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• PiCToR presents your project ideas in Europe
• Highlights from the ITEA2 Symposium 2009 - Business-oriented innovation that strengthens economy and benefits society
• Upcoming Calls
• PiCToR Roadshow

PiCToR presents your project ideas in Europe

PiCToR attends European brokerage events

From December onwards Pictor advisors will attend at several European brokerage events on ICT R&D. Purpose of European brokerage events is to exchange and gather ideas for R&D topics and to start building consortia for introducing a European project in one of the many calls.

Pictor can promote your ideas

During these brokerages, Pictor Advisors reserve a timeslot to present interesting project ideas from Belgian companies. Based on these project ideas, PiCToR will look to bring Belgian companies in project consortia with similar ideas, or eventually will try to build a new consortia.

Let Pictor know your ideas, we’ll do the rest

Please take some time to think about topics that your c ompany would like to tackle in an European subsidized context. And let us know, so we can take it to Europe. In case you have an idea and are not sure how to formulate it, just contact us. We will help you.

Submit us your ideas as soon as possible

Please contact the PiCToR advisors at your earliest convenience if you have an idea that you want them to present at the brokerage events. In this way, we can make sure we can optimally prepare for presentation on these brokerage events.

Send a mail to tom.tourwe@sirris.be.

Highlights from the ITEA2 Symposium 2009 - Business-oriented innovation that strengthens economy and benefits society

The annual ITEA2 symposium this year focused on “Business-oriented innovation that strengthens economy and benefits society”, and attracted over 600 participants. The symposium invited speakers for plenary presentations, as well as all running projects for presenting their results at so-called project booths. During the plenary sessions, the ITEA 2 presidium for example presented programme achievements & successes, current facts & figures and its vision of the future of the programme. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) presented a report on “Innovation in the Software Sector”. (More information on the ITEA2 symposium website). PiCToR advisors visited the different project booths, and identified a number of major trends in the R&D in the ITEA2 programme:

• Internet of things or a network of objects that are all equipped with radio tags, so they can be identified and managed by computers. An example is the DYSE project that aims at enabling ordinary people to easily create, setup and control applications in their smart living environments. This allows them to leverage smart objects for obtaining highly personalised, social, interactive, flowing experiences at home and in the city.
• Everything Smart. An example is the Osami-Commons project that targets open source foundations for a dynamic service-oriented platform which can adapt itself to a large diversity of cooperating software intensive systems.
• Model-driven Development or a product development methodology which focuses on increasing productivity, simplifying the design process and promoting communication by creating models, or abstractions, more close to some particular domain concepts rather than computing (or algorithmic) concepts. An example is D-Mint, a project that aims to develop, enhance, and deploy high performance automated methods and tools, based on executable models, for quality assurance of large and distributed software-intensive systems.
• Energy Efficiency, or how ICT technology can help to use less energy and provide the same level of energy service. An example is eDiana whose main goal is improved energy efficiency in residential and non-residential buildings through the use of embedded devices. The approach is to achieve greater efficiency in use of resources, prioritising energy as scarce resource, more flexibility in the provision of resources and better situation awareness for the citizen and for service and infrastructure owners. 

Upcoming Calls

The Fifth call of the ITEA 2 programme will open in February 2010. The brokerage event and the call schedule and priorities will be announced early 2010.The Third call (Call 2010) of the ARTEMIS-JU will be based on the Draft Annual Working Plan (AWP) 2010 that is elaborated by ARTEMISIA. The AWP identifies specific sub-programme priorities for 2010: 

• Methods and processes for safety-relevant embedded systems (ASP1),
• Person-centric health management (ASP2),
• Smart environments (ASP3),
• Efficient manufacturing and logistics (ASP4),
• Computing environments for embedded systems (ASP5),
• Security, privacy and dependability (ASP6),
• Embedded technology for sustainable urban life (ASP7),
• Human-centric design of embedded systems (ASP8).

• Challenge 2: Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics
• Challenge 4: Digital Libraries and Content
• Challenge 5: Towards sustainable and personalized healthcare
• Challenge 6: ICT for Mobility, Environment Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
• Challenge 8: Future and Emerging Technology (FET) Proactive

PiCToR Roadshow

In collaboration with Innovatiecentrum Oost-Vlaanderen, PiCToR advisors organised a lunch session on "Europese subsidies zijn niets voor mijn bedrijf". In this interactive session, twelve interested SMEs were introduced to PiCToR. By means of concrete examples, the added value of participating in European Research and Development was clarified, and the PiCToR approach of linking an individual SME's challenges to European research projects was explained.

After the session, four SMEs contacted PiCToR and are now in the process of taking their first steps towards European R&D.

More info on PiCToR can be found on www.pictor-office.org.

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