MyFIRE: Multidisciplinary networking of research communities in FIRE

An European project MyFIRE with 8 organisations from Europe, Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China kicked-off their activities in Barcelona recently. The project was launched on June 1st, 2010 through the 7th framework Programme, under the ICT thematic priority "Future Internet experimental facility and experimentally-driven research". It will last two years and has a total budget of 800.000 Euros. The goal of the project is to increase the benefits of Experimentation in the field of Future Internet Research by: improving the functionality of experimentation, stimulating the use of experimentation and understanding the expected outcomes.
The project will particularly look at three main topics:
- Research and technology, by identifying the real needs for testbeds from the researchers and industry communities to use experimental facilities in the future
- Standardisation, by identifying standardised methodology and approaches to the use of testbeds, to promote innovation and leverage the research results
- Innovation process and social and economic impacts, by identifying economic costs and benefits and results of using the testbeds for validating research results, and requirements of the business model
While 2010 will mostly be the data collection phase, preliminary results will be issued from 2011 and publicly disseminated during workshops to be organised in Europe and abroad.
The project MyFIRE will pay a special attention to the development of international cooperation with other initiatives similar to FIRE, especially in the four BRIC partner countries of the MyFIRE consortium.

MyFIRE is a project co-financed by the European Commission under the 7th framework program for RTD. Started in June 2010 it will last 2 years. Gathering 8 organisations from Europe (INNO, ETSI, Fraunhofer, University of Edinburg), Brazil (IPT), Russian Federation (ITMO), India (ERNET) and China (BII). The project MyFIRE addresses the optimisation of the Future Internet experimentation and the international collaboration. Further information on the MyFIRE project is available at www.my-fire.eu.

Sathya Rao
ETSI Consultant
Telscom Consulting
3074 Muri b. Bern
Switzerland

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