D 2.3 Report About Exchange With Other Projects and Initiatives

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FI REBALL D2.3 STATUS:FINAL,VERSION:0.1, SAVED:13MAY 2012

Framework programme 7Challenge 1 Page: 1 (26)

Coordinating Action FIREBALLFP7-ICT-2009-5

www.fireball4smartcities.eu

COORDI NATI NG ACTI ON

FP7-ICT-2009-5

D2.3 REPORT ABOUT EXCHA NGES W I TH

OTHER PROJECTS AND I NI TI ATI VESSTATUS: VERSION:DRAFT,SAVED:13MAY 2012

This report will identify other projects and initiatives with which FIREBALL [1]has established and maintained exchange and relationships. The aim of thisreport is to present an overview of t he linkage with other proj ects and initiativesin t he area of Future I nternet, Smart Cities and Living Labs. I t covers ouractivities for M1-M24 to show our approach and efforts on exchanges with otherprojects and initiatives. Finally the achievements within FIREBALL are shared by

listing results and proof of relations

ABOUT FI REBALL

The over-all objective of the FIREBALL project

is to coordinate and align methodologies andapproaches in the domains of Future Internet(FI) research and experimentation testbedsand user driven open innovation towardssuccessful innovation in Smart City

environments.

In doing so, and in covering the whole FIresearch and innovation value chain driven bysmart cities are the users of the FI, FIREBALL

aims to establish effective forms ofcooperation across the FI innovation valuechain, creating synergies and cooperationpractices among different research andinnovation communities related to the FI.


ATTRI BUTES OF THI S OBJECT

Project Type Coordinating ActionProject name FIREBALL

Project ID FP7-ICT-2009-5Deliverable D2.3 (M24)Deliverable name Report about exchanges with other

projects and initiativesWork package WP2, Task 2.3

Object type

Object titleVersion 0.1Status DraftResponsible org. CDT-LTUCreators Michael Nilsson, LTU-CDT

Annika Sllstrm, LTU-CDT.

Submitted May 13, 2012Approved dateApproved by

Dissemination


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SECT. CONTENT PAGE

1 INTRODUCTION 31.1 OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THIS REPORT 31.2 OVERVIEW OF THIS REPORT 31.3 RECOMMENDATION FROM SECOND REVIEW MEETING 32 APPROACH 33 FIREBALL EXCHANGE WITH THE LIVING LAB COMMUNITY 43.1 ACTIVITIES WITH THE LIVING LABS COMMUNITY 44 FIREBALL EXCHANGE WITH THE FUTURE INTERNET COMMUNITY (FIRE) 64.1 FIREBALL ACTIVITIES WITH THE FIRE COMMUNITY 75 FIREBALL EXCHANGE WITH THE SMART CITIES COMMUNITY 125.1 FIREBALL ACTIVITIES WITH THE SMART CITIES COMMUNITY 136 RELEVANT MAIN RESULTS OF EXCHANGE 167 CONCLUSIONS OF THE LAST PHASE ,13-25 MONTHS 218 SUMMARY AN OUTLOOK 259 REFERENCES 26


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1 I NTRODUCTI ON

1 .1 OBJECTI VE AND CONTEXT OF THI S REPORTThis report will identify other projects and initiatives with which FIREBALL [1]has established and maintained exchange and relationships. The aim of thisreport is to present an overview of the linkage with other projects and initiativesin the area of Future Internet, Smart Cities and Living Labs. It covers ouractivities for M1-M24 to show our approach and efforts on exchanges with otherprojects and initiatives. Finally the achievements within FIREBALL are shared bylisting results and proof of relations.

As a background, the original Task 2.3 in the DoW [1] was: T2.3: Organisationof a workshop on Future Internet and User Driven Open Innovation. This taskhas been changed as a result of the discussion at the first review meeting.Change of priorities and to the fact that there are too many events already thatinvolves FIREBALL target groups, (FIRE, Living Labs, Smart Cities). This task hasbeen replaced by T2.3 Linkages with other projects and initiatives in the area ofFuture Internet, Smart Cities and living Labs. Deliverables are D2.3 Reportabout exchanges with other projects and initiatives (M12), (M24).

1 .2 OVERVI EW OF THI S REPORT

In section 2 we provide an overview of the approach used for the exchange, Insection 3, 4 and 5 the actual FIREBALL exchange with the three communities ofLiving Labs, Future Internet and Smart Cities are described as well as results

from this interaction. Section 6 summarizes the main results achieved. In section7 and 8 provides conclusions from the last phase of the work and summary andoutlook. Section 9 contains references.

1 .3 RECOMMENDATI ON FROM SECOND REVI EW MEETI NG

In summary, the scope of this task was seen too ambitious and the reviewersrecommendation was that is should be narrowed down to fit budget and timeframe and focus even more. We concentrated on a few relevant projects andinitiatives described in this report.

2 APPROACH

In our work of T 2.3 we try to look for win-win situations and also motives forjoint activities between FIREBALL and other projects, initiatives exploiting thelinkage between Smart Cities, Living Labs and Future Internet for ConnectedSmart Cities Innovation. Key actors for our exchange within the Smart Citycommunity, Future Internet and Living Labs. was explored and described in

D 2.1 and D 2.2 [2] and [3].

In our effort to follow recommendations from the last review to focus more theCIP Portfolio became a natural group of projects as they are closer to the citiesreality than the FP7 projects.

For the exchange we identified some results we wanted to reach from projectlevel interactions, for example:

- information exchange,


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- joint debate,

- joint paper,

- joint study.

common meeting organization, common project development activity,- strategic commitment.

Our approach was to select projects and initiatives that have the three or pars ofthe main components in FIREBALL in common i.e. Future Internet, Living Labsand user involvement/open user driven innovation and smart cities. We have toall , not only those mentioned, offered our results and deliverables as inspiration(our show cases) or as tool, maps to get a good start in their own projects byusing what has already been made available via FIREBALL. Also to exchange andshare information, knowledge, know how with others. This was done mostly in

joint activities as described and in some cases concrete results described insection 6.

We realized that the Eurocities working group on Smart Cities is the best forumto carry on the work, the movement initiated by FIREBALL. It became importantto position Smart Cities as a good innovation environment for the nextframework programme. The interest for Smart Cities, not only created byFIREBALL, have very likely inspired the new DG ConNECT organization [12] inthe establishment of the unit H5, Smart Cities and Sustainability.

3 FI REBALL EXCHANGE WI TH THE L I V I N G LAB COMMUNI TY

Relevance for linking up with others in the Living Labs area was mainly identified to

create a win-win-win possibility to use each other , jo in t research, in a moreef fect ive way. Living Labs may for example benefit from the availabletechnological facilities provided by Future internet initiatives and to combine thisinto urban innovation ecosystems to fulfil the promise of the smart city concept andneeds. A good example is the involvement of Living Labs partners in FI PPP but alsoin FIREBALL to transfer knowledge and build on FIREBALL work.

During our work within the period from May 2010 May 2012, we establishedclose relationships with the Living Lab constituency and we have built jointactivities with, in particular with:

ENoLL: European Network of Living Labs, www.openlivinglabs.eu FP7-ICT programmes (e.g. CIP APOLLON, FP7 TEFIS and several others

with Living Lab actors involved).Indeed several members of the FIREBALL consortium are ENoLL Effective orAssociated members.

3 .1 ACTI VI TI ES WI TH THE L I V I N G LABS COMMUNI TY

Note: FIREBALL partners within [] are closest to the project/initiative.

Phase Pro ject / I n i t i a t i ve Sta tu s o f r e la t i on Act i v i t i es

1 12months ENoLL, European Network ofOpen LivingLabs,

http://www.openlivinglabs.eu

Well establishedrelation. [Alfamicro,Esocenet, CDT-LTU]

Organised aLivingLab dayat FIA Ghent


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/ event bringingFI and LLcommunitiescloser.

(Budapest 5thLL wavelaunch)

13 - 25months

ENoLL, European Network ofOpen livingLabs,

http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/

Well establishedrelation. [Alfamicro,Esocenet, CDT-LTU]

Several jointsessions andworkshopsdescribedabove. A sixthLL wavelaunched.

1 12months

CIP APOLLON (Advancedpilots of Living Labs operating

in cross-boundary networks)

Well establishedrelation. [IBBT,

Alfamicro, Esocenet,CDT-LTU]

Joint session inBudapest

13 - 25months

CIP APOLLON (Advancedpilots of Living Labs operatingin cross-boundary networks)

Well establishedrelation. [IBBT,Alfamicro, Esocenet,CDT-LTU]

Goodconnection andcollaboration.Joint workshopin Brussels May22-23, Brussels

1 12months

CIP Save Energy

(ICT and energy efficiency)

Well establishedrelation [Alfamicro,Esocenet, CDT-LTU]

Discussing newCIP smart citiesproposal for

2011 resultedin a CIP SmartCampusproposal.

13 - 25months

CIP Save Energy

(ICT and energy efficiency)

Well establishedrelation [Alfamicro,Esocenet, CDT-LTU].Project finished late2011

Discussing newCIP proposalsfor 2012.

1 12months

EIT ICT Labs,www.eitictlabs.eu

Associated memberto the StockholmNode [CDT-LTU]

Involvement inthe thematicgroup DigitalCities, creatingspearheadproject in thearea andLivingLabsactivities.

13 - 25months

EIT ICT Labs,www.eitictlabs.eu

Associated memberto the StockholmNode [CDT-LTU]

FIREBALLresults used inEIT Foresightreports.Adviced and

coached theThematic groupof Digital Citiesto join at FIA


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Aalborg in ajoint sessionabout SmartCities. EIT ICT

Labsparticipated inFIREBALLworkshop inBrussels Jan25, 2012.

4 FI REBALL EXCHANGE WI TH THE FUTURE I NTERNET COMMUNI TY

( FI RE)

For the FIREBALL exchange with the FIRE community our position for win-winsituation was to d r i ve the i n t e r -exchange be tw een the users o f Fu tu reI n te rne t ( Sm ar t Ci t i es and the i r i nhab i tan t s ) and the researche rs anddeve lopers (FI RE) . The FIRE landscape during the lifetime of FIREBALL isshown in Figure 1.

Within the FIRE community we identified some key initiatives for FIREBALLinterexchange FIRESTATION, TEFIS, Smart Santander and Experimedia allinvolving Future Internet users as actors of their testing projects. Relevance forlinking up with them was mainly identified to create a win-win-win possibility touse each other, joint research, in a more effective way. The ability to assess theimpact of technological changes to the Internet in socioeconomic terms was

considered by the FIRE community as an essential element together with theneed for involvement of the end-users as actors of the Future Internet [6].

Coordination & support actions Call 5Facility Projects IPs Call 5 Focused project Call 5 STREPs

4projects,

20M-Call7

Experimentally-driven Research

Research Experimentation

Validation

Requirements

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Facil ity projects IPs & STREPs Cal l 2 Facil ity proj ects Cal l 2 STREPs Coordi nati on & support actions Call 2

14projects,

40M

-Call2

SCAMPI CONVERGENCE

HOBNET NOVI

CONECT EULER

LAWA SPITFIRE

Information on Call 7 is tentative contracts are under negotiation, tentative start in January 2012

17projects,

50M

-Call5

Facility Projects IPs&NoE Call 7

CREW

TEFISSmart Santander

BonFIRE

Building the Experimental Facility and stimulating its use

PIIVITAL++WISEBED

ONELAB2

ConfineOpenlabExperimedia

OFELIABonFIRE enlarged

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Users Users

Coordination and Support Actions

FIRE STATIONMyFire

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FIRE Projects Call 2 Call 7

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Figure 1: The FIRE landscape during the FIREBALL lifetime.


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For example FIREBALL has helped SmartSantander to better understand thenon-technological ecosystem around the first Smart City initiatives acrossEurope, and to identify the stakeholders involved from the different sectors andcountries. Some of the events organized by FIREBALL have led to fruitful

discussions and interchange of ideas of relevant actors leading initiatives withdiverse focus and perspective. In particular, the Workshop on Smart Cities andthe Future Internet held in Brussels on the 25th of January 2012, was aninteresting brainstorming and approximation to the Eurocities community, drivenby a less technical and more socio-political approach.

FIREBALL perspective has also been present in the SmartSantander projectthrough the participation of Michael Nilsson within the Advisory Board, whatserved to achieve a interesting cooperation between both projects, and toestablish new cooperation paths with third parties like the Smart City initiative inSkellefte (Sweden).

Moreover, FIREBALL and FIRE workshops have been the meeting point whereSmartSantander initiated the process of becoming a large-scale living-lab underthe ENoLL umbrella, and the documentation generated by the project has beenuseful reference on the state-of-the-art on Smart Cities.

In the case of CONFINE project, which recently started, we observed andassume they can have use of FIREBALL results in their project further on since itis about a community networking testbed, Communities in this case could be forexample cities.

4 .1 FI REBALL ACTI VI TI ES WI TH THE FI RE COMMUNI TY

To share and increase the knowledge on user involvement in Future Internet

research and experimentation FIREBALL representatives have been taking partin several FIRE Architecture Board meetings with for example contributions onthe involvement of end users in experimentation as well as in FIRE arrangedworkshops and panels. A concrete initiative has been to initialize a White paperon User involvement for FIRE as well as a joint paper with the FIRE-initiatives ofSmart Santander and TEFIS A Framework Integrating Living Labs with FutureInternet Experimental Platforms for the Co-creation of Services within SmartCities (presented at ICE 2011 in Aachen) [6].


Phase Pro ject / I n i t i a t i ve Sta tu s o fre la t i on

Ac t i v i t i es

1 12months

FIA Well connectedvia joint eventsGhent andupcomingBudapest. Moreinfo in D2.1 andD2.2. [CDT-LTU, ESOCenet]

Joint session inBudapeststrengtheningthecollaborationand alsobringing in theSmart Citiesopportunity inthe FIenvironment.Contribution to


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FIA book.Continuedcollaboration viaFirestation.

13 - 25months

FIA Fireballactivities andsessions at FIABudapest,Poznan andAalborg. Note:Fireball havebeen present atall FIA eventduring itslifetime, even inValencia before

the start ofFireball.

Joint session inBudapest ,Poznan, Aalborgstrengtheningthecollaborationand alsobringing in theSmart Citiesopportunity inthe FIenvironment.

We aredelighted to seethat SmartCities is themain topic atFIA Aalborg!Took us 2years!

1 12months

FISA Joint roadmap Well establishedrelation via jointFI roadmapwork [CDT-LTU,

ESOCenet (co-editor), INRIA,Urenio]

Ending (?) 2011when input toFP8 is given.Thorough work

creating jointroadmap withFISA.Presentations inBudapest.

13 - 25months

FISA Joint roadmap Well establishedrelation via jointFI roadmapwork [CDT-LTU,ESOCenet (co-editor), INRIA,Urenio].

Presentations inBudapest. Worknow fading outbut road mapwas discussedeven at FIAPoznan.

1 12months

FIRE Architecture Board Participated atfirst meeting2011 inBrussels [CDT-LTU]

Attending nextmeeting at FIABudapestcreating asustainable FIarchitecture.

13 - 25months

FIRE Architecture Board Participated atall meetings in2011 and 2012in Brussels[CDT-LTU].Joint workshopin Brussels, Jan25, Smart Cities& Future

Excellent forumcoordinated byFIRESTATIONfor exchangingexperiences. Areal need of thiskind of forumfor the futureFIRE projects.


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Internet Remains to finda balance ofexperimentingwith future

internettechnology inreal settings,cities, with realusers withoutrisking the cityservice level toomuch.Initialized awhite paper onUserinvolvement forFIRE

1 12months

FP7 Smart Santander,http://www.smartsantander.eu/

Future Internet research project inFP7-ICT, focused on Internetservices in the city. Experimentingenvironment based on 20.000sensors based on real-life IoTdeployment in urban setting.

AttendedFireball firstopen review.Ongoingcontact.Learning fromexperimentingthe Internet ofThings in theSmartSantander project.

Participating inSmartSantander Advisoryboard [CDT-LTU]

Joint session atFIA Budapest.

13 - 25months

FP7 Smart Santander Continuedcollaboration .SmartSantanderparticipated inworkshop Jan25 in Brussels.Discussion onhow to provideLiving Labstools, methodsand users.

Involved theENoLLsecretariate inthe discussionon how to assistFIRE projectsthat needsLiving Labsapproach e.ghow to engageusers. Use our

results.Initialized awhite paper onUserinvolvement forFIRE

1 12months

FP7 N4C, http://www.n4c.eu/ Chairing theirfinal projectconference[CDT-LTU]

Bringing in theN4C end-userinvolvementexperience intothe FIcommunity.

Joint session atFIA Budapest.N4C haveended but was


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one of thesefew FIREprojects with aliving Labs

approach.1 12months

FP7 FIRESTATION, http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/

takes the lead in identifyingappropriate levels of user supportand ensuring that best practicesare shared. Vision of end-to-endsupport for FIRE users to beintegrated into upcoming Calls 7and 8

Joint activitiesat FIA sessions.Partner inFIRESTATION[DIMES]

Continued closecollaborationwith the mainentry point tothe FIREcommunity.Joint session atFIA Budapest

13 - 25months

FP7 FIRESTATION Participated atthe workshopSmart Cities &Future Internet,Jan 25, 2012.

Continued closecollaborationwith the mainentry point tothe FIREcommunity. Willhave theopportunity tocarry on Fireballresults into theFIREcommunity.

1 12

months

FP7 TEFIS,

http://www.tefisproject.eu/offers single point of access tocustomized services allowingexploitation of different testing andexperimental facilities forcommunities of software andbusiness developers.

Partner in TEFIS

[CDT-LTU].Learning fromcurrent projectsin real-lifeexperimentationand userInvolvement forthe FutureInternet

TBD. Awaiting

outcome ofTefis Open callswhich is a goodopportunity totransferexperiencemade by otherprojects. Jointsession at FIABudapest

13 - 25months

FP7 TEFIS Partner in TEFIS[CDT-LTU].

Learning fromcurrent projectsin real-lifeexperimentationand userInvolvement forthe FutureInternet

UtilisingFIREBALL

experiences inthe FIREcommunity.Initialized awhite paper onUserinvolvement forFIRE

1 12months

FI-PPP, www.fi-ppp.eu Partners inCONCORD:[IBBT, AaltoUniv., ENoLL

(Alfamicro)].FI-Ware:Scientific

CONCORD: TBD

FI-Ware: TBD

Not started yetbut mainly totransfer someexperiencemade from


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Advisory Board(LivingLabs)[CDT-LTU]

collaboration FI,LL.

13 - 25

months

FI-PPP, www.fi-ppp.eu Partners in

CONCORD:[IBBT, AaltoUniv., ENoLL(Alfamicro)].

FI-Ware:ScientificAdvisory Board(LivingLabs)[CDT-LTU]

Joint work shop

at the OpenDays inBrussels, Oct2011. FIREBALLresults D2.1 inuse by projectInfinity. FI-Ware: awaitingfirst meeting ofthe ScientificAdvisory Board.

1 12

months

EULER, experimentation

Methodoloy for FIRE facilities

Planning joint

session in FIABudapest.Session:Bridging thegaps inexperimentationand userinvolvementmethodologiesand practices.

Joint session at

FIA Budapest

1 12months

PERIMETER, http://www.ict-perimeter.eu/

Learning fromcurrent projects

in real-lifeexperimentationand userInvolvement forthe FutureInternet

Joint session atFIA Budapest

1 12months

ELLIOT, http://www.elliot-project.eu/

Learning fromcurrent projectsin real-lifeexperimentationand userInvolvement forthe FutureInternet[ESOCenet]

Joint session atFIA Budapest

1 12months

PII/PanLab,http://www.panlab.net/

Learning fromcurrent projectsin real-lifeexperimentationand userInvolvement forthe FutureInternet [CDT-LTU]

Joint session atFIA Budapest.Experiencesmade withcreating afederatedtestbed to beshared. PIIclosed duringspring 2011.

13 - 25 EIT ICT Labs, www.eitictlabs.eu Associated Adviced and


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months member to theStockholm Node[CDT-LTU]

coached theThematic groupof Digital Citiesto join at FIA

Aalborg in ajoint sessionabout SmartCities.Paricipated inFIREBALLworkshop inBrussels Jan 25,2012.

13 - 25months

Experimedia,http://www.experimedia.eu/future-media-internet

Connection with[CDT-LTU]

Involving FutureInternet usersas actors of

their testingprojects.

5 FI REBALL EXCHAN GE W I TH THE SMART CI TI ES COMMUNI TY

For the Smart City community one main challenge of importance w a s t o b r i n gtoge the r t he me t hodo log i ca l app roaches o f Fu tu re I n te rne t and o f L i v ingLabs w i th in the po l i cy se t t i ng o f Smar t C i t i es . Whereas the currentInternet and broadband infrastructure is already an indispensable component of

urban innovation ecosystems nowadays, the emerging Future Internetconstitutes a key infrastructural requirement for the future. Then by the LivingLabs, relevant stakeholders can be integrated in a flexible service andtechnology innovation ecosystem. Bringing users at an early stage into theresearch and innovation process allows all stakeholders, including businessesand industry, to better discover new scenarios and emerging patterns ofbehaviours as well as new usages, and to assess the socioeconomic implicationsof emerging technological solutions to fulfil the promise of the smart cityconcept. FIREBALL strategy for exchange with the Smart City community was t oserve as the common base fo r co l lec t ing exper iences, and use o f ourresu l t s to n av iga te i n t he l andscape o f Fu tu r e I n te rne t , L iv ing Labs andSm ar t Ci t i es and to ge t i nsp i red by ou r co l l ect i on o f show cases

During our work within the period from May 2010 May 2012, we establishedclose relationships we built joint activities with, in particular:

Eurocities, as a platform for Smart Cities innovation, www.eurocities.eu,more precisely the Knowledge Society Forum (KSF) [7] working group onSmart Cities

Related projects within the CIP ICT-PSP Smart Cities Portfolio Projectslaunched during.

o 2010: Per ipher ia-(Alfamicro), EPI C-(IBBT), Open c i t ies-

(ESADE), SMARTI P-(Manchester), Li fe 2.0 -(Aalborg Univ)

, PEOPLE- (Anova), Sm a r t I s la n d s (Epsilon)


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o 2011: CI TADEL (high speed mobile apps), Cit y SDK (Smart City

Service Developers Kit, open source Smart City appsecosystem), Commons 4 Europe (Code Commons-collaborative web + Bottom-up-broadband commons),iCi ty (linked Open Apps Ecosystem to open up Innovationin Smart Cities), i -Scope (Interoperable smart city servicesthrough an open platform for urban ecosystem), LiveCi ty (Live video-to-video supporting interactive cityinfrastructure)

Notable is that FIREBALL have 5 cities (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Helsinki, Lisbon,Manchester) as core partners in the projects launched 2010, all members ofEurocities. Several of the FIREBALL partners are also involved in the CIP projectslaunched during 2011 for other cities to set up their own initiatives to become asmart city. This fact is very useful to link and to disseminate FIREBALL results toother cities to be inspired by our show cases and other useful results.

5 .1 FI REBALL ACTI VI TI ES WI TH THE SMART CI TI ES COMMUNI TY


Phase Pro ject / I n i t i a t i ve Sta tu s o f r e la t i on Ac t i v i t i es

1 12months

Eurocities,www.eurocities.eu

Very well connected viathe Fireball citypartners and mainentry point to the citiesorganisation[Manchester]

Launch ofConnectedSmart Citiesnetwork,established aworking groupwithin Eurocitiesabout SmartCities. Engage a

Smart CitiesAdvisory boardbased on highlevel personwithin cities.Probably inAmsterdam inSeptember.

13 - 25months

Eurocities,www.eurocities.eu

Very well connected viathe Fireball citypartners and mainentry point to the citiesorganisation[Manchester] and theother cities represented

Second reviewrecommendednot to focus ona high leveladvisory boardbut insteadfocus on


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in FIREBALL communitybuilding. Jointworkshop inBrussels , Jan

25, 2012, SmartCities & FutureInternettogether withEurocities (intheir facilities)and ENoLL.

1 12months

CIP Call 5 Smart Citiesportfolio working group

Leader of the group[Manchester]

Collaborationwith the CIPSmart Citiesportfolio

13 - 25

months

CIP Smart Cities portfolio

working group

Leader of the group

[Manchester]

An new batch of

CIP Smart Citiesprojectslaunched during2011, describedabove.Continueddevelopment ofrelations andtransfer oflesson learntand supportingnew projects

and the ongoingprojects.

1 12months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProject Peripheria (RFIDfor smart societalservices)

A CIP project with clearFuture Internetconnection. FIREBALLpartner involved[Alfamicro].Participated in a jointsession at FIA Ghent.

TBD

1 12months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProject EPIC (Smart Cityvision. Service catalogue:relocation, urbanplanning, environment)

FIREBALL partnerinvolved [IBBT].

TBD

1 12months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProject, Open cities (openinnovation for publicsector in cities.)

FIREBALL partnerinvolved [ESADE].

Participated in a jointsession at FIA Ghent

TBD

13 - 25months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProjetct, Open cities (openinnovation for publicsector in cities.)

FIREBALL partnerinvolved [ESADE].

Participate in a jointsession in Brussels(May 2012)

ConferenceUser-drivenOpen innovationEcosystems goreally

localacrossborders,Brussels, (May


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2012) togetherwith CIP Apollonand Open Cities,ENoLL and

Eurocities1 12months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProject, SMARTIP (smartengagement, environmentand mobility (Open Data,citizens as sensors, social(data) networking.)

FIREBALL partnerinvolved [Manchester].Participated in a jointsession at FIA Ghent

Participate in ajoint session atFIA Budapest

1 12months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProject Life 2.0-AalborgUniv , (new services forelderly)

- TBD

1 12months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProject PEOPLE (basicurban infrastructure.)

FIREBALL partnerinvolved

TBD

1 12months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProject, Smart Islands.(smart transport, leisure,forest fire fighting,retailing.)

FIREBALL partnerinvolved [URENIO].Participated in a jointsession at FIA Ghent.

TBD

13 - 25months

CIP ICT-PSP Smart CitiesProjects: CI TADEL (highspeed mobile apps), CitySDK (Smart City Service

Developers Kit, opensource Smart City appsecosystem), Co m m o n sEurope (Code Commons-collaborative web +Bottom-up-broadbandcommons), iCi ty (linkedOpen Apps Ecosystem toopen up Innovation inSmart Cities), i -Scope (Interoperable smart cityservices through an open

platform for urbanecosystem), LiveCi ty (Live video-to-videosupporting interactive cityinfrastructure)

FIREBALL partnersinvolved

Continuedsupport to CIPprojectslaunched 2011.

1 12months

Sense Smart City" aSwedish regional project,Structural fund Objective2,http://sensesmartcity.org/

The project iscoordinated by [CDT-LTU]. Contactstransferred to make EUconnection (mainlySmartSantander).

Brings regionaland EU effortscloser. Plan toattend OpenDays, Week ofRegions and

Cities, Brussels,10-13 October.

13 - 25 Sense Smart City The project is Participated in


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months coordinated by [CDT-LTU]. Contactmaintained withSmartSantander

FIA events, indiscussionsabout severalCIP proposals.

Awarded firstprize for bestidea in FutureInternet inLuxembourg,June 6, 2011

13 - 25months

FIA Aalborg and EIT ICTLabs

[CDT-LTU] is a partnerin EIT ICT Labs andestablish a long termrelation

Main topic at FIAAalborg is SmartCities!!FIREBALLparticipate in a

joint session

with EIT ICTLabs (DigitalCities)

6 RELEVAN T MAI N RESULTS OF EXCHANGE

Describing results and measuring the use of it is not an easy task. You dontknow exactly who is reading and using your deliverables and results available forall at FIREBALL web site. Only those who actually replies back on commenting orappreciating and using our results.

Below is a table of relevant main results of FIREBALL exchange. Relations aredescribed as e.g. information exchange, -joint debate, -joint paper, -jointstudy. common meeting organization, common project development activity, -strategic commitment. Described are how FIREBALL has supported, influencedother projects and initiatives. It is also described how others have influencedbenefited FIREBALL and also common/joint activities and their synergies,achievements and results.

Pro jec t / I n i t i a t i ve Rela t i on Resu l t s and p roo f o fr e la t i on

FIRE: TEFIS Information exchange, jointdebate, joint paper

FIA Budapest panel,Joint asset repositoryusing Teagle Tool(Panlab). Workingversion of a white WhitePaper on: Bridging thegap between researchand users, Report forFIRE on Userparticipation in Future

Internet research andexperimentation


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FIRE: SmartSantander Information exchange Strategic commitmentdeveloping a Call 8proposal EAR-IT(STREP). Helped

SmartSantander tounderstand the non-technological ecosystemaround the first smartCity initiatives acrossEurope. Identifiedstakeholders in othersectors and countries.Established newcooperation paths withthird parties.Interchange of ideas.

FIRE: FIRESTATION Information exchange, Jointdebate, Joint study, Commonmeetings

Working version of awhite White Paper on:

Bridging the gapbetween research andusers, Report for FIREon User participation inFuture Internetresearch andexperimentation,Strategic commitmentdeveloping a Call 8proposal Amplifire

(CSA)FIRE: MYFIRE Common meeting FIA Poznan workshop

on Standardisation,Strategic commitmentdeveloping a Call 8proposal EAR-IT(STREP)

FIRE: N4C Joint debate, Joint meeting FIA Budapest panel,Final conference of N4C


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FIRE: EULER Joint debate FIA Budapest. Sharingexperiences in bridgingthe gaps inexperimentation and

user involvementmethodologies andpractices.

FIRE: PERIMETER Joint debate FIA Budapest. Sharingexperiences in real-lifeexperimentation anduser involvement for FI

FIRE: EXPERIMEDIA Information exchange Working version of awhite White Paper on:

Bridging the gapbetween research and

users, Report for FIREon User participation inFuture Internetresearch andexperimentation

FIRE: PANLAB II Joint debate FIA Budapest,Contributing to modelfor federating testbedsto involve LivingLabs

assets for smart cityexperimentation


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FIRE Architecture Board Joint panel, joint meeting FIRE roadmap forHorizon 2020. Entrypoint for Living Labsissues. Contributions on

the involvement of endusers inexperimentation.Working version of awhite White Paper on:

Bridging the gapbetween research andusers, Report for FIREon User participation inFuture Internetresearch andexperimentation,

initiated in FIRE ABFISA ROADMAPPING Joint panel, information

exchangeJoint roadmappingwork, Input the nextframework programme

CIP APOLLON Information exchange Methodology for crossborder collaboration inthe FIREBALLlandscape. Cities needto collaborate

CIP Smart Cities PortfolioWorking Group

Joint meeting, informationexchange

Will be used to informthe wider citymembership andengage new citymembers. FIA AalborgMay 2012


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DG Research (IoT):ELLIOT (STREP)

Joint debate, joint meetings,information exchange

FIA Budapest,Collaborative models forcities and LivingLabs,LL+testbeds+cities.

Barcelona IoT workshopexchange ofcollaborative model.

FI PPP: CONCORD Joint sessions, informationexchange

Open days Brussels2011, Strategiccommitment developinga Call 8 proposal

Amplifire (CSA).Building further onFIREBALL work in the FIPPP.

FI PPP: INFINITY Information exchange Used Fireball landscapedeliverable D2.1 fromFIREBALL to draft a"working note on smart

cities andinfrastructures; thisnote was annexed toInfinity deliverable D2.2entitled "PartnershipStrategy Definition".The note was used toexchange with the FI-PPP Use Cases whichare dealing with SmartCities in order toengage them in defining

the requirements forsmart cityinfrastructures inrelation with INFINITY.Unfortunately thedeliverable is not public


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EIT ICT LABS: DIGITALCITIES [4], [5]

Information exchange, jointpanel work

Using Fireball results asinput to foresightreports (deliverable) onDigital Cities. Joint

session in FIA Aalborg.Participated in Fireballworkshop Jan 25,Brussels transferexperiences.

EUROCITIES [7] Joint meetings, joint debate,information exchange

Development ofConnected Smart CitiesNetwork [13]. EurocitiesKnowledge society

Forum will remain a keyforum for Smart Citiesafter FIREBALL! Two ofthe four KSF workinggroups are relevant tocurrent priorities i.e.Open data and SmartCities and likely Internetsecurity will beproposed as a third KSFworking group during2012. The smart cities

community committedto taking part in futurecollaborative projectswhere new emergingFuture Internet enabledtechnologies andservices can beimplemented in realworld scenarios.

ENOLL [8] Joint meetings, informationexchange

Workshop Smart Cities& Future Internet, Jan25, 2012, Brussels.

Bringing in the endusers aspects in theFIRE community.

7 CONCLUSI ONS OF THE LAST PHASE , 1 3 - 2 5 MONTHS


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FIREBALL originates from the Call 5, Objective 1.6 Future Internet experimentalfacility and experimentally-driven research as one of two coordination andsupport actions. After 24 months we have developed good connections in all the

steps in the evolution from research to innovation

Examples:- The CIP portfolio today consists of 14 projects in the Smart Cities area.Many FIREBALL partners are also partners in the CIP project portfolio utilizingFIREBALL results. The CIP portfolio is chaired by FIREBALL partner City ofManchester .- The FI PPP also involves FIREBALL partners e.g in the Concord projectwhich builds on FIREBALL work in joint sessions. FI PPP Infinity project is usingFIREBALL results [2] , the landscape to draft a "working note on smart cities andinfrastructures" . This note was annexed to their deliverable entitled "PartnershipStrategy Definition". The note was used to exchange with the FI-PPP Use Caseswhich are dealing with Smart Cities in order to engage them in defining therequirements for smart city infrastructures in relation with INFINITY. FI Wareproject invited us to join their scientific advisory board as the link mainly to theLivingLabs community.- Regarding FIRE we have established good collaboration with the projectsin the FIRE Architecture Board. This forum serves as an excellent forum forexchanging experiences and learn for the future steps and developing thecommunity. A topic here was how to bring in large number of users in FIREprojects. Here FIREBALL also brought in the Smart Cities represented byEurocities and the users/citizens represented by the Living Labs communitytogether in a joint workshop.- FP7 FIRE Portfolio: Smart Santander, TEFIS, FIRESTATION and othersare close collaboration partners.

Nevertheless, there are still challenges to overcome i.e find the balance of doing

research and experiments with the future internet technology and involve thecities and the citizens which lives with the present technology, willing to test andtaste the future but can not take too big risks to play with the high degree ofservices, internet based, the back bone of society today, that always 24 hours/7days a week have to serve the cities. From our ambition to develop Europetowards Smarter Cities we observed the growth of better understanding of thecities agenda and the cities role as the platforms to drive, integrate and test newconcepts. In the recently launched EU2020-strategy aiming to smart, sustainableand inclusive growth for Europe, where cities play a crucial role as they areresponsible for most of the CO2 emission, energy consumption etc but at thesame time with the large amount of creative and innovative people andresources they become a very important platform and vehicle for important

policy measures in order to obtain the objectives of the EU2020 and upcomingHorizon 2020 programme. Citizens also represent a very powerful factorthemselves as actors of Future Internet and Smart Cities. In order to cities tobecome smarter and learn by its citizens that are knowledgeable and reflectiveabout society, they should engage and participate and more importantly exploitthe wealth of infrastructures and data made available by often universities andresearch centres. It should also be kept in mind that this does not only includesensors and internet of things (IoT) and the technology side but also socialnetworks, allowing these new mash up applications to thrive. Open data in thedigital and knowledge economy brings about a transformative role to thecitizens. The digital economy as the process of wealth and value creation goeson and it transforms the power relations as these are no longer reserved for a

specific public nor private organizations. Following the recommendations givenat the second review we changed our priorities narrowed down and focused on afew parts within the three communities (FIRE, LivingLabs and Smart Cities) inorder get some influence from this relatively small project. FIREBALL originates


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from the FIRE community, it is from here FIREBALL take off and the FIRElandscape today close to the end is shown in Figure 1. In the FIRE communitywe have focused on a few projects with a clear connection to FIREBALLobjectives i.e. Smart Santander, TEFIS, Experimedia and FIRESTATION. Tools

have been e.g. the FIRE Architecture Board. We realized that we couldcontribute to the European Commission ambition to bring out more take up ofinnovation instead of the demonstration and experimentation activities, thereforeit was a natural step to heavily get involved in initiatives like theCompetitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (the CIP portfolioalready described) and also the Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FIPPP). The FI PPP initiative Concorde engaging LivingLabs and Fireball partnerswas a natural connection and a channel in the work of identifying the mostpromising use case areas and the move towards promoting the FIRE test beds.The Living Labs connection for the encouragement and involvement of the usercommunities around the different use cases to develop applications of high valueand impact for the society. Last but not least FIREBALL brought in the cities intothis EU FP7 research and experimental environment. Many cities are partners inFIREBALL and through their networks like Eurocities etc the cities agenda ismuch better understood today. Early structures of the upcoming Horizon 2020organigram indicates that cities perspectives are now being found at twoDirectorates and Future Internet perspectives is now at one Directorate. Withinthe upcoming DG ConNECT [12] there will be a unit H%, Smart Cities &Sustainability! Important building blocks will also be EIT ICT Labs (the EuropeanInstitute of Innovation and Technology) [4] and especially the Knowledge andInnovation Community of ICT, which today drives several relevant activities forSmart Cities like Digital Cities of the future [5], Smart Spaces, Smart Energysystems, Intelligent Mobility and Transportation systems to name a few.

It is our understanding that FIREBALL contributed and paved the way for thisdevelopment and positioning of Smart Cities in the European researchlandscape.

During the last phase of 13-25 months period it was the intention to encourageand prepare future joint initiatives such as research and pilot projects where thetarget stakeholders of FIREBALL worked together. The CIP Pilots is a clearindication about that. Also there are some proposals Call 8 being evaluated atthis moment. If some of those will be funded parts of FIREBALL work will becarried on further.

The development of the Connected Smart Cities Network [10] has brought thepartners within the FIREBALL project together with the wider networks engagingcities through the CIP Smart Cities Portfolio Working Group and throughEUROCITIES, particularly through the EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum(KSF) [7] Smart Cities Working Group which is Co-Chaired by the City ofManchester and the City of Barcelona. All of the partners involved in this processbelieve that it is important that continuing dialogue takes place to enable futurecollaborations and networking.

The collaboration to date has resulted in two key recommendations from thedeveloping smart cities community about how these relationships can best bestimulated and sustained.


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Firstly, the EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum (KSF) will remain a key forumfor smart cities. Two of the four KSF working groups are directly relevant tocurrent priorities, in terms of Open Data and Smart Cities respectively and it islikely that Internet Security will be proposed as a third KSF working group during

2012. These working groups are committed to working with the cities who arealready involved as well as reaching out to new cities to become engaged. Thisprovides new opportunities to develop useful tools as well as ensuring that theexisting tools, built up through the FIREBALL project [11] can be deployed aswidely as possible. The outcomes of the FIREBALL project and the subsequentwork of the CIP Smart Cities Portfolio Working Group will be used to inform thewider city membership and engage new city members via these working groups.Going forward EUROCITIES KSF meetings are going to be more focused on theworking groups providing an enhanced forum for dissemination andcollaboration.

Secondly, the smart cities community is committed to taking part in futurecollaborative projects where new and emerging Future Internet enabled

technologies and services can be implemented in real world scenarios. At thejoint communities event, the Smart Cities & Future Internet workshop inBrussels on January 25th, 2012 http://www.fireball4smartcities.eu/ organised byFIREBALL, the CIP Smart Cities Portfolio and EUROCITIES, it was recommendedthat each of the communities provides an opportunity within their own eventsand dissemination for continued engagement between the communities. For thesmart cities it means inviting Future Internet or Living Lab leaders and initiativesto speak on relevant topics to their audience, and for both communities, itmeans continuing to engage with smart cities by identifying those assets,tools, resources and technologies that are of most benefit to the smart cities,e.g. through illustrative use cases. A good example of this is the inclusion ofsmart cities representatives at the 2012 Future Internet Assembly in Aalborg inMay 2012.

FIREBALL has facilitated many of these relationships and with the increasingnumber of cities involved in innovation projects, these relationships and

knowledge sharing can develop over the next few years, as the benefits areseen within the cities themselves. It is anticipated that the network will becontinuing its work within the EUROCITIES KSF [7] after the FIREBALL project isfinished, through the meetings planned in Belfast in June 2012, Vienna inOctober 2012 and Brussels in January 2013, with further meetings to beconfirmed for Spring 2013 and Summer 2013 with a major conference plannedfor Autumn 2013 in Manchester with the title: Telecities to Smart Cities: 20years of Urban Digital (1993-2013).


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8 SUMMARY AN OUTLOOK

Most likely the most suitable receiver of carrying the FIREBALL work further isthe Eurocities community where the Connected Smart Cities working group isestablished and closed connected to the KSF [7]. The plan described above on

how the smart cities will be carried on within Eurocities looks very promising.Also the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) [8] is a suitable community tocontinue the work. The big challenge is the FIRE community [9], see figure 1that are in general more interested in the future and less interested in thepresent situation with present technology, present situations and present userneeds. Exceptions are Smart Santander, Experimedia and TEFIS. There must bea balance found where the future could be tested and experimented in the citieswith the real users, the citizens in real settings. We can see how exchangebetween FIRE and Living Labs, Living Labs and Smart Cities initiatives etc aretaking place, emerging and we believe that they will be even more intensified inthe future (Horizon 2020) where more concrete joint activities will be performed.The Cities play a crucial role in the innovation ecosystem e.g FIRE, CIP, EIT, FI

PPP etc as representatives of the demand and user-side of Future Internet aswell as actors and innovators of the Future Internet for a sustainable growth. Ofgreat importance for the long-term development is formal strategic initiativeslike the FIRE Architecture board. In several board-meetings the issues on FutureInternet experimental platforms have been discussed and the Living Labsenvironments are becoming one building block in the future innovation platformsto target among others the Smart Cities development. For FIRE and theArchitecture board one key is to bring in the users of such innovationenvironments into the loop and by FIREBALL the Smart City stakeholders can beone important actor to get onboard. By ongoing and upcoming calls like the CIPSmart City call, last part of FP7, FP8=Horizon 2020 , EIT ICT Labs and FI-PPPopen call we see great potential to formalize collaboration between these three

different constituencies for long-term impact on Future Internet innovations. Ofimportance in our planning of the future collaboration was to address upcomingevents that could attract FIREBALL stakeholder and the three communities butalso to follow where they are going. It was hard competition to get attentionsince there are many events on the market as it is today. Therefore we tookan early decision to piggy-back on existing smaller or larger events where ourstakeholders would be and finally we organised our own workshop, Smart Cities& Future Internet, at the Eurocities premises in Brussels , Jan 25 2012 bringingtogether the FIRE, LivingLabs and the Smart Cities communities. By theseactivities we stimulated future collaboration and exchange between the threetarget constituencies of Fireball. Except deepening and evaluating theestablished collaborations some new contacts were taken in this last phase ofour work to get consensus of the landscape, to collaboration models, and toidentifying what are the cities going to do, and to get some initial evidences ofsuch existing collaboration and at the same time trying to narrow down as thesecond review recommended. Also we elaborated further on the roadmap asguidance for smart city ecosystem stakeholders to create and implement newcollaboration models in order to accelerate the user-driven development andFuture internet integration towards Smart Cities. To get better understandingabout Smart Cities several show cases has been developed, filmed anddocumented to assist and inspire others in their development towards a smartcity. E.g FI PPP project Infinity are already using our results in their work and sodoes EU FP7 Smart Santander.


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Close to the end of FIREBALL , see figure 1, we can conclude that theunderstanding of the Cities agenda is much better understood now thencompared with the situation two years ago. Even now facing the start of a neworganization serving the Horizon 2020 within the European Commission we

understand that the Smart Cities will be kept together in a more efficient waythan previous organization. The Smart Cities will be found at two Directoratesand Future Internet perspectives at one Directorate in the future. In April 2010we just managed to get the topic Smart Cities into the agenda at FIA Valenciaand this was before FIREBALL had started. Now we can proudly see that them a i n t h e m e at FI A Aalbo rg 2012 will be Smar t Ci t ies. It took FIREBALL 2years of hard work to position the possibilities that Cities could bring for thegrowth of Europe. After all the cities offers an ideal platform for ICT and otherindustries to integrate and test new concepts to serve Europes sustainablefuture. Today approx 80% of the population lives in cities, approx 75% of CO2 isproduced in cities, approx 75% of energy is consumed in cities. This togetherwith citizens engagement and participation supported by advanced innovationecosystems and innovative broadband internet infrastructure and open access todata will contribute to the creation of the digital society. The process of wealthand value creation has changed and also the transforming of the power relationsbetween firms, individuals, users and Public Institutions. Still there are somechallenges to address as the Deputy Mayor of Helsinki City concluded at ourwork shop Jan 25 in Brussels, - Cities are willing to test and experiment aboutthe future technologies but they can not take too high risks to jeopardize the24/7 service responsibility towards its citizens in large, full scale experiments.Its a balance between the reality and the future needs. On the other hand thechallenge within the Future Internet community is to find interesting researchopportunities without exposing the risks too much. Reality doesnt always allowtoo futuristic technologies to be tested in real environments since the cities liveswith the present technologies and 24/7 service to its inhabitants.

9 REFERENCES

[ 1 ] FIREBALL DOW_(257291)_2010-04-26;

[ 2 ] FIREBALL D2.1 Landscape And Roadmap Of Future Internet And Smart CitiesM24

[ 3 ] FIREBALL D2.2 Community workshop report M24

[ 4 ] http://eit.europa.eu/

[ 5 ] http://eit.ictlabs.eu/action-lines/digital-cities-of-the-future/

[ 6 ] ICE 2011 Paper : A Framework Integrating Living Labs with Future InternetExperimental Platforms for the Co-creation of Services within Smart Cities

[ 7 ] http://www.eurocities.eu/eurocities/activities/forums/knowledge-society

[ 8 ] http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/

[ 9 ] http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-projects.html

[ 10 ] FIREBALL D3.1 Establishing a collaborative cross-border Smart Cities network

[ 11 ] FIREBALL D3.2 Elaborating the Roadmap as an iterative process across theFIREBALL consortium[ 12 ] http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/doc/connect-organisation-chart.pdf

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