eMobility General Assembly 6, 16 September 2010
Location:
Future Center,
San Marco, 4826 Campo San Salvador, 30124 – Venice, Italy
The 6th General Assembly of the eMobility Technology Platform
took
place in Venice on 16 September 2010. All members and non-members were
cordially invited to attend. (Download invitation
flyer, pdf, 4MB)
At the General Assembly, members of eMobility discussed selected activities
of eMobility Working Groups and the Steering Board on the ICT sector and the
preparation of Framework Program 8 for future collaborative research. This included presentations on
- Messages from the eMobility Community – Conclusions of the eMobility Steering Board planning activities (eMobility position papers)
- Participation in public consultations of the EU Commission.
- Presentation by the EU Commission of the updated FP7 Work Program for the period 2011 – 2012 on the forthcoming Calls 7 and 8.
- Preparation of Framework Program 8 and potential new instruments for research funding.
- Networking opportunities for the
- forthcoming FP7 Calls 7 and 8 for consortia building and
- Future Internet activities for the first Call for Proposals for the Future Internet Public-Private-Partnership.
- The further evolution of the Steering Board's vision on Mobile communications evolution by 2022.
- The updated Strategic Research Agenda including the Strategic Application Agenda.
- The liaison with the Photonics 21 European Technology Platform.
Key note presentations were made by
- Ruprecht Niepold, EU Commission, DG Information Society and Media – Advisor to the General Director on "Radio Spectrum Policy in Europe: Shared use of spectrum” as a new paradigm for spectrum management" to understand potential impacts on future mobile and wireless communications and
- Alfredo Viglienzoni, Photonics21 ETP on the convergence and mutual dependency of broadband mobile and fixed networks.
In the afternoon the meeting was split into parallel sessions each having the focus on contributions to Grand Societal Challenges such as Energy, Transport, and eHealth and potentially other areas.
This event was used to collect information from industry leaders and
the EU Commission, hear the latest information on the updated FP7 Work
Program and the Calls 7 and 8 and keynote speeches. In particular, this
was a good opportunity for networking with other colleagues such as the
preparation of new research consortia for upcoming FP7 calls 7 and 8 and
the Future Internet PPP. In addition, the participants were encouraged to make
their opinions and
views known to the community on eMobility activities and the
communications sector.
Agenda
The agenda with links to presentations (members
only) is available
here.
Download minutes of the GA here.
For queries please feel free to contact Ellen Tallas