Trust-IT Services - Communicating ICT to markets
International cooperation
International cooperation is a must for research and industry the world over. Since 2003 Trust-IT Services has been a catalyst for the creation of co-operation between Europe, Indian and Asia Pacific Partners in ICT. With a broad network of cooperation partners from vertical markets around the world, Trust-IT successfully and actively showcases technologies and research results to identify potential research and commercial partnerships.
Services catering to a specific client base or user community range from
- Roadmapping for collaborative research & development in Information & Communication Technologies.
- Event organisation
- Rapporteur services
- International communities analysed by sector and areas of expertise to open up new opportunities in the global landscape.
EUBrazilOpenBio: EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity
The project aims to ambitiously combine the Biodiversity Science and the Open Access Movement, promoting the concept of the openness for scientific research. The project will deploy an open-access platform from the federation and integration of existing European and Brazilian infrastructures and resources, making significant strides towards fully supporting the needs and requirements of the biodiversity scientific community.
Euro-India SPIRIT: Euro-India Synchronisation of Policy Initiatives & Research and Innovation Trajectory
Based on the foundations and achievements of successful initiatives like EuroIndia2004, MONSOON and ICT Cooperation Initiative, Euro-India SPIRIT aims to engage the EU and Indian ICT stakeholders at a level where policy formulation pertaining to research can be aligned and supported to identify the priorities of key research stakeholders and constituencies.
The work done in the EUMEDGRID project has led to a pilot Grid Infrastructure which covers almost all the Mediterranean Area, EUMEDGRID Support. EUMEDGRID-Support promotes the deployment and usage of e-Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Area, supporting new and existing applications, awakening the interest of stakeholders and policy makers, preserving and expanding the existing e-Science human network, enlarging and training this community, and maintaining continuity to e-Infrastructures, which are operating in synergy with existing and future European e-Infrastructures.
The goal of the Project EU-IndiaGrid2 proposes to capitalise on the achievements of the first EU-IndiaGrid project and to make use of the momentum attained in e-Infrastructures evolution in Europe and India aiming at proceeding towards sustainable e-Infrastructures across Europe and India for the benefit of scientific, educational and technological cooperation across the two continents.
Trust-IT was the Communications Strategy and Conference Organiser for the ECHOGRID project (2007-2008) and defining communities in China & in Europe actively adopting Grid computing. In Co-operation with National Technical University of Athens (Greece), ATOS Origin (Spain), Engineering Ingegneria informatica S.p.A., Italy - Thales, France. From China: Beihang University (China), Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences - National University of Defence Technology (China), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, (China) coordinated by GEIE ERCIM (France).
The 2006 Euro-South East Asia ICT Forum (EUSEA 2006) aiming to provide an open co-operation platform for South East Asians and Europeans to foster business, research and regulatory co-operation, organised an event that attracted the most influential European and South East Asian ICT leaders that had the opportunity to forge new alliances and to discuss scientific advances and explore future ICT trends. The event took place in Singapore from 19th-20th June 2006 during the imbX event.
EuroIndia 2004 Information Society Forum:
Trust-IT representatives were commissioned by the EC in 2004 to organise in its entirety, from Pisa, the first event International co-operation ICT event entitled: "EuroIndia 2004". Over 1,200 ICT European & Indian IT experts from academia, research and industry attended the Taj Palace in New Delhi, India for three days to discuss ICT trends and innovation. Principal sponsors: Alcatel, Infosys, SAP & ST Microelettronics.
Ravi Jain, Vice-President, Tech Mahindra Ltd, remarked, 'Euro-India ICT Co-operation (2002 to present) provides Indian enterprises with the opportunity to interact and network with experts from industry and academia. This coming together helps actors to innovate and develop solutions with the help of Information and Communication Technologies, addressing the challenges that we all face'.
"Trust -IT possesses a rich experience in dealing with ICT actors and institutions in Europe and Asia and a reservoir of knowledge of the research ecosystems. Their range of skills in communication, dissemination and organisation of a broad range of thematic events have brought critical value to several EU-India international cooperation projects in ICT research that I have been part of. Understanding and assimilating a new environment or a new topic and getting operational with the right human resources and skillset, to my mind, are their core strengths."
Ashok Kar, Managing Director, Infra Technologies Sarl, France