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OpenAlps, a three-year project funded under the territorial cooperation programme Alpine Space, is launching its activities through a public Conference which will take place in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, on April, the 24th 2012.

OpenAlps brings together 10 partners from 6 European countries of the Alpine area and is working to a set of actions aimed to increase the innovativity and the competitiveness of the local SMEs, by using the OI-Open Innovation approach. Among the planned actions: a transnational platform to collect the innovation requests and solutions will be made available, local support centers will be created to facilitate the access to the research facilities , and local Open Innovation labs will be set up. A prize competition will award the three best OI projects.

The DE-LAN seminar is an opportunity to deal with the potential of digital cooperation within organizations and among business systems, as a tool to improve efficiency and competitiveness. It takes place during TOSM2011, one of the key events in Italy for the promotion of businesses producing ICT Process & Management Applications for the Healthcare, Energy, Finance, Tourism and Multimedia industries, a relevant event offering numerous initiatives and business opportunities for both exhibitors and sponsors.

DE-LAN-Digital Ecosystems-Learning Application Network (www.de-lan.eu) is a project funded within the INTERREG IVC programme, involving CSP as representative for the Piedmont area. The consortium partner regions - Wales, Extremadura, Castile-La Mancha, Visocina (Czech Republic), Kaunas (Lithuania), Koroška (Slovenia) - have been working for over a year to share experiences and expertise on the themes of Digital Ecosystem, Living Labs and Networked Business: models of local development based on online collaboration.

DE-LAN proposes sectoral pilot projects in various regions, to test the Digital Ecosystem model and to create transferable experiences and methodologies: during the workshop, it will be possible to get in touch with some real cases of cooperation in digital environments.

OVAL-Lingotto Fiere, Cruto Hall, November 18th,  2011, 10.00 -12.00.

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The strategic project ALCOTRA INNOVAZIONE is meant to create and develop awareness and partnership, among innovation players of the cross-border areas in the continental Alpine border between Italy and France. This is taking place within the development model of Living Labs. The project main goal is developing 4 cross-border living labs, in the domains of Intelligent Mobility, Smart Energies, Creative Industries and E-Health.

On October the 3rd, 2011, the project partners from Piemonte - Region Piemonte and Provincia di Torino - supported by CSP-Innovazione nelle ICT, have launched the 4 thematic working groups, whose outcomes will merge with the other international partner working groups, in order to set-up the cross border living labs.

The final project output, forecast after 36 months of cooperation in mid 2013, will be a Cross Border Strategic Plan to foster innovation.

During the Display Search Business Conference, part of the IFA Berlin international fair for comsumer trade, Mr Paolo D'Amato, CEO of Sisvel Technology has presented the research results of the 3DHome trial, that involved almost 200 italian viewers in Piedmont Region and, from june 2011, in Tuscany. 3D contents has been produced by local broadcasters Quartarete TV and Città Digitali. See further details reading the official press release on Sisvel Technology website.

In September 2011, CSP is starting a new European project titled "SMARD - European Support Framework on networked Media R&D for SMEs", funded under the FP7 call ICT-2011.1.5.

SMARD has a special focus on SMEs in the Creative Industry sector as an application sector for advanced digital media technologies and platforms. The project aims to develop strategies for a future European support framework for  Networked Media R&D that considers SME needs and requirements as well as technology transfer activities. Especially the commercialization phase, as a vital part for the exploitation of research results will have a certain focus.

The SMARD Consortium is led by MFG Baden-Württemberg and comprises European partners from Salzburg Region (Salzburg Research), Flanders (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT) and Piemonte (CSP innovazione nelle ICT) and the project will last 18 months.

CSP will host the SMARD kickoff on September 26th and 27th and SMARD will be launched in Torino during the NEM Summit (http://nem-summit.eu), the annual event of the EU Networked and Electronic Media Technology Platform (http://www.nem-initiative.org).
 

IBC international exibition and conference takes place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from September the 8th to the 13th. IBC can be considered one of the most important meetings for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. The results of Sisvel Technology's 3DTV service compatible frame packing format, to which DE-LAN partner CSP has contributed, will be presented during the conference. A trial has been running in Piedmont since early 2011 has now been extended also to Tuscany. The trial is involving more than one hundred viewers, who watch at experimental 3D contents self produced by two local broadcasters, QuartareteTV and Città Digitali.

On June the 28th, a roadshow about technological innovation in public television service in Rome presented the stereoscopic solution developed by Regione Piemonte, CSP and Centro Ricerche Rai (the research center of the public national tv broadcaster) in the context of the regional "ATLAS project".
The ATLAS Project developed a 3D avatar for authomatic translation in deaf sign language. In particular, CSP has developed a system of stereoscopic reproduction to visualize the ATLAS avatar, who acts as sign language interpreter for deaf people.
The development of digital innovative services in the tv broadcaster sector is one of the aims of the Piemonte DELAN Pilot, aimed at supporting local communication SMEs: the presentation of this approach
in one of the most important national events about innovation in the TV broadcasting sector is a first step towards the digital innovation of tv broadcast sector.

The initiative follows the regional Living Lab methodology implemented by CSP in a series of open-air labs all over the Piemonte territory.
The Municipality of Varallo Sesia (located in the North of Vercelli Province) has been actively involved in the development of ICT innovative solutions and services for the promotion of the art treasures preserved in the ancient sanctuary of the so called "Holy Mountain" (UNESCO human Heritage) and of the territory as a whole.
The project main outputs are:
•    a “Personal Guide” mobile system to discover and visit Varallo Sesia;
•    a complete system for the delivery of multimedia promotional contents by different channels;
•    an open-source system (video analysis/video management and high definition IP webcams) for territorial monitoring.

The seminar "Valsesia and ICT: an opportunity for the territory" at ALPAA Event was aimed at involving local enterprises to join the project and manage the project outputs after the end of the experimental phase.

Following its R&D programme in the field of multimedia transmission protocols, CSP takes part to Mpeg international meetings since from the one held in Guangzhou, China, in October 2010. After the Daegu session, held in Korea in January and the one in Geneva, Switzerland, in March, 2011 sessions are now running from 18th to 22nd at Politecnico di Torino. CSP follows topics related with 3D encoding and the brand new HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) that will grant higher data compression standard.