This year, the ITEA 2 Symposium took place in the ‘Port of Europe’ Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 21 to 22 October 2008.

The symposium included a joint one-day programme together with ARTEMISIA: the ARTEMIS and ITEA Co-summit (22 October).

The symposium programme was scheduled around this year’s overall theme: ‘European competitiveness and well-being through ICT-based innovation’ 

21-22 October 2008

• Website: ITEA 2 and ITEA 2 Symposium 2008
• Website: Co-summit website

• Website: ARTEMISIA Association

Mark your agenda for the the Point-One Annual Event on October 10th, 2008.

More information will follow in due time.  

10 October 2008

• Related website: Point-One

EURIPIDES gives an opportunity to catch up on the latest developments in European microsystem technology and electronic packaging in Europe.

Besides offering a platform for scientific discussion, the EURIPIDES Forum will again provide an excellent opportunity to present new project ideas, create project proposals and to set up project consortia with colleagues from all over Europe. 

9 - 10 October 2008

• Related website: EURIPIDES Forum

Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business communities, has been instrumental for educators and researchers, and has become an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives. OSS is a complex phenomenon and requires a interdisciplinary understanding of its engineering, technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.

The goal of OSS 2008 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public administration can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer

7 - 10 September 2008

• Website conference: OSS2008

• Related website: ITEA-COSI

On June 25 and 26, 2008, the ITEA LOMS project  and the FP6 projects OPUCE, SPICE, PLASTIC, SMS, MAGNET together organised the first international workshop on user-centric service creation and execution, i.e., the User Generated Services Workshop.

This workshop provided a unique opportunity to get to know the different service creation and execution approaches as researched and developed in these projects, via key talks, round table discussions and hands-on demonstrations and tutorials.

25-26 June 2008

• UGS Workshop Brochure pdf-document - 1.254 kB

• Registration website: OPUCE

• Project website: LOMS

The last ARTEMISIA General Assembly took place in Athens, Greece on the 4th of June 2008.

4 June 2008

• Website: ARTEMISIA Association

The International Conference on Software Engineering is the premier software engineering conference, it provided a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of software engineering.

10 - 18 May 2008

• Website conference: ICSE LEIPZIG 2008

• Related website: ITEA-COSI

Using open source software appears to be a profitable way to obtain good software. This is a result of several of its properties, ranging from effective feedback to the openness of the source. At a first glance open source and product line practices are conflicting.

This seminar aimed at finding ways to overcome these conflicting practices and how to profit from both approaches. Product line engineering can improve in agility and fast feedback improving the quality of the result. Open source software development can profit for variability management techniques, developed in product line engineering to improve the efficiency to deal with a diversity of configurations.

2 - 5 April 2008

• Website seminar: Dagstuhl

• Related website: ITEA-COSI

The ITEA project LOMS co-organised  the IEEE workshop on Service Oriented Architecture in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE 2008). The workshop was in conjunction with the annual event IEEE AINA 2008; Advanced Information Networking & Applications.

25-28 March 2008

• Website workshop: SOCNE 2008

• Website symposium: IEEE AINA 2008.

The 3rd Call for Projects of ITEA 2 opened on 21 February 2008.

In order to help prepare a Project Outline, locate potential partners, join existing consortia or find out more about the specifics of this Call, ITEA 2 organised a two-day Project Outline preparation meeting, 21-22 February 2008 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Participation was in principle open to all those with an interest in our 3^rd Call but limited to organisations with a clear contribution to the project generation, such as those who already have a concrete project idea, or those who are engaged in technologies or product developments that may be relevant to other project ideas.

During the meeting the participants had the possibility to present their project idea(s) in a poster session. After this session the project ideas were grouped and discussed in several workgroup sessions, where initial projects were defined.

The meeting was visited by 190 participants, representing 47 universities and research institutes, 35 SMEs and 30 large companies (40 participants from France, 14 from Germany, 44 from Spain, 19 from Belgium, 30 from Finland,  14 from the Netherlands, 1 from Israel, 1 from Italy, 4 from Ireland, 3 from Greece, 2 from Luxembourg, 2 from Norway, 1 from Romania, 1 from Sweden, 1 from the UK, 1 from South Korea, 2 from Lithuania and 10 from Turkey).

The deadline for Project Outlines is: 11 April 2008.

21-22 February 2008

Project Outline preparation meeting

The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) organised an ITEA 2 Event in Istanbul on 6 February.

The event included presentations by representatives of EUREKA, ITEA 2 and ITEA 2 project partners (Philips, Mobilera, Eteration) & TURKCELL Technologies.

ITEA 2 Chairman Prof. Rudolf Haggenmüller & ITEA 2 programme coordinator Mr Erik Rodenbach presented on ITEA 2 and its 3rd Call (opening 21 February 2008).

6 February

ITEA 2-TUBITAK Event Programme pdf-document - 144 kB

ARTEMIS-JU (Joint Undertaking) is a Joint Technology Initiative with a ‘public private partnership’ between the European Commission, the participating Member States*, and ARTEMISIA - the association for R&D actors in the field of ARTEMIS. 

ARTEMIS-JU is a new R&D programme that will exist in parallel to the FP7, EUREKA and National programmes and will launch a call for project proposals every year. We expect that the first call will be launched in April 2008. For the first call a shorter procedure will be followed with only the Full Project Proposal (FPP) phase without the Project Outline (PO) phase in advance, making it possible that selected projects could possibly start in the fourth quarter of 2008.

In order to help to prepare potential project proposers/consortia for the FPP-only procedure of the ARTEMIS-JU call in 2008 ARTEMISIA organised a two-days informal ’ARTEMIS Brokerage Event’.

14-15 January 2008

ERTS is a  European cross sector event on Embedded Software (Information Technology, Aeronautic, Automotive, Railways, Naval and Space) that took place on 29 Jan. - 1 Feb. 2008 in Toulouse, France.

The conference included scientific and technical presentations, panel discussions and an exhibition covering products and services in the field of transportation embedded software.

On 29 January a special event took place on "Open Source & Embedded Real Time Software". ITEA 2's Vice-chairman Gérard Roucairol was the first keynote speaker of the day.

29 January - 1 February 2008

ERTS 2008

Enterprise Ireland held an Information workshop on ITEA 2 – the EUREKA cluster programme in software-intensive systems and services (SIS). 

The Third Call for Proposals in ITEA 2 opens on 21 February 2008.  In preparation for this, Mr Rudolf Haggenmüller, Chairman of ITEA 2, travelled to Ireland to give Irish researchers information on the programme. Mr Eric Rodenbach, ITEA 2 Programme Coordinator, provided information on how best to participate.  Both were available to meet attendees on a one-to-one basis and to advice on particular proposal ideas.

28 January 2008

Enterprise Ireland Event Leaflet pdf-document - 96 kB