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PRESS RELEASE European programmes and films represent three quarters of
peak viewing time (28 May 2009)Films and television programmes made in Europe continue to attract European viewers. According to an independent study carried out on behalf of the European Commission and published today, European works represent almost three quarters of European channels’ peak viewing time. The presence of European works in the new media – such as video on demand – is encouraging, but its compliance with the new European audiovisual rules needs to be monitored closely. Those rules, which are intended to ensure that European works are broadcast, were supplemented in 2007 by specific new-media measures which all the Member States must apply by December 2009 (IP/08/2032).
NEWS ARTICLE Telecoms: Commission approves the UK national telecoms regulator Ofcom’s proposed regulation of fixed line phone services (5 June 2009)What is this case about? What has the Commission said in its letter sent today? What does the national telecoms regulator of the UK have to do now? Community consultation procedures:
NEWS ARTICLE Telecoms: Commission comments on UK telecoms regulator’s proposed regulation of wholesale fixed line phone services (5 June 2009)What is this case about? What has the Commission said in its letter sent today? What does the national telecoms regulator of the UK have to do now? Community consultation procedures:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/implementation_enforcement/article_7/index_en.htm
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Fibre investment for Europe’s recovery 25 June 2009 Brussels, BelgiumA dynamic, thriving telecoms sector is crucial to Europe’s economic recovery, not just to support investment and jobs within the sector, but also to facilitate delivery of innovative services that drive productivity across all of Europe’s industries and services. At the centre of the debate is how to ensure incentives for investment in fibre, whilst also sustaining competition in the diverse services that will bring economic benefits to Europe’s consumers and businesses. The Commission is working on a Recommendation and State Aid Guidelines which will establish the future framework for a fibre-based telecoms environment. This event will debate and analyse crucial issues in relation to fibre investment.
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Solutions for e-signature interoperability 26 June 2009 Stockholm, SwedenThe conference will focus on interoperability progresses made over the past year and on the challenges to come. This topic is of interest to a large audience concerned by dematerialisation of business processes and simplification of administrative procedures. A «Trusted List» edit tool that is likely to be used by all Member States to foster e-Signature cross-border recognition by the «Point of Single Contact» will be showcased. Information Society Portal eSignature:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/esignature/index_en.htm
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2nd EU-Japan Cooperation Forum on ICT Research 2 July 2009 Brussels, BelgiumThis event, organised under the aegis of the European Commission and the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), aims to offer European and Japanese organisations a new opportunity to get together, network, and identify or strengthen potential cooperation projects in the ICT area, particularly those to be presented at coming FP7 calls. CALL FOR TENDERS The cloud – understanding the security, privacy and trust
challenges (Deadline: 03/07/2009) The objective is to describe the security, privacy and trust issues in the cloud and to provide the analysis for mitigation of these issues based on technology, legislation and policy. This is to be done for the short term as well as for the longer term, and with specific attention to the European context. Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 26.6.2009 – 16:00. Call Text, Invitation to Tender, Model Service Contract and Tender specifications: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=219
NEWS ARTICLE Telecoms: Commission comments on Bulgarian telecoms
authority’s plans to regulate fixed call retail markets (2 June 2009)What is this case about? What has the Commission said in its letter sent today? What does the Bulgarian national telecoms regulator have to do now? Community consultation procedures:
NEWS ARTICLE Telecoms: Commission comments on the proposal of the
Bulgarian national telecoms regulator regarding consumer
access to public fixed telephone networks (2 June 2009)What is this case about? What has the Commission said in its letter sent today? What does the national telecoms regulator of Bulgaria have to do now? Community consultation procedures:
NEWS ARTICLE Telecoms: Commission comments on the proposal of the
Austrian telecoms regulator concerning a dispute settlement between Telekom Austria and Hutchison on wholesale fixed calls charges. (2 June 2009)What is this case about? What has the Commission said in its letter sent today? What does the Austrian telecoms regulator have to do now? Community consultation procedures:
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Workshop on «Towards Zero-Power ICT» 23 June 2009 Brussels, BelgiumIn preparation of the upcoming call 5 under the ICT Research Programme, the objective of this interactive workshop is to stimulate the scientific community to broaden and deepen its understanding of the objective «Towards Zero-Power ICT» (2zeroP), by elaborating the specific research challenges and their possible solutions.
The aim of the workshop is to elaborate a shared understanding of visions and opportunities related to the 2zeroP objective and to provide a background document giving inspiration to researchers interested in engaging in this new FET research area.
This workshop is co-organised by the NANO-ICT coordination action and the FET Proactive unit.
This 2zeroP workshop will be organized in parallel with the FET Information Day CAll 5 in Brussels on 24 June 2009.
Contact: ralph.stuebner@ec.europa.eu NANO-ICT Coordination Action: http://www.phantomsnet.net/nanoICT/
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Fireweek 2009: FIRE and Living Labs – Future Internet by the
people 1 July 2009 – 2 July 2009 Lulea, SwedenThis event is held in association with the Swedish EU presidency. Two strong communities will meet and exchange experiences: the FIRE community focusing on Future Internet Research and Experimentation and the Living Labs community with the mission to engage people, users as co-creators in the development of new successful products and services. Contact: michael.nilsson@cdt.ltu.se
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Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation –
Information Day 9 June 2009 Brussels, BelgiumThe objective of this meeting will be to inform the audience about the scope of Objective 1.2 (Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation) of the upcoming call 5 under the ICT Research Programme. The procedure for preparing a proposal will be explained and networking among the participants will be facilitated. CALL FOR TENDERS Study on impact of Future and Emerging Technologies Research initiatives (Deadline: 01/07/2009) The study should create a well-founded methodology for impact assessment, that can be applied to research initiatives as set out in one of the work programmes and embodied by the projects funded in such areas. Such an assessment should establish, in particular, to what extent the funding given out by FET has resulted in technological and scientific breakthroughs, changes in the research landscape and environment, (re)structuring of scientific communities (e.g., new interdisciplinary links), and changes in national or international research programmes.
Based on the proposed methodology, the following two research initiatives should be assessed as pilot studies, so as to function as case studies for the methodology: Bio-inspired ICT and Quantum Information Processing & Communication.
CALL FOR TENDERS Development of a Supercomputing strategy in Europe (Deadline: 24/06/2009) The subject of the study is the development of a strategic agenda to guide EU investments related to High-Performance Computing (HPC) that will enable Europe to become a leading provider and user of supercomputers through reinforced research, development and deployment of enabling hardware and software technologies both upstream and downstream along the value chain, including advanced components and systems, system and application software, modelling and simulation. Contact: INFSO-RI-HPC-Agenda@ec.europa.eu
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ICT-Mobile Summit 2009 10 June 2009 – 12 June 2009 Santander, SpainThis is the eighteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, attracting delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results, identify future trends, discuss business and investement prospects and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme in the 7th Framework Programme(FP7). The event will address the challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. The Scientific Programme covers topics such as Radio Access and Spectrum, Converged and Optical Networks, and Future Internet Technologies. Contact: secretariat@ICT-MobileSummit.eu
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14th Annual CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference 21 June 2009 – 23 June 2009 Verbania, ItalyThe conference seeks input from a wider segment of the scientific community, and attracts experts in clinical therapy and rehabilitation, cognitive sciences, social sciences, and computer sciences interested in the meeting’s core topics: emerging applications of new media, design of new media and effects of new media. There is also an interest in continuing to design, evaluate and apply cutting edge technologies such as Ambient Intelligence, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Avatars, Shared Virtual Worlds, Video Game Virtual Reality (VGVR), Web 2.0 and 3.0, 3G and 4G mobile phones. Subscription Information
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