10 – 12 September 2008, Paris, France

Co-organised by

• the Directorate General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, Unit F4 "New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities" and
• FIREWorks and OneLab2 projects

The Internet is much more than a communication system. New and unexpected Internet-enabled applications and services make tremendous uses of emerging technologies and at the same time shape new requirements for future ones. At global level, Internet is becoming more and more the backbone of modern economy and society, to the point where new generations in the industrialized countries cannot even conceive a world without Internet.
 
Internet must therefore be considered as a complex system, a living and evolving entity, where any technological development affecting its future may have multifaceted and even unexpected consequences at any technological, social or economic level. New proposals for internet architectures, protocols and services should not be defined only as paperwork, but they rather need early experimentation and testing in large-scale environments, even though these developments may actually take place only in the long-term.

The FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation- Initiative, is addressing this need, being geared towards providing a research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas. It promotes the concept of experimentally-driven research, joining the two ends of academy-driven visionary research and industry-driven testing and experimentation, in a truly multidisciplinary and innovative approach.

The first FIRE call was published in June 2007, with a budget of euro 40M, as part of the ICT Research Programme of the European Union. It will be followed by a second call, due for publication at the end of 2008, for an additional budget of euro 50M.

Comission Unit "New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities" together with FIREworks and OneLab2 projects organises and facilitates a set of FIRE events during the second week of September 2008 in Paris.

• 10 September 2008
  • FIRE Launch Event at Paris City Hall
• 11 September 2008
  • FIREworks Strategy Workshop at Les Cordeliers, part of UPMC Paris Universitas
  • PlanetLab Tutorial at Les Cordeliers, part of UPMC Paris Universitas
• 12 September 2008
• Workshop on Converged Networks
• OneLab2 and PII projects' events

Logistics information of the week can be downloaded here.

Date: September 10, 2008

Venue: Paris City Hall, 5 rue Lobau, 75004 Paris

Directorate General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, Unit F4 "New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities" organises FIRE Launch Event with the support of FIREworks and OneLab2 projects.

This FIRE Launch Event marks the starting point of the 14 research projects, which have been selected from the first FP7 FIRE call.

Date: September 11, 2008

Venue: Les Cordeliers, UPMC Paris Universitas, Institut des Cordeliers, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris

On September 11 FIREworks facilitates the FIRE Strategy Workshop brainstorming topics for the FIRE report to be published by FIRE Expert Group.

Date: September 11, 2008, at 9:30 - 12:30 

Venue: Les Cordeliers, UPMC Paris Universitas, Institut des Cordeliers, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris 

In PlanetLab Tutorial, provided by Onelab, you will learn how to use the test bed, from signing up for an account, all the way to running experiments. Bring a laptop with Wi-Fi to participate in real-time.

Date: September 12, 2008

Venue: UPMC Paris Universitas 

The PII and VITAL projects organise the 2nd workshop on IMS Enabled Converged Networks: New paradigmes for services delivery, on September 12 at the University Pierre et Marie Curie. The workshop follows the tradition started by FP6 projects Panlab and Vital in 2007 at Patras Greece.