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Brazilian Technology Platform (BRAFIP)

A Brazilian Technology Platform (BRAFIP) is an outstanding outcome of the FIRST project, being this a collaborative initiative funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Program in order to foster International Cooperation in technological areas such as Future Internet, ICT Components and systems between Europe and Latin America.

BRAFIP is the Brazilian Technology Platform created in 2011, under the FIRST Project.

The original objective was fostering R&D&I in the field of ICT related to Future Internet.

FIRST aims to extend the concept of European Technology Platforms (ETPs) to Latin American, by means of gathering strategic stakeholders from diverse areas, such as Future Internet, and ICT Components & Systems, into one national ICT Technology Platform per country, in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

BRAFIP is currently in its implementation phase, having more than 50 members coming from the whole brazilian territory.

CONECTA 2020:

CONECTA 2020 is a project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union, searching the implementation of the Technology Platforms (LATPs) of Costa Rica and Peru, as well as the development of an online community focused on the entailment of organizations dedicated to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the European Union and Latin America.

The CONECTA 2020 Consortium is formed by reputable academia organizations, non-profit industry organizations and private enterprises of Brazil, Costa Rica, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Uruguay.

Member organizations of the CONECTA 2020 Consortium are:

• Answare Tech, S.L. in Madrid, España
• Asociación de Informáticos de Urugay (ASIAP) of Montevideo, Uruguay
• Cámara de Comercio de Lima in Peru
• Portugal Telecom
• Queen Mary University of London in the UK
• QoS Labs in Mexico City
• Tecnológico de Costa Rica in San Jose
• Softsul in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

http://conecta2020.eu/about.html

BRAFIP:

The Brazilian Technology Platform (BRAFIP) will be in contact with the members of the European Technology Platforms (ETPs) and with the companies that are interested in finding a Brazilian partner, creating a bidirectional partnership involving ideas from Europe and from Brazil, in order to develop innovation projects for the Horizon 2020 or other funding programs.

General Structure and Basic Governance

The Brazilian Technology Platform (BRAFIP) is comprised by diverse Thematic Workgroups (TWGs), which are entities with a specific knowledge interest, ICT-industry (Information and Communication Technology) oriented, but with a significant participation coming from institutions and organizations involved in research and development.

This joint effort aims to define a long-term Common Vision for Brazilian positioning in each one of the different interest areas addressed by the TWGs, with their respective Strategic Research Agendas (SRAs) focused on strategically relevant topics, with a significant social impact.

It is intended to support the achievement of national strategic objectives, related to growth, competitiveness, and sustainability, through a significant participation coming from ICT in the mid and long term.

Brazilian Technology Platform (BRAFIP) follows, for its development, a three-phase process:

1 – Creation of Brazilian Thematic Workgroups. Gathering all the key players within the addressed TWG (Mobility, Software, Systems, Electronic Media, Satellite and Photonic and Nano-eletronic).

2 – Defining the Strategic Research Agendas, for each TWG, defining the objectives at mid and long term for a specific technology, and also the roadmap to achieve them.

3 – Strategic Research Agenda Implementation, with the appropriate assignment of human and economical resources.

Strategic Research Agenda sketching (for each one of the Thematic Workgroups).

– Achieving the required “critical mass” to foster research and development, for each Thematic Workgroup.

– The achievement and correct use of substantial public and private funding.

– To promote a close and direct participation of mutually complementary projects, under the thematic umbrella of the BRAFIP.

– To ensure a significant international impact in the mobile and wireless communications realm.

– To improve the positioning of Brazilian industry, compared to its global competitors.

BRAFIP comprises all components in the value chain, and this includes academy, industry, government organisms and industrial organizations, clustered in different comprising organisms, ruling and observing the BRAFIP.

Brazilian Technology Platform (BRAFIP) is an enabler aiming to establish complementary and cooperative research projects, as well as related activities.

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