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
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Financial, education, R&D, business development and marketing &communications professionals
The CLC is co-location facility for industrial partners and project teams
The financing structure
Industry funded R&D projects
EU FP7 and national R&D projects
Dedicated National Development Agency grant
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Carrier funding for further R&D activities: 1.000.000.000 HUFSupport from the Minister of National Development
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Financial background for the preparation period: 20.000.000 HUF„Social Renewal Operational Program” (TÁMOP)
National Development Agency grant
Sum of funding is 1.000.000.000 HUF
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To set up the local CLC and serve as a carrier projectbetween January 2013 and the first half of 2014
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Shared between the consortium partners, ELTE, BME andCisco
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On top of the R&D&I activities financed by the NDA grant theEIT funding serve to realize the innovation cycle
The research projects correspond to the research areas of the EIT ICT Labs
Four major research areas
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Solutions for complex infocommunication networks•
Mobility and the digital cities of the future•
Human and computer cooperationIdentifying the problems of complex infocommunication networks
NFÜ tasks and subtasks EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks
András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Distributed mobile computations for
cyber-physical systems
Tamás Kozsik (ELTE) - Software technology support for cyber- physical systems
Cyber-Physical Systems - Medical CPS Environments
Data Mining Application
Tamás Lukovszki (ELTE)- Smart content delivery and storage Networking Solutions for Future Media - Smart Content Delivery
and Storage
Open source library for deterministic source coding for efficient content distribution in mobile environments
Gábor Vattay (ELTE) - Large scale network measurements and
monitoring in federated testbeds
Internet Technologies and Architecture - FITTING
Resource browsing, cross testbed measurement and data repository
Csaba Simon (BME) - Smart ubiquitous content Intelligent Mobility and Transport Systems - Future forwarding Miklós Telek (BME) - Analysing the P2P traffic Networking Solutions for Future Media - Smart Content Delivery
and Storage
Traffic management for ISPs
Rolland Vida (BME) - DroidLab smart experiments Internet Technologies and Architecture - FITTING
Extended federation
Péter Sziklai (ELTE) - Privacy in health and wellbeing 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 EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks
András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Personal traffic forecaster Intelligent Mobility and Transport Systems - TravelDashBoard Tien Van Do (BME) - INTCO Intelligent Mobility and Transportation Systems - Multimodal
Mobility
Integration of data from various source
Sándor Imre and Győző Gódor (BME) - Device-free localization Smart Spaces - Localization Toolbox
Csaba Simon (BME) - Efficient content sharing Networking Solutions for Future Media - Smart Content Delivery
and Storage
Network coding for improved handover of mediastreams
Róbert Szabó and Károly Farkas (BME) - Future digital social fields
and mobility
Digital Cities of the Future - City Crowd Source
Transport crowd sourcing
Péter Sziklai (ELTE) - Privacy in smart spaces 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 EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks
András Benczúr (ELTE) - Europa: EIT’s cloud-based data intensive
computing infrastructure
Computing in the Cloud - EUROPA - EITs cloud based data
Use and extend Stratosphere and PACT for temporal web classification at the peta-scale
András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Context based behavioral model RIHA - Computers as Social Actors András Lőrincz (ELTE) - Development and test games for children
with special needs
Smart Spaces - Playful learning on the cloud
A framework for serious games for children with cerebral palsy
Géza Németh (BME) - Mobile and multimodal
man - machine interfaces, M4I
Intelligent Mobility and Transport Systems - Multimodal Mobility Lilla Hortoványi (Cisco) - ICT-mediated human activity Smart Spaces - Playful learning on the cloud
Privacy, Security and Trust
NFÜ tasks and sub tasks EIT ICT Labs action lines, actions and innovation tasks
Levente Buttyán (BME) - Security and privacy in critical systems Smart Energy Systems - SecSES - Secure Energy Systems
Detecting targeted attacks against Smart Energy Systems
Péter Sziklai (ELTE) - Privacy in self-tracking systems Privacy, Security and Trust - Self-Tracking Privacy
R&D&Innovation projects of EIT ICT Labs Budapest
Associate Partner Group in 2013
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
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Several patents, open source software solutions and high quality research papers concerning technology improvementPlatform 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
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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 Labsnetwork
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to benefit from the synergies between the companies’ operationsSuccessful local ICT SMEs involved already
Empowering entrepreneurship
Individual mentoring to support students’ start-up enterprises
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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 companiesExample of start up projects:
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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
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
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One of the four EIT ICT Labs DTCs•
Focus topic: „communication software and system performance”•
Students in business development, RaisingAwareness, 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
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Strong cooperation between the universities (ELTE/BME) and the industry in the field of communication software and system performanceMore than two-decade-long expertise in operation of a unique „knowledge
triangle” model
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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 headquarterExceptional international network
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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 KICsVisions 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”