Education and Research in Information and Communications Technologies

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Education and Research in Information and
Communications Technologies
Belgrade meeting An overview of GETactivities in
the Framework Programme Prof Yvon Kermarrec
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Introduction on GET
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GET sites - 4 engineering and management
institutes and 2 subsidiaries

• Télécom Paris (ENST), Paris, Toulouse,
  Nice/Sophia Antipolis
• ENST Bretagne, Brest and Rennes
• Télécom INT, INT Management, Paris/Evry
• EURECOM, Nice/Sophia Antipolis
• Télécom Lille 1, Lille

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GET targets

• Teaching
• Engineers Managers
• Research
• International Partnership
• Support Industry development in ICT
• Main companies
• SMEs GET network
• Scientific dissemination
• International publication

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A Critical Size

• Research
• 600 researchers and professors
• 200 Research engineers and support
• 700 PhD Students
• 51 M research budget
• 18 M from research contracts
• gt1100 scientific publications per year

• Focused on ICT
• Pluridisciplinary approach technology, systems,
  usage

• Training
• 4500 Students
• 1000 Graduates per year
• 50 Nationalities
• 30 International partner universities

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Current GETs Research Programmes
Communication

• High-speed infrastructure networks
• Optics and protocols, at the heart of the
  network, for the effective, economic and secure
  data transmission
• Mobile communication networks
• Wireless connections and networks for effective
  nomadic access to services, any time, anywhere
  and for anybody
• Multimedia
• Processing and interfaces to create, index,
  disseminate and protect audiovisual content
• Web technologies and Information Systems
• Information and intermediation systems to
  structure and share knowledge on IP networks
• Information society
• Services, solutions and usages for the
  individual, communities, and organizations in the
  Information Society

Content
Uses
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Scientific Disciplines

• Technologies and Components optics, microwave,
  radio, electromagnetism, electronics,
  microelectronics, VLSI, MEMs, desing and
  architecture, ...
• Communication, Signal and Image processing
  information theory, coding, modulation,
  detection, compression, classification,speech
  recognition and synthesis, vision, biometry, ...
• Computer science, Software architecture,
  operating systems, compilation, agents, objects,
  software engineering, cognitive sciences, data
  bases, data mining, natural languages, ...
• Protocols and Networks queuing theory,
  distributed systems, protocols design,
  specification, validation, routing, multicast,
  QoS, administration, planning, intelligent,
  active networks, security, ...
• Social sciences, Law, Economy of ICT micro and
  macro economical models, competition, industrial
  strategy, digital economy, tariffs, investment,
  innovation, information systems, regulation, user
  behavioural models, ...

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GET connections with industry /SMEs network
/International collaboration

• Funded by Ministry of industry
• Large companies industrial partnerships
• National competitivity clusters (4 on ICT)
• Awarded Carnot label from the French Ministry of
  Research recognition of strong industrial
  linkages
• Louis Leprince Ringuet Fundation (support to
  research projects, scholarships, start up
  creation)
• 30 of our research budget on contract gt 50 of
  our activity on contract
• 25 start-ups/year hosted in our 5 incubators, 160
  still in connection (Streamezzo, Turbo concept,
  Antenessa)
• More than 80 bilateral research agreements NICT
  Japan, SNU Korea, BUPT, Jiao Tong China, Pan IIT
  India,

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Participation in FP6 IST/FP7 ICT Call 1
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Participation in IST/FP6 (1)

• 40 projects (contracts) funded by EU (without the
  participation of Eurecom Institute)
• Strong involvement in NoE GET takes part in 15
  NoEs, and coordinates 3 Networks of Excellence
  (Euro-NGI/Euro-FGI, Biosecure)

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Participation in IST/FP6 (2)

• Strong participation in the  security ,
   broadband ,  mobile and wireless
  communication systems  and  audiovisuel
  systems  research areas gtgtgt 60 of GETs
  projects

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Our main partners

• Industrial partners France Telecom, Thales,
  Alcatel, Telefonica, Deutsche Telecom, T-Systems
• Academic partners Fraunhofer, KTH (Sweden),
  Universidad Politecnica Madrid, University of
  Surrey (UK), CNRS, INRIA, Politecnico di Torino,
  
• SMEs Prologue software, Streamezzo, Turbo
  concept,
• Partners in Eastern Europe BUTE (Budapest),
  Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw University of
  Technology), Prague Technical University,

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FP7 - GETs strategy

• Pursue scientific excellence Enhance GETs
  international reputation of scientific
  excellence in the Information Communication and
  Knowledge Sciences.
• Support Technology transfer reinforce
  partnership agreements with industrials - GET as
  enabler of business projects through scientific
  solutions
• Facilitate SMEs access to collaborative research
  projects include SMEs to GETs collaborative
  research projects.
• Project strategy
• Focus on leadership of NoE on our excellence
  domains
• Support our strategic partners for IPs

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Expertises at GET in FP7 management

• Support from the Scientific Direction and
  ValorizationPartnerships departments  in each
  school of GET
• Partner search, consortium creation
• Discussions with the EC
• Administrative, financial (budget) and legal
  (consortium agreement) preparation
• Set-up of the proposal (assessment, evaluation).

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Our participation in call 1 ICT FP7

• 18 projects in negociation in call 1 (12 GET 6
  Eurecom)
• Success rate
• 60 of projects submitted above the threshold
• 25 of projets submitted in negociation (50 for
  challenge 1.1)
• Distribution per type of project

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GET FP7 ICT proposals per challenge

• Strong involvement in
• Internet of the future, pervasive adaptation,
  security, networked media, e-inclusion

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GET Contacts
Research director Francis.jutand_at_get-telecom.fr
Partnership deputy research director
Philippe.letellier_at_get-telecom.fr Research
animation deputy research director
Serge.gourrier_at_get-telecom.fr European
Affairs pierre.simay_at_get-telecom.fr


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GET WWW sites

• www.get-telecom.fr
• The institutes
• www.telecomparis.fr
• www.enst-bretagne.fr
• www.int-evry.fr
• www.eurecom.fr
• www.telecomlille1.fr

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EUNICE

• An academic network of Universities in the ICT
  domain, with strong internal consistency and
   ouverture 
• Coordinator Prof Y. Kermarrec

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EUNICE

• The EUNICE network has been created to foster the
  mobility of students, faculty members and
  research scientists working in the field of
  information and communication technologies and to
  promote educational and research cooperation
  between its member institutions
• 15 years of experience
• 18 partners all over Europe
• http//www.eunice-forum.org

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Eunice members

• Finland
• TAMPERE University of Technology
• France
• ENST
• ENST Bretagne
• INT
• Universite Henri Poincare Nancy
• Germany
• Technische Universität München
• Universität Stuttgart
• Universität Karlsruhe
• Hungary
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• Italy
• Politecnico di Torino

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Eunice members

• Netherlands
• University of Twente, Centre for Telematics and
  Information Technology
• Norway
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Russia
• St. Petersburg State University of
  Telecommunications
• Spain
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
• Technical University of Madrid ETSI de
  Telecommunication
• Pompeu Fabra U, Barcelona
• UK
• University of SussexUniversity College London

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Eunice and EU FP

• A EUNICE project IST CANDLE for e-learning and
  sharing pedagogic materials
• Strong implications of part of the group for
  numerous IST instruments NoE, IP and STREPS
• A strong consortium with long term existence and
  solid cooperations between its members

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• Questions ?
• Email
• yvon.kermarrec_at_telecom-bretagne.eu