- Published on 09 Mar 2017
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Recap of ARTEMIS Brokerage Event 2017 in Brussels
Full house and a dynamic atmosphere for consortium building
Brussels, Wednesday 31 January 2017 - The 10th edition of the ARTEMIS Brokerage Event received an all-time high of 285 registrants and 254 participants from 23 countries including Russia and Turkey. Besides the strong presence of ARTEMIS-IA members, 45 non-members and national contact representatives from 8 different countries joined the lively discussions around the topic of Embedded Intelligence.
The new set-up of a 1,5 day event with an open Face2Face meeting square, interactive voting tools and around 30 project idea posters, again provided a fertile basis for project consortia discussions.
The ARTEMIS Brokerage Event 2017 focused specifically on the topic of Embedded Intelligence (Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things and Digital Platforms) within the ECSEL Calls 2017. Of course this event included, as always, project proposals for other related calls within H2020.
The Brokerage kicked off in a full plenary room in which the ECSEL-JU introduced the topics of the MASP 2017. A new chapter in the MASP 2017 is on ‘Safety and Security’. Furthermore the presentation highlighted the most important changes of the MASP 2017 in comparison with the MASP 2016.
The objectives and strategy for both chapters ‘Cyber-Physical Systems’ and ‘Safety & Security’ from the MASP 2017 were presented in more detail by the leaders of the specific chapter writing teams.
ECSEL-JU Call Information 2017
ECSEL-JU explained the process and calendar of the ECSEL Calls 2017. The ECSEL Joint Undertaking has two parallel calls: the Research Innovation Action (RIA) and the Innovation Action (IA). Both calls will have two phases: the PO Phase (Project Outline) – Compulsory and Gating and the FPP phase (Full Project Proposal).
| Call | Type | Type equivalence | TRL focus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECSEL 2017-2 | Research and Innovation Action (RIA) | Industrial/Applied Research projects | 3-4 | |
| ECSEL 2017-1 | Innovation Action (IA) | Experimental development projects | 5-8 | |
| Date | Activity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 February | Governing Board | |||
| 22 February | Call launch | |||
| 11 May at 17:00:00 | Deadline Project Outline (PO) | |||
| June | Feedback on PO | |||
| 21 September at 17:00:00 | Deadline Full Project Proposal (FPP) | |||
| November | Selection of projects for funding | |||
| December - April | Grant Preparation phase | |||
| Call | Topics | Estimated EU expenditure | Estimated public expenditure (EU + national) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECSEL Call 2017-1: IA | All topics of the MASP | 92.5 M€ | 185 M€ (total costs: 560 M€; in-kind contributions: 375 M€ |
| ECSEL Call 2017-2: RIA | All topics of the MASP | 67.5 M€ | 135 M€ (total costs: 270 M€; in-kind contributions: 135 M€ |
| Total estimated EU funding | 160 M€ | ||
Project Pitch Award
During the day, visitors walked in and prepared their project idea poster area and their pitch. 30 project posters were brought to the event and in the late afternoon the ARTEMIS Brokerage 2017 started with the project idea pitches. Before the pitches started, Ad ten Berg informed the audience that this time the project idea pitches have an extra dimension, because the audience may vote at the end of the day to decide who had the best project idea pitch.
In total 17 pitches were given and the stage of the project ideas varied very much. Almost ready to go consortiums - to project ideas that were at the very first stage of the project idea. When the session was completed the audience was asked to login to the voting tool and get ready to choose their winner. After all votes were counted, the tool showed the winner by displaying the winning pitch in a word cloud visual. The winner was written in the biggest font, thus the audience knew that DevSecOps was the winner of the day!
DevSecOps, for the construction of Cyber-Physical Software & Systems was presented by Prof. Pekka Abrahamsson. He emphasized that while security is critical for CPSS, the traditional security approaches are costly, time-consuming and unfit for a world which is iterative, online and connected. Abrahamsson continued to explain that security is owned by specialists and the concern is not shared in the CPSS construction organization and said: ‘We can not defer fixing security problems to upcoming releases, we must fix them as they appear’.
>The DevSecOps project idea wants to focus on achieving the benefits of Continuous Delivery and do that securely by increased delivery speed & smartness. Abrahamsson continued by telling that CPSS has not been able to embrace the “fail fast and often” paradigm due to constraints.
Abrahamsson concluded that DevSecOps will focus on an organization-wide, new mode of intense collaboration with more secure systems with better development control. Development of design methods, practices and tools that support and enable DevSecOps in CPSS.
DevSecOps had an absolute strong and interactive pitch and was therefore the strongest project idea of the day.
Best project poster
30 poster ideas were displayed in the poster area and on day two, the dynamic poster session started. At the ARTEMIS-IA Brokerage 2017, the organization decided to try out a new set-up for the poster and meeting sessions. This meant less break-out rooms but a couple of large open meeting spaces which can be formed to the wishes of the ‘upcoming’ consortium. This gave the event an open and approachable atmosphere.
After the sessions, the audience gathered again for the closing session and the voting for the Best Project Poster. It was a close call, but the Emercare Future project proposal received the most votes from the audience. Emercare was a project proposal with high interest of the audience. During the poster session the Emercare meeting attracted many participants.
Emercare focusses on emergency medical services such as ambulance services or paramedic services providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and transport to emergency care due to a significant increase in the average age of the population. Older people are statistically more likely to use urgent care and emergency medical services but due to financial restrictions there is a strong pressure to be more and more cost-efficient.
The aim of the project idea is to build an intelligent data driven support for professionals (at home care, elderly homes, hospital emergency units) in the emergency care decision making.
Closing Vote
ARTEMIS-IA applied the new online tooling to receive input on the newly introduced “best project pitch award” and the “best project poster award”.
During the closing session, ARTEMIS-IA asked the audience through the online tool what their main purpose was to visit the event and if they had reached that goal.
ARTEMIS is very happy to observe that more than 90% voted yes and stated the event was useful. A great way to close a 1,5 day event, and the ARTEMIS office wishes you all the best in finalising your project idea!
Project Idea Tool
An excellent tool in finalising your project idea is the ARTEMIS Project Idea Tool (PIT). This web-based application is not only used in preparation of the Brokerage Event, but is available year-round for publishing project ideas, searching for project partners and joining consortia. The tool will continuously be improved further, to fit to the needs of our community even better.
Survey
Shortly after the ARTEMIS Brokerage Event 2017, the participants were asked for feedback through an online survey. As a result, we received relevant feedback, which will help us to further improve future events and the Project Idea Tool. A summary of the outcome of the event can be downloaded here.
