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EUREKA cluster CELTIC

Rich harvest in Call 2

Heinz Brüggemann
Director CELTIC Office
brueggemann@celticinitiative.org

EUREKA cluster project CELTIC is gaining momentum. Its second call for new Proposal Outlines (PO) has already brought a rich harvest. By the submission deadline on 28 April, 35 PO applications were registered. In the second phase from 21 June to 6 October 2004, full project proposals from the selected PO’s can be submitted.

The overall budget for CELTIC projects in 2005 is expected to be about € 150 million. The total budget that has been defined for CELTIC between 2004 and 2008 is € 1 billion. The costs for CELTIC projects are shared between private investment and governments, who contribute up to 50 % of the project budget.

The start of the projects from Call 2 is envisaged for early 2005. As in Call 1, proposals for Call 2 must adhere to the main CELTIC objectives. Proposals shall contribute to the CELTIC approach of Integrated Telecommunications Systems and should promote the CELTIC Pan-European Laboratory with suitable platforms and test vehicles.

The objectives of the proposals must fit into one or more of the CELTIC areas. Figure 1 shows the distribution of Call 2 POs related to the nine CELTIC areas.

Figure 1: Main technical domains addressed

With respect to Call 1, there is a strong increase in the Security area of
100 %. Other increasing areas are Mobile Wireless Networks (41%), and both Broadband Transport Networks and Services and Applications of about 30 %. There is a general tendency towards wireless networks. The impressive increase in the area of Security issues can partially be related to this trend, as there is a need for achieving high-level security for this technology. The strongest reduction of 69 % was registered for Broadband Access Networks. Other reductions are observed for Components (37 %), Management of Services and Networks (35 %), Multimedia (27 %) and to a lesser extend Custom Premises Equipment, Home Networks and Terminals (15 %).

The number of 35 POs represents a very good result, as the last CELTIC call was less than 6 months ago. The number of 20 participating EUREKA countries represents an increase of 15 % compared to Call 1. Among the 226 participants, Spain and France again have strongly contributed, and a significant increase is registered for Germany, Greece, Norway, and Portugal. Again, most coordinators are from France and Spain, followed by coordinators from Israel, who participated very actively in this second CELTIC call. The duration of most projects is 24 months, and the range is from 12 to 36 months. The figure below indicates the types of participants. Industry and especially telcos represent the major partcipants. A strong reduction is observed for SMEs, and a gradual reduction is visible for academia and related bodies.

Figure 2: Types of participation

In the first CELTIC call, 43 proposals were received. 30 potential projects received the CELTIC label. The current situation is that 17 projects are expected to be launched in 2004, which represents an effort between 200 and 260 person years. The launched projects will have an effort of about 600 person years in 2005.

For more information, please visit the CELTIC website at www.celtic-initiative.org or contact the CELTIC Office, which is hosted by Eurescom in Heidelberg, at office@celtic-initiative.org

Phone +49 6221 989372

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