European research excellence for competitive soft-ware-intensive systems and services

More than 400 people attended the ITEA 2 Symposium 2006 in Paris on 5 and 6 October, opened by French industry minister Francois Loos. Software represents major added value in a growing variety of products and systems. It is therefore a priority for support at the industrial research level, particularly through the ITEA 2 programme that has become one of the most important platforms in Europe for innovation in software and services in embedded and distributed systems. “Members of the ITEA 2 community are doing a particularly good job and this initiative should be promoted,” said Loos.

Both the presentations and the accompanying project exhibition highlighted the impact of ITEA 2 research in terms of real product innovation that is boosting European competitiveness in a wide range of industries. ITEA 2 will co-operate with the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) through the new European Technology Platforms (ETPs), particularly ARTEMIS, NESSI, ENIAC and E-Mobility, and new local technology clusters.

5-6 October 2006

Le Méridien Montparnasse conference center

Paris, France

http://symposium.itea2.org/symposium2006/main/main_home.htm

The workshop will be held during the 10th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2006), in Baltimore, Maryland (USA) and is scheduled for 22 August 2006.

Workshop program committee members are (or have been) members of the Project Management Team of the ITEA project COSI. COSI is a European research project dealing with the use of Open Source Software in a Product Line context.

Open source software is getting much attention lately. Using open source software appears to be a profitable way to obtain good software. This is also applicable for organisations doing product line engineering. On the other hand, because of the diverse use of open source software, product line development is an attractive way of working for open source communities. However, at present open source communities and product line development organisations are not related. This workshop aims to get a better understanding between the two communities to get an insight how they can profit from each other.

22 August 2006

co-located at the 10th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2006)

Baltimore, Maryland

USA

http://www.dsi.unifi.it/osspl06/

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/splc2006/

Platform for ICT professionals.

The congress had the following themes:

• Creative industry

• Hightech high touch

• Healthcare and wellbeing 

• Security 

ITEA / ITEA 2 had - together with MEDEA+ and the Dutch Pôle de Compétitivité - a booth at the "Kennismarkt".  

10 - 11 April 2006

RAI Amsterdam

The Netherlands

"Advanced Video Services & Distribution over heterogeneous IP Networks"

30 March 2006; 09:00 - 18:00 hrs.

Alcatel Marcoussis

Amphiteater Building

Route de Nozay

91461 Marcoussis

France

• Magellan project leaflet
• Magellan website

Building a Europe of Excellence: Turning knowledge into growth

The EUREKA Inititative - and its Belgium office, in particular - made its mark at the EBS that took place in Brussels on 16 and 17 March 2006.

In an one-hour EUREKA conference, focusing particularly on private funding and the involvement of SMEs in EUREKA clusters, our Chairman Rudolf Haggenmüller presented the ITEA 2 case.

ITEA / ITEA 2 was also present on the EUREKA stand with demonstrations of the ITEA DIGINEWS project, and with posters and videop presentations of the LASCOT, NOMADIC MEDIA, AMEC and AMBIENCE projects and, of course, information on our programme in general. 

16-17 March 2006

Tour & Taxis, avenue du Port 86c, 1000 Brussels

 www.ebsummit.org

The first Call for Projects of ITEA 2 opened 2 February 2006. Project Outlines must be submitted by 7 April 2006.

In order to help you prepare a Project Outline, locate potential partners, join existing consortia or find out more about the specifics of the Call, ITEA 2 has organised a Project Outline preparation meeting on 2 and 3 February 2006 in Brussels.