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Executive summary The 7th General Assembly of the Net!Works European Technology Platform was held 5 October 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. 67 representatives from 52 organisations and 13 different countries attended the GA7.

This GA was the 7th GA of the ETP, but actually the first GA after the relaunch of the former eMobility ETP as the new Net!Works ETP. The GA was an excellent place to hear about latest news and activities from research and industry, from initiatives and activities at European level, to learn about recent whitepapers, get information about the upcoming FP7 Call 8, and hear the news regarding the shaping of FP8. As usual, it was an ideal place for networking..

At this GA Net!Works members elected the Steering Board for the period 2012-2013. The election was again on a Stakeholder Group basis, i.e. members vote for candidates of their Stakeholder Group.



List of authors

Participant No.

Short name Author name

P03 Eurescom Ellen Tallås

P03 Eurescom Uwe Herzog



Table of Contents Executive summary........................................................................................................................... 3 List of authors ................................................................................................................................... 4 Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................. 5 1 Introduction................................................................................................................................. 6 2 Invitation to the General Assembly............................................................................................. 7 3 Information provided on the web ................................................................................................ 8 4 List of participants at the General Assembly ............................................................................ 12 5 Minutes of the General Assembly ............................................................................................ 14



1 Introduction The 7th General Assembly of the Net!Works European Technology Platform was held 5 October 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. 67 representatives from 52 organisations and 13 different countries attended the GA7.

This GA was the 7th GA of the ETP, but actually the first GA after the relaunch of the former eMobility ETP as the new Net!Works ETP. The GA was an excellent place to hear about latest news and activities from research and industry, from initiatives and activities at European level, to learn about recent whitepapers, get information about the upcoming FP7 Call 8, and hear the news regarding the shaping of FP8. As usual, it was an ideal place for networking.

The programme included:

• Messages from the Net!Works chair and community.

• Keynote speeches from the head of unit D1 "Future Networks", Luis Rodrigues Rosello.

• ICT and Networks – enabler in various application areas.

• Presentation by the EU Commission on the forthcoming FP7 Call 8.

• Information about the progress of the Future Internet Public-Private-Partnership.

• Information about the new edition of the Net!Works Strategic Research Agenda.

At this GA Net!Works members elected the Steering Board for the period 2012-2013. The election was again on a Stakeholder Group basis, i.e. members vote for candidates of their Stakeholder Group. The Steering Board for the period 2012-2013 can be found here:

http://www.networks-etp.eu/meetings-activities/general-assembly/steering-board-2012-2013.html

http://www.networks-etp.eu/meetings-activities/general-assembly/steering-board-2012-2013.html



2 Invitation to the General Assembly The invitation below was sent out by Dr Werner Mohr, chairperson of Net!Works European Technology Platform. The invitation was sent by e-mail to all members and non-members who have expressed their interest to be informed about Net!Works activities. In addition, the invitation was sent to all Net!Works internal mailing lists.

Subject: Net!Works European Technology Platform General Assembly on October 5, 2011 in Brussels Dear Colleagues,

the Net!Works (former eMobility) European Technology Platform will have its next General Assembly on October 5, 2011 in Brussels.

During this year the preparation of Framework Program 8, now called Horizon 2020, is making significant progress. In the General Assembly representatives from the EU Commission and the EU Parliament will provide latest information on the planning of Framework Program 8.

In addition, the Net!Works Steering Board for the period 2012 – 13 will be elected.

Please find attached the invitation to the meeting. You are all invited to attend the meeting and to use this networking opportunity. Please make your reservation at the link in the invitation.

We are looking forward to meet you in Brussels.

Best regards,

Werner Mohr

(Chairperson of Net!Works European Technology Platform)



3 Information provided on the web All relevant information about the GA was provided on the web, including a links to related pages.

Before the General Assembly information and support were provided on this website.

http://www.networks-etp.eu/index.php?id=68

The intro page contains:

link to the Agenda

paragraph about the GA and the programme

paragraph about the Steering Board election

paragraph about the Proxy voting

paragraph and link to Hotel reservation.

paragraph and link to the Registration and Payment Form

After the General Assembly the following information was provided on this website.

http://www.networks-etp.eu/meetings-activities/general-assembly/ga7past.html

This webpage contains:

link to the minutes of the General Assembly (members only).

link to the Steering Board for the period 2012-2013

link to the programme, which again contains links to all presentations (members only)

photos from the General Assembly

The introduction page and the agenda are shown below.

http://www.networks-etp.eu/index.php?id=68




4 List of participants at the General Assembly In total 67 people attended this GA. From the different stakeholder groups we had 20 participants from Industry, 26 from Research, and 4 from SME. In addition we had 2 participants from Cooperation members, and 15 non-members. The participants were representatives from 52 organisations and 13 different countries.

Below is the list of participants.

Net!Works Technology Platform - General Assembly 7

5 October 2011 Location: Bedford Hotel, 135-137 rue du Midi, Brussels

List of participants

First Name Family Name Organisation Country Carles Anton-Haro CTTC Spain Joao Barros Instituto de Telecomunicações Portugal Kpatcha Bayarou Fraunhofer SIT Germany Hendrik Berndt DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe Germany Petronela Burceag European Commission Belgium Alister Burr University of York UK Jose Mª Cabero Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation Spain Luis Manuel Calvo LET'S GOWEX S.A. Spain Jorge Carvalho European Commission Belgium Jongsoo Choi Samsung Electronics Research Institute UK Luis M. Correia Instituto Superior Tecnico Portugal Silvia de la Maza Asociacion Innovalia Spain Nuria De Lama Atos Spain Stefano De Panfilis Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Italy Raffaele de Peppe Telecom Italia Italy Paulo de Sousa European Commission Belgium Panagiotis Demestichas University of Piraeus Research Center Greece Marco Di Ciano InnovaPuglia S.p.A. Italy Hans Joachim Einsiedler Deutsche Telekom Germany Jörg-Peter Elbers ADVA Optical Networking Germany Rainer Fechner Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG Germany Javier R. Fonollosa UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain Nils-Olof Forsgren Uminova Innovation Sweden Alex Galis University College London UK Ana Garcia Robles Enoll Belgium Papadakis Georgios Intracom Defense Electronics SA Greece Óscar Gómez Instituto Tecnológico de Informática Spain Christian Graversen DI ITEK Denmark Jan Erik Håkegård SINTEF Norway Malcolm Harbour MEP Belgium



First Name Family Name Organisation Country Uwe Herzog Eurescom Germany Andrew Houghton European Commission Belgium Jürgen Jähnert MFG Baden-Würtemberg Germany Vaggelis Kapoulas Computer Technlogy Institute & Press Greece Holger Karl Paderborn University Germany Klaus-D. Kohrt Germany Felicia Lobillo Atos Spain Jacques Magen InterInnov France Giannimaria Marion SIAE MICROELETTRONICA SPA Italy Carolien Martens IMEC Belgium Jordi Marti de Conejeros Scytl Spain Josep Martrat Atos Spain Jochen Meyer OFFIS EV Germany Michael Meyer Ericsson GmbH Germany Werner Mohr Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG Germany Tudor Palade Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Romainia Lorenzo Pellegrini Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. Belgium Jean-Charles Point JCP-Consult France Kevin Quinn Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland Ayman Radwan Instituto de Telecomunicações Portugal Yudani Riobó Quobis Networks Spain Luis Rodriguez-Rosello European Commission Belgium Denis Rousset ST Ericsson France Herman Rucic IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium Olivier Sagnes Thales Communications & Security (TCS) France Karl Schattauer Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG Germany Rudolf Strohmeier European Commission Belgium Heinrich Stüttgen NEC Europe Ltd. - NEC Laboratories Europe Germany Arne Svensson Chalmers University of Technology Sweden Rahim Tafazolli University of Surrey UK Terje Tjelta Telenor Norway Paul Verhoef European Commission Belgium Josep Vidal UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain Jorge Vieira da Silva MTA - Mobility, Ticketing & Applications Belgium Artemy Voroshilov Nokia Siemens Networks Belgium Fiona Williams Ericsson Germany Djamal Zeglache Institute Télécom France



5 Minutes of the General Assembly The minutes are available on the Net!Works web (members only). All members have been informed about the minutes by email.

Net!Works Technology Platform

Minutes of General Assembly 7 Brussels, 5 October 2011

Chair: Werner Mohr, Nokia Siemens Networks Minutes: Uwe Herzog, Eurescom Distribution: Public Slides: Net!Works members can download all presented slides from the Net!Works web: http://www.networks-etp.eu/meetings-activities/general-assembly/ga7past.html

Agenda 8:15 - 9:15 Registration

Handout of ballots to members

9:15 – 10:45 Session I: Opening and keynotes about progress towards FP8

• Opening of the meeting, report on platform status and summary of activities (Werner Mohr, Net!Works Chairman)

• Info on SB election procedures (Uwe Herzog)

• Keynote I: “Progress towards the Common Strategic Framework (CSF)” Basic approach, how ICT will be part of it, balance between agenda-driven / challenge-driven and curiosity-driven research, envisaged financing schemes (Rudolf Strohmeier, EC, Deputy Director General for Research Programmes)

• Keynote II: “The role of ICT in the next EC Framework Programme” (Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, EC, Head of unit D1)

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45

Session II: ICT and networks – enabler in various application areas

• Keynote: “On the needs for ICT and in particularly telecoms in the transport sector” (Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit "Research and Innovative Transport Systems" at DG Mobility and Transport

• Customer centricity, new choices with ICT solutions for Smart Grids (Dr. Artemy Voroshilov, Nokia Siemens Networks, Head of Smart Grid sales Europe)




• Challenges for Mobile Broadband Access (Dr. Michael Meyer, Manager Radio Protocol Research, Ericsson)

• Enhancing Democracy with ICT solutions (Jordi Marti de Conejeros, Scytl)

12.45 – 14:15

Lunch

13:00 Address from Malcolm Harbour, Member of the European Parliament, on „Drivers of innovation in the single market“

14:15 – 15:15

Session III: Preparing for Call 8 and newest release of Net!Works SRA • “FP7 Work Programme for the period 2011 – 2012 on the forthcoming Call

8” (Andy Houghton, EC, Deputy Head of unit D1)

• Overview of the new Net!Works SRA and White papers (Rahim Tafazolli, Univ. of Surrey)

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:40

Session IV: Future Internet Core platform and experimentations • Outcome of the election of Steering Board members (Uwe Herzog)

• Future Internet Core Platform FI-WARE and its relation to the application areas (Nuria De Lama, Atos)

• The INFINITY Project: Infrastructures for Net!Works stakeholders’ trials and experimentations (Jacques Magen, InterInnov)

• Future plans for 2011/12 (Werner Mohr, Net!Works Chairman)

16:40 Close of meeting

Opening of the meeting, report on platform status and summary of activities – Werner Mohr, Net!Works Chairperson Werner opened the meeting, welcomed the participants and introduced the agenda. During the

last year eMobility has changed its name to Net!Works. The name was changed in order to reflect the widened scope of the platform which now also addresses optical networks aspects, and in order to distinguish from the term e-Mobility which increasingly being used by the electric car industry. Net!Works has currently 807 members.

In the last year Net!Works has done a number of activities to serve its members: Setting trends and giving the latest information, organising networking opportunities, and influencing priorities for public research funds. Net!Works has also investigated in new publications and consultations from the European Commission, e.g. the Digital Agenda and the Grand Societal Challenges, and responded to some of them. Net!Works also prepared position papers e.g. regarding the Innovation Union document or the next Framework Programme “Horizon 2020”, and disseminates them through various channels towards the European Commission and the European Parliament. In support of that, meetings with several MEPs and members of the Commission have been organised. A major publication is the SRA and the related Whitepapers. A success stories paper highlights how European research formed the basis for technical innovations and products. Werner thanked the members for their active participation and contribution to the activities.



The Steering Board election procedures - Uwe Herzog, Eurescom The constitution of the SB, and the election procedure was briefly explained. Members of the

respective Stakeholder Group elect the SB representatives of their group: o Industry: 15 seats (15 candidates) o Research Domain: 5 seats (11 candidates) o SME: 5 seats (7 candidates)

For the industry group no elections are needed as the number of candidates exactly matches the number of seats. Election committees were formed ad-hoc for the Research and SME group who will count the votes and ensure a correct and fair process. Use of ballots and how to fill them was briefly explained. Ballots have to be returned by today 13:00 latest.

Progress towards the Next Framework Programme (Horizon 2020) – Rudolf Strohmeier, EC, Deputy Director General DG Research and Innovation)

Rudolf Strohmeier explained that Horizon 2020 will be aligned with Europe 2020. Budgets will be made available to Research & Innovation, but also for demonstration projects and prototypes. At the moment, the lead time for new products is too long, and therefore Horizon 2020 will improve on the integration of research and innovation.

In parts of the programme, cooperative research will be integrated with application areas. Thus there will likely be no dedicated ICT budget in this part of the programme, in order to ensure that ICT research is closely linked with the societal challenges. Industry is expected to commit with strong efforts and budgets.

The Commission’s proposals for the 2014-2020 Framework foresees 80bn Euro budget for Research & Innovation. SME support will be increased, and activities closer to the market will be strengthened. A greater use of flat rates and lump sums will be made. Simplification is intended to benefit first of all SMEs. There will be a specific instrument for SME, and also one for research intensive SMEs. Access to risk financing will have a strong SME focus.

Horizon 2020 will stimulate interaction between different disciplines. In order to support that, the same rules will be applied to all different parts of the Programme. The proposal will be released end of November, it is not clear whether it will already contain detailed budget figures.

Answering questions from the audience, Rudolf Strohmeier explained that there will be a dedicated budget for funding longer term concept development in ICT, e.g. for next generation systems. ICT is considered one of the key enabling technologies. He also confirmed that there is the political will to shift part of the research closer to near commercial activities.



The role of ICT in the next EC Framework Programme – Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, EC, DG INFSO, Head of Unit D1

The Digital Agenda expressed the need for a step change in ICT R&D&I. The race to innovation will become more intense, and ICT innovation will change from enabling to transformative. ICT is the largest private R&D sector in Europe, and ICT is one of the biggest EU exports (10%). ICT contributes 4.8% to EU’s GDP.

Luis Rodriguez-Rosello explaining the role of ICT in Horizon 2020

Standardisation will have a growing importance. Current drivers for ICT Research & Development are e.g. growth in a low carbon economy and changing value chains & new market opportunities on the Internet. Wireless Internet is an ongoing trend. Europe is strong e.g. in Networks and services or components and embedded systems.

The opportunities for ICT in Horizon 2020 will be in the areas of Cohesion policy (total budget €336 bn), Connecting Europe Facility (€40 bn, of which €9 bn dedicated to “Digital Infrastructures”), and Research & Innovation (€80 bn).

Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks

− Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

−ICT−Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and Processing −Biotechnology−Space

− Access to risk finance − Innovation in SMEs

Excellence in the Science Base− Frontier research (ERC)− Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)− Skills and career development (Marie Curie)− Research infrastructures

Shared objectives and principles

Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

Europe 2020 priorities

European Research Area

Simplified access

International cooperation

Dissemination & knowledge transfer

Tackling Societal Challenges− Health, demographic change and wellbeing− Food security and the bio-based economy− Secure, clean and efficient energy− Smart, green and integrated transport− Supply of raw materials− Resource efficiency and climate action− Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

Figure: Horizon 2020 - Objectives and structure (Source: EC)



On the needs for ICT and in particularly telecoms in the transport sector – Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit "Research and Innovative Transport Systems" at DG Mobility and Transport

The main challenge in the transport sector is to break the transport system’s dependence on oil without sacrificing its efficiency and compromising mobility. So far, there have been significant barriers to the effective deployment of ITS in transport across Europe, with a lack of standardisation, of interoperability between modes and countries and of cross-border continuity of services.

The perspective in mobility is directed towards sustainability: Avoiding the need to travel, shifting to more efficient transport modes and improving transport modes. There are a number of ideas and visions in that direction: Examples include the ability to track and trace freight in transit regardless of transport mode, paper-free and electronic / smart ticketing and fare collection across different modes of transport and countries. In order to realise that there is the need for new partnerships in mobility, involving actors e.g. from transport, telecoms, technology solutions provider, payment etc. For example, progressing electro mobility will require strong interaction between transport, ICT and energy sectors. One of the issues is the difference of timeframes of investment cycles between the various sectors, which are e.g. rather short in ICT, but quite long in aviation or energy. With ICT in Transport – we are only at the beginning – and the ICT sector is invited to join forces.

Paul Verhoef at his speech

Customer centricity, new choices with ICT solutions for Smart Grids – Dr. Artemy Voroshilov, Nokia Siemens Networks, Head of Smart Grid sales Europe

Smart Grids (SG) is nowadays mainly discussed in the scope of utilities and renewable energies. Early trends in SG focus on technology, but without a customer value proposition Smart Grid misses the point. Smart Metering is being deployed nearly all over Europe, but the question is whether it is really the customer who is in focus.

A recent study by Accenture has revealed that customer choices are driven by aspects of Economic (decrease my bill), Environmental (reduce my impact), and the need for control. Smart rating & tariffing, coupled with notifications, could link smart meters directly to customer accounts and enable real time rating, flexible pricing schemes (happy hour), ecologic behaviour reputation etc.

Another application area is Electric Vehicle Charging Solution including aspects as e.g. online rating and dynamic tariffs, customer identity and data management.

Smart Grid is transformational to the Utility business. It should be customer focused. Activities should be started with the customer value proposition and then design backwards.



Challenges for Mobile Broadband Access – Dr. Michael Meyer, Manager Radio Protocol Research, Ericsson

Data growth is the most demanding current trend. Related to that is the growth of subscribers and devices (a vision towards 50 billion connected devices by 2020), M2M, and diverse deployments. Anything that benefits from being connected will be connected. This poses a number challenges on research, including energy efficiency, LTE-Advanced, or spectrum flexibility.

Conventional cellular will still be a corner stone of future radio access, and 4G/LTE will continue to evolve (inter-site coordination, heterogeneous networks, energy efficiency etc.). New radio-access technologies will be complementing cellular access.

Enhancing Governance with ICT solutions – Jordi Marti de Conejeros, Scytl Trust is the main goal we must transmit when working with Governments and Electoral

Authorities. A public services reform is high on the agenda due to 3 trends that are having a worldwide impact on governments: Crisis of government legitimacy, the global economic crisis, and the growing access to technology. ICT can provide useful tools to improve public services and enhance engagement.

A consensus democracy fosters increased community involvement in determining the political agenda and in the decision-making process itself. Automated electoral processes can e.g. enhance transparency and increase participation, while reducing costs and risks.

Malcolm Harbour, Member of the European Parliament, at his speech on Drivers of innovation in

the single market during the GA lunch break



FP7 Work Programme for the period 2011 – 2012 on the forthcoming Call 8” – Andy Houghton, EC, Deputy Head of unit D1 The next steps in the Workprogramme (WP) 2011-12 are Calls 8 and 9 with a budget of €1,350

m funding. Deadlines for Call 8 and 9 are 17/1/12 and 17/4/12 respectively. An even larger budget will be available in WP 2013 with > €1,500 m funding.

The budget in Challenge 1 “Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructure” will be

€625 m (vs. €557 m in WP 2009-10). €170 m are reserved for the Future Internet PPP. Importance will be given to energy-efficiency, users and cloud computing. The impact must be significant and will need to be clearly described.

Budget FI PPP 2011 Call 7 Call 8 FI PPP 2012

Call PublicationDeadline

20/07/102/12/2010

28/9/1018/01/11

20/07/1117/01/12

18/05/1224/10/12

1.1 Future Networks 160 1601.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software engineering 70 70

1.3 Internet-connected Objects 30 30

1.4 Trustworthy ICT 80 80

1.5 Networked Media & Search Systems 70 70

1.6 FIRE 45 20 251.7 PPP FI – Technology foundation – Core platform 41 41

1.8 PPP FI - Use case scenarios and early trials 107.5 40 67.5

1.9 PPP FI – Capacity building and Infrastructure Support 15.5 3 12.5

1.10 PPP FI – Programme Facilitation and Support 6 6

Table: Budgets in Challenge 1 in WP 2011-12

Overview of the new Net!Works SRA and White papers – Rahim Tafazolli, Univ. of Surrey

More than 70 experts from EU Academia and Industry have contributed to the current version of the SRA. The SRA consists of a number of whitepapers on the topics of e.g. Smart Cities Applications and requirements, Broadband Wireless Beyond 2020, Next generation Networks Wireless-Optics technologies (in cooperation with Photonics 21 platform), and Future Networks and Management. All whitepapers can be downloaded from the Net!Works webpage.



Future Internet Core Platform FI-WARE and its relation to the application areas – Nuria De Lama, Atos

Nuria informed about the scope and activities of the FI-PPP core platform project FI-WARE. The objective is to define an open architecture for the creation and delivery of services in various areas that does not lock-in to specific vendors. The design is done in strong collaboration with Usage Areas e.g. in environment, logistics, or energy.

The FI-WARE project will generate a FI-WARE Testbed as a case example of a FI-WARE Instance, which will e.g. allow Use Case projects and third parties to run and test Future Internet Applications based on FI-WARE Generic Enablers. The project will work towards the establishment of an Open Innovation Lab around the FI-WARE testbed that may help third parties and not just the Use Case projects, to test how innovative applications may be developed on top of the FI-WARE platform.

The INFINITY Project: Infrastructures for Net!Works stakeholders’ trials and experimentations – Jacques Magen, InterInnov

Jacques gave an overview of the INFINITY Project which is part of the FI-PPP. The main goal is to facilitate communication and collaboration between Future Internet infrastructure owners across Europe and organisations developing Future Internet applications. This is to facilitate experimentation for FI-PPP projects and investors, and to accelerate the development and uptake of social and commercial solutions. Information about infrastructures will be made available through a web repository that is currently being built.

Outcome of the election of Steering Board members – Uwe Herzog, Eurescom Uwe informed of the outcome of the SB elections. 81 ballots have been handed in and thus the quorum of 10% of 747 members with voting rights has been reached. The elected SB members of the industry group are (in alphabetical order): ADVA AG Alcatel-Lucent ATOS Deutsche Telekom DoCoMo Communication Laboratories Europe Engineering ingegneria informatica s.p.a. Ericsson AB Intracom S. A. Telecom Solutions NEC Europe Nokia Siemens Networks ST-Ericsson Telecom Italia Telefónica Telenor ASA Thales Communications SA

The elected organisations of the Research group are (in alphabetical order): Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) IST – Tech. Univ. Lisbon ITI - Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica Tecnalia Waterford Institute of Technology

The elected organisations of the SME group are (in alphabetical order): Beacon Tech Ltd.



GOWEX InterInnov QUOBIS Sigma Orionis

Representatives of the elected Steering Board organisations

Future plans for 2011/12 – Werner Mohr, Net!Works Chairman

Werner informed about the planned activities of Net!Works in 2012. The Commission proposal on Horizon 2020 is expected for end of November 2011. Therefore, Net!Works will continue the discussion on Horizon 2020 by means of meetings with MEPs and the Commission, participation in workshops and events, contributing to public consultations, and preparation of position papers, flyers and white papers. Activities towards a closer cooperation with other ICT ETPs and vertical sectors will be made to continue the cross-ETP work. Discussions have already started on how to organise ETPs for Horizon 2020, which will depend on structure of Horizon 2020. Net!Works will again be setting trends, giving the latest information to members and organise networking opportunities. The Future Networks & Mobile Summit 2012 in Berlin will again be supported.

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