The PICASSO project issued a report “Analysis of Industrial Drivers and Societal Needs: towards new avenues in EU-US ICT collaboration”. It provides an analysis of EU-US industrial drivers and societal needs/barriers, and highlights initial proposals for collaboration opportunities which will be discussed, refined and prioritised by the Expert Groups in the next stages of the [...]
An agreement has been signed between the European Commission and the US Government on October 17, 2016, facilitating cooperation between European and American researchers on projects funded under Horizon 2020, the European Union's research and innovation programme. According to this agreement, cooperation between Horizon 2020 participants and US entities may be organised outside the formal [...]
The European Commission reports on a new EU-US cooperation for better usability of open data, aiming at more collaboration and joint efforts. Read the entire article here.
The 5G Lab Germany at TU Dresden and IEEE have jointly organized the IEEE 5G Dresden Summit, which took place on September 29, 2016 at the International Congress Center Dresden, Germany. Visions and ideas on future 5G technology developments, driving formaking 5G a great success, were exchanged. The main contributors to the Summit were decision [...]
Presentations and recording of the first participatory webinar organized by PICASSO on " EU-US policy recommendations on Data Protection and Privacy” on October 11, 2016 are now available for consultation. The PICASSO project held a first participatory webinar on “EU-US policy recommendations on Data Protection and Privacy” on October 11th, 2016. With the high value [...]
Are you interested to learn more about the US and EU ICT landscape in: IoT/CPS - Big Data - 5G Networks, and related policy issues? Check the latest version of the PICASSO Report "Panorama of ICT landscape in EU and US: ICT, Policies, regulations, programmes and networks in the EU and US" now containing updates [...]
The DISCOVERY project is organising a Transatlantic ICT Forum Workshop that will take place in Brussels on 16 and 17 November 2016, with the support of the European Commission DG CONNECT and the Embassy of Canada. The Transatlantic ICT Forum is established as a platform to support policy debate and provide opinions and recommendations to transatlantic [...]
The EU-China IoT Advisory Group has published a white paper that reflects the outcome of several years of IoT cooperation. The paper documents the state of the art on IoT development in both regions and details future cooperation avenues. The paper is available here. (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/eu-china-joint-white-paper-internet-things)
Discover it with PICASSO! Horizon 2020 is the biggest European Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). On regards of Information and Communication Technologies, a revised text of the Calls for Proposals has been published on 25th of July 2016. Please find a brief [...]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced three five-year "Frontier" awards to advance cyber-physical systems (CPS). The new NSF-funded projects, which will receive financial support totaling $13 million, will develop new CPS technologies to overcome challenges in manufacturing environments, autonomous vehicles, and noise pollution in cities. More information is available here: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=189476
