ARTEMIS/FP7 CONCERTO Project to Start in May

Negotiations with the Artemis JU regarding the project CONCERTO are now being successfully concluded, and this European project is set to start in May 1.

Besides ISEP (through CISTER/INESC-TEC), the CONCERTO project involves key industrial players such as Intecs (IT), Thales (FR), Atego (FR), EADS (FR), Aicas (DE), The Open Group (UK), Oilfield Technology Group (NO) and Critical Software (PT). From the EADS group both Airbus (aviation) and Astrium (satellites) are participating. CONCERTO is a 10 Million Euros cost project, and total funding to ISEP is 375 KEuros.

CONCERTO will address emerging embedded systems platforms harnessing new heterogeneous, multicore architectures to enable the next generation of powerful mission-critical applications. The applicability of the CONCERTO solutions will be validated in the aerospace, telecoms, automotive, petroleum and medical industrial domains.

With the successful completion of the negotiations, CONCERTO becomes the third new project to start in 2013, out of which two (CONCERTO and ARROWHEAD) European projects. Together with PATTERN (FCT project) these already total over 725 KEuros in new contracts in 2013.