ENISA and FORTH-ICS would like invite you and your colleagues to participate to the 1st Network and Information Security (NIS) Summer School, to be held in Crete, Greece. The Summer School's aim is to bring together experts in Information Security, policy members from EU Member States and EU Institutions, decision makers from the industry as well as members of the research and academic community.
You can find the details about the NIS School below. Feel free to redistribute this invitation to anyone who might be interested.
Please accept our apologies in case you receive multiple copies of this message.
kind regards,
Dr. Panagiotis TRIMINTZIOS
ENISA - European Network and Information Security Agency

www.enisa.europa.eu/eq/

Wireless World Research Forum
Meeting 21
13-15 October 2008

'Sustainability and the Future Internet '

You are invited to participate in the 21th meeting of the Forum, which will be held on 13-15 of October 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden kindly hosted by Ericsson.  

As we approach the second decade of the 21st century, new opportunities and research perspectives have been generated by the identification of new frequency spectrum for future mobile broadband networks, the start of large scale research on the Future Internet and the increasing impact of climate change on global society.

The WWRF meeting in Stockholm gives you the unique opportunity to present your latest research results and visions on all areas of mobile and wireless communications, and to discuss them with colleagues from industry and academia from around the globe.

At this WWRF meeting, working group sessions continuing the work of WWRF on radio, network and service perspectives will be complimented by a series of plenary sessions. These will provide an overview of global activities in relation to the Future Internet and also to the challenges and opportunities of developing sustainable communications, adding value to the role of ICT in addressing climate change issues.

We would like to invite you to come to this meeting to get an overview from the world‘s leading thinkers on these hot topics and through networking to form new international initiatives.

TEIP-KIS-ICT Proposal

Generic contents that can be included in other sections for example WP2

The proposed sectoral Network will offer pooled support to high growth ventures in the ICT sector active in KIS.

The proposed network will:

• Asses the specific research and skills needs of potential high growth (ICT) companies in Knowledge Intensive Services and help them in establishing links with relevant research and business partners.

• Design, test and validate improved support mechanisms to the benefit of KISS start-ups as well as young promising growth firms, based on existing good practices developed under PAXIS, Gate2Growth and Europe INNOVA.

• Facilitate access to finance and networking with clusters for knowledge intensive service (ICT) companies.

The proposal emphasizes the fostering of service innovation within the ICT and ICT based solutions sector with a special attention on the linkage between the manufacturing of ICT devices and services.

4. Relevance to the objectives of Europe INNOVA and the European Innovation Platform for Knowledge Intensive Services

As stated by the Europe INNOVA initiative ÔÇ£the innovation capability of SMEs in particular depends on the availability of innovation financing. (ÔǪ) The main barrier to achieving the Lisbon objectives will be the development of a much more effective innovation finance system within Europe. There are specific gaps in the system (such as early stage financing) which can only be addressed by public partnership models. Sectoral situations need to be analysed in detail in order to identify gaps and develop instruments to overcome the barriersÔÇع.

This project is especially relevant in this sense as it will study the needs of knowledge intensive service start-ups and it will design and test support mechanisms for start-ups (for which initial access to finance is crucial) to help them access to finance and to networking with relevant agents. The results of the project fulfil this goal by establishing a platform of agents which can give strategic advice and support to the high growth ICT-KIS ventures, while helping connecting them to the most adequate research, innovation, market and financial resources.

Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce (ECC) is a membership and economic development organisation that has been established since 1786. Based in Scotland, it's remit is far wider, covering research, innovation and business development activities at local and European level.  ECC is an organisation of highly qualified and motivated staff and with a long background in Business and Technological Research.

Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce brings a membership of over 1700 (from large multinational companies to one-person organisations), as well as a wider group of businesses it has supported to develop and grow over a 14 year period. ECC also runs business incubators in deprived areas of the city and works with disadvantaged individuals and businesses.

Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has a team of 55 staff and combines expertise in intelligence and business development as well as low and high level training. Our advisers work with senior managers in large scale companies.  

-          SARL with a capital of 45 732 Euros, created in 1995.

-          Specialised in management, marketing, development and animation of ICT incubators/enterprises nursery, expert in consulting and assistance in setting up incubators/enterprises nursery.

-          Business & Innovation Centre (BIC), associate EBN member since 1997 and full EBN member since July 1998; member of Esinet since 2002.

Please see UPDATED attached document with instructions from Irini about the needed documents and information from each partner, including also progress of documents received in hard copy. Legal Identity Form is also needed here.

Please see also instructions on how to complete the A2 form, as officialy given

Only forms for TEIP-KIS-ICT by all partners (please include all electronic documents in the PARTNERS section, otherwise it will be IMPOSSIBLE for me to check or collect them from various posts)

(note: if a partner participates in both CoompEUtition and TEIP-KIS-ICT projects, they need to submit two sets of the same documents, one set for each proposal)

1. A2 form, signed and stamped (please follow carefully the instructions attached, a lot of A2 forms submitted initially have not been completed correctly) – to be fully completed we need to know the exact proposal acronym and the participant number for each project)

Legal entity form

A2 Form

Exclusion form

Financial statement.

I'll have the signed and stamped version with me in BXL on the 1st of August. 

Please see UPDATED attached document with instructions from Irini about the needed documents and information from each partner, including also progress of documents received in hard copy. Legal Identity Form is also needed here.

Please see also instructions on how to complete the A2 form, as officialy given

Only forms for TEIP-KIS-ICT by all partners (please include all electronic documents in the PARTNERS section, otherwise it will be IMPOSSIBLE for me to check or collect them from various posts)  

(note: if a partner participates in both CoompEUtition and TEIP-KIS-ICT projects, they need to submit two sets of the same documents, one set for each proposal) 

1. A2 form, signed and stamped (please follow carefully the instructions attached, a lot of A2 forms submitted initially have not been completed correctly) – to be fully completed we need to know the exact proposal acronym and the participant number for each project) 

 MUFICATA s.l. as president, representative and coordinator of the CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group and CONSEN coop SCE (cooperative in process of constitution and registration) CONSEN is a non profit institution and its main objective the research and technological development and innovation of Information Society Technologies for a transnational grouping of micro-companies and entrepreneurs.

CONSEN was established in 2004 after three years of collaboration in projects at European level. CONSEN stimulates co-operation between firms, universities and public administrations in order foster development and facilitate the research activity and generation of knowledge of the members. It is an initiative launched and guidance of MUFICATA s.l. a consulting firm established in Barcelona. CONSEN is working very closely together with the European Comminission, in partuiclar with the DG of IST, Education and Enterprise, with diverse European technological platforms (ETS) auch us NEM, NESSI, eMobility and ISI, with some European institutions as eBSN and some CEN thematic workshops as ICT eSkills. It has been an active actor of the INNOVA and FP6 programme with at least thirty proposals promoted with a main objective is the complete usage of the new organization and technologies of the Information Society, with the active participation of micro-companies and professionals experts pursuit the socio-economic benefit based on the methods, instruments and tools of the Information Society, which will avoid the digital division in the region. As far as European projects are concerned, CONSEN has participated directly on Tossad (Towards Open Source Software Adoption and Dissemination) and it's contributing on Secure-Force (ETI platform) supporting specially the build and coach of the community online (3000 SMEs).

All partners who intend participating in this proposal should publish here by the end of this week the following information in Microsoft Word/Open Office formats. This info will be included in the first draft of the proposal.

a) Organisation Profile + 2 or 3 CVs of key persons (one page per participant)

b) Relevant experience eg. Networks you belong to

c) Relevant Current and past projects you have participated in

Also:

If you have not already done so, please send me a Poerpoint slideshow presentation (containing 5 slides) describing your organisation and experience

A.1 Participants and consortium: Short (max. one-page)

Participant name:

Short description:Short (max. ten lines)

 MUFICATA s.l. as president, representative and coordinator of the CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group and CONSEN coop SCE (cooperative in process of constitution and registration) CONSEN is a non profit institution and its main objective the research and technological development and innovation of Information Society Technologies for a transnational grouping of micro-companies and entrepreneurs.

CONSEN was established in 2004 after three years of collaboration in projects at European level. CONSEN stimulates co-operation between firms, universities and public administrations in order foster development and facilitate the research activity and generation of knowledge of the members. It is an initiative launched and guidance of MUFICATA s.l. a consulting firm established in Barcelona. CONSEN is working very closely together with the European Comminission, in partuiclar with the DG of IST, Education and Enterprise, with diverse European technological platforms (ETS) auch us NEM, NESSI, eMobility and ISI, with some European institutions as eBSN and some CEN thematic workshops as ICT eSkills. It has been an active actor of the INNOVA and FP6 programme with at least thirty proposals promoted with a main objective is the complete usage of the new organization and technologies of the Information Society, with the active participation of micro-companies and professionals experts pursuit the socio-economic benefit based on the methods, instruments and tools of the Information Society, which will avoid the digital division in the region. As far as European projects are concerned, CONSEN has participated directly on Tossad (Towards Open Source Software Adoption and Dissemination) and it's contributing on Secure-Force (ETI platform) supporting specially the build and coach of the community online (3000 SMEs).