3rd InterBalkan IT Forum September 25-27, Bucharest

I C I – IST Experience and Prospects

Radu Bercaru

National Institute for R&D in Informatics - ICI

General profile

Research and development• e-Government: integrated solutions for

public services– public administration– transportation– environmental information management– health care

• e-Business

General profile

• Applied multimedia technologies– e-learning– e-culture

• Decision support systems

• Industrial Informatics– information systems for enterprises– energy efficiency

General profile

• Software technologies and support tools– advanced modeling and optimization– artificial intelligence– database systems– real-time systems

• Operator of the National R&D Computer Network (RNC)

General profile

• Coordinator of the national R&D Program

“INFOSOC – Information Society”

• Host of a comprehensive digital library

International cooperation and recognition

• Partner in more than 40 EU (EC-PECO, COPERNICUS AND IST) projects since 1993

• Member in EU ESPRIT Working Groups, Networks of Excellence and Joint Research Projects

International cooperation and recognition

• Contact point for the European IST Prize• Ranked first among Romanian R&D

organizations, in the EC survey “Impact of the enlargement of the European Union towards the associated CEE countries on RTD – innovation and structural policies” (Office of Official publications of the EC, 1999)

IST experience

• 32 Romanian organizations involved in 46 IST projects (www.cordis.lu/ist/projects.htm)

• ICI - 1st position (6 projects, 1MEuro)

- less than 1% of the number of potential applicants in institutes, universities and industry

- more than 10 % of the number of IST projects

IST experience

Major areas covered:

– e-business for SMEs– knowledge management– software technologies– mobile communications for SMEs– FP5 / FP6 information dissemination and

awareness raising

IST projects

ENLARGE – EntrepreneurshipLaboratory for Eastern European Region• Coordinator: Athens Laboratory of Business

Administration - ALBA Greece• Partners from:France, Greece, Bulgaria,

Poland, Slovenia, Cyprus• Duration: 18 months (Sept. 2001 – February

2003

IST projects

ENLARGE main objective:– to promote the integration of candidate

enlargement countries through the application of a methodology for devising and putting into action e-business strategy in SMEs and a series of executive education programs, customized for SME managers in Eastern Europe

www.enlargenet.org

IST projects

DISTRICT – Developing and ImprovingConsumer-Supplier Relationship inTraditional Commerce using ICT• Coordinator: ETRA Spain• Partners from: UK, Greece, Czech Rep.,

The Netherlands• Duration: 24 months (Jan. 2000 – Dec.

2001)

IST projects

DISTRICT main objective:

– to develop an integrated e-business system for B2B and B2C models that enable small food independent retailers and associations of small shops to remain competitive in the e-commerce area

IST projects

SILK – System Integration via Logic &

Knowledge

• Coordinator: IQSOFT Intelligent Software, Hungary

• Partners from: France, Greece

• Duration: 30 months (Apr. 2000 – Sep. 2002)

IST projects

SILK main objective:– to help solve system integration problems at all

levels of organizations, ranging from small departments to entire corporations or even between corporations, using the knowledge management approach applied to existing diverse heterogeneous sources of information.

www.silk-project.com

IST projects

MECASP – Maintenance and

Improvement of Component-based

Applications Diffused in ASP Mode

• Coordinator: Prologue Software, France

• Partners from: France, Spain

• Duration: 24 months (Sept. 2001 – August 2002)

IST projects

MECASP main objective:– to develop an ASP – oriented, open software

environment dedicated to the maintenance of applications and to the management of related changes and adaptations

www.mecasp.org

IST projects

MOBITECH – European SMEs Challenge

in the Mobile Communication Technologies

• Coordinator: Comite Richelieu, France

• Partners from: United Kingdom, Austria, France, Italy, Israel

• Duration: 18 months (Jan. 2001 – June 2002)

IST projects

MOBITECH main objectives:– to push SMEs closer to the world of new

technologies, specifically mobile communication technologies, and to facilitate their better exploitation for the benefit of the company and of its customers

IST projects

Idealist-5fp – Information Dissemination and

European Awareness Launch for the IST

Programme under 5FP• Coordinator: DLR, Germany• Partners: IST National Contact Points from 31 MS

and AC plus Iceland, Israel, Norway and Switzerland

• Duration: 36 months (Nov. 2000 – Oct. 2003)

IST projects

Idealist – 5fp main objective:– to help solve problems faced by organizations

wishing to participate in IST by supporting transnational partner search and brokerage and by improving communication between EC and potential participants

www.idealist.ici.ro/idealist

FP6 prospects

• Enabling Grids for E-science and industry in Europe (EGEE) – EoI prepared by a consortium of 29 partners led by CERN Geneva

ICI – coordinator of the Ro-Grid consortium including UPB, UB, IFIN-HH, INCAS, ICN Pitesti and SIVECO

FP6 Prospects• 26 confirmed expressions of interest on

following topics:– ambient intelligence– bio-informatics– knowledge management– global change and ecosystems, environmental

monitoring– modeling of decision-making

FP6 Prospects

– e-government, e-democracy – e-learning– preservation and dissemination of cultural

heritage – digital content, data mining, semantic web– e-health– energy efficiency