Introducing the EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group Prof. Dr. Zoltán Horváth EIT ICT Labs Conference, Budapest 05 March, 2013
Contents The partners and the Co-location Centre National Development Agency grant and R&D structure Business partnerships and innovation activities Education Outreach activities Values added and visions of Budapest Associate Partner Group
Partners of the EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group
Co-location Centre at the InfoPark Dedicated management team working on the project coordination Financial, education, R&D, business development and marketing & communications professionals The CLC is co-location facility for industrial partners and project teams Regular project meetings with researchers and industrial partners at the CLC
The financing structure Industry funded R&D projects EU FP7 and national R&D projects Dedicated National Development Agency grant Carrier funding for further R&D activities: 1.000.000.000 HUF Support from the Minister of National Development Financial background for the preparation period: 20.000.000 HUF Social Renewal Operational Program (TÁMOP) Education - Curricula Development: 120.000.000 HUF
National Development Agency grant Sum of funding is 1.000.000.000 HUF To set up the local CLC and serve as a carrier project between January 2013 and the first half of 2014 Shared between the consortium partners, ELTE, BME and Cisco On top of the R&D&I activities financed by the NDA grant the EIT funding serve to realize the innovation cycle The research projects correspond to the research areas of the EIT ICT Labs Four major research areas Solutions for complex infocommunication networks Mobility and the digital cities of the future Human and computer cooperation The security of critical systems
R&D&Innovation projects of EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group in 2013 Identifying the problems of complex infocommunication networks NFÜ tasks and subtasks András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Distributed mobile computations for cyberphysical systems Tamás Kozsik (ELTE) - Software technology support for cyberphysical systems Tamás Lukovszki (ELTE)- Smart content delivery and storage Gábor Vattay (ELTE) - Large scale network measurements and monitoring in federated testbeds Csaba Simon (BME) - Smart ubiquitous content Miklós Telek (BME) - Analysing the P2P traffic Rolland Vida (BME) - DroidLab smart experiments Péter Sziklai (ELTE) - Privacy in health and wellbeing EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks Cyber-Physical Systems - Medical CPS Environments Data Mining Application Networking Solutions for Future Media - Smart Content Delivery and Storage Open source library for deterministic source coding for efficient content distribution in mobile environments Internet Technologies and Architecture - FITTING Resource browsing, cross testbed measurement and data repository Intelligent Mobility and Transport Systems - Future forwarding Networking Solutions for Future Media - Smart Content Delivery and Storage Traffic management for ISPs Internet Technologies and Architecture - FITTING Extended federation Health and Well-being - Innovation Radar
R&D&Innovation projects of EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group in 2013 Future digital fields and mobility NFÜ tasks and sub tasks András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Personal traffic forecaster Tien Van Do (BME) - INTCO Sándor Imre and Győző Gódor (BME) - Device-free localization Csaba Simon (BME) - Efficient content sharing Róbert Szabó and Károly Farkas (BME) - Future digital social fields and mobility Péter Sziklai (ELTE) - Privacy in smart spaces EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks Intelligent Mobility and Transport Systems - TravelDashBoard Intelligent Mobility and Transportation Systems - Multimodal Mobility Integration of data from various source Smart Spaces - Localization Toolbox Networking Solutions for Future Media - Smart Content Delivery and Storage Network coding for improved handover of mediastreams Digital Cities of the Future - City Crowd Source Transport crowd sourcing Smart Spaces - Innovation Radar
R&D&Innovation projects of EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group in 2013 Human computer collaboration NFÜ tasks and sub tasks András Benczúr (ELTE) - Europa: EIT s cloud-based data intensive computing infrastructure András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Context based behavioral model András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Development and test games for children with special needs Géza Németh (BME) - Mobile and multimodal man - machine interfaces, M4I Lilla Hortoványi (Cisco) - ICT-mediated human activity EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks Computing in the Cloud - EUROPA - EITs cloud based data Use and extend Stratosphere and PACT for temporal web classification at the peta-scale RIHA - Computers as Social Actors Smart Spaces - Playful learning on the cloud A framework for serious games for children with cerebral palsy Intelligent Mobility and Transport Systems - Multimodal Mobility Smart Spaces - Playful learning on the cloud Privacy, Security and Trust NFÜ tasks and sub tasks Levente Buttyán (BME) - Security and privacy in critical systems Péter Sziklai (ELTE) - Privacy in self-tracking systems EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks Smart Energy Systems - SecSES - Secure Energy Systems Detecting targeted attacks against Smart Energy Systems Privacy, Security and Trust - Self-Tracking Privacy
Cooperation with established companies Integrated cooperative educational and research programmes at ELTE and BME together with the main industrial partners, e.g.: Master and PhD students working in a team with the university researchers and the industrial partner delegates in joint labs Several patents, open source software solutions and high quality research papers concerning technology improvement
Platform of Innovative SMEs Several Hungarian medium enterprises have become successful actors of the international ICT sector over the last two decades The EIT ICT Labs Budapest to integrate the local ICT companies to help them benefit from forming new collaboration partnerships. to strengthen the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, to offer the possibility for collaboration partnerships within the EIT ICT Labs network to benefit from the synergies between the companies operations Successful local ICT SMEs involved already Verba Technologies, Aitia, NETvisor, Bonn Hungary, IND, BalaBit
Empowering entrepreneurship Individual mentoring to support students start-up enterprises Raising awareness program I&E workshops organized by ELTE/BME Legal/IPR support and involvement of coaches/business mentors Network of early stage investors and venture funds to be formed The university s graduates and PhD students may get help for identifying and developing breakthrough-innovations, Transferring their unique ideas into valuable projects, and starting-up innovative companies Example of start up projects: TresorIT A cloud-based, secure file synchronising software, specifically designed to share confidential data of business users Tresorit received a 380 million HUF investment from Euroventures IV venture capital investment fund and nine private investors Turtle Games team achieved 3. place at the Imagine Cup, Sidney
Education EIT ICT Labs Master School Integrates the IT core curricula on seven majors with entrepreneurship education A two year programme, students visiting two leading universities in two different European countries Three majors in Budapest at ELTE and BME Digital Media Technology (DMT) Service Design and Engineering (SDE) Security and Privacy (S&P) Budapest Doctoral Training Centre One of the four EIT ICT Labs DTCs Focus topic: communication software and system performance Students in business development, Raising Awareness, Opportunity Recognition courses and I&E mentoring
Outreach activities Budapest CLC is Responsible for the student recruitment and building network of researchers in the CEE region Variety of countries approached as part of excellence scouting, student recruitment and consultancy
Values added for the economy and the ICT sector Enhancing competitiveness of the Hungarian economy Strong cooperation between the universities (ELTE/BME) and the industry in the field of communication software and system performance More than two-decade-long expertise in operation of a unique knowledge triangle model Best practices of successful cooperation between ELTE, BME and industrial partners The majority of the PhD themes support our partnerships New platform of dynamically growing Hungarian (micro)multis with local R&D headquarter Exceptional international network Successful outreach program, based on more than one-thousand bilateral agreements and university network memberships Ensures high efficiency in excellence scouting, student recruitment and enhanced regional visibility for the whole EIT ICT Labs KICs
Visions of the Budapest Associate Partner Group Develop an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Hungary Improve the cooperation between the university and industry in the CEE region Build upon the innovative attitude of well-trained Hungarian ICT professionals with profound mathematics knowledge Enhance the I&E focused training of professionals from BA to PhD education Make a progress in the research area: Communication Software and System Performance
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