From thrdcall@postman.dg13.cec.be Mon May  5 19:35 MET 1997
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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 18:18:14 +0200
From: "Dirk Costens"  (via roger.seite@mesr.fr (Roger Seite))
Subject: Expressions of interest

Madame, Monsieur,

Vous trouverez ci-apres la rediffusion d'un appel a interet de la Commission

pour le 4eme appel a propositions ACTS.

Je me permets d'attirer votre attention sur le fait que la réponse effective
a cet appel a interet est probablement indispensable pour pouvoir participer

a la journee d'information indiquee (proposers' day du 19 juin) et sans
doute essentielle pour vous faire connaitre de partenaires eventuels.

Cordialement,
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CALL  FOR  EXPRESSION  OF  INTEREST

to be associated with an RTD Programme in the area of
ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES (ACTS)
(1994-1998)

The Commission is intending to launch a third and final call for
proposals in June 1997 aiming at :

1. New and innovative work relating to the projects taken up under the
first and second calls:

a) Trial integration, bringing together the results of groups of ACTS
projects into integrated trials and ensuring a seamless connection of the
ACTS community with trial environments on a pan-European basis; including
broadband access by schools, providing them with an opportunity to
experiment with a range of advanced services;

b) Broadening of participation (in particular providing opportunities
for organisations in Central and Eastern Europe, in non-EU Mediterranean
countries and for SMEs to join existing ACTS projects);

c) Guidelines consolidation, condensing and rationalising draft
deployment guidelines into coherent input to standards bodies, industrial
fora and
the European institutions, including consolidation of strategic
techno-economic and socio-economic information;

d) Supporting promotion and dissemination of results;


2. Novel technological work in:

a) Interactive multi-media services interoperability;

b) New concepts and novel devices for routing/switching in optical
networks;

c) Convergence and integration: ATM-Internet;

d) Software radio technologies;

e) Advanced technologies and systems for satellite communications and a
concerted Action on satellite communications;

f) An open communications environment, using "agent technologies";

g) Secure information exchanges over broadband communications.

Organisations or individuals seeking further information on these
opportunities are invited to express their interest by providing=
 introductory
details about themselves, and completing the form, available at the InfoWIN=

Server http://www.infowin.org/ACTS/ANALYSYS/GENERAL/3RDCALL/proposer.htm.


An information meeting for potential proposers will be held, with the
presence of all existing projects,  in Brussels on June 19, 1997, at 9:00
am. The registration of interest form available at the WWW will also allow=

you to express your intent to participate to proposers day.


For further information please contact us at :
European Commission,
DGXIII-B/ ACTS
Tel : +32 2 296 34 15
Fax :+32 2 295 06 54
Email: thrdcall@postman.dg13.cec.be