How to host a successful virtual event? This has been the question for the last two years. Virtual events have quickly become the new norm and planning and organizing them has become a large part of the Martel Media team’s work schedule and in this...
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At Martel, we live and breathe innovation, and have done since our inception, 20 years ago. Experience does not mean we are ’resting on our laurels’ - we strive to find new creative solutions to ensure a long-lasting communication impact for information and communications technology...
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Martel has launched its latest short film: What is innovation to you? Playing with Martel’s tagline “Innovation, we make it happen” the film attempts to answer the question – what is innovation to you? Martel’s filmmakers Claire Doble and Miguel Alarcón asked attendees and exhibitors at the...
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Martel has launched its latest video: 5G Stories from 5G People: Prepare for the Unexpected. The video contains footage shot at the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. MWC is the world’s largest gathering for the mobile services industry. Martel’s 5G Stories… video features interviews...
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Martel’s CEO Dr Monique Calisti has a guest blog up on the website of Finnish innovation agency, Sitra. Calisti’s blog “Creating an internet of humans” was written from her perspective as head of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Outreach Office. However, it also demonstrates Monique’s...
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One of the most critical factors in today’s hyper-connected society and densely populated digital innovation scene is communication. If you do it right you'll have a chance to be one of the 30% of digital businesses that succeed in the market. However, getting communication right requires...
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As the holiday season approaches, Martel Innovate wishes everyone a merry Christmas and a happy and productive 2019. Watch the short Martel Christmas video from our international team and also take advantage of our "Christmas present" special offer. If you'd like to hear more from Martel,...
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Martel is back from one of our biggest events of the year, ICT2018 in Vienna, held 4-6 December. ICT: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe is the European Commission DG CONNECT's flagship event, which meant Martel was hard at work representing many of our Horizon 2020...
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At last week’s Smart City World Expo Congress in Barcelona, Martel won a 5G award. The prize was for GreenRoute, a smart-mobility software application co-developed with Mexican institutions. We also exhibited our smart city platform Orchestra Cities at the conference. GreenRoute is a powered by FIWARE...
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Martel has welcomed the news of last week’s successful signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in China between the European Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI) and China’s Alliance of Industrial Internet (AII). Martel was one of the key players who worked to facilitate and support...
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Martel’s chief technology officer Dr Federico Michele Facca has been named one of the FIWARE Evangelists. Facca, who has been active in developing, promoting and adopting the FIWARE platform, joins a distinguished group of 30 FIWARE Evangelists in an initiative that recognises those who are actively...
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The second annual Next Generation Internet Forum (NGI Forum 2018) was held in September in Porto, Portugal. Co-organised by Martel Innovate, the event built on the success of last year’s inaugural NGI Forum in Barcelona. The 2018 edition attracted more than 300 registered participants and...
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Martel Innovate is pleased to announce it has won four new H2020 projects due to kick off late 2018 to early 2019. The new projects cover some of Martel’s key areas of expertise including next generation internet (NGI), artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT (the Internet...
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This week Martel Innovate held its one-day training course, How To Write A Winning H2020 Proposal, at HES-SO in Lausanne. The course was well attended with 13 students from various disciplines in the classroom. Master Trainer and Martel Innovate CEO Dr Monique Calisti led the course,...
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Futur.e.s in Paris is one of Europe’s largest innovation festivals. This year’s three-day edition in June attracted more than 22,000 visitors and Martel’s CEO Dr Monique Calisti was in attendance, participating in the Next Generation Internet (NGI) workshop hosted by Cap Digital and organised in...
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Martel Media has confirmed its ability to achieve excellence in communicating ICT Research and Innovation projects (RIA) with the recent successful conclusion of the Horizon 2020 eWINE project. Martel was the Dissemination & Communication leader for the two-year eWINE project, which performed its final review in...
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Martel’s CEO Dr Monique Calisti gave her TEDx talk, “The Human Beauty in the Age of Machines” at the TEDx Modena Salon in February 2018 and the video is now live. Monique presented her experience as a technologist, scientist, innovator, entrepreneur and mother of three at...
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Recent headlines about Catalonia have often been more focused on division rather than connection. However, the field trial of RIFE, a Horizon 2020 research and innovation project coordinated by Martel, which tested a new type of internet architecture in the Catalonia region of Tarragona, was...
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The FIWARE Tech Summit 2017 edition is coming to Malaga on November 28th-29th, 2017! Martel will have a primary role at the event and present three technical talks at the FIWARE Tech Summit. Dr. Federico Facca, Head of the Lab, in collaboration with Fernando Lopez...
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Martel has been quite busy with a number of activities in the field of 5G and IoT before the summer, preparing for the next steps later in the year. 5G Within the framework of project EXCITING - EU-China Study on IoT and 5G, Martel as the Coordinator...
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The Second Engineering Conference (FEC2) will be taking place on October 4-6, at Tsalapata Building, the brickworks turned innovation center in Volos, Greece. The Engineering Conferences aim to bring together technology experts, researchers, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of ICT...
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The Second CAPS Community Workshop took place in Volos, Greece, on July 12th, in parallel with the MAZI Summer School which ran for the whole week of July 10th - 14th. The main goal of the one day CAPS community workshop was to gather all organisations...
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The Next Generation Internet initiative and the HUB4NGI project Towards the end of 2016, the European Commission launched the Next Generation Internet (NGI) programme, which aims is to develop a more human-centric Internet supporting European values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralisation, inclusiveness, transparency and protection...
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It has been 7 months since Martel started coordinating the H2020 project EXCITING: EU-China Study on IoT and 5G and the team is making excellent progress. Martel and the other partners are being proactive in striving to push the boundary to further the collaboration between...
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DSI Manifesto Workshop, 23 May 2017, Rimini On the May 23rd 2017, the Digital Social Innovation (DSI) Community will meet in Rimini at the Innovation Square for a workshop dedicated to the discussion of the Digital Social Innovation Manifesto. “The DSI Manifesto Workshop is meant to voice the...
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The 1st Engineering Conference organised by the Fed4FIRE+ project took place in Ghent, 14th-16th March, in the historic heart of Flanders. Three important events were collocated together and they were the Fed4FIRE+ Kick-off meeting, the 1st Engineering Conference and Fed4FIRE project’s final review. Martel, one of the key partners...
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Martel Innovate goes satellite with participation to the recently started Horizon 2020 project QV-LIFT, Q/V band earth segment LInk for Future high Throughput space systems. QV-LIFT aims at developing the foundation of the Ground Segment Technology for the future Q/V band Terabit SatCom systems. This will...
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Enabling federation of large-scale experimental facilities to ground the Next Generation Internet Federation of innovative large-scale experimental facilities is crucial to ground the foundation of the Next Generation Internet to enable addressing technological opportunities arising from advances in various research fields, extending from new network architectures...
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2016 has been an intense, surprising and succesful year for Martel Innovate. A few major highlights: 4 new people on board and 1 new office opened in Lugano (Switzerland) 10 accepted H2020 proposals out of 18 submitted in total between January and April 4 new...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
It does seem like a good occasion to write about my first weeks with Martel Innovate.
Everyone who goes after their dreams deserves, from time to time, a shift in life that leads them a bit closer to what they want in life. Moving to Zurich is definitely one of such “shifts” for me, both personally and professionally.
Thanks to Martel, a dynamic and agile SME focusing on promoting international collaboration projects, I am able to work on things I like to do and do well in, in a city where I’d like to spend a good part of my life.
EU-Mexico collaboration framework bootstrapped! The FIWARE family is growing and reaching far in Mexico. Beginning of September 2016 the two international EU-Mexico collaboration projects FIWARE MEXICO and smartSDK have been succesfully kicked-off in Mexico City. Hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, partners from Europe and...
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