cases explain in the afternoons their current status, degree of progress, architecture and synergies with FI-WARE using its GEs. The agenda is quite comprehensive and, apart form the formal organization, this event is helping to create informal links and communication channels at all levels. The sessions we are having are definitely fostering a common understanding and we have taken a gigantic leap in synchronising thoughts.

The goal of this event is to mark a turning point in the development of the FI-PPP Programme and we will reinforce this by celebrating a second round of sessions in Madrid on June 4th – 7th where there will be a second chance to attend.

 Posted by miguel.carrillo at 9:47 am

FI-WARE presence in Aalborg

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May 142012
 

 

 

As it can be expected, FI-WARE has been one of the attractions of the FIA (which took place in Aalborg this time). We set up, together with all projects in the PPP, a stand where we explained our activities.The presentation that resulted in a maximum interest – at least in number of people- was the one made on occasion of the “proposer’s day” (you can find the presentation made by FI-WARE  here or If you feel like listening to it in full go here). During this event the Commission explained in some detail their plans for the call 2 of the PPP and how the new projects should use the results of existing projects to complement their proposals. Fi-WARE results are essential for this objective.

Besides explaining briefly the areas where our most significant developments are, we tried to explain the need for a more broad exploitation activity. The final success of the PPP cannot be assured if we restrict ourselves to the PPP funding. We need to create an ecosystem, based possibly on smart cities, where this objective can be achieved.

In a similar tone, we collaborated in the section on Open Platforms for innovation, where a comparison between GENI and IGNITE vs. the PPP and FI-WARE was made. Our position was clear: GENI and IGNITE had different objectives and were much more oriented towards the research community. This makes our life much more difficult. You can find the FIWARE presentation here.

Also very relevant was the presentation made by Thierry at the section IoT and FI architectures. Essentially we explained our plans regarding the IoT and how the different modules can be used and our contributions to the Open Mobile Alliance and ETSI

 Posted by jimenez at 10:43 am

Proposals, proposals and more proposals!

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May 032012
 

 The 1st Open Call has received 17 high quality proposals, 5 of them addressing the BM&BE topic and 12 the Middleware topic. The degree of interest is very high if we take into account that the topics proposed are rather focused in scope. The proposers are a quite heterogeneous group of people from varied countries and they are well known, solid companies and institutions. It is a real pity that the evaluators will have to make a choice because most of the possibilities look terrific!

We are pleased with the success of the call and look forward to the selection of the new partners. We also count on a great team of independent evaluators that are about to start their work.

 Posted by miguel.carrillo at 6:29 pm
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