The GreenICN team plans to have their all partners meeting in Tokyo on the 28th and 29th of October, 2015. We are also arranging an open workshop on the 30th of October, 2015 to disseminate the results to a wider audience.

The next EU wide GreenICN meeting will be held in Goettingen, Germany on the 17th and 18th of September, 2015. Some of the Japanese partners are planning to attend it too and the main focus of the meeting will be to integrate the different work into one homogeneous approach.

The GreenICN consortium met in London from the 18th to the 21st of May 2015. The meeting consisted of the official GreenICN review and all partners project meetings. The review meeting held on the 19th of May was a success. During the project meeting, the main focus was integration of all the solutions. The meeting was held in the University College London campus and was arranged by Prof. George Pavlou and Dr. Ioannis Psaras and the local organization team at the Osaka University.

The GreenICN consortium met in Osaka from the 26th to the 28th of November 2014 and made advances technical issues related to the design, architecture, naming and solutions for scenarios such as disaster and non-disaster. The meeting was held in the University of Osaka and was arranged by Prof. Toru Hasegawa and Atsushi Tagami and the local organization team at the Osaka University.

The EU partners had a technical meeting at the Frascati campus of Tor-verata university from the 2nd-4th September. The meeting was hosted by Nicola Blefari Melazzi and Andrea Detti. Prof. Toru Hasegawa, Kohei Sugiyama and Kenken from the Japanese side also attended the meeting to ensure closer collaborations. In total, there were 13 partners at the meeting.

A highlight of the meeting were the adhoc sessions, where 2-3 groups were randomly matched for 30 minutes to discuss new collaboration possibilities. Additionally, the meeting had a lot of discussions on the work in disaster, video and the demonstration planned.

Dr. Jan Seedorf (Senior Researcher at NEC Heidelberg) visited the researchers at the university of Goettingen on the 13th of March to discuss research topics within the GreenICN project. He also presented his work on “Binding Self-Certifying Names to Real-World Identities for Decentralised Assessment of Third-Party Messages” which was accepted at the Infocom NOM workshop, 2014.

Researchers from the university of Goettingen and KDDI  R&D Labs met from the 5th of February till the 7th of February in order to advance the GreenICN projects work on disrupted networks and delay tolerant networks.

Atsushi Tagami and Kohei Sugiyama also presented their work to the staff and students of the Computer science institute at the University of Goettingen.

The EU partners held a working meeting in Rome from the 14th of January till the 16th of January, 2014. The meeting was held at the “Tor Vergata University” and was organized by Prof. Nicola Blefari Melazzi and Prof. Andrea Detti.

The meeting was attended by all the partners working on the networking aspect of GreenICN and the main focus of the meeting was the development of the “Internames” architecture. Moreover, we discussed the next steps in preparation for submitting the deliverables as well as the first official review meeting in May.

The GreenICN consortium met in Tokyo from the 11th to the 13th  of November 2013 and made advances in the design of the architecture and naming. The meeting was held in the University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus and was arranged by Prof. Asami and the local organization was handled by Tagami-san, KDDI.

Parallel sessions were held to discuss application specific issues (Disaster and Video). The meeting also had some preliminary demos involving Panasonic, CEDEO, CNIT and Uni-Goettingen.

Below are some snaps taken during the intense technical sessions and the cooling down phase in the evening.

The next EU-Japan meeting is scheduled for May along with the First review meeting. In the mean time, the Japanese and EU partners will have separate meetings, most likely in January.