I C I IST Experience and Prospects

I C I – IST Experience and Prospects Radu Bercaru National Institute for R&D in Informatics - ICI 3 rd Inter. Balkan IT Forum September 25 -27, Bucharest

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 - 1 st position (6 projects, 1 MEuro) - 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 – FP 5 / FP 6 information dissemination and awareness raising

IST projects ENLARGE – Entrepreneurship Laboratory 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 Improving Consumer-Supplier Relationship in Traditional 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 B 2 B and B 2 C 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-5 fp – Information Dissemination and European Awareness Launch for the IST Programme under 5 FP • 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 – 5 fp 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

FP 6 prospects • Enabling Grids for E-science and industry in Europe (EGEE) – Eo. I 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

FP 6 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

FP 6 Prospects – e-government, e-democracy – e-learning – preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage – digital content, data mining, semantic web – e-health – energy efficiency