Our Projects

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    H-CLOUD

    H-CLOUD is a H2020 Coordination and Support Action that aims to gather the European Cloud stakeholders in a sustainable, informed and coordinated open community through the H-CLOUD Forum, which brings together innovators, policy makers, the demand and supply side of the Cloud market, to remove fragmentation and increase collaboration in Europe and beyond, while aligning on…

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    DEL4ALL

    DEL4ALL is a H2020 Coordination and Support Action at work to transform the current European research and innovation initiatives in the area of digital enhanced learning into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem. The set of activities DEL4ALL runs aims at effectively stimulating collaboration among all key players in the European context and beyond in an inclusive an impactful way….

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    REACT

    REACT is a H2020 Research and Innovation Action that addresses the management of waste acrylic textiles coming from outdoor awnings and furnishing. A crucial issue is the analysis and removal of finishing substances that affect the secondary raw material purity and their management. REACT aims to implement a mechanical recycling process to obtain second life fibre…

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    StoryWine

    StoryWine is a platform innovating the precision viticulture by creating added value on top of smart agriculture best-practices, which nowadays focus mostly on monitoring processes. Our ambition is to move beyond the emerging Internet of Wines wave, while improving efficiency and quality of wine production through sensors-based data and advanced analytics. StoryWine also provides tools…

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    WeNet

    WeNet is a Future Emerging Technologies H2020 Research and Innovation Action that aims to develop the culture, science and engineering, methodologies, algorithms, social interaction protocols and an online platform which will empower machine mediated diversity-aware people interactions. Martel is strongly involved in the impact creation activities, supporting the Open Calls management and leading dissemination and communication activities, as well…

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    DigiGOV

    Exploring Digital Government Transformation in the EU: understanding public sector innovation in a data-driven society DigiGOV, funded by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, will focus on understanding how innovation in the public sector, enabled by ICTs, can transform governance systems, in terms of new approaches to use data for policy design &…

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    NGI4ALL

    NGI4ALL is a H2020 Coordination and Support Action in charge of the communication and community building activities supporting the promotion and growth of the  Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. Martel is coordinating NGI4ALL and leads the entire communication, dissemination and engagement strategy definition and execution, playing a significant role in the overall NGI ecosystem creation and animation via dedicated online and offline tools and activities. www.ngi.eu

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    HUB4NGI

    The main goal of HUB4NGI is to transform the current Next Generation Internet initiative into an increasingly dynamic, collaborative and participatory research and innovation ecosystem capable of effectively supporting and coordinating efforts to build and Internet that is better centred on humans needs and values. HUB4NGI aims to provide a collaborative “platform”, in the form…

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    NGIoT

    NGIoT  is a H2020 Coordination and Support Action that aims to provide support to the European community of researchers and innovators active in the IoT scene and more specifically involved in the IoT Large Scale Pilots (IoT-LSP) and in the IoT Security Cluster initiatives.  Martel is leading road mapping activities, and, as responsible for communication and marketing work, led the Activity Group 08 across the IoT-LSP programme.  ngiot.eu

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    5G-DRIVE

    5G-DRIVE is a H2020 Research and Innovation Action that aims to explore the impact of transport cost and wireless channel (de-) aggregation technique on resource efficiency (cost, spectrum, power consumption) and service availability in aggregation network that uses optical or millimetre-wave carriers for interconnecting cell-site and baseband equipment. Martel is supporting the project coordination of 5G-DRIVE, especially in terms of cooperating with the…

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    Orchestra Cities

    Orchestra Cities aims to deliver a data and IoT-driven solution that allows the collaborative creation of Smart Cities involving different stakeholders through Open APIs and Open Data. Download here the Orchestra Cities brochure (PDF) Download here the Orchestra Cities white paper (PDF) www.orchestracities.com

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    TO-EURO-5G

    TO-EURO-5G is a H2020 Coordination and Support Action that worked at the service of the whole 5G PPP community, including both Phase 1 and Phase 2 projects, the 5G Infrastructure Association, as well as the European Commission and other 5G research initiatives worldwide. Martel led online and offline media active communication activities, contributing to organise and run 5G PPP events, and supporting the 5G IA and the…

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    FI-NEXT

    FI-NEXT is the project leading the sustainability and evolution of FIWARE Platform and FIWARE Community. The FIWARE Community is an independent open community whose members are committed to materialise the FIWARE mission, that is: “to build an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free and implementation-driven software platform standards that will ease the development of new…

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    U4IoT

    U4IoT is a H2020 project that supported the IoT Large Scale Pilot (IoT-LSP) projects in their end-user engagement activities, by providing guidelines, online resources, privacy-compliant crowdsourcing tools, as well as an innovative privacy game for personal data protection risk assessment and awareness. Martel, besides majorly contributing to run the U4IOT project, has been in charge of coordinating Open Call activities across the whole IoT-LSP initiative and injected into communication and promotion of the various IoT-LSP projects. u4iot.eu

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    FLAME

    FLAME developed an experimental cloud-based platform to support the development of “virtual media functions” and their experimentation in upcoming 5G smart cities scenarios. Martel contributed to the development of the platform by providing distributed container orchestration services and leading marketing, communication, community building, as well as 3rd  parties engagement activities (Open Calls management).  ict-flame.eu

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    Fed4FIRE+

    Fed4FIRE+ project will run and improve on the existing Fed4FIRE federation experimentation new facilities for the Future Internet Research. Through a system of Open Calls, developers and innovators can run experiments using a wide range of testbed infrastructures made available from Fed4FIRE+ federation. Fed4FIRE+ will also organize engineering conferences with the aim to strengthen the…

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    ORCA

    ORCA offered experimentation facilities to promote wireless innovation in several market segments, including manufacturing, automotive industry, healthcare, ambient assistant living, public home automation, and utilities, in need of dealing with extreme (ultra-low latency, ultra-high throughput, ultra- high reliability) and diverging (low AND high data rate, time-critical AND non-time critical) communication needs.  Martel led the overall communication and dissemination activities playing…

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    EXCITING

    The EU-China Study on IoT and 5G (EXCITING) is a 26-month initiative jointly funded by the European Commission, the Chinese government and the swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). The overall objective of EXCITING is to support the creation of favourable conditions for co-operation between the European and Chinese research and innovation…

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    FIWARE Mexico

    The FIWARE Mexico initiative aims to enhance FIWARE-driven collaboration between Europe and Mexico, based on the adoption, deployment and improvement of FIWARE in Mexico as a framework that will open up new horizons for future cooperation in the ICT domain. fiwaremexico.org

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    QV-LIFT

    QV-LIFT is a H2020 Research and Innovation project that aimed at developing the foundation of the Ground Segment Technology for the Q/V band Terabit SatCom systems. This has been done by providing core technologies both at the hardware level and at the network level, which have also been in a unique and realistic test environment.  Martel led the Communication and Dissemination activities,…

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    SmartSDK

    SmartSDK worked on the design and development of open source and FIWARE based components for developing advanced applications in the Smart City, Smart Healthcare, and Smart Security domains. Martel coordinated the project, led its technical work, as well as the dissemination and communication activities.  Within this project, Martel developed several software components that are at the core of the open-source and open data platform Orchestra Cities that…

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    FIRE STUDY

    Since February 2016, the FIRE STUDY project, which Martel Innovate is coordinating, provides support to the European Commission to coordinate activities across the Future Internet Research and Experimentation, FIRE, community, working to : Elaborate policy recommendations for Future Internet experimentation for 2018-2020 as a concrete mean to support the EC and all NGI innovators to…

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    ChIC

    ChIC is a Coordination and Support Action, funded under the ICT-10-2015 Call, which aims at boosting the emergence of the CAPSSI, Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation, initiative by offering networking, know-how and promotion so as to gather and grow the overall community of CAPSSI stakeholders. The main goal of the ChiC consortium,…

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    eWINE

    The main goal of eWINE is to realize elastic networks that can scale to a high number of users in a short timespan through the use of an agile infrastructure (intelligent software and flexible hardware). www.ewine-project.eu

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    EURO-5G

    The primary objective of the EURO-5G project was to facilitate effective and efficient co-operation among all the 5G PPP projects, the European Commission, the 5G Infrastructure Association, and related national initiatives to maximize the European momentum towards the future 5G integrated, ubiquitous and ultra-high capacity networks. By leading communication and community building activities, Martel has gained an in-depth understanding of the overall…

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    RIFE

    RIFE addressed the major societal challenge of providing affordable Internet access to those who cannot afford it, by solving the technological challenge to increase the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. Martel coordinated the RIFE project and led its dissemination and communication activities.  www.rife-project.eu

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    SSICLOPS

    SSICLOPS aimed at empowering enterprises to create and operate high-performance private cloud infrastructure allowing flexible scaling through federation with other private clouds without compromising on their service level and security requirements. Martel supported Aalto University in the coordination of the project and led its dissemination and communication activities.  www.ssiclops.eu

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    FI-CORE

    FI-CORE is the project leading the development of FIWARE Platform and FIWARE Community. The FIWARE Community is an independent open community whose members are committed to materialise the FIWARE mission, that is: “to build an open sustainable ecosystem around public, royalty-free and implementation-driven software platform standards that will ease the development of new Smart Applications…

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    FI-Links

    FI-Links will support the process of evolving FI-PPP to a worldwide champion of Internet innovation by taking into account the specific business requirements of both large European industries and SMEs, supporting the adoption of the FI-PPP in non-covered EU regions and beyond, and validating the long-term vision of FI-PPP.To achieve these goals, FI-Links will establish…

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    XIFI

    XIFI is a project of the European Public-Private-Partnership on Future Internet (FI-PPP) programme. In this context XIFI is the project responsible for the capacity building part of the programme. XIFI will pave the way for the establishment of a common European market for large-scale trials for Future Internet and Smart Cities through the creation of…

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    UCN

    This project introduces the concept of User Centric Networking (UCN), which is a new paradigm leveraging user information at large to deliver novel content recommendation systems and content delivery frameworks. The goal of this project is to design a UCN system architecture for user-centric connected media services. We will build UCN upon three complementary research…

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    AmpliFIRE

    The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare FIRE for year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. It brings the concept of open innovation into the world of FIRE, involving beneficiaries across the range from infrastructure technologies to new modes of interaction,…

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    CI-FIRE

    CI-FIRE is supporting the sustainable use of FIRE facilities in several different ways. We are analysing the sustainability potential of these test facilities. We are developing an experimentation-driven innovation business framework template. We are implementing an exemplary collaboration with EIT ICT Labs (European Institute of Innovation and Technology).

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    EU-China-FIRE

    The EU-China-FIRE Project is a 2 years (2013 – 2015) EU-funded project, facilitating coordination and support to EU-China cooperation on Future Internet Experimental Research (FIRE) and IPv6. China is a very large country pursuing its ICT infrastructure development which could lead to pioneer the implementation of Future Internet advanced technologies as well as being a…

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    SCAMPI

    The SCAMPI project – develops the technical solutions for a service platform in mobile and pervasive opportunistic networks. SCAMPI extends the concept of opportunistic networking to the concept of opportunistic resource usage, thus allowing users not only to simply communicate, but also to use complex services in spite of long disconnections and severe partitions of…

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    INFINITY

    The main challenge for the INFINITY project is to establish an approach that can quickly engage with infrastructure owners and application developers Europe-wide, building as far as possible on existing data, information, projects and programmes, to create a new, useful and valuable repository of infrastructure capability and capacity that relates need to opportunity and facilitates…

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    Leone

    The Leone project seeks to build a network management framework that integrates an unprecedented number and diversity of sources of information about the network and its performance, including measurements focussed on the quality of experience perceived by the end users in a world of highly distributed and increasingly meshed applications.

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    FUSION

    The FUSION project aims to bring SMEs to FIRE networking facilities so that SMEs can test out and experiment with innovative applications, services and systems on state-of-the-art networking facilities. A FUSION portal will be ready in May 2013 to broker SME requirements and facilities.