Martel is proud to announce coordination and leadership for two new EC-funded projects, each of which is fundamental to advance European projects in their respective areas of cloud communities and digital enhanced learning. H-CLOUD harnesses the rise of new cloud technologies, services and solutions to enable...
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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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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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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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The Decentralised Web is here. The brightest minds across the globe are working on something: a decentralised internet that puts the power back in the hands of the people. From internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s recent launch of a new decentralised internet platform, to Europe’s Next Generation...
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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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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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Martel had an intense and interesting time at the NEM Summit 2017, held on November 29th and 30th in Madrid (Spain). Besides participation to the main conference, Martel ensured support to the FLAME consortium in the organisation and moderation of its first workshop, which took...
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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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Martel brings SMARTSDK Project at the 2nd FIWARE Summit The Second FIWARE Summit took place between the 23th and the 25th of May in the futuristic rooms of the Media Plaza Jaarbeurs, in Utrecht, Netherlands. This fantastic and vibrant city welcomed more than 317 attendees of the summit. Members of...
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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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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 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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Welcome to the Future Martel Innovate has contributed to kick off the FLAME project, a three-year Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action that has the ambition to empower Next Generation Media Ecosystems. FLAME will develop an integrated service delivery platform that utilizes advanced compute & storage as...
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Building an Internet for Humans On the 30th November, Dr. Monique Calisti, Director of Martel Innovate, attended the Next Generation Internet, NGI, workshop that was held at the #EuropeanCommission premises in Brussels. About 80 participants representing academic, SME, startup, industrial and media organisations actively engaged in innovating...
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In recent times, efforts focusing on investigating how digital technologies can assist in addressing societal challenges have grown all over the R&D&I landscape in Europe and beyond. With the ever-increasing penetration of Internet technologies in our lives and society, it has become clear that the...
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