Oct 17, 2017
The eafip initiative is supporting 12 public procurers from across the EU to develop their innovation procurement (a PCP or PPI) by providing assistance (including legal assistance) in the start-up and implementation of the innovation procurement. The final call for applications is open until 15th November 2017. In order to apply for eafip assistance please click on the button below. Please make sure that you have read and understood the eligibility criteria and the scope of the eafip assistance before applying. Questionnaire...
Sep 25, 2017
COMPLETE delegates were present at the ECOC 2017 held in Gothenburg on 17-21 September 2017. The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is the largest conference on optical communication in Europe and one of the largest and most prestigious events in this field worldwide....
Sep 25, 2017
GÉANT Project will held a OLS/DCI workshop at GEANT Symposium in Budapest on October 2nd 2017. Overview of Open Line Systems systems, DCI, tests will be presented. Workshop discussion is scheduled regarding the following Open Line Systems aspects: What are the pros and cons, What are the potential cost savings, How do we solve the missing management, How can community move this work forward,...
Sep 25, 2017
Preforma PCP Project will organize a conference on 11-12 October 2017: PREFORMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: SHAPING OUR FUTURE MEMORY STANDARDS http://www.preforma-project.eu/
Sep 25, 2017
CESNET held the 9th Customer Empowered Fibre Networks Workshop in Prague from September 11th to 12th. Major topics for this year event were: Multi-vendor/disaggregated lighting of CEF networks, interoperability and vendor-independent description of transmission systems Support of new applications and disciplines requiring photonic or dark fibre connectivity (cryptography, metrology, seismology, space, observation, sensor networks, etc.) End to end services for high precision and high performance applications, real-time applications of wide-area all-optical networks Photonic (all-optical) services, dark fibre channels, alien waves, fibre sharing, optimal or dynamic usage of transmission spectrum and virtual fibre networks SDN Approach for Systematic Service Design Methods including Lower Layers of the Networking Stack Dark fibre or channel testbeds used for experiments and additional production traffic Deployments and testing of high-speed transmission systems, power consumption of transmission systems(greening) Update of dark fibre footprint used for Research and Education Community (campuses, regional, national or continental) and experimental facilities (testbeds) Development of dark fibre footprint used for Research and Education Community (REC) in Asia, Australia, North America, South America and Europe Improvement of long term REC...
May 24, 2017
The Conference on Innovation Procurement will be held under the Estonian EU presidency on 17th and 18th of October 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia. The Conference also serves as the 3rd annual Major eafip Event. The conference programme includes: Innovation procurement experiences in Europe EU Member States’ policy and support framework for innovation procurement Economic impact of innovation procurement HORIZON 2020 calls supporting innovation procurements 2017 Procura+ Awards Ceremony on Sustainable and Innovation Procurement The target audience for the two-day conference is policy makers, public procurers and innovators. Its aims are capacity building, experience sharing and networking about major ICT-related innovation procurement initiatives across Europe and to facilitate networking between stakeholders to discuss new ideas, initiatives and funding opportunities. The event is co-organised by the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (MEAC) and the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) of the European Commission (EC). The conference is supported by the European Union Regional Development Fund. The 2017 Procura+ Awards are supported by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme, and co-ordinated by ICLEI. More information can be found on the conference web...
