This seventh programme report covers the second half of 2002 (1 July to 31 December 2002). While most of the information presented here relates to this period, newer information has been included as it became available.
Projects in ITEA
The outcome of the 5th Call was unprecedented, with 19 Full Project Proposals labelled, covering over 3000 person-years. Due to funding restrictions (most severe in Italy) two projects have withdrawn in the mean time, another two projects are expected to stop and four projects are likely to be seriously cut back in terms of effort. We forecast the remaining effort to be in the order of 1,800 FTEs (Full-Time Equivalent). In the reporting period ten Project Reviews took place of which eight were Final Reviews, all with positive results. Three projects stopped (one from Call 4 and two from Call 5) and four projects finished, bringing the current total to 52 labelled projects of which 16 are fi nished, 20 running and 16 in a start-up phase.
Our 6th Call opened on 20 January 2003 with a very successful Project Outline preparation meeting, both in terms of the number of participants (110) and in the number of submitted project ideas.
Mid-Term Assessment
The tender for candidate assessor companies was managed by DLR (Germany). The Terms of Reference (ToR) and Planning were prepared by a working group of the ITEA Authorities Committee. The assessor companies (IDATE and TNO-STB) started April 2003.
Roadmap
An interim report with the domain analyses on Complex System Engineering and
Intermediation Services & Infrastructures is ready and sent to the Public Authorities (published on the internal website). Due to a heavy workload, Professor Dr. Lauwereins was unable to continue his Roadmap animator activities, so our former Vice-Chairman, Eric Daclin, took these over. Updates of the existing domains will be followed by the full new release of Roadmap 2. Workshops with external experts have been organised in order to improve and benchmark the content.
Symposium
Our third annual symposium held in Amsterdam (Koepelkerk, 10-11 October 2002) was evaluated very positively by the participants (with an overall score of 4.1 out of 5). The European press was in attendance with 15 journalists (four Dutch and eleven from outside the Netherlands). All participants spoke highly of the exhibition of demos and prototypes from 31 projects, providing tangible evidence of successful cooperation with evident results. Also the special public session on software engineering was very well received, and we will plan a similar session for the next symposium that will be held on 9 and 10 October 2003. The ITEA Achievement Award 2002 was granted to PEPiTA as an outstanding example of effective European collaboration.
EUREKA & FP6
The IST organisation in Brussels has changed. As soon as the new organisation has settled in, the Strategic Domains discussion will be continued. In the meantime, the Chairmen of ITEA and MEDEA+ have been invited as permanent guests of ISTAG in FP6 (IST Advisory Group). The Telecommunications industry in Europe started a new initiative known as CELTIC. ITEA and MEDEA+ are involved in finding optimal solutions.
Organisation
On January 1st 2003, we welcomed Jean-Pierre Lacotte of Thomson who succeeded our long-standing and highly successful Vice-Chairman Eric Daclin. We thank Eric Daclin for his contributions, which have played an important part in establishing the ITEA programme. Mr F. Claerbout joined the ITEA Board, representing BARCO, and Mr E. Lehmann of DaimlerChrysler and Mr J. van Sas of Alcatel joined the ITEA Steering Group.
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