Project acronym: ALIPRO

Coordination: Foundation for Mobile Open Society through wireless Technology (MOST Foundation), Poland

Project partners:

Eurescom, European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH, Germany Omnitel, UAB, Lithuania Turkcell, Turkey University of Zilina, Slovakia Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, Cyprus Czech Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Electrical Engineering), Czech Republic ARIES, Association for Electronics and Software, Romania Business Innovation Center of Latvian Electronic Industry, Latvia Estonian Wireless Network, Estonia Actiwise Consulting Ltd., Hungary University of Malta, Malta Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria

ICT Technological Area: 5.3. Mobile Communications

Sectors of ICT Implementation: 2.2. Telecommunications

Project duration: 13 months

Project start: 01/03/2005

EC funding: 0.55 M EUR

Project aim:
ALIPRO aims at supporting the alignment of the new member states’ national and regional research programmes with European IST research in the area of mobile technologies, applications, and services.
The project will accelerate the improvement and alignment of mobility-related national and regional programmes in the new member states (NMS) and accession candidate countries (ACC). Another important goal is to involve mobile-technology experts from the NMS and ACC into the work of eMobility platform.

Contacts and Website:
http://alipro.eurescom.de/
secretariat@most-program.org

MOST Foundation, Poland
Prof. Dr. Mieczysław Muraszkiewicz

Further information:
ALIPRO is an EU research project under Framework Programme 6 which aims at supporting the alignment of the new member states’ national and regional research programmes with European IST research in the area of mobile technologies, applications, and services.

The project will accelerate the creation, improvement, and alignment of mobility-related national and regional activities and programmes in the new member states (NMS) and accession candidate countries (ACC), strengthening their integration on European level. ALIPRO will achieve this goal through benchmarking, vision-building and roadmapping as well as dissemination of the results to the relevant stakeholders in the NMS and ACC.

Another important goal of the project is to gather mobile-technology experts from the NMS and ACC and involve them into the work of eMobility, the Mobile and Wireless Communications and Technology Platform. eMobility was launched in Brussels on 18 March as an industry-driven initiative in order to concentrate European research resources in the mobile and wireless area.

In order to assure a significant impact, ALIPRO will disseminate its results to the relevant stakeholders through a web-based information platform, a workshop, and presentations at relevant national events. Thus, ALIPRO will facilitate international research cooperation in NMS and ACC and strengthen the European Research Area.

ALIPRO is performed by a consortium of 14 organisations from all NMS, the ACCs Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, and ‘old’ member state Germany. Coordinator of ALIPRO is the MOST Foundation from Poland. The project is politically supported by the governments of Poland and Lithuania and by the Romanian parliament. The project started in March 2005. It has a duration of one year and is expected to give a major push to aligning and integrating the research programmes in the NMS and ACC into the European Research Area. Thus, the project is also intended to start a process of further improvement of scope and quality of the research programmes in the NMS and ACC.