In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2009, NESTER project organized second project workshop that took place on 4-5 July in Milan.

The workshop was aimed at strengthening R&D collaboration between the European Union and Russia in the field of Networked Embedded and Control System Technologies (NECS). To this effect, representatives from both research and industrial communities were brought together to share experiences, present and discuss recent scientific and technological achievements, and identify areas of common interest and potential R&D collaboration in the field of NECS, namely within the scope of upcoming calls of the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme.

The Workshop was aimed at striking an adequate balance between research and industry-related issues, focusing specifically on greater involvement of industrial stakeholders in the project.

The workshop targeted an audience of 30-60 representatives (at the level of project manager, researchers, head of laboratory, etc.) from European and Russian organisations (academia, research institutes & laboratories, multinational corporations, SMEs, etc.) specializing in the areas that are at the core of the NESTER project.

The focus areas of the Workshop included the following topics:
- Real time software tools and their integration and platform-based design.
- Design and Engineering of monitoring and control for complex/ large scale systems, including wireless sensor networks.
- Multi-core and re-configurable computer architectures, programmability, compilation, tools and simulation.

Of special interest were topics pertaining to the 4 industrial sectors designated by the NESTER project as high priority for EU-RU collaboration:
• transportation,
• telecommunications,
• energy,
• public security infrastructure.

For more information, see here. 

NESTER Workshop Materials find here.