Orchestra Cities, Martel Lab’s new smart city data-management product is progressing at full speed! To answer the need for a flexible data-management platform for smart cities, the team at Martel Lab, in collaboration with Ubiwhere and Therapenis, has developed Orchestra Cities, an integrated platform based on...
Read MoreRead More
On the 15th December 2017, Martel attended the “Blockchains for Social Good Conference” in Turin, Italy, for a rich day of presentations, best practices, and debates about Blockchain Technologies and their applications for the public good. With distributed ledger technologies, we may be witnessing one of...
Read MoreRead More
Martel had an intense and interesting time at the NEM Summit 2017, held on November 29th and 30th in Madrid (Spain). Besides participation to the main conference, Martel ensured support to the FLAME consortium in the organisation and moderation of its first workshop, which took...
Read MoreRead More
On November 9-10th, Martel crossed the Pacific to speak at the China IoT Conference 2017 in Fuzhou, China. It was an unparalleled opportunity for Martel to promote Europe as strong option for innovation development, and strengthen the existing EU-China ICT collaborations already in place. Kai Zhang,...
Read MoreRead More
Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is an increasingly important topic for Europe and the world, and Martel is proud to be taking an active role in promoting its growth and acceptance. Through our work with the CAPSSI community, DSI initiative, and others, we strive to move...
Read MoreRead More
On the 6-7 November, Martel attended the Open Innovation Days in Milan, Italy, for two days of presentations, best practices, exhibition and debates around innovation and social impact. Martel participated in the Open Innovation Days to join with other digital social innovators in discussing how ICT...
Read MoreRead More
The FIWARE Tech Summit 2017 edition is coming to Malaga on November 28th-29th, 2017! Martel will have a primary role at the event and present three technical talks at the FIWARE Tech Summit. Dr. Federico Facca, Head of the Lab, in collaboration with Fernando Lopez...
Read MoreRead More
As part of its strategy to engage with new communities and enlarge its business portfolio, Martel has joined the BDVA (Big Data Value Association). The Big Data Value Association is the not-for-profit organisation that implements the BDV PPP programme (Big Data Value PPP). BDVA has...
Read MoreRead More
Team Martel has been in action over the past weeks, working hard to ensure a smooth launch for the first ORCA Open Call for Extensions. Funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission, ORCA offers experimentation facilities to promote wireless innovation in a...
Read MoreRead More
“5G PPP is recognized as the single most important research and innovation project on 5G around the world” Mario Campolargo, European Commission, Deputy Director-General for Informatics. Aiming at showcasing the extensive effort sustained by the European Community and promoting the knowledge base built in the process, the...
Read MoreRead More
As part of its ongoing commitment to strengthening its working relationships, Martel Innovate recently joined the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA). A 1.4 Billion Euro joint initiative between the European ICT industry and the European Commission, the 5G IA is the umbrella group representing the...
Read MoreRead More
Martel has been quite busy with a number of activities in the field of 5G and IoT before the summer, preparing for the next steps later in the year. 5G Within the framework of project EXCITING - EU-China Study on IoT and 5G, Martel as the Coordinator...
Read MoreRead More
The NGI Forum 2017 will take place on the 13th of September in Barcelona. Join us! The NGI Initiative The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in autumn 2016, aims to shape the Future Internet as an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies the...
Read MoreRead More
The Second Engineering Conference (FEC2) will be taking place on October 4-6, at Tsalapata Building, the brickworks turned innovation center in Volos, Greece. The Engineering Conferences aim to bring together technology experts, researchers, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of ICT...
Read MoreRead More
About the Next Generation Internet initiative
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in autumn 2016, aims to shape the future internet as an interoperable platform ecosystem that embodies the values that Europe holds dear: openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and protection of data.
The NGI should ensure that the increased connectivity and the progressive adoption of advanced concepts and methodologies (spanning across several domains such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, interactive technologies, etc.) drive this technology revolution, while contributing to making the future internet more human-centric.
The Second CAPS Community Workshop took place in Volos, Greece, on July 12th, in parallel with the MAZI Summer School which ran for the whole week of July 10th - 14th. The main goal of the one day CAPS community workshop was to gather all organisations...
Read MoreRead More
Following the success of the Euro 5G project, Martel confirms its commitment to the 5G development participating to the To-Euro-5G project, which aims at supporting the activities of the Phase 2 of the European 5G Initiative (June 2017 – June 2019). The Martel team is...
Read MoreRead More
15-16 June, Valletta, Malta. Martel will be attending the Digital Assembly 2017 in Valletta, Malta, reaffirming its commitment to the implementation of the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy. Martel has been an active player in the DSM since its launch, through a number of H2020...
Read MoreRead More
Martel brings SMARTSDK Project at the 2nd FIWARE Summit The Second FIWARE Summit took place between the 23th and the 25th of May in the futuristic rooms of the Media Plaza Jaarbeurs, in Utrecht, Netherlands. This fantastic and vibrant city welcomed more than 317 attendees of the summit. Members of...
Read MoreRead More
EuCNC - European Conference on Networks and Communications Oulu, Finland 12-15 June 2017 The 26th edition of the European Conference on Networks and Communications will take place in Oulu, Finland from 12 to 15 June 2017. The host city, Oulu, is one of the leading wireless technology hubs globally....
Read MoreRead More
IoT goes large scale – BE A PART OF IT! 6-9 June 2017, Geneva This is an intense week for the Internet of Things (IoT) community gathered for the IoT Week 2017. Organised by the IoT Forum, which Martel Innovate officially joined beginning of 2017, this 7th...
Read MoreRead More
The Next Generation Internet initiative and the HUB4NGI project Towards the end of 2016, the European Commission launched the Next Generation Internet (NGI) programme, which aims is to develop a more human-centric Internet supporting European values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralisation, inclusiveness, transparency and protection...
Read MoreRead More
It has been 7 months since Martel started coordinating the H2020 project EXCITING: EU-China Study on IoT and 5G and the team is making excellent progress. Martel and the other partners are being proactive in striving to push the boundary to further the collaboration between...
Read MoreRead More
Martel Innovate is supporting the organization of the first Open FIWARE Camp in Mexico, which will take place in Puerto Vallarta on June 1st and 2nd 2017. The FIWARE Open Camp is organized within the context of the FIWARE Mexico project jointly with the CUDI Week ,...
Read MoreRead More
Rimini, 19 May 2017 Martel Innovate landed in Rimini today for participating at the press conference that gathers all key players involved in the organisation of the Rimini Wake Hub 2017, that will be held in Rimini 23-25 May. Within the context of the Horizon 2020 project...
Read MoreRead MoreJoin Martel Innovate at the #DSINext workshop - 16 May 2017, London Ensuring the growth of Digital Social Innovation Digital Social Innovation? What it is all about? Over the last few years there has seen an impressive growth in projects and organizations using digital technologies such as open hardware,...
Read MoreRead More
DSI Manifesto Workshop, 23 May 2017, Rimini On the May 23rd 2017, the Digital Social Innovation (DSI) Community will meet in Rimini at the Innovation Square for a workshop dedicated to the discussion of the Digital Social Innovation Manifesto. “The DSI Manifesto Workshop is meant to voice the...
Read MoreRead More
The Horizon 2020 EU Research and Innovation Programme European funding is key to boost our society and it is available for a broad range of projects and programmes covering areas such as: Regional & urban development. Employment & social inclusion. Agriculture & rural development. Maritime &...
Read MoreRead More
“Writing a successful H2020 Proposal” Training HES-SO, Lausanne 7 September 2017 Dr. Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate Director and Executive Partner, will guide you through the fundamentals of successful H2020 proposals' preparation and submission. Horizon 2020 is the biggest European Research and Innovation programme ever with almost €80 billion of...
Read MoreRead More
When playing becomes a way to stimulate participatory brainstorming and community engagement! On the 31 March at the Innovation Square in Rimini (Italy), Dr. Monique Calisti, Director of Martel Innovate, met Simon Marussi the founder of "Edo do everything" for a hands-on session on the use...
Read MoreRead More
The 1st Engineering Conference organised by the Fed4FIRE+ project took place in Ghent, 14th-16th March, in the historic heart of Flanders. Three important events were collocated together and they were the Fed4FIRE+ Kick-off meeting, the 1st Engineering Conference and Fed4FIRE project’s final review. Martel, one of the key partners...
Read MoreRead More
The Cognitive Radio field can be at times not an easy sea to navigate but now ORCA is there! The Horizon 2020 project ORCA, Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture, will help the wireless research community and wireless innovation creators navigate this sea offering Cognitive Radio as a...
Read MoreRead More
Martel's team has been busy for the past two months, preparing for the first Conference of the EXCITING project on EU-China Collaboration on 5G and IoT, as well as the plenary meetings for project partners in Beijing between March 8th- 10th, 2017. Conference: Enhancing EU-China Collaboration...
Read MoreRead More
Martel Innovate at the FIWARE Open Day: reconfirming our committment to the success and growth of the FIWARE Open Service Platform and Business Ecosystem. Dr. Federico Facca, Head of Martel Lab, and Dr. Monique Calisti, Executive Director of Martel Innovate, participated to the FIWARE Open Day...
Read MoreRead More
As the Coordinator of the H2020 EU-China Study on IoT and 5G, the EXCITING project, Martel Innovate has recently been busy coordinating the overall organisation of the project's first public event: the Conference of EU-China Collaboration on 5G and IoT Research that will be held...
Read MoreRead More
The European Alliance of IoT Innovation (AIOTI) - initiated by the European Commission in 2015 - has the mission to establish a dynamic European IoT ecosystem. It promotes convergence & interoperability of IoT standards and the Digitising European Industry policy. The AIOTI involves and actively recruits key...
Read MoreRead More
Martel is about to land at the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, organised by the GSMA and held in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona, 27 February - 2 March 2017. Embracing the mobile industry major trends This year the Mobile World...
Read MoreRead More
Martel Innovate goes satellite with participation to the recently started Horizon 2020 project QV-LIFT, Q/V band earth segment LInk for Future high Throughput space systems. QV-LIFT aims at developing the foundation of the Ground Segment Technology for the future Q/V band Terabit SatCom systems. This will...
Read MoreRead More
Martel Innovate H2020 Training Increase your chances of success! 14, 15 February 2017, Bellaterra, Spain Martel Innovate is delighted to run a 1 day and 1/2 training about “How to write a winning H2020 proposal” for the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council...
Read MoreRead More
Digital Technologies and Next Generation Internet at the service of Social Innovation Rome (Italy), 1-2 February 2017 Martel Innovate is one of the main organisers of the Digital Social Innovation Fair 2017 which kicked off yesterday 1st February at the Campidoglio, in Rome. Dr. Monique Calisti, Executive Director and Partner of Martel,...
Read MoreRead More
Enabling federation of large-scale experimental facilities to ground the Next Generation Internet Federation of innovative large-scale experimental facilities is crucial to ground the foundation of the Next Generation Internet to enable addressing technological opportunities arising from advances in various research fields, extending from new network architectures...
Read MoreRead More
Welcome to the Future Martel Innovate has contributed to kick off the FLAME project, a three-year Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action that has the ambition to empower Next Generation Media Ecosystems. FLAME will develop an integrated service delivery platform that utilizes advanced compute & storage as...
Read MoreRead More
Martel Innovate supported the organisation of the Kick-off meeting of a new Horizon 2020 project - User Engagement for Large Scale Pilots in the Internet of Things (U4IoT). The meeting took place on January 12th & 13th, 2017 in Brussels at Vinnova's office (January 12th)...
Read MoreRead More
Martel Innovate has been active in the FIWARE Community since 2011, as partner of XIFI project, supporting the creation and uptake of FIWARE community globally through the marketing first of FIWARE Lab and then of FIWARE Mundus initiatives. The FIWARE Community is an independent open community...
Read MoreRead More
2016 has been an intense, surprising and succesful year for Martel Innovate. A few major highlights: 4 new people on board and 1 new office opened in Lugano (Switzerland) 10 accepted H2020 proposals out of 18 submitted in total between January and April 4 new...
Read MoreRead More
Building an Internet for Humans On the 30th November, Dr. Monique Calisti, Director of Martel Innovate, attended the Next Generation Internet, NGI, workshop that was held at the #EuropeanCommission premises in Brussels. About 80 participants representing academic, SME, startup, industrial and media organisations actively engaged in innovating...
Read MoreRead More
This week Martel Lab presented its work on High Availability of FIWARE Data Management services at the FIWARE Summit in Malaga! You developed your FIWARE application using Context Broker and NGSI. Now you are ready to go to production and you want a rocket solid architecture for...
Read MoreRead More
DSI FAIR 2017 1-2 FEBRUARY, ROME How can we contribute to the Next Generation Internet? How can the internet benefit both the individual and overall society? The Digital Social Innovation Fair 2017 offers a rich program featuring an international conference, focused workshops, networking and hands-on sessions. The line-up...
Read MoreRead More
SCEW 2016 has been an amazing experience! With more than 420 speakers from the five continents, 591 exhibitors and around 16,688 registered visitors, the event has been dense and inspiring. During the course of the three-day event, the congress sessions voiced leading experts and decision-makers...
Read MoreRead More
Besides a number of other EC proposals approved in 2016, the EU-China Study on IoT and 5G, EXCITING, is one that Martel is particularly proud of. EXCITING represents the follow-up of a previous EU-China Coordination and Support Action, called ECIAO, which Martel has been succesfully...
Read MoreRead More
Digital for Planet
Horizon Europe