CELTIC is a Eureka cluster program, which initiates and stimulates R&D projects on telecommunications systems and services in a broad context. CELTIC brings together interested partners from industry, telecoms, small/ medium sized enterprises, universities, and research institutes together to set-up and run joint international projects. In addition, CELTIC provides contacts to national funding agencies.
CELTIC sets-out calls for new project proposals every year. Each call is organized in two phases to simplify the proposal process and reduce time and effort to define a proposal. The duration of project is between two and three years and the number of different countries involved is between two and 10 countries. The targeted overall project budget until 2011 is envisaged to accrue up to 1 billion Euro.
In addition, CELTIC also provides direct support for the running projects by providing sophisticated tools for reporting and controlling and assistance to successfully manage international projects. CELTIC is a not-for profit organization, which assures its operation through a contribution fee that is asked by all active project partners in a project. Currently this annual fee has been set to 1500 Euro per planned person year of effort. Universities are exempted from the fee.CELTIC projects will allow all players in the European telecommunications sector to collaborate in advanced R&D projects.
Founding members include Alcatel, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Eurescom, France Télécom, Italtel, Nokia, RAD Data Communications, Telefónica, and Thomson. CELTIC is open to other large companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, research institutes, and universities. In fact it is the first time that a strong R&D commitment at European level could be achieved between manufacturers, operators, and service providers. There are already a number of R&D programmes in Europe, such as the 7th FP of the European Commission and some national projects. But they are either not fully dedicated to telecommunications or tend to focus on the medium- to long-term.
On the other hand, the current difficult business climate means that R&D efforts within telecommunications companies tend to look more at the next six to 12 months. CELTIC will fill the gap and look at techniques, systems and services in a short to medium term perspective. So while it might start in a negative economic climate, as we begin to get the benefits of the first projects' results this will stimulate further private and public investment.
Example Projects
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MCM ( Mobile City Moments)
Business model analysis and frame-work for group-centric network, operator independent services in cities. Open interfaces to service components that allow rapid service creation, and explore the limits and possibilities of novel interaction technologies of smart phones, hybrid networks, and web resources.
http://www.celtic-initiative.org/Projects/MCM/default.asp
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Traffic Measurements and Models in Multi-Service networks
To understand the traffic generated in a broadband access network, on the application level.
To identify the corner stones of a good traffic model, including typical user types.
To analyze the bottlenecks of the internet.
http:
//www.celtic-initiative.org/Projects/TRAMMS/default.asp
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IIV@IMS Innovative Interactive Video Services and Usages on Fixed and Mobile IMS-based Networks
The project addresses the architecture with IPTV service and it is also dedicated to validation of the architecture and usage of the innovative and interactive services by a new set of users having different cultural backgrounds.
http://www.celtic-initiative.org/Projects/IIVIMS/default.asp
