Kick off meeting
Kick Off Meeting
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
October 27, 2006, 10:00 - 16:00
Participants
- Steinar H. Andersen, NTNU, Trondheim, NO
- Torsten Braun, University of Bern, CH
- Helmar Burkhart, University of Basel, CH
- Thomas Di Giacomo, Miralab, University of Geneva, CH
- Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, BE
- Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva, CH / University of Twente, NL
- Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, FIN
- Remco Litjens, TNO ICT, NL
- Adrian Munteanu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE
- Phuong Ngugen, University of Basel, CH
- Peter Rigole, K.U. Leuven, BE
- Vasilios Siris, FORTH and University of Crete, GR
- Vassilis Tsaoussidis, DUTH, GR
- Markus Wulff, University of Bern, CH
Agenda
- Welcome and introduction
- Presentation of partner activities
- Objectives and areas of interest of WG
- Organizational issues including chair election
- Action plan for 1st year (meetings, workshops, projects, publications)
- Contact to Emobility ETP and participation at IST 2006
- Next steps, AOB
Presentations
Every potential working group member introduced his/her organisation and research focus with a short presentation.
- Steinar H. Andersen, NTNU (1), (2)
- Torsten Braun, University of Bern
- Thomas Di Giacomo, Miralab, University of Geneva
- Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur
- Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva, CH/University of Twente, ASG
- Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology
- Remco Litjens, TNO ICT
- Adrian Munteanu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Phuong Ngugen, University of Basel
- Peter Rigole, K.U. Leuven
- Vasilios Siris, FORTH
- Vassilis Tsaoussidis, DUTH
Working Group Objectives
The participants agreed to found an ERCIM eMobility working group and defined the following objectives:
- Seeking influence on EU program
- Comparison to ETP
- Rather complimentary to ETP
- more basic / theoretical research oriented
- longer-term research
- more academic, not necessarily driven / limited by commercial interests / constraints
- Stronger focus on social, environmental interests
- disruptive technologies
- Rather long-term activity taking advantage of ERCIM based activities
- Influence and / or develop strategic research agenda
- Develop project proposals, e.g. NoE, FET, STREP, COST
Research Topics
During the presentations, the research topics and core competences of the members have been extracted. A quite detailed list can be found here.
Working Group Organization
The participants agreed on the following working group organisation:
Chair: Torsten Braun, University of Bern
Secretary General: Markus Wulff, University of Bern
Deputy Chair: Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva
Planned Activities
2006
- Participation at Heidelberg ETP meeting, November 14, 2006
- Participation at the IST 2006 Conference in Helsinki, November 21-23, 2006
2007
- First meeting at Malaga (Spain), co-located with COST 290 MCM meeting, February 15-16, 2007
- Workshop on eMobility, co-located to WWIC 2007, Coimbra (Portugal), May 23-25, 2007, possibly with BOF session
Next Steps
- Preparation of ERCIM working group application.
- Preparation of a slide set describing the new WG.