Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

DC4Cities

• Type: COOPERATION

• Defi: FP7 Smartcities 2013

• Instrument: Specific Targeted REsearch Project

• Objectif: ICT-2013.6.2: Data Centers in an energy-efficientand environmentally friendly Internet

• Duration: September 2013 - February 2016

• Coordinator: Freemind Consulting (BE)

• Partners: U. Mannheim (DE), U. Passau (DE), HP Italy Innovation Center (IT), Create-Net (IT), ENEA (IT), CESCA Catalunia (ES), Gas Natural SA (ES), Inst. Munic. Informatica Barcelona (ES), Inria (FR)

• Inria contact: Eric Madelaine

• See also:

• Abstract: Data centres play two different and complementary roles in Smart Cities' energy policies: as ICT infrastructures supporting Smart City resource optimization systems - more in general, delivering ICT services to the citizens - and as large energy consumers. Therefore there are huge expectations on data centres being able to run at the highest levels of renewable energy sources: this is the great challenge of DC4Cities project.

  The goal of DC4Cities is to make existing and new data centres energy adaptive, without requiring any modification to the logistics, and without impacting the quality of the services provided to their users. Finally new energy metrics, benchmarks, and measurement methodologies will be developed and proposed for the definition of new related standards. DC4Cities will promote the data centres role as an “ eco-friendly” key player in the Smart Cities energy policies, and will foster the integration of a network of local renewable energy providers (also interconnected with local Smart Grids and Micro Grids) to support the pursued increase of renewable energy share.

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

• Program: EIT Digital

• Project acronym: Data Science programme, Activity 15 327 from Master School action line (MSL)

• Project title: EIT Digital Data Science Master

• Duration: submitted in 2014, funded from 2014 onwards

• Coordinator: Farideh Heidari, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

• Other partners (besides UNS, with Françoise Baude as local coordinator): Univ. Politechnico Madrid, Univ. Trento, Politechnico Milano, Tech. Univ. Berlin, KTH

• Abstract: The activity has successfully launched a new major for the EIT Digital KIC called “Data Science”, with the purpose of breeding a new generation of ICT professionals, equipped with advanced technical and entrepreunarial skills in the key area of data science and data engineering. There is a tremendous demand in industry/society for data scientists, and hence a huge market potential for DS programs. DS positions in the industry requires a different educational program, with next to technical skills, more emphasis on awareness of multifaceted challenges and improving business efficiency based on the challenge outcomes. Expected impact is that DS graduates will be quickly recruited for attractive positions as they can help EU ICT industry achieve a higher rate of innovation successes.