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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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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Last week, Martel was in action at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. This huge tech conference is one of the world’s largest gatherings of entrepreneurs. There was an inspiring, music-festival atmosphere where thousands of people could share their vision and work for the future...
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Martel’s newly launched project StoryWine is looking for small regional winemakers to help shape an innovative viticulture solution. StoryWine is a platform that builds on smart agriculture practices to deliver innovation and added value to vineyards. It will also improve efficiency and quality of wine production...
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The EC audits its Horizon 2020 grant beneficiaries on a regular basis. Audits can happen anytime during a Horizon 2020 project and up to two years after the final payment. The selection of organisations to be audited is essentially random. This means that organisations that participate...
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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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Martel has won a new H2020 project, 5G-Drive, a Research and Innovation Action working with a team in China in the field of connected mobility. The project adds to what has so far been a highly successful period for Martel in strengthening its position as...
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The proposal for the next multiannual financial framework (MFF), the 9th framework programme for research and innovation as of 2021, represents the evolution of Horizon 2020 into Horizon Europe, outlining the priorities and allocating the Research and Innovation budget for 2021-2027. Andrus Ansip, the EC Vice-President for...
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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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About the Next Generation Internet initiative
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in autumn 2016, aims to shape the future internet as an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies the values that Europe holds dear: openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and protection of data.
The NGI should ensure that the increased connectivity and the progressive adoption of advanced concepts and methodologies (spanning across several domains such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, interactive technologies, etc.) drive this technology revolution, while contributing to making the future internet more human-centric.
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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Martel Innovate is supporting the organization of the first Open FIWARE Camp in Mexico, which will take place in Puerto Vallarta on June 1st and 2nd 2017. The FIWARE Open Camp is organized within the context of the FIWARE Mexico project jointly with the CUDI Week ,...
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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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Martel Innovate H2020 Training Increase your chances of success! 14, 15 February 2017, Bellaterra, Spain Martel Innovate is delighted to run a 1 day and 1/2 training about “How to write a winning H2020 proposal” for the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council...
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Pioneering a FIWARE-driven Innovation Hub between Europe and Mexico! Exciting times for the Martel Innovate team at the start of two new EC-funded projects within the Horizon 2020 context that aim at strengthening collaboration between ICT innovators in Europe and in Mexico! By building up on the...
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[caption id="attachment_768" align="aligncenter" width="698"] CAPSSI - Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation[/caption] As of 1st June 2016, Martel Innovate is at the guide of the ChiC project that is an EC funded Coordination and Support Action serving the Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation, #CAPSSI, initiative, promoted...
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From today a new section is online on Martel web site! A blog containing stories and technical articles from Martel team! Check it out at https://www.martel-innovate.com/blog/ [caption id="attachment_764" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Martel Innovate Blog[/caption] We will strive to have fresh stories every week! Stay tuned to learn about the...
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Martel has a consolidated innovation tradition, having served its customers and partners for more than 20 years in the field of innovation management, R&D funding and in particular international collaboration projects, spanning across major ICT fileds, such as Telecommunications, Software Engineering, Wireless Networking and Future...
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[caption id="attachment_777" align="aligncenter" width="698"] Dr. Monique Calisti with Günther H. Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, and Mario Campolargo Director for Net Futures in DG CONNECT at the Mobile World Congress 2016.[/caption] Working together to make the Digital Single Market vision to become a...
Read MoreRead MoreThe party is about to start, let's try to make the best out of the Mobile World Congress experience! Each and every year the Mobile World Congress show becomes more and more interesting and captivating, also for small and medium innovation players like us. Just by looking...
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Martel announces a new organisational structure to strengthen its business and service offering Martel introduces a new organisational structure to strength its position in the international innovation scene. The new organisational structure will diversify Martel's services portfolio, while consolidating its traditional core business. Background and future directions Martel's business profile evolved...
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