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FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) initiative was launched by the European Commission within the FP7 to address the need from the fact that the Internet is becoming more and more the backbone of modern economy and society. The FIRE Initiative is addressing need from that fact, gearing itself towards creating a multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms.
FIRE is promoting the concept of experimentally-driven research, joining the two ends of academic-driven visionary research and industry-driven testing and experimentation. To make this approach a reality, FIRE aims to create a dynamic, sustainable, large scale European Experimental Facility, which is built by gradually connecting and federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet technologies.
The ultimate goal of FIRE is to boost European innovation and its competitive role in defining Future Internet concepts. The first wave of FIRE projects was launched in summer 2008, with a budget of Euro 40M. Under ICT, the 2009/10 Work Programme highlights the strategic importance of the Future Internet and re-emphasises the role of experimentally-driven research, by increasing the budget for FIRE and giving new opportunities for innovative projects.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire
FIREworks Support Action will continue the work of the FIRE expert group with the aim of creating a sustainable forum for test bed actors in Europe in the area of future networks. FIREworks Support Action arranges the clustering activity of ICT-2 that is of relevance to N4C. The concept of extensive and ongoing test beds is fundamental to the FP7 FIRE initiative.
OneLab2 is a large-scale integrating project (IP) from FP7 Call 2, Objective 1.6 "New paradigms and experimental facilities" with a global budget of 8.9 million euro and with EC contribution of 6.3 million euro. The project started on 1 September 2008, and runs for 27 months, following directly on its predecessor, the OneLab project.
