28/2: ICT PSP Call 5 Information Day - 1/3: ICT PSP workshop on "Open innovation for Internet-enabled services in 'smart' cities"
Dear Partners, The Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission will organise on 28 February 2011 an ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) Call 5 Information Day in Brussels. For the agenda, registration and ICT PSP Draft Work Programme 2011, see: http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp . The ICT PSP aims at stimulating smart, sustainable and inclusive growth by accelerating the wider uptake and best use of innovative digital technologies and content by citizens, governments and businesses. It provides EU funding to support the realisation of the Digital Agenda for Europe. On the following day, 1 March 2011, the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission will organise an ICT PSP constituency building workshop for Call 5 Objective 5.1: "Open innovation for Internet-enabled services in 'smart' cities" in Brussels. The workshop draft agenda and registration are foreseen to be available by the end of January via: http://ec.europa.eu/livinglabs . For the ICT PSP Draft Work Programme 2011, see: http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp . Several pilots will be supported with the aim of accelerating the uptake of innovative "ultrafast Internet" based technologies and services in cities, based on shared platforms. Each pilot should combine in an appropriate way the three following elements: i) User-driven open innovation ecosystems, such as Living Labs, ii) A cross-border network of 'smart cities', and iii) Innovative Internet-based services. See you in Brussels! Per Blixt Head of Unit European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate-General New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities