Supporting the European data market providing free support services to data-centric SMEs and start-ups

Abstract:
DataMarketServices (DMS), is a H2020 coordination and support action with the objective to overcome the barriers of data-centric European SMEs and start-ups by providing free support services around data skills, entrepreneurial opportunities, legal issues and standardization.

ERCIM's role: project partner

Duration: 36 months from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021

Total budget: € 2 993 961,25
EU funding: € 2 993 961,25

Partners: Zabala (ES, coordinator); the University of Southampton (UK); Spinlab (DE); Spherik (RO); Bright Pixel (PT); The Next Web (NL); Ogilvy (ES); IPTector (DK), and ERCIM which hosts the European branch of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Web site: https://www.datamarketservices.eu

Fact sheet (Cordis): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219075/factsheet/en

Hybrid Radio everywhere for everyone

Abstract:
HRADIO (Hybrid Radio everywhere for everyone) focuses on radio service innovations enabled by convergence. While radio, with its rich editorial content, remains a highly popular medium, listening figures are slowly declining, particularly among youngsters. With the rapid rise of smartphones, radio faces competition from many new services including music steaming platforms. Regular radio today often does not include attractive features as known from vertical platforms. And if present, they are mostly not well integrated with the actual radio programme. This is where HRADIO will deliver.

Driven by the industry need to create attractive new radio experiences, the project will leverage the full potential of hybrid technology for radio – enabling the integration of cost-effective broadcast distribution with new online features. Broadcasters will be enabled to personalise radio services (while respecting privacy), to provide intuitive functionalities like time-shifting and, eventually, to foster and to exploit user engagement. HRADIO will pave the way to bring these features not only to broadcasters’ native mobile applications, but also to portals, to connected radios and into the car. The core approach is to integrate validated solutions and to harmonise APIs which together will provide broadcasters with an abstracted service layer accessible across any device and distribution platform – ensuring sustainability and return of investment. Therefore, consumers will be able to access their personal radio services on different devices and platforms enabled by a seamless broadcast-internet integration for radio content distribution. All features will be tested in 3 phases of large-scale pilots involving broadcasters, app developers for mobile and automotive devices.

Eventually, HRADIO will publish its developments as ready-to-use Android and HTML client implementations including an extensive set of well documented APIs fostering new service developments for the radio sector.

ERCIM's role:
Project partner

Duration:
30 months from 01 September 2017 to 29 February 2020

Total costs: 3 255 538.75
Total EC Funding: 2 953 370.88

Partners:
DE VLAAMSE RADIO EN TELEVISIEOMROEPORGANISATIE NV Belgium
INSTITUT FUR RUNDFUNKTECHNIK GMBH Germany
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN Germany
GEIE ERCIM France
RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG Germany
KONSOLE LABS GMBH Germany
UK RADIOPLAYER LTD United Kingdom

HRADIO is an H2020 Innovation Action

Fact sheet on Cordis: http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/211079_en.html

Web site: https://www.hradio.eu/projects/

Create-IoT: Cross Fertilisation through alignement, synchronisation and exchanges for IoT

Abstract:
CREATE-IoT’s aim is to stimulate collaboration between IoT initiatives, foster the take up of IoT in Europe and support the development and growth of IoT ecosystems based on open technologies and platforms. This requires synchronisation and alignment on strategic and operational terms through frequent, multi-directional exchanges between the various activities under the IoT Focus Areas (FAs). It also requires cross fertilisation of the various IoT Large Scale Pilots (LSPs) for technological and validation issues of common interest across the various application domains and use cases. CREATE-IoT will align the activities with the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) and will coordinate and support the upcoming LSPs in sustaining the ecosystems developed during those projects through mapping the pilot architecture approaches, address interoperability and standards approaches at technical and semantic levels for object connectivity, protocols, data formats, privacy, security, trusted IoT, open APIs and share the road-mapping with international initiatives. The project will foster the exchange on requirements for legal accompanying measures, development of common methodologies and KPI for design, testing and validation and for success and impact measurement, federation of pilot activities and transfer to other pilot areas, facilitating the access for IoT entrepreneurs/API developers/makers, SMEs, including combination of ICT & Art.

ERCIM's role: Project partner

Duration: 36 months from January 2017 to December 2019

Total cost: 3,0 Mio €

Total EC Funding: 3,0 Mio €

Website: https://european-iot-pilots.eu/create-iot/

Fact sheet (Cordis): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/206371/factsheet/en

Partners:

STIFTELSEN SINTEF Norway
ATOS SPAIN SA Spain
PHILIPS LIGHTING B.V. Netherlands
INSTITUT EUROPEEN DES NORMES DE TELECOMMUNICATION France
IDC ITALIA SRL Italy
INSTITUT DE L'AUDIOVISUEL ET DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS EN EUROPE - IDATE France
ARTHUR'S LEGAL BV Netherlands
ARTSHARE INVESTIGACAO TECNOLOGIA EARTE LDA Portugal
GEIE ERCIM France
TRIALOG France
BLUSPECS INNOVATION SL Spain
GEMALTO SA France
FUTURE EVERYTHING CIC United Kingdom
FUNDACION CENTRO TECNOLOXICO DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE GALICIA Spain
UNPARALLEL INNOVATION LDA Portugal
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY Ireland
THE CONNECTED DIGITAL ECONOMY CATAPULT LIMITED United Kingdom
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA SULLE TECNOLOGIE DELL'INFORMAZIONE E DELLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI Italy
MANDAT INTERNATIONAL ALIAS FONDATION POUR LA COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE Switzerland
ARCHIMEDE SOLUTIONS SARL Switzerland

SPECIAL: Scalable Policy-awarE linked data arChitecture for prIvacy, trAnsparency and compLiance

Abstract: The SPECIAL project will address the contradiction between Big Data innovation and privacy-aware data protection by proposing a technical solution that makes both of these goals realistic. SPECIAL allows citizens and organisations to share more data, while guaranteeing data protection compliance, thus enabling both trust and the creation of valuable new insights from shared data.

ERCIM's role: Project coordinator

Duration: 36 months from January 2017 to December 2019

Total cost: 3 991 388€

Total EC Funding: 3 991 388€

Partners: ERCIM, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology scrl, Technische Universität Berlin, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz, Tenforce BVBA, Deutsche TELEKOM AG, Thomson Reuters Group Ltd, PROXIMUS.

Web site: https://specialprivacy.ercim.eu

Fact sheet (Cordis): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/206343/factsheet/en