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CELTIC – Successful result of
CELTIC, the European R&D programme designed to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness in telecommunications, has been continuously expanding its portfolio of short and medium term collaborative R&D projects. After only one year, the CELTIC cluster project is now well established. Together with the expected Call 2 projects, the total budget will soon amount to more than 250 million euro. 19 CELTIC projects are ongoing, launched from the first Call of this new EUREKA cluster. Another 20 projects were proposed by the submission deadline 6 October. From these 20 full project proposals, a total of 17 projects have been selected by the Public Authorities and the CELTIC Core Group after they passed a technical review. The selected projects received the CELTIC label, which indicates that they are officially recommended by CELTIC. The labelled proposals cover, for example, security-related issues like the development of a ‘System Security Cockpit’ based on a defined security framework to control the security assurance level of telecommunications systems. There are also proposals looking at secure multimedia content management, a federated identity management system, and at secure networking of mobile and wireless networks. Other proposals focus on Quality of Service and multimedia-related issues, for example on the provision of an end-to-end, dynamic and tailored QoS IP service in broadband networks, and for delivering QoS multimedia transmission over error-prone networks. Other proposals are concerned with mobile and wireless services and technologies. Topics are, e.g., enhancements of context-aware services over a multitude of different terminals or wireless intelligent hospital facility services using next-generation, context-aware multi-modal devices. In addition, there are also proposals addressing optical networks.
Next steps The labelled projects have now to assure the national funding through their individual country representatives. The first projects should start beginning of 2005. For projects to be started
in 2006, CELTIC will issue Call 3 on 24 January. This call will be organised
in two phases, a proposal outline phase for the submission of project ideas
(deadline: 22 April 2005) and a full project proposal phase, to which the
most promising proposal outlines will be invited. Further details are
available on the CELTIC website at On 16 February 2005, CELTIC will organise an information day, where interested partners and consortia can meet and present their project ideas. Please send us your comments on this article. |
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