Submit your proposal for one of the 150 stands available to showcase the latest findings in advanced research, technologies, new systems, innovation in services & business and ICT products just coming to market. Deadline: 7 June 2013 - 16.00.

Mobidot will collect personal mobility data of participants via their smartphones and provide them with information on smarter transport choices. Via social media such as Facebook, Mobidot will also allow individuals and groups to compete in mobility games, which are based on their data and choices. And the winner is ... not just the smartest traveller, but also your town, the environment, your fellow citizens etc. By the way, Mobidot was found, while SUNSET was (and still is) a running FP7 research project.

Individual students or small groups (max 5) can submit ICT research projects to showcase at the ICT 2013 event in Vilnius. The projects can be submited in 8 categories, which reflect the orientations of the ICT research in the next European research framework programme, Horizon 2020. Deadline Wednesday 5th June 2013, 16:00 CET.

The young ambassadors will contribute to the event in different roles: Session reporters will be following selected conference sessions and write summaries of the highlights, which will be published on the blog; Conference highlighters will follow the conference and report online; Exhibition watchers will highlight the most attractive exhibits; Social media managers will help to coordinate the information and content produced by different ambassadors. Deadline Wednesday 5th June 2013, 16:00 CET.

Do you have a specific topic to propose for discussion? Bid for a dedicated networking slot at the event! Propose a topic for a Horizon 2020-related networking session. Deadline: 10 May

The European Commission welcomes endorsement by the EU Council's 'Coreper' committee (EU Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives) of the Commission's effort to open-up public sector data for re-use across Europe.

Applications are now being accepted for the fifth FI Award. The winning entry will be announced at the closing ceremony of the Future Internet Assembly to be held in Dublin in May 8-10. This ceremony is attended by renowned industry and academic experts, high-level members of the European Commission, and members of the local and international press. Closing date is 1st April, 2013.

DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) has been awarded ‘Best Technology Innovation’ for the research and education network GÉANT, in the 2013 Computer Weekly Awards. The GÉANT network, built and operated by DANTE on behalf of Europe’s National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), has long been relied upon by some of the world’s largest scientific institutions. Together with Europe's NRENs, GÉANT connects 40 million researchers and students in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries. DANTE’s winning entry, submitted by Infinera, was selected by a panel of independent judges evaluating case studies for innovation excellence in network design, implementation and use of application to improve user business.

As part of the preparation for Horizon 2020 DG CONNECT has set up a new advisory structure – CONNECT Advisory Forum for ICT Research and Innovation (CAF). The CAF is expected to become the essential platform helping the Commission, and more specifically - DG CONNECT, to bring closer to the potential users the ICT research and innovation.

The creation of the Advisory Council follows the President’s appointment of Professor Anne Glover as the European Commission’s first Chief Scientific Adviser in January 2012, aiming at ensuring more evidence-based European Union policy-making, but also at promoting the uptake of science & technology in society, including a better transfer of knowledge from the scientific world to industry.

European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes announces €50 million for research to deliver 5G mobile technology by 2020, with the aim to put Europe back in the lead of the global mobile industry. "I want 5G be pioneered by European industry, based on European research and creating jobs in Europe – and we will put our money where our mouth is," Kroes said.

In this FET newsletter we want to inform you about current and future activities,and present some key results and achievements of ongoing projects and initiatives in Future and Emerging Technologies.

An EU-funded research project has created a system for higher broadband speeds that can connect many more devices in the home. Today, Wi-Fi is the home networking solution everyone uses, but it is unlikely to be able to meet future demands by itself. To ensure, for example, that families could stream multiple movies at the same time, researchers on the "HOME Gigabit Access" (OMEGA) project have developed a network using a combination of power cables, radio signals and light. This technology could ensure that every office and household has enough bandwidth to connect a range of "smart" objects to each other like phones, cars and domestic appliances. The OMEGA project is run by researchers from companies, universities and research institutions in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. The EU provided €12.41 million of a total budget of €19.13 million.

A video produced by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has won the video category of the 10th annual international science and technology visualization challenge, organised by Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The video ‘Alya Red: a computational heart’ describes their project to simulate the human heart. It show scientific visualizations of simulations using the computational electromechanical model applied to a rabbit heart. The short film was made by BSC’s multi-disciplinary visualization team which makes videos on one hand to help researchers get another angle on their data and on the other to help the general public to understand the significance of our work. BSC is a partner of the "Human Brain Project" that has been selected by the European Commission as one of the two FET Flagship projects set to receive one billion euros to deliver 10 years of world-beating science at the crossroads of science and technology.
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What are Future and Emerging Technologies? What are FET Flagships? How were the Flagships selected? Why were these two Flagships selected over the others? What will happen to the projects that have not been selected?

The European Commission announced the winners of a multi-billion euro competition of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET).

SafeCity is one of the use cases of the FI-PPP which deals with smart Public safety and security in cities. The main objective is to enhance the role of Future Internet in ensuring people feel safe in their surroundings at time that their surroundings are protected. Safecity is the result of the elaboration of a vertical use case scenario based on Public Safety in European cities.The objective of the tests in Stockholm is to demonstrate SafeCity increased situation awareness based on analysis environmental sensors.

The winner of the 2012 Feynman Prize for Experiment is the team of Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp for their work at IBM Research in Zurich. The award recognizes their remarkable experiments advancing the frontiers of scanning probe microscopy. They were the first to to produce images of molecular orbitals and charges detailed enough to identify the structure of individual molecules, as well as metal-molecule complexes. They have also been able to precisely make and break individual chemical bonds. These developments provide crucial insights and tools for the design of future molecular systems. In awarding the prizes, Ralph C. Merkle, Chairman of the Prize Committee, noted that "The work of these Feynman Prize winners has brought us one step closer to answering Feynman's 1959 question, 'What would happen if we could arrange atoms one by one the way we want them?' And the ability to simulate and manipulate atoms advanced by the work of these Prize winners will enable us to design and build engineered molecular machinery with atomic precision. It will take us another step on the way to the development of revolutionary nanotechnologies that will transform our lives for the better." The winners are involved in the FET project ARTIST (Alternative Routes Towards Information Storage and Transport at the atomic and molecular scale).

On 15 January 2013 the European Commission held an information day for Objectives 3.1 - 3.3, ICT for Health, Ageing Well and Inclusion, of Call 7 of the CIP ICT PSP. Information given on the day is posted on this page. Please note the clarification on intellectual property rights in the thematic network for the sustainability of EU wide info-structure and collaborative governance (objective 3.3.c).

On 19 December 2012 the European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, and Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič will inaugurate "Shapes of Light", an innovative light installation illuminated by advanced LED technology, at the Commission headquarters, the Berlaymont building in Brussels.