CI-FIRE: Fostering smart, sustainable Future Internet Services in Europe

The Future Internet will drive innovation in almost all industries and will shape the future of the service-based economy in Europe. One way of supporting this goal is to create mechanisms that help translate outstanding research results into innovation. The CI-FIRE project is part of the European Commission’s programme for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) that will help to establish these  mechanisms.
The main goal of CI-FIRE is to foster the implementation of sustainable business models for FIRE facilities.
CI-FIRE focuses on enabling the sustainable use of FIRE facilities as part of a collective effort to help create a market for innovative Internet technologies in Europe. Thus, CI-FIRE support the EU goal of creating jobs and growth through new Internet-enabled services and products.
In order to support the sustainable use of FIRE facilities in the generation of Internet-enabled services and products, CI-FIRE will:

• Analyse the sustainability potential of FIRE facilities
• Develop an experimentation-driven innovation business framework template
• Analyse and develop sustainable business model scenarios
• Facilitate the implementation of an exemplary collaboration between selected FIRE facilities and EIT ICT Labs
• Develop a standardised process for sustainable use of FIRE facilities

Partner:
EURESCOM, Germany
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Martel Consulting, Switzerland
Trust-IT Services, UK
Universite de Pierre and Marie Curie, France