EUREKA PROJECT > 3674 ITEA 2
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THE NETHERLANDS
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ITEA 2 - EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP IN SOFTWARE-INTENSIVE SYSTEMS
INDUSTRY-DRIVEN COOPERATIVE R & D PROGRAMME FOR MAINTAINING EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP IN SOFTWARE-INTENSIVE SYSTEMS (IN WHICH SOFTWARE REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT SEGMENT IN SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY, SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT COST & RISK, SYSTEM DEV. TIME).
Status > ANNOUNCED - 25-Jun-2006 Technological Area Market Area Start Date > 01-Jan-2006 Duration > 96 Months Participating countries > THE NETHERLANDS, TURKEY, SWEDEN, NORWAY, ISRAEL, FRANCE, FINLAND, SPAIN, GERMANY, BELGIUM, AUSTRIA, ITALY, DENMARK | Main contactITEA OFFICE
Dr. Fopke Klok > Office Director Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
Project Description
ITEA 2 is the successor of the cluster programme ITEA which was launched in 1998 and runs to the end of 2008. The ITEA programme is today the leading trans-national European co-operative R & D programme in software-intensive systems. ITEA is a great European success story, based on the development of a shared vision of the future of Software-intensive Systems (SiS) and underpinned by the ITEA Technology Roadmap (widely recognised as a landmark document). ITEA's portfolio of some hundred strategic projects has involved participation from all over Europe and from all stakeholders (large industry, SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), academia and research institutes). In essence, ITEA has put Europe back on the map in the emerging 'embedded intelligence' revolution. ITEA 2 now offers the crucial next step to maintaining the momentum established by ITEA and building upon the success and lessons from ITEA in a dramatically changing world. Software is the key to the digital revolution which is an integral part of our industrial and societal future. By responding to the revolutionary challenges, ITEA 2 maintains the successful principal vision of ITEA, but updated for the new global context, 'for Europe to maintain leadership in this new era of embedded Software-intensive Systems and Services building on key European strength and industries'. The new global context is based on key competitive issues for Europe: * European R & D intensity is lagging critically behind our main competitors; * There is a need to understand and master the lag between R & D and commercial innovation; * Off-shoring is reaching an unprecedented level; and * The 'European paradox' - great science and technology but poor translation into products. The dramatic shift to embedded systems as the core challenge of ITEA 2 is affecting all aspects of our everyday lives. As the electronics content of modern cars and new generation aircraft grows exponentially, rapid European response to the demands will result in hundreds of thousands of new high-quality jobs in the European automotive and aeronautics industries, with significant multiplier effects. The growing interconnection of consumer electronic devices that provide a host of services in the home is placing a time bomb under the need for software development - a bomb that must be defused rapidly to keep high level work in Europe. The future of healthcare and medical systems is increasingly demanding of software that can help and speed diagnosis and treatment - essential for our well-being and quality of life. Great strides are being made in Europe on the micro-electronics side (MEDEA+ programme). But the big challenge is to devise, create and master the software architectures, technologies and systems, solutions and services for myriad applications including safety-, security-, and time critical functions. Europe must face up to the software requirements gap - already a core issue of ITEA and a continuing challenge for ITEA 2 - while simultaneously ensuring rigid software quality standards, and structuring the total applications design process so as to allow applications to mingle fluently and naturally with everyday life/operation and interactions. Overall Programme architecture: ITEA 2 is defined as a two-phase programme, with projects starting in 2007, and each phase being characterised by its specific work programme (based on ITEA's Roadmap) with four yearly calls. The ambition of ITEA 2 is to mobilise a total of 20,000 person-years over the full eight-year duration, translating into an effort of 2,500 person-years per year - thus requiring a significant increase in investment level. This level of ambition follows from the experience in ITEA, the need to further close the gap in R & D investment (3% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), Lisbon objective) and the ever-growing importance of SiS. Keywords: information technology, ICT (Information and Communications Technology).
Technological Development Envisaged
The rationale for ITEA's launch was a response to the fact that the digital age is imminent and the digital transition is proceeding rapidly. 'These changes, the most significant since the Industrial Revolution, are far-reaching and global. They are not just about technology. They will affect everyone, everywhere'. Software is the key to this revolution. Never before has European industry mounted a concerted strategic R & D initiative to address this challenge. Today, we are facing the second wave in this digital transition - often called the 'embedded' or 'ambient intelligence' revolution. This is deeply penetrating the very fabric of the physical world and our interaction in and with this world, enabled by ubiquitous communications and intelligence in even the smallest objects - sometimes metaphorically called 'smart dust/smart things'. This revolution is marked by ever-increasing software intensity and systems complexity and accompanied by a move from the classical product-oriented world towards a seamless services-oriented one. In other words, it is all about embedded software-intensive systems and services of unprecedented complexity and about digital convergence, ITEA's core interest from its very beginnings. In addition to this new set of technological and resulting business challenges, the overall context has also dramatically changed, marked by: * Ever fiercer global race and competition, driven by technological advances but also by the rise of developing new powers, most notably CHINA and INDIA, with far reaching implications on global work-share (off-shoring), competitive strategies and innovation cycles/time-to-market; * Complete transition in the overall business model, from the classical two-tier original equipment manufacturer (OEM)-supplier model to agile dynamic multi-tier global OEM-supplier networks, delivering seamless solutions and services to customers irrespective of sector, location, mode, etc. and giving rise to an ever increasing role for SMEs in this dynamic fabric; * Major societal challenges and their fall-out, such as: anaemic European growth rates leading to employment challenges and calling for a new cross-sectional growth enabler like SiS; 9/11 events, heightening our sensitivity to safety and security to an unprecedented level, and leading to the ever-growing importance of and huge spending on ICT and critical infrastructures to contain global threats and security risks; and last but not least from European demographics calling for innovative concepts to maintain quality of life, for example through 'ambient environments'; and * The rise of the Open Source Software/Open Innovation movement. As stated in the ITEA Report on open source software: 'Open source software may well be one of the best tools for escaping (at least partially) from the monopolistic positions that certain giant non-European companies have established in areas that are key to European development and independence. In particular, it may also be one of the best tools for preserving and strengthening European access to and control of basic software for embedded systems in those application areas (e.g. automotive) where European software companies have a strong position, and where other global suppliers aim to extend their monopolistic positions elsewhere.' In other words, the challenges and threats to European competitiveness and well-being are even higher today - including in world-leading sectors such as the automotive, mobile phone, aeronautics, and manufacturing and process industries. Relentless innovation is our sole means of maintaining the European model - i.e. the triple societal benefits of growth, employment and quality of life. Responding to these revolutionary challenges, ITEA 2 maintains the successful principal vision of ITEA, updated to the new global context, 'for Europe to maintain leadership in this new era of embedded Software-intensive Systems and Services building on key European strength and industries'. The ITEA Technology roadmap describes ITEA 2's view on core questions: 1. Which problems and software technology challenges tackled in the ITEA 2 programme need to be solved? 2. How do we expect them to develop in the years ahead? The following main Technology Clusters are defined: * CONTENT * INFRASTRUCTURES & BASIC SERVICES * HUMAN-SYSTEM INTERACTION * ENGINEERING. The views on future developments are described per application domain: Home, Cyber Enterprise, Nomadic, Infrastructure & Basic Services and Services & Software Creation. Within the ITEA 2 programme, a new domain 'Emerging Applications' will be taken into account.
Main contactSIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES (SBS) GMBH & CO. OHG DR. WOLFGANG KERN > HEAD C-LABORATORY Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. - Systems and software engineering capabilities, integration and application expertise relevant to a wide range of IT/MM systems, products and services. - Management of complex, widespread collaborative projects.
Expertise
Since its foundation in 1995, SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES has developed into a global full-service provider of information and communication technology solutions and services (2004: Sales 4.7 billion euro, Staff 36,000); SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES is completely owned by SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT. As a global full-service provider, SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES offers the complete Consult-Design-Build-Operate-Maintain chain of services. For the customer, this means that everything can be obtained from a single source: from IT consulting to system integration and infrastructure management. In addition, the issue of security is an important component of all of the company's services. In combination with the huge SIEMENS portfolio, this gives SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES a unique competitive advantage in all global markets. In outsourcing and IT maintenance, SIEMENS is one of the world's top ten suppliers. In the company's matrix organisation, the regional business units are supported by 'Global Business Units', which are responsible for the worldwide activities in the Solution Business, Operation Related Services and Product Related Services. SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES provides government institutions and businesses with a comprehensive portfolio of multi-vendor IT services and solutions. The SIEMENS subsidiary has many years of expertise in key areas of information technology applications and in business process design. With its experience in engineering systems and services, C-LAB will provide the main contributions of SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES within ITEA. C-LAB was founded in 1985 and is the joint research and development laboratory operated by SIEMENS and PADERBORN UNIVERSITY. The general working domain of C-LAB is 'co-operative computing & communication' comprising the domains of both applications and technologies for computing. The basic idea of C-LAB is to combine both technology push and market pull as closely as possible in order to maximise cross-fertilisation and to stimulate innovation.
Main contactALCATEL LUCENT MR. ERIC PERRIN-PELLETIER > CENTRAL & SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
VICE PRESIDENT Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. ALCATEL has extensive software and systems capabilities, applied to large-scale software intensive system simulation, test and integration and oriented to telecommunications systems, products and services.
Expertise
The organisation provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. ALCATEL can offer its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. ALCATEL employs about 13,000 software engineers. Through its different business divisions and its Corporate Research Centre, it is very active in co-operative research, either in diverse EU Framework Programmes or in EUREKA programmes.
Main contactVINNOVA - THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY FOR INNOVATION SYSTEMS
DR. HERBERT SANDER > PROGRAMME MANAGER Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
Contribution to project
Promote the participation of Swedish academia and industry in ITEA2 cluster projects.
Expertise
The organisation is an agency under the MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY, EMPLOYMENT AND COMMUNICATION. VINNOVA is working to achieve sustainable growth by developing efficient innovation systems and financing problem-oriented research.
Main contactITEA OFFICE
Dr. Fopke Klok > Office Director Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
Contribution to project
The main tasks of the ITEA 2 organisation will be to: * Create/increase awareness of the programme; * Help set up projects and continue to support them throughout their working period; * Ensure rigorous quality from call to completion; and * Monitor changes in technology and steer the technical content of the programme accordingly, while maintaining strong co-operation with Public Authorities and other EUREKA Cluster programmes. Four bodies will be in place: - the Board; - the Board Support Group - the Steering Group - All supported by the fourth (the ITEA Office) to achieve these goals in combination with efficient procedures and the implementation of a full-scale communications policy. The ITEA 2 Office will be part of the combined Office for the former ITEA programme as well as for ITEA 2. In summary, the combined Office will: - execute the office tasks for ITEA - execute the office tasks for ITEA 2 - be part of and support the office of the ARTEMIS European Technology Platform. The Public Authorities that support ITEA 2 will harmonise and synchronise measures related to the ITEA 2 programme to ensure continuity and optimal execution of the programme. A Directors Committee and an Authorities Committee will directly interface respectively with the ITEA Board and the ITEA Board Support Group. Procedures will be defined for: - Call procedure - Change requests - Monitoring and reviewing - Co-operation with Public Authorities - Finance and accounting - Legal - Communication - Human resources - Document control - Database management (project database, address database, etc). The most important procedures and the way of working will be published in the Rules & Regulations document, internal procedures in the ITEA Office Handbook. The ITEA 2 organisation will be built and managed according the ITEA 2 framework agreement, signed by the ITEA 2 founding companies. The legal identity of ITEA 2 will be an Office Association based in THE NETHERLANDS. The members of the General Assembly of the Association will be representatives of the ITEA 2 founding companies. The Board of Directors will be appointed by the General Assembly of the Association and will manage this Office Association. The articles of the ITEA Office Association will be signed by the ITEA 2 founding companies. The ITEA 2 organisation will have no direct financial control over the projects performed. Technical know-how, ownership of results and responsibility for project management, execution and reporting will remain with the project partners and will be agreed upon in the Project Co-operation Agreement (PCA).
Expertise
The ITEA 2 founding companies are: 1. ALCATEL, Paris, FRANCE 2. BARCO N.V., BELGIUM 3. ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of GERMANY 4. BULL SA, Louveciennes, FRANCE 5. DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG, Stuttgart, GERMANY 6. ITALTEL S.P.A., Milan, ITALY 7. NOKIA CORPORATION, Helsinki, FINLAND 8. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V., Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS 9. SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES (SBS) GMBH, Munich, Federal Republic of GERMANY 10. TELVENT INTERACTIVA S.A., Seville, SPAIN 11. THALES S.A., Paris, FRANCE 12. THOMSON S.A., Boulogne Billancourt, FRANCE. Their expertise areas: - Content * Content Acquisition & Processing * Content Representation * Data & Content Management - Infrastructures & Basic Services * Network Transport * Network Services * Resource Management * Security - Human-System Interaction - Engineering * System Engineering * Software Engineering * Engineering Process Support. These ITEA 2 Founding Companies are prepared to invest in ITEA 2 as they did in ITEA: 1. The importance of R & D is growing, especially in Europe's key industrial areas such as Automotive, Aerospace, Consumer Electronics, Medical Equipment and Telecom Equipment. The shift to SW (Software) in R & D in these areas is extremely important. The worldwide growth in SW R & D investments in these areas is expected to grow by 130% between 2002 and 2015! 2. With their signature of the ITEA 2 Frame Agreement the founding companies agree to actively participate in, manage, coordinate and promote the ITEA 2 activities. They will participate in Board-BSG-STG meetings and contribute their capabilities to make ITEA 2 a success. 3. The ITEA founding companies invested over 4,000 Person Years in ITEA Projects during the Call's 1-8. This represents more then 40% of the total ITEA effort. 4. The willingness by the ITEA Partners to invest in ITEA projects during the last 5 years is proven to be twice as high as available funding budgets in the EUREKA countries.
Main contactTHALES MR. DOMINIQUE POTIER > VICE PRESIDENT SOFTWARE RESEARCH Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. THALES is an international electronics and systems group, serving the defence, aerospace and security markets. The group employs 60,000 people worldwide and generated revenues of 10.3 billion euro in 2004. Key figures on Research & Technology Technological excellence is an essential component of the THALES strategy and identity, and innovation is a key factor in the success of its current and future systems. The technology content of THALES' business has increased considerably in recent years. By leveraging the expertise and capabilities of all units, the Group has built a solid platform of common technologies that now provides a reliable basis for collaborative development of sustainable solutions for the future. Technological cooperation with upstream research teams, and with the Group's suppliers and customers, has boosted the Group's capabilities and strengthened its position in the markets of the future. Consistently high levels of R & D spending, even in a difficult business environment, are evidence of the importance of research and development for the Group. In recent years, THALES has invested nearly 1.9 billion euro annually in these activities (18% of consolidated revenues in 2004). By way of comparison, net industrial investment was 321 million euro in 2004 and 350 million euro in 2003. In 2004, company-funded R & D expenditure represented 4.2% of consolidated revenues, and total R&D expenditure represented 17.9%. Research & Technology cooperation In a few short years, technology cooperation has become critical to the competitiveness of companies in the THALES Group's sectors of activity. To benefit as quickly as possible from research conducted in Europe and speed transfer throughout the Group, THALES has a policy of partnership and proactive networking with some of the most prestigious research centres and universities, and with certain customers. THALES has particularly close relationships with the public research establishments CNRS, INRIA, CEA, ONERA and the ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE in FRANCE; the UNIVERSITIES OF CAMBRIDGE AND SURREY, and IMPERIAL COLLEGE in the UNITED KINGDOM; TNO and the UNIVERSITIES OF DELFT AND AMSTERDAM in THE NETHERLANDS; and NUS (NANYANG UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE), NTU (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE), and IME (INSTITUTE OF MICRO ELECTRONICS), also in SINGAPORE.
Expertise
Technical and technological innovation involves many of the Group's functions: research and development teams designing new products, marketing teams analysing customers' future needs, and strategy teams defining the Group's positioning and preparing technology partnerships. Customers are now playing a larger role in this loop, as more of them take part in the innovative choices being made for their future products. To put innovative ideas into practice and to assess their value, THALES has a policy and a set of tools for developing interaction between the various players involved in innovation. A strategic technology plan is drawn up in each business and division each year and consolidated at corporate level. The plan is used to identify critical technologies, R & D priorities and commonalities needed for the sustainable development of the Group's products and systems. THALES devotes some 20% of its R & D expenditure to preparing the products and systems of the future. The research fields are chosen for their specific interest or potential for differentiating THALES from its competitors. Projects frequently involve system, equipment or product demonstrators produced by the Divisions, and technological research for more cross-functional technologies. The major fields for cross-functional research are the following: - complex systems engineering; - microwave, optical and optronics components; - computer architecture and software design tools; - information processing and data fusion; - secure Internet technologies and applications; - security technologies and applications. THALES products and systems are then put together from these basic technologies and other products available on the market. To meet its customers' demands and to benefit from its partners' and technology suppliers' own research and innovation, THALES has invested substantially in the international standardisation process, both for technologies (such as OMG (Object Management Group) for software architecture, and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) for networks) and for business lines, particularly avionics. CONTRIBUTION: The partnership policy can involve pooling human and technical resources for a joint project or platform. The type of cooperation varies according to the partner and the content of the research or development work: - Internal cooperation programmes, in which THALES Group units combine their capabilities to meet strategic 'transverse' objectives. - Longer-term cooperation programmes with selected outside partners: * embedded real-time software architecture and components with CEA-LIST and INRIA; * Internet Quality of Service with the UNIVERSITY OF PARIS 6 and TELECOM Paris; * communications and 'virtual office/collaboration' technology with the UNIVERSITY OF SURREY; * special components based on new materials with IEM in Lille; * modelling, design and characterisation of microwave components with IRCOM in Limoges, large-area electronics with CEA-LETI; * Polytechnique; * superconducting materials and spin electronics with CNRS. - Hardware technology platforms for sharing high-cost research equipment, with IOTA and the ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE in Palaiseau, IEMN in Lille, and ALCATEL in Marcoussis. - Research and development programmes with industrial partners and technology suppliers - for example, in 2004, THALES and ALCATEL formed a partnership (see box) for research into micro-electronic and optoelectronic semi-conducting components. THALES is a partner in major air traffic security and safety programmes, and in avionics with AIRBUS and AMS; and with IBM, THALES is developing software components under partnerships including SOFTEAM and 6WIND. THALES is also an active participant in a wide range of European military and civil programmes (including EUCLID and EUROFINDER, the European 6th and 7th Framework Programmes for R & D, and EUREKA). THALES is taking part in the creation of three European technology platforms under the 7th Framework Programme: ACARE in avionics, ARTEMIS in embedded software systems, and ENIAC in micro- and nano-electronics; it is also a member of national research and technology networks in FRANCE, the UNITED KINGDOM and THE NETHERLANDS. In addition, THALES is involved in cooperative ventures with institutes and universities near Group facilities in GERMANY, Asia (particularly SINGAPORE), North America and AUSTRALIA.
Main contactDANISH AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MR. JENS PETER VITTRUP > SPECIAL ADVISOR Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
Contribution to project
Umbrella NUP.
Expertise
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Main contactMATIMOP - ISRAELI INDUSTRY CENTER FOR R & D MR. YAIR AMITAY > MANAGING DIRECTOR Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
Contribution to project
Promotion of participation of Israeli companies in EUROENVIRON projects.
Expertise
The Israeli Industry Centre for R&D (www.matimop.org.il) is a government owned non-profit organisation. Functioning as the interface between Israeli companies and their international counterparts, MATIMOP promotes cooperative industrial R&D in advanced technologies. MATIMOP is responsible for carrying out the international programmes for bilateral and multilateral cooperation in industrial R&D, signed and funded by the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE (http://www2.matimop.org.il/1/foreign/index.asp). MATIMOP is home to the Israeli EUREKA Office, ISERD - The Israel Directorate for the EU Framework Programme, and is operating the Israeli IRC (Innovation Relay Centre). It has extensive experience in public funded national and international industrial cooperation. Israel's High Tech Industry has leading edge know-how in many areas, such as IT (Information Technology), Communications, Nano, Electro-optics, Biotechnology Medical Technologies and others.
Main contactDANISH ELECTRONICS, LIGHT AND ACOUSTICS MSC. EE OLE STEENSEN > MANAGER TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION Organisation type > Research Institute |
Contribution to project
Danish NUS - Umbrella Sectoral Representative. DELTA is a knowledge and test centre with a broad competence, patents and IPRs covering sensors and sensor systems targeting Health monitoring of non-hospitalised individuals. Systems are based on micro- and nano-sensors, embedded processing and wireless communication to care centres or the like. Other applications are welcome as well. Furthermore, DELTA's competences comprise rapid prototyping based on FPGA technologies, real-time/geographical distributed data collection and intelligent signal processing. DELTA has profound knowledge of regulatory rules and standards controlling commercial utilisation of instruments and equipment worldwide. Supporting competences include software evaluation, microelectronics (including design of ASICs), acoustics, sensor systems based on optics and failure analysis in micro systems. DELTA has a very broad network including 2,000 customers/year and collaboration with a great number of universities in DENMARK as well as throughout Europe.
Expertise
The Institute has participated in more than 20 European funded projects over the last 20 years and has served as project leader as well as technology provider/developer. DELTA has 250 employees out of which more than 50% hold an academic degree. More than 50% of our turnover originates from customers outside DENMARK.
Main contactDAIMLERCHRYSLER AG (STUTTGART) MR. VOLKMAR WEBERSINKE-MATEJKA > MANAGER OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL http://www.daimlerchrysler.com Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. DAIMLERCHRYSLER will contribute to the definition, development, standardisation and engineering of complex embedded systems with multiple functionalities for automotive applications and for integrated management and control systems.
Expertise
The organisation is a globally present car manufacturer. The core businesses are in passenger cars, commercial vehicles and trucks. As a manufacturer, DAIMLERCHRYSLER also has significant expertise in systems integration for process and production control. Research and development is carried out for all divisions by DAIMLERCHRYSLER Research based on the work of more than 2,500 employees. The main objectives of the department of Systems and Software Research are to improve safety, reliability and the overall quality of software, and to develop new concepts for efficient development of software based complex systems.
Main contactITALTEL S.P.A. DR. ING. MAURIZIO PIGNOLO > HEADOF COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. - Systems and software engineering capabilities as well as integration and application experience relevant to a wide range of telecommunication systems, products and services. - Expertise in national and international collaborative R & D projects.
Expertise
The organisation's core business is the design, development and installation of new-generation integrated multi-service network equipment (voice/data/video). Built upon a solid background in PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) networking and switching, the competencies and skills of ITALTEL's Research & Development lie in staying at the leading edge of the evolution of TLC networks towards the IP paradigm. At the present time, R & D focus is on software and hardware technologies enabling the design and development of ITALTEL's new product lines, namely softswitch, gateway products, application servers and element managers. The skills in hardware technologies range from complex carrier-grade control board design to network processor architectures and DSP applications. However software technologies and skills include protocols, call control applications, security frameworks in telecom trusted domains and network management. In 2004, research & development and innovation activity costs totalled 88.6 million euro, amounting to 16.3% of revenue. 980 people, or 43% of the total workforce, are devoted to the above activities. The R & D is wholly carried out in ITALY at the plants located in Castelletto di Settimo Milanese (740 employees), and in Carini, near Palermo (240 employees). ITALTEL's innovation and development activities focus on three main areas: * Hardware/middleware development * Software engineering and development * System integration of network solutions. During the last year, ITALTEL's deployment of products and services to major national and international customers included: - Next Generation Network softswitch in Class 4 and Class 5; - Next Generation Services: extension of voice and video telephony services to 'native' IP users. - Application Servers and Presence Servers for producing video-communication services. - Softswitch evolutions for SIP networks. - Database for the centralised management of user profiles, both static and dynamic, as a first step towards the delivery of nomadicity, presence and ubiquity services also to fixed and innovative IP telephony users (SIP or H.323).
Main contactEUTEMA TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT GMBH DR. ERICH PREM > DIRECTOR Organisation type > SME |
Contribution to project
The organisation will offer support to public authorities and facilitate information dissemination about ITEA 2 in AUSTRIA. Its role as the co-ordinator of the ARTEMIS MIRROR GROUP support project COSINE will facilitate policy discussion and interaction with the public authorities running national Embedded Systems research programmes. EUTEMA will contribute to the generation of ITEA 2 projects and the participation of Austrian companies and RTD organisation in ITEA 2 projects.
Expertise
The organisation offers support, information, analyses and communication in the areas of research and technological development projects, national and international funding schemes, project management and public measures. EUTEMA offers services for companies and research organisations, public sector organisations and policy makers. EUTEMA services include management of funding schemes, target group analysis and communication, stimulation actions, project evaluation, technology assessment and feasibility studies, evaluation and management of research and innovation projects and innovation programmes. In particular, EUTEMA currently manages the largest Austrian information technology RTD programme, FIT-IT with an envisaged budget of 13.5 million euro in 2006. EUTEMA also co-ordinates the EU project COSINE in which national policies of European members and associated states in the area of Embedded Systems are co-ordinated. The project also supports the Mirror Group of Public representatives to the ARTEMIS technology platform. EUTEMA is experienced in EUREKA based on its work in national studies on EUROCARE and EUREKA and its staff who have a strong background in international RTD frameworks and programmes.
Main contactBARCO N.V.
IR. LUC DESIMPELAERE > MANAGER CORPORATE RESEARCH Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. Software and systems engineering capabilities targeted towards Multimedia, Broadcasting, Communications systems, Process control, Medical imaging, Avionics, Traffic and Security control systems, Simulation and Virtual reality.
Expertise
The organisation is a world leader in professional markets, in which it offers display and visualisation solutions. Based upon in-depth market knowledge, the company designs and develops solutions for large screen visualisation, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Currently BARCO is active in the markets of traffic, surveillance, broadcasting, presentation, simulation and virtual reality, edutainment, events, media, digital cinema, air traffic control, defence & security, medical imaging, avionics and textiles. BARCO is headquartered in BELGIUM, and has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R & D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Worldwide, BARCO employs more than 4,200 people and recorded sales close to 670 million euro in 2004.
Main contactTELVENT INTERACTIVA S.A. ING. JUAN MANUEL MARTINEZ PEREZ > DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY DIVISION Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. Systems and software engineering R & D capabilities for systems, products and services.
Expertise
The organisation is specialised in real-time solutions with high added value in four specific industrial sectors; Energy, Traffic, Transport and Environment. With over 40 years of experience in industrial supervisory control and business process management systems, TELVENT conducts projects and provides technical services in the field of mission-critical, real-time control and information management. With a comprehensive portfolio of outsourcing and consulting services, and employing a technology-neutral philosophy, TELVENT manages IT and telecommunication infrastructures for an extensive international client base. The above includes expertise areas in the core ITEA categories; Content, Infrastructures & Basic Services, Human-System Interaction and Systems and Software Engineering.
Main contactPHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V. DR. IR AART. A. VAN GORKUM > GENERAL MANAGEMENT / SEN. VICE PRESIDENT Organisation type > Large company |
Contribution to project
ITEA 2 Founding Company. ROYAL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest with sales in 2004 of 30.3 billion euro. PHILIPS is active in Healthcare, Lifestyle & Technology. MEDICAL SYSTEMS With over 30,000 employees - more than half of them in the U.S.A. - and a presence in more than 100 countries around the world, Medical Systems is firmly established as a worldwide leader in many of the markets it serves. Medical Systems operates in four main business groups: cardiac and monitoring systems, digital imaging systems, medical IT (Information Technology) and ultrasound. DOMESTIC APPLIANCES & PERSONAL CARE PHILIPS Domestic Appliances & Personal Care (DAP) employs some 8,200 people, runs manufacturing operations in 7 countries and maintains more than sixty individual national sales organisations around the globe. In 2004, it posted sales of 2,044 million euros. Its activities are grouped into 5 business units: Shaving & Beauty, Oral Healthcare, Home Environment Care, Food & Beverage and Consumer Health & Wellness. CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Employing 17,000 people worldwide, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS is a global leader in connected displays, home entertainment networks and mobile infotainment. Its product range includes televisions (conventional CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and Flat screen), DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) players and recorders, audio systems (separates and portables), telephones (mobile and cordless), computer monitors (CRT and LCD - Liquid Crystal Display), home theatre systems, set top boxes and accessories. LIGHTING PHILIPS LIGHTING is No.1 in the global lighting market and employs 44,000 people worldwide, with manufacturing operations in Europe, the UNITED STATES, Latin America and Asia. It operates in four lines of business: Lamps, Luminaries, Lighting Electronics and Automotive, Special Lighting and UHP (Ultra High Power). Its products can be found in approximately 30 per cent of offices, 65 per cent of the world's top airports, 30 per cent of hospitals, 35 per cent of cars and 55 per cent of major football stadiums. SEMICONDUCTORS A leading supplier of silicon system solutions for mobile communications, consumer electronics, digital displays, contactless payment and connectivity, and in-car entertainment and networking. It is one of the top ten global semiconductor manufacturers, employing more than 35,000 people, 6,000 of whom are engineers or software engineers. It is a global organisation operating twenty manufacturing sites and maintaining sales organisations in sixty countries around the world. OTHER ACTIVITIES This sector comprises the Corporate Technology, an innovation powerhouse with organisations dedicated to research, intellectual property and standards, system integration services and emerging businesses, corporate investments and others, a range of PHILIPS' businesses that strategically no longer fit in the current product divisions, and PHILIPS' design competence.
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The organisation's substantial investment in R & D has generated many breakthrough inventions, such as the Compact Cassette system and the laser based optical disc systems CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc) and various DVD-formats. - R & D spending in 2004: 2.5 billion euro - 115,000 patents - Many breakthrough inventions in the areas of Healthcare, Lifestyle & Technology. Founded in Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS in 1914, PHILIPS RESEARCH as part of KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V., has expanded the scale and scope of its activities to become one of the world's major private research organisations. With laboratories in five different countries (THE NETHERLANDS, ENGLAND, GERMANY, CHINA and the UNITED STATES) and staffed by around 2,100 people, PHILIPS RESEARCH creates innovations in the areas of healthcare, lifestyle and enabling technologies. Our common vision is to create technologies that will lead to products for improving people's lives. Our activities have led to the award of more than 126,000 patent and design rights, and the publishing of many thousands of technical and scientific papers. The annual research budget of PHILIPS RESEARCH is slightly less than 1% of PHILIPS ELECTRONICS' annual sales, which amounted to more than 30 billion euro in 2004. Roughly two-thirds of the corporate research work is geared to the activities of the Product Divisions of PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, with contractual agreements on programmes and costs. The remainder is research of a more exploratory nature. (Total R & D efforts of PHILIPS ELECTRONICS amount to approximately 8% of sales). Scientists from a wide range of disciplines, from electrical engineering and physics to chemistry, mathematics, mechanics, information technology and software, work in close proximity, influencing and broadening each other's views. This implies that PHILIPS RESEARCH reaps the benefits of synergy and cross-fertilisation of ideas. In close cooperation with the Philips Product Divisions, the PHILIPS RESEARCH organisation generates options for new and improved products and processes and produces important patents in many fields. These patents are important because they protect technological achievements and enable PHILIPS to gain access to the knowledge of others. PHILIPS RESEARCH also provides a window on the outside scientific and technological world.
Main contactBULL S.A. (LES CLAYES-SOUS-BOIS)
MR. MEDUR SRIDHARAN > R&D PROJECTS COORDINATOR Organisation type > Large company |
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ITEA 2 Founding Company. BULL is active and willing to contribute in all the fields covered by the ITEA programme in order to make progress in the main middleware technologies to be integrated or used in its products and services.
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The organisation is one of the world's ten largest information systems suppliers, and is the leading European based supplier of integrated information systems. BULL designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies and proposing a wide range of services, from system integration consulting to outsourcing. BULL offers its customers expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and optimisation of their IT infrastructure and applications. BULL has heavy presence in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication and manufacturing sectors. Capitalising on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide. BULL mobilises its research and development activities based on five key programmes: - NovaScale servers: From blades to large multi-processor servers, NovaScale servers are based on the new generation of Intel(R) 64-bit processors. These modular mainframe class servers support Linux(R), Microsoft(R) Windows(R), GCOS 7 (end 2005) and GCOS 8. Their high performance makes them suitable for business as well as scientific applications. - GCOS Mainframes: BULL's mainframes take advantage of new architectures based on Intel(R) processors. They combine the robustness of the GCOS operating system with the openness and low cost of standard components. - Escala servers: Based on AIX(TM) and IBM's Power processors, BULL's Escala servers are characterised by their open solutions, in particular in the areas of storage, data bases and middleware, and by their powerful high availability functions. - Security solutions: Regularly quoted among the best in their category, BULL's security solutions include Identity and Access Management, Internet portals and encryption with AccessMaster, OpenMaster and TrustWay. - Open Source software: BULL is a major player in Open Source software. Founder member of the ObjectWeb consortium, Bull takes part in the development of e-business solutions (JOnAS) and contributes to enriching Linux by enhancing its robustness and operability. BULL has gained valuable experiences in major ITEA projects (ATHOS, PEPITA, LASCOT, etc.) as well as in other major EUREKA Projects (e.g. JESSI, ACROPOL, SHOPPING 2000, EURHIS, MEDEA, etc.) and in numerous collaborative R & D projects under the EU Framework Programmes.
Main contactNORGES FORSKNINGSRAD (THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY)
MR. TRON ESPELI > PROGRAMME MANAGER ICT Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
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Main contactROBERT BOSCH GMBH (STUTTGART)
DIPL. ING. WOLFGANG KLINGENBERG > PROJECT ACQUISITION AND COORDINATION Organisation type > Large company |
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ITEA 2 Founding Company. Contributions to different fields of IT - Information Technology (automotive technology, communications, broadcast, car multimedia, industrial technology, packaging technology, consumer goods, building technology, security systems, thermotechnology, power tools) in system engineering as well as application design and integration.
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The Group is a leading global manufacturer of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods and building technology. In 2004, some 242,000 associates generated sales of 40 billion euro. Set up in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as a 'Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering', the BOSCH GROUP today comprises a manufacturing, sales, and after-sales service network of some 260 subsidiaries and more than 10,000 service centres in over 130 countries. The special ownership structure of the BOSCH GROUP guarantees its financial independence and entrepreneurial freedom. It makes it possible for the company to undertake significant up-front investments in the safeguarding of its future, as well as to do justice to its social responsibility in a manner reflective of the spirit and will of its founder. 92% of the shares of ROBERT BOSCH GMBH are held by the charitable foundation ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG. The entrepreneurial ownership functions are carried out by ROBERT BOSCH INDUSTRIETREUHAND KG.
Main contactNOKIA GROUP/NOKIA RESEARCH CENTRE
PROF. KARI-PEKKA ESTOLA > VICE PRESIDENT, DEPUTY HEAD OF NOKIA RESEARCH CENTRE Organisation type > Large company |
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ITEA 2 Founding Company. As a broad-scope communications company NOKIA can essentially contribute to the goals of ITEA as well as bring in good possibilities for university or SME co-operation. NOKIA is active in research across a broad range of software technologies and closely related topics like electronic commerce, end user application software, multimedia terminal software platforms, integrated service platforms, SW (Software) architectures, software engineering environments, distributed computing platforms, telecom workstation applications for managing and planning telecom networks, embedded applications & methods, software process improvements, mobile computing, user Interfaces and usability, etc. Many of these research topics are challenging because of the critical systems involved. NOKIA also does research in many software intensive domains that as application domains are critical systems. These research topics cover for example: mobile networks, radio communications, communication systems in general, speech, audio and video systems as well as electronics.
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Main contactTHOMSON MR. THIERRY PLASSARD > MANAGER / NATIONAL & EUREKA PROGRAMS COORDINATOR Organisation type > Large company |
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ITEA 2 Founding Company.
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The organisation provides the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industries with the services, systems and technologies they need to optimise their performance in a changing technology environment for video and imaging. THOMSON's customers are in Media & Entertainment: content creators (movie studios, broadcasters, game developers, advertisers, etc.), content distributors (broadcasters, network operators, Internet Service Providers, retailers, etc.) and users of video technology. Over the next two years, the Group will: (i) Broaden its offering to existing Media & Entertainment clients and expand its client base; (ii) Enhance its technology intensity, raising its profile in technology-related debates and industry choices; (iii) Position itself in electronic content distribution, and (iv) Become a leader in Internet Protocol access and home networking devices and solutions. THOMSON has unique experience of video content technologies which are much more complex to manage in terms of structure than data and voice technologies. Our top R & D priorities are as follows: MASTERING COMPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES. THOMSON leads the field in coding, decoding, compression and decompression processing technologies. It was involved in drawing up the MPEG4 Part10/ JVT/AVC standard which became an international image compression standard in 2003. It leads the way in developing advanced and professional versions. All Group divisions use these technologies in a large number of applications from digital cinema to personal video players. THE NEW HIGH-SPEED NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES (FIXED AND MOBILE). The R & D work involved covers all the necessary network technologies, whether they deal with transmission (radio, modulation, coding), transport protocols (Internet, home networks, interconnectivity), fixed and mobile terminals, particularly 3G, or system approaches that are crucial in producing integrated offers with operators. The next stage of rolling out television solutions on ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) will see ADSL modems and decoders integrated. The mastering of both 'front end' ADSL access technologies and 'back end' audio and video decoding technologies will then be essential for ensuring that both solutions and products are competitive. ENSURING CONTENT SECURITY. Ensuring that digital content is protected is a vital factor today in designing and rolling out any new physical or electronic film or video distribution system. The basic technologies used at all levels of the chain are the same (encryption, secure management of public and private keys, holograms, digital finger prints, etc.). However, they are modified depending on the different application contexts: final post-production phase, screener, DVD distribution, etc. THE GROWING NEED FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT TOOLS. The increasing digitisation of daily rushes, the needs of programme broadcasters and navigating audio-visual equipment make it necessary to develop tools for displaying and managing digital content such as the generation of 'metadata' (content description) and automatic indexing tools. HIGH VALUE ADDED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ICS). The Group is looking to develop solutions incorporating the highest added value and so has been designing and developing key integrated circuits. The increasingly widespread use of digital technologies in products as well as the increasing integration of functionalities in an ever more limited number of ICs until they are finally integrated into a single IC (the System On Chip approach - SOC), have caused added value to shift from finished products to IC components. Some of the major integrated circuit design programmes are: professional video compression circuits, circuits for ADSL modems, the circuits required to receive new generation Hertzian and satellite digital television signals or even MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 HD (High Density) circuits for decoders.
Main contactIKT-NORGE
MR. HANS PETTER DAHLE > PROGRAMME MANAGER Organisation type > SME |
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The organisation is Norway's largest IT-organisation (Information Technology) with over 320 members, all within the IT-industry. It gathers most of the Norwegian industry in the field of business machines and telecommunications terminal equipment, including hardware, software, multimedia and services. The organisation's member companies have a combined annually turnover of approximately 100 million NOK, which is approximately 50% of the total turnover in the ICT-sector in NORWAY. ICT-NORWAY is heavily involved in R & D projects concerning IT.
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Main contactMATIMOP - ISRAELI INDUSTRY CENTER FOR R & D
MR. ISRAEL SHAMAY > NATIONAL PROJECT COORDINATOR FOR ISRAEL Organisation type > Governm./Nat. Admin. |
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Promotion of the Israeli companies in ITEA2.
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