FOSTERING AN INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN EUROPE AND BRAZIL IN ICT

www.eubrasilcloudforum.euWhat we expect to gain from the eventA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Cloud Computing

A White Paper for the EU-Brazil Policy Dialogue meeting on ICT in November, 2016

A selection of relevant topics for ICT cooperation between Europe and Brazil

EUBrasilCloudFORUM team and delegates will interact with the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) to initiate a SIG (Special Interest Group) in Cloud Computing, formed by Brazilian academic experts in order to define a roadmap for the Brazilian research community in this area for the upcoming years, with inputs also coming from EU experts.

The Workshop on Cloud Networks (WCN) features a call for papers to stimulate the particpation of the industrial and academic research communities on the latest challenges, technologies, solutions and techniques related to networking within the cloud. In parallel, Cloudscape Brazil collects a series of Position Papers bringing insights into the current market trends, the challenges slowing down mainstream adoption of cloud services and the best practices to address them.

EUBrasilCloudFORUM has the mandate from the European Commission (EC) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) of Brazil, to draft a research Roadmap on cloud computing that will identify collaboration needs and opportunities between Europe and Brazil for the EC and to MCTI. The outcomes of the discussions will be submitted to the EC and to the MCTI to contribute with tangible inputs to the EU-Brazil Policy Dialogue planned for November, 2016.

The EUBrasilCloudFORUM, a 24 month Coordination and Support Action (CSA), is the consolidated result of the efforts pooled together by representatives of the EU-Brazil Working Group set up at the EUBrazil workshop held in July 2014, in Brasilia. The group was formed to create a report for the European Commission (EC) and for the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI) on the future of EU-Brazil calls. The findings list a number of ICT related topics that could be considered in future calls that have been selected taking into account their expected societal importance and the capabilities and expertise of both European and Brazilian research communities. Based on

interactions with a stakeholder group, the findings also presented a proposal to tune the existing EU-BR collaboration model by addressing aspects such as funding, technical and bureaucratic support, and procedures.

The areas pursued by EUBrasilCloudFORUM will be fully aligned and feed into the work carried out within the EC and MCTI. The current consortia has already made headway in establishing an organisational cooperation model that enables the EU and Brazil to formulate and develop a common strategy and approach for Research & Innovation in Cloud Computing in line with the priorities of each region.

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In conjunction with the annual Conference of the Brazilian Computing Society (CSBC) taking place in Porto Alegre (Brazil) between 4th and 7th July, EUBrasilCloudFORUM organizes:

WCN Workshop on Cloud Networks, 6th July: brings together well-experienced researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia, industry and government to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art research, advances and practice in the emerging area of cloud-based networks and applications.

Cloudscape Brazil 2016, 7th July: The 3rd edition has the ambition to shape cloud developments in both Brazil and Europe, by covering the latest cloud trends, shows real-life case studies and future co-funding opportunities.

EUBrasilCloudFORUM is funded by the European Commission under the Cooperation Programme, Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 689495. Este projeto é resultante da 3a Chamada Coordenada BR-UE em Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC), anunciada pelo Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI), no âmbito to acordo de subvenção Número 689495.

EUBrasilCloudFORUM is funded by the European Commission under the Cooperation Programme, Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 689495. Este projeto é resultante da 3a Chamada Coordenada BR-UE em Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC), anunciada pelo Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI), no âmbito to acordo de subvenção Número 689495.

EU-BRAZIL POLICY DIALOGUE MEETING ON ICT

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, NOVEMBER 2016

FORUM

A community driven engagement forum for

EU-Brazil policy and research and innovation dialogues.

ROADMAP

EU-Brazil Research and Innovation ROADMAP and

Action Plan related to Cloud Computing.

MARKETPLACE

A web based Service Platform to promote the results from the EU-Brazil community &

success stories.

EVENTS

Including EU-BR policy dialogue, Cloudscape Brazil, and cooperation workshops.

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A specific focus on cloud computing

Brazilian ICT Research & Innovation (R&I) priority areas have much in common with European priorities as defined by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (H2020).

Brazil is one of the few LAC countries whose ICT priority R&I areas are equally aligned with H2020 pillars on societal challenges and Industrial leadership, specifically with advancing industrial ICT.

Brazil has many drivers for advancing cloud infrastructures and services, and therefore is a priority in EU-Brazil ICT coordinated calls and published in the ICT H2020 Work programme EUB1-2015 call.

The main areas where Brazil could improve its regulatory framework and learn from EU and other LAC countries are: broadband regulation, cybersecurity, security and privacy, data protection for ICT users, strengthening ICT industry, reviewing ICT sector entities, clinical records, making social insurance universal, tele health and telemedicine.

The EU-Brazil Information Society Dialogue has called upon Europe and Brazil to intensify dialogue on cloud computing and address general cloud policy aspects, personal data protection, trans-Atlantic data, cloud infrastructures, portability of data, quality attributes like performance, reliability, security, privacy and maintainability for eHealth applications and appropriate remedies to vendor lock-in.

EUBrasilCloudFORUM has been tasked by the EC and MCTI to support EU-BR collaborative projects in collecting and promoting their core activities and results. EUBrasilCloudFORUM draws on the successes of past Research and Innovation initiatives, showcases current projects and guides interested parties on new opportunities for EU-Brazilian cooperation in ICT in forthcoming calls. Current success stories illustrate the major benefits of EU-Brazil cooperation in cloud computing.

A dedicated EUBrasilCloudFORUM Working Group is contributing to these scenarios. With balanced membership between the EU and Brazilian experts, the Working Groups play a key role in ensuring EUBrasilCloudFORUM high quality debate and engagement in international collaboration in vitally important ICT themes. While participation of members in EUBrasilCloudFORUM working groups is on a voluntary basis, active involvement is key to having the impact required for new research and innovation.

What we offer you Acknowledgement in the EUBrasilCloudFORUM Roadmap

Invitation to participation in the EU-Brazil technical workshops in ICT in conjunction with the EU-Brazil Policy Dialogue (November 2016 & 2017)

What we ask you Participate in WG conference calls

Review and contribute to the EUBrasilCloudFORUM Roadmap

“The main goal of the SecureCloud project is to enable novel big-data applications that can use sensitive data in the cloud without compromising data security and privacy.”

“FUTEBOL” brings together network experts in Europe and Brazil to create infrastructure for experimental research at the wireless/optical boundary, enabling industry leadership on significant trends in future networks, including virtualization and cell densification.”

Luiz da Silva, Trinity College Dublin, FUTEBOL project coordinator

“RESCUER defines a new trend in the market of software solutions for emergency and crisis management by supporting mobile crowdsourcing information (semi-)automated data analysis, and ad-hoc communication.”

Karina Barreto Villela, Fraunhofer – IESE and EU Coordinator of Rescuer Project

Andrey Brito, Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazilian Coordinator of the SecureCloud project.

“EU-Brazil academia and industry on HPC energy applications: HPCE4A applies Exascale HPC technology to energy industry simulations [Wind + Oil and Gas + Biomass]”.

The project has high potentials to impact the BIG Data market. It brings together a highly complementary team of Big Data, cloud and security software experts and data analysis application developers, along with a network of collaborations in standards and with industry”.

“To prepare the next generation of researchers to deal with the challenges of evolving the current Internet is an asset. We are working with professors to encourage them to use FIBRE for teaching computing networking classes in undergraduate courses”.

Lara Machado, RNP’s Adjunct Director of R&D

Scenarios DriversEnvironmental monitoring - for climate action, ensuring ecological developments towards the sustainability of air quality, fauna and flora, emissions, waste, etc.

Smart water and energy management - ensuring sustainable natural resources, based on advanced monitoring, analysis, and control of production infrastructures and consumption environments.

Assisted health and well-being - focusing on advanced and proactive personalised health services, and support for well-being specially for children and senior citizens.

Cloud computing technologies - ensuring global and pervasive technology, meeting new security and data privacy requirements that tackle emerging cyber-threats, and enabling data flow and portability across services, systems, countries, and continents.

Socio-economic factors – create positive impact on the cloud computing market, including requirements related to national/regional regulations, and human factors as part of the complex socio-technical systems), and societal aspects that call for new ways of deploying and providing innovative services for an inclusive society.

Technological innovation - generate new enabling technologies like green computing for a sustainable environment, access to open data to support advanced services and research, and standardisation to support integration and backwards compatibility.

SecureCloudwww.securecloudproject.eu

HPC4Ehttps://hpc4e.eu/

Fibre www.fibre.org.br

EUBra-BIGSEA www.eubra-bisea.eu

FUTEBOLwww.ict-futebol.org.br

RESCUERwww.rescuer-project.org

SAVE THE DATEUnique insights on EU-Brazil

Cooperation on Cloud Computing

6 July

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7 JulyWorkshop on

Cloud NetworksCloudscape Brazil

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Ignacio Blanquer Espert, Valencia University of Technology & EU Coordinator of EUBra-BIGSEA project

José María Cela, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and EU coordinator of the HPC4E project.