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 ,...
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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,...
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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...
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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 &...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
It does seem like a good occasion to write about my first weeks with Martel Innovate.
Everyone who goes after their dreams deserves, from time to time, a shift in life that leads them a bit closer to what they want in life. Moving to Zurich is definitely one of such “shifts” for me, both personally and professionally.
Thanks to Martel, a dynamic and agile SME focusing on promoting international collaboration projects, I am able to work on things I like to do and do well in, in a city where I’d like to spend a good part of my life.
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...
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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...
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eWINE Workshop - Intelligent wireless connectivity for Future Networks 11 November 2016, La Sapienza University, Rome Martel successfully coordinated the organization, communication and promotion of the first eWINE Workshop “Intelligent wireless connectivity for Future Networks”, kindly hosted by La Sapienza University. The workshop was aimed to discuss how...
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2nd Global 5G Event, “Enabling the 5G EcoSphere” In collaboration with the 5G Infrastructure Association, the European Commission and the EURO 5G project partners, Martel Innovate successfully orchestrated the organisation of the 2nd Global 5G Event held in Rome on November 9-10 2016. The two-day event hosted...
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This blog explain how to use WordPress multisite on Hostpoint.ch, without the need of asking to Hostpoint.ch any manual configuration change (cf. this blog post).
Martel Media is providing different web sites to support the communication needs of the projects where Martel is involved. Before my arrival to Martel, this web site were managed using the default provisioning modality offered by Hostpoint.ch. Hostpoint admin panel simply deploys a new virtual service with a complete wordpress base code.While the hosting service in term quality/price ratio, considering also the support level, is really great, this limitation is quite an overhead from the management point of view.
Martel, in collaboration with Elastico.co, is creating a new offer for Docker-based trainings. The first course of the offer will be "Scalable microservices with Java Spring and Docker" and the first edition will be held in Milan on 17th December 2016. Overview This is a one-day workshop, designed for...
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A new month is starting and new projects are kick off for Martel! Can you imagine transmitting data at Tb/s ? This is exactly the satellite technology that QV-Lift project aims to achieve! The QV-LIFT project, lead by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), aims at developing...
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Tomas from Martel Lab spent the past week at OpenStack Summit 2016 to learn about the latest trends. Don't miss his blog on the event! We are looking forward ourself to try out OpenStack Newton and experiment our self the new features!...
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October comes to an end after a fantastic and unique experience in the beautiful city of Barcelona, namely, my first OpenStack Summit. Before November begins, I want to put down my impressions and observations of this incredible event. Taking part of the summit proved useful not only to better understand OpenStack, but also because next year, as part of the R&D activities related to FIWARE in Martel, we are going to push further the work on FIWARE Lab, a free to use cloud based on OpenStack with about 7000 users.
Last Saturday we attended the Social Innovation Summit 2016 a cutting edge conference on entrepreneurship and social innovation that took place in Zurich at the Bananereiferei. Participants with diverse backgrounds from all over Europe gathered together to share experiences, critical discuss and develop ideas about...
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In recent times, efforts focusing on investigating how digital technologies can assist in addressing societal challenges have grown all over the R&D&I landscape in Europe and beyond. With the ever-increasing penetration of Internet technologies in our lives and society, it has become clear that the...
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EU-Mexico collaboration framework bootstrapped! The FIWARE family is growing and reaching far in Mexico. Beginning of September 2016 the two international EU-Mexico collaboration projects FIWARE MEXICO and smartSDK have been succesfully kicked-off in Mexico City. Hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, partners from Europe and...
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Pioneering a FIWARE-driven Innovation Hub between Europe and Mexico! Exciting times for the Martel Innovate team at the start of two new EC-funded projects within the Horizon 2020 context that aim at strengthening collaboration between ICT innovators in Europe and in Mexico! By building up on the...
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New activities will start soon in Mexico in relation to FIWARE. Martel Innovate will play a primary role in these activities, reinforcing its contribution to FIWARE community. FIWARE, that has already a live community in Mexico, is going to start in the month of September a number of new...
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[caption id="attachment_768" align="aligncenter" width="698"] CAPSSI - Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation[/caption] As of 1st June 2016, Martel Innovate is at the guide of the ChiC project that is an EC funded Coordination and Support Action serving the Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation, #CAPSSI, initiative, promoted...
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From today a new section is online on Martel web site! A blog containing stories and technical articles from Martel team! Check it out at https://www.martel-innovate.com/blog/ [caption id="attachment_764" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Martel Innovate Blog[/caption] We will strive to have fresh stories every week! Stay tuned to learn about the...
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In my home office, I happen to have a XEROX 6130N: it’s a bit old, but works perfectly. It is actually also an ethernet printer, but 1) I don’t want to move the printer close to the router; 2) I don’t want to get a wire from the router to the printer (2 floors are between them); 3) XEROX 6130N was born before AirPrint, so it does not support it, and given that often I read documents over my iPad, it would be nice that I don’t have to move to the PC to print them when needed. So basically how do I convert it to my USB Printer into a WIFI AirPrint printer?
As all ICT players who submitted proposals last April to the ICT-2016 Call, on the 28th July we received via the Participant Portal official news from the European Commission about our submissions. For Martel this was a magic year: we won 4 projects between January to March. The 28th July outcomes confirmed magic goes on: 6 proposals over 12 accepted in ICT-2016 Call.
I am currently flying back from Recife to Europe via Fortaleza (amazing view right now from the window) and trying to collect thoughts after the two days of Beyond 2020 event. Beyond 2020 is an event focusing on the urban innovation processes to ensure that technology supports citizens. The whole event discussed different aspects on how can we can create Smart Cities through Social Innovation.
I am back last night from Athens after 4 intense days of EuCNC, days in which we learnt a lot. I must admit it’s very difficult to capture everything in a few lines or pictures, but here we are. Sharing with you all!
We have been able to learn from our partners in the 5G PPP and in the FIRE domains, from the European Commission, from our fantastic hosts in Athens, from our colleagues in the 5G Infrastructure Association and from all people we had the privilege to work or spend time with.
Martel has a consolidated innovation tradition, having served its customers and partners for more than 20 years in the field of innovation management, R&D funding and in particular international collaboration projects, spanning across major ICT fileds, such as Telecommunications, Software Engineering, Wireless Networking and Future...
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[caption id="attachment_774" align="aligncenter" width="698"] RIFE stand at MWC2016[/caption] Our business partner InterDigital (IDCC) presented at the recent MWC2016 the IP-over-ICN solution that is fundamental for the RIFE project, an H2020 Research and Innovation Action Martel is coordinating, within deployments such as the ones pursued within the guifi.net initiative. IDCC...
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Dr. Federico M. Facca, Head of Martel Lab, was part of the FIWARE delegation participating to the EU-Brazil cooperation on Human Smart Cities Workshop in Natal (Brazil). The organiser of the workshops was the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). The FIWARE delegation was led by Jesus Villasante, Head of the...
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[caption id="attachment_777" align="aligncenter" width="698"] Dr. Monique Calisti with Günther H. Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, and Mario Campolargo Director for Net Futures in DG CONNECT at the Mobile World Congress 2016.[/caption] Working together to make the Digital Single Market vision to become a...
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