Month: April 2018

The SWAMP project was represented in the EUBrasilCloudFORUM Concertation Meeting, held in Brasília (Brazil) on April 18th 2018. The purpose of the meeting was to jointly form a plan of action with EU-BR projects from the 3rd and 4th collaborative calls, to collaborate on the future priorities for EU-BR research landscape in ICT. Prof. João Henrique Kleinschmidt from UFABC presented the objectives, pilots and work in progress of the SWAMP project. All the invited projects discussed on how the project’s technical work and cross-border demonstrations will address/have addressed issues such as personal data protection, flows of data, portability of data, etc. The projects also provided recommendations for further actions either in research or policy.

EUBrasilCloudFORUM has been funded by the EC and MCTI to support the EU-BR collaborative projects in the collection and promotion of their results and activities. The project is responsible to facilitate the establishment of an organizational cooperation model that enables the EU and Brazil to formulate and develop a common strategy and approach for research and innovation in cloud computing. The consortium prepared the EUBrasilCloudFORUM Research Roadmap, a report that analyses and identifies the gaps and research opportunities related to cloud computing, and also to propose future research topics for the EU-BR collaboration in related areas. This Research Roadmap was presented at the Concertation Meeting, along with the Online Marketplace of relevant ICT assets to support transatlantic collaboration.

The SWAMP project was presented at FAUBAI 2018 (faubai.org.br/conf/2018), the Annual Conference of the Brazilian Association for International Education.
The oral presentation was titled “Research Cooperation between Brazil and Europe in ICT: Experience with Joint Calls” and SWAMP was highlighted as an example of an EU-BR collaboration research project selected in the 4th joint call.

Brazil and Europe have been launching coordinated calls for the development of collaborative research projects in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), focusing on topics such as Future Internet, Cloud Computing, Smart Cities, Big Data, 5G Networks and Internet of Things. Since 2010, four coordinated calls have been launched resulting in 193 proposals submitted involving hundreds of institutions (universities, research institutes, companies, and government agencies) on both continents. From those proposals, 20 were selected, and each party funded 25 million euros. In Brazil, these proposals are funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Communications (MCTIC) and run by RNP (the National Network of Research and Education), having the European Commission as its counterpart in Europe. The four calls were launched in 2010 (goo.gl/fpThxm), 2012 (goo.gl/XMTCfi), 2014 (goo.gl/ss4pmL) and 2016 (goo.gl/B6DVxK). Currently, projects selected in the first and second calls are already finished, projects selected in the third call are in progress and projects selected in the four calls started in the end of 2017. The outcomes in terms of research contributions and increased collaboration
between Brazil and Europe have been positively assessed and therefore a fifth call is already being planned.