FI-CONTENT 2 OPEN CALL FOR ADDITIONAL BENEFICIARIES

Deadline: 8th January 2014

The FI-CONTENT 2 project, currently active in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research and technological development, announces its Open Call for new beneficiaries. FI-CONTENT 2 is part of the Future Internet PPP (FI-PPP) program, a joint action by European Industry and the European Commission.

The FI-CONTENT 2 project aims at establishing the foundation of a European infrastructure for promoting and testing novel uses of audio-visual content on connected devices. The partners will develop and deploy advanced platforms for Social Connected TV, Mobile Smart City services, and Pervasive Games. To assess the approach and improve these platforms, user communities in 6 European locations will be activated for living lab and field trials. 

The objective of the open call is to recruit around five to ten new content usage driven partners to complement the three platforms that the FI-CONTENT 2 project is building, by creating new applications or providing missing technologies to extend the platforms' capabilities. It is expected that the new partners will contribute to one or more of the following topics: 

Social Connected TV Platform
• Device Discovery,
• Cross-Device Communication,
• Interactive Content and Services,
• Service and Platform APIs,

• Search and Discovery;

Smart City Services Platform:

• Real-time Translation of text and audio of any Smart City Guide Content,

• Word Spotting / Summarization of Smart City Guide Content,

• Service Continuity / Complementarities Between Devices,

• Rich-Media Ad-Insertion,

• Platform Enrichment (Data and Content);

Pervasive Gaming Platform

• Augmented Reality Tracking,

• Reality Mixer,

• Games with Things,

• Content Creation and Integration,

• Game Social Platform.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) will be managed according to the corresponding Grant Agreement, Consortium Agreement and Collaboration Agreement, which the new partners shall adhere to.

Expected duration of participation in project: beginning of April 2014 to end of March 2015 (12 months)

Total EC funding available for new partners: up to 1.35 Million Euro 

Number of new partners to be selected: around 5 to 10

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European funding for smart electronic systems

Deadlines: 24 September 2013 for project outlines and 26 November 2013 for full proposals

The EURIPIDES² is a EUREKA cluster supporting cooperative industrial R&D from design to process and manufacturing in the crucial domain of smart electronic systems integration in aerospace, automotive,energy, health care, transport, and in all new domains like smart cities, mobility and security.

These products are more and more part of our life and environment in communication (smart phones), automotive industry (electric cars), aeronautics, secure societies, medical, agro food, water and energy. 

EURIPIDES stimulates and supports innovative projects aiming at the development of new products and services. Led by industry, these projects involve large companies, a growing number of SMEs and academia, from at least two EUREKA countries.

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