Future Internet PPP: 1st FI-WARE open call for additional beneficiaries

The FI-WARE project, currently active in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research and technological development, announces its First Open Call for new project partners.

The FI-WARE project, currently active in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research and technological development, announces its First Open Call for new project partners.

FI-WARE will deliver a novel service infrastructure, building upon elements (called Generic Enablers – GEs) which offer reusable and commonly shared functions making it easier to develop Future Internet Applications in multiple sectors. This infrastructure will bring significant and quantifiable improvements in the performance, reliability and production costs linked to Internet Applications – building a true foundation for the Future Internet.

FI-WARE is the cornerstone of the Future Internet PPP (FI-PPP) program, a joint action by European Industry and the European Commission.

The FI-WARE project will develop open specifications of FI-WARE GEs, together with a reference implementation of each GE for testing. Some of these open specifications will be submitted for standardization. FI-WARE aims to draw upon results already achieved through earlier research projects. It will further develop them and integrate them.

FI-WARE’s First Open Call will allow the incorporation of new partners that can contribute or develop the following GEs for their integration as part of FI-WARE. They also need to provide support to FI-PPP use case projects validating conceptual prototypes developed on top of FI-WARE.

• Middleware for efficient and QoS/Security-aware invocation of services and exchange of messages.
• Business Models and Business Elements (BM & BE) Definition and Simulation.

IPRs will be managed according to the corresponding Grant Agreement, Consortium Agreement and Collaboration Agreement, which the new partners shall adhere to.  In particular, specifications of GEs must be publicly available on the FI-WARE’s website/wiki and be royalty-free. Contributed implementations of these GEs should be licensed free of charge to projects funded under the FI-PPP program and commercialized under FRAND conditions.

Submitters to this Open Call should be legal entities that are established in an EU Member State, or FP7 Associated State.

Please note that activities to be carried out by the new partners will be partly funded, in alignment with the funding schema defined for research activities by the European Commission.

Full information, including details about expected functionality to be covered by the above mentioned GEs, is available on http://www.fi-ware.eu/open-call/

 References:

Call open: The call opens on 31 January 2012

Deadline: The call closes on 25 April 2012 at 17h00 (Brussels time)

Expected duration of participation in project: July 2012 to April 2014

Total EC funding available for new partners: up to 2 Million Euro.

Call identifier: FI-WARE: Open Call 1 for additional beneficiaries

Language in which proposals should be submitted: English

Web address for further information: http://www.fi-ware.eu/open-call/

Email address for submissions: [email protected] (subject: “FI-WARE: Open Call 1 for additional beneficiaries”)

Email address for further information: [email protected]