Introduction Total budget of the call: EUR 2 million
The FI-WARE project, funded by the Seventh Framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities contributing to the creation of the European research area and to innovation (2007-2013) has reserved a portion of the project budget for specific tasks to be carried out by a new beneficiary or beneficiaries which will join the consortium after start of the project. These later-joining beneficiaries are selected by means of a series of competitive calls.
Description:
Each FI-WARE Open Call will be focused on a number of topics. Proposers will be selected for each topic, with one or more successful proposer in each. Each topic refers to a set of functionalities to be supported by GEs to be integrated in the FI-WARE Platform. Proposals should address the definition of open and royalty-free specifications, as well as the development of a reference implementation, of new GEs in the FI-WARE Platform that will cover these functionalities.
Regarding the FI-WARE First Open Call, the topics to be covered are:
Middleware for efficient and QoS/Security-aware invocation of services and exchange of messages.
-This topic will be focused on a middleware GE that can overcome limitations of existing middleware technologies while still supporting
backward compatibility to most widely used ones. Goal is to achieve the highest levels of performance, to keep specified QoS
requirements, in the various networking environments making up the Future Internet, as well as to incorporate a number of relevant
features such as management of credentials when handling messages or accountability and traceability functions. Last but not least, this
component should enable a middleware-neutral definition of interfaces exported by FI-WARE components.
Business Models and Business Elements (BM & BE) Definition and Simulation.
-This topic will be focused on a GE that support application providers in the design of innovative Business Models based on the combination
of the applications/services they offer and services provided by either FI-WARE GEs or complementary applications/services provided by
third parties. Definition of such Business Models would comprise the definition of the different offerings, policy rules to manage prices
including promotions, bundling, etc as well as how SLAs violations will be managed/compensated. Last but not least, this GE should
provide the ability to simulate Business Models so that application providers can anticipate how they could work.
Funding of participation
Participation as a beneficiary in an FP7 project is on a cost-shared basis, the Commission making only a partial contribution to the total cost of the work. The upper limit of funding for the two topics in the First Open Call will be 2 Million €, of which a maximum of 1,25 Million € will be devoted to the middleware topic and 750 K€ will be devoted to the BM&BE topic.
The following can be eligible for funding under a FI-WARE Open Call:
- Any legal entity established in a Member State or an FP7 Associated Country (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia,
Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey. (including the European Commission’s Joint Research
Centre), or created under Community law (e.g. a European Economic Interest Grouping),
- Any international European interest organisation
- Any legal entity established in an FP7 International Cooperation Partner Country (ICPC). A complete list of these countries is given in
annex of the ICT Workprogramme, but in principle it includes the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as those
European countries which are not already Member States or Associated Countries.
Organisations from certain other countries may also receive a Community financial contribution, as defined in the Rules of Participation in FP7.
Deadline: 25 April 2012
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